Word Meanings - ANGLOPHOBIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English. -- An"glo*phobe, n.
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- ENGLISHWOMAN
Fem. of Englishman. Shak. - DREADNOUGHT
1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by - INTENSE
to stretch: cf. F. intense. See Intend, and cf. Intent, and cf. 1. Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought. 2. Extreme in degree; excessive; immoderate; as: - DREADFUL
1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. "With dreadful heart." Chaucer. 2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton. For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth. 3. - INTENSENESS
The state or quality of being intense; intensity; as, the intenseness of heat or cold; the intenseness of study or thought. - DREADFULNESS
The quality of being dreadful. - AVERSION
1. A turning away. Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury. 2. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of - DREADABLE
Worthy of being dreaded. - DREAD
To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension. When at length the moment dreaded through so many years came close, the dark cloud passed away from Johnson's mind. Macaulay. - DREADNAUGHT
1. A fearless person. 2. Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught. - DREADLESSNESS
Freedom from dread. - ENGLISHRY
1. The state or privilege of being an Englishman. Cowell. 2. A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. A general massacre of the Englishry. Macaulay. - DREADLESS
1. Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart. "The dreadless angel." Milton. 2. Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure. " safe in his dreadless den." Spenser. - DREADINGLY
With dread. Warner. - DREAD-BOLTED
Armed with dreaded bolts. "Dread-bolted thunder." Shak. - ENGLISHABLE
Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English. - ENGLISHMAN
A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England. - DREADLY
Dreadful. "Dreadly spectacle." Spenser. -- adv. - INTENSELY
1. Intently. J. Spencer. 2. To an extreme degree; as, weather intensely cold. - ENGLISHISM
1. A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English. M. Arnold. 2. A form of expression peculiar to the English language as spoken in England; an Anglicism. - CONTRAVERSION
A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe. Congreve. - SUPERDREADNOUGHT
See ABOVE - COINTENSE
Equal in intensity or degree; as, the relations between 6 and 12, and 8 and 16, are cointense. H. Spencer. - INDO-ENGLISH
Of or relating to the English who are born or reside in India; Anglo-Indian. - BOROUGH-ENGLISH
A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother. Blackstone.