Word Meanings - EXPOSTULATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion. We must use expostulation kindly. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXPOSTULATION)

• Complaint
• Murmur
• discontent
• repining
• grievance
• annoyance
• remonstrance
• expostulation
• lamentation
• sickness
• disease

Related words: (words related to EXPOSTULATION)

• REPINER
  One who repines.
• DISEASEFUL
  1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
• MURMUR
  1. A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water. 2. A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice. Chaucer. Some discontents there are, some idle murmurs. Dryden.
• MURMUROUS
  Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson.
• DISEASEFULNESS
  The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney.
• ANNOYANCE
  1. The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies.
• REPININGLY
  With repening or murmuring.
• MURMURATION
  The act of murmuring; a murmur. Skelton.
• MURMURER
  One who murmurs.
• COMPLAINTFUL
  Full of complaint.
• EXPOSTULATION
  The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion. We must use expostulation kindly. Shak.
• DISCONTENT
  Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor. Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. Bunyan.
• DISCONTENTATION
  Discontent. Ascham.
• DISCONTENTIVE
  Relating or tending to discontent. "Pride is ever discontentive." Feltham.
• DISCONTENTING
  1. Discontented. Shak. 2. Causing discontent; dissatisfying. Milton.
• DISCONTENTED
  Dissatisfied; uneasy in mind; malcontent. And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him. 1 Sam. xxii. 2. -- Dis`con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`con*tent"ed*ness, n.
• REMONSTRANCE
  See MONSTRANCE (more info) 1. The act of remonstrating; as: A pointing out; manifestation; proof; demonstration. You may marvel why I . . . would not rather Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power Than
• GRIEVANCER
  One who occasions a grievance; one who gives ground for complaint. Petition . . . against the bishops as grand grievancers. Fuller.
• REPINE
  1. To fail; to wane. "Reppening courage yields no foot to foe." Spenser. 2. To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur. But Lachesis thereat gan to repine. Spenser. What
• DISEASEDNESS
  The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. T. Burnet.
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• AGGRIEVANCE
  Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.
• LOVE-SICKNESS
  The state of being love-sick.
• WEIL'S DISEASE
  An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.
• GRAVES' DISEASE
  See DISEASE
• AERIAL SICKNESS
  A sickness felt by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.
• INFECTIOUS DISEASE
  Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious. Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such a disease communicated by germs carried in
• BASEDOW'S DISEASE
  A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart; -- called also exophthalmic goiter. Flint.