Word Meanings - EMINENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

out, be prominent; e out + minere to project; of uncertain 1. High; lofty; towering; prominent. "A very eminent promontory." Evelyn 2. Being, metaphorically, above others, whether by birth, high station, merit, or virtue; high in public

Additional info about word: EMINENT

out, be prominent; e out + minere to project; of uncertain 1. High; lofty; towering; prominent. "A very eminent promontory." Evelyn 2. Being, metaphorically, above others, whether by birth, high station, merit, or virtue; high in public estimation; distinguished; conspicuous; as, an eminent station; an eminent historian, statements, statesman, or saint. Right of eminent domain. See under Domain. Syn. -- Lofty; elevated; exalted; conspicuous; prominent; remarkable; distinguished; illustrious; famous; celebrated; renowned; well-known. See Distinguished.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EMINENT)

• Celebrated
• Famed
• renowned
• illustrious
• eminent
• glorious
• famous
• noted
• distinguished
• notable
• exalted
• Conspicuous
• Visible
• easily seen
• prominent
• manifest
• salient
• observable
• noticeable
• magnified
• Distinguished
• Illustrious
• celebrated
• conspicuous
• marked
• Great
• Big
• wide
• huge
• numerous
• protracted
• excellent
• large
• immense
• bulky
• majestic
• gigantic
• vast
• grand
• sublime
• august
• magnanimous
• noble
• powerful
• High
• Elevated
• lofty
• tall
• haughty
• violent
• proud

Related words: (words related to EMINENT)

• FAMILIARLY
  In a familiar manner.
• MAGNIFICENTLY
  In a Magnificent manner.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• NOTUM
  The back.
• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• BULKY
  Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.
• PROUDLING
  A proud or haughty person. Sylvester.
• FAMILIST
  One of afanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists wholly in love.
• FAMOSITY
  The state or quality of being famous. Johnson.
• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• FAMELESS
  Without fame or renown. -- Fame"less*ly, adv.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• PROUD
  prout, prud, prut, AS. prut; akin to Icel. pruedhr stately, handsome, 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly;
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• IMMENSENESS
  The state of being immense.
• RENOWNED
  Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king. "Some renowned metropolis with glistering spires." Milton. These were the renouwned of the congregation. Num. i. 61.
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• MONOTESSARON
  A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony.
• HYPNOTIC
  1. Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific. 2. Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.
• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• SEAMARK
  Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak.
• PHONOTYPY
  A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• DEFAMER
  One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.
• INDIVISIBLE
  Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable. (more info) 1. Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." Dryden.
• MONOTHALAMAN
  A foraminifer having but one chamber.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• INNUMEROUS
  Innumerable. Milton.
• MONOTONE
  A single unvaried tone or sound.