Word Meanings - ADD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To give by way of increased possession ; to bestow The Lord shall add to me another son. Gen. xxx. 24. 2. To join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the

Additional info about word: ADD

1. To give by way of increased possession ; to bestow The Lord shall add to me another son. Gen. xxx. 24. 2. To join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column. Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. Milton. As easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years. Locke. 3. To append, as a statement; to say further. He added that he would willingly consent to the entire abolition of the tax. Macaulay. Syn. -- To Add, Join, Annex, Unite, Coalesce. We add by bringing things together so as to form a whole. We join by putting one thing to another in close or continuos connection. We annex by attaching some adjunct to a larger body. We unite by bringing things together so that their parts adhere or intermingle. Things coalesce by coming together or mingling so as to form one organization. To add quantities; to join houses; to annex territory; to unite kingdoms; to make parties coalesce.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADD)

• Adduce
• Allege
• apply
• cite
• advance
• offer
• introduce
• produce
• add
• import
• name
• mention
• quote
• Annex
• Add
• attach
• fasten
• affix
• subjoin
• append
• connect
• unite
• Attach
• Fasten
• fix
• annex
• conciliate
• tie
• conjoin
• attract
• win
• bind
• Contribute
• Conduce
• subscribe
• give
• co-operate
• assist
• tend
• supply
• Redound (followed by the prepositin 'to')
• result
• issue
• accrue
• contribute
• lead
• incline
• conduce

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ADD)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Trend
• diverge
• ascend
• deter
• rise
• indispose
• disincline
• Misname
• miscall
• misdesignate
• misindicate
• hint
• suggest
• shadow
• adumbrate
• Originate
• arise
• precede
• spring
• commence
• start
• begin

Related words: (words related to ADD)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• ANNEX
  to; ad + nectere to tie, to fasten together, akin to Skr. nah to 1. To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson. 2. To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• OFFER
  ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to 1. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• SPRINGE
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• SPRINGAL
  An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• OFFERER
  One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.
• AFFIXION
  Affixture. T. Adams.
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.