Word Meanings - HOBBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches. The friar was hobbling the same way too. Dryden. 2. To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing. Prior. The hobbling versification, the

Additional info about word: HOBBLE

1. To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches. The friar was hobbling the same way too. Dryden. 2. To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing. Prior. The hobbling versification, the mean diction. Jeffreys.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HOBBLE)

• Dilemma
• Fix
• hobble
• quandary
• doubt
• difficulty
• scrape
• faulter
• Halt
• hesitate
• slip
• dubitate
• stammer
• demur
• waver
• flinch
• vacillate
• Quandary
• Hobble
• puzzle
• uncertainty
• perplexity
• bewilderment
• dubitation
• baiting
• dilemma
• embarrassment

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HOBBLE)

• Decide
• determine
• resolve
• assent
• Enlighten
• instruct
• illumine
• Lubricate
• polish
• levigate
• dig
• indent
• wound

Related words: (words related to HOBBLE)

• PUZZLEMENT
  The state of being puzzled; perplexity. Miss Mitford.
• DEMURE
  good manners); de of + murs, mours, meurs, mors, F. m, fr. L. mores manners, morals ; or more prob. fr. OF. meür, F. mûr mature, ripe in a phrase preceded by de, as de 1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest
• PUZZLE
  1. Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making. 2. The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
• ASSENTATORY
  Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
• DILEMMA
  An argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses. Note: The following are instances of the dilemma. A young rhetorician applied to an old sophist to be
• PUZZLEDOM
  The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C. Kingsley.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• ASSENTER
  One who assents.
• ILLUMINER
  One who, or that which, illuminates.
• WAVERER
  One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like. Shak.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• STAMMERING
  Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering. -- Stam"mer*ing*ly, adv.
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• DUBITATION
  Act of doubting; doubt. Sir T. Scott.
• DECIDER
  One who decides.
• DECIDEMENT
  Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl.
• FLINCHER
  One who flinches or fails.
• INDENTMENT
  Indenture.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• RESOLVENT
  Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• REDOUBTABLE
  Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero;
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.