Word Meanings - PERT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Open; evident; apert. Piers Plowman. 2. Lively; brisk; sprightly; smart. Shak. 3. Indecorously free, or presuming; saucy; bold; impertinent. "A very pert manner." Addison. The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play. Cowper.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERT)

• Flippant
• Pert
• forward
• superficial
• thoughtless
• saucy
• malapert
• Saucy
• flippant
• impudent
• insolent
• disrespectful

Related words: (words related to PERT)

• IMPUDENT
  Bold, with contempt or disregard; unblushingly forward; impertinent; wanting modesty; shameless; saucy. More than impudent sauciness. Shak. When we behold an angel, not to fear Is to be impudent. Dryden. Syn. -- Shameless; audacious; brazen;
• INSOLENTLY
  In an insolent manner.
• FORWARD
  An agreement; a covenant; a promise. Tell us a tale anon, as forward is. Chaucer.
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• MALAPERT
  Bold; forward; impudent; saucy; pert. Shak. -- n. (more info) mal ill + apert open, adroit, intelligent, L. apertus, p. p. of
• FORWARDLY
  Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively.
• FORWARDNESS
  The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel. 2. An advanced stage of progress or of preparation; advancement; as, his measures were in great forwardness. Robertson. 3.
• SUPERFICIAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; lying on the surface; shallow; not deep; as, a superficial color; a superficial covering; superficial measure or contents; superficial tillage. 2. Reaching or comprehending only what is obvious
• FLIPPANTNESS
  State or quality of being flippant.
• SUPERFICIALITY
  The quality or state of being superficial; also, that which is superficial. Sir T. Browne.
• SAUCY
  1. Showing impertinent boldness or pertness; transgressing the rules of decorum; treating superiors with contempt; impudent; insolent; as, a saucy fellow. Am I not protector, saucy priest Shak. 2. Expressive of, or characterized by, impudence;
• FLIPPANT
  limber, pliant, or Icel. fleipa to babble, prattle. Cf. Flip, Fillip, 1. Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative. It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their
• FORWARDER
  One employed in forwarding. (more info) 1. One who forwards or promotes; a promoter. Udall. 2. One who sends forward anything; one who transmits goods; a forwarding merchant.
• FORWARDING
  The process of putting a book into its cover, and making it ready for the finisher. (more info) 1. The act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others.
• INSOLENT
  1. Deviating from that which is customary; novel; strange; unusual. If one chance to derive any word from the Latin which is insolent to their ears . . . they forth with make a jest at it. Petti If any should accuse me of being new or insolent.
• FORWARD; FORWARDS
  Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward. (more info) -weardes; akin to G. vorwärts. The s is properly a genitive ending.
• DISRESPECTFUL
  Wanting in respect; manifesting disesteem or lack of respect; uncivil; as, disrespectful behavior. -- Dis`re*spect"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis`re*spect"ful*ness, n.
• SUPERFICIALIST
  One who attends to anything superficially; a superficial or shallow person; a sciolist; a smatterer.
• SUPERFICIALIZE
  To attend to, or to treat, superficially, or in a shallow or slighting way. It is a characteristic weakness of the day to superficialize evil. E. P. Whipple.
• IMPUDENTLY
  In an impudent manner; with unbecoming assurance; shamelessly. At once assail With open mouths, and impudently rail. Sandys.
• OVERFORWARD
  Forward to excess; too forward. -- O"ver*for"ward*ness, n.
• STRAIGHTFORWARD
  Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank. -- adv.
• HENCEFORWARD
  From this time forward; henceforth.
• THENCEFORWARD
  From that time onward; thenceforth.