Word Meanings - CONSIDERABLENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Worthiness of consideration; dignity; value; size; amount.
Related words: (words related to CONSIDERABLENESS)
- WORTHINESS
The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth. Who is sure he hath a soul, unless It see, and judge, and follow worthiness Donne. She is not worthy to be loved that hath not some feeling of her - VALUE
Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything. An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power - DIGNITY
digneté, dignité, F. dignité, fr. L. dignitas, from dignus worthy. 1. The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence. 2. Elevation; grandeur. The dignity of this act was worth the audience - VALUER
One who values; an appraiser. - AMOUNT
L. ad montem to the mountain) upward, F. amont up the river. See 1. To go up; to ascend. So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. Spenser. 2. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come in the aggregate or - VALUED POLICY
A policy in which the value of the goods, property, or interest insured is specified; -- opposed to open policy. - VALUED-POLICY LAW
A law requiring insurance companies to pay to the insured, in case of total loss, the full amount of the insurance, regardless of the actual value of the property at the time of the loss. - VALUELESS
Being of no value; having no worth. - CONSIDERATION
The cause which moves a contracting party to enter into an agreement; the material cause of a contract; the price of a stripulation; compensation; equivalent. Bouvier. Note: Consideration is what is done, or promised to be done, in exchange for - VALUED
Highly regarded; esteemed; prized; as, a valued contributor; a valued friend. Valued policy. See under Policy. - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - INCONSIDERATION
Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp. - UNDERVALUE
1. To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate. 2. To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth; to hold in mean estimation; to despise. In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority. Atterbury. I write not this - OUTVALUE
To exceed in value. Boyle. - UNVALUED
1. Not valued; not appraised; hence, not considered; disregarded; valueless; as, an unvalued estate. "Unvalued persons." Shak. 2. Having inestimable value; invaluable. The golden apples of unvalued price. Spenser. - SEAWORTHINESS
The state or quality of being seaworthy, or able to resist the ordinary violence of wind and weather. Kent. - MISVALUE
To value wrongly or too little; to undervalue. But for I am so young, I dread my work Wot be misvalued both of old and young. W. Browne. - TANTAMOUNT
Equivalent in value, signification, or effect. A usage nearly tantamount to constitutional right. Hallam. The certainty that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to ruin. De Quincey. - INDIGNITY
Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult. How might a prince of my great hopes forget So - EQUIVALUE
To put an equal value upon; to put on a par with another thing. W. Taylor. - CATAMOUNT
The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx. - CONDIGNITY
Merit, acguired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence. Such a worthiness of condignity, and proper merit of the heavenly glory, cannot be found in any the best, most perfect, and excellent of created beings. Bp. Bull. - OVERVALUE
1. To value excessively; to rate at too high a price. "To overvalue human power." Holyday. 2. To exceed in value. H. Brooke. - PARAMOUNT
Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preëminent; as, a paramount duty. "A traitor paramount." Bacon. Lady paramount , the lady making the best score. -- Lord paramount, the king. Syn. Superior;