Word Meanings - LOCALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places. (more info) 1. The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits. It is thought that the soul

Additional info about word: LOCALITY

The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places. (more info) 1. The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits. It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality. Glanvill. 2. Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant. 3. Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial. Blackstone.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LOCALITY)

• Quarter
• Region
• district
• locality
• territory
• mercy
• forbearance
• pity
• Room
• Space
• ground
• compass
• extent
• opportunity
• capability
• margin
• capacity
• admission
• Situation
• Locality
• position
• top
• site
• seat
• post
• place
• condition
• residence
• aspect
• footing
• office
• birth
• plight
• predicament
• standing

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LOCALITY)

• Expand
• disband
• unfold
• amplify
• display
• dismiss
• liberate
• discard
• fail
• bungle
• botch
• misconceive
• mismanage
• misconstrue

Related words: (words related to LOCALITY)

• MERCY
  mercedis, hire, pay, reward, LL., equiv. to misericordia pity, mercy. L. merces is probmerere to deserve, acquire. See Merit, and cf. 1. Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• MARGINALIA
  Marginal notes.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• FOOTMARK
  A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• MARGINALLY
  In the margin of a book.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• FOOTPLATE
  See
• BOTCH
  1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
• MARGINAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a margin. 2. Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or gloss.
• UNFOLDER
  One who, or that which, unfolds.
• BUNGLER
  A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
• GRAMERCY
  A word formerly used to express thankfulness, with surprise; many thanks. Gramercy, Mammon, said the gentle knight. Spenser.
• GOOSEFOOT
  A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• SURFOOT
  Tired or sore of foot from travel; lamed. Nares.
• SALTFOOT
  A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• FOURFOOTED
  Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.