Copyright, 1913
G. P. Putnam's Sons
(Under the title Synonyms, Antonyms, and Associated Words)
The purpose of this book, as conceived by the author, is not to attempt to create or to influence usage by pointing out which words should or should not be used, nor to explain the meaning of terms, but simply to provide in a form convenient for reference and study the words that can be used, leaving it to those who consult its pages to determine for themselves, with the aid of a dictionary if necessary, which words supply the information they are looking for or express most accurately the thoughts in their minds. The questions, therefore, that were constantly in the author's mind while he was preparing the manuscript were not, is this word used? nor should it be used? but is it a word that some one may want to know as a matter of information or to use in giving expression to some thought? When the word in question seemed to be one that would be of service it was given a place in the collection to which it belongs. Believing the book would be consulted by students and workers in special fields, the author incorporated into it many words, including some technical terms, that might, in the case of a work of more restricted usefulness, have been omitted.
It happens frequently that the word which one thinks of first does not express the exact shade of thought one desires to express and some other word of similar meaning is necessary. For this reason there is, for those who want to write and speak with precision and effectiveness, an important use for collections of synonyms. Throughout this book synonyms means words that are similar in meaning or which express the same general idea with shades of difference. Those who use this work should bear in mind that all words that are classified as synonyms cannot be used interchangeably; that there are differences in meaning between them; and that, before using an unfamiliar word, they should ascertain its meaning and usage in a dictionary. Antonyms are words that are opposed to another word in meaning. Such words are helpful when it is desired to express contrasted or conflicting ideas or thoughts. In many instances, however, a list of antonyms is unnecessary. For example, no antonyms of good are found after the synonyms of that word because one thinks of bad instantly when considering the opposite of good; and under bad numerous synonyms, which are also the antonyms of good, are found.
It is not an infrequent occurrence for a word to be required that is neither a synonym nor an antonym of a familiar term but merely associated with it in meaning and usage. Such a word cannot when unknown or momentarily forgotten be easily found in a dictionary. In this volume collections of such words are found after the general terms with which they are associated. This feature of the book will be of service as a memory-help when a word cannot be recalled and also, which is perhaps of greater importance, by enabling writers and students to learn of words objectively or through their associations.
By turning to the word that is thought of first or to the word with which the term that is wanted is associated and reading the collections there presented, any word that may be desired will be found.
The author spared no effort to make his work as complete as possible; and he believes that it will be appreciated for its comprehensiveness, modernity, and practical usefulness. He will be pleased to receive from those who use his book any suggestions relative to changes, corrections, or additions that might make the work more useful. He may be addressed in care of the publishers.
L. A. P.
| a. | stands | for | adjective. |
| adv. | " | " | adverb. |
| Amer. Ind. | " | " | American Indian. |
| Astron. | " | " | Astronomy. |
| Bot. | " | " | Botany. |
| Cen. Amer. | " | " | Central America. |
| Chem. | " | " | Chemistry. |
| Civ. Law. | " | " | Civil Law. |
| Colloq. | " | " | Colloquial. |
| conj. | " | " | conjunction. |
| Eccl. | " | " | Ecclesiastical. |
| Fr. | " | " | French. |
| Ger. | " | " | German. |
| Gram. | " | " | Grammar. |
| Gr. Antiq. | " | " | Greek Antiquity. |
| Heb. | " | " | Hebrew. |
| Med. | " | " | Medicine. |
| Mil. | " | " | Military. |
| Mus. | " | " | Music. |
| n. | " | " | noun. |
| pl. | " | " | plural. |
| p.p. | " | " | past participle. |
| prep. | " | " | stands for preposition. |
| R.R. | " | " | Railroad. |
| sing. | " | " | singular. |
| Sp. | " | " | Spanish. |
| Sp. Amer. | " | " | Spanish America. |
| Theol. | " | " | Theology. |
| v. | " | " | verb. |
Note.--A number of words with their synonyms and related terms that are not found in the body of the book will be found in the Addenda beginning on page 615.
Abandon, v. desert, forsake, forego, discard, relinquish, repudiate, waive, renounce, abdicate. Antonyms: retain, maintain, continue, cherish.
abandon, n. unrestraint, wantonness.
abandoned, a. forsaken, deserted, derelict, castaway, rejected; depraved, reprobate, incorrigible, arrant, graceless, irreformable.
abandonment, n. desertion, relinquishment, dereliction, reprobation, surrender, evacuation, rejection, abdication. Antonyms: retention, continuance, maintenance, persistence.
abase, v. humble, degrade, dishonor, reduce, humiliate.
abasement, n. humiliation, reduction, dishonor, degradation, ignominy.
abash, v. disconcert, confuse, discomfit, discompose, chagrin, mortify, embarrass.
abashment, n. discomfiture, confusion, mortification, chagrin, embarrassment.
abate, v. moderate, assuage, subside, diminish, intermit. Antonyms: See increase.
abatement, n. moderation, diminution, reduction, subsidence, decrease.
a b c. alphabet, symbols; rudiments, elements, first principles.
a b c book. primer, hornbook.
abdomen, n. belly, paunch. Associated words: abdominal, ventral, paunchy, abdominous, peritoneum, peritonitis, celiac, laparotomy, groin, eventration, abdominoscopy, hypogastric, hypogastrium.
abduction, n. kidnapping, child-stealing, man-stealing, defiliation. Associated words: abduct, abductor.
aberration, n. wandering, deviation; abnormity, irregularity; madness, mania.
abet, v. instigate, encourage, incite, egg on, foment, uphold.
abetment, n. instigation, incitement, encouragement.
abeyance, n. suspension, indetermination.
abhor, v. abominate, loathe, hate, detest.
abhorrence, n. detestation, loathing, repugnance, abomination.
abhorrent, a. repugnant, detestable, loathsome, repulsive.
abide, v. dwell, stay, sojourn, continue, remain; acquiesce, conform to.
abiding, a. continuing, lasting, stable.
ability, n. competence, efficiency, aptitude, capacity, skill, proficiency, capability. Antonyms: inability, incapability.
abject, a. degraded, groveling, servile, ignoble, contemptible base. Antonyms: noble, lofty, dignified, exalted.
able, a. competent, qualified, capable, talented, clever, gifted, efficient; effective, cogent, telling, potent. Antonyms: unable, incompetent, incapable, inefficient ineffective, impotent.
able-bodied, a. stalwart, brawny, robust, sturdy, strapping muscular.
abnormal, a. anomalous, irregular, exceptional, aberrant, erratic, unusual. Antonyms: See normal.
abnormality, n. variation, irregularity, anomaly, abnormity. Antonyms: regularity, naturalness.
abnormity, n. irregularity, abnormality, monstrosity, anomaly.
abode, n. residence, habitation, dwelling, domicile, sojourn.
abolish, v. annul, nullify, abrogate, invalidate, repeal, revoke, rescind, disannul, set aside, destroy. Antonyms: confirm, establish.
abolition, n. annulling, abrogation, destruction, abolishment, disestablishment, cancellation, extinction, nullification, rescission, revocation.
abominable, a. odious, execrable, detestable, loathsome, abhorrent, offensive.
abomination, n. detestation, execration, abhorrence, loathing, aversion, odiousness.
abortion, n. miscarriage, failure, frustration; castling, mooncalf, monster.
abortive, a. unsuccessful, unavailing, miscarrying, frustrate, ineffectual; rudimentary, undeveloped, sterile, imperfect.
abound, v. be plentiful, teem, swarm.
abounding, a. rife, plentiful, abundant, galore.
about, prep. concerning, anent, relative to, with regard to.
abridge, v. shorten, diminish, curtail; epitomize, condense.
abridgment, n. diminution, lessening, reduction, curtailment, condensation; epitome, compend, synopsis, digest, summary, breviary.
abrogate, v. annul, repeal, revoke, abolish, rescind, nullify, invalidate.
abrogation, n. repeal, abolition, revocation, annulment, defeasance.
abrupt, a. precipitous, steep, craggy, jagged, rugged; unceremonious, hasty, brusque, rough, rude, curt, discourteous; unconnected.
abscess, n. aposteme, imposthume, ulcer, fester.
absence, n. nonattendance; want, destitution, privation, lack; inattention, absent-mindedness. Associated words: furlough, parole.
absent-minded, a. preoccupied, distrait, inattentive, unmindful, abstracted.
absent-mindedness, n. preoccupation, abstraction, inattention.
absolute, a. unconditional, unrestricted, uncontrolled, supreme; consummate, faultless, ideal; actual, real; self-existent, self-sufficing; autocratic, despotic.
absolution, n. forgiveness, remission, discharge, pardon.
absolutism, n. autocracy, despotism.
absolve, v. release, remit, pardon, exonerate, acquit, exculpate.
absorb, v. engulf, overwhelm, swallow up; imbibe, suck up, assimilate; engross, occupy, monopolize.
absorbent, a. absorbtive, absorbing, bibulous.
absorbing, a. engrossing, engaging, fascinating.
absorption, n. imbibition; engrossment. Associated word: sorbefacient.
absquatulate, v. (Jocular) decamp, go away, depart.
abstain, v. forbear, refrain, withhold, deny one's self. Antonym: indulge.
abstaining, n. abstention, abstinence.
abstemious, a. abstinent, temperate, self-denying, frugal.
abstinence, n. forbearance, temperance, self-denial, abstemiousness.
abstinent, a. abstemious, temperate, continent. Antonyms: sensual, wanton, self-indulgent, intemperate.
abstract, n. summary, epitome, compendium, synopsis, brief, compend.
abstracted, a. separated, disconnected, withdrawn; absent-minded, preoccupied.
abstraction, n. separation, disconnection, withdrawal; inattention, absent-mindedness, preoccupation, musing; defiliation; purloining, seizure, stealing.
abstruse, a. recondite, obscure, incomprehensible.
absurd, a. ridiculous, preposterous, nonsensical, incongruous, foolish, irrational, inconsistent.
absurdity, n. inconsistency, fallacy, irrationality, ineptitude, foolishness.
abundance, n. sufficiency, plenty, profusion, copiousness, exuberance, plenteousness, overflow. Antonyms: deficiency, dearth, scarcity, poverty.
abundant, a. plentiful, copious, exuberant, galore, ample, lavish, plenteous, teeming, bountiful. Antonyms: deficient, inadequate, insufficient.
abuse, v. misapply, misuse, pervert, desecrate, violate, profane; maltreat, mistreat; revile, reproach, vilify, vituperate, malign, traduce; violate, ravish, rape.
abuse, n. misuse, misapplication, perversion, profanation, desecration; injury, maltreatment, mistreatment, outrage, offense; invective, contumely, reproach, scurrility, opprobrium, tirade, billingsgate, vilification; violation, rape.
abusive, a. reviling, scurrilous, opprobrious, reproachful, vituperative, insulting, rffensive, contumelious, outrageous.
abut, v. project, terminate, be contiguous, meet;—with on, upon, or against.
accent, n. stress, ictus; modulation, accentuation.
accent, v. emphasize, accentuate.
acceptance, n. approval, favorable reception; acceptableness. Antonyms: rejection, refusal.
accessory, a. accompanying, accessary, contributory, subservient, subsidiary.
accident, n. casualty, mishap, contretemps, mischance, contingency.
accidental, a. casual, fortuitous; incidental, nonessential, adventitious.
accidentally, adv. unintentionally, casually, fortuitously. Antonyms: intentionally, advisedly, deliberately.
acclimate, v. acclimatize.
acclimation, n. acclimatization.
accommodate, v. adapt, conform, adjust; oblige, favor.
accommodating, a. obliging, complaisant.
accommodation, n. adaptation, adjustment; complaisance; favor, kindness.
accompaniment, n. concomitant.
accompany, v. escort, attend, convoy; chaperon.
accomplice, n. abettor, ally, accessory, confederate, particeps criminis.
accomplish, v. achieve, effectuate, execute, complete, effect.
accomplished, a. completed, effected; practised, proficient.
accomplishment, n. completion, fulfillment, execution, effectuation; attainment, acquirement, acquisition, grace.
accord, n. agreement, concurrence, harmony, sympathy. Antonyms: variance, disagreement, inharmony.
accordance, n. conformity, unanimity, harmony, accord, rapport, concurrence.
according to. agreeably to, in accordance with, in conformity with, pursuant.
accost, v. greet, address, salute, hail.
accoucheur, n. obstetrician.
accoucheuse, n. midwife.
account, n. reckoning, computation, calculation, record, tab; registry, register; recital, relation, narrative, report, delineation, description, portrayal, explanation; reason, ground, consideration, motive, sake; estimate, valuation, judgment, estimation, opinion; importance, consequence, value, worth, reputation.
accountability, n. amenability, liability.
accountable, a. answerable, liable, amenable, responsible. Antonyms: unaccountable, irresponsible, exempt.
accumulation, n. accretion, hoard, aggregation, accrument, collection.
accumulative, a. cumulative.
accuracy, n. exactness, fidelity, correctness, precision. Antonyms: inaccuracy, incorrectness, error.
accurate, a. correct, exact, just, true, literal. Antonyms: inaccurate, incorrect, erroneous.
accusation, n. crimination, charge, indictment, impeachment, arraignment, allegation, incrimination.
accusative, a. incriminatory, inculpatory, accusatory.
accuse, v. indict, charge, impeach, incriminate, arraign, criminate.
accuser, n. complainant, plaintiff, informant, prosecutor.
accustom, v. habituate, familiarize, inure.
accustomed, a. customary, wonted, habitual, usual. Antonyms: unaccustomed, unfamiliar, unwonted.
achieve, v. accomplish, effectuate, realize, effect, attain.
achievement, n. accomplishment, attainment, effectuation feat, exploit.
acknowledge, v. admit, avow, concede, own, confess. Antonyms: repudiate, deny, disavow.
acknowledgment, n. admittance, avowal, concession, recognition.
acme, n. culmination, top, zenith, climax, apex, pinnacle.
acorns, n. pl. mast. Associated words: balaniferous, balanoid, cupule, cupuliferous, quercite, racahout.
acquaint, v. familiarize, inform, tell, apprise, notify.
acquaintance, n. familiarity; kith. Antonyms: ignorance, unfamiliarity, unacquaintance.
acquirement, n. acquisition, attainment.
acquit, v. discharge, release, exculpate, exonerate.
acquittal, n. release, discharge, exoneration, exculpation.
acrid, a. pungent, biting, corrosive, caustic.
acridity, n. pungency, bitterness, causticity, acrimony.
acrimonious, a. caustic, sarcastic, censorious, virulent, rancorous.
acrimony, n. asperity, bitterness, virulence, causticity, rancor, sharpness.
acrobat, n. equilibrist, tumbler, funambulist, vaulter.
across, prep. and adv. athwart, crosswise, traverse transversely.
act, n. performance, feat, stunt (Colloq.), exploit, achievement, deed, action, procedure, turn; decree, edict, law, statute, enactment, ordinance.
act, v. behave, deport one's self; play, personate, impersonate, mimic; feign, counterfeit, simulate, dissemble.
acting, n. personation, impersonation, simulation, feigning, stage-playing, histrionicism, histrionism, affectation mimicry, pantomime (acting without speaking).
action, n. agency, operation, movement, activity; pl. conduct, behavior, deportment, deeds; (Law) lawsuit, litigation, suit. Antonyms: inaction, stagnation, inactivity, inertia.
active, a. brisk, nimble, agile, sprightly, spirited; strenuous, diligent, enterprising; operative, efficacious, drastic; effective; transitive. Antonyms: inactive, passive, latent, quiescent, sedentary.
activity, n. operation, action; liveliness, briskness, agility, sprightliness, strenuousness. Antonyms: inactivity, passiveness, quiescence.
actor, n. doer, participant, performer; comedian; tragedian; thespian; impersonator, personator, mime, mimic; pantomimist; barnstormer; hamfatter; supernumerary.
actress, n. tragedienne; comedienne; ingenue, soubrette, understudy; star.
actual, a. real, veritable. Antonyms: potential, nominal, hypothetical.
actuality, n. reality, veritableness.
actuate, v. instigate, impel, incite.
actuation, n. instigation, incitement, animation.
acumen, n. astuteness, shrewdness, discernment, sharpness. Antonyms: dullness, stupidity, short-sightedness.
adage, n. See saying.
Adam, n. Associated words: Adamic, adamite, preadamic, preadamite, preadamitic.
adapt, v. adjust, conform.
adaptable, a. conformable, adjustable.
adaptation, n. adjustment, conformability.
add, v. sum up, foot up; append, supplement, subjoin, affix, adjoin, superadd, annex. Antonyms: subtract, deduct, detract, remove.
addict, v. habituate, accustom.
addition, n. annexation, annex, appendage, supplement, appendix, postscript, wing, augmentation, adjunct, rider. Antonyms: subtraction, deduction, detraction.
additional, a. supplemental, adscititious, supplementary.
addle, v. muddle, confuse; spoil, rot.
address, n. discourse, speech, lecture, oration, allocution; direction, superscription, delivery. Associated word: vocative.
address, v. accost, speak to; direct, superscribe.
adept, n. See expert.
adequacy, n. sufficiency. Antonyms: inadequacy, insufficiency.
adequate, a. sufficient, commensurate, equal, proportionate. Antonyms: inadequate, insufficient.
adjacent, a. adjoining, contiguous.
adjoining, a. contiguous, adjacent, neighboring.
adjustment, n. adaptation, regulation, settlement.
admissible, a. allowable, permissible. Antonym: inadmissible.
admit, v. acknowledge, confess, concede; allow, permit. Antonyms: repulse, reject, refuse.
admittance, n. admission.
ado, n. fuss, bustle, stir, excitement, pother.
adolescence, n. nonage, juniority, minority, youth.
adopt, v. father, affiliate; espouse, support, maintain.
adoption, n. affiliation, fathering; espousal.
adorn, v. decorate, beautify, embellish, deck, ornament, grace, garnish, bedizen, bedeck, bestud, beset, emblazon. Antonyms: disfigure, mar, deform.
adornment, n. ornamentation, decoration. Antonyms: disfigurement, defacement.
adrift, a. and adv. drifting, derelict, lost.
adulterate, v. sophisticate.
adulterated, a. adulterate, impure, sophisticated.
adulteration, n. sophistication.
adultery, n. infidelity, criminal conversation.
advance, n. progress, progression, march, advancement, promotion, preferment, elevation, appreciation, enhancement; overture, tender, proposal, proffer, offer. Antonyms: retreat, retrogression, decline, retrogradation, deterioration.
advance, v. progress, increase; promote, elevate; enhance, augment. Antonyms: retreat, retrograde, decline, deteriorate.
advance guard. vanguard, van.
advancement, n. progress, progression; promotion, preferment, exaltation, aggrandizement, furtherance.
advantage, n. vantage-ground; superiority, mastery, ascendency; benefit, avail, profit. Antonym: disadvantage.
adventurous, a. adventuresome, temerarious, venturous.
adversary, n. enemy, foe, antagonist, opponent.
adversity, n. misfortune, buffeting, disaster, affliction, reverses, trouble.
advertise, v. announce, publish, proclaim, trumpet.
advertisement, n. announcement.
advice, n. counsel, admonition, monition, recommendation; information, tidings, report. Associated words: admonitory, mentorial, monitorial.
advisable, a. expedient, desirable, befitting. Antonym: inadvisable.
advise, v. counsel, admonish, warn; apprise, inform, notify, acquaint, tell; advise with, consult, confer.
advisedly, adv. purposely, intentionally, designedly, deliberately, knowingly.
advisement, n. consideration, deliberation, consultation.
adviser, n. counselor, mentor, monitor, admonitor.
advocate, n. defender, apologist, vindicator, propagandist, upholder, promoter.
aërial, a. atmospheric; aëriform, vaporous, ethereal, empyreal, empyrean.
affability, n. courteousness, civility, complaisance, sociability, graciousness.
affable, a. courteous, sociable, gracious, cordial, benign, complaisant, accessible. Antonyms: inaffable, discourteous.
affect, v. act upon, move, touch, influence, melt; concern, bear upon, interest; dispose, turn, incline.
affectation, n. mannerism, pretension, puppetry, simulation.
affected, a. assumed, feigned, simulated, unnatural. Antonyms: unaffected, sincere, natural, unfeigned.
affecting, a. touching, moving, pathetic, piteous.
affectionate, a. devoted, fond, loving, ardent.
affidavit, n. deposition. Associated words: affiant, deponent, jurant, depose.
affiliation, n. adoption, connection, association.
affirm, v. assert (positively), aver, asseverate, state.
affirmation, n. assertion, averment, asseveration.
affirmative, a. confirmative, ratifying, approving.
affix, v. subjoin, annex, append.
afflict, v. persecute, distress, scourge, trouble, harass.
affliction, n. tribulation, adversity, trouble, buffeting, bereavement, hardship, visitation, scourge, distress, misfortune.
affront, n. indignity, insult, outrage, contumely, offense.
aflutter, a. agitated, perturbed, discomposed, excited. Antonyms: calm, composed.
aforethought, a. designed, prepense, premeditated, deliberate, intentional.
aforethought, n. premeditation.
afraid, a. alarmed, fearful, timid, timorous, apprehensive, scared, diffident. Antonyms: fearless, unafraid, intrepid, bold, undaunted, temerarious.
afresh, adv. again, anew, de novo, newly.
after, a. next, subsequent, succeeding, following, later.
after all. nevertheless.
afterbirth, n. secundines; heam (afterbirth of a beast).
after-birth, a. post-natal.
after-death, a. post-mortem, posthumous.
after-dinner, a. post-prandial.
after-marriage, a. post-nuptial, post-connubial.
aftermath, n. rowen, eddish, lattermath, eagrass, etch rowett.
afternoon, a. post-meridian.
after the flood. post-diluvian, post-diluvial.
after the war. post-bellum.
age, n. maturity, seniority; epoch, period, time; century; eon; climacteric; old age, dotage, senescence, senility, decrepitude, superannuation; longevity. Associated words: nostology, geratology, geromorphism, coetaneous, coeval, contemporaneous.
agency, n. instrumentality, operation, action, mediation, means.
agent, n. representative, canvasser, substitute, deputy, factor, procurator, syndic, go-between, commissioner, proctor, emissary, envoy, solicitor, negotiator. Antonyms: principal, chief.
aggrandize, v. exalt.
aggrandizement, n. exaltation.
aggravate, v. intensify, heighten, enhance, increase; exasperate, irritate, provoke.
aggravation, n. enhancement, heightening; (Colloq.) exasperation, provocation, irritation.
aggregate, n. mass, whole, total.
aggregation, n. collection, accumulation, mass.
aghast, a. astounded, terrified, dismayed, horror-struck.
agile, a. nimble, spry, active, lively.
agility, n. spryness, nimbleness, activity.
agitate, v. disturb, shake, unsettle; excite, perturb, disconcert; discuss, consider.
agitation, n. commotion, disturbance, perturbation, excitement, flustration, discomposure, unrest, turmoil, estuation; discussion, ventilation.
agitator, n. incendiary, firebrand.
agree, v. concur, accord, chime, acquiesce, harmonize; accede, comply, assent, consent, grant; stipulate, promise, compromise; correspond, coincide, comport, tally, conform, match. Antonyms: disagree, differ, higgle, chaffer. See disagree.
agreeable, a. pleasant, grateful, gratifying, pleasurable, enjoyable, congenial; suitable, conformable to, compatible, consonant, befitting. Antonyms: See disagreeable.
agreement, n. concurrence, consensus, harmony, compatibility, acquiescence, accord, concord, conformity, coincidence, unanimity, unison, corroboration, correspondence; contract, treaty, stipulation, protocol, compact, collusion, cartel (Mil.). Antonyms: disagreement, dissension, discrepancy, variance, opposition, incompatibility.
agriculture, n. husbandry, farming, terra-culture, geoponics, agronomy.
agriculturist, n. husbandman, farmer, agriculturalist, agronomist.
aground, adv. stranded.
aid, n. assistance, coöperation, succor, relief, furtherance, help, subsidy, subvention, patronage; assistant, helper; aid-de-camp.
aid, v. assist, succor, coöperate, befriend, promote, abet, help.
aider, n. assistant, coadjutor, auxiliary, accessory, abettor, coöperator, helper.
ailment, n. malady, disorder, complaint, illness.
aim, n. object, purpose, design, aspiration, end, goal.
aimless, a. drifting, purposeless, random, objectless, desultory.
air, n. atmosphere. Associated words: oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, ether, aërology, aërologist, aërometry, aëroscopy, aërometer, aërography, aëriferous, aërodynamics, aërial, aërophobia, azote, barograph, barometer, cyanometry, hermetic, hermetically, meteorology, ozone, neon, pneumatic, aërator, pneumatics, pneumotherapy, hygrometry, pneumatology, xenon, ventilator, aërostat, ariel, aëronautics, aëronautical.
air, n. melody, tune, descant, aria, song; publicity, vent; appearance, look, bearing, mien, demeanor, aspect, deportment; semblance, style.
air, v. ventilate; aërate, aërify; display, expose, flaunt.
airhole, n. vent, vent hole, bung, spile hole; spiracle.
airiness, n. aëriality, unsubstantiality; gayety, vivacity, buoyancy, sprightliness.
airing, n. ventilation; aëration, aërification; display, flaunting, exposure.
air plant. aërophyte epiphyte.
airy, a. aërial, aëriform, ethereal, atmospheric, pneumatic, unsubstantial; breezy, windy, ventilated; visionary, unreal; vivacious, sprightly; garish, jaunty, flaunting.
akin, a. (Used after the noun) consanguineous, kindred, cognate, agnate, related, congenial.
alarm, v. terrify, frighten, scare, appall, daunt, unnerve, intimidate.
alarm, n. warning, signal; apprehension, terror, consternation trepidation, fright, panic, dismay.
alarm-bell, n. tocsin, alarum.
alarming, a. startling, ominous, terrifying, frightful. Antonym: reassuring.
albinoism, n. albinism, leucopathy.
alcohol, n. ethyl alcohol, methol, spirit of wine, rectified spirit. Associated words: alcoholism, spirituous, alcoholic, vinification, vinificator, methilepsia, dipsomania, dipsomaniac, fusel, methyl, methylate, methylated.
ale inspector. aleconner, aletaster.
alert, a. vigilant, watchful, wary, attentive.
alien, n. foreigner.
alien, a. foreign; adverse, inconsistent, unallied, incongruous remote.
alienate, v. transfer, demise, assign; estrange, disaffect, wean.
alienation, n. transfer (of title), demise; estrangement, disaffection.
alight, v. dismount.
alike, a. similar, analogous, homogeneous, resemblant uniform, homologous.
alimentary canal. enteron.
alive, a. living, quick, animated, instinct.
alkali flat. playa.
all, n. the whole, totality, aggregate, total, entirety.
allay, v. appease, alleviate, pacify, mollify, mitigate, moderate, assuage, soothe, temper, palliate, abate, lessen, reduce, ease. Antonyms: intensify, aggravate, heighten, rouse.
all-creating, a. omnific.
all-devouring, a. omnivorous.
allegiance, n. fealty, loyalty, devotion, fidelity.
alleviate, v. mitigate, mollify, lessen, allay, assuage moderate, relieve.
alleviation, n. mitigation, palliation, assuagement, relief, moderation.
alleviative, a. palliative, mitigative, assuasive.
alley, n. passage; lane, byway; cul-de-sac (blind alley).
all hollow. (Slang) completely, entirely.
alliance, n. union, coalition, federation, confederacy, league; affinity, affiliation, connection, relationship.
all-knowing, a. omniscient.
allot, v. apportion, mete out, assign.
allotment, n. apportionment, assignment.
allow, v. permit, consent to; tolerate, suffer, endure.
allowable, a. permissible, admissible.
allowance, n. permission, concession, admittance, authorization, sanction, tolerance, sufferance, connivance, leave, assent; extenuation; discount, rebate, deduction, annuity, tontine; stipend; alimony. Antonyms: disallowance, prohibition, refusal, injunction, embargo.
alloy, n. amalgam, alloyage; adulteration.
all-powerful, a. omnipotent, almighty.
all-producing, a. omniferous, omniparient, omniparous.
all-seeing, a. omnispective.
allspice, n. pimento.
allude, v. refer, advert, suggest.
allure, v. entice, lure, tempt, decoy, seduce, tweedle.
allurement, n. enticement, lure, temptation, seduction, decoy, inducement.
alluring, a. charming, tempting, seductive, attractive, fascinating. Antonyms: repellent, repugnant, unattractive.
ally, n. confederate, co-worker, auxiliary, abettor, assistant.
ally, v. associate, confederate, join.
almanac, n. ephemeris (Astron.).
almightiness, n. omnipotence.
almighty, a. omnipotent.
alms, n. dole, charity. Associated words: eleemosynary, almoner, almonry, corban.
alone, a. (Used after the noun) single, solitary, isolated, unaccompanied, companionless; unique, unmatched, incomparable. Antonyms: accompanied, in company.
aloud, adv. audibly. Antonyms: inaudibly, sotto voce.
alphabet, n. symbols, letters, crossrow; rudiments, elements, a b c. Associated words: abecedary, alphabetic, alphabetism, alphabetize, primer, abecedarian.
Alps, n. pl. Associated words: Alpine, cisalpine, trans-alpine, alpenstock, alpestrine.
also, adv. besides, too, further, in addition, furthermore, moreover.
altar, n. Associated words: reredos, altarage, mensa, retable, chancel, ciborium, pyx, dorsal, dossal, piscina, antependium, baldachin, hagioscope, predella, frontal.
alter, v. See change; (Colloq.) geld, castrate.
altogether, adv. wholly, completely, unconditionally, thoroughly, utterly, entirely, totally, in toto; in the aggregate, en masse, ensemble.
always, adv. perpetually, continually, forever, everlastingly, evermore, unceasingly, for aye; invariably, constantly, uniformly. Antonyms: intermittently, occasionally, periodically.
amanuensis, n. secretary.
amass, v. accumulate, collect, gather, heap up.
amaze, v. astonish, astound, surprise, stagger, dumfound, flabbergast.
amazement, n. astonishment, confusion, surprise, flabbergastation.
amazing, a. astonishing, striking, astounding, marvelous, wonderful.
ambassador, n. plenipotentiary, legate, envoy, minister (of the highest rank).
ambiguous, a. indefinite, delphic, equivocal, vague, doubtful.
ambition, n. aspiration, emulation.
ambitious, a. aspiring, emulous, desirous; showy, pretentious, ostentatious. Antonyms: unambitious, indifferent.
amenable, a. answerable, accountable, responsible; submissive, tractable, responsive. Antonyms: unamenable, unaccountable, disobedient, insubmissive.
amends, n. pl. reparation, indemnification, restitution, atonement, redress, indemnity.
amenity, n. agreeableness, amiability, pleasantness, graciousness.
amiable, a. gracious, good-natured, benign, obliging, benignant, affable. Antonyms: See unamiable.
amicable, a. friendly, peaceable, harmonious.
amiss, adv. improperly, incorrectly, wrongly.
amity, n. friendship, harmony, comity, good will.
amount, n. total, sum.
ample, a. spacious, extensive, roomy; abundant, copious, plentiful; diffusive, prolix, protracted.
amuse, v. entertain, divert, beguile, recreate, please.
amusement, n. diversion, entertainment, beguilement, recreation, relaxation, pastime, merriment, fun, sport, pleasure.
amusing, a. pleasing, diverting, laughable, entertaining, farcical, droll, divertive.
analogy, n. resemblance, similarity, parallelism, agreement, correspondence.
analyze, v. decompound, decompose.
anathema, n. denunciation, malediction, curse, execration, condemnation.
anathematize, v. curse, denounce, comminate, maledict.
anatomy, n. dissection; body, structure, skeleton; somatology.
ancestor, n. forefather, progenitor, primogenitor, forbear. Associated words: atavic, atavism, lineal, collateral, hereditary, heredity, genealogy, genealogist.
ancestral, a. patrimonial, hereditary.
ancestry, n. lineage, descent, pedigree, stock, family: ancestors, progenitors.
anchor, n. (small) kedge, grapnel, grapline, killock.
anchorage, n. mooring.
ancient, a. old, antiquated, archaic, antique, pristine, primitive, archæan.
ancient writings. Associated words: diplomatics, paleography, paleographer, paleographist, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic.
angel, n. seraph, cherub, eudemon, archangel, spirit. Associated words: angelology, angelophany, dulia, angelhood, angelize, angelolatry, domination.
angelic, a. seraphic, cherubic, celestial, angelical, heavenly, divine.
anger, n. indignation, fury, rage, wrath, exasperation, dudgeon, ire, animosity, umbrage, resentment, passion, choler, displeasure, vexation, grudge, pique, flare-up, spleen, tiff, fume, offense, frenzy, tantrum, temper.
anger, v. enrage, incense, irritate, displease, ruffle, offend, exasperate, infuriate, madden, inflame, vex, provoke.
angle, v. fish; intrigue, scheme.
angle-worm, n. earthworm, dewworm, lumbricus.
angry, a. enraged, wroth, furious, passionate, incensed, exasperated, raging, infuriated, piqued, choleric, wrathful, hot, irate, indignant, provoked, resentful, ireful, in high dudgeon.
anguish, n. agony, distress, torture, misery, pang, remorse.
animal, a. brute, beastly, brutal, brutish, bestial; carnal, physical, fleshly.
animal, n. being, creature; brute, beast. Associated words: zoölogy, zoölogist, zoögraphy, zoöpathology, zoölatry, zoöphilist, zoöphily, zoötomy, zoiatrics, zoölogical, zoo, warren, taxidermy, taxidermist, veterinarian, veterinarianism, menagerie, pound, animalism, animalize, animalization.
animals, n. pl. (of an area or epoch) fauna.
animals, n. pl. (invisible or nearly so) animalcules.
animals, n. pl. vermin (noxious little animals).
animal spirits. health and energy, frolicsomeness, sportiveness, vivacity, life.
animate, v. vitalize, vivify, quicken, inspirit, stimulate, rouse.
animated, a. lively, spirited, vigorous, vivacious, gay, brisk.
animation, n. vitalization, spiritedness, vivacity, life, gayety, buoyancy.
animosity, n. malignity, rancor, hatred, virulence.
animus, n. spirit, mind, temper.
ankle, n. tarsus. Associated word: tarsal.
ankle bone. astragalus, tarsale.
annals, n. pl. records (historical), archives, chronicles, rolls, history, registers.
announce, v. proclaim, publish, blazon, advertise, trumpet, noise abroad, promulgate, herald. Antonyms: suppress, reserve, withhold, secrete, hush up.
announcement, n. proclamation, publication, advertisement, promulgation, manifesto, notice, pronunciamento annunciation. Antonyms: suppression, reservation, secretion.
announcer, n. proclaimer, herald.
annoy, v. molest, trouble, plague, hector, bother, vex, pester, aggravate, chafe.
annoyance, n. molestation, vexation, irritation, harassment; plague, nuisance, bore, torment, infliction, trouble, thorn.
annoying, a. troublesome, vexatious, carking.
annul, v. abrogate, nullify, rescind, invalidate, abolish, reverse, disannul, revoke.
annulment, n. abrogation, nullification, abolition, invalidation, revocation.
anointment, n. anointing, embrocation, unction; ointment, unguent.
anomalous, a. abnormal, irregular, aberrant, unnatural, exceptional.
anomaly, n. irregularity, abnormity, deviation.
another, n. Associated words: vicarious, deputy, substitute, delegate, proxy, delegation.
answer, n. reply, response, rescript, repartee, rescription, rejoinder, retort; refutation, defense; solution.
answer, v. reply, respond, rejoin, retort.
answerable, a. liable, amenable, accountable, responsible; refutable. Antonyms: unanswerable, unaccountable, irrefutable.
answering, a. responsive, responsory, redditive (Gram.).
ant, n. emmet, pismire, formican; termite (white ant).
antagonist, n. opponent, foe, adversary, assailant, rival, foeman.
antagonistic, a. contradictory, repugnant, conflicting, renitent, adverse.
antecedence, n. priority, precedence, anteriority. Antonym: posteriority.
antecedent, a. anterior, preceding, prior, previous. Antonym: posterior.
anterior, a. prior, before, antecedent, previous.
antetype, n. prototype.
antic, n. caper, dido, trick, gambol, prank; clown, zany, harlequin, buffoon.
anticipate, v. expect, forestall, preclude, obviate.
anticipation, n. expectation, preclusion, preoccupation, foretaste, antepast, forethought.
antidote, n. counterpoison, alexipharmic, alexiteric; corrective, remedy, cure.
antipathy, n. aversion, enmity, dislike, hatred; contrariety, repugnancy.
antiquarian, n. antiquary, archæologist.
antiquated, a. archaic, antique, obsolete, ancient, old-fashioned.
antique, a. archaic, old, antiquated, ancient.
antiquity, n. Associated words: archæology, paleography, paleology, paleontology.
antler, n. Associated words: deciduous, troching, croche, burr, fraying, tyne, velvet.
antonym, n. counterterm.
anxiety, n. solicitude, apprehension, disquietude, foreboding. Antonyms: assurance, indifference, calmness, satisfaction, unconcern.
anxious, a. solicitous, apprehensive, concerned, worried. Antonyms: unconcerned, assured, indifferent.
apathetic, a. passionless, unfeeling, unconcerned, indifferent.
apathy, n. dispassion, indifference, unconcern, insensibility.
ape, n. simian, pongo; gorilla, chimpanzee, orang-outang, baboon, troglodyte. Associated words: simian, simial, pithecoid, pithecan.
aphis, n. puceron, aphidian, plant louse; pl. aphides, aphidæ. Associated words: aphidian, aphidivorous, aphidophagous.
aplomb, n. self-possession, assurance.
apologizer, n. apologist, vindicator, defender, advocate.
apology, n. justification, extenuation, defense, vindication, amende honorable; makeshift, substitute, excuse.
apostasy, n. defection, unfaithfulness, renunciation, desertion (traitorous).
apostate, n. deserter, pervert, renegade, turncoat, backslider, runagate.
apparent, a. visible, perceptible; palpable, manifest, obvious, evident; seeming, ostensible, specious.
apparition, n. specter, ghost, phantom, wraith, phantasm, illusion, chimera, shade.
appeal, n. entreaty, application, petition; resort, recourse. Associated words: appellant, appellate, appellancy, appellatory, appellee, appellor.
appealing, a. imploring, beseeching, entreating, supplicating.
appear, v. emerge; seem, look, loom, resemble.
appearance, n. emersion, emergence; phenomenon, phase, aspect, presence, look, air, semblance.
appeasable, a. placable, pacifiable, forgiving. Antonyms: unappeasable, implacable.
appease, v. conciliate, pacify, tranquilize, calm, propitiate, assuage, mollify, reconcile, placate, mitigate.
appeasement, n. pacification, propitiation, conciliation, reconciliation, placation.
appendage, n. concomitant, pendicle, adjunct, appanage, appurtenance, appendix, attachment.
appetite, n. desire for food, hunger; desire, appetency, craving, passion, appetence. Antonyms: inappetency, indifference, aversion, distaste.
appetizer, n. relish, zest, sauce.
applauders, n. pl. claque (hired applauders).
applauding, a. plauditory, plausive, acclamatory, cheering.
applause, n. acclamation, éclat, plaudit, acclaim, cheers. Antonyms: denunciation, decrial, hooting, derision.
apple, n. costard, codling.
apple of the eye. pupil.
apple-shaped, a. pomiform.
apple worm. codling moth.
appliance, n. device, apparatus, facility.
applicable, a. relevant, pertinent, apposite, germane, appropriate, befitting. Antonyms: inapplicable, irrelevant, inapposite.
applicant, n. candidate, petitioner, aspirant, suitor.
application, n. applying; use, practice, employment, exercise; relevancy; assiduity, persistency; request, petition, appeal, solicitation.
apply, v. utilize, employ, practice.
appoint, v. establish, prescribe, ordain, enjoin, assign, allot; deputize, depute, commission, delegate, nominate
appointment, n. deputation, commissioning, delegation; engagement, tryst; assignation; equipment, furniture.
apportion, v. allot, partition.
apportionment, n. allotment, partition.
appreciable, a. perceptible, discernible. Antonym: inappreciable.
appreciate, v. value, esteem, prize.
appreciation, n. valuation, estimation, esteem. Antonyms: depreciation, inappreciation.
apprehend, v. arrest, seize; understand, recognize, consider believe; anticipate, dread, fear.
apprehension, n. seizure; arrest; opinion, conception, belief, notion; understanding; fear, dread, anxiety, solicitude, alarm.
apprehensive, a. discerning, apt; fearful, anxious, worried.
approachable, a. accessible. Antonym: unapproachable.
appropriate, a. fitting, proper, applicable, apposite, pertinent, fit. Antonyms: See inappropriate.
approval, n. approbation, sanction, commendation, liking, indorsement. Antonyms: See disapproval.
approve, v. commend, sanction, countenance, favor, like.
apron, n. pinafore, tier; boot.
apt, a. fit, relevant, appropriate, germane, applicable, felicitous, pertinent, apropos; likely, liable; clever, intelligent, bright, deft. Antonyms: See inapt.
aptitude, n. proneness, propensity, leaning, proclivity, inclination. Antonym: inaptitude.
aptness, n. appropriateness, pertinence; intelligence, cleverness.
arbitrary, a. tyrannical, absolute, imperious, unrestrained, dictatorial.
arbitrator, n. arbiter, umpire, judge, referee.
arbor, n. bower, pergola, trellis.
arch, a. greatest, chief; cunning, roguish, mischievous, sportive.
arch, v. vault, concamerate.--n. concameration, fornication.
archæologist, n. antiquary, antiquarian, paleologist.
archæology, n. paleology.
archbishop, n. primate, metropolitan.
arched, a. vaulted, camerated, forniciform, fornicated.
archery, n. Associated word: toxophilite.
archives, n. pl. public records, registers, muniments.
ardent, a. zealous, passionate, fervent, warm, enthusiastic, sanguine, vehement, impassioned; spirituous, alcoholic; fiery, hot, burning, flagrant, intense.
ardor, n. eagerness, zeal, heartiness, impetuosity, fervor, vehemence, empressement, intensity, warmth. Antonyms: indifference, apathy.
arduous, a. onerous, difficult, laborious, wearisome.
arena, n. amphitheater, ring, field.
arguable, a. debatable, disputable, moot, contestable.
argue, v. reason, plead, remonstrate, expostulate; contend, dispute, controvert, moot, discuss; prove, evince, betoken, indicate, imply, denote.
arguer n. reasoner, disputant, debater, controversialist.
argument, n. reasoning, controversy, argumentation, discussion, debate, dispute, disputation, polemic.
argumentative, a. ratiocinative; disputatious, polemical, controversial, dialectical.
arid, a. dry, barren, unproductive, parched, sterile; uninteresting, dull, unsuggestive.
aridity, n. dryness, drought, unproductiveness, sterility; dullness, unsuggestiveness.
arise, v. mount, ascend, rise; proceed, issue, spring, originate.
aristocracy, n. peerage, patriciate, nobility, patrician order. Antonyms: commonalty, yeomanry, proletariate, bourgeoisie, peasantry, rabble.
aristrocrat, n. patrician, noble, peer, grandee, lord.
aristocratic, a. patrician, noble, titled. Antonyms: plebeian, proletarian.
arm, n. brachium (upper arm), antibrachium (forearm); (bones of the arm) humerus, radius, ulna, epipodiale. Associated words: akimbo, solen, cradle, triceps, chevron, brassard, pinion, discriminal, gesticulate, gesticulation, gesture, brachial, chelidon, elbow, biceps.
arm, n. branch; inlet (of the sea), fiord, firth, frith, cove, estuary; projection.
arm, v. equip (with weapons), fortify, strengthen.
armhole, n. scye (Cutter's term).
armor, n. mail, panoply, armature, armory, cuirass, jambeaux, corselet, hauberk.
armor-bearer, n. armiger.
armory, n. arsenal.
armpit, n. axilla.
arms, n. pl. weapons, armor, artillery, accoutrements, guns, ordnance; escutcheon, scutcheon, ensigns armorial, coat-of-arms.
army, n. troops, force, armament; host, legions, throng. Associated words: militia, military, strategy, logistics, generalship, tactics, regiment, squad, company, stratography, flank, barracks, bivouac, muster, caisson, ploy, ployment, deploy, deployment, van, mobilize, mobilization demobilize, demobilization, etat major, impedimenta, munitions.
army peddler. sutler.
aromatic, a. fragrant, redolent, balmy, spicy, savory.
arouse, v. excite, rouse, animate, stimulate, awaken, revive, inspirit.
arrange, v. dispose, range, classify, marshal, methodize; prearrange, devise, contrive, premeditate; adjust, settle, determine.
arrangement, n. disposition, distribution, collocation, classification; preparation, preconcertion, settlement, adjustment, agreement; economy, management, regulation. Antonyms: disarrangement, confusion, chaos.
arrest, v. apprehend; stop, check, restrain; stunt, dwarf.
arrest, n. apprehension, capture, detention; custody, duress; stoppage, restraint, interruption, hindrance, prevention. Associated words: capias, warrant.
arrogance, n. hauteur, superciliousness, insolence, haughtiness, lordliness, contumely.
arrogant, a. See haughty.
arrow, n. dart; matras. Associated words: barb, ouabain, sagittal, sagittary, quiver, sheaf, belomancy.
arrowhead, n. Associated words: cuneiform, sagittate.
art, n. (fine arts) music, painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, engraving; (liberal arts) grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy, the sciences, philosophy, history; craft, dexterity, clevernes, ingenuity, cunning, artifice. Associated words: technical, paleotechnics, technics, technic, intransigeant, intransigeance, artist, artistic, artistry.
artful, a. designing, crafty, diplomatic, disingenuous, ingenious, dexterous, politic.
article, n. thing, commodity; portion, clause, stipulation, detail, item; contribution, piece, essay, feature.
articulation, n. joint; utterance, pronunciation, enunciation.
artifice, n. stratagem, finesse, craft, guile, subtlety, wile, machination, ruse, diplomacy.
artificial, a. factitious; feigned, affected, assumed, fictitious, counterfeit, spurious.
artisan, n. artificer, craftsman, mechanic, handcraftsman.
artist's workshop. studio, atelier.
artless, a. ingenuous, naïve, guileless, simple, sincere, unaffected, undesigning.
artlessness, n. ingenuousness, naïveté, guilelessness, sincerity, candor, innocence.
ascent, n. rising, ascension; elevation, height.
ascetic, n. hermit, recluse, eremite, anchoret, solitary. Antonyms: voluptuary, sensualist, sybarite, worldling, epicure, gormand.
ascribable, a. attributable, assignable, chargeable, imputable, referrible.
ascribe, v. attribute, assign, impute.
ascription, n. attribution, imputation.
ashamed, a. abashed, confused, mortified, disconcerted. Antonyms: unashamed, brazen-faced.
ashes, n. pl. cinders; lapilli. Associated words: ashery, mortuary urn, spodomancy, leach.
ashes of barilla. pulverine.
ashy, a. ashen, cineraceous, cineritious, cinereous.
Asia, n. Associated words: Asiatic, Asiaticism, Eurasian, Eurasiatic, Asian.
ask, v. inquire, question, interrogate, quiz, catechize; request, solicit, petition, supplicate, entreat, desire, beg, seek, beseech, crave, implore, importune, dun, apply; require, demand, expect, challenge, exact, claim; invite, bid.
askance, adv. sidewise, obliquely, askant, askew, asquint.
asker, n. petitioner, inquirer, questioner, solicitor, solicitant, suitor, supplicant, postulant.
askew, adv. awry, askance, asquint, obliquely, sidewise, askant.
asking, n. petition, solicitation, inquiry, quiz, interrogation, question, instance, entreaty, supplication, request, importunity, application, imploration, invitation.
aslant, adv. obliquely.
aspect, n. appearance, look; view, scene, prospect; position, posture.
aspiring, a. ambitious, emulous, aspirant.
asquint, adv. obliquely, awry, askance, askew.
ass, n. donkey, jackass. Associated word: bray.
assail, v. attack, assault, oppugn; asperse, defame, vilify, malign.
assailant, n. assailer, aggressor, assaulter, antagonist.
assault, n. onset, onslaught, charge, aggression, assailing, invasion, incursion.
assaulter, n. assailant.
assay, n. Associated words: docimology, docimacy, docimastic.
assemble, v. convene, congregate, gather, meet; muster, convoke.
assembly, n. concourse, congregation, assemblage, meeting; convention, convocation, congress, synod, diet, council, caucus, consistory, conclave, conventicle, conference; galaxy.
assent, n. consent, agreement, acquiescence, concurrence; placet. Antonyms: dissent, declension.
assent, v. concur, acquiesce, concede, yield, consent. Antonyms: dissent, refuse.
assert, v. affirm, state, say, aver, predicate, asseverate, maintain, declare.
assertion, n. affirmation, statement, declaration, averment
assertive, a. positive, peremptory, declaratory, affirmative
assets, n. pl. resources, property, effects, possessions.
assiduity, n. sedulity, diligence, sedulousness, perseverance
assiduous, a. sedulous, diligent, persistent, industrious, unremitting.
assign, v. allot, apportion, appoint; transfer, make over, convey: advance, adduce, specify.
assignment, n. transfer, conveyance; apportionment, appointment, allotment, allocation, emplacement; determination specification, adducing.
assish, a. asinine.
assishness, n. asininity.
assist, v. abet, coöperate with, aid. See help.
assistance, n. aid, succor, relief, coöperation, reinforcement, collaboration, subservience.
assistant, a. helping, auxiliary, subsidiary, coöperating, adjuvant.
assistant, n. helper, auxiliary, aider, coöperator, collaborator, coadjutor; abettor, aid, accessory, ally, adjuvant, adjunct, confrère, accomplice, confederate, subsidiary.
assisting, a. auxiliary, subsidiary, assistant.
associate, v. join, connect, affiliate; fraternize, consort, hobnob.
associate, n. companion, intimate, mate, fellow, consort, comrade, yoke-fellow, chum, crony, compeer; colleague, confrère, partner, collaborator, coöperator.
association, n. affiliation, connection, intimacy, conjunction, combination, participation, collaboration, collusion, coöperation, coadjuvancy; fraternity, sodality, syndicate, confraternity, league, corporation, guild. Antonyms: disassociation, disconnection.
assume, v. undertake; presume, presuppose, postulate, take for granted; arrogate, appropriate; affect, simulate, pretend, feign.
assumed, a. supposed, postulated; make-believe, pretended, feigned.
assuming, a. pretentious, presumptuous.
assurance, n. surety, promise; confidence, conviction, assuredness; effrontery, audacity, impudence; insurance.
astonish, v. amaze, stagger, astound, overwhelm, flabbergast (Jocular).
astonishing, a. amazing, astounding.
astonishment, n. amazement, surprise, wonder, flabbergastation (Jocular).
astraddle, adv. astride.
asylum, n. retreat, sanctuary.
Athanasian Creed. Quicunque, Quicunque vult.
athlete, n. gymnast, pancratist.
athletic, a. gymnastic, agonistic, pancratic; stalwart, muscular, able-bodied, brawny, lusty.
athletics, n. pl. gymnastics, athletism. Associated words: agonistics, stadium.
atom, n. monad, molecule, particle, bit, iota, grain, scrap, scintilla.
atomic, a. molecular.
atonable, a. expiable. Antonyms: unatonable, inexpiable.
atone, v. expiate.
atonement, n. expiation, amends, reparation, propitiation.
atoning, a. expiatory, propitiatory.
at short notice. summarily, promptly.
atrocious, a. heinous, flagitious, nefarious, felonious, infamous, outrageous.
atrocity, n. heinousness, enormity, nefariousness, flagrancy, crime, outrage.
attach, v. affix, annex, append, subjoin; distress, distrain, seize.
attachment, n. devotedness, devotion, adherence; adjunct appendage, appurtenance; seizure, distress.
attack, n. assault, onset, aggression, onslaught, invasion, escalade, siege, descent, charge, bombardment, fusillade, allonge, oppugnancy; access, fit.
attack, v. assault, assail, invade, charge, beset, storm, besiege, bombard, waylay; impugn, censure.
attain, v. achieve, compass, gain.
attainable, a. achievable, compassable, practicable, obtainable.
attainment, n. achievement, culmination, acquisition, accomplishment, acquirement.
attend, v. guard, look after; accompany, escort; pay regard, heed, listen.
attendant, a. consequent, accompanying, concomitant, attending.
attention, n. heed, regard, advertence, vigilance, circumspection, consideration, alertness, watchfulness, notice; civility, courtesy, deference, devoirs, addresses. Antonyms: inattention, inadvertence, slight, disregard.
attentive, a. heedful, observant, intent, mindful, wary, alert, circumspect, watchful; courteous, deferential, considerate. Antonyms: See inattentive.
attest, v. corroborate, confirm, authenticate, certify, indorse, ratify.
attestation, n. corroboration, witness, authentication, ratification, confirmation.
at the same time. simultaneous.--adv. simultaneously.
attic, n. garret, loft, cockloft.
attitude, n. posture, position, pose.
attract, v. allure, entice, draw, decoy, interest, engage, induce. Antonyms: repel, repulse, alienate, deter.
attraction, n. allurement, fascination, charm, inducement, witchery, magnetism, enticement, lure. Antonyms: repulsion, repellence, repugnance, antipathy.
attraction, n. chemism, affinity (chemical attraction).
attractive, a. alluring, engaging, enticing, magnetic, prepossessing, personable, winning, mesmeric, taking, seductive, bewitching. Antonyms: unattractive, repellent, repulsive, forbidding, repugnant.
attributable, a. ascribable, imputable, referrible, assignable, traceable.
attribute, v. ascribe, impute, assign, refer, trace.
attribute, n. characteristic, peculiarity, predicate; symbol.
at variance. bickering, contending, at loggerheads, dissenting.
auction, n. vendue.
audacious, a. presumptuous, impudent, insolent, brazen, unabashed. See bold.
augur, v. portend, forebode, presage, indicate, betoken.
augury, n. divination, prophecy; omen, portent, auspice, sign.
august, a. majestic, sublime, imposing, impressive, grand, pompous.
auspices, n. pl. protection, favor, guidance, patronage, charge.
auspicious, a. propitious. Antonym: inauspicious.
Austrian Parliament. Reichsrath.
authentic, a. genuine, trustworthy, authoritative, credible.
authenticate, v. verify, attest, confirm.
authentication, n. verification, attestation, confirmation.
author, n. creator, originator, father; littérateur, writer.
authority, n. dominion, jurisdiction, authorization, right; prestige, influence, ascendency, supremacy; precedent; justification, warrant; permission, sanction, permit, license, warranty; credibility, reliability, trustworthiness. Associated word: purview.
authorize, v. empower, commission; sanction, warrant, justify, confirm.
authorless, a. anonymous.
autocracy, n. absolutism, despotism, dictatorship; self government, autonomy.
autocratic, a. absolute, despotic, arbitrary.
automatic, a. self-propelling, self-moving; involuntary, mechanical.
autopsy, n. necropsy, post-mortem examination.
auxiliary, n. assistant, coadjutor, helper.
avarice, n. cupidity.
avaricious, a. covetous, greedy.
average, a. medium, ordinary, mediocre, middling.
averse, a. disinclined, indisposed, reluctant, loath.
aversion, n. dislike, antipathy, disinclination, loathing, abhorrence.
avid, a. eager, greedy, desirous.
avidity, n. eagerness, greediness, intense desire.
avoid, v. evade, shun, elude, eschew, shirk, parry.
avoidance, n. evasion, eluding, eschewing, parrying.
awaken, v. wake, awake, rouse, arouse, excite.
aware, a. cognizant, conscious, apprised, mindful.
away, adv. hence, absent, gone, aside, off; (Colloq.) on, uninterruptedly.
awe, n. veneration, reverence.--v. overawe, intimidate.
awful, a. appalling, terrible, dreadful, frightful, grewsome, horrible, shocking, heinous, flagrant; awe-inspiring, majestic; (Slang) immoderate, great, serious, flagrant, egregious, excessive.
awfully, adv. fearfully, dreadfully; (Slang) very, excessively, extremely, exceedingly.
awkward, a. clumsy, ungraceful, bungling, maladroit, gawky, inelegant, ungainly, loutish, unskillful, unwieldy, uncourtly; embarrassing. Antonyms: graceful, dexterous, deft, courtly, elegant, adroit, clever.
awning, n. sun-shade, canopy, baldaquin, tilt.
awry, a. distorted, wry, crooked, asquint, askant, perverse.
ax, n. adz, mattock, broadax, battleax, dolabra, hatchet, poleax, bipennis.
axiom, n. truism; postulate.
axle, n. arbor, axletree, spindle (of a wheel), axis; gudgeon.
Baa, n. bleat, bleating.--v. bleat.
babble, v. prattle, gabble; murmur, purl. See talk.
babble, n. prattle, gabble, chatter, prating; murmur, purl.
babbler, n. prater, chatterer, prattler, tattler.
baby, n. infant, babe, suckling, nursling. See child.
baby, v. humor, fondle, indulge, coddle, pet, cosset.
baby, a. infantine, infantile, babyish.
babyhood, n. infancy.
bachelor, n. celibate.
bachelorhood, n. bachelorship, bachelorism, celibacy.
back, n. reverse; posteriors, fundament, buttocks, seat, rump, breech; ridge. Associated words: supine, resupine, resupination, dorsigerous, dorsiferous, crick, dorsiparous, dos-à-dos, tergiferous, lumbago, notalgia, lumbar, aitchbone, loins, dorsicumbent.
back, a. posterior, dorsal, notal, tergal, neural; remote, distant, frontier; rear, reverse.
back, adv. backward, rearward; in arrear; in return, in restitution, in requital.
back, v. support, second, maintain, abet, subsidize, coöperate, with; mount; indorse.
backbite, v. defame (clandestinely), malign, traduce, vilify, calumniate, scandalize.
backbiter, n. defamer, detractor, maligner, vilifier, slanderer, calumniator.
backbiting, n. defamation, vilification, traducement, calumny, slander (secret).
backbone, n. spine, spinal column, rachis, chine. Associated words: vertebræ, Vertebrata, vertebra, vertebral spinal. See spine.
backbone, n. moral principle, steadfastness, stability, firmness, stamina.
backboned, a. vertebrate, vertebrated. Antonyms: invertebrate, invertebrated.
backdown, n. surrender, recession, withdrawal.
backhouse, n. outhouse, privy, necessary, water-closet, jakes, latrine (in camp or hospital).
backing, n. support, coöperation, seconding, assistance, subsidy.
backing out. withdrawal, retreat, recession, retirement.
back out. (Colloq.) withdraw, retreat, resile, recede, retire.
backset, n. discouragement, setback, check, repulse, rebuff.
backslide, v. break faith, apostatize, retrograde, relapse, desert, fall away.
backslider, n. apostate, renegade, deserter, recreant, pervert.
backsliding, n. apostasy, defection, relapse, recidivism, recreancy, retrogradation.
backsliding, a. apostate, renegade, retrogressive, recidivous, recreant, unfaithful.
backward, a. retrograde, retrogressive, reverse, regressive; retrospective; reluctant, averse, loath, disinclined, unwilling; dull, inapt; late, tardy, delayed; undeveloped.
backwardness, n. reluctance, averseness, unwillingness, disinclination, hesitancy; inaptness, dullness; lateness, tardiness; undevelopment.
bacon, n. Associated words: lardoon, bard, flitch, gammon, lard.
bad, a. evil, wicked, immoral, iniquitous, arrant, corrupt, depraved, sinful, base, demoralized, sinister, licentious, unprincipled, abandoned, graceless, vicious, incorrigible, unscrupulous, miscreant, reprobate, disreputable, rascal, scoundrel, profligate, knavish, naughty, malevolent, malicious, unrighteous, degrading, dissolute, libertine, hardened, wanton; injurious, prejudicial, pernicious, detrimental, baneful, unwholesome, baleful, deleterious, mischievous, noisome, malign, malignant, noxious, unpropitious, disadvantageous; offensive, serious, grave, severe, mortal; defective, imperfect, incompetent, inferior; untoward, depressing, unwelcome, adverse, grievous, unfavorable, inauspicious; infertile, inarable; barren, unproductive, worthless; hard, heavy, serious, irreparable, egregious; nefarious, felonious, infamous, villainous, heinous, flagrant, atrocious, flagitious.
badge, n. device, cognizance, emblem, ensign, brassard, cordon, star, insignia.
badinage, n. raillery (innocent), banter, persiflage, asteism.
badly, adv. poorly, unskillfully, wretchedly, grievously, imperfectly; very much; greatly.
badness, n. depravity, improbity, unscrupulousness, iniquity, immorality, turpitude, knavishness, villainy, peccancy, baseness, profligacy, venality, licentiousness, obliquity, pravity, degeneracy, viciousness, wantonness, criminality, libertinism, malevolence, incorrigibility, rascality, malignity, noxiousness, infamy, mischief.
baffle, v. foil, balk, checkmate, disconcert, frustrate, thwart, circumvent, nonplus.
bafflement, n. frustration, foiling, thwarting, circumvention, defeat, disconcertion.
baffling, a. disconcerting, frustrating, confusing, perplexing.
bag, n. sack, pouch, wallet, reticule, knapsack, pocket, cul-de-sac, haversack, portmanteau, poke, scrip, satchel, suitcase, quiver, valise, sporran, gunny sack; udder; cyst, vesicle, saccule, utricle, bladder.
bag, v. capture, entrap, catch.
baggage truck. lorrie, lorry.
bagpipe, n. doodlesack.
bail, n. security, surety, vadium.
bait, n. lure, enticement, inducement, temptation, decoy, allurement; kibblings.
balance, v. poise, librate; equal, counterpoise, counteract, counterbalance, countervail; adjust, equalize, square. Antonyms: unbalance, derange, preponderate.
balance, n. scales; equipoise, equilibrium, steadiness; surplus, excess, remainder, overplus; poise, equipoise; weighing, estimate. Antonyms: preponderance, deficit, deficiency.
bald, a. hairless, polled; tonsured; unadorned, literal, undisguised, unvarnished, unqualified; uncorroborated, unsupported, glaring, mere.
balderdash, n. flummery, nonsense, jargon, fustian, moonshine, twaddle, fudge.
baldness, n. alopecia. Associated word: alopecist.
balk, v. frustrate, baffle, foil, thwart, disappoint; jib.
balky, a. refractory, perverse, recalcitrant, contrary, stubborn.
ball, n. sphere, globe, orb, pellet; pome, pommel; base-ball, football, lacrosse, basket-ball, tether-ball; bullet, projectile, dejectile, missile; glomeration, conglobation; fandango (Mexico).
ballarag, v. (Slang) bully, threaten, browbeat, overbear, intimidate.
ballast, n. steadiness, self-control, equipoise, stability, judgment.
ballet, n. Associated words: choreograph, choreographer.
ballet-dancer, n. danseuse, coryphee, figurante.
balloon, n. aërostat.
ballooning, n. aëronautics, aërostation, balloonery.
balloonist, n. aëronaut, aërostat, ballooner.
balm, n. unguent, ointment; mitigant, anodyne, assuager, nepenthe, balsam.
balmy, a. aromatic, odoriferous, sweet-smelling, odorous, balsamic.
bamboozle, v. (Colloq.) cheat, humbug, impose upon, dupe.
ban, n. announcement, notice; curse, anathema, denunciation, malediction, execration; interdiction, proscription, interdict, taboo.
ban, v. curse, anathematize, execrate; interdict, forbid, proscribe, taboo.
banal, a. commonplace, platitudinous, hackneyed, trite.
banality, n. platitude, commonplace.
band, n. fillet, fetter, manacle, shackle, gyve; cincture, girth, swaddle; belt, zone, cestus; bandage, link, bond, vinculum, withe; company, crew, troop, gang, coterie; cabal, clique, club, junto, league; orchestra.
band, v. league, confederate, unite, clique.
bandage, n. ligature, deligation, fillet; capeline, fasciation, fascia, spica.
bandage, v. deligate, swathe.
bandit, n. outlaw, brigand, footpad, highwayman, marauder, desperado.
bang, v. thump, cudgel, maul; slam; resound, reëcho.
bang, n. thump, whack, rap, knock; clangor, clang.
banish, v. exile, expatriate, relegate; drive away, dismiss, expel.
banished person. exile, expatriate.
banishment, n. exile, expatriation, relegation, proscription, expulsion.
banister, n. baluster; pl. balustrade.
bank, n. mound, pile, ridge, dike, heap, drift, embankment, brink, shore, rivage, rim, brim, marge, strand; shallow, shoal, bar; levee; terreplein.
bank, v. embank, dike; pile up, heap up.
bankrupt, a. insolvent; depleted, impoverished. Antonym: solvent.
bankrupt, v. impoverish, ruin, break.
bankruptcy, n. insolvency. Antonym: solvency.
banner, n. flag, standard, gonfalon, ensign, oriflame, vexillum, banderole, colors, pavilion.
banquet, n. junket, regalement, feast.--v. feast, junket, regale.
banter, n. joking, jesting, pleasantry, badinage, chaff, raillery, persiflage, asteism.
banter, v. jest, chaff, rally, roast.
baptism, n. baptizing; parabaptism, pedobaptism; hypothetical, baptism. Associated words: baptize, christen, font, baptistery, baptismal.
bar, n. obstruction, barrier, impediment, obstacle, barricade, hindrance; shoal, sandbar, bank; ingot; lever, pole, rod; tribunal, judgment-seat; jimmy, betty.
bar, v. debar, except, exclude; obstruct, restrain, hinder.
barbarian, a. barbarous, savage, rude, uncivilized.--n. savage.
barbarism, n. savagery, savagism; outrage, brutality, atrocity; vulgarism, impropriety (of speech), solecism.
barbarity, n. barbarism, barbarousness, inhumanity, brutality.
barbarous, a. uncivilized, barbarian, inhuman, truculent, brutal.
barber, n. tonsor. Associated word: tonsorial.
barber's itch. sycosis.
bare, a. naked, nude, undressed, denuded, unveiled, exposed, undraped, in puris naturalibus; unadorned, bald, meager, unembellished, uncolored, unvarnished; empty, destitute, unfurnished; threadbare, pileworn, napless; meer, alone, sheer.
bare, v. denude, strip, divest, expose, undress, unmask.
barefaced, a. unmasked, undisguised, glaring, notorious; shameless, unabashed, brazen, audacious.
barefooted, a. unshod, discalced, discalceated.
bareness, n. nakedness, nudity.
bargain, v. stipulate, agree, contract, covenant; barter.
bark, n. cortex. Associated words: cortical, corticate, corticiferous, corticiform, phleophagus, corticose, periderm, liber, decortication, decorticator.
bark, v. peel, flay, skin, decorticate; bay, yelp, yap.
barn, n. stable.
barrel, n. cask, cade, butt, puncheon, tierce, hogshead, keg, rundlet; (of wine) 31-1/2 gallons; (of flour) 196 pounds. Associated words: gauntree, cooper, bilge, stave, hoop, chine.
barren, a. sterile, agenestic, infecund, unprolific, unprocreant; unproductive, unfruitful, unfertile, effete, desert; unprofitable, fruitless, unremunerative, empty; stupid, dull, unimaginative, prosaic, devoid, uninspiring, uninteresting. Antonyms: prolific, fecund, virile, fruitful, fertile, teeming.
barrenness, n. sterility, infecundity, unprolificness, infertility. Antonyms: fecundity, prolificness, fertility.
barrier, n. obstruction, impediment, obstacle, hindrance, barricade.
barter, n. traffic, exchange, trade, business.--v. traffic, trade, exchange.
base, a. debased, impure, spurious, alloyed, counterfeit; low-minded, unworthy, ignoble, mean, servile, groveling; despicable, discreditable, disgraceful, venal; plebeian, obscure, untitled, unhonored.
base, n. basis, bottom, foundation, groundwork; pedestal; plinth.
baseboard, n. mopboard, scrubboard.
baseborn, a. plebeian.
baseless, a. unfounded, groundless.
basement, n. cellar. Associated word: area.
bashful, a. over-modest, diffident, coy, shamefaced, sheepish, retiring.
bashfulness, n. modesty, diffidence, shyness, over-modesty.
basis, n. foundation.
basket, n. hamper, creel, hanaper, pannier, corb, tumbril, dosser, canister, prickle, corf, bassinet, voider, flasket, punnet, wicker, wicker-work, scuttle.
basket-bearer, n. canephore, canephorus. (Gr. Antiq.)
bastard, n. illegitimate child, love-child, whoreson; mamzer (Mosaic law).
bastard, a. illegitimate, adulterine; spurious, false, counterfeit, supposititious.
bastardize, v. illegitimatize, Antonyms: legitimate, legitimatize.
baste, v. beat, cudgel, pound, pommel, buffet, thrash, maul, strike.
bat, n. club, cudgel; brickbat; cheiropter, vampire; racket; (Slang) blow, stroke, buffet; (Slang) spree, jollification.
batch, n. quantity, collection, lot, assortment.
bate, n. puer, grainer.
bath, n. ablution, lavement; bathroom, lavatory. Associated words: balneal, balneary, balneography, balneology balneotherapy, laver.
bathe, v. lave, wash; foment; surround, envelop, enwrap, suffuse.
bathing, n. ablution, lavement.
baton, n. staff, wand, sceptre, truncheon.
batten, v. fatten.
batter, v. smite, pelt, assault; demolish, raze, shatter.
battle, n. engagement, fight, encounter, skirmish, contest, combat, tournament, strife.
battle array. battalia.
bauble, n. gewgaw, gimcrack, kickshaws, trinket, plaything.
bawdy-house, n. brothel.
bay, n. bight, frith, estuary, fiord, bayou; recess, alcove, sinus, oriel (bay window); bay-tree, sweet laurel; last resort, desperation; pl. honors, garland, renown.
beach, n. shore, strand, shingle, marge.
beached, a. stranded, aground.
beacon, n. balefire, signal fire; signal, pharos. Associated word: pharology.
beadle, n. apparitor, summoner, servitor.
beads, n. pl. rosary; passementerie (beaded trimming); chaplet; wampum, suckanhock, peag.
beak, n. bill, nib, neb, mandible; prow, bow, rostrum. Associated word: cere.
beam, n. girder, joist; ray, gleam.
beam, v. gleam, shine, glitter, glisten, scintillate.
beanlike, a. fabaceous.
bear, n. Bruin; Ursus; Ephraim; cub, whelp; grumbler, growler, boor; musquaw.
bear, v. endure, tolerate, stand, undergo, brook, submit to, suffer, bear with; harbor, cherish, entertain; support, sustain, uphold; carry, convey, transport, waft; render, produce, yield; bring forth, teem; relate, refer, concern; press, push, oppress.
bearable, a. sufferable, tolerable, endurable. Antonyms: unbearable, intolerable.
beard, n. whiskers; goatee, mustache; awn, arista (beard of grain).
beard, v. defy, encounter, oppose.
bearded, a. whiskered; aristate, awned.
bearing, n. mien, carriage, port, demeanor, air, deportment; endurance, forbearance, long-suffering, toleration, sufferance; relation, connection, dependency; course, aim, direction; bringing forth, yielding.
bearish, a. discourteous, boorish, uncivil, rude; ursine, ursiform.
bear out. sustain, support, corroborate, confirm, uphold.
beast, n. brute; quadruped; monster, brute.
beastly, a. bestial, irrational, brutal; (Colloq.) abominable, disagreeable, nasty.
beat, v. forge, malleate, beetle, weld, hammer; belabor, maul, buffet, smite, flagellate, whack, pelt, strike; See whip; overcome, vanquish, surpass, conquer, eclipse, subdue, checkmate, rout, excel, outdo; cheat, swindle, defraud; throb, pulsate; pulverize, comminute, bruise, bray, triturate; perplex, pose, nonplus.
beat, n. throb, pulsation; round; superior.
beat, a. (Colloq.) exhausted, weary, fatigued, beaten.
beat back. repel, repulse, resist.
beaten, a. conquered, defeated, vanquished.
beating, n. flagellation, drubbing, flogging, fustigation, castigation, thumping, mauling, verberation, pommeling; pulsation, throb, throbbing, saltation; defeat, repulse; malleation, forging, welding.
beating, a. pulsating, throbbing, pulsatile.
beau, n. lover, sweetheart, gallant, swain, flame, cicisbeo, admirer, suitor, inamorato; dandy, popinjay, dude, fop, coxcomb, exquisite, blade.
beautiful, a. fair, lovely, handsome, comely, personable, beauteous, elegant, exquisite. Antonyms: homely, ugly, repulsive, unlovely, hideous, uncomely, inelegant.
beautify, v. embellish, adorn, grace, garnish.
beauty, n. loveliness, fairness, elegance, comeliness, pulchritude, grace, exquisiteness, charm, attraction. Associated words: æsthetics, æsthetician, æstheticism, æsthete, æsthetic, esthetology, Apollo, Adonis, Venus, Hebe, Hyperion, Houri, Aphrodite.
becloud, v. dim, cloud, obscure, adumbrate, obfuscate.
becoming, a. appropriate, fit, seemly, befitting, comely. Antonyms: See unbecoming.
bed, n. berth, bunk, couch, cot; pallet, paillasse, mattress; cradle, trundle-bed; deposit, seam, vein, stratum. Associated words: decumbiture, lectual, clinic, clinical, valance, alcove.
bedbug, n. chinch.
bedclothes, n. pl. Associated words: floccillation, carphology, tilmus.
bedim, v. obscure, becloud, adumbrate, overcast.
bedlam, n. madhouse, insane asylum; babel, pandemonium.
bedroom, n. chamber.
bedsore, n. decubitus.
bedspread, n. counterpane, coverlet.
bed-wetting, n. enuresis.
beehive, n. beehouse, apiary, alveary.
bees, n. pl. Associated words: apiology, apiculture, apiologist, apian, apiarian, apiarist, apivorous, hive, swarm, cerago, beebread.
beetle, n. mallet (heavy); scarabee, clock, coleopter, scarab. Associated words:: coleopterist, coleopteral.
beetle, v. overhang, jut out, protrude, project.
befall, v. happen, supervene, betide, bechance.
befitting, a. suitable, proper, becoming, appropriate, seemly, meet, applicable, congruous.
before, prep. preceding, ahead of, anterior to, previously to, prior.
before death. ante-mortem.
before the flood. antediluvian, antediluvial.
before the war. ante-bellum.
befuddle, v. confuse, mystify, bewilder.
beg, v. beseech, supplicate, implore; ask alms.
beget, v. procreate, engender, generate, get.
begetter, n. procreator, generator, father.
beggar, n. mendicant, starveling, fakir, vagrant, eleemosynary, prog, tramp, bezonian, mumper, schnorrer (Jewish).
beggar, v. impoverish, ruin; exhaust, surpass, go beyond.
beggarly, a. indigent, destitute; despicable, pitiable, paltry.
beggary, n. mendicancy, indigence, penury, want, pauperism.
begging letter or drawing. screeve.
begin, v. commence; arise, spring, originate.
begin again. resume, recommence.
beginner, n. tyro, novice, neophyte, learner, apprentice, understudy, novitiate, probationer, catechumen, recruit.
beginning, n. commencement, inception, opening, outset, initiation, indication, incipience, nascency, incipiency, threshold, tyronism, novitiate; origin, source.
beginning again. resumption, recommencement.
begone, interj. avaunt.
beguile, v. insnare, mislead, lure, deceive, cheat; while away.
beguilement, n. imposition, deception.
behave, v. deport one's self, act, bear.
behavior, n. conduct, deportment, actions, demeanor.
behead, v. decapitate, decollate, execute.
beheading, n. decapitation, decollation, execution.
behindhand, a. and adv. in arrears; dilatory, late, tardy, unpunctual.
beholden, a. obliged, indebted, bound.
beholder, n. spectator, witness, onlooker, eye-witness.
being, n. existence, entity. Antonyms: nonexistence, nonentity. Associated words: ontology, metaphysics, ontological, ontologist.
belch, v. eruct, expel, throw up; eructate.
belching, n. eructation.
belfry, n. bell-tower, campanile. Associated words: louver boarding.
belief, n. credence; persuasion, faith; conviction, assurance, confidence; tenet, dogma, creed, opinion, doctrine, cult, view, principle; intuition; superstition, fanaticism. Antonyms: doubt, disbelief, skepticism, misgiving, incredulity. Associated words: credulous, incredulous, credulity, credibility, incredibility, gull, gullible, gullibility.
believable, a. credible.
belittle, v. decry, disparage, underrate, depreciate.
bell, n. campana, carillon, curfew, tocsin, gong. Associated words: campanology, campanologist, peal, ring, knell, toll, chime.
bellicose, a. pugnacious, belligerent.
belligerent, a. at war, warring, militant; bellicose, pugnacious.
bell-ringer, n. sexton, campanologist.
bell-shaped, a. campaniform, campanulate, campaniliform.
bell-tower, n. belfry, campanile.
belly, n. abdomen, paunch; recesses, penetralia, depths.
belly-ache, n. colic, gripes, tormina, enteralgia.
belly-band, n. girth, surcingle.
belly-god, n. glutton, epicure, gourmand, sybarite, voluptuary.
belonging, n. appendage, appurtenance, adjunct concomitant, accessary, attribute.
below, adv. under, beneath, underneath.
below, prep. under, beneath, underneath; inferior to; unworthy of, unbefitting.
belt, n. girdle; girth, surcingle, cincture, cestus; zone; bandolier.
belt, v. encircle, begird, encompass, surround.
bemoan, v. lament, bewail, deplore.
bench, n. form; workbench.
bend, v. curve, flex, deflect, crook; direct, turn, apply; stoop, incline; yield, condescend.
bend, n. curve, deflection, crook, curvature, bight, coil, flexure, incurvation.
bendable, a. flexible, supple, lithe, pliable, pliant. Antonyms: See inflexible.
benefice, n. living (Eccl.); sinecure. Associated words: advowson, simony, donative.
beneficent, a. benevolent, charitable, philanthropic, magnanimous, benignant.
beneficial, a. advantageous, salutary, profitable, useful, wholesome.
benefit, n. avail, profit, behalf, advantage, service.
benefit, v. help, conduce, avail, advantage, be useful to, do good to.
benevolence, n. beneficence, bounty, benignity, charity.
benevolent, a. benign, beneficent, bountiful, charitable, philanthropic.
benighted, a. unenlightened; belated.
bent, a. crooked, flexed, hooked; determined.
bent, n. leaning, bias, proclivity, tendency, predilection, predisposition.
benumb, v. stupefy, blunt, hebetate.
benumbed, a. torpid, unfeeling, stupefied.
bequest, n. legacy.
berate, v. upbraid, rate, reprimand, censure.
berry, n. Associated words: baccate, baccated, baccivorous, bacciferous, cocciferous, bacciform.
beseech, v. entreat, implore, adjure, supplicate.
beset, v. besiege, obsess, beleaguer, environ, encompass; perplex, harass.
besides, adv. moreover, furthermore, further, too.
besiege, v. obsess, environ, beset, beleaguer, encompass.
besieging, n. obsession.
best, a. supreme, consummate, superlative, crowning, incomparable, utmost.
bet, v. wager, stake.--n. wager.
betoken, v. foreshadow, portend, presage, foreshow, indicate, augur.
betray, v. seduce, mislead, delude, beguile, inveigle; reveal, disclose; give up treacherously, give over to the enemy, act the traitor, be false to.
betrayal, n. treason, treachery, perfidy; revelation, exposure; seduction.
betrayer, n. traitor, seducer; Judas.
betroth, v. affiance.
betrothal, n. affiance, betrothment.
better, n. upper hand, domination, advantage, control, superiority; improvement.
better, v. ameliorate, improve, emend, promote, reform, meliorate, amend.
betterment, n. amelioration, improvement, promotion, amendment, reformation.
between, prep. betwixt (Obsolescent).--a. interjacent, intervening.
betwixt and between. (Colloq.) so-so, mediocre, average, ordinary, indifferent.
bevy, n. (of birds) flock, covey; (of deer) herd; (of girls) group.
bewail, v. deplore, lament, bemoan, wail over.
bewilder, v. confuse, perplex, nonplus, obfuscate, confound, mystify, embarrass.
bewildered, a. perplexed, confused, mystified, nonplused, obfuscated.
bewildering, a. perplexing, confusing, puzzling, mystifying.
bewilderment, n. perplexity, confusion, mystification, obfuscation.
bewitch, v. charm, fascinate, captivate, enamor. Antonyms: disillusionize, repel, disabuse.
bewitchery, n. bewitchment, charm, fascination, witchery.
bewitching, a. enchanting, captivating, charming, irresistible.
bias, n. bent, proneness, predisposition, prejudice.
