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)

• 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.
• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• 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.
• COUNTERFLEURY
  Counterflory.
• 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.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• COUNTABLE
  Capable of being numbered.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• COUNTERJUMPER
  A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.