Word Meanings - FOUNDEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.

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• TRAVEL
  1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health;
• TRAVELER
  A traveling crane. See under Crane. (more info) 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. 2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• DIFFICULT
  1. Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous. Note: Difficult implies the notion that considerable mental effort or skill is required, or that obstacles are to be overcome which call
• DIFFICULTY
  difficilis difficult; dif- = dis- + facilis easy: cf. F. difficulté. 1. The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not
• LIKELY
  1. Worthy of belief; probable; credible; as, a likely story. It seems likely that he was in hope of being busy and conspicuous. Johnson. 2. Having probability; having or giving reason to expect; -- followed by the infinitive; as, it is likely to
• DIFFICULTLY
  With difficulty. Cowper.
• DIFFICULTATE
  To render difficult; to difficilitate. Cotgrave.
• TRAVEL-TAINTED
  Harassed; fatigued with travel. Shak.
• DIFFICULTNESS
  Difficulty. Golding.
• TRAVELED
  Having made journeys; having gained knowledge or experience by traveling; hence, knowing; experienced. The traveled thane, Athenian Aberdeen. Byron.
• BURKE
  1. To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection. 2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary
• OUTTRAVEL
  To exceed in speed o Mad. D' Arblay.
• UNTRAVELED
  1. Not traveled; not trodden by passengers; as, an untraveled forest. 2. Having never visited foreign countries; not having gained knowledge or experience by travel; as, an untraveled Englishman. Addison.
• HEAVILY-TRAVELED; HEAVILY TRAVELED
  subject to much traffic or travel; as, the region's most heavily traveled highways. Syn. -- heavily traveled.
• UNLIKELY
  1. Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected; as, an unlikely event; the thing you mention is very unlikely. 2. Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising; as, unlikely means. Hooker. 3. Not such as to inspire