Word Meanings - BRINK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig. "The brink of vice." Bp. Porteus. "The brink of ruin." Burke. The plashy brink of weedy

Additional info about word: BRINK

The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig. "The brink of vice." Bp. Porteus. "The brink of ruin." Burke. The plashy brink of weedy lake. Bryant. (more info) hill, Icel. brekka; cf. LG. brink a grassy hill, W. bryn hill,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BRINK)

• Border
• Limit
• boundary
• brink
• rim
• verge
• brim
• edge
• edging
• band
• hem
• enclosure
• confine
• Margin
• Edge
• lip
• latitude
• room
• loophole
• extremity
• Verge
• limit
• margin
• eve

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BRINK)

• Decline
• deviate
• revert
• depart
• recede
• return
• back
• retrocede

Related words: (words related to BRINK)

• VERGER
  One who carries a verge, or emblem of office. Specifically: -- An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc. Strype. The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.
• MARGINALIA
  Marginal notes.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• REVERT
  To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• MARGINALLY
  In the margin of a book.
• EDGELESS
  Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.
• MARGINAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a margin. 2. Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or gloss.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• ENCLOSURE
  Inclosure. See Inclosure. Note: The words enclose and enclosure are written indiscriminately enclose or inclose and enclosure or inclosure.
• VERGETTE
  Divided by pallets, or pales; paly. W. Berry.
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• DEPARTMENTAL
  Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
• RECEDE
  1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw. Like the hollow roar Of tides receding from the instituted shore. Dryden. All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center. Bentley. 2. To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist;
• VERGEBOARD
  The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof , and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard.
• MARGINATED
  See A
• LIMITARY
  1. Placed at the limit, as a guard. "Proud limitary cherub." Milton. 2. Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc. "The limitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• LEDGEMENT
  See LEDGMENT
• WEDGY
  Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• DULEDGE
  One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage. Wilhelm.