Word Meanings - VIVIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon. (more info) Etym:
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VIVIFY)
- Enliven
- Wake
- cheer
- vivify
- quicken
- invigorate
- exhilarate
- rouse
- inspirit
- excite
- animate
- Heighten
- Exalt
- increase
- enhance
- intensify
- color
- aggravate
- raise
- exaggerate
- lift up
- amplify
- Impregnate
- Fill
- insert
- imbue
- mix
- combine
- saturate
- steep
- fecundate
- teach
- Quicken
- Accelerate
- revive
- reinvigorate
- resuscitate
- stimulate
- hurry
- hasten
- urge
- promote
- expedite
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of VIVIFY)
Related words: (words related to VIVIFY)
- COLORMAN
A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds. - INTENSIFY
To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow. - TEACHER
1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination. - ARIDITY
1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris. - TEACHABLENESS
Willingness to be taught. - ROUSE
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. - REVIVEMENT
Revival. - VENTILATE
brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a - REINVIGORATE
To invigorate anew. - VIVIFY
To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon. (more info) Etym: - STEEP
Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer. - RAISE
To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. - RAISED
1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised - REVIVE
To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal. (more info) 1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak. The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into - CHEERINESS
The state of being cheery. - STEEPLE
A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles - EXSICCATE
To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne. - HURRY-SKURRY
Confusedly; in a bustle. Gray. - EXALTMENT
Exaltation. Barrow. - INSERT
To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper. These - UPCHEER
To cheer up. Spenser. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - REINCREASE
To increase again. - ENQUICKEN
To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More. - CONCOLOR
Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne. - MISRAISE
To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall. - SCHOOL-TEACHER
One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n. - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - TROUSERING
Cloth or material for making trousers. - WHURRY
To whisk along quickly; to hurry. Whurrying the chariot with them to the shore. Vicars. - TROUSE
Trousers. Spenser.