Word Meanings - FEATHER-HEADED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Giddy; frivolous; foolish. G. Eliot.

Related words: (words related to FEATHER-HEADED)

• GIDDY
  silly, AS. gidig, of unknown origin, cf. Norw. gidda to shake, 1. Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded;
• GIDDY-HEAD
  A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment. Burton.
• GIDDY-HEADED
  Thoughtless; unsteady.
• GIDDY-PACED
  Moving irregularly; flighty; fickle. Shak.
• FOOLISHNESS
  1. The quality of being foolish. 2. A foolish practice; an absurdity. The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. 1 Cor. i. 18.
• FOOLISH
  1. Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise. I am a very foolish fond old man. Shak. 2. Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness;
• FOOLISHLY
  In a foolish manner.
• FRIVOLOUS
  1. Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument. Swift. 2. Given to trifling; marked with unbecoming levity; silly; interested especially in trifling matters. His personal tastes were low and frivolous.
• HELIOTROPE
  An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
• HELIOTROPIC
  Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun.
• APHELIOTROPIC
  Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin.
• HELIOTROPISM
  The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.
• HELIOTYPIC
  Relating to, or obtained by, heliotypy.
• HELIOTYPY
  A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.
• HELIOTYPE
  A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
• APHELIOTROPISM
  The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.
• DIAHELIOTROPISM
  A tendency of leaves or other organs of plants to have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light.
• DIAHELIOTROPIC
  Relating or, or manifesting, diaheliotropism.
• HELIOTROPER
  The person at a geodetic station who has charge of the heliotrope.