Bible, n. the Scriptures, the Word of God; (Catholic) Douay Bible, Vulgate; (Mohammedan) Koran. Associated words: canonics, canon, canonical, anagogics, anagoge, exegesis, biblical, biblicist, bibliolater, bibliolatry, bibliology, biblist, bibliomancy, Hagiographa, hagiographer, hagiologist, hagiology, commentator, Heptateuch, Hexapla, Octapla, Apocrypha, Hexateuch, apologetics, concordance, synoptist, uncanonical, Homologoumena, Antilegomena.
bibulous, a. absorbent; intemperate, cup-loving, bibacious.
bickering, n. altercation, contention, wrangling, sparring, dissension, quarrel.
bid, v. offer, proffer; order, direct, enjoin, command; invite, ask; wish, greet, salute.
bidding, n. command, order, behest, dictation; offer, bid.
big, a. large, huge, bulky, massive, immense, gross, voluminous, capacious, extensive; pregnant; arrogant, overbearing, lordly, magisterial, pompous; bombastic, grandiose, grandiloquent, highflown, sesquipedalian, inflated, turgid.
bigamy, n. polygamy, polygyny.
big-bellied, a. abdominous, paunchy, pot-bellied.
bigness, n. size, bulk, largeness, magnitude, dimensions, volume, amplitude.
bigot, n. fanatic, zealot, dogmatist.
bigoted, a. dogmatic, narrow-minded, illiberal, intolerant.
bigotry, n. intolerance, dogmatism, narrow-mindedness.
bile, n. Associated words: acholia, acholous, biliation, biliferous, cholecystis, Ibilious, cholagogue, choleric, choledology, fellinic, hypercholia, biliary, bilin, choleic.
bile, n. choler, bitterness:, anger, spleen, rancor, acrimony.
bill, n. circular, placard, dodger, poster, broadside, bulletin; invoice; statement; beak, nib, mandible.
billingsgate, n. vituperation, tirade, invective, ribaldry, abuse.
bill of fare. menu.
bin, n. crib, bunker, recepotacle.
bind, v. fetter, tie, fasten, secure, gird, confine, restrict, restrain; bandage, swathne; oblige, obligate, lay under, obligation; indenture, apprentice; confirm, sanction, ratify; swaddle. Antonyms: unbind, loose.
binding, n. ligature, ligsation, astriction, constriction bandage; obligation, reestraint, restriction; galloon swaddling.
binding, a. astringent, astrictive; obligatory, valid. Antonyms: optional, elective.
bird, n. (young) fledgeling, nestling; (one year old) annotine; squab; rara avris (rare bird).
bird-catcher, n. fowler.
bird-catching, n. fowling, birding.
birds, n. pl. Aves; Avifauma. Associated words: ornithology, ornithologist, ornithological, ornithotomy, ornithography, ornithoid, ornitholite, ornithon, ornithophilous, game, ornithic, aviary, avicular, aviculture, covey, neossology paleornithollogy, taxidermy, taxidermist, preen, rookery, cote, hutch, coop, cage, avian, poult, auspice, ariel, mute, Mallophaga.
birr, n. whirring.
birth n. nativity; origin, beginning, nascency, genesis; extraction, lineage; (new birth) regeneration, renaissance, regenesis, palingenesis. Associated words: natal, native, pre-natal, post-natal, ante-natal, abortion, congenital, connate, connascent, connascence, horoscope, genial, genethliac, genethlialogy, genethliacs, sooterkin, uniparous, biparous, pluriparous, viable, viability, primiparous, natality.
birthday poem. genethliac.
birthmark, n. nævus.
birthright, n. inheritance.
bisexual, a. hermaphrodite.
bishop, n. diocesan, prelate; suffragan, coadjutor, metropolitan. Associated words: episcopal, episcopacy, bishopdom, episcopicide, crosier, chimere, episcopate, rochet, gremial.
bishopric, n. diocese, see.
bit, n. morsel, fragment, scrap, crumb; mite, ace, scintilla, particle, whit, iota, tittle, grain, atom, jot, molecule, speck, mote.
bit by bit. piecemeal.
bite, v. champ, nibble, chew; sting, smart, tingle; take hold of, adhere; nip, blight, blast.
bite, n. mouthful; wheal.
biting, a. stinging, sharp, cutting, sarcastic, caustic, scathing, bitter, satirical, pungent, piquant; nipping, blasting; erosive, corrosive, acrid, mordant.
bitter, a. acrid, acerb; poignant, intense; calamitous, distressing, virulent, acrimonious; implacable.
bitterness, n. acridity, acerbity; gall, wormwood; poignancy, intensity, severity; rancor, malice, malignity, implacableness.
bizarre, a. fantastic, whimsical, grotesque.
blab, n. babbler, blabber, telltale.--v. tell, tattle.
black, a. sable, ebon, inky, Stygian, Cimmerian, lowering, murky; Ethiopian, Papuan, negro.
black, n. stain, smooch; Ethiopian, Papuan, negro.
black and blue. livid, ecchymosed.
black and blue spot. ecchymosis, suggillation.
black art. necromancy, conjuration, magic, sorcery.
blacken, v. darken, denigrate; begrime, besmirch, tarnish, discolor; defame, malign.
blackguard, n. scoundrel, rascal, villain, ruffian.
blackguard, a. vicious, scurrilous, opprobrious, foul.
blackguardism, n. ruffianism, scoundrelism, rascality; scurrility, billingsgate.
blackhearted, a. villainous, abandoned, reprobate, diabolical, base, depraved.
black lead. graphite, plumbago.
blackleg, n. (Colloq.) gambler, gamester (disreputable).
blackness, n. black, nigritude; atrocity, heinousness, depravity.
Black Sea. Euxine.
blacksmith, n. ironsmith, farrier, horseshoer. Associated words: Hephestian, anvil.
blacksmith's shop. smithy, smithery, farriery, stithy, forge.
black vomit. melenemesis.
bladder, n. Associated words: cystitis, cystic, cystocele, cystose, cystolith, cystotomy, lithotomy, lithotomist, endoscope, endoscopy, prostate, catheter, litholysis, utricular, lithotrity, lithotome, utriculate.
blade, n. leaf (of a plant), spire (of grass); buck, gallant, dandy.
blamable, a. culpable, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy.
blame, n. censure, reproach, reprehension, condemnation, stricture, animadversion, reproof; culpability, reprehensibility, demerit, wrongdoing, fault.
blameless, a. guiltless, irreprehensible, inculpable, unimpeachable, faultless, irreproachable.
blameworthy, a. censurable, blamable.
bland, a. suave, mollifying, affable, complaisant; soothing, emollient, demulsive, assuasive.
blandish, v. flatter, cajole, caress.
blandishment, n. cajolery, wheedling, caresses, blandiloquence.
blank, a. void, empty, unfilled; expressionless, vacant: confounded, nonplused, astounded; unmitigated, absolute, downright.
blarney, n. (Colloq.) blandiloquence, palaver, blandishment, cajolery, flattery.
blamey, v. flatter, cajole, palaver, wheedle, blandish.
blasé, a. surfeited (with pleasure), sated, palled.
blasphemy, n. sacrilege, calumny, profanity.
blast, n. squall, gust; peal, blare, clang; explosion, discharge.
blast, v. blight, destroy; frustrate, ruin; explode, rend, open.
blasting, n. blighting, carbunculation; frustration, ruination.
blat, v. bleat.
blatant, a. brawling, clamorous, obstreperous, bawling braying.
blaze, n. flame.
blazing, a. flaming, ablaze, aflame. Antonym: smoldering.
blazon, v. emblazon; publish, display, exhibit.
bleach, v. etiolate, whiten, blanch.
bleaching, n. blanching, whitening, etiolation.
bleak, a. windswept, cheerless, raw, penetrating, desolate, dreary.
bleared, a. rheumy.
blearedness, n. lippitude, glama, epiphora.
bleed, v. exude.
bleeding, n. hemorrhage; phlebotomy, bloodletting, venesection. Associated words: tourniquet, garrot, styptic.
blemish, v. deface, mar, disfigure, sully.
blemish, n. defect, fault, imperfection, eyesore, disfigurement, blot.
blench, v. flinch, recoil, shrink from.
blend, v. intermingle, fuse, merge, combine, mix, assimilate.
blend, n. mixture, merging, fusion, assimilation, synthesis.
blessing, n. benediction, benison, beatitude; boon, God-send.
blight, v. blast; ruin, frustrate, fowart.
blind, a. unseeing, sightless, purblind; oblivious, undiscriminating, inconsiderate, unmindful; unintelligible, illegible; obscure, intricate, involved.
blind, n. shade, curtain, screen; blinder, blinker; subterfuge, pretext, ruse, stratagem, pretense, feint sophistry.
blind alley. cul-de-sac, impasse.
blind gut. cæcum.
blinding, a. obscuring.
blindness, n. sightlessness, anopsia, purblindness; amaurosis.
blink, v. wink; connive at, disregard, overlook.
bliss, n. felicity, transport, rapture, beatitude, happiness, ecstasy.
blissful, a. felicitous, ecstatic, rapturous, beatific.
blister, n. vesicle, pustule, pustulation, bleb; vesicatory, vesicant, epispastic, pustulant.--v. vesicate, pustulate.
blistering, a. vesicatory, epispastic, pustulant.--n. vesication, pustulation.
bloat, v. inflate, distend.
bloated, a. distended, turgid, intumescent, tumefied.
bloating, n. dilatation, intumescence, turgidity.
block, v. obstruct, blockade.--n. obstruction, obstacle, barrier.
blockhead, n. dolt, dunce, simpleton, ninny, numskull.
blood, n. lifeblood; gore. Associated words: hematology, hemorrhage, hemal, hematic, plethora, anæmia, sanguification, sanguify, clot, corpuscle, styptic, hematosis, sanguiferous, hematin, sanguine, sanguineous, sanguinivorous, hematophobia, hyperæmia.
bloodhound, n. sleuthhound.
bloodless, a. exsanguineous, exsanguious, anæmic.
bloodletting, n. venesection, bleeding, phlebotomy.
blood of the gods. ichor.
blood poisoning. toxæmia, septicæmia.
bloodshed, n. carnage, massacre, slaughter, bloodshedding.
bloodsucker, n. leech, sanguisuge; (Slang) extortioner; vampire.
bloodthirsty, a. sanguinary, truculent, ferocious, cruel.
blood vessel. artery; vein; capillary. Associated words: angiology, angiography, angiotomy, intrafusion, embolism, embolus, thrombosis, thrombolism, rete, hillus, endothelium, epithelium.
bloody, a. gory, sanguinary, exsanguined, blood-stained.
bloom, n. blossom, blow; prime, vigor, heyday, flush; fuzz, down.
blossom, n. flower, florescence, inflorescence, efflorescence, bloom, blow, anthesis.--v. bloom, blow.
blot, n. stain, blemish, smutch, smooch, reproach; erasure, obliteration.
blot, v. stain, spot, blur, blemish, sully, disgrace, tarnish, dishonor; efface, erase, delete, obliterate, expunge; obscure, eclipse.
blotch, n. eruption, blain, bulla, pustule, bleb; splotch, smutch, blot.
blow, n. blossom, bloom; whack, knock, thwack, rap, thump, assault, stroke; buffet, calamity, disaster, reverse, misfortune.
blow, v. blossom, bloom; pant, puff, gasp; spout; inflate, puff up, distend; explode, shatter; (Colloq.) boast, brag, bluster, vaunt, gasconade; rant, scold, censure.
blower, n. (Slang) braggart, boaster, vaunter.
blowhole, n. spiracle.
blow out. extinguish.
blow-out, n. (Colloq.) jollification, celebration, feast, merry-making.
blowpipe analysis. Associated word: pyritology.
blue, a. azure, cerulean, cerulific, sapphire, sapphirine, amethystine, turquoise, ultramarine, sky-colored; livid, ecchymosed; rigorous, severe; (Colloq.) melancholy, downhearted, depressed, despondent, dejected, low-spirited, dispirited, hypochondriac, chapfallen, gloomy, (Colloq.) gloomy, inauspicious, dismal, depressing; (Colloq.) pedantic, literary.
blue, n. azure, amethystine, sapphirine, cerulean; cyanin, anthokyan, anthocyanin.
blue jaundice. cyanopathy, cyanosis.
blues, n. pl. (Colloq.) despondency, melancholy, dismals, vapors, depression, blue devils, hypochondria, dumps, megrims.
bluff, a. abrupt, unceremonious, brusque; gruff, surly; precipitous, steep, abrupt.
bluff, v. (Colloq.) frighten, deter, intimidate.
blunder, n. bull, error, mistake, impropriety, slip, solecism, faux pas.
blundering, a. bungling, awkward, stupid, floundering.
blunt, a. dull, obtuse; abrupt, brusque, unceremonious, uncivil, ungracious, discourteous; stupid, stolid.
blunt, v. dull, deaden, stupefy; assuage, alleviate, mitigate.
blur, v. dim, bedim, obscure; sully, blemish; mackle, macule.
blur, n. blot, indistinctness; mackle, macule.
blurred, a. indistinct, obscure, dim, bedimmed, sullied.
blurt, v. ejaculate.
blushing, n. blush, erubescence.
bluster, v. swagger, storm, rage, gasconade, roister.
bluster, n. swaggering, gasconade, boasting; wind, storm.
blusterer, n. swaggerer, braggart, rodomont, roisterer, vaunter.
blustering, a. stormy, windy, tempestuous; swaggering, bullying, boastful, roistering.
boar, n. male hog; barrow (castrated); hogget (young boar).
boast, v. brag, vaunt, vapor, gasconade. Antonyms: belittle, decry, disparage.
boaster, n. braggart, vaunter, braggadocio, gascon, rodomont, blusterer, fanfaron, drawcansir.
boastful, a. bragging, vaunting, vainglorious, thrasonical, cockahoop, braggart, jactitatious.
boasting, n. bragging, gasconade, vaporing, fanfaronade, rodomontade, blague, bravado, blustering, jactitation, vaunting. Antonyms: disparagement, depreciation.
boat, n. water craft, launch, rowboat, canoe, gondola, punt, yacht, yawl, scull, cock, dugout, smack, pirogue, trawler, sloop, praam, coracle, pontoon, bateau, wherry, pinnace, scow, banca, transport, dory, galley, cruiser, ship, barge, bark, brig, bucentaur, skiff, caique, drogher, schooner, cockleshell, vessel, tug, towboat, tow, cog, wangan, ferry-boat, dinghey, argosy, oomiac, junk, longboat, catboat, felucca, cutter, frigate, xebec, tartan, una boat, moses, raft, catamaran, sampan, lifeboat, caravel, trekschuit, masoola, argo, coggle. Associated words: davits, oar, helm, stern, pilot, rudder, flotilla, navy, navigation, fleet.
beatable, a. navigable.
boat races. regatta.
boat-shaped, a. navicular, scaphoid, cymbiform, naviform.
bob, n. pendant, float.
bobtailed, a. curtailed.
bode, v. forebode, foreshadow, augur, presage, betoken, portend.
bodiless, a. incorporeal, disembodied.
bodilessness, n. incorporeality, disembodiment.
bodily, a. physical, corporal, corporeal.
boding, a. ominous, portentous.
boding, n. omen, sign, prognostic, foreboding, augury, auspice, portent.
bodkin, n. stiletto, eyeleteer; tape needle.
body, n. the physical person; torso, trunk; physique; bulk, mass; axis, centrum; individual, person, creature; system, code; consistency, substance; hulk; cuerpo. Associated words: physiology, anatomy, bicorporal, embody, embodiment, disembody, disembodiment, manikin, corporeality, corporeity, in cuerpo, somatic.
body servant. valet, squire.
body snatcher. resurrectionist, ghoul.
bodyguard, n. lifeguard, garde du corps, retinue.
bog, n. quagmire, marsh, swamp, fen, morass, slough.
boggle, v. hesitate, stickle, falter; bungle.
bogus, a. (Colloq.) spurious, counterfeit, fictitious, sham, fraudulent, forged, mock, false, supposititious.
bogy, n. bugaboo, bugbear, bogle, specter.
boil, n. furuncle. Associated word: furuncular.
boil, v. seethe, simmer, effervesce.--n. boiling.
boil away. evaporate.
boiling, a. seething, ebullient, effervescent, simmering.
boiling, n. ebullition, coction, effervescence, seething, gurgitation, simmering, ebullience.
boisterous, a. noisy, tumultuous, turbulent, hoidenish, unrestrained, rude.
bold, a. daring, intrepid, brave; forward, immodest, rude, hoidenish, brazen, saucy, insolent, unabashed, audacious, pert, shameless, malapert; conspicuous, prominent, salient; steep, abrupt, precipitous, acclivitous, jagged. Antonyms: modest, bashful, diffident, coy, shy, timid, retiring.
bold-faced, a. impudent, brazen-faced, insolent.
boldness, n. temerity, impudence, presumption, effrontery, impertinence, nerve.
boll, n. pod, pericarp.
bolster, v. prop up, support, maintain.--n. cushion, pad, support.
bolt, v. sift; leave suddenly; gulp.
bomb, n. shell.
bombast, n. magniloquence, fustian, bombastry, altiloquence, grandiloquence.
bombastic, a. magniloquent, grandiose, high-sounding, turgid, inflated, grandiloquent.
bona fide. in good faith, real, actual, really, actually.
bond, n. band, tie, vinculum, copula; pl. shackles, manacles, fetters, constraint; pl. imprisonment, captivity, bondage, restraint; obligation.
bond, a. captive, enslaved.
bondage, n. servitude, slavery, captivity, bond service, thralldom, durance.
bondsman, n. bondman, slave, villain, serf; surety.
bone, n. (little) ossicle, osselet.
bone, n. Associated words: osteology, osteography, ossify, ossification, ossiferous, ossific, splint, marrow, ossivorous, ossuary, osteoplasty, caries, osteopathy, solen, necrosis, gangrene, rongeur, impaction, calcify, calcification, bursa, ossein, ossifying, ostalgia, ossifragous, skeleton.
bone formation. ostosis, ossification, ectostosis, osteogeny.
boneless, a. exosseous.
bonelike, a. osseous, ossified, bony.
boneset, n. thoroughwort, Indian sage, feverwort.
bonmot, n. repartee.
bonnet, n. headdress, chapeau.
bonny, a. comely, pretty, merry, blithe, sportive, cheerful, buxom, chubby, plump.
bonus, n. premium; honorarium.
booby, n. dolt, dunce, simpleton, numskull, coot, ninny, dullard, witling.
boodle, n. (Slang) swag.
boohoo, v. (Slang) bawl, squawl.
book, n. volume; tome (ponderous); manual; publication; biograph; monograph; polygraph; anthology. Associated words: bibliography, bibliolater, bibliomania, bibliophobia, format, facture, biblioclast, bibliognost, stichometry, cahier, imprimatur, ex libris, edition, collation, Elzevir, bibliophilism, library, collaboration.
booked, a. registered; (Colloq.) on the way, destined.
bookish, a. studious; formal, pedantic.
bookkeeper, n. accountant, countercaster (Contemptuous).
bookkeeping, n. accountancy.
booklet, n. pamphlet, brochure, tract.
book lore. bibliology.
booklover, n. bibliophile.
bookman, n. scholar, student.
bookseller, n. bookmerchant, bibliopole, bibliopolist.
book worship. bibliolatry.
boon, a. generous, bountiful, benign; jolly, convivial, gay, jovial, frolicsome, sportive.
boor, n. peasant, rustic (rude); lout, churl, gawk.
boorish, a. uncultured, rude, unrefined, gawky, loutish, ungainly.
boot, n. premium, bonus; buskin, gamashes.
bootless, a. useless, unavailing, futile, ineffectual.
booty, n. plunder, spoil, loot.
booze, v. tipple.
border, n. verge, edge, margin, brink, marge, skirt, rim, brim; purl, fillet; boundary, frontier, outskirt, confine, march, purlieu.
bordering on. adjacent, adjoining, coterminous with, conterminous with.
border, v. border on, be contiguous, be adjacent, adjoin, verge, approach.
bore, n. perforation; caliber; tiresome person, proser.
bore, v. perforate, pierce, drill; weary, tire, annoy, fatigue.
boring, n. perforation; transforation.
born, p.p. née.--a. innate, natural, inherent, congenital.
bosh, n. (Colloq.) nonsense, froth, flummery, moonshine, twaddle, balderdash, drivel, fustian, prating.
boss, n. protuberance, stud, knob, process; (Colloq.) superintendent, director, employer, foreman, overseer.
boss, v. (Colloq.) direct, oversee, superintend; domineer, dominate, dictate.
bossy, a. studded; (Colloq.) dictatorial, domineering, imperious, arbitrary, masterful, authoritative.
botanist, n. phytologist.
botany, n. phytology.
botch, n. bungle, fiasco.
bother, v. trouble, annoy, discommode, incommode, inconvenience, worry, molest.
bother, n. petty trouble, annoyance, inconvenience.
botheration, n. (Colloq.) perplexity, annoyance, nuisance, vexation, disturbance.
bothersome, a. troublesome, perplexing, annoying, vexatious.
bottle, n. phial, vial, cruet, flask, decanter, cruse, siphon, amphora, ampulla, tankard, matrass, bolthead, carboy, carafe, croft, canteen, flagon, kit, demijohn, jorum, vinaigrette, costrel, pycnometer, magnum, flacket, betty.
bottom, n. foot, base; nadir; foundation, groundwork, basis, base, pedestal; fundament, buttocks, rump, fundus, seat; dregs, precipitate, lees, sediment, grounds.
bottom, a. fundamental.
bottomless, a. abysmal, unfathomable.
boulevard, n. Associated word: boulevardier.
bounce, v. spring, bound; rebound, recoil; (Colloq.) discharge, dismiss.
bounce, n. bound, leap, rebound, spring; (Colloq.) discharge, dismissal.
bouncer, a. (Cottoq.) braggart, boaster; lie, falsehood; whopper.
bouncing, a. lusty, buxom, strapping, plump; excessive, big, whopping.
bound, v. limit, inclose, circumscribe, terminate; leap, spring, bounce; rebound.
bound, n. spring, leap, bounce, rebound; boundary, confine.
bound, p.p. and a. restrained, constrained, repressed; bounden; destined, sure, certain; (Colloq.) determined, resolved; costive, constipated.
boundary, n. circumference, periphery; bound, limit, border, term, confines, precinct, bourn, march, marge.
bounden, a. obliged, beholden; obligatory, binding.
boundless, a. illimitable, unbounded, vast, immense, limitless.
bounteous, a. bountiful, generous, liberal, munificent.
bountiful, a. liberal, free-hearted, generous; plentiful, abundant, copious, unstinted, ample.
bounty, n. generosity, liberality, munificence, beneficence; premium, bonus, reward.
bouquet, n. nosegay; boutonnière (buttonhole bouquet).
bourne, n. destination, goal; stream, rivulet; boundary, bound.
bout, n. round, turn; contest, set-to, conflict.
bow, v. bend, curve, crook; prostrate, overwhelm, crush, abase, yield, obey, submit, be obeisant; incline, nod.
bow, n. nod; obeisance; salam; congé; stern, prow, beak; courtesy, curtsy.
bow and arrows. Associated words: archery, archer, toxophilite, crossbow, quiver, centaur, ascham, belomancy, bowman, Sagittarius, sagittary, arbelest, vireton.
bowels, n. pl. intestines, entrails, inwards; cæcum, colon, rectum; recesses, penetralia.
bower, n. arbor.
bowl, n. dish, beaker, mortar.
bow-legged, a. bandy-legged.
bowman, n. archer.
bow-shaped, a. arcuate, arcuated.
box, n. receptacle, chest, case, coffer, carton, caddy, bandbox, casket, caisson; ciborium, pyx; binnacle; slap, cuff, buffet, stroke.
boxing, n. sparring.
boy, n. lad, youngster, stripling, master, youth, son, minor, junior, youngling, cadet, chap, urchin, bub, sprig, callant, younker, hobbledehoy; gamin, gutter-snipe.
boyhood, n. youth, juvenility, juniority, nonage, minority.
boyish, a. juvenile, immature, childish, youthful.
boy-servant, n. page, footboy; groom, hostler, lackey.
brace, v. prop, support, fortify, buttress, stay, shore; strengthen, invigorate.
brace, n. prop, support, shore, strut, stay, stanchion; tension; pair, two.
bracer, n. tonic, invigorant; stiffener, support, prop.
bracing, a. invigorating, strengthening, stimulating.
bracket, n. console, corbel, strut, modillion, cantalever; pl. crotchets.
brag, v. boast, vaunt, vapor. Antonyms: disparage, decry, belittle, depreciate.
brag, n. boasting, self-glorification, vaunt, gasconade braggadocio, bravado, vaporing. Antonyms: disparagement, detraction, decrial, depreciation.
braggadocio, n. brag, boasting; boaster, braggart.
braggart, n. boaster, rodomont, gascon, vaunter, vaporer, blusterer, braggadocio, bouncer.
braid, n. plait; queue, pigtail.--v. plait, plat, entwine, interlace.
brain, n. cerebrum; cerebellum; encephalon. Associated words: cerebrology, encephalology, cerebrate, cerebric, lecithin, excerebration, cephalopathy, encephalitis, apoplexy, cerebral.
brain action. cerebration.
brain fag. cerebropathy.
brainless, a. anencephalic, anencephalous; witless, silly, imbecile, idiotic.
brake, n. thicket.
branch, n. bough, limb; shoot, sprout, sprig, spray, twig, tiller, switch, sucker, stolen, offshoot; ramification; division, department, bureau, wing; tributary, affluent.
branch, v. ramify, divaricate, diverge, fork, bifurcate.
branch, a. tributary.
branching, a. forked, dendroid, dendritic, arborescent, furcated.
branching, n. ramification, divarication, divergence, forking, bifurcation, radiation, dichotomy.
brand, v. stigmatize.
brand, n. firebrand; kind, quality, grade, stigma.
branding, n. stigmatization.
brash, a. quick-tempered, irascible; brittle, crisp, fragile.
brass, n. (Colloq.) impudence, insolence, temerity, effrontery, audacity.
brass worker. brasier, brazier.
brassy, a. brazen; (Colloq.) bold, impudent, forward.
bravado, n. brag; blustering, threat.
brave, a. intrepid, courageous, valiant, daring, bold, valorous, chivalrous, fearless, adventurous, dauntless, doughty, gallant, heroic, mettlesome, undaunted, venturesome, lion-hearted, manly, unafraid, plucky; showy, effective, striking. Antonyms: craven, timorous, cowardly, recreant, pusillanimous. See cowardly.
bravery, n. intrepidity, courage, heroism, valor, prowess, hardihood, mettle, pluck, fearlessness, boldness. Antonyms: cowardice, timidity, recreancy, poltroonery, flinch.
brawl, n. quarrel (noisy), dispute, mêlée, broil, rumpus, uproar.
brawling, a. clamorous, disputatious, noisy, quarrelsome, jangling.
brawny, a. stalwart, muscular, sinewy, robust, strong.
brazen-faced, a. impudent, shameless, pert, immodest.
breach, n. breaking, rupture; infraction, violation, trespass, nonobservance; hernia, rupture; falling out, alienation, disaffection, variance, difference; separation, ruption, disruption.
bread, n. Associated words: panification, panary, panivorous, crouton, zwiebach, panade, sop, crumb, crust, brewis, sippet, dough, knead, leaven.
bread-basket, n. pannier.
breadth, n. width, latitude; liberality, tolerance, catholicity.
break, v. fracture, dispart, sever, rend, smash, shatter, shiver, splinter, batter, burst, rupture, crack; infringe, violate, disobey, transgress, trespass; communicate, disclose, divulge, tell, impart, broach; discipline, tame; bankrupt, impoverish, ruin.
break, n. breach, rupture, fracture, fissure crack, chasm, gap, rent, rift, hiatus, cæsura, interstice.
breakdown, n. downfall, collapse, crash.
breaking, n. fracture, rupture; breach, infraction, violation. Associated words: brittle, frangible, frangibility, tenacious, tenacity, inviolable, inviolability.
breaking out. eruption, rash, efflorescence, exanthema; paroxysm.
breaking out again. recrudescence.
breakup, n. disruption, disorganization.
breakwater, n. jetty, pier, mole, dike.
breast, n. chest, bosom, thorax; teat, pap, dug, mamma. Associated words: amasty, pectoral, plastron, bib, gorget, mammillary, angina pectoris, areola, pectoriloquy, diaphragm, sternal.
breast, v. stem, struggle with, withstand, resist.
breastbone, n. sternum.
breastpin, n. brooch, pectoral.
breath, n. respiration.
breathable, a. respirable. Antonyms: irrespirable, unbreathable.
breathe, v. respire, inhale and exhale; infuse; wheeze, suspire, sigh, gasp, pant, aspirate; exhale, emit.
breathing, n. respiration, inhalation (breathing in), exhalation (breathing out); aspiration, suspiration, sighing, panting, insufflation, gasp, wheeze, afflatus, inflation, pneuma; inspiration, theopneusty. Associated words: eupnœoe, dyspnœoe, asthma, apnœoe, cachon, respiratory, gill, branchia, pneumodynamics, pneometry, suffocation, stertorous.
breathless, a. panting.
breech, n. buttocks.
breeches, n. pl. smallclothes, knickerbockers, knee-breeches; trousers, pants.
breed, v. beget, generate, procreate, engender, conceive and bear; nurture, train; occasion, originate, engender.
breed, n. race, variety, strain, extraction, family, lineage, pedigree; class, sort, kind, variety.
breeding, n. generation, procreation, begetting, prolification; stirpiculture, eugenics; nurture, training. Associated words: dysgenesis, dysgenesic, hybrid, hybridization, thremmatology.
breeding freely. prolific. Antonym: unprolific.
breeze, n. zephyr; (Colloq.) disturbance, quarrel, tumult.
breezy, a. airy, windy; (Colloq.) lively, spirited, animated, brisk.
brew, v. foment, concoct, hatch, plot.
bribe, n. hush-money, boodle (Slang).--v. suborn.
bribery, n. subornation.
bric-a-brac, n. virtu, knick-knacks.
brick, n. adobe (unburnt and dried in the sun); malm-brick.
bridal, a. nuptial, conjugal, hymeneal.
bridge, n. trestlework, viaduct, culvert, pons, pontoon bridge, cantilever bridge.
bridge, v. span.
bridle, n. restraint, curb, check.--v. restrain, curb, check, control.
brief, a. short-lived, ephemeral, transient, transitory; terse, concise. See short.
brief, n. breviary, epitome, summary; writ, precept, breve.
briefness, n. brevity.
brier, n. thorn, bramble.
brigand, n. highwayman, bandit, outlaw, robber, footpad, freebooter.
bright, a. luminous, gleaming, lustrous, radiant, resplendent, glistening, beaming, shimmering, phosphorescent, luciferous, luminiferous, argent, orient, dazzling, glowing, glittering, flashing, scintillating, sparkling, refulgent, effulgent, brilliant, vivid, glossy, fulgent, naif, lucent, glaring, garish, crystalline; intelligent, precocious, apt, acute, discerning, clever, smart, knowing; auspicious, propitious; illustrious, glorious. Antonyms: dull, lackluster, obscure, dim, opaque, murky, nebulous, dingy, tarnished, sullied.
brighten, v. polish, burnish, furbish; illuminate, irradiate, cheer, rally, enliven, inspirit.
brightness, n. brilliancy, splendor, luster, luminosity, resplendence, radiance, refulgence, effulgence, glow; aptness, precocity, acuteness, sharpness, discernment; vivacity, animation, liveliness.
brilliancy, n. brightness, resplendence, refulgence, brilliance.
brilliant, a. sparkling, glittering, scintillating, dazzling, gleaming, glistening, flashing; splendid, glorious, signal, eminent, striking.
brim, n. rim, border, margin, edge, brink, bank, marge.
brimstone, n. sulphur.
bring, v. fetch.
bring about. bring to pass, effect, accomplish, effectuate, achieve.
bring back. return, restore, replace; revive, resuscitate.
bring forward. introduce.
bring to. resuscitate, revive, reanimate.
bringing to. resuscitation, revivification.
bring on. incur.
bring to pass. accomplish, effectuate.
bring up. nurse, rear, nurture, train.
brink, n. edge, border, verge.
brisk, a. lively, spirited, sprightly, spry, agile, rapid.
British soldier. Tommy Atkins.
brittle, a. frangible, crisp, friable.
brittleness, n. frangibility. Antonym: tenacity.
broad, a. wide; extensive, extended, vast, wide-reaching, comprehensive; liberal, tolerant, catholic; indelicate, gross, questionable.
broadside, n. placard, poster.
broil, v. grill.
broiler, n. gridiron.
broiling, a. scorching, torrid, grilling.
broken, a. fractured, splintered, shattered, shivered; disconnected, discontinuous, interrupted; impaired, shattered; subdued, humbled, contrite, penitent, crushed, trained, subjugated, tractable; violated. Antonyms: inviolate, intact, whole.
broken-hearted, a. disconsolate, inconsolable, comfortless.
broker, a. agent, factor, middleman, go-between.
brood, v. incubate, sit; meditate (morbidly).
brook, n. rivulet, runlet, rill, creek, streamlet, runnel, run, burn.
brook, v. tolerate, suffer, endure, bear.
broom, n. besom; whisk (small broom).
brothel, n. house of prostitution, bawdy-house, brothelry.
brother, n. Associated words: fratricidal, fraternize, fratricide, brotherhood, brother german, brother uterine.
brotherhood, n. fraternity, fellowship.
brotherly, a. fraternal.
brow, n. forehead.
brown, a. dusky, tawny, dun, swarthy.
brown race. Malayan.
brown study. abstraction, revery, musing, preoccupation.
bruise, v. contuse, ecchymose.
bruise, v. indent, deface, disfigure.
bruise, n. contusion, ecchymosis.
bruiser, n. (Colloq.) boxer, pugilist.
bruit, n. report, town talk, rumor, hearsay.--v. noise, abroad, report, tell, circulate.
brush, n. brushwood; thicket, underbrush; grazing.
brushwood, n. thicket, coppice, underbrush, brush.
brutal, a. inhuman, cruel, fell, ruthless, truculent, unfeeling; beastly, bestial, brutish.
brutality, n. inhumanity, cruelty, truculence.
brute, n. beast; fiend, monster, ruffian, yahoo.
brute, a. irrational.
brutish, a. bestial, brutal, brute.
bubonic plague. polyadenitis.
buck, n. ram; beau, fop, blade, dandy.
bud, v. pullulate, germinate, bourgeon.
Buddha, n. Gautama Siddartha, Sakya Sinha.
budding, n. gemmification, bourgeoning, gemmation.
buffalo, n. bison; carabao (water buffalo).
bugaboo, n. ogre, bugbear, bogy, fright, bullbeggar.
bugbear, n. bugaboo, ogre, bogy, bête noire.
build, v. erect, construct, raise.
builder, n. architect; carpenter.
building, n. erection, construction; edifice, structure, pile; architecture.
businesslike, a. pragmatical.
bulging, a. protuberant, convex, gibbous.
bulgy, a. (Colloq.) bulging, gibbous, convex.
bulk, n. mass, size, dimensions, magnitude, bulkiness; majority, mass.
bulky, a. massive, ponderous, big.
bull, n. Taurus; Minotaur; Apis. Associated words: tauriform, taurine, bovine, bellow.
bulldoze, v. (Colloq.) intimidate, browbeat.
bullfight, n. Associated words: arena, banderilla, banderillero, picadore.
bullfighter, n. matador, toreador, tauridor, capeador, tauromachian.
bullfighting, n. tauromachy.
bullhead, n. (Colloq.) dolt, lout, lubber, dunderhead, beetlehead.
bully, n. blusterer, swaggerer, roisterer, rowdy, rough.
bully, a. (Slang) jolly, jovial; fine, excellent, good.
bully, v. browbeat, overbear, swagger, bluster, intimidate.
bullying, a. hectoring, swaggering, blustering.
bulwark, n. rampart, fortification; defense, palladium, shield.
bump, n. protuberance, prominence, lump, nodule, swelling.
bumpkin, n. lout, boor, clodpoll, yokel, yahoo, hind.
bumptious, a. (Colloq.) self-conceited, obtrusive, pushing.
bunch, n. cluster, tuft, knot, tussock; raceme, racemation; protuberance, lump, nodule, hunch, bump; lot, collection, group, assortment, set.
bundle, n. parcel, package, bale, pack, budget, packet.
bung, n. stopper, tampoon, spigot, stopple; bunghole, vent.
bunghole, n. bung, vent, vent-hole.
bungling, a. unskillful, maladroit, inexpert, clumsy, inapt.
bunker, n. bin, receptacle, crib.
bunko, v. cheat, swindle, victimize.
burden, n. load, cargo; incubus, encumbrance, weight, impediment, trial, oppression; chorus, refrain.
burden, v. encumber, load, surcharge, oppress.
burial, n. interment, inhumation, sepulture, entombment. Antonyms: disinterment, exhumation.
burlesque, n. travesty, farce.
burn, v. scorch, scald, singe, char, sear, cauterize, brand, consume, incinerate; cremate, incremate.
burn, n. ambustion.
burnable, a. combustible, inflammable. Antonyms: incombustible, asbestic.
burning, n. combustion, cineration, incineration; cauterization, cautery; pyrography; arson; incendiarism; smoldering.
burning, n. cremation, incremation. Associated words: cremator, crematory, crematorium.
bury, n. inter, inhume, entomb, sepulcher; hide, secrete, conceal, cache. Antonyms: disinter, exhume.
burying-ground, n. cemetery.
bush, n. shrub; thicket, jungle, underwood, boscage.
bushwhacker, n. bushranger, guerrilla.
business, n. vocation, calling, pursuit, craft, trade, occupation, profession; avocation; traffic, trade, commerce, enterprise, industry, barter; duty, function, work, place; affair, concern, matter. Associated words: commercial, mercantile, technical, technicality, technology.
bustle, n. stir, agitation, tumult, ado, pother, commotion; bishop, tournure, pannier.
busy, a. occupied, engaged, employed, engrossed; diligent, industrious, sedulous, active; intrusive, officious, meddlesome.
butcher, v. slaughter.
butter, n. Associated words: butyric, butyrin, butyrometer, butyrate, dairy, creamery, churn, butterine, capric, caprylic, caproic acid, butyraceous.
butterflies, n. pl. Lepidoptera. Associated words: lepidopterist, lepidopteral, lepidopterous, caterpillar, larva.
buttock, n. rump, fundament, breech; glutæus (muscle).
buttress, n. support, stay, prop.
buy, v. purchase.
buyer, n. purchaser.
buying, n. purchase.
buzz, n. hum, murmur, bombinate; whiz.
buzz, v. hum, bombinate.
by degrees. gradually.
bystander, n. spectator, onlooker, witness.
by turns. alternately, in succession.
C. Associated word: cedilla.
cabbage, n. savoy; colewort; broccoli; collards; Brussels sprouts. Associated words: Brassica, brassicaceous.
cabbage, v. (Colloq.) steal, pilfer, purloin, filch.
cabin, n. hut, hovel, shanty, cot, shack, cottage.
cage, n. mew.--v. confine, coop up, encage, mew.
caged, a. imprisoned, confined.
cajole, v. beguile, wheedle, blandish, inveigle, flatter.
cajolery, n. wheedling, blandishment, beguilement.
cake, v. concrete, harden, solidify, coagulate.
calamitous, a. disastrous, deplorable, baleful, ill-fated, untoward, dire.
calamity, n. disaster, catastrophe, misfortune, casualty, reverse, adversity, mischance.
calculate, v. compute, reckon, estimate; forecast; (Colloq.) expect, intend, contemplate, plan.
calculating, a. scheming, forecasting, crafty, circumspect, cautious, wary.
calculation, n. computation, reckoning; expectation, anticipation; circumspection, wariness, forethought, caution.
calendar, n. almanac; list, schedule, register, catalogue, docket.
calf, n. Associated words: vellum, parchment, veal, fatling, dogy, vitular, vituline, slink, slunk, calve, steer.
calico, n. print.
California poppy. eschscholtzia.
call, v. summon, bid, evoke, invite; convoke, assemble, muster, convene; entitle, name, designate, dub, denominate; invoke, petition, invocate.
call, n. summons, vocation, invocation, entreaty, appeal, invitation; signal; requirement, demand, requisition; election, appointment; interview.
calling, n. summons, call; vocation (divine summons); evocation, convocation; occupation, business, trade, employment, vocation, pursuit.
callous, a. unfeeling, insensible, hardened, unimpressible.
callow, a. unfledged, unfeathered; immature, green, inexperienced.
call to account. impeach, accuse.
calm, n. lull, tranquillity, quiet, placidity.
calm, a. still, serene, motionless, undisturbed, unruffled, pacific, placid, tranquil, halcyon; sedate, collected, imperturbable, unmoved, cool, composed, dispassionate. Antonyms: excited, stormy, agitated, ruffled, discomposed, perturbed, boisterous.
calm, v. lull, allay, hush, tranquillize, becalm, still, compose, quiet, appease, pacify, assuage, moderate, alleviate, conciliate, abate, console.
calmness, n. tranquillity, serenity, placidity, stillness, composure, imperturbability, dispassion, imperturbation, unconcern, equanimity, collectedness, self-possession. Antonyms: commotion, excitement, agitation, discomposure.
camel, n. dromedary (one hump); bactrian camel (two humps); deloul, maharik (the swift camel).
cameo, n. anaglyph. Antonym: intaglio.
camp, n. encampment; bivouac; cantonment, quarters. Associated words: castrensial, étape, decampment, decamp, castrametation.
camp, v. encamp.
canal, n. channel. Associated words: towpath, berm, heelpath, lock.
cancel, v. annul, abrogate, rescind, nullify, quash, abolish, countermand. Antonyms: confirm, approve, corroborate, enforce, reënact, maintain.
cancellation, n. annulment, abrogation, rescission, nullification, countermanding.
cancer, n. carcinoma, carcinosis. Associated words: cancerate, canceration, cancerous, cancriform, cancroid, solanoid.
candid, a. impartial, unbiased, fair; frank, ingenuous, unreserved, straightforward. Antonyms: disingenuous, deceitful, reserved, subtle.
candidate, n. aspirant, nominee, postulant, office-seeker, contestant (for an office).
candle, n. taper, cierge, rushlight, serge; pl. chandlery. Associated words: chandler, wick, snuff, socket, accensor, petrostearine, sconce, sweal.
candlestick, n. candelabrum, jesse, girandole, lustre.
candor, n. impartiality, disinterestedness; frankness, ingenuousness, naïveté, openness.
candy, n. confectionery, bonbon, sweetmeat, confection, comfit, confect, lollipop, caramel, fudge, fondant, praline, taffy, sugar plum, toffee.
candy maker. confectioner.
cane sugar. sucrose.
canker, n. corrosion, erosion, blight.
cannibal, n. anthropophagite.--a. anthropophagous.
cannibalism, n. anthropophagy; exophagy, endophagy.
cannibals, n. pl. anthropophagi, man-eaters, androphagi.
cannon, n. Associated words: ordnance, cannonade, cannoneer, linstock, calibre, bore, cascabel, breech, reenforce, chase, muzzle, trunnion, rimbase, chamber, howitzer, mortar.
canny, a. cunning, crafty, wary, shrewd, cautious, prudent, circumspect; magical.
canoe, n. piroque (dugout); pitpan (Cen. Amer.); kayak (Arctic tribes).
canon, n. law, rule, regulation.
canonicals, n. pl. vestments; gown, robe, cassock, surplice, alb, pallium, cope, scapulary, dalmatic, stole, chasuble, tunicle, scarf, mantelleta, cowl, ephod, amice, mitre, capoch, biretta, chimere, rochet, scapular, planeta, maniple, tippet, plicata.
canopy, n. covering, awning, baldaquin, baldachin, tilt, tester, pavilion.
cant, n. slope, tilt, turn; bias, impulse; prating; idioms, parlance, vocabulary; affected piety, hypocrisy; slang, jargon, lingo, argot.
cantankerous, a. (Colloq.) perverse, contumacious, contentious, headstrong, contrary.
canteen carrier. (female) cantiniere, vivandiere.
canvas, n. tarpaulin; coutil.
canyon, n. gorge, ravine, gulch.
cap, n. biggin, biggon, biggonnet, busby, coif, berretta, biretta, barret, caul, callot, head-gear, turban, fez, calotte, toque, mortarboard, mitre, tarboosh, Tam-o-Shanter, zuchetto, wimple, shako, morion, mozetta, casque, helmet, mutch, montero, domino, beaver, glengarry, calpac, thrum cap, beret, keffieh, mortier, mobcap. Associated word: visor.
cap, v. crown, complete, consummate, surpass, exceed.
capability, n. ability, capacity, competency, qualification, efficiency, proficiency.
capable, a. able, qualified, susceptible, competent, efficient, proficient. Antonyms: See incapable.
cape, n. promontory, headland.
caper, n. dido, trick, prank, leap, gambol, curlycue.
caper, v. gambol, frisk, cavort, leap, skip, prance, capriole.
capital, a. principal, leading, chief, cardinal, foremost; (Colloq.) excellent, first-rate.
capital letter, n. majuscule (ancient manuscripts). Associated word: cyriologic.
capitation, n. poll-tax.
caprice, n. fancy, whim, notion, freak, vagary, crotchet, quirk, whimsey, fickleness.
capricious, a. fanciful, whimsical, vagarious, inconstant, fickle, crotchety, volatile.
cap-shaped, a. pileate, pileated.
capsize, v. upset, overturn.
captain, n. commander, chieftain, leader, chief: skipper; colonel; master, foreman.
captious, a. critical, carping, censorious, caviling.
captivate, v. enchant, subdue, bewitch, fascinate, entrance, enamor, infatuate.
captivating, a. bewitching, fascinating, enchanting. See charming.
captivation, n. fascination, infatuation, charming.
captivity, n. bondage, servitude, thralldom, vassalage, slavery.
capture, v. seize, catch, apprehend, arrest, corral, deprehend.
capture, n. prey, prize; apprehension, arrest, seizure, catching.
car, n. cart, vehicle, chariot, caboose, tender, cage, coach, tram, truck.
carbolic acid. phenol, phenic acid.
cardinal, a. principal, chief, superior, preëminent.
cardinal virtues. prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude.
cardinals, n. pl. Associated words: propaganda, conclave, cardinalate.
care, n. concern, anxiety, worry, apprehension; oversight, charge, management, tutelage, custody; ward, charge, protégé, responsibility; attention, heed, caution, regard, circumspection, carefulness. Antonyms: See carelessness.
careful, a. cautious, watchful, provident, chary, attentive, circumspect, considerate, heedful, prudent, discreet, wary, mindful, choice, sparing, observant.
carefulness, n. caution, wariness, circumspection, chariness, forethought, precaution, watchfulness, discretion, concern, cautiousness.
careless, a. negligent, unconcerned, indifferent, heedless, inattentive, regardless, lax, incautious, remiss, inconsiderate, nonchalant, neglectful, unwary, imprudent, indiscreet, improvident, reckless, desultory, perfunctory, devil-may-care, slovenly, slack, supine.
carelessness, n. unconcern, indifference, negligence, heedlessness, remissness, incaution, nonchalance, inadvertence, laxity, improvidence, inattention, dereliction, indiscretion, recklessness.
cargo, n. freight, load, burden, lading, last.
caricature, n. exaggeration, burlesque, take-off, travesty, parody.
carking, a. harassing, worrying, distressing, vexatious.
carnal, a. sensual, fleshly, bodily; lustful, salacious; unregenerate.
carousal, n. revel, wassail, orgies, bacchanals, saturnalia, jamboree (Slang).
carouser, n. reveler, roysterer, debauchee, bacchanalian.
carpenter, n. joiner.
carpet covering. drugget, bocking.
carping, a. caviling, censorious, captious, hypercritical, fault-finding.
carriage, n. carrying, transportation; bearing, behavior, deportment; air, mien, demeanor.
carriage, n. vehicle, conveyance, coach, gig, buggy, sulky, diligence, perambulator, cabriolet, brougham, surrey, chaise, stanhope, sedan, jumpseat, tally-ho, victoria, tumbrel, chariot, jingle, rockaway, hack, calash, cab, coupe, hansom cab, volante, cart, equipage, turnout, jaunting car, landau, phaeton, wagonette, jinrikisha, vandy, dogcart, kibitka, britzska, barouche, fly, whisky, post-chaise, droshki, trap, dos-à-dos, litter, palanquin, curricle.
carriage dog. Dalmatian dog.
carrier, n. messenger, conveyer; porter, bearer, teamster.
carrion, n. Associated words: necrophagan, necrophagous, saprophagan, necrophilous, saprophagous, saprophytic, saprophyte.
carry, v. convey, transport, bear, waft, portage; carry out, complete, effectuate, consummate, accomplish.
carrying, n. transportation, conveyance, portage, transmission, conduction, delivery. Associated words: portable, portability, unportable, palanquin, litter, sedan chair.
cart, n. vehicle, wagon, carriage; lorrie, truck, tumbril, carreta.
carte, n. menu, bill of fare.
Carthaginian, a. Punic.
cartilage, n. gristle. Associated words: chondrology, chondrotomy, chondritis, chondroid, chondrification, chondrify, cartilaginous, gristly.
cart maker. cartwright.
carve, v. sculpture, chisel, engrave, fashion, mould.
carving, n. sculpture (in wood or ivory); anaglyptics, anaglyphy.
case, a. sheath, covering, capsule, receptacle, quiver, chest; event, happening, instance, circumstances, condition, affair, plight, predicament, dilemma, contingency.
case-hardened, a. seared, obdurate.
cash, n. coin, specie, currency.
cashier, n. cash-keeper; bursar, treasurer, purser.
cask, n. tierce, hogshead, pipe, puncheon, butt, tun.
casket, n. gemmary; coffin.
cassock, n. soutane.
cast, v. fling, hurl, throw, impel, pitch, sling; direct, turn, drop, deposit, place; exuviate, shed, molt, discard, shed, reflect, throw; compute, reckon, add, enumerate.
cast, n. throw, fling; exuviæ, ejection, secretion.
castaway, n. outcast, reprobate, pariah, derelict.
castigate, v. chastise.
castigation, n. chastisement.
castiron, a. unyielding, indomitable, hardy.
castle, n. fortress, citadel, stronghold, fastness, donjon, keep; mansion, château.
castling, n. abortion.
cast off. discard, reject, slough.
cast-off, a. discarded, rejected.
castor oil. Associated words: ricinoleic, ricinolein, ricinus, Palma Christi.
castrate, v. geld, alter; emasculate.
castrated person. eunich, spade.
castration, n. orchotomy, emasculation, gelding.
casual, a. chance, accidental, fortuitous, contingent.
casualty, n. accident, calamity, contingency, fortuity.
cat, n. feline, Felis, tabby, puss, pussy; kitten, kitty; grimalkin (an old she cat). Associated words: purr, mew, miaul, caterwaul, feline, Felidæ (cat family).
catacomb, n. grotto, crypt, cave.
catalogue, n. list, register, schedule, index, inventory, Associated word: raisonné.
cataract, n. waterfall, cascade, fall, lin.
catastrophe, n. disaster, calamity.
catch, v. seize, grasp, clutch, snatch, gripe, nab; apprehend; arrest; deprehend; overtake; insnare, entangle, entrap.
catch, n. capture, seizure, arrest, apprehension; hasp, hook, clasp.
catching, a. contagious, infectious, communicable, pestilential. Antonyms: noncontagious, incommunicable.
catching, n. seizure, apprehension, arrest.
catchword, n. cue.
category, n. class, state, condition, division, predicament.
cater, v. purvey.
cater-cornered, a. (Colloq.) diagonal.
caterer, n. purveyor.
cathartic, n. purgative, physic, purge, evacuant.
catholic, a. universal, general, world-wide; liberal, tolerant, unsectarian, broad-minded; Roman Catholic, Romish. Antonyms: uncatholic, sectarian, local, narrow, noncatholic.
catholicity, n. universality, catholicism; liberality.
catkin, n. ament.
cat's-eye, n. chatoyant, chrysoberyl. Associated words: chatoyant, chatoyment.
cat's-paw, n. dupe, tool, cully, gull.
cattle, n. kine; Bos; Bovine quadrupeds; Taurus.
cattle-plague, n. rinderpest, murrain.
cattle-stealing, n. abigeat (Civil Law).
cause, n. origin, source; motive, incitement, inducement, incentive. Associated words: ætiology, etiology, teleology, etiological, causation, causative, causality.
cause, v. occasion, induce, effect, originate.
caustic, a. burning, virulent, acrid, catheretic, mordacious, cutting, satirical.
caution, n. wariness, forethought, circumspection; advice, warning, admonition.
caution, v. forewarn, admonish, warn, counsel, advise, dissuade.
cautious, a. circumspect, prudent, wary. Antonyms: incautious, unwary.
cave, n. cavern, grotto, grot, den, catacomb, crypt. Associated words: speleology, spelean, stalactite, stalagmite, cavernicolous, troglodytic, caverned, cavernous.
cave-dweller, n. troglodyte.
cavil, v. carp, criticize.--n. objection, criticism (specious or frivolous).
caviling, a. carping, captious, cavilous, hypercritical.
Cayenne pepper. capsicum.
cease, v. discontinue, stop, desist, refrain.
ceaseless, a. incessant, unceasing, constant, uninterrupted, continual.
cedar tree. Associated words: cedrine, cedrene.
cede, v. surrender, relinquish, grant.
ceding, n. cession.
celebrate, v. commemorate, solemnize, observe.
celebrated, a. famous, illustrious, noted, renowned, eminent, far-famed. Antonyms: obscure, inglorious, unrenowned.
celebration, n. commemoration, observance, solemnization.
celebrity, n. fame, renown, eminence.
cellar, n. basement.
celluloid, n. xylonite.
cement, n. adhesive, glue; lute, luting.
cement, v. cohere, join, glue, glutinate.
cemetery, n. necropolis, God's acre, graveyard, mortuary.
censer, n. thurible, incensory.
censor, n. inspector, reviewer, critic; caviler, censurer.
censorious, a. carping, captious, caviling, critical.
censurable, a. reprehensible, culpable, blamable, reproachable, illaudable.
censure, n. reproof, reprehension, blame, reprimand, objurgation.
censure, v. reprove, rebuke, reprehend, upbraid, objurgate, chide, inveigh against.
censuring, a. reprehensory, reproachful, reproving, objurgatory, condemnatory.
centenary, n. centennial, century.
centennial, n. centenary.
center, n. middle, midst. Antonyms: circumference, perimeter, rim, boundary. Associated words: centrifugal, centrifugence, centricity, centripetal, centripetence, centrality, centralize, centralization, paracentric.
centerpiece, n. épergne.
central, a. middle, centric, centrical, equidistant.
century, n. centenary. Associated words: centennial, secular.
ceremonious, a. formal, precise, punctilious. Antonyms: informal, free-and-easy.
ceremony, n. rite, form, ceremonial, solemnity; formality.
certain, a. assured, confident, convinced, satisfied, undoubting; undeniable, irrefutable, indubitable, incontrovertible, incontestable, sure; inevitable, unavoidable; unfailing, infallible, inerrable; fixed, stated, specified. Antonyms: indefinite, uncertain, doubtful. See uncertain.
certainty, n. sureness, confidence, assurance, surety; fact, truth. Antonyms: See uncertainty.
certificate, n. testimonial, credential, voucher.
certify, v. assure, attest, testify to, vouch for.
chafe, v. rub, gall, irritate; fret, fume, rage.
chaff, n. glumes, hulls, refuse.
chaff, n. banter, raillery, pleasantry, jesting, badinage.
chaffy, a. acerose, palaceous, stramineous.
chagrin, a. mortification, abashment, vexation, confusion, discomposure, humiliation.
chagrin, v. mortify, abash, vex, confuse, humiliate.
chain, n. concatenation, catenation, series, congeries, carcanet, catena, chatelaine, necklace, gorget, links, torque; bond, shackle, fetter, tether.
chain, v. fetter, restrain, shackle, enslave, trammel, catenate.
chain wheel. sprocket wheel.
chair, n. seat; professorship; chairman.
chalice, n. grail.
chalk, n. Associated words: calcography, calcographer, calcographic, chalkiness, crayon.
chalkstone, n. tophus. (Med.)
chalky, a. cretaceous.
challenge, v. defy, dare, brave.--n. defiance; exception, objection.
champion, n. defender, vindicator, protector, paladin; winner, hero, conqueror.
champion, v. defend, maintain, advocate, vindicate.
chance, v. befall; risk, venture.
chance, n. fate, fortune, luck, fortuity, hap, casualty, accident; possibility, likelihood, contingency; opportunity; hazard, jeopardy, risk, uncertainty.
chance, a. casual, fortuitous, accidental, contingent, random.
chancery, n. equity.
change, n. variation, alteration, transition, mutation, transposition, conversion, metamorphosis, innovation, transfiguration, permutation, transference, reversion, reaction, transmutation; substitution, commutation; variety, novelty, vicissitude. Associated word: mutanda. Antonyms: continuation, stability, conservatism, permanence, inertia, monotony, perpetuation, continuance, fixity, invariability, uniformity.
change, v. alter, transmute, shift, modulate, reverse, reform, vary, modify, convert, transform, transpose, transfer, exchange, substitute, commute. Antonyms: continue, persist, remain, abide.
changeable, a. mutable, variable, inconstant, unstable, unsteadfast, reversible, alterable, revocable, mobile, convertible, transmutable, commutable, kaleidoscopic, transformable, impermanent; volatile, fickle, mercurial, protean, irresolute, capricious, vacillating, fitful, inconstant, erratic, eccentric, crotchety; iridescent; chatoyant.
changeableness, n. mutability, variability, inconstancy, instability, vacillation, convertibility, transmutability, mobility, impermanence; volatility, irresolution, fickleness, capriciousness; iridescence; chatoyment.
changeless, a. permanent, immutable, inexorable, invariable, undeviating, unalterable, unvarying, constant, unconvertible.
changelessness, n. immutability, inalterability, permanence, conservatism, invariability, monotony, inconvertibility.
changeling, n. oaf; waverer, whiffler.
change of life. climacteric; menopause.
channel, n. water-course, canal, aqueduct, gutter, runway, alveus, conduit, duct; strait; furrow, chamfer, chamfret, groove, fluting; avenue, route, artery.
chant, v. intone, intonate, cantillate.
chant, n. intonation; introit; cantillation.
chaos, n. confusion, disorder, disorganization.
chap, n. crack, chink; boy, lad, youth; kibe.
chapel, n. oratory, chantry, bethel.
chapped, a. kibed.
chaps, n. pl. jaws, chops, flews.
chapter, n. branch. Associated words: capitular, capitulary.
character, n. personality, nature, individuality. Associated words: ethology, ethologist.
characteristic, n. trait, peculiarity, feature, attribute, attribution, idiosyncrasy.
characterize, v. distinguish.
charge, n. accusation, complaint, allegation, indictment, imputation, crimination, impeachment, arraignment, gravamen (burden of a charge); trust, ward; custody, care, responsibility, oversight, obligation, commission, management; onset, attack, assault, onslaught, fusillade; tutelage.
charge, v. impose, load, encumber; exhort, enjoin, adjure, instruct; commit, intrust; debit; accuse, indict, tax, impute, criminate, arraign; attack, assault.
chargeable, a. imputable, attributable, referrible.
charitable, a. benevolent, benign, beneficent, magnanimous; liberal, tolerant, lenient. Antonyms: uncharitable, illiberal, intolerant.
charity, n. benevolence, good will, love, benignity, philanthropy, beneficence, bounty, liberality, tolerance. Associated words: eleemosynary, alms, dependent.
charlatan, n. pretender, quack, impostor, fraud, cheat, mountebank, empiric.
charlatanic, a. pretentious, empirical, quackish.
charlatanry, n. quackery, pretension, empiricism, charlatanism.
charm, n. spell, incantation, enchantment, conjuration; periapt, amulet, phylactery, talisman, fetich, abraxas; fascination, glamour, witchery, attraction, illusion, rhetoric; breloque (jewel); countercharm. Antonyms: disenchantment, repellence, disillusionment.
charm, v. enchant, fascinate, enamor, infatuate, enrapture, bewitch, captivate; allay, soothe, subdue. Antonyms: decharm, disillusionize, disenchant, repel.
charmer, n. enchanter, magician, sorcerer; siren, enchantress.
charming, a. bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enrapturing, entrancing, magical, fascinating, winning, ecstatic, siren, delightful, winsome, seductive, ravishing. Antonyms: charmless, unattractive, repellent, repulsive.
charnel house. ossuary, ossuarium, tomb, carnary.
chart, n. map. Associated words: cartography, cartographer.
chary, a. frugal, careful, saving, cautious, circumspect.
chase, v. track, hunt, pursue; scatter, expel, drive, disperse, dispel.
chase n. hunting, field-sport, hunt, venery, chevy; pursuit.
chasm, n. abyss, gap.
chaste, a. virtuous, continent, undefiled, pure, inviolated, modest, innocent; classic, refined, pure, correct. Antonyms: See unchaste.
chasten, v. discipline, correct, punish; refine, purify, subdue.
chastise, v. castigate, chasten, punish, whip.
chastisement, n. castigation, chastening, punishment, whipping.
chastity, n. purity, virtue, continence.
chat, n. confabulation, talk, conversation, causerie, confab (Colloq.).
cheap, a. inexpensive, low-priced; inferior, mean, mediocre, of small value.
cheapen, v. depreciate; belittle, lower.
cheat, n. fraud, trick, hoax, finesse, imposition, imposture, swindle, humbug, bubble, wile, deception, stratagem, bunko, blind, thimblerigging; impostor, deceiver, quack, mountebank, thimblerigger, charlatan, empiric, trickster, swindler, blackleg, bamboozler, sharper; delusion, chicanery, mockery, counterfeit, fetch.
cheat, v. swindle, defraud, overreach, trick, bamboozle, hoodwink, dupe, hoax, bilk, thimblerig, hocus, bunko, beguile, cozen.
check, n. obstacle, restraint, curb, bridle, damper, barrier, restriction, rebuff, repulse, delay, interruption; bank check, cheque.
check, v. restrain, impede, curb, repress, bridle, checkmate.
checker, v. variegate, diversify, tessellate.
checkered, a. diversified, variegated, plaid, mosaic, tessellated.
checkers, n. draughts.
checking, a. repressive, restraining, curbing.
checkmate, v. defeat, vanquish, conquer, baffle.
cheek, n. jowl. Associated words: zygoma, zygomatic, buccate, buccal, malar, buccinator, meloncus, meloplasty, melitis, dimple, jugal.
cheek, n. (Slang) effrontery, temerity, assurance, impudence, audacity.
cheeky, a. (Slang) audacious, bold, impudent, presumptuous, unabashed.
cheer, v. inspirit, elate, exhilarate, encourage, console, revive, gladden; applaud.
cheerful, a. cheery, buoyant, sunny, vivacious, optimistic, sanguine, elated, jubilant, lightsome, airy, exhilarating, exhilarated, jocund, chipper.
cheerfulness, n. cheeriness, buoyancy, elation, exhilaration, alacrity, jocundity, light-heartedness, optimism.
cheering, n. applause, plaudit; ovation.
cheerless, a. dismal, sombre, drear, dreary, gloomy, desolate, forlorn, sad, hopeless, despairing, joyless.
cheery, a. cheerful, pleasant, sunny, blithe, jovial, affable.
cheese-paring, a. scrimping, niggardly.
cheesy, a. caseous.
chemise, n. shirt, smock, shift, chemisette.
cherish, v. treasure.
cherry-colored, a. cerise.
chest, n. box, case, coffer, trunk, hutch, receplacle, bahut.
chest, n. thorax, breast. Associated words: pectoral, pectorally, diaphragm, midriff.
chestnut, n. Associated words: esculic, esculin, castanea, burr.
chestnut-colored, a. castaneous.
chew, v. masticate, munch; crunch, craunch, champ.
chewing, n. mastication; rumination, remastication.
chew the cud. ruminate.
chic, a. (Colloq.) in good taste, neat.--n. good form, style.
chicanery, n. trickery, chicane.
chicken, n. fowl; hen; rooster; pullet; poult; capon; pl. poultry, brood.
chicken-hearted, a. timid, fearful, cowardly.
chicken pox. varicella.
chide, v. admonish, censure, upbraid, scold.
chief, n. head, leader, commander, chieftain, captain.
chief, a. leading, supreme, main, head, principal, paramount, prime, cardinal, major, foremost.
child, n. progeny, offspring, issue; infant, babe, baby, tot, bairn, brat; bastard (illegitimate); orphan; foundling, waif; cockney (spoilt child); minor. Associated words: pediatrics, prolicide, infanticide, puberty, philoprogenitive, philoprogenitiveness, misopedia, filicide, putti, filial, filiation, affiliation, affiliate.
childbirth, n. parturition, accouchement, childbed, lying-in, travail, labor, childbearing. Associated words: tocology, midwife, midwifery, parturient, maieutic, layette, obstetrics, obstetrician, celation, puerperal, accoucheur, accoucheuse, fetus, post-partum.
childhood, n. nonage, infancy, minority, impuberty, pupilage.
childish, a. puerile, juvenile, infantile, immature.
childishness, n. juvenility, puerility, immaturity.
children, n. offspring, progeny, issue, descendants, posterity.
chill, n. chilliness, shiver, rigor.
chilly, a. cool, chill, raw, bleak.
chime, v. accord, agree, harmonize, be in unison.
chime, n. unison, harmony; carillon.
chimera, n. delusion, phantom, hallucination, illusion.
chimney, n. Associated words: cowl, flue, hoveling, smoke jack, chimney-breast, tewel.
chimney corner. ingle nook, ingleside.
chin: n. Associated words: genian, mental, gill, wattle, chuck, submental.
China, n. Celestial Empire, Cathay (Old name).
China clay. kaolin.
Chinaman, n. Chinese, Celestial, Mongol, Mongolian; mandarin; coolie.
china ware. china, porcelain.
Chinese, n. Associated words: sinology, sinologue, sinicism, sinic, yamen, haikwan, hong, canque, sinological, Taoism, Confucianism, Manchu, kotow, li, abacus, chinoiserie, taotai.
Chinese idol. joss. Associated word: ting.
chink, n. crack, cranny, crevice; (Colloq.) money, cash, coin.
chin whelk. sycosis.
chipper, a. lively, vivacious, cheerful, talkative.
chirp, v. chirrup, cherup, cheep, pue.
chivalrous, a. gallant, knightly, magnanimous, valiant.
chivalry, n. knighthood, gallantry, knight-errantry.
choice, n. selection, election, alternative, option, preference, discrimination, preferment, volition. Antonyms: coercion, compulsion, indiscrimination.
choice, a. select, rare, recherché; careful, sparing, chary Antonyms: indiscriminate, promiscuous, common.
choir-leader, n. chorister, precentor, choir-master.
choir vestments. cotta; cassock.
choke, v. strangle, throttle, stifle, suffocate, suppress.
choleric, a. irascible, irritable, petulant, testy.
choose, v. select, elect, prefer, cull, pick out.
chop, v. hack, mince, hash, haggle.
chop, n. stroke, chopping; jaw, chap; pl. flews.
chorus, n. (Greek.) Associated words: strophe, antistrophe, epode.
chosen, a. selected.
Christmas, n. Yule, Yuletide, Christmastide.
