Word Meanings - HIDEBOUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees. Bacon. 3. Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative. Milton. Carlyle. 4. Niggardly; penurious. Quarles. (more info) 1. Having

Additional info about word: HIDEBOUND

Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees. Bacon. 3. Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative. Milton. Carlyle. 4. Niggardly; penurious. Quarles. (more info) 1. Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HIDEBOUND)

• Sordid
• Dirty
• filthy
• foul
• gross
• vile
• base
• mean
• avaricious
• covetous
• selfish
• venal
• niggardly
• beggarly
• closefisted
• hidebound
• greedy

Related words: (words related to HIDEBOUND)

• SORDIDNESS
  The quality or state of being sordid.
• SELFISHLY
  In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• SELFISHNESS
  The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without
• CLOSEFISTED
  Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
• SORDID
  1. Filthy; foul; dirty. A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. Dryden. 2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To scorn the sordid world." Milton. 3. Meanly avaricious; covetous;
• GREEDY-GUT
  A glutton. Todd.
• GROSSULAR
  Pertaining too, or resembling, a gooseberry; as, grossular garnet. (more info) of Ribes, including the gooseberry, fr. F. groseille. See
• VENALITY
  The quality or state of being venal, or purchasable; mercenariness; prostitution of talents, offices, or services, for money or reward; as, the venality of a corrupt court; the venality of an official. Complaints of Roman venality became louder.
• GROSS-HEADED
  Thick-skulled; stupid.
• AVARICIOUS
  Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property. Syn. -- Greedy; stingy; rapacious; griping; sordid; close. -- Avaricious, Covetous, Parsimonious, Penurious, Miserly, Niggardly. The avaricious eagerly grasp after
• HIDEBOUND
  Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees. Bacon. 3. Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative. Milton. Carlyle. 4. Niggardly; penurious. Quarles. (more info) 1. Having
• COVETOUSLY
  In a covetous manner.
• COVETOUS
  1. Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense. Covetous of wisdom and fair virtue. Shak. Covetous death bereaved us all, To aggrandize one funeral. Emerson. 2. Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess
• VENAL
  Of or pertaining to veins; venous; as, venal blood.
• GROSS
  grossus, perh. fr. L. crassus thick, dense, fat, E. crass, cf. Skr. grathita tied together, wound up, hardened. Cf. Engross, Grocer, 1. Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large. "A gross fat man." Shak. A gross body of horse under
• GROSSIFICATION
  The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow. (more info) 1. The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so.
• GROSSBEAK
  See GROSBEAK
• COVETOUSNESS
  1. Strong desire. When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak. 2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad
• SORDIDLY
  Sordidness.
• OVERGREEDY
  Excessively greedy.
• RAVENALA
  A genus of plants related to the banana. Note: Ravenala Madagascariensis, the principal species, is an unbranched tree with immense oarlike leaves growing alternately from two sides of the stem. The sheathing bases of the leafstalks collect and
• INGROSS
  See ENGROSS