Word Meanings - SENSATIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves. 2. Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge. 3. Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic;
Additional info about word: SENSATIONAL
1. Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves. 2. Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge. 3. Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional; as, sensational plays or novels; sensational preaching; sensational journalism; a sensational report.
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- SUITABILITY
The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness. - SUITRESS
A female supplicant. Rowe. - SUITING
Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes. - GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - INTENDENT
See N - INTENDIMENT
Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser. - SENSATION
An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, - GREAT-GRANDSON
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter. - ORIGINABLE
Capable of being originated. - GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity. - INTERESTED
1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness. - ORIGINATION
1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca - ORIGINANT
Originating; original. An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd. - ORIGINATOR
One who originates. - EXCITEFUL
Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman. - SENSATIONALISM
The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism. 2. The practice or methods of sensational - GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother. - INTENDER
One who intends. Feltham. - INTERESTINGNESS
The condition or quality of being interesting. A. Smith. - PREKNOWLEDGE
Prior knowledge. - DISINTERESTING
Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton. - INGREAT
To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby. - ABORIGINALLY
Primarily. - DEMISUIT
A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like. - UNINTERESTED
1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration. - ACKNOWLEDGE
1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own - UNSUIT
Not to suit; to be unfit for. Quarles. - UNKNOWLEDGED
Not acknowledged or recognized. For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledged or unsent. B. Jonson.