Word Meanings - APPRECIATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having or showing a just or ready appreciation or perception; as, an appreciative audience. -- Ap*pre"ci*a*tive*ly, adv.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• AUDIENCE
  1. The act of hearing; attention to sounds. Thou, therefore, give due audience, and attend. Milton. 2. Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• PERCEPTION
  The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses;
• SHOWROOM
  A room or apartment where a show is exhibited. 2. A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.
• SHOWILY
  In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• READY-MADE
  Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• SHOWING
  1. Appearance; display; exhibition. 2. Presentation of facts; statement. J. S. Mill.
• SHOWER
  1. One who shows or exhibits. 2. That which shows; a mirror. Wyclif.
• SHOWMAN
  One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• SHOWERY
  1. Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain. 2. Of or pertaining to a shower or showers. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• SHOW
  1. To exhibit or manifest one's self or itself; to appear; to look; to be in appearance; to seem. Just such she shows before a rising storm. Dryden. All round a hedge upshoots, and shows At distance like a little wood. Tennyson. 2. To
• APPRECIATION
  1. A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence. 2. Accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors. His foreboding showed his appreciation
• OVERREADY
  Too ready. -- O"ver*read"*i*ly, adv. -- O"ver*read"i*ness, n.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• RAREE-SHOW
  A show carried about in a box; a peep show. Pope.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• THUNDERSHOWER
  A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.