Word Meanings - INORDINATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not limited to rules prescribed, or to usual bounds; irregular; excessive; immoderate; as, an inordinate love of the world. "Inordinate desires." Milton. "Inordinate vanity." Burke. -- In*or"di*nate*ly, adv. -- In*or"di*nate*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INORDINATE)
- Excessive
- Enormous
- undue
- exorbitant
- overmuch
- superabundant
- superfluous
- unreasonable
- immoderate
- inordinate
- extravagant
- Wild
- Untamed
- undomesticated
- uncultivated
- uninhabited
- desert
- savage
- uncivilized
- unrefined
- rude
- ferocious
- untrained
- violent
- ferine
- loose
- disorderly
- turbulent
- ungoverned
- chimerical
- visionary
- incoherent
- raving
- distracted
- haggard
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INORDINATE)
Related words: (words related to INORDINATE)
- RAVENER
1. One who, or that which, ravens or plunders. Gower. 2. A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture. Holland. - RAVISHER
One who ravishes . - DESERTER
One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion. - RAVENOUS
1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n. - RAVELIN
A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon. - VISIONARY
1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given - UNGOVERNABLE
Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith. - HAGGARD
A stackyard. Swift. - FERINE
Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts. Sir M. Hale. -- n. - RAVEN
1. Rapine; rapacity. Ray. 2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence. - UNCIVILIZATION
The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism. - DISTRACTION
1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in - RETAINMENT
The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More. - RAVENING
Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. Luke xi. 39. - DISTRACTED
Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope. - FASTENER
One who, or that which, makes fast or firm. - OVERMUCHNESS
The quality or state of being in excess; superabundance. B. Jonson. - TURBULENTLY
In a turbulent manner. - ENORMOUSLY
In an enormous degree. - CHIMERICAL
Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects. Syn. -- Imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wild; unfounded; vain; deceitful; delusive. - PARAVAIL
At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton. - INDESERT
Ill desert. Addison. - GRAVIDATION
Gravidity. - MORAVIAN
Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n. - GRAVES
The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves. - MARGRAVATE; MARGRAVIATE
The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave. - GRAVEDIGGER
See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves. - 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; - AGGRAVATING
1. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances. 2. Exasperating; provoking; irritating. A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow. - WILDGRAVE
A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott. - DRAVIDIAN
Of or pertaining to the Dravida. Dravidian languages, a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important. - GRAVIDITY
The state of being gravidated; pregnancy. - MISDESERT
Ill desert. Spenser. - EXTRAVENATE
Let out of the veins. "Extravenate blood." Glanvill.