Friday, September 11, 2009

Beau

Beau-n
1-a boyfriend or male admirer (dated)
2-a man always smartly dressed in the most fashionable clothes (archaic)

Beatitude

Beatitude-n (literary)
1-the perfect happiness and inner peace supposed to be enjoyed by the soul in ehaven
2-extreme happiness and serenity

Beatitude

Beatitude-n
1-each of teh sayings of Jesus Christ in the Sermon on the Mount about the 8 groups of people who will recieve blessing in heaven (Matthew 5:3-11)

Beatific

Beatific-adj (literary)
1-expressing or radiating great happiness and serenity
2-bringing or expressing the perfect happiness and inner peace supposed to be enjoyed by the soul in heaven

Synonyms
innocent
good
pure
saintly
adorable
virtuous
wicked (antonym)

Friday, September 4, 2009

Bearish

Bearish-adj
1-moving or behaving roughly or clumsily
2-surly or ill-tempered toward people
3-conductive to or characterized by selling rather than buying stocks or commodities in anticipation of falling prices
4-anticipating unfavorable business conditons

Bayon

Bayon-n
in the southern United States, an area of slow-moving water, often overgrown with reeds, leading from a river or lake

Synonyms
swamp
swampland
marsh
marshland
everglade
wetlands
bog

Bawdy

Bawdy-adj
ribald in a frank, humorous, and often crude way

Synonyms
crude
vulgar
rude
lewd
refined (anotonym)