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Word Meanings - REMISS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.

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Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness. Milton. These nervous, bold; those languid and remiss. Roscommon. Its motion becomes more languid and remiss. Woodward. Syn. -- Slack; dilatory; slothful; negligent; careless; neglectful; inattentive; heedles; thoughtless.

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  • REMISS
    Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
  • REMISSLY
    In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
  • REMISSORY
    Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.
  • RETAINMENT
    The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
  • REMISSIVE
    Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.
  • DISSOLUTE
    1. With nerves unstrung; weak. Spenser. 2. Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley. Syn. -- Uncurbed;
  • FASTENER
    One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
  • REMISSIBLE
    Capable of being remitted or forgiven. Feltham.
  • BACKWARD; BACKWARDS
    1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. 3. On the back, or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. Shak. 4. Toward, or in, past time or events;
  • VAGUELY
    In a vague manner. What he vaguely hinted at, but dared not speak. Hawthorne.
  • LOOSEN
    Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
  • SLACK; SLACKEN
    1. To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather. 2. To be remiss or backward; to be negligent. 3. To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake;
  • RETAIN
    1. To belong; to pertain. A somewhat languid relish, retaining to bitterness. Boyle. 2. To keep; to continue; to remain. Donne.
  • LOOSESTRIFE
    The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant
  • INCOHERENT
    1. Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances. Woodward. 2. Wanting coherence or agreement; incongruous; inconsistent; having no dependence of one part on another;
  • BACKWARDATION
    The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle.
  • SLACKNESS
    The quality or state of being slack.
  • REMISSFUL
    Inclined to remit punishment; lenient; clement. Drayton.
  • BACKWARDLY
    1. Reluctantly; slowly; aversely. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Perversely; ill. And does he think so backwardly of me Shak.
  • DISSOLUTENESS
    State or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation. Chivalry had the vices of dissoluteness. Bancroft.
  • FORSLACK
    To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
  • AIR-SLACKED
    Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.
  • UNFASTEN
    To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
  • UNSLACKED
    Not slacked; unslaked; as, unslacked lime.
  • LOOSE
    laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
  • COPPER-FASTENED
    Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
  • BASTARDY
    1. The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy. 2. The procreation of a bastard child. Wharton.
  • UNLOOSEN
    To loosen; to unloose.
  • IRREMISSIVE
    Not remitting; unforgiving.

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