Word Meanings - COUNTERPOISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

countrepesen, counterpeisen, F. contrepeser. See Counter, adv., and 1. To act against with equal weight; to equal in weght; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance. Weigts, counterpoising one another. Sir K. Digby. 2. To act against with equal

Additional info about word: COUNTERPOISE

countrepesen, counterpeisen, F. contrepeser. See Counter, adv., and 1. To act against with equal weight; to equal in weght; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance. Weigts, counterpoising one another. Sir K. Digby. 2. To act against with equal power; to balance. So many freeholders of English will be able to beard and counterpoise the rest. Spenser.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COUNTERPOISE)

• Balance
• Weigh
• poise
• pit
• counterpoise
• counteract
• neutralize
• equalize
• estimate
• redress
• adjust
• Neutralize
• Counteract
• compensate
• counterbalance
• countervail

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COUNTERPOISE)

• Over-balance
• aggravate

Related words: (words related to COUNTERPOISE)

• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• NEUTRALIZE
  To render inert or imperceptible the peculiar affinities of, as a chemical substance; to destroy the effect of; as, to neutralize an acid with a base. 3. To destroy the peculiar or opposite dispositions of; to reduce to a state of indifference
• COUNTERACT
  To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• EQUALIZER
  One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
• COUNTERVAIL
  To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate. Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences
• REDRESSIVE
  Tending to redress. Thomson.
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• EQUALIZE
  1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely
• WEIGHMASTER
  One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.
• COUNTERPOISE
  countrepesen, counterpeisen, F. contrepeser. See Counter, adv., and 1. To act against with equal weight; to equal in weght; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance. Weigts, counterpoising one another. Sir K. Digby. 2. To act against with equal
• BALANCEMENT
  The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Darwin.
• COUNTERBALANCE
  To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance. The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder. Boyle. The cstudy of mind is necessary
• WEIGHER
  One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.
• REDRESSIBLE
  Such as may be redressed.
• WEIGH-HOUSE
  A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.
• ESTIMATE
  1. To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic , or intrinsic , value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents
• WEIGHT
  The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it. Atomic weight. See under Atomic, and cf. Element. -- Dead weight, Feather weight, Heavy weight, Light weight, etc. See under Dead, Feather, etc. -- Weight of
• WEIGHTY
  1. Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body. 2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry weighty reasons." Shak. Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. Swift.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
• MISADJUSTMENT
  Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.
• READJUSTMENT
  A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.
• READJUST
  To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.
• AWEIGH
  Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten.
• UNWEIGHING
  Not weighing or pondering; inconsiderate. Shak.