Word Meanings - ENNUI - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium. T. Gray.

Related words: (words related to ENNUI)

• DULLNESS
  The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Pope.
• ARISTATE
  Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
• FEELINGLY
  In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
• ARISTARCH
  A severe critic. Knowles.
• INTERESTED
  1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.
• ARISTARCHIAN
  Severely critical.
• ARISTOTELIANISM
  The philosophy of Aristotle, otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy.
• SATIETY
  The state of being satiated or glutted; fullness of gratification, either of the appetite or of any sensual desire; fullness beyond desire; an excess of gratification which excites wearisomeness or loathing; repletion; satiation. In all pleasures
• FEELER
  One of the sense organs or certain animals , which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. 3. Anything,
• ARISTOCRAT
  1. One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble. 2. One who is overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person. A born aristocrat, bred radical. Mrs. Browning. 3. One who favors
• INTERESTINGNESS
  The condition or quality of being interesting. A. Smith.
• DISGUSTFUL
  Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting. That horrible and disgustful situation. Burke.
• ARISTOTELIAN
  Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher -- n.
• DISGUST
  Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather
• LANGUOR
  1. A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity. 2. Any enfeebling disease. Sick men with divers languors. Wyclif . 3. Listless indolence; dreaminess.
• FEELING
  1. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart. 2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
• ARISTA
  An awn. Gray.
• ARISTOTYPE
  Orig., a printing-out process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin; now, any such process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin; also, a print so made.
• DISGUSTFULNESS
  The state of being disgustful.
• ARISTOLOGY
  The science of dining. Quart. Rev.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• IMPARISYLLABIC
  Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis.
• PANDARISM
  See SWIFT
• PARISYLLABIC; PARISYLLABICAL
  Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections.
• CELLARIST
  See CELLARER
• GARGARISM
  A gargle.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• CITHARISTIC
  Pertaining, or adapted, to the cithara.
• CESARISM
  See CæSARISM
• CLARISONUS
  Having a clear sound. Ash.
• ALTARIST
  A chaplain. A vicar of a church.
• SEMINARIAN; SEMINARIST
  A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.
• VOLUNTARISM
  Any theory which conceives will to be the dominant factor in experience or in the constitution of the world; -- contrasted with intellectualism. Schopenhauer and Fichte are typical exponents of the two types of metaphysical voluntarism, Schopenhauer
• TAMARISK
  Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species is the source of one kind of manna. Tamarisk salt tree, an East Indian tree
• WARISON
  1. Preparation; protection; provision; supply. 2. Reward; requital; guerdon. Wit and wisdom is good warysoun. Proverbs of Hending.
• POLARISCOPY
  The art or rocess of making observations with the polariscope.
• MISFEELING
  Insensate. Wyclif.