Word Meanings - PRIVATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation. Bacon. 2. The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need;

Additional info about word: PRIVATION

1. The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation. Bacon. 2. The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations. 3. The condition of being absent; absence; negation. Evil will be known by consequence, as being only a privation, or absence, of good. South. Privation mere of light and absent day. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRIVATION)

• Loss
• Mislaying
• dropping
• forfeiture
• missing
• privation
• waste
• detriment
• damage
• Penury
• Wart
• poverty
• indigence
• impecuniosity
• destitution
• beggary

Related words: (words related to PRIVATION)

• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• MISSEL
  Mistletoe. Missel bird, Missel thrush , a large European thrush which feeds on the berries of the mistletoe; -- called also mistletoe thrush and missel.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• MISSIFICATE
  To perform Mass. Milton.
• MISSTAYED
  Having missed stays; -- said of a ship.
• MISSILE
  A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• MISSPEND
  To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips.
• MISSAY
  1. To say wrongly. 2. To speak evil of; to slander.
• MISSTATE
  To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate. Bp. Sanderson.
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• MISSIONER
  A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6. "Like mighty missioner you come." Dryden.
• MISSPENDER
  One who misspends.
• MISSPENT
  of Misspend.
• WASTEFUL
  1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful
• DROPPINGLY
  In drops.
• DETRIMENTAL
  Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful. Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor. Addison. Syn. -- Injurious; hurtful; prejudicial; disadvantageous; mischievous; pernicious.
• MISSELDINE
  The mistletoe. Baret.
• DAMAGE FEASANT
  Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle. Blackstone.
• MISLAY
  1. To lay in a wrong place; to ascribe to a wrong source. The fault is generally mislaid upon nature. Locke. 2. To lay in a place not recollected; to lose. The... charter, indeed, was unfortunately mislaid: and the prayer of their petition was
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• COMMISSARY
  An officer on the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. Ayliffe. An officer having charge of a special sevice; as, the commissary of musters. An officer
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• PROMISSORILY
  In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne.
• REMISS
  Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• REMISSLY
  In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
• EAVESDROPPER
  One who stands under the eaves, or near the window or door of a house, to listen; hence, a secret listener.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• REMISSORY
  Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.
• INDAMAGED
  Not damaged. Milton.
• REMISSIVE
  Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.