Word Meanings - AFFORD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

fr. for forth, forward. The prefix ge- has no well defined sense. See 1. To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an

Additional info about word: AFFORD

fr. for forth, forward. The prefix ge- has no well defined sense. See 1. To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish. 2. To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish; as, a good life affords consolation in old age. His tuneful Muse affords the sweetest numbers. Addison. The quiet lanes . . . afford calmer retreats. Gilpin. 3. To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity. 4. To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; -- with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough. The merchant can afford to trade for smaller profits. Hamilton. He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer. Wordsworth.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AFFORD)

• Allow
• Concede
• apportion
• allot
• assign
• afford
• tolerate
• authorize
• grant
• remit
• recognize
• acknowledge
• avow
• confess
• admit
• permit
• suffer
• sanction
• yield
• Furnish
• Supply
• provide
• equip
• bestow
• purvey
• give
• Give
• Bestow
• confer
• impart
• produce
• surrender
• concede
• present
• communicate
• furnish
• Lend
• Advance
• loan
• Produce
• Exhibit
• bear
• furbish
• cause
• create
• originate
• extend
• prolong
• lengthen

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AFFORD)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease

Related words: (words related to AFFORD)

• CONFESSION
  The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam. 4. A formulary
• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• EQUIPENSATE
  To weigh equally; to esteem alike.
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• CONFERENCE
  A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• CONFESSER
  One who makes a confession.
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• PERMIT
  1. To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with. What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker. 2. To grant express license or liberty
• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• ALLOTTABLE
  Capable of being allotted.
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• PRESENT
  one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• ALLOTRIOPHAGY
  A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.
• UNCREATED
  1. Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl. 2. Not yet created; as, misery uncreated. Milton. 3. Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• 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 .
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• PROCREATE
  To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.