Word Meanings - EXPRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Exactly representing; exact. Their human countenance The express resemblance of the gods. Milton. 2. Directly and distinctly stated; declared in terms; not implied or left to inference; made unambiguous by intention and care; clear; not dubious;

Additional info about word: EXPRESS

1. Exactly representing; exact. Their human countenance The express resemblance of the gods. Milton. 2. Directly and distinctly stated; declared in terms; not implied or left to inference; made unambiguous by intention and care; clear; not dubious; as, express consent; an express statement. I have express commandment. Shak. 3. Intended for a particular purpose; relating to an express; sent on a particular errand; dispatched with special speed; as, an express messenger or train. Also used adverbially. A messenger sent express from the other world. Atterbury. Express color. See the Note under Color, n., 8. Syn. -- Explicit; clear; unambiguous. See Explicit.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXPRESS)

• Elicit
• Draw
• evoke
• educe
• eliminate
• enucleate
• express
• extract
• worm
• evolve
• Embody
• Express
• methodize
• systematize
• codify
• incorporate
• aggregate
• integrate
• compact
• introduce
• enlist
• combine
• explicit
• Plain
• detailed
• inobscure
• declaratory
• categorical
• stated
• distinctly stated
• definite
• determinate
• Extort
• Wring
• despoil
• fleece
• exact
• squeeze out
• wrench
• wrest
• Peremptory
• Decisive
• absolute
• authoritative
• arbitrary
• dogmatical
• imperious
• despotic
• positive

Related words: (words related to EXPRESS)

• WRINGING
  a. & n. from Wring, v. Wringing machine, a wringer. See Wringer, 2.
• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• WREAKEN
  p. p. of Wreak. Chaucer.
• ELICITATION
  The act of eliciting. Abp. Bramhall.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• WRACK
  A thin, flying cloud; a rack.
• WRANGLE
  An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation. Syn. -- Altercation; bickering; brawl; jar; jangle; contest; controversy. See Altercation.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• WRITING
  1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
• EVOLVENT
  The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.
• STATUED
  Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. "Statued niches." G. Eliot.
• ELIMINATE
  To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
• STATABLE
  That can be stated; as, a statablegrievance; the question at issue is statable.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• STATIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
• WRESTLE
  1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a
• WRECKING
  a. & n. from Wreck, v. Wrecking car , a car fitted up with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an accident, as by a collision. -- Wrecking pump, a pump especially adapted for pumping water from the hull of a
• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• WRENCH
  1. To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence. Wrench his sword from him. Shak. Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woeful agony. Coleridge. 2. To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert. You wrenched your
• BEWRAP
  To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• ESTATLICH; ESTATLY
  Stately; dignified. Chaucer.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• UNWRIE
  To uncover. Chaucer.
• HEMASTATICS
  Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• MENOSTATION
  See MENOSTASIS
• WRAP
  To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt. Lo! where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves. Beattie.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.