Word Meanings - PREPOSSESSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Preoccupation; prior possession. Hammond. 2. Preoccupation of the mind by an opinion, or impression, already formed; preconceived opinion; previous impression; bias; -- generally, but not always, used in a favorable sense; as, the prepossessions

Additional info about word: PREPOSSESSION

1. Preoccupation; prior possession. Hammond. 2. Preoccupation of the mind by an opinion, or impression, already formed; preconceived opinion; previous impression; bias; -- generally, but not always, used in a favorable sense; as, the prepossessions of childhood. "The prejudices and prepossessions of the country." Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Bent; bias; inclination; preoccupancy; prejudgment. See Bent.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PREPOSSESSION)

• Bent
• Inclination
• angle
• direction
• bias
• determination
• disposition
• intention
• prepossession
• propensity
• predilection
• turn
• leaning
• Predilection
• Prepossession
• preference
• liking
• fondness
• inclination
• predisposition
• tendency
• prejudice
• partiality
• Prejudice
• prejudgment
• unfairness
• injury
• harm
• impairment
• detriment
• disadvantage
• damage

Related words: (words related to PREPOSSESSION)

• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• LEANING
  The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.
• ANGLE
  A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses." Chaucer. 5. Etym: (more info) 1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines; a corner; a nook. Into the utmost angle of the world. Spenser. To search the tenderest angles
• LIKEROUS; LIKEROUSNESS
  See CHAUCER
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• LEANLY
  Meagerly; without fat or plumpness.
• LIKABLE
  Such as can be liked; such as to attract liking; as, a likable person. Thackeray.
• LIKIN
  A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit. "Likin," which used to be regarded as illegal, as one of the many, "squeezes" imposed by the mandarins, is, in Jamieson's opinion, just as legal as any
• PARTIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind. 2. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking;
• PREDILECTION
  A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality. Burke.
• INTENTIONAL
  Done by intention or design; intended; designed; as, the act was intentional, not accidental.
• PREJUDGMENT
  The act of prejudging; decision before sufficient examination.
• LEAN-TO
  Having only one slope or pitch; -- said of a roof. -- n.
• DETRIMENTAL
  Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful. Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor. Addison. Syn. -- Injurious; hurtful; prejudicial; disadvantageous; mischievous; pernicious.
• ANGLEWISE
  In an angular manner; angularly.
• LEANNESS
  The condition or quality of being lean.
• ANGLED
  Having an angle or angles; -- used in compounds; as, right- angled, many-angled, etc. The thrice three-angled beechnut shell. Bp. Hall.
• DAMAGE FEASANT
  Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle. Blackstone.
• PREDISPOSITION
  1. The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger. 2. Previous fitness or adaptation to any change, impression,
• LIKE-MINDED
  Having a like disposition or purpose; of the same mind. Tillotson.
• PRIESTLIKE
  Priestly. B. Jonson.
• MINIONLIKE; MINIONLY
  Like a minion; daintily. Camden.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• WELL-LIKING
  Being in good condition. They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age, and shall be fat and well-liking. Bk. of Com. Prayer .
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• SOLDIERLIKE
  Like a soldier; soldierly.
• CLEAN-CUT
  See CLEAR-CUT
• BEASTLIKE
  Like a beast.
• BRANGLE
  A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. A brangle between him and his neighbor. Swift. (more info) brangle to shake, menace; probably a variant of wrangle, confused
• UNTANGLE
  To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread. Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior.
• CLEANNESS
  1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.
• QUINQUEANGLED
  Having five angles; quinquangular.
• COWLIKE
  Resembling a cow. With cowlike udders and with oxlike eyes. Pope.
• TRIANGLE
  A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles. Note: A triangle is either plane, spherical, or curvilinear, according as its sides are straight lines, or arcs of great circles of a sphere, or any curved lines whatever. A
• UNCLEAN
  1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate
• QUAKERLIKE
  Like a Quaker.