Word Meanings - AGENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. "The body agent." Bacon. (more info) Gr. aka to drive, Skr. aj.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AGENT)

• Architect
• Constructor
• contriver
• designer
• builder
• surveyor
• agent
• Author
• Creator
• producer
• inventor
• originator
• parent
• cause
• constructor
• maker
• composer
• fabricator
• committer
• perpetrator
• doer
• Cause
• Source
• origin
• creator
• purpose
• inducement
• reason
• account
• principle
• motive
• object
• suit
• action
• Deputy
• Vicegerent
• lieutenant
• representative
• commissioner
• legate
• envoy
• delegate
• proxy
• substitute
• Doer
• Agent
• actor
• performer

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AGENT)

• Disesteem
• misestimate
• mystify
• understate
• undervalue
• perplex
• darken
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake

Related words: (words related to AGENT)

• PARENTHETIC; PARENTHETICAL
  1. Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales. 2. Using or containing parentheses.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• PARENTHESIS
  One of the curved lines which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase. Note: Parenthesis, in technical grammar, is that part of a sentence which is inclosed within the recognized sign; but many phrases and sentences which are punctuated by commas
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• PARENTATION
  Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies. Abp. Potter.
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• ACCOUNTANCY
  The art or employment of an accountant.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• OBJECTIST
  One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
• PARENT
  1. One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother. Children, obey your parents in the Lord. Eph. vi. 1. 2. That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice. Regular industry is the parent
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• REASONLESS
  1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.
• PERPETRATOR
  One who perpetrates; esp., one who commits an offense or crime.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• OLFACTOR
  A smelling organ; a nose.
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.