Word Meanings - IOTA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding with the English i. 2. A very small quantity or degree; a jot; a particle. They never depart an iota from the authentic formulas of tyranny and usurpation. Burke. Iota subscript , iota

Additional info about word: IOTA

1. The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding with the English i. 2. A very small quantity or degree; a jot; a particle. They never depart an iota from the authentic formulas of tyranny and usurpation. Burke. Iota subscript , iota written beneath a preceding vowel, as a,, h,, w,, -- done when iota is silent.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IOTA)

• Jot
• Tittle
• cipher
• trifle
• rush
• fig
• particle
• atom
• thought
• idea
• bit
• scrap
• morsel
• fraction
• iota
• whit

Related words: (words related to IOTA)

• TITTLEBAT
  The three-spined stickleback.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• SCRAPING
  1. The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper. 2. Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.
• THOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Think.
• CIPHER
  A character which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold. 2. One who, or that which, has no weight or influence. Here he was a mere cipher. W. Irving. 3. A character
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• FRACTION
  One or more aliquot parts of a unit or whole number; an expression for a definite portion of a unit or magnitude. Common, or Vulgar, fraction, a fraction in which the number of equal parts into which the integer is supposed to be divided
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.
• TITTLE-TATTLE
  1. Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle. Arbuthnot. 2. An idle, trifling talker; a gossip. Tatler.
• TITTLE-TATTLING
  The act or habit of parting idly or gossiping.
• THOUGHTFUL
  1. Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind. War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades. Pope. 2. Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful
• SCRAPPY
  Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency; as, a scrappy lecture. A dreadfully scrappy dinner. Thackeray.
• TITTLE
  A particle; a minute part; a jot; an iota. It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. Luke xvi. 17. Every tittle of this prophecy is most exactly verified. South. (more info) sense of small; cf. G. tüttel a
• MORSEL
  L. morsus a biting, bite, fr. mordere to bite; prob. akin to E. 1. A little bite or bit of food. Chaucer. Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labor to a tired digestion. South. 2. A small quantity; a little piece; a fragment.
• SCRAPPILY
  In a scrappy manner; in scraps. Mary Cowden Clarke.
• THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE
  Telepathy.
• SCRAP
  The crisp substance that remains after trying out animal fat; as, pork scraps. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. I have no materials -- not a scrap. De Quincey.
• CIPHERER
  One who ciphers.
• FRACTIONALLY
  By fractions or separate portions; as, to distill a liquid fractionally, that is, so as to separate different portions.
• SCRAPPLE
  An article of food made by boiling together bits or scraps of meat, usually pork, and flour or Indian meal.
• BETHOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Bethink.
• UNREMORSELESS
  Utterly remorseless. "Unremorseless death." Cowley.
• FORETHOUGHT
  Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon.
• DECIPHERMENT
  The act of deciphering.
• REMORSELESS
  Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless. "Remorseless adversaries." South. "With remorseless cruelty." Milton. Syn. -- Unpitying; pitiless; relentless; unrelenting; implacable;
• NEW THOUGHT
  Any form of belief in mental healing other than Christian Science and hypnotism or psychotherapy. Its central principle is affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances,
• INDECIPHERABLE
  Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved. -- In`de*ci"pher*a*bly, adv.
• INFRACTION
  The act of infracting or breaking; breach; violation; nonobservance; infringement; as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, rule, or law. I. Watts.
• DIFFRACTION
  The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars. Remarked by