Word Meanings - ORDERLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good

Additional info about word: ORDERLY

1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good or established order; well-regulated. "An orderly . . . march." Clarendon. 4. Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders. "Aids-de-camp and orderly men." Sir W. Scott. Orderly book , a book for every company, in which the general and regimental orders are recorded. -- Orderly officer, the officer of the day, or that officer of a corps or regiment whose turn it is to supervise for the day the arrangements for food, cleanliness, etc. Farrow. -- Orderly room. The court of the commanding officer, where charges against the men of the regiment are tried. The office of the commanding officer, usually in the barracks, whence orders emanate. Farrow. -- Orderly sergeant, the first sergeant of a company.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ORDERLY)

• Consecutive
• Orderly
• arranged
• coherent
• continuous
• Just
• Exact
• fitting
• true
• fair
• proportioned
• harmonious
• honest
• reasonable
• sound
• honorable
• normal
• impartial
• equitable
• upright
• regular
• orderly
• lawful
• right
• righteous
• proper
• Lawful
• Legal
• permissible
• allowable
• constitutional
• rightful
• legitimate
• Lucid
• Shining
• bright
• resplendent
• Incident
• luminous
• clear
• trans parent
• crystalline
• pellucid
• distinct
• intelligible
• rational
• perspicuous
• limpid
• lucent
• easily under
• stood
• Regular
• Customary
• ordinary
• stated
• recurrent
• periodical
• systematic
• methodic
• established
• recognized
• formal
• symmetrical
• certain

Related words: (words related to ORDERLY)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• UNDERDOER
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• PARENTHETIC; PARENTHETICAL
  1. Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales. 2. Using or containing parentheses.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• PARENTHESIS
  One of the curved lines which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase. Note: Parenthesis, in technical grammar, is that part of a sentence which is inclosed within the recognized sign; but many phrases and sentences which are punctuated by commas
• UNDERPLOT
  1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• UNDERNICENESS
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• UNDERDOLVEN
  p. p. of Underdelve.
• DISTINCTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated
• SHINTIYAN; SHINTYAN
  A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.
• RATIONALIZATION
  The act or process of rationalizing.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• TRANSCEND
  1. To climb; to mount. 2. To be transcendent; to excel.
• UNDERNIME
  1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
• UNDERPROP
  To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• DILUCIDATION
  The act of making clear. Boyle.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• ESTATLICH; ESTATLY
  Stately; dignified. Chaucer.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.