Word Meanings - LOYAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Faithful to law; upholding the lawful authority; faithful and true to the lawful government; faithful to the prince or sovereign to whom one is subject; unswerving in allegiance. Welcome, sir John ! But why come you in arms -To help King Edward

Additional info about word: LOYAL

1. Faithful to law; upholding the lawful authority; faithful and true to the lawful government; faithful to the prince or sovereign to whom one is subject; unswerving in allegiance. Welcome, sir John ! But why come you in arms -To help King Edward in his time of storm, As every loyal subject ought to do. Shak. 2. True to any person or persons to whom one owes fidelity, especially as a wife to her husband, lovers to each other, and friend to friend; constant; faithful to a cause or a principle. Your true and loyal wife. Shak. Unhappy both, but loyaltheir loves. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LOYAL)

• Faithful
• true
• firm
• attached
• loyal
• accurate
• close
• consistent
• correspondent
• exact
• equivalent
• staunch
• incorruptible
• Veritable
• veracious
• explicit
• precis
• faithful
• actual
• genuine
• pure
• real

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LOYAL)

• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract

Related words: (words related to LOYAL)

• STAUNCH; STAUNCHLY; STAUNCHNESS
  See ETC
• ACCURATENESS
  The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• ACTUALIZE
  To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• EXACTLY
  In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft.
• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• PROTRACTIVE
  Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.
• EXACTION
  1. The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion. Take away your exactions from my
• ACTUAL
  1. Involving or comprising action; active. Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor. 2. Existing in act or reality;
• ACCURATE
  1. In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge,
• ACCURATELY
  In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.
• GENUINE
  Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials. "True, genuine night." Dryden.
• CLOSEFISTED
  Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
• CONDUCTIVITY
  The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces
• CLOSE
  to G. schliessen to shut, and to E. clot, cloister, clavicle, 1. To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door. 2. To bring together the parts of; to consolidate; as, to close the ranks of an army; -- often
• EXPLICITNESS
  The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness. Jer. Taylor.
• CLOSEN
  To make close.
• CLOSER
  The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course. Gwilt. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot. 2. A finisher; that which finishes
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• INEXPLICIT
  Not explicit; not clearly stated; indefinite; vague.
• INACCURATE
  Not accurate; not according to truth; inexact; incorrect; erroneous; as, in inaccurate man, narration, copy, judgment, calculation, etc. The expression is plainly inaccurate. Bp. Hurd. Syn. -- Inexact; incorrect; erroneous; faulty; imperfect;
• INACCURATELY
  In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.