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Word Meanings - MERETRICIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

prostitute, lit., one who earns money, i. e., by prostitution, fr. 1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic. 2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully

Additional info about word: MERETRICIOUS

prostitute, lit., one who earns money, i. e., by prostitution, fr. 1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic. 2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments. -- Mer`e*tri"cious*ly, adv. -- Mer`e*tri"cious*ness, n.

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  • FLOWERY-KIRTLED
    Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
  • FLOWERY
    1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
  • FLORIDA BEAN
    The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean. One of the very large seeds of the Entada scandens.
  • TAWDRY
    A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general. Of which the Naiads and the blue Nereids make Them tawdries for their necks. Drayton.
  • CEREMONIOUSLY
    In a ceremonious way.
  • FLORIDNESS
    The quality of being florid. Boyle.
  • GESTICULATORY
    Representing by, or belonging to, gestures. T. Warton.
  • SANGUINENESS
    The quality of being sanguine.
  • ORNATE
    1. Adorned; decorated; beautiful. "So bedecked, ornate, and gay." Milton. 2. Finely finished, as a style of composition. A graceful and ornate rhetoric. Milton.
  • SANGUINELESS
    Destitute of blood; pale.
  • SANGUINE
    1. Having the color of blood; red. Of his complexion he was sanguine. Chaucer. Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe. Milton. 2. Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament.
  • FLORIDITY
    The quality of being florid; floridness. Floyer.
  • POMPOUS
    1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession. 2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style. "Pompous in high presumption." Chaucer. he pompous vanity of the
  • MERETRICIOUS
    prostitute, lit., one who earns money, i. e., by prostitution, fr. 1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic. 2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully
  • GLITTER
    A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage. Milton.
  • THEATRICAL
    Of or pertaining to a theater, or to the scenic representations; resembling the manner of dramatic performers; histrionic; hence, artificial; as, theatrical performances; theatrical gestures. -- The*at`ri*cal"i*ty, n. -- The*at"ric*al*ly, adv. No
  • BESPANGLE
    To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.
  • GARISH
    1. Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention. "The garish sun." "A garish flag." Shak. "In . . . garish colors." Asham. "The garish day." J. H. Newman. Garish like the laughters of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor. 2. Gay
  • FLORIDLY
    In a florid manner.
  • FLORID
    Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations. (more info) 1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree.
  • CONSANGUINED
    Of kin blood; related. Johnson.
  • AMPHITHEATRICALLY
    In the form or manner of an amphitheater.
  • EXSANGUINEOUS
    Destitute of blood; anæmic; exsanguious.
  • AGLITTER
    Clittering; in a glitter.

 

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