Word Meanings - UNLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Upon any less condition than (the fact or thing stated in the sentence or clause which follows); if not; supposing that not; if it be not; were it not that; except; as, we shall fail unless we are industrious. Note: By the omission of the verb in

Additional info about word: UNLESS

Upon any less condition than (the fact or thing stated in the sentence or clause which follows); if not; supposing that not; if it be not; were it not that; except; as, we shall fail unless we are industrious. Note: By the omission of the verb in the dependent clause, unless was frequently used prepositionally, -- a construction common in Shakespeare and still employed colloquially. Here nothing breeds unless the nightly owl. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNLESS)

• Natural
• Intrinsic
• eventual
• regular
• normal
• cosmical
• true
• probable
• consistent
• spontaneous
• unless
• original

Related words: (words related to UNLESS)

• INTRINSICAL
  1. Intrinsic. 2. Intimate; closely familiar. Sir H. Wotton.
• SPONTANEOUS
  1. Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion. 2. Proceeding from, or acting by, internal impulse, energy, or
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• REGULARIA
  A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
• NATURAL
  Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info)
• PROBABLE
  1. Capable of being proved. 2. Having more evidence for than against; supported by evidence which inclines the mind to believe, but leaves some room for doubt; likely. That is accounted probable which has better arguments producible for it than
• INTRINSIC
  A genuine quality. Warburton.
• NATURALNESS
  The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.
• INTRINSICALNESS
  The quality of being intrinsical; intrinsicality.
• EVENTUALLY
  In an eventual manner; finally; ultimately.
• INTRINSICALLY
  Internally; A lie is a thing absolutely and intrinsically evil. South.
• INTRINSICATE
  Intricate. Shak.
• CONSISTENT
  1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous;
• EVENTUALITY
  Disposition to take cognizance of events. (more info) 1. The coming as a consequence; contingency; also, an event which comes as a consequence.
• NATURALISM
  The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting
• NATURALLY
  In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously.
• ORIGINAL
  1. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process. His form had yet not lost
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• PRETERNATURALITY
  Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
• SUBNORMAL
  That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• NATURALIZE
  1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of
• SUPERNATURAL
  Being beyond, or exceeding, the power or laws of nature; miraculous. Syn. -- Preternatural. -- Supernatural, Preternatural. Preternatural signifies beside nature, and supernatural, above or beyond nature. What is very greatly aside from the ordinary
• ABNORMAL
  Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. " Froude.
• SUPERNATURALISM
  The doctrine of a divine and supernatural agency in the production of the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in the grace which renews and sanctifies men, -- in opposition to the doctrine which denies the agency of any other than
• ABORIGINAL
  1. First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth. 2. Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood.