Pelting

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Archaic Paltry; petty: "This land . . . /Is now leas'd out . . . /Like to a tenement or pelting farm” ( Shakespeare).
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  • v. Present participle of pelt.
  • adj. mean; paltry
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Mean; paltry.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A beating or belaboring with missiles, as with stones, snow-balls, etc.
  • Assailing with or as with missiles; coming down hard: as, a pelting shower.
  • Angry; passionate.
  • Mean; paltry; contemptible.
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  • n. anything happening rapidly or in quick successive
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    succession    successiveness    sequence    chronological succession    chronological sequence   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    mean    paltry   
    Verb Stem
    pelt   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    belting    melting    smelting   
     
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