Word Meanings - STUCK-UP - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Self-important and supercilious, The airs of small, stuck-up, men. A. K. H. Boyd.
Related words: (words related to STUCK-UP)
- SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - IMPORTANTLY
In an important manner. - SUPERCILIOUS
Lofty with pride; haughty; dictatorial; overbearing; arrogant; as, a supercilious officer; asupercilious air; supercilious behavior. -- Su`per*cil"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Su`per*cil"i*ous*ness, n. (more info) eyebrow, pride; super over, + cilium - STUCK
imp. & p. p. of Stick. - SMALLCLOTHES
A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. - SMALLPOX
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick - STUCKLE
A number of sheaves set together in the field; a stook. - SMALL
sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity - SMALLAGE
A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery. - SMALLY
In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham. - IMPORTANT
1. Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious. Thou hast strength as much As serves to execute a mind very important. Chapman. 2. Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; - SMALLNESS
The quality or state of being small. - SMALLS
See 3 - SMALLSWORD
A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century. - STUCK-UP
Self-important and supercilious, The airs of small, stuck-up, men. A. K. H. Boyd. - BESTUCK
imp. & p. p. Bestick. - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - ABYSMALLY
To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot. - SELF-IMPORTANT
Having or manifesting an exaggerated idea of one's own importance or merit. - BAPTISMALLY
In a baptismal manner.