Word Meanings - SELECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice. A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater
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Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice. A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher. Macaulay.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SELECT)
- Adopt
- Assume
- select
- affiliate
- take
- elect
- arrogate
- choose
- endorse
- avow
- appropriate
- Choice
- Select
- exquisite
- precious
- dainty
- cherished
- valuable
- excellent
- rare
- Choose
- prefer
- adopt
- cull
- pick out
- Cite
- Summon
- call
- quote
- adduce
- mention
- name
- refer to
- Extract
- Draw
- educe
- elicit
- cite
- excerpt
- take out
- gather
- collect
- extol
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SELECT)
Related words: (words related to SELECT)
- COLLECTIVENESS
A state of union; mass. - COLLECTEDLY
Composedly; coolly. - ELICITATION
The act of eliciting. Abp. Bramhall. - ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it. - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - ELECTROTYPER
One who electrotypes. - ELECTREPETER
An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator. - ENDORSER
See INDORSER - APPROPRIATENESS
The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude. - SUGGESTER
One who suggests. Beau. & Fl. - SUGGEST
1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty; - SHADOWY
1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon - VALUABLENESS
The quality of being valuable. - CHERISHMENT
Encouragement; comfort. Rich bounty and dear cherishment. Spenser. - EXTOLMENT
Praise. Shak. - PREFERMENT
1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither - ELECTRO-DYNAMIC; ELECTRO-DYNAMICAL
Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force. - ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge. - ELECTRONIC
Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons. - ELECTRO-BIOLOGIST
One versed in electro-biology. - FORESHADOW
To shadow or typi Dryden. - ANELECTRIC
Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n. - SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
The tenets of the Sadducees. - ENSWEEP
To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson. - MEGATHEROID
One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc. - SEDUCEMENT
1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.