Word Meanings - FIRST-RATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett .

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FIRST-RATE)

• Prime
• Excellent
• superexcellent
• first-rate
• perfect
• consummate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FIRST-RATE)

• Neglect
• drop
• interrupt
• nullify
• undo
• baffle
• frustrate
• mar
• defeat
• spoil

Related words: (words related to FIRST-RATE)

• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• PRIMEVALLY
  In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin.
• PERFECT
  Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence , a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord , a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly
• FRUSTRATE
  Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. "Our frustrate search." Shak. (more info) to deceive, frustrate, fr. frustra in vain, witout effect, in erorr,
• INTERRUPTION
  1. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon. 2. The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption of time cause you to
• BAFFLEMENT
  The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.
• PERFECTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to perfection; characterized by perfection. Bp. Pearson.
• INTERRUPT
  1. To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking. Do not interrupt me in my course.
• SPOIL
  1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of
• PERFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being perfectible.
• SPOILER
  1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. 2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
• PERFECTIBLE
  Capable of becoming, or being made, perfect.
• PERFECTION
  1. The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection in an
• SPOILSMAN
  One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public
• PERFECTNESS
  The quality or state of being perfect; perfection. "Charity, which is the bond of perfectness." Col. iii. 14.
• SPOILABLE
  Capable of being spoiled.
• INTERRUPTED
  Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf. (more info) 1. Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.
• PRIMEVAL
  Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man. "This is the forest primeval." Longfellow. From chaos, and primeval darkness, came Light. Keats.
• PERFECTIONMENT
  The act of bringing to perfection, or the state of having attained to perfection. I. Taylor.
• FIRST-RATE
  Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett .
• REPRIMER
  A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again.
• INCONSUMMATE
  Not consummated; not finished; incomplete. Sir M. Hale. -- In`con*sum"mate*ness, n.
• IMPERFECT
  1. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. Something he left imperfect in the state. Shak. Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. Shak. 2. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential
• UNCONSUMMATE
  Not consummated; not accomplished. Dryden.
• SELF-NEGLECTING
  A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak.
• UNPERFECT
  To mar or destroy the perfection of. Sir P. Sidney.