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Word Meanings - HEAVINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.

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  • LABOR-SAVING
    Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
  • LABORIOUS
    1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all Learn these from Cato. Addison. 2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.
  • LABORED
    Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
  • POWERFUL
    Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
  • LABOROUS
    Laborious. Wyatt. -- La"bor*ous*ly, adv. Sir T. Elyot.
  • LABOR
    The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging. 7. Etym: (more info) 1. Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard,
  • POWERABLE
    1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
  • BURDENER
    One who loads; a oppressor.
  • MOMENTARILY
    Every moment; from moment to moment. Shenstone.
  • WEIGHTINESS
    The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
  • WEIGHTILY
    In a weighty manner.
  • AFFLICTION
    1. The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak. 2. The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or
  • LABORATORY
    The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the
  • MOMENTOUS
    Of moment or consequence; very important; weighty; as, a momentous decision; momentous affairs. -- Mo*men"tous*ly, adv. -- Mo*men"tous*ness, n.
  • EFFICACY
    Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer. "Of noxious efficacy." Milton. Syn. -- Virtue; force;
  • CONSEQUENCE
    A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference. 3. Chain of causes and effects; consecution. Such fatal consequence unites us three. Milton. Link follows
  • TORPOR
    1. Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness. 2. Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties.
  • PRESSURE WIRES
    Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points.
  • AFFLICTIONLESS
    Free from affliction.
  • TRAVAILOUS
    Causing travail; laborious. Wyclif. -- Trav"ail*ous*ly, adv. Wyclif.
  • INCONSEQUENCE
    The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
  • COUNTER WEIGHT
    A counterpoise.
  • OVERLABOR
    1. To cause to labor excessively; to overwork. Dryden. 2. To labor upon excessively; to refine unduly.
  • COLABORER
    One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
  • CANDLE POWER
    Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
  • ELABORATION
    The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle,
  • UNLABORED
    1. Not produced by labor or toil. "Unlabored harvests." Dryden. 2. Not cultivated; untitled; as, an unlabored field. 3. Not laboriously produced, or not evincing labor; as, an unlabored style or work. Tickell.
  • WELTERWEIGHT
    1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
  • IMPOWER
    See EMPOWER
  • IMMOMENTOUS
    Not momentous; unimportant; insignificant. A. Seward.
  • UNDERLABORER
    An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke.

 

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