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Word Meanings - OBJECTIONABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved of; offensive; as, objectionable words. -- Ob*jec"tion*a*bly, adv.

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  • MORBIDEZZA
    Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
  • ERRABLENESS
    Liability to error. Dr. H. More.
  • ERRHINE
    A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory. Coxe. -- a.
  • PURIFY
    1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
  • IRRATIONAL
    Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd. Syn. -- Absurd; foolish; preposterous; unreasonable; senseless. See Absurd. (more info) 1. Not rational; void of
  • CORRECTLY
    In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
  • CORRUPTIONIST
    One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
  • CORRUPTIBLE
    1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
  • SILLYHOW
    A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
  • ERRANTRY
    1. A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures. Addison. 2. The employment of a knight-errant. Johnson.
  • IMBECILE
    Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane. Syn. -- Weak; feeble; feeble-minded; idiotic.
  • CENSURABLE
    Deserving of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct. -- Cen"sur*a*bleness, n. -- Cen"sur*a*bly, adv.
  • OFFENSIVE
    1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. 2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. "Offensive to the stomach."
  • ERRANCY
    A wandering; state of being in error.
  • CORRECTORY
    Containing or making correction; corrective.
  • NONSENSICAL
    Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ly, adv. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ness, n.
  • ABSURDNESS
    Absurdity.
  • ERRONEOUS
    1. Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural. "Erroneous circulation." Arbuthnot. Stopped much of the erroneous light, which otherwise would have disturbed the vision. Sir I. Newman. 2. Misleading;
  • CORRECTIFY
    To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.
  • TRANSGRESSIVE
    Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable. -
  • ABERRATE
    To go astray; to diverge. Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.
  • SUPERREFLECTION
    The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
  • VERRUGAS
    An endemic disease occurring in the Andes in Peru, characterized by warty tumors which ulcerate and bleed. It is probably due to a special bacillus, and is often fatal.
  • SERR
    To crowd, press, or drive together. Bacon.
  • TERRESTRIFY
    To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne.
  • INERRABLE
    Incapable of erring; infallible; unerring. "Inerabble and requisite conditions." Sir T. Browne. "Not an inerrable text." Gladstone.
  • SUPERROYAL
    Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.
  • BERRETTA
    A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics (more info) of L. birrus, birrum, a cloak to keep off rain, cf. Gr. tawny, red:
  • TERRICOLAE
    A division of annelids including the common earthworms and allied species.
  • INTERREX
    An interregent, or a regent.
  • FERRIER
    A ferryman. Calthrop.
  • OVERRULING
    Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly, adv.
  • BISERRATE
    Doubly serrate, or having the serratures serrate, as in some leaves.
  • HERR
    A title of respect given to gentlemen in Germany, equivalent to the English Mister.
  • FERROCALCITE
    Limestone containing a large percentage of iron carbonate, and hence turning brown on exposure.
  • INTERRADIAL
    Between the radii, or rays; -- in zoölogy, said of certain parts of radiate animals; as, the interradial plates of a starfish.
  • INTERROGATE
    To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness. Wilt thou, uncalled, interrogate, Talker! the unreplying Fate Emerson. Syn. -- To question; ask. See Question. (more info) interrogatus,

 

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