Word Meanings - OBSERVATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything. My observation, which very seldom lies. Shak. 2. The result of an act, or of acts, of observing; view; reflection; conclusion;

Additional info about word: OBSERVATION

1. The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything. My observation, which very seldom lies. Shak. 2. The result of an act, or of acts, of observing; view; reflection; conclusion; judgment. In matters of human prudence, we shall find the greatest advantage in making wise observations on our conduct. I. Watts. 3. Hence: An expression of an opinion or judgment upon what one has observed; a remark. "That's a foolish observation." Shak. To observations which ourselves we make We grow more partial for the observer's sake. Pope. 4. Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance. We are to procure dispensation or leave to omit the observation of it in such circumstances. Jer. Taylor. The act of recognizing and noting some fact or occurrence in nature, as an aurora, a corona, or the structure of an animal. Specifically, the act of measuring, with suitable instruments, some magnitude, as the time of an occultation, with a clock; the right ascension of a star, with a transit instrument and clock; the sun's altitude, or the distance of the moon from a star, with a sextant; the temperature, with a thermometer, etc. The information so acquired. Note: When a phenomenon is scrutinized as it occurs in nature, the act is termed an observation. When the conditions under which the phenomenon occurs are artificial, or arranged beforehand by the observer, the process is called an experiment. Experiment includes observation. To take an observation , to ascertain the altitude of a heavenly body, with a view to fixing a vessel's position at sea. Syn. -- Observance; notice; attention; remark; comment; note. See Observance.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OBSERVATION)

• Annotation
• Explanation
• criticism
• remark
• note
• commentary
• elucidation
• observation
• comment
• Attention
• Observation
• notice
• regard
• watchfulness
• heed
• consideration
• circumspection
• study
• vigilance
• care
• Cognizance
• Notice
• recognition
• knowledge
• experience
• Discernment
• Discrimination
• farsightedness
• clearsightedness
• penetration
• sagacity
• judgment
• Mention
• Declaration
• announcement
• hint
• communication

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of OBSERVATION)

• Confound
• confuse
• obscure
• mystify
• misinterpret
• misapprehend
• misconceive
• misrepresent
• Evade
• escape
• miss
• lose
• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misestimate
• misjudge

Related words: (words related to OBSERVATION)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• JUDGMENT
  The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• EXPERIENCED
  Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• REMARKER
  One who remarks.
• ESCAPE
  1. To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of. Haste, for thy life escape, nor look behindKeble. 2. To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm. Such heretics . . . would have
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• STUDY
  1. To apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages. 2. To consider attentively; to examine closely; as, to study the work of nature. Study thyself; what rank
• CONTEMNER
  One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.
• EXPLANATION
  1. The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty. 2. That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory
• COMMENTER
  One who makes or writes comments; a commentator; an annotator.
• DISCERNMENT
  1. The act of discerning. 2. The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness;
• MISINTERPRETER
  One who interprets erroneously.
• CONFUSE
  1. To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision. A universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused.
• OVERLOOK
  1. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. with burning eye did
• CONFOUNDEDLY
  Extremely; odiously; detestably. "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• INTERCOMMUNICATION
  Mutual communication. Owen.
• UNMENTIONABLES
  The breeches; trousers.
• INCONSIDERATION
  Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.
• DISLIKE
  1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.
• ACKNOWLEDGE
  1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
• HYPERCRITICISM
  Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.