Word Meanings - SUPERINTENDENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of superintending; care and oversight for the purpose of direction; supervision. Barrow. Syn. -- Inspection; oversight; care; direction; control; guidance.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUPERINTENDENCE)
- management
- Treatment
- conduct
- administration
- government
- address
- skill
- superintendence
- skillful treatment
- Oversight
- Error
- omission
- mistake
- neglect
- slip
- inadvertence
- inspection
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SUPERINTENDENCE)
Related words: (words related to SUPERINTENDENCE)
- TREATMENT
1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope. - SKILLFUL
1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, - CONSIDERINGLY
With consideration or deliberation. - ESTEEM
1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of - SKILLED
Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry. - NOTICE
1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge - RESPECTER
One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x. - SKILLIGALEE
A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army. - ESTEEMABLE
Worthy of esteem; estimable. "Esteemable qualities." Pope. - ATTENDMENT
An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne. - ADDRESS
To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more - ERRORFUL
Full of error; wrong. Foxe. - MISTAKEN
1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion. - CONDUCTIVITY
The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces - CONSIDER
consider, view attentively, prob. fr. con- + sidus, sideris, star, constellation; orig., therefore, to look at the stars. See Sidereal, 1. To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to thank on with care; to ponder; to study; to - MISTAKER
One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall. - INADVERTENCE; INADVERTENCY
1. The quality of being inadvertent; lack of heedfulness or attentiveness; inattention; negligence; as, many mistakes proceed from inadvertence. Inadvertency, or want of attendance to the sense and intention of our prayers. Jer. Taylor. - MISTAKE
1. To take or choose wrongly. Shak. 2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak. 3. To substitute in thought - AVOIDLESS
Unavoidable; inevitable. - GOVERNMENTAL
Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties. - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - PRELUDE
An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with - SAFE-CONDUCT
That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak. - PRELUDER
One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - UNCONSIDERED
Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak. - MISOBSERVE
To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke. - INCONSIDERATION
Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp. - MISESTEEM
Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson. - TERRORLESS
Free from terror. Poe. - DISESTEEMER
One who disesteems. Boyle. - MISGOVERNMENT
Bad government; want of government. Shak. - CHILD STUDY
A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood. - BY-RESPECT
Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.