Christmas mummer. guiser.
chronic, a. habitual, lingering, inveterate.
chronicle, n. record, account, narrative, diary, history.
chrysalis, n. aurelia, nympha, cocoon, kell.
chum, n. roommate; companion, intimate, associate, friend, crony.
church, n. temple, sanctuary, house of God, meeting house, fane; cathedral; chapel, oratory, minster, bethel, tabernacle, chantry; kirk (Scotch); synagogue (Jewish); denomination, sect; basilica. Associated words: ecclesiastical, ecclesiology, ecclesiolatry, ecclesiasticism, parish, hierarch, hierarchy, hierocracy, hierolatry, hierology, hierarchism, irenics, curé, evangelical, verger, beadle, chancel, clearstory, nave, transept, vestry, presbytery, prebend, prebendary, lectern, apse, irenicon, living, benefice, sinecure, glebe, see, prelacy, convocation, synod, conference, conclave, consistory, crypt, schism, orthodoxy, heterodoxy, unchurch, sacristan, sacristy, Dorcastry, Sarum use.
church and state. Associated words: Erastian, Erastianism.
church dignitary. prelate, primate, elder, deacon, dean, hierarch, bishop.
church fathers. Associated words: patristic, patristics, patrology, patrist.
churchly, a. ecclesiastical.
church officer. vestryman, warden, presbyter, trustee.
churl, n. rustic, hind, bumpkin, lout, boor.
churlish, a. boorish, rude, morose, unamiable.
chyle, n. Associated words: chylification, chylifaction, chylify, achylous, chylaceous, chylous, chyliferous, chylocyst, lacteal, chylopoiesis, chylopoietic.
chyme, n. Associated words: chymification, chymiferous, chymify, chymous, achymous.
cigar, n. (small) stogie; tobie; cheroot.
cinch, n. (Colloq.) tight grip.
cipher, n. zero, naught, nothing; nonentity, nobody; device, monogram.
cipher writing. cryptography, crytograph, steganography, cryptogram.
circle, n. ring; circumference, periphery; circuit; clique, coterie, set, class; annulation, annulus.
circle, v. encircle.
circuitous, a. roundabout, devious, indirect.
circulate, v. disseminate, promulgate, diffuse.
circulation, n. dissemination, diffusion, promulgation, propagation.
circumference, n. periphery, circumscription, girth.
cistern, n. reservoir; impluvium.
cite, v. quote; specify, mention, name, refer to.
citizen, n. resident.
city, n. municipality.--a. municipal, urban.
civil, a. civic, political, municipal; courteous, obliging, polite. Antonyms: See uncivil.
civility, n. courtesy, politeness. Antonyms: incivility, discourtesy.
claim, v. demand, pretend; (Colloq.) assert, maintain.
claim, n. pretension, demand, requisition; title, right.
claimant, n. claimer, pretender, pretendant.
clamor, n. uproar, tumult, hubbub, racket, din.
clamorous, a. noisy, uproarious, bawling, obstreperous.
clandestine, a. hidden, stealthy, surreptitious, furtive, secret.
clannish, a. narrow, exclusive.
clap, n. gonorrhea.
clapboards, n. pl. siding, weatherboarding.
claptrap, a. humbug, stage trick, coupe de theatre.
clarity, n. clearness.
clash, v. collide, hurtle, crash together; contend, disagree; clatter, clang.
clash, n. collision, crash; opposition, interference, contrariety; clangor, clang.
clasp, v. grasp, grapple, clutch, seize; embrace, hug.
clasp, n. hook, hasp, fibula, morse, catch; embrace.
class, n. rank, order, category, species, variety.
class, v. classify, dispose, categorize.
classification, n. disposition, grouping; taxonomy.
clause, n. article, stipulation, proviso, provision.
claw, n. talon; dewclaw. Associated words: ungual, unguicular, retract, retractile, unguiculate, pounced, unguiform.
claw, v. scratch, laniate, lacerate.
clay, n. argillaceous earth; pug, argil, hole, marl, kaolin. Associated words: potter, pottery, figuline, fictile, pug, puddle.
clayey, a. argillaceous, argillous, argilliferous, luteous, cledgy.
clean, a. unsoiled, unsullied, immaculate, cleanly, neat; chaste, pure, virtuous, undefiled, incorrupt, uncontaminated; shapely, well-proportioned; kosher (Jewish).
clean, adv. wholly, perfectly, completely, quite, entirely, thoroughly.
clean, v. cleanse.
cleanse, v. purify, deterge, absterge, wash, disinfect, fumigate, depurate.
cleanser, n. abstergent, detergent, purifier, detersive.
cleansing, a. detergent, abstergent, abstersive, detersive, purifying.
cleansing, n. purification, detersion, purgation, abstersion, lustration, expurgation.
clear, a. transparent, diaphanous, pellucid, limpid, relucent, crystalline, lucid, crystal; unmistakable, plain, evident, obvious, unambiguous, distinct, explicit, manifest, palpable, patent, decipherable, express, comprehensible, graphic; serene, cloudless, unclouded, undimmed; clarion, sonorous, resonant, canorous, audible, piercing; pure, unmixed, unadulterated, unalloyed; in full, net; passable, unimpeded, unobstructed, open; acquitted; unburdened, exempt; clarified. Antonyms: opaque, obscure, indecipherable, ambiguous, equivocal, vague, cryptic, abstruse, inexplicable, roily, turbid, enigmatical, inexplicit, inaudible, adulterated, cloudy, befogged, unintelligible, doubtful.
clear, v. clarify; explain, interpret, elucidate, eclaircise; acquit, absolve, exonerate, vindicate; disengage, extricate, disentangle, disperse.
clearer, n. clarifier.
clearing, n. clarification, clearance, dispersion; interpretation, explanation, eclaircissement, dénouement; exoneration, acquittal; assart.
clearness, n. clarity, distinctness; transparency, limpidity, lucidity, perspicuity, translucency; serenity. Antonyms: opacity, ambiguity, vagueness, intransparency.
cleave, v. adhere, cling, be loyal; split, rive, separate.
cleft, a. riven, split, divided.
clergy, n. ministers, the cloth, ecclesiastics, clergymen, clerisy. Antonym: laity.
clergyman, n. minister, divine, ecclesiastic, priest, pastor, parson, churchman, preacher, rector, curate, dominie, vicar, missionary, evangelist, patriarch, dean, bishop, chaplain, cleric, deacon, presbyter, imparsonee, kirkman, padre, curé, abbé. Antonym: layman.
clergyman's residence. parsonage, rectory, manse.
clerk, n. salesman, saleslady; accountant, recorder, registrar, prothonotary, amanuensis, bookkeeper. Associated words: clerical, clerkship.
clever, a. adroit, skillful, expert, ingenious, deft, dexterous.
clients, n. pl. clientele.
cliff, n. crag, bluff, precipice; pl. palisades (line of bold cliffs).
climate, n. Associated words: meteorology, phenology, climatology, acclimatable, acclimate, acclimation, acclimatize, acclimatization, climatic, climatize, climatography.
climax, n. culmination.
climb, v. clamber, scale.
climbing, a. scandent, scansorial.
cling, v. adhere, cleave, hold fast.
clip, v. shear, snip, nip, trim, prune, curtail.
clip, n. (Colloq.) blow, knock, thump, rap.
cloak, n. mantle, coat, capuchin, dolman, palladium, pelisse; pretext, blind, mask.
cloak, v. conceal, mask, hide, veil, disguise.
clock, n. timepiece, timekeeper, horologe, horometer: clepsydra, isochronon; scarab, scarabee, beetle. Associated words: horology, horography, horologiography., pendulum, strike, dial, tick.
clockmaker, n. horologist, horologer.
clodhopper, n. bumpkin, boor, hind, lout, clown, yokel.
clog, v. impede, hamper, encumber, restrain, obstruct.
clog, n. shackle, dragweight, deadweight, encumbrance; sabot, chopine.
cloister, n. monastery, nunnery, convent, abbey, priory, cenoby.
cloisterer, n. cenobite, recluse.
cloistral, a. monastic, cloistered, recluse.
close, a. oppressive, uncomfortable, muggy, unventilated; narrow, cramped; close-mouthed, secretive, reticent, reserved, uncommunicative, taciturn; dense, solid, compact, imporous; near, adjacent, adjoining; intimate, confidential; parsimonious, stingy, penurious niggardly, miserly, illiberal, close-fisted; exact, literal, faithful; intent, assiduous, fixed, intense.
close, v. shut, stop, occlude; conclude, finish, end, terminate; inclose, encompass, confine, environ; grapple, clinch; lute, calk.
close, n. conclusion, end; peroration; grapple; court, area, enclosure, inclosure, yard.
close-mouthed, a. wary, cautious, secretive, uncommunicative, reserved.
closeness, n. nearness, proximity, adjacency; density, compactness; intimacy; reticence, secretiveness; parsimony, stinginess, illiberality, penuriousness.
closet, n. private room; clothespress, ambry.
closing, a. concluding, final.
closing, n. stopping up, obstruction, blockade, occlusion; peroration.
clot, n. coagulation, coagulum.--v. coagulate.
cloth, n. fabric, material, drapery, textile, texture, woof, weft. Associated words: draper, drapery, drape.
clothe, v. dress, attire, array, gird, drape.
clothes, n. pl. dress, clothing, garments, vesture, attire, apparel, drapery, costume, raiment, garb, vestment, habiliments, regalia, uniform, livery, guise, wardrobe, rig, toggery, frippery, regimentals, paraphernalia; (clerical) vestments, canonicals; trousseau (bride's).
clothing, n. clothes, raiment. Associated words: frippery, wardrobe, habilatory.
cloud, n. nebulosity, rack; cirrus, cat's-tail, mare's-tail; cumulus, stratus, nimbus; cirro-cumulus, cirro-stratus, cumulo-stratus; storm scud, wane cloud; tarnish, blemish; eclipse, obscurity. Associated words: nephology, meteorology, nubiferous, nephelodometer, nephelometer, nephoscope, nepheloid, nephograph.
cloud, v. overcast, becloud, obscure, shade, obfuscate; tarnish, sully, blacken.
cloudy, a. overcast, lowering, murky, overclouded, obscure, sullen, nebulous, hazy, dim; tarnished, indistinct, blurred; variegated, mottled.
cloven, a. bisulcate.
clover, n. trifolium, trefoil; alsike.
cloves, n. pl. Associated words: eugenic, eugenin, clove, camphor, eugenol, caryophyllin.
clown, n. buffoon, jester, merry-andrew, zany, harlequin, droll, punch, mime, farceur, scaramouch, grimacier jackpudding; boor, lout, gawk, gawky, lubber, put, bumpkin, churl, carl, tike; rustic, hind, clodhopper, yokel, yahoo.
clownish, a. boorish, ungainly, awkward, loutish, churlish, gawky.
cloy, v. satiate, glut, surfeit, pall, sate.
club, n. cudgel, bludgeon, truncheon, bat, mace, staff, shillalah, waddy, bandy, knobkerry; society, coterie, association, sorosis (woman's club).
club, v. cudgel, beat, pommel; club together, combine, coöperate.
club-bearer, n. claviger. Associated word: clavigerous.
clubfoot, n. talipes.
clubfooted, a. taliped, talipedic.
club-shaped, a. clavate, clavated.
clue, n. intimation, hint, key.
clump, n. cluster, tuft, bunch, collection, thicket.
clumsy, a. ungraceful, lumbering, uncouth, unwieldy, unhandy, inapt, maladroit.
cluster, n. bunch, clump, tuft; racematiofl, fascicle, raceme, panicle; bevy, crowd.
clustered, a. aciniform, racemed, fascicled.
clutch, v. seize, grasp, grip, grapple, clench, grab, snatch.
clutch, n. grasp, seizure, hold; crampoons.
clutter, n. litter, disorder, jumble, confusion, disarray.
cluttered, a. disordered, littered, jumbled, disarranged.
coach, n. stage coach, tallyho, diligence; trainer.
coach dog. Dalmatian dog.
coachman, n. jehu, postilion, coach-driver, coachee (Slang).
coal, n. anthracite; bituminous; charcoal; culm, scoria, slack; ember. Associated words: carbon, carboniferous, gobbing, strata, carbonize, carbonization, briquette, coke, brat, brattice, brettice.
coal-dealer, n. collier.
coalhod. scuttle.
coal-mine, n. colliery, coalpit.
coal-miner, n. collier.
coal-miner's consumption. anthracosis.
coal oil. kerosene, petroleum.
coals, n. pl. Associated words: brasier, brazier, brasero.
coarse, a. crass, gross, unrefined, rude, unpolished, indelicate, ribald, homespun, vulgar, inelegant; unbolted, unpurified.
coast, n. seashore, seaboard, seaside, shore, strand, beach.
coat, n. sack, jacket, frock, tuxedo, cutaway, paletot, dreadnaught, ulster, capote, blouse, redingote, toga, cloak, surtout, duster, mackintosh, joseph, cardinal, pelerine, temiak (Eskimo).
coat of arms. armorial bearings, escutcheon, arms, crest.
coat of mail. hauberk, cuirass, habergeon, armor, mail.
coax, v. wheedle, cajole, persuade, entice, cog, tweedle.
cob, n. spike, axis; sea mew, gull.
cocoanut, n. Associated word: copra.
cochineal, n. Associated words: nopal, nopalry, carminic acid.
cock, n. rooster, chanticleer; capon (castrated); weather-cock, vane; chief, leader, dominator; faucet, stop-cock.
cockade, n. rosette.
cockahoop, a. boastful, defiant, vainglorious, blustering.
cock and bull story. canard.
cockatrice, n. basilisk.
cocker, v. fondle, indulge, pamper, pet, humor, coddle.
cockfighting, n. cockmatch, alectoromachy, alectryomachy.
cocky, a. (Slang) pert, saucy.
cocoa, n. Associated word: theobromine.
coddle, v. parboil; pamper, fondle, cocker, humor, indulge.
coequal, a. coördinate.
coerce, v. constrain, compel, intimidate, restrain.
coercion, n. compulsion, restraint, force, repression, constraint.
coffee, n. Associated words: caffeine, chiccory, biggin, pulp, parchment.
coffee-chaser, n. chasse.
coffee-house, n. café.
coffin, n. casket.
cog, n. cam, catch; trick, deception, fraud.
cogent, a. convincing, conclusive, forcible, influential.
coheir, n. parcener.
coheirship, n. parcenary.
coherent, n. consistent, logical.
coil, n. convolution, intervolution; entanglement, toil, mesh, perplexity; querl.
coil, v. convolve, intervolve.
coin, n. quoin, corner, coigne, wedge, plug, key.
coin, n. specie, cash; medallion. Associated words: numismatic, numismatics, numismatist, numismatology, jugata, engrailment, nurling, milling, brockage, numismatography, numismatologist, nummary, rouleau, nummular, nummulary.
coin, v. mint; neoterize, neologize; fabricate, invent, originate.
coinage, n. minting; neologism, neology, neoterism.
coincide, v. concur, correspond, agree, harmonize, tally.
coincidence, n. concurrence, correspondence, agreement.
coincident, a. concurrent, contemporaneous;--followed by with.
coiner, n. minter; neologist, neoterist.
cold, a. cool, chilly; frigid, gelid, icy; nipping, bleak, raw, frosty, freezing; unresponsive, phlegmatic, passionless, chilling, stoical, apathetic, reserved.
cold, n. coldness, frigidity, gelidity, chilliness, algidity: catarrh.
cold-blooded, a. poikilothermal; deliberate.
colic, n. gripe, enteralgia, tormina.
collar, n. neckband, carcanet, ruff, ruche, collet, rabat, piccadilly, dickey, collarette.
collar-bone, n. clavicle.
collect, v. assemble, accumulate.
collection, n. assemblage, accumulation, aggregation, heap; offering, offertory; anthology, symposium, collectanea, miscellany, rosary, chrestomathy.
college, n. Associated words: collegiate, Alma Mater.
college dress. academicals.
college grounds. campus.
college student. collegian.
collision, n. clashing, concussion, interference, brunt, impact.
colloquial, a. conversational, familiar, informal.
colony, n. settlement, dependency. Associated words: colonial, colonist, planter, colonize, colonization, colonizationist.
color, n. hue, shade, tinge, tincture, tint; pigment, paint, dye, stain. Associated words: chromatics, colorific, colorist, chromatism, chromatology, lake, decolorant, mordant, intinctivity, iridescent, iridescence, prismatic, pigmentation, fugacious, fugitive, fugacity, monochromatic, monochrome, polychromy, polychromatic, suffuse, suffusion, imbuement, chromatic, achromatic.
color, n. ruddiness, redness, flush, blush, rosiness; semblance, pretext; variety, shade, kind, species; pl. flag. Antonyms: decoloration, colorlessness.
color, v. dye, tinge, stain, imbue, tint, tincture, variegate; falsify, pervert, garble, palliate, gloss, distort; blush, flush. Antonyms: decolor, bleach, decolorize.
colorable, a. specious, plausible, palliated.
color-blindness, n. Daltonism, achromatopsy, acritochromacy.
colored, a. tinged, dyed, tinted, stained, discolored; specious, plausible.
colorific, a. tinctorial.
coloring, n. dyeing, staining, intinction, tinting, tinction, imbuement, variegation.
colorless, a. uncolored, faded; pale, pallid; neutral, characterless.
colossal, a. enormous, gigantic, monstrous, huge, prodigious, Titanic.
colt, n. filly (female); foal (male); hogget.
coltish, a. frisky, sportive, wanton, playful.
column, n. pillar, post, shaft, obelisk; file, line, row; pilaster; pl. peristyle, portico, colonnade. Associated words: entablature, frieze, architrave, triglyph, cornice, base, shaft, capital, plinth.
comb, n. crest, caruncle, head-tuft.
combat, n. contest bout, struggle, contention, fight, joust, battle.
combatant, n. contestant, fighter.
combative, a. pugnacious, contentious, bellicose, belligerent.
combination, n. union, alliance, federation, confederacy, syndicate, league, cabal, merger, coalition, conspiracy, coöperation, collusion; amalgamation, synthesis, incorporation.
combine, v. unite, incorporate, merge, amalgamate, blend, coalesce, confederate.
combine, n. (Colloq.) combination.
combined, a. united, confederated, federated, amalgamated, incorporated.
combing, n. pectination.
comblike, a. pectinal, pectinate, pectinated, pectiniform.
come, v. arrive, approach; come from, issue, proceed, ensue, flow, emanate, originate.
come after. follow, succeed. Antonyms: precede, antecede.
come again. return, recur.
come and go. alternate.
come between. intervene, interpose, interfere, contravene; cause estrangement, disaffect.
come down. descend, alight.
comely, a. good-looking, handsome, personable. Antonyms: uncomely, homely, plain.
come near. approach, approximate.
come round. recur; change, relent; circumvent, wheedle.
come short. be deficient.
come to. revive, recover; consent, yield, accede; arrive at, reach; amount to.
come to a head. suppurate, mature; culminate.
come under. subvene.
comfort, n. ease, consolation, solace, nepenthe, encouragement.
comfort, v. console, solace.
comforter, n. consoler, cheerer; comfortable.
comfortless, a. disconsolate, inconsolable, desolate, distressed.
comical, a. See funny.
coming, n. approach, arrival, advent.
coming between. intervention, interposition, interference, contravention.
comity, n. politeness, courtesy, civility, graciousness, urbanity.
command, v. order, direct, enjoin, require, bid.
command, n. order, mandate, injunction, charge, behest, requisition, bidding, direction, dictation, precept; authority, leadership, control.
commanding, a. authoritative, mandatory, imperative, dictatorial, imperious.
commandments, n. pl. The Decalogue. Associated words: Kyrie elesion.
commence, v. begin.
commend, v. commit, consign, intrust; praise, extol recommend.
commendable, a. praiseworthy, laudable. Antonyms: unpraiseworthy, illaudable.
commendatory, a. laudatory, eulogistic.
comment, v. remark, descant, annotate.
comment, n. remark, observation; annotation, commentary, explanation.
commentator, n. annotator, expositor, scholiast, glossarist, postillator.
commerce, n. traffic, barter, business, trading; intercourse, communication.
commercial, a. mercantile.
commit, v. intrust, consign; perpetrate, do.
common, a. public, general; customary, usual, ordinary, unexceptional, commonplace, inconspicuous, average, mediocre; plebeian, proletarian.
commonalty, n. populace, proletariate, proletariat, varletry, bourgeoisie, ruck, rank and file, the common people.
commonly, adv. ordinarily, generally, customarily.
common man. commoner, proletary, plebeian.
commonplace, a. ordinary, banal, hackneyed, trite, platitudinous, prosaic.
commonplace, n. platitude, banality.
commotion, n. agitation, tumult, disturbance, turmoil, riot, perturbation, flurry, furore.
communion, n. participation, sharing, communication: association, fellowship.
communion, n. eucharist, Lord's Supper, sacrament: viaticum. Associated words: elements, host, wafer, chalice, paten, credence, corporal, eucharistic, ciborium, ostension, purificator, impanation, transubstantiation, consubstantiation, concomitance, post-communion, ante-communion, volipresence, ostensorium, monstrance, sursum corda, dominicale, celebrant, communicant, consistentes, intinction.
communism, n. socialism, humanitarianism, Fourierism, Saint Simonianism, phalansterism.
compact, a. close, solid, dense, crowded, impenetrable, serried.
compact, n. covenant, agreement, pact, treaty, contract.
companion, n. associate, comrade, intimate, consort, partner, fellow, mate, chum, compeer, confederate, accomplice, ally, colleague, crony, confrère, concomitant, accessory.
companionable, a. affable, congenial, genial.
companionship, n. association, intimacy, fellowship, society, company.
company, n. guest, visitor; fellowship, companionship, association, society; companion, escort; assembly, group, concourse, crowd; corporation, syndicate, firm, house; troupe; band, guild. See society. Antonyms: seclusion, loneliness, retirement, host.
compare, v. collate, liken.
comparison, n. collation; illustration, similitude, simile.
compass, n. Associated words: binnacle, gimbal.
compass, n. extent, reach, sweep.
compassion, n. pity, sympathy, commiseration, condolence mercy.
compel, v. force, make, constrain, oblige, necessitate, coerce, drive, dragoon, overpower.
compelling, a. forcible, coercive, constraining, imperative, compulsory. Antonyms: elective, optional, discretional.
compelling, n. compulsion, coercion, constraint, duress, force.
compendium, n. epitome, summary, digest.
competency, n. fitness, ability, qualification, efficiency, proficiency, capability.
competent, a. qualified, capable, efficient, proficient, able. Antonym: incompetent.
competition, n. emulation, rivalry, contention, strife.
competitor, n. rival, contestant, opponent, antagonist.
complain, v. murmur, repine, grumble, whine, croak.
complaining, a. murmuring, repining, querimonious, querulous, discontented, grumbling.
complaint, n. murmur, plaint, lamentation; malady, ailment, disease; accusation, allegation, information.
complete, v. finish, consummate, perfect.
complete, a. entire, consummate, whole, integral, plenary, unabridged, intact.
completion, n. consummation, integration, elaboration, finishing, realization, effectuation.
complex, a. composite, compound, mixed; complicated, intricate, involved. Antonyms: incomplex, simple, obvious.
complexity, n. intricacy, entanglement, complication.
compliance, n. yielding, concession, submission, obedience, acquiescence.
compliant, a. yielding, obedient, tractable, submissive, flexible.
complicated, a. complex, intricate, involved, entangled, complicate.
complication, n. intricacy, entanglement, involution, complexity, snarl, confusion, imbroglio. Antonyms: disentanglement, simplicity.
composure, n. self-possession, calmness, sedateness, equanimity.
compound, n. combination, mixture, concoction, amalgamation, intermixture, conglomeration, farrago, medley, synthesis, salmagundi, jumble, olio, hodgepodge, olla podrida.
comprehend, v. understand, fathom, grasp; embrace, comprise, embody, contain.
comprehension, n. understanding, apprehension. Antonyms: incomprehension, inapprehension.
comprise, v. comprehend, include, embrace, involve, contain, embody.
compulsion, n. constraint, coercion, obligation, coaction. Antonyms: discretion, spontaneity, volition, election, free-will.
compulsory, a. constraining, coercive, obligatory, unavoidable. Antonyms: optional, discretional, elective.
compunction, n. qualm, contrition, remorse, regret, sting of conscience.
compute, v. reckon, calculate, enumerate, rate, estimate.
comrade, n. associate, companion, mate, compeer.
comradeship, n. association, camaraderie.
concave, a. rounded, vaulted. Antonym: convex.
concealed, a. hidden, latent, secreted, clandestine, disguised.
concealment, n. secretion, hiding; secrecy, latency, privacy, seclusion, retirement; suppression.
conceit, n. idea, conception, fancy; whim, caprice, vagary, freak; priggery, vanity, egotism, self-conceit, inflation, self-glorification, overweening, conceitedness.
conceited, a. egotistical, priggish, bombastic, bumptious, vain, overweening, self-conceited.
concentrate, v. centralize, focus, consolidate; condense, rectify.
concentration, n. centralization, consolidation; condensation.
concept, n. conception, notion, idea.
conception, n. ideation, imagination; idea, concept, notion, impression.
concern, n. business, affair; moment, importance, interest, weight, consequence; solicitude, anxiety, uneasiness care; firm, house, company, partnership. Antonyms: unconcern, inconsequence.
concerned, a. solicitous, worried, anxious, apprehensive, troubled, uneasy. Antonyms: unconcerned, indifferent.
concerning, prep. regarding, about, respecting, touching, with reference to.
concert, n. accordance, concurrence, harmony; musicale.
concise, a. epigrammatic, sententious, succinct, laconic, pithy. Antonyms: diffuse, prolix.
conclude, v. decide, determine, resolve; end, close; infer, deduce; effect, arrange.
conclusion, n. decision, determination; inference, deduction, corollary, illation; close, end, peroration, finale, completion, dénouement, l'envoy.
concoct, v. compound, mix; devise, contrive, invent, excogitate.
concrete, a. solidified, consolidated; specific, special, particular.
concretion, n. solidification, lapidescence, stone; clot, coagulation.
concubine, n. paramour, odalisque; pl. harem, seraglio.
condemn, v. denounce, anathematize, curse, execrate, reprobate, doom, ban. Antonyms: exonerate, exculpate, vindicate, absolve, justify, praise.
condemnation, n. denunciation, reprobation, execration, ban.
condemnatory, a. denunciatory, condemning.
condense, v. abridge, epitomize, reduce; compress, concentrate.
condescend, v. deign, vouchsafe.
condition, n. state, plight, category, predicament, situation, stipulation, provision, proviso, term, prerequisite.
conditional, a. contingent, subject, provisory.
conduce, v. lead, tend, contribute, redound, subserve, advance.
conduct, v. lead, pilot, escort, guide, attend, convoy; administer, manage.
conduct, n. guidance, management, leadership, administration, behavior, deportment.
confederate, a. confederated, federated, allied, leagued.
confederation, n. coalition, federation, league, confederacy, union.
confess, v. acknowledge, own, admit, avow; divulge, disclose, reveal.
confession, n. acknowledgment, avowal, admission; confiteor; shrift; exomologesis. Associated words: shrive, shrift, confessional, shriven, shriver, shrift, father.
confidence, n. reliance, trust, faith, dependence; assurance, certainty. Antonyms: See doubt.
confidence game. swindle.
confident, a. sure, undoubting, sanguine, reliant, undaunted.
confine, n. boundary, border, frontier, limit.
confine, v. restrain, restrict, limit, circumscribe, pinion, inclose, bound; immure, imprison, incarcerate.
confinement, n. restraint, imprisonment, durance, duress, incarceration, immurement, limbo; limitation, circumscription; lying-in, childbirth.
confines, n. pl. boundaries, borders, precincts, outskirts, purlieus, marches, frontiers.
confirm, v. ratify, verify, corroborate, substantiate. Antonyms: See abrogate.
confirmation, n. ratification, corroboration, substantiation, verification.
conflict, n. clashing, antagonism, encounter, opposition, battle, struggle, strife, skirmish, contest, combat, affray, fray, scrimmage.
conflict, v. clash, interfere, collide, be contradictory.
conflicting, a. contending, contradictory, contrary, opposing.
confound, v. confuse, disconcert, abash, nonplus, bewilder.
confounded, a. confused, disconcerted, abashed; (Colloq.) extreme, excessive, odious, detestable.
confuse, v. disconcert, perplex, abash, fluster, embarrass, chagrin, pose, nonplus, bewilder, obfuscate, discompose, addle, obscure, confound, derange.
confusion, n. disorder, tumult, turmoil, disarray, jumble, chaos; babel, pandemonium, commotion; abashment, chagrin, agitation, disconcertion, mortification, consternation fluster, perturbation, discomposure, flustration, obfuscation, distraction, flurry.
confutation, n. disproof, refutation.
congenial, a. kindred, sympathetic; suited, suitable, agreeable, genial.
congratulate, v. felicitate, gratulate. Antonyms: commiserate, condole with.
congratulation, n. felicitation, gratulation.
conjecture, n. surmise, supposition.--v. surmise, guess, speculate.
conjuration, n. incantation, enchantment, spell, sorcery, magic art.
conjurer, n. sorcerer, magician, wizard, diviner, exorcist, enchanter.
connect, v. join, link, couple, attach, unite, affiliate; implicate.
connected, a. joined, coupled, linked, affiliated, related, akin, associated.
connection, n. union, alliance, relationship, junction, conjunction, affiliation, association, filiation; implication, relative, relation, kinsman; bond, tie, link, coupling vinculum. Antonyms: disconnection, detachment, isolation, incoherence.
conquer, v. defeat, overpower, down, vanquish, triumph, overthrow, subdue, subjugate.
conqueror, n. subjugator, subduer, vanquisher, victor; conquistador.
conquest, n. subjection, subjugation, victory, mastery, triumph, reduction, overthrow, rout.
conscience, n. Associated words: casuistry, Erinys, compunction, qualm.
conscientious, a. scrupulous, just, upright, high- minded.
conscionable, a. reasonable, just.
conscious, a. cognizant, aware, sensible, apprised; sentient, percipient, knowing. Antonyms: See unconscious.
consecrate, v. dedicate, sanctify, hallow.
consent, v. agree, accord, concur, accede, yield, assent, acquiesce, comply, permit. Antonyms: dissent, disagree, refuse.
consent, n. concurrence, acquiescence, compliance, approval, permission, agreement.
consequence, n. result, effect, issue, event, sequence, sequel, outcome, upshot, eventuality; pursuance; importance, moment, weight. Antonym: inconsequence.
conservation, n. preservation, maintenance, keeping.
consider, v. meditate on, ponder, contemplate, think about; regard, heed.
considerate, a. thoughtful, circumspect, heedful, mindful Antonyms: See inconsiderate.
consideration, n. deliberation, advisement, contemplation, deference; motive, reason.
console, v. comfort, cheer, condole with, solace, sympathize with.
consolidate, v. solidify, compress, concrete; unify, merge, incorporate, combine.
consolidation, n. unification, union, combination, incorporation.
consonant, n. Associated words: spirant, fricative, surd, sibilant.
conspicuous, a. salient, noticeable, prominent, manifest. Antonym: inconspicuous.
conspiracy, n. plot, complot, machination, cabal, intrigue, collusion.
conspirator, n. conspirer, plotter, intriguer, caballer, machinator.
conspire, v. plot, complot, cabal, machinate, intrigue, collude.
constancy, n. steadfastness, stability, unchangeableness, resolution, loyalty, devotion, fidelity.
constant, a. permanent, unchanging; unwavering, unshaken, steadfast, stanch, unswerving, loyal, faithful; continuous, incessant, continual, perpetual, uninterrupted. Antonyms: See inconstant.
consternation, n. dismay, terror, alarm, panic, distraction.
constipated, a. costive, bound.
constipation, n. costiveness, stegnosis.
constitution, n. structure, physique, temperament.
constitutional, a. inborn, innate, organic, inbred, natural, congenital.
constrained, a. involuntary, forced, unnatural, embarrassed.
constraint, n. compulsion, coercion, force, pressure; restraint, restriction.
constrictor, n. sphincter.
consultation, n. conference, council, convocation, advisement.
consummate, a. perfect, supreme, complete, finished.
consummation, n. fulfillment, perfection, realization, attainment.
consumption, n. phthisis; consuming.
contact, n. touching, tangency, contingency, impact, juxtaposition, osculation, contiguity, apposition, syzygy.
contagion, n. virus, infection, contagium.
contagious, a. communicable, infectious, pestilential, pestiferous. Antonym: incommunicable.
contain, v. comprise, embody, include, comprehend, hold, restrain.
container, n. receptacle.
contaminate, v. corrupt, pollute, defile, infect, taint, vitiate, sully, debase.
contamination, n. corruption, pollution, defilement, vitiation, taint, infection.
contemporaneous, a. contemporary, synchionous, synchronal, coexistent.
contemporary, a. contemporaneous, coeval.
contempt, n. disdain, scorn, contumely, derision, detestation, disgrace, reproach.
contemptible, a. despicable, abject.
contemptuous, a. disdainful, supercilious, scornful, insolent, flouting, cynical, contumelious, haughty.
contend, v. struggle, vie, wrestle, combat, compete; dispute, maintain, argue.
content, v. satisfy, appease, gratify.
contented, a. content, satisfied.
contention, n. controversy, dissension, altercation, quarrel, dispute.
contentious, a. disputatious, litigious, quarrelsome; dissentious, polemical.
contest, n. rivalry, match, tournament, tourney, competition, emulation; dispute, controversy, dissension, contention.
continual, a. ceaseless, incessant, constant, uninterrupted, unremitting.
continuance, n. endurance, persistence, constancy, continuation.
continuation, n. protraction, prolongation, continuance, perpetuation.
continued, a. prolonged, protracted, extended; serial.
continuous, a. ceaseless, uninterrupted, unceasing, continual, constant, running. Antonyms: intermittent, occasional, inconstant.
contraband, a. prohibited, forbidden, unlawful, illegal.
contract, v. reduce, narrow, condense; incur, acquire; covenant, agree; shrivel, shrink; syncopate.
contract, n. agreement, compact, covenant, pact, protocol, treaty, concordat, convention, stipulation.
contracting, a. astringent, puckering, contractile.
contraction, n. astriction, constriction, stricture, syncopation, condensation.
contradict, v. gainsay, controvert, impugn, dispute, contravene.
contradiction, n. gainsaying, opposition, contrariety, antagonism, paradox, inconsistency.
contradictory, a. inconsistent, irreconcilable, paradoxical, opposing, contradicting.
contrariety, n. antagonism, repugnance, disagreement, inconsistency, opposition.
contrary, a. opposite, adverse, counter, opposed; repugnant, incompatible, contradictory, retroactive, antagonistic, conflicting, abhorrent, inconsistent; perverse, wayward, refractory, headstrong, intractable.
contrast, n. comparison; opposition, antithesis, dissimilitude, unlikeness.
contravene, v. thwart, oppose, counteract countervail; violate, transgress.
contravention, n. thwarting, opposition, counteraction, violation, transgression.
contrite, a. penitent, repentant, sorrowful. Antonyms: impenitent, obdurate.
contrite person. penitent, repentant.
contrition, n. penitence, compunction, remorse, attrition, self-reproach.
contrivance, n. contriving, devising; device, expedient, scheme, invention.
contrive, v. devise, concoct, invent, excogitate, scheme, plan.
control, v. restrain, regulate, govern, manage, repress, direct, bridle, dominate.
control, n. restraint, repression, check, hindrance; domination, ascendency, dominion, regulation, superintendence governance, command, mastery. Antonyms: unrestraint, abandon, subjection.
controller, n. governor, regulator, ruler; comptroller.
controversial, a. disputatious, polemical.
controversy, n. dispute, contention, disoutation, altercation polemics, logomachy.
convalescence, n. revalescence.
convene, v. assemble, convoke, congregate.
convenient, a. handy, advantageous; seasonable, timely, opportune, suitable; accessible.
convent, n. nunnery, monastery, cloister, abbey, priory. Associated words: conventual, conventical, monastic.
convention, n. custom, usage, conventionality; assembly, convocation, congress, diet, synod, council.
conversation, n. converse, colloquy, parlance, parley, interlocution, chat, causerie, conference, confabulation, interview.
conversational, a. colloquial, interlocutory.
converse, v. talk, chat, commune, confabulate, parley.
converse, n. intercourse, communion, conversation, parley.
conversion, n. transmutation, transformation; proselytism; regeneration; appropriation, application, employment.
convert, v. transform, transmute; proselyte; regenerate; appropriate, apply.
convert, n. proselyte.
convex, a. protuberant, bulging, gibbous. Antonym: concave.
convexity, n. protuberance, gibbosity. Antonym: concavity.
conveyance, n. carriage, transmission; transfer, demise, alienation, cession.
convict, n. felon, prisoner, criminal, culprit, malefactor.
convincing, a. cogent, persuasive, conclusive.
convivial, a. festive, festal, social, jolly, gay.
convocation, n. convention, congress, synod, diet, council, consistory.
convoy, n. protection, escort, attendance; guard, escort.
convulsion, n. spasm, paroxysm; agitation, commotion, disturbance, upheaval.
cook, n. chef (chief cook).
cook, v. stew, seethe, gratinate; (Colloq.) tamper with, garble, falsify.
cookable, a. coctible.
cooking, n. cuisine.
cook-room, n. kitchen, cuisine; galley, cuddy.
cool, v. chill, refrigerate; moderate, allay, calm, quiet.
cool, a. deliberate, self-possessed, unexcited, dispassionate, indifferent, nonchalant, unconcerned, composed; chilling, apathetic, repellent, distant, unfriendly, ceremonious; audacious, impudent, shameless, presumptuous, flippant, presuming.
cooler, n. refrigerator.
cooling, n. refrigeration; gelation (Astron.)--a. refrigerant, chilling.
cooling room of Roman baths. frigidarium.
coolness, n. dispassion, nonchalance, indifference; (Colloq.) impudence, audacity.
coon, n. raccoon, mapach.
coop, n. pen, cote, mew, hutch, poultry-house.
coop, v. confine, shut up, imprison, incage, mew.
coöperate, v. concur, unite, work together; collude.
coöperating, a. cooperative, auxiliary, concurrent; synergetic.
coöperation, n. concurrence, working together; collusion; synergism, synergy. Antonyms: antagonism, competition, opposition.
coot, n. (Colloq.) dolt, dunce, dullard, simpleton.
copier, n. copyist, transcriber; imitator, plagiarist. Antonym: originator.
copious, a. plentiful, abundant, overflowing, ample, exuberant.
copper, n. cuprum; cauldron. Associated words: cupreous, cupric, cupriferous, cuprite, cuprous, speiss, chalcopyrite, chalcography, eruginous, verdigris, chalcographer, chalcographist.
copperas, n. green vitriol, sulphate of iron, ferrous sulphate.
coppice, n. copse.
copse, n. thicket, brushwood, coppice, boscage, bosk.
copulation, n. union, conjunction; sexual union, coition. Associated words: intromittent, infibulation, copulatory, copulate.
copy, n. transcript, reproduction, transcription, replica, replication, facsimile, duplicate, pasticcio, counterpart, counterfeit, imitation, apograph, estreat, exemplification, protocol, porotype; pattern, model, original, example, precedent; manuscript.
copy, v. transcribe, reproduce, trace, duplicate; imitate, ape, follow; exemplify.
copying machine. copygraph, polygraph.
copyist, n. transcriber, copier; imitator, plagiarist.
coquette, n. flirt.
coral, n. madrepora, madrepore.
cord, n. string, twine, torsade.
cordial, a. hearty, sincere, affectionate; strengthening, invigorating, cheering.
cordiality, n. sincerity, heartiness, ardor, empressement.
cork, n. stopper, stopple, shive. Associated words: cloop, phelloplastics, phelloplastic, subereous, suberin, phellogen.
corn, n. maize, Indian corn; clavus.
corner, n. angle, cusp, cantle, bight, coin, quoin, coigne; nook, recess, niche; direction, quarter.
corner, v. nonplus, pose, perplex, confuse.
cornerwise, adv. diagonally.
cornhouse, n. granary.
corporal, a. bodily, corporeal, material.
corpse, n. remains, relics, cadaver; carcass; mummy. Associated words: cadaverous, cadaveric, necrophilism, necrophilous, carrion, necrophobia, necrogenic, necrogenous, necrotomy, necropsy, coffin, bier, catafalque, vespillo, cremate, cremation, crematory, crematorium, embalm, embalming.
correct, a. accurate, right, exact, precise. Antonyms: incorrect, erroneous.
correct, v. rectify, amend, emend, right; reprove, discipline; counteract, modify.
correctible, a. rectifiable.
correction, n. rectification, amendment, emendation; discipline, punishment; counteraction.
corrective, a. rectifying, reformatory, correctory, disciplinary emendatory.
correctness, n. accuracy, inerrancy, exactness, precision. Antonyms: incorrectness, inaccuracy, inexactness, error.
correspond, v. accord, comport, tally, correlate, harmonize, agree.
correspondence, n. adaptation, agreement, congruity, concurrence, homology; letters.
correspondent, a. conformable, congruous.
corrode, v. erode, canker; consume, wear away.
corrosion, n. erosion.
corrosive, a. erosive, eroding, corroding; vexing, carking, fretting.
corrupt, a. spoiled, tainted, addled, rotten, decaying; vitiated, depraved, dissolute, venal, unprincipled, unscrupulous, vicious, purchasable, mercenary.
corrupt, v. rot, spoil, deprave, vitiate, pervert, debase, demoralize, defile, infect, pollute.
corruption, n. putrefaction, decay; pollution, vitiation: improbity, venality, depravity, demoralization, dishonesty, bribery, subornation. Antonyms: incorruption, honesty.
cortège, n. procession.
cosmopolitan, n. cosmopolite.
cost, n. charge, expense, price, outlay; detriment, loss.
costemonger, n. fruiterer, costardmonger, coster.
costiveness, n. constipation.
costly, a. expensive, dear, high-priced; sumptuous, rich.
cot, n. cottage, hut; pen, coop, cote; cradle, crib.
coterie, n. clique, set, circle.
cottage, n. cot, cabin, lodge, casino, bungalow, chalet, hacienda, croft, hovel, shack, bower, shanty.
cottage cheese. smearcase.
cottager, n. cotter, cottier.
cough, n. Associated words: bechic, tussicular, pectoral, tussive.
council, n. aldermen, cabinet; assembly, junta, junto, camarilla, synod, cabal.
council-chamber, n. audience-room, divan.
counsel, n. consultation; prudence, deliberation, forethought; advice, admonition, suggestion. Associated words: mentorial, monitorial, admonitory.
counsel, v. advise, admonish.
counselor, n. adviser, mentor, monitor, admonitor; lawyer, attorney.
count, v. enumerate, number; esteem, consider, reckon, judge, think.
count, n. numbering.
countenance, n. face, visage, features; support, goodwill, encouragement.--v. encourage, favor, approve.
counter, a. contrary, opposite, antagonistic.
counteract, v. defeat, frustrate, contravene, neutralize.
counteraction, n. frustration, contravention, neutralization.
counterbalance, v. counterpoise, countervail, equiponderate, balance.
counterfeit, a. false, fraudulent, spurious, fictitious, sham, mock, feigned.
countermand, v. revoke, cancel, rescind, recall.--n. revocation, rescission.
counterpoint, n. polyphony.
counterpoise, v. counterbalance, balance, equiponderate.
countersign, n. watchword, password, consigne.
counterterm, n. antonym.
counting frame. abacus.
count out. exclude.
countrified, a. rude, uncourtly, rustic, bucolic, rural.
country, n. region, territory; nation; rural parts, farming region. Associated words: patriotism, patriot, patriotic, incivism, compatriot, expatriate, expatriation, deport, deportation, repatriate, repatriation, national, rusticate, rustication.
country, a. rural, rustic, agrestic.
countryman, n. compatriot, fellow-citizen; farmer, granger husbandman, rustic; peasant; (country bumpkin) yokel, carl, clod, clodhopper, churl, yahoo.
county, n. shire.
couple, n. two, pair, brace, span, couplet, team.
couple, v. join, link, connect; copulate.
couplet, n. distich.
courage, n. intrepidity, heroism, bravery, gallantry, hardihood, fortitude, valor, fearlessness, pluck, prowess. Antonyms: See cowardice and fear.
courageous, a. intrepid, brave, heroic, gallant, hardy, bold, fearless, valiant, valorous, dauntless, chivalrous, plucky, daring, lion-hearted.
courier, n. messenger, runner; estafet.
course, n. progress, passage; direction, bearing; heat, bout, round; procedure; sequence, routine, order, succession regularity; career; series.
court, n. tribunal, judicatory, judicature, judiciary, forum, mall; courtyard, quadrangle, cortile; jurisdiction; royal household, princely retinue; assize. Associated words: curialistic, aulic, judicial, judiciary, forensic, docket, tipstaff, beadle, apparitor, summoner, dies judicus, dies non.
court, v. woo, spark; solicit, seek, allure, attract, invite.
courteous, a. deferential, polite, debonair, gracious, urbane, civil, respectful.
courtesan, n. prostitute, harlot, demirep, amorosa, bona roba.
courtesy, n. politeness, urbanity, civility, complaisance; favor, indulgence; curtsy.
courtly, a. elegant, dignified, polite.
courtyard, n. court, quadrangle, area, cortile, yard; patio, (Sp. America).
cove, n. bay, recess, bight, inlet.
covenant, n. compact, agreement, pact, concordat.
cover, v. overspread, overlay, thatch, hide, conceal, secrete; comprise, embrace, embody, comprehend; copulate with, serve.
cover, n. lid, covering, case, canopy, awning, tilt, roof, casing, cope, capsule, envelope; shelter, protection, defense, safeguard; counterpane, quilt, coverlet, spread; covert, underbrush, undergrowth, underwood, jungle, bush; plate.
covered, a. covert, screened, sheltered, protected, hidden.
covering, n. cover, wrapper, sheath, pavilion.
covert, a. secret, hidden, disguised, clandestine, stealthy.
covert, n. shelter, refuge, retreat; underwood, jungle, thicket.
covetousness, n. cupidity, avarice, greed.
cow, n. female of bovine animals; heifer (young cow); maverick. Associated words: bovine, Bos, moo, low, lowing, farrow, beef, neat, moolley, vachery, chiche-vache, milch.
cow, v. overawe, daunt, intimidate, scare, dishearten.
coward, n. craven, dastard, poltroon, milksop, recreant.
cowardice, n. pusillanimity, poltroonery, dastardy, recreancy, timidity, cowardliness.
cowardly, a. craven, pusillanimous, dastard, dastardly, poltroon, recreant, timorous, white-livered, chicken-hearted faint-hearted, spiritless.
cowboy, n. cattle herder, drover, herdsman, vaquero.
cowcatcher, n. pilot.
cow doctor. veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon.
cower, v. crouch, squat; quail, cringe.
cowlike, a. bovine.
coworker, n. colleague, coagent, collaborator, associate.
cowpox, n. vaccinia, kinepox, cowpock, kinepock.
coxcomb, n. fop, dandy, dude, popinjay, exquisite.
coy, a. shy, modest, retiring, demure, reserved.
cozy, a. snug; talkative, chatty, sociable.
crab, n. crustacean, mollusk.
crabbed, a. See cross.
crabs, n. pl. Cancer, Crustacea, Mollusca, Brachyura. Associated words: crustacean, cancriform, cancerite, cancrine, cancroid, lobster, carcinology, brachyurean, cancrivorous, cancrophagous, carcinoid, carcinomorphic.
crack, n. chink, crevice, cranny, fissure, rift, rime, rent, cleft, interstice; rupture, breach, flaw; report, clap, pop, explosion, snap.
crack, v. break, chop, cleave, split, rift, snap.
crack, a. (Colloq.) first-rate, excellent, fine, capital, first-class.
cracked, a. (Colloq.) crotchety, eccentric, crazy.
crackle, v. crepitate, decrepitate.--n. crepitation, crackling.
crackling, a. crepitant.--n. crepitation, decrepitation, crackle.
crack up. (Low) extol, laud, praise, cry up.
cracksman, n. burglar.
cradle, n. baby's bed, trundle-bed; solen; cunabula.
craft, n. dexterity, skill; trade, handicraft; guild; guile, cunning, subtlety, artfulness.
craftiness, n. artfulness, guile, craft, cunning.
craftsman, n. artificer, artisan, mechanic, skilled workman.
crafty, a. shrewd, artful, wily, tricky, cunning, sly, deceitful, Machiavelian. Antonyms: guileless, artless, undesigning.
cragged, a. jagged, broken, craggy.
cram, v. compress, crowd, squeeze, press, impact.
cramp, v. restrain, confine, hinder, restrict, obstruct.
cranium, n. skull.
crank, n. winch, turning-handle; bend, turn, twist, crook, curve.
cranky, a. (Colloq.) crotchety, capricious, unreasonable, cantankerous, cross, perverse, cross-grained, contumacious unsteady.
cranny, n. crevice, chink. See crack.
crash, n. ruin, smash, failure, collapse.
crass, a. coarse, unrefined, gross, crude.
crave, v. long for, yearn for, hanker after; beseech, entreat, implore.
craven, a. cowardly.--n. coward.
craving, n. longing, yearning, hankering, hungering; entreaty, supplication.
crawler, n. creeper, reptile; pl. Reptilia, reptiles.
crawling, a. creeping, reptile, reptant, reptatorial, reptatory.--n. creeping.
craze, v. madden, derange, distract; confuse, disarrange.
craze, n. craziness, distraction; fancy, freak, crotchet; mania, passion, infatuation.
craziness, n. insanity, lunacy, dementia, delirium; monomania; megalomania; paranoia.
crazy, a. demented, deranged, insane, delirious, dementate, mad, lunatic, distracted, frantic, crazed, crack-brained; rickety, decrepit, shaky, tottering, dilapidated; desirous, eager, infatuated. Antonyms: sane, rational.
crazy person. madman, maniac, lunatic, bedlamite; monomaniac; paranoiac; megalomaniac.
cream, n. best part, quintessence; cremor; cosmetic.
creation, n. origination, making, invention; universe, cosmos, world.
creative, a. demiurgic, inventive, cosmoplastic, omnific.
creature, n. being.
credence, n. belief, credit, acceptance.
credit, n. belief, faith, confidence; repute, good name, esteem, honor; influence, prestige; trust, tick. Antonyms: discredit, dishonor, unbelief.
creditor, n. Associated words: bilk, subrogation.
credulous, a. unsuspecting, gullible. Antonym: incredulous.
creed, n. Associated-words: symbolics, symbolism Athanasian, Nicene, Apostles'.
creek, n. brook, rivulet, race, runlet, streamlet, runnel, bourn, burn; cove, bight.
creepers, n. pl. Reptilia.
creephole, n. retreat; subterfuge, expedient, makeshift excuse.
creeping, a. crawling, reptile, reptant; fawning, truckling, obsequious, sycophantic.
creeping, n. reptation; formication.
creepingly, adv. insidiously, cunningly.
cremate, v. incremate, incinerate.
cremation, n. incremation, incineration. Associated words: crematory, crematorium.
crest, n. tuft; helmet; top, ridge, crown, summit; armorial bearings, device, cognizance.
crested, a. cristate.
crestfallen, a. dejected, discouraged, disheartened, downcast.
crevice, n. cleft, fissure, rent, cranny, crack, chink.
crew, n. assemblage, throng, gang, mob, band, crowd.
crib, n. manger, rack; bin, bunker, box.
crib, v. (Colloq.) appropriate, plagiarize, steal, purloin.
cricket, n. Associated words: stridulate, stridulation, stridulator, stridulatory, stridulous.
crime, n. felony, atrocity, outrage, enormity; offense, transgression, misdemeanor, malefaction, dereliction. Associated words: criminology, criminologist, criminality, recidivism, recidivist.
criminal, a. felonious, flagitious.
criminal, n. felon, malefactor, culprit; criminaloid.
criminate, v. incriminate, implicate, accuse.
crimination, n. incrimination.
crimpy, a. frizzly, crimped, wavy.
crincum, n. (Colloq.) twist, turn, freak, caprice, fancy, whim.
cringe, v. truckle, fawn, crouch.
cringing, a. truckling, fawning, servile, obsequious, slavish.
crinkly, a. wavy, wrinkly, kinky.
cripple, v. maim, lame, disable; hough, hamstring.
crippled, a. maimed, lame, disabled, deformed, halt.
crisis, n. critical juncture; climacteric, emergency, strait, exigency.
crisp, a. brittle, friable, short; crackling, lively, brisk. Antonyms: tenacious, tough, flexible.
critic, n. censor, reviewer, adept, judge, inspector; caviler, carper, censurer; Zoilus.
critical, a. discriminating, fastidious; carping, censorious, captious, caviling, zoilean; crucial, momentous, decisive, precarious, climacteric.
criticism, n. critique, censure, animadversion, stricture, cavil.
croak, v. forebode, decry, complain, grumble.
croaker, n. grumbler, alarmist, decrier, pessimist.
crock, n. jar, pot; soot, smut.
crony, n. (Colloq.) bosom friend, intimate, associate, chum.
crook, n. bend, turn, curve, curvature, deflection; crosier; pothook; artifice, trick, subterfuge, ruse.
crook, v. bend, curve, incurvate.
crooked, a. twisted, bent, devious, deformed, tortuous, sinuous, winding, flexuous, curved, curvilinear, spiral, labyrinthial; distorted, awry, askew, wry; dishonest, fraudulent, unscrupulous, knavish.
crookedness, n. tortuousness, tortuosity, sinuosity, incurvation, curvature, deformity, curvity, wryness, anfractuosity; dishonesty, improbity.
crop, n. harvest, fruit, product, ingathering.
crop, v. clip, lop, cut off; gather, reap, harvest, garner; browse, nibble.
cross, n. crucifix, rood, gibbet; rebated cross, gammadion, fylfot, saltire, swastika, cross bottony. Associated words: crucify, crucifixion, crucifier, cruciform, crucial, cruciate, crucigerous, crucifer, vexillum, crantara, consignation.
cross, n. hybrid, mongrel, limmer.
cross, a. athwart, transverse, intersecting; adverse, baffling, contrary, perverse; petulant, peevish, cynical, surly, unamiable, inaffable, crabbed, crusty, captious, fractious, churlish, vixenish, querulous, fretful, choleric, touchy, waspish, morose, sullen, ill-natured, irascible acrimonious, irritable; inverse, interchanged.
cross, v. intersect; traverse; run counter to, thwart, baffle, frustrate, foil; intercross; interbreed, hybridize; cancel.
crossbarred, a. cancellated.
crossbars, n. pl. lattice, grille, cancelli.
crossbeam, n. girder, stringer.
crossbow, n. arbelest, arcubalist.
crossbreed, n. hybrid, mongrel.
crossbreeding, n. hybridization.
crossbred, a. hybrid, mongrel.
crosscut, v. intersect.
cross-examination, n. cross-questioning, inquisition.
cross-eye, n. strabismus, strabism.
cross-fertilization, n. allogamy.
crossgrained, a. intractable, contrary, perverse, refractory, froward, stubborn.
crossing, n. hybridization.
crossing, n. intersection, decussation; cancellation; traversing; junction; crosswalk; thwarting, frustration, contradiction, interference; consignation.
crossness, n. petulance, peevishness, cynicism, unamiability, moroseness, irritability, asperity, ill-nature, inaffability, irascibility.
crosswise, adv. across, transversely.
crotch, n. fork, crotchet, angle.
crotchet, n. whim, fancy, vagary, caprice, freak.
crotchety, a. whimsical, fanciful, vagarious, capricious.
crouch, v. squat, couch, stoop; cringe, fawn, truckle.
croup, n. cynanche.
crow, n. Associated words: caw, corvine, corviform, corvoid.
crow, v. brag, exult, swagger, vaunt, gasconade, vapor.
crowd, v. press, shove, jostle; compress, cram, cramp, squeeze, stow, impact; swarm, throng, troop; intrude.
crowd, n. concourse, crush, posse, multitude, number, mass, throng, horde, host, troop, bevy, knot, assembly, confluence; populace, rabble, commonalty, mob, proletariat, riffraff, the masses, rabblerout, roughscuff.
crowded, a. congested, serried, dense, compact. Antonyms: incompact, loose.
crowding, n. congestion, compression.
crown, n. diadem, coronet, corona; tiara; wreath, garland chaplet, coronal, laurel, bays; royalty, sovereignty; consummation, capsheaf, summit, top, crest, vertex, vortex; krone. Associated words: coronal, coronary.
crown, v. consummate, complete.
crowning, a. consummating, completing.
crowning, n. coronation.
crucial, a. cruciform, cross-shaped; severe, trying, ordeal
crude, a. undeveloped, inelaborate, uncouth, inartistic, unfinished.
cruel, a. pitiless, merciless, inhuman, unmerciful, fell, relentless, ruthless, truculent, brutal, unfeeling, severe, inexorable, incompassionate, implacable.
cruelly, n. inhumanity, implacability, severity, atrocity, pitilessness.
crumble, v. disintegrate, decay, molder.
crumbly, a. friable.
crumple, v. rumple, ruck, wrinkle, crush together.
crush, v. overpower, vanquish, quell, subdue, conquer, suppress; squeeze, press, compress.
crush, n. compression; pressure, crowd.
crushing, a. overwhelming.
crush-room, n. foyer.
crust, n. incrustation.--v. incrust.
crusty, a. cross, unamiable, surly.
cry, v. weep, sob, wail, bawl, squall, whimper, blubber, pule, bewail; shout, call, exclaim, yell, scream, vociferate, clamor, ejaculate.
cry, n. exclamation, ejaculation, acclamation, outcry, clamor, vociferation, yoicks, scream, shriek, howl, yell, proclamation; slogan, shibboleth; halloo, whoop, hoot: crying, weeping, wail, lamentation, mewl, plaint whimpering.
cry down. decry, disparage, dispraise, traduce.
crying, n. weeping, sobbing, wailing, wail, clamation, bawling, puling, squalling.
crying, a. weeping, sobbing, clamant; flagrant, egregious, heinous, nefarious.
cry out upon. denounce, censure, condemn.
crypt, n. catacomb; follicle.
cryptic, a. hidden, secret, occult, enigmatical.
cry to. pray to, implore, beseech.
cube, n. hexahedron.
cucking-stool, n. castigatory, tumbrel, trebucket, ducking-stool
cucumber, n. gherkin (small and prickly).
cud, n. rumen; quid. Associated words: Ruminantia, ruminant, ruminate, rumination, merycism.
cudgel, n. club, bludgeon.
cue, n. catchword; queue, pigtail; hint, suggestion, intimation.
cuff, n. box, slap, buffet; manchette (ornamental cuff).
cuff, v. box, slap, smite, strike, buffet.
culprit, n. offender, malefactor, delinquent, criminal sinner.
cultivable, a. tillable, arable, culturable.
cultivate, v. till.
cultivation, n. tillage.
culture, n. cultivation, tillage; refinement, enlightenment, education.
cultured, a. refined, educated, enlightened.
cumbersome, a. burdensome, troublesome, unwieldy, unmanageable.
cunning, a. artful, crafty, sly, wily, arch, designing, deceitful, intriguing; curious, ingenious; skillful, dexterous.
cunning, n. craft, deceit, craftiness, subtlety, wiliness.
cup, n. mug, noggin, nipperkin, beaker, bumper, tankard, jorum, tig; pl. carousal, wassail, intoxication, orgies; cupping-glass, cupel; calyx.
cupboard, n. locker, buffet, ambry, closet.
cupidity, n. covetousness, avarice, greediness.
cupola, n. dome; lantern.
curable, a. remediable, sanable. Antonyms: incurable, irremediable.
curative, a. remedial, sanatory.
curator, n. custodian, keeper, trustee, warden.
curb, v. check, restrain, control, repress, bridle.
curb roof, gambrel roof; mansard roof.
curdle, v. coagulate, thicken, curd, clabber, lopper
curdled, a. coagulated, thickened, loppered.
curdled milk. clabber.
curé, n. spiritual charge, curacy; medical treatment, therapy; antidote, remedy, specific; healing.
cure-all, n. panacea, catholicon.
curiosity, n. inquisitiveness; curio, freak, rarity, rara avis, wonder. Antonyms: incuriosity, uninquisitiveness.
curious, a. inquisitive; strange, rare, unusual. Antonym: incurious.
curl, n. ringlet, kink, toupet.
curl, v. crisp, crimp, crape; writhe, wreathe, twist, wind.
curling, n. crispation.
curl paper. papillote.
curly, a. curling, curled, crinkled, crinkly, wavy, kinky.
curlycue, n. (Colloq.) flourish, paraph, caper.
current, a. present, instant; circulating, rife.
curse, n. denunciation, anathema, ban, malediction, execration, imprecation, fulmination, malison, maranatha; torment, plague, scourge, affliction.
curse, v. anathematize, execrate, fulminate, denounce, condemn.
cursed, a. accursed, execrable, abominable, odious.
curtail, v. shorten, reduce, retrench.
curtain, n. hanging, drapery, portiere, valance, purdah.
curvature, n. curve, flexure, sinuosity; cyrtosis.
curve, v. bend, crook, turn, inflect, deflect, deviate, wind.
cushion, n. pad, bolster, pillow, pillion; pouf, pouffle.
cussedness, n. (Slang) perversity, obstinacy, doggedness, meanness.
custodian, n. curator, guardian, keeper.
custody, n. safe-keeping, care; imprisonment.
custom, n. usage, practice, conventionality; patronage; impost, duty, tribute.
customary, a. usual, wonted, habitual, conventional, accustomed.
customer, n. patron.
cut, v. gash, slash, hew, crop, reap, mow, lop, prune, clip, shear, whittle, shave, trim, detruncate, dock, curtail, exscind, dissect, chamfer, amputate, carve, chase, chisel, lance, bisect, cleave, razee, slit, incise, fell, score, nurl, knurl.
cut, n. incision, gash, slash, slit, wound; slight, ignoration; sarcasm, taunt; notch, groove, chamfret; defile, passage; kerf; slice, piece; fashion, style, mode; engraving.
cut down. fell; retrench, curtail, reduce.
cute, a. (Colloq.) clever, sharp, ingenious, cunning, shrewd.
cut off. amputate, sever; interrupt, stop, intercept.
cut out. exscind, excise, remove; supplant; debar, exclude.
cutting, a. incisive, sharp, keen, trenchant; penetrating, nipping, biting; sarcastic, satirical, caustic, acrimonious, mordacious; secant.
cutting, n. incision, felling, amputation, cleavage, truncation, curtailment, celotomy, dissection, scarification, slashing, cropping; slip, scion, clipping. Associated words: sectile, sectility, insecable.
cutting out. excision, exsection.
cut to pieces. dissect, mutilate, dismember.
cut up. afflict, grieve, distress, harry; play pranks, play tricks, cut capers, misbehave.
cyclone, n. tornado.
cypher, n. See cipher.
Czar, n. Tsar, Tzar. Associated words: Czarinian Czarowitz, Czarevna, autocrat.
Czarina, n. Tsarina, Tsaritsa.
Dabbler, n. superficialist, sciolist, smatterer, dilettante.
dabblingly, adv. superficially, cursorily.
dabster, n. (Colloq.) expert, adept, master-hand.
dagger, n. stiletto, poniard, bowie knife, dirk; obelisk.
daily, a. diurnal, quotidian.
dainty, n. delicacy, tidbit, treat, rarebit, bonne bouche.
dainty, a. fastidious, squeamish, finical; delicate, exquisite.
dale, n. glen, dell, dingle, vale, valley.
dalliance, n. fondling, endearments; delay, procrastination, postponement.
dally, v. dawdle, trifle; fondle, wanton; delay, postpone, procrastinate.
dam, n. barrier, weir, burrock.
damage, v. injure, hurt, harm, despoil, scathe, deface, impair, disfigure, damnify.
damage, n. injury, detriment, impairment, defacement, harm, hurt, mischief.
damages, n. pl. indemnity, satisfaction, reparation.
damn, v. condemn, curse, reprobate, denounce.
damnable, a. accursed, atrocious, execrable, heinous.
damnation, n. condemnation, reprobation, perdition.
damning, a. condemnatory, damnatory.
damp, a. moist, wet, humid, dank.
dampen, v. moisten, damp; check, repress, restrain, discourage, depress.
damper, n. check, setback, wet blanket, discouragement, rebuff.
dampness, n. moisture, humidity.
dance, n. ballet, cotillion, quadrille, waltz, reel, fandango, polka, two-step, polonaise, mazurka, schottische, allemande cancan, minuet, courant, bolero, gavot. Associated words: terpsichorean, Terpsichore, choregraphy, dervish.
dancing-mania, n. epidemic chorea, choromania, cory-bantism
dander, n. (Slang) anger, resentment, ire, wrath, dudgeon.
dandified, a. foppish, coxcombical. Antonyms: slovenly, careless, seedy.
dandy, n. fop, exquisite, dude, coxcomb, popinjay, incroyable, jackadandy. Antonym: sloven.
danger, n. jeopardy, hazard, peril, insecurity, risk, exposure, imminence, impediment. Antonyms: safety, immunity, security, shelter, safeguard, protection.
dangerous, a. perilous, hazardous, risky, unsafe, critical, parlous, imminent. Antonyms: See safe.
Danish Parliament. Rigsdag (Landsthing and Folkething).
dapper, a. spruce, trim, natty, spry, nimble.
dappled, a. piebald, spotted, pied, mottled.
dare, v. venture, presume; defy, challenge, stump.
dare, n. defiance, provocation, challenge.
dare-devil, a. reckless, rash, inconsiderate, venturesome.
dark, a. unilluminated, sunless, dusky, rayless, Cimmerian, pitchy, tenebrific, murk, murky, dingy, shadowy, shady, mirky, lowering, overcast, gloomy, sullen, Stygian, sombre; obscure, mysterious, incomprehensible, recondite abstruse, cabalistic, cryptic, enigmatical, occult; brunette, swart, swarthy.
darken, v. shade, obscure, infuscate, shadow, becloud, obfuscate; perplex, confuse; sully, tarnish, discolor.
darkness, n. obscurity, shadow, dimness, gloom, infuscation, murkiness, obfuscation, tenebrosity; unenlightenment. Associated words: Erebus, Ahriman, Cimmerii.
dart, v. hurl, launch, jaculate; spring, dodge, bolt, shoot.
dash, n. collision, allision, crash; abashment, frustration; infusion, smack, tincture, sprinkling; onset, rush, sally; energy, animation, vigor; (Slang) parade, flourish, show, ostentation.
dashboard, n. splashboard, dasher.
dashing, a. spirited, bold, brilliant, ostentatious, gay; roaring, rushing, headlong.
dastard, n. coward, craven, poltroon. See coward.
daub, v. smear, bedaub, besmear, soil, sully.
daughter, n. Associated words: filial, filiation, filicide.
daunt, v. cow, intimidate, frighten, alarm, appall, dishearten, scare.
dauntless, a. intrepid, valorous, daring, fearless.
dawn, n. daybreak, aurora, dayspring, sunrise.
day, n. daytime, nycthemeron; time, age, generation, epoch, era. Associated words: metemptosis, proemptosis, daily, diurnal, quotidian, ephemeral, sine die, ferial, per diem.
day-blindness, n. nyctalopia.
day-dream, n. revery.
day scholar. extern.
day-sight, n. hemeralopia.
dazzle, v. daze, blind; bewilder, astonish, overpower.
dazzling, a. brilliant, intense, glaring.
deacon, n. Associated words: diaconal, diaconate.
dead, a. lifeless, deceased, inanimate, defunct, extinct, departed; inert, obtuse, impassive, callous, torpid, unfeeling, subdued.
dead body. See corpse.
deadborn, a. stillborn.
deaden, v. blunt, benumb, hebetate, moderate; devitalize, subdue.
dead-house, n. morgue; ossuarium, charnel-house, mortuary, tomb.
deadly, a. fatal, mortal, lethal, lethiferous, noxious, internecine; implacable, unrelenting.
deaf-mute, n. Associated word: dactylology.
deal, v. distribute, apportion, dispense, allot; trade, traffic, negotiate.
dealer, n. trader, dispenser, trafficker, retailer, shopkeeper, merchant, monger, vender, tradesman, broker, mercer, commission dealer, jobber.
dealing, n. distribution, apportionment; traffic, intercourse, barter, business, transaction, negotiation, commerce, trade.
dear, a. costly, expensive, high-priced; beloved, darling, precious. Antonyms: cheap, inexpensive.
dearth, n. scarcity, lack, deficiency, paucity, want. Antonyms: See plenty.
death, n. decease, demise, dissolution, dying, mortality, expiration, quietus, mort, obit, extinction; euthanasia (an easy death). Associated-words: eschatology, thanatology, thanatopsis, necrology, thanatophobia, necrophobia, necrolatry, requiem, necromancy, posthumous, post-mortem, ante-mortem, euthanasian, dirge, crossbones, placebo, in extremis, decedent, funeral, obit, obitual, necrologist, fatality, fatal, casualty.
deathless, a. immortal, imperishable, undying.
death notice. obituary, necrology.
debar, v. preclude, exclude.
debase, v. degrade, deteriorate, abase, vitiate, corrupt, alloy, humiliate.
debasement, n. degradation, abasement, deterioration, vitiation, depravation.
debatable, a. contestable, moot, disputable, mooted, controvertible. Antonyms: incontestable, indisputable, incontrovertible.
debate, v. argue, discuss, moot, contend, controvert.
debate, n. discussion, argument, moot, dispute, controversy, disputation, forensic.
debauch, v. vitiate, deprave, corrupt, demoralize; ravish, rape.
debauch, n. debauchery, dissipation, abandon, drunkenness saturnalia, orgies, bacchanals, lechery; rape. Antonyms: temperance, continence, moderation.
debauched, a. dissolute, licentious, dissipated, corrupt.
debauchee, n. libertine, lecher, fornicator, rake, drunkard, satyr.
debauchery, n. lechery, libertinism, sensuality, licentiousness, bestiality.
debonair, a. suave, courteous, urbane, complaisant, gracious.
debt, n. liability, due, obligation, debit. Antonyms: asset, resource. Associated words: garnishee, distrain, distress, debenture.
decadent, a. deteriorating, degenerating.--n. degenerate.
decay, v. decline, retrograde, deteriorate; rot, decompose, putrefy, moulder.
decay, n. deterioration, corruption, decline, decadence, senescence, retrogradation, decomposition, caducity; putrefaction, putrescence, rot; eremacausis.
decayed, a. rotten, corrupt, putrefied, carious, putrescent, decomposed.
decaying, a. rotting, corrupt, mouldering, decadent, putrefying, carious. Antonym: imputrescible.
decease, n. demise, death.
deceased person. decedent.
deceit, n. deception, imposition, trickery, chicanery, artifice, delusion, circumvention, guile, duplicity, imposture finesse, dissimulation, cozenage, trumpery, fallacy.
deceitful, a. deceptive, illusive, insidious, fraudulent, wily, artful, disingenuous.
deceivable, a. deceptible, gullible, credulous. Antonyms: indeceptible, undeceivable.
deceive, v. delude, beguile, mislead, gull, impose upon, dupe, circumvent, hoodwink, bamboozle. Antonyms: undeceive, disillusionize, disabuse.
deceiver, n. impostor, charlatan, mountebank, swindler, knave, cogger.
decency, n. propriety, seemliness, decorum, modesty, Antonyms: See indecency.
decent, a. suitable, modest, decorous, seemly, respectable. Antonyms: See indecent.
deception, n. imposition, craft, duplicity, deceit, hoax, fallacy, ruse, imposture, artifice, illusion, prevarication, finesse, dissimulation, cozenage, sophistry, coggery. Antonyms: guilelessness, candor, disillusionment, fair dealing, sincerity.
deceptive, a. delusive, fallacious, deceitful, specious, insidious, sophistical. Antonyms: guileless, candid, ingenuous, sincere, open.
decharm, v. disillusionize, disenchant, disabuse.
decide, v. determine, settle, conclude, resolve.
decided, a. unequivocal, determined, pronounced, unwavering, positive, incontrovertible.
decision, n. determination, settlement, conclusion, verdict, inference, deduction; firmness, resolution, constancy, steadfastness. Antonyms: indecision, irresolution, vacillation.
decisive, a. conclusive, final, peremptory, summary.
deck, v. bedeck, bedizen, array.
declaration, n. assertion, affirmation, avowal, predication, pronunciamento.
declare, v. affirm, assert, aver, state, asseverate, predicate.
decline, v. lean, incline, bend; languish, sink, wane, diminish, decrease, deteriorate, retrograde; deviate, stray; shun, refuse.
decline, n. deterioration, retrogradation, diminution, retrogression, degeneracy, declension, declination, decay; progressive emaciation, marasmus. Antonyms: progress, advancement, improvement.
decolor, v. decolorate, decolorize.
decorate, v. embellish, adorn, beautify, ornament, garnish, enrich, trim, bedizen, bedeck.
decorated, a. embellished, ornate, ornamented, trimmed. Antonyms: See plain.
decoration, n. embellishment, garniture, bedizenment, adorning, ornamentation, decking, insignia, regalia, purfling; paraphernalia.
decorative, a. ornamental, embellishing, adorning.
decoy, v. entice, lure, allure, ensnare, entrap.
decoy, n. lure, enticement, magnet, allurement.
decrease, n. decrement, diminution, reduction, decline, depreciation, abatement, subsidence.
decrease, v. diminish, reduce, dwindle, subside, depreciate, abate, wane.
decreasing, a. decrescent, diminishing, waning.
decrease of motion retardation.
decree, n. edict, fiat, mandate, decretal, rescript.--v. enact, ordain, enjoin.
decrial, n. condemnation, disparagement, dispraise, detraction, derogation, belittling.
decry, v. disparage, belittle.
dedicate, v. consecrate.
dedication, n. consecration. Associated words: dedicate, dedicator, dedicatorial, dedicatory, dedicatee.
deduct, v. subtract, rebate.
deduction, n. subtraction, discount; inference, conclusion, corollary, illation.
deed, n. exploit, act, feat, perpetration, performance, stunt.
deed, n. Associated words: defeasance, feoffment, muniment.
deep, a. profound, intricate, inexplicable, unfathomable, incomprehensible, recondite, abstruse; abysmal; sagacious, cunning, astute, shrewd; dark, intense; grave, grum, full-toned, guttural. Antonyms: superficial, shallow.
deepen, v. intensify.
deer, n. Cervidæ; fallow deer, red deer, mule deer, reindeer; buck (fawn, brocket, pricket, sorel, sore, spitter); (female) doe, roe; (male red deer) stag, hart; hind, roe (female red deer); havier (castrated); halfer; antelope hummel; staggard. Associated words: venison, fumet, umbles, cervine, deerstalking, capreoline.
deerhound, n. staghound.
deface, v. mar, disfigure, mutilate.
defacement, n. disfigurement, mutilation, marring.
defamation, n. calumny, libel, lampoon, traducement, roorback. See slander.
defamatory, a. slanderous, calumnious, libellous, vituperative, contumelious.
defame, v. calumniate, malign, vilify, lampoon, vituperate, slander.
defaulter, n. delinquent, peculator, embezzler, defalcator.
defeat, n. repulse, overthrow, vanquishment, foil, rout, frustration, disappointment.
defeat, v. conquer, vanquish, repulse, discomfit, rout, checkmate, outwit, balk, foil, frustrate.
defect, n. blemish, flaw, imperfection, foible, failing, shortcoming, infirmity.
defend, v. guard, protect, shield, secure, screen, shelter, fortify, garrison, preserve, harbor, countenance; uphold, espouse, vindicate, advocate, plead, justify, maintain.
defender, n. defendant, vindicator, advocate, champion, pleader, asserter, upholder, guardian.
defense, n. protection, defending, maintenance; guard, protection, palisade, rampart, bulwark, fortress, blockhouse, fortification, earthwork, breastwork, shield, armor, stockade, buckler, redoubt, remblai, palladium, garrison, ravelin, reliance, muniment, machicolation; vindication, advocacy, plea, excuse. Antonyms: betrayal, exposure, surrender, abandonment, capitulation.
defiance, n. challenge, provocation; opposition, insubmission, contumacy, contempt, insubordination, insurgency, mutiny, rebellion, recalcitration.
defiant, a. disobedient, insubmissive, contumacious, bellicose, rebellious, contumelious, refractory, cockahoop, mutinous. Antonyms: obedient, tractable, submissive.
deficiency, n. inadequacy, insufficiency, shortage, meagreness.
deficient, a. defective, imperfect, meagre, scanty, inadequate, insufficient.
defile, v. contaminate, pollute, soil, befoul, vitiate, taint, corrupt, infect, sully.
defilement, n. contamination, pollution, vitiation, corruption.
definite, a. positive, specific, express, explicit, specified, exact, precise. Antonyms: See indefinite.
definition, n. explanation, description; lexigraphy.
deformed, a. misshapen, disfigured, crippled.
deformity, n. malformation, disfigurement, unshapeliness distortion. Associated words: orthopedy, orthopraxy, orthopedic, orthopedist.
defraud, v. See cheat.
deft, a. dexterous, adroit, expert, skillful, apt, clever.
defy, v. challenge, dare; spurn, flout, scorn.
degeneracy, n. decline, degeneration, retrogression, deterioration.
degenerate, v. deteriorate, retrograde, decline.
degeneration, n. deterioration, decline, retrogradation, degeneracy, vitiation.
degradation, n. abasement, debasement, disgrace, humiliation.
degrade, v. abase, debase, disgrace, pervert, humiliate, dishonor.
degraded, a. debased, low, shameful.
deiflcation, n. apotheosis.
deify, v. apotheosize.
deign, v. condescend, vouchsafe.
delay, n. deferring, deferment, procrastination, postponement, respite, reprieve; retardation, retention, obstruction; dawdling, lingering, dalliance. Antonyms: dispatch, promptness, expedition, haste.
delay, v. postpone, defer, procrastinate, suspend, reprieve, retard, impede, hinder, obstruct; linger, tarry, dawdle, dally. Antonyms: dispatch, hasten, expedite, facilitate.
delegate, v. depute, commission.
delegate, n. deputy, proxy, vicar, commissioner, legate, envoy, appointee, surrogate.
deleterious, a. hurtful, noxious, pernicious.
deliberate, a. intentional, premeditated, prepense, done on purpose. Antonyms: accidental, unconscious, unpremeditated, unintentional.
deliberation, n. consideration, discussion, consultation.
delicacy, n. daintiness, fineness, frailty, refinement, fastidiousness, discrimination, sensitiveness; dainty, tidbit, junket. Antonyms: indelicacy, coarseness, indiscrimination.
delicate, a. graceful, fine, exquisite, minute, slender; refined, sensitive, fastidious, dainty; critical, ticklish. Antonyms: See indelicate.
delicious, a. luscious, palatable, savory, exquisite, delightful. Antonyms: unpalatable, nauseous, distasteful fulsome.
delighted, a. charmed, overjoyed, enraptured.
delightful, a. charming, enchanting, rapturous, beatific, ravishing, delectable, pleasurable, delicious, congenial, enjoyable.
delirious, a. irrational. Antonyms: rational, lucid, sane.
delirium tremens. mania a potu, œnomania, the horrors (Colloq.).
deliverance, n. rescue, salvation, redemption; extrication, acquittance.
delivery, n. rescue, release, liberation, deliverance, extrication; surrender, conveyance, transfer, transmission.
delusion, n. illusion, deception, phantasm, hallucination, mockery, ruse. Antonyms: disillusionment, disenchantment, reality, actuality, fact.
demand, n. exaction, requisition, requirement, order, request.
demeanor, n. deportment, carriage, behavior, bearing, mien.
demerit, n. fault, wrongdoing, misconduct, delinquency.
demolish, v. See destroy.
demon, n. devil, fiend, Mara. Associated words: demoniac, demonocracy, pandemonium, demonology, sabbat, demonophobia, polydemonism, demonism, exorcise, exorcism, exorcist.
demon worship. demonolatry.
demoralize, v. deprave, debase, corrupt, vitiate.
demure, a. sedate, sober, staid, decorous.
den, n. cavern, cave, lair; retreat, haunt, squalid resort.
denial, n. negation, rejection, disclaimer, disavowal, controverting, abjuration, disacknowledgment, refusal, abnegation, renunciation. Antonyms: affirmation, acceptance, avowal, confession.
denote, v. signify, imply, indicate, betoken.
denouncing, n. denunciation.
dent, n. indentation.--v. indent.
denunciation, n. condemnation, arraignment, accusation, fulmination, malediction, stigmatizing.
denunciatory, a. condemnatory, comminatory, fulminatory
deny, v. gainsay, contradict; disavow, disown, abjure, renounce, abnegate.
department, n. division, section, part, category; district, precinct, branch, province; station, sphere, capacity.
departure, n. deviation; retirement, withdrawal.
dependable, a. trustworthy, trusty, reliable. Antonyms: untrustworthy, unreliable.
dependant, n. retainer, vassal, minion, subject, feudatory, adherent, satellite; corollary, consequence, concomitant.
dependence, n. suspension, dependency; reliance, trust; mainstay, support; contingency.
dependent, a. conditioned, contingent. Antonyms: independent, unconditioned.
depict, v. portray, delineate, describe, picture.
depiction, n. portrayal, delineation, description, picture.
deplore, v. lament, deprecate, bewail, regret, rue, bemoan.
deportment, n. behavior, conduct, demeanor.
deposit, n, deposition, sediment, precipitate, alluvium, alluvion, diluvium. Associated words: alluvial, diluvial.
depositary, n. trustee, guardian, fiduciary.
depository, n. storehouse, magazine, depot, warehouse, promptuary.
depot, n. depository, warehouse; station.
depredation, n. pillage, sacking, rapine, spoliation, plunder.
depredator, n. plunderer, pillager, despoiler, robber.
depressed, a. dejected, dispirited.
depression, n. cavity, hollow, indentation, concavity, dent; dejection, discouragement, despondency, vapors, gloom; inactivity, dullness.
deprive, v. dispossess, strip, divest, despoil.
depth, n. profundity; extent, measure, intensity; deep, abyss; astuteness, shrewdness, acumen, discernment. Associated words: bathometer, bathymetry, bathymetric.
derelict, a. abandoned, forsaken; lost, adrift; careless, negligent, remiss, delinquent.
deride, v. scoff, ridicule, mock, taunt, jeer, scout, jibe.
derision, n. ridicule, mockery, jeering.
derogatory, a. disparaging, detracting.
descendants, n. pl. progeny, posterity, offspring.
descent, n. descension; incursion, raid, foray; derivation, lineage, extraction, parentage, birth; declivity, slope, decline; dismounting; bathos; escarpment, scarp.
describe, v. delineate, depict.
description, n. delineation, depiction, portrayal; class, species, sort, character.
desecrate, v. profane, pollute, secularize.
desecration, n. profanation, secularization.
desert, n. wilderness, wild. Associated words: oasis, mirage, caravan, caravansary, eremic.
desert, a. waste, unproductive, barren, desolate, infertile, inarable. Antonyms: fertile, arable.
desert, v. forsake, abandon, leave, run away from.
deserted, a. forsaken, desolate, abandoned, derelict.
deserter, n. renegade, turncoat, delinquent, backslider, apostate, recreant, poltroon, rat, traitor.
desertion, n. abandonment. Antonyms: See faithfulness.
desert wind. simoon.
deserve, v. merit.
deserved, a. merited, condign. Antonyms: undeserved, unmerited.
deserving, a. meritprious, worthy, meedful. Antonyms: undeserving, unworthy.
design, n. sketch, draught, outline, plan; scheme, intention, purpose, project, intent, aim. Associated words: teleology, teleologist, teleological.
designing, n. artful, wily, crafty, subtle, politic, Machiavelian disingenuous. Antonyms: See undesigning.
desire, n. longing, craving, will, aspiration, hankering, appetency, cupidity, impulse; request, petition, quest, entreaty; velleity; pruriency. Antonyms: apathy, antipathy, aversion, inappetency. Associated words: desiderative, desideratum, orectic, optative.
desire, v. want, crave, long for, lust, covet, yearn, aspire, request.
desolate, a. dreary, waste; broken-hearted, inconsolable, solitary; devastated.
desolate, v. devastate, depredate, despoil, sack, lay waste.
despair, n. hopelessness, desperation, inconsolableness.
desperate, a. irretrievable, hopeless, incurable, remediless, outrageous, atrocious, monstrous, heinous.
desperation, n. despair, hopelessness, recklessness.
despicable, a. contemptible, abject.
despise, v. contemn, disdain.
despiteful, a. malicious, spiteful, resentful.
despondency, n. melancholy, depression, dejection.
despondent, a. disheartened, discouraged, dejected, depressed.
despot, n. tyrant, autocrat.
despotic, a. autocratic, tyrannical, absolute, despotical.
despotism, n. absolutism, autocracy, tyranny.
destìne, v. doom, preordain, appoint, foredoom.
destiny, n. fate, doom, lot, fortune.
destitute, a. devoid, deficient, lacking; needy, very poor.
destitution, n. privation, need, want, poverty, deficiency, indigence.
destroy, v. annihilate, undo, demolish, raze, desolate, devour, sack, dismantle, eradicate, exterminate, ruin. Antonyms: conserve, preserve, perpetuate, spare.
destroyer, n. iconoclast, annihilator, vandal, hun, destructionist, Apollyon.
destruction, n. annihilation, demolition, eradication, ruin, perdition, havoc, vandalism, subversion, desolation, devastation, iconoclasm. Antonyms: conservation preservation, perpetuation.
destructive, a. ruinous, iconoclastic, vandal, vandalic, internecine, deleterious, pernicious, annihilative.
desultory, a. fitful, irregular, cursory, unsystematic.
detach, v. disconnect, disjoin, sever, disunite, isolate, segregate.
detachment, n. disconnection, separation, disunion, isolation, segregation.
detail, v. particularize, enumerate.
details, n. pl. minutiæ, particulars.
detention, n. restraint, custody, confinement, arrest.
deter, v. hinder, prevent, dissuade, restrain.
deteriorate, v. decline, degenerate, retrograde; corrupt, vitiate, debase, degrade.
deterioration, n. decline, degeneration, retrogression; vitiation, corruption, debasement.
detest, v. loathe, despise, abominate, abhor, hate, execrate.
detestable, a. abominable, loathsome, execrable, abhorrent.
detestation, n. abomination, execration, loathing, abhorrence, antipathy.
deuced, a. (Low) devilish, excessive, extreme.
devastate, v. desolate, sack, despoil, ravage, plunder.
devastation, n. desolation, sacking, despoliation, ravage, havoc.
develop, v. mature, evolve; unfold, disentangle, unravel. Antonyms: atrophy, blast, blight.
development, n. unfoldment, progression, evolution; hypertrophy (excessive development). Antonyms: atrophy, undevelopment, abortion, embryo.
deviate, v. swerve, deflect, digress, stray, wander, diverge. Antonym: continue.
deviation, n. swerving, deflection, digression, divergence.
device, n. contrivance, invention, expedient, wile, maneuver, artifice, trickery; symbol, motto, legend, cognizance.
devil, n. Satan, Lucifer, Apollyon, Belial, Beelzebub, deuce, dickens, Mephistopheles, Asmodeus, Abaddon; demon, fiend. Associated words: diabolology, Satanic, demoniac, exorcise, exorcism, diabolism, Izedi, Izedism, demonology.
devilish, a. demoniac, diabolical, fiendish, infernal; atrocious, reprobate.
devil-may-care, a. reckless, defiant.
deviltry, n. devilry, diablerie, devilment, fiendishness.
devious, a. wandering, circuitous, mazy, winding, tortuous, roundabout; erring, sinful.
devise, v. contrive, invent, scheme, concoct, excogitate; bequeath.
devoted person. devotee, zealot.
devotion, n. consecration, dedication; zeal, allegiance, attachment, love; worship, adoration; religion, holiness, devoutness; fetishism, infatuation.
devotional, a. reverential, devout.
devour, v. consume.
devout, a. pious, reverent, devotional, godly, holy, religious. Antonyms: irreverent, irreligious, impious, unholy.
dexterity, n. expertness, skill, adroitness, aptitude, readiness.
dexterous, a. expert, adroit, skillful.
dialing, n. gnomonics.
dialogue, n. colloquy, duologue, interlocutory, interlocution, collocution. Associated words: interlocutor, interlocutory, collocutor.
diarrhea, n. flux; lientery; (of cattle) scour.
diatribe, n. philippic, tirade, invective, screed.
dice, n. die, cube. Associated word: cleromancy.
dicker, v. trade, barter, negotiate, exchange.--n. barter, trade, exchange, chaffering.
dictate, n. command, admonition, prescription, impulse.
dictator, n. despot, autocrat.
