Word Meanings - SPECIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased. He has there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and
Additional info about word: SPECIFY
To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased. He has there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and the uses of their soils are specified. Pope.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPECIFY)
- Assign
- Attribute
- apportion
- allege
- refer
- specify
- consign
- intrust
- commit
- point out
- allot to
- adduce
- advance
- appoint
- convey
- Characterize
- Mark
- distinguish
- describe
- particularize
- style
- designate
- individualize
- identify
- Define
- Mark out
- limit
- eliminate
- elucidate
- explain
- fix
- settle
- determine
- bound
- Denominate
- Name
- call
- denote
- title
- Detail Particularize
- enumerate
- recount
- sift
- analyze
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SPECIFY)
- Retard
- hinder
- withhold
- withdraw
- recall
- depress
- degrade
- suppress
- oppose
- retreat
- decrease
- Divorce
- disconnect
- dissociate
- dissever
- Hobble
- limp
- crawl
- creep
- shamble
- Misname
- miscall
- misdesignate
- misindicate
- hint
- suggest
- shadow
- adumbrate
Related words: (words related to SPECIFY)
- TITLELESS
Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer. - ASSIGNEE
In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act, - SHAMBLE
One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. pl. (more info) a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum - BOUNDLESS
Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite. - CONSIGNER
One who consigns. See Consignor. - DIVORCEABLE
Capable of being divorced. - CREEP
to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately - SUGGESTER
One who suggests. Beau. & Fl. - TITLED
Having or bearing a title. - ELIMINATE
To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4. - SUGGEST
1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty; - DESIGNATE
Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck. - SHADOWY
1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon - ALLOTTABLE
Capable of being allotted. - LIMITARIAN
Tending to limit. - LIMITIVE
Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers. - 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) - TITLER
A large truncated cone of refined sugar. - DENOTEMENT
Sign; indication. Note: A word found in some editions of Shakespeare. - LIMITABLE
Capable of being limited. - HOME-BOUND
Kept at home. - FORESHADOW
To shadow or typi Dryden. - OUTBOUND
Outward bound. Dryden. - CONTRADISTINGUISH
To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke. - SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
The tenets of the Sadducees. - INDISTINGUISHABLE
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form - ARAEOSTYLE
See INTERCOLUMNIATION - CYCLOSTYLE
A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred - PREDEFINE
To define beforehand. - UNLIMITED
1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not