Word Meanings - ARDOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bright and effulgent spirits; seraphim. Syn. -- Fervor; warmth; eagerness. See Fervor. (more info) 1. Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays. 2. Warmth or heat of passion or affection; eagerness; zeal; as, he pursues study with

Additional info about word: ARDOR

Bright and effulgent spirits; seraphim. Syn. -- Fervor; warmth; eagerness. See Fervor. (more info) 1. Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays. 2. Warmth or heat of passion or affection; eagerness; zeal; as, he pursues study with ardor; the fought with ardor; martial ardor. 3. pl.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ARDOR)

• Devotion
• Piety
• devoutness
• religiousness
• dedication
• self-abandonment
• consecration
• ardor
• self-surrender
• self-sacrifice
• love
• attachment
• Enthusiasm
• Excitement
• frenzy
• sensation
• inspiration
• transport
• rapture
• warmth
• fervor
• fervency
• zeal
• vehemence
• passion
• devotion
• Fever
• Heat
• broil
• flush
• ferment
• Warmth
• excitement
• fever
• ebullition
• intensity
• Intensity
• Tension
• force
• concentration
• strain
• attention
• eagerness
• energy

Related words: (words related to ARDOR)

• WARMTH
  The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color. Syn. -- Zeal; ardor; fervor; fervency; heat; glow; earnestness; cordiality; animation; eagerness; excitement;
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• FERMENTABLE
  Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.
• FERMENT
  fervimentum, fr. fervere to be boiling hot, boil, ferment: cf. F. 1. That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer. Note: Ferments are of two kinds: Formed or organized ferments. Unorganized or structureless ferments. The
• FEVER
  A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom,
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• FLUSHING
  A surface formed of floating threads. (more info) 1. A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• SENSATION
  An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable,
• TRANSPORTED
  Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
• CONCENTRATION
  The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water. (more info) 1. The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being
• FEVERFEW
  A perennial plant allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.
• INTENSITY
  The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental
• FORCEPS
  The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
• TRANSPORT
  1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• DISEMBROIL
  To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.
• REBULLITION
  The act of boiling up or effervescing. Sir H. Wotton.
• SHODDY FEVER
  A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• INTENSION
  The collective attributes, qualities, or marks that make up a complex general notion; the comprehension, content, or connotation; - - opposed to extension, extent, or sphere. This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio
• PREFERMENT
  1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• PROTENSION
  A drawing out; extension. Sir W. Hamilton.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• PORTENSION
  The act of foreshowing; foreboding. Sir T. Browne.
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.