Word Meanings - STARTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start. Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction Addison. (more info) Etym:
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STARTLE)
- Affright
- Startle
- astonish
- terrify
- alarm
- dismay
- cow
- frighten
- scare
- Astonish
- surprise
- confound
- amaze
- astound
- fill with wonder
- stupefy
- electrify
- dumbfounder
- Strike
- Smite
- impel
- give a blow to
- stamp
- impress
- penetrate
- insert
- drive
- lower
- startle
- collide
- touch
- Surprise
- confuse
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of STARTLE)
- Compose
- embolden
- reassure
- rally
- Encourage
- inspirit
- assure
- allure
- Learn
- be impressed
- be studious
- be mindful
- Hoist
- raise
- heighten
- exalt
- increase
- aggrandize
- elevate
Related words: (words related to STARTLE)
- ASSURER
1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy. - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - ASTONISH
étonner, fr. L. ex out + tonare to thunder, but perhaps influenced by 1. To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow. The very cramp-fish . . . being herself not benumbed, is able to astonish others. Holland. 2. To strike with sudden - STARTLE
1. To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise. The supposition, at least, that angels do sometimes assume bodies need not startle us. Locke. 2. To deter; to cause to deviate. - IMPELLENT
An impelling power or force. Glanvill. - WONDERSTRUCK
Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden. - ENCOURAGER
One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison. - RAISE
To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. - WONDER
Etym: 1. To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel. I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals. Swift. We cease to wonder at what we understand. Johnson. - ASTONISHING
Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event. Syn. -- Amazing; surprising; wonderful; marvelous. As*ton"ish*ing*ly, adv. -- As*ton"ish*ing*ness, n. - RAISED
1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised - STAMP
1. To strike; to beat; to crush. These cooks how they stamp and strain and grind. Chaucer. 2. To strike the foot forcibly downward. But starts, exclaims, and stamps, and raves, and dies. dennis. - LOWERMOST
Lowest. - AFFRIGHTER
One who frightens. - LEARN
linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf. - DRIVEL
1. Slaver; saliva flowing from the mouth. 2. Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble. 3. A driveler; a fool; an idiot. Sir P. Sidney. 4. A servant; a drudge. Huloet. - ALARM
1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in - EXALTMENT
Exaltation. Barrow. - INSERT
To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper. These - WONDERFUL
Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing. Syn. -- Marvelous; amazing. See Marvelous. -- Won"der*ful*ly, adv. -- Won"der*ful*ness, n. - WILLOWER
A willow. See Willow, n., 2. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - ENSTAMP
To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - REINCREASE
To increase again. - CAULIFLOWER
An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. - FLOWER-DE-LUCE
A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north - SUTURALLY
In a sutural manner. - MISRAISE
To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall. - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - WALLOWER
A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows. - CENTRALLY
In a central manner or situation. - INTERPENETRATE
To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley. - UNASSURED
1. Not assured; not bold or confident. 2. Not to be trusted. Spenser. 3. Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods. - FLOWERY
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.