Word Meanings - JADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A stone, commonly of a pale to dark green color but sometimes whitish. It is very hard and compact, capable of fine polish, and is used for ornamental purposes and for implements, esp. in Eastern countries and among many early peoples. Note: The
Additional info about word: JADE
A stone, commonly of a pale to dark green color but sometimes whitish. It is very hard and compact, capable of fine polish, and is used for ornamental purposes and for implements, esp. in Eastern countries and among many early peoples. Note: The general term jade includes nephrite, a compact variety of tremolite with a specific gravity of 3, and also the mineral jadeite, a silicate of alumina and soda, with a specific gravity of 3.3. The latter is the more highly prized and includes the feitsui of the Chinese. The name has also been given to other tough green minerals capable of similar use. (more info) side, fr. ijada flank, side, pain in the side, the stone being so named because it was supposed to cure this pain. Sp. ijada is derived
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of JADE)
- Fatigue Harass
- weary
- tire
- jade
- Harass
- Weary
- annoy
- fatigue
- tease
- irritate
- chafe
- molest
- worry
- vex
- harrow
- pester
- tora
- ent
- perplex
- distress
- Tire
- Exhaust
- dispirit
- harass
- bore
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of JADE)
Related words: (words related to JADE)
- TEASER
A jager gull. (more info) 1. One who teases or vexes. - COMFORTLESS
Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n. - DISPIRITED
Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n. - HARASS
To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature - COMFORTABLY
In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2. - EXHAUSTION
An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications - CHAFER
1. One who chafes. 2. A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons. Baker. - COMPOSE
To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all - PERPLEX
1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our - COMPOSER
1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and - PLEASER
One who pleases or gratifies. - TEASE
To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments. 4. To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague. Cowper. He . . . suffered - COMFORT
1. To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate. Wyclif. God's own testimony . . . doth not a little comfort and confirm the same. Hooker. 2. To assist or help; to aid. I . . . can not help the noble chevalier: God comfort him in this - EXHAUSTIVE
Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv. - ANNOY
disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks. Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy Prior. 2. To molest, - REFRESHMENT
1. The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression. 2. That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation; - EXHAUSTURE
Exhaustion. Wraxall. - CHAFERY
An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars. - HARROWER
One who harrows. - ANIMATER
One who animates. De Quincey. - OVERFATIGUE
Excessive fatigue. - MANDELATE
A salt of mandelic acid. - UNPERPLEX
To free from perplexity. Donne. - SPHACELATE
To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify. - DECOMPOSE
To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay. - COCKCHAFER
A beetle of the genus Melolontha and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle. - DISCOMFORTABLE
1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n. - OVERPESTER
To pester exceedingly or excessively. Sir W. Raleigh. - UNWEARY
To cause to cease being weary; to refresh. Dryden. - CRENELATE
1. To furnish with crenelles. 2. To indent; to notch; as, a crenelated leaf. Crenelated molding , a kind of indented molding used in Norman buildings. - OVERPLEASE
To please excessively. - UNEXHAUSTIBLE
Inexhaustible. - INEXHAUSTED
Not exhausted; not emptied; not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted. Dryden.