Word Meanings - GRUDGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
grouchier, grocier, groucier; cf. Icel. krytja to murmur, krutr a 1. To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the
Additional info about word: GRUDGE
grouchier, grocier, groucier; cf. Icel. krytja to murmur, krutr a 1. To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the direct object only, or by both the direct and indirect objects. Tis not in thee To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train. Shak. I have often heard the Presbyterians say, they did not grudge us our employments. Swift. They have grudged us contribution. Shak. 2. To hold or harbor with malicioua disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously. Perish they That grudge one thought against your majesty ! Shak.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GRUDGE)
- Anger
- Ire
- incentment
- vexation
- grudge
- pique
- exasperation
- indignation
- enmity
- displeasure
- irritation
- passion
- spleen
- gall
- resentment
- rage
- animosity
- fury
- choler
- wrath
- Oil in ill
- Hatred
- offensiveness
- dislike
- invidiousness
- jealousy
- unpopularity
- Rancor
- Ill-blood
- spite
- hatred
- malice
- malignity
- antipathy
- vindictiveness
- malevolence
- Spare Save
- afford
- grant
- reserve
- do without
- husband
- economize
- s o-o
- discard
- omit
- forbear
- withhold
- refrain
- abstain
- Spite
- Malice
- Ill-will
- rancor
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GRUDGE)
Related words: (words related to GRUDGE)
- INDIGNATION
1. The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. Shak. Indignation expresses a strong and elevated disapprobation of mind, which is also inspired by something flagitious - 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. - MALIGNITY
1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward. 3. Extreme evilness of nature - RANCOR
The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred. "To stint rancour and dissencioun." Chaucer. It would not be easy to conceive the passion, rancor, and malice of their tongues and hearts. Burke. Syn. -- - SPLEENY
1. Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak. 2. Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy. - ABSTAIN
To hinder; to withhold. Whether he abstain men from marrying. Milton. - WRATHLESS
Free from anger or wrath. Waller. - WRATHILY
In a wrathy manner; very angrily; wrathfully. - PIQUE
1. To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger. Pique her, and soothe in turn. Byron. 2. To excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate; to prick; as, to pique ambition, or - HUSBANDABLE
Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood. - GRUDGEONS; GURGEONS
Coarse meal. - PASSIONAL
Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n. - HUSBANDLESS
Destitute of a husband. Shak. - WRATHY
Very angry. - SPITE
1. Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite. Pope. This is the deadly spite that angers. Shak. 2. Vexation; chargrin; mortification. Shak. In spite - COMPOSE
To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all - REFRAINMENT
Act of refraining. - RANCOROUS
Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent. So flamed his eyes with rage and rancorous ire. Spenser. - COMPOSER
1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and - WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak. - ON-HANGER
A hanger-on. - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - DERANGER
One who deranges. - WANGER
A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer. - DOUBLEGANGER
An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley. - TRANSPARENT
transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent - COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
See A - IMMIGRANT
One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant. - DECOMPOSE
To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay. - GRANGER
1. A farm steward. 2. A member of a grange. - ECONOMIZE
To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income. Expenses in the city were to be economized. Jowett . Calculating how to economize time. W. Irving. - FLAGRANT
1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in - ESTRANGER
One who estranges.