Word Meanings - AFFAIR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle. 4. Action; endeavor. And with his best affair Obeyed the pleasure of the Sun. Chapman. 5. A material object . A certain affair of fine red cloth much worn and

Additional info about word: AFFAIR

An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle. 4. Action; endeavor. And with his best affair Obeyed the pleasure of the Sun. Chapman. 5. A material object . A certain affair of fine red cloth much worn and faded. Hawthorne. (more info) 1. That which is done or is to be done; matter; concern; as, a difficult affair to manage; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public; -- often in the plural. "At the head of affairs." Junius. "A talent for affairs." Prescott. 2. Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely; as, an affair of honor, i. e., a duel; an affair of love, i. e., an intrigue.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AFFAIR)

• Business
• Occupation
• profession
• vocation
• transaction
• trade
• calling
• office
• employment
• interest
• duty
• affair
• matter
• concern
• Concern
• Interest
• regard
• anxiety
• institution
• solicitude
• moment
• regret
• sympathy
• sorrow
• Intrigue
• Cabal
• plot
• conspiracy
• machination
• artifice
• design
• manoeuvres
• cunning
• duplicity
• trickery
• chicanery
• love affair
• amour
• ruse
• Transaction
• negotiation
• occurrence
• performance
• proceeding
• action

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AFFAIR)

• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge
• Welcome
• hail
• approve
• abandon
• abjure
• forget

Related words: (words related to AFFAIR)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• AMOUR PROPRE
  Self-love; self-esteem.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• SORROW
  The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• SORROWED
  Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• OCCUPATION
  1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• DISLIKE
  1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.
• FORGETTINGLY
  By forgetting.
• MOMENTARILY
  Every moment; from moment to moment. Shenstone.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• OUTPARAMOUR
  To exceed in the number of mistresses. Shak.
• ADVOCATION
  The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court. Bell. (more info) 1. The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy. The holy Jesus . . . sits in heaven in a perpetual advocation for us. Jer. Taylor. 2. Advowson.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.