Word Meanings - SEEK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sick. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SEEK)

• Affect
• Like
• desire
• favor
• seek
• assume
• move
• influence
• concern
• interest
• feign
• pretend
• Aim Seek
• level
• propose
• design
• affect
• intend
• mean
• purpose
• Attempt
• Try
• endeavor
• strive
• undertake
• essay
• attack
• violate
• force
• Court
• flatter
• pursue
• Search Inspect
• explore
• scrutinize
• investigate
• inquire

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SEEK)

• Repel
• abjure
• disaffect
• insult
• avoid
• repudiate
• Roughen
• furrow
• disequalize
• graduate
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake

Related words: (words related to SEEK)

• REPELLENCE; REPELLENCY
  The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• FAVOR
  Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• ESSAYER
  One who essays. Addison.
• 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
• INTENDENT
  See N
• INSULT
  1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
• PROPOSER
  1. One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption. 2. A speaker; an orator. Shak.
• INSULTMENT
  Insolent treatment; insult. "My speech of insultment ended." Shak.
• SEARCHLESS
  Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• SEA LEVEL
  The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
• UNCONCERNMENT
  The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South.