Word Meanings - GRADATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing. (more info) 1. The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks;

Additional info about word: GRADATION

A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing. (more info) 1. The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes. 2. The act or process of bringing to a certain grade. 3. Any degree or relative position in an order or series. The several gradations of the intelligent universe. I. Taylor.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GRADATION)

• Progression
• Series
• gradation
• rate
• Routine
• Round
• course
• succession
• order
• rule
• custom
• system
• sequence
• rotation
• stereotype
• prescription
• tenor
• uniformity
• method
• settlement
• regulation
• Step
• Advance
• pace
• space
• grade
• remove
• degree
• progression
• track
• trice
• walk
• gait
• proceeding
• action
• measure

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GRADATION)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Misfit
• misconform
• mismeasure
• misdeal
• misapportion

Related words: (words related to GRADATION)

• STEREOTYPER
  One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• SERIES DYNAMO
  A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• PROGRESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• COURSED
  1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
• PROCEED
  To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn. -- To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. (more info) 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou
• PROCEEDER
  One who proceeds.
• SETTLEMENT
  A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
• TRICENTENARY
  Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary. -- n.
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• INCONSEQUENCE
  The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
• FRICATRICE
  A lewd woman; a harlot. B. Jonson.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PHYSOGRADE
  Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.
• FRATRICELLI
  The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century. A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• IMPROVISATRICE
  See IMPROVVISATRICE
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• RETROGRADATION
  1. The act of retrograding, or moving backward. 2. The state of being retrograde; decline.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• BERTILLON SYSTEM
  A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.