Word Meanings - PRESERVATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation. Give us particulars of thy

Additional info about word: PRESERVATION

The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation. Give us particulars of thy preservation. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRESERVATION)

• Care
• Attention
• pains
• anxiety
• concern
• trouble
• circumspection
• regard
• solicitude
• caution
• prevention
• custody
• preservation
• thrift
• heed
• foresight
• wariness
• economy
• prudence
• Conservation
• Preservation
• keeping
• protection
• guardianship
• maintenance
• stabilisation
• perpetuation
• Salvation
• saving
• redemption
• rescue
• deliverance

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PRESERVATION)

• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge
• endanger
• imperil
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• expose
• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• please
• soothe
• delight
• gratify
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to PRESERVATION)

• SAVELY
  Safely. Chaucer.
• DELIVERANCE
  Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• CONSERVATIONAL
  Tending to conserve; preservative.
• REDEMPTIONER
  1. One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude. 2. Formerly, one who, wishing to emigrate from Europe to America, sold his services for a stipulated time to pay the expenses of his passage.
• THRIFTINESS
  The quality or state of being thrifty; thrift.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• SAVORINESS
  The quality of being savory.
• SAVACIOUN
  Salvation.
• RESCUER
  One who rescues.
• REDEMPTIONIST
  A monk of an order founded in 1197; -- so called because the order was especially devoted to the redemption of Christians held in captivity by the Mohammedans. Called also Trinitarian.
• SAVINGLY
  1. In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony. 2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death. Savingly born of water and the Spirit. Waterland.
• 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.
• SAVOROUS
  Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R.
• UNPRUDENCE
  Imprudence.
• UNTHRIFTY
  Not thrifty; profuse. Spenser.
• SAFE-KEEPING
  The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
• LABOR-SAVING
  Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
• MISAVIZE
  To misadvise.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• UNCONCERNMENT
  The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South.
• CESSAVIT
  A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.