Word Meanings - INDEFINITELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In an indefinite manner or degree; without any settled limitation; vaguely; not with certainty or exactness; as, to use a word indefinitely. If the world be indefinitely extended, that is, so far as no human intellect can fancy any bound of it. Ray.
Related words: (words related to INDEFINITELY)
- HUMANIZE
To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph. (more info) 1. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. Was it the business - BOUNDLESS
Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite. - WORLDLY
1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining - HUMANIFY
To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate. The humanifying of the divine Word. H. B. Wilson. - WORLDLY-MINDED
Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n. - HUMANITARIANISM
The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ. - WORLD-WIDE
Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame. Tennyson. - INTELLECTUALIST
1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. Bacon. 2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism. - SETTLEMENT
A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles, - EXTENDLESSNESS
Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale. - HUMANISM
1. Human nature or disposition; humanity. looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism. T. Hardy. 2. The study of the humanities; polite learning. - INTELLECT
The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power - HUMANISTIC
1. Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. Caird. 2. Pertaining to polite kiterature. M. Arnold. - FANCYWORK
Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc. - VAGUELY
In a vague manner. What he vaguely hinted at, but dared not speak. Hawthorne. - WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak. - EXTENDANT
Displaced. Ogilvie. - WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer. - FANCYMONGER
A lovemonger; a whimsical lover. Shak. - BOUNDING
Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery. - HOME-BOUND
Kept at home. - OUTBOUND
Outward bound. Dryden. - INHUMANITY
The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns. - UNBOUND
imp. & p. p. of Unbind. - UNBOUNDED
Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - DISFANCY
To dislike. - SURREBOUND
To give back echoes; to reëcho. Chapman.