Word Meanings - INSIGNIFICANTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose. "Anger insignificantly fierce." Cowper.
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- COWPER'S GLANDS
Two small glands discharging into the male urethra. - PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
Effective. B. Jonson. - PURPOSE
1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer. - INSIGNIFICANTLY
without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose. "Anger insignificantly fierce." Cowper. - WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak. - WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer. - EFFECT
1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. So great a body such exploits to effect. Daniel. 2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed - EFFECTOR
An effecter. Derham. - EFFECTUATE
To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis. - FIERCE
fiers, OF. fier, nom. fiers, fierce, savage, cruel, F. fier proud, from L. ferus wild, savage, cruel; perh. akin to E. bear the animal. 1. Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind. His fierce thunder drove us to the - PURPOSER
1. One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer. 2. One who forms a purpose; one who intends. - EFFECTION
Creation; a doing. Sir M. Hale. - EFFECTLESS
Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless. Shak. -- Ef*fect"less*ly, adv. - WITHOUTEN
Without. Chaucer. - EFFECTER
One who effects. - ANGER
1. To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame. He . . . angereth malign ulcers. Bacon. 2. To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke. Taxes and impositions . . . which rather angered than grieved the people. Clarendon. - EFFECTUOUSLY
Effectively. - EFFECTUATION
Act of effectuating. - IMPORTANCE
1. The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance. Thy own importance know, Nor bound thy narrow views to things below. Pope. 2. Subject; matter. Upon importance of so slight and trivial a nature. Shak. - ON-HANGER
A hanger-on. - DERANGER
One who deranges. - WANGER
A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer. - DOUBLEGANGER
An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley. - GRANGER
1. A farm steward. 2. A member of a grange. - ESTRANGER
One who estranges. - TANGERINE
A kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is said to have been produced in America from the mandarin. - INEFFECTIVENESS
Quality of being ineffective. - BOULANGERITE
A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is sulphide of antimony and lead. - GANGER
One who oversees a gang of workmen. Mayhew. - HANGER
1. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman. 2. That by which a thing is suspended. Especially: A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended. A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust. - CROSS-PURPOSE
A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info) - DISPURPOSE
To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer.