Word Meanings - ATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

the preterit of Eat.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ATE)

• Except Exclude
• save
• bar
• ate
• negative

Related words: (words related to ATE)

• EXCEPT
  1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
• NEGATIVE
  Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition. (more info) 1. Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing
• EXCEPTIONER
  One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
• NEGATIVENESS; NEGATIVITY
  The quality or state of being negative.
• EXCEPTIONAL
  Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly , adv.
• EXCEPTANT
  Making exception.
• EXCEPTLESS
  Not exceptional; usual. My general and exceptless rashness. Shak.
• NEGATIVELY
  1. In a negative manner; with or by denial. "He answered negatively." Boyle. 2. In the form of speech implying the absence of something; -- opposed to positively. negatively, by showing wherein it does not consist, and positively, by
• EXCLUDE
  Etym: 1. To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from
• EXCEPTIONABLE
  Liable to exception or objection; objectionable. -- Ex*cep"tion*a*ble*ness, n. This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem. Addison.
• EXCEPTIVE
  That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition. I. Watts. A particular and exceptive law. Milton.
• EXCEPTIONLESS
  Without exception. A universal, . . . exceptionless disqualification. Bancroft.
• EXCEPTING
  , but properly a participle. With rejection or exception of; excluding; except. "Excepting your worship's presence." Shak. No one was ever yet made utterly miserable, excepting by himself. Lubbock.
• EXCEPTION
  An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency
• EXCEPTIOUS
  Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious. At least effectually silence the doubtful and exceptious. South. -- Ex*cep"tious*ness, n. Barrow.
• EXCEPTOR
  One who takes exceptions. T. Burnet.
• ABNEGATIVE
  Denying; renouncing; negative. Clarke.
• UNEXCEPTIVE
  Not exceptive; not including, admitting, or being, an exception.
• UNEXCEPTIONABLE
  Not liable to any exception or objection; unobjectionable; faultless; good; excellent; as, a man of most unexceptionable character. -- Un`ex*cep"tion*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`ex*cep"tion*a*bly, adv. Chesterfield is an unexceptionable witness. Macaulay.
• ELECTRO-NEGATIVE
  Having the property of being attracted by an electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other. Negative; nonmetallic; acid; -- opposed to positive,