Word Meanings - FIRM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

ferme, fr.L. firmus; cf. Skr. dharman support, law, order, dh to hold 1. Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood. 2. Not easily excited or

Additional info about word: FIRM

ferme, fr.L. firmus; cf. Skr. dharman support, law, order, dh to hold 1. Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood. 2. Not easily excited or disturbed; unchanging in purpose; fixed; steady; constant; stable; unshaken; not easily changed in feelings or will; strong; as, a firm believer; a firm friend; a firm adherent. Under spread ensigns, moving nigh, in slow But firm battalion. Milton. By one man's firm obediency fully tried. Milton. 3. Solid; -- opposed to fluid; as, firm land. 4. Indicating firmness; as, a firm tread; a firm countenance. Syn. -- Compact; dense; hard; solid; stanch; robust; strong; sturdly; fixed; steady; resolute; constant.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FIRM)

• Authoritative
• Decisive
• sure
• conclusive
• authentic
• powerful
• firm
• potent
• dictatorial
• imperious
• arbitrary
• arrogant
• imperative
• dogmatic
• commanding
• Changeless
• Regular
• settled
• steady
• stationary
• consistent
• resolute
• reliable
• undeviating
• uniform
• immutable
• immovable
• Close \adj Narrow
• limited
• restricted
• condensed
• packed
• secret
• compressed
• solid
• compact
• reserved
• niggardly
• shut
• fast
• dense
• Collected
• Calm
• composed
• cool
• attentive
• self-possessed
• placid
• serene
• unmoved
• Compact \adj Dense
• close
• hard
• pithy
• concise
• contracted
• compendious
• convenient
• concentrated
• consolidated
• concrete

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FIRM)

• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract

Related words: (words related to FIRM)

• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• CONCLUSIVELY
  In the way of conclusion; decisively; positively. Burke.
• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• PACKHOUSE
  Warehouse for storing goods.
• DOGMATIC
  One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• AUTHENTICITY
  1. The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness. 2. Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original. Note: In later writers, especially those on the evidences of Christianity,
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• CONCLUSIVENESS
  The quality of being conclusive; decisiveness.
• CONCRETE
  grow together; con- + crescere to grow; cf. F. concret. See 1. United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form. The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the
• PACKMAN
  One who bears a pack; a peddler.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• UNIFORMISM
  The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• PACK
  To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5. (more info) 1. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.