Word Meanings - DRAG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A confection; a comfit; a drug. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DRAG)

• Draw
• Drag
• pull
• attract
• induce
• haul
• entice
• inhale
• sketch
• delineate
• describe
• Drawl Drag
• lag
• drone
• Load
• Weight
• lading
• cargo
• oppression
• incubus
• drag
• burden
• Pull
• adduce
• extract
• tug
• pluck

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DRAG)

• Slave
• prevent
• disincline
• dissuade

Related words: (words related to DRAG)

• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• DELINEATE
  Delineated; portrayed.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• LADY-KILLING
  The art or practice of captivating the hearts of women. Better for the sake of womankind that this dangerous dog should leave off lady-killing. Thackeray.
• PLUCKER TUBE
  A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases. Crookes tube.
• LADY'S LACES
  A slender climbing plant; dodder.
• BURDENER
  One who loads; a oppressor.
• LADYSHIP
  The rank or position of a lady; -- given as a title (preceded by her or your.) Your ladyship shall observe their gravity. B. Jonson.
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.
• ADDUCE
  To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
• DRAWLINK
  See
• PLUCKED
  Having courage and spirit.
• INHALENT
  Used for inhaling; as, the inhalent end of a duct. Dana.
• LADINO
  One of the half-breed descendants of whites and Indians; a mestizo; -- so called throughout Central America. They are usually of a yellowish orange tinge. Am. Cyc.
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• BLADY
  Consisting of blades. "Blady grass." Drayton.
• BALLADE
  A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• BELLADONNA
  An herbaceous European plant with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• MULADA
  A moor. Lockhart.
• DIGLADIATE
  To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently. Digladiating like Æschines and Demosthenes. Hales.
• VINE-CLAD
  Covered with vines.
• APPRENTICESHIP
  1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
• SLADE
  1. A little dell or valley; a flat piece of low, moist ground. Drayton. 2. The sole of a plow.
• GLADE
  also W. golead, goleuad, a lighting, illumination, fr. goleu light, 1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. There interspersed in lawns and opening glades. Pope. 2. An everglade. 3. An opening in the ice of
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• GLADIATOR
  1. Originally, a swordplayer; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena, for public amusement. 2. One who engages in any fierce combat or controversy.
• GLADIOLUS
  A genus of plants having bulbous roots and gladiate leaves, and including many species, some of which are cultivated and valued for the beauty of their flowers; the corn flag; the sword lily.