Word Meanings - SEEMLINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being seemly: comeliness; propriety.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SEEMLINESS)

• Beauty
• Loveliness
• grace
• fairness
• seemliness
• comeliness
• picturesqueness
• exquisiteness
• adornment
• embellishment

Related words: (words related to SEEMLINESS)

• GRACE
  The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. And if by grace, then is it no more of
• GRACEFUL
  Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.
• GRACELESS
  1. Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. "In a graceless age." Milton. 2. Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4. Chaucer. -- Grace"less*ly, adv. -- Grace"less-ness, n.
• COMELINESS
  The quality or state of being comely. Comeliness is a disposing fair Of things and actions in fit time and place. Sir J. Davies. Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit. Milton. Comeliness signifies something less forcible than beauty, less
• FAIRNESS
  The state of being fair, or free form spots or stains, as of the skin; honesty, as of dealing; candor, as of an argument, etc.
• ADORNMENT
  An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.
• BEAUTY
  biauté, Pr. beltat, F. beauté, fr. an assumed LL. bellitas, from L. 1. An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense. Beauty consists of a certain composition of color
• EXQUISITENESS
  Quality of being exquisite.
• EMBELLISHMENT
  1. The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment. In the selection of their ground, as well as in the embellishment of it. Prescott. 2. That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments. The
• SEEMLINESS
  The quality or state of being seemly: comeliness; propriety.
• GRACED
  Endowed with grace; beautiful; full of graces; honorable. Shak.
• LOVELINESS
  The state or quality of being lovely. If there is such a native loveliness in the sex as to make them victorious when in the wrong, how resistless their power when they are on the side of truth! Spectator.
• AGGRACE
  To favor; to grace. "That knight so much aggraced." Spenser.
• SCAPEGRACE
  A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless. Beaconsfield.
• BONGRACE
  A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat.
• OVERGRACE
  To grace or honor exceedingly or beyond desert. Beau. & Fl.
• DISGRACE
  1. The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect. Macduff lives in disgrace. Shak. 2. The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy. To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honor
• BOWGRACE
  A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice.
• UNSEEMLINESS
  The quality or state of being unseemly; unbecomingness. Udall.
• UNGRACEFUL
  Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful manners; ungraceful speech. The other oak remaining a blackened and ungraceful trunk. Sir W. Scott. -- Un*grace"ful*ly, adv. --
• DISGRACER
  One who disgraces.
• AGRACE
  See AGGRACE
• INGRACE
  To ingratiate. G. Fletcher.