Word Meanings - INSPECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

pref. in- in + specere to look at, to view: cf. F. inspecter, fr. L. 1. To look upon; to view closely and critically, esp. in order to ascertain quality or condition, to detect errors, etc., to examine; to scrutinize; to investigate; as, to inspect

Additional info about word: INSPECT

pref. in- in + specere to look at, to view: cf. F. inspecter, fr. L. 1. To look upon; to view closely and critically, esp. in order to ascertain quality or condition, to detect errors, etc., to examine; to scrutinize; to investigate; as, to inspect conduct. 2. To view and examine officially, as troops, arms, goods offered, work done for the public, etc.; to oversee; to superintend. Sir W. Temple.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSPECT)

• Examine
• Weigh
• ponder
• investigate
• perpend
• test
• scrutinize
• criticize
• prove
• study
• discuss
• inquire
• search
• explore
• inspect
• Overlook
• Condone
• connive
• disregard
• oversee
• supervise
• survey
• review
• excuse
• pardon
• forgive
• neglect
• Review Reconsider
• revise
• examine
• Search Inspect
• seek
• Spy #N/A
• espy
• discern
• discover
• view

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INSPECT)

• Consider
• respect
• notice
• observe
• regard
• esteem
• tend
• attend
• foster
• study
• Discard
• dismiss
• overlook
• skim
• disregard
• misexamine
• Pretermit
• abandon
• misinvestigate

Related words: (words related to INSPECT)

• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• EXCUSEMENT
  Excuse. Gower.
• PARDON
  A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission.
• DISCERNANCE
  Discernment.
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• REVIEW
  Etym: 1. To view or see again; to look back on "I shall review Sicilia." Shak. 2. To go over and examine critically or deliberately. Specifically: To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition. To go
• PROVENCAL
  Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants.
• INSPECTOR
  One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer. Inspector general , a staff
• ESTEEM
  1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
• PONDERARY
  Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. M'Culloch.
• SEARCHLESS
  Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
• EXCUSE
  1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him
• REVIEWABLE
  Capable of being reviewed.
• PERPENDICULAR
  At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc. Perpendicular style , a name given to the latest variety of English Gothic architecture, which prevailed from the close of the 14th century to the early
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• CROSS-EXAMINER
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• PREPONDERATINGLY
  In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.