Word Meanings - TRYING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Adapted to try, or put to severe trial; severe; afflictive; as, a trying occasion or position.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRYING)

• Difficult
• Hard
• intricate
• Involved
• perplexing
• enigmatical
• obscure
• trying
• arduous
• troublesome
• up hill
• unmanageable
• unamenable
• reserved
• opposed
• Troublous
• Afflictive
• agitated
• tumultuous

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TRYING)

• Reveal
• make known
• discover

Related words: (words related to TRYING)

• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• AGITATO
  Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.
• TRYGON
  Any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• AGITATION
  1. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation. 2. A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• TRYSAIL
  A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer. Totten.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• AFFLICTIVE
  Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• PERPLEX
  1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• TRYPSINOGEN
  The antecedent of trypsin, a substance which is contained in the cells of the pancreas and gives rise to the trypsin.
• ARDUOUSLY
  In an arduous manner; with difficulty or laboriousness.
• TRYPTIC
  Relating to trypsin or to its action; produced by trypsin; as, trypsin digestion.
• IATROCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
• MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
  Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
• CENTRY
  See GRAY
• ANCESTRY
  1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison. 2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who
• STRATARITHMETRY
  The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
• GANTRY
  See GAUNTREE
• GENTRY
  gentrise, and OF. gentelise, genterise, E. gentilesse, also OE. 1. Birth; condition; rank by birth. "Pride of gentrie." Chaucer. She conquers him by high almighty Jove, By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath. Shak. 2. People
• CHLOROMETRY
  The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine.
• SERPENTRY
  1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
• BAYEUX TAPESTRY
  A piece of linen about 1 ft. 8 in. wide by 213 ft. long, covered with embroidery representing the incidents of William the Conqueror's expedition to England, preserved in the town museum of Bayeux in Normandy. It is probably of the 11th century,
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• DYNAMOMETRY
  The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
• ENIGMATIC; ENIGMATICAL
  Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.
• VOLUMENOMETRY
  The method or process of measuring volumes by means of the volumenometer.
• CHRONOMETRY
  The art of measuring time; the measuring of time by periods or divisions.