Word Meanings - VERBALIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A literal adherent to, or a minute critic of, words; a literalist.

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• CRITICISER
  One who criticises; a critic.
• LITERALNESS
  The quality or state of being literal; literal import.
• CRITICALLY
  1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden. 2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification
• CRITICASTER
  A contemptible or vicious critic. The rancorous and reptile crew of poeticules, who decompose into criticasters. Swinburne.
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• LITERALIST
  One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.
• LITERALLY
  1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. 2. With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally.
• CRITIC
  1. One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer. The opininon of the most skillful critics was,
• LITERALISM
  The tendency or disposition to represent objects faithfully, without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization. (more info) 1. That which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter.
• MINUTELY
  In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
• ADHERENTLY
  In an adherent manner.
• LITERAL
  1. According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase. It hath but one simple literal sense whose light the owls can not abide. Tyndale 2. Following the letter or exact words;
• CRITICALNESS
  1. The state or quality of being critical, or of occurring at a critical time. 2. Accuracy in examination or decision; exactness.
• LITERALIZER
  A literalist.
• ADHERENT
  Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals. (more info) 1. Sticking; clinging; adhering. Pope. 2. Attached as an attribute or circumstance.
• LITERALITY
  The state or quality of being literal. Sir T. Browne.
• MINUTE
  1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds ; as,
• CRITICISE
  1. To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture. 2. To express one's views as to the merit or demerit of; esp., to animadvert upon; to find fault with;
• MINUTEMAN
  A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
• CRITICISABLE
  Capable of being criticised.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• ONIROCRITIC
  See ONEIROCRITIC
• BILITERALISM
  The property or state of being biliteral.
• ILLITERAL
  Not literal. B. Dawson.
• ALLITERAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
• ACRITICAL
  Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess.
• UNILITERAL
  Consisting of one letter only; as, a uniliteral word or sign.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• HYPERCRITICISM
  Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.
• COMMINUTE
  To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
• TRILITERALISM
  See TRILITERALITY
• ECCRITIC
  A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.