Word Meanings - BUTTRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry. Note: When an external projection is used merely to stiffen a wall, it is a pier. 2. Anything which supports or strengthens. "The ground pillar
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A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry. Note: When an external projection is used merely to stiffen a wall, it is a pier. 2. Anything which supports or strengthens. "The ground pillar and buttress of the good old cause of nonconformity." South. Flying buttress. See Flying buttress. (more info) cf. OF. bouteret buttress. See
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BUTTRESS)
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BUTTRESS)
- Drop
- betray
- surrender
- abandon
- discontinue
- oppose
- discourage
- weaken
- exhaust
- thwart
- discountenance
- disfavor
- subvert
- suppress
Related words: (words related to BUTTRESS)
- STRUTTING
from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv. - SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - SUPPORTATION
Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon. - SHORER
One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore. - SHOREWARD
Toward the shore. - SUPPRESSOR
One who suppresses. - SUPPORTFUL
Abounding with support. Chapman. - EXHAUSTION
An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications - STRUT
1. To swell; to bulge out. The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. Dryden. 2. To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity. Does he not hold up his head, . . . and strut in his gait Shak. - SUPPORTLESS
Having no support. Milton. - OPPOSELESS
Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak. - DISCOURAGEMENT
1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; - BETRAYAL
The act or the result of betraying. - EXHAUSTIVE
Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv. - EXHAUSTURE
Exhaustion. Wraxall. - DISFAVORABLY
Unpropitiously. - OPPOSE
1. To be set opposite. Shak. 2. To act adversely or in opposition; -- with against or to; as, a servant opposed against the act. Shak. 3. To make objection or opposition in controversy. - SURRENDEROR
One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier. - DISCOUNTENANCE
1. To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash. How would one look from his majestic brow . . . Discountenance her despised! Milton. The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation. Sir - EXHAUST
1. Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy. 2. Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work. Exhaust draught, a forced draught produced by drawing air through - SEASHORE
All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks. (more info) 1. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean. - OVERTHWARTLY
In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham. - DISCONTINUE
To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school - LONGSHORE
Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning. - INSUPPRESSIBLE
That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv. - UNEXHAUSTIBLE
Inexhaustible. - INEXHAUSTED
Not exhausted; not emptied; not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted. Dryden. - INSUPPORTABLE
Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.