Word Meanings - EQUITABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That can be sustained or made available or effective in a court of equity, or upon principles of equity jurisprudence; as, an equitable estate; equitable assets, assignment, mortgage, etc. Abbott. Syn. -- Just; fair; reasonable; right;

Additional info about word: EQUITABLE

That can be sustained or made available or effective in a court of equity, or upon principles of equity jurisprudence; as, an equitable estate; equitable assets, assignment, mortgage, etc. Abbott. Syn. -- Just; fair; reasonable; right; honest; impartial; candid; upright. (more info) 1. Possessing or exhibiting equity; according to natural right or natural justice; marked by a due consideration for what is fair, unbiased, or impartial; just; as an equitable decision; an equitable distribution of an estate; equitable men. No two . . . had exactly the same notion of what was equitable. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EQUITABLE)

• Conscientious
• Scrupulous
• exact
• equitable
• strict
• upright
• highprincipled
• Fair
• Open
• clear
• spotless
• unspotted
• untarnished
• reasonable
• unblemished
• serene
• beautiful
• just
• honorable
• impartial
• Just
• Exact
• fitting
• true
• fair
• proportioned
• harmonious
• honest
• sound
• normal
• regular
• orderly
• lawful
• right
• righteous
• proper
• Licit
• Lawful
• legal
• allowable
• Proper
• Peculiar
• appertinent
• personal
• own
• constitutional
• special
• befitting
• adapted
• suited
• suitable
• appropriate
• decent
• becoming
• fit

Related words: (words related to EQUITABLE)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• SUITABILITY
  The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
• BEAUTIFUL
  Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful;
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• HONESTY
  Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• SUITRESS
  A female supplicant. Rowe.
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• SUITING
  Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• STRICT
  Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• APPERTINENT
  Belonging; appertaining. Coleridge.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• LEGALITY
  1. The state or quality of being letter of the law.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• APOSTOLICISM; APOSTOLICITY
  The state or quality of being apostolical.
• ELICITATION
  The act of eliciting. Abp. Bramhall.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• DISHONESTY
  1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
• ASTRICT
  To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4. Burrill. (more info) 1. To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted. Arbuthnot. 2. To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to
• BOA CONSTRICTOR
  A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix. Note: It has a succession of spots, alternately black and yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by constriction.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.