Word Meanings - DOUCEUR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Gentleness and sweetness of manner; agreeableness. Chesterfield. 2. A gift for service done or to be done; an honorarium; a present; sometimes, a bribe. Burke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DOUCEUR)

• Bonus
• Premium
• douceur
• boon
• benefit
• Gift
• Donation
• present
• grant
• gratuity
• benefaction
• endowment
• talent
• faculty
• alms
• Reward
• guerdon
• encouragement
• enhancement
• bribe
• recompense
• bonus
• prize
• bounty

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DOUCEUR)

• Punish
• misrequite

Related words: (words related to DOUCEUR)

• GUERDONABLE
  Worthy of reward. Sir G. Buck.
• REWARDFUL
  Yielding reward.
• PUNISHER
  One who inflicts punishment.
• REWARD
  To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord. Piers Plowman. Thou hast rewarded
• TALENT
  tolerare, tollere, to lift up, sustain, endure. See Thole, v. t., 1. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination
• PRESENT
  one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.
• PRESENTIVE
  Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. --
• PRESENTANEOUS
  Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey.
• BENEFIT SOCIETY
  A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.
• PRESENTLY
  1. At present; at this time; now. The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree
• ENHANCEMENT
  The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
• PUNISHABLE
  Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses. That time was, when to be a Protestant, to be a Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor. Milton. -- Pun"ish*a*ble*ness,
• ENDOWMENT
  1. The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support. 2. That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church,
• RECOMPENSE
  recompensare, fr.L. pref. re- re- + compensare to compensate. See 1. To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. He can not recompense me better. Shak. 2. To return an equivalent for;
• RECOMPENSER
  One who recompenses. A thankful recompenser of the benefits received. Foxe.
• PRESENTER
  One who presents.
• BRIBER
  1. A thief. Lydgate. 2. One who bribes, or pays for corrupt practices. 3. That which bribes; a bribe. His service . . . were a sufficient briber for his life. Shak.
• BONUS
  A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter. Bouvier. 2. An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits. 3. Money paid
• RECOMPENSEMENT
  Recompense; requital. Fabyan.
• REWARDLESS
  Having, or affording, no reward.
• SHOREWARD
  Toward the shore.
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• CONDONATION
  Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated. Bouvier. Wharton. (more info) 1. The act
• NONPRESENTATION
  Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• FLAGRANT
  1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in
• TOTIPRESENT
  Omnipresence. A. Tucker.
• OMNIPRESENTIAL
  Implying universal presence. South.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• INTEGRANT
  Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral. Boyle. All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke. Integrant parts, or particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss
• OVERPRIZE
  Toprize excessively; to overvalue. Sir H. Wotton.