Word Meanings - UNWORTHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not worthy; wanting merit, value, or fitness; undeserving; worthless; unbecoming; -- often with of. -- Un*wor"thi*ly, adv. -- Un*wor"thi*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNWORTHY)
- Low
- Abated
- sunk
- depressed
- stunted
- declining
- deep
- subsided
- inaudible
- cheap
- gentle
- dejected
- degraded
- mean
- abject
- base
- unworthy
- lowly
- feeble
- moderate
- frugal
- reprieved
- subdued
- reduced
- poor
Related words: (words related to UNWORTHY)
- DEJECTION
1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides, - DEJECTORY
1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand. - DECLINATION
The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining - ABATVOIX
The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum. - CHEAPLY
At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner. - ABJECT
1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; - REDUCEMENT
Reduction. Milton. - FRUGALNESS
, n. Quality of being frugal; frugality. - ABATER
One who, or that which, abates. - FRUGALLY
Thriftily; prudently. - REDUCE
To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from - DECLINATOR
1. An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane. 2. A dissentient. Bp. Hacket. - REDUCTIVE
Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing. -- n. - SUBDUCE; SUBDUCT
1. To withdraw; to take away. Milton. 2. To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct. If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should subduce ten. Sir M. Hale. - SUBDUAL
Act of subduing. Bp. Warburton. - FEEBLENESS
The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak. - REDUCTIVELY
By reduction; by consequence. - SUBDUABLE
Able to be subdued. - MODERATE
Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained; as: Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table. Limited in degree - DECLINE
décliner to decline, refuse, fr. L. declinare to turn aside, inflect , avoid; de- + clinare to incline; akin to E. lean. 1. To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, - RABATINE
A collar or cape. Sir W. Scott. - IRREDUCIBLE
Incapable of being reduced to a simpler form of expression; as, an irreducible formula. Irreducible case , a particular case in the solution of a cubic equation, in which the formula commonly employed contains an imaginary quantity, and therefore - FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry - ENFEEBLER
One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.