English Words & Meanings

Cobwebbed

2011-08-26T20:49:00.000-07:00

Adjective:
1. Covered with Cobwebs

Synonyms:
1. Cobwebby

Vaporish

2011-05-25T00:00:00.000-07:00

Adjective:
1. Resembling or characteristic of vapor

Synonyms:
1. Vaporific
2. Vaporous
3. Vapory

Vaporific

2011-05-24T00:00:00.000-07:00

Adjective:
1. (used of substances) capable of being volatilized
2. Resembling or characteristic of vapor

Synonyms:
1. Evaporable
2. Vaporish
3. Vaporizable
4. Vaporous
5. Vapory
6. Volatilizable

Transparent

2011-05-23T00:00:00.000-07:00

Adjective:
1. Transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
2. So thin as to transmit light
3. Free of deceit
4. Easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety)

Usage:
1. Transparent crystal
2. Transparent chiffon
3. A transparent explanation
4. A transparent lie

Synonyms:
1. Cobwebby
2. Crystal Clear
3. Crystalline
4. Diaphanous
5. Filmy
6. Gauze-Like
7. Gauzy
8. Gossamer
9. Guileless
10. Limpid
11. Lucid
12. Pellucid
13. See-Through
14. Sheer
15. Vaporous
16. Vapory

Sheer

2011-05-22T00:00:00.000-07:00

Adjective:
1. Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
2. Not mixed with extraneous elements
3. Very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front
4. So thin as to transmit light

Usage:
1. Got the job through sheer persistence.
2. Sheer stupidity
3. Sheer wine
4. A sheer descent of rock
5. Sheer silk stockings

Verb:
1. Turn sharply; change direction abruptly
2. Cause to sheer

Usage:
1. She sheered her car around the obstacle

Adverb:
1. Straight up or down without a break
2. Directly

Usage:
He fell sheer into the water

Synonyms:
1. Absolute
2. Bluff
3. Bold
4. Cobwebby
5. Curve
6. Cut
7. Diaphanous
8. Downright
9. Filmy
10. Gauze-Like
11. Gauzy
12. Gossamer
13. Orthogonally
14. Out-and-out
15. Perpendicularly
16. Plain
17. Rank
18. Right-down
19. See-Through
20. Slew
21. Slue
22. Swerve
23. Transparent
24. Trend
25. Unmingled
26. Unmixed
27. Vaporous
28. Vapory
29. Veer

See-Through

2011-05-21T00:00:00.000-07:00

Verb:
1. Support financially through a period of time
2. Perceive the true nature of
3. Remain with until completion

Usage:
1. We could see-through her apparent calm

Adjective:
1. So thin as to transmit light

Synonyms:
1. Cobwebby
2. Diaphanous
3. Filmy
4. Gauze-Like
5. Gauzy
6. Gossamer
7. Sheer
8. Transparent
9. Vaporous
10. Vapory

Gossamer

2011-05-20T00:00:00.000-07:00

Adjective:
1. Characterized by unusual lightness & delicacy
2. So thin as to transmit light

usage:
1. Gossamer shading through his playing
2. Gossamer cobwebs

Noun:
1. A gauze fabric with an extremely fine structure
2. Filaments from a web that was spun by a spider

Synonyms:
1. Cobweb
2. Cobwebby
3. Diaphanous
4. Ethereal
5. Filmy
6. Gauze-Like
7. Gauzy
8. See-Through
9. Sheer
10. Transparent
11. Vaporous
12. Vapory

Gauzy

2011-05-19T00:00:00.000-07:00

Adjective:
1. So thin as to transmit light

Usage:
1. Gauzy clouds of dandelion down

Synonyms:
1. Cobwebby
2. Diaphanous
3. Filmy
4. Gauze-Like
5. Gossamer
6. See-through
7. Sheer
8. Transparent
9. Vaporous
10. Vapory

Gauze-Like

2011-05-18T00:00:00.000-07:00

Adjective:
1. So thin as to transmit light

Synonyms:
1. Cobwebby
2. Diaphanous
3. Filmy
4. Gauzy
5. Gossamer
6. See-Through
7. Sheer
8. Transparent
9. Vaporous
10. Vapory

