Word Meanings - CONTINGENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con-
Additional info about word: CONTINGENT
Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con- + tangere to touch: cf. F. 1. Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual. Weighing so much actual crime against so much contingent advantage. Burke. 2. Dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as, the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can not control. "Uncertain and contingent causes." Tillotson.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONTINGENT)
- Dependent
- Hanging
- resting
- contingent
- trusting
- relying
- subject
- relative
- Provisional
- Conditional
- hypothetical
- temporary
- Remote
- Distant
- indirect
- unconnected
- unrelated
- foreign
- alien
- heterogeneous
- separate
- Share
- Portion
- apportionment
- lot
- division
- participation
- allowance
- quota
- allotment
Related words: (words related to CONTINGENT)
- CONTINGENT
Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con- - HANGNAIL
A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway. - TRUSTEE
A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects - TRUSTY
1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - SUBJECTION
1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government - SUBJECTIST
One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist. - SUBJECTNESS
Quality of being subject. - RESTAGNATE
To stagnate; to cease to flow. Wiseman. - SHAREBEAM
The part of the plow to which the share is attached. - DISTANT
stand apart, be separate or distant; dis- + stare to stand. See 1. Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. One board had two tenons, equally distant. Ex. xxxvi. 22. Diana's temple is not distant far. Shak. 2. Far separated; - TRUST COMPANY
Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business. - RESTRICT
Restricted. - CONDITIONALITY
The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms. - RESTORATIVELY
In a restorative manner. - PORTIONIST
One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley. - DIVISIONARY
Divisional. - RESTIFF
Restive. - RESTAGNANT
Stagnant; motionless. Boyle. - DIVISIONALLY
So as to be divisional. - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - ON-HANGER
A hanger-on. - IMPROPORTIONATE
Not proportionate. - DISINTERESTING
Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton. - SINCERELY
In a sincere manner. Specifically: Purely; without alloy. Milton. Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely. - TERRESTRIFY
To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne. - INSEPARATE
Not separate; together; united. Shak. - SELF-TRUST
Faith in one's self; self-reliance. - UNDERCREST
To support as a crest; to bear. Shak. - DISPROPORTIONABLE
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. - DISPROPORTIONALITY
The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More. - CREATURELY
Creatural; characteristic of a creature. "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne. - CONTEMPORARY
1. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe. Strype. 2. Of the same age; coeval. A grove born with himself he sees, - PRESTIGIOUS
Practicing tricks; juggling. Cotton Mather.