Word Meanings - SELECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice. A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater

Additional info about word: SELECT

Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice. A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SELECT)

• Adopt
• Assume
• select
• affiliate
• take
• elect
• arrogate
• choose
• endorse
• avow
• appropriate
• Choice
• Select
• exquisite
• precious
• dainty
• cherished
• valuable
• excellent
• rare
• Choose
• prefer
• adopt
• cull
• pick out
• Cite
• Summon
• call
• quote
• adduce
• mention
• name
• refer to
• Extract
• Draw
• educe
• elicit
• cite
• excerpt
• take out
• gather
• collect
• extol

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SELECT)

• Misname
• miscall
• misdesignate
• misindicate
• hint
• suggest
• shadow
• adumbrate
• Lump
• confound
• sweep

Related words: (words related to SELECT)

• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• ELICITATION
  The act of eliciting. Abp. Bramhall.
• ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
  Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• ELECTROTYPER
  One who electrotypes.
• ELECTREPETER
  An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• VALUABLENESS
  The quality of being valuable.
• EXTOLMENT
  Praise. Shak.
• CHERISHMENT
  Encouragement; comfort. Rich bounty and dear cherishment. Spenser.
• 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
• ELECTRO-DYNAMIC; ELECTRO-DYNAMICAL
  Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
• ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
  The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
• ELECTRONIC
  Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
• ELECTRO-BIOLOGIST
  One versed in electro-biology.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• ANELECTRIC
  Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.