Word Meanings - GETTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who gets, gains, obtains, acquires, begets, or procreates.
Related words: (words related to GETTER)
- GAINSOME
1. Gainful. 2. Prepossessing; well-favored. Massinger. - GAINSAY
To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother, - GAINSAYER
One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." Tit. i. 9. - GAINSBOROUGH HAT
A woman's broad-brimmed hat of a form thought to resemble those shown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, the English artist (1727- - GAINSTAND
To withstand; to resist. Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires. Sir P. Sidney. - GAINSTRIVE
To strive or struggle against; to withstand. Spenser. - AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - AGAINSAY
To gainsay. Wyclif. - AGAINST
1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in - AGAIN; AGAINS
Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer. - 'GAINST; GAINST
A contraction of Against.