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Word Meanings - LETHARGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked. 2. A state of inaction or indifference. Europe lay then under a deep lethargy. Atterbury.

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  • MORBIDEZZA
    Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
  • UNDERDOER
    One who underdoes; a shirk.
  • UNDERBRED
    Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
  • UNDERSECRETARY
    A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
  • UNDERPLOT
    1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • UNDERNICENESS
    A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
  • CONTINUABLE
    Capable of being continued
  • UNDERDOLVEN
    p. p. of Underdelve.
  • UNDERSOIL
    The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
  • CONTINUANT
    Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound. -- n.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • UNDERPROP
    To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
  • UNDERNIME
    1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
  • UNDERCREST
    To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
  • UNDERSAY
    To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
  • UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
    Wildcat insurance.
  • UNDERTAPSTER
    Assistant to a tapster.
  • PERSONNEL
    The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
  • PERSONIFICATION
    A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • RECONTINUANCE
    The act or state of recontinuing.
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
  • PLUNDERER
    One who plunders or pillages.
  • ENSTATE
    See INSTATE

 

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