Word Meanings - PONDERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To consider; to ponder.

Related words: (words related to PONDERATE)

• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• PONDERARY
  Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. M'Culloch.
• PONDERAL
  Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from numeral; as, a ponderal drachma. Arbuthnot.
• PONDEROUSLY
  In a ponderous manner.
• PONDERATION
  The act of weighing. Arbuthnot.
• CONSIDER
  consider, view attentively, prob. fr. con- + sidus, sideris, star, constellation; orig., therefore, to look at the stars. See Sidereal, 1. To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to thank on with care; to ponder; to study; to
• PONDERATE
  To consider; to ponder.
• PONDERING
  Deliberating. -- Pon"der*ing*ly, adv.
• CONSIDERABLE
  1. Worthy of consideration, borne in mind, or attended to. It is considerable, that some urns have had inscriptions on them expressing that the lamps were burning. Bp. Wilkins. Eternity is infinitely the most considerable duration. Tillotson. 2.
• CONSIDERER
  One who considers; a man of reflection; a thinker. Milton.
• PONDEROUSNESS
  The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity.
• CONSIDERATOR
  One who considers. Sir T. Browne.
• CONSIDERATIVE
  Considerate; careful; thoughtful. I love to be considerative. B. Jonson.
• CONSIDERABLENESS
  Worthiness of consideration; dignity; value; size; amount.
• PONDERANCE
  Weight; gravity. Gregory.
• PONDEROSITY
  The quality or state of being ponderous; weight; gravity; heaviness, ponderousness; as, the ponderosity of gold. Ray.
• PONDERABILITY
  The quality or state of being ponderable.
• PONDERER
  One who ponders.
• CONSIDERANCE
  Act of considering; consideration. Shak.
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• PREPONDERATINGLY
  In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.
• INCONSIDERATION
  Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.
• PREPONDERATE
  prae before + ponderare to weigh, fr., pondus, ponderis, a weight. 1. To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance. An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater
• COUNTERPONDERATE
  TO equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate.
• UNCONSIDERATE
  Inconsiderate; heedless; careless. Daniel. -- Un`con*sid"er*ate*ness, n. Hales.
• INCONSIDERATE
  1. Not considerate; not attentive to safety or to propriety; not regarding the rights or feelings of others; hasty; careless; thoughtless; heedless; as, the young are generally inconsiderate; inconsiderate conduct. It is a very unhappy token of
• PREPONDER
  To preponderate
• INCONSIDERACY
  Inconsiderateness; thoughtlessness. Chesterfield.
• INCONSIDERATENESS
  The quality or state of being inconsiderate. Tillotson.