Word Meanings - CONTINGENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con-

Additional info about word: CONTINGENT

Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con- + tangere to touch: cf. F. 1. Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual. Weighing so much actual crime against so much contingent advantage. Burke. 2. Dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as, the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can not control. "Uncertain and contingent causes." Tillotson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONTINGENT)

• Dependent
• Hanging
• resting
• contingent
• trusting
• relying
• subject
• relative
• Provisional
• Conditional
• hypothetical
• temporary
• Remote
• Distant
• indirect
• unconnected
• unrelated
• foreign
• alien
• heterogeneous
• separate
• Share
• Portion
• apportionment
• lot
• division
• participation
• allowance
• quota
• allotment

Related words: (words related to CONTINGENT)

• CONTINGENT
  Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con-
• HANGNAIL
  A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway.
• TRUSTEE
  A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects
• TRUSTY
  1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• SUBJECTION
  1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government
• SUBJECTIST
  One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.
• SUBJECTNESS
  Quality of being subject.
• RESTAGNATE
  To stagnate; to cease to flow. Wiseman.
• SHAREBEAM
  The part of the plow to which the share is attached.
• DISTANT
  stand apart, be separate or distant; dis- + stare to stand. See 1. Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. One board had two tenons, equally distant. Ex. xxxvi. 22. Diana's temple is not distant far. Shak. 2. Far separated;
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• RESTORATIVELY
  In a restorative manner.
• PORTIONIST
  One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• RESTIFF
  Restive.
• RESTAGNANT
  Stagnant; motionless. Boyle.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• ON-HANGER
  A hanger-on.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• SINCERELY
  In a sincere manner. Specifically: Purely; without alloy. Milton. Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely.
• TERRESTRIFY
  To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• SELF-TRUST
  Faith in one's self; self-reliance.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• CREATURELY
  Creatural; characteristic of a creature. "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne.
• CONTEMPORARY
  1. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe. Strype. 2. Of the same age; coeval. A grove born with himself he sees,
• PRESTIGIOUS
  Practicing tricks; juggling. Cotton Mather.