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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    A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar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.

 

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