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Word Meanings - SLATTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To be careless, negligent, or aswkward, esp. with regard to dress and neatness; to be wasteful. Ray.

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  • CARELESSLY
    In a careless manner.
  • DRESSINESS
    The state of being dressy.
  • NEGLIGENTLY
    In a negligent manner.
  • WASTEFUL
    1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful
  • DRESS CIRCLE
    A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
  • NEATNESS
    The state or quality of being neat.
  • DRESSING
    An application to a sore or wound. Wiseman. 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.;
  • REGARDLESS
    1. Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity. Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat. Milton. 2. Not regarded; slighted. Spectator. Syn. -- Heedless; negligent; careless; indifferent; unconcerned;
  • REGARD
    1. To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon. Your niece regards me with an eye of favor. Shak. 2. Hence, to look or front toward; to face. It is peninsula which regardeth the mainland. Sandys. That exceedingly beatiful seat,
  • DRESSY
    Showy in dress; attentive to dress. A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook. A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving.
  • DRESS COAT
    A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.
  • DRESSMAKING
    The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.
  • CARELESS
    1. Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted. Spenser. Sleep she as sound as careless infancy. Shak. 2. Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless. My
  • REGARDING
    Concerning; respecting.
  • CARELESSNESS
    The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness; negligenece; inattention.
  • REGARDFUL
    Heedful; attentive; observant. -- Re*gard"ful*ly, adv. Let a man be very tender and regardful of every pious motion made by the Spirit of God to his heart. South. Syn. -- Mindful; heedful; attentive; observant.
  • REGARDABLE
    Worthy of regard or notice; to be regarded; observable. Sir T. Browne.
  • DRESS
    To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks. (more info) prepare, arrange, F. dresser. LL. directiare, fr. L. dirigere, directum, to direct;
  • REGARDANT
    Looking behind or backward; as, a lion regardant. (more info) 1. Looking behind; looking backward watchfully. turns thither his regardant eye. Southey.
  • DRESS GOODS
    A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.
  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.
  • UNDRESS
    To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
  • DEMANDRESS
    A woman who demands.
  • OFFENDRESS
    A woman who offends. Shak.
  • REDRESSIVE
    Tending to redress. Thomson.
  • ADDRESS
    To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
  • TOP-DRESSING
    The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied.
  • TENDRESSE
    Tender feeling; fondness.
  • UNDERDRESSED
    Not dresses enough.
  • FOUNDRESS
    A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
  • OVERDRESS
    To dress or adorn to excess; to dress too much. Pope.
  • REDRESSIBLE
    Such as may be redressed.

 

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