Word Meanings - INTROSPECTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Inspecting within; seeing inwardly; capable of, or exercising, inspection; self-conscious. 2. Involving the act or results of conscious knowledge of physical phenomena; -- contrasted with associational. J. S. Mill.
Related words: (words related to INTROSPECTIVE)
- SEEMINGNESS
Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby. - INVOLVEDNESS
The state of being involved. - PHENOMENALISM
That theory which limits positive or scientific knowledge to phenomena only, whether material or spiritual. - INSPECTOR
One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer. Inspector general , a staff - SEERSUCKER
A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance. - SEEK
Sick. Chaucer. - PHENOMENAL
Relating to, or of the nature of, a phenomenon; hence, extraordinary; wonderful; as, a phenomenal memory. -- Phe*nom"e*nal*ly, adv. - SEEMING
1. Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Shak. 2. Apprehension; judgment. Chaucer. Nothing more clear unto their seeming. Hooker. His persuasive words, impregned With reason, - INSPECTORSHIP
1. The office of an inspector. 2. The district embraced by an inspector's jurisdiction. - INSPECTIVE
Engaged in inspection; inspecting; involving inspection. - PHYSICAL
1. Of or pertaining to nature ; in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and - CONSCIOUSLY
In a conscious manner; with knowledge of one's own mental operations or actions. - SEEDLESS
Without seed or seeds. - SEEDCOD
A seedlip. - SEETHER
A pot for boiling things; a boiler. Like burnished gold the little seether shone. Dryden. - SEED-LAC
A species of lac. See the Note under Lac. - SEEL
1. Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. "So have I seel". Chaucer. 2. Time; season; as, hay seel. - SEEL; SEELING
The rolling or agitation of a ship in a sterm. Sandys. - PHYSICALLY
In a physical manner; according to the laws of nature or physics; by physical force; not morally. I am not now treating physically of light or colors. Locke. 2. According to the rules of medicine. He that lives physically must live miserably. - INSPECTRESS
A female inspector. - PREKNOWLEDGE
Prior knowledge. - UNCAPABLE
Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke. - MESEEMS
It seems to me. - INCAPABLE
Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit - WORMSEED
Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant having small lanceolate leaves. - UNSEEMLY
Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne. - UNCONSCIOUS
1. Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man. Cowper. 2. Not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an unconscious - LOPSEED
A perennial herb , having slender seedlike fruits. - GAPESEED
Any strange sight. Wright. - BESEECH
1. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton. Syn. -- To beg; to crave. -- To Beseech, Entreat, Solicit, Implore, Supplicate. - BESEEMING
1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret. - UPSEEK
To seek or strain upward. "Upseeking eyes suffused with . . . tears." Southey. - BERSEEM
An Egyptian clover extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called - HYPERPHYSICAL
Above or transcending physical laws; supernatural. Those who do not fly to some hyperphysical hypothesis. Sir W. Hamilton. - UNFORESEE
To fail to foresee. Bp. Hacket. - HAGSEED
The offspring of a hag. Shak.