Word Meanings - DESYNONYMIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of synonymous character; to discriminate in use; -- applied to words which have been employed as synonyms. Coleridge. Trench.

Related words: (words related to DESYNONYMIZE)

• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• TRENCH-PLOW; TRENCH-PLOUGH
  To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• TRENCHER
  1. One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches. 2. A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use. 3. The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food. It could be no ordinary declension of nature that could bring some men, after
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• DISCRIMINATENESS
  The state of being discriminated; distinctness.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• TRENCH
  1. To encroach; to intrench. Does it not seem as if for a creature to challenge to itself a boundless attribute, were to trench upon the prerogative of the divine nature I. Taylor. 2. To have direction; to aim or tend. Bacon. To trench at, to
• TRENCHANT
  1. Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. " Trenchant was the blade." Chaucer. 2. Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit.
• EMPLOYER
  One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• DISCRIMINATELY
  In a discriminating manner; distinctly.
• TRENCHAND
  Trenchant. Spenser.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• INTRENCHANT
  Not to be gashed or marked with furrows. As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed. Shak.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.