Word Meanings - REMISSFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inclined to remit punishment; lenient; clement. Drayton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REMISSFUL)

• Remiss
• Slack
• careless
• negligent
• i attentive
• wanting
• flow
• slothful
• idle
• lax
• dilatory
• tardy
• remissful

Related words: (words related to REMISSFUL)

• 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.
• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• REMISSLY
  In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• REMISSORY
  Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.
• REMISSIVE
  Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• REMISSIBLE
  Capable of being remitted or forgiven. Feltham.
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• NEGLIGENTLY
  In a negligent manner.
• 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;
• WANTAGE
  That which is wanting; deficiency.
• SLACKNESS
  The quality or state of being slack.
• REMISSFUL
  Inclined to remit punishment; lenient; clement. Drayton.
• TARDY
  1. Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift. And check the tardy flight of time. Sandys. Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave. Prior. 2. Not being inseason; late; dilatory; -- opposed to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments.
• SLOTHFUL
  Addicted to sloth; inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9. -- Sloth"ful*ly, adv. -- Sloth"ful*ness, n.
• SLACKLY
  In a slack manner. Trench.
• WANTONIZE
  To behave wantonly; to frolic; to wanton. Lamb.
• CARELESS
  1. Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted. Spenser. Sleep she as sound as careless infancy. Shak. 2. Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless. My
• FORSLACK
  To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
• AIR-SLACKED
  Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.
• UNSLACKED
  Not slacked; unslaked; as, unslacked lime.
• BASTARDY
  1. The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy. 2. The procreation of a bastard child. Wharton.
• INATTENTIVE
  Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit. I. Watts. Syn. -- Careless; heedless; regardless; thoughtless; negligent; remiss; inadvertent.
• IRREMISSIVE
  Not remitting; unforgiving.