Word Meanings - WEIGH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh. An expedition was got under weigh from New York. Thackeray. The Athenians . . . hurried on board and with considerable difficulty got under weigh. Jowett .
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WEIGH)
- Balance
- Weigh
- poise
- pit
- counterpoise
- counteract
- neutralize
- equalize
- estimate
- redress
- adjust
- Calculate
- Estimate
- consider
- weigh
- number
- count
- apportion
- proportion
- investigate
- reckon
- rate
- compute
- Consider
- Attend
- revolve
- meditate
- think
- reflect
- regard
- observe
- judge
- opine
- infer
- deduce
- cogitate
- deliberate
- ponder
- deem
- Deliberate Consider
- consult
- debate
- perpend
- Examine
- test
- scrutinize
- criticize
- prove
- study
- discuss
- inquire
- search
- explore
- inspect
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of WEIGH)
- Over-balance
- aggravate
- Shelve
- burke
- discard
- hazard
- chance
- risk
- Miss
- overlook
- disregard
- despise
- dislike
- contemn
- hate
- loathe
- misconsider
- misconceive
- misestimate
- misjudge
- Pretermit
- abandon
- misinvestigate
Related words: (words related to WEIGH)
- PROVENTRIULUS
The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop. - PROVERBIAL
1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir - THINKING
Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv. - COUNTERBRACE
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another. - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - OPINER
One who opines. Jer. Taylor. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - CHANCELLERY
Chancellorship. Gower. - HAZARDIZE
A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser. - COUNTERVIEW
1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx. - MISJUDGE
To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue. - COUNTERFLEURY
Counterflory. - COUNTABLE
Capable of being numbered. - COUNTER WEIGHT
A counterpoise. - COUNTRY-DANCE
See MACUALAY - COUNTERJUMPER
A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously. - NEUTRALIZE
To render inert or imperceptible the peculiar affinities of, as a chemical substance; to destroy the effect of; as, to neutralize an acid with a base. 3. To destroy the peculiar or opposite dispositions of; to reduce to a state of indifference - PONDEROUS
1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3. - RECKON
reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
Equality of weight; equipoise. - SUPERREFLECTION
The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon. - IMPROPORTIONATE
Not proportionate. - CROSS-EXAMINER
One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.