Dictionary: DIS-QUI'ET-FUL – DIS-REP-U-TA'TION

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DIS-QUI'ET-FUL, a.

Producing inquietude. – Barrow.

DIS-QUI'ET-ING, ppr.

  1. Disturbing; making uneasy; depriving of rest or peace.
  2. adj. Tending to disturb the mind; as, disquieting apprehensions.

DIS-QUI'ET-IVE, a.

Tending to disquiet.

DIS-QUI'ET-LY, adv.

Without quiet or rest; in an uneasy state; uneasily; anxiously; as, he rested disquietly that night. [Unusual.] – Wiseman.

DIS-QUI'ET-MENT, n.

Act of disquieting.

DIS-QUI'ET-NESS, n.

Uneasiness; restlessness; disturbance of peace in body or mind. Hooker.

DIS-QUI'ET-OUS, a.

Causing uneasiness. [Not used.] – Milton.

DIS-QUI'E-TUDE, n.

Want of peace or tranquillity; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. It is, I believe, most frequently used of the mind. Religion is our best security from the disquietudes that imbitter life.

DIS-QUI-SI'TION, n. [L. disquisitio; disquiro; dis and quæro, to seek.]

A formal or systematic inquiry into any subject, by arguments, or discussion of the facts and circumstances that may elucidate truth; as, a disquisition on government or morals; a disquisition concerning the antediluvian earth. – Woodward. [It is usually applied to a written treatise.]

DIS-QUI-SI'TION-A-RY, a.

Pertaining to disquisition.

DIS-RANK', v.t.

  1. To degrade from rank. [Not used.]
  2. To throw out of rank or into confusion. – Decker.

DIS-RE-GARD', n. [dis and regard.]

Neglect; omission of notice; slight; implying indifference or some degree of contempt; as, to pass one with disregard.

DIS-RE-GARD', v.t.

To omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice. We are never to disregard the wants of the poor, nor the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. – Blackmore.

DIS-RE-GARD'ED, pp.

Neglected; slighted; unnoticed.

DIS-RE-GARD'ER, n.

One who neglects.

DIS-RE-GARD'FUL, a.

Neglectful; negligent; heedless.

DIS-RE-GARD'FUL-LY, adv.

Negligently; heedlessly.

DIS-RE-GARD'ING, ppr.

Neglecting; overlooking; omitting to notice.

DIS-REL'ISH, n. [dis and relish.]

  1. Distaste; dislike of the palate; some degree of disgust. Men generally have a disrelish for tobacco, till the taste is reconciled to it by custom.
  2. Bad taste; nauseousness. – Milton.
  3. Distaste or dislike, in a figurative sense; dislike of the mind, or of the faculty by which beauty and excellence are perceived.

DIS-REL'ISH, v.t.

  1. To dislike the taste of; as, to disrelish a particular kind of food.
  2. To make nauseous or disgusting; to infect with a bad taste. – Milton. [In this sense, I believe, the word is little used.]
  3. To dislike; to feel some disgust at; as, to disrelish vulgar jests.

DIS-REL'ISH-ED, pp.

Not relished; disliked; made nauseous.

DIS-REL'ISH-ING, ppr.

Disliking the taste of; experiencing disgust at; rendering nauseous.

DIS-RE-PAIR', n. [dis and repair.]

A state of being not in repair or good condition and wanting reparation. – Chalmers.

DIS-REP'U-TA-BLE, a. [dis and reputable.]

  1. Not reputable; not in esteem; not honorable; low; mean; as, disreputable company.
  2. Dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to impair the good name, and bring into disesteem. It is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd and the profane.

DIS-REP-U-TA'TION, n. [dis and reputation.]

Loss or want of reputation or good name; disrepute; disesteem; dishonor; disgrace; discredit. Ill success often brings an enterprising man, as well as his project, into disreputation.