dictatorial, a. imperious, dogmatical, overbearing.
diction, n. language, phraseology.
dictionary, n. lexicon, vocabulary, wordbook, glossary; gazetteer, gradus, onomasticon, idioticon, thesaurus. Associated words: lexicography, lexicographer, lexicographic.
dido, n. trick, antic, caper, prank.
die, v. expire, perish, decease; wither, fade, vanish, recede, wane, subside, languish.
differ, v. be unlike; disagree. Antonyms: agree, concur.
difference, n. dissimilarity, unlikeness, distinction, variation, contrast, discrepancy, discrimination, disparity, diversity, dissimilitude, incompatibility, inequality, heterogeneity, variety; dissension, variance. See disagreement. Antonyms: uniformity, similarity, agreement consonance, correspondence, indiscrimination, promiscuity, identity.
different, a. dissimilar, unlike, contrary, opposite, contrasted, variant, diversified, manifold, various, diverse, sundry, incompatible, heterogeneous, nondescript, miscellaneous unclassifiable, unique. Antonyms: similar, like, same.
differentiate, v. discriminate.
differentiation, n. discrimination.
difficult, a. arduous, onerous, complicated, intricate, hard; uncompliant, intractable, perverse, fastidious, exacting. Antonyms: facile, light, easy.
difficulty, n. obstacle, impediment, obstruction; arduousness, hardness; controversy, disagreement, objection, cavil; predicament, quandary, dilemma. Antonyms: ease, facility, extrication, release.
diffidence, n. timidity, bashfulness.
diffident, a. bashful, timid, shy.
diffuse, a. copious, full, verbose, prolix.
dig, v. delve, excavate, scoop; thrust, poke, punch, jab; exhume (dig up).
dig, n. thrust, punch, poke; grind (student).
digest, v. codify, systematize, methodize, classify.
digest, n. pandect, summary, code, system, abridgment.
digestion, n. eupepsia. Antonyms: indigestion, dyspepsia. Associated words: peptics, pepsin, peptic, pepticity, chyme, chyle, digestible, digestibility, indigestible, indigestibility.
digging, n. excavation; exhumation (digging up). Associated words: fossorial, fodient.
diggings, n. pl. (Slang) region, locality.
dignified, a. stately, majestic, august, imposing, decorous. Antonyms: See undignified.
dignify, v. exalt, grace, ennoble, honor, elevate.
dignity, n. exaltation, eminence; stateliness; honor, preferment.
digress, v. deviate, depart, wander, turn aside.
digression, n. deviation, divergence; episode, incident.
dike, n. levee, embankment.
dike warden. dikereeve.
dilapidated, a. ramshackle, dismantled.
dilate, v. expand, distend; expatiate.
dilation, n. expansion, dilatation, distention; expatiation.
dilemma, n. predicament, quandary, difficulty, strait, pickle. Antonyms: extrication, release.
diligence, n. assiduity, sedulousness, sedulity, perseverance, stagecoach (France).
diligent, a. sedulous, industrious, assiduous, persevering. Antonyms: See lazy.
dillydally, v. dawdle, dally, fritter, trifle, loiter.
dillydallying, n. dawdling, loitering, trifling, dalliance.
dilute, v. attenuate, thin, weaken, reduce.
diluter, n. diluent, attenuant.
dilution, n. attenuation, thinning, reduction.
dim, a. obscure, indistinct, faint, sullied, blurred. Antonyms: bright, vivid, intense, clear.
dim, v. bedim, obscure, darken, dull, eclipse, blur, tarnish.
diminish, v. decrease, reduce, abate, lessen, contract, curtail.
diminution, n. reduction, decrease, abatement, decrement.
dim-sighted, a. purblind, moonblind.
din, n. clamor, noise, racket, uproar, hubbub, clangor, hullabaloo.
dinner, n. Associated words: prandial, post-prandial, croupier, ante-prandial, dine, diner.
dinner pail. blickey (Local U.S.).
dint, n. indentation, dent; force, power.
dip, v. plunge, immerse, duck, souse, douse, dive; lade.
direct, a. straight, undeviating; diametrical. Antonyms: indirect, circuitous, roundabout.
direct, v. point, aim; guide, pilot, lead, steer, regulate, govern, control, manage, conduct, superintend, instruct; address, superscribe.
direction, n. guidance, government, administration, management, superintendence, oversight; instruction, order, command; address, superscription.
directly, adv. diametrically; immediately.
dirge, n. requiem, coronach, trental, threnody.
dirt, n. earth, soil; squalor, filth, muck, foulness.
dirt-eater, n. geophagist.
dirt-eating, n. geophagism, chthonophagia, pica.
dirty, a. defiled, unclean, foul, nasty, filthy, soiled, begrimed, grimy, squalid, uncleanly, loathsome, bedraggled, daggletailed, besmeared, sullied; sordid, groveling, despicable, vile, contemptible, abject.
dirty, v. soil, befoul, begrime, besmirch, sully, tarnish, besmear, defile.
disable, v. incapacitate, disqualify, cripple, maim.
disabled, a. disqualified, crippled, maimed, incapacitated, hors de combat.
disadvantage, n. inconvenience, detriment, hindrance, drawback, inexpediency.
disadvantageous, a. inconvenient, detrimental, unfavorable, inexpedient, prejudicial.
disagree, v. be at variance, differ, contend, dissent, contradict, quarrel, altercate, spar.
disagreeable, a. unpleasant, distasteful, offensive, fulsome, uncongenial, contrary, incongruous, inconformable, inconsistent.
disagreeing, a. incompatible.
disagreement, n. difference; quarrel, bickering, dispute, altercation, sparring, squabble, contention, controversy, dissent, variance.
disappear, v. vanish, evanesce, recede, be lost to view.
disappearance, n. vanishing, evanescence.
disappoint, v. dissatisfy, frustrate, balk, foil, baffle, defeat.
disappointment, n. frustration, dissatisfaction, balking, defeat, nonsuccess.
disapproval, n. disapprobation, dislike, disfavor.
disaster, n. calamity, mishap, catastrophe, casualty.
disastrous, a. calamitous, deplorable, unfortunate, ill-fated
disband, v. demobilize, disorganize.
disbandment, n. demobilization, disorganization.
discern, v. perceive, discriminate, distinguish. See see.
discernible, a. perceptible, visible, noticeable, discoverable, apparent, manifest.
discerning, a. acute, sharp-sighted, shrewd.
discernment, n. insight, penetration, judgment, discrimination.
discharge, v. absolve, acquit, exculpate, release, exonerate, free; dismiss, cashier, remove; excrete, exude, void, eject, emit, expel; pay, liquidate; fulfill, perform; fire, shoot, volley; annul, rescind, invalidate, abrogate, cancel. Antonyms: retain, hold.
discharge, n. firing, burst, blast, volley, fusillade, salvo; acquittance, exoneration, quittance, release; fulfillment, observance, performance; dismissal; liquidation, payment evacuation, emission, ejection, exudation, excretion voiding; quietus.
discharged, a. dismissed, acquitted; emeritus.
disciple, n. adherent, follower.
disciplinarian, n. martinet (strict disciplinarian).
discipline, n. correction, chastisement, punishment; submission regulation; martinetism. Antonyms: laxity, unrestraint, indulgence.
disclaim, v. disown, deny, disavow, renounce, repudiate.
discomfiture, n. disconcertion, abashment, confusion, frustration, defeat.
discommode, v. inconvenience, incommode, trouble.
discomposure, n. agitation, perturbation, confusion.
disconnect, v. detach, dissever, disjoin, separate.
disconnected, a. detached, separate, isolated, incoherent.
disconnection, n. detachment, disunion, separation, incoherence.
disconsolate, a. inconsolable, broken-hearted.
discontent, n. dissatisfaction, discontentment. Antonyms: contentment, satisfaction.
discontented, a. dissatisfied, restless, malcontent, disgruntled
discord, n. dissonance, discordance, inharmony, variance, dissension. Antonyms: harmony, agreement, consonance
discordant, a. inharmonious, dissonant, jarring, unmelodious strident; at variance, contradictory, repugnant absonant.
discount, n. deduction, allowance, rebate.
discourage, v. dishearten, dispirit, depress, deter, dampen, unnerve, oppose, dissuade.
discouragement, n. depression, dejection; opposition, dissuasion, intimidation, determent, damper, obstacle, difficulty, barrier.
discouraging, a. depressing, disheartening, dissuasive.
discourse, n. dissertation, address, disquisition, oration, harangue, speech.
discourteous, a. uncivil, rude, disrespectful, abrupt, unmannerly, boorish, inurbane.
discourtesy, n. rudeness, incivility, inurbanity, impoliteness.
discover, v. ascertain, detect, unearth, descry, discern, disclose, ferret out.
discovery, n. ascertainment, detection, unearthing, disclosure.
discredit, n. disesteem, disrepute, unpopularity.
discreet, a. prudent, circumspect, wary, judicious.
discretion, n. prudence, circumspection, wariness; choice, liberty, will. Antonyms: indiscretion, imprudence, compulsion, constraint, coercion.
discretional, a. optional, discretionary, elective. Antonyms: compulsory, obligatory.
discriminating, a. distinguishing, differential, discriminative.
discrimination, n. difference, distinction, discernment, judgment. Antonyms: indiscrimination, promiscuity, undiscernment.
discuss, v. debate, argue, canvass, agitate, moot, deliberate.
discussion, n. debate, argument, canvass, agitation, consideration, symposium, forensic.
disdain, n. scorn, contumely, superciliousness, contempt.
disdainful, a. contemptuous, scornful, contumelious, supercilious.
disease, n. ailment, disorder, malady, complaint, affection, distemper; plague, pestilence, pest; epidemic, endemic. Antonyms: health, vigor. Associated words: nosology, nosography, etiology, nosogeny, pathology, pathologist, pathological, pathogeny, therapeutics, symptomatology, diagnosis, pathognomonic, diagnostics, semeiology, semeiography, clinic, polyclinic, prognosis, contagion, infection, contagious, infectious, zoonosology, enantiopathy, loimography, loimology, quarantine, pathogene, germ, microbe, bacteria, bacillus, incubation.
diseased, a. morbid, unhealthful.
disembowel, v. eviscerate, gut.
disembowelment, n. evisceration.
disengage, v. extricate, disembarrass, disentangle, detach, dissociate.
disfavor, n. disapproval.
disfigure, v. deface, mar, blemish.
disfigurement, n. disfiguration, defacement; blemish, deformity.
disgrace, n. reproach, discredit, dishonor, shame, infamy, degradation, disrepute, ignominy, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, scandal, debasement, abasement.
disgrace, v. dishonor, humiliate, shame, degrade, debase, abase, discredit, tarnish, sully.
disgraceful, a. ignominious, shameful, dishonorable, discreditable, opprobrious, scandalous, disreputable, infamous.
disgruntled, a. (Colloq.) dissatisfied, displeased.
disguise, v. mask, dissemble, dissimulate, cloak, shroud, masquerade.
disguise, n. mask, blind, cloak, masquerade.
disguised, a. veiled, masked, incognito.
disgust, n. aversion, abhorrence, repulsion, repugnance.
disgust, v. revolt, offend, nauseate.
disgusting, a. fulsome, revolting, loathsome, repulsive, noisome, mawkish, nauseating, sickening, abhorrent, repugnant.
dish, n. vessel, utensil, receptacle.
dished, a. ruined, spoiled, undone; baffled, upset, disappointed
disheveled, a. disarranged, disorderly, uncombed, frowzy.
dishonest, a. unscrupulous, corruptible, deceitful, fraudulent.
dishonesty, n. improbity, unscrupulousness, fraudulence, cheating, indirection.
dishonor, n. disrepute, discredit, disgrace.
dishonorable, a. discreditable, disgraceful; unscrupulous, unprincipled.
disillusionize, v. disenchant, decharm, disabuse.
disinterested, a. impartial, unbiased, indifferent, neutral, magnanimous, unselfish.
disjoint, v. dislocate, luxate, disarticulate.
disjointed, a. incoherent, rambling, desultory, loose, disconnected.
dislike, v. disapprove, disrelish, hate.
dislike, n. aversion, antipathy, disrelish, disapproval, hatred, disaffection.
dislocate, v. disjoint, luxate.
dislocation, n. luxation, disjointing.
disloyal, a. perfidious, unfaithful, false, treacherous, treasonable, traitorous, apostate.
disloyalty, n. perfidy, unfaithfulness, treachery, treason, apostasy, faithlessness, inconstancy.
dismal, a. dreary, gloomy, cheerless, joyless, sombre.
dismay, n. consternation.
dismember, v. mutilate, dislimb.
dismemberment, n. mutilation.
dismiss, v. discharge, cashier; banish.
dismissal, n. discharge, dismission, removal.
disobedience, n. contumacy, dereliction, undutifulness, defiance, insubmission, noncompliance, indocility, insubordination.
disobedient, a. contumacious, insubmissive, undutiful, defiant, remiss, derelict, indocile, insubordinate, refractory.
disobey, v. transgress, violate, disregard, defy, infringe.
disorder, n. confusion, disarray, disarrangement, disorganization, jumble, chaos, litter, irregularity, disturbance, tumult, riot, turmoil, Bedlam, fracas, pandemonium.
disorder, v. disarrange, confuse, jumble, disorganize, tousle, derange, discompose.
disordered, a. deranged, confused, jumbled, littered, disarranged.
disorderly, a. immethodical, unsystematic, confused; riotous, chaotic, lawless, tumultuous.
disorganization, n. disorder, derangement, demobilization dissolution.
disorganize, v. dissolve, disband, disorder, demobilize, disarrange.
disown, v. repudiate, deny, disclaim, disavow, renounce, reject.
disowning, n. denial, disclaimer, disavowal, repudiation, renunciation, rejection.
disparage, v. belittle, decry, depreciate. Antonyms: laud, extol, commend, praise.
disparagement, n. detraction, derogation, decrial, defamation, dispraise, vilification.
disparaging, a. derogatory, unfavorable, detractory, defamatory.
dispatch, n. haste, speed, celerity, expedition; message, telegram.
dispense, v. deal out, apportion, distribute; administer, execute.
disperse, v. dissipate, dispel, scatter.
displace, v. remove, disarrange; supplant, supersede.
display, n. exhibition, parade, ostentation, show.
display, v. exhibit, evince, expose, parade, flourish.
displeasure, n. disapprobation, dudgeon, dislike, disapproval, resentment, vexation, umbrage, dissatisfaction.
disposed, a. inclined, minded, willing. Antonyms: See indisposed.
disposition, n. temperament, mood, nature; willingness, readiness, inclination; arrangement, disposal; propensity, inclination, proneness, proclivity, bias, bent. Antonyms: indisposition, unwillingness, disinclination.
dispossess, v. dislodge, oust, eject, evict, dispropriate, disseize, remove, depose.
dispossession, n. dislodgment, ejection, eviction, ousting, divestiture, disseizin, ouster.
disproof, n. confutation, refutation.
disprove, v. confute, refute.
disputable, a. controvertible. Antonyms: indisputable, incontrovertible.
disputant, n. controversialist, controvertist, dissenter, disputer, arguer.
disputatious, a. contentious, polemical, argumentative, quarrelsome.
dispute, v. contend, argue, gainsay, controvert, altercate, wrangle, impugn, bicker, squabble, spar.
dispute, n. disputation, controversy, argument, debate, logomachy, squabble, contention, polemic.
disregard, n. indifference, ignoration, slight, neglect, disesteem, inattention, oversight.
disregard, v. ignore, slight, contemn, overlook, disobey.
disrepute, n. disesteem, unpopularity, disgrace, odium.
disrespect, n. discourtesy, incivility, disesteem, rudeness, irreverence, insolence.
disrespectful, a. discourteous, uncivil, rude, irreverent, impious, insolent, saucy.
dissatisfaction, n. discontent, discontentment, disapproval, displeasure.
dissatisfied, a. discontented, displeased, restless, malcontent, impatient, disgruntled.
dissection, n. anatomy; analysis, examination; vivisection, callisection, sentisection.
dissector, n. anatomist, prosector.
dissent, n. dissension, disagreement, variance; nonconformity, dissidence.
dissenter, n. nonconformist, sectary, dissident, separatist, schismatic, recusant.
dissertation, n. discourse, disquisition.
dissimilar, a. See different.
dissipated, a. profligate, dissolute, licentious, fast.
dissipation, n. dispersion, scattering; profligacy, dissoluteness.
dissolute, a. debauched, dissipated, licentious, abandoned.
dissolution, n. dissolving, analysis; solution, liquefaction; decomposition, resolution.
dissolvable, a. dissoluble, soluble, fusible. Antonyms: indissoluble, indissolvable.
dissolve, v. melt, liquefy, macerate, fuse, deliquesce; disorganize, disband, disperse; sunder, disunite.
dissolvent, n. menstruum, solvent.
dissuade, v. deter, divert.
dissuasion, n. dehortation.
distance, n. interval, intervening space; remoteness; reserve, aloofness, ceremoniousness, unfriendliness, alienation. Associated words: longimetry, longitude, latitude, odometer, odograph, perambulator.
distance, v. outstrip, outdo, surpass.
distant, a. remote, far-off; uncordial, reserved, cold. Antonyms: See near.
distaste, n. aversion, dislike, disrelish. Antonyms: taste, liking, relish.
distasteful, a. unpleasant offensive, repugnant, unpalatable, unsavory, disagreeable.
distill, v. trickle, drop, drip; rectify.
distillation, n. trickling; rectification, vaporization.
distinction, n. discrimination; eminence, celebrity, renown, fame, repute, prominence. Antonyms: indistinction, indiscrimination promiscuity, obscurity.
distinctive, a. discriminative, distinguishing, characteristic.
distinguish, v. characterize; discriminate, differentiate, discern, recognize.
distinguished, a. marked, special; eminent, illustrious, famous, celebrated, renowned, noted; transcendent, extraordinary, supreme, consummate, conspicuous. Antonyms: undistinguished, obscure, commonplace, inconspicuous, humble.
distinguishing, a. distinctive, peculiar, discriminative, characteristic.
distort, v. deform, twist; pervert, misinterpret, falsify, misrepresent.
distortion, n. deformity; perversion, crookedness; falsification.
distracted, a. frantic, frenzied, raving, crazy. Antonyms: See calm.
distraction, n. diversion, amusement; confusion, mystification, bewilderment; tumult, commotion, hurly-burly; despair, frenzy.
distress, n. anguish, agony, torture, sorrow, grief; misery, affliction, adversity, disaster, calamity, misfortune; straits, poverty, destitution, indigence.
distress, v. pain, grieve, afflict, wound; distrain.
distressing, a. grievous, distressful, painful, afflictive.
distribute, v. apportion, allot, deal out, dispense; classify, assort, group.
distribution, n. apportionment, allotment, dispensing, partition, division, dole; disposition, classification, grouping, arrangement.
district, n. region, precinct, province, circuit, quarter, locality, ward.
distrust, n. doubt, suspicion, mistrust.
distrustful, a. suspicious.
disturb, v. molest, perturb, annoy, disquiet, agitate, incommode, ruffle, disarrange, derange, unsettle, roust, excite.
disturbance, n. molestation, derangement, disquiet, disorder, perturbation, inquietude, agitation, uneasiness; commotion, turmoil, tumult, uproar, riot, clamor. Associated words: perturbable, imperturbable, perturbability, imperturbability, imperturbation.
disuse, n. desuetude, insuetude, inusitation, discontinuance, obsoleteness.
disused, a. obsolete.
ditch, n. trench, moat, fosse, channel. Associated words: scarp, escarp, parapet, graffage, counterscarp.
dive, v. plunge.--n. plunger, header; (Slang) resort.
divergence, n. radiation; disagreement, variance; divarication, forking.
divergent, a. diverging, radiating; variant, different.
divers, a. several, sundry, various, many, numerous.
diverse, a. different, dissimilar, heterogeneous, diversified, variant.
diversified, a. various, variegated, multiform.
diversion, n. turning aside; amusement, sport, recreation, relaxation.
diversity, n. difference, dissimilarity; variety, multiformity.
diver's apparel. scaphander.
diver's disease. caisson disease.
divide, v. sunder, split, cleave, disunite, part, separate, sever, dissociate, disconnect, detach, disintegrate, demarcate, dimidiate, partition; apportion, distribute, allot, assign, parcel out; disaffect, alienate, estrange, part; share, partake, participate.
divine, a. Godlike; religious, holy; heavenly, angelic, seraphic, transcendent.
divine, v. foresee, foreknow, surmise, forebode, conjecture, foretell.
diving bell. nautilus.
divisible, a. separable, dividable, partible.
division, n. separation, partition, demarcation, dimidiation; section, segment, part, compartment, portion, canton, category, group; disunion, alienation, schism, variance, dissension; apportionment, allotment, distribution
dizziness, n. vertigo.
dizzy, a. vertiginous, giddy.
do, v. effect, accomplish, produce, achieve, consummate, execute, perform; transact; perpetrate, commit; translate, render; suffice, answer; fare, prosper; vouchsafe, grant; (Colloq.) cheat, overreach, swindle, defraud. Antonyms: shirk, evade.
do-all, n. factotum.
do away with. abolish.
docile, a. tractable, teachable, gentle, yielding, obedient, submissive. Antonyms: See indocile.
docility, n. tractableness, submissiveness. Antonym: indocility.
dock, v. curtail; deduct from, lessen.
dock hand. stevedore.
doctor, n. physician, medical practitioner, leech; homeopath; allopath; interne; externe; savant; (ignorant) quack, empiric.
doctor, v. repair, treat; (Slang) tamper with, falsify, adulterate.
doctrine, n. tenet, dogma, belief, principle, teaching.
doddering, a. shaking, trembling, infirm.
dodge, v. duck, evade, parry; prevaricate, equivocate, shift, evade, quibble, parry.
dodge, n. (Colloq.) prevarication, trick, artifice, subterfuge, stratagem, evasion, parry, device.
dodger, n. prevaricator; handbill, circular.
dog, n. canine; (young) pup, puppy, whelp; (female) bitch, slut; cur, whippet, tike, fice, mongrel. Associated words: canine, Canis, cyniatrics, rabies, hydrophobia, cynanthropy, cynegetics, cynic, cynophobia, cynoid, cynopodous, cynocephalous, cynocephalus, cynocephalic, learn, leash, dog-fancier.
dog days. canicular days.
dogged, a. stubborn, obstinate, mulish, headstrong, persistent.
doggish, a. surly, sullen, churlish, cynical, morose.
dog house. kennel.
dogma, n. doctrine, tenet.
dogmatic, a. positive, magisterial, dictatorial, imperious, domineering, overbearing; authoritative, categorical.
dog-star, n. Sinus, Canicula, Cards Majoris.
doings, n. pl. actions, proceedings, deeds, acts, performances, transactions.
dole, n. pittance, alms; distribution, apportionment, share, portion; grief, sorrow.
doleful, a. sorrowful, dolorous, plaintive, piteous, lugubrious, woe-begone.
domain, n. dominion, sovereignty; realm, territory; province, department.
dome, n. cupola.
domestic, a. home, household, family; intestine; domesticated, tame; fond of home.
dominant, a. predominant, prevailing, predominating, paramount.
dominate, v. predominate, sway, rule, govern, control, surmount, overtop.
domination, n. government, dominion, supremacy, rule, authority, ascendancy.
domineer, v. tyrannize, lord it; swagger, vapor, bluster.
domineering, a. tyrannical, dictatorial, overbearing, lordly, imperious. Antonyms: meek, apologetic, retiring.
dominion, n. sovereignty, sway, supremacy; realm, empire, kingdom, domain.
do more than duty requires. supererogate.
donation, n. gift, present, benefaction.
done for. (Colloq.) tired out, used up, spent, collapsed, exhausted.
done up. (Colloq.) wrapped up; worn out, exhausted.
donkey, n. ass, burro, Neddy. Associated words: bray, asinine, asininity.
do-nothing, a. inactive, idle, lazy, fabian, slothful.
doodlesack, n. bagpipe.
doom, n. judicial sentence, judgment; destiny, death.
door, n. entrance, portal, gate; postern; porch, portico. Associated words: lintel, jamb, sill, threshold, stile, panel, rail, mullion, porte-cochère, reveal, rabbet, casing.
doorkeeper, n. porter, concierge, ostiary; tyler.
doorsill, n. threshold.
dormancy, n. abeyance, quiescence, inactivity, torpor, lethargy, inertness.
dormant, a. quiescent, latent, inert, inactive, abeyant, torpid.
dose, n. draught, dram, potion. Associated word: posology.
dot, n. period, point; dowry; speck.
dotage, n. senility, anility, decrepitude; fondness, affection (excessive or weak).
double, a. twofold, duplex, bifold, binate; equivocal, Janus-faced, deceitful, insincere, perfidious.
double, v. duplicate; fold, plait, pleat.
double, n. duplicate, counterpart; duplication, plait, doubling; circuit, maneuver, shift, artifice, stratagem, ruse.
double-dealing, n. duplicity, dissimulation, trickery, Machiavelism.
double-faced, a. Janus-faced, deceitful, perfidious.
double-headed, a. bicipital, bicipitous.
double-hearted, a. perfidious, deceitful, treacherous, insincere.
double-minded, a. irresolute, vacillating, unsettled, undetermined.
doubling, n. duplication, reduplication; fold, plait, plication, double.
doubt, v. waver, hesitate, question, be undecided, query; distrust, suspect. Antonyms: believe, trust, rely upon.
doubt, n. indecision, uncertainty, vacillation, irresolution, misgiving, query, suspense, hesitancy, distrust, suspicion, quandary, perplexity; skepticism, incredulity, pyrrhonism; ambiguity, difficulty. Antonyms: conviction, credulity, confidence, decision, assurance, belief, certainty.
doubtful, a. unsettled, undetermined, dubious, wavering, precarious, undecided, irresolute; questionable, involved; ambiguous, enigmatical, problematical, equivocal, vague, indefinite. Antonyms: certain, implicit, sure, unquestionable, unwavering.
doubting, a. incredulous, suspicious, skeptical.
doughfaced, a. pliable, weak, irresolute.
doughty, a. redoubtable, valiant, bold, fearless.
dour, a. hard, obstinate, sour.
douse, v. duck, immerse, dip, plunge, souse, submerge.
dove, n. pigeon. Associated word: coo.
dovecote, n. columbary, pigeonry, pigeon house.
dovelike, a. columbine.
dowdy, a. vulgar-looking, slovenly, untidy, slatternly, frowzy. Antonyms: See neat.
do without. dispense with.
down, adv. downward, below.
down, v. overthrow, subdue, floor, prostrate.
down, a. descending, sloping, downward.
down, n. pubescence; pl. (Colloq.) depression, abasement.
downcast, a. despondent, dejected, discouraged, gloomy, dispirited.
downcome, n. downfall.
downfall, n. downcome, descent, reverse, abasement, humiliation.
down grade. descent, declivity.
downhearted, a. dejected, despondent, discouraged.
downhill, n. descent, declivity, slope.--a. declivous, descending, sloping.
downright, a. blunt, direct, unceremonious, positive, undisguised, absolute, unmixed, straightforward.
downy, a. pubescent, flocculent.
draft, n. drawing, draught; bill of exchange; delineation, sketch, current of air; conscript, conscription. Associated word: conscript (one drafted).
drag, v. haul, trail, tug, pull; break, harrow.
drag, n. dragging; dragnet; harrow; skid; clog, impediment, obstacle.
drain, n. channel, gutter, trench, ditch, sewer.
drain, v. empty, exhaust, deplete; filter.
draw, v. haul, drag, tug, tow; attract; entice, allure, lure, induce, tempt; extract, educe; unsheathe; deduce, infer, conclude, derive; disembowel, eviscerate; delineate, draught, sketch, depict, trace, limn; influence, win, induce; contract, shrink. Antonyms: repel, repulse, rebuff, reject, alienate.
drawback, n. disadvantage, hindrance, defect, imperfection; rebate, deduction, discount.
draw back. retract; shrink, flinch, recoil, withdraw, wince.
drawer, n. till (money drawer), tiller.
drawing, n. traction, hauling, pulling; graphics, diagraphics, delineation; sketch, draught, diagram, picture, limning, representation.
drawing back. retraction; shrinking, flinching, recoiling, withdrawal, wincing.
drawing off. withdrawal, abstraction.
drawing out. extension, protraction, stretching; eduction, extraction.
draw out. stretch, extend, protract; elicit, educe, extract.
draw up. compose, draught, write; array, arrange.
dread, n. apprehension, fear, awe (reverential fear).
dreadful, a. fearful, terrible, formidable, awful, dread, dire, direful, frightful.
dream, n. vision; illusion, vagary, wild conceit, revery, fancy, fantasy. Antonyms: fact, actuality, reality, substance, realization. Associated words: Morpheus, Morphean, oneiroscopy, oneiroscopist, oneirocritic, oneiromancy, oneirology, oneirocriticism, nightmare.
dreamer, n. visionary, enthusiast, castle-builder, John-a-dreams.
dreamy, a. visionary, unreal, illusory. Antonyms: practical, real.
dreary, a. dismal, drear, cheerless, lonesome, wearisome, dull.
dregs, n. pl. refuse, sediment, lees, draff; riffraff.
dress, n. gown, toilette, robe; raiment, clothes, clothing, garments, habiliments, attire, garb, apparel, habit, array, costume, togs, toggery. Antonyms: See undress.
dress, v. clothe, deck, drape, apparel, robe, array, attire; adjust, align; curry, smooth, plane, finish; (Colloq.) castigate, chastise, whip. Antonyms: undress, disrobe, divest, strip, expose.
dress gaudily. bedizen, prank.
dressing, n. forcemeat, stuffing, condiment; (Colloq.) castigation, scolding, whipping, flogging, chastisement.
dressmaker, n. modiste, mantuamaker.
dribble, n. (Colloq.) trickling.
drier, n. desiccator, desiccant, desiccative, exsiccant, exsiccator.
drift, n. course, direction, bearing, tendency, aim, intention intent, design, import, meaning; accumulation, heap, bank, pile, diluvium.
drill, v. perforate, pierce, bore; train, discipline, exercise.
drink, v. quaff, sip, sup, imbibe, slake one's thirst; tipple, tope, guzzle, booze, house, be intemperate; absorb.
drink, n. beverage, potation, potable; draught, dram, potation, drench.
drinkable, a. potable, potulent. Antonym: undrinkable
drinking, n. potation; tippling, bibacity, drunkenness, carousal, guzzling, intemperance. Antonyms: temperance nephalism, abstinence, teetotalism. Associated words: bibacious, bibulous, bibitory, dipsomania, alcoholism thirst, nectar, hobnob, bacchanalian, inebriant, potatory, œnomania, symposium, crapulence, supernaculum convivial, conviviality, tankard, beaker, cup, stein, canteen.
drinking-bout, n. orgies, compotation, bacchanals, carousal revel, revelry, wassail, saturnalia, debauch, spree, excess, carouse, jollification.
drip, v. drop, trickle, dribble.
dripping, n. trickling, dribbling.
dripping from the eaves. stillicide.
drive, v. impel, force, compel, press; propel, send; rush, press; conduct, carry on.
drive at. aim, intend, purpose.
drive away. dispel, disperse, scatter, dissipate.
drive back. repulse, repel, rebuff.
drivel, n. driveling; nonsense, twaddle.
drivel, v. drool.
driveler, n. drooler; imbecile, fool, idiot.
driver, n. coachman, jehu, charioteer, whip.
driving, a. violent, forcible; impelling, impellent, propulsive, impulsive.
driving, n. guiding by reins; impulsion, propulsion, compulsion, forcing.
driving back. repulse, rebuff, repulsion, repercussion, repellence, recussion.
driving out. expulsion.--a. expulsive.
drizzle, n. mizzle, misle, mist.--v. mizzle, misle.
droll, n. jester, buffoon, merry-andrew, zany, harlequin; comedy, farce, burlesque.
droll, a. ludicrous, laughable, comical, facetious, funny.
drollery, n. waggery, buffoonery, pleasantry, facetiousness.
drone, n. sluggard, idler, lounger.
drool, v. drivel, slaver, slabber.
drooler, n. driveler, slaverer, slabberer.
droop, v. languish, faint, grow faint, sink; bend, drop, hang; slouch; fade, wilt, wither.
drop, n. globule, minim, blob; pendant; descent, fall.
drop, v. distill, dribble, trickle, drip; fall; let fall, release, banish, dismiss, discontinue, discard, intermit, remit, relinquish; lower, sink, depress; variegate, bedrop, speckle, fleck.
drop by drop. guttatim, guttat, stillatitious.
droplight, n. pendant.
dropping, n. distillation, trickling, dribbling, falling; stillicide.
droppings, n. pl. excrement, dung.
drop serene. amaurosis, gutta serena.
drop-shaped, a. globular, guttiform, stilliform.
dross, n. refuse, scum, recrement, draff, dregs, scobs, waste, sinter.
drought, n. aridity, dryness; scarcity, dearth.
drought plant. xerophyte. Associated words: xerophilous, xerophytic.
drove, n. herd, flock; crowd, company.
drown, v. overwhelm, submerge, flood, inundate, deluge.
drowning, n. demersion, submersion, inundation; noyade.
drowsiness, n. sleepiness, oscitancy.
drowsy, a. sleepy, dozy, oscitant.
drudge, n. menial, hack, slave, scullion, fag.
drug, v. deaden, dull, stupefy; surfeit; hocus.
drug, n. Associated words: pharmacology, pharmacologist, pharmacy, pharmacognosis, pharmaceutics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacopœoea, pharmacography, spatula, mortar, pestle, cribration, pharmacopolist, pharmaceutical.
druggist, n. pharmacist, apothecary, pharmaceutist.
drum, n. snare-drum; base-drum; kettle-drum; tabor, taborine. Associated words: reveille, rappel, chamade, ruff, tattoo, ruffle, roll, rataplan, drummer, drumhead, drumstick.
drum, v. thrum, strum.
drumstick, n. tibiotarsus.
drunk, a. intoxicated, drunken, inebriated, tipsy, boozy, besotted. Antonyms: sober, unintoxicated.
drunk, n. (Slang) spree, drunkenness.
drunkard, n. inebriate, toper, sot, tippler, carouser, dipsomaniac, wine-bibber, bacchanal, bacchanalian, debauchee. Antonyms: abstainer, ascetic, nephalist, teetotaler.
drunken, a. intoxicated, drunk; sottish, maudlin, fuddled, mellow, groggy, disguised.
drunkenness, n. intoxication, inebriety, inebriation, ebriety, ebriosity, debauch; excitement, frenzy, inflammation. Antonyms: sobriety, temperance, abstinence.
dry, a. desiccated, exsiccated, dried, evaporated; arid, parched; anhydrous; droughty; barren, uninteresting, jejune, vapid, tedious, prosaic, tame; sharp, keen, quaint, shrewd, droll.
dry, v. evaporate, desiccate, exsiccate, arefy, insolate (dry in the sun), torrefy; infumate (dry in smoke).
dry goods. textile fabrics. Associated word: mercer.
drying, n. desiccation, exsiccation, evaporation, torrefaction, arefaction. Associated words: desiccator, exsiccator, desiccative, evaporator, kiln.
drying, a. desiccative, exsiccative, desiccatory, desiccant, exsiccant, evaporative.
dryness, n. aridity, drought, desiccation, exsiccation.
dubious, a. undetermined, undecided, doubtful; equivocal, questionable, vague.
duck, v. souse, dip, plunge, immerse; dive; dodge, cringe.
duck, n. drake (male); teal; pl. Anatidæ, Anseres. Associated words: anatine, anserine, anatiferous, quack.
ducking-stool, n. castigatory, trebucket, cucking-stool, tumbrel.
duct, n. tube, canal, pipe, channel, conduit.
dude, n. dandy, fop, coxcomb, swell, popinjay, exquisite. Antonyms: sloven, guy.
dudgeon, n. resentment, anger, displeasure.
dudish, a. foppish, dandified, coxcombical. Antonyms: slovenly, seedy, unkempt.
duds, n. pl. (Colloq.) frippery (old clothes); clothes, effects, things.
due, a. payable, unpaid; appropriate, becoming, proper; regular, appointed; owing, ascribable.
duel, n. monomachia, monomachy.
duelist, n. monomachist.
dugout, n. excavation.
dull, a. unintelligent, obtuse, stolid, loggerheaded, inapt, doltish, beetle-headed, blockish, sluggish; apathetic, unfeeling, insensate, callous; blunt, obtuse, dulled, pointless; dim, faint; tedious, uninteresting, prosaic, stupid, wearisome, jejune, depressing; lifeless, torpid, slow, inactive; matte, lusterless, lackluster.
dull, v. blunt, rebate, benumb, obtund, stupefy, deaden, hebetate; sully, tarnish, obscure, dim, bedim; depress, sadden, dishearten; assuage, alleviate, moderate, allay.
dumb, a. mute, speechless; pantomimic.
dumbness, n. muteness, obmutescence, speechlessness.
dumb show. pantomime.
dumfound, v. astound, amaze, astonish, confound.
dumpish, a. dull, moody, moping, dejected, gloomy, despondent.
dumps, n. pl. melancholy, depression, despondency.
dunce, n. dullard, dolt, numskull, witling, blockhead, coot, lackbrain, ninny, oaf, nincompoop, mooncalf, ignoramus, booby, simpleton.
duncical, a. doltish, witless.
dung, n. ordure, excrement, fæces, dejections, lesses, muck; puer, fumet, fiants, treddle, spraints, coprolite (petrified), mute, guano, ornithocopros. Associated words: coprophagy, coprophagous, Augean, dungmeer, excrementitious, sterconst, sterconcolous, stercoraceous, bubulin.
dupe, n. gull, cully, gudgeon, dotterel, victim.
duplicate, a. double, twofold, duplex.--n. facsimile, counterpart. See copy. Antonyms: original, archetype prototype, model, pattern.
dusk, n. twilight, evening, nightfall.
dust, n. powder; detritus; stive (in flour mills). Associated words: pulverizable, pulverable, pulverulence, pulverize, pulverization.
dust storm. simoon; (in India) shaitan, devil, peesash; dust whirl.
dusty, a. powdery, pulverulent, pulverous, pulverized.
dutiful, a. obedient, duteous, submissive, deferential, docile.
duty, n. responsibility, incumbency, accountability; service, business, work, function, office; tax, impost, toll, excise, custom. Associated words: ethics, deontology, casuistry, ethology, morals, ethicist, ethically, supererogate, supererogation.
dwarf, n. pygmy, gnome, manikin, dandiprat, Lilliputian, elf, midget, runt, Tom Thumb, pigwidgeon, homunculus, hop-o-my-thumb.
dwarf, v. stunt, atrophy.
dwarfish, a. diminutive, undersized, Lilliputian, pygmy, pygmean, runty, stunted, undeveloped, tiny, atrophied.
dweller, n. denizen, resident, sojourner, inhabitant, habitant.
dwelling, n. residence, domicile, house, abode.
dwindle, v. decrease, diminish, shrink.
dwindling, n. decrease, diminution, shrinkage.
dye, v. color, stain, tinge, imbue.
dying, a. moribund; expiring, last; mortal, perishable.
Eager, a. ardent, avid, zealous, impetuous, vehement, intent, animated, impatient, fervent, athirst, impassioned ravenous, anxious, glowing, keen. Antonyms: indifferent, apathetic, dispassionate, phlegmatic, unconcerned unmoved, stolid.
eagerness, n. impatience, avidity, fervor, zeal, intensity, empressement, impetuosity, vehemence, heartiness, intentness ardor, devotion.
eagle, n. Aquila, bird of Jove; eaglet (young eagle). Associated words: aquiline, eyry, aerie.
ear, n. (of grain) spike.
ear, n. (external) auricle, pinna, concha; (inner) labyrinth. Associated words: otology, otologist, aurist (ear doctor), auricular, otography, otopathy, aural, auditory, otiatrics, lappet, otoplasty, tympanitis, otorrhea, auricled, alveary, otolith, lobe, otic, binaural, malleus, stapes, incus.
earache, n. otalgia, otalgy. Associated word: otalgic.
eardrum, n. tympanum.
earlier, a. antecedent.
early, a. seasonable, timely, forehanded; premature.
earnest, a. unfeigned, ardent, sincere, fervent, impassioned, zealous, intent.
earnest, n. sincerity, seriousness, good faith; pledge, handsel, token, foretaste. Antonym: jest.
earnestness, n. ardor, sincerity, fervency, seriousness, intentness, unction.
earpick, n. auriscalp.
earring, n. eardrop, pendant; girandole.
ear-shaped, a. auriform.
earth, n. world, terra firma, globe; land, soil, ground. See world.
earthborn, a. terrigenous, human; groveling, abject, base.
earthenware, n. crockery, pottery, stoneware, porcelain, Delftware.
earthling, n. mortal, tellurian, tellurist.
earthly, a. worldly, carnal, groveling, sordid; terrestrial, terrine; temporal; possible, conceivable.
earthly-minded, a. worldly-minded, sensual, groveling, unspiritual.
earthquake, n. earthshock, earth tremor. Associated words: seismology, seismic, seismography, seismometry, seismal, seismometer, seismograph, seismogram, seismoscope, microseism, microseismic, meizoseismal, coscismal, anaseismic, isoseismic.
earthwork, n. fortification, embankment.
earthworm, n. angleworm, dewworm, lumbric, lumbricus.
earthy, a. terrestrial, terrene, earthly; gross, carnal, groveling, low.
ear-trumpet, n. sonifer, otophone, auricle.
earwax, n. cerumen.
ease, n. facility, easiness; repose, quiescence, comfort, tranquillity, contentment, peace, serenity; unrestraint, informality, abandon. Antonyms: constraint, difficulty, discomfort, uneasiness, awkwardness.
ease, v. facilitate, mitigate, appease, assuage, allay, soothe, alleviate, palliate, release, relax, mollify.
easiness, n. ease, facility.
east, a. Associated words: orientate, orientation, Orient, Orientalism, Orientalist, orientalize, orientality.
eastern, a. oriental, orient, ortive.
easy, a. facile, slight; comfortable, untroubled, quiet, tranquil; gullible, facile, credulous, submissive, compliant, tractable; affluent, independent; smooth, fluent, unconstrained.
easy-going, a. mild-tempered, ease-loving, unenterprising, inactive, happy-go-lucky.
eat, v. feed, devour; bolt, gulp, gorge. Antonyms: abstain, fast, diet, starve, famish.
eat, v. consume, corrode, erode, fret.
eatable, a. edible, comestible, esculent. Antonym: inedible.
eaten away. eroded, erose, fretted.
eating, n. feeding, repast; (excess in eating) gluttony, gormandism, bolting, gulping, superalimentation; browsing. Associated words: aristology, gastronomy, gastronome, gastronomer, epicure, epicurism, diet, dietetics, dietary, commensal, dietarian, gastronomic, gourmet, gormand, cormorant, glutton, omnivorous, appetite, hunger, hungry, gustatory, pantophagist, pantophagous, pantophagy.
eating, n. corrosion, erosion, fretting, canker.
eating-house, n. restaurant, café, chophouse, buffet.
eating-room, n. dining-room, refectory.
eating together. commensalism.
ebb, n. reflux, refluence; decline, wane, deterioration, retrogression.
ebb, v. recede, return, retire; decline, wane, deteriorate, decay.
ebbing, a. receding, refluent, falling.
eccentric, a. whimsical, erratic, unconventional, irregular, odd, idiosyncratic.
eccentricity, n. whimsicality, oddness, unconventionality, freakishness, irregularity.
echo, n. reverberation. Associated word: catacoustics.
echo, v. resound, reverberate.
eclipse, n. occultation; obscuration, extinction, concealment, outrivaling.
eclipse, v. obscure, outshine, surpass, outrival, overcast.
economical, a. frugal, saving, thrifty, provident. Antonyms: See extravagant.
economize, v. save, retrench, husband.
economy, n. thrift, frugality, thriftiness, retrenchment; management, administration, system.
eczema, n. tetter, milk crust.
eddy, n. vortex, whirlpool.
edge, n. verge, brink, border, margin, rim, extremity; sharpness, intensity, zest, poignancy, sting; selvage, selvedge, listing; bevel, flange.
edge, v. sharpen, fringe, border, rim; hitch along.
edgy, a. touchy, sharp, irritable, excitable, irascible.
edible, a. eatable, esculent, comestible. Antonym: inedible
edict, n. mandate, decree, proclamation, rescript, manifesto, ordinance.
educate, v. teach, instruct, school, nurture, edify, enlighten.
educated, a. learned, versed, erudite, scholarly, enlightened, schooled, literate.
education, n. culture, learning, schooling, tuition, scholarship, nurture, enlightenment, literacy.
efface, v. expunge, obliterate, erase, eradicate.
effect, n. result, outcome, consequence, issue; validity, force, weight; execution, performance, realization; meaning, tenor, purport, intent; ensemble.
effect, v. effectuate, accomplish, realize, achieve, consummate, compass.
effective, a. effectual, efficient, potent, cogent, availing, productive.
effectual, a. efficacious, effective, efficient, availing, successful. Antonym: ineffectual.
effeminate, a. womanish, unmanly, cockney.--n. cockney.
effervescence, n. ebullition. Antonyms: ineffervescence, defervescence.
effete, a. exhausted, infecund, unfruitful, wasted, barren.
efficacious, a. potent, effectual, effective, productive. Antonym: inefficacious.
efficacy, n. potency, effectiveness, efficiency, productiveness. Antonyms: inefficacy, impotency.
efficient, a. competent, capable, proficient, effectual, potent, efficacious.
effort, n. attempt, endeavor, trial, essay, venture, exertion, strain, struggle.
egg, n. ovum, germ, cell; spawn. Associated words: oölogy, oölogist, ovology, oviferous, yolk, glair, albumen, embryo, oviparous, oviposit, oviposition, vitellus, fecundate, impregnate, impregnation, fecundity, clutch, vitelline, oviduct, Ovipara, ovulation, ovulist, tread, treadle, chalaza, addle, oömeter, oöscope, spawn.
egg, v. urge on, instigate, incite.
egg-shaped, a. oval, ovoid, oviform.
egotism, n. self-conceit, vanity, egoism, self-exaltation.
egotistical, a. conceited, overweening, vain, self-conceited, self-important, opinionated.
Egyptian dancing girl. alme; ghawazi.
Egyptian peasant. fellah.
Egyptian ruler. Khedive.
eight, n. Associated words: octonary, octopede, octant, octave, octavo, octet, octic, octad, octameter.
eight-angled, a. octangular, octagonal.
eightfold, a. octuple.
eight-sided, a. octagonal, octahedral, octangular.
eight-sided figure. octagon.
eight-sided solid. octahedron.
eight tones. Associated words: diatonic, diatonically.
eight years. octennium. Associated words: octennial, octennially.
eighty years. Associated words: octogenarian, octogenary.
eject, v. void, discharge; oust, evict, dislodge.
ejection, n. voiding, discharge; ousting, dispossession.
elastic, a. resilient, springy, extensible, ductile, rebounding, tensible.
elasticity, n. resiliency, springiness, extensibility, ductility. Antonyms: inelasticity, irresilience.
elated, a. elate, exhilarated, overjoyed, jubilant.
electric, a. stimulating, inspiriting, electrifying, magnetic, thrilling.
elegance, n. beauty, grace, richness, sumptuousness, luxuriousness.
elegant, a. courtly, sumptuous, luxurious, rich.
element, n. constituent, ingredient; pl. rudiments, first principles.
elemental, a. rudimental, elementary, constituent.
elementary, a. rudimental, elemental, constituent, primary; simple, uncompounded.
elephant, n. Associated words: howdah, pachyderm, kraal, corral, keddah, ankus, mahout.
elevate, v. lift, raise; promote, advance, aggrandize, exalt; ennoble, dignify.
elevation, n. promotion, aggrandizement, exaltation, dignity, advancement; eminence, hill.
eleven years. Associated words: undecennary, undecennial, undecennially.
elf, n. sprite, fairy, imp, fay, gnome, urchin.
elfish, n. mischievous, impish, elvish, prankish.
embankment, n. levee, dike; terreplein.
embarrass, v. disconcert, discompose, mortify, abash, chagrin, nonplus, pose, perplex; impede, obstruct, annoy, involve, harass, hamper, incumber.
embarrassing, a. disconcerting, distressing, perplexing, confusing.
embarrassment, n. discomposure, chagrin, abashment, mortification, disconcertion.
embellish, v. decorate, beautify, garnish, bedeck, ornament.
embellishment, n. adornment, decoration, beautification, ornamentation; ornament, garniture, garnish, trimming.
embezzle, v. peculate, defalcate.
embezzlement, n. peculation, defalcation.
embezzler, n. defalcator, peculator.
embroidery frame. tabouret.
embryo, a. undeveloped, rudimentary.
emery, n. abradant.
emigrant, n. emigrator, immigrant.
emigrate, v. migrate.
emigration, n. migration, exodus; emigrants.
eminent, a. distinguished, renowned, illustrious, famous, celebrated.
emphasis, n. accentuation.
emphasize, v. accentuate.
empire, n. sovereignty, sway, dominion, supremacy; realm, domain, kingdom.
emptiness, n. vacancy, inanition; hollowness, mockery, inanity; space, vacuum, void; frivolity, triviality, senselessness.
empty, a. depleted, vacant, inane; unoccupied, void, vacant, unfilled, tenantless, blank, evacuated; free, devoid of, lacking, destitute; senseless, hollow, vain, delusive, unsatisfying, inane, unreal; deflated.
empty, v. deplete, exhaust, unload, unburden, evacuate; disembogue; deflate.
emptying, n. depletion, exhaustion, evacuation, discharge, vacating.
enamel, n. Associated words: cloisonné, champlevé.
enchant, v. bewitch, charm, enrapture, captivate, enravish, transport, delight.
enchantment, n. charm, witchery, fascination, glamour, illusion; sorcery, conjuration, witchcraft, spell. Antonyms: disenchantment, disillusionment.
enchantress, n. siren, inamorata, charmer, sorceress, witch.
encircle, v. environ, encompass, surround, gird, circumscribe, enfold.
encounter, n. meeting, collision, rencounter; battle, contest, conflict, onslaught, attack.
encourage, v. enhearten, reassure, embolden, inspirit, stimulate, revive, rally, foment, countenance, incite.
encouragement, n. enheartenment, reassurance, incentive, stimulation, stimulus, incitement, fomentation, patronage, countenance.
encouraging, a. reassuring, inspiriting, cheering, assuring.
encroach, v. trespass, intrude, intrench, infringe, trench, invade.
encroachment, n. trespass, intrusion, intrenchment, infringement, invasion, inroad.
end, n. termination, terminal, terminus, extremity, limit, bound; close, finale, conclusion, finis, cessation; issue, result, consequence, sequel, conclusion, peroration; purpose, intention, design, aim, goal, object, intent; remnant, fragment; extermination, annihilation, destruction; surcease.
end, v. terminate, conclude, finish, discontinue, cease, close.
endable, a. terminable.
endanger, v. imperil.
ending, n. termination, conclusion.
endless, a. interminable, illimitable, limitless, unlimited, boundless, infinite; continuous, uninterrupted, continual perpetual, unending, eternal, everlasting.
endowment, n. dotation, bounty, grant, bequest, talent, faculty, dower.
endurable, a. sufferable, tolerable. Antonyms: unendurable, insufferable.
endurance, n. permanence, continuance, persistence, abidance, continuation; sufferance, patience, fortitude, forbearance, resignation, toleration.
endure, v. suffer, experience, undergo; stand, brook, tolerate, submit to, abide; sustain, support, bear; last, abide, continue, remain, persist. Antonyms: succumb, falter, yield, surrender.
enduring, a. lasting, durable, permanent, imperishable.
enemy, n. foe, adversary, opponent, antagonist, rival, hostile. Associated words: hostile, hostility, feud, enmity, inimical, antagonism.
energetic, a. forcible, potent, vigorous, cogent, active, strenuous, effective.
energizing, a. potent, vitalizing, invigorating, alacrifying.
energy, n. power, potency, force, vigor, zeal, strength effectiveness.
engage, v. pledge, bind, commit; betroth, affiance, plight; engross, employ, busy, occupy.
engaged, a. occupied, employed, engrossed; affianced, betrothed.
engagement, n. betrothal, affiance, betrothment; contract, pledge, stipulation, promise; encounter, combat, fight, conflict, action.
engine, n. locomotive, mogul, traction engine.
England, n. Albion (Ancient name). Associated words: Anglomaniac, Anglomania, Johnny Bull, Great Britain, anglicize, anglicization, Anglophobe, Anglophobia.
English, a. British, Anglican.
Englishism, n. Anglicism, Briticism.
English legislature. Parliament.
Englishman, n. Britisher, Briton.
engrave, v. chisel, carve, grave, cut; imprint, infix, impress; stipple.
engraving, n. celature, graving, chiseling, carving; print, plate, stippling, stipple.
enjoyment, n. pleasure, delight, gratification, delectation, felicity, fruition.
enlarge, v. magnify, amplify, augment, expand, develop, increase, extend, swell; dilate, descant, launch out, expatiate; ennoble, broaden.
enlargement, n. augmentation, extension, expansion, dilation, development, growth, increase, amplification, dilatation, ennoblement; expatiation.
enmity, n. hostility, unfriendliness, opposition, antagonism, malignity, hatred, animosity, malevolence, rancor, antipathy, feud.
enormity, n. atrocity, heinousness, flagrancy, depravity.
enormous, a. colossal, monstrous, gigantic, mammoth, prodigious, huge; heinous, atrocious, nefarious, flagrant, flagitious.
enough, n. sufficiency, plenty, abundance, adequacy. Antonyms: deficiency, inadequacy, surplus.
enough, adv. sufficiently, adequately, fully.
enrich, v. fertilize; embellish, adorn, beautify; endow.
enrichment, n. fertilization; endowment; embellishment, decoration, adornment.
enroll, v. enlist, register, matriculate, list, record.
enrollment, n. registration, matriculation, enlistment; register, record, roster.
enslave, v. enthrall, subjugate, overcome.
enslavement, n. enthrallment, subjugation, subjection, bondage, slavery.
entangle, v. interweave, complicate, tangle, enmesh, snarl; insnare, puzzle, involve.
entanglement, n. complication, intricacy, snarl, tangle, embarrassment, imbroglio.
enter, v. penetrate, pierce, perforate; embark in, enlist in; insert.
enterprise, n. project, undertaking; activity.
enterprising, a. active, stirring, energetic, venturesome.
entertain, v. divert, amuse, please, junket, beguile, cheer; harbor, hold, lodge.
entertaining, a. diverting, amusing, interesting.
entertainment, n. diversion, amusement, recreation, pastime, play, divertissement; banquet, junket, feast, collation.
enthusiasm, n. eagerness, intensity, ardor, fervor, fervency, verve, empressement, unction. Antonyms: indifference, wariness, caution, calmness, lukewarmness.
enthusiast, n. zealot, fanatic, devotee, partisan.
enthusiastic, a. eager, zealous, fanatical, fervent, impassioned.
entice, v. seduce, allure, persuade, inveigle, wheedle, tempt.
enticement, n. seduction, allurement, temptation, lure, decoy, inducement.
enticing, a. seductive, alluring, tempting.
entire, a. complete, undivided. See whole.
entirety, n. completeness, integrity, totality, wholeness.
entrance, n. ingress, access; entrée; entry, portal, inlet, gate, door.
entrap, v. insnare, entangle, decoy, entrammel, entice.
entry, n. entrance, access; hall, vestibule; memorandum, minute, record.
envelop, v. surround, inwrap, inclose, encircle, encompass, environ.
envelope, n. wrapper, inclosure, capsule, case, sheath.
enveloping, a. surrounding, enfolding, circumambient, encircling.
environment, n. conditions, entourage.
epicure, n. gourmand, gastronome, gourmet; sensualist, voluptuary; sybarite, epicurean.
epicurean, a. sensual, voluptuous, luxurious, sybaritic.
epicurism, n. hedonism, epicureanism, eudæmonism; sensuality, luxury; gastronomy.
epitome, n. compendium, abstract, digest, synopsis.
equal, a. coördinate, tantamount, equivalent, corresponding, identical, commensurate, proportionate, adequate, sufficient; equable, uniform, equitable, even.
equal, n. peer, mate, compeer, match, coördinate. Antonyms: inferior, subordinate.
equality, n. coördination, uniformity, parity, agreement. Antonyms: See inequality.
equilibrium, n. equipoise, balance.
equip, v. accouter, furnish, fit out, gird.
equipage, n. equipment; carriage, turnout; suite, train, retinue.
equipment, n. apparatus, accouterments, paraphernalia, rigging, gear.
equipoise, n. equilibrium.
equivalent, a. tantamount, equal, commensurate; interchangeable.
eradicate, v. extirpate, exterminate.
eradication, n. extirpation, extermination.
erase, v. expunge, rub out, efface, obliterate, dele, delete.
erasure, n. expunging, erasion, obliteration.
erect, a. upright, vertical, raised; undaunted, bold, undismayed. Antonyms: horizontal, recumbent, prone, inverted, oblique, cringing.
erection, n. building, raising, construction.
erosion, n. corrosion, eroding.
err, v. misjudge, mistake, blunder; deviate, sin.
errand, n. mission, commission.
erratic, a. nomadic, wandering; eccentric, fanciful.
erring, a. peccable, sinful, fallible, weak. Antonyms: impeccable, infallible, inerrable.
erroneous, a. false, incorrect, untrue, mistaken, inaccurate, wrong.
error, n. mistake, inaccuracy, blunder, misapprehension, falsity, misconception. Associated words: fallibility, infallibility, fallible, errant, errancy, inerrancy, inerrability.
errors, n. pl. errata; sing. erratum.
erudition, n. learning, scholarship.
eruption, n. outburst, outbreak; exanthema, rash, efflorescence.
erysipelas, n. Saint Anthony's fire, rose.
escort, n. guard, convoy, usher.
Eskimo, n. Husky.
Eskimo house. topek, igloo.
Eskimo language. Husky.
especial, a. special, particular, specific.
essay, n. dissertation, article, disquisition, thesis; attempt, effort, trial.
essential, a. indispensable, necessary, requisite. Antonyms: nonessential, superfluous.
establish, v. found, organize, institute; substantiate, verify, ratify.
establishment, n. organization, founding, institution; substantiation, verification.
esteem, v. respect, value, honor, revere; rate, reckon, estimate.
esteem, n. respect, honor, regard; opinion, judgment, estimation. Antonyms: disesteem, aversion, odium, antipathy, unpopularity.
estimable, a. computable, calculable; meritorious, worthy, excellent. Antonyms: inestimable, incalculable, incomputable.
estimate, v. appraise, value, rate, prize; compute, calculate, reckon.
estimation, n. esteem, respect, honor; appraisement, valuation, estimate.
estrange, v. alienate, disaffect.
estranged, a. alienate, alienated.
estrangement, n. alienation, disaffection.
eternal, a. self-existent, infinite; endless, asonian. See everlasting.
eulogist, n. encomiast, panegyrist, praiser.
eulogistic, a. laudatory, panegyrical, encomiastic.
eulogize, v. laud, praise, extol, panegyrize.
eulogy, n. encomium, panegyric, laudation, praise.
Europe and Africa. Associated words: Eurafric, Eurafrican.
Europe and Asia. Associated words: Eurasian, Eurasiatic, Scythia.
evade, v. shun, avoid; elude, parry, foil, baffle; prevaricate, equivocate, dodge, quibble.
evaporate, v. vaporize, evanesce.
evaporation, n. vaporization, evanescence; exhalation. Associated words: volatile, volatility, volatilize, evaporable.
evasion, n. evading, eluding, escape; baffling, foiling; prevarication, equivocation, sophistry, tergiversation, subterfuge, dodge, excuse.
evasive, a. equivocal, indefinite, elusive.
even, a. plane, level, flush, flat, smooth; equable, uniform, unvarying.
evening, n. dusk, twilight, nightfall, eventide, even, gloaming. Associated words: vespertine, vespertinal, erepuscular, erepusculous, soirée, vesper.
evening prayer. compline.
evening service. vespers; evensong.
evening star. Hesper, Hesperus, Venus, Vesper.
evenness, n. uniformity, smoothness, equanimity, equableness.
event, n. occurrence, affair, incident, happening; consequence, result, outcome.
evergreen, a. indeciduous.
everlasting, a. continual, perpetual, interminable, unceasing, eternal, endless, incessant, never-ending; deathless, immortal, æonian, imperishable; (Colloq.) constant, continual.
everlasting, n. eternity; immortelle.
every-day, a. commonplace, common, customary.
every now and then. occasionally, repeatedly, frequently.
everywhere present. omnipresent, ubiquitous.--n. omnipresence, ubiquity.
evident, a. manifest, obvious, clear, palpable, patent.
evil, a. sinful, immoral, sinister, unrighteous, vicious, pernicious. See bad.
evil, n. wickedness, depravity, sin, iniquity, perniciousness, Belial, unrighteousness; disaster, misfortune, calamity, reverse; injustice, damage, injury, wrong, mischief.
evil-doer, n. sinner, malefactor, culprit, offender, delinquent. See wrong-doer.
evil-minded, a. malicious, malignant, wicked, depraved.
evolution, n. development, unfoldment, evolvement, unfolding.
exact, a. precise, accurate, true, literal, undeviating; punctilious, methodical, rigid, severe, rigorous, strict.
exact, v. demand, extort, wrest.
exacting, a. severe, harsh, oppressive, peremptory.
exaction, n. extortion, oppression.
exactness, n. precision, accuracy, strictness, exactitude, correctness, scrupulousness.
exaggerate, v. overstate.
exaggerated, a. overstated, colored, hyperbolical.
exaggeration, n. overstatement; hyperbole.
exalt, v. elevate; dignify, ennoble, aggrandize; magnify, apotheosize, extol.
exaltation, n. elevation, aggrandizement, loftiness, apotheosis.
exalted, a. sublime, elevated, lofty, grand, dignified.
examination, n. inquiry, autopsy, scrutiny, inspection, investigation, audit, inquest, reconnoissance, inquisition, recension, probing, review.
examine, v. inspect, scrutinize, question, audit, heckle, reconnoitre, review, search, probe, investigate, catechise.
examiner, n. inspector, investigator, inquirer, questioner, catechiser, resensionist, auditor, censor, reviewer, inquisitor.
example, n. sample, specimen, exemplification; model, pattern, prototype, copy, archetype, exemplar; precedent instance, illustration, case. Associated words: exemplify, exemplification, exemplary, praxis.
exasperate, v. provoke, irritate, incense, anger; aggravate, imbitter, intensify.
exasperation, n. provocation, irritation, offending, aggravation, anger; exacerbation.
exceed, v. surpass, transcend; outvie, excel, outdo; preponderate, predominate.
exceeding, a. surpassing.
excel, v. outrival, outstrip, surpass, eclipse, outdo, outvie, transcend, exceed.
excellence, n. preëminence, transcendence, superiority, eminence, integrity, probity, goodness, worth, merit, virtue.
excellent, a. estimable, meritorious, good, worthy, choice.
excess, n. superabundance, superfluity, redundancy, redundance, overplus, surplus, surplusage, residue, remainder exuberance, rampancy; overdoing, exorbitance, immoderation; debauchery, dissoluteness, intemperance, immoderation.
excessive, a. superfluous, exuberant, superabundant, disproportionate; outrageous, unreasonable, exorbitant inordinate, extravagant, fabulous, immoderate, extreme.
exchange, v. trade, barter, traffic, commute, interchange, reciprocate, bandy, permute.
exchange, n. traffic, trade, barter, commutation, interchange, reciprocity, permutation; Bourse; agiotage.
excitable, a. susceptible, sensitive, emotional, impressible, mobile; irritable, choleric, passionate, irascible, fiery, waspish. Antonyms: unexcitable, imperturbable, calm.
excite, v. stimulate, arouse, inflame, incite, provoke; perturb, agitate, disconcert, discompose, distract, unsettle.
excited, a. perturbed, agitated, disconcerted. Antonyms: calm, serene, tranquil, nonchalant.
excitement, n. perturbation, agitation, commotion, furore, inquietude, sensation, tumult, turmoil, flurry, ebullition; incitement, stimulus; arousing, awakening. Antonyms: imperturbation, calmness, serenity, non-chalance.
exciting, a. stirring, rousing, stimulating, sensational.
exclaim, v. ejaculate, shout, vociferate.
exclamation, n. ejaculation, vociferation, outcry; interjection, ecphonesis.
exclamation point. ecphoneme.
exclude, v. debar, preclude; except, omit; eject, expel.
exclusion, n. debarment, preclusion; exception, omission; ejection, expulsion.
excrement, n. fæces, stools, dejections; dung, ordure. Associated words: scatology, eccrinology, fæcal, excrementitious, void, defecate, defecation.
excusable, a. venial, pardonable, justifiable. Antonyms: See inexcusable.
excuse, v. absolve, forgive, pardon, exonerate, palliate, justify, extenuate, acquit, exculpate, release.
excuse, n. justification, apology, plea, exoneration, palliation, extenuation, pardon; subterfuge, evasion, pretext, makeshift.
execute, v. effectuate, perform, accomplish, consummate, achieve; electrocute, behead, guillotine, hang.
execution, n. performance, effectuation, consummation, perpetration, accomplishment.
executioner, n. hangman.
exercise, n. performance, application, practice, employment, use; activity; training, discipline, drilling; drill, praxis, lesson, task; gymnastics, calisthenics; gestation.
exercise, v. employ, apply, busy, exert; practice, discipline, drill, train; distress, worry, harass.
exertion, n. effort, struggle, attempt.
exhaust, v. drain, deplete; debilitate, prostrate, enervate.
exhausted, a. depleted, drained, consumed, spent, effete.
exhaustion, n. consumption, depletion, draining, dissipation, lassitude, collapse, inanition, weariness, prostration.
exhaustless, a. inexhaustible.
exhumation, n. disinterment, disentombment.
exhume, v. disinter, disentomb.
exile, n. banishment, proscription, expatriation.
exile, v. banish, expatriate.
exiled person. exile, expatriate.
exorbitant, a. unreasonable, inordinate, excessive, fabulous.
expand, v. dilate, distend, enlarge.
expansion, n. dilation, distension, enlargement.
expatiate, v. descant.
expect, v. anticipate.
expectation, n. expectancy, anticipation.
expel, v. eject, drive out; ostracize, banish, proscribe, exile; excommunicate; discharge, void, eject, evacuate; exclude, remove, dismiss.
expelling, n. expulsion, ejectment, dismissal; banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription.--a. expulsive.
expend, v. disburse.
expenditure, n. disbursement.
expense, n. outlay, cost, charge, expenditure.
expensive, a. costly, dear, high-priced. Antonym: inexpensive.
experienced, a. practiced, veteran. Antonym: inexperienced.
experiment, n. test, trial. Associated words: empiric, empirical, empiricism, empiristic, tentation.
experimental, a. empirical, tentative.
expert, a. skilled, proficient, an fait, adroit. Antonyms: See inexpert.
expert, n. adept, master, dabster, connoisseur, masterhand. Antonyms: tyro, bungler.
explain, v. expound, elucidate, unfold, interpret.
explainable, a. explicable, interpretable, solvable. Antonyms: See unexplainable.
explainer, n. expositor, interpretator, commentator, exegetist, elucidator.
explanation, n. elucidation, exposition, explication, interpretation; solution, deduction, key. Associated words: exegetics, exegesis, hermeneutics.
explanatory, a. expository, elucidative, interpretative, exegetical.
explode, v. burst; detonate, detonize.
exploitation, n. utilization, exploiture.
explosion, n. detonation, detonization; bursting; outburst.
explosive, n. dynamite, lyddite, nitro-glycerine, fuse, thorite, tonite, fulgurite.
expose, v. exhibit, show, display; uncover, unveil; imperil, endanger, subject, jeopardize; disclose, reveal, unmask, denounce. Antonyms: conceal, suppress, dissemble, hide, veil.
exposé, n. divulgement, disclosure, exposure.
exposition, n. display, exposure; explanation; commentary postillation; fair.
expostulate, v. remonstrate.
expostulation, n. remonstration.
exposure, n. exposing, disclosure, divulgement, revelation, exposé; subjection, liability, jeopardy.
express, a. explicit, definite, positive, specific, unmistakable. Antonyms: vague, tacit, ambiguous, implied, equivocal, indefinite.
express, v. say, utter; signify, represent, indicate, denote, designate, mean.
expression, n. assertion, statement, utterance, declaration, representation, indication; phrase, term, word; modulation.
expulsion, n. expelling, ejection, debarment, exclusion.
exquisite, a. beautiful, rare, choice; discriminating, fastidious; keen, acute, poignant; matchless, consummate, incomparable.
extend, v. lengthen, prolong, protract; jut, project; enlarge.
extensible, a. extendible, ductile, tensible. Antonyms: inextensible, rigid, inelastic.
extension, n. enlargement, expansion, protraction; projection. Associated words: tensility, tensibility, tensile.
extent, n. magnitude, size, volume; reach, compass.
exterminate, v. eradicate, extirpate, uproot.
extermination, n. eradication, extirpation, uprooting.
external, a. outward, exterior, superficial, extrinsic.
extol, v. eulogize, praise, laud, exalt.
extortion, n. exaction (undue), overcharge, rapacity, vampirism.
extortionate, a. oppressive, exacting; (Colloq.) exorbitant.
extortioner, n. harpy.
extra, a. supplemental, additional, supplementary, supernumerary.
extract, n. essence, quintessence; excerpt, quotation, citation, selection.
extraordinary, a. uncommon, unusual, remarkable, egregious, phenomenal, signal, noteworthy, exceptional, unprecedented.
extravagance, n. improvidence, prodigality, waste; preposterousness, enormity, exorbitance, immoderation. Antonyms: economy, thrift, frugality.
extravagant, a. wasteful, unthrifty, prodigal, improvident, lavish; wild, immoderate, preposterous, inordinate, exorbitant. Antonyms: See thrifty.
extreme, a. outermost, utmost, farthest; last, final, ultimate; ultra, radical, fanatical.
extreme, n. extremity, acme, climax.
extremist, n. radical.
exuberance, n. superabundance, rampancy, excess, copiousness, luxuriance, lavishness.
exuberant, a. overflowing, copious, excessive, rampant, wanton, superabundant, rank, luxuriant.
exultant, a. triumphant, jubilant, joyous.
eye, n. optic. Associated words: optics, optician, ocular, oculary, oculate, oculifonn, ophthalmology, ophthalmologist, ophthalmic, optometry, ophthalmostat, optometrist, chatoyant, chatoyment, cynosure, orbit, strabismus, rheum, ophthalmoscope, ophthalmoscopy, astigmatism, optography, blear, blear-eyed, bleary, ophthalmometer, orbital, orbitary, amaurosis, ocellated.
eyebrows, n. pl. supercilium. Associated word: superciliary.
eye doctor. oculist.
eye-glasses, n. pl. pince-nez, monocle, lorgnette, spectacles, goggles, blinkers.
eyelashes, n. pl. cilia. Associated word: ciliary.
eyelid, n. palpebra; pl. palpebræ. Associated words: palpebral, palpebrate.
eyewater, a. collyrium.
Fable, n. apologue (moral fable); fiction, fabrication, myth, untruth.
fabler, n. fabulist.
fabulous, a. fictitious, feigned, unverified; exorbitant, inordinate, excessive.
face, n. countenance, visage, physiognomy, features; front, exterior; obverse; facet; effrontery, confidence, assurance, audacity, impudence. Associated words: facial, domino, complexion, multifaced, rouge, cosmetic, grimace, Janus-faced, lineament, profile, silhouette, maskoid, smirk, physiognomist.
face, v. confront, meet; bully, bluff; veneer; plane, dress, smooth.
face ague. tic douloureux.
face guard. mask, beaver.
face to face. vis-à-vis, tête-à-tête.
facsimile, n. duplicate, copy, reproduction, likeness, counterpart.
fact, n. reality, actuality, truth.
faction, n. dissension, sedition, rebellion, insurgency, division.
factious, a. turbulent, seditious, rebellious, refractory, insubordinate.
factor, n. broker, middleman, consignee, commission merchant, agent; constituent, element.
factory, n. manufactory, shop, plant, mill.
facts, n. pl. data.
faculty, n. endowment, capability, talent, ability, knack, gift; competency, dexterity, skill ingenuity, adroitness.
fade, v. decay, decline, droop, languish, evanesce, disappear.
fadeless, a. unfading, permanent, fast, perennial.
fading, a. fugitive, evanescent, declining.
fæces, n. pl. excrement, stools.
fail, v. default, lack; deteriorate, decline, retrograde; disappoint, desert; miscarry, foil; become bankrupt.
failing, n. shortcoming, deficiency, imperfection, foible, fault, infirmity, defect, errancy, fallibility, decline, deterioration.
failure, n. failing, deficiency, shortcoming, lack; omission, pretermission, default, nonperformance, neglect, dereliction nonfulfillment, nonobservance; nonsuccess, miscarriage, frustration, abortion, foil, fizzle, fiasco; deterioration, decline, declension, retrogression; bankruptcy, insolvency.
faint, a. weak, languid, exhausted, feeble; indistinct, dim, faded, dull; timorous, faint-hearted.
faint, v. swoon.
faint-hearted, a. timorous, timid, diffident, fearful, cowardly.
faint-heartedness, n. timidity, diffidence.
fainting, n. swoon, syncope.
fair, a. impartial, equitable, unbiased, just, honorable, unprejudiced, ingenuous; average, middling, tolerable, so-so, passable; comely, attractive, pretty, handsome; blond, light; unsullied, untarnished, spotless.
fair, adv. clear, openly, frankly, honestly, favorably, auspiciously, impartially.
fair, n. bazaar; exposition.
fair and square. equitably, impartially, fairly, honestly.
fairly, adv. impartially, equitably, openly, favorably, auspiciously.
fair play. justice, equity.
fair-spoken, a. plausible, bland, civil, suave.
fairy, n. fay, elf, pigwidgeon, pixy, sprite, sylph, Puck, Robin Goodfellow, Mab, Oberon, Titania.
faith, n. credence, belief, trust, dependence, credit, reliance, confidence; dogma, tenet, creed, religion, persuasion; fidelity, loyalty, faithfulness; promise, engagement, word. Antonyms: doubt, incredulity, misgiving, unbelief. Associated words: Fides, fiduciary, fiducial, bona fide, pistiology.
faithful, a. true, constant, stanch, unwavering, devoted, loyal; trustworthy, reliable, conscientious; exact, accurate, precise.
faithfulness, n. constancy, devotion, loyalty, fidelity, true-heartedness, fealty, allegiance, trustworthiness; exactness, accuracy.
faithless, a. unbelieving, skeptical, incredulous, doubting, disloyal, false. See unfaithful.
faithlessness, n. unbelief, incredulity, doubt; disloyalty, perfidy. See unfaithfulness.
fake, n. (Slang) trick, swindle, imposture, fraud, delusion, humbug, imposition.
fake, v. (Slang) cheat, swindle, humbug, defraud, manipulate, fraudulently.
faker, n. (Slang) trickster, swindler.
fall, v. descend, drop, gravitate; collapse, founder, slump, tumble, topple; subside, decrease, decline, settle, moderate; sin, do wrong, go astray; apostatize; empty, discharge, disembogue.
fall, n. descent, collapse, tumble, drop; decrease, decline, depreciation, slump; cadence; declivity, slope; prostration, downfall, subversion; autumn; disemboguement, discharge.
fallacious, a. sophistical, misleading, illusive, untenable, inconsistent.
fallacy, n. deception, delusion, misconception; sophism, sophistry, paralogism.
fallals, n. pl. (Colloq.) frippery, gewgaws, ornaments.
fall away. emaciate; renounce, desert, rebel; apostatize, backslide; decline, languish.
fall back. recede, retreat, retire, withdraw.
fallen, a. dropped, prostrate, degraded, depreciated, debased.
fallibility, n. errancy. Antonym: infallibility.
fallible, a. errable, erring. Antonym: infallible.
fall in. collapse, cave in.
falling away. emaciation, pining; renunciation, desertion, revolt, unfaithfulness; apostasy, defection, backsliding; decline, declension.
falling back. recession, retreat, retirement, withdrawal.
falling down. prostration, collapse.
falling in with. meeting; concurrence, agreement, compliance.
falling off. dropping; withdrawal, separation, detachment; apostasy, defection, desertion; depreciation, deterioration.
falling out. See quarrel.
falling short. deficiency, inadequacy, deficit, shortcoming.
falling sickness. epilepsy.
falling star. meteor.
falling stone. meteorite, aërolite.
falling to pieces. disintegration, dilapidation.--a. ramshackle, dilapidated, disintegrating.
fall off. drop; withdraw, separate; apostatize, backslide; depreciate, deteriorate.
fall on. attack, assault, assail.
fall out. See quarrel.
fallow, a. uncultivated, untilled; dormant, inactive.
fall short. be deficient, be inadequate.
fall to pieces. disintegrate.
false, a. spurious, forged, counterfeit, sham, supposititious, unauthentic, bogus, feigned, fallacious, make believe, hypocritical, assumed, pseudo, sophistical, untenable; unveracious, dishonest, erroneous, untruthful; disloyal, perfidious, traitorous, disingenuous, insincere, recreant, faithless, unfaithful.
false friend. traitor, betrayer, Judas.
falsehood, n. inveracity, untruthfulness; lie, fiction, untruth, mendacity, fabrication, canard.
false key. picklock.
false name. pseudonym, nom de plume. Associated words: pseudonymous, pseudonymity, pseudepigraphous pseudepigraphy.
false swearing. perjury.
false writing. forgery, pseudography, pseudograph.
falsification, n. counterfeiting, forgery, falsifying; misrepresentation, distortion.
falsify, v. misstate, misrepresent, garble, distort, pervert; confute, refute, disprove.
falter, v. hesitate, tremble, waver, vacillate.
faltering, a. wavering, hesitating.
faltering, n. hesitation, indecision, wavering, vacillation.
fame, n. celebrity, note, eminence, renown, glory, reputation, repute. Antonyms: obscurity, ingloriousness, oblivion, ignominy, disrepute.
familiar, a. intimate, close, cordial, near, friendly, bosom; informal, unreserved, unconstrained, easy, unceremonious; conversant, well-known. Antonyms: unfamiliar, shy, ceremonious, distant.
familiarity, n. intimacy, conversance, acquaintance; informality, freedom, unconstraint; disrespect, unreserve. Antonyms: unfamiliarity, strangeness.
familiarize, v. habituate, accustom, inure, break in.
family, n. household; genealogy, lineage, ancestry. Associated words: genealogist, foris-familiate, pedigree, nepotism, nepotic, cadency, gens.
family way. pregnancy. Associated words: pregnant, gravid, enceinte.
famous, a. renowned, famed, noted, celebrated, eminent, illustrious, distinguished, far-famed. Antonyms: obscure, inglorious, unknown, notorious.
fan, n. flabellum (Eccl.), Associated words: brin, panache, plicate, plicated.
fan, v. winnow; cool, ventilate; stimulate, rouse, foment, provoke, encourage.
fanatic, n. extremist, visionary, zealot.
fanatical, a. fanatic, rabid, uncompromising, over-zealous.
fancied, a. imaginary.
fanciful, a. whimsical, capricious, visionary, imaginative, unpractical; chimerical, fantastic, illusive, phantasmic, quixotic, bizarre, erratic.
fancy, n. imagination, conception, conceit, idea, apprehension, impression, opinion, notion; caprice, whim, whimsey, fantasy, vagary, maggot, crotchet; inclination, liking, fondness, penchant, taste.
fancy, a. ornate, elaborate, ornamental; fanciful, exorbitant, fabulous, extravagant.
fancy, v. believe, imagine, apprehend, conjecture, conceive, like.
fandangle, a. fantastic, highfaluting, ornamental.
fang, n. tusk.
fan-shaped, a. plicate, flabelliform, flabellate.
fantastic, a. fanciful, imaginary; unreal, phantasmal, spectral, illusive; whimsical, capricious, erratic; grotesque, irregular, odd, rococo, baroque, bizarre.
fantod, n. (Slang) worry, excitement, fuss, fidget; indisposition, sulks.
far, a. distant, remote; alienated, estranged, unfriendly.
farce, n. burlesque, travesty, caricature, sham, take-off.
farcical, a. burlesque, ludicrous, ridiculous, absurd.
farewell, n. adieu, leave-taking, good-bye, valediction, congé, valedictory.
farewell, a. parting, valedictory, final.
far-fetched, a. forced, strained, catachrestic.
farm, n. grange; plantation; croft; hacienda.
farmer, n. agriculturist, husbandman, granger.
farming, n. agriculture, husbandry.--a. agricultural.
far-off, a. remote, distant, far-away.
far-sighted, a. hypermetropic, presbyopic; long-sighted, sagacious.
far-sightedness, n. hypennetropia, presbyopia, hyperopia; long-sightedness, sagacity.
far-sighted person. presbyope.
fascinate, v. bewitch, enchant, charm, captivate, enamor, infatuate, entrance, enrapture, enravish. Antonyms: disillusionize, decharm, repel.
fascinating, a. charming, captivating, bewitching, siren, witching, entrancing.
fascination, n. enchantment, witchcraft, bewitchery, sorcery, magic, witchery, captivation, charm, enravishment Antonyms: disenchantment, disillusionment.
fashion, n. vogue, style, mode.
fashionable, a. stylish, in vogue, smart, modish.
fast, a. immovable, firm, rigid; impregnable, strong, invincible, invulnerable, fortified; steadfast, faithful, true; permanent, durable; rapid, swift, fleet, quick, expeditious, speedy; unrestrained, dissolute, dissipated, rakish, wanton, profligate, immoral.
fast, adv. swiftly, rapidly, quickly, with celerity, post-haste, speedily, expeditiously; fixedly, firmly, immovably.
fast and loose. inconstant.
fasten, v. secure, fix, barricade, lock, bind, tie, attach, tether, rivet, moor, cement, affix, annex, clinch, clamp, append.
fastidious, a. critical, squeamish, punctilious. Antonyms: careless, indiscriminate, slovenly.
fastness, n. fixedness, immovability, firmness, security, impregnability; fortress, stronghold, citadel; swiftness, celerity, rapidity, expedition, quickness, haste.
fat, a. fleshy, plump, corpulent, obese, portly, pursy, burly, chubby, pampered, gross, squab, stout, pudgy; adipose; fertile, productive; lucrative, remunerative, profitable.
fatal, a. mortal, deadly.
fatality, n. fatalness, fate, destiny; mortality; disaster, calamity.
fate, n. destiny, lot, doom; chance, fortune; Moira; karma; kismet; predestination.
fated, a. destined, doomed, predestined, foredoomed.
fateful, a. ominous.
