Word Meanings - PERPENDICULAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc. Perpendicular style , a name given to the latest variety of English Gothic architecture, which prevailed from the close of the 14th century to the early

Additional info about word: PERPENDICULAR

At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc. Perpendicular style , a name given to the latest variety of English Gothic architecture, which prevailed from the close of the 14th century to the early part of the 16th; -- probably so called from the vertical style of its window mullions. (more info) 1. Exactly upright or vertical; pointing to the zenith; at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a right line from any point toward the center of the earth.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERPENDICULAR)

• Precipitous
• Steep
• headlong
• abrupt
• sheer
• perpendicular
• beetling
• rash
• dangerous
• Upright
• Vertical
• erect
• honest
• honorable
• pure
• principled
• conscientious
• just
• fair
• equitable
• Perpendicular
• upright

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PERPENDICULAR)

• Air
• dry
• ventilate
• fan
• sun
• aridity
• exsiccate

Related words: (words related to PERPENDICULAR)

• ARIDITY
  1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.
• HONESTY
  Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• VENTILATE
  brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a
• STEEP
  Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer.
• BEETLESTOCK
  The handle of a beetle.
• UPRIGHTNESS
  the quality or state of being upright.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• BEETLE
  1. A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc. 2. A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine. Knight.
• PERPENDICULAR
  At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc. Perpendicular style , a name given to the latest variety of English Gothic architecture, which prevailed from the close of the 14th century to the early
• STEEPLE
  A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles
• EXSICCATE
  To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne.
• STEEPLY
  In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.
• ABRUPTNESS
  1. The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness. 2. Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner.
• STEEP-DOWN
  Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak.
• CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
  The quality of being conscientious; a scrupulous regard to the dictates of conscience.
• VERTICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one. Charity . . . is the vertical top of all religion. Jer. Taylor. 2. Perpendicular to the plane
• ERECTILITY
  The quality or state of being erectile.
• BEETLEHEAD
  The black-bellied plover, or bullhead . See Plover. (more info) 1. A stupid fellow; a blockhead. Sir W. Scott.
• PRECIPITOUS
  1. Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain. 2. Headlong; as, precipitous fall. 3. Hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate; as, precipitous attempts. Sir T. Browne. "Marian's low, precipitous `Hush!'" Mrs. Browning.
• BARK BEETLE
  A small beetle of many species , which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.
• DISHONESTY
  1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
• CLICK BEETLE
  See ELATER
• UNHONEST
  Dishonest; dishonorable. Ascham. -- Un*hon"est*ly, adv. Udall.
• DEHONESTATE
  To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
• WATER BEETLE
  Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the family Dytiscidæ, and to various genera of the family Hydrophilidæ. These beetles swim with great agility, the fringed hind legs acting together like
• TAPESTRY BEETLE
  A small black dermestoid beetle whose larva feeds on tapestry, carpets, silk, fur, flour, and various other goods.