Word Meanings - PLUCKY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race. If you're plucky, and not over subject to fright. Barham.
Related words: (words related to PLUCKY)
- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - SPIRITUOUS
1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent; - HAVENER
A harbor master. - SUBJECTION
1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government - SUBJECTIST
One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist. - SUBJECTNESS
Quality of being subject. - FRIGHTFUL
1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn. - PLUCKER TUBE
A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases. Crookes tube. - SPIRITUALIZE
To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - SPIRITUOSITY
The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness. - PLUCKED
Having courage and spirit. - SPIRITUAL-MINDED
Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n. - DISPLAYER
One who, or that which, displays. - SPIRITISM
Spiritualsm. - SPIRIT
Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors. (more info) 1. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. "All of spirit would deprive." Spenser. - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - SPIRITUALISTIC
Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism. - SUBJECTLESS
Having no subject. - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - PUBLIC-SPIRITED
1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly, - ACCOURAGE
To encourage. - DISPIRITED
Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n. - ENCOURAGER
One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison. - DISSPIRIT
See DISPIRIT - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - AFFRIGHTER
One who frightens.