Word Meanings - ASPECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The situation of planets or stars with respect to one another, or the angle formed by the rays of light proceeding from them and meeting at the eye; the joint look of planets or stars upon each other or upon the earth. Milton. Note: The aspects

Additional info about word: ASPECT

The situation of planets or stars with respect to one another, or the angle formed by the rays of light proceeding from them and meeting at the eye; the joint look of planets or stars upon each other or upon the earth. Milton. Note: The aspects which two planets can assume are five; sextile, (more info) 1. The act of looking; vision; gaze; glance. "The basilisk killeth by aspect." Bacon. His aspect was bent on the ground. Sir W. Scott. 2. Look, or particular appearance of the face; countenance; mien; air. "Serious in aspect." Dryden. with aspect open shall erect his head. Pope. 3. Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view. "The aspect of affairs." Macaulay. The true aspect of a world lying in its rubbish. T. Burnet. 4. Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass; as, a house has a southern aspect, that is, a position which faces the south. 5. Prospect; outlook. This town affords a good aspect toward the hill from whence we descended. Evelyn.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ASPECT)

• Appearance
• Advent
• coming
• arrival
• presence
• apparition
• aspect
• Manifestatlon
• probability
• likeness
• exhibition
• mien
• manner
• semblance
• air
• show
• look
• pretense
• likelihood
• presumption
• Attitude
• Posture
• position
• situation
• standing
• composition
• collocation
• pose
• lie
• Bearing
• Behavior
• deportment
• carriage
• demeanour
• port
• conduct
• inclination
• appearance
• direction
• course
• Cast
• Mould
• stamp
• kind
• figure
• form
• style
• character
• Complexion
• Face
• color
• feature
• hue
• interpretation
• indication

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• COMBER
  1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc. 2. A long, curling wave.
• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• COMPATIENT
  Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck.
• COMMISSARY
  An officer on the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. Ayliffe. An officer having charge of a special sevice; as, the commissary of musters. An officer
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• COMMERCIALLY
  In a commercial manner.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• COMMISERATION
  The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak. Syn. -- See Sympathy.
• COMMENSURABILITY
  The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• COMPENSATOR
  An iron plate or magnet placed near the compass on iron vessels to neutralize the effect of the ship's attraction on the needle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices.
• COMPREHENSIVENESS
  The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope. Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins. Addison.
• COMPANIONLESS
  Without a companion.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• COMFORTLESS
  Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
• COMPARATIVELY
  According to estimate made by comparison; relatively; not positively or absolutely. With but comparatively few exceptions. Prescott.
• COMPARE
  To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing "-er" and "-est" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those
• COMPLANATE
  Flattened to a level surface.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• INCOMMENSURABLE
  Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other;
• ENCOMBERMENT
  Hindrance; molestation. Spenser.
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.