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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.

 

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