Word Meanings - VENAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to veins; venous; as, venal blood.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VENAL)

• Excusable
• Justifiable
• venal
• pardonable
• Mercenary
• Sordid
• selfish
• avaricious
• griping
• Dirty
• filthy
• foul
• gross
• vile
• base
• mean
• covetous
• niggardly
• beggarly
• closefisted
• hidebound
• greedy

Related words: (words related to VENAL)

• SORDIDNESS
  The quality or state of being sordid.
• SELFISHLY
  In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• SELFISHNESS
  The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without
• GRIPPLE
  A grasp; a gripe. Spenser.
• GRIPSACK
  A traveler's handbag.
• CLOSEFISTED
  Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
• SORDID
  1. Filthy; foul; dirty. A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. Dryden. 2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To scorn the sordid world." Milton. 3. Meanly avaricious; covetous;
• MERCENARY
  1. Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers. 2. Hence: Moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish. Shak. For God forbid I should my papers blot With mercenary lines,
• GRIPINGLY
  In a griping or oppressive manner. Bacon.
• GRIPER
  One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner. Burton.
• PARDONABLENESS
  The quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin. Bp. Hall.
• GREEDY-GUT
  A glutton. Todd.
• GROSSULAR
  Pertaining too, or resembling, a gooseberry; as, grossular garnet. (more info) of Ribes, including the gooseberry, fr. F. groseille. See
• GRIPMAN
  The man who manipulates a grip.
• VENALITY
  The quality or state of being venal, or purchasable; mercenariness; prostitution of talents, offices, or services, for money or reward; as, the venality of a corrupt court; the venality of an official. Complaints of Roman venality became louder.
• GROSS-HEADED
  Thick-skulled; stupid.
• GRIPPLENESS
  The quality of being gripple.
• AVARICIOUS
  Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property. Syn. -- Greedy; stingy; rapacious; griping; sordid; close. -- Avaricious, Covetous, Parsimonious, Penurious, Miserly, Niggardly. The avaricious eagerly grasp after
• HIDEBOUND
  Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees. Bacon. 3. Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative. Milton. Carlyle. 4. Niggardly; penurious. Quarles. (more info) 1. Having
• OVERGREEDY
  Excessively greedy.
• INEXCUSABLE
  Not excusable; not admitting excuse or justification; as, inexcusable folly. Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest; for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same
• UNEXCUSABLE
  Inexcusable. Hayward. -- Un`ex*cus"a*ble*ness, n.
• RAVENALA
  A genus of plants related to the banana. Note: Ravenala Madagascariensis, the principal species, is an unbranched tree with immense oarlike leaves growing alternately from two sides of the stem. The sheathing bases of the leafstalks collect and
• INGROSS
  See ENGROSS
• HANDYGRIPE
  Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting. Hudibras.
• UNPARDONABLE
  Not admitting of pardon or forgiveness; inexcusable.