Word Meanings - SHARPSHOOTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A shooting with great precision and effect; hence, a keen contest of wit or argument.
Related words: (words related to SHARPSHOOTING)
- GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
Effective. B. Jonson. - CONTESTABLE
Capable of being contested; debatable. - SHOOTING
1. The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light. 2. A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically , the killing of game; as, a week of shooting. 3. A sensation of darting pain; - GREAT-GRANDSON
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter. - GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity. - CONTEST
1. Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation. Leave all noisy contests, all immodest clamors and brawling language. I. Watts. 2. Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife - CONTESTATION
1. The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. 2. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. A solemn - EFFECT
1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. So great a body such exploits to effect. Daniel. 2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed - GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother. - EFFECTOR
An effecter. Derham. - GREATLY
1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden. - GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter. - ARGUMENTIZE
To argue or discuss. Wood. - EFFECTUATE
To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis. - ARGUMENTATIVE
1. Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse. 2. Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator. - GREATEN
To become large; to dilate. My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass. Mrs. Browning. - ARGUMENTAL
Of, pertaining to, or containing, argument; argumentative. - GREAT-GRANDCHILD
The child of one's grandson or granddaughter. - INGREAT
To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby. - HEREHENCE
From hence. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - OVERSHOOT
1. To shoot over or beyond. "Not to overshoot his game." South. 2. To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. Hartle. 3. To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth. Cowper. To overshoot one's self, to venture too far; to assert too much. - TRAP SHOOTING
Shooting at pigeons liberated, or glass balls or clay pigeons sprung into the air, from a trap. -- Trap shooter. - OUTSHOOT
To exceed or excel in shooting; to shoot beyond. Bacon. Men are resolved never to outshoot their forefathers' mark. Norris. - REARGUMENT
An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court. - THENCEFROM
From that place. - INEFFECTIVENESS
Quality of being ineffective. - INCONTESTED
Not contested. Addison. - UNDERSHOOT
To shoot short of . - UNCONTESTABLE
Incontestable.