Word Meanings - PLUMMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of the nature of a plum; desirable; profitable; advantageous. "For the sake of getting something plummy." G. Eliot.

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• GETTABLE
  That may be obtained.
• PROFITABLE
  Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor.
• PLUMMY
  Of the nature of a plum; desirable; profitable; advantageous. "For the sake of getting something plummy." G. Eliot.
• ADVANTAGEOUSNESS
  Profitableness.
• NATURED
  Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.
• GETTERUP
  One who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc. A diligent getter-up of miscellaneous works. W. Irving.
• NATURELESS
  Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton.
• GETTING
  1. The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition. With all thy getting, get understanding. Prov. iv. 7. 2. That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.
• DESIRABLE
  Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable. All of them desirable young men. Ezek. xxiii. 12. As things desirable excite Desire, and objects move the appetite. Blackmore.
• NATURE
  1. The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. But looks through nature up to nature's God. Pope. Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. Macaulay. 2. The personified sum and order
• DESIRABLENESS
  The quality of being desirable. The desirableness of the Austrian alliance. Froude.
• SOMETHING
  1. Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing. There is something in the wind. Shak. The whole world has something
• ADVANTAGEOUS
  Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation
• ADVANTAGEOUSLY
  Profitably; with advantage.
• GETTER
  One who gets, gains, obtains, acquires, begets, or procreates.
• UNNATURE
  To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
• FORGETTINGLY
  By forgetting.
• CONTRAFAGETTO
  The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon.
• VERGETTE
  Divided by pallets, or pales; paly. W. Berry.
• DEMINATURED
  Having half the nature of another. Shak.
• TIME SIGNATURE
  A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as
• ORNATURE
  Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed.
• CONSIGNATURE
  Joint signature. Colgrave.
• HELIOTROPE
  An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
• TRANSNATURE
  To transfer or transform the nature of. We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel.
• DENATURE
  To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of.
• SIGNATURE
  An outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated. Some plants bear a very evident signature of their nature and use. Dr. H. More. (more info) 1. A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal. The brain, being well
• HELIOTROPIC
  Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun.
• APHELIOTROPIC
  Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin.
• INDESIRABLE
  Undesirable.
• DISNATURED
  Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. Shak.
• HELIOTROPISM
  The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.