Word Meanings - FOSTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up. Some say that ravens foster forlorn children. Shak. 2. To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FOSTER)

• Aid
• Help
• assist
• succour
• support
• befriend
• co-operate
• contribute favor
• foster
• protect
• abet
• encourage
• instigate
• subsidize
• Cherish
• Foster
• nurse
• promote
• nourish
• nurture
• comfort
• entertain
• value
• Cultivate
• Promote
• study
• improve
• fertilize
• till
• advance
• refine
• civilize
• cherish
• Entertain
• Harbor
• maintain
• conceive
• receive
• recreate
• amuse
• Harbor Cherish
• accommodate
• indulge
• shelter
• lodge

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FOSTER)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Eject
• expel
• discard
• discourage
• stifle
• exclude
• banish
• dismiss
• Expose
• surrender
• betray
• imperil
• endanger
• Drop
• abandon
• discontinue
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• discountenance
• disfavor
• subvert
• Miscompute
• misestimate
• disesteem
• disregard
• vilipend
• underrate
• undervalue
• underestimate
• despise
• contemn
• cheapen
• vilify

Related words: (words related to FOSTER)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
  An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• EJECTOR
  A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• COMFORTLESS
  Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
• FAVOR
  Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• RECEIVE
  To bat back when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• CHERISHMENT
  Encouragement; comfort. Rich bounty and dear cherishment. Spenser.
• MISCOMPUTE
  To compute erroneously. Sir T. Browne.
• ASSIST
  To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
• SHELTERLESS
  Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.