Word Meanings - SLUTTISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman. Why is thy lord so slutish, I thee pray. Chaucer. An air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated the wealthy farmer. Sir W. Scott. -- Slut"tish*ly,

Additional info about word: SLUTTISH

Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman. Why is thy lord so slutish, I thee pray. Chaucer. An air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated the wealthy farmer. Sir W. Scott. -- Slut"tish*ly, adv. -- Slut"tish*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SLUTTISH)

• Slovenly
• Loose
• negligent
• disorderly
• untidy
• unclean
• sluttish
• slatternly

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SLUTTISH)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

Related words: (words related to SLUTTISH)

• UNCLEAN
  1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• NEGLIGENTLY
  In a negligent manner.
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• SLOVENLY
  1. Having the habits of a sloven; negligent of neatness and order, especially in dress. A slovenly, lazy fellow, bolling at his ease. L'Estrange. 2. Characteristic of a solven; lacking neatness and order; evincing negligence; as, slovenly dress.
• DISORDERLY
  Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house. Syn. -- Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous; inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious. (more info) 1. Not in order; marked by disorder;
• LOOSESTRIFE
  The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant
• UNTIDY
  1. Unseasonable; untimely. "Untidy tales." Piers Plowman. 2. Not tidy or neat; slovenly. -- Un*ti"di*ly, adv. -- Un*ti"di*ness, n.
• LOOSENESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
• SLUTTISH
  Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman. Why is thy lord so slutish, I thee pray. Chaucer. An air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated the wealthy farmer. Sir W. Scott. -- Slut"tish*ly,
• FASTENING
  Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.
• SLATTERNLY
  Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty. -- adv.
• LOOSELY
  In a loose manner.
• LOOSENER
  One who, or that which, loosens.
• RETAIN
  1. To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like. "Thy shape invisibleretain." Shak. Be obedient, and retain Unalterably firm his love entire. Milton. An executor
• UNCLEANSABLE
  Incapable of being cleansed or cleaned.
• RETAINABLE
  Capable of being retained.
• RETAINAL
  The act of retaining; retention.
• UNFASTEN
  To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
• COPPER-FASTENED
  Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
• UNLOOSEN
  To loosen; to unloose.
• OUTLOOSE
  A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden.
• REFASTEN
  To fasten again.