Word Meanings - PALTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Etym: 1. To haggle. Cotgrave. 2. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle. Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter. Shak. Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor
Additional info about word: PALTER
Etym: 1. To haggle. Cotgrave. 2. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle. Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter. Shak. Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with eternal God for power. Tennyson. 3. To babble; to chatter.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PALTER)
- Prevaricate
- Shuffle
- quibble
- equivocate
- palter
- sophisticate
- evade
- Confuse
- interchange
- shift
- intershift
- intermix
- derange
- agitate
- prevaricate
- cavil
- mystify
- dissemble
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PALTER)
Related words: (words related to PALTER)
- PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - DERANGER
One who deranges. - PITCHERFUL
The quantity a pitcher will hold. - DERANGEMENT
The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity; - PITCHINESS
Blackness, as of pitch; darkness. - PITCHFORK
A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - REASONING
1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay. - AGITATE
1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - DERANGED
Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb. - PLANTIGRADA
A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. - ARGUE
1. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton. 2. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as, - PLANTULE
The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. - REASONLESS
1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak. - FASTENER
One who, or that which, makes fast or firm. - PLANTIGRADE
Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. - SHIFT
divide; akin to LG. & D. schiften to divide, distinguish, part Icel. skipta to divide, to part, to shift, to change, Dan skifte, Sw. skifta, and probably to Icel. skifa to cut into slices, as n., a 1. To divide; to distribute; to apportion. To - REASONABLY
1. In a reasonable manner. 2. Moderately; tolerably. "Reasonably perfect in the language." Holder. - DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. - SUPPLANT
heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - DENUNCIATE
To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke. - EFFLAGITATE
To ask urgently. Cockeram. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - REINSERT
To insert again. - AUCTION PITCH
A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster. - REDARGUE
To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has,