meaning
meaning is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.That which is signified, whether by act lanquage; signification; sence; import; as, the meaning of a hint.
- 2.Sense; power of thinking. [R.] -- Mean"ing*less, a. -- Mean"ing*ly, adv.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absurd
- absurdity
- absurdness
- abuse
- alogy
- ambiguity
- anticlimax
- away
- bad
- bathos
- blunder
- boutade
- bull
- call
- catachresis
- coloring
- construction
- contradictory
- crabbed
- cross
- cross-reading
- darkness
- delusion
- detort
- disorder
- distort
- egregious
- escapade
- exaggeration
- explain
- extravagance
- extravagant
- false
- falsification
- falsify
- fantastic
- farce
- farrago
- fool
- foolish
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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