Word Meanings - ABOUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)

Additional info about word: ABOUT

On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info) onbutan; on + butan, which is from be by + utan outward, from ut out. 1. Around; all round; on every side of. "Look about you." Shak. "Bind them about thy neck." Prov. iii. 3. 2. In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on . "Have you much money about you" Bulwer. 3. Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout. Lampoons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses. Macaulay. Roving still about the world. Milton. 4. Near; not far from; -- determining approximately time, size, quantity. "To-morrow, about this time." Exod. ix. 18. "About my stature." Shak. He went out about the third hour. Matt. xx. 3. Note: This use passes into the adverbial sense. 5. In concern with; engaged in; intent on. I must be about my Father's business. Luke ii. 49. 6. Before a verbal noun or an infinitive:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABOUT)

• Abroad
• Far
• away
• apart
• dispersed
• aloof
• adrift
• about
• distracted
• confused
• Around
• About
• environing
• encircling
• Astray
• Loose
• abroad
• missing
• at large
• wrong
• erring
• wandering
• Circuitous
• Indirect
• tortuous
• devious
• serpentine
• round about
• sinuous
• winding
• Commence
• Begin
• start
• open
• initiate
• inaugurate
• enter upon
• set about
• undertake

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ABOUT)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

Related words: (words related to ABOUT)

• ENTERPARLANCE
  Mutual talk or conversation; conference. Sir J. Hayward.
• ENTERPRISER
  One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• WIND-RODE
  Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other. Totten.
• WINDINGLY
  In a winding manner.
• WINDTIGHT
  So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• DISPERSION
  The separation of light into its different colored rays, arising from their different refrangibilities. Dispersion of the optic axes , the separation of the optic axes in biaxial crystals, due to the fact that the axial angle has different values
• ERRABLENESS
  Liability to error. Dr. H. More.
• ERRHINE
  A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory. Coxe. -- a.
• STARTLE
  1. To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise. The supposition, at least, that angels do sometimes assume bodies need not startle us. Locke. 2. To deter; to cause to deviate.
• MISSEL
  Mistletoe. Missel bird, Missel thrush , a large European thrush which feeds on the berries of the mistletoe; -- called also mistletoe thrush and missel.
• WINDLACE
  See SCOTT
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• MISSIFICATE
  To perform Mass. Milton.
• CONFUSIVE
  Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• WINDBORE
  The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine. Ansted.
• COMMISSARY
  An officer on the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. Ayliffe. An officer having charge of a special sevice; as, the commissary of musters. An officer
• ABERRATE
  To go astray; to diverge. Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• MESENTERY
  The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
  To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
• VERRUGAS
  An endemic disease occurring in the Andes in Peru, characterized by warty tumors which ulcerate and bleed. It is probably due to a special bacillus, and is often fatal.
• REMISS
  Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
• SERR
  To crowd, press, or drive together. Bacon.
• PROMISSORILY
  In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne.
• TERRESTRIFY
  To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne.
• REMISSLY
  In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
• INERRABLE
  Incapable of erring; infallible; unerring. "Inerabble and requisite conditions." Sir T. Browne. "Not an inerrable text." Gladstone.