Word Meanings - CLARIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine. 2. The act of freeing from obscurities. The clarification of men's ideas. Whewell.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CLARIFICATION)

• Purgation
• Clearing
• cleansing
• purification
• lustration
• clarification
• defecation
• determine
• Refinement
• Clarification
• filtration
• sublimation
• polish
• elegance
• cultivation
• civilization
• subtilty
• finesse
• sophistry

Related words: (words related to CLARIFICATION)

• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• FINESSE
  The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2. (more info) 1. Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem. This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery. Milton.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• DETERMINE
  1. To come to an end; to end; to terminate. He who has vented a pernicious doctrine or published an ill book must know that his life determine not together. South. Estates may determine on future contingencies. Blackstone. 2. To come to a decision;
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• CLEAR-HEADED
  Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
  Acute discernment.
• CLEAR-SEEING
  Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• REFINEMENT
  1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt
• CLEARCOLE
  A priming of size mixed with whiting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding.
• DETERMINER
  One who, or that which, determines or decides.
• CLEAR-CUT
  1. Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo. She has . . . a cold and clear-cut face. Tennyson. 2. Concisely and distinctly expressed.
• CLEARSTARCH
  To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.
• CLEARSTARCHER
  One who clearstarches.
• POLISHEDNESS
  The quality of being polished.
• CLEANSE
  To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet
• LUSTRATION
  A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified. (more info) 1. The act of lustrating or purifying. And holy water for lustration bring. Dryden.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• COMPURGATION
  The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. 2. Exculpation by testimony to one's veracity or innocence. He was privileged from
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
• SUPERPURGATION
  Excessive purgation. Wiseman.
• FLUSTRATION
  The act of flustrating; confusion; flurry. Richardson.
• INDETERMINED
  Undetermined.