Fates, n. pl. Destinies, Parcæ (Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos).
father, n. pater familias, procreator, sire, patriarch; founder, originator, author. Associated words: affiliate, affiliation, filiation, patricide, patricidal, paternalism, parricide, agnate, agnation, patrimony.
father, v. beget, engender, procreate.
fatherhood n. paternity.
fatherly, a. paternal.
fatigue, n. weariness, lassitude, languor, exhaustion.
fatigue, v. weary, tire, jade, exhaust, fag, bore.
fatness, n. corpulency, obesity, embonpoint, plumpness, fleshiness, stoutness, portliness, pudginess; adiposity; fertility, richness.
fatten, v. batten.
fatty, a. adipose, greasy, unctuous, oleaginous, sebaceous.
fatty tumor. lipoma.
fault, n. defect, imperfection, failing, foible, shortcoming, blemish, flaw; demerit, dereliction, offense, indiscretion, lapse, delinquency. Antonyms: merit, perfection, beauty, impeccability.
fault-finder, n. caviler, critic, grumbler, carper, repiner, censurer, censor, complainer.
fault-finding, a. captious, caviling, critical, derogatory, dissatisfied, grumbling, censorious, discontented, querulous, carping.
fault-finding, n. carping, criticism, grumbling, murmuring, captiousness, cavil, reprehension, dissatisfaction, animadversion, stricture, repining.
faultiness, n. defectiveness, imperfection, culpability, peccability.
faultless, a. perfect, blameless, impeccable, inerrable, unblemished.
faulty, a. imperfect, defective; blamable, culpable, peccable, erring.
faun, n. satyr, sylvan.
favor, n. countenance, regard, good-will, kindness; support, promotion, befriending, championship, espousal, countenancing. Antonyms: disfavor, opposition.
favor, v. support, countenance, encourage; resemble.
favorable, a. propitious, auspicious, conducive, beneficial, partial, helpful. Antonyms: unfavorable, unpropitious, inauspicious.
favoring, a. partial, approving, helpful.
favoritism, n. partiality; nepotism. Antonym: impartiality
fawn, v. truckle, curry favor, court.
fawner, n. sycophant, bootlicker, footlicker.
fawning, a. sycophantic, obsequious, servile, truckling.
fear, n. apprehension, anxiety, solicitude, alarm, dread, trepidation, consternation, panic, dismay, terror, fright, cowardliness, timidity, pusillanimity; reverence, awe, veneration.
fear, v. apprehend, dread, be afraid of; reverence, venerate, stand in awe of.
fearful, a. apprehensive, alarmed, afraid, frightened; timid, timorous, faint-hearted, cowardly, craven, pusillanimous, meticulous; terrible, frightful, dreadful, grim, awful, dire, fell, atrocious, ghastly, terrifying, alarming, appalling.
fearless, a. intrepid, courageous, bold, valorous, undaunted, unafraid, unflinching.
feasibility, n. practicability.
feasible, a. practicable.
feast, n. banquet, repast, regale, Junket, festivity. Associated words: convivial, conviviality.
feast, v. banquet, junket; delight, gratify.
feastful, a. festive, festal.
feat, n. exploit, achievement, stunt, act, deed.
feather, n. plume, quill, pinion.
feather, v. fledge.
feathered, a. fledged.
feathering, n. endysis.
feather in the cap. (Colloq.) honor, trophy.
featherless, a. unfledged, desplumate, callow.
feathers, n. pl. plumage; aigret; panache, remiges (quill feathers); down (soft under feathers); coverts; rectrices. Associated words: plumassier, pterylography, endysis, ecdysis, moult, moulting, mew, desplumation, preen, barb, midrib, shaft, barbule, pompon, plumassary.
feathery, a. plumy, pennaceous.
feature, n. aspect, appearance; lineament; trait, characteristic, peculiarity.
federation, n. confederation, league, confederacy, union.
fee, n. retainer, tip, honorarium, perquisite.
feeble, a. infirm, doddering. See weak.
feeble-minded, a. half-witted, defective, imbecile.
feeble-minded person, defective, imbecile.
feed, n. provender, fodder.
feel, v. touch, handle; grope, grabble; experience, suffer.
feeler, n. antenna, tentaculum, tentacle, horn, palpus. pl. antennæ, tentacula, palpi.
feeling, a. susceptible, sensitive, sentient, sympathetic. Antonyms: insentient, unfeeling, stoic, impassive.
feeling, n. sensibility, sensation, sentiency; emotion. Antonyms: insensibility, impassivity, numbness.
feign, v. pretend, dissemble, simulate, affect, counterfeit, assume.
feigned, a. pretended, simulate, simulated, counterfeit, dissembled, assumed. Antonyms: real, sincere, unfeigned.
feigning, n. simulation, dissembling.
feint, n. pretense, blind, stratagem.
felicitate, v. congratulate.
felicitation, n. congratulation.
fellow-countryman, n. compatriot.
fellowship, n. companionship, communion, converse, association.
felon, n. criminal, convict; whitlow.
felonious, a. heinous, atrocious, nefarious, flagitious, infamous.
female, a. feminine; pistillate (Bot.).
female warrior. Amazon.
fence, n. pale, palings, palisade, stockade, hurdle, raddle, defense, protection, enclosure.
fence, v. defend, fortify, protect; equivocate, evade, parry, shift, prevaricate.
fencing, n. swordsmanship, gladiature, swordplay, gladiatorism.
fend, v. ward off, avoid, parry.
fender, n. protection, defense, screen, guard; dashboard, splashboard.
ferment, n. harm, leaven, yeast; enzyme, histozyme, zyme, zymophite.
fern, n. brake, bracken, maiden hair, Venus hair, poly-pody.
ferns, n. pl. Filices, Pteridophyta. Associated words: pteridology, filicology, pteridologist, filical, filicic, filici-form, filicoid, frond, spore, filicite, cryptogamous.
ferocious, a. rapacious, ravenous, truculent, fell, savage.
ferocity, n. rapacity, fierceness.
ferrotype, n. tintype.
fertile, a. fruitful, fecund; pistillate. Antonyms: infertile infecund, barren.
fertility, n. fruitfulness, fecundity, richness. Antonyms: infertility, infecundity, barrenness.
fertilization, n. enriching; fecundation, impregnation.
fertilize, v. enrich, manure; fecundate, impregnate.
fertilizer, n. manure, guano, phosphate of lime, compost.
fervency, n. See ardor.
fervent, a. See ardent.
fervid, a. See ardent.
fervor, n. See ardor.
fester, v. suppurate, maturate, ulcerate; rankle.
fester, n. sore, pustule, festering, abscess, imposthume, rankling.
festering, n. suppuration, maturation, ulceration; fester, rankling.
festering, a. suppurating, maturating; rankling.
festival, n. fête, banquet, feast, holiday.
festive, a. festal, convivial, festival.
festoon, n. garland.
fetid, a. malodorous, stinking, noisome.
fetter, n. shackle, bond, hamper, restraint.
fetter, v. shackle, manacle, hamper; restrain, impede.
fever, n. Associated words: febrifacient, febrific, febrierous, febrifuge, febrifugal, pyretology, pyretic.
feverish, a. febrile.
fever spots. petechiæ.
fewness, n. paucity.
fiat, n. order, decree, mandate, edict, command.
fiber, n. staple, thread, filament, pile.
fickle, a. vacillating, volatile, mercurial, irresolute, fitful, capricious, unstable, inconstant, variable, wavering. Antonyms: constant, unwavering, steadfast, resolute.
fickleness, n. vacillation, irresolution, inconstancy, volatility, tergiversation, capriciousness.
fiddle, n. violin; kit.
fiddler, n. violinist.
fidelity, n. loyalty, fealty, faithfulness; truth, integrity. Antonyms: infidelity, faithlessness.
fidgets, n. pl. restlessness; dysphoria.
field, n. meadow, lea; campaign, savanna, croft; scope, range, room, province, domain, region, realm, rowen (stubble field).
fiend, n. demon.
fiendish, a. diabolical, atrocious, infernal.
fierce, a. violent, unrestrained, furious, immoderate, impetuous, vehement, passionate, ferocious, fiery, mettlesome. Antonyms: tame, gentle, docile.
fiery, a. igneous; vehement, impetuous, passionate, irascible, irritable.
fifteen-sided figure. quindecagon.
fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October. ides.
fig, n. fico, snap, fillip.
fig, n. Associated words: caprification, caricous.
fight, n. combat, battle, engagement, struggle, encounter, fray, affray, mêlée, scrimmage (Colloq.); pugnacity, belligerence. Associated words: militant, combative, combativeness, bellicose, belligerent, pugnacious.
fight, v. battle, combat, militate, struggle, cope with.
fighter, n. warrior, champion, combatant, vindicator, gladiator, belligerent.
fight shy. avoid, elude.
figment, n. fabrication.
figurative, a. typical, representative, emblematical; metaphorical, tropical.
figure, n. shape, form, outline, tournure, conformation, image, effigy, statue, bust, figurehead, likeness; numeral, digit, number; type, emblem, symbol; caryatid; atlantes, telamones; figurine; diagram, drawing; dash, conspicuousness, show.
figure, v. compute, cipher, calculate; contrive, scheme, plan; symbolize, typify, represent.
figure of speech. trope, metaphor.
file, n. line, row; rasp, quannet.
filing, n. limature, limation.
fill, n. sufficiency, plenty.
fill, v. satisfy, cloy, satiate, sate, glut, stuff; occupy, hold; replenish; expand, dilate, distend, inflate, bloat; pervade.
fill out. extend, inflate, complete, amplify.
film, n. pellicle.
filter, v. strain, clarify, filtrate; percolate, exude, ooze, seep, transude, infiltrate.
filtering, n. filtration; percolation, exudation, transudation, infiltration.
filth, n. squalor, foulness, corruption, Augean stable, muck, dirt.
filthy, a. nasty, dirty, squalid, foul; smutty, obscene, indecent, ribald, lewd.
finally, adv. ultimately, eventually, lastly.
find fault. object, disapprove, demur, cavil, except, criticize, carp, repine, complain, grumble.
finding, n. discovery; verdict.
finding out. detection, discovery.
find out. discover, detect, ascertain, solve, unriddle.
fine, n. amercement, mulet, penalty.--v. mulet, amerce.
fine, a. refined, nice, exquisite, excellent, recherché, elegant, splendid, admirable, choice, select, attractive, delicate, subtle, minute, capillary, tenuous, thin, subtile, ethereal, attenuated, filmy, flimsy, gossamery, slender; comminuted, bolted, pulverized, impalpable, powdered. Antonyms: coarse, crude, unbolted, stout, crass, thick.
fine arts. Associated words: esthetics, æsthetic, æstheticism, æsthete.
finedrawn, a. subtle.
finery, n. ornaments, decorations, frippery, clothes, gewgaws.
finespun, a. subtle, attenuated.
finesse, n. artifice, stratagem, maneuvering, ruses.
finger, n. digit; medius (middle finger); minimus (Little finger); index (fore or index finger). Associated words: digital, digitation, interdigital.
finger, v. touch, handle; thrum, strum.
finger bone. phalanx, internode; pl. phalanges.
finger-shaped, a. digitiform.
finical, a. over-particular, fastidious.
finicky, a. (Colloq.) finical, fastidious, squeamish, dainty.
finish, v. complete, elaborate.
finish, n. completion, elaboration.
fire, v. ignite, kindle; (Slang) discharge, dismiss; inflame, irritate, arouse, excite, incite; animate, quicken, vitalize, enthuse, inspirit; stoke; bake, burn, torrefy.
fire, n. combustion, ignition, burning; phlogiston; conflagration, holocaust, deflagration; flame, blaze; bonfire, balefire, feu de joie, beacon. Associated words: pyrology, pyrography, pyromania, pyrophobia, incendiary, incendiarism, arson, lurid, Moloch, fuel, combustible, pyroleter, smolder, ignis fatuus, Vulcan, Hephæstus.
fire-arm, n. See gun.
fire-arms, n. pl. guns, gunnery, artillery.
firebug, n. incendiary, pyromaniac.
fire-damp, n. carbureted hydrogen.
firedog, n. andiron.
fireman, n. fire-tender, stoker.
fireproof, a. incombustible, asbestic.
fireside, n. hearth, ingleside.
fireworks, n. pl. Associated words: pyrotechnics, pyrotechnist, pyrotechnician, pyrotechnic, pyrotechny.
fire-worship, n. pyrolatry, Parseeism, Mazdeism, Magianism, Zoroastrianism.
fire-worshiper, n. pyrolater, Gheber, Parsee, Magian, Zoroastrian.
firm, a. fast, immovable, secure; compact, solid, dense, compressed; fixed, resolute, constant, unwavering, unshaken, steadfast, stanch, determined, invincible, inflexible, incompliant. Antonyms: flaccid, soft, vacillating, irresolute, lax, yielding, facile, inconstant.
first, a. earliest; foremost, leading, chief, premier; primary, primal, primordial, primitive, primeval, pristine, original, aboriginal, primogenial; elementary, rudimentary, initial.
first, adv. primarily, originally.
firstborn, n. Associated words: primogeniture, primogenial, primogenitureship.
first-formed, a. original, protoplastic.
first installment. earnest, handsel.
first principles. rudiments, principia.
first produce or offspring. firstling.
first-rate, a. excellent, first-class.
fish, n. fry, alevin (young fish); ichthyolite, monilife, (fossil fish). See fishes.
fish, v. angle, trawl, troll; poach (fish unlawfully).
fisherman, n. fisher, piscator, angler.
fishes, n. pl. Pisces; Piscifauna (fishes of a region), Associated words: ichthyology, ichthyologist, ichthyophagy, ichthyophagist, ichthyography, ichthyolatry, piscatology, pisciculturist, piscary, piscine, shoal, kench, minnow, aquarium, piscivorous, piscatorial, warren, spawn, cauf, creel, kibblings, bait, pisciform, piscinal.
fish culture. pisciculture.
fish glue. isinglass, ichthyocoll; carlock.
fish hawk, n. osprey.
fishing, n. angling, trawling, trolling, whiffing, spillet fishing, bultow fishing.
fishlike, a. pisciform, ichthyic.
fish line. Associated words: snell, snood, leader, sinker, bob, float, boulter.
fishskin, n. ichthyosis.
fish soup. chowder.
fishy, a. fishlike; (Colloq.) extravagant, exaggerated, improbable.
fistic, a. pugilistic.
fisticuffs, n. pl. boxing, pugilism.
fit, n. spasm, paroxysm, convulsion; access, outburst, attack; epilepsy, catalepsy; humor, whim, caprice, fancy.
fit, a. meet, becoming, suitable, proper, appropriate, congruous, adequate, expedient, congruent, apposite, qualified, eligible, competent, befitting, apt, convenient.
fit, v. adapt, qualify, prepare, equip, accommodate, shape, adjust, trim.
fitful, a. variable, capricious, unstable, inconstant, spasmodic, changeable.
fitness, n. becomingness, appropriateness, competency, qualification, congruity, eligibility.
fitting, a. suitable, proper, fit, befitting.
five, n. cinque, quintuplet, quintette; quintuplets. Associated words: quinary, quintuple, quintuplicate, quincunx.
five-angled, a. pentagonal.
five-angled figure. pentagon, pentahedron.
five cents. nickel.
fivefold, a. quintuple.
five languages. Associated word: pentaglot.
five-sided, a. pentagonal, pentahedral.
five years. quinquennium, lustrum. Associated words: quinquennial, quinquennially.
fir, v. mend, repair, restore, adjust; rivet, fasten; settle, fasten, establish, implant, define.
fix, n. (Colloq.) dilemma, predicament, plight, quandary. Antonyms: extrication, release.
fixed, a. immovable, established, stable, firm, unchangeable steadfast, stereotyped.
fixings, n. pl. (Colloq.) embellishments, trimmings.
fizzle, n. (Colloq.) failure, fiasco.
flabbergast, v. (Jocular) astonish, amaze, surprise, dumfound.
flabbergastation, n. (Jocular) astonishment, amazement.
flabbiness, n. flaccidity, limpness.
flabby, a. yielding, limp, soft, flaccid. Antonyms: firm, stiff, rigid.
flag, n. colors, standard, banner, gonfalon, pennon, pennant, ensign, guidon, streamer, banderole; iris, fleur-de-luce. Associated words: furl, unfurl.
flagrant, a. glowing, flaming, ardent; atrocious, heinous, wicked.
flake, n. film, flock, lamina, scale.
flame, n. blaze, fire; love, sweetheart. Associated words: lambent, flamineous, flammiferous, flammivomous, flambage.
flame, v. blaze. Antonym: smolder.
flameless, a. aphlogistic.
flaming, a. blazing, afire, flagrant; dazzling, brilliant; ardent, passionate.
flare, v. flicker, flutter; dazzle, blaze, glare; flaunt.
flare, n. glare, flicker.
flare-up, n. (Colloq.) passion, anger, outburst.
flash, n. gleam, glare, coruscation.
flash, v. glitter, gleam, glisten, coruscate, sparkle.
flash, n. instant, moment.
flashy, a. dazzling, coruscant; gaudy, tawdry, meretricious showy.
flask, n. betty, matrass, bolthead.
flat, a. level, even, plane, smooth; prostrate, prone; stale, insipid, vapid, tasteless, unsavory, unpalatable, mawkish; peremptory, unqualified, positive; spatulous, spatulate; sonant, vocal. Antonyms: convex, concave, warped, cambered, undulating, protuberant, projecting.
flat, n. lowland, champaign; floor, suite.
flatboat, n. punt.
flatfoot, n. splayfoot.
flatfooted, a. splayfooted; (Slang) determined, resolute, unwavering, firmfooted.
flatiron, n. sadiron.
flatnosed, a. simous.
flatter, v. blandish, cajole, wheedle, compliment.
flatterer, n. wheedler, sycophant, toady, pickthank, flunky, Jenkins, adulator, blandisher.
flattering, a. wheedling, adulatory, alluring, blandiloquent, sycophantic, obsequious.
flattery, n. adulation, blandishment, wheedling, flummery, blandiloquence, cajolery.
flaunting, a. ostentatious, showy.
flavor, n. savor, taste, relish, zest, gusto, race, tang, sapidity.
flavorless, a. insipid, vapid, unpalatable, savorless, tasteless.
flavorous, a. sapid, palatable, savory, gustable.
flaw, n. defect, fault, blemish, imperfection.
flawless, a. faultless, perfect.
flawy, a. defective, faulty.
flay, v. skin, excoriate.
fleece, v. plunder, swindle, despoil, strip.
fleet, n. squadron, navy, flotilla, armada.
fleeting, a. impermanent, transient, transitory, evanescent, ephemeral, fugitive, temporary.
flesh, n. meat, carnage; pulp (of fruit); carnality, sensual appetites; carrion (decaying flesh). Associated words: incarnate, incarnation, excarnate, excarnation, carnate, carneous, trichina, trichinosis, carnassial, carnification, carnify.
flesh-eaters, n. pl. Carnivora.
flesh-eating, a. carnivorous, sarcophagous.--n. sarcophagy.
flesh-eating animal. carnivore, sarcophagan, sarcophile.
fleshiness, n. corpulence, obesity, plumpness, embonpoint. See fatness.
fleshliness n. carnality, sensuality.
fleshly, a. carnal, sensual, sensuous.
fleshy, a. corpulent, fat, portly, obese, plump.
flexibility, n. pliability, pliancy, suppleness, litheness, ductility, compliance.
flexible, a. pliable, supple, flexile, pliant, lithe, limber; compliant, yielding. Antonyms: inflexible, incompliant.
flight, n. flying; exodus, hegira; fleeing, absconding.
flighty, a. volatile, capricious, mercurial, giddy, fickle.
flimflam, n. trick, deception, lie.--v. trick, deceive.
flimsy, a. superficial, unsubstantial, weak, feeble, shallow, frivolous.
flinch, v. shrink, wince, recoil, blench, withdraw.
flinders, n. pl. splinters, fragments.
flinty, a. unimpressible, impenetrable, adamantine, unyielding.
flippant, a. voluble, glib, fluent; pert, malapert, forward.
flirt, n. coquette, jilt, jill.--v. coquet, philander.
flirtation, n. coquetry.
flirtatious, a. coquettish.
float, n. raft; buoy.
floating, n. flotation, flotage, supernatation.--a. supernatant.
flock, n. covey, herd, bevy, drove, pack, lot, group, brood, litter. Associated words: gregarious, gregal, gregariously, gregariousness.
flog, v. See whip.
flood, n. deluge, inundation, overflow, cataclysm, freshet. Associated words: antediluvial, antediluvian, diluvial, diluvian, alluvium, alluvial, alluvion.
flood, v. inundate, deluge, overflow, submerge.
flood-gate, n. sluice-gate.
floor, v. prostrate, fell, overthrow; embarrass, nonplus.
floor, n. planching, pavement; story, loft.
floor timber. joist.
floral ornament. anthemion, boughpot, palmette.
florid, a. flushed, rubicund. See red.
florist, n. floriculturist.
flounce, n. ruffle, furbelow, frill.--v. flounder.
flour, n. Associated words: farinaceous, farina, gluten, meal, aleurometer, aleuromancy, stive, dredge, bolt.
flour box. dredging box.
flourish, v. thrive; wave, brandish.
flourish, n. embellishment; curlycue, paraph; fanfare, call; parade, show, display; brandishing, waving.
flout, v. mock, jeer, gibe, sneer, deride.
flow, v. circulate; proceed, emanate, issue. Antonyms: stagnate, ebb.
flower, n. blossom, bloom; floret, floweret (little flower). Associated words: floral, floricultural, floriculture, florist, floriculturist, florilege, florification, floriferous, botany, botanical, botanist, botanize, inflorescence, estivation, anther, petal, calyx, corolla, sepal, anthesis, anthography, anthoid, antholite, anthology, anthomania, anthophagous, anthophilous, anthotaxy, bouquet, bract, corona, corymb, cyme, chloranthy, efflorescence, Flora, perianth, pistil, pistillate, staminate, pollen, prefloration raceme, reflorescence, pollinate, pollination, stamen, stigma, umbel, verticil, verticillate, whorl, spadix, spathe, floriated, floriation.
flower beds. Associated words: parterre, platband, terrace.
flowering, a. phænogamous, phænogamian.--n. inflorescence
flowering plants. Phænogamia.
flowerless, a. cryptogamous.
flowerless plants. Cryptogamia.
flower pot. Associated words: cachepot, girandole.
flowery, a. florid, ornate, figurative.
flowing, a. running, gliding, fluent, cursive. Antonym: stagnant.
flowing back. refluent, ebbing.--n. refluence, ebb.
flowing in. influx.--a. influent, incurrent.
flowing out. efflux, effluxion, effluence.--a. effluent, excurrent.
flowing round. circumfluent.
fluctuate, v. vacillate, waver, oscillate, whiffle, swerve. Antonyms: continue, persist, adhere, abide, remain, stand fast.
fluctuation, n. vacillation, wavering, oscillation, instability.
fluent, a. flowing, gliding; voluble.
fluid, n. liquid, liquor, solution.
flunk, v. (Colloq.) fail, back out.--n. failure.
flunky, n. lackey, footman, servant; snob, toady, sycophant.
flunkyism, n. toadyism, sycophancy.
flurried, a. agitated, excited, perturbed, confused.
flurry, n. squall, breeze, wind; agitation, excitement, commotion.
flush, n. blush, glow; thrill; rosiness, redness.
flush, a. liberal, prodigal, free, lavish; even, plane, level, flat; prolific, fecund, exuberant; affluent.
fluster, v. perturb, discompose, confuse, disconcert, embarrass, agitate.
fluster, n. perturbation, discompose, confusion, agitation.
flustrate, v. (Colloq.) fluster, agitate.
flustration, n. (Colloq.) agitation, fluster, perturbation, confusion.
fluted, a. chamfered, channeled, grooved.
flutter, v. tremble, palpitate; hover; oscillate, fluctuate, vacillate, waver.
flutter, n. tremor, agitation, palpitation; confusion, disorder, commotion.
fly, a. (Slang) wide-awake, knowing.
fly, v. wing, soar, flit, mount, hover; decamp, abscond, flee.
flyaway, a. flighty, giddy, unrestrained, volatile.
flying, a. awing, volant, volitant, soaring.
flying, n. aviation, flight.
flying machine. aëroplane, aërodrome, biplane, monoplane. Associated words: hangar, aviator, aërodynamics, aviatrix.
foam, n. froth, spume, spumescence.--v. froth, spume.
foamy, a. frothy, spumy.
fodder, n. provender, forage, stover; ensilage. Associated words: silo, ensile.
foe, n. antagonist, enemy, adversary, opponent.
fog, n. haze, mist, vapor, brume; confusion (of the mind).
fog, v. befog, obscure, confuse.
foggy, a. misty, hazy, brumous, vaporous; beclouded, confused, obscure.
fogy, n. (Colloq.) fogram, mossback.
foil, v. baffle, frustrate, thwart, circumvent.
foist, v. interpolate.
fold, n. doubling, plait, convolution; sheep-pen, cote; embrace.
fold, v. double; embrace, infold, clasp.
folding stool. faldstool.
foliage, n. leafage, leaves.
folks, n. pl. (Collog.) people, persons.
follow, v. succeed, chase, pursue, tag; dodge; result, proceed, flow, ensue, spring, issue; pursue, practice, engage in; trace, track, trail.
follower, n. pursuer; attendant, retainer, henchman; disciple, partisan, advocate, adherent, votary; imitator, copier.
following, n. pursuance, pursuing, pursuit; sequence, consecution, succession; adherents, dependents, retinue; vocation, trade, profession, business.
following, a. succeeding, ensuing, consecutive, pursuant.
folly, n. foolishness, fatuity, indiscretion, unwisdom, absurdity, imprudence.
foment, v. encourage, instigate, nurse; stupe.
fond, a. indulgent, over-affectionate, doting; affectionate, loving; baseless, vain, unfounded.
fondle, v. caress, pet, coddle, cosset, indulge, humor.
fondness, n. indulgence, doting; affection, devotion, love; partiality, liking, preference, predilection, propensity, appetite.
food, n. aliment, nutriment, nourishment, pabulum, nutrition, fare, diet, bread, meat, rations, victuals, subsistence, commons, provisions, viands, regimen, finding, sustenance, eatables, refreshments, comestibles, trencher, ambrosia, broma, manna. Associated words: bromatology, bromatologist, alimental, alimentary, pabular, appetite, alimentation, nutrition, superalimentation, pantophagist, pantophagous, pantophagy, polyphagous, polyphagy, bromography, dietary, regimen, dietarian, dietetics, dieter, dietist, asitia, cater, caterer, sitology, chyle, chyme, victualer, steward, cibation, sitophobia, omnivorous, delicatessen, proteid, nitrogen, protein, commissariat, commissary.
food for cattle. feed, fodder, provender, forage, pasturage.
food room. larder, buttery, pantry, spence.
fool, n. idiot, imbecile, natural; simpleton, dolt, dunce, defective, witling, dotterel, driveler, blockhead, beetlehead, ninny, ignoramus, numskull, booby, clodpate, nincompoop, ass, wiseacre, dunderhead, halfwit, oaf, dullard, coot, mooncalf; zany, harlequin, buffoon, jester, merry-andrew, droll, clown, scaramouch. Associated words: stultify, stultification.
fool, v. dupe, gull, delude, hoodwink, deceive, hoax, trick, beguile, victimize, cully; trifle, toy, dawdle.
fooling, n. foolishness, folly; zanyism, mummery, buffoonery, monkey-tricks, harlequinism.
foolhardy, a. daredevil, reckless, rash.
foolish, a. idiotic, senseless, irrational, silly, imbecile, witless, insensate, weak-minded, half-witted, brainless, fatuous, fatuitous, insagacious, unintelligent; indiscreet, imprudent, ridiculous, absurd, asinine, inept, nonsensical, puerile.
foolishness, n. idiocy, imbecility, fatuity, silliness, irrationality, insagacity; imprudence, indiscretion, unwisdom, folly, absurdity, ineptitude, puerility.
fool's bauble. marotte.
foot, n. paw; hoof; base, bottom, extremity. Associated words: chiropody, chiropodist, pedicure, orthopedy, orthopedic, orthopedist, pedal, plantigrade, bastinado, taligrade, palmigrade, cloven, ball, instep, phalanges.
foot-bath, n. pediluvium, pedilavium (Eccl.).
footing, n. foothold; rank, status, standing, grade; amount, total; tread, step.
footlicker, n. sycophant, fawner, toady, lickspittle.
footman, n. infantryman (foot-soldier); lackey.
footpad, n. highwayman, brigand, robber, thug.
footprint, n. footmark, track, footstep; spoor.
foot-shaped, a. pediform.
foot-soldiers, n. pl. infantry.
footstep, n. footmark, footprint, track, trace, vestige; spoor; footfall, tread, step.
footstool, n. cricket, hassock.
foozle, v. bungle.--n. foozling, bungle, bungler.
fop, n. coxcomb, dude, dandy, exquisite, popinjay, blade, jackadandy. Antonyms: sloven, guy.
foppish, a. coxcombical, dandified, finical, exquisite. Antonyms: slovenly, seedy.
foppishness, n. foppery, dandyism, coxcombry, dudishness.
for all that. nevertheless.
forasmuch as. in as much as, since, whereas, seeing that.
foray, n. See raid.
forbear, v. refrain, stop, pause, withhold, abstain; endure, tolerate.
forbearance, n. withholding, refraining; long-suffering, patience, indulgence, toleration.
forbearing, a. long-suffering, patient, indulgent, tolerant, lenient.
forbears, n. pl. ancestors, forefathers.
forbid, v. prohibit, interdict, inhibit, restrain, taboo, preclude, proscribe.
forbidden, a. prohibited, proscribed, interdicted, contraband, inhibited, illicit, taboo.
forbidding, a. repellent, repulsive, offensive, abhorrent, odious, repelling, grim.
forbidding, n. prohibition, interdiction, proscription, restraint, inhibition, taboo.
force, v. compel, coerce, necessitate, constrain, oblige, make; impel, obtrude, extort, wrest; capture, storm; rape, ravish. Antonyms: induce, inveigle, seduce, persuade.
force, n. strength, energy, power, vigor, might, potency, cogency, validity, efficacy, efficiency; compulsion, coercion, violence, constraint, tension, impetus; armament, troops, army, legion, battalion, phalanx. Associated words: dynamics, dyne, statics, perforce, dynamic, mechanics, brunt, kinit.
forced, a. involuntary, compulsory, strained, far-fetched. Antonyms: spontaneous, voluntary, discretional, optional, elective.
forcible, a. energetic, potent, effective, compulsory, coercive, drastic, vigorous.
forcing, n. compelling, compulsion, coercion, extortion, necessitation, constraint; rape, ravishment. Antonyms: discretion, option, election, free-will.
forearm, n. antibrachium.
forebode, v. portend, presage, foreshadow, augur betoken, foretell.
foreboding, n. premonition, presentiment, augury, prescience, foreknowledge.
forecast, n. predetermination, premeditation, forethought.
foredoom, v. predestine, preordain.
forefather, n. ancestor, progenitor, forbear; pl. ancestry, lineage, progenitors, forbears.
forego, v. quit, relinquish, surrender, yield, do without; precede.
foregoer, n. predecessor, forefather; forerunner, herald, harbinger, precursor, avant-courier.
foregoing, a. previous, anterior, preceding, fore, prior, antecedent, aforesaid.
forehead, n. brow, sinciput. Antonym: occiput.
foreign, a. alien, extraneous, exotic, peregrine; remote, adventitious, inappropriate.
foreigner, n. alien; emigrant, immigrant. Antonyms: native, indigene, citizen.
foreign word, plant, or custom. exoticism, exotic.
foreknowledge, n. prescience.
foremilk, n. colostrum.
foreordain, v. preordain, predestinate, foredoom, predetermine.
foreordination, n. predestination, predetermination.
forerun, v. precede, herald.
forerunner, n. precursor, harbinger, herald, avant-courier.
foreshadow, v. presage, presignify, prognosticate, prefigure, augur.
foresight, n. prescience, foreknowledge, prudence.
foreskin, n. prepuce. Associated words: circumcise, circumcision, preputial.
forest, n. wood, woodland, timber-land, woods, wold, wildwood. Associated words: sylvan, sylviculture, nemophilist, nemophily, nemoral, afforest, afforestation, Silenus, hamadryad, glade, reforestize, reforestation, reboise, reafforest, forestry, forester, disboscation, disforest disforestation, hag, assart, camass, cruise, cruiser.
forestall, v. anticipate; preoccupy, monopolize.
foretell, v. predict, prophesy, prognosticate, augur, presage, portend, forebode, bode, divine, foreshadow, presignify.
foreteller, a. See prophet.
foretelling, a. prophetic, prognostic, portentous, predictive, oracular, augurial, divinatory.
foretelling, n. prediction, prophecy, foreshowing, prognostication, augury, presage, foreboding, presignification, divination, oracle.
forethought, a. aforethought, prepense, deliberate.
forethought, n. premeditation, prescience, forecast, precaution, prudence, providence.
foretoken, n. omen, prognostic, premonition, sign, augury.
forever, adv. eternally, continually, perpetually, everlastingly.
forewarning, n. premonition.--a. premonitory.
forfeit, n. forfeiture, philopena; fine, mulct, penalty, amercement.
forge, n. smithy, stithy, smithery.
forger, n. fabricator, falsifier, counterfeiter.
forgery, n. counterfeiting, falsification, counterfeit, pseudograph, pseudography; (Civ. Law) falsi crimen.
forgetfulness, n. amnesty, amnesia, oblivion, Lethe; ecmnesia.
forget-me-not, n. myosotis.
forgivable, a. pardonable, venial.
forgive, v. pardon, excuse, absolve, condone, exculpate, connive, acquit.
forgiveness, n. pardon, remission, absolution, condonation, acquittal, indulgence.
forgiving, a. compassionate, indulgent, placable, remissive. Antonyms: unforgiving, implacable.
forgo, v. omit, relinquish, let slip.
fork, n. fourchette; divarication, branch, crotch; prong, tine; pew, grain.
fork, v. ramify, branch, divaricate.
forked, a. furcated, bifurcated, crotched, zigzag.
forked support. crotchet.
forlorn, a. deserted, forsaken, lorn, disconsolate, lonesome.
form, n. shape, structure, configuration, figure, conformation, cast, mould, tournure; formula, ritual; formality, ceremonial, conventionality; symmetry; image, phantom; mould, pattern, model.
form, v. shape, fashion, mould.
formal, a. ceremonial, express, explicit, punctilious, methodical, prim, ceremonious, conventional.
formality, n. ceremoniousness, precision, punctiliousness, ceremony; conventionality.
formative, a. plastic, creative.
former, a. antecedent, preceding, previous, prior, foregoing, bygone, quondam, ci-devant.
formerly, adv. heretofore, aforetime.
formless, a. shapeless, amorphous, chaotic.
formula, n. ritual, ceremony, ceremonial; rule, principle; recipe.
formulary, n. ritual, ceremonial, rule, formula.
forsake, v. quit, abandon, leave; renounce, reject, relinquish, forswear.
forsaken, a. abandoned, deserted, derelict, lorn.
forsaking, n. desertion, abandonment.
forswear, v. renounce, abjure, disavow.
fort, n. fortress, fortification, citadel, fastness, stronghold, bulwark, redoubt.
forthwith, adv. immediately, directly, instantly.
fortification, n. See fort.
fortress, n. See fort.
fortunate, a. lucky, favored; auspicious, favorable. Antonyms: See unfortunate.
fortune-teller, n. chiromancer, palmist, chirosophist, fatiloquist, sibyl.
fortune-telling, n. chiromancy, palmistry.
forty-niner, n. Argonaut.
forum, n. tribunal.
forward, a. anterior, fore; overready, presumptuous, brazen, impertinent, obtrusive, intrusive; premature, precocious.
forward, v. advance, promote, accelerate, expedite, further; transmit, send, ship.
forwarding, n. transmission.
fossil, n. Associated words: paleontology, paleontography, ichnology, fossiliferous, in situ.
fossilist, n. paleontologist.
fossilization, n. fossilification, lapidification.
fossilize, v. petrify, lapidify; mummify.
fossilized, a. petrified; antiquated, old-fashioned.
foster, v. nourish, nurse, support; promote, encourage, advance.
foul, a. filthy, squalid, dirty, polluted; scurrilous, abusive, obscene, insulting, blasphemous, vituperative, vulgar; shameful, detestable, odious, abominable, loathsome, disgusting, repulsive, offensive; unpropitious, unfavorable; feculent, roily, turbid, dreggy, dreggish.
foul, v. defile, soil, dirty, pollute.
foul-mouthed, a. scurrilous, opprobrious, abusive; blasphemous, profane, obscene, smutty.
found, v. establish, plant, institute; cast, form, mould.
foundation, n. substructure, base, groundwork; founding establishment; endowment; grillage. Antonym: superstructure. Associated words: fundamental, basic, caisson.
founder, n. establisher, institutor, father, planter, originator, moulder; closh.
founder, v. fall, stumble; fail, miscarry.
fountain, n. fount, spring, jet d'eau; source, fountainhead, origin; Castalia.
four, n. quaternion, quaternary, tetrad, quadruplet, quartette; quadruplets. Associated words: quadrisection quadripartite, quadripartition, quadruplication, quarter, quadruply, quadruple.
four cities. tetrapolis.
fourfold, a. quadruple, quadruples, quadruplicate.
four-footed, a. quadruped.
four-handed, a. quadrumanous.
four-handed animals. Quadrumana.
four hundred. Associated word: quadrigenarious.
four-sided, a. quadrangular, square, quadrilateral, tetragonal, tetrahedral.
four-sided figure. square, tetragon, quadrangle, rhombus.
foursquare, a. quadrangular.
fourth, n. quarter.
four years, quadrennium. Associated words: quadrennial, quadrennially.
fox, n. Reynard, Renard, tod, Charlie. Associated words: vulpine, vulpicide, skulk.
foxglove, n. digitalis.
foxy, a. cunning, sly, wily, crafty.
foyer, n. greenroom.
fracas, n. brawl, uproar, disturbance, quarrel.
fractious, a. unruly, perverse, irritable, ugly, waspish.
fracture, n. rupture, breach, breaking.
fragile, a. brittle, frangible, frail, delicate.
fragility, n. brittleness, frangibility, frailty.
fragment, n. remnant, chip, scrap, flinder, piece, flitter.
fragmentary, a. disconnected, fractional, incomplete.
fragrance, n. perfume, aroma, redolence. Antonyms: fetor, stench, inodorousness.
fragrant, a. sweet-smelling, redolent, aromatic, balmy, sweet-scented. Antonyms: inodorous, scentless, fetid.
frail, a. fragile, brittle, frangible; feeble, weak, infirm.
frailty, n. fragility, frangibility, brittleness; imperfection, fault, defect.
frame, v. devise, plan, contrive, compose; invent, fabricate; adjust, fit, conform.
framework, n. frame, skeleton.
frank, a. candid, unreserved, outspoken, ingenuous, undisguised.
frankness, n. candor, unreserve, ingenuousness.
frantic, a. distracted, frenzied, crazed, raving.
fraternal, a. brotherly.
fraternity, n. brotherhood, brotherliness.
fraud, n. imposture, deceit, humbug, duplicity, imposition, chicanery, wile, circumvention, guile, hypocrisy, malversation, graft, surreption. Associated words: collude, collusion, collusive, connivance.
fraudulent, a. deceptive, wily, crafty, subtle, surreptitious, knavish.
fraught, a. laden, freighted, charged, pregnant.
fray, n. fight, battle, combat, broil, affray; fret, chafe.
frazzle, v. fray, tatter.
frazzle, n. tag end, tatter.
freak, n. whim, vagary, caprice, whimsey, humor, crotchet, fancy.
freakish, a. whimsical, capricious, fanciful, erratic, crotchety, vagarious.
freckle, n. lentigo, lenticula.
freckled, a. spotted, lentiginous.
free, v. liberate, manumit, disinthrall, deliver, emancipate, release, enfranchise, disengage, exonerate, acquit, extricate, disentangle.
free, a. exempt, immune, independent, unrestrained; liberated, freed, released, emancipated, delivered; unconstrained, unreserved, informal, familiar, frank, ingenuous, communicative, artless, candid; gratuitous, spontaneous, voluntary, optional; liberal, open-handed, generous, bountiful, lavish, flush, munificent, hospitable; unrestrained, immoderate, prodigal, dissolute, lax; ready, eager, prompt, willing. Antonyms: subject, reserved, formal, coercive, arbitrary, restrained, bound.
free and easy. (Colloq.) informal, unceremonious, unrestrained.
freebooter, n. buccaneer, pillager, pirate, sea robber.
freebooting, n. plunder, pillaging, robbery.
freedom, n. exemption, immunity; liberty, independence, self-government, autonomy; privileges, immunities, franchises; ease, facility, unconstraint, laxity; candor, frankness, informality; latitudinarianism. Antonyms: subjection, liability, dependence, heteronomy, reserve, constraint, subordination, repression.
free-handed, a. liberal, open-handed, lavish.
freeing, n. emancipation, manumission, liberation, release, disinthrallment, enfranchisement, extrication, disengagement, discharge, exoneration.
free-liver, n. epicure, epicurean, voluptuary, bon vivant.
free-living, n. epicurism.
freely, adv. bounteously, readily, abundantly, gratuitously, voluntarily, liberally, copiously, spontaneously, unreservedly.
free-thinker, n. infidel, unbeliever, skeptic.
free-will, a. voluntary.
freezable, a. congealable.
freeze, v. congeal.
freezing, n. congelation, congealment.
freight, n. cargo, lading, load; freightage.
Frenchism, n. Gallicism.
French policeman. gendarme.
French Protestant. Huguenot.
frenzied, a. distracted, frantic.
frenzy, n. distraction, rage, fury, delirium.
frequenter, n. habitué.
freshen, v. refresh, revive, renovate, renew.
fresh-water, a. fresh, unsalted; unskilled, raw, inexperienced, untrained.
fret, v. chafe, abrade, fray, rub; gnaw, corrode; roughen, ruffle, agitate; worry, harass, tease, irritate, vex, fume, rankle.
fret, n. vexation, agitation, irritation; herpes, tetter, ringworm; whelk, wale, ridge.
fretful, a. irritable, petulant, querulous, peevish, captious, spleeny.
fribbling, a. frivolous, trifling.
friction, n. abrasion, attrition, confrication, rubbing; clashing, disagreement.
friend, n. wellwisher, intimate, confidante, chum, associate; patron, advocate, adherent, supporter; ally, confrère; Quaker.
friendliness, n. comity, amity, good will, amicability.
friendly, a. amicable, favorable, kind; fraternal, hospitable, neighborly, cordial; favorable, propitious, salutary, advantageous. Antonyms: See unfriendly.
friendship, n. amity, intimacy, amicability, friendliness. Antonyms: enmity, estrangement, alienation, disaffection, hostility, aloofness.
fright, n. alarm, fear, consternation, terror, dismay; ogre, scarecrow, guy, dowdy.
frighten, v. terrify, alarm, scare, intimidate, dismay, affright, daunt, appall, terrorize.
frightful, a. terrible, dreadful, hideous, ogreish, fearful, alarming, grewsome, grim, dire, direful, awful, Gorgonian, horrible.
frill, n. ruffle, gathering, furbelow.
fringe, n. edging, margin, confine, border, fimbriation.
fringed, a. fimbriate, fimbriated, fimbricate.
frisk, n. frolic, gambol.--v. leap, skip, gambol, frolic, play.
frisky, a. frolicsome, sportive, coltish, playful, gay.
frivolous, a. trivial, trifling, petty, puerile, insignificant.
friz, v. curl, crisp, frizzle.--n. curl, frizzle.
frizzle, n. curl, friz.--v. curl, crisp, frizz.
frock, n. gown; smock-frock; soutane, cassock.
frog-eating, a. ranivorous, batrachophagous.
frogs, n. pl. Associated words: Batrachomyomachy, ranarium, amphibious, batrachoid, batrachian, ranine.
frolic, n. prank, lark, gambol, escapade, fun.
frolicsome, a. playful, prankish, sportive, frisky.
from head to foot. throughout, completely, cap-a-pie.
front, n. facade; obverse, face; van, fore-rank, front rank.--a. anterior, foremost.
frost, n. rime, hoarfrost; uncordiality, unsociability, reserve.
frosting, n. icing.
frosty, a. cold, icy; uncordial, distant, aloof, unsociable; pruinose.
froth, n. spume, foam.
frothing, n. rant.
frothy, a. spumy, foamy, spumous; trivial, frivolous, unsubstantial.
froward, a. refractory, unyielding, disobedient, insubmissive, untoward.
frown, n. scowl, lower, glower.
frowning, a. scowling, lowering, glowering, stern.
frowzy, a. strong-smelling, fetid, rank, musty, rancid, malodorous; slatternly, disordered, untidy, disheveled, dowdy.
frugal, a. economical, saving, sparing, thrifty, provident.
frugality, n. economy, parsimony, thriftiness, thrift.
fruit, n. produce, harvest, crop; offspring, consequence, result, outcome, fruitage.
fruit, n. fruitage, fruitery. Associated words: pomology, Pomona, pomologist, carpology, carpologist, carpophagous, drupe, carpomania, raceme, fructiferous, fructify, fructification, bletting, pulp, rind, orchard, nursery, pepinnery, fruitchafer, pomiculture, sarcocarp.
fruit-eating, a. frugivorous, fructivorous, carpophagous.
fruiterer, n. fruit-dealer, costermonger, coster.
fruitful, a. prolific, productive, fertile, frugiferous, fecund, bountiful.
fruitless, a. unfruitful, infertile, infecund, acarpous, barren; unavailing, useless, vain.
fruit-seller, n. fruiterer, coster, costermonger (peddler).
fruit sugar. levulose.
frump, n. (Colloq.) gossip.
frustrate, v. baffle, defeat, disappoint, foil, balk, thwart, circumvent, nullify.
frustration, n. defeat, disappointment, balking, foiling, nullification.
frying-pan, n. spider, skillet.
fuddled, a. muddled, tipsy, drunk, intoxicated, boozy, groggy.
fudge, n. See balderdash.
fuel, n. combustibles.
fugitive, a. fleeing; evanescent, short-lived, fugacious, volatile, ephemeral, impermanent, transient.
fugitive, n. runaway, runagate, renegade, deserter.
fulfill, v. accomplish, complete, consummate, realize, satisfy, fill, answer, meet; discharge, perform.
fulfillment, n. consummation, accomplishment, fruition, realization; discharge, performance.
full, a. filled up, replete; copious, ample, plethoric, plenteous, bountiful, abundant, liberal; complete, plenary; sated, surfeited, cloyed, glutted, gorged, saturated; engrossed with.
full swing. carte blanche, liberty, unrestraint.
fulsome, a. offensive, nauseous, disgusting, excessive, gross, immoderate.
fume, n. exhalation, reek, smoke, steam, vapor.
fume, v. smoke, reek; storm, rage, bluster.
fun, n. merriment, mirth, gayety, frolic, jest, pleasantry, drollery, waggery, waggishness, facetiousness, divertisement amusement, relaxation, jocularity.
function, n. duty, province, office, business, part; discharge, performance, execution; party, entertainment, festivity, reception.
fundament, n. buttocks.
fundamental, a. basal, elementary, original, essential, radical.
fundamentally, adv. primarily, essentially, radically.
funeral, n. obsequies.
funeral director. undertaker.
funeral oration. éloge.
funeral pile. pyre.
funeral song. dirge, elegy, requiem.
funereal, a. exequial, mournful, solemn, sad.
Fungi, n. pl. Thallophytes (toadstools, mushrooms, etc.). Associated words: spawn, spore, mycophagy, fungivorous, mycetophagous, amanitine, mycelium, fungic, fungicide, fungoid, fungiform, fungous, mycologist.
fungology, n. mycology.
fungus, n. thallogen, thallophyte; granulation, proud flesh.
funk, v. stink; (Colloq.) flinch, recoil, shrink back.
funk, n. (Colloq.) recoiling, flinching; shirk, coward.
funnel, n. tunnel.
funnel-shaped, a. infundibular, infundibulate, infundibuliform.
funny, a. comic, comical, amusing, droll, laughable, farcical, witty, jocular, jocose, ludicrous, burlesque, facetious, risible, absurd, waggish, humorous, jesting.
fur, n. peltry, pelage. Associated words: furrier, furriery, tippet, pelisse.
furbelow, n. flounce, frill, ruffle.
furbish, v.polish, burnish, scour, clean.
Furies, n. pl. Erinyes, Eumenides (Tisiphone, Alecto Megæra).
furious, a. infuriated, angry, raging, violent, frenzied, turbulent, fierce.
furnish, v. supply, provide, contribute, bestow, purvey, cater.
furniture, n. goods, movables. Associated words: cabinet-maker, cabinet-making, upholstering, shook.
furthermore, adv. moreover, besides.
fury, n. wrath, rage, indignation, ire, frenzy; virago, termagant, shrew, vixen, beldame, Xantippe; agitation, excitement, turbulence.
fuse, v. melt, liquefy, dissolve, smelt; commingle, blend, amalgamate, intermix.
fusion, n. melting, fluidity; intermingling, amalgamation, coalition, blending, intermixture.
fuss, n. ado, bustle, to-do, pother, agitation, excitement.
fuss, v. pother, fume, fret; disturb, annoy, bother.
fussy, a. fidgety, fastidious, finical, particular, scrupulous, overnice, pernickety.
fustian, n. bombast, rant, rodomontade; twaddle, nonsense, balderdash.
futile, a. vain, bootless, ineffectual, unavailing, abortive, useless.
fuzz, n. down, pubescence.
fuzzy, a. downy, pubescent.
Gabble, n. gibberish, babble, prate, prating, chatter, jargon.
gabble, v. gibber, jabber, babble, prate, chatter.
gable, n. Associated word: pediment.
gad, n. goad.
gag, v. silence, muzzle, muffle, hush, suppress; retch.
gag, n. muffler, muzzler, silencer.
gain, n. increase, profit, advantage, increment, acquisition, accumulation, accretion, store, hoarding; emolument, lucre.
gain, v. get, acquire, achieve, win, obtain, attain; conciliate, persuade, induce.
gainsay, v. contradict, dispute, deny, controvert, impugn.
gaiters, n. pl. spats, spatterdashes, leggings, gramashes, puttee.
gale, n. wind, tempest; excitement, confusion, flurry.
gall, n. bile; bitterness, rancor, spite, malignity.
gall, n. (Slang) impudence, audacity, effrontery, insolence.
gall, v. chafe, fret; vex, annoy, harass, worry, exasperate.
gallant, a. polite, deferential, courtly, chivalrous.
gallant, n. spark, beau, cicisbeo, philander; lover, suitor; seducer, paramour.
gallantry, n. chivalry, bravery, heroism; courtliness, politeness, deference; intrigue.
gall bladder. cholecystis.
gallery, n. balcony; corridor, passage, passageway; museum.
galloping, n. Associated words: rataplan, tantivy.
gallstone, n. bilestone, biliary calculus.
galoot, n. (Slang) rowdy, blusterer.
galore, n. and a. plenty, abundance, in abundance, abounding.
gambler, n. gamester, card-sharper, blackleg, punter. Associated words: decoy, croupier, capper, by-bidder.
gambol, v. caper, frolic, play, sport, frisk, curvet.
game, n. play, amusement, pastime, diversion, fun, sport; contest; prey, quarry; scheme, plan, project, undertaking, enterprise, stratagem.
game, a. plucky, resolute, unyielding, courageous, unflinching, indomitable, undaunted, unconquerable; (Colloq.) crippled, lame, crooked, deformed.
gang, n. band, crew, company, group, crowd, set, squad, party, number, clique.
gangling, a. (Colloq.) lanky, spindling.
gangrene, n. mortification, sphacelation.--v. mortify, sphacelate.
gangrenous, a. mortified, mortifying, sphacelate.
gap, n. hiatus, rift, crevice, rent, interstice, chasm. See opening.
gape, v. yawn, oscitate; gaze, stare.
gape, n. yawn, yawning, gaping, oscitancy, oscitation; rictus (the gapes).
gaping, n. yawning, oscitancy, oscitation; staring.
garbage, n. offal, refuse, swill, waste. Associated word: scavenger.
garble, v. pervert, distort, falsify, misstate, wrench, misquote, misrepresent.
garbling, n. perversion, distortion, falsification, misstatement, misrepresentation.
gardener, n. horticulturist.
gardening, n. horticulture.
garland, n. wreath, chaplet, coronal, bays, laurel; anthology, rosary.
garnish, v. embellish, beautify, decorate, trim, adorn.
garniture, n. garnish, garnishment, embellishment, decoration, trimming.
garret, n. attic, cockloft.
gaseous, a. aëriform, gassy, gasiform; tenuous, thin, unsubstantial.
gash, v. slash, incise.
gash, n. incision, slash.
gasp, n. pant, panting.--v. pant.
gassing, n. (Slang) boasting, vaunt, gasconade, palaver, vapor, moonshine.
gassy, a. gaseous, aëriform; (Slang) boastful, bombastic, vaporous, inflated.
gate, n. entrance, portal; wicket; turnstile, turnpike; postern; tollgate; sluice gate; stanch; herse, portcullis.
gather, v. congregate, assemble, convene, muster, collect, concentrate; harvest, pick, glean, pluck, crop, reap; accumulate, amass, hoard, garner; contract, compress; pucker, plait, ruffle, shirr; infer, conclude, deduce; maturate.
gather, n. pucker, plait, ruffle, shirring.
gathering, n. collection, crowd, assembly, congregation, concourse, assemblage, muster, party, company; accumulation, amassing, amassment; abscess, imposthume, ulcer, boil, carbuncle, suppuration, maturation, pustule.
gaudy, a. showy, flashy, meretricious, ostentatious, tawdry, garish.
gaunt, a. emaciated, pinched, attenuated, meager, lean.
gawk, n. gawky, booby, lout, simpleton, hind, boor.
gawky, a. ungraceful, clumsy, ungainly, loutish, boorish, uncouth.
gay, a. merry, sportive, frolicsome, lively, exhilarating, vivacious, jolly, blithe, airy, boon, convivial, jovial, joyous; brilliant, dashing, gallant, showy; garish, gaudy, flashing, tawdry; (Colloq.) loose, dissolute, fast.
gayety, n. merriment, mirth, hilarity, sportiveness, conviviality, joviality, light-heartedness, elation.
gear, n. rigging, tackle, gearing, mechanism, draught-gear; accouterments, trappings.
geld, v. castrate.
gem, n. jewel.
general, a. indefinite, vague, ill-defined; prevalent, extensive; usual, common, ordinary, regular. Antonyms: specific, definite.
generality, n. bulk, common run, mass, main body; universality, generalness.
generalship, n. strategy.
generate, v. procreate, beget, engender, reproduce; originate, produce, propagate.
generation, n. procreation, reproduction, prolification, begetting; origination, production, formation.
generative, a. generating, procreative, genial.
generosity, n. magnanimity, nobleness; liberality, munificence, bounty, bountifulness, beneficence, lavishsess.
generous, a. magnanimous, noble, highminded, ingenuous; munificent, bountiful, open-handed, liberal, lavish, charitable, unstinted; abundant, plentiful, overflowing. Antonyms: illiberal, ungenerous, stingy, scant, miserly, penurious.
genial, a. generative, procreative; cheerful, pleasant, agreeable, cordial, friendly, hearty.
genitals, n. pl. See sexual organs.
gentle, a. well-born, genteel, high-born; docile, tractable, tame, subdued; mild, quiet, peaceable, meek, unobtrusive; bland, soothing, pacific, clement, tender, humane; courteous, cultivated, deferential. Antonyms: drastic, refractory, vicious, brusque, harsh, rough, severe, rigorous, intractable, indocile.
gentleman, n. Antonyms: cad, boor, churl, Philistine, guy, lout.
gentlemanly, a. courteous, deferential, polite, urbane, gallant, well-bred.
genuine, a. authentic, veritable, sterling, unmixed, real, pure; sincere, heartfelt, unaffected. Antonyms: spurious, counterfeit, false, supposititious, adulterated.
germ, n. origin, first principle; embryo, bud, seed, spore.
German, a. Teutonic.
german, a. related, allied.
German, n. Teuton.
German characteristic. Germanism, Teutonicism.
germane, a. related, allied, akin, relevant, appropriate.
German Federal Council. Bundesrath.
German House of Representatives. Reichstag.
German measles. rubella.
German silver. packfong.
germ destroyer. germicide.
gesture, n. gesticulation, gesturing.--v. gesticulate.
get, v. procure, obtain, acquire, secure, gain, achieve, attain, realize; induce, persuade, prevail on, win; betake remove; receive; beget, procreate, engender.
get ahead. advance, prosper, flourish, thrive, proceed; forestall.
getatable, a. (Colloq.) accessible. Antonym: inaccessible
get back. return; recover, recuperate, reclaim, retrieve, regain.
get clear. be acquitted, be released, escape.
get down. descend, alight, dismount.
get off. descend, alight, dismount; escape, be released, be acquitted.
get on. mount; prosper, advance, progress.
get out. extricate, release.
get over. surmount, overcome, conquer; recover from.
getting, n. acquisition, obtaining, receiving, acquirement, procurement.
gewgaw, n. bawble, gaud, knickknack, trifle, toy, trinket, bagatelle.
ghastly, a. cadaverous, ghostly, pallid, pale, horrible, shocking, repulsive.
ghost, n. shade, phantom, apparition, spectre, spook, revenant, sprite, wraith; spirit.
ghostly, a. spiritual; spectral, phantomlike.
ghost worship. sciotheism.
ghoul, n. vampire.
giant, n. colossus, monster, Hercules, Goliath, Titan, Cyclops, Brobdingnagian, ogre.
gibberish, n. jargon, jabber, gabbling, babble, drivel.
gibe, v. scoff, flout, jeer, sneer, ridicule, deride, mock.
gibe, n. ridicule, sneer, sarcasm, derision, mockery.
giddy, a. fickle, mercurial, volatile, flighty, unstable, inconstant, thoughtless; light-headed, dizzy, vertiginous.
gift, n. gratuity, present, largess, offering, grant, donation, boon, bounty, bequest, benefaction, contribution, subsidy, legacy, alms, donative, douceur, dotation, sportula; endowment, talent.
gifted, a. talented.
gigantic, a. enormous, colossal, Herculean, vast, Cyclopean, prodigious, Titanic, Gargantuan, Brobdingnagian.
giggle, n. snicker, snigger, titter.
gimcrack, n. device, toy, plaything, trinket, knickknack, jiggumbob.
gin, n. trap, snare, springe, artifice, toils; windlass, crane; Holland gin, schnapps.
gingerly, adv. carefully, cautiously, timidly, fastidiously.
giraffe, n. camelopard.
gird, v. encircle, engird, surround, equip, prepare.
girdle, n. cestus, sash, belt, band, cincture.
girl, n. maiden, maid, lass, lassie, damsel, miss, nymph, virgin; domestic, maid, waitress; ingenue; soubrette; filly, gill; wench; hoiden, hussy, minx; coleen (Anglo-Irish).
girlhood, n. maidenhood, virginity.
girth, n. belly-band; circumference.
gist, n. core, substance, pith, marrow, essence.
give, v. confer, bestow, accord, grant, vouchsafe, donate, contribute, impart, yield, afford, assign. Antonyms: withhold, refuse.
give and take. exchange, interchange, reciprocate, alternate.
give back. return, restore, refund.
give in. yield, surrender, succumb, recede. Antonyms: resist, withstand.
given, a. granted, assumed; disposed, inclined; stated, specified.
give off. emit, exhale.
give out. announce, proclaim, publish, report; fail, be inadequate, be exhausted.
giver, n. donor.
give up. surrender, disgorge; yield, cease, desist, quit, relinquish, waive, cede, succumb, abdicate, abandon, desert. Antonyms: resist, withstand, continue, persist.
give way. withdraw, retire, recede; yield, collapse.
giving, n. conferring, bestowal, granting, benefaction.
giving and taking. reciprocity, reciprocation.
glad, a. pleased, delighted, happy, joyous, joyful, gratified, rejoiced, merry, exhilarated, elated, cheery, animated, gladsome, jubilant, felicitous, refreshing, exhilarating. Antonyms: sad, sorrowful. See sad.
gladden, v. cheer, delight, please, exhilarate, gratify, buoy, elate, rejoice.
gladness, n. delight, pleasure, elation, exhilaration, jubilation, rejoicing.
glamour, n. charm, witchery, magic, spell; illusion, glitter, delusion, glory. Antonyms: disillusionment, disenchantment.
glance, n. glimpse; allusion; gleam, flash, glitter.
glance, v. glimpse; allude, hint; gleam, beam, glitter.
glare, v. glitter, glisten, dazzle; frown, glower.
glaring, a. dazzling, intense, brilliant; flagrant, notorious, barefaced.
glass, n. flint glass, crystal glass; aventurine; murrhine glass; strass (artificial gems); schmelze (Bohemian glass); crystal, obsidian.
glass, n. tumbler, goblet, bumper, beaker, schooner, bocal; decanter; carafe; looking-glass, mirror, speculum, cheval glass, pier glass; lens, spyglass, microscope, telescope, binocular, binocle, opera glass, lorgnette, polyscope, altiscope, optigraph, prism, reflector, refractor; hourglass; barometer; hydrometer; pipette; graduate; hygrometer; monocle; cloche; bolthead, matrass.
glass, n. Associated words: vitrifacture, vitrifaction, vitrics, vitrify, vitriform, vitrified, vitrifiable, vitric, devitrify, devitrification, glazier, glazing, crizzel, invitrifiable vitreous, vitrescent, vitrescence, hyalography.
glasses, n. pl. spectacles, eye-glasses, pince-nez, goggles, blinkers, barnacles, lorgnette, louchettes.
glassy, a. vitreous, crystalline, transparent, crystal.
Glauber's salt. sulphate of soda.
gleam, v. glimmer, glitter, radiate, beam, scintillate, sparkle.
gleam, n. beam, ray, glimmer, glance, flash; splendor, sparkle, gleaming.
glee, n. merriment, joy, mirth, gayety.
gleeful, a. merry, gay, mirthful.
gleety, a. ichorous.
glib, a. smooth, slippery; fluent, voluble, bland, oily.
glimmering, n. glimmer, glimpse, inkling, glance.
glimpse, n. glance; flash; inkling.
glisten, v. sparkle, shine, gleam, flash, glitter, glister.
glister, v. sparkle, glisten, glitter.
glitter, n. brilliancy, shine, gleam, fulgency, radiance.
glitter, v. sparkle, gleam, glisten, glister.
glittering, a. sparkling, glistening, glistering, gleaming, bright, tinsel.
gloom, n. gloominess, shadow; melancholy, depression, dejection, despondency.
gloomy, a. dark, dismal, obscure, dim, shaded, lowering, overcast, lurid; melancholy, dejected, sad, despondent, pessimistic, disheartened, morose, crestfallen, glum, saturnine; disheartening, depressing, discouraging.
glorious, a. magnificent, grand, resplendent, splendid, admirable, noble, excellent; (Colloq.) hilarious, ecstatic, elated.
glory, n. fame, renown, honor, eminence, celebrity; pomp, magnificence, splendor; pride, exultation, arrogance; halo, nimbus, aureole. Antonyms: ignominy, dishonor, obscurity, ingloriousness, shame, reproach.
glory, v. exult, boast, vaunt.
Glory be to the Father. Gloria Patri.
gloss, n. luster, polish, sheen, glaze, enamel; show, pretense; commentary, note, annotation, comment, postil.
gloss, v. annotate, comment, illustrate; glaze, polish; palliate, extenuate, gloss over.
glossy, a. shining, sleek, sheeny, lustrous, polished, glazed, glacé; specious, plausible.
glove-maker, n. glover.
glowing, a. ardent, passionate, warm, flushed; luminous, incandescent.
glue, v. cement, glutinate, agglutinate. Antonyms: unglue, deglutinate.
glum, a. moody, dumpish, sullen, sulky, morose, sour.
glut, v. satiate, sate, cloy, surfeit; overfeed, overstock, oversupply.
glut, n. superfluity, superabundance, overstock, excess.
glutton, n. gormandizer, belly-god, cormorant, gormand; wolverine.
gluttonous, a. voracious, gluttonish.
gluttony, n. voracity, gormandism.
gnawer, n. rodent; pl. Rodentia.
gnawing, a. rodent.
go, v. operate, pass, move, advance, repair, hark, budge, stir, resort, frequent, wend; circulate; tend, conduce, contribute; depart; reach, extend.
go, n. fashion, vogue, mode, custom, style; animation, mettle, Spirit, fire; (Colloq.) energy, life, enterprise, push, perseverance, stamina; (Slang) circumstance, occurrence, incident, happening, event.
goad, n. gad, prick; instigation, spur, stimulant.
goal, n. bourne, end, aim, destination.
goat, n. buck; Billy goat; Nanny goat; Capra; Capricorn.
goatish, a. hircine, caprine.
go back. return, recede, retreat, retrograde, back, withdraw.
go back on. (Colloq.) apostatize, desert, renounce, forsake, be traitorous.
go before. precede, antecede.
goblin, n. gnome, hobgoblin, spectre, bugaboo.
go between. intervene, interpose, intercede, mediate.
go-between, n. middleman, agent, broker, procurer, factor, intermediary, arbitrator, referee, intercessor, advocate, interagent, negotiator.
go beyond. surpass, transcend, exceed, overstep, transgress.
go-by, n. neglect, ignoring, pretermission.
god, n. deity, divinity, idol. Associated words: deify, deification, apotheosize, apotheosis, theogony, Olympus, pantheon, deicide, deifie, deiform, mythology, polytheism, monotheism, theomachy, cuhemerism, monolatry, undeify, undeification, oracle.
God, n. the Supreme Being, the Creator, Jehovah, Infinite Spirit, Deity, the First Cause, the Almighty; (Hebrew) Elohim, El Shaddai, Adonai, Jah. Associated words: theism, deism, atheism, theocracy, theocrasy, theology, theomachy, pantheism, acosmism, pancosmism, theocentric, thearchy, theomania, theosophy, theochristic, theodicy, theophany, demiurge, anthropomorphism, anthropomorphology, tetragrammaton, anthropopathism, psychotheism.
godfather, n. sponsor.
godless, a. irreligious, impious, atheistical, ungodly.
godlike, a. divine.
godlessness, n. irreligion, impiety, atheism, ungodliness.
godly, a. devout, religious, pious, saintly.
godmother, n. sponsor.
going, n. traveling; departure; exit, egress, exodus.
going back. return, recession, retreat, withdrawal, retrogradation.
going back on. apostasy, defection, renunciation, perfidy, desertion, unfaithfulness.
going before. precedence, antecedence, priority.--a. precedent, antecedent, prior, preceding.
going between. intercession, mediation, intervention, interposition, arbitration.--a. mediatorial, intercessory, mediatory.
goiter, n. bronchocele, tracheocele.
gold, n. aurum; bullion, (uncoined gold). Associated words: alchemist, alchemy, auriferous, alloy, assay, assayer, assaying, filigree, aurated, auric, aureate, aurific, aurigraphy, aurivorous, aurocephalous, platinum, aurous, billet, carat, chlorination, chrysography, cupel, foil, cupellation, gild, orphrey, vermeil, gilded, gilding, gilt, orris, amalgamated, goldsmith, bonanza, schlich, inaurate, inauration, ingot, lingot, lode, nugget, ore, ormolu, pinchbeck, blick, Mannheim gold.
golden age. Associated word: Saturnian.
gondolier, n. Associated word: barcarolle (song).
goneness, n. (Colloq.) inanition, faintness, exhaustion, languor.
good, a. virtuous, worthy, moral, exemplary, conscientious, sterling, meritorious, saintly, guileless; humane, altruistic, philanthropic, benevolent, indulgent; desirable, excellent, expedient, commendable, beneficial, auspicious, propitious, favorable; clever, dexterous, competent, adroit, proficient, ready.
good, n. welfare, benefit, advantage, weal, well-being, utility, interest; virtue, excellence, worth, character, value.
good-bye, n. farewell, adieu, au revoir.
good fellow. trump, brick, bon vivant.
good graces. favor, friendship, regard.
good humor. amiability, geniality, affability, complaisance.
good-looking, a. comely, handsome, pretty, personable.
good nature. amiability, benignity, geniality, complaisance, good humor, affability.
good-natured, a. amiable, jovial, affable, complaisant, indulgent, good-humored, genial.
goods, n. pl. chattels, effects, possessions; merchandise, wares, commodities.
goose, n. gander (male goose); gosling (young goose); graylag, ganza (wild goose); goslet; pl. geese; Anseres, Anseriformes. Associated words: anserene, anserous, gosherd, yang, honk, gaggle, cackle.
goose, n. simpleton, gull, dupe, witling, numskull.
gore, v. stab, pierce, penetrate.--n. blood, cruor; gusset.
gorge, n. gully, defile, ravine, pass.
gorge, v. bolt, gulp, eat greedily; glut, stuff, satiate.
gorgeous, a. magnificent, elegant, resplendent, grand, splendid.
gossip, n. tattler, tale-bearer, frump, quidnunc; gossipry.
go to bed. retire.
gourd, n. calabash.
gout, n. podagra, arthritis.
govern, v. direct, control, regulate, command, reign, influence, restrain, bridle, guide.
governable, a. manageable, obedient, submissive.
government, n. governance, sway, dominion, command, regency, authority, regulation, administration. Antonyms: anarchy, license, subjection.
governor, n. chief magistrate, executive. Associated word: gubernatorial.
gown, n. dress; robe; wrapper; cassock, soutane.
grab, v. seize, snatch, clutch, grasp, pluck.
grace, n. compassion, lenity, mercy, benevolence, love, excellence, virtue; beauty, loveliness, gracefulness, comeliness; refinement, elegance, courtliness, culture, polish; holiness, saintliness, sanctity, devoutness.
grace, v. adorn, beautify, embellish; dignify, honor, exalt.
graceful, a. elegant, easy, willowy, courtly, polished. Antonyms: See ungraceful.
graceless, a. depraved, abandoned, reprobate, shameless, incorrigible.
gracious, a. merciful, lenient, beneficent, compassionate, benign, tender; graceful, elegant; courteous, debonair, complaisant, urbane, affable.
graduate, n. alumnus; pl. alumni.
graft, v. ingraft, march.
grafting, n. ingrafting, ingraftment, inarching.
grain, n. kernel, seed; cereals (edible grains); granule, pellet. Associated words: granary, sheaf, shock, farina, graniferous, chaff, glume, grits, groats, grist, Ceres, flail, thrash, windrow, frumentaceous, frumentation.
grain, n. fiber, texture; disposition, humor, temper; particle, whit, mite, scintilla, atom, iota, jot, trace.
grain-eating, a. granivorous.
grainy, a. granular, granulate, granulated, granulous.
grand, a. august, imposing, sublime, stately, magnificent, splendid, palatial, lofty, consummate, glorious, superb, elegant, majestic, gorgeous, luxurious, impressive, dignified, illustrious, noble.
grandeur, n. splendor, magnificence, elegance, sublimity, majesty, augustness.
grandfather, n. grandsire, patriarch.
grandiose, a. impressing, imposing; bombastic, turgid, declamatory, grandiloquent.
grandmother, n. grandam.
grandparent, n. Associated word: aval.
grant, v. convey, transfer, code; give, bestow, allot, deign, vouchsafe; admit, concede, allow, comply, permit.
grant, n. conveyance, transfer, cession;, concession; gift, bounty, subsidy.
grant back. recede.
grape-culture, n. viticulture.
grapes, n. pl. Associated words: vineyard, vineyardist, arbor, grapery, pergola, viticolous, marc, must, prokris, rape, coulure, racemation, tartar, argol.
grape-sugar, n. glucose, dextrose, diabetic sugar, starch sugar.
grapple, v. seize, attack, clutch, grasp, struggle, wrestle, contend.
grappling dogs. spandogs.
grappling iron. grapnel, grab, grapple.
grasp, v. seize, clutch, clinch, clasp, gripe; struggle, wrestle; comprehend, understand.
grasp, n. seizure, apprehension, gripe, clasp, grip, prehension; hold, possession; comprehension, understanding.
grasping, a. avaricious, sordid, covetous, niggardly, greedy.
grass, n. herbage, pasture, pasturage; sward, sod, greensward, lawn, esplanade. Associated words: agrostology, agrostologist, agrostography, gramineous, graze, palea, graminology, gramineal, swath, rowen, aftermath, turf, tussock, hassock, aftergrass, fog, glume, graminaceous.
grass-eating, a. graminivorous, herbivorous.
grass-eating animals. Herbivora.
grateful, a. thankful. Antonym: ungrateful.
gratification, n. satisfaction, indulgence, enjoyment, fruition, pleasure, delight.
gratify, v. satisfy, indulge, content, delight, humor, Antonyms: deny, mortify.
grating, a. harsh, jarring, rasping, discordant.
gratitude, n. thankfulness. Antonym: ingratitude.
gratuitous, a. spontaneous, free, voluntary; unrepaid, unrequited; uncalled for, unwarranted, unfounded.
grave, a. important, momentous, serious; sober, solemn, staid, demure, sedate, quiet, thoughtful, subdued, sepulchral.
grave, n. tomb, sepulcher, charnel-house, ossuary, sepulture; tumulus, barrow.
grave-clothes, n. pl. cerements, shroud, winding-sheet.
gravel, n. pebbles, grit, shingle; arena; gravelstone, pebble, calculus.
graven, a. carved, sculptured.
graver, n. engraver, sculptor; burin.
grave wax. adipocere.
gray, a. hoary; slate, drab, maltese, mouse-colored.
grease, n. lubricant, fat.--v. lubricate.
greaser, n. lubricant, lubricator.
greasy, a. sebaceous, oily, unctuous, oleaginous, fatty.
great, a. immense, enormous, prodigious, gigantic; numerous, countless; superior, excellent, admirable; eminent, famous, illustrious, distinguished, renowned, famed, noted; egregious, flagrant, serious, grievous; fabulous, excessive, immoderate, exorbitant.
greatest, a. supreme, superlative, utmost, maximum.
greatest good. summum bonum.
great-hearted, a. magnanimous.
great-heartedness, n. magnanimity.
great spirit. Manito (Amer. Ind.)
greediness, n. avarice, voracity, avidity, covetousness, rapacity, gluttony, insatiableness, cupidity.
greedy, a. avaricious, grasping; sordid, covetous; insatiable, ravenous, voracious, gluttonous, rapacious; insatiate.
greedy-gut, n. (Low) glutton, gormand.
Greek, a. Grecian, Hellenic.
Greek, n. Grecian, Hellene; Romaic, Hellenic, Neo-Hellenic.
