Word Meanings - STINT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume. A phalarope.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STINT)
- Abnegation
- Denial
- disallowance
- renunciation
- abjuration
- stint
- abstinence
- Withhold
- Retain
- keep
- inhibit
- cohibit
- stay
- restrain
- refuse
- forbear
- detain
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of STINT)
Related words: (words related to STINT)
- STINTLESS
Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston. - INHIBITORY
Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb. - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - RETAINMENT
The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More. - YIELDABLE
Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall. - RENUNCIATION
Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right. Syn. -- Renouncement; disownment; disavowal; disavowment; disclaimer; rejection; abjuration; recantation; denial; abandonment; relinquishment. - YIELDANCE
1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South. - INHIBITION
A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, - ACQUIESCENTLY
In an acquiescent manner. - DETAINMENT
Detention. Blackstone. - YIELDING
Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. -- - ACQUIESCE
1. To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object; -- followed by in, formerly also by with - RESTRAINEDLY
With restraint. Hammond. - FORBEAR
1. To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety. But let me that plunder forbear. Shenstone. The King In open battle or the tilting field Forbore his own advantage. Tennyson. - WITHHOLD
1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him. Spenser. 2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. Forbid who will, none shall - RETAIN
1. To belong; to pertain. A somewhat languid relish, retaining to bitterness. Boyle. 2. To keep; to continue; to remain. Donne. - INHIBIT
1. To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder. Their motions also are excited or inhibited . . . by the objects without them. Bentley. 2. To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict. All men were inhibited, by proclamation, at the dissolution, so - YIELDER
One who yields. Shak. - RESTRAIN
restringere, restrictum; pref. re- re- + stringere to draw, bind, or 1. To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; - WITHHOLDMENT
The act of withholding. - YIELD
pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be - IMMIGRANT
One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant. - FLAGRANT
1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in - INTEGRANT
Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral. Boyle. All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke. Integrant parts, or particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss - VAGRANTNESS
State of being vagrant; vagrancy. - SELF-RENUNCIATION
The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.; self-sacrifice. - FRAGRANT
fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton. Syn. -- Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous;