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Word Meanings - DEEDY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Industrious; active. Cowper.

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  • 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.

 

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