Word Meanings - WHIM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The European widgeon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WHIM)

• Conceit
• Idea
• notion
• thought
• affectation
• vanity
• abstraction
• imagination
• conception
• whim
• vagary
• egotism
• Gaud
• Trinket
• trumpery
• finery
• gewgaw
• bauble
• kickshaw
• gimcrack
• Hobble
• Pursuit
• amusement
• specialty
• idiosyncrasy
• Vagary
• Whim
• fancy
• crotchet
• freak
• caprice

Related words: (words related to WHIM)

• TRINKETER
  One who trinkets.
• IDIOSYNCRASY
  A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity. The individual mind . . . takes its tone from the
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• THOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Think.
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• IMAGINATIONALISM
  Idealism. J. Grote.
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• CONCEPTIONAL
  Pertaining to conception.
• GEWGAW
  A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble. A heavy gewgaw called a crown. Dryden. (more info) as OE. givegove gewgaw, apparently a reduplicated form fr. AS. gifan to give; cf. also F. joujou plaything, and E. gaud,
• CONCEITEDLY
  1. In an egotistical manner. 2. Fancifully; whimsically.
• FANCYWORK
  Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.
• VANITY BOX
  A small box, usually jeweled or of precious metal and worn on a chain, containing a mirror, powder puff, and other small toilet articles for a woman.
• NOTIONATE
  Notional.
• CONCEITEDNESS
  The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. Addison.
• FANCYMONGER
  A lovemonger; a whimsical lover. Shak.
• TRINKETRY
  Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively. No trinketry on front, or neck, or breast. Southey.
• HOBBLEBUSH
  A low bush having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.
• CROTCHETED
  Marked or measured by crotchets; having musical notation. Harmar .
• IMAGINATION
  1. The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines. Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent,
• CONCEPTIONALIST
  A conceptualist.
• SUPERCONCEPTION
  Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
• BETHOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Bethink.
• DISFANCY
  To dislike.
• SELF-CONCEIT
  Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. Syn. -- See Egotism.
• INFANCY
  The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority. (more info) 1. The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood. The babe yet lies in smiling infancy. Milton. Their
• FORETHOUGHT
  Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon.