Word Meanings - WELFARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Well-doing or well-being in any respect; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness. How to study for the people's welfare. Shak. In whose deep eyes Men read the welfare of
Additional info about word: WELFARE
Well-doing or well-being in any respect; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness. How to study for the people's welfare. Shak. In whose deep eyes Men read the welfare of the times to come. Emerson.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WELFARE)
- Good
- Boon
- benefit
- advantage
- gain
- blessing
- mercy
- virtue
- prosperity
- weal
- profit
- interest
- welfare
- Prosperity
- Success
- good fortune
- well-being
- good luck
Related words: (words related to WELFARE)
- MERCY
mercedis, hire, pay, reward, LL., equiv. to misericordia pity, mercy. L. merces is probmerere to deserve, acquire. See Merit, and cf. 1. Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict - SUCCESS
1. Act of succeeding; succession. Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned By due success. Spenser. 2. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort. - BLESSING
A gift. Gen. xxxiii. 11. 5. Grateful praise or worship. (more info) 1. The act of one who blesses. 2. A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces. - PROFIT
1. Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods. Let no man anticipate uncertain - PROSPERITY
The state of being prosperous; advance or gain in anything good or desirable; successful progress in any business or enterprise; attainment of the object desired; good fortune; success; as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity. Now prosperity - SUCCESSLESS
Having no success. Successless all her soft caresses prove. Pope. -- Suc*cess"less*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"less*ness, n. - BENEFIT SOCIETY
A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain. - PROFITABLE
Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor. - ADVANTAGE
1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages - INTERESTED
1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness. - FORTUNELESS
Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser. - SUCCESSION
1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. 2. A series of persons or things according to - SUCCESSIVELY
In a successive manner. The whiteness, at length, changed successively into blue, indigo, and violet. Sir I. Newton. - INTERESTINGNESS
The condition or quality of being interesting. A. Smith. - PROFITING
Gain; advantage; profit. That thy profiting may appear to all. 1 Tim. iv. 15. - BLESSEDLY
Happily; fortunately; joyfully. We shall blessedly meet again never to depart. Sir P. Sidney. - SUCCESSFUL
Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise. Welcome, - VIRTUELESS
Destitute of virtue; without efficacy or operating qualities; powerless. Virtueless she wished all herbs and charms. Fairfax. - SUCCESSIONIST
A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially , one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid. - BENEFITER
One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a benefit. - CURBLESS
Having no curb or restraint. - GRAMERCY
A word formerly used to express thankfulness, with surprise; many thanks. Gramercy, Mammon, said the gentle knight. Spenser. - DISINTERESTING
Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton. - CONSTABLESS
The wife of a constable. - UNINTERESTED
1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration. - MISFORTUNED
Unfortunate. - RIBLESS
Having no ribs. - LIMBLESS
Destitute of limbs. - THUMBLESS
Without a thumb. Darwin. - UNPROFIT
Want of profit; unprofitableness. Wyclif. - UNSUCCESSFUL
Not successful; not producing the desired event; not fortunate; meeting with, or resulting in, failure; unlucky; unhappy. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ly, adv. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ness, n. - CUBLESS
Having no cubs. Byron.