Greek, n. (Colloq.) mystery.
green, a. verdant, emerald, virid, virescent; immature, unripe; raw, untrained, callow, unsophisticated, awkward, inexperienced, unskilled, undisciplined, gullible; unseasoned; fresh, undecayed. Antonyms: sear, parched, seasoned, ripe, experienced, veteran.
greenhorn, n. (Colloq.) tyro, novice, gull, dupe, yahoo, gudgeon.
greenhouse, n. conservatory.
green manuring. sideration.
greenness, n. verdancy, viridity, verdure; rawness, immaturity, unripeness; inexperience, unsophisticatedness, gullibility..
greensand, n. marl.
green-sickness, n. chlorosis.
greet, v. address, salute, hail, accost.
greeting, n. salutation, salute.
grief, n. anguish, sorrow, heartbreak, regret, remorse, dolor, misery, heartache, woe, tribulation, rue, affliction, bereavement, trial, adversity, distress, grievance.
grievance, n. wrong, injustice, resentment, trouble, complaint, gravamen (Law).
grieve, v. mourn, regret, lament, rue, weep, sorrow, bewail, deplore; wound, afflict, try, distress, pain.
grievous, a. afflictive, distressing, deplorable, lamentable, painful; heinous, atrocious, flagitious, outrageous, flagrant, egregious, nefarious; plaintive, pitiful.
grill, n. gridiron, broiler.
grilling, n. broiling, grillade.
grimy, a. begrimed.
grind, v. crush, powder, pulverize, comminute, bruise, bray, triturate, levigate; harass, persecute, oppress.
grind, n. grinding, pulverization; (Slang) drudgery; (Slang) dig.
grinder, n. abradant.
grinding, n. pulverization, trituration, crushing, levigation.--a. abradant.
grinding stone. millstone, muller, metate.
grip, n. clutch, grasp; (Colloq.) grippe.
grip, n. (Colloq.) gripsack, valise, satchel, traveling-bag.
grip, v. seize, clutch, grasp, clinch.
gripes, n. pl. colic.
grippe, n. influenza.
gristle, n. cartilage.
gristly, a. cartilaginous.
grit, n. firmness, resolution, courage, fortitude, spirit, determination.
gritty, a. sandy; (Colloq.) unyielding, plucky, spirited, determined, resolute.
grizzly bear. Ephraim (Hunter's name).
groan, n. and v. moan.
grogblossom, n. rosedrop, rosy whelk.
grogshop, n. dramshop, saloon.
groom, n. valet; hostler, stable-man; bridegroom.
groove, n. rut, channel, furrow; chamfret, rabbet, fluting; stria, striation.
groove, v. channel, furrow; chamfer, flute.
grooved, a. channeled, chamfered, fluted, striated.
gross, n. aggregate.
grotesque, a. fantastic, bizarre, outlandish, baroque, whimsical.
grouchy, a. (Colloq.) unamiable, sullen, surly, cynical, morose, cross.
ground, n. soil, earth, dirt, clod, loam, mould, clay, land; premise, reason, consideration, motive, inducement, reason; terra-firma.
ground hog. woodchuck, American marmot.
groundless, a. unfounded, chimerical, baseless, unauthorized.
grounds, n. pl. settlings, sediment, dregs, precipitate.
ground squirrel. chipmunk, hackee.
groundwork, n. foundation, basis, base.
group, n. cluster, assemblage, crowd.
grouty, a. (Colloq.) unamiable, sulky, sullen, cynical, surly, morose.
grovel, v. crawl, sneak, cringe, wallow, fawn.
groveling, a. debased, abject, servile, sneaking.
grow, v. increase, extend, augment, wax, accrue, develop, expand, mature, flourish, thrive; vegetate, sprout, pullulate, germinate, bourgeon; raise, cultivate. Antonyms: wane, atrophy, blast, diminish, stunt, stagnate.
grower, n. cultivator.
growing, a. developing, waxing, increasing, flourishing.
growing together. accretion, concretion, coalescence.--a. coalescent, accretive.
growl, n. grumble, snarl, gnarl.
growler, n. grumbler, snarler, murmurer, cynic, pessimist, misanthrope.
growth, n. growing, development, accretion, extension, increase, augmentation, increment, enlargement; excrescence hypertrophy, overgrowth; germination, cultivation, pullulation, sprouting. Antonyms: atrophy, decrease, blasting, undevelopment.
grow together. coalesce, concrete, accrete
grub, v. drudge, slave, moil; root out, uprooc, eradicate.
grub, n. caterpillar, maggot, larva, grubworm.
grub-ax, n. mattock.
grudge, n. ill-will, hatred, antipathy, rancor, aversion, enmity, resentment, envy.
grudge, v. begrudge, resent, envy.
grudgeful, a. envious, resentful.
grudgingly, adv. unwillingly, reluctantly, sullenly, enviously resentfully.
gruff, a. ungracious, brusque, surly, rude, impolite, stern.
grum, a. morose, surly, sour, glum; guttural, low, rumbling.
grumble, v. murmur, repine, complain, croak; growl, snarl.
grumbler, n. complainer, croaker, fault-finder, growler.
grumpy, a. (Colloq.) surly, disgruntled, grouty, irritable, sullen.
guarantee, n. warranty, security, surety.
guard, v. protect, defend, shield, shelter, fortify, preserve. Antonym: expose.
guard, n. guardsman, watch, watchman, sentinel, patrol, sentry, picket; convoy, escort, body-guard; defense, protection, shield, safeguard, bulwark, armor; attention, heed, watch, circumspection. Associated word: cordon.
guarded, a. cautious, wary, circumspect, careful, reserved, non-committal.
guardian, n. defender, guard, tutelary saint, keeper, warden, protector, defense, guardian angel. Antonyms: ward, protégé.
guardian, a. tutelary, protecting, tutelar.
guardianship, n. protection, care, watch, wardenship, tutelage.
guess, v. conjecture, speculate, surmise; think, suppose, presume, apprehend, believe, daresay, opine.
guess, n. conjecture, surmise, supposition, speculation.
guesswork, n. conjecture.
guide, v. pilot, steer, direct, govern, conduct.
guide, n. conductor, pilot, director; cicerone; polestar; rudder, regulator; mentor, monitor, counsellor; key, clew.
guidebook, n. itinerary.
guiding star. loadstar, polestar, Cynosure.
guild, n. society, association, fraternity, corporation, brotherhood.
guile, n. subtlety, cunning, wiliness, deceit, insincerity, artifice.
guileful, a. deceitful, crafty, artful, wily, subtle, designing.
guileless, a. innocent, artless, sincere, undesigning, ingenuous.
guilt, n. criminality, guiltiness, complicity, culpability, crime; wrong, offense, transgression, sin. Antonyms: innocence, inculpability.
guiltless, a. inculpable, blameless, innocent.
guilty, a. culpable, punishable, criminal, peccant, sinful.
guise, n. way, custom, manner, mien; garb, shape, appearance, dress, cloak.
gulf, n.abyss, chasm; vortex, whirlpool, rapids, maelstrom; bay.
gulfweed, n. sargasso.
gull, n. cheat, swindle, humbug, fraud; dupe, gudgeon, cully; seamew, mew, cob.
gullet, n. esophagus.
gullible, a. credulous.
gully, n. gulch, ravine, gorge, couloir.
gumboll, n. parulis.
gummy, a. viscous, adhesive.
gumption, n. (Colloq.) shrewdness, sagacity, discernment, acumen, common sense.
gum-yielding, a. guttiferous.
gun, n. firearm, weapon, rifle, shotgun, blunderbuss, musket, flobert, pistol, revolver, derringer, cannon, swivel gun, matchlock, breech-loader, stanchion gun, arquebus, Krupp gun, Winchester, howitzer, gatling gun, flintlock. Associated words: bayonet, gunsmith, bore, caliber, trigger, hammer, ramod, armory, armorer, gunsmithery, holster.
gun-cotton, n. pyroxylin.
gunner, n. cannoneer.
gunroom, n. wardroom.
guns, n. pl. artillery, ordnance, cannon, armament, arms.
gunsmith, n. armorer, gunmaker.
gunwale, n. portoise.
gush, v. rush, pour, stream, spout.
gushing, a. rushing, pouring; (Colloq.) effusive, demonstrative, ebullient, sentimental.
gusto, n. enjoyment, appreciation, relish, taste.
gut, n. intestine.--v. disembowel, eviscerate.
guts, n. pl. intestines, bowels, entrails.
gutter, n. eaves trough, cullis; conduit, channel, drain, rindle; groove.
guttersnipe, n. (Slang) street Arab, gamin.
gutting, n. disembowelment, evisceration.
guy, n. guy-rope, stay, shore; scarecrow, dowdy, fright, effigy.
guy, v. steady, guide, shore, stay (with a rope); (Colloq.) fool, baffle, ridicule.
gymnast, n. athlete.
gymnastic, a. athletic, calisthenic.
gymnastics, n. pl. athletics, calisthenics.
gypsy, n. Romany, Bohemian; Romany, Romanes (language); schemer, sharper.
Habit, n. wont, custom, practice, usage, habitude, addiction, way, routine.
habitual, a. wonted, customary, regular, accustomed.
habituate, v. accustom, addict, inure, familiarize. Antonyms: disaccustom, wean.
hag, n. vixen, virago, termagant, harridan, fury, Jezebel, beldame.
haggard, a. gaunt, emaciated, hollow-eyed.
haggle, v. hack, hackle; chaffer, higgle.
haggler, n. higgler, chafferer.
hail, v. accost, salute, address, signal.
hail-storm, n. Associated words: paragrandine, paragrêle.
hair, n. bristle; pubescence; pubes; tentaculum, palpus; lock, tress; coiffure; chignon; forelock. Associated words: trichology, depilatory, depilitant, depilate, depilation, disheveled, bandeau, barrette, tonsure, pomade, follicle, sac, fillet, ecdysis, endysis, bandoline, piliferous, piliform, piligerous, coiffeur, tousled.
hairiness, n. hirsuteness, hirsuties, pubescence, villosity, capillament, hypertrichosis.
hairless, a. bald, glabrous, depilous.
hairsplitting, a. subtle, fine.
hair-worm, n. gordius.
hairy, a. hirsute, shaggy, bristly, pubescent.
half, adv. partially, imperfectly.
half, n. moiety.
half-blooded, a. hybrid, mongrel, degenerate, half-breed.
half-hearted, a. indifferent, lukewarm, perfunctory.
half-moon, n. crescent. Associated word: semilunar.
halfway, adv. in the middle, imperfectly, partially.--a. intermediate, midway.
half-witted, a. imbecile, defective, silly, dull-witted, witless.
half-yearly, a. semi-annual, bi-annual.
hall, n. auditorium, lyceum; vestibule, entry, court; corridor, passage, lobby; manor-house; odeon.
hallow, v. consecrate, venerate, reverence, sanctify, bless.
hallowed, a. holy, sacred, consecrated, dedicated, blessed, sanctified.
hallucination, n. aberration, chimera, fallacy, self-deception, delusion, phantasm, illusion.
halo, n. nimbus, glory, aureola, aureole.
haloed, a. glorified, aureoled.
halve, v. bisect, dimidiate.
halving, n. bisection, dichotomy, dimidiation.
hammer, n. sledge, sledge-hammer, maul, mallet, beetle, gavel, kevel, crandall, marteline. Associated words: peen, hephestic, poll.
hammer, v. beat, forge, malleate, beetle.
hammer and tongs. vigorously, forcibly, energetically.
hamper, v. fetter, shackle, impede, restrain, hinder, encumber, embarrass.
hamper, n. hanaper; shackle, fetter, restraint, impediment.
hamstring, n. hough.--v. disable, cripple, lame, hough.
hand, n. paw, manus. Associated words: chirology, chiromancy, palmistry, chiropody, chiropodist, chirognomy, chirographer, chirographist, chirogymnast, chirologist, cheirosophy, manicure, chiromancer, manual, chirography, ambidextral, ambidextrous, ambidexterity, ambidexter, achirous, chiragra, fist, manacle, castanets, mount, discriminal, bimanual, bimanous.
handbag, n. satchel, reticule.
handbook, n. manual, guidebook, vade mecum, hornbook, enchiridion.
handcuff, n. manacle, fetter, shackle.
hand down. transmit (in succession).
handle, n. bail; hilt, haft.
handy, a. dexterous, adroit, ready; convenient.
hang, v. suspend; dangle; execute; droop, drop; append, attach; depend, rest; hover, impend, threaten; lean, incline, slope; lynch.
hang, n. (Colloq.) connection, arrangement, plan.
hang back. hesitate, falter, be reluctant.
hangdog, a. sneaking, ashamed, shamefaced, guilty.
hanger-on, n. tagtail, satellite, parasite, sycophant, dependant, vassal, minion, sponger, toady, heeler, toadeater, fawner, votary.
hanging, a. suspended, pendent, pendulous, pensile, dangling.
hanging, n. suspension; execution; drapery, valance, tapestry, dorsal, lambrequin. Associated words: gallows gibbet.
hanging on. persistence, tenacity, importunity.
hangman, n. executioner.
hangnail, n. agnail.
hang out. project, protrude.
hang over. impend, project.
hang to. cling.
hanker, v. long for, yearn, crave, covet, lust.
hankering, n. longing, craving, yearning.
haphazard, n. chance, accident, random.
happen, v. occur, befall, betide; supervene, intervene.
happiness, n. felicity, blessedness, delight, gladness, pleasure, ecstasy, bliss, rapture, merriment, mirth, elation, beatitude, joy. Antonyms: sorrow, grief. Associated words: eudemonics, eudemonist, eudemonism, eudemonic, beatify, beatification, hedonics, hedonist, hedonic, hedonism, felicific, felicitate, felicitation.
happy, a. joyous, light-hearted, gay, blissful, glad, delighted, elated, merry, ecstatic, buoyant, cheerful, gratified, joyful, beatific, rapturous, felicitous, blithe, halcyon, charmed, exultant, ravishing, gladdened; lucky, prosperous, successful; auspicious. Antonyms: See unhappy.
happy-go-lucky, a. improvident, easy-going, unthrifty.
harangue, n. declamation, ranting, effusion, screed, tirade.
harangue, v. declaim, spout, rant.
harass, v. fatigue, tire, weary; annoy, vex, torment, perplex, distress, persecute, worry, bother.
harbinger, n. forerunner, precursor, herald, messenger.
harbor, n. refuge, shelter, asylum, retreat; port, haven, destination.
hard, a. firm, solid, compact, impenetrable, unimpressible, unyielding, rigid, adamantine, dense, insoluble, flinty, indurate, indurated, infrangible; arduous, laborious, wearisome, onerous, burdensome, toilsome, tiresome, exhausting, difficult, knotty, intricate, puzzling, incomprehensible; irresistible, uncontrollable; severe, rigorous, unendurable, oppressive, unjust, grievous, calamitous, incompliant; stern, unyielding, obdurate, unfeeling, exacting, insensible, hard-hearted, callous, implacable, inflexible; repelling, constrained, inelegant; severe, inclement, rigorous; excessive, immoderate; unprosperous, unfavorable, disastrous.
hard case. (Colloq.) incorrigible, reprobate, derelict, outcast.
hard coal. anthracite, glance coal.
harden, v. indurate, solidify; petrify, ossify, sear, brutalize, embitter; inure, season, fortify, steel, brace, accustom.
hardened, a. indurated; callous, inexorable, ossified, petrified, obdurate, incorrigible, inveterate, case-hardened, seared, depraved, graceless, impenitent, confirmed; sclerosed, sclerotic.
hardening, n. induration; habituation, confirmation; solidification, petrifaction, ossification; sclerosis (Med.).
hard-headed, a. shrewd, astute, sagacious.
hard-hearted, a. unsympathetic, inexorable, ruthless, unsparing, stern, obdurate, incompassionate.
hardihood, n. boldness, bravery, courage, intrepidity, fortitude; audacity, effrontery, impudence.
hard lines. hardship, difficulties, adversity.
hardness, n. induration, compactness, impenetrability, solidity, firmness, adamant. Associated word: durometer.
hardship, n. privation, adversity, affliction, reverse, calamity, disaster, visitation.
hardware, n. ironmongery.
hardy, a. courageous, intrepid, brave; hearty, hale, robust, lusty.
hare-brained, a. heedless, reckless, rash, giddy, careless.
harem, n. concubines, seraglio.
harlot, n. prostitute, courtesan, whore.
harlotry, n. prostitution, whoredom.
harm, v. injure, hurt, damage, impair, scathe, mar, deface, abuse, misuse.
harm, n. injury, damage, detriment, scath, mischief, misfortune.
harmful, a. injurious, pernicious, detrimental, baneful, noxious, prejudicial, deleterious, ruinous, hurtful.
harmless, a. innocuous, innoxious; inoffensive, peaceable; uninjured, unscathed.
harmonious, a. symmetrical, correspondent, consistent, congruent, conformable; consonant, symphonious, melodious amicable, peaceable. Antonyms: inharmonious, discordant, antagonistic, incompatible.
harmonize, v. agree, chime, tally, correspond, accord; adjust, reconcile.
harmony, n. concord, agreement, concurrence, consonance chime, unison, unanimity; concordance, congruity, adaptation, consistency. Antonyms: discord, antagonism, variance, contention, incongruity, inconsistency, dissension, opposition.
harness, n. saddlery; accouterments, armor, array, gearing, equipment, tackling, gear; caparison, trappings, Associated words: saddler, saddlery.
harness, v. equip, array, caparison, tackle.
harp, n. lyre. Associated words: harpist, lyrist, lyrism, lyric, plectrum.
harpy, n. extortioner, oppressor.
harrow, v. wound, lacerate, tear, distress, torture, harass.
harsh, a. inharmonious, rough, disagreeable, unpleasant, raucous; dissonant, strident, discordant, cacophonous: austere, morose, severe, ungracious, inurbane, discourteous, churlish, uncivil, blunt, bluff, brusque, acrimonious, caustic, acrid, repulsive.
harum-scarum, a. (Colloq.) wild, giddy, reckless, volatile, indiscreet, hare-brained.
harvest, n. ingathering; crop, produce, yield, fruit.
hash, n. ragout, gallimaufry, potpourri, ollapodrida, olio, réchauffé (rehash).
haste, n. celerity, swiftness, dispatch, expedition, speed, quickness; hurry, urgency, precipitance. Antonyms: slowness, dilatoriness.
hasten, v. accelerate, expedite, quicken, precipitate press, urge; hurry.
hastiness, n. haste, precipitancy, precipitation, precipitance, speediness.
hasty, a. swift, rapid, quick, fast; precipitate, rash, eager, precipitant; cursory, hurried, superficial.
hatch, v. breed, incubate; concoct, excogitate, brew, scheme.
hatcher, n. incubator.
hatchet, n. small ax; tomahawk; machete; dolabra.
hate, v. dislike, detest, abhor, despise, abominate, loathe, execrate.
hateful, a. execrable, odious, detestable, abominable, malevolent, malicious.
hatred, n. hate, aversion, detestation, animosity, malignity, antipathy, spite, feud, malice, grudge, malevolence, resentment, dislike, abhorrence.
haughtiness, n. arrogance, hauteur, superciliousness, disdain, contumely.
haughty, a. arrogant, supercilious, disdainful, cavalier, magisterial, assuming, lordly.
haunt, n. resort.
hauteur, n. arrogance, contumely, superciliousness, haughtiness, overweening.
haven, n. harbor, port, retreat, asylum, refuge, shelter.
havoc, n. destruction, devastation, waste, ruin, desolation, demolition, wreck.
hawk, n. falcon; goshawk, kestrel. Associated words: accipitral, raptorial.
haystack, n. rick.
hazard, n. chance, contingency, casualty; risk, random, jeopardy, danger, peril, venture. Antonyms: safety, security, assurance, certainty, surety.
hazard, v. venture, risk, jeopard, endanger.
hazardous, a. perilous, precarious, risky, unsafe, dangerous.
haze, n. obscurity, dimness, fog, vapor, mist, confusion.
hazy, a. foggy, misty, vaporous; obscure, confused.
head, n. poll, cephalon; costard (Contemptuous), noddle, pate. Associated words: phrenology, phrenologist, craniology, craniologist, cephalology, sinciput, occiput, cephalism, behead, decapitate, decapitation, capitation, vertex, crown, skull, cranium, fontanel, trepan, coronal, microcephaly, craniometry, macrocephaly, cephalic, per capita, scalp.
head, n. chief, leader, commander, director; crisis, culmination; spike; section, department, category, class.
head, a. principal, chief, leading, cardinal, foremost, main, premier.
headache, n. megrim, cephalalgy, galea.
headdress, n. coiffure.
heading, n. title, caption.
headland, n. cape, promontory, foreland.
heading off. interception.
headless, a. acephalous; beheaded, decapitated; leaderless, unorganized.
headlong, adv. headforemost; precipitately, rashly; pell-mell, helter-skelter, confusedly.
head off. intercept.
headsman, n. executioner, Jack Ketch.
headstrong, a. willful, perverse, stubborn, intractable, froward.
heal, v. cure, repair; cicatrize.
healing, a. curative, sanative, restorative, remedial, mollifying, sanatory, therapeutic, lenitive, medicinal, emollient, assuasive.
health, n. Associated words: hygiene, Hygeia, hygienic, hygienics, eucrasy, sanitation, sanitarian, soteriology, eutrophic, hygienist, sanitary.
healthful, a. healthy; salubrious, wholesome.
healthy, a. hale, well, hearty; salubrious, salutary, wholesome. Antonyms: unhealthy, ill, sickly, morbid, delicate, diseased.
heap, n. pile, mass, accumulation, lot, stack, cumulation.
heap, v. amass, accumulate, pile, stack, cumulate.
hearer, n. auditor.
hearing, n. audition, listening; audience; earshot, sound, hearing distance. Associated words: auditory, acoumeter, acoumetry, acoustic, audible, audibility, audiometer, deaf, deafness, microcoustic, microphonous, otacoustic, inaudible, inaudibility, clairaudient, clairaudience, audient, audiphone, sonometer, audile.
hearsay, n. rumor, report, gossip, bruit, on dit.
heart, n. cardia; conscience, character; essence, core, pith, kernel, marrow. Associated words: cardiology, carditis, cardiac, cordial, cardialgia, cardiometry, dexiocardia, systole, diastole, pericardium, endocardium, auricle, ventricle, valve, aneurism, stethoscope, peridiastole.
heart-broken, a. disconsolate, inconsolable, broken-hearted.
heartburn, n. cardialgia, water-brash, pyrosis.
heartburning, n. discontent, resentment, envy, rankling.
hearthstone, n. hearth, fireside, ingleside. Associated words: Vesta, Hestia.
heartless, a. acardiac; cruel, pitiless. See cruel.
heart-shaped, a. cordate, cordiform.
heartwood, n. duramen.
hearty, a. cordial, heartfelt, sincere; healthy, robust, hale; nourishing, nutritious.
heat, n. warmth, caloric; cauma. Associated words: pyrology, pyrologist, thermology, pyrometry, pyrometer, pyronomics, calorifics, therm, thermal, pyrography, caloric, calorie, thermic, swelter, thermostat, thermometer, thermometry.
heat, n. vehemence, fire, ardor, impetuosity, fervor, fervency, zeal, intensity, enthusiasm; œstrus, rut.
heat, v. warm, calefy.
heathen, a. pagan, heathenish, paganic, gentile, paganish; irreligious, godless.
heathen, n. pagan, idolater.
heathenism, n. idolatry, paganism, pagandom, gentilism; irreligion, godlessness.
heathenize, v. paganize.
heat stroke. insolation.
heaven, n. Paradise, Elysium, Eden, the New Jerusalem, glory; Olympus, Elysium, Elysian, Arcadia; Valhalla, Walhalla; Nirvana.
heavenly, a. celestial, supernal; divine, beatific, ravishing, sublime, ecstatic.
heaviness, n. weight, ponderosity, ponderousness, gravity.
heavy, a. weighty, massive, ponderous; burdensome, oppressive, onerous, severe; unraised, soggy, indigestible, unleavened.
heavy hand. severity, oppression, persecution, tyranny, extortion.
hector, v. torment, tease, plague, bully, harass.
heed, v. mind, regard, consider, notice, attend.
heed, n. regard, attention, consideration, notice. Antonyms: disregard, inattention.
heedful, a. attentive, circumspect, cautious, vigilant, mindful. Antonyms: inattentive, uncircumspect, unmindful, careless, heedless.
heel bone. calcaneum, fibulare.
height, n. altitude, loftiness; elevation; stature, tallness; eminence, exaltation; summit, zenith, apex, culmination. Associated words: altimetry, altimeter, hypsometry, hypsometer.
heinous, a. atrocious, flagrant, flagitious, monstrous, nefarious.
heir, n. inheritor; scion; coheir, parcener.
hell, n. inferno, infernal regions, Gehenna, limbo, abyss, Avernus, Pandemonium, Abaddon, Styx, Hades, Sheol, the grave; Naraka (Buddhism).
hellish, a. infernal, malignant, fiendish, diabolical, atrocious.
helm, n. rudder, tiller, wheel; steersman, pilot; command, control, administration.
helmet, n. casque, headpiece, morion, sallet.
help, v. abet, assist, befriend, succor, aid, coöperate, collaborate, second, facilitate, subsidize; remedy, ameliorate, alleviate, promote, further.
help, n. aid, assistance, succor, support, facilitation, backing, subsidy, subvention, coöperation; remedy, relief, cure, restorative.
helper, n. assistant, ally, auxiliary, supporter, abettor, helpmeet, associate, coadjutor, confederate, deputy, aider, colleague, acolyte, adjuvant, collaborator, subsidiary, co-aid, coöperator, accessory, accomplice.
helpful, a. assistant, conducive, instrumental, useful, salutary.
helping, a. assisting, auxiliary, subsidiary, accessory.
helter-skelter, adv. (Colloq.) irregularly, disorderly, pell-mell, headlong.
hem in. environ, surround, encompass, beset, hedge in.
hen, n. partlet; pullet (young hen).
herald, n. messenger, forerunner, precursor, harbinger, crier.
herald, v. proclaim, announce, foretell, usher in.
herd, n. drove; rabble, mob, multitude. Associated words: gregarious, gregal.
herdsman, n. ranchman, vaquero, cowboy, vacher.
hereditary, a. ancestral, patrimonial, inheritable, inherited.
heritage, n. inheritance, hereditament, patrimony; possession.
hermit, n. recluse, anchoret, anchorite, eremite, solitary, cenobite.
heroic, a. valiant, bold, daring, brave; desperate, drastic, extreme.
heroism, n. courage, valor, bravery, prowess, fortitude, intrepidity.
hesitancy, n. indecision, vacillation, uncertainty, irresolution, wavering.
hesitate, v. doubt, vacillate, falter, dubitate, waver, scruple, demur, deliberate.
hesitation, n. indecision, doubt, vacillation, reluctance, wavering.
hidden, a. covert, latent, concealed; recondite, esoteric, abstruse, unrevealed.
hide, v. veil, cloak, conceal, dissemble, cache, secrete, mask; skulk, lurk.
hidebound, a. untractable, bigoted, obstinate, uncompromising.
hideous, a. horrible, grim, ogreish, grisly, repulsive, ugly, ghastly, shocking.
hiding, n. concealment, secretion.
high, a. lofty, tall, elevated, towering.
high and dry. aground, beached, stranded.
high and mighty. (Colloq.) arrogant, overbearing, domineering, lordly.
higher, a. supernal.
highest, a. loftiest, superlative, meridian, maximum, supreme, topgallant.
highest good. summum bonum.
highest point. meridian, culmination, zenith, maximum.
highfaluting, a. bombastic, grandiloquent.--n. bombast.
highflown, a. bombastic, grandiloquent, pretentious, magniloquent, grandiose.
highflying, a. aspiring, presumptuous, ambitious, Icarian.
highgo, n. (Colloq.) spree, revel, carousal.
highhanded, a. overbearing, tyrannical, arbitrary, autocratic, despotic.
high jinks. (Colloq.) revelry, carousal, wild sport.
highland, n. plateau.
high liver. gormand, sybarite, epicure, gourmet, voluptuary, gastronomer, bon vivant.
high living. gormandism, sybaritism, epicurism, luxury. Antonyms: asceticism, abstemiousness, moderation.
highminded, a. magnanimous, honorable, noble. Antonyms: mean, base, low, servile, abject, ignoble.
highmindedness, n. magnanimity.
high time. full time; (Slang) carousal, revelry.
hightoned, a. shrill, acute; magnanimous, honorable; (Colloq.) fashionable, aristocratic.
highwayman, n. bandit, desperado, road agent, outlaw, footpad.
hill, n. mound, eminence, knoll, elevation; monadnock; butte; monticle; copple; Acropolis; foothill.
hillock, n. knoll, mound.
hilly, a. undulating, uneven, rolling.
hind, n. rustic, boor, peasant.
hinder, n. (Slang) buttocks, rump, seat, fundament.
hinder, v. retard, obstruct, hamper, impede, forestall, forefend, check, thwart, foil.
hindrance, n. retardation, hindering; obstacle, impediment, obstruction, restraint, frustration, encumbrance, check.
hinge joint. diarthrosis, ginglymus.
hint, v. intimate, suggest, imply, allude to, refer.
hint, n. allusion, suggestion, insinuation, intimation, innuendo, inkling.
hip, n. haunch, huckle; (hip-bone) innominate, ilium, ischium, pubis. Associated words: sciatic, ischial, ischiatic, coxalgia, acetabulum.
hire, n. salary, wages, pay, stipend, remuneration, compensation.--v. engage; let, lease.
hireling, a. mercenary, venal.--n. mercenary.
hiss, n. sibilation, sibilance, hissing.--v. sibilate, whiz.
hissing, a. sibilant, sibilatory.
history, n. annals, chronicle, record, account; biography, autobiography. Associated words: historic, historicity, historian, historiology, historiography, Clio, prehistoric.
hit, v. smite, buffet, strike.
hitch, n. catch, impediment, obstacle, obstruction, contretemps.--v. hook, yoke, unite, attach.
hoard, v. garner, amass, save, treasure.
hoard, n. store, supply, stock, accumulation.
hoarse, a. harsh, discordant, husky, raucous, guttural.
hobgoblin, n. sprite, goblin, bugaboo.
hobo, n. (Colloq.) tramp, vagrant, vagabond.
hodgepodge, n. medley, farrago, salmagundi, potpourri.
hog, n. swine, porker; boar; sow; barrow (castrated); glutton. Associated word: porcine.
hoggish, a. swinish, gluttonous, voracious.
hoitytoity, a. flighty, giddy, thoughtless.
hold, v. sustain, restrain, retain, detain, withhold, arrest; contain; clutch, grasp, grip, clinch.
hold back. check, restrain, impede, curb, retard.
holdback, n. check, hindrance, restraint, impediment.
holder, n. tenant, occupier; incumbent.
hold in. restrain, curb, check, repress, retain, rein.
holding, n. restraint, retention, checking, continence, tenacity, detention; tenure, incumbency. Antonyms: incontinence, release.
hole, n. cavity, excavation, pit, perforation, rent, fissure, opening, aperture, delve, cache, concavity, mortise, puncture, orifice, eyelet, crevice, loophole, interstice, gap, spiracle, vent, bung, pothole, manhole, scuttle, scupper, muset, muse; cave, holt, den, lair, retreat, cover, hovel, burrow. Antonyms: imperforation, closure. Associated words: auger, drill, gimlet, bodkin, bore, bit, puncture, perforate, pink, awl, stylet, imperforable, imperforate, punch, wimble, pierce, eyeleteer, dibble, plug, spigot, spile, gouge, puncheon, probe.
holiday, n. festival, fête, fiesta (Sp.).
holiness, n. sanctity, piety, godliness, devoutness, sacredness.
hollow, a. excavated, cavernous, vacant, void, unfilled, empty; cannulated; concave, depressed, gaunt, sunken; insincere, unsound, false, hypocritical. Antonyms: convex, protuberant, sincere.
hollow, v. scoop, excavate, concave.
hollow, n. depression, cavity, valley; concavity, channel, groove, concave, recess; correi.
holy, a. sacred, consecrated, hallowed, sanctified, saintly, godly, pious, guileless.
Holy Ghost. Paraclete, Holy Spirit, the Comforter, the Sanctifier.
holy oil. chrism. Associated words: chrismatory, chrismation, chrismal, cruet, ampulla, unction.
holy water. Associated words: asperges, aspergill, aspergillum, aspersorium, aspersoir, stoup, font, bénitier, cruet, hyssop.
homage, n. deference, obeisance, reverence, honor; fealty, fidelity, allegiance; adoration.
home, n. domicile, residence, dwelling-place, abode, dwelling, hearth, hearthstone; habitat, seat; asylum, retreat. Associated words: domestic, domesticate, domesticity, domestication, inhabitativeness.
homeborn, a. native, indigenous.
homely, a. plain, plain-looking, uncomely; inelegant, rude.
homesickness, n. nostalgia. Associated word: nostalgic.
homing instinct. orientation.
hone, n. oilstone.
honest, a. honorable, reputable; upright, sincere, guileless, ingenuous, incorruptible.
honesty, n. uprightness, probity, integrity, candor, sincerity, rectitude.
honey, n. Associated words: melliferous, mellific, mellification, metheglin, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellite, mellivorous, meliphagan, meliphagous, hydromel, mead, comb.
honey-combed, a. alveolate, cellular, faviform, favaginous.
honey-dew, n. meligo, nectar.
honeysuckle, n. woodbine, caprifole.
honey-tongued, a. persuasive, seductive.
honor, n. respect, esteem, veneration, reverence, deference, homage; probity, integrity, magnanimity, uprightness, chastity, decency, virtue, modesty; eminence, distinction, fame; glory, excellency, pride. Antonyms: dishonor, disesteem, irreverence, improbity, disrepute, reproach.
honor, v. esteem, respect, revere, reverence, venerate; dignify, exalt, elevate.
honorable, a. upright, honest, equitable, reputable, magnanimous.
honors, n. pl. titles, dignities, privileges. Associated words: timocracy, timocratic, honorary, honorific.
hood, n. cowl, fascinator, capote, capoch, camail, amice, chaperon, capuchin, bashlyk (Russia).
hooded, a. cowled, capistrate.
hoodlum, n. (Colloq.) rowdy, larrikin.
hoodwink, v. deceive, impose upon, delude, hoax, dupe, overreach.
hook, n. hasp, clasp, catch; crook, tenaculum, peavey, clives, agraffe, fluke, pot-hook, cant-hook, cleek, trammel, cottrel; snare, decoy, trap; bill-hook, sickle.
hook, v. fasten, catch, secure; entrap, ensnare; gore; (Colloq.) steal.
hooked, a. aquiline, bent, curvated, uncinate.
hookedness, n. aquilinity, incurvation.
hoot, v. shout, deride, denounce, execrate.
hop, v. spring, jump, skip, frisk, bound, leap, caper, trip, gambol, dance.
hope, n. optimism, anticipation. Antonyms: despair, desperation, pessimism.
hopeful, a. expectant, optimistic, promising, sanguine.
hopeless, a. despairing, disconsolate, desperate, unpromising
hops, n. pl. Associated words: lupulin, humulin, lupuline.
horde, n. troop, gang, throng, crowd, multitude (nomadic and predatory).
horn, n. antler; epithema; antenna. Associated words: cornification, cornute, dehorn, croche, gore, crocket.
horn, n. trumpet, bugle, cornet, trombone; cornucopia; shophar (Jewish); spur.
horning, n. (Slang) charivari.
hornless, a. polled, mulley, mooley, dodded.
horns of a dilemma. alternatives.
horny, a. ceratose, corneous, cornified, callous, hard.
horrible, a. dreadful, terrible, hideous, shocking, grim, ghastly, atrocious, revolting, nefarious, appalling, heinous, dire, grewsome, execrable, awful.
horrid, a. offensive, detestable, horrible.
horror, n. abhorrence, dread, consternation, detestation.
horror-stricken, a. horror-struck, horrified, appalled.
horse, n. Equus; (male) stallion, stud, sire; (female) mare, dam; (young) colt, foal, filly; (small) pony, tit, mustang; steed, charger, nag, gelding, cockhorse, cob, pad, padnag, roadster, punch, broncho, warragal, sumpter, centaur, hackney, jade, mestino, pintado, roan, bat horse, Bucephalus, Pegasus, Dobbin, Bayard, hobby-horse. Associated words: equine, equestrian, equestrianism, equestrienne, equerry, fractious, hostler, groom, hostlery, postilion, coachman, jockey, hippocampus, hippogriffe, manège, chack, hippology, hippophile, hippotomy, tandem, equitation, farriery, equitant, paddock, hippiatrics, hippiatry, neigh, whinny, nicker, hopple.
horse block. montoir.
horse doctor. veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon, farrier, horse leech.
horseflesh, n. Associated words: hippophagy, hippophagism, hippophagist, hippophagous, equivorous.
horse-fly, n. breese-fly, bot-fly.
horse-laugh, n. guffaw, cachinnation.
horse-louse, n. nitter.
horseman, n. jockey; equestrian; cavalier; cavalryman; chasseur.
horseshoer, n. farrier, blacksmith.
horseshoeing, n. farriery.
horse-trader, n. jockey.
hose, n. hosiery; tubing.
hospital, n. infirmary, asylum, retreat, sanitarium. Associated words: nosocomial, hospitalism.
host, n. entertainer; landlord, hotel-keeper; multitude, throng, horde; army, legion. Associated word: xenial.
host, n. Associated words: ciborium, pyx, paten, monstrance, ostensory, ostension, ostensorium.
hostile, a. antagonistic, inimical, unfriendly, repugnant, adverse.
hostility, n. enmity, animosity, unfriendliness, opposition, warfare, aggression.
hostler, n. groom.
hot, a. torrid, sultry, fiery, scalding, scorching, grilling, broiling, tropical, candent; vehement, passionate, irascible, fervid, ardent, piquant, pungent, acrid, spicy.
hot-blooded, a. ardent, passionate, irritable, excitable, irascible.
hotel, n. hostelry, inn, tavern, caravansary.
hotel-keeper, n. hosteler, host, landlord, inn-keeper, Boniface.
hot room of Roman baths. caldarium.
hot springs. Thermæ.
hound, v. importune, harass.
house, n. dwelling, residence, domicile, abode, habitation; mansion, palace; tenement; château, pavilion, villa, manse, phalanstery, lodge; kiosk; topek; hutch; (religious house) monastery, convent; firm, company, concern; palafitte.
house, v. shelter, protect, harbor; abide, dwell, lodge.
household gods. Lares et Penates. Associated word: lararium.
housewarming, n. infare (Local U.S.).
hovel, n. hut, shanty, shack, cabin, den, dugout.
howl, v. yowl, roar, ululate, yawl.--n. yowling, ululation, howling, wail.
hub, n. nave; protuberance, hummock.
hubbub, n. tumult, uproar, din, clamor, commotion, racket, hurly-burly.
huckleberry, n. whortleberry.
huckster, n. peddler, hawker, chapman, cadger, hucksterer.
huff, n. petulance, tiff, pet.
huffy, a. petulant, touchy, irritable.
hug, n. embrace.--v. embrace, clasp.
huge, a. mammoth, colossal, vast, stupendous, enormous.
hullabaloo, n. (Colloq.) uproar, vociferation, hubbub, din, clamor, tumult.
hum, n. drone, murmur, buzz, bombination; croon.
hum, v. drone, murmur, buzz, bombinate; croon.
humble, a. lowly, meek, modest, unassuming, unpretentious.
humble, v. humiliate, debase, abase, degrade.
humbug, n. imposition, hoax, deception, imposture, charlatanism, quackery, cajolery; impostor, deceiver, cheat, charlatan.
humbug, v. deceive, impose on, hoax.
humdrum, a. monotonous, tedious, prosy, tiresome.--n. monotony, tedium.
humiliate, v. humble, mortify, abash, disgrace, degrade.
humiliation, n. abasement, mortification, degradation, ignominy; humbleness, meekness.
humility, n. meekness, lowliness, self-abasement, diffidence, modesty.
humor, n. disposition, temper, mood; facetiousness, jocularity, waggery, pleasantry, wit, satire; pl. caprices vagaries, whims, fancies, whimsies.
humor, v. indulge, please, gratify, temporize. A ntonyms: discipline, deny, curb, mortify.
humorist, n. wag, droll, jester, wit.
humorous, a. facetious, droll, comical, jocular, waggish.
hump, n. protuberance, hunch.
humpbacked, a. hunchbacked, deformed.
humpy, a. protuberant, humped, uneven.
hunch, n. hump, protuberance; chunk, lump.
hundredfold, a. centuple.
hundred years. century, centenary, centennial.
Hungarian, n. Magyar.
hunger cure. nestitherapy, limotherapy, limotherapia.
hungry, a. voracious, ravenous, eager; starved, depleted, infertile, barren.
hunky, a. (Slang) even, square, all-right, satisfactory.
hunt, v. chase, pursue, follow; search, seek, ransack, rummage, ferret; poach (hunt unlawfully).
hunt, n. chase, pursuit, search, hunting.
hunter, n. huntsman, sportsman, Nimrod; seeker, pursuer, chaser; Diana.
hunting, n. chase, hunt, field-sport. Associated words: quarry, game, poaching, poacher, mort, yoicks, hoicks.
hunting horn. bugle.
hurly-burly, n. tumult, bustle, turmoil, confusion, commotion.
hurrah, n. cheer, huzza.
hurricane, n. cyclone, tornado, typhoon.
hurried, a. cursory, hasty, superficial.
hurry, n. haste, speed, dispatch, expedition, precipitancy, celerity.
hurry, v. hasten, impel, expedite, accelerate, speed, precipitate.
hurt, v. damage, wound, impair, harm, injure, offend, harry.
hurt, n. injury, wound, detriment, harm, damage.
hurtful, a. See injurious.
husband, n. spouse, benedict. Antonyms: bachelor, celibate. Associated words: marital, monandry, polyandry cuckold, cuckoldom, henpecked.
hush, v. silence, still, repress, suppress; appease, allay.
husk, n. glume, hull, rind, shell, bark, kex.
husky, a. dry, raucous, harsh, discordant, guttural, hoarse.
hussy, n. jade, quean; jilt, flirt, jill.
hustle, v. jostle.
hybrid, n. mongrel, crossbreed, cross.--a. mongrel, crossbred.
hypocrisy, n. dissimulation, Pharisaism, sanctimoniousness.
hypocrite, n. dissembler, Pharisee, formalist, dissimulator.
hypocritical, a. Pharisaical, canting, dissembling, sanctimonious, insincere. Antonyms: sincere, unfeigned, undissembling, ingenuous.
ice, n. Associated words: igloo, iceberg, glacier, floe, icicle, frazil, avalanche, curling, skate, skee, skating, skeeing, brash, glare, serac, crampoons, calk, glaciate, glaciation, creeper, anchor ice.
iced, a. chilled, frappe.
Iceland moss. lichen.
icy, a. glacial, glacious.
idea, n. conception, notion, opinion, fancy, impression; intention, design.
ideal, a. faultless, consummate, perfect.
idiocy, n. imbecility, foolishness, fatuity, folly, senselessness
idiot, n. imbecile.
idiotic, a. imbecile, foolish, fatuous, senseless.
idle, a. leisure; vain, unavailing, futile, ineffectual; indolent, slothful, inactive, lazy, otiose.
idleness, n. indolence, sloth, inaction, laziness; futility, vanity. Associated word: Cocagne.
idler, n. sluggard, drone, lounger, loafer, dawdler, donothing.
idol, n. image (of a divinity), effigy, graven image; Juggernaut. Associated words: idolater, idolatrous, idolatry, idolize, iconoplast, iconoclast, iconodule, idolomania, iconography, iconology, idoloclast, iconomachy, ting, iconolatry.
idolize, v. deify, worship, adore.
ignis fatuus. Will-o'-the-wisp, Jack-with-a-lantern, decoy.
ignoble, a. humble, plebeian, untitled; base, dishonorable, low.
ignominious, a. dishonorable, shameful, infamous, disreputable.
ignominy, n. disgrace, dishonor, reproach, obloquy, shame, humiliation.
ignoramus, n. dunce, illiterate, sciolist, wiseacre, dullard, simpleton.
ignorance, n. illiteracy, inerudition, unenlightenment, nescience; quackery, charlatanry.
ignorant, a. illiterate, inerudite unenlightened, uninformed, unlearned, untaught, uneducated, unlettered, nescient; quackish, charlatanic. Antonyms: educated, instructed, schooled, trained, proficient, learned.
ignorantly, adv. unknowingly, unconsciously, inadvertently, unwittingly.
ignorant person. ignoramus, illiterate.
ignore, v. disregard, slight, connive, overlook.
ill, a. ailing, sick, unwell; evil, unfavorable, adverse, bad.
ill at ease. uneasy, uncomfortable, anxious.
ill-boding, a. ominous, inauspicious.
illegal, a. illicit, unlawful, contraband, unlicensed, illegitimate.
illegality, n. unlawfulness, illegitimacy.
illegitimate, a. bastard, adulterine; illegal, illicit; spurious.
illegitimate, v. illegitimatize, bastardize.
illiberal, a. ungenerous, parsimonious, stingy; narrow-minded, bigoted.
illiberality, n. parsimony, stinginess; narrow-mindedness, bigotry, intolerance.
illicit, a. prohibited, unlawful.
illness, n. malady, sickness, disease.
illogical, a. fallacious, sophistical, unsound.
illusion, n. mockery, hallucination, chimera, phantasm, delusion, glamour.
illusive, a. delusive, illusory, chimerical, mocking.
illustrate, v. elucidate, picture, demonstrate, exemplify.
illustration, n. elucidation, exemplification; comparison, example, simile.
ill-will, n. malice, resentment, grudge, rancor, malevolence, antipathy, hatred.
image, n. statue; effigy, figure; ikon, eikon; idol.
image breaker. iconoclast, idoloclast, vandal.
image breaking. iconoclasm, vandalism.
image worship iconolatry, iconoduly.
imaginary, a. fancied, visionary, chimerical, illusive, phantasmal.
imagination, n. fancy, conception, notion, conceit, figment, phantasm.
imagine, v. conceive, fancy; think, suppose, opine, apprehend.
imbecile, n. idiot, witling, fool.
imbecility, n. idiocy, fatuity, foolishness, amentia.
imbedded, a. enfonced.
imitate, v. copy, ape, counterfeit; personate, impersonate, mimic, simulate; parody, caricature.
imitation, n. copy, counterfeit; mimicry, impersonation, mimesis; pasticcio; parody, travesty, burlesque; onomatopœoea.
imitative, a. apish, copying, mimicking, mimetic; onomatopoetic.
imitator, n. copyist, follower, mimic, mime, ape, echo, impersonator.
immanence, n. inherence, indwelling.
immanent, a. inherent, indwelling.
immature, a. undeveloped, embryonic, crude, unripe, premature, untimely.
immediately, adv. instantly, forthwith, directly, straightway, at once, now, instanter. Antonyms: hereafter, by and by, after a while.
immense, a. vast, infinite, illimitable, immeasurable.
immerse, v. submerge, plunge into, dip, immerge, douse; engross.
immersed, a. submerged, plunged into; engrossed, absorbed, occupied.
immersion, n. submersion, immersing; engrossment, absorption.
immoderate, a. excessive, exorbitant, inordinate, intemperate, unrestrained.
immodest, a. indecorous, indelicate, shameless; lewd, unchaste, obscene.
immodesty, n. indecorum, indelicacy, impudicity; lewdness, unchastity, obscenity.
immoral, a. licentious, dissolute, vicious, profligate, loose, illicit, rakish.
immorality, n. vice, licentiousness, depravity, profligacy, obliquity.
immortality, n. deathlessness, athanasia; perpetuity.
immovable, a. fast, permanent, impassive, firm, steadfast.
impact, n. collision, forcible contact; force.
impart, v. communicate.
impartial, a. equitable, fair, disinterested, unbiased, unprejudiced.
impartiality, n. fairness, equity, disinterestedness, justice.
impassable, a. impenetrable, pathless, impervious.
impatient, a. restless, restive, fretful, eager, impetuous.
impede, v. retard.
impediment, n. obstacle, barrier, obstruction, stumblingblock.
impending, a. imminent, threatening.
impenetrable, a. impervious, imperforable.
impenitence, n. incontrition, obduracy, impenitency.
impenitent, a. incontrite, unrepentant, obdurate, incorrigible, recusant, relentless.
imperative, a. binding, compulsory, obligatory, imperious, peremptory.
imperfect, a. defective, faulty, deficient, undeveloped, abortive, fallible, frail, errable.
imperfection, n. defect, blemish, shortcoming, infirmity, foible, deformity, disfigurement, vice, frailty, fallibility.
imperious, a. despotic, magisterial, domineering, dictatorial, tyrannical, imperative.
imperishable, a. permanent, indestructible, enduring.
impersonate, v. personate; personify.
impersonation, n. personation, impersonating; impersonification.
impersonator, n. mimic, personator, mime, actor.
impertinent, a. irrelevant, inapplicable, impudent, saucy, rude, insolent, malapert, flippant.
impervious, a. impermeable, impenetrable, imperviable.
impetus, n. momentum, force, impulse, incentive.
impish, a. malignant.
implacable, a. unappeasable, vindictive, pitiless, irreconcilable.
implant, v. instill, inculcate, ingraft, infix.
implied, a. tacit, inferential.
implore, v. beseech, supplicate, entreat, obsecrate.
imploring, n. supplication, obsecration.
impolite, a. discourteous, inurbane, rude, uncivil, disrespectful, saucy, insolent, impertinent, churlish, brusque, unamiable, surly, gruff, boorish.
impoliteness, n. discourtesy, inurbanity, incivility, impertinence, insolence.
importance, n. moment, materiality, consequence; pomposity, self-importance.
important, a. momentous, material, essential; pompous, consequential.
impose upon. delude, dupe, deceive, victimize.
imposing, a. impressive, stately, majestic, august.
impossibility, n. impracticability.
impossible, a. impracticable, unfeasible, unattainable.
impostor, n. pretender, cheat, charlatan, mountebank, quack, deceiver.
imposture, n. fraud, imposition, charlatanism, deception.
impracticability, n. unfeasibility.
impracticable, a. impossible, unfeasible.
impregnate, v. fecundate.
impregnation, n. fecundation.
imprison, v. incarcerate, immure.
imprisonment, n. incarceration, durance, immurement, duress, confinement, commitment.
impromptu, a. improvised, offhand, extempore, extemporaneous.
improper, a. indecorous, unseemly, indecent, inappropriate, wrong, solecistic.
impropriety, n. unsuitableness, unfitness, indecorum, barbarism, solecism.
improve, v. amend, ameliorate, rectify, better, mend; utilize, use; gain, get better.
improvement, n. betterment, amelioration; meliorism; utilization.
improving, a. ameliorative, beneficial, amending.
impudence, n. insolence, impertinence, effrontery, rudeness.
impudent, a. insolent, impertinent, flippant, pert, brazen, saucy.
impulse, n. motive, incentive; impulsion, impetus.
impulsive, a. passionate, capricious, hasty; impellent, propulsive.
impure, a. tainted, defiled, contaminated, polluted, vitiated, infected; adulterated, alloyed, sophisticated; unchaste, lewd, indelicate, indecent; barbarous, vulgar, hybrid.
impurity, n. defilement, contamination, taint, pollution; adulteration, alloy, sophistication; unchastity, lewdness, indecency, indelicacy; pl. garblings, garbles.
inability, n. incompetence, impotence, incapability, incompetency, inefficiency, disability.
in a body. altogether, en masse.
inaccuracy, n. inexactness, incorrectness, impropriety.
inaccurate, a. incorrect, inexact, erroneous, faulty, wrong.
inaction, n. inactivity, inertness, stagnation, idleness.
inactive, a. inert, motionless, quiescent, dormant, inoperative, sluggish, stagnant, dilatory, latent, passive, torpid.
inactivity, n. inaction, passivity, inertia, lethargy, dormancy, stagnation, torpor, latency, sloth, Fabian policy.
inadequate, a. insufficient, deficient; defective, incomplete, imperfect.
inappropriate, a. unsuitable, unbecoming, inapplicable.
inapt, a. irrelevant, unsuitable, inept, inapplicable.
inattention, n. inadvertence, abstraction, heedlessness, disregard, neglect, remissness.
inattentive, a. heedless, absent-minded, inadvertent, unmindful, careless.
inbeing, n. inherence.
inborn, a. congenital, inherent, innate, instinctive, ingenerate.
incapable, a. incompetent, disqualified, unfit, insusceptible.
incarnation, n. incarnification, Avatar; personification.
incautious, a. unwary, inconsiderate, indiscreet, thoughtless.
incense, n. Associated words: thurible, censer, thurification, thurify, frankincense, cense, thurifer.
incentive, n. motive, spur, incitement, stimulus, inducement provocation.
incident, n. event, happening, episode, occurrence.
incidental, a. casual, accidental, oontingent, fortuitous; subordinate, collateral, accessory.
incite, v. instigate, stimulate, arouse, goad, spur, impel.
incitement, n. stimulus, instigation, incitation, spur, incentive.
incivility, n. discourtesy, rudeness, incomity, inurbanity, disrespect.
inclination, n. leaning, slant; tendency, propensity, proneness, penchant, predilection.
incline, n. slant, slope, ascent, descent, grade.--v. lean, tend, dispose.
inclose, v. surround, encircle, circumscribe, encompass, enclose.
inclosure, n. surrounding, closure, barrier, fence, corral, stockade.
include, v. comprise, comprehend, inclose.
inclusion, n. comprisal.
income, n. revenue, proceeds; tontine, annuity. Associated word: fructuary.
incomparable, a. peerless, matchless, transcendent, inimitable unrivalled, unapproachable.
incompetent, a. inefficient, unqualified, incapable; inadequate; unfit, unsuited.
incomplete, a. unfinished, defective, imperfect, deficient, partial, inchoate.
incomprehensible, a. inconceivable, abstruse, unfathomable.
inconsiderate, a. thoughtless, heedless, inattentive, careless.
inconsistency, n. discordance, incoherence, contrariety, incompatibility.
inconsistent, a. disagreeing, incoherent, contradictory, discrepant, incompatible.
inconstancy, n. fickleness, mutability, variableness, instability.
inconstant, a. fickle, changeable, volatile, flighty, mercurial, variable.
inconvenient, a. unhandy, incommodious, inopportune, untoward.
incorrect, a. inaccurate, erroneous, inexact, wrong; ungrammatical, solecistic.
incorrectness, n. inaccuracy, inexactness, error; impropriety.
increase, v. augment, advance, enlarge; multiply, be prolific, wax; aggravate, enhance, extend, augment, intensify, exacerbate, amplify, magnify, heighten, accelerate.
increase, n. augmentation, accretion, increment, accession, amplification, addition, accrument.
increase of motion. acceleration.
incremate, v. cremate, incinerate.
incremation, n. cremation.
incumbent, a. obligatory, imposed, binding.
incumbrance, n. hindrance, impediment, incubus; mortgage, claim, lien.
incurable, a. insanable, irremediable, immedicable; irremedicable, irreparable.
indebtedness, n. obligation; debts, liabilities.
indecency, n. immodesty, indelicacy, shamelessness, obscenity, ribaldry, lewdness.
indecent, a. immodest, obscene, indelicate, shameless, ribald, lewd, unchaste.
indecision, n. vacillation, indetermination, irresolution, wavering, inconstancy.
indecisive, a. inconclusive, vacillating, hesitating, irresolute, wavering.
indefatigable, a. untiring, persistent, unremitting, sedulous, unflagging.
indefinite, a. vague, indeterminate, equivocal, ambiguous, inexplicit, inexact.
indelicacy, n. unrefinement, rudeness, indecorum, immodesty.
indelicate, a. unrefined, indecorous, immodest, unchaste, rude, vulgar.
indemnity, n. security, insurance; restitution, reimbursement, indemnification.
indentation, n. bruise, notch, depression, indenture, serrature, jag, engrailment, crenellation.
independence, n. freedom, self-government, liberty, autonomy; opulence, affluence.
independent, a. self-governing, autonomous; self-reliant; exclusive, irrespective; affluent.
Indian, n. (aboriginal American) red man; (of mixed blood) metisse, ladino, mestizo, guacho, griffe, mameluco, half-breed. Associated words: tepee, wigwam, tomahawk, lodge, wickiup, sachemdom, pueblo, calumet, totem, totemism, powwow, roanoke, coup, gens, Manito, pogamoggan, potlatch, chinook, runtee, travail, travois, strouding.
Indian blanket. stroud.
Indian chief. sachem, sannup, sagamore, brave.
Indian child. papoose.
Indian money. wampum, seawan, suckanhock, colcol, peag, hiagua, kopkops.
Indian prince. Maharajah, Rajah.
Indian princess or queen. Rani, Ranee.
Indian woman. squaw, mahaly.
India rubber. caoutchouc.
indicate, v. designate, betoken, signify.
indication, n. designation, signifying; symptom, evidence, sign, token, manifestation.
indicator, n. (as in a hotel) annunciator.
indictment, n. accusation, charge, arraignment, crimination.
indifference, n. apathy, coolness, negligence, unconcern, nonchalance, insouciance; mediocrity, inferiority; neutrality, impartiality, disinterestedness.
indifferent, a. disinterested, unconcerned, nonchalant, perfunctory, apathetic, insouciant; neutral, impartial; mediocre, passable, tolerable.
indirect, a. roundabout, circuitous, tortuous.
indiscreet, a. unwise, imprudent.
indiscretion, n. unwisdom, folly, imprudence; misstep, lapse.
indisposed, a. averse, disinclined, unwilling, loath, reluctant; sick, ill, unwell.
indisposition, n. disinclination, averseness, reluctance, unwillingness.
indisputable, a. undeniable, incontestable, indubitable, incontrovertible.
indissolvable, a. indissoluble.
indocile, a. intractable, refractory, unruly.
indolence, n. idleness, laziness, indulgence, sloth, inactivity, faineance.
indolent, a. lazy, slothful, supine, dronish, listless.
inducement, n. incentive, incitement, motive, stimulus.
indulge, v. satisfy, gratify, luxuriate; humor, pamper, cocker; grant, allow, permit. Antonyms: mortify, deny, suppress, restrain.
indulgence, n. humoring, pampering, gratification; kindness, favor, lenity, forbearance; absolution. Antonyms: mortification, denial, restraint, non-indulgence.
indulgent, a. forbearing, kind, lenient, lax, merciful.
industrial science. technology, polytechnics.
industrious, a. assiduous, diligent, sedulous, persistent, hard-working. Antonyms: idle, indolent, inactive, lazy.
industry, n. assiduity, diligence, activity; labor, work, exertion, efforts.
indwelling, n. immanence, inherence.--a. immanent, inherent.
ineffective, a. ineffectual, unavailing, inefficacious.
inefficient, a. ineffective, inefficacious; slack, remiss, incompetent.
inelastic, a. inductile, inextensible, rigid.
inelasticity, n. inductility, inextensibility, rigidity.
ineligible, a. disqualified.
inequality, n. disparity, disproportion, unevenness, irregularity; unfairness, injustice; inequation.
inexcusable, a. unpardonable, indefensible, unjustifiable, unwarrantable.
inexhaustible, a. exhaustless.
inexorable, a. unyielding, relentless, implacable, unmovable, unrelenting.
inexperienced, a. untrained, unpractised, undisciplined, raw, unskilled.
inexpert, a. maladroit, unskillful, bungling.
inexpressible, a. ineffable, unspeakable, unutterable.
infallibility, n. inerrability.
infallible, a. inerrable, unerring, sure, certain, undeniable.
infamous, a. disreputable, ignominious, scandalous, opprobrious, odious, heinous.
infamy, n. disgrace, ignominy, odium, obloquy, opprobrium.
infancy, n. babyhood; minority, nonage, pupilage.
infantile paralysis. poliomyelitis.
infatuate, v. enamor, charm. Antonyms: repel, disgust, disillusionize.
infection, n. contagion, contamination, vitiation, pollution.
infectious, a. contagious, pestiferous, epidemic, vitiating.
infer, v. deduce, imply, gather.
inference, n. deduction, conclusion, illation, corollary.
inferior, a. poorer, lower, subordinate, menial, minor, mediocre, subaltern.
inferior, n. subordinate. Antonyms: peer, equal, superior.
inferiority, n. subordinacy, mediocrity, deficiency.
infidel, n. free-thinker, atheist, unbeliever, skeptic.
infirmity, n. See weakness.
inflammable, a. combustible, accendible; irascible, irritable, excitable.
inflammation, n. phlogosis; phlegmasia. Associated words: phlogistic, phlogogenous, antiphlogistic, demulcent delitescence.
inflammatory, a. phlogistic; seditious, incendiary.
inflate, v. expand, enlarge, distend.
inflated, a. distended, blown up; bombastic, pompous, grandiloquent, declamatory.
inflation, n. distention, expansion.
inflection, n. modulation, accent.
inflexibility, n. rigidity, stiffness; firmness, pertinacity, obstinacy, steadfastness.
inflexible, a. unyielding, rigid, impliable; immovable, resolute, steadfast.
influence, n. sway, control; persuasion, restraint; authority, ascendency, prestige.
influence, v. move, persuade, induce, sway, control, prevail upon, actuate, impel.
informal, a. unceremonious, unconventional, easy, natural, unconstrained.
informality, n. unceremoniousness.
information, n. knowledge, intelligence, instruction; (Law) complaint, accusation.
infringe, v. violate, transgress; encroach, trespass, intrench.
infringement, n. transgression, violation, breach, encroachment, trespass, intrenchment.
in full. unabridged, at length.
ingenious, a. inventive, resourceful.
ingratitude, n. unthankfulness.
ingredient, n. constituent, element, component, part.
inhabitant, n. dweller, denizen, residentiary, resident, citizen. Antonyms: sojourner, pilgrim, visitor.
inherent, a. innate, adhering, inexistent, inborn, inalienable.
inheritable, a. hereditable.
inheritance, n. heritage, patrimony, legacy.
inhuman, a. savage, barbarous, fiendish, brutal, cruel.
inhumanity, n. cruelty, brutality, barbarity, mercilessness.
injection, n. immission, injecting; enema, clyster, lavement.
injure, v. damage, harm, hurt, impair, disfigure, maim, mar, wound.
injurious, a. hurtful, harmful, detrimental, pernicious, deleterious, baneful, noxious, maleficent, prejudicial; defamatory, derogatory, detractory.
injury, n. damage, detriment, harm, hurt, wound, impairment, mutilation, defacement, violation, lesion. Associated words: vulnerable, vulnerability, invulnerable, invulnerability, inviolable, vulnific.
injustice, n. inequity, unfairness; grievance.
inkling, n. hint, intimation, allusion.
inkstand, n. standish.
inky, a. atramentous, atramental, atramentarious.
inlaid work. marquetry, parquetry, mosaic.
inland, a. interior, internal.
inlet, n. entrance, ingress; bay, recess, bight, estuary, cove, frith, bayou.
inmate, n. occupant.
inn, n. lodging house, tavern, hotel; cabaret, caravansary, khan.
innate, a. inborn, inherent, native.
inner, a. internal, interior; obscure, esoteric, innermost parts, recesses, penetralia, sanctuary.
innocence, n. blamelessness, guilelessness, guiltlessness, impeccability, inoffensiveness.
innocent, a. blameless, guileless, guiltless, impeccable, inoffensive, sinless, artless, inculpable, irreproachable, irreprehensible, inerrable, irresponsible, virtuous, unsophisticated.
inquiring, a. curious, inquisitive.
inquiry, n. question, query, interrogation; research, investigationm scrutiny.
inquisitive, a. inquiring, mousing, curious, intrusive, prying, meddlesome. Antonyms: indifferent, unconcerned, uninterested.
insane, a. demented, crazy, mad, deranged, delirious, dementate; paranoiac. Antonyms: sane, rational.
insane asylum. bedlam, bethlehem, madhouse, retreat.
insanity, n. dementia, alienation of mind, madness, lunacy, craziness, derangement, frenzy, delirium, mania, hallucination, aberration of mind, bedlamism; paranoia, monomania. Antonyms: sanity, rationality, lucidity. Associated words: alienist, alienism.
insatiable, a. unappeasable; voracious, rapacious, omnivorous.
inscrutable, a. incomprehensible, inexplicable, unsearchable.
insect, n. Associated words: entomology, entomologist, entomologic, chrsalis, pupa, cicada, cocoon, credpitaculum, entomophilous, entornophily, entomtaxy, entomotomy, insecticidal, insectifuge, insectile, larva, lepidopterist, larvarium, stridor, stridulate, stridulation, silphology, stridulatory, nymph, horismology, imago.
insect-eaters, n. pl. Insectivora, Entomophaga.
insect-eating, a. insectivorous, entomophagous.
insect powder. insecticide, pyrethrum, entomologic, chrysalis, pupa, cicada, cocoon, crepitaculum, entomophilous, entomophily, entomotaxy, entomotomy, insecticidal, insectifuge, insectile, larva, lepidopterist, larvarium, stridor, stridulate, stridulation, silphology, stridulatory, nymph, horismology, imago.
insect-eaters, n. pl. Insectivora, Entomophaga.
insect-eating, a. insectivorous, entomophagous.
insect powder. insecticide, pyrethrum.
insecure, a. risky, unsafe, precarious, rickety, unstable, dangerous.
insecurity, n. unsafely, risk, instability, precariousness.
insensibility, n. unconsciousness, torpor, coma, narcosis, lethargy, numbness, narcoma, insusceptibility, anæsthesia, stupefaction, stupor, carus.
insensible, a. unfeeling, numb, insensate, torpid, unimpressible, unsusceptible, unconscious; imperceptible, gradual, imperceivable.
inseparable, a. indivisible, indissoluble.
insert, v. interpolate, intercalate, interject, ingraft, inosculate.
insertion, n. interjection, interpolation, intercalation, inosculation.
inside, a. internal, inner, interior.
insides, n. pl. entrails; penetralia, recesses.
insight, n. discernment.
insignificance, n. unimportance, pettiness, immateriality, triviality, inanity.
insignificant, n. meaningless; unimportant, immaterial, petty, trivial, paltry.
insincere, a. disingenuous, dissembling, false, hypocritical, affected, deceitful.
insincerity, n. duplicity, disingenuousness, hypocrisy, dissimulation.
insinuation, n. innuendo, intimation; ingratiation.
insist, v. persist, press, urge, contend.
insistence, n. persistence, pertinacity, importunity, urgency, contention, instance.
insistent, a. persistent, importunate, insisting.
insnare, v. ensnare, entrap, seduce, inveigle, allure, entangle.
insolation, n. sunstroke, siriasis; sun bath.
insolence, n. impudence, contumely, impertinence, contumacy, effrontery, disrespect.
insolent, a. impudent, contumelious, overbearing, disrespectful contemptuous.
insoluble, a. indissoluble; unexplainable, insolvable, inexplicable.
inspect, v. examine.
inspiration, n. inhalation (breathing in); divine afflatus, theopneusty.
inspiring, a. inspiriting, elevating, promethean.
in spite of. notwithstanding, despite, nevertheless.
install, v. instate, induct.
installation, n. induction.
instance, n. persistency, request, solicitation, urgency; example, case, illustration.
instantly, adv. immediately, forthwith, at once, instanter, urgently, persistently.
instep, n. metatarsus, acrotarsium.
instruct, v. teach, indoctrinate, edify, enlighten, coach.
instruction, n. nurture, tuition, teaching, information, indoctrination, inculcation, education, admonition; edification, enlightenment; propædeutics.
instructive, a. edifying, didactic, preceptive, mentorial; propædeutic.
instructor, n. teacher, preceptor, tutor, master, coach, mentor, counselor, monitor, trainer.
instrument, n. tool, utensil, implement; agent, means, medium.
insufferable, a. intolerable, unendurable; detestable, offensive.
insufficiency, n. deficiency, inadequacy.
insufficient, a. inadequate, deficient, incommensurate, lacking.
insult, n. indignity, affront.
insult, v. offend, affront, flout.
insulting, a. offensive, contemptuous, contumelious, scurrilous.
insurance, n. assurance, indemnity.
insure, v. assure, indemnify; underwrite.
insurgency, n. revolt, rebellion, insubordination, mutiny.
insurgent, a. rebellious, mutinous, insubordinate, insurrectionary.
insurgent, n. rebel, revolter, mutineer, insurrectionist.
intaglio, n. diaglyph. Antonym: cameo.
intelligence, n. knowledge, discernment, insight, acumen.
intelligent, a. clever, discerning, astute, bright, knowing, apt, sensible.
intemperance, n. excess, immoderation, debauchery.
intemperate, a. immoderate, excessive, unrestrained.
intend, v. design, purpose, propose, contemplate, plan.
intended, n. fiancé (male), fiancée (female).
intense, a. extreme, excruciating.
intensify, v. aggravate, exacerbate, heighten.
intention, n. design, plan, purpose, aim.
intentional, a. deliberate, premeditated. Antonyms: unintentional, inadvertent, accidental.
intercede, v. mediate, interpose, propitiate.
intercession, n. mediation, interposition, propitiation.
intercessor, n. mediator, interceder, propitiator, make-peace.
interchange, n. reciprocation, reciprocity, permutation; alternation.
interest, n. concern; share, portion, part, participation; advantage, benefit, weal, behoof; usury. Antonyms: boredom, ennui, indifference, unconcern.
interested, a. concerned; prejudiced, partial. Antonyms: disinterested, unconcerned, bored.
interfere, v. clash, conflict; intermeddle, interpose, intervene.
interference, n. clashing, collision; intermeddling, interposition, intervention.
interlining, n. interlineation.
interloper, n. intruder, interferer.
intermediate, a. intervening, interjacent; interlocutory (Law).
intermittent, a. remittent, periodical, recurrent.
internal, a. inward, interior, inside, inner; esoteric; intrinsic; inherent.
interpret, v. construe, translate, render.
interpretation, n. rendering, rendition, translation; exegesis, exegetics, hermeneutics, isagogics, anagogics, dittology.
interrogation point. eroteme.
interval, n. interstice (space between); interim, meantime
intervening, a. intermediate, interjacent.
intervention, n. interference, interposition; mediation, intercession.
intestines, n. pl. entrails, bowels, inwards, guts; omentum, caul, vermiform appendix, colon, rectum, hindgut, enteron, cæcum, ileum, ileus, volvulus, jejunum, duodenum, alimentary canal; chitterlings. Associated words: enterology, splanchnology, enterography, splanchnography, enteropathy, enteroplasty, enterotomy, enteralgia, enterolith, enteritis, intestinal, enteric, crypt, peristalsis, vermiculation, alvine, viscerate, visceration, eviscerate, evisceration, disembowel, disembowelment.
intolerable, a. insufferable, unendurable.
intolerance, n. bigotry, dogmatism, illiberality.
intolerant, a. bigoted, unforbearing, illiberal.
intrenchment, n. earthwork, fortification; encroachment, infringement, invasion, inroad.
intricacy, n. complication, entanglement, complexity.
intricate, a. complicated, entangled, involved, labyrinthian, mazy.
intrigue, n. conspiracy, machination, cabal, plot; amour (illicit love affair), liaison.
intrigue, v. plot, scheme, machinate, cabal.
intriguer, n. machinator, plotter, schemer, Figaro, intrigant, intrigante (female).
intriguing, a. scheming, Machiavelian, wily.
intrinsic, a. inherent, innate, real, genuine. Antonym: extrinsic.
introduction, n. preface, proem, exordium, prelude, prolegomenon, prologue, foreword; presentation; interpolation interposition, initiation.
introductory, a. preliminary, proemial, prefatory.
intrude, v. infringe, invade, encroach, obtrude, interlope.
intrusion, n. encroachment, obtrusion, infringement, interloping.
intrusive, a. obtrusive. Antonyms: unintrusive, unobtrusive, retiring.
intrust, v. commit, confide.
invade, v. infringe, encroach, trespass, intrench, trench.
invalid, a. null, void, of no efficacy; baseless, unfounded.
invalid, a. valetudinary.
invalid, n. valetudinarian.
invalidate, v. annul, abrogate, cancel, quash, nullify.
invalidation, n. nullification, abrogation, annulment.
invalidism, n. valetudinarianism.
invasion, n. irruption, foray, raid, aggression; violation, infringement, encroachment, intrenchment.
inveiglement, n. wheedling, seduction.
investigate, v. probe, sift, examine.
investigation, n. examination, inquiry, research.
invidious, a. objectionable, offensive.
invincible, a. indomitable, unconquerable.
invisible, a. imperceptible, microscopic, evanescent.
invitation, n. bidding, call, summons.
invite, v. bid, ask, summon; allure, induce, entice.
invocation, n. prayer, supplication.
involuntary, a. uncontrollable, instinctive, automatic, compulsory, forced.
inwards, n. pl. entrails, intestines, bowels, guts; viscera; giblets, inmeats, umbles.
iota, n. scintilla, tittle, atom, mite, jot, whit, bit, particle.
Ireland, n. Erin, Emerald Isle.
iridescent, a. prismatic, nacreous.
iris, n. flower-de-luce, fleur-de-lis, flag.
Irish, a. Hibernian.
Irishman, n. Hibernian, Milesian, Teague, Pat, Paddy.
irons, n. pl. fetters, chains, handcuffs, shackles, manacles, hampers, gyves.
ironworker's pneumonia. siderosis.
irrecoverable, a. irretrievable.
irregular, a. inconformable, abnormal, anomalous, exceptional, unsymmetrical, unusual, erose, baroque, aberrant.
irregularity, n. inconformableness, abnormality, asymmetry, anomaly, aberration, intermittency.
irreligious, a. ungodly, impious, godless, sacrilegious, blasphemous, profane.
irresolute, a. wavering, vacillating, inconstant, fickle, double-minded.
irresolution, n. indecision, vacillation, inconstancy, fickleness.
irresponsible, a. unaccountable, unanswerable, unreliable.
irritable, a. irascible, fretful, spleeny, choleric, petulant, fiery, captious, splenetic.
irritate, v. intensify, stimulate; provoke, vex, annoy, offend, chafe.
isinglass, n. fishglue, ichthyocol, ichthyocolla; mica; carlock.
island, n. isle, eyot, holm, islet; atoll. Associated words: insular, insularity, archipelago, lagoon, coral, maroon, marooner.
isolate, v. insulate, segregate, dissociate, detach, separate.
isolated, a. insulated, separate, solitary, segregated, sporadic.
isolation, n. insulation, segregation; loneliness, solitude.
issue, v. gush, disembogue; sally forth, debouch; proceed, emanate, ensue, follow, result.
Italian laborers. Associated word: padrone.
Italian paste. macaroni, vermicelli.
itch, n. psora, scabies; prurigo; sycosis (barber's itch); eczema; pruriency.
itching, a. tingling, prurient.
ivory, n. Associated words: eburnean, eburnine, eburin, eburnification, eburnation.
ivy, n. Associated words: hederaceous, hederal, hederic, hederiferous, hederose.
Jab, n. (Colloq.) thrust, punch, dig.
jabber, n. gibberish, chatter, gabble, babble.--v. gabble, gibber, babble, chatter.
jackass, n. donkey; dolt, simpleton, witling, ignoramus, fool.
jacket, n. coat, jerkin, blouse, spencer, bolero, pea-jacket sontag, blazer, sweater, reefer, jersey, jumper, cardigan jacket, grego, garibaldi, camisole, temiak (Eskimo); cleading.
jade, n. nephrite, jadeite; nag, plug; hussy, wench, quean.
jag, n. notch, cleft, barb, protuberance.--v. notch.
jagged, a. cleft, jaggy, notched, serrated, erose, sharp.
jail, n. prison, lockup, calaboose, workhouse, limbo.
jail bird. prisoner.
jailer, n. warden, turnkey, sheriff.
jail fever. typhus fever.
jam, n. preserve, conserve; crowd, throng, crush.
jam, v. squeeze, crowd, press, wedge in, bruise.
jamboree, n. (Slang) carousal, revelry, carouse, spree.
jangle, n. clashing, clang, discord, dissonance; wrangling, quarrel, dispute, altercation.
jangle, v. clash, clang; quarrel, wrangle, dispute, altercate.
jangling, a. discordant, dissonant, clashing, inharmonious.
janitor, n. doorkeeper, porter, concierge; (female) janitress, janitrix.
Japan, n. Nippon, Flowery Kingdom. Associated words: Japanese, geisha, coolie, Mikado, samurai, shizoku, heimin, kwazoku, Mongol, Mongolian, kimono, Dairi, daimio, saki, Tycoon, Shogun.
japan, n. lacquer, varnish, enamel.
jar, n. crock; gurglet; shock, jolt, vibration.--v. jolt, jounce, shock, discompose, unsettle; grate.
jargon, n. gibberish, drivel, babble, gabble, twaddle, bosh; cant, slang, flash, argot, dialect.
jaundice, n. icterus.--v. prejudice.
jaundiced, a. prejudiced, biased, warped.
jaunty, a. airy, showy, finical, affected, fine.
jaw, n. Jawbone, jowl; maxilla (upper jaw); mandible (lower jaw).
jaw, v. (Low) scold, upbraid, berate, clamor, rail at.
jawless, a. agnathic, agnathous.
jaw muscle. masseter.
jayhawker, n. guerrilla.
jealous, a. suspicious, distrustful.
jealousy, n. suspicion, distrust.
jeer, v. mock, deride, ridicule, taunt, jibe.
jeering, n. mockery, derision, ridicule, scoffing, sneer, taunt.
jellylike, a. gelatinous, colloid.
jeopard, v. imperil, risk, expose, endanger, hazard.
jeopardize, v. jeopard.
jeopardy, n. danger, peril, hazard, exposure.
jerk, v. twitch, yerk.
jerked beef. charqui.
jerky, a. abrupt, unconnected.
jest, n. joke, witticism, quip, jeu d' esprit, Joe Miller.
jest, v. joke.
jester, n. joker, wag; buffoon, merry-andrew, clown, harlequin, zany.
jesting, n. joking, jest, raillery, banter, persiflage, facetiousness, badinage, jocularity.
jesting, a. waggish, jocular, facetious, sportive.
jet, v. spurt, spout, gush; protrude, project.--n. spouting, spurt, gush.
Jew, n. Hebrew, Israelite, Judahite, Judean, Semite, Yid; Rabbi, Sadducee, Pharisee, Levite. Associated words: Yiddish, ghetto, kosher, tref, Talmud, kittel, sephardic, Sanhedrim, synagogue, Jewry, Judaism, judaize.
Jewish, a. Hebrew, Judaic, Israelitish, Hebraic, Semitic.
Jewish beggar. schnorrer.
Jewish marriage broker. schatchen.
jewelry, n. jewels; bijoutry.
Jew's pitch. asphaltum, bitumen.
