Word Meanings - VAPORISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Full of vapors; vaporous. 2. Hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish; humorsome. Pallas grew vap'rish once and odd. Pope.
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- AFFECTATIONIST
One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall. - AFFECTION
Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections - AFFECTIBILITY
The quality or state of being affectible. - HYPOCHONDRIACAL
See ADV - AFFECTIVELY
In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally. - PEEVISH
1. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. "Her peevish babe." Wordsworth. She is peevish, sullen, froward. Shak. 2. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; - AFFECTIONED
1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak. - AFFECTER
One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker. - AFFECTIVE
1. Tending to affect; affecting. Burnet. 2. Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers. - AFFECTIONATED
Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed. - AFFECTIONATE
1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating - SPLENETICAL
Splenetic. - HUMORSOMENESS
Quality of being humorsome. - AFFECTEDLY
1. In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality. 2. Lovingly; with tender care. Shak. - AFFECTEDNESS
Affectation. - HUMORSOMELY
Pleasantly; humorously. - VAPOROUS
1. Having the form or nature of vapor. Holland. 2. Full of vapors or exhalations. Shak. The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys. Derham. 3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. Bacon. The food which is most vaporous and perspirable - PALLAS
Pallas Athene, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva. - AFFECTIBLE
That may be affected. Lay aside the absolute, and, by union with the creaturely, become affectible. Coleridge. - AFFECTIONAL
Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature. - OVERAFFECT
To affect or care for unduly. Milton. - MISAFFECT
To dislike. - INAFFECTED
Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv. - MISAFFECTED
Ill disposed. - MISAFFECTION
An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. Bp. Hall. - DISAFFECTED
Alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal. J. H. Newman. -- Dis`af*fect"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`af*fect"ed*ness, n.