Word Meanings - FRESHNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state of being fresh. The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FRESHNESS)

• Bloom
• Blossom
• bud
• flower
• sprout
• germinate
• beauty
• freshness
• delicacy
• Ebriety
• Soberness
• temperance

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FRESHNESS)

• Blight
• wither
• decay

Related words: (words related to FRESHNESS)

• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• FRESHNESS
  The state of being fresh. The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.
• GERMINATE
  To cause to sprout. Price .
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• BLOOMINGNESS
  A blooming condition.
• BLOOMER
  1. A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and a broad-brimmed hat. 2. A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• BLOOMARY
  See BLOOMERY
• BLOOM
  1. To cause to blossom; to make flourish. Charitable affection bloomed them. Hooker. 2. To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. Milton. While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day. Keats.
• FLOWERPOT
  A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
• FLOWERINESS
  The state of being flowery.
• FLOWER
  Etym: 1. To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June. 2. To come into the finest or fairest condition. Their lusty and flowering age. Robynson . When flowered my youthful
• BLOOMLESS
  Without bloom or flowers. Shelley.
• BLOSSOMY
  Full of blossoms; flowery.
• DECAYER
  A causer of decay.
• WITHER-WRUNG
  Injured or hurt in the withers, as a horse.
• BLOSSOM
  D. bloesem, L. fios, and E. flower; from the root of E. blow to 1. The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a
• WITHERED
  Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away. -- With"ered*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• INGERMINATE
  To cause to germinate.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
• UNFLOWER
  To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
• GLOBEFLOWER
  A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.
• FULL-BLOOMED
  Like a perfect blossom. "Full-bloomed lips." Crashaw.
• BALL-FLOWER
  An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding.
• THREE-FLOWERED
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.