Filmy

2011-05-17T00:00:00.000-07:00

Adjective:
1. So thin as to transmit light

Usage:
1. Filmy wings of a moth

Synonyms:
1. Cobwebby
2. Diaphanous
3. Gauze-Like
4. Gauzy
5. Gossamer
6. See-Through
7. Sheer
8. Transparent
9. Vaporous
10. Vapory

Diaphanous

2011-05-16T00:00:00.000-07:00

Adjective:
1. So thin as to transmit light

Usage:
1. A hat with a diaphanous veil

Synonyms:
1. Cobwebby
2. Filmy
3. Gauze-Like
4. Gossamer
5. See-through
6. Sheer
7. Transparent
8. Vaporous
9. Vapory

Cobwebby

2011-05-15T23:03:00.000-07:00

Adjective:
1. So thin as to transmit light
2. Covered with Cobwebs

Synonyms:
1. Cobwebbed
2. Diaphanous
3. Filmy
4. Gauze-Like
5. Gauzy
6. Gossamer
7. See-Through
8. Sheer
9. Transparent
10. Vaporous
11. Vapory

Vapory

2011-04-06T00:00:00.000-07:00

Adjective:
1. Filled with vapor
2. So thin as to transmit light
3. Resembling or charecteristic of vapor

Synonyms:
1. Cobwebby
2. Diaphanous
3. Filmy
4. Gauze-like
5. Gauzy
6. Gossamer
7. Miasmal
8. Miasmic
9. See-Through
10. Sheer
11. Transparent
12. Vaporific
13. Vaporish
14. Vaporous

Vaporous

2011-04-05T00:00:00.000-07:00

Adjective:
1. So thin as to transmit light
2. Resembling or characteristic of vapor
3. Filled with vapor

Usage:
1. Vaporous skills
2. Vaporous clouds
3. A vaporous bog

Synonyms:
1. Cobwebby
2. Diaphanous
3. Filmy
4. Gauze-like
5. Gauzy
6. Gossamer
7. Miasmal
8. Miasmic
9. See-Through
10. Sheer
11. Transparent
12. Vaporific
13. Vaporish
14. Vapory

Miasmal

2011-04-04T00:00:00.000-07:00

Adjective:
1. Filled with Vapor

Synonyms:
1. Miasmic
2. Vaporous
3. Vapory

Miasmic

2011-03-03T19:24:00.002-08:00

Adjective:
1. Of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution
2. Filled with vapor

usage:
miasmic jungles

Synonyms:
Mephitic
Miasmal
Vaporous
Vapory

Mephitic

2011-03-03T19:24:00.000-08:00

Adjective:
1. Of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution

usage:
miasmic

Slaveholding

2011-03-03T19:22:00.000-08:00

Adjective:
1. Allowing slavery

Noun:
1. The practice of owning slaves

Usage
the slaveholding South

Synonyms:
Slavery

Slavery

2011-03-01T21:46:00.000-08:00

Noun:
1. The state of being under the control of another person
2. The practice of owning slaves
3. Work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay

Synonyms:

Bondage
Slaveholding
thraldom
thrall
thralldom

Bondage

2011-03-01T21:33:00.000-08:00

Noun:
1. The state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power
2. The state of being under the control of another person
3. Sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners

Usage:
"he was in bondage to fear"; "he sought release from his bondage to Satan"; "a self freed from the bondage of time"

Synonyms:
Slavery
thraldom
thrall
thralldom

Thralldom

2010-12-23T16:04:00.001-08:00

Noun:
The state of being under the control of another person

Synonyms:
Bondage
Slavery
Thraldom
Thrall

Thraldom

2010-12-23T16:03:00.005-08:00

Noun:
The state of being under the control of another person

Synonyms:
Bondage
Slavery
Thrall
thralldom

Thrall

2010-12-23T16:02:00.000-08:00

Noun:
1. The state of being under control of another person
2. Someone held in bondage.

Usage:
Yet I did not come here to do harm, but rather to free the royal family of Ev from the thrall of the Nome King.

Synonyms:

Bondage
Slavery
Thraldom
Thralldom

cryopathy

2010-12-23T15:52:00.000-08:00

Noun: Destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene

Usage: If you'll be spending time outdoors this winter, know a few cryopathy dos and don'ts.

Synonyms: Frostbite

Frostbite

2010-12-23T15:44:00.000-08:00

Noun: Destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene

Usage: Though the hiker was rescued from the snowy mountain after just one night, he lost two toes to frostbite.

Synonyms: Cryopathy