Word Meanings - PRINCIPAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments

Additional info about word: PRINCIPAL

1. Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. Wisdom is the principal thing. Prov. iv. 7. 2. Of or pertaining to a prince; princely. Spenser. Principal axis. See Axis of a curve, under Axis. -- Principal axes of a quadric , three lines in which the principal planes of the solid intersect two and two, as in an ellipsoid. -- Principal challenge. See under Challenge. -- Principal plane. See Plane of projection , under Plane. -- Principal of a quadric , three planes each of which is at right angles to the other two, and bisects all chords of the quadric perpendicular to the plane, as in an ellipsoid. -- Principal point , the projection of the point of sight upon the plane of projection. -- Principal ray , the line drawn through the point of sight perpendicular to the perspective plane. -- Principal section , a plane passing through the optical axis of a crystal.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRINCIPAL)

• Capital
• Chief
• excellent
• important
• cardinal
• principal
• consummate
• high
• First
• Leading
• primary
• pristine
• original
• foremost
• primitive
• primeval
• highest
• chief
• earliest
• plain
• Bulk
• majority
• body
• trunk
• leading
• most important
• first
• Paramount
• Superior
• preeminent
• supreme
• President
• Chairman
• moderator
• superintendent

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PRINCIPAL)

• Neglect
• drop
• interrupt
• nullify
• undo
• baffle
• frustrate
• mar
• defeat
• spoil

Related words: (words related to PRINCIPAL)

• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.
• FOREMOST
  First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army. THat struck the foremost man of all this world. Shak. (more info) superl. of forma first, which is a superl. fr. fore fore; cf. Goth. frumist,
• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• TRUNKED
  Having a trunk. Thickset with strong and well-trunked trees. Howell.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• PRIMITIVENESS
  The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.
• PRIMEVALLY
  In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin.
• PRESIDENT
  Precedent. Bacon.
• PLAINTIVE
  1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
• SUPREME
  Situated at the highest part or point. The Supreme, the Almighty; God. (more info) above, upper, fr. super above: cf. F. suprême. See Super-, and cf. 1. Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power. He that
• TRUNKFUL
  As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.
• TRUNK PISTON
  In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod, crosshead and stuffing box are thus dispensed with.
• FRUSTRATE
  Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. "Our frustrate search." Shak. (more info) to deceive, frustrate, fr. frustra in vain, witout effect, in erorr,
• PREEMINENT
  Eminent above others; prominent among those who are eminent; superior in excellence; surpassing, or taking precedence of, others; rarely, surpassing others in evil, or in bad qualities; as, preëminent in guilt. In goodness and in power preëminent.
• CHIEFEST
  First or foremost; chief; principal. "Our chiefest courtier." Shak. The chiefest among ten thousand. Canticles v. 10.
• INTERRUPTION
  1. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon. 2. The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption of time cause you to
• PLAINTIFF
  One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See
• STERNFOREMOST
  With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• POT LEAD
  Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
• KERCHIEF
  couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + 1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in
• PLEADINGS
  The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some