Word Meanings - UNSEEMLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNSEEMLY)
- Gross
- Entire
- vulgar
- vicious
- impure
- coarse
- bloated
- sensual
- animal
- bulk
- indelicate
- outrageous
- unseemly
- shameful
- Uncouth
- Odd
- ward
- boorish
- clumsy
- clownish
- ungraceful
- strange
- underbred
- ungainly
Related words: (words related to UNSEEMLY)
- UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - OUTRAGEOUS
Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous - UNSEEMLY
Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne. - ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - COARSE
was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - SENSUALISTIC
1. Sensual. 2. Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism. - SENSUAL
1. Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit. Pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies. Bacon. Far as creation's ample range extends, - INDELICATE
Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior. Macaulay. -- In*del"i*cate*ly, adv. Syn. -- Indecorous; unbecoming; unseemly; rude; coarse; - SENSUALISM
The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism. (more info) 1. The condition or character of one - ANIMALCULIST
1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism. - COARSELY
In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly. - UNDERBRUSH
Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth. - ANIMAL
1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process - CLOWNISH
Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. -- Clown"ish*ly, adv. Syn. -- Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude; uncivil; ill- bred; boorish; rustic; - ENTIRELY
1. In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost. Euphrates falls not entirely into the Persian Sea. Raleigh. 2. Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely. To highest God entirely pray. Spenser. - BLOATEDNESS
The state of being bloated. - ESTRANGE
extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and - ESTRANGER
One who estranges. - CONVICIOUS
Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting. "Convicious words." Queen Elizabeth .