Word Meanings - INTERJECTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A word or form of speech thrown in to express emotion or feeling, as O! Alas! Ha ha! Begone! etc. Compare Exclamation. An interjection implies a meaning which it would require a whole grammatical sentence to expound, and it may be regarded as the

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A word or form of speech thrown in to express emotion or feeling, as O! Alas! Ha ha! Begone! etc. Compare Exclamation. An interjection implies a meaning which it would require a whole grammatical sentence to expound, and it may be regarded as the rudiment of such a sentence. But it is a confusion of thought to rank it among the parts of speech. Earle. How now! interjections Why, then, some be of laughing, as, ah, ha, he! Shak. (more info) 1. The act of interjecting or throwing between; also, that which is interjected. The interjection of laughing. Bacon.

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• MEANLY
  In a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously. While the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. Milton. Would you meanly thus rely On power you know I must obey Prior. We can not bear to have others think meanly
• GRAMMATICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as, a grammatical rule. 2. According to the rules of grammar; grammatically correct; as, the sentence is not grammatical; the construction is not grammatical. -- Gram*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.
• SPEECHLESS
  1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
• SPEECHIFYING
  The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
• FEELINGLY
  In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
• SPEECHFUL
  Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
• INTERJECTIONALIZE
  To convert into, or to use as, an interjection. Earle.
• BEGONE
  Go away; depart; get you gone.
• INTERJECTIONALLY
  In an interjectional manner. G. Eliot.
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• FEELER
  One of the sense organs or certain animals , which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. 3. Anything,
• SPEECHIFY
  To make a speech; to harangue.
• COMPARER
  One who compares.
• EXCLAMATION
  A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief. (more info) 1. A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out,
• REQUIRER
  One who requires.
• EXPRESSURE
  The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation. An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. Shak.
• WHOLESALE
  1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price. 2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for
• EXPRESS TRAIN
  Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• CHRONOGRAMMATIC; CHRONOGRAMMATICAL
  Belonging to a chronogram, or containing one.
• COMPARE
  To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing "-er" and "-est" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those
• REMEANT
  Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.
• ARAMAEAN; ARAMEAN
  Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n.
• INTERMEAN
  Something done in the meantime; interlude. B. Jonson.
• INEXPRESSIBLY
  In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.
• MISEXPOUND
  To expound erroneously.
• MISFEELING
  Insensate. Wyclif.