Word Meanings - SCRUTINIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To examine closely; to inspect or observe with critical attention; to regard narrowly; as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals. Whose votes they were obliged to scrutinize.
Additional info about word: SCRUTINIZE
To examine closely; to inspect or observe with critical attention; to regard narrowly; as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals. Whose votes they were obliged to scrutinize. Ayliffe. Thscrutinized his face the closest. G. W. Cable.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SCRUTINIZE)
- Dissect
- Take to pieces
- anatomize
- scrutinize
- investigate
- Examine
- Weigh
- ponder
- perpend
- test
- criticize
- prove
- study
- discuss
- inquire
- search
- explore
- inspect
- Inspect
- Scrutinize
- examine
- overhaul
- look into
- supervise
- Probe
- Prove
- verify
- silt
- Pry
- Peer
- peep
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SCRUTINIZE)
Related words: (words related to SCRUTINIZE)
- PROVENTRIULUS
The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop. - PROVERBIAL
1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - PONDEROUS
1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3. - ANATOMIZE
1. To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts. 2. To discriminate minutely or carefully; to analyze. If we anatomize all other reasonings of this - PROVENCAL
Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants. - INSPECTOR
One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer. Inspector general , a staff - DISSECT
To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize. 2. To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; - PONDERARY
Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. M'Culloch. - PROBE
1. To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe. 2. Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly. Dryden. The growing disposition to probe the legality of all acts, of the crown. Hallam. - SEARCHLESS
Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable. - PERPENDICULAR
At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc. Perpendicular style , a name given to the latest variety of English Gothic architecture, which prevailed from the close of the 14th century to the early - PONDERAL
Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from numeral; as, a ponderal drachma. Arbuthnot. - PONDEROUSLY
In a ponderous manner. - WEIGHTINESS
The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness. - WEIGHTILY
In a weighty manner. - SUPERVISE
to view, surely, intens. from videre, visum, to see. Cf. Survise, and 1. To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book. 2. To look over so as - INSPECTORSHIP
1. The office of an inspector. 2. The district embraced by an inspector's jurisdiction. - INQUIRER
One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator. Locke. Expert inquirers after truth. Cowper. - INSPECTIVE
Engaged in inspection; inspecting; involving inspection. - EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
Equality of weight; equipoise. - COUNTER WEIGHT
A counterpoise. - CROSS-EXAMINER
One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination. - APPROVEDLY
So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner. - DISAPPROVE
1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline - PREPONDERATINGLY
In a preponderating manner; preponderantly. - WELTERWEIGHT
1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that - UNIMPROVED
1. Not improved; not made better or wiser; not advanced in knowledge, manners, or excellence. 2. Not used; not employed; especially, not used or employed for a valuable purpose; as, unimproved opportunities; unimproved blessings. Cowper. 3. Not - PREPONDERATE
prae before + ponderare to weigh, fr., pondus, ponderis, a weight. 1. To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance. An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater