Word Meanings - DASHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy.

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• CALCULATED
  1. Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. 2. Adapted by calculation,
• ARRESTIVE
  Tending to arrest. McCosh.
• CALCULATION
  1. The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. "The calculation of eclipses." Nichol. The mountain is not so his calculation makes it. Boyle. 2. An expectation based on cirumstances. The lazy gossips of
• ARRESTEE
  The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment.
• FASHIONABLENESS
  State of being fashionable.
• ARREST
  To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime. Note: After his word Shakespeare uses of ("I arrest thee of high treason") or on; the modern usage is for. 3. To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as,
• CALCULATOR
  One who computes or reckons: one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects. Ambition is no exact calculator. Burke.
• ARRESTMENT
  The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached. 2. A stoppage or check. Darwin.
• FASHIONABLE
  1. Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress. 2. Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy;
• ARRESTER
  1. One who arrests.
• ARRESTATION
  Arrest. The arrestation of the English resident in France was decreed by the National Convention. H. M. Williams.
• CALCULATIVE
  Of or pertaining to calculation; involving calculation. Long habits of calculative dealings. Burke.
• CALCULATING
  1. Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations. 2. Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition. Calculating machine, a machine for the
• CALCULATE
  a pebble, a stone used in reckoning; hence, a reckoning, fr. calx, 1. To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute. A calencar exacity calculated than any
• SHOWY
  , a. Etym:
• ARRESTING
  Striking; attracting attention; impressive. This most solemn and arresting occurrence. J. H. Newman.
• ATTENTION
  1. The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; exclusive or special consideration; earnest consideration, thought, or regard; obedient or affectionate heed; the
• CALCULATORY
  Belonging to calculation. Sherwood.
• PRECALCULATE
  To calculate or determine beforehand; to prearrange. Masson.
• MISCALCULATE
  To calculate erroneously; to judge wrongly. -- Mis*cal`cu*la"tion, n.
• NONATTENTION
  Inattention.
• INFASHIONABLE
  Unfashionable. Beau. & Fl.
• INATTENTION
  Want of attention, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect. Novel lays attract our ravished ears; But old, the mind inattention hears. Pope. Syn. -- Inadvertence; heedlessness; negligence; carelessness; disregard; remissness;