Word Meanings - GREENHORN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.

Related words: (words related to GREENHORN)

• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• IMPOSINGNESS
  The quality of being imposing.
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
  A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller.
• IMPOSTURAGE
  Imposture; cheating. Jer. Taylor.
• PERSONATE
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
• IMPOSTOR
  One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender. "The fraudulent impostor foul." Milton. Syn. -- Deceiver; cheat; rogue. See Deceiver.
• PERSONATOR
  One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
• IMPOSTHUMATION
  1. The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration. 2. An abscess; an imposthume. Coxe.
• IMPOSING
  1. Laying as a duty; enjoining. 2. Adapted to impress forcibly; impressive; commanding; as, an imposing air; an imposing spectacle. "Large and imposing edifices." Bp. Hobart. 3. Deceiving; deluding; misleading.
• PERSONAL
  Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property,
• PERSONIFY
  1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law.
• PERSONIFIER
  One who personifies.
• IMPOSTURY
  Imposture. Fuller.
• IMPOSE
  To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination. (more info) Etym: 1. To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit. Cakes of salt and barley did impose Within a wicker basket. Chapman. 2. To lay as a
• IMPOSINGLY
  In an imposing manner.
• IMPOSTROUS
  Characterized by imposture; deceitful. "Impostrous pretense of knowledge." Grote.
• IMPOSTHUME
  A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.
• NIRVANA
  In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
• UNIPERSONAL
  Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
• UNIPERSONALIST
  One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal.
• TRIPERSONALITY
  The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity.
• IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION
  The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.
• TRIPERSONAL
  Consisting of three persons. Milton.
• SIRVENTE
  A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages. (more info) originally, the poem of, or concerning, a sirvent, fr. sirvent,
• MONOPERSONAL
  Having but one person, or form of existence.
• SELF-IMPOSTURE
  Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit. South.