Word Meanings - BUGBEAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See A

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BUGBEAR)

• Cobweb
• Trifle
• cipher
• moonshine
• prejudice
• bugbear
• phantasy
• caprice
• Fallacy
• Sophistry
• error
• blunder
• misconception
• fiction
• delusion
• chimera

Related words: (words related to BUGBEAR)

• PHANTASY
  See FANCY
• MOONSHINER
  A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• BUGBEAR
  See A
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• CIPHER
  A character which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold. 2. One who, or that which, has no weight or influence. Here he was a mere cipher. W. Irving. 3. A character
• ERRORFUL
  Full of error; wrong. Foxe.
• FICTIONIST
  A writer of fiction. Lamb.
• COBWEB
  The European spotted flycatcher. Cobweb lawn, a fine linen, mentioned in 1640 as being in pieces of fifteen yards. Beck. Draper's Dict. Such a proud piece of cobweb lawn. Beau. & Fl. Cobweb micrometer, a micrometer in which threads of cobwed are
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• COBWEBBY
  Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.
• FICTION
  An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton. 5. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. Syn. --
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.
• BLUNDERING
  Characterized by blunders.
• BLUNDERINGLY
  In a blundering manner.
• FICTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic."Fictional rather than historical." Latham.
• BLUNDERBUSS
  to G. büchse box, gun, E. box; or corrupted fr. D. donderbus 1. A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim. 2. A stupid, blundering fellow.
• CHIMERA
  A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. "Dire chimeras and enchanted isles." Milton. 2. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as,
• DELUSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania.
• DELUSION
  1. The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind. Pope. 2. The state of being deluded or misled. 3. That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief. And fondly mourned the dear delusion gone.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• SELF-DELUSION
  The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
• DECIPHERMENT
  The act of deciphering.
• TERRORIZE
  To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.
• INDECIPHERABLE
  Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved. -- In`de*ci"pher*a*bly, adv.