Word Meanings - APISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling. The apish gallantry of a fantastic boy. Sir W. Scott.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of APISH)

• Imitative
• Mimicking
• caricaturing
• copying
• unoriginal
• servile
• apish

Related words: (words related to APISH)

• COPYING
  From Copy, v. Copying ink. See under Ink. -- Copying paper, thin unsized paper used for taking copies of letters, etc., in a copying press. -- Copying press, a machine for taking by pressure, an exact copy of letters, etc., written in copying ink.
• COPYHOLDER
  One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
• SERVILELY
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• APISHNESS
  The quality of being apish; mimicry; foppery.
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.
• COPYIST
  A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.
• MIMICKER
  An animal which imitates something else, in form or habits. (more info) 1. One who mimics; a mimic.
• APISHLY
  In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.
• COPYGRAPH
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of a writing or drawing. Note: The writing or drawing is made with aniline ink on paper, and a reverse copy transferred by pressure to a slab of gelatin softened with glycerin. A large number
• COPY
  Manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the printers are calling for more copy. 6. A writing paper Bastard. See under Paper. 7. Copyhold; tenure; lease. Shak. Copy book, a book in which copies are written or printed for learners
• CARICATURIST
  One who caricatures.
• COPYRIGHT
  The right of an author or his assignee, under statute, to print and publish his literary or artistic work, exclusively of all other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books.
• COPYER
  See COPIER
• COPYHOLD
  A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court. Blackstone. Land held in copyhold. Milton. Note: Copyholds do not exist in the United States.
• SERVILE
  1. Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience. She must bend the servile
• IMITATIVE
  Designed to imitate another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object, for some useful purpose, such as protection from enemies; having resamblance to something else; as, imitative colors; imitative habits; dendritic and mammillary forms
• APISH
  Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling. The apish gallantry of a fantastic boy. Sir W. Scott.
• CARICATURE
  1. An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture. 2. A picture or other figure or description in which the peculiarities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque;
• ONEIROSCOPY
  The interpretation of dreams.
• MISCOPY
  To copy amiss.
• AEROSCOPY
  The observation of the state and variations of the atmosphere.
• WICOPY
  See LEATHERWOOD
• GEOSCOPY
  Knowledge of the earth, ground, or soil, obtained by inspection. Chambers.
• AURISCOPY
  Examination of the ear by the aid of the auriscope.
• POLARISCOPY
  The art or rocess of making observations with the polariscope.
• CEREBROSCOPY
  Examination of the brain for the diagnosis of diseas; esp., the act or process of diagnosticating the condition of the brain by examination of the interior of the eye . Buck.
• LEUCOPYRITE
  A mineral of a color between white and steel-gray, with a metallic luster, and consisting chiefly of arsenic and iron.
• ELECTRO-BIOSCOPY
  A method of determining the presence or absence of life in an animal organism with a current of electricity, by noting the presence or absence of muscular contraction.
• EPISCOPY
  1. Survey; superintendence. Milton. 2. Episcopacy. Jer. Taylor.
• OTOSCOPY
  The examination of the ear; the art of using the otoscope.