Word Meanings - TOXIPHOBIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An insane or greatly exaggerated dread of poisons.

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• DREADNOUGHT
  1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by
• EXAGGERATOR
  One who exaggerates; one addicted to exaggeration. L. Horner.
• POISONSOME
  Poisonous. Holland.
• DREADFUL
  1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. "With dreadful heart." Chaucer. 2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton. For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth. 3.
• DREADFULNESS
  The quality of being dreadful.
• INSANENESS
  Insanity; madness.
• EXAGGERATIVE
  Tending to exaggerate; involving exaggeration. "Exaggerative language." Geddes. "Exaggerative pictures." W. J. Linton. -- Ex*ag"ger*a*tive*ly, adv. Carlyle.
• DREADABLE
  Worthy of being dreaded.
• INSANE
  1. Exhibiting unsoundness or disorded of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2. 2. Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital. 3. Causing insanity or madness. Or have we eaten on
• EXAGGERATION
  A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor. (more info) 1. The act of heaping or piling up. "Exaggeration of sand." Sir M. Hale. 2. The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive
• 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.
• EXAGGERATED
  Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth. -- Ex*ag"ger*a`ted*ly, adv.
• DREAD
  To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension. When at length the moment dreaded through so many years came close, the dark cloud passed away from Johnson's mind. Macaulay.
• DREADNAUGHT
  1. A fearless person. 2. Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught.
• EXAGGERATE
  up; ex out + aggerare to heap up, fr. agger heap, aggerere to bring 1. To heap up; to accumulate. "Earth exaggerated upon them ." Sir M. Hale. 2. To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to
• EXAGGERATORY
  Containing, or tending to, exaggeration; exaggerative. Johnson.
• DREADLESSNESS
  Freedom from dread.
• DREADLESS
  1. Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart. "The dreadless angel." Milton. 2. Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure. " safe in his dreadless den." Spenser.
• DREADINGLY
  With dread. Warner.
• INSANELY
  Without reason; madly; foolishly.
• SUPERDREADNOUGHT
  See ABOVE