Word Meanings - INSIGNIFICATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not expressing meaning; not significant.
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- EXPRESSURE
The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation. An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. Shak. - EXPRESS TRAIN
Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops. - EXPRESSIVE
1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. Tickell. 2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning - EXPRESSNESS
The state or quality of being express; definiteness. Hammond. - MEAN
menen, AS. mænan to recite, tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. menian to have in mind, mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina, 1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you - MEANDROUS; MEANDRY
Winding; flexuous. - MEANDER
Fretwork. See Fret. (more info) 1. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore. 2. A tortuous or intricate movement. - EXPRESSIONAL
Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment. Fized. Hall. Ruskin. - MEANLY
Moderately. A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others. Ascham. - EXPRESSIONLESS
Destitute of expression. - MEAN-SPIRITED
Of a mean spirit; base; groveling. -- Mean"-spir`it*ed*ness, n. - MEANDRINA
A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals. - EXPRESSMAN
A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon. W. D. Howells. - MEANTIME; MEANWHILE
The intervening time; as, in the meantime . - EXPRESSAGE
The charge for carrying a parcel by express. - EXPRESSION
The representation of any quantity by its appropriate characters or signs. Past expression, Beyond expression, beyond the power of description. "Beyond expression bright." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by - EXPRESS
1. Exactly representing; exact. Their human countenance The express resemblance of the gods. Milton. 2. Directly and distinctly stated; declared in terms; not implied or left to inference; made unambiguous by intention and care; clear; not dubious; - EXPRESSIBLE
Capable of being expressed, squeezed out, shown, represented, or uttered. -- Express"i*bly,adv. - EXPRESS RIFLE
A sporting rifle for use at short ranges, employing a large charge of powder and a light bullet, giving a high initial velocity and consequently a flat trajectory. It is usually of moderately large caliber. - MEANNESS
1. The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess. This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison. 2. A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness. - MISDEMEAN
To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self. - DEMEANURE
Behavior. Spenser. - REMEANT
Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley. - ARAMAEAN; ARAMEAN
Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n. - INTERMEAN
Something done in the meantime; interlude. B. Jonson. - INEXPRESSIBLY
In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator. - INSIGNIFICANT
1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words. 2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile. Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and - INSIGNIFICANTLY
without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose. "Anger insignificantly fierce." Cowper. - UNMEANT
Not meant or intended; unintentional. Dryden. - DEMEANANCE
Demeanor. Skelton. - UNEXPRESSIBLE
Inexpressible. Tillotson. -- Un`ex*press"i*bly, adv. - FOREMEANT
Intended beforehand; premeditated. Spenser. - CADMEAN
Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- Cadmean letters. Cadmean victory, a victory that damages the victors as much as the vanquished; - PIGMEAN
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