Word Meanings - COMMENTARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

commentarium, note book, commentary: cf. F. commentaire. See Comment, 1. A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work. This letter . .

Additional info about word: COMMENTARY

commentarium, note book, commentary: cf. F. commentaire. See Comment, 1. A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work. This letter . . . was published by him with a severe commentary. Hallam. 2. A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMMENTARY)

• Annotation
• Explanation
• criticism
• remark
• note
• commentary
• elucidation
• observation
• comment

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COMMENTARY)

• Confound
• confuse
• obscure
• mystify
• misinterpret
• misapprehend
• misconceive
• misrepresent

Related words: (words related to COMMENTARY)

• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• REMARKER
  One who remarks.
• EXPLANATION
  1. The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty. 2. That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory
• COMMENTER
  One who makes or writes comments; a commentator; an annotator.
• MISINTERPRETER
  One who interprets erroneously.
• CONFUSE
  1. To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision. A universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused.
• CONFOUNDEDLY
  Extremely; odiously; detestably. "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith.
• CONFUSEDNESS
  A state of confusion. Norris.
• OBSERVATION CAR
  A railway passenger car made so as to facilitate seeing the scenery en route; a car open, or with glass sides, or with a kind of open balcony at the rear.
• MYSTIFY
  1. To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture. 2. To perplex the mind of; to puzzle; to impose upon the credulity of ; as, to mystify an opponent. He took undue advantage of
• COMMENTATORSHIP
  The office or occupation of a commentator.
• OBSCUREMENT
  The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured; obscuration. Pomfret.
• OBSCURE
  Obscurity. Milton.
• COMMENTITIOUS
  Fictitious or imaginary; unreal; as, a commentitious system of religion. Warburton.
• MISREPRESENTATION
  Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. Sydney Smith. Note: In popular use, this word often conveys the idea of intentional
• REMARKABLE
  Worthy of being remarked or noticed; noticeable; conspicuous; hence, uncommon; extraordinary. 'T is remarkable, that they Talk most who have the least to say. Prior. There is nothing left remarlable Beneath the visiting moon. Shak. Syn.
• OBSERVATIONAL
  Of a pertaining to observation; consisting of, or containing, observations. Chalmers.
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.
• HYPERCRITICISM
  Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.
• ONEIROCRITICISM; ONEIROCRITICS
  The art of interpreting dreams.
• NEOCRITICISM
  The form of Neo-Kantianism developed by French idealists, following C. Renouvier. It rejects the noumena of Kant, restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories.
• INOBSERVATION
  Neglect or want of observation.
• CLARE-OBSCURE
  See CHIAROSCURO