Word Meanings - ASTIR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Stirring; in a state of activity or motion; out of bed.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ASTIR)

• Agog
• Abroad
• abroach
• astir
• adrift
• agoing

Related words: (words related to ASTIR)

• AGOUARA
  The crab-eating raccoon , found in the tropical parts of America.
• AGO
  Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago. (more info) by, AS. agan to pass away; a- (cf. Goth. us-, Ger. er-, orig. meaning
• AGONOTHETE
  An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
• AGONY
  1. Violent contest or striving. The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. Macaulay. 2. Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain
• ASTIR
  Stirring; in a state of activity or motion; out of bed.
• AGOING
  In motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing.
• AGORA
  An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.
• AGOUTI; AGOUTY
  A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.
• AGONISM
  Contention for a prize; a contest. Blount.
• AGOUTA
  A small insectivorous mammal , allied to the moles, found only in Hayti.
• AGONISTIC; AGONISTICAL
  Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. As a scholar, he was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.
• AGONIZINGLY
  With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.
• ADRIFT
  Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.
• AGONE
  Ago. Three days agone I fell sick. 1 Sam. xxx. 13.
• AGONIST
  One who contends for the prize in public games.
• AGONISTICALLY
  In an agonistic manner.
• ABROAD
  1. At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad. The fox roams far abroad. Prior. 2. Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad. I went to St. James',
• AGON
  A contest for a prize at the public games.
• AGOOD
  In earnest; heartily. "I made her weep agood." Shak.
• ABROACH
  1. Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped. Hogsheads of ale were set abroach. Sir W. Scott. 2. Hence: In a state to be diffused or propagated; afoot; astir. "Mischiefs that I set abroach." Shak.
• MYSTAGOGY
  The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
• ISAGOGE
  An introduction. Harris.
• HIPPOPHAGOUS
  Feeding on horseflesh; -- said of certain nomadic tribes, as the Tartars.
• LAGOON
  1. A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice. 2. A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll. Lagoon
• PHAGOCYTE
  A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up , in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.
• EMENAGOGUE
  See EMMENAGOGUE
• HARPAGON
  A grappling iron.
• VAGOUS
  Wandering; unsettled. Ayliffe.
• GALACTOPHAGOUS
  Feeding on milk.
• PENDRAGON
  A chief leader or a king; a head; a dictator; -- a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs. The dread Pendragon, Britain's king of kings. Tennyson.
• PARAGOGE
  The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as withouten for without.
• MYSTAGOGIC; MYSTAGOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to interpretation of mysteries or to mystagogue; of the nature of mystagogy.
• MELANAGOGUE
  A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler.
• SAGOIN
  A marmoset; -- called also sagouin.
• WAGON
  The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two g's , chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used.
• GEOPHAGOUS
  Earth-eating.
• ENNEAGON
  A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.
• VIRAGO
  1. A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior. To arms! to arms! the fierce virago cries. Pope. 2. Hence, a mannish woman; a bold, turbulent woman;