Word Meanings - IMPOSITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment. T. Warton. 4. An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture. Reputation is an idle and most

Additional info about word: IMPOSITION

An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment. T. Warton. 4. An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition. Shak. (more info) 1. The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like. "From imposition of strict laws." Milton. Made more solemn by the imposition of hands. Hammond. 2. That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPOSITION)

• Cheat
• Deception
• fraud
• imposition
• trick
• artifice
• illusion
• imposture
• swindle
• finesse
• deceit
• lie
• fiction
• Deceit
• deception
• double dealing
• delusion
• circumvention
• guile
• bewilderment
• treachery
• sham
• insidiousness
• indirection
• duplicity
• cunning
• Impost
• Imposition
• tax
• burden
• custom
• toll
• tribute
• excise
• duty
• Stratagem
• Artifice
• tactics
• contrivance
• generalship
• manoeuvre
• device
• machination
• plot
• plan
• Trick
• stratagem
• wile
• cheat
• juggle
• antic
• vagary
• sleight
• legerdemain

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IMPOSITION)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse

Related words: (words related to IMPOSITION)

• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• SLEIGHTLY
  Cunningly. Huloet.
• ANTICLY
  Oddly; grotesquely.
• ANTICHLOR
  Any substance used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.
• ANTICHRISTIANISM; ANTICHRISTIANITY
  Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.
• ANTIC-MASK
  An antimask. B. Jonson.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• SLEIGHT
  1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer. 2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. The world hath many subtle sleights. Latimer. 3. Dexterous
• DOUBLE
  Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally
• FINESSE
  The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2. (more info) 1. Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem. This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery. Milton.
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• ILLUSIONABLE
  Liable to illusion.
• DOUBLE-LOCK
  To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.
• SLEIGHTY
  Cunning; sly. Huloet.
• DEALBATION
  Act of bleaching; a whitening.
• ANTICIPANT
  Anticipating; expectant; -- with of. Wakening guilt, anticipant of hell. Southey.
• ANTICOHERER
  A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
• BURDENER
  One who loads; a oppressor.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• WOLLASTON'S DOUBLET
  A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• INFANTICIDE
  The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder. (more info) antis, child + caedere to kill: cf. F. infanticide. See Infant, and