Word Meanings - FIRST-RATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of the highest excellence; preƫminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett .
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- CONSUMMATELY
In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton. - PRIMEVALLY
In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin. - PERFECT
Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence , a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord , a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly - FRUSTRATE
Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. "Our frustrate search." Shak. (more info) to deceive, frustrate, fr. frustra in vain, witout effect, in erorr, - INTERRUPTION
1. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon. 2. The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption of time cause you to - BAFFLEMENT
The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check. - PERFECTIONAL
Of or pertaining to perfection; characterized by perfection. Bp. Pearson. - INTERRUPT
1. To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking. Do not interrupt me in my course. - SPOIL
1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of - PERFECTIBILITY
The quality or state of being perfectible. - SPOILER
1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. 2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless. - PERFECTIBLE
Capable of becoming, or being made, perfect. - PERFECTION
1. The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection in an - SPOILSMAN
One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public - PERFECTNESS
The quality or state of being perfect; perfection. "Charity, which is the bond of perfectness." Col. iii. 14. - SPOILABLE
Capable of being spoiled. - INTERRUPTED
Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf. (more info) 1. Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped. - PRIMEVAL
Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man. "This is the forest primeval." Longfellow. From chaos, and primeval darkness, came Light. Keats. - PERFECTIONMENT
The act of bringing to perfection, or the state of having attained to perfection. I. Taylor. - FIRST-RATE
Of the highest excellence; preƫminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett . - REPRIMER
A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again. - INCONSUMMATE
Not consummated; not finished; incomplete. Sir M. Hale. -- In`con*sum"mate*ness, n. - IMPERFECT
1. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. Something he left imperfect in the state. Shak. Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. Shak. 2. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential - SELF-NEGLECTING
A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak. - UNCONSUMMATE
Not consummated; not accomplished. Dryden. - UNPERFECT
To mar or destroy the perfection of. Sir P. Sidney.