Word Meanings - REMISSFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Inclined to remit punishment; lenient; clement. Drayton.
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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. - WANTLESS
Having no want; abundant; fruitful. - 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.