Word Meanings - DESERTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service. Such a resignation would

Additional info about word: DESERTION

1. The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service. Such a resignation would have seemed to his superior a desertion or a reproach. Bancroft. 2. The state of being forsaken; desolation; as, the king in his desertion. 3. Abandonment by God; spiritual despondency. The spiritual agonies of a soul under desertion. South.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESERTION)

• Defection
• Failure
• dereliction
• abandonment
• relinquishment
• desertion
• Dereliction
• Abandonment
• failure
• shortcoming
• neglect
• Solitude
• Loneliness
• remoteness
• seclusion
• retirement
• isolation
• wildness
• barrenness
• wilderness
• privacy

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DESERTION)

• Consider
• respect
• notice
• observe
• regard
• esteem
• tend
• attend
• foster
• study

Related words: (words related to DESERTION)

• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• ESTEEM
  1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
• DEFECTIONIST
  One who advocates or encourages defection.
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• 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.
• ESTEEMABLE
  Worthy of esteem; estimable. "Esteemable qualities." Pope.
• DERELICTION
  A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained. (more info) 1. The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment. Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other
• ATTENDMENT
  An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.
• RETIREMENT
  1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson. 2. A place of seclusion
• CONSIDER
  consider, view attentively, prob. fr. con- + sidus, sideris, star, constellation; orig., therefore, to look at the stars. See Sidereal, 1. To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to thank on with care; to ponder; to study; to
• SOLITUDE
  1. state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness. Whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Bacon. O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face Cowper. 2. Remoteness
• ATTEND
  L. attendre to stretch, , to apply the mind to; ad + 1. To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard. The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney.
• WILDNESS
  The quality or state of being wild; an uncultivated or untamed state; disposition to rove or go unrestrained; rudeness; savageness; irregularity; distraction.
• 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;
• PRIVACY
  1. The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion. 2. A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement. Her sacred privacies all open lie. Rowe. 3. Concealment of what is said
• CONSIDERABLE
  1. Worthy of consideration, borne in mind, or attended to. It is considerable, that some urns have had inscriptions on them expressing that the lamps were burning. Bp. Wilkins. Eternity is infinitely the most considerable duration. Tillotson. 2.
• RELINQUISHMENT
  The act of relinquishing.
• CONSIDERER
  One who considers; a man of reflection; a thinker. Milton.
• CONSIDERATOR
  One who considers. Sir T. Browne.
• RESPECTABILITY
  The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• INCONSIDERATION
  Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.
• MISESTEEM
  Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• BY-RESPECT
  Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.
• UNRESPECT
  Disrespect. "Unrespect of her toil." Bp. Hall.
• UNCONSIDERATE
  Inconsiderate; heedless; careless. Daniel. -- Un`con*sid"er*ate*ness, n. Hales.