Word Meanings - UNMEET - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not meet or fit; not proper; unbecoming; unsuitable; -- usually followed by for. "Unmeet for a wife." Tennyson. And all unmeet our carpet floors. Emerson. -- Un*meet"ly, adv. -- Un*meet"ness, n.
Related words: (words related to UNMEET)
- UNBECOMING
Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n. - CARPET
packing cloth, rug , LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card ; cf. 1. A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be - PROPER
Represented in its natural color; -- said of any object used as a charge. In proper, individually; privately. Jer. Taylor. -- Proper flower or corolla , one of the single florets, or corollets, in an aggregate or compound flower. -- - CARPETBAG
A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet. - FOLLOWING EDGE
See ABOVE - CARPETING
1. The act of covering with carpets. 2. Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general. The floor was covered with rich carpeting. Prescott. - UNBECOME
To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock. - PROPERLY
1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton. 2. Individually; after one's own manner. Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer. - PROPERNESS
1. The quality of being proper. 2. Tallness; comeliness. Udall. - PROPERATE
To hasten, or press forward. - PROPERTIED
Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money. "The propertied and satisfied classes." M. Arnold. - PROPERISPOME
Properispomenon. - FOLLOWING
1. One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. Macaulay. 2. Vocation; business; profession. - FOLLOWING SURFACE
See ABOVE - TENNYSONIAN
Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc. - PROPERISPOMENON
A word which has the circumflex accent on the penult. - CARPETLESS
Without a carpet. - PROPERTY
All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge - UNMEET
Not meet or fit; not proper; unbecoming; unsuitable; -- usually followed by for. "Unmeet for a wife." Tennyson. And all unmeet our carpet floors. Emerson. -- Un*meet"ly, adv. -- Un*meet"ness, n. - PROPERATION
The act of hastening; haste. T. Adams. - IMPROPERLY
In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly. - IMPROPERATION
The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne - IMPROPERTY
Impropriety. - IMPROPERIA
A series of antiphons and responses, expressing the sorrowful remonstrance of our Lord with his people; -- sung on the morning of the Good Friday in place of the usual daily Mass of the Roman ritual. Grove.