Word Meanings - TENDENCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result. Writings of this kind, if conducted with candor, have a more particular tendency to the good of their country.

Additional info about word: TENDENCY

Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result. Writings of this kind, if conducted with candor, have a more particular tendency to the good of their country. Addison. In every experimental science, there is a tendency toward perfection. Macaulay. Syn. -- Disposition; inclination; proneness; drift; scope; aim.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TENDENCY)

• Aim
• Tendency
• intent
• aspiration
• bent
• drift
• object
• scope
• goal
• purpose
• mark
• end
• design
• intention
• Appetite
• Passion
• desire
• propensity
• proclivity
• inclination
• propension
• appetency
• want
• craving
• disposition
• tendency
• proneness
• Aptitude
• Fitness
• liability
• susceptibility
• suitableness
• readiness
• quickness
• cleverness
• Direction
• Course
• line
• control
• command
• bearing
• superscription
• order
• address
• Drift
• direction
• motion
• tenor
• meaning
• purport
• aim
• result
• issue
• conclusion
• course

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TENDENCY)

• Elude
• avoid
• shun
• ignore
• pass
• Supplicate
• entreat
• persuade
• beg
• petition
• suggest
• represent
• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake
• Originate
• arise
• precede
• spring
• commence
• start
• begin

Related words: (words related to TENDENCY)

• SUPPLICATE
  supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• SPRINGE
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.
• 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;
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• SPRINGAL
  An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
• SCOPELINE
  Scopeloid.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• PURPORTLESS
  Without purport or meaning.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• PRELUDE
  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
• HAEMATOSCOPE
  A hæmoscope.
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• LACTOSCOPE
  An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• METEOROSCOPE
  An astrolabe; a planisphere. An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.