Word Meanings - GROOVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A shaft or excavation. (more info) 1. A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut. 2. Hence: The habitual course

Additional info about word: GROOVE

A shaft or excavation. (more info) 1. A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut. 2. Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine. The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove. J. Morley. 3. Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GROOVE)

• Corrugate
• Furrow
• groove
• rumple
• crumple
• wrinkle
• ruffle
• crease
• Scrape Grate
• abrade
• confricate
• rasp
• scratch
• mark
• Wear
• Carry
• bear
• exhibit
• sport
• consume
• dou
• waste
• impair
• rub
• channel
• excavate
• hollow
• diminish

Related words: (words related to GROOVE)

• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• RUMPLED
  Wrinkled; crumpled. Pope.
• SCRATCH COAT
  The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• SCRATCHBACK
  A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• SCRATCHING
  With the action of scratching.
• DIMINISHER
  One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• RUFFLEMENT
  The act of ruffling.
• IMPAIRER
  One who, or that which, impairs.
• SPORTLESS
  Without sport or mirth; joyless.
• SPORTING
  Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house
• SPORTIVE
  Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
• WASTE
  the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest, 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
• SPORTAL
  Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden.
• BESCRATCH
  To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• DISPORT
  Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• TRUFFLE
  Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle and the English truffle are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm , the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious
• INGRATEFUL
  1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness,
• REGRATE
  To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance. 2. To offend; to shock. Derham.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.