Word Meanings - PERTINENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand; fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite; material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent evidence. 2. Regarding; concerning; belonging;
Additional info about word: PERTINENT
1. Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand; fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite; material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent evidence. 2. Regarding; concerning; belonging; pertaining. "Pertinent unto faith." Hooker. Syn. -- Apposite; relevant; suitable; appropriate; fit. -- Per"ti*nent*ly, adv. -- Per"ti*nent*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERTINENT)
- Applicable
- Available
- ancilla
- convenient
- useful
- pertinent
- conducive
- appropriate
- Apposite
- Suitable
- befitting
- fitting
- timely
- congruous
- consistent
- seasonable
- relevant
- fit
- meet
- adapted
- apropos
- Apt
- Fit
- apposite
- clever
- liable
- becoming
- ready
- suitable
- qualified
- prompt
- likely
- Germane
- Allied
- kindred
- related
- homogeneous
- akin
- relative
- Relevant
- Appropriate
- apt
- applicable
- bearing
Related words: (words related to PERTINENT)
- APPLICABLE
Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv. - AVAILABLENESS
1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. 2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale. - PROMPT-BOOK
The book used by a prompter of a theater. - RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - APPROPRIATENESS
The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude. - ALLICIENT
That attracts; attracting. -- n. - QUALIFICATION
1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success; - ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young. - ADAPTABLE
Capable of being adapted. - CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - ALLITERAL
Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration. - HOMOGENEOUSNESS
Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material. - RELEVANTLY
In a relevant manner. - QUALIFIED
1. Fitted by accomplishments or endowments. 2. Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement. Qualified fee , a base fee, or an estate which has a qualification annexed to it, the fee ceasing with the qualification, as a grant to A and his heirs, - PERTINENT
1. Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand; fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite; material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent evidence. 2. Regarding; concerning; belonging; - QUALIFIER
, One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains. - PROMPTLY
In a prompt manner. - ALLITERATOR
One who alliterates. - ALLIED
United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally. - CONVENIENTLY
In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty. - GALLIASS
See GALLEASS - PRELATIST
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - DALLIANCE
1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination. - KAKARALLI
A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle. - CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - UNBECOMING
Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. - CORALLIGENOUS
producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble. - REALLIANCE
A renewed alliance. - IMPALLID
To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham. - HEMEROCALLIS
A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily. - HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN - SHIELD-BEARER
Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield. - UNAPPLIABLE
Inapplicable. Milton.