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Word Meanings - UNPLEASANTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Want of pleasantry. 2. A state of disagreement; a falling out. Thackeray.

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  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • FALLALS; FAL-LALS
    Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • FALLER
    A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, falls.
  • FALLOW
    Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith.
  • STATE SOCIALISM
    A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
  • FALLOPIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.
  • FALLENCY
    An exception. Jer. Taylor.
  • STATECRAFT
    The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
  • FALLEN
    Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.
  • STATESWOMAN
    A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
  • FALLFISH
    A fresh-water fish of the United States ; - - called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.
  • STATESMANLY
    Becoming a statesman.
  • STATESMAN
    1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light
  • FALLING
    from Fall, v. i. Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i. -- Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. -- Falling sickness
  • STATEDLY
    At stated times; regularly.
  • FALLIBLY
    In a fallible manner.
  • FALLAX
    Cavillation; a caviling. Cranmer.
  • STATELESS
    Without state or pomp.
  • STATEMONGER
    One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • THRYFALLOW
    To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
  • ENSTATE
    See INSTATE
  • KATASTATE
    A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
  • BAYOU STATE
    Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
  • UNFALLIBLE
    Infallible. Shak.
  • REESTATE
    To reëstablish. Walis.
  • BLACKWATER STATE
    Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
  • ARISTATE
    Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
  • BICOSTATE
    Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.
  • MISFALL
    To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily. Chaucer.
  • TRIPLICOSTATE
    Three-ribbed.
  • DEHONESTATE
    To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
  • DEVASTATE
    To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay. Syn. -- To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage.

 

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