Word Meanings - DEEDY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Industrious; active. Cowper.
Related words: (words related to DEEDY)
- COWPER'S GLANDS
Two small glands discharging into the male urethra. - INDUSTRIOUS
1. Given to industry; characterized by diligence; constantly, regularly, or habitually occupied; busy; assiduous; not slothful or idle; -- commonly implying devotion to lawful and useful labor. Frugal and industrious men are commonly friendly to - ACTIVE
1. Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to Ant: passive, that receives; as, certain active principles; the powers of the mind. 2. Quick in physical movement; of an agile - ACTIVENESS
The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity. - ACTIVELY
In an active signification; as, a word used actively. (more info) 1. In an active manner; nimbly; briskly; energetically; also, by one's own action; voluntarily, not passively. - SELF-ACTIVE
Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents. - CHYLIFACTIVE
Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - RETROACTIVE
Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective. Beddoes. Retroactive law or statute , one which operates to make criminal or punishable, or in any way expressly to affect, acts done prior to - DETRACTIVE
1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative. - REFRACTIVE
Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers. Refractive index. See Index of refraction, under Index. -- Absolute refractive index , the index of refraction - PRACTIVE
Doing; active. Sylvester. -- Prac"tive*ly, adv. The preacher and the people both, Then practively did thrive. Warner. - DETRACTIVENESS
The quality of being detractive. - SUBTRACTIVE
Having the negative sign, or sign minus. (more info) 1. Tending, or having power, to subtract. - PROTRACTIVE
Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden. - ATTRACTIVE
1. Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies. Sir I. Newton. 2. Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing. "Attractive graces." Milton. "Attractive - SATISFACTIVE
Satisfactory. Satisfactive discernment of fish. Sir T. Browne. - CALEFACTIVE
See CALEFACTORY - COACTIVELY
In a coactive manner. - FACTIVE
Making; having power to make. "You are . . . factive, not destructive." Bacon. - INACTIVE
Not active; inert; esp., not exhibiting any action or activity on polarized light; optically neutral; -- said of isomeric forms of certain substances, in distinction from other forms which are optically active; as, racemic acid is an inactive - PUTREFACTIVE
1. Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process. Wiseman. 2. Causing, or tending to promote, putrefaction. -- Pu``tre*fac"tive*ness, n. - INACTIVELY
In an inactive manner. Locke.