Word Meanings - RELEVANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sufficient to support the cause. (more info) 1. Relieving; lending aid or support. Pownall. 2. Bearing upon, or properly applying to, the case in hand; pertinent; applicable. Close and relevant arguments have very little hold on the passions.

Additional info about word: RELEVANT

Sufficient to support the cause. (more info) 1. Relieving; lending aid or support. Pownall. 2. Bearing upon, or properly applying to, the case in hand; pertinent; applicable. Close and relevant arguments have very little hold on the passions. Sydney Smith.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RELEVANT)

• Apposite
• Suitable
• appropriate
• befitting
• fitting
• timely
• congruous
• consistent
• pertinent
• seasonable
• relevant
• fit
• meet
• adapted
• apropos
• Important
• Significant
• expressive
• main
• leading
• considerable
• great
• dignified
• influential
• weighty
• momentous
• material
• grave
• essential

Related words: (words related to RELEVANT)

• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• RELEVANTLY
  In a relevant manner.
• PERTINENT
  1. Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand; fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite; material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent evidence. 2. Regarding; concerning; belonging;
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• IMPORTANTLY
  In an important manner.
• MOMENTOUS
  Of moment or consequence; very important; weighty; as, a momentous decision; momentous affairs. -- Mo*men"tous*ly, adv. -- Mo*men"tous*ness, n.
• MATERIALNESS
  The state of being material.
• GRAVEN
  Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4.
• INFLUENTIAL
  Exerting or possessing influence or power; potent; efficacious; effective; strong; having authority or ascendency; as, an influential man, station, argument, etc. A very influential Gascon prefix. Earle.
• DIGNIFIED
  Marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• 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.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• 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
• APPERTINENT
  Belonging; appertaining. Coleridge.
• RINGLEADER
  1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. 2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• PALGRAVE
  See PALSGRAVE
• PLEADINGLY
  In a pleading manner.