Word Meanings - FINISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

ish: see -ish.),fr. L. finire to limit, finish, end, fr. finis boundary, limit, end; perh. for fidnis, and akin findere to cleave, 1. To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate. And heroically

Additional info about word: FINISH

ish: see -ish.),fr. L. finire to limit, finish, end, fr. finis boundary, limit, end; perh. for fidnis, and akin findere to cleave, 1. To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate. And heroically hath finished A life heroic. Milton. 2. To bestow the last required labor upon; to complete; to bestow the utmost possible labor upon; to perfect; to accomplish; to polish. Syn. -- To end; terminate; close; conclude; complete; accomplish; perfect.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FINISH)

• Conclude
• Close
• terminate
• complete
• end
• decide
• finish
• infer
• deduce
• determine
• argue
• Consummate Complete
• perfect
• execute
• accomplish
• conclude
• seal
• File
• Rasp
• polish
• smooth
• improve
• refine

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FINISH)

• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract

Related words: (words related to FINISH)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• CONCLUDENCY
  Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion. Sir M. Hale.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• INFERNALLY
  In an infernal manner; diabolically. "Infernally false." Bp. Hacket.
• FINISHER
  1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
• PERFECT
  Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence , a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord , a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly
• INFERIORLY
  In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
• SMOOTH
  1. The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. Thackeray. 2. That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything. "The smooth of his neck." Gen. xxvii. 16.
• DETERMINE
  1. To come to an end; to end; to terminate. He who has vented a pernicious doctrine or published an ill book must know that his life determine not together. South. Estates may determine on future contingencies. Blackstone. 2. To come to a decision;
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• ACCOMPLISHED
  1. Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact. 2. Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain. They . . . show themselves accomplished
• FINISH
  1. To come to an end; to terminate. His days may finish ere that hapless time. Shak. 2. To end; to die. Shak.
• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• INFEROBRANCHIATA
  A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle.
• INFERRIBLE
  Inferable.
• DECIDER
  One who decides.
• DECIDEMENT
  Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl.
• TERMINATE
  1. To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; to stop short; to end; to cease; as, the torrid zone terminates at the tropics. 2. To come to a limit in time; to end; to close. The wisdom of this world, its designs and efficacy, terminate
• IMPROVER
  One who, or that which, improves.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• INTERMINATED
  Interminable; interminate; endless; unending. Akenside.
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• REDARGUE
  To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has,
• UNIMPROVED
  1. Not improved; not made better or wiser; not advanced in knowledge, manners, or excellence. 2. Not used; not employed; especially, not used or employed for a valuable purpose; as, unimproved opportunities; unimproved blessings. Cowper. 3. Not