Word Meanings - RESORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Active power or movement; spring. Some . . . know the resorts and falls of business that can not sink into the main of it. Bacon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RESORT)

• Appeal
• Accost
• address
• apostrophize
• invite
• cite
• invoke
• urge
• refer
• call upon
• entreat
• request
• resort

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RESORT)

• Elude
• avoid
• shun
• ignore
• pass
• Shun
• discard

Related words: (words related to RESORT)

• INVITER
  One who, or that which, invites.
• APPEALER
  One who makes an appeal.
• REFER
  1. To carry or send back. Chaucer. 2. Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, infirmation, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar
• REFERENTIAL
  Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use. -- Ref`er*en"tial*ly, adv.
• APPEAL
  appellare to approach, address, invoke, summon, call, name; akin to appellere to drive to; ad + pellere to drive. See Pulse, and cf. To make application for the removal of from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• ACCOST
  1. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. "So much as accosts the sea." Fuller. 2. To approach; to make up to. Shak. 3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts." Milton.
• APOSTROPHIZE
  1. To address by apostrophe. 2. To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe or apostrophes.
• ENTREATFUL
  Full of entreaty. See Intreatful.
• ADDRESS
  To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
• RESORT
  Active power or movement; spring. Some . . . know the resorts and falls of business that can not sink into the main of it. Bacon.
• AVOIDLESS
  Unavoidable; inevitable.
• ACCOSTABLE
  Approachable; affable. Hawthorne.
• APPEALABLE
  1. Capable of being appealed against; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable. 2. That may be accused or called to answer by appeal; as, a criminal is appealable for manslaughter.
• REFEREE
  One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it. Syn. -- Judge; arbitrator; umpire. See Judge.
• AVOIDANCE
  1. The act of annulling; annulment. 2. The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. Wolsey, . . .
• ELUDE
  To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or
• RESORTER
  One who resorts; a frequenter.
• APPEALING
  That appeals; imploring. -- Ap*peal"*ing*ly, adv. -- Ap*peal"ing*ness, n.
• AVOIDER
  1. The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. Johnson. 2. One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.
• PRELUDE
  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
• PRELUDER
  One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason.
• PREFERMENT
  1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
• UNAVOIDED
  1. Not avoided or shunned. Shak. 2. Unavoidable; inevitable. B. Jonson.
• DELUDER
  One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor.