Word Meanings - PONDERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To consider; to ponder.
Related words: (words related to PONDERATE)
- PONDEROUS
1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3. - CONSIDERINGLY
With consideration or deliberation. - PONDERARY
Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. M'Culloch. - PONDERAL
Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from numeral; as, a ponderal drachma. Arbuthnot. - PONDEROUSLY
In a ponderous manner. - PONDERATION
The act of weighing. Arbuthnot. - CONSIDER
consider, view attentively, prob. fr. con- + sidus, sideris, star, constellation; orig., therefore, to look at the stars. See Sidereal, 1. To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to thank on with care; to ponder; to study; to - PONDERATE
To consider; to ponder. - PONDERING
Deliberating. -- Pon"der*ing*ly, adv. - CONSIDERABLE
1. Worthy of consideration, borne in mind, or attended to. It is considerable, that some urns have had inscriptions on them expressing that the lamps were burning. Bp. Wilkins. Eternity is infinitely the most considerable duration. Tillotson. 2. - CONSIDERER
One who considers; a man of reflection; a thinker. Milton. - PONDEROUSNESS
The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity. - CONSIDERATOR
One who considers. Sir T. Browne. - CONSIDERATIVE
Considerate; careful; thoughtful. I love to be considerative. B. Jonson. - CONSIDERABLENESS
Worthiness of consideration; dignity; value; size; amount. - PONDERANCE
Weight; gravity. Gregory. - PONDEROSITY
The quality or state of being ponderous; weight; gravity; heaviness, ponderousness; as, the ponderosity of gold. Ray. - PONDERABILITY
The quality or state of being ponderable. - PONDERER
One who ponders. - CONSIDERANCE
Act of considering; consideration. Shak. - EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
Equality of weight; equipoise. - UNCONSIDERED
Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak. - PREPONDERATINGLY
In a preponderating manner; preponderantly. - 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. - PREPONDERATE
prae before + ponderare to weigh, fr., pondus, ponderis, a weight. 1. To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance. An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater - COUNTERPONDERATE
TO equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate. - UNCONSIDERATE
Inconsiderate; heedless; careless. Daniel. -- Un`con*sid"er*ate*ness, n. Hales. - INCONSIDERATE
1. Not considerate; not attentive to safety or to propriety; not regarding the rights or feelings of others; hasty; careless; thoughtless; heedless; as, the young are generally inconsiderate; inconsiderate conduct. It is a very unhappy token of - PREPONDER
To preponderate - INCONSIDERACY
Inconsiderateness; thoughtlessness. Chesterfield. - INCONSIDERATENESS
The quality or state of being inconsiderate. Tillotson.