Word Meanings - UNCHANCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Happening at a bad time; unseasonable; inconvenient. A. Trollope. 2. Ill-fated; unlucky. 3. Unsafe to meddle with; dangerous.

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• FATHER-LASHER
  A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
• FATILOQUENT
  Prophetic; fatidical. Blount.
• FATALNESS
  , . Quality of being fatal. Johnson.
• FATHOMER
  One who fathoms.
• FATALISTIC
  Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
• FATALITY
  1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South. 2. The state of being fatal;
• FATIMITE; FATIMIDE
  Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.
• FAT-BRAINED
  Dull of apprehension.
• MEDDLER
  One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody.
• FATHERLESSNESS
  The state of being without a father.
• FATUITY
  Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity. Those many forms of popular fatuity. I Taylor.
• FAT-WITTED
  Dull; stupid. Shak.
• FATA MORGANA
  A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily. (more info) looked upon as the work of a fairy of the
• FATHERLAND
  One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
• MEDDLESOME
  Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive. -- Med"dle*some*ness, n.
• FATUOUS
  1. Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous. Glanvill. 2. Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus. Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth. Danham.
• FATTY
  Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance. Fatty acid , any one of the paraffin series of monocarbonic acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; -- so called because the higher members, as stearic and palmitic
• FATHER
  OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. Fa Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. pa protect. Papa, Paternal, Patriot, 1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad
• FATHER-IN-LAW
  The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in- law and daughter-in-law. Note: A man who marries a woman having children already, is sometimes, though erroneously, called their father-in-law.
• TROLLOPEE
  A kind of loose dress for women. Goldsmith.
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• OVERFATIGUE
  Excessive fatigue.
• BEHAPPEN
  To happen to.
• INTERMEDDLE
  To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon. Syn. -- To
• INFATUATION
  The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates. The infatuations of the sensual and frivolous part of mankind are amazing; but the infatuations of the learned and sophistical are incomparably more so. I. Taylor.
• INDEFATIGABLY
  Without weariness; without yielding to fatigue; persistently. Dryden.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• MARROWFAT
  A rich but late variety of pea.
• AFFATUATE
  To infatuate. Milton.
• INDEFATIGABILITY
  The state of being indefatigable.