Word Meanings - FLAG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp. As loose it flagged around the mast. T. Moore. 2. To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth

Additional info about word: FLAG

1. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp. As loose it flagged around the mast. T. Moore. 2. To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags. The pleasures of the town begin to flag. Swift. Syn. -- To droop; decline; fail; languish; pine.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLAG)

• Droop
• Sink
• flag
• decline
• pine
• languish
• drop
• bend
• incurve
• fade
• Fall
• descend
• subside
• penetrate
• soak
• droop
• weary
• decay
• decrease
• diminish
• abate
• lower
• immerse
• submerge
• depress
• degrade
• drown
• reduce
• attenuate
• suppress
• Slacken
• Loosen
• withhold
• remit
• moderate
• Standard
• Measure
• gauge
• criterion
• test
• rule
• exemplar
• banner
• type
• model
• scale
• plummet
• trutination
• Tarry
• Rest
• abide
• halt
• lag
• continue
• remain
• sojourn
• delay
• stop
• stay
• loiter
• linger

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FLAG)

• Rise
• grow
• increase
• flourish
• luxuriate
• vegetate
• expand
• enlarge
• Increase
• amplify
• augment
• extend
• Hoist
• raise
• heighten
• exalt
• aggrandize
• elevate
• Misfit
• misconform
• mismeasure
• misdeal
• misapportion

Related words: (words related to FLAG)

• 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
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• BANNERED
  Decorated with a banner or banners "bannered host." Milton.
• DROOPER
  One who, or that which, droops.
• BANNEROL
  A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• ABATER
  One who, or that which, abates.
• GAUGER
  One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• ABIDER
  1. One who abides, or continues. "Speedy goers and strong abiders." Sidney. 2. One who dwells; a resident. Speed.
• GAUGEABLE
  Capable of being gauged.
• DROWN
  To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak. (more info) be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken,
• DIMINISHER
  One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.
• GUNTER'S SCALE
  A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.