Word Meanings - QUALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank. We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with many of the city not of the meanest

Additional info about word: QUALITY

1. The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank. We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with many of the city not of the meanest quality. Bacon 2. Special or temporary character; profession; occupation; assumed or asserted rank, part, or position. I made that inquiry in quality of an antiquary. Gray. 3. That which makes, or helps to make, anything such as it is; anything belonging to a subject, or predicable of it; distinguishing property, characteristic, or attribute; peculiar power, capacity, or virtue; distinctive trait; as, the tones of a flute differ from those of a violin in quality; the great quality of a statesman. Note: Qualities, in metaphysics, are primary or secondary. Primary are those essential to the existence, and even the conception, of the thing, as of matter or spirit Secondary are those not essential to such a conception. 4. An acquired trait; accomplishment; acquisition. He had those qualities of horsemanship, dancing, and fencing which accompany a good breeding. Clarendon. 5. Superior birth or station; high rank; elevated character. "Persons of quality." Bacon. Quality binding, a kind of worsted tape used in Scotland for binding carpets, and the like. The quality, those of high rank or station, as distinguished from the masses, or common people; the nobility; the gentry. I shall appear at the masquerade dressed up in my feathers, that the quality may see how pretty they will look in their traveling habits. Addison. Syn. -- Property; attribute; nature; peculiarity; character; sort; rank; disposition; temper.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of QUALITY)

• Attribute
• Property
• quality
• characteristic
• attainment
• sign
• mark
• indication
• manifestation
• Character
• Symbol
• letter
• nature
• type
• disposition
• genius
• temperament
• cast
• estimation
• repute
• office
• reputation
• part
• capacity
• class
• order
• sort
• stamp
• kind
• species
• tone
• figure
• record
• Degree
• Grade
• rank
• stage
• step
• extent
• measure
• rate
• position
• station
• range
• quantity
• amount
• limit
• Sort
• Kind
• character
• manner
• condition
• description
• designation
• genus
• Spirit
• Air
• breath
• life
• soul
• vital force
• essential quality
• essence
• immateriality
• intelligence
• disembodiment
• spectre
• apparition
• ghost
• energy
• ardor
• enthusiasm
• activity
• earnestness
• courage
• zeal
• temper
• principle
• motive
• distillation

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of QUALITY)

• Fall
• recede
• relapse
• decline
• fail
• Divorce
• disconnect
• dissociate
• dissever
• Misfit
• misconform
• mismeasure
• misdeal
• misapportion
• Disturb
• disorder
• derange
• intermit
• remain
• be stationary
• Obliviate
• silentiate
• suppress

Related words: (words related to QUALITY)

• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• 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;
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• DIVORCEABLE
  Capable of being divorced.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• RANGEMENT
  Arrangement. Waterland.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• STATIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
• DISEMBODIMENT
  The act of disembodying, or the state of being disembodied.
• TEMPER SCREW
  1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• CLASSIS
  An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
• DISSEVER
  To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster. (more info)
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• 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,
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• ORANGEADE
  A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• MENOSTATION
  See MENOSTASIS
• CITRANGE
  A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange . It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.
• COINDICATION
  One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering