Word Meanings - APPEASEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification. Hayward.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of APPEASEMENT)

• Quiet
• Rest
• repose
• stillness
• calm
• appeasement
• pacification
• silence
• peace
• Sacrifice
• Offering
• oblation
• immolation
• surrender
• destruction
• atonement
• propitiation
• expiation

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of APPEASEMENT)

• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad
• Rise
• stand
• wander
• flit
• flutter
• remove
• transfer
• Reserve
• retain
• appropriate
• withhold

Related words: (words related to APPEASEMENT)

• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• OFFER
  ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to 1. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• OFFERER
  One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• PACIFICATION
  The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation. "An embassy of pacification." Bacon.
• PEACEBREAKER
  One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• IMMOLATION
  1. The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed. Sir. T. Browne. 2. That which is immolated; a sacrifice.
• SACRIFICE
  1. The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon. Milton. 2. Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victin, or an offering of any kind, laid
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• STANDPIPE
  A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
• WANDEROO
  A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• FLUTTER
  1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• OFFERTURE
  Offer; proposal; overture. More offertures and advantages to his crown. Milton.
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• UNQUIET
  To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.