Word Meanings - PURPORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor. The whole scope and purport of that dialogue. Norris. With a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell. Shak. 2. Disguise; covering. For she her sex under that strange purport

Additional info about word: PURPORT

1. Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor. The whole scope and purport of that dialogue. Norris. With a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell. Shak. 2. Disguise; covering. For she her sex under that strange purport Did use to hide. Spenser.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PURPORT)

• Drift
• Tendency
• direction
• motion
• tenor
• meaning
• purport
• object
• intention
• purpose
• scope
• aim
• result
• issue
• conclusion
• end
• course
• Import
• Purport
• drift
• significance
• fulfill
• Design
• view
• Sense
• Perception
• sensation
• feeling
• apprehension
• recognition
• understanding
• discernment
• appreciation
• sentiment
• opinion
• judgment
• reason
• consciousness
• notion
• import
• signification
• soundness
• sagacity
• wisdom
• Signify
• Portend
• prognosticate
• mean
• represent
• indicate
• communicate
• denote
• betoken
• declare
• utter
• forebode
• presage

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PURPORT)

• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake
• Originate
• arise
• precede
• spring
• commence
• start
• begin
• Recal
• suppress
• repress
• hush
• stifle
• check
• swallow

Related words: (words related to PURPORT)

• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• JUDGMENT
  The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• SPRINGE
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• SPRINGAL
  An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
• SCOPELINE
  Scopeloid.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• HAEMATOSCOPE
  A hæmoscope.
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• UNUTTERABLE
  Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv.
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• MUTTERER
  One who mutters.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.