Word Meanings - STRAIGHTNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STRAIGHTNESS)
- Right
- Rectitude
- correctness
- straightness
- integrity
- justice
- truth
- propriety
- fitness
- suitableness
- claim
- power
- privilege
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of STRAIGHTNESS)
Related words: (words related to STRAIGHTNESS)
- RIGHT-RUNNING
Straight; direct. - FITNESS
The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office. - POWERFUL
Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any - PROPRIETY
1. Individual right to hold property; ownership by personal title; property. "Onles this propriety be exiled." Robynson (More's Utopia). So are the proprieties of a wife to be disposed of by her lord, and yet all are for her provisions, it being - POWERABLE
1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden. - RIGHTEOUSNESS
The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith, - TRUTHY
Truthful; likely; probable. "A more truthy import." W. G. Palgrave. - DISAVOWANCE
Disavowal. South. - DISAVOWMENT
Disavowal. Wotton. - DISAVOWER
One who disavows. - INTEGRITY
1. The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory. Sir T. More. 2. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with - RIGHT-ANGLED
Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle. - RIGHTEOUS
Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton. - FOREGO
1. To quit; to relinquish; to leave. Stay at the third cup, or forego the place. Herbert. 2. To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, - WAIVE
A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 , and the Note. (more info) 1. A waif; a castaway. Donne. - RIGHTEN
To do justice to. Relieve the opressed. Isa. i. 17. - TRUTHLESS
Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless. -- Truth"less*ness, n. - RIGHT-LINED
Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle. - ABJUREMENT
Renunciation. - DISAVOW
1. To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, an the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime. A solemn promise made and disavowed. Dryden. - BRIGHT
See I - RECLAIMABLE
That may be reclaimed. - INJUSTICE
1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice. - CANDLE POWER
Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle. - CARTWRIGHT
An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker. - RECLAIMER
One who reclaims. - ACCLAIM
1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy. - FRIGHTFUL
1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn. - SPRIGHTLY
Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope. - SHRIGHT
imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer. - UPRIGHTNESS
the quality or state of being upright.