Word Meanings - DISSERTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written; a disquisition; an essay; a discussion; as, Dissertations on the Prophecies.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISSERTATION)

• Disquisition
• Essay
• treatise
• discussion
• dissertation
• Treatise
• Tract
• essay
• paper
• pamphlet
• disquisition
• brochure
• tractate
• monograph
• article

Related words: (words related to DISSERTATION)

• DISQUISITION
  A formal or systematic inquiry into, or discussion of, any subject; a full examination or investigation of a matter, with the arguments and facts bearing upon it; elaborate essay; dissertation. For accurate research or grave disquisition he was
• DISQUISITIONARY
  Pertaining to disquisition; disquisitional.
• DISSERTATIONAL
  Relating to dissertations; resembling a dissertation.
• MONOGRAPHIST
  One who writes a monograph.
• ESSAYER
  One who essays. Addison.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• TRACTITE
  A Tractarian.
• ESSAY
  A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce. 3. An assay. See Assay, n.
• PAMPHLETEER
  A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler. Dryden. Macaulay.
• PAMPHLET
  OF. palme the palm of the hand, F. paume + OF. fueillet a leaf, dim. of fueil, m., F. feuille, f., fr. L. folium, pl. folia, thus meaning, a leaf to be held in the hand; or perh. through old French, fr. L. Pamphila, a female historian of the
• MONOGRAPHOUS
  Monographic.
• TRACTARIANISM
  The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times."
• DISQUISITIONAL
  Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.
• ARTICLE
  One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A is called the indefinite article, the the definite article. (more info) 1. A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other
• ESSAYIST
  A writer of an essay, or of essays. B. Jonson.
• TRACTION
  1. The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle. 2. Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug. 3. Attraction;
• TRACTORY
  A tractrix.
• DISCUSSIONAL
  Pertaining to discussion.
• TRACTILE
  Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile. Bacon.
• TRACTATOR
  One who writes tracts; specif., a Tractarian. C. Kingsley.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• DETRACTIVE
  1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
• DISTRACTED
  Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.
• DETRACTIVENESS
  The quality of being detractive.
• SUBTRACTIVE
  Having the negative sign, or sign minus. (more info) 1. Tending, or having power, to subtract.