Word Meanings - OMIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop. These personal comparisons I omit. Bacon. 2. To pass by; to forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect. Her father omitted nothing in her education

Additional info about word: OMIT

1. To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop. These personal comparisons I omit. Bacon. 2. To pass by; to forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect. Her father omitted nothing in her education that might make her the most accomplished woman of her age. Addison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OMIT)

• Neglect Slight
• overlook
• omit
• disregard
• disesteem
• despite
• contemn
• Spare Save
• afford
• grant
• reserve
• do without
• husband
• economize
• s o-o
• grudge
• discard
• forbear
• withhold
• refrain
• abstain

Related words: (words related to OMIT)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• 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.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• ABSTAIN
  To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak. Syn. -- To refrain;
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• HUSBANDABLE
  Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood.
• GRUDGEONS; GURGEONS
  Coarse meal.
• HUSBANDLESS
  Destitute of a husband. Shak.
• CONTEMNER
  One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.
• REFRAINMENT
  Act of refraining.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• NEGLECT
  1. Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy. To tell thee sadly,
• FORBEAR
  1. To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety. But let me that plunder forbear. Shenstone. The King In open battle or the tilting field Forbore his own advantage. Tennyson.
• GRUDGE
  1. Sullen malice or malevolence; cherished malice, enmity, or dislike; ill will; an old cause of hatred or quarrel. Esau had conceived a mortal grudge and eumity against hie brother Jacob. South. The feeling may not be envy; it may not
• SLIGHT
  1. To overthrow; to demolish. Clarendon. 2. To make even or level. Hexham. 3. To throw heedlessly. The rogue slighted me into the river. Shak.
• HUSBANDRY
  1. Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift. There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. Shak. 2. The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming. Husbandry supplieth all
• WITHHOLD
  1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him. Spenser. 2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. Forbid who will, none shall
• 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
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• 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
• INTEGRANT
  Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral. Boyle. All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke. Integrant parts, or particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss
• VAGRANTNESS
  State of being vagrant; vagrancy.
• FRAGRANT
  fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton. Syn. -- Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous;
• TRANSPARENCE
  The quality or state of being transparent; transparency.