Word Meanings - STATUESQUELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue. A character statuesquely simple in its details. Lowell.

Related words: (words related to STATUESQUELY)

• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• STATUED
  Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. "Statued niches." G. Eliot.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• STATUELIKE
  Like a statue; motionless.
• STATUETTE
  A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine.
• SIMPLE
  simplus, or simplex, gen. simplicis. The first part of the Latin words is probably akin to E. same, and the sense, one, one and the same; cf. L. semel once, singuli one to each, single. Cg. Single, a., 1. Single; not complex; not infolded
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• SIMPLE-MINDED
  Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity. Blackstone. -- Sim"ple-mind`ed*ness, n.
• SIMPLETON
  A person of weak intellect; a silly person.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• STATUESQUELY
  In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue. A character statuesquely simple in its details. Lowell.
• STATUESQUE
  Partaking of, or exemplifying, the characteristics of a statue; having the symmetry, or other excellence, of a statue artistically made; as, statuesquelimbs; a statuesque attitude. Their characters are mostly statuesque even in this respect, that
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• SIMPLENESS
  The quality or state of being simple; simplicity. Shak.
• SIMPLESS
  Simplicity; silliness. Spenser.
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• SUGGESTIVE MEDICINE
  Treatment by commands or positive statements addressed to a more or less hypnotized patient.
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• MENDELIAN CHARACTER
  A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.