Word Meanings - EXTRINSIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to some other partintrinsic. (more info) otherwise, beside; akin to E. second: cf. F. extrinsèque. See 1. Not contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; -- opposed

Additional info about word: EXTRINSIC

Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to some other partintrinsic. (more info) otherwise, beside; akin to E. second: cf. F. extrinsèque. See 1. Not contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; -- opposed to intrinsic. The extrinsic aids of education and of artificial culture. I. Taylor.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXTRINSIC)

• Adventitious
• Extrinsic
• redundant
• superfluous
• adscititious irregular
• casual
• imported
• Extraneous
• external
• foreign
• outside
• alien
• unconnected
• unrelated
• ascititious
• adventitious
• Objective
• concrete
• Outward
• External
• apparent
• visible
• sensible
• superficial
• ostensible
• forthcoming
• extrinsic
• extraneous

Related words: (words related to EXTRINSIC)

• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• ASCITITIOUS
  Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed. Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name. Pope.
• CONCRETE
  grow together; con- + crescere to grow; cf. F. concret. See 1. United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form. The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• CASUALISM
  The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance.
• ALIENAGE
  1. The state or legal condition of being an alien. Note: The disabilities of alienage are removable by naturalization or by special license from the State of residence, and in some of the United States by declaration of intention of naturalization.
• FORTHCOMING
  Ready or about to appear; making appearance.
• IMPORTUNATOR
  One who importunes; an importuner. Sir E. Sandys.
• APPARENTLY
  1. Visibly. Hobbes. 2. Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. If he should scorn me so apparently. Shak. 3. Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.
• IMPORTING
  Full of meaning. Shak.
• IMPORTUNE
  derivative from the root of portus harbor, importunus therefore orig. 1. Inopportune; unseasonable. 2. Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation. And their importune
• VISIBLE
  1. Perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; perceptible; in view; as, a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper. Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Virtue made visible in
• IMPORTUNATE
  1. Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity. Whewell. 2. Hard to be borne; unendurable. Donne. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ly, adv. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ness, n.
• OUTSIDER
  1. One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling. A. Trollope. 2. A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the
• IMPORTUOUS
  Without a port or harbor.
• IMPORTANTLY
  In an important manner.
• FOREIGNER
  A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham.
• FOREIGNNESS
  The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.
• EXTERNAL
  Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral. External angles. See under Angle. (more info) 1. Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external
• INDIVISIBLE
  Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable. (more info) 1. Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." Dryden.
• INSENSIBLENESS
  Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
• INCONCRETE
  Not concrete. L. Andrews.
• INALIENABLY
  In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested.
• SALIENT
  Projectiong outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reëntering. See Illust. of Bastion. (more info) 1. Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. "Frogs and salient animals." Sir T. Browne. 2. Shooting out up; springing;
• INALIENABLE
  Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright.
• SUPERSALIENCY
  The act of leaping on anything. Sir T. Browne.
• NONIMPORTATION
  Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities.