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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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798 words match “SIDER”

CONSIDERABLENESS n.

Worthiness of consideration; dignity; value; size; amount.

CONSIDERABLY adv.

ner or to a degree not trifling or unimportant; greatly; much. The breeds . . . differ considerably from each other. Darwin.

CONSIDERANCE n.

Act of considering; consideration. [Obs.] Shak.

CONSIDERATE a. 2 definitions

Given to consideration or to sober reflection; regardful of consequences or circumstances; circumspect; careful; esp. careful of the rights, claims, and feelings of other. Of dauntless courage and considerate pride. Milton. considerate, and careful of his people. Dryden. The wisest and most considerate men in the world…

CONSIDERATION n. 7 definitions

The act or process of considering; continuous careful thought; examination; contemplation; deliberation; attention. Let us think with consideration. Sir P. Sidney. Consideration, like an angel, came. Shak.

CONSIDERATIVE a.

Considerate; careful; thoughtful. [Archaic] I love to be considerative. B. Jonson.

CONSIDERATOR n.

One who considers. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

One who considers; a man of reflection; a thinker. Milton.

CONSIDERINGLY adv.

With consideration or deliberation.

Desirable. [R.] "Good and desiderable things." Holland.

See Desideratum.

dness to point out one word missing that ought to have been there -- please to insert a desiderated stanza. You can not. Prof. Wilson. Men were beginning . . . to desiderate for them an actual abode of fire. A. W. Ward.

DESIDERATION n.

Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired. [R.] Jeffrey.

DESIDERATIVE a. 3 definitions

Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs.

Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.

HOLOSIDERITE n.

Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter.

INCONSIDERABLE a.

Not considerable; unworthy of consideration or notice; unimportant; small; trivial; as, an inconsiderable distance; an inconsiderable quantity, degree, value, or sum. "The baser scum and inconsiderable dregs of Rome." Stepney. -- In`con*sid"er*a*ble*ness, n. -- In`con*sid"er*a*bly, adv.

INCONSIDERACY n.

Inconsiderateness; thoughtlessness. [Obs.] Chesterfield.

INCONSIDERATE a. 2 definitions

Not considerate; not attentive to safety or to propriety; not regarding the rights or feelings of others; hasty; careless; thoughtless; heedless; as, the young are generally inconsiderate; inconsiderate conduct. It is a very unhappy token of our corruption, that therinconsiderate among us as to sacrifice morality to po…

INCONSIDERATELY adv.

In an inconsiderate manner.