Word Meanings - RUMBLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

a. & n. from Rumble, v. i.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RUMBLING)

• Deaf
• Surd
• hard of hearing
• disinclined
• averse
• inexorable
• insensible
• rumbling
• inaudible
• heedless
• dead

Related words: (words related to RUMBLING)

• AVERSENESS
  The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
• HEARTWOOD
  The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
• HEART
  A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle
• RUMBLER
  One who, or that which, rumbles.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• INSENSIBLENESS
  Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
• HEARTGRIEF
  Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
• HEARTEN
  1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak. 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.
• HEARTDEEP
  Rooted in the heart. Herbert.
• RUMBLE
  1. To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance. In the mean while the skies 'gan rumble sore. Surrey. The people cried and rombled up and down. Chaucer. 2. To murmur; to ripple. To rumble gently down with murmur
• RUMBLING
  a. & n. from Rumble, v. i.
• HEARTENER
  One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. W. Browne.
• AVERSE
  1. Turned away or backward. The tracks averse a lying notice gave, And led the searcher backward from the cave. Dryden. 2. Having a repugnance or opposition of mind; disliking; disinclined; unwilling; reluctant. Averse alike to flatter, or offend.
• HEAR
  hora, D. hooren, OHG. h, G. hören, Icel. heyra, Sw: höra, Dan. hore, 1. To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call. Lay thine ear close to the ground, and list
• HEARTSWELLING
  Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
• HEART-ROBBING
  1. Depriving of thought; ecstatic. "Heart-robbing gladness." Spenser. 2. Stealing the heart or affections; winning.
• HEART'S-EASE
  A species of violet ; -- called also pansy. (more info) 1. Ease of heart; peace or tranquillity of mind or feeling. Shak.
• HEARTYHALE
  Good for the heart.
• HEARTSOME
  Merry; cheerful; lively.
• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• THEARCHY
  Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• SHEAR
  To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4. (more info) shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. 1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear
• PIGEON-HEARTED
  Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.
• TRAVERSE
  Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton. The ridges of the fallow field traverse.
• DISHEARTENMENT
  Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
• KIND-HEARTED
  Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord. To thy self at least kind-hearted prove. Shak.
• GRUMBLINGLY
  In a grumbling manner.