Jezebel, n.virago, she-devil, fury, Gorgon, termagant.
jibe, v. (Colloq.) agree, harmonize, fit.
jiffy, n. (Colloq.)moment, instant, second, trice.
jill, n. coquette, flirt; sweetheart, gill.
jingle, n. tinkling, jingling, tintinnabulation; rhyme.--v. tinkle.
job, n. task; situation, position.
jocose, a. facetious, waggish, sportive, merry, jocular, humorous.
jocular, a. jesting, jocose, sportive, merry, waggish.
jocularity, n. jesting, waggishness, waggery, facetiousness, drollery.
jog, n. shake, jolt, jar, shove; hitch, break.
jog, v. push, shake, jostle; suggest to, notify, remind.
johnny cake. hoecake, corncake.
join, v. connect, couple, unite, combine, associate, add, append, annex, link, conjoin, mortise, dowel, splice, knit, dovetail, mingle, coalesce, unify, confederate; abut. Antonyms: disjoin, disconnect. See separate.
joiner, n. link, coupling, bond; woodworker, carpenter.
joint, n. gimbal joint, dove-tail joint, joggle joint, mortise joint, miter, dowel, scarf joint, rabbet joint.
joint, n. articulation; suture, commissure, knuckle. Associated words: arthrology, arthrography, synosteology arthrectomy, synovia, articular, bursa, synovial, internode, internodal, anchylose, dislocate, dislocation, luxate, luxation.
joint, a. combined, joined, united.
jointed, a. articulated, hinged; knotted, gnarled.
jointless, a. acondylous, anarthrous, inarticulate.
joke, n. jest, witticism, jocosity, sally, jeu d'esprit, quip, quirk, Joe Miller.
joking, n. jesting, rallying, banter, persiflage, jocularity, waggishness.
jokingly, adv. sportively, jestingly, waggishly, jocularly.
jolly, a. jovial, vivacious, congenial, convivial, mirthful, sportive, gay, facetious, boon, waggish, jocular, jocose, witty, blithe, sprightly, cheery.
jolly, v. (Colloq.) make good-natured, joke, jest, cheer, encourage.
jolt, n. jar, shock, jounce, jolting.--v. shake, jar, jounce.
jot, n. iota, point, tittle, bit, mite, atom, scintilla, ace, particle, whit.
jotting, n. memorandum, note, entry.
jounce, n. jolt, shake, jolting.--v. jolt, shake, jar.
journal, n. day-book, daily register, record; diary; periodical, publication, magazine, gazette, ephemeris.
journey, n. trip, tour, pilgrimage, excursion, travel, jaunt, peregrination. Associated words: itinerary, itinerancy, viatic, viaticum.
journeyman, n. handicraftsman, artisan. Antonyms: apprentice, amateur.
joust, v. tilt.
Jove, n. Jupiter.
jovial, a. jolly, mirthful, gay, merry, sportive, hilarious, gleeful.
joviality, n. gayety, jollity, sportiveness, liveliness.
joy, n. gladness, exultation, jubilation, mirth, festivity glee, elation, merriment.
joyful, a. joyous, glad, elated, jubilant, exhilarating, happy, buoyant, merry, encouraging, felicitous.
joyous, a. joyful.
jubilant, a. joyful, exultant, triumphant.
jubilation, n. rejoicing, exultation, triumph.
Judas, n. betrayer, traitor.
Judas, a. traitorous, treacherous, disloyal, perfidious.
judge, v. adjudge, adjudicate, try; discern, distinguish, discriminate, decide; esteem, think, consider, reckon, deem, regard; arbitrate.
judge, n. justice, judger; arbitrator, arbiter, umpire, referee; connoisseur, critic; puisne; deemster (Isle of Man). Associated words: judicial, judicially, judicable, judicatory, judicature, judiciary.
judges, n. pl. judiciary.
judgment, n. decision, adjudication, arbitrament, arbitration, adjudgment; sentence, decree, verdict; discrimination, discernment.
judgment-seat, n. court, tribunal, bar, judicatory.
judicial, a. judicative, judicatory, juridical, judiciary.
judicious, a. prudent, discreet, well-advised.
jug, n. pitcher, ewer, demijohn, flagon; bellarmine, long-beard.
juggler, n. prestidigitator, magician, conjurer; cheat, impostor; jongleur.
jugglery, n. sleight of hand, legerdemain, prestidigitation, magic, conjuring; imposture, trickery, hankey-pankey.
juicy, a. succulent, sappy, lush, luscious. Antonyms: juiceless, sapless, dry.
jumble, v. confuse, disarrange, entangle, mix
jumble, n. disorder, confusion, disarray, mixture, entanglement, chaos, hodgepodge.
jump, v. spring, bound, leap, hop, caper, vault; bounce, jolt.
jump, n. leap, spring, bound, hop, vault, caper, jolt.
junction, n. union, coalition; juncture.
juncture, n. joint, seam; crisis, conjuncture, point, exigency.
jungle, n. thicket, brake, boscage, brush.
junket, n. delicacy, sweetmeat; feast, banquet.--v. feast, banquet, regale, entertain.
junta, n. council, tribunal, assembly, convention.
junto, n. secret council, cabal, clique, faction.
jury, n. Associated words: impanel, panel, venire, venire, facias, tales, talesman.
juryman, n. juror.
just, a. upright, honest, conscientious, honorable, straightforward; condign, merited, deserved, due; reasonable, conscionable, equitable, fair; unbiased, impartial correct, exact, accurate, proper, appropriate. Antonyms: dishonest, inequitable, undeserved. See unjust.
just, adv. precisely, exactly; closely, nearly, almost; barely, scarcely, only.
justice, n. justness, quity, impartiality; judge. Antonyms: inequity, injustice.
justifiable, a. warrantable, defensible, vindicable.
justification, n. vindication, exuplpation, exoneration, defense.
justifier, n. justificatior, vindicator, defender.
justify, v. vindicate, warrant, excuse, exonorate, exculpate, absolve, defend.
justle, v. clash, bump, jostle, collide.
justly, adv. honestly, fairly, equitably, impartially.
justness, n. justice, fairness, equity, impartiality, condignness.
jut, v. jut out, project, protrude.--n. projection, jutt.
jutting, a. projecting, protruding.
jutting out projection, projecture, protrusion
jutty, n. pier, mole, jetty.
juvenile, a. youthful, young, immature.
juvenility, n. youthfulness, immaturity.
Keel over. (Colloq.) overturn, capsize, tip over.
keen, a. sharp, acute, trenchant; penetrating, shrewd, astute, discerning; piercing, poignant, excruciating, a crimonious, mordacious, bitter, intense, severe; eager, ardent, ravenous, vehement.
keep, n. custody, charge; maintenance, support; stronghold, donjon; condition, case.
keep, v. detain, restrain, hold, retain, repress, withhold; preserve, conserve; maintain, continue; guard, shield, defend, protect, screen, preserve; entertain, harbor; observe, adhere to, fulfill; commemorate, celebrate, solemnize; support, sustain, provide for.
keep back. reserve, withhold; restrain, repress, check.
keep company with. associate with, accompany, go with.
keep down. hold in subjection, restrain, hinder, subdue.
keeper, n. warden; superintendent, curator, custodian, guardian, attendant, defender, overseer.
keep from. abstain from, refrain from.
keeping, n. holding, restraint, custody, guard, guardianship, protection, tutelage; detention, retention; maintenance support, subsistence, board; conformity, congruity, harmony, consistency, correspondence; observance; celebration, commemoration, fulfillment.
keeping back. reservation, reserving, withholding; restraint, repression, checking.
keep on. proceed, continue, persist.
keepsake, n. memento, souvenir.
keep to. adhere to.
keep under. hold in subjection, subdue, mortify.
keep up. maintain, continue.
kelter, n. (Colloq.) condition, order.
kernel, n. seed, grain; nucleus; gist, core, pith, substance, essence, marrow. Associated words: enucleate, enucleation, exacinate, exacination.
kerosene, n. coal oil, petroleum.
kettle, n. caldron (a large kettle).
kettledrum, n. tympano; pl. tympani.
key, n. Associated words: claviger, clavigerous, cleidomancy, escutcheon, lock.
key, n. clew, solution, guide, explanation, elucidation, clavis; wharf, quay; forelock, cotter, bar, pin; samara.
keyboard, n. clavier.
kick, v. spurn, calcitrate, recalcitrate, winch; resist, oppose; recoil.
kick, n. kicking, opposition.
kicking, n. spurning, recalcitration, calcitration, winch; opposition, resistance.
kicking, a. recalcitrant, calcitrant, resistant.
kiddy, v. (Slang) deceive, outwit, hoax.
kidnap, v. abduct.
kidnapper, n. abductor, man-stealer.
kidnapping, n. abduction.
kidney, n. Associated words: nephrology, nephrotomy, nephritis, renal, emunctory, nephritic, loins, reins.
kidney, n. sort, kind, variety, disposition.
kidney-shaped, a. reniform.
kidney stone. nephrite, jade.
kill, v. slay, slaughter, murder, assassinate, butcher, despatch, execute, lynch, massacre, burke, immolate, guillotine, decimate, destroy, blast; counteract, neutralize; quell, extinguish.
killer, n. slayer, murderer, butcher, assassin, assassinator, executor, destroyer.
killing, n. slaying, slaughter, butchering, butchery, assassination, massacre, strangulation, immolation, holocaust, execution, fusillade, carnage, murder, manslaughter, chaud-medley, lynching, guillotine, burkism, garrote, chance-medley, decimation, assideration, destruction, blasting; counteraction, neutralization.
killing, a. fatal, mortal, deadly, destructive; captivating, charming, fascinating.
kilt, n. filibeg.
kilter, n. (Colloq.) condition, order.
kin, n. relationship; relatives, relations, kindred, kinsfolk, kinsmen.
kin, a. kindred.
kind, a. indulgent, compassionate, merciful, lenient, clement, benignant, gracious, benevolent, kind-hearted, forbearing, benign, beneficent, humane, obliging.
kind, n. variety, genus, species, strain, breed, nature, genre, sort, style, character, description, kidney.
kind-hearted, a. compassionate, lenient, clement, kind.
kindle, v. enkindle, fire, ignite, incite, inflame, rouse.
kindling, n. enkindling, incitement, accension.
kindly, a. kind.
kindness, n. compassion, benignity, benevolence, kindliness, graciousness, clemency, compassionateness; favor, service, good turn.
kindred, n. relationship; relatives, relations, kinsfolk, kin, kinsmen.
kindred, a. related, congenial, allied, similar.
kine, n. pl. cows, cattle.
king, n. monarch, sovereign, potentate, regulus. Associated words: regicide royalty, regnal, regnant, regnancy, regalia, viceroy, camarilla, dynastic, dynasty.
kingdom, n. empire, dominion, sovereignty, monarchy, realm.
kingly, a. royal, regal, monarchical; sovereign, august, majestic, grand. Antonyms: servile, mean, abject, slavish, unkingly.
king's evil. scrofula.
kink, v. snarl, become entangled.
kink, n. snarl, knot, entanglement, twist; crotchet, whim, caprice, eccentricity.
kinky, a. snarled, tangled, knotted; crotchety, eccentric, capricious.
kinsman, n. relative.
kiss, v. osculate.
kiss, n. osculation, buss, smack; pax (kiss of peace).
kissing, n. osculation.--a. osculant, oscillatory.
kitchen, n. cookroom, cuisine, scullery (back kitchen); galley (Nautical). Associated words: scullion, culinary, olitory.
kith, n. acquaintance.
knack, n. gimcrack, trinket, toy, plaything, knickknack, kickshaws, gewgaw, bauble; skill, readiness, aptitude, proficiency, dexterity, adroitness; trick, device.
knarl, n. knot, gnarl, knag, knurl, node.
knarled, a. knotted, gnarled, knurly, gnarly, knotty, knurled, knarred.
knave, n. villain, rascal, scamp. See scoundrel.
knavery, n. villainy, rascality, scoundrelism, chicanery, knavishness, roguery.
knavish, a. unprincipled, rascally, villainous.
knee, n. Associated words: genuflect, genuflection, ham, hock, gonitis, stifle, geniculate, dib, quadriceps.
knee breeches. smallclothes, knickerbockers.
kneecap, n. patella, kneepan.
kneeling desk. priedieu.
knees, n. pl. marrowbones.
knickerbockers, n. pl. knee breeches, smallclothes.
knickknack, n. gimcrack, gewgaw, bauble, trinket, knack, curio, bric-a-brac.
knife, n. dagger, stiletto, dirk, poniard, bowie-knife, misericorde, anlace, yataghan, machete, bolo, handjar, skean, creese, barong, sword, billhook, saber; scalpel, lancet, bistoury; jackknife, pen-knife, pocket-knife. Associated words: cutler, cutlery, sheath, sheathe, unsheathe, scabbard, cultrivorous, cultrate, cultriform, tang, scale, spring, blade, kick, spatula.
knight, n. man-at-arms; champion, partisan, lover, gallant.
knighthood, n. chivalry. Associated word: accolade.
knightly, a. chivalrous, gallant.
knob, n. excrescence, boss, lump, tubercle, knop, stud, hard swelling; finial, knosp.
knock, v. rap; clash, bump; strike, beat.--n. blow, stroke; rap.
knock about. (Colloq.) wander about, saunter, stroll.
knock down. fell, floor, prostrate.
knockknee, n. inknee.
knock under. yield, submit, give in.
knoll, n. hillock, mound.
knop, n. See knob.
knot, n. entanglement, snarl, intricacy, complication; cluster, group, band, bevy, gang, company; joint, node, knag, burl, gnarl, knob, nodule, nodosity; tuft, bunch.
knot, v. entangle, tie, snarl. Antonyms: disentangle, unravel, untie.
knotted, a. knurled, knaggy, gnarled, gnarly; snarled, entangled, interwoven.
knotty, a. knotted, gnarled, crossgrained; intricate, difficult, complicated.
knowable, a. ascertainable, cognizable, cognoscible, intelligible, recognizable. Antonyms: unknowable, unascertainable, incognoscible, unrecognizable.
knowall, n. (Colloq.) wiseacre, quidnunc.
knowing, a. intelligent, sagacious, wise, clever; expressive, significant; (Colloq.) artful, sharp, cunning.
knowingly, adv. consciously, intelligently, wittingly, designedly, sagely, purposely, sapiently, significantly, expressively.
knowledge, n. learning, lore, erudition, culture, enlightenment, attainments, information; cognizance, apprehension, cognition, understanding, ken; omniscience (universal knowledge); prescience (foreknowledge); polymathy. Antonyms: sciolism, ignorance, inerudition, dilettanteism pedantry, unfamiliarity.
knuckle bones. dibs.
knuckle to. (Colloq.) submit to, yield, cringe, obey.
kodak, n. camera (portable).
labor, n. toil, work, drudgery, task, industry, travail.
labor, v. toil, work, drudge, slave, moil, travail.
labored, a. studied, elaborate, overwrought, stiff, unnatural.
laborer, n. toiler, workman, stevedore, roustabout, drudge, hack, peon, coolie, navvy.
laborious, a. toilsome, arduous, onerous; diligent, industrious, sedulous.
labyrinth, n. maze, intricacy, complexity.
lace, n. string, cord, thong, aglet.
lacerate, v. tear, rend, mangle, laniate, harrow, wound, harry, distress.
laceration, n. tearing, rending, laniation, harrowing, wound.
lack, v. need, want, be in need of, require, sedulous.
lack, n. want, need, deficiency, dearth, paucity, scarcity, drought, default, deficit, insufficiency, inadequacy, shortness.
lackadaisical, a. pensive, dreamy, languishing, die-away.
lackey, n. flunky.
lacking, a. deficient, insufficient, unsupplied, shy, wanting, devoid.
ladylove, n. See sweetheart.
lag, v. fall behind, loiter, linger, delay, saunter.
laggard, n. loiterer, lagger, lingerer, saunterer, idler.
lake, n. pond; lagoon. Associated words: lacustrine, lacustral.
lamb, n. eanling, yeanling, lambkin, cosset.
lambaste, v. (Low) pommel, maul, belabor, beat, strike.
lame, v. disable, maim, cripple, hamstring.
lame, a. crippled, hobbling, limping, halt, deformed, game, maimed, disabled; inconclusive, unconvincing, inefficient, feeble, unsatisfactory.
lament, v. bemoan, weep, wail, deplore, grieve, bewail, mourn.
lamentable, a. deplorable, grievous, pitiable, distressing, sorrowful.
lamentation, n. wailing, lament, grief, bewailing, plaint, sorrow.
lamented, a. mourned for, deplored.
lampoon, v. libel, defame, satirize.
lampoon, n. libel, pasqinade, iambic.
lance, n. spear, javelin, harpoon.
land, n. terra firma; country; freehold, ground, soil, earth; realty, real estate; demesne, glebe, close, garth, holm, arado, assart, reliction, dereliction, alluvium, cadastre, appanage, arable, fallow, allodium, innings, abuttal; farm, plantation; continent, island, peninsula, delta, isthmus, headland, cape, plateau, barens. Associated words: agronomy, agronomist, agronomics, agronomic, agricultre, agricultral, agriculturist, georgics, geoponics, escheat, arable, inarable, agrarian, agrarianism, agrarianize, topography, tilth, terrain, terrene, till, geoscopy, geoponic.
land, v. disembark, debark; capture.
landing, n. disembarkation, debarkation; wharf, dock, quay; capture.
landlord, n. host, hotel-keeper, inn-keeper, Boniface; owner, proprietor.
Land of promise. Canaan.
landscape, n. scene, scenery, view, prospect.
language, n. speech, tongue, vernacular; dialect; idiom, phraseology, diction; argot, flash, slang, lingo, cant, jargon, gibberish; Volapuk, pasilaly, Esperanto. Associated words: lingual, linguistic, linguist, linguistics, philology, philologist, philological, polyglot, glottology, glossology, paleography, glossologist, monoglot, grammar grammarian, chrestomathy, glossolaly, collingual.
languid, a. unanimated, flagging, lifeless, supine, listless, sluggish, tardy, slow.
languor, n. exhaustion, lassitude, inanition, listlessness.
lanky, a. gangling, overgrown.
lapse, n. slip, misstep, indiscretion; backsliding; devolution.
lard, n. grease; leaflard, flare; axunge.--v. interlard.
larder, n. buttery, pantry, spence.
lardy, a. lardaceous.
large, a. big, extensive, huge, unwieldy, vast, massive, immense, colossal, gigantic, bulky; ample, copious, liberal, unstinted; generous, liberal, munificent, princely; hypertrophied; spacious, commodious, capacious.
lark, n. frolic.
larrup, v. (Colloq.) whip, beat, trounce, flog.
larva, n. caterpillar, grub, maggot; pl. larvæ. Associated words: silphology, pupa, chrysalis.
lascivious, a. lewd, libidinous, salacious. See lustful.
lash, n. scourge, thong, whip.
lash, v. scourge, castigate, flagellate; satirize, scold, rate. See whip.
lashing, n. scourging, castigation, flagellation; satire, scolding, rating.
lassitude, n. languor, weariness, exhaustion, languidness, enervation.
lasso, n. lariat, cabestro, reata.
last, a. final, hindmost, farthest, latest, ultimate.
last, v. continue, endure, remain.
lasting, a. enduring, durable, permanent, imperishable, abiding. Antonyms: ephemeral, transitory, fleeting, transient, fugitive, impermanent.
lastingness, n. durability, permanence, indestructibility, imperishability.
lastly, adv. finally.
late, a. tardy, delayed; recent.
lately, adv. recently.
latent, a. concealed, dormant, undeveloped, hidden.
later, a. subsequent, posterior.
latitude, n. breadth, width; room, range, scope, extent, freedom; laxity.
lattice, n. trellis, lattice-work; cancelli; grille.
lattice-work, n. lattice, trellis, treillage, espailier.
laud, v. extol, praise. See praise.
laudable, a. praisworth, commendable. Antonyms: illaudable, unpraiseworthy, indign.
laudatory, a. panegyrical, eulogistic, encomiastic, adulatory, commendatory.
laugh, v. cachinnate, roar, giggle, snicker, titter, chuckle, grin, twitter, cackle, chortle, hawhaw.
laughable, a. risible, comic, ludicrous, droll, facetious, farcical, amusing. See funny.
laughing, a. merry, gleeful, mirthful, smiling.
laughing gas. protoxide of nitrogen, nitrous oxide, hyponitrous oxide.
laughter, n. mirth, laugh, cachinnation, giggle, snicker, roar, cackle, grin, chortle, chuckle, guffaw, titter. Associated words: risible, risibles, risibility, risorial, abderian, sardonic, geloscopy, gelastic.
laugh to scorn. deride, ridicule.
launch, v. set afloat; set going, start; throw, hurl; expatiate, descant.
lava field. pedregal (Mexico and Western U.S.).
lavish, a. profuse, prodigal, free, unstinted; superabundant, immoderate, excessive, exuberant.
lavish, v. spend lavishly, bestow with profusion.
law, n. statute, ordinance, edict, enactment, decree, canon, usage. Associated words: jurisprudence, nomology, nomography, nomocracy, antinomy, dysnomy, neonomian, code, codex, codify, codification, digest, forensic, legislate, legislation, legislative, enact, ordain, repeal, veto, jurat, juratory, juridic, juridical, jurist, juris consult, publicist, jurisprudent, juristic, pandect, moratory, judicial, causidical, nomothetic, nomistic.
law-breaker, n. criminal, malefactor, culprit, felon, delinquent, offender, sinner.
law-breaking, n. crime, misdemeanor, transgression, violation.
lawful, a. legal, legitimate, licit, legalized. Antonyms: See unlawful.
lawfulness, n. legality, legitimacy. Antonyms: unlawfulness, illegality.
lawing, n. litigation, lawsuit.
lawless, a. anarchical, riotous, mobocratic, licentious.
lawlessness, n. anarchy, unrestraint, abandon, mobocracy, license, riot.
lawmaker, n. legislator, lawgiver, Solon.
lawmaking, n. legislation.
lawsuit, n. litigation, case, suit, action. Associated words: litigant, litigate, litigious, litigable, barratry.
lawyer, n. attorney, counselor, barrister, counsel, advocate, attorney-at-law, solicitor; pettifogger; (dishonest) shyster. Associated words: client, clientele.
lax, a. loose, slack, flabby, relaxed; loose, vague, equivocal, doubtful; slack, remiss, negligent; unrestrained, dissolute, licentious.
laxative, a. aperient.
laxative, n. aperient.
laxness, n. laxity, looseness; relaxation, flabbiness; remissness, negligence, slackness.
lay, v. deposit, place; impose, assess; impute, charge, ascribe, attribute; submit, present, offer; superimpose.
lay, n. song, ballad, lyric.
lay, a. laic, laical.
layer, n. stratum, course, tier.
laymen, n. pl. laity.
lay open. uncover, reveal, expose, disclose, exhibit, show.
lay over. overlay, cover, apply; defer, postpone, prorogue.
lay siege to. besiege, beset, bombard, obsess.
lay to heart. take to heart, be grieved at, feel keenly, consider seriously.
lay up. store, treasure, save, hoard, garner; confine, disable.
lay wait for. lie in ambush for.
lay waste. desolate, devastate, pillage, sack, spoliate.
laziness, n. indolence, sloth.
lazy, a. indolent, slothful, sluggard, dronish. Antonyms: diligent, industrious, sedulous, hardworking.
lazy person. sluggard, drone, idler.
leach, v. lixiviate.
leaching, n. lixiviation.
lead, n. plumbum (Chem.); graphite, plumbago (black lead); plummet; blende (mock lead).
lead, v. guide, conduct, escort, direct; precede; induce, entice, influence, allure, persuade, actuate, impel; conduce, contribute, tend; have precedence; have charge of, command, head.
lead, n. precedence, initiative, command, guidance.
lead astray. mislead, seduce.
leader, n. guide, commander, corypheus, pilot, bellwether, protagonist, chief.
leadership, n. direction, command, guidance; primacy, supremacy, domination, hegemony.
leading, a. chief, principal, premiere, influential, guiding.
leaf, n. blade, spire; folio; lithophyll (fossil leaf). Associated words: foliar, foliferous, foliaceous, foliation, defoliate, defoliation, frond, bract, frondation, frondesce, frondescence, verticil, whorl, acanthus deciduous, indeciduous.
leaf-green, n. chlorophyll.
leaf-stalk, n. petiole.
league, n. alliance, confederation, coalition, confederacy, union, federation, association.
league, v. combine, confederate.
leak, v. percolate, filter, ooze.
leaky, a. defective.
lean, v. incline, slope, recline, tend; rely, depend; careen.
lean, a. thin, lank, spare, meager, poor, skinny, gaunt, emaciated, marcid, angular; slender, scant, bare.
leaning, a. reclining, inclining, supine.
leaning, n. inclination, tendency, propensity, bent, bias, proneness, predisposition, proclivity; reclination.
lean-to, n. penthouse, addition, shed.
leap, v. spring, jump, vault, bound, caper, gambol, prance, cavort, curvet.
leap, n. spring, jump, vault, bound, capriole.
leaping, a. springing, jumping, salient, saltigrade, saltatory.
leaping, n. springing, saltation, salience.
leap year. bissextile.
learn, v. master, acquire knowledge.
learned, a. educated, erudite, lettered, scholarly.
learning, n. education, erudition, lore, scholarship, knowledge. Associated words: savant, philomath, philomathy, misology, oracle, pedant, pedantry.
lease, n. letting, demise; tenure. Associated words: lessee, lessor.
least, n. minimum. Associated words: minimize, minimization.
least, a. smallest, minimum.
leather-burning, n. pyrography.
leathery, a. coriaceous, tough, alutaceous.
leave, n. permission; leave-taking, adieu, farewell, congé; withdrawal, retirement, departure, leaving, egress.
leave, v. depart from, vacate, retire from; abandon, forsake, desert; abstain from, forego, desist from, forbear; permit, allow, let; commit, give over, intrust, consign, deliver; will, bequeath, devise; depart, set out, start, go.
leaves, n. pl. foliage, leafage. See leaf.
leavetaking, n. farewell, valedictory, congé, adieu.
leavings, n. pl. remnants, fragments, offal, refuse, waste, scraps, culls, orts.
lecher, n. rake, libertine, whoremonger.
lechery, n. libertinism, licentiousness.
lecture, n. discourse, address, dissertation, prelection; reproof, scolding.
lecture, v. discourse, address; reprove, censure, rate, upbraid, scold.
ledge, n. shelf; reef, ridge (of rocks); layer, stratum, lode.
left, n. Associated words: sinister, sinistral, sinistrality, sinistrorse, sinistrorsal, haw, port, larboard.
left-handed, a. sinister, ambilevous.
leg, n. limb, shank, shin; (bones of the leg) tibia, fibula, femur, thigh bone, epipodiale. Associated words: crotch, hock, hough, solen, cradle, puttee, hip, thigh, haunch gyve, scarpines, calf, galligaskins, spatterdashes, leggings.
legal, a. lawful, legitimate. Antonym: illegal.
legality, n. lawfulness, legitimacy. Antonym: illegality.
legalize, v. legitimize. Antonyms: illegalize, illegitimize.
legate, n. ambassador, envoy, representative.
legation, n. embassy.
legend, n. fable, myth; posy, inscription, motto.
legendary, a. mythical, traditional.
legerdemain, n. jugglery, sleight of hand.
legible, a. readable, decipherable. Antonym: illegible.
legions, n. pl. battalions, troops, soldiers.
legitimate, a. lawful. Antonym: illegitimate.
lemon, n. Associated words: citric, citrine, citrination, citrus.
lend, v. loan.
lending, n. loan.
lengthen, v. extend, elongate, stretch, prolong, protract; expatiate, amplify.
lengthening, n. extension, elongation, protraction, prolongation.
lengthwise, adv. longitudinally.
lengthy, a. long, prolix, protracted, verbose.
lenient, a. compassionate. See merciful.
lenity, n. clemency, mercy, lenience.
Lent, n. Quadragesima.
lessen, v. reduce, diminish, minify, depreciate, minimize, decrease, mitigate, abate.
lessening, n. reduction, diminution, decrease, decrement, depreciation, mitigation, shrinkage, abatement.
Lesser Bear. Cynosure.
let, v. allow, permit, suffer; lease, rent.
let, n. hindrance.
lethargy, n. drowsiness, stupor, unconsciousness.
letter, n. epistle, favor, missive, note; encyclic, encyclical, decretal (letter of the Pope). Associated words: correspond, epistolical, epistolary, epistolean, epistolize, epistler, epistolar, epistolography, postscript.
letter, n. initial (first letter).
letter-carrier, n. postman, mail-carrier, courier, mail-man, postboy, post.
letter for letter. literatim.
letters, n. pl. correspondence.
letters, n. pl. learning, literature, erudition, humanities.
let-up, n. (Colloq.) abatement, assuagement, respite, subsidence.
let up. (Colloq.) abate, subside, diminish, intermit.
level, a. even, flat, plain, smooth, flush, plumb; horizontal; steady, impartial, well-balanced. Antonyms: undulating uneven, concave, convex, warped.
level, v. flatten, equalize, even, smooth, reduce; raze, reduce, overthrow, demolish; adapt, adjust.
lever, n. pry. Associated words: fulcrum, purchase, prize, prizing.
leverage, n. purchase.
levity, n. lightness, buoyancy; gayety, frivolity.
lewd, a. unchaste, lustful, licentious, libidinous, lecherous, incontinent, ribald, lascivious, rakish, ruttish, salacious, concupiscent, wanton, lubricous, prurient, pornographic. Antonyms: chaste, modest, pure.
lewdness, n. unchastity, incontinence, lust, lechery, ribaldry, salacity, concupiscence, profligacy, lasciviousness. Antonyms: chastity, modesty, purity.
liability, n. exposure, accountability, responsibility, amenability Antonyms: immunity, exemption.
liabilities, n. pl. debts, obligations, indebtedness.
liable, a. exposed, subject, accountable, answerable, amenable, bound. Antonyms: exempt, immune.
libel, n. defamation, lampoon, roorback.
libel, v. defame (by some publication), lampoon.
libellous, a. defamatory, slanderous, calumnious.
liberal, a. generous, open-handed, bounteous, munificent, unstinted, princely; profuse, lavish, ample, abundant; catholic, magnanimous, tolerant. Antonyms: illiberal, ungenerous, stingy, limited, narrow, bigoced.
liberality, n. generosity. Antonyms: illiberality, stinginess, bigotry.
liberate, v. See free.
liberation, n. See freeing.
libertine, n. lecher, debauchee, rake, roué, profligate.
libertine, a. licentious, lecherous, profligate, rakish.
liberty, n. freedom, independence; privilege, permission. Antonyms: captivity, bondage, servitude, subjection, constraint, serfdom, slavery.
license, n. privilege, right; lawlessness, anarchy.
licentious, a. immoral, dissolute, profligate, lewd, libertine, rakish, lascivious; unrestrained, uncurbed, uncontrolled.
lick, v. lap; (Colloq.) flog, thrash, chastise, castigate, trounce, drub. See whip.
licking, n. (Colloq.) flogging, chastisement, castigation, punishment, thrashing, whipping.
lid, n. cover.
lie, n. untruth, falsehood, fib; fiction, fabrication; subterfuge, evasion, misrepresentation.
lie, v. recline.
lie close. cuddle, nestle, snuggle.
lief, adv. willingly, gladly, freely, readily.
lien, n. incumbrance.
life, n. existence, being, animation, vitality; vivacity, spiritedness, energy, activity, briskness, sprightliness; biography, memoir. Associated words: biology, biologist, vital, biometry, biogenesis, macrobiotics, vitalization, vitalize, bioplasm, protoplasm, elixir, biotic.
lifeless, a. dead, inanimate, spiritless, devitalized.
lifelessness, n. inanimation.
lift, n. lifting, raising, elevation; help, assistance, aid; elevator, dumb waiter.
lifting machine. derrick, crane, tackle.
light, n. illumination; lamp, taper, candle, lantern, head-light, cresset; publicity, public notice; phosphorescence, luminescence; aureole, halo, nimbus, aureola, glory. Associated words: photology, photologist, photophobia, catoptrics, dioptrics, photics, Ormuzd, luminary.
light, a. buoyant; easy, inoppressive; active, nimble, deft, fleet, swift, spry; spongy, porous, well-leavened; incompact, loose, porous; gossamery, sleazy, flimsy, thin, unsubstantial; volatile, unsteady, mercurial, fickle, frivolous.
light, v. ignite, illumine, illuminate.
light, v. dismount, alight, descend; rest, perch, settle.
lighten, v. light, illuminate, illume; ease, relieve, alleviate.
light-fingered, a. thievish, pilfering.
light-footed, a. nimble, agile.
lighthouse, n. beacon, fanal, pharos. Associated words: holophote, pharology.
lighting, n. illumination.--a. luminous, luminiferous.
lightness, n. levity, levitation, buoyancy.
lightning-rod, n. paratonnerre.
like, a. similar, alike, cognate, analogous, homogeneous. Antonyms: See unlike.
like, n. counterpart, copy, equal; liking, preference.
like, v. fancy, approve of; prefer, choose, wish.
like blazes. (Low) furiously, rapidly.
likelihood, n. probability, verisimilitude. Antonyms: unlikelihood, improbability.
likely, a. probable, verisimilar; good-looking, comely; appropriate. Antonyms: unlikely, improbable.
liken, v. compare.
likeness, n. similitude, resemblance, similarity, appearance, guise, analogy; portrait, effigy, counterpart, image, copy, facsimile.
liking, n. fondness, partiality, affection, approval, preference, predilection. Antonyms: distaste, aversion, inappetency, hatred, antipathy, disapproval.
limber, a. flexible, pliant, limp, pliable, supple, lithe, lithesome. Antonyms: See stiff.
lime, n. Associated words: calcareous, calciferous, calcariferous, calcification, calcify, calcified, calcivorous, calcination, calciform, slack, cretification, calcigerous, kalsomine.
limit, n. bound, boundary, confine, extent; restriction, check, restraint, limitation.
limit, v. restrict, circumscribe, define, confine.
limitation, n. limit, restriction, restraint, circumscription, finitude.
limited, a. restricted, confined, conditioned, finite, circumscribed. Antonyms: See unlimited.
limp, a. flaccid, flabby, limber, soft, flexile. Antonyms: See stiff.
limp, n. halt, limping, hobble.
limpid, a. clear, pellucid, lucid. See clear.
line, n. stripe, streak; cord, rope, thread, string, cable; course, route; branch, department; boundary, contour, periphery, circumference, outline; lineament; row, series, rank, file; secant; hachure, hatching. Associated words: aliner, alignment, allineation, align, linear, lineal, lineation, interline, interlinear, interlining, interlineation.
linen, n. napery; lingerie; damask.
linen and wool. linsey-woolsey.
lines, n. pl. reins.
linger, v. loiter, saunter, tarry, lag.
lingering, a. protracted.
link, v. join, unite, connect, couple, concatenate.
lion, n. Felis Leo; lioness (female); whelp, lionel (young); Leo; griffin.
lionlike, a. leonine.
lip, n. Associated words: labial, labially, labialize, labialization, labialism, chiloma, labret, philtrum, pout, labiochorea, cheiloplasty, labioplasty, harelip, blobber lip.
liquid, n. fluid.
list, n. catalogue, roster, schedule, register; selvage, selvedge, listing.
listen, v. hearken; eavesdrop; auscultate. Antonyms: disregard, ignore, scorn.
listening, n. hearkening; eavesdropping; auscultation, autophony.
listless, a. inattentive, indifferent, supine, heedless, unconcerned.
litigation, n. lawsuit.
litter, n. stretcher; mulch; disorder, untidiness; farrow.
little, a. small, diminutive, minute, tiny, wee, puny, dwarfish, insignificant, infinitesimal. See small.
little, n. miniature; modicum.
little by little. piecemeal, gradually.
live, v. exist; dwell, reside, abide.
live, a. alive, quick, animate, living.
liveliness, n. animation, vivacity, sprightliness, briskness, activity, lilt.
live longer than. survive, outlive.
lively, a. animated, spirited, vivacious, vigorous, active, brisk, energetic, stirring, sprightly; agile, nimble; hilarious frolicsome, gay, buoyant. Antonyms: slow, sluggish, inactive, quiet.
liver, n. Associated words: hepatic, hepatology, hepatize, hepatization, cirrhosis, cirrhotic, giblets, bilious, viscera, hepatogenic, bile.
liver, heart, etc., of an animal. inmeats (edible viscera).
livid, a. ecchymosed, bruised, black and blue.
living, a. alive, quick, live; quickening, animating.
living, n. life, existence, being; livelihood, sustenance, subsistence, maintenance; benefice.
living again. redivivus, resurrected, revived, resurgent.
living in seclusion. eremitism, anchoretism, reclusion, seclusion, retirement.--a. hermitical, eremitic, anchoretic, solitary.
living picture. tableau vivant.
living together. cohabitation.
living upon others. parasitic.--n. parasitism.
lizard, n. saurian, reptile; chameleon, gecko, gila monster, iguana, dragon.
load, v. encumber, lade, burden, freight.
load, n. burden, cargo, lading, encumbrance, weight, impediment, incubus.
loaded, p.p. and a. laden, freighted, fraught.
loaf, v. lounge about, loiter.
loathe, v. abhor, hate, detest, abominate, despise, execrate, recoil from.
loathing, n. abhorrence, detestation, abomination, execration, hatred.
location, n. situation, locality, place.
lock, n. ringlet, curl, tress.
lock-jaw, n. tetanus. Associated words: tetanic, tetanoid.
lofty, a. tall, towering.
log, n. puncheon (split log).
logical, a. consistent, sound. Antonym: illogical.
loins, n. pl. reins.
loitering, a. sauntering, dilatory.
Londoner, n. cockney (Contemptuous).
lone, a. alone, lonely, isolated, desolate; unfrequented, solitary, sequestered, secluded, lonesome.
lonely, a. sequestered, solitary, unfrequented; lonesome, desolate, dreary, lorn.
long, a. protracted, prolonged, lengthy, extended; lingering; extensive, inclusive; tedious, prolix, wordy, long-spun diffuse.
long, v. yearn for, hanker after, crave.
longer than broad. oblong.
long-handed, a. longimanous.
long-headed, a. shrewd, sagacious. See shrewd.
longing, n. yearning, craving.
long life. longevity.
longshoreman, n. stevedore.
long-suffering, a. forbearing, uncomplaining, patient.--n. forbearance, patience, longanimity.
look, v. glance, gaze, stare, see, con, gloat, glare, peek, peer, pry, peep, pore, lower, glower, scan, ogle; seem, appear; await, expect, anticipate; examine, investigate, inspect, contemplate, scrutinize.
look, n. glance, glimpse, inspection, scrutiny, gaze; expression, appearance, air, manner, mien, semblance, aspect, presence.
look down upon. See despise.
looking backward. retrospection, retrospect.--a. retrospective.
looking for. anticipation, expectation; search.
looking forward. anticipation, expectation, prospect, foresight.
looking forward. prospective, anticipative.
looking-glass, n. mirror; cheval glass.
looking within. introspection.--a. introspective.
look into. inspect, examine, probe, investigate.
look on. see, witness; regard, consider, deem, view.
lookout, n. observatory; watch-tower, conning tower; responsibility.
look over. examine, scrutinize, reconnoiter.
look upon. regard, esteem, consider.
look up to. honor, respect, defer to, venerate, reverence.
look within. introspect.
loop, n. staple, noose, bight.
loophole, n. excuse, plea, pretext.
loose, a. unbound, disengaged, movable, unfastened, unrestrained, detached; relaxed; incompact, porous.
loose, v. release, disengage, free, disentangle, liberate; absolve, remit; relax, loosen, slacken.
loosen, v. relax.
looseness, n. laxity, slackness, relaxation.
loot, n. spoil, booty, plunder, prize; plundering, pillage.
loot, v. plunder, sack, rifle, pillage.
lop, v. cut off, obtruncate.
lopsided, a. unbalanced, disproportioned.
loquacious, a. garrulous, voluble, talkative.
loquacity, n. garrulity, volubility, talkativeness.
lord, n. nobleman, peer, magnate, grandee; liege, suzerain.
lord, v. domineer.
Lord, have mercy upon us. Kyrie eleison.
lordly, a. overbearing, domineering, despotic, arrogant, imperious, uppish.
lordship, n. seigniory, dominion.
Lord's Prayer. Pater noster.
Lord's Supper. communion, eucharist.
lore, n. learning, knowledge, wisdom, erudition.
lorn, a. forsaken, lonely, solitary.
lose ground. retire, recede, retreat, decline.
loss, n. forfeiture. Associated words: damnific, damnify, damnification.
lost, a. forfeited, missing; derelict, adrift; misspent, misemployed, wasted; irreclaimable, incorrigible, abandoned; preoccupied, abstracted, absent-minded.
lot, n. destiny, doom, fortune, fate; portion, parcel, part, allotment; (Colloq.) much, many.
loth, a. disinclined, unwilling, reluctant, averse, loath, indisposed.
lots, n. pl. Associated word: sortilege.
loud, a. deafening, stentorian, resonant, clarion; clamorous, vociferous, boisterous; gaudy, flashy, ostentatious, showy; emphatic, urgent, appealing.
lounge, v. recline, loll.
lousiness, n. phthiriasis, pediculosis, pediculation.
lout, n. booby, boor, bumpkin, lubber, gawky.
loutish, a. boorish, lubberly, gawky, ungentlemanly.
lovable, a. amiable, winsome, lovely, winning.
lovableness, n. amability, winsomeness, amiability.
love, n. affection, devotion, infatuation, passion; amorousness, amativeness; Cupid, Eros, Venus, Aphrodite, Amorino; philanthropy; storge.
love affair. liaison (an illicit love affair), amour, intrigue.
love feast (of the primitive Christians). agape.
love-letter, n. billet-doux, billet d'amour.
lovely, a. charming, delightful, delectable, amiable, pleasing.
love potion. philter.
lover, n. amoroso, inamorato, swain, suitor, admirer, philander, gallant, beau, cicisbeo; paramour, leman.
loving, a. affectionate; enamored; amative, amorous, erotic.
loving-kindness, n. tenderness, mercy, compassion.
low, a. depressed; base, mean, vulgar, raffish, ignominious, undignified; moderate, reasonable, cheap; humble, lowly, obscure; feeble, faint, weak; subdued, grave, gentle; ignoble, groveling, abject, degraded, servile, menial, sordid, base.
low, adv. softly, sotto voce.
low, v. moo.
lowborn, a. baseborn, plebeian.
lowbred, a. unrefined, illbred, vulgar, rude.
lower, v. drop; depress, reduce; decrease, diminish, fall, humble, humiliate, degrade, abash, detrude, dishonor; frown, scowl, glower, look sullen.
lower, a. nether, under.
lower classes. proletariat, proletariate, proletarians.
lowering, a. threatening, dark, sullen.
lowest, a. nethermost.
lowest point. nadir.
low life. obscurity.
lowliness, n. humility, meekness, self-abasement.
low-lived, a. mean, dishonorable, ignominious, base.
lowly, a. humble, meek, unassuming.
low-minded, a. groveling, abject, sordid, base-minded.
loyal, a. true, constant, faithful, devoted, stanch, unwavering.
loyalty, n. fidelity, constancy, faithfulness, devotion, fealty, allegiance.
lozenge, n. tablet, troche, pastille.
lubber, n. boor, lout, bumpkin, looby, gawk, churl, lummox.
lubberly, a. boorish, loutish, gawky, clumsy, ungainly.
lucid, a. See clear.
lucidity, n. See clearness.
luck, n. fortune, chance, fortuity, haphazard, chance, hap-hazard. Associated words: mascot, hoodoo.
luckless, a. See unlucky.
lucky, a. fortunate; favorable, auspicious, propitious.
lucrative, a. See profitable.
ludicrous, a. comical, ridiculous. See funny.
lug, v. drag, pull, tug, haul.
lugubrious, a. mournful, doleful, sorrowful, woful.
lukewarm, a. tepid; indifferent, cool, unconcerned.
lukewarmness, n. tepidity; indifference, unconcern, coolness.
lull, v. hush, still, quiet, tranquillize; subside, abate.
lull, n. calm, calmness, subsidence.
lumbering, a. unwieldy, ponderous, cumbersome, ungraceful.
luminous, a. See bright.
lummox, n. (Low) booby, gawk, lout, lubber, yahoo, bumpkin, boor.
lump, n. mass, aggregation, aggregate.--v. mass, amass.
lumpish, a. inert, heavy; stupid, dull, stolid.
lumpy jaw. actinomycosis.
lunatic, n. madman, maniac, bedlamite.
lunch, n. luncheon, refection.
luncheon, n. collation, refreshment, nuncheon, tiffin.
lunge, v. allonge, longe, thrust.
lungs, n. pl. lights (lungs of an animal or bird). Associated words: pulmonary, pulmonic, pneumonic, pleura, pleural lobe, spirometer, pneumology.
lurch, v. sway, stagger, roll; dodge, shift, evade, bilk.
lure, n. decoy, enticement, bait.
lure, v. entice, tempt, seduce, allure, decoy.
lurking-place, n. ambush, retreat, cover.
luscious, a. delicious, delectable; cloying, fulsome, unctuous.
lush, a. juicy, succulent.
lust, n. venereal appetite, concupiscence, salacity, sexual desire; longing, cupidity, desire, hankering. Antonym: anaphrodisia. See sexual desire.
luster, n. brightness, gloss, glitter, sheen, brilliancy.
lusterless, a. dull, lackluster.
lustful, a. lascivious, concupiscent, lecherous, licentiou-libidinous, salacious, carnal, lickerish, ruttish, prurient aphrodisiac, aphrodisiacal, lecherous.
lustre, n. brilliancy, glitter, radiance, resplendence.
lustrous, a. See bright.
lusty, a. robust, sturdy, stalwart, strapping, muscular.
luxuriance, n. exuberance, rampancy, richness.
luxuriant, a. exuberant, rampant, superabundant, excessive.
luxurious, a. voluptuous, epicurean, sybaritic.
luxury, n. voluptuousness, epicurism, sybaritism, luxuriousness.
lying, a. untruthful, false, mendacious, deceitful.
lying, n. falsehood, lie, untruth, mendacity, fabrication, fiction.
lying down. reclining, recumbent, accumbent; (face down) prone, prostrate; (face upward) supine.
lying down. reclining, reclination, accubation, recumbence; (face down) prostration, pronation; (face upward) supination, supineness.
lying in wait. ambush, ambuscade.
lying round. circumjacent.--n. circumjacence.
lyre, n. See harp.
Machine, n. automaton (self-moving machine); mechanism; organization, system.
machinist, n. mechanician.
mad, a. crazy, insane, demented, maniacal, raving; indignant, enraged, irate, resentful; rabid; distracted, wild, infatuated. See angry.
madcap, n. hotspur, blood.--a. wild, reckless, rash.
madden, v. incense, anger, enrage, infuriate, provoke, exasperate, vex, inflame.
made up. devised, fabricated, artificial, sham, false, counterfeit.
madhouse, n. bedlam, insane asylum.
madman, n. maniac, lunatic, bedlamite; monomaniac.
madness, n. dementia, insanity, craziness, mania, lunacy; monomania; frenzy, rage, wrath, ire, resentment, fury, indignation, anger.
magazine, n. storehouse, depot, repository; periodical, publication, ephemeris.
magic, n. enchantment, conjuration, wizardry, legerdemain prestidigitation, necromancy, jugglery, sorcery; fascination, witchery, charm.
magic, a. magical, necromantic, talismanic.
magician, n. conjurer, prestidigitator, sorcerer, wizard, necromancer, juggler, thaumaturge.
magnet, n. loadstone.
magnetist, n. magnetician.
magnificence, n. grandeur, sublimity, splendor, majesty
magnificent, a. splendid, superb, sublime, majestic, stately, grand.
magnify, v. augment, amplify, enlarge; overstate, exaggerate.
maid, n. See girl; lady's maid, Abigail; soubrette.
maiden, a. virgin; chaste, undefiled, pure; unused, fresh, new.
maidenhead, n. maidenhood; hymen (virginal membrane).
maidenhood, n. maidhood, girlhood, virginity.
mail, n. armor, hauberk; scale, shell; post.
mail, v. post.
mail-carrier, n. postman, letter-carrier, courier.
main, a. principal, leading, chief, capital, cardinal, paramount; requisite, necessary; sheer, pure.
main, n. ocean, high sea; gross, bulk, majority; strength, power, might, force.
mainland, n. continent.
mainly, adv. principally, chiefly, largely.
maintain, v. support, sustain; affirm, assert, contend, claim; conduct.
maintenance, n. support, sustenance.
majestic, a. august, imperial, regal, splendid, magnificent, imposing.
majesty, n. grandeur, magnificence, augustness, splendor.
major, a. greater, larger. Antonym: minor.
majority, n. seniority, manhood; plurality. Antonyms: minority, youth.
make, v. force, compel, coerce, constrain, require, necessitate, occasion, oblige; create, construct, fabricate manufacture, compose, invent, prepare, concoct, shape, form, forge.
make, n. construction, shape, form, structure, conformation
make account of. esteem, regard.
make away. alienate, transfer, make over.
make believe. feign, pretend, simulate, personate, affect.
make-believe, a. feigned, mock, sham, counterfeit, spurious, supposititious, simulated.
make-believe, n. pretense, simulation, affectation, feint.
make bold. presume, venture, dare; embolden.
make good. fulfill, vindicate, justify, establish; indemnify, reimburse, requite; verify, corroborate, confirm, ratify, substantiate.
make headway. advance, progress, thrive, prosper.
make known. declare, announce, publish, report, proclaim.
make little of. belittle, decry, disparage.
make love to. court, woo, spark.
make out. decipher.
make over. transfer, alienate, convey; remodel, rebuild, reconstruct, revamp.
make peace between. mediate, intercede, reconcile, propitiate, pacify, conciliate.
maker, n. manufacturer, constructor, producer.
makeshift, n. expedient, substitute.
make sport of. deride, ridicule, jeer.
make unfriendly. disaffect, alienate, estrange.
make up. reconcile, adjust, compose, settle; collect, amass, accumulate; supply, complete, provide.
make up for. See make good.
make up to. accost, address, salute, speak to.
make up with. become reconciled.
make up a face. grimace.
make way. advance, proceed, progress.
making, n. construction, fabrication, workmanship, invention.
malady, n. disorder, distemper, ailment, complaint, disease.
malaria, n. miasma, miasm; fever and ague.
malarious, a. malarial, miasmatic.
male, a. masculine; staminate (Bot.).
malice, n. hatred, rancor, malevolence, animosity.
malicious, a. hateful, malevolent, rancorous, malignant.
malpractice, n. evil practice, misdoing, misbehavior.
maltreat, v. See abuse.
maltreatment, n. See abuse.
mammoth, a. colossal, gigantic, monstrous.
man, n. mortal, person, individual, adult, someone; mankind, humanity; valet; Primates, Anthropidæ. Associated words: anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthropolite, anthropoid, anthropometry, anthropometric, anthropocentric, anthropomorphic, android, manikin, écorché, pithecanthrope, androphobia.
manacle, n. handcuff, fetter, shackle.
manacle, v. handcuff, shackle, restrain, fetter.
manage, v. conduct, administer, supervise, manipulate, superintend, engineer; contrive, husband, economize.
manageable, a. governable, tractable, docile, controllable, sequacious.
management, n. administration, conduct, guidance, regulation, superintendence, direction, procuracy, negotiation, contrivance, intrigue, economy, manipulation.
manager, n. conductor, administrator, superintendent, proctor, comptroller, economist, engineer, director.
managing, a. ruling, directing, managerial.
mandate, n. command, edict, order, injunction, precept.
mandatory, a. directory, commandatory, preceptive.
mandrake, n. mandragora; May apple.
mane, n.Associated word: roach.
man-eater, n. cannibal, anthropophagite.
man-eating, a. cannibal, anthropophagous.
man-eating, n. cannibalism, anthropophagy.
manège, n. horsemanship, equestrianism; riding school.
maneuver, n. management, ruse, stratagem, artifice, trick, finesse.
maneuver, v. scheme, finesse, plan.
maneuverer, n. strategist, tactician.
manful, a. manly, resolute, brave.
mangel-wurtzel, n. mangold-wurtzel, scarcity-root.
mangle, v. mutilate, maim, dismember, hack; smooth, calender.
mangling, n. mutilation.
mangy creature. ronion, ronyon.
man-hater, n. misanthrope.
man-hating, a. misanthropic.
manhood, n. maturity, majority, man's estate; manliness, fortitude, resolution, manfulness; virility; humanity, men.
mania, n. madness, insanity, craziness. See insanity.
maniac, n. madman, bedlamite.
maniacal, a. raving, mad, insane, delirious.
manifest, v. show, exhibit, reveal, disclose.
manifest, a. apparent, obvious, patent.
manifestation, n. show, exhibition, revelation, disclosure.
manifold, a. many, various, sundry, diverse, multifarious, multitudinous, multiplex.
manikin, n. dwarf, pygmy, homunculus.
manipulate, v. handle, operate, manage.
manipulation, n. handling, management.
manly, a. manlike, resolute, brave, strong, dignified.
man-midwife, n. obstetrician, accoucheur.
manner, n. mode, method, style, fashion, way; bearing, demeanor, mien, air, carriage, deportment; mannerism, affectation, peculiarity; sort, kind, style; pl. civility, courtesy, politeness.
manners, n. pl. Associated word: etiquette.
mannish, a. masculine, vigorous, bold. Antonyms: effeminate, feminine.
man of all work. factotum.
man-of-war, n. warship, battleship, cruiser.
mansion, n. palace; manor-house, hall.
man-stealer, n. kidnapper, abductor.
man-stealing, n. kidnapping, abduction.
mantle, n. cape, cloak; pallium; mantel-piece, mantel-shelf.
mantle, v. sparkle, foam, bubble, effervesce.
manual, n. handbook.
manufactory, n. factory, shop.
manufacture, n. making, fabrication, construction.
manufacture, v. make, fabricate, construct.
manufacturing, a. industrial.
manure, n. fertilizer, dung, compost, guano. Associated word: fire-fanged.
manuscript, n. copy; paleograph (an ancient manuscript).
man worship. anthropolatry.
many, a. various, numerous, sundry, divers, manifold, multitudinous, myriad, multiple, innumerable.
many-sided, a. versatile; polyhedral, polyhedrical.
many-sidedness, n. versatility.
many-times, adv. frequently, oftentimes, often, repeatedly.
many-ways, adv. variously, multifariously, diversely.
map, n. chart. Associated words: cartography, cartographer, chorography, chorographer, atlas, hachure, contour line, culture.
map, v. sketch, plan, delineate, picture.
maple, n. Associated words: aceric, spile.
mar, n. defacement, disfigurement, blemish, injury, defect.
mar, v. deface, damage, injure, impair.
marauder, n. See robber.
marble, n. brocatel (in a literary sense, granite-flint). Associated words: marmoreal, marmorean.
margin, n. confine, border, edge, limit, skirt, brink, rim, brim, verge. Associated words: emarginate, emargination.
marine, a. maritime, naval, nautical, oceanic.
marionette, n. puppet.
maritime, a. marine, naval, nautical.
mark, v. note, notice, remark, observe, see; indicate, betoken, characterize, stamp, imprint, impress, brand, stigmatize, label.
mark, n. characteristic, impress, impression, stamp, sign, trace, vestige, symptom, token, symbol, indication, brand, stigma; badge, cognizance; trademark, idiograph; target, bull's-eye; preëminence, distinction, prominence, earmark; wheal, weal, whelk.
marked, a. designated, noticeable, conspicuous, notable, salient.
market, n. mart, emporium, exchange, market-place.
marketable, a. salable, vendible. Antonyms: unmarketable, unsalable.
marl, n. greensand.
marriage, n. matrimony, wedlock; wedding, nuptials, espousals, nuptial rites. Antonyms: celibacy, divorce, bachelorhood, maidenhood. Associated words: misogamy, misogamist, affiance, affianced, affinity, intermarriage, conjugality, misalliance, agamist, benedict, betroth, betrothal, desponsory, ante-nuptial, sponsal, hymeneal, schatchen, connubial, connubiality, fiancé, Hymen, fiancée, troth, plight, nuptial, nuptiality, postnuptial, morganatic, banns, neogamist, matrimonial.
marriageability, n. nubility.
marriageable, a. nubile.
marriage song. epithalamium, prothalamion, prothalamium.
marrow, n. medulla, pith.
marrow-bones, n. pl. knees.
marry, v. wed, espouse.
Mars, n. Associated word: Martian.
marsh, n. swamp, morass, fen, slough, bog, quagmire. See swamp.
marsh gas. firedamp.
marsh grass. sedge.
marshy, a. boggy, fenny, swampy, sloughy, palustrine, paludine.
mart, n. market, emporium.
martial, a. military.
martinet, n. disciplinarian.
marvel, n. wonder, prodigy; amazement.
marvel, v. wonder.
marvelous, a. wonderful, amazing, stupendous, astonishing.
masculine, a. male; manly, virile, manful. Antonym: feminine.
masculineness, n. masculinity.
mask, n. disguise, pretext, subterfuge, screen, cloak, veil, ruse, feint, blind; domino; maskoid; masquerade; mascaron.
mask, v. disguise, masquerade, veil.
masker, n. masquerader, mummer.
masquerade, n. mask, revel; disguise.
mass, n. aggregate, aggregation, totality, lump, heap, assemblage, collection, accumulation; majority; size, bigness, bulk, dimensions, magnitude; conglomeration, agglomeration.
mass, v. amass, assemble, accumulate, agglomerate, conglomerate.
massacre, n. carnage, butchery (of human beings), slaughter, havoc.
massacre, v. butcher, slaughter.
massage, n. Associated words: masseuse, masseur, massotherapeutics, massotherapy.
Mass book. missal.
massive, a. ponderous, bulky, immense, huge, cumbersome, massy.
massy, a. massive, compacted.
master, n. director, lord, commander, ruler, manager, governor; employer; leader, chief; owner, possessor, proprietor; padrone. Associated word: dominicide.
master, v. conquer, overpower, subject, subjugate, overcome, subdue, vanquish.
masterful, a. domineering, imperious, arbitrary.
master-hand, n. expert, adept, dabster.
masterly, a. skillful, proficient, adroit, dexterous, finished.
masterpiece, n. masterstroke, chef-d'œuvre.
mastery, n. dominion, command, supremacy, superiority, rule, sway, mastership, preëminence, leadership, influence; victory, triumph; acquirement, acquisition, attainment, dexterity, skill.
masturbation, n. onanism, self-abuse, self-pollution.
mat, n. rug; matting; petate.
mat, v. felt together, entangle, twist, interweave, snarl.
match, n. tally, mate, equal, peer; contest, competition, tournament, tourney; lucifer match, locofoco.
match, v. rival, equal, cope with; contend, pit, oppose; tally, correspond, be proportionate; adapt, fit, proportion, comport, harmonize; mate, couple, combine, sort, join.
matchable, a. comparable, proportionable, correspondent, similar.
matchless, a. peerless, incomparable, inimitable, unequalled, transcendent, surpassing.
mate, n. companion, associate, friend, chum, crony, compeer, intimate, partner, colleague; match, equal; assistant, subordinate; checkmate.
mate, v. oppose, cope with, vie with, compete with; match, marry.
material, n. substance, matter, fabric, stuff, cloth, staple; plasma.
material, a. corporeal, bodily, physical; important, essential, momentous.
materiality, n. corporeity, material existence; importance.
materially, adv. substantially; essentially, vitally.
materia medica. medicines; acology.
matrimonial, a. connubial, nuptial, hymeneal, conjugal.
matrimony, n. marriage, wedlock.
matron, n. dame.
matronly, a. elderly, dignified, matronal.
matted, a. tangled, snarled, entangled.
matter, n. substance, material, body; essence, pith, embodiment, elements; importance, significance, moment, consequence, weight, materiality; pus, purulence; manuscript, copy. Associated words: material, immaterial, materiality, immateriality, atom, molecule, chemistry, hylism, hylotheism, hylopathism, hylogenesis, materialism, physics, somatics, somatology.
matter, v. import, signify, be of importance; maturate, suppurate.
matter-of-fact, a. practical, pragmatical, unimaginative, commonplace, prosaic.
maturate, v. suppurate; mature.
maturation, n. suppuration; maturing.
mature, a. full-grown, ripe, developed, perfect; prepared, finished. Antonyms: See immature.
mature, v. ripen, develop, perfect, season.
maturity, n. development, ripeness, perfection, completion. Antonym: immaturity.
maudlin, a. over-emotional, tearful; tipsy, fuddled, intoxicated.
maul, v. pound, pommel, beat, club, cudgel.
maul, n. beetle, mall.
mauling, n. pounding, beating, clubbing, cudgelling.
mawkish, a. nauseous, sickening, loathful, disgusting; squeamish, fastidious.
maxim, n. axiom, adage, proverb, aphorism, apothegm, saw, precept.
maybe, adv. perhaps, possibly, peradventure, haply.
Mayflower, n. hawthorn, white thorn; trailing arbutus.
maze, n. perplexity, bewilderment; labyrinth, intricacy.
maze, v. perplex, bewilder, confuse, puzzle.
mazy, a. intricate, labyrinthian, confusing.
mead, n. metheglin, hydromel; meadow, lea.
meadow mice. Arvicola. Associated words: arvicoline, arvicolous.
meager, a. poor, emaciated, gaunt; barren, sterile, unproductive, arid.
meal, n. repast.
mealy, a. farinaceous.
mean, v. intend, purpose, design, contemplate; signify, purport, denote, betoken, imply, typify, indicate.
mean, a. contemptible, despicable, low-minded, base, abject, groveling, dishonorable, shabby, scurvy, servile, menial, undignified, unbecoming, disingenuous; obscure, ignoble, plebeian, inglorious, undistinguished, vulgar; penurious, illiberal, sordid, miserly, stingy, mercenary parsimonious, ungenerous; midway, average, moderate, middle, medium, mediocre; intermediate, mediate, intervening; insignificant, paltry, inconsequential, piddling, frivolous, inferior, poor.
meandering, a. winding, tortuous, crooked, serpentine, meandrous.
meaning, n. signification, significance, import, acceptation, intent. Associated words: lexicology, semasiology.
meaningly, adv. significantly.
meanly, adv. dishonorably, basely, ungenerously.
means, n. property, possessions, wealth, resources, riches, estate; instrument, agency, instrumentality, method, way, facility; expedient, resource, contrivance, resort, device, artifice.
meantime, n. interval, interim, meanwhile.
meantime, adv. meanwhile.
meanwhile, adv. meantime, during the interval.
measles, n. rubeola.
measurable, a. mensurable, computable.
measure, n. gauge, rule; dimensions, capacity, size, extent, degree, limit; quantity, amount; proportion, allotment, share; metre; act, step, means.
measure, v. gauge, mete; appraise, estimate, compute, adjust; allot, mete out, apportion, distribute.
measureless, a. immeasurable.
measurement, n. mensuration; dimensions, size, extent, area, capacity, bulk.
meat, n. flesh (of animals). See flesh.
meat pie. mince pie; pasty.
mechanic, n. mechanician, artisan, artificer, handicraftsman, craftsman.
mechanical, a. automatic, involuntary.
mechanician, n. machinist.
medal, n. medallion.
meddle, v. interfere, interpose, intermeddle, obtrude.
meddlesome, a. officious, intrusive, obtrusive, pragmatical, intermeddling.
meddling, n. interference, intrusion, intermeddling.
mediation, n. intercession.
mediator, n. intercessor. See peacemaker.
mediatorial, a. intercessory, mediatory, propitiatory.
medical, a. medicinal, therapeutical, therapeutic, curative.
medicinal, a. medicative, medical, therapeutic.
medicine, n. materia medica, medicament, remedy, restorative, corrective, specific, physic, antidote, tonic, panacea; nostrum.
mediocre, a. middling, ordinary, medium, commonplace.
mediocrity, n. commonplaceness, indifference, middle state.
meditate, v. contemplate, muse, ponder, cogitate, reflect, think.
meditation, n. contemplation, musing, cogitation, reflection, thought.
meditative, a. thoughtful, contemplative, reflective.
Mediterranean Sea. Associated word: Levant.
medium, a. intermediate, middling, mean, average, médiocre.
medium, n. middle; means, instrumentality, agency; menstruum; psychic.
medley, n. mixture, jumble, hodgepodge, potpourri, olio, mélange, farrago.
meed, n. reward, recompense, prize; merit, desert, worth.
meek, a. humble, unassuming, modest, retiring, docile, lowly.
meerschaum, n. magnesite, seafoam, sepiolite.
meet, v. encounter, confront, collide, converge, engage; intercept; assemble, congregate, convene, collect, muster; agree, harmonize, unite; equal, satisfy, fulfill, match. Antonyms: avoid, elude, escape, disperse, scatter.
meet, a. suitable, proper, befitting, seemly, appropriate.
meeting, n. assembly, assemblage, congregation, convention, convocation, conference, synod, mall, concourse, gathering, mustering; juncture, convergence, crossing, junction, confluence; encounter; collision, clash; interception; interview; tryst, rendezvous.
melancholia, n. hypochondria, hypochondriasis.
melancholy, n. despondency, hypochondria, dejection, disconsolation, melancholia.
melancholy, a. despondent, hypochondriac, depressed, disconsolate, dispirited.
mêlée, n. affray, scuffle, set-to, brawl, fight (hand to hand).
melodious, a. tuneful, harmonious, dulcet, musical, sweet, euphonious, ariose, mellifluous.
melody, n. music; descant, tune, song, air, theme. Antonyms: discord, dissonance.
melt, v. dissolve, liquefy, thaw, fuse, soften, blend, swale, colliquate.
meltable, a. dissolvable, soluble, liquefiable, fusible.
melted, a. molten.
melting, a. dissolving, thawing; affecting, touching.
melting, n. dissolution, liquefaction, fusion, thawing, inteneration, dissipation, colliquation.
melting-pot, n. crucible.
member, n. part, organ, limb; constituent, component, part.
memento, n. souvenir, keepsake, memorial.
memoir, n. biography, autobiography.
memorandum, n. record, minute, note.
memorial, a. commemorative.
memory, n. remembrance, recollection, reminiscence; retrospection. Antonyms: oblivion, forgetfulness, Lethe, amnesia, ecmnesia. Associated words: mnemonics, mnemonic, mnemonician, mnemotechny, phrenotypics, Mnemosyne, immortalize, immemorial, memorable, memorabilia, memorize, remember, amnesic.
menace, n. threat, threatening.
menace, v. threaten.
menacing, a. threatening, minatory.
mend, v. repair, patch; improve.
mendacious, a. lying, untruthful, false, deceitful.
mendacity, n. untruthfulness, lying, falsehood, lie, untruth.
mendicant, n. beggar.--a. begging.
mending, n. repairing, patching, restoration; improvement.
menial, a. serving; low, servile.
mental, a. intellectual.
mentality, n. intellectuality.
mentor, n. monitor, counselor, guide.
mentorial, a. admonitory, monitory.
mercantile, a. trading, commercial.
mercenary, a. hired, hireling, purchased; greedy, sordid, avaricious, grasping.
mercenary, n. hireling.
merchandise, n. wares, goods, commodities.
merchant, n. trader, dealer, trafficker, shopkeeper, tradesman.
merchantable, a. salable, vendible, marketable.
merciful, a. pitiful, lenient, clement, compassionate, benignant, indulgent, kind, gracious, forgiving.
merciless, a. unmerciful, remorseless, cruel, pitiless, ruthless, inexorable, implacable.
Mercury, n. Hermes; quicksilver; messenger.
Mercury's staff. caduceus.
mercy, n. clemency, pity, lenity, leniency, lenience, compassion, forgiveness, placability; discretion, disposal; blessing, favor. Antonyms: revenge, implacability, inclemency, incompassion.
mercy seat. propitiatory.
merely, a. purely, absolutely; simply, barely, only.
merge, v. swallow up, absorb, immerse, take in; be swallowed up, be absorbed.
merger, n. absorption.
meridian, n. noon, midday; culmination, zenith, pinnacle, apex. Antonym: nadir.
meridian, a. midday, meridional.
merit, n. desert, worth, meed, worthiness; worth, excellence, goodness; reward; pl. claim, right. Antonym: demerit.
merit, v. deserve, earn.
meritorious, a. worthy, commendable, meedful, deserving.
merriment, n. mirth, gayety, glee, levity, laughter, sportiveness, jocularity.
merry, a. mirthful, gay, jolly, gleeful, jovial, sportive, jocular, bonny.
mess, n. rations, food; mixture, medley, farrago, litter, hodgepodge, jumble, mélange.
message, n. communication, notice, word; telegram, despatch, cablegram.
messenger, n. courier, herald, forerunner, precursor, harbinger, mercury, emissary.
metaphor, n. simile.
meteor, n. fireball, shooting star; bolis, bolide.
meteoric stone. meteorite, aërolite.
methodical, a. systematic, orderly, methodic. Antonyms: immethodical, unsystematic.
meticulous, a. timid, fearful, diffident.
mettle, n. spirit, disposition; pluck, nerve, hardihood, stamina, spirit.
mettled, a. high-spirited, mettlesome, fiery, ardent.
mettlesome, a. spirited, mettled.
mew, v. moult.
mew, n. cage, coop; sea-mew, gull, cob.
miasma, n. malaria.
miaul, n. mew, caterwaul.
midbrain, n. mesencephalon.
midday, n. noon, meridian, noontide.
middle, a. mean, medial; intermediate, intervening.
middle, n. center, midst.
Middle Ages. Associated words: medieval, medievalism, medievalist, medievals.
middle class. bourgeoisie.
middleman, n. factor, go-between, agent, broker, commissioner.
middling, a. mediocre, medium, passable, tolerable, average, so-so, ordinary.
midwife, n. accoucheuse, obstetrician (female).
midwifery, n. obstetrics, tocology.
mien, n. aspect, air, manner, demeanor, appearance, bearing, deportment.
miff, n. pique, pet, tiff, displeasure.
miff, v. displease, vex, offend (slightly).
miffed, a. offended, displeased, piqued, provoked.
might, n. strength, power, force, puissance, potency.
mighty, a. strong, powerful, potent, invincible.
mighty, adv. (Colloq.) very.
migratory, a. roving, wandering, nomadic, unsettled.
Mikado, n. Emperor of Japan.
mild, a. gentle, indulgent, tender, merciful, clement, lenient, bland, demulcent, lenitive, emollient, mitigative. Antonyms: severe, drastic, rigorous, violent, harsh.
mildew, n. mould, mustiness, must, blight.
military, a. martial.
military command. strategy, generalship, tactics, logistics.
military dress. regimentals, uniform.
military rule. stratocracy.
militia, n. troops, military; trainband.
milk, n. Associated words: emulsion, emulsify, lacteal, lactiferous, lactation milch, lactometer lactic, lactivorous, koumiss, whey, curd, serum, lactage, rennet, clabber, lactifuge, casein, curdle, posset.
milkiness, n. lactescence.
milkmaid, n. dairymaid.
milkman, n. dairyman.
milk room. dairy.
milky, a. lacteal, lactean, emulsive.
Milky Way. Galaxy.
milt, n. spleen.
mimic, n. mime, mimicker, imitator, personator.
mimic, v. personate, ape, imitate, mock.
mimicry, n. mocking; imitation, mimesis.
mince, v. hash.
mind, v. obey, regard; consider, heed, mark, note; purpose, intend, design. Antonyms: disobey, disregard, ignore.
mind, n. intellect, faculties; opinion, judgment; temperament, humor, disposition. Associated words: mental, mentality, mentally, intellectual, intellectuality, intellectually, psychic, psychical, psychiatry, psychography, psychology, psychologist, menticulture, alienist, alienism, telepathy, telepathic, noemics, nomology, noölogy metaphysics, psychotherapy, psychotherapeutics, psychodynamic, psychopathology, psychopathic, psychological, psychopathy, psychosis, noetic, subliminal, compos mentis, non compos mentis.
mindful, a. heedful, regardful, observant.
mindless, a. irrational; unmindful, heedless, inattentive.
mingle, v. blend, mix, intermix, amalgamate, intermingle, incorporate; consort, associate, fraternize.
mingling, n. blending, mixture, intermixture, amalgamation.
minister, n. ambassador, envoy, plenipotentiary, delegate: ecclesiastic, parson, divine, rector. See clergyman.
minister, v. administer, serve; officiate.
ministerial, a. clerical; ambassadorial.
ministration, n. officiating, ministry.
ministry, n. ministration; cabinet, administration.
minnow, n. minim, minny.
minny, n. minnow.
minor, a. subordinate, secondary, less, smaller.
minority, n. nonage, pupilage.
minstrel, n. gleeman, bard.
mint, v. coin.
minute, a. little, tiny, microscopic, diminutive; critical, precise, particular, circumstantial.
minute, n. moment; memorandum, record, item, note.
minutiæ, n. pl. details.
miraculous, a. supernatural, hyperphysical, incredible.
mire, n. slough, ooze, mud, slime.
mirror, n. reflector, looking-glass, speculum; cheval glass.
mirror, v. reflect.
mirth, n. merriment, jollity, glee, gayety, fun.
mirthful, a. merry, jolly, gleeful, gay, sportive.
miry, a. oozy, slimy, muddy.
misapply, v. misemploy, pervert, misuse.
miscarriage, n. frustration, failure; abortion.
miscellaneous, a. mixed, diversified, promiscuous, heterogeneous, diverse, multifarious.
miscellany, n. medley, mixture; symposium, anthology.
misdeed, n. offense, misdemeanor.
misdemeanor, n. offense, transgression.
misdoer, n. malefactor, offender, delinquent.
misdoing, n. See wrong-doing.
misemploy, v. pervert, misuse, misapply, prostitute.
misemployment, n. misapplication, misuse, perversion, prostitution.
miser, n. niggard, muckworm, curmudgeon, skinflint, hunks, lickpenny, pinchfist, screw, scrimp.
miserable, a. wretched, abject; deplorable, grievous, pitiable, calamitous; mean, despicable, contemptible, base, arrant, sordid, groveling.
miserly, a. niggardly, avaricious, sordid, parsimonious, penurious, close-fisted, close, stingy, curmudgeonly, hard-fisted.
misfortune, n. disaster, calamity, frustration, mischance, reverse, affliction, mishap, bad luck.
misgiving, n. doubt, suspicion, evil premonition.
misgovern, v. misrule.
misgovernment, n. maladministration, misrule.
mishap, n. See accident.
misinterpret, v. misconstrue.
misinterpretation, n. misconstruction.
misleading, a. delusive, deceitful, fallacious, illusive.
misnaming, n. misnomer.
misrepresent, v. falsify, distort.
misrepresentation, n. falsification, distortion.
misrule, n. misgovernment, maladministration.
miss, n. failure, miscarriage; omission, oversight, default, mistake, error.
miss, v. fail, miscarry, skip, omit, overlook.
misshapen, a. deformed, unshapely.
missile, n. projectile, dejectile.
missing, a. absent, wanting.
mission, n. commission, delegation; errand, trust.
missionary, n. evangelist, missioner, revivalist, propagandist.
misspelling, n. cacography.
misstate, v. falsify, distort, misrepresent.
misstatement, n. falsification, misrepresentation.
misstep, n. faux pas.
mist, n. mizzle, misle, drizzle; fog, haze, brume.
mist, v. mizzle, drizzle; obscure, dim, befog.
mistake, n. misunderstanding, misapprehension, misconception; error, blunder, oversight, solecism, faux pas. impropriety, bull.
mistranslate, v. misrender, misconstrue, misinterpret.
mistreat, v. misuse, abuse, maltreat.
mistreatment, n. misuse, abuse, maltreatment.
mistress, n. matron, superior; sweetheart, flame, dulcinea, ladylove, amaryllis; paramour, concubine; demirep, lorette, Delilah, Phryne, corotte.
mistrust, v. doubt, question, suspect, distrust, apprehend.
mistrustful, a. distrustful, suspicious, apprehensive.
misty, a. obscure, hazy, foggy, orumous.
misunderstand, v. misconceive, miscomprehend, misapprehend.
misunderstanding, n. misconception, miscomprehension, misapprehension; variance, disagreement, dissension, controversy.
misuse, v. misapply, prostitute, pervert, profane; maltreat, abuse.
misuse, n. misapplication, prostitution, perversion, profanation, maltreatment, abuse.
mite, n. molecule, speck, atom, particle, mote.
mites, n. pl. Acarina.
mitigate, v. meliorate, alleviate, assuage, temper.
mitigation, n. melioration, alleviation, assuagement.
mitigative, a. assuasive, meliorative, mollifying.
mix, v. mingle, blend, combine, concoct, incorporate, amalgamate, commingle, impregnate, commix, compound, intermix, intersperse, interlard; associate, consort, fraternize.
mixable, a. miscible.
mixed, a. mingled, blended, amalgamated, compounded; promiscuous, miscellaneous, composite, conglomerate, indiscriminate, heterogeneous, motley. Antonyms: assorted, selected, unmixed.
mixture, n. blending, mingling, amalgamation, incorporation, conglomeration, infusion, intermixture, commixture, compound, decoction, concoction; medley, miscellany, gallimaufry, maslin, olio, farrago, hodgepodge, salmagundi, jumble, mélange, heterogoneity, promiscuity.
moat, n. fosse, graffe.
mob, n. rabble, rabblerout; populace, canaille, riffraff.
mob law. lynch law.
mob rule. mobocracy, ochlocracy.
mock, a. sham, spurious, counterfieit, imitational.
mock, v. mimic, flout, taunt, imitate, gibe, ridicule, jeer, schout; balk, disappoint, delude, tantalize, elude; defy, disregard; ape, mimic, personate.
mocker, n. scorner, scoffer, jeerer; mimic.
mockery, n. mimicry, ridicule, derision, jeering, scouting, counterfeit, sham, travesty, farce; disappointment.
mocking, a. derisive, jeering; imitating, mimicking.
mode, n. manner, method, fashion, vogue, style.
model, n. pattern, prototype, exemplar, gauge, criterion, standard, paragon, archetype; manikin, manequin.
model, v. fashion, mould, shape.
model, a. exemplary.
moderate, v. temper, appease, diminish, mitigate, reduce.
moderate, a. sparing, temperate, frugal; reasonable, calm, deliberate; temperate, mild, clement, open; mediocre medium. Antonyms: See immoderate.
moderation, n. mitigation, diminution; temperance, restraint; calmness.
modest, a. unassuming, shy, unpretentious, unpretending, unobtrusive, retiring, demure, coy, reserved, unostentatious. Antonyms: See immodest.
modesty, n. unobtrusiveness, humility; delicacy, chastity, purity, decency, pudicity. Antonyms: immodesty, boldness, indelicacy.
modify, v. limit, qualify, adjust.
modulate, v. inflect; harmonize, attune, adjust, adapt.
modulation, n. inflection; adaptation, adjustment.
mogul, n. Mongolian; lord.
Mohammedan, n. Mahometan, Mussulman, Moslem, Saracen.
