Word Meanings - UPSETTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow. Jamieson.

Related words: (words related to UPSETTING)

• ASSUMABLE
  That may be assumed.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• UPSETTING
  Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow. Jamieson.
• FELLOWSHIP
  1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
• FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
  companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
• ASSUMEDLY
  By assumption.
• CONCEITEDLY
  1. In an egotistical manner. 2. Fancifully; whimsically.
• CONCEITEDNESS
  The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. Addison.
• ASSUMER
  One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes. W. D. Whitney.
• ASSUMPTIVE
  Assumed, or capable of being assumed; characterized by assumption; making unwarranted claims. -- As*sump"tive*ly, adv. Assumptive arms , originally, arms which a person had a right to assume, in consequence of an exploit; now, those assumed without
• FELLOW-FEELING
  1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
• FELLOWLIKE
  Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. Udall.
• FELLOWLY
  Fellowlike. Shak.
• ASSUMABLY
  By way of assumption.
• ASSUMED
  1. Supposed. 2. Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.
• UPSETTING THERMOMETER
  A thermometer by merely inverting which the temperature may be registered. The column of mercury is broken and, as it remains until the instrument is reset, the reading may be made at leisure.
• CONCEIT
  conception, fr. concipere to conceive: cf. OF. p. p. nom. conciez 1. That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception. In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous. Bacon. A man wise
• ASSUMING
  Pretentious; taking much upon one's self; presumptuous. Burke.
• ASSUME
  1. To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly. Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne. Pope. The god assumed his native form again. Pope. 2. To take for granted, or
• FELLOW
  companionship, prop., a laying together of property; fe property + lag a laying, pl. lög law, akin to liggja to lie. See Fee, and Law, 1. A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer. The fellows of his crime. Milton. We are fellows
• NON ASSUMPSIT
  The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit.
• SARGASSUM
  A genus of algæ including the gulf weed.
• BEDFELLOW
  One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
• SELF-CONCEIT
  Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. Syn. -- See Egotism.
• UNFELLOWED
  Being without a fellow; unmatched; unmated. Shak.
• DISFELLOWSHIP
  To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart.
• ODD FELLOW
  A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment.
• PEWFELLOW
  1. One who occupies the same pew with another. 2. An intimate associate; a companion. Shak.