Word Meanings - QUIBBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil. Quibbles have no place in the search after truth. I. Watts. 2. A pun; a low conceit.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of QUIBBLE)

• Casuistry
• Sophistry
• Jesuitry
• fallacy
• refinement
• quibble
• strawsplitting
• Chicanery
• Artifice
• subtlety
• sophistry
• subterfuge
• prevarication
• shift
• trickery
• dodge
• mystification
• pettifogging
• underhandedness
• Evasion
• Prevarication
• shuffle
• fencing
• sheet
• equivocation
• Prevaricate
• Shuffle
• equivocate
• palter
• sophisticate
• evade
• Confuse
• interchange
• intershift
• intermix
• derange
• agitate
• prevaricate
• cavil
• mystify
• dissemble

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of QUIBBLE)

• Reason
• argue
• enunciate
• investigate
• discuss
• Fix
• fasten
• locate
• insert
• pitch
• plant
• place

Related words: (words related to QUIBBLE)

• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• FENCE MONTH
  the month in which female deer are fawning, when hunting is prohibited. Bullokar. -- Fence roof, a covering for defense. "They fitted their shields close to one another in manner of a fence roof." Holland. Fence time, the breeding time of fish or
• SHEET CHAIN
  A chain sheet cable.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
• FENCER
  One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil. As blunt as the fencer's foils. Shak.
• EQUIVOCATION
  The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead. There being no room for equivocations, there is no need of distinctions. Locke. Syn. -- Prevarication; ambiguity; shuffling; evasion; guibbling. See Equivocal,
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• ARGUE
  1. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton. 2. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as,
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• DENUNCIATE
  To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
• DEFENCE
  See DEFENSE
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.