Word Meanings - MISSOUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.

Related words: (words related to MISSOUND)

• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• UTTERNESS
  The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost.
• UTTERLY
  In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• UTTER
  1. Outer. "Thine utter eyen." Chaucer. "By him a shirt and utter mantle laid." Chapman. As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch. Spenser. 2. Situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the center; outer.
• PRONOUNCER
  One who pronounces, utters, or declares; also, a pronouncing book.
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• INCORRECTLY
  Not correctly; inaccurately; not exactly; as, a writing incorrectly copied; testimony incorrectly stated.
• UTTERMOST
  Extreme; utmost; being; in the farthest, greatest, or highest degree; as, the uttermost extent or end. "In this uttermost distress." Milton.
• SOUNDING BALLOON
  An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.
• SOUND-BOARD
  A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
• PRONOUNCE
  1. To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly. 2. To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver,
• UTTERMORE
  Further; outer; utter. Holland.
• UTTERLESS
  Incapable of being uttered. A clamoring debate of utterless things. Milton.
• SOUNDING-BOARD
  A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments. 2. A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice. 3. pl.
• UTTERER
  One who utters. Spenser.
• PRONOUNCEABLE
  Capable of being pronounced.
• SOUNDABLE
  Capable of being sounded.
• PRONOUNCED
  Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided. Note: views became every day more pronounced. Thackeray.
• UNUTTERABLE
  Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• MUTTERER
  One who mutters.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• GUTTER
  1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay. 3. Any narrow channel or groove;
• BUTTER-SCOTCH
  A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• MISPRONOUNCE
  To pronounce incorrectly.
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• PUTTER-ON
  An instigator. Shak.
• SLUTTERY
  The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines. Drayton.
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• FLUTTER
  1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• TROILUS BUTTERFLY
  A large American butterfly . It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear.
• BUTTERMAN
  A man who makes or sells butter.