Word Meanings - WHIM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The European widgeon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WHIM)

• Conceit
• Idea
• notion
• thought
• affectation
• vanity
• abstraction
• imagination
• conception
• whim
• vagary
• egotism
• Gaud
• Trinket
• trumpery
• finery
• gewgaw
• bauble
• kickshaw
• gimcrack
• Hobble
• Pursuit
• amusement
• specialty
• idiosyncrasy
• Vagary
• Whim
• fancy
• crotchet
• freak
• caprice

Related words: (words related to WHIM)

• TRINKETER
  One who trinkets.
• IDIOSYNCRASY
  A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity. The individual mind . . . takes its tone from the
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• THOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Think.
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• IMAGINATIONALISM
  Idealism. J. Grote.
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• CONCEPTIONAL
  Pertaining to conception.
• GEWGAW
  A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble. A heavy gewgaw called a crown. Dryden. (more info) as OE. givegove gewgaw, apparently a reduplicated form fr. AS. gifan to give; cf. also F. joujou plaything, and E. gaud,
• CONCEITEDLY
  1. In an egotistical manner. 2. Fancifully; whimsically.
• FANCYWORK
  Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.
• VANITY BOX
  A small box, usually jeweled or of precious metal and worn on a chain, containing a mirror, powder puff, and other small toilet articles for a woman.
• NOTIONATE
  Notional.
• CONCEITEDNESS
  The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. Addison.
• FANCYMONGER
  A lovemonger; a whimsical lover. Shak.
• TRINKETRY
  Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively. No trinketry on front, or neck, or breast. Southey.
• HOBBLEBUSH
  A low bush having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.
• CROTCHETED
  Marked or measured by crotchets; having musical notation. Harmar .
• IMAGINATION
  1. The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines. Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent,
• CONCEPTIONALIST
  A conceptualist.
• SUPERCONCEPTION
  Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
• BETHOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Bethink.
• DISFANCY
  To dislike.
• SELF-CONCEIT
  Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. Syn. -- See Egotism.
• INFANCY
  The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority. (more info) 1. The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood. The babe yet lies in smiling infancy. Milton. Their
• FORETHOUGHT
  Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon.
• NEW THOUGHT
  Any form of belief in mental healing other than Christian Science and hypnotism or psychotherapy. Its central principle is affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances,