Word Meanings - PRIORITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.

Additional info about word: PRIORITY

1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others. Syn. -- Antecedence; precedence; preëminence.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRIORITY)

• Antecedence
• Anteriority
• priority
• precursorship
• premonition
• Introduction
• preparation
• pre-existence
• Lead
• Priority
• pre-eminence
• initiative
• guidance
• control
• majority
• Superiority
• eldership
• bulk
• preponderance
• seniority
• Precedence
• lead
• preference
• antecedence
• supremacy
• Seniority
• Eldership
• superiority

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PRIORITY)

• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

Related words: (words related to PRIORITY)

• ANTERIORITY
  The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.
• SENIORITY
  The quality or state of being senior.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• CONTROLLABILITY
  Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
• MISCONDUCT
  Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.
• NEGLECT
  1. Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy. To tell thee sadly,
• PRIORITY
  1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.
• ANTECEDENCE
  An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation. (more info) 1. The act or state of going before in time; precedence. H. Spenser.
• MISMANAGEMENT
  Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.
• PRECEDENCE; PRECEDENCY
  1. The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another. 2. The act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior
• SUPREMACY
  The state of being supreme, or in the highest station of power; highest or supreme authority or power; as, the supremacy of a king or a parliament. The usurped power of the pope being destroyed, the crown was restored to its supremacy over spiritual
• LICENSE
  fr. licere to be permitted, prob. orig., to be left free to one; akin 1. Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business,
• CONTROLLABLE
  Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command. Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason. South.
• SUPERIORITY
  The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit. Syn. -- Preëminence; excellence; predominancy; prevalence; ascendency; odds; advantage.
• CONTROLLER
  An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, controls
• NEGLECTION
  The state of being negligent; negligence. Shak.
• ABANDONER
  One who abandons. Beau. & Fl.
• BERATE
  To rate or chide vehemently; to scold. Holland. Motley.
• NEGLECTFUL
  Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent. Pope. A cold and neglectful countenance. Locke. Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it. Arbuthnot. -- Neg*lect"ful*ly,
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• DELIBERATELY
  With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.
• UNCONTROLLABLE
  1. Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events. 2. Indisputable; irrefragable; as, an uncontrollable maxim; an uncontrollable title. Swift. -- Un`con*trol"la*ble*ness,
• SELF-NEGLECTING
  A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak.
• DELIBERATE
  1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. "These deliberate fools."
• ABANDON
  To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender;
• THREE-TORQUE SYSTEM OF CONTROL
  Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship.
• INCONTROLLABLE
  Not controllable; uncontrollable. -- In`con*trol"la*bly, adv. South.