Word Meanings - PRETERMIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To pass by; to omit; to disregard. Bacon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRETERMIT)

• Connive
• Wink
• pretermit
• pass
• overlook
• Forget
• Lose
• learn
• obliviate

Related words: (words related to PRETERMIT)

• FORGETTINGLY
  By forgetting.
• LEARN
  linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
• FORGETFUL
  1. Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory. 2. Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. Heb. xiii. 2.
• FORGETFULNESS
  1. The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind. 2. Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion. A sweet forgetfulness of human care. Pope. 3. Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention;
• PRETERMIT
  To pass by; to omit; to disregard. Bacon.
• 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
• CONNIVE
  1. To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink. The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye. Spectator. 2. To close the eyes upon a fault; to wink ; to fail or forbear by intention to discover an act; to
• FORGETIVE
  Inventive; productive; capable. Shak.
• CONNIVENCY
  Connivance.
• CONNIVER
  One who connives.
• LEARNER
  One who learns; a scholar.
• LEARNED
  Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory. The learnedlover lost no time. Spenser. Men of
• FORGETTER
  One who forgets; a heedless person. Johnson.
• OVERLOOKER
  One who overlooks.
• FORGETTABLE
  Liable to be, or that may be, forgotten. Carlyle.
• FORGET-ME-NOT
  A small herb, of the genus Myosotis (M. palustris, incespitosa, etc.), bearing a beautiful blue flower, and extensively considered the emblem of fidelity. Note: Formerly the name was given to the Ajuga Chamæpitus.
• FORGETFULLY
  In a forgetful manner.
• LEARNING
  1. The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy. 2. The knowledge or skill received by instruction or study; acquired knowledge or ideas in any branch of science or literature; erudition;
• FORGET
  AS. forgietan, forgitan; pref. for- + gietan, gitan , to get; cf. D. vergeten, G. vergessen, Sw. förgäta, Dan. forgiette. 1. To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the
• LEARNABLE
  Such as can be learned.
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.
• UNLEARN
  1. To forget, as what has been learned; to lose from memory; also, to learn the contrary of. I had learned nothing right; I had to unlearn everything. Milner. 2. To fail to learn. Dr. H. More.
• UNLEARNED
  1. Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate. 2. Not gained by study; not known. 3. Not exhibiting learning; as, unlearned verses. -- Un*learn"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*learn"ed*ness, n.
• OVERLEARNED
  Too learned. -- O"ver*learn"ed, adv. -- O"ver*learn"ed*ness, n.
• MISLEARN
  To learn wrongly.
• CLEARNESS
  The quality or state of being clear. Syn. -- Clearness, Perspicuity. Clearness has reference to our ideas, and springs from a distinct conception of the subject under consideration. Perspicuity has reference to the mode of expressing our ideas and
• BOOK-LEARNED
  Whate'er these book-learned blockheads say, Solon's the veriest fool in all the play. Dryden.