Word Meanings - CONCERNING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to; regarding; having relation to; respecting; as regards. I have accepted thee concerning this thing. Gen. xix. 21. The Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel. Num. x. 29.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONCERNING)
- About
- Almost
- near
- nearly
- touching
- concerning
- surrounding
- relative to
- relating to
- approximately
- roughly
- generally
- Regarding
- Touching
- respecting
- about
- in reference to
Related words: (words related to CONCERNING)
- RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - RESPECT
An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the - RESPECTER
One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x. - RELATIVELY
In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts. - TOUCHY
Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire. It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks. Saintsbury. - TOUCHING
Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale. -- Touch"ing*ly, adv. - RELATE
1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy - CONCERNEDLY
In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically. - RELATIVITY
The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge. - SURROUNDING
Inclosing; encircling. - TOUCHBACK
The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown. - TOUCH-NEEDLE
A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone. - RELATRIX
A female relator. - NEARLY
In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost. - REGARDLESS
1. Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity. Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat. Milton. 2. Not regarded; slighted. Spectator. Syn. -- Heedless; negligent; careless; indifferent; unconcerned; - CONCERNING
1. That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest. "Our everlasting concernments." I. Watts. To mix with thy concernments I desist. Milton. 2. Importance; moment; consequence. Let every action of concernment to begun with - TOUCHHOLE
The vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge. - RESPECTABILITY
The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect. - GENERALLY
1. In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently. 2. In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively. Generally speaking, they live very quietly. Addison. 3. Collectively; as a - ABOUT
On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info) - PRELATIST
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - PRELATISM
Prelacy; episcopacy. - PRELATIZE
To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey. - UNCONCERNMENT
The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South. - MISRELATION
Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall. - ROUNDABOUTNESS
The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness. - BY-RESPECT
Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden. - IRRELATIVE
Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence - CORRELATIVENESS
Quality of being correlative. - IRRELATION
The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation. - PRELATEITY
Prelacy. Milton. - UNRESPECT
Disrespect. "Unrespect of her toil." Bp. Hall. - CORRELATE
To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor. - PRELATY
Prelacy. Milton.