Word Meanings - DEMONSTRATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively. "Demonstrative figures." Dryden. An argument necessary and demonstrative. Hooker. 2. Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying
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1. Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively. "Demonstrative figures." Dryden. An argument necessary and demonstrative. Hooker. 2. Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative. 3. Consisting of eulogy or of invective. "Demonstrative eloquence." Blair. Demonstrative pronoun , a pronoun distinctly designating that to which it refers.
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- DISTINCTNESS
1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated - AFFIRMATIVELY
In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively. - PLAINTIVE
1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n. - ABSOLUTENESS
The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness. - DISTINCTURE
Distinctness. - DISTINCTIVENESS
State of being distinctive. - CATEGORICAL
1. Of or pertaining to a category. 2. Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer. The scriptures by a multitude of categorical - PLAINTIFF
One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See - DISTINCTIVE
1. Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar. The distinctive character and institutions of New England. Bancroft. 2. Having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating. Sir T. Browne. - PLAINT
A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing. Blackstone. (more info) planctum , to beat, beat the breast, lament. Cf. 1. Audible expression of sorrow; - PLAINLY
In a plain manner; clearly. - PLAIN-SPOKEN
Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity; also, spoken sincerely; as, plain-spoken words. Dryden. - DISTINCTION
1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from - PLAINTLESS
Without complaint; unrepining. "Plaintless patience." Savage. - PLAIN-HEARTED
Frank; sincere; artless. Milton. -- Plain"-heart`ed*ness, n. - PLAINSMAN
One who lives in the plains. - DEMONSTRATIVENESS
The state or quality of being demonstrative. - POSITIVELY
In a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly; with certainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed to negatively. Good and evil which is removed may be esteemed good or evil comparatively, and positively simply. Bacon. Give - ABSOLUTE
Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol. (more info) 1. Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an - DEMONSTRATIVELY
In a manner fitted to demonstrate; clearly; convincingly; forcibly. - CONTRADISTINCT
Distinguished by opposite qualities. J. Goodwin. - UNDISTINCTLY
Indistinctly. - INDISTINCTION
Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being - APPOSITIVE
Of or relating to apposition; in apposition. -- n. - CHAMPLAIN PERIOD
A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending - OPPOSITIVE
Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall. - EXPLAIN
out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear - INDISTINCTLY
In an indistinct manner; not clearly; confusedly; dimly; as, certain ideas are indistinctly comprehended. In its sides it was bounded distinctly, but on its ends confusedly an indistinctly. Sir I. Newton.