Word Meanings - EXEMPT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Cut off; set apart. Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry. Shak. 2. Extraordinary; exceptional. Chapman. 3. Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released;

Additional info about word: EXEMPT

1. Cut off; set apart. Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry. Shak. 2. Extraordinary; exceptional. Chapman. 3. Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- : not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service. True nobility is exempt from fear. Shak. T is laid on all, not any one exempt. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXEMPT)

• Absolve
• Acquit
• release
• exonerate
• liberate
• exempt
• discharge
• exculpate
• pardon
• forgive
• free
• clear
• Excuse
• Exculpate
• absolve
• overlook
• condone
• i emit
• indulge
• justify
• vindicate
• defend
• acquit
• mitigate
• extenuate
• Free
• Detached
• playing
• operating
• open
• unoccupied
• unobstructed
• unimpeded
• permitted
• unhindered
• gratuitous
• unconditional
• at liberty
• liberal
• untrammelled
• uncounted
• careless
• loose
• easy
• munificent
• unreserved
• frank
• bountiful
• generous
• bounteous
• Release Free
• quit
• extricate
• disengage
• indemnify

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXEMPT)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain
• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to EXEMPT)

• OPERATIC; OPERATICAL
  Of or pertaining to the opera or to operas; characteristic of, or resembling, the opera.
• FRANKALMOIGNE
  A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms. Burrill.
• ACQUIT
  Acquitted; set free; rid of. Shak.
• PLAY
  quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
• EXCUSEMENT
  Excuse. Gower.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• PARDON
  A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• PLAYTE
  See PLEYT
• 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.
• LIBERALIZE
  To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
• BOUNTIFUL
  1. Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors. God, the bountiful Author of our being. Locke. 2. Plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food. Syn. -- Liberal; munificent; generous; bounteous. -- Boun"ti*ful*ly, adv.
• EXCUSE
  1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• CONGENEROUS
  Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases. Sir T. Browne. -- Con*gen"er*ous*ness, n. Hallywell.
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.