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Word Meanings - BEWAILABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.

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  • BEWAIL
    To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over. Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak. Syn. -- To bemoan; grieve. -- See Deplore.
  • OUGHT
    See AUGHT
  • BEWAILING
    Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv.
  • BEWAILABLE
    Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.
  • OUGHTNESS
    The state of being as a thing ought to be; rightness. N. W. Taylor.
  • BEWAILMENT
    The act of bewailing.
  • LAMENTABLE
    1. Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. "Lamentable eye." Spenser. 2. Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error. "Lamentable helplessness." Burke.
  • BEWAILER
    One who bewails or laments.
  • ROUGHT
    imp. of Reach.
  • BOUGHT
    1. A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent. Spenser. The boughts of the fore legs. Sir T. Browne. 2. The part of a sling that contains the stone.
  • HIGH-WROUGHT
    1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.
  • DREADNOUGHT
    1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by
  • THOUGHT
    imp. & p. p. of Think.
  • BETHOUGHT
    imp. & p. p. of Bethink.
  • MOUGHT
    of May. Might.
  • DROUGHTY
    1. Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust. Droughty and parched countries. Ray. 2. Dry; thirsty; wanting drink. Thy droughty throat. Philips.
  • THOUGHTLESS
    1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
  • FORETHOUGHT
    Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon.
  • ROUGHTAIL
    Any species of small ground snakes of the family Uropeltidæ; -- so called from their rough tails.
  • BOUGHTEN
    Purchased; not obtained or produced at home. Coleridge.
  • NEW THOUGHT
    Any form of belief in mental healing other than Christian Science and hypnotism or psychotherapy. Its central principle is affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances,
  • PLOWTAIL; PLOUGHTAIL
    The hind part or handle of a plow.
  • FOUGHTEN
    p. p. of Fight.
  • WROUGHT
    imp. & p. p. of Work. Alas that I was wrought ! Chaucer.

 

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