Word Meanings - DISTINGUISHED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Marked; special. The most distinguished politeness. Mad. D' Arblay. 2. Separated from others by distinct difference; having, or indicating, superiority; eminent or known; illustrious; -- applied to persons and deeds. Syn. -- Marked;

Additional info about word: DISTINGUISHED

1. Marked; special. The most distinguished politeness. Mad. D' Arblay. 2. Separated from others by distinct difference; having, or indicating, superiority; eminent or known; illustrious; -- applied to persons and deeds. Syn. -- Marked; noted; famous; conspicuous; celebrated; transcendent; eminent; illustrious; extraordinary; prominent. -- Distinguished, Eminent, Conspicuous, Celebrated, Illustrious. A man is eminent, when he stands high as compared with those around him; conspicuous, when he is so elevated as to be seen and observed; distinguished, when he has something which makes him stand apart from others in the public view; celebrated, when he is widely spoken of with honor and respect; illustrious, when a splendor is thrown around him which confers the highest dignity.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISTINGUISHED)

• Celebrated
• Famed
• renowned
• illustrious
• eminent
• glorious
• famous
• noted
• distinguished
• notable
• exalted
• Conspicuous
• Visible
• easily seen
• prominent
• manifest
• salient
• observable
• noticeable
• magnified
• Illustrious
• Renowned
• brilliant
• deathless
• celebrated
• conspicuous
• noble
• Memorable
• Great
• striking
• remarkable
• extraordinary
• Palmy
• Prosperous
• victorious
• flourishing

Related words: (words related to DISTINGUISHED)

• FAMILIARLY
  In a familiar manner.
• MAGNIFICENTLY
  In a Magnificent manner.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• NOTUM
  The back.
• FAMILIST
  One of afanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists wholly in love.
• FAMOSITY
  The state or quality of being famous. Johnson.
• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• FAMELESS
  Without fame or renown. -- Fame"less*ly, adv.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• RENOWNED
  Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king. "Some renowned metropolis with glistering spires." Milton. These were the renouwned of the congregation. Num. i. 61.
• NOTELET
  A little or short note; a billet.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• SALIENT
  Projectiong outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reëntering. See Illust. of Bastion. (more info) 1. Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. "Frogs and salient animals." Sir T. Browne. 2. Shooting out up; springing;
• CONSPICUOUS
  1. Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye. It was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess
• NOTATION
  1. The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters. 2. Any particular system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. Esp., the system
• MEMORABLE
  Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable. -- Mem"o*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Mem"o*ra*bly, adv. Surviving fame to gain, Buy tombs, by books, by memorable deeds. Sir J. Davies. (more info) remembrance, fr. memor mindful, remembering.
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• NOTTURNO
  See NOCTURNE
• NOTCH
  1. A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation. And on the stick ten equal notches makes. Swift. 2. A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.
• MONOTESSARON
  A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony.
• HYPNOTIC
  1. Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific. 2. Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• PHONOTYPY
  A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• DEFAMER
  One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.
• INDIVISIBLE
  Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable. (more info) 1. Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." Dryden.
• MONOTHALAMAN
  A foraminifer having but one chamber.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• MONOTONE
  A single unvaried tone or sound.
• HUGUENOTISM
  The religion of the Huguenots in France.
• KNOTWEED
  See KNOT
• INFAMOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
• MONOTHALMIC
  Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown.