Word Meanings - EXCELLENTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. In an excellent manner; well in a high degree. 2. In a high or superior degree; -- in this literal use, not implying worthiness. When the whole heart is excellently sorry. J. Fletcher.

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• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• HEARTWOOD
  The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
• LITERALNESS
  The quality or state of being literal; literal import.
• HEART
  A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• HEARTGRIEF
  Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
• LITERALIST
  One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.
• HEARTEN
  1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak. 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.
• LITERALLY
  1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. 2. With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally.
• HEARTDEEP
  Rooted in the heart. Herbert.
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• HEARTENER
  One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. W. Browne.
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• HEARTSWELLING
  Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
• LITERALISM
  The tendency or disposition to represent objects faithfully, without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization. (more info) 1. That which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter.
• HEART-ROBBING
  1. Depriving of thought; ecstatic. "Heart-robbing gladness." Spenser. 2. Stealing the heart or affections; winning.
• HEART'S-EASE
  A species of violet ; -- called also pansy. (more info) 1. Ease of heart; peace or tranquillity of mind or feeling. Shak.
• WORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth. Who is sure he hath a soul, unless It see, and judge, and follow worthiness Donne. She is not worthy to be loved that hath not some feeling of her
• HEARTYHALE
  Good for the heart.
• HEARTSOME
  Merry; cheerful; lively.
• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• BILITERALISM
  The property or state of being biliteral.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• ILLITERAL
  Not literal. B. Dawson.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• PIGEON-HEARTED
  Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.
• ALLITERAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• DISHEARTENMENT
  Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
• KIND-HEARTED
  Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord. To thy self at least kind-hearted prove. Shak.
• UNILITERAL
  Consisting of one letter only; as, a uniliteral word or sign.