Word Meanings - ROVING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine. 2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a
Additional info about word: ROVING
1. The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine. 2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2. Roving frame, Roving machine, a machine for drawing and twisting roves and twisting roves and winding them on bobbin for the spinning machine.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ROVING)
- Desultory
- Rambling
- discursive
- loose
- unmethodical
- superficial
- unsettled
- erratic
- inexact
- spasmodic
- fitful
- freakish
- aberrant
- unsystematic
- cursory
- roving
- hasty
- slight
- Itinerant
- Wandering
- travelling
- locomotive
- roaming
- journeying
- nomadic
- Migratory
- Nomadic
- wandering
- vagrant
- Nomad
- Pastoral
- Arab
- Scythian
- migratory
- Restless
- Unquiet
- uneasy
- disturbed
- sleepless
- agitated
- incessant
- tossing
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ROVING)
Related words: (words related to ROVING)
- SLIGHTNESS
The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard. - JOURNEYWORK
Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade. - TOSS
1. To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball. 2. To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head. He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, - AGITATO
Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner. - INEXACTLY
In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor. - INEXACT
Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate. - ROVINGLY
In a wandering manner. - AGITATION
1. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation. 2. A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance - NOMADE
See N - AGITATE
1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly - UNQUIET
To disquiet. Ld. Herbert. - PASTORALLY
1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor. - SLIGHTEN
To slight. B. Jonson. - WANDERMENT
The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall. - RETAINMENT
The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More. - SLIGHTINGLY
In a slighting manner. - FASTENER
One who, or that which, makes fast or firm. - NOTICE
1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge - VAGRANTNESS
State of being vagrant; vagrancy. - RESPECTER
One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x. - PROVENTRIULUS
The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop. - PROVERBIAL
1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir - CONTROVERSER
A disputant. - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - DISAPPROVAL
Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment. - SCRAMBLING
Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott. - CORROVAL
A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison. - APPROVEDLY
So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner. - PROVINCIALLY
In a provincial manner. - CONTROVERSAL
1. Turning or looking opposite ways. The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. Boyle. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - APPROVING
Expressing approbation; commending; as, an approving smile. -- Ap*prov"ing*ly, adv. - IMPROVISATRICE
See IMPROVVISATRICE - FORWANDER
To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.