Word Meanings - INTERPRETATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory. "Interpretative lexicography." Johnson. 2. According to interpretation; constructive. An interpretative siding with heresies. Hammond.

Related words: (words related to INTERPRETATIVE)

• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• SIDEBOARD
  A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton.
• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• SIDE
  1. To lean on one side. Bacon. 2. To embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides; as, to side with the ministerial party. All side in parties, and begin the attack. Pope.
• ACCORD
  1. To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks. My heart accordeth with my tongue. Shak. Thy actions to thy words accord. Milton. 2. To agree in pitch and tone.
• LEXICOGRAPHY
  The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries.
• SIDEWALK
  A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• ACCORDANCY
  Accordance. Paley.
• ACCORDANTLY
  In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• SIDE-SLIP
  See BELOW
• INTERPRETABLE
  Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained.
• SIDEWISE
  On or toward one side; laterally; sideways. I saw them mask their awful glance Sidewise meek in gossamer lids. Emerson.
• ACCORDINGLY
  1. Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak. 2. In natural sequence; consequently; so. Syn. -- Consequently; therefore; wherefore; hence; so. -- Accordingly, Consequently, indicate
• SIDE-TAKING
  A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. Bp. Hall.
• CONSTRUCTIVELY
  In a constructive manner; by construction or inference. A neutral must have notice of a blockade, either actually by a formal information, or constructively by notice to his government. Kent.
• SIDERATED
  Planet-struck; blasted.
• INTERPRETATIVELY
  By interpretation. Ray.
• JOHNSONIANISM
  A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• WAYSIDE
  The side of the way; the edge or border of a road or path.
• DISSIDENT
  No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different. Our life and manners be dissident from theirs. Robynson (More's Utopia). (more info) sit apart, to disagree; dis- + sedere to sit: cf. F. dissident. See
• HILLSIDE
  The side or declivity of a hill.
• ASIDE
  1. On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart. Thou shalt set aside that which is full. 2 Kings iv. 4. But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Shak.
• TWO-SIDED
  Symmetrical. (more info) 1. Having two sides only; hence, double-faced; hypocritical.
• WHITESIDE
  The golden-eye.
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• INSIDIOUS
  insidere to sit in; pref. in- + sedere to sit: cf. F. insidieux. See 1. Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons; as, the insidious foe. "The insidious witch." Cowper. 2. Intended
• OBSIDIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a siege. Obsidional crown , a crown bestowed upon a general who raised the siege of a beleaguered place, or upon one who held out against a siege.
• DESIDERABLE
  Desirable. "Good and desiderable things." Holland.
• GLUCOSIDE
  One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste,
• PRESIDENT
  Precedent. Bacon.