Word Meanings - ESSAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce. 3. An assay. See Assay, n.

Additional info about word: ESSAY

A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce. 3. An assay. See Assay, n. Syn. -- Attempt; trial; endeavor; effort; tract; treatise; dissertation; disquisition. (more info) weight, balance; ex out + agere to drive, do; cf. examen, exagmen, a means of weighing, a weighing, the tongue of a balance, exigere to drive out, examine, weigh, Gr. 'exa`gion a weight, 'exagia`zein to examine, 'exa`gein to drive out, export. See Agent, and cf. Exact, 1. An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend. "The essay at organization." M. Arnold.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ESSAY)

• Attempt
• Try
• endeavor
• strive
• undertake
• seek
• essay
• attack
• violate
• force
• Disquisition
• Essay
• treatise
• discussion
• dissertation
• Proof
• Test
• trial
• examination
• criterion
• establishment
• probation
• demonstration
• evidence
• testimony
• scrutiny
• Treatise
• Tract
• paper
• pamphlet
• disquisition
• brochure
• tractate
• monograph
• article
• Trial
• gauge
• experiment
• temptation
• trouble
• affliction
• grief
• burden
• suffering
• attempt
• proof
• ordeal
• tribulation
• verification

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ESSAY)

• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• please
• soothe
• delight
• gratify
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to ESSAY)

• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• DISQUISITION
  A formal or systematic inquiry into, or discussion of, any subject; a full examination or investigation of a matter, with the arguments and facts bearing upon it; elaborate essay; dissertation. For accurate research or grave disquisition he was
• GAUGE
  To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock. The vanes nicely gauged on each side. Derham. 4. To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment. 5. To measure
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• DISQUISITIONARY
  Pertaining to disquisition; disquisitional.
• DISSERTATIONAL
  Relating to dissertations; resembling a dissertation.
• TRIALITY
  Three united; state of being three. H. Wharton.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• MONOGRAPHIST
  One who writes a monograph.
• EXPERIMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. 2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
• PROBATION
  1. The act of proving; also, that which proves anything; proof. When by miracle God dispensed great gifts to the laity, . . . he gave probation that he intended that all should prophesy and preach. Jer. Taylor. 2. Any proceeding designed
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• ESSAYER
  One who essays. Addison.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• TESTIMONY
  The two tables of the law. Thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. Ex. xxv. 16. 6. Hence, the whole divine revelation; the sacre The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. Ps. xix. Syn. -- Proof; evidence;
• GAUGER
  One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
• BURDENER
  One who loads; a oppressor.
• TRACTITE
  A Tractarian.
• GAUGEABLE
  Capable of being gauged.
• EXPERIMENTIST
  An experimenter.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• HIGH-PROOF
  1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.