Word Meanings - ADO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To do; in doing; as, there is nothing. "What is here ado" J. Newton. 2. Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles. With much ado, he partly kept awake. Dryden. Let's follow to see the

Additional info about word: ADO

1. To do; in doing; as, there is nothing. "What is here ado" J. Newton. 2. Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles. With much ado, he partly kept awake. Dryden. Let's follow to see the end of this ado. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADO)

• Fuss
• Stir
• excitement
• tumult
• worry
• ado
• bustle
• flurry
• fidget

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ADO)

• Soothe
• compose
• quiet
• calm
• mesmerize

Related words: (words related to ADO)

• FIDGETY
  Restless; uneasy. Lowell.
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• COMPOSER
  1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
• BUSTLER
  An active, stirring person.
• QUIETER
  One who, or that which, quiets.
• QUIET
  p. pf quiescere to rest, keep quiet; akin to quies rest, and prob. to E. while, n. See While, and cf. Coy, a., Quiesce, Quietus, Quit, a., 1. In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air. They
• TUMULTER
  A maker of tumults. He severely punished the tumulters. Milton.
• TUMULTUARILY
  In a tumultuary manner.
• TUMULTUARINESS
  The quality or state of being tumultuary.
• WORRY
  worgen, wurgen, to strangle, OHG. wurgen, G. würgen, Lith. verszti, 1. To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth. A hellhound that doth hunt us all to death; That dog that had his teeth before
• QUIETISM
  The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes. (more info) 1. Peace
• QUIETSOME
  Calm; still. Spenser.
• MESMERIZE
  To bring into a state of mesmeric sleep.
• QUIETLY
  1. In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly. 2. Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly. 3. Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion;
• BUSTLE
  To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd. And leave the world for me to bustle in. Shak.
• COMPOSED
  Free from agitation; calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self- possessed. The Mantuan there in sober triumph sate, Composed his posture, and his look sedate. Pope. -- Com*pos"ed*ly (, adv. -- Com*pos"ed*ness, n.
• FLURRY
  1. A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind. 2. A light shower or snowfall accompanied with wind. Like a flurry of snow on the whistling wind. Longfellow. 3. Violent agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry.
• QUIETISTIC
  Of or pertaining to the Quietists, or to Quietism.
• FIDGET
  To move uneasily one way and the other; to move irregularly, or by fits and starts. Moore.
• TUMULTUARY
  1. Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous. "A tumultuary conflict." Eikon Basilike. A tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry. Macaulay. Sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish. De Quincey. 2. Restless;
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• UNQUIET
  To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• DISQUIETMENT
  State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment. Hopkins.
• DISQUIETOUS
  Causing uneasiness. So distasteful and disquietous to a number of men. Milton.
• INQUIETATION
  Disturbance. Sir T. Elyot.
• INQUIET
  To disquiet. Joye.
• DISQUIETNESS
  Disturbance of quiet in body or mind; restlessness; uneasiness. Hooker.
• DISQUIETFUL
  Producing inquietude or uneasiness. Barrow.
• DISQUIETER
  One who, or that which, disquiets, or makes uneasy; a disturber.