Word Meanings - VIEWY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Having peculiar views; fanciful; visionary; unpractical; as, a viewy person. 2. Spectacular; pleasing to the eye or the imagination. A government intent on showy absurdities and viewy enterprises rather than solid work. London Spectator.
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- PECULIARIZE
To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - SOLIDARE
A small piece of money. Shak. - RATHER
Prior; earlier; former. Now no man dwelleth at the rather town. Sir J. Mandeville. - INTENTIONALITY
The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - SPECTATORSHIP
1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak. - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - VISIONARY
1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given - LONDONISM
A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London. - UNPRACTICAL
Not practical; impractical. "Unpractical questions." H. James. I like him none the less for being unpractical. Lowell. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - SOLIDUNGULA
A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ. - IMAGINATIONALISM
Idealism. J. Grote. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - PECULIARNESS
The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede. - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - PERSONATOR
One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson. - PLEASER
One who pleases or gratifies. - CONSOLIDATED
Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787) - DIVISIONARY
Divisional. - UNIPERSONAL
Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God. - CONSOLIDATION
To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation. (more info) 1. The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the - MISGOVERNMENT
Bad government; want of government. Shak. - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.