Word Meanings - SWEATY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment. 2. Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat. No noisome whiffs or sweaty streams. Swift. 3. Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult. "The sweaty forge." Prior.

Related words: (words related to SWEATY)

• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• LABORIOUS
  1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all Learn these from Cato. Addison. 2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• SWEATY
  1. Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment. 2. Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat. No noisome whiffs or sweaty streams. Swift. 3. Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult. "The sweaty forge." Prior.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• PRIORSHIP
  The state or office of prior; priorate.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• GARMENT
  Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16.
• FORGETTINGLY
  By forgetting.
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• SWEATILY
  In a sweaty manner.
• MOISTNESS
  The quality or state of being moist.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• FORGETFUL
  1. Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory. 2. Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. Heb. xiii. 2.
• SWIFTNESS
  The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
• MOISTURE
  1. A moderate degree of wetness. Bacon. 2. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity. All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. Shak.
• FORGETFULNESS
  1. The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind. 2. Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion. A sweet forgetfulness of human care. Pope. 3. Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention;
• SWIFTLET
  Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• UNNATURE
  To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
• SUBPRIOR
  The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• DEMINATURED
  Having half the nature of another. Shak.