Word Meanings - BELONGING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak. 2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. 3. Family; relations; household.

Additional info about word: BELONGING

1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak. 2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. 3. Family; relations; household. Few persons of her ladyship's belongings stopped, before they did her bidding, to ask her reasons. Thackeray.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BELONGING)

• Appurtenant
• Belonging
• connected
• appropriate
• appended
• homogeneous
• attached
• co-ordinate
• concomitant
• Beseeming
• Befitting
• belonging
• suitable
• appertaining
• consistent
• compatible
• requisite
• decent
• graceful

Related words: (words related to BELONGING)

• APPENDANT
  A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance. (more info) 1. Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.
• 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.
• BESEEMING
  1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• GRACEFUL
  Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.
• HOMOGENEOUSNESS
  Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material.
• APPENDICAL
  Of or like an appendix.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• APPENDIX
  1. Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant. Normandy became an appendix to England. Sir M. Hale. 2. Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished
• APPEND
  belong, OF. apendre, F. appendre, fr. L. append, v. i., to hang to, append, v. t., to hang to; ad + pend, v. i., to hang, pend, v. t., to 1. To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record;
• REQUISITE
  Required by the nature of things, or by circumstances; All truth requisite for men to know. Milton. Syn. -- Necessary; needful; indispensable; essential. -- Req"ui*site*ly, adv. -- Req"ui*site*ness, n.
• COMPATIBLE
  Capable of existing in harmony; congruous; suitable; not repugnant; -- usually followed by with. Our poets have joined together such qualities as are by nature the most compatible. Broome. Syn. -- Consistent; suitable; agreeable; accordant.
• BESEEM
  Literally: To appear or seem for to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit. A duty well beseeming the preachers. Clarendon. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God
• BEFITTINGLY
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• BESEEMLY
  Fit; suitable; becoming. In beseemly order sitten there. Shenstone.
• APPENDICULATE
  Having small appendages; forming an appendage. Appendiculate leaf, a small appended leaf. Withering.
• APPENDENCE; APPENDENCY
  State of being appendant; appendance.
• PREREQUISITE
  Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• MISBESEEM
  To suit ill.
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• DELTA CONNECTION
  One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
• DISAPPENDENT
  Freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected.
• REATTACHMENT
  The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
• UNAPPROPRIATE
  1. Inappropriate; unsuitable. 2. Not appropriated. Bp. Warburton.
• 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
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.