Word Meanings - HARD-FAVORED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to HARD-FAVORED)

• LOOKDOWN
  See
• 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.
• VULCANO
  A volcano.
• FAVORITE
  Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Farquhar. (more info) p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with
• VULCANOLOGY
  The science which treats of phenomena due to plutonic action, as in volcanoes, hot springs, etc.
• FEATURELESS
  Having no distinct or distinctive features.
• FAVORABLE
  1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
• LOOK
  1. To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below. 2. To
• FEATURE
  fashion, make, fr. L. factura a making, formation, fr. facere, 1. The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance. What needeth it his feature to descrive Chaucer. Cheated of feature
• VULCANIZATION
  The act or process of imparting to caoutchouc, gutta-percha, or the like, greater elasticity, durability, or hardness by heating with sulphur under pressure.
• LOOKOUT
  1. A careful looking or watching for any object or event. 2. The place from which such observation is made. 3. A person engaged in watching. 4. Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.
• FAVOREDNESS
  Appearance.
• FEATURELY
  Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome. Featurely warriors of Christian chivalry. Coleridge.
• VULCANITE
  Hard rubber produced by vulcanizing with a large proportion of sulphur.
• VULCANIAN
  Volcanic. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; hence, of or pertaining to works in iron or other metals. Ingenious allusions to the Vulcanian panoply which Achilles lent to his feebler friend. Macaulay.
• VULCANISM
  Volcanism.
• VULCAN
  The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; -- answering to the Greek Hephæstus.
• VULCANICITY
  Volcanicity.
• FAVORED
  1. Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored friend. 2. Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc.
• ILL-LOOKING
  Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.
• FLOOKAN; FLUKAN
  See FLUCAN
• DISFEATURE
  To deprive of features; to mar the features of.
• FLOOKY
  Fluky.
• DOWNLOOKED
  Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen. Dryden.
• UNFAVORABLE
  Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging. -- Un*fa"vor*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*fa"vor*a*bly, adv.
• GOOD-LOOKING
  Handsome.
• MISFEATURE
  Ill feature. Keats.
• ON-LOOKING
  Looking on or forward.