Word Meanings - AKIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin. 2. Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind. "A joy akin to rapture." Cowper. The literary character of the work is akin to
Additional info about word: AKIN
1. Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin. 2. Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind. "A joy akin to rapture." Cowper. The literary character of the work is akin to its moral character. Jeffrey. Note: This adjective is used only after the noun.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AKIN)
- Alike
- Resembling
- similar
- together
- twin-fellow
- analogous
- identical
- equal
- equivalent
- same
- homogeneous
- akin
- equally
- Germane
- Allied
- kindred
- related
- appropriate
- pertinent
- relative
- Kindred
- Congenial
- allied
- cogitate
- Related
- cognate
- connected
Related words: (words related to AKIN)
- RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - APPROPRIATENESS
The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude. - CONNECTOR
One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact. - ALLICIENT
That attracts; attracting. -- n. - ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young. - ALLITERAL
Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration. - COGITATE
To engage in continuous thought; to think. He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth. Bacon. (more info) prob. fr. co- - EQUALIZER
One who, or that which, equalizes anything. - HOMOGENEOUSNESS
Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material. - IDENTICAL
1. The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction . . . that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then - PERTINENT
1. Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand; fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite; material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent evidence. 2. Regarding; concerning; belonging; - ALLITERATOR
One who alliterates. - ALLIED
United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally. - CONNECTIVELY
In connjunction; jointly. - SIMILARY
Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South. - EQUALIZE
1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely - CONGENIALLY
In a congenial manner; as, congenially married or employed. - APPROPRIATE
Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words - ALLICE; ALLIS
The European shad ; allice shad. See Alose. - ALLITERATE
To employ or place so as to make alliteration. Skeat. - GALLIASS
See GALLEASS - PRELATIST
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. - DALLIANCE
1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination. - KAKARALLI
A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. - CORALLIGENOUS
producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble. - REALLIANCE
A renewed alliance. - IMPALLID
To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham. - HEMEROCALLIS
A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily. - HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN - PRELATISM
Prelacy; episcopacy. - CRYSTALLIZATION
The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of - MISALLIED
Wrongly allied or associated. - BALLISTER
A crossbow. - PRELATIZE
To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey. - UNEQUALABLE
Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.