Word Meanings - CRYSTALLINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Consisting, or made, of crystal. Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. Shak. 2. Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. Their crystalline structure. Whewell. 3. Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline,

Additional info about word: CRYSTALLINE

1. Consisting, or made, of crystal. Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. Shak. 2. Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. Their crystalline structure. Whewell. 3. Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, while quartz crystal is perfectlly crystallized. 4. Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid. "The crystalline sky." Milton. Crystalline heavens, or Crystalline spheres, in the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, two transparent spheres imagined to exist between the region of the fixed stars and the primum mobile (or outer circle of the heavens, which by its motion was supposed to carry round all those within it), in order to explain certain movements of the heavently bodies. -- Crystalline lens , the capsular lenslike body in the eye, serving to focus the rays of light. It consists of rodlike cells derived from the external embryonic epithelium.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRYSTALLINE)

• Glassy
• Vitreous
• smooth
• polished
• glacial
• glabrous
• brittle
• transparent
• crystalline
• pellucid
• limpid
• glossy
• silken
• Limpid
• Transparent
• translucent
• pure
• lucid
• clear
• Lucid
• Shining
• bright
• resplendent
• Incident
• luminous
• trans parent
• distinct
• intelligible
• rational
• perspicuous
• orderly
• lucent
• easily under
• stood
• Pellucid
• Translucent
• vitreous
• Relucent
• Bright
• shining
• gleaming
• glittering
• flashing
• lum nous
• radiant
• effulgent

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  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• 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.
• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• 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
• UNDERPLOT
  1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
• UNDERNICENESS
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• UNDERDOLVEN
  p. p. of Underdelve.
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• SHINTIYAN; SHINTYAN
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• DISTINCTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated
• RATIONALIZATION
  The act or process of rationalizing.
• TRANSCEND
  1. To climb; to mount. 2. To be transcendent; to excel.
• UNDERPROP
  To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
• UNDERNIME
  1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
• TRANSMUTATIONIST
  One who believes in the transmutation of metals or of species.
• PARENTATION
  Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies. Abp. Potter.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
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• DILUCIDATION
  The act of making clear. Boyle.
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  One who plunders or pillages.