Word Meanings - OVERCAPABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Too capable. Overcapable of such pleasing errors. Hooker.

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• OVERCAPABLE
  Too capable. Overcapable of such pleasing errors. Hooker.
• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• PLEASANTNESS
  The state or quality of being pleasant.
• PLEASURIST
  A person devoted to worldly pleasure. Sir T. Browne.
• PLEASURER
  A pleasure seeker. Dickens.
• PLEASURELESS
  Devoid of pleasure. G. Eliot.
• PLEASURE
  1. The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or the enjoyment of something good, delightful, or satisfying; -- opposed to Ant: pain,
• CAPABLENESS
  The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency.
• PLEASUREFUL
  Affording pleasure.
• PLEASED
  Experiencing pleasure. -- Pleas"ed*ly, adv. -- Pleas"ed*ness, n.
• PLEASANTLY
  In a pleasant manner.
• PLEASURABLE
  Capable of affording pleasure or satisfaction; gratifying; abounding in pleasantness or pleasantry. Planting of orchards is very . . . pleasurable. Bacon. O, sir, you are very pleasurable. B. Jonson. -- Pleas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Pleas"ur*a*bly,
• PLEASEMAN
  An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank. Shak.
• PLEASANT
  1. Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather. Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Ps. cxxxiii. 1. 2. Cheerful; enlivening; gay; sprightly; humorous;
• PLEASANCE
  1. Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness. Shak. "Full great pleasance." Chaucer. "A realm of pleasance." Tennyson. 2. A secluded part of a garden. The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses. Ruskin.
• PLEASE
  1. To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy. I pray to God that it may plesen you. Chaucer. What next I bring shall please thee, be assured. Milton. 2. To have or take
• PLEASANTRY
  That which denotes or promotes pleasure or good humor; cheerfulness; gayety; merriment; especially, an agreeable playfulness in conversation; a jocose or humorous remark; badinage. The grave abound in pleasantries, the dull in repartees and points
• PLEASING
  Giving pleasure or satisfaction; causing agreeable emotion; agreeable; delightful; as, a pleasing prospect; pleasing manners. "Pleasing harmony." Shak. "Pleasing features." Macaulay. -- Pleas"ing*ly, adv. -- Pleas"ing*ness, n. Syn. -- Gratifying;
• HOOKER
  1. One who, or that which, hooks. A Dutch vessel with two masts. A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland. A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.
• UNCAPABLE
  Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
• 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
• OVERPLEASE
  To please excessively.
• DISPLEASANCE
  Displeasure; discontent; annoyance. Chaucer.
• TIMEPLEASER
  One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver. Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. Shak.
• IMPLEASING
  Unpleasing; displeasing. Overbury.
• UNPLEASANTRY
  1. Want of pleasantry. 2. A state of disagreement; a falling out. Thackeray.
• MEN-PLEASER
  One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God. Eph. vi. 6.
• DISPLEASER
  One who displeases.
• UNSCAPABLE
  Not be escaped; inevitable. Wyclif.
• DISPLEASANT
  Unpleasing; offensive; unpleasant. Speed. -- Dis*pleas"ant*ly, adv. Strype. -- Dis*pleas"ant*ness, n.