Mohammedanism, n. Mahometanism, Islam, Islamism, Moslemism.
moist, a. damp, humid, dank.
moisten, v. dampen, damp, wet.
moisture, n. dampness, humidity; humor. Associated words: hygrostatics, hygrograph, hygrometer, hygroscopic, hygrometric, hygrometry, deliquescent.
molasses, n. treacle.
molecule, n. atom, monad.
molest, v. disturb, trouble, annoy.
molestation, n. disturbance.
mollify, v. appease, pacify, tranquilize.
moment, n. instant, minute, jiffy, trice; force, momentum, impetus; importance, materiality, weight, consequence.
momentary, a. instantaneous, transient.
momentum, n. impetus, force, moment.
monarch, n. sovereign. See ruler.
monarchy, n. sovereignty, kingdom, empire, realm.
monastery, n. abbey, priory, cloister, convent; hospice.
monetary, a. pecuniary.
money, n. currency, coin, capital, funds, finances, change, legal tender, lucre, pelf, specie, sterling, revenue, assets, wherewithal, spondulics (Slang); wampum; boodle; bribe; bonus. Associated words: bullion, cambist, bank, banker, capitalist, chrysology, till, coffer, economics, coin, coinage, mint, mintage, financial, financier, Mammon, treasury, treasurer, monetary, monetize, monetization, demonetize, demonetization, numismatist, mumismatics, alimony, cameralistics, almoner, alms, numismatology.
mongrel, a. hybrid.
monitor, n. mentor, adviser, counselor.
monk, n. religious, monastic, cenobite, anchoret, friar, abbé, fakir. Associated words: monkish, monastic, monastery, monasticism, conventual.
monk's-hood, n. wolfsbane, aconite.
monk's hood. cowl.
monkeylike, a. simious.
monogram, n. cipher.
monologist, n. soliloquist.
monologue, n. soliloquy.
monopolize, v. engross, forestall.
monotonous, a. unvaried, uniform, uninteresting, humdrum, tedious.
monotony, n. monotone, tedium.
monster, n. prodigy, enormity, abnormality, monstrosity lusus naturæ; fiend, brute, ogre, villain; Cerberus, Chimera, Minotaur, Bucentaur.
monstrosity, n. abnormality, monster, lusus naturæ.
monstrous, a. abnormal; enormous, colossal; atrocious.
month, n. Associated words: ultimo, proximo, instant.
monthly, a. mensal, menstrual.
monument, n. tombstone, memorial; cenotaph; dolmen, cromlech. Associated words: epitaph, lapidary.
mood, n. humor.
moon, n. satellite; Luna, Cynthia. Associated words: selenology, selenography, apogee, wax, wane, epigee, selenocentric, selenograph, halo, orb, lunar, lunarian, interlunary, lunation, appulse, crescent, luniform.
moonshine, n. balderdash, flummery, fustian, nonsense.
moot, a. undecided, unsettled, debatable.
mooted, a. moot.
mop, n. malkin, swab; merkin (cannon mop).
mopboard, n. baseboard, surbase.
mopish, a. dejected, glum, dumpish, listless, dull, spiritless.
moral, a. ethical; virtuous, good; accountable, responsible, probable. Antonyms: immoral, licentious.
moral insanity. æsthesiomania.
morality, n. virtue, rectitude, probity, goodness. Antonym: immorality.
moral philosophy. deontology, ethology, ethics.
morass, n. slough, quagmire, bog, marsh, swamp.
Mormon, n. Latter-day Saint.
morning, n. forenoon; dawn, daybreak, aurora, cock-crowing, sunrise.
morning, a. matin, matutinal.
morning concert. (in the open air) aubade.
morning reception. levee.
morning service. matins.
morose, a. churlish, sulky, sullen, moody, splenetic, unamiable.
morsel, n. bite, mouthful; fragment, crumb, scrap.
mortally, adv. fatally.
mortar, n. Associated word: pestle.
mortification, n. gangrene; chagrin, humiliation, abasement, embarrassment; repression, subjection.
mortify, v. gangrene; chagrin, embarrass, abase; repress, deny, restrain.
mosaic, a. tessellated, inlaid, variegated.
most, n. majority.
mote, n. particle, speck, mite.
moth-eaten, a. moth-fretted.
mother, n. materfamilias, matron, matriarch; generatrix; dam. Associated words: cognate, cognation, matricide, maternalism, uterine, matriarchy, matriarchal.
motherhood, n. maternity.
motherly, a. maternal.
mother-of-pearl, n. nacre.
motion, n. movement, activity; gesture, signal, gesticulation; port, gait; impulse. Antonyms: inertia, rest, stagnation, immobility, quiescence, repose.
motionless, a. stationary, inert, stagnant, quiescent.
motive, n. incentive, inducement, incitement.
mottled, a. piebald, party-colored, spotted.
mould, n. matrix, matrice; pattern, model; mouldiness, mildew, blight, smut, fungus.
mould, v. form, shape, model, cast; knead.
mouldy, a. musty, mildewed, fusty, decaying.
moult, v. mew, exuviate.
moulting, n. exuviation.
mount, v. ascend; bestride.
mountain, n. mount. Associated words: orology, orography, orogeny, montiform, butte, arete, spur, montanic, intermontane, oread, mountainous, ultramontane, bergstock, subalpine, alpenstock, range, ridge, submontane, alpestrine.
mountebank, n. quack; charlatan, impostor, empiric.
mourn, v. deplore, lament, regret, grieve, repine, sorrow, bemoan, bewail.
mournful, a. sorrowful, lugubrious, doleful, woful.
mourning, n. sorrow, grief, bereavement; weeds.
mouse, n. murine, rodent; pl. mice, vermin.
mousing, a. meddlesome, prying, intrusive.
mouthpiece, n. embouchure; spokesman.
movable, a. portable, mobile. Antonyms: immovable, fast, immobile.
move, v. transfer; migrate, immigrate, emigrate, remove; impel, propel, actuate, influence; budge, stir.
movement, n. motion, locomotion, transference, removal.
movement cure. kinesiatrics, kinesitherapy, lingism.
moving, a. motive.
mow, v. reap.
mowing, n. reaping.
mucus, n. phlegm.
mud, n. mire, ooze, muck; silt.
mud bath. illutation.
muddiness, n. turbidness, feculence, obscurity, miriness.
muddle, v. confuse, fuddle, bewilder.
muddle, n. confusion.
muddled, a. confused, addled.
muddy, a. feculent, turbid, roily; opaque, intransparent, confused, involved, incoherent.
mud-eating, a. limivorous.
muffle, v. wrap, envelop; deaden, subdue.
muffler, n. scarf, tippet.
mulct, n. fine, amercement.
mule, n. hybrid, hinny.
mule-driver, n. muleteer.
mulish, a. See stubborn.
mull, v. ruminate, ponder, cogitate.
mulligrubs, n. (Slang) colic.
multitude, n. crowd, throng, host.
mum, a. silent, speechless, dumb, mute.
mumble, v. mutter, maunder, mump.
mumbling, a. muttering, inarticulate, indistinct, incoherent.
mummery, n. masquerade, mimicry.
mumpish, a. moody, sullen, morose, sulky, unamiable.
mumps, n. parotitis; sullenness, the sulks.
munch, v. craunch.
murder, n. homicide.
murderer, n. homicide.
murderous, a. sanguinary, homicidal, fell.
muriatic acid. hydrochloric acid.
murmur, v. grumble, complain, repine.
murmur, n. plaint, complaint; purl, babble; undertone.
murmuring, a. complaining, querulous, repining.
muscle, n. brawn, thew; sinew, tendon.
muscular, a. brawny, thewy, sinewy, stalwart.
muse, v. contemplate, ruminate, brood, ponder, mull, reflect.
muse, n. contemplation, meditation, revery.
Muses, n. pl. Pierides, tuneful nine (Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania). Associated word: Pierian.
mushroom, a. ephemeral, transitory.
mushrooms, n. pl. Fungi, agaric, Agaricaceæ. Associated words: mycology, agaricin, pileus, gills, spore. See Fungi.
music, n. melody, symphony, harmony; melodies, harmonics.
musical, a. melodious, harmonious, tuneful, symphonious.
musical entertainment. musicale, concert.
muskmelon, n. cantaloupe.
muss, n. confusion, litter, jumble, disorder.--v. disarrange, rumple, dishevel.
mustard plaster. sinapism.
musty, a. mildewed, fusty, mouldy, frowzy, rank, stale.
mute, a. dumb, obmutescent; silent, speechless.
mutilate, v. maim, dismember, mangle.
mutilation, n. maim, dismemberment, mangling.
mutinous, a. rebellious, insubordinate, seditious, insurgent, insurrectionary.
mutiny, n. insurrection, rebellion, insubordination, revolt.
mutter, v. maunder.
muttering, a. inarticulate, indistinct, maundering.
mutual, a. reciprocal.
mutuality, n. correlation, reciprocation, interchange.
mysterious, a. inscrutable, cryptic, obscure, unexplainable, enigmatical, unfathomed, unfathomable, abstruse, mystic, inexplicable, recondite, cabalistic, occult, unexplained.
mystery, n. secret, enigma, riddle, intricacy, arcanum.
mystic, a. occult, esoteric, cabalistic, mystical.
mystification, n. bewilderment, perplexity, obfuscation.
mystify, v. bewilder, perplex, obfuscate, befog, nonplus.
mystifying, a. perplexing, confusing, bewildering, mysterious.
myth, n. legend, tradition, fable.
nab, v. (Colloq.) grab, snatch, seize.
nag, v. (Colloq.) plague, tease, twit, hector, torment, scold.
naïve, a. artless, innocent, ingenuous, frank.
naïveté, n. artlessness, innocence, ingenuousness, candor.
naked, a. nude, undressed, bare; unexaggerated, uncolored, exact, literal.
nakedness, n. nudity, bareness; exactness, literalness, accuracy.
name, n. appellation, designation, denomination; epithet, title, cognomen, surname, cognomination, pseudonym, patronymic, metronymic, alias, penname, prænomen, sobriquet, nom de plume, nom de guerre, nickname, eponym, misnomer, euphemism, agnomen, allonym, anonym, autonym, appellative, byname, caconym, cryptonym, compellation, compellative, dionym, trionym, polyonym, diminutive; repute, fame, renown, reputation. Associated words: nominal, nominally, titular, titulary, onomatology, patronomatology, onomasticon, orismology, pseudepigraphy, pseudonymity, roster, register, née, nomancy, namesake, eponymy, of that ilk, nomenclator, heteronym, synedoche, nominative.
name, v. entitle, denominate, style, call, christen, dub, term; designate, specify, nominate.
nameless, a. unnamed; undistinguished, inglorious, unknown, obscure; anonymous; unnamable, inexpressible.
namelessness, n. anonymity; obscurity.
names, n. pl. nomenclature, terminology.
Naples, n. Associated word: Neapolitan.
narcotic, n. stupefacient, sedative, anæsthetic, opiate, anodyne.
narrate, v. recount, recite, tell about, relate.
narration, n. narrative, relation, recital, story.
narrative, n. narration, account, portrayal, story, tale.
narrow, a. limited, circumscribed, incapacious, contracted, straitened, cramped; bigoted, illiberal, uncatholic, narrow-minded, insular.
narrow, v. contract, reduce, constrict, restrict, limit, cramp, confine.
narrowing, n. contraction, reduction, constriction, limitation circumscription.
narrow-minded, a. illiberal, bigoted, intolerant, narrow, uncatholic.
narrow-mindedness, n. illiberality, bigotry, bias, intolerance, insularity, uncatholicity.
narrowness, n. contractedness, incapaciousness, circumscription.
nastiness, n. squalor, filthiness, pollution, filth, corruption, dirtiness; indecency, smut, obscenity, bawdry, ribaldry, indelicacy, lewdness.
nasty, a. filthy, squalid, foul, polluted, dirty; indecent, indelicate, gross, ribald, lewd, obscene, smutty, shameless; odious, sickening, repulsive, nauseous, disgusting, disagreeable.
native, a. natal; indigenous, natural, aboriginal, autochthonal; vernacular, mother; genuine, congenital, inherent, inborn, inbred, innate, original. Antonyms: foreign, artificial, exotic, acquired, assumed, unnatural.
native, n. aboriginal, denizen (by birth), indigene.
natives, n. pl. aborigines.
natty, a. (Colloq.) neat, spruce, trim, jaunty, dapper, chic.
natural, a. native, inborn, congenital, innate, characteristic; original, indigenous; normal, regular, legitimate; artless, unaffected, ingenuous, spontaneous, simple; unregenerate. Antonyms: unnatural, acquired, affected, simulated.
naturalization, n. denization.
naturalize, v. familiarize, accustom, habituate, acclimatize, adapt, acclimate.
natural philosophy. physics.
nature, n. creation, universe, cosmos, world; kind, sort, character, quality, species; disposition, mood, temper, essence, constitution. Associated words: physiography, physiogony, connatural, connaturalness.
nature worship. physiolatry.
naughty, a. disobedient, mischievous, perverse, forward, refractory.
nausea, n. seasickness; qualm, squeamishness, queasiness, qualmishness.
nauseate, v. sicken, disgust, revolt; recoil from, abhor, abominate.
nauseous, a. disgusting, nauseating, offensive, sickening, fulsome, distasteful.
nautical, a. naval, marine, maritime, oceanic.
nautilus, n. Tetrabranchiata; argonaut, paper nautilus; diving-bell.
naval, a. nautical, marine, maritime.
navel, n. umbilicus, omphalos.
navel string. funis, umbilical cord.
navigate, v. sail, cruise; guide, steer, direct; circumnavigate
near, a. nigh, close, adjacent, neighboring, contiguous, proximate, approximate to; intimate, confidential, bosom; immediate, imminent, impending, forthcoming. Antonyms: distant, remote, far.
nearness, n. closeness, proximity, propinquity, contiguity, adjacency, imminence, approximation, approxi-mateness intimacy, familiarity.
near-sighted, a. myopic, short-sighted, purblind.
near-sightedness, n. myopia.
near-sighted person. myope.
neat, a. tidy, orderly, trim, clean, cleanly; tasteful, trim, finished, artistic, nice, excellent, adroit; dainty; spruce; dapper, natty. Antonyms: dowdy, slovenly, slatternly, untidy, tawdry, gaudy, frowzy, disorderly, unkempt.
necessary, a. requisite, essential, needed, needful, indispensable inevitable, unavoidable. Antonyms: nonessential, unnecessary, optional, discretional, casual, needless.
necessary, n. requisite, requirement, essential, sine qua non.
necessity, n. requisite, necessary, requirement, essential; exigency, urgency; indispensability. Antonyms: choice, option, contingency, doubtfulness, possibility.
neck, n. Associated words: nape, cervical, scruff, atlas, axis, palea, dewlap, scrag, gula, nucha, auchenium, décolleté, jugular, jugulum, wattle, wimple, wryneck, torticollis, Adam's apple, splenius, ruche, colliform, fichu, withers, gorget, carotid, goiter, retrocollic, cruels, nuchalgia, ruff, crane.
necktie, n. cravat, neckcloth, scarf, tie.
necromancer, n. wizard, sorcerer, magician, conjurer, exorcist, soothsayer, diviner.
necromancy, n. magic, conjuration, enchantment, sorcery, black art.
need, n. want, necessity, extremity, strait, exigency, urgency; poverty, penury, privation, indigence.
needful, a. requisite, necessary, essential, indispensable, required.
needleprick, n. acupuncture.
needless, a. unnecessary, groundless, unfounded.
needlewoman, n. seamstress.
needs, adv. necessarily.
needy, a. destitute, indigent, penniless, impecunious.
nefarious, a. atrocious, flagitious, heinous.
negation, n. denial, disavowal.
negative, n. denial, refusal. Antonym: affirmative.
neglect, n. disregard, omission, negligence, default, dereliction, remissness, oversight.
neglect, v. disregard, slight, overlook, ignore, omit.
neglectful, a. See negligent.
negligence, n. neglect, remissness, oversight, heedlessness, laches (Law).
negligent, a. neglectful, heedless, indifferent, slack, remiss, regardless, slothful, derelict, inattentive, careless Antonyms: careful, attentive, heedful.
negotiable, a. transferable.
negro, n. African, blackamoor, Ethiopian, Nigritian, Senegambian, Mandingo, negrillo, Papuan, Krooman; darkey, buck, nigger; (of mixed blood) mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, mestee, Zambo, Sambo, sacatra. Associated words: negrophile, negrophilist, negrophilism, negrophobia.
negro, a. negritic, African, Ethiopian, negroid.
negro child. pickaninny.
negro woman. negress, wench.
neigh, n. and v. whinny.
neighborhood, n. vicinity, vicinage, locality, neighbors, venue (Law).
neighboring, a. adjacent, contiguous, neighbor, near.
neophyte, n. convert, proselyte; novice, tyro, beginner.
nerve, n. (Slang) boldness, audacity, presumption, effrontery, courage, assurance.
nerve, n. Associated words: neurology, neurologist, neurography, neuron, lecithin, rete, plexus, neurasthenia, neurasthenic, neurotic, sensorium, funiculus, ganglion, hilum, neurism, innervation, neuration, neuritis, neuropathic, nervine, neuroma, neuropathy, neuroid, neuric, neuricity, aneuria, glioma, neurosis, cinerea, cholesterin, perineurium, epineurium, internuncial.
nerve, v. brace, strengthen, fortify, invigorate, energize.
nervous, a. excitable, sensitive, timorous.
nest, n. nidus; eyrie, aerie; retreat, den, haunt, resort. Associated words: nidificate, nidification, neossine, caliology, cubilose, nidulant.
net, n. toil, snare, gin, mesh; caul, trammel, seine, trawl, dredge, dragnet.
netted, a. reticulated, retiary, interwoven, complicated, reticulose.
nettle, n. Urtica. Associated words: urticate, urtication urtical.
nettle, v. irritate, provoke, exasperate, ruffle, incense, annoy.
network, n. mesh, interlacement, reticulation; plexus, rete, ganglion.
neutrality, n. indifference.
neutralize, v. counteract, counterbalance, invalidate.
nevertheless, adv. or conj. yet, however, notwithstanding.
new, a. recent, fresh, modern, novel, newfangled, neoteric, unfamiliar, strange; renewed, renovated, repaired, refreshed; unaccustomed, untried, inexperienced.
new custom. innovation.
newly, adv. lately, recently, freshly; anew, afresh, again.
news, n. tidings, word, report.
new word. neologism, neoterism, coinage. Associated words: neology, neologic, neologist, neoterist, neoterize coin.
New York. Gotham.
New Yorker. Gothamite.
nice, a. fastidious, exacting, particular, punctilious, queasy, finical, difficult, squeamish, dainty; delicate, refined, dainty; discriminating, scrupulous, precise, discerning, subtle; exquisite, agreeable, pleasant, enjoyable, gratifying; fine, neat, finished.
nicety, n. niceness, precision; punctilio, subtlety, fine point.
niche, n. recess, cavity, nook, tabernacle.
nick, n. notch, indentation, dent, score, dint.
nick, v. notch, mar, deface, indent.
nickname, n. sobriquet.
nigger, n. (Colloq.) negro.
night, n. darkness. Associated words: nocturnal, noctuary, noctidial, noctilucous, belated, benight, benighted, noctivagant, noctivagation, noctivagous, nocturne, noctiflorous pernoctalian, pernoctation, lychnobite.
night-blindness, n. hemeralopia.
nightingale, n. philomel, philomela.
nightly, a. nocturnal.
nightmare, n. incubus, cacodemon, succubus.
nightshade, n. belladonna.
night-sight, n. nyctalopia.
nimble, a. agile, sprightly, deft, lively, swift, brisk, active, spry. Antonyms: slow, sluggish, clumsy, dilatory, unready, dull, heavy.
nimble-fingered, a. dexterous.
nimbus, n. halo, glory, aureola.
nincompoop, n. (Slang) simpleton, dolt, witling, dunce. See fool.
nine, n. novenary, ennead.--a. enneatic. Associated words: novennial, enneagon, nonagon, enneagonal, enneahedral, enneahedron.
nine days' devotion. (religious). novena.
ninety, n. Associated word: nonagesimal.
ninety years. Associated word: nonagenarian.
nip, n. pinch; blast, cut; sarcasm, taunt, gibe.
nip, v. pinch; clip, cut off; blast, kill; chill, deaden, benumb.
nippers, n. pl. pincers, tweezers, pinchers, pliers.
nipping, a. biting, pinching, blasting, destructive.
nipple, n. teat, pap, dug, mammilla.
nitric acid. spirit of nitre, aquafortis.
nitrogen, n. azote.
no, n. refusal, denial, negative.
nobby, a. (Colloq.) modish, stylish, fashionable.
nobility, n. nobleness, high-mindedness, magnanimity, excellence, superiority, dignity; peerage, aristocracy, patrician class.
noble, a. eminent, exalted, magnanimous, superior; stately, magnificent, splendid, imposing, grand; aristocratic highborn, patrician.
noble, n. nobleman, peer, grandee. Antonyms: commoner, proletary, plebeian.
nobleman, n. noble, peer, lord, aristocrat, patrician, grandee.
noblewoman, n. peeress.
nobody, n. nonentity, jackstraw.
nod, n. bow.
nodding, n. bowing, nutation.--a. annuent, bowing, nutant.
noise, n. sound; racket, clamor, din, outcry, clatter, uproar, hubbub, tumult, rout, blare, vociferation, hullabaloo (Colloq.), powwow (Slang), hilarity.
noiseless, a. still, silent, quiet, inaudible.
noisome, a. unwholesome, noxious, pestilential; offensive, malodorous, fetid, stinking.
noisy, a. clamorous, boisterous, vociferous, turbulent, riotous, obstreperous, uproarious, blatant, discordant, brawling, hilarious.
nomad, n. wanderer.
nonchalance, n. indifference, coolness, carelessness, sang-froid, insouciance.
nonchalant, a. indifferent, cool, unconcerned, insouciant.
nonconformist, n. dissenter, recusant.
nonconformity, n. recusancy, dissent.
nondescript, a. undescribed, unclassifiable.
nonentity, n. non-existence; nobody, cipher.
non-essential, a. unimportant, incidental, adventitious.
nonesuch, n. paragon, pattern, nonpareil, model.
non-interference, n. laissez faire.
nonplus, v. perplex, puzzle, disconcert, confuse, embarrass, mystify, bewilder.
nonsense, n. absurdity, twaddle, bosh, fudge, silliness, balderdash, moonshine, amphigory, rigmarole.
nonsensical, a. absurd, senseless, preposterous, insensate, amphigoric, silly.
nook, n. retreat, corner, recess.
noon, n. meridian, noonday, noontide, midday.
normal, a. natural, regular. Antonyms: abnormal, unnatural.
northern, a. boreal, north, arctic, northerly, septentrion.
northern lights. aurora borealis.
northern regions. arctic regions, Thule, septentrion.
north pole. Associated words: Polynia, polar, circumpolar.
north star. polestar, lodestar, Cynosure, Polaris.
north wind. Boreas.
Norwegian Parliament. Storthing, Lagthing.
nose, n. snout, nozzle, spout, proboscis, muzzle.
nose, n. Associated words: nasal, rhinal, rhinology, rhinoplasty, coryza, aquiline, simous, retroussé, pug, snuff, snuffle, vomer, nostril, nasalize, nasalization, nasiform, polypus, vibrissa, grogblossom, rosedrop, snivel, rhinitis, rhinolith, septum.
nosebleeding, n. epistaxis.
nostalgia, n. homesickness.
notable, a. noticeable, conspicuous, plain, evident; signal, remarkable, famous.
notch, v. nick, score, indent, crenellate.
notch, n. nick, indentation, score, dent, crenature, serration, emargination.
notched, a. serrated, crenated, incised, emarginated.
notching, n. notch, indentation, serration, crenation.
note, n. billet; memorandum, minute, record; remark, comment, annotation, commentary, scholium, gloss; mark, token, sign, feature, peculiarity; observation, notice; distinction, repute, celebrity, reputation, fame, renown.
note, v. See notice; record, jot down; annotate, comment, postillate.
note-book, n. memorandum-book, commonplace book, adversaria, journal, diary.
noted, a. celebrated, renowned, eminent, distinguished, famous.
notes, n. pl. marginalia (marginal notes), adversaria.
noteworthy, a. memorable, remarkable.
nothing, n. non-existence, nonentity; bagatelle; naught, cipher, zero, null, nullity.
nothingness, n. nihility, non-existence, nullity.
notice, n. observation, cognizance, note, heed, attention, regard; announcement, citation, warning, notification; bulletin; recognition, civility, courtesy. Antonyms: disregard, connivance, inattention, heedlessness, ignoring, oversight, slight.
notice, v. see, observe, note, heed, recognize, perceive, mark, take cognizance of, pay attention to. Antonyms: ignore, connive, skip, neglect, slight, overlook, disregard.
noticeable, a. observable, appreciable, conspicuous, salient, prominent. Antonyms: unobservable, inappreciable, inconspicuous.
notification, n. See telling; notice, announcement, warning.
notify, v. inform, acquaint, tell, apprise, give notice to.
notion, n. conception, idea, concept; opinion, judgment, belief, view; inclination, intention, disposition; (Colloq.) knicknack, device.
notional, a. whimsical, capricious, irresolute, freakish, crotchety, changeable.
notoriety, n. repute (unfavorable), publicity.
notorious, a. talked of, evident, obvious, noted, famous (usually unfavorable).
notwithstanding, conj. despite, nevertheless, however.
noun, n. substantive.
nourish, v. feed, nurture; support; encourage, foster, cherish, promote.
nourishing, a. nutritious.
nourishment, n. nutrition; food, nutriment.
novel, a. new, recent, fresh, unusual, rare, unique, innovative.
novel, n. fiction, romance, story, tale.
novelty, n. newness; change, curiosity, innovation.
novice, n. tyro; probationer, proselyte, convert, novitiate
novitiate, n. apprenticeship; probation, tyronism, noviceship.
now, adv. instantly, immediately, at once, instanter.
now and then. occasionally, at intervals, infrequently, intermittently, sometimes, periodically, once in a while.
noxious, a. injurious, baneful, unwholesome, noisome.
nub, n. (Colloq.) knob, jag, protuberance, snag, excrescence.
nucleus, n. kernel, core, heart, center.
nude, a. See naked.
nudge, v. poke (with the elbow).
nugatory, a. futile, ineffectual, unavailing. See vain.
nuisance, n. plague, pest, bane, infliction, bore, offense.
nullification, n. invalidation, abrogation, cancellation, repeal.
nullify, v. invalidate, abrogate, cancel, repeal, countermand.
numb, a. deadened, unfeeling, insensible, benumbed.
number, v. enumerate; figure up, count, numerate.
number, n. numeral, figure, digit, integer; collection, multitude.
numbers, n. poetry, music, verse, song.
numbers, n. pl. Associated words: numeral, numeric, notation, coefficient, numerary.
numbness, n. insensibility.
numerous, a. many, plentiful, multitudinous.
numskull, n. (Colloq.) dolt, dullard, dunce, lackwit, simpleton. See fool.
nunnery, n. convent, cloister, mynchery (ruins).
nuptial, a. hymeneal, bridal.
nuptials, n. pl. wedding, marriage, espousals.
nurse, v. suckle; nourish, cherish, foster, succor, foment, encourage; attend, tend; bring up, raise, nurture, rear.
nursery, n. crèche (public nursery).
nursling, n. and a. suckling.
nurture, n. care, training; food, nourishment.
nurture, v. feed, nourish, nurse; educate, train, school.
nut-bearing, a. nuciferous.
nutriment, n. nourishment, food, aliment.
nutrition, n. nourishment, feeding; nutriment, food; eutrophy, (healthy nutrition); malnutrition, denutrition, innutrition, dystrophy (defective nutrition). Associated words: threpsology, trophology, trophic.
nutritious, a. nourishing, nutritive. Antonym: innutritious.
nuts, n. pl. mast.
nut-shaped, a. nuciform.
nymph, n. dryad, sylph, Undine, nereid, hydriad, oread, houri, Daphne.
oar, n. paddle, scull, spoon oar. Associated words: rowlock, loom, blade, wash, oarlock.
oar-shaped, a. remiform.
oat grasses. Avena. Associated words: avenaceous, oaten.
oath, n. adjuration, pledge, sworn promise; curse, profanity, swearing, expletive, blasphemy. Associated words: juratory, profane, imprecate.
oath-breaking, n. perjury.
obedience, n. compliance, submission, subservience; dutifulness. Antonyms: disobedience, incompliance, defiance, revolt, insubordination.
obedient, a. submissive, tractable, deferential, subservient, compliant, dutiful, docile, amenable. Antonyms: unsubmissive, intractable, disobedient.
obelisk, n. Associated words: pyramidion, monolithic, hieroglyphics.
obey, v. comply, submit to, heed, regard, be ruled by.
object, v. disapprove, oppose, demur, contravene, gainsay, except, cavil.
object, n. thing, article; goal, purpose, aim, motive, intent, design, target, butt, destination, view.
objection, n. exception, scruple, demurrer, cavil. Antonyms: approval, acquiescence.
objectionable, a. exceptionable, offensive, obnoxious, undesirable, displeasing.
objectless, a. aimless, desultory, purposeless, vague.
obligation, n. accountableness, responsibility, incumbency, duty, indebtedness; agreement, contract, stipulation, covenant, bond.
obligatory, a. binding, incumbent, imperative, coercive. Antonyms: optional, discretional.
oblige, v. constrain, obligate; please, gratify, accommodate, coerce, compel, necessitate, force.
obliging, a. complaisant, gracious, accommodating, affable, debonair, deferential, yielding.
obliterate, v. efface, erase, blot out, remove, destroy, expunge.
obliteration, n. extinction, erasure, effacement, removal.
oblivious, a. unmindful, unconscious, forgetful, heedless, disregardful.
obnoxious, a. subject, liable; offensive, odious, hateful, displeasing.
obscene, a. smutty, lewd, gross, indecent, immodest, indelicate, ribald.
obscenity, n. lewdness, smut, ribaldry, indecency, bawdiness, immodesty.
obscure, a. abstruse, vague, recondite, indefinite, ambiguous; humble, inglorious, mean, undistinguished; secluded, retired, remote; shaded, darkened.
obscure, v. darken, obfuscate, bedim, eclipse; involve, dissemble, disguise, confuse.
obscuring, n. obscuration, obscurity.
obscurity, n. ambiguity, vagueness; privacy, seclusion, retirement; darkness, obfuscation, obscuration.
obsequious, a. sycophantic, cringing, fawning, deferential, servile.
obsequiousness, n. sycophancy.
obsolete, a. disused, archaic, antiquated, unfashionable, old-fashioned.
obstacle, n. obstruction, barrier, impediment, hindrance, stumbling-block.
obstetrician, n. midwife, accoucheur.
obstetrics, n. tocology, midwifery.
obstinacy, n. incompliance, doggedness, perversity, obduracy, intractability, stubbornness.
obstinate, a. incompliant, intractable, mulish, perverse, dogged, contumacious, stubborn. Antonyms: amenable, yielding, tractable, submissive, compliant, obedient.
obstreperous, a. clamorous, vociferous, noisy, uproarious, boisterous.
obstruct, v. impede, oppose, retard, barricade, blockade, clog, interrupt, bar, restrain.
obstruction, n. obstacle, impediment, barrier, blockade, restraint.
obtain, v. gain, get, procure, acquire, win, attain, secure.
obtainable, a. procurable, attainable, accessible. Antonyms: unobtainable, unprocurable, unattainable, inaccessible.
obtrusive, a. officious, meddlesome, intrusive, forward. Antonyms: inobtrusive, retiring.
obvious, a. plain, evident, palpable, manifest, patent, self-evident.
occult, a. mystic, mystical, abstruse, recondite, secret, unrevealed.
occupant, n. occupier, tenant, holder, incumbent, possessor, lessee.
occupation, n. occupancy, tenure, incumbency; vocation, employment. See business.
occupational, a. vocational.
occupy, v. hold, keep, possess, fill; engage, absorb, employ, busy, monopolize.
ocean, n. main, deep. Associated words: oceanic, interoceanic, doldrums, oceanography, oceanology, terrigenous, Oceanus, transoceanic.
odd, a. unmatched, single, uneven; singular, peculiar, unusual, unique, strange, quaint, extraordinary, queer, eccentric, whimsical, freakish, baroque, fantastic, nondescript, abnormal, bizarre, erratic, unconventional, curious, capricious; extra, remaining, additional, redundant, casual, supernumerary.
oddity, n. oddness, singularity; curiosity, nondescript, marvel, wonder.
odds, sing, and pl. advantage, preponderance, inequality, disparity; probability.
odds and ends. remnants, fragments, orts, culls, scraps.
odious, a. detestable, abominable, execrable, offensive, repulsive, hateful, loathsome.
odium, n. detestation, unpopularity, hatred, contempt, dislike, opprobrium.
odor, n. smell, aroma, fragrance, scent, redolence, perfume, savor; stink, stench, fetor. Associated words: deodorize, deodorization, deodorant, deodorizer, antibromic, disinfectant, disinfect, disinfection, exhale, exhalation, effluvium, emanation.
odorless, a. inodorous, savorless, scentless.
odorous, a. odoriferous, fragrant, savory, aromatic, balmy, scented.
offal, n. refuse, waste, rubbish, garbage.
offend, v. displease, affront, provoke, mortify, exasperate, incense, wound, shock.
offender, n. delinquent, wrong-doer, trespasser, malefactor, culprit, criminal.
offense, n. crime, wrong, sin, outrage, indignity; displeasure, resentment, dudgeon, umbrage; misdemeanor, transgression, delinquency, trespass.
offensive, a. obnoxious, displeasing, noisome, distasteful, insolent, abusive, aggressive, assailant, fetid, disagreeable, opprobrious, scurrilous, fulsome.
offer, v. tender, proffer, propose, propound, volunteer, bid; immolate, sacrifice.
offer, n. tender, proposition, bid, overture, proffer.
offering, n. overture, proposition, bid; sacrifice, oblation; offertory; corban.
offhand, a. extemporaneous, impromptu, improvised, unstudied.
office, n. duty, function, service, work, charge, trust, business.
office-holder, n. officer, official, functionary, placeman.
officer, n. office-holder, magistrate, dignitary, incumbent.
officially, adv. ex-officio.
officious, a. meddlesome, intrusive, obtrusive, pragmatical, impertinent.
offscouring, n. refuse, scum, offscum, recrement, dross, trash, waste.
offset, n. set-off, counterbalance, equivalent.--v. counterbalance, counterpoise.
offspring, n. children, issue, progeny, posterity, descendants.
often, adv. frequently, repeatedly, oftentimes, ofttimes. Antonyms: seldom, infrequently.
oil, v. lubricate.
oiliness, n. lubricity, unctuousness, unctuosity, oleosity, glibness.
oil-producing, a. oleiferous.
oilstone, n. hone.
oily, a. unctuous, oleaginous, emulsive, lubricous; glib, fluent, plausible.
ointment, n. unguent, embrocation, salve.
old, a. aged, elderly, senescent, decrepit, venerable, patriarchal, superannuated, senile; former, pre-existing, preceding, ancient, archaic, antique, antiquated, olden, time-honored, traditional, immemorial, primitive, primordial, primeval, pristine, fossil; dilapidated, decayed, effete; practiced, veteran, experienced; sensible, astute, shrewd, sagacious.
old age. senility, dotage, superannuation, decrepitude. Associated words: geratology, geratic, gerontic.
old-fashioned, a. antiquated, archaic, passé, antique, obsolete, fogram, frumpish.
old-fashioned word. archaism.
old maid. spinster.
old man. veteran, patriarch, Nestor, elder, oldster, Methuselah, dotard; gaffer, crone, geezer; centenarian, octogenarian, sexagenarian, nonagenarian.
old-time, a. late, former, quondam.
old woman. beldame, crone, gammer; witch, hag, harridan.
old-womanish, a. anile.
old-womanishness, n. anility.
omen, n. foretoken, sign, augury, portent, presage, prognostic, auspice.
ominous, a. portentous, monitory, premonitory, threatening.
omission, n. default, oversight, neglect, pretermission, omittance, non-performance.
omit, v. leave out, slap, pretermit, disregard, neglect, overlook, ignore, delete.
omittance, n. omission, forbearance, default, neglect, oversight.
omnipresence, n. ubiquity.
omnipresent, n. ubiquitous.
one, n. unit. Associated words: unify, unity, unification, numerary.
one after the other. seriatim; tandem; alternately, consecutively.
one hundred years. century, centenary. Associated words: centenarian, centennial.
one letter. Associated word: uniliteral.
on end. erect, perpendicular, upright.
oneness, n. unity, singleness, individuality, unanimity.
onerous, a. laborious, difficult, arduous.
one-sided, a. unilateral; partial, unfair, inequitable, ex parte.
one year. Associated words: annual, annually.
on horseback. mounted.
onion, n. (that does not bottom out) scallion, eschallot, shallot. Associated words: alliaceous, cepaceous, leek, allium, garlic.
onlooker, n. looker-on, bystander, spectator, beholder, witness, eye-witness.
on tap. broached, abroached.
on the sly. (Collog.) sly, covertly, furtively, clandestinely, surreptitiously, secretly.
ooze, v. filter, exude, percolate, transude, seep.
oozing, n. percolation, filtering, exudation, distillation, transudation.
opalescence, n. iridescence.
opalescent, a. iridescent.
opaque, a. intransparent; (Colloq.) obscure, unintelligible.
open, a. accessible, clear, unobstructed, unrestricted; ajar, unlocked; extended, expanded, spread, gaping, yawning, unfolded, dehiscent; frank, unreserved, candid, ingenuous, guileless, overt, undisguised; generous, liberal, bounteous, open-handed; revealed, patent, manifest; unsettled, undetermined, debatable, undecided, controvertible; mild, clement; free, disengaged, unappropriated, unemployed.
open, v. spread, expand, unfold, evolve; reveal, disclose; unclose, unlock, unfasten; begin, commence; dehisce.
open-air, a. outdoor, al-fresco.
opening, a. beginning, introductory, initiatory, preliminary.
opening, n. aperture, fissure, gap, orifice, rift, chasm, hiatus, rent; beginning, introduction, outset; vacancy.
openly, adv. publicly, unreservedly, candidly.
open-mouthed, a. gaping, yawning; greedy, clamorous, ravenous, rapacious, eager.
opiate, n. narcotic, anodyne, sedative, dormitive, soporific.
opiate, a. somniferous, narcotic, anodyne, sedative, soporiferous, dormitive.
opinion, n. belief, judgment, impression; decision, ruling, verdict, sentence.
opium, n. Associated words: narcotic, opiate, chandoo, thebaine, narcotine, codeine, dope, meconism, meconology, meconophagism, meconophagist, opiophagism.
opponent, n. adversary, antagonist, rival, competitor.
opportune, a. timely, seasonable, apropos, felicitous, appropriate.
oppose, v. combat, resist, confront, withstand, oppugn, impugn, contend, antagonize, contravene, discountenance, gainsay, contradict. Antonyms: yield, acquiesce, concur, agree.
opposer, n. opponent, antagonist.
opposing, a. conflicting, antagonistic, contending, opposite, adverse.
opposite, n. antithesis, counterpart, antipodes.
opposite, a. contrary, adverse, diametrical, antagonistic, inverse, reverse, contradictory, counter, incompatible, antithetic, antipodal, inconsistent.
opposition, n. resistance, counteraction, hostility, repulse, rebuff, recalcitration, counterview, antagonism, contradiction, obstacle, impediment, obstruction. Antonyms: acquiescence, non-resistance, concurrence, agreement.
oppress, v. burden, overwhelm, aggrieve, tyrannize, persecute, overpower.
oppression, n. tyranny, persecution, extortion, hardship, severity.
oppressive, a. rigorous, tyrannical, extortionate, burdensome.
oppressor, n. tyrant, persecutor, extortioner.
option, n. choice, preference, election, discretion, alternative. Antonyms: constraint, coercion, compulsion.
optional, a. discretional, elective. Antonyms: compulsory, coercive, obligatory.
oral, a. spoken, verbal, parole, vocal, nuncupative.
oration, n. declamation, rhetoric.
orator, n. declaimer, rhetorician.
oratorical, a. rhetorical, eloquent, declamatory.
ordeal, n. crucible.
order, n. mandate, command, precept, direction, decree, decretal, injunction; rule, regulation, law, canon, prescription; method, system, disposition, arrangement; succession, sequence; dictation, bidding, commission; grade, degree, class; tranquillity, quiet.
order, v. methodize, systematize, regulate; bid, command, dictate, enjoin.
ordering, n. distribution, disposition, regulation.
orderly, a. systematic, methodical, well-regulated, regular; peaceable.
ordinary, a. common, regular, conventional, commonplace, mediocre, average, usual.
organic, a. constitutional, vital, fundamental, essential, inherent, instrumental.
organization, n. organism; formation, construction, making.
organize, v. arrange, systematize, form.
orgies, n. pl. carousal, revels, debauch, wassail, saturnalia, bacchanals, riot.
origin, n. source, beginning, derivation, rise, origination.
original, a. first, primeval, aboriginal, primitive, archetypal, primordial, pristine; creative, productive, inventive, ingenious. Antonyms: derivative, copied.
original, n. origin, archetype, prototype, model, pattern.
Orkney Islands. Associated word: Orcadian.
ornament, n. decoration, embellishment, adornment, garniture, ornamentation; parure.
ornament, v. decorate, embellish, garnish, bedeck, grace, beautify.
ornamental, a. embellishing, beautifying, garnishing.
ornamentation, n. adornment, garniture, embellishment; arabesque, moresque; purfling; fret-work.
ornate, a. ornamented, decorated, embellished, florid, adorned.
orthodox, a. Antonym: heterodox.
orthodoxy, n. Antonym: heterodoxy.
oscillate, v. fluctuate, vacillate.
ostentatious, a. showy, pompous, spectacular, gaudy, pretentious.
ounce by ounce. unciatim.
oust, v. eject, evict, dispossess, dislodge, remove, displace, expel, depose.
ousting, n. ejection, eviction, expulsion, dispossession, ouster, removal, disseizin, deposition.
out, adv. away, absent, abroad; outright, aloud, audibly; wanting, lacking, deficient in; extinguished; at variance.
out and out. wholly, completely, openly.--a. absolute, unqualified, undisguised.
outbounds, n. pl. limits, boundaries, confines.
outbreak, n. eruption, outburst, uprising.
outburst, n. eruption, outbreak, paroxysm, access, ebullition.
outcast, n. pariah, castaway, reprobate, Ishmaelite.
outcome, n. consequence, outgrowth, result, issue, upshot, eventuation.
outdo, v. excel, surpass, outvie, outstrip, exceed.
outer, a. external, exterior.
outermost, a. extreme, uttermost, utmost.
outfit, n. equipment.
outflow, n. effusion, outpouring.
outgeneral, v. outmaneuver, circumvent.
outgrowth, n. excrescence; outcome.
outlandish, a. grotesque, bizarre, barbarous, unconventional, freakish.
outlast, v. outwear, survive.
outlaw, n. bandit, desperado.--v. proscribe.
outlawry, n. proscription.
outlay, n. expenditure, disbursement.
outlet, n. egress, vent, exit.
outline, n. contour, circumference, periphery, profile; sketch, draught, scenario.
outlive, v. survive.
outlook, n. prospect, view, vista; watch-tower; foresight.
outlying, a. remote, detached, distant, frontier.
out of joint. unhinged, dislocated.
out of order. disordered, disarranged, jumbled, chaotic, disorganized.
out of place. misplaced; improper, unbecoming.
out of reach. inaccessible, unattainable.
outrage, n. indignity, affront, insult, assault.
outrageous, a. atrocious, nefarious, wanton, flagrant, unwarrantable, furious, monstrous, villainous.
outright, adv. unconditionally, utterly.
outside, n. exterior.
outside, a. external.
outskirt, n. edge, border, purlieu, suburb, frontier.
outspoken, a. unreserved, frank, explicit, blunt, ingenuous.
outward, a. external, exterior, outer, superficial, surface, extrinsic.
outweigh, v. overweigh, overbalance, preponderate.
outweighing, n. preponderance, preponderation.--a. preponderant.
outwit, v. circumvent, outgeneral, defeat.
oval, a. elliptical.
oven mop. scovel.
over, adv. across, crosswise, athwart, transversely.
overawe, v. intimidate, daunt.
overbearing, a. haughty, arrogant, dictatorial, magisterial, lordly, dogmatical, supercilious, imperious, cavalier, overweening.
overcharge, n. extortion.
overcoat, n. great coat, topcoat, ulster, raglan, inverness, surtout, paletot.
overcome, v. surmount, conquer, subdue, master, vanquish, overpower, subjugate.
overcoming, a. conquering, overmastering, overwhelming, irresistible.
over-confident, a. rash, presumptuous, incautious.
overdo, v. overwork, overtask, overtax, exhaust; exaggerate.
overeat, v. gorge, glut, satiate.
overfeed, v. surfeit, stuff, satiate, gorge, pamper.
overfeeding, n. surfeit, superalimentation, pampering.
overfill, v. surcharge.
overflow, n. deluge, flood, inundation; exuberance, superabundance, profusion.
overflow, v. inundate, deluge, engulf.
overflowing, n. overflow, inundation; exuberance, copiousness, superabundance.
overfull, a. surcharged, plethoric, surfeited, gorged.
overfullness, n. plethora, surfeit, satiety, engorgement, congestion, repletion.
overhang, n. projection.
overhead, adv. aloft, above.
overlapping, a. obvolute, obvoluted, imbricate, imbricated.--n.imbrication.
overlook, v. supervise, oversee; inspect, overhaul, examine, neglect, disregard, skip, slight, ignore; condone, connive at, forgive.
overnice, a. fastidious, squeamish.
overplus, n. surplus, excess, surplusage, residue, rest.
overpower, v. vanquish, subdue, conquer, overcome, defeat, crush, overwhelm, rout, master, subjugate, overmatch.
overpowering, a. overwhelming, conquering, irresistible, overmastering.
overpowering, n. vanquishment, conquering, defeat, subjugation, overthrow.
overrate, v. overvalue, overestimate, overprize.
overreach, v. outwit, dupe, swindle. See cheat.
override, v. trample upon, supersede, annul, abrogate.
overrule, v. annul, rescind, abrogate, revoke, supersede, set aside.
overruling, a. predominant, prevailing, controlling.
overruling, n. abrogation, cancellation, rescission.
oversee, v. superintend, supervise.
overseer, n. superintendent, supervisor, inspector, taskmaster, foreman, monitor.
overshoe, n. galoshe, rubber, arctic.
oversight, n. superintendence, supervision, care, inspection, surveillance, control, charge; overlooking, connivance, omission, failure, inadvertence, default, inattention, lapse.
overstate, v. exaggerate.
overstep, v. exceed, trespass, infringe, intrench, encroach.
oversupply, n. excess, superabundance, surfeit, glut, repletion.
overt, a. public, apparent, unconcealed, patent.
overthrow, v. upset, overturn; demolish, prostrate, subvert, defeat, vanquish, rout, overpower, overcome, subjugate, raze, worst.
overthrow, n. overthrowing, demolition, subversion, undoing, reversal, prostration, defeat, bouleversement.
overtop, v. transcend, surpass, dwarf, overshadow.
overture, n. See offer.
overvalue, v. overrate, overestimate, overprize.
overweening, a. haughty, arrogant, cavalier, supercilious, lordly, conceited.
overweening, n. conceit, arrogance, superciliousness, lordliness.
overweight, n. preponderance.
overwhelm, v. overflow, submerge, ingulf, drown, overpower, crush.
overwhelming, a. irresistible, overpowering.
owing, n. indebtedness.
owing, a. due, payable, unpaid; ascribable, traceable, imputable, attributable, referable; indebted.
own, v. admit, acknowledge, confess, allow, concede, grant; possess. Antonyms: disown, deny.
owner, n. proprietor.
ownership, n. proprietorship, claim, title.
oysters, n. pl. Mollusca, Ostrea. Associated words: ostreaceous, ostreaculture, ostreophagist, ostreophagous, ostriferous, bivalve, spawn, cultch, spat.
pace, n. amble, rack.
pacifiable, a. placable, appeasable, conciliable.
pacify, v. appease, quiet, calm, mollify, propitiate, tranquilize.
pack, n. bundle, bale, parcel, package; multitude, number, quantity; gang; shook.
pack, v. compress, stow, truss; load, encumber.
package, n. bundle, packet, bale, parcel, pack, budget, truss, ceroon.
pact, n. compact, covenant, concordat. See agreement.
pad, n. cushion, bolster; saddle-cloth, housing.
padlock, n. Associated words: shackle, staple, hasp.
pagan, n. See heathen.
page, n. footboy, buttons (Colloq.); folio.
page number. folio.
pail, n. bucket; piggin.
pain, v. hurt, torture, rack; distress, grieve, afflict, aggrieve.
pain, n. punishment, penalty; suffering, ache, smart, throe, rack, agony, torture, distress, qualm, discomfort, pang, excruciation, paroxysm, gripe, twinge, cramp, travail, stitch, crick, anguish; heartache, misery, dolor. Antonyms: ease, comfort, relief, solace. Associated words: anodyne, anæsthetic, analgesic, dolorific, doloriferous, surcease, anæsthetize.
painful, a. distressing, agonizing, excruciating, dolorous, racking; toilsome, arduous, difficult.
painstaking, a. diligent, particular, precise, scrupulous. Antonyms: slovenly, negligent.
paint, n. pigment; cosmetic, rouge.
paint, v. delineate, portray, lim, depict, picture, sketch.
painting, n. Associated words: easel, palette, grisaille, artist, art, atelier, studio.
pair, n. two, brace, couple, span, team, yoke, set.
pal, n. (Slang) partner, mate, confederate, associate, accomplice.
palace, n. mansion, castle, pretorium. Associated words: palatine, palatial.
palaver, n. cajolery, flummery; conference, debate, talk.
pale, a. pallid, wan, colorless, ghastly, blanched, cadaverous, etiolate, ashy; dim, faint, indistinct, obscure. Antonyms: ruddy, buxom, flushed, blowzed.
pale, n. picket; boundary, limit, confine, fence; inclosure.
paleness, n. pallidness, pallor, wanness, colorlessness, etiolation.
pall, v. cloy, sate, satiate, surfeit, glut.
palled, a. surfeited, satiated.
palliate, v. excuse, apologize for, gloss over, extenuate; moderate, mitigate, temper.
palliation, n. extenuation, glossing over, excuse, apology; moderation, mitigation, alleviation.
palliative, a. lenitive, mitigative, palliatory, apologetic, extenuating.
pamper, v. overfeed, feed luxuriously; indulge, gratify, spoil, cocker.
pamphlet, n. brochure, booklet, tract.
pan, n. basin, chafer.
panacea, n. cure-all, catholicon, relief, solace, nepenthe.
pancake, n. griddlecake, flapjack, fritter.
pander, n. bawd, pimp, procurer, whoremonger.
panegyric, n. eulogy, encomium. See praise.
panic, n. consternation, terror, alarm.
panic-stricken, a. panic-struck, alarmed, dismayed, terrified, appalled.
pansy, n. heart's-ease, love-in-idleness.
pant, n. gasp, gasping.
pant, v. gasp; long, hunger, yearn, thirst.
panther, n. puma, cougar, jaguar.
panting, n. anhelation, gasping; longing, hunger, desire, thirst.
pantry, n. buttery, larder, ambry.
pants, n. pl. (Colloq.) trousers, breeches, pantaloons; drawers; knickerbockers, skilts, smallclothes, kneebreeches; overalls; chaparejos, chapareras (leather breeches).
paper, n. document; essay, dissertation, article; journal, newspaper, periodical, gazette, courant. Associated words: papyrus, parchment, papeterie, tablet, stationer, stationery, papier-mâché, portfolio.
papery, a. chartaceous.
par, n. equality, equivalence.
parade, n. pomp, display, ostentation, show; procession, pageant, cavalcade; promenade.--v. display, flaunt, show off.
paradise, n. garden of Eden; Elysium; Heaven.
parallel, a. like, similar, equal, analogous.
paralysis, n. palsy.
paralyze, v. benumb, deaden, stun, unnerve.
paralyzed person. paralytic.
paraphernalia, n. equipments, accouterments, ornaments.
parasite, n. hanger-on, toady, sycophant, fawner, flunky; zoō parasite, entozoa.
parcel, n. bundle, package; collection, lot; tract, plot, piece.
parch, v. torrefy.
parchment, n. vellum, pell, palimpsest.
pardon, n. absolution, remission, amnesty, forgiveness, condonation. Antonyms: retribution, vengeance, retaliation, implacability, penalty.
pardon, v. absolve, remit, forgive, condone.
pardonable, a. venial, excusable. Antonyms: unpardonable, inexcusable.
pare, v. peel.
parentage, n. extraction, descent, pedigree, ancestry, family, birth, lineage.
parish, n. Associated words: parochial, parochialism, parishioner, parochialize.
parry, v. ward off, avert, prevent; avoid, evade, elude.
parson, n. See clergyman.
parsonage, n. rectory; manse; living, benefice.
part, n. portion, fraction, division, piece, constituent, installment, element, section, subdivision; quarter, region, district; share, portion, lot, allotment, assignment, duty, participation, function; rôle, character; clause, section, paragraph, chapter, passage, division.
part, v. divide, sever, disunite, dissever, sunder, dissociate, disconnect, detach, separate; intervene; apportion, share, mete out, allot, distribute.
partable, a. partible, separable. Antonyms: impartible, indivisible.
partake, v. share, participate in.
partaker, n. participant, participator, sharer.
partaking, n. participation.
parted, a. separated, divided, severed, disunited, isolated, detached, riven, cleft, sundered.
partial, a. warped, biased, prejudiced; imperfect, incomplete. Antonyms: See impartial.
partiality, n. bias, favoritism; predilection, inclination, fondness, predisposition, bent.
partible, a. separable, divisible, detachable, dissoluble, severable. Antonym: impartible.
particle, n. See bit; atom, molecule, monad.
particular, a. special, especial, specific; minute, precise, detailed, circumstantial; individual, separate, sole, single; characteristic, distinctive, individual, personal, peculiar; fastidious, finical, scrupulous, precise, strict. Antonyms: indiscriminate, slatternly, promiscuous, general.
particular, n. detail.
particulars, n. pl. details, minutiæ.
parting, a. farewell, valedictory.
parting, n. division, disunion, severance, separation; leave-taking, farewell.
partisan, a. factionary.
partition, n. division, distribution, apportionment, allotment.
partner, n. copartner, coadjutor; colleague, associate, confederate, accessory, ally, accomplice, partaker, confrère.
partnership, n. copartnership, cahoot (Slang).
parts, n. pl. talents, gifts, faculties, endowments; regions, districts, quarters.
party, n. clique, faction, set, circle, ring, cabal, coterie, junto; function, reception, salon, soirée, levee, matinée, drawing-room; company, squad, detachment, troop; partaker, participant; person, somebody.
party-colored, a. variegated.
party man. partisan.
pass, v. elapse, lapse; transmit, deliver, hand; go, move, proceed, advance; disappear, vanish, recede, depart; pass by, omit, pretermit; overstep, overpass; transude.
pass, n. passageway, defile, passage; thrust, passado, lunge, allonge; condition, plight, predicament, state, conjuncture, situation; passport, safe-conduct.
passable, a. navigable, traversable, penetrable; tolerable, mediocre, middling, so-so, ordinary, fair. Antonyms: impassable, impervious, impenetrable.
passage, n. transit; fare; clause, sentence, paragraph; enactment; corridor, hall; gangway; slype; pass, defile.
passing, a. exceeding, surpassing; transient, momentary, transitory, fleeting, impermanent.
passing, adv. exceedingly, surpassingly.
passion, n. suffering, pain, agony; emotion, ardor, feeling, pathos; wrath, fury, anger; love, infatuation, transport.
passionate, a. irascible, quick-tempered, choleric, excitable, waspish; ardent, fervid, vehement, impassioned, fervent.
passionless, a. impassive, phlegmatic, stoical, unemotional, dispassionate, apathetic.
passive, a. inactive, quiet, inert, receptive, quiescent, patient, unresisting, submissive.
pass over. traverse.
passport, n. pass, safe-conduct; sea letter.
password, n. countersign, watchword, sesame.
past, n. Associated words: preterist, preterition, pretermission, preteritive, preterit, aorist, aoristic, retrospect, retrospective, retrospection, antiquary, antiquity, antiquarian, quondam, antecedent, antecedence, antecedents.
past, a. bygone, elapsed; preterite, preterit.
pastime, n. amusement, sport, diversion, recreation, divertisement, entertainment, play, fun.
pastor, n. See clergyman.
pat, a. suitable, fit, convenient, timely, pertinent, appropriate.
patch, n. clout; tract, plot, parcel.--v. mend, repair, vamp, revamp.
patent, a. evident, obvious, manifest, apparent.
path, n. footway, runway, course, passage, route, avenue, trottoir, trail; towpath, heelpath, berm.
pathetic, a. plaintive, pitiable, piteous, mournful, sad.
pathless, a. untrodden, unexplored, trackless, impenetrable.
patience, n. long-suffering, fortitude, resignation, submission, sufferance; indulgence, leniency, forbearance; persistence, diligence, perseverance. Antonyms: impatience, restiveness, resistance.
patient, a. uncomplaining, submissive, resigned, passive, long-suffering, indulgent; diligent.
patriotism, n. amor patriæ. Antonyms: incivism, chauvinism.
patron, n. supporter, promoter, defender, guardian, benefactor; customer.
patronizing, a. condescending.
pattern, n. model, exemplar, original, prototype, archetype; specimen, example; copy, reproduction; delineator, protractor. Associated word: exemplary.
pattern, v. model, copy, imitate, follow.
paunch, n. abdomen.
pauperism, n. penury, indigence.
pauperize, v. impoverish.
pause, n. intermission, suspension, break; hesitation; break, cæsura.
pause, v. stop, hesitate, desist, waver, intermit.
pawn, v. pledge, impawn.
pay, v. compensate, remunerate, recompense, requite, indemnify, reward, commute; retaliate, punish; liquidate, defray, settle, discharge; be profitable; disburse (payout). Antonyms: repudiate, protest, bilk, defraud.
pay, n. compensation, remuneration, recompense, requital, emolument, salary, wages, fee, tip, honorarium, stipend, reward, hire, allowance, perquisite.
payable, a. due, unpaid, outstanding; remunerable.
pay back. reimburse, refund, restore, repay, requite, indemnify; retaliate.
paying, a. profitable, lucrative, gainful, remunerative.
paying back. reimbursement, refunding, restitution, requital, indemnification, restoration, repayment; retaliation, requital, reprisal, retribution.
paymaster, n. purser.
payment, n. paying, compensation, remuneration liquidation, discharge, reparation, settlement, recompense, defrayment, amends; retaliation, retribution, paying back. Antonyms: nonpayment, protest, repudiation, default, defalcation, appropriation.
peace, n. concord, amity, harmony; tranquillity, quietness, repose, calmness, serenity; reconciliation, compromise, pacification; armistice, truce.
peaceable, a. amicable, inoffensive; tranquil, serene, undisturbed, placid, peaceful, quiet. Antonyms: bellicose, belligerent, contentious, rebellious, pugnacious.
peaceably, adv. amicably.
peaceful, a. amicable, tranquil, peaceable, halcyon.
peacemaker, n. mediator, intercessor, pacificator, make-peace, arbitrator, intermediary.
peacemaking, a. pacificatory, conciliatory, intercessory, propitiatory, mediatorial, irenic, intercessional.
peacemaking, n. mediation, pacification, reconciliation, intercession, propitiation, pacation, compromise, intervention, arbitration, negotiation, irenics, irenicon.
peace-offering, n. atonement, reparation, amends.
peach, v. (Colloq.) tell on, betray.
peacock, n. bird of Juno, Pavo. Associated word: pavonine.
peak, n. apex, pinnacle, summit, crest, spire, point, top, crown, finial.
peaked, a. pointed; (Cottoq.) sickly, thin, pale, emaciated.
peal, v. resound, reverberate, echo, boom.
peal, n. reverberation, resounding.
peanut, n. groundnut, earthnut, goober.
pear cider. perry.
pearl, n. margarite; jewel, gem; baroque pearl; nacre (mother-of-pearl).
pearl-producing, a. margaritiferous.
pearly, a. nacreous, pearlaceous, pellucid, iridescent.
pear-shaped, a. pyriform.
peart, a. (Colloq.) lively, active, smart, brisk.
peasant, n. rustic, swain, hind.
pease, n. pl. legumes, pulse; hastings. Associated word: leguminous.
pea-shaped, a. pisiform.
peck at. carp at, nag, tease, importune, twit.
peculation, n. embezzlement.
peculator, n. embezzler.
peculiar, a. individual, personal, particular; singular, eccentric, erratic, queer, odd, exceptional, unique, bizarre, grotesque, nondescript, unusual, unconventional.
peculiarity, n. characteristic, trait, attribute, idiosyncrasy, eccentricity, oddness.
peddler, n. hawker, huckster, vender, chapman, cadger, packman, coster.
peddler's pack. wallet.
peddling, n. hucksterage, hawking.
pedigree, n. lineage, ancestry, descent, extraction, genealogy.
peek, v. peep.
peel, n. rind, skin.--v. pare, decorticate. Antonym: pulp.
peep, v. chirp, cheep, pule; peer, peek, pry.
peer, n. equal, match, mate, compeer; nobleman, noble, lord.
peerless, a. matchless, unrivalled, inimitable, incomparable, unsurpassed, superlative, nonpareil, transcendent, supreme, unequalled.
peevish, a. petulant, querulous, captious, spleeny, fretful, impatient, cross.
peg, n. pin, spilikin; pretext, support, reason; degree, step.
pellmell, adv. disorderly, confusedly, helter-skelter.
pelt, n. woolfell, fell.
pelt, v. batter, beat, assail, pepper.
pen, v. confine, coop, encage, corral.
pen, n. coop, sty, cote, enclosure, hutch, paddock, pound, pinfold, corral, stockade.
penalty, n. punishment, retribution; forfeiture, fine, mulct.
pending, a. undecided, unsettled.--prep. during.
penetrable, a. permeable, pervious. Antonym: impenetrable.
penetrate, v. pierce, perforate; comprehend, understand; explore; interpenetrate.
penetrating, a. piercing, subtile, penetrant, sharp; acute, discerning, penetrative.
penetration, n. piercing, perforation; acuteness, discernment, sharpness; interpenetration.
peninsula, n. chersonese.
penis, n. Associated words: penial, foreskin, prepuce, glans, urethra, chordee, erection, orgasm, corpus spangiosum, priapism, phimosis, smegma, phallus, bougie.
penitence, n. contrition, repentance, remorse, compunction. Antonym: impenitence.
penitent, a. contrite, remorseful. Antonyms: impenitent, incontrite.
penitentiary, n. prison.
penman, n. calligrapher, calligraphist, chirographer, chirographist, writer.
penmanship, n. writing, calligraphy, pencraft, chirography.
pen name. pseudonym, nom de plume.
penniless, a. impecunious, indigent, destitute. See poor.
pennilessness, n. impecuniosity, indigence, poverty, destitution.
penny, n. cent; groat, stiver; denarius.
penny-a-liner, n. hack, hack writer.
pensive, a. meditative, dreamy, lackadaisical, introspective, thoughtful, sad, grave.
Pentecost, n. Whitsunday, Whitsuntide.
penthouse, n. lean-to.
pent up. confined, restrained, restricted.
penurious, a. miserly, stingy, niggardly, parsimonious, avaricious, grasping.
penury, n. poverty, indigence.
people, n. folks; inhabitants, population, citizens; populace, commonalty, rabble, canaille; relatives, relations, kindred; laity.
people, v. populate, colonize.
peopled, a. inhabited, populated.
pepper, n. capsicum.
peppery, a. pungent; irascible, hot-tempered, choleric.
perceive, v. see, discern, observe; apprehend, comprehend, understand. See see.
perception, n. cognizance, discernment; sensation, feeling. Antonym: imperception.
perch, n. roost.
perchance, adv. perhaps, peradventure, possibly, maybe.
perchers, n. pl. Insessores.
percolate, v. ooze, strain, filter, transude.
percolation, n. filtration, straining, transuding.
perdition, n. ruin, wreck, destruction; hell.
perennial, a. perpetual, undying, imperishable.
perfect, a. consummate, faultless, flawless, exquisite, inviolate, impeccable, infallible, correct, mature, ideal, irreproachable, blameless. Antonyms: See imperfect.
perfect, v. consummate, elaborate, retouch, develop.
perfection, n. faultlessness, consummation, impeccability.
perfidious, a. See unfaithful.
perfidy, n. treachery, faithlessness, disloyalty, unfaithfulness.
perforate, v. bore through, pierce, penetrate, drill.
perforation, n. piercing, penetration; hole, opening, pertusion, aperture. Antonyms: imperforation, imperforable.
perforator, n. cephalotome.
perform, v. accomplish, execute, do.
performance, n. execution, achievement, accomplishment; trick, feat, exploit, stunt, deed, act.
performer, n. acrobat, funambulist, equilibrist, tumbler, contortionist, aerosaltant, actor, player, impersonator.
perfume, n. fragrance, aroma, redolence, sachet, incense, emanation, odor; attar, musk, patchouli, frankincense, civet, myrrh, pastil, pulvillio. Associated words: exhale, exhalation, cassolette, perfumer, perfumery.
perhaps, adv. perchance, peradventure, possibly, haply.
peril, n. See danger.
perilous, a. dangerous, hazardous, imperiled, unsafe. Antonyms: See safe.
period, n. interval.
perishable, a. destructible, impermanent, mortal. Antonyms: imperishable, permanent.
perjury, n. oath-breaking. Associated words: suborn subornation, suborner, perjurer, perjurous, forswear.
perk, a. vain, trim, spruce, smart, jaunty.
permanence, n. durability, imperishability, stability, permanency.
permanent, a. stable, immutable, durable, imperishable, unchangeable, abiding, indestructible. Antonyms: impermanent, evanescent, ephemeral, transient.
permeable, a. penetrable, pervious, pervadible. Antonym: impermeable.
permission, n. consent, allowance, license, leave, permit, authorization, warrant. Antonyms: refusal, denial, embargo, injunction, veto, prohibition, resistance.
permit, v. allow, consent to, suffer, tolerate, let, authorize, indulge, license, empower. Antonyms: refuse, disallow, prohibit, resist.
permit, n. warrant, license, leave, permission.
pernicious, a. deleterious, harmful, noisome, baleful, vicious.
pernickety, a. (Colloq.) finical, particular, fastidious, fussy.
perpendicular, a. upright, vertical. Antonyms: horizontal oblique.
perpetual, a. See everlasting.
perplex, v. bewilder, puzzle, pose, confuse, mystify, distract, disconcert, entangle.
perplexed, a. bewildered, confused, puzzled, disconcerted.
perplexing, a. bewildering, confusing, carking, mystifying, puzzling.
perplexity, n. bewilderment, distraction, confusion, disconcertion, doubt, uncertainty, predicament, dilemma, plight, quandary, difficulty, strait.
persecute, v. harass, oppress, tyrannize, torment, dragoon, importune, annoy, hector, badger.
persecution, n. oppression, molestation, importunity.
perseverance, n. persistence, diligence, constancy, indefatigableness, assiduity, pertinacity.
persevere, v. persist, continue.
persevering, a. persistent, steadfast, untiring, indefatigable, pertinacious, unremitting, indomitable. Antonyms: inconstant, fickle, unsteadfast.
persist, v. persevere.
persistency, n. perseverance, doggedness, pertinacity, obstinacy, contumacy, insistence.
persistent, a. contumacious, persevering, insistent, pertinacious, tenacious, importunate, constant.
personality, n. individuality; reflection, stricture, animadversion, criticism.
personally, adv. individually.
personate, v. impersonate.
personation, n. impersonation.
perspiration, n. See sweat.
perspire, v. sweat.
persuade, v. induce.
persuasion, n. inducement, suasion, incitement; creed, belief. Antonyms: dissuasion, coercion, constraint.
persuasive, a. persuasory.
pert, a. sprightly, dapper, nimble; forward, bold, saucy, malapert.
pertain, v. appertain.
pertinacious, a. resolute, determined, stubborn.
pertinacity, n. resoluteness, persistence, doggedness, stubbornness.
pertinence, n. relevancy, applicability, propriety. Antonyms: impertinence, irrelevance.
pertinent, a. relevant, apposite, applicable, proper. Antonyms: impertinent, irrelevant.
perturb, v. disquiet, excite, disturb, agitate, discompose, distress.
perturbation, n. excitement, agitation, discomposure, distress, disconcertion, worry. Antonyms: composure, imperturbation, calmness.
perturbed, a. excited, distressed, worried, discomposed, agitated.
perusal, n. reading.
peruse, v. read.
perverse, a. perverted, misdirected, erring, depraved, vitiated; intractable, obstinate, stubborn, contrary, headstrong, indocile. Antonyms: See obedient.
perversion, n. debasement, vitiation, corruption, falsification.
pervert, v. lead astray, corrupt, debase, vitiate; misuse, misapply, misinterpret, distort, falsify.
pervious, a. permeable, penetrable. Antonym: impervious.
pesky, a. (Colloq.) vexatious, troublesome.
pessimistic, a. gloomy, foreboding, hopeless.
pest, n. pestilence, plague, scourge; curse, nuisance, annoyance, infliction, bane.
pester, v. plague, badger, harass, harry, tease, torment, hector, disturb, molest.
pest house, n. lazaretto, lazar-house.
pestiferous, a. infectious, contagious, pestilential; noxious, noisome.
pestilence, n. plague, scourge, fatal epidemic.
pestilent, a. pestiferous.
pet, n. fondling, darling, favorite; cosset; tiff.
pet, v. humor, coddle, fondle, cosset, caress, indulge.
pet, a. favorite, petted, cade.
peter out. (Slang) dwindle.
petition, n. entreaty, supplication, prayer.
petition, v. entreat, supplicate, pray.
petitioner, n. suppliant, applicant, solicitor.
petrifaction, n. lapidification, petrescence, lapidescence; fossil, stone.
petrify, v. lapidify, fossilize.
petticoat, n. underskirt; balmoral.
petty, a. small, insignificant, trivial, trifling.
petulant, a. See cross.
pew, n. slip.
phantom, n. spectre, apparition, ghost.
phantomlike, a. spectral, ghostly.
pharmaceutist, n. apothecary, druggist.
pharmacist, n. apothecary, druggist, pharmaceutist.
phase, n. aspect, appearance.
phase, v. (Colloq.) disconcert, disturb, discompose, affect.
philistine, a. uncultured, commonplace.
phiz, n. (Colloq.) face, visage, countenance, physiognomy.
phlegm, n. mucus.
phlegm, n. dullness, sluggishness, coldness, indifference.
phlegmatic, a. unemotional, cold, dull, sluggish.
phonograph, n. graphophone.
photograph, n. heliograph.
photography, n. heliography.
phrase, n. idiom; diction, phraseology.
phrenologist, n. craniologist.
phrenology, n. craniology.
physic, n. medicine; cathartic, purge, purgative.
physic, v. purge.
physical, a. material, bodily.
physical structure. physique.
physician, n. See doctor.
piano, n. pianoforte.
piazza, n. veranda, portico, stoop, porch.
pick, v. pluck; pick out, select, choose, cull, glean.
pick, n. pickax; choice; spike, pike; plectrum.
picket, n. stake, pale, paling; sentry, guard, watchman, sentinel.
pickle, n. brine; (Colloq.) dilemma, predicament, plight; marinade.
pickpocket, n. cutpurse, chevalier d'industrie (French).
picture, v. delineate, sketch, draw, represent, depict.
picture, n. drawing, painting, engraving, half- tone, photograph, print, miniature, daguerreotype, chromo, icon, chromotype, mezzotint, pastel, lithograph, lithotint, cartoon, sketch, etching, chromolithograph, pasticcio, tableau, portrait, illustration, cyclorama, silhouette, carte-de-visite, minette, caricature, vignette, draught, aquarelle, thermotype, tintype, ambrotype, cabinet, heliograph, chrysotype, photogravure, oleograph, cut, negative, study, likeness, scene, landscape, view, stereogram, stereograph, panorama, aristotype, heliotype, diorama, diaphanotype, decalcomania, mosaic, photoengraving, inconograph.
piddle, v. trifle.
piddling, a. trifling, inconsiderable, insignificant, piffling, inconsequential.
piebald, a. spotted, dappled, pied, pintado, pinto, party-colored.
piece, n. scrap, swatch, clout, chunk, slice, clipping, chip, hunk, hunch, fragment, fillet, shard; essay, article, composition; étude (Mus.).
piece, v. patch, repair; augment.
pied, a. mottled, spotted, piebald, dappled, party-colored.
pieplant, n. rhubarb.
pier, n. wharf, dock, jetty, buttress.
pierce, v. transfix, stab, impale, gore; penetrate, bore, perforate, drill.
pierced, a. perforated, penetrated.
piercer, n. stiletto, eyeleteer, gimlet, awl, bodkin.
piercing, a. penetrating, keen, sharp, thrilling, poignant.
piercing, n. penetration, perforation, impalement, transfixion, boring.
piety, n. sanctity, godliness, holiness.
piffle, n. trifling.--v. trifle, piddle.
piffling, a. trifling.
pig, n. shoat, far; gilt (young female); whinock; hog, swine. Associated words: porcine, farrow, litter, barrow, boar, sow, pork.
pigeon-house, n. dove-cote, columbary.
piggery, n. pig pen, sty, pigsty.
pigheaded, a. stubborn, perverse.
pig pen, n. sty, pigsty, piggery.
pigtail, n. queue.
pile, n. heap, stack, accumulation.
pile, v. heap, stack, accumulate.
piles, n. hemorrhoids.
pilfer, v. filch, purloin.
pilfering, n. filching, theft, pilfery.
pilgrim, n. wayfarer, traveler, sojourner, crusader.
pilgrimage, n. journey, expedition, sojourn, crusade.
pilgrim's staff. bourdon.
pillage, n. devastation, plundering, rapine, spoliation; spoil, plunder, booty, loot.
pillage, v. sack, plunder, despoil, devastate, foray.
pillar, n. column, pier, shaft, post, obelisk, monolith; supporter, maintainer.
pilot, n. steersman, helmsman; director, guide, conductor.
pilot, v. guide, steer, direct.
pimp, n. procurer, bawd, pander.--v. pander, bawd.
pimple, n. eruption, papule, pustule.
pin, n. peg, bolt, skewer, spilikin, spile, plug, linchpin.
pinafore, n. apron, tier.
pinch, n. twinge, tweak, twitch; exigency, strait.
pinch, v. squeeze, compress, twinge, tweak, gripe, nip; cramp, straiten, oppress; skrimp.
pinch, v. (Slang) arrest.
pinchbeck, a. sham, spurious, brummagem.
pinchers, n. pl. pincers, tweezers, pliers, nippers, forceps.
pinching, a. griping, compressing, nipping, skrimping.
pine, v. droop, languish, waste; yearn, long--n. deal.
pining, a. languishing, fading, drooping.
pink, v. scallop.
pinnacle, n. peak, summit, top, apex, zenith; finial.
pious, a. religious, devout, saintly, righteous, reverent. Antonym: impious.
pip, n. seed; roup.
pipe, n. tube, conduit, aqueduct.
pipe, n. tobacco pipe, clay pipe; nargile, nargileh; hubble-bubble; hookah; chibouque; dudeen.
piped, a. tubular.
pipe of peace. calumet.
pipe-shaped, a. tubular.
piping, a. peaceful, favorable; shrill, acute; sizzling, boiling, hissing.
piquancy, n. pungency, sharpness, spiciness; raciness, liveliness.
piquant, a. pungent, spicy; racy, lively.
pique, n. displeasure, resentment, vexation, umbrage.
piracy, n. freebooting, sea-robbery.
pirate, n. sea-robber, buccaneer, picaroon, corsair, freebooter, viking.
pirate's flag. Jolly Roger.
piratical, a. predatory.
pismire, n. emmet.
piss, n. urine.--v. urinate.
pit, n. hollow, hole, excavation, cavity; abyss; parquet; quarry; endocarp, stone, putamen.
pitapat, adv. in a flutter, flutteringly.
pitch, n. slope, declivity, slant.
pitch, n. bitumen, asphaltum.
pitch, v. cast, hurl, toss, throw, fling, heave, chuck; plunge; decline, slope, slant.
pitcher, n. jug, ewer, jar, toby, aiguière.
pitcher-shaped, a. urceolate.
pitch into. (Slang) attack, assault, assail.
piteous, a. compassionate, merciful; mournful, plaintive, doleful.
pith, n. marrow; gist, heart, essence, substance.
pithy, a. sententious, laconic.
pitiable, a. sad, piteous, lamentable, deplorable.
pitiful, a. tender-hearted, compassionate, merciful, lenient, ruthful, clement; lamentable, piteous, sad, sorrowful; despicable, contemptible, abject, mean.
pitiless, a. See unmerciful.
pittance, n. dole.
pity, n. compassion, mercy, ruth, commiseration, condolence, sympathy.
pity, v. have pity for, condole with, commiserate.
pitying, a. commiserative, sympathetic, tender, merciful.
pivot pin. pintle.
placable, a. appeasable, pacifiable.
placard, n. broadside, poster, bill, affiché.
place, a. position, site, situation, locality; rendezvous, tryst; duty, function, post, work, office; stead, lieu.
place, v. deposit, locate, dispose, put, set, station, establish, attribute, impute, ascribe, assign; identify.
place between. interpose.
plague, n. pestilence.
plague, v. hector, tantalize, tease, badger, pester, twit, nag, torment, harass, harry.
plaguy, a. (Colloq.) troublesome, vexatious, annoying.
plaid, a. checkered, crossbarred.
plaid cloth of Scotland. tartan.
plain, n. prairie, field, savanna, pampas, steppe, llano, champaign, campagna, heath, moor, camass, downs, tundra, veldt, peneplain.
plain, a. evident, manifest, explicit, obvious, unmistakable, distinct, apparent, palpable, patent; unembellished, simple, austere, severe, ungarnished, unadorned, untrimmed; homely, uncomely; flat, level, even, smooth, plane; unaffected, simple, artless, outspoken, undesigning, ingenuous, unreserved, direct; frugal, homely; unvaried, unfigured; mere, absolute, unmistakable. Antonyms: ambiguous, equivocal, indistinct, indecipherable, elaborate, luxurious, cryptic, abstruse, ornate, enigmatic, vague, inexplicable, obscure, complex, intricate, embellished.
plain, adv. plainly, distinctly, bluntly, candidly, explicitly.
plain-dealing, n. honesty.
plain song. Gregorian chant, canto fermo.
plain-spoken, a. frank, candid, unreserved, outspoken.
plaint, n. complaint, lamentation.
plaintiff, n. complainant.
plaintive, a. piteous, melancholy, sad, sorrowful, doleful.
plait, n. braid, plat, gather, ruffle, gauffering, plication, fluting, kilting.
plaited, a. pleated, kilted.
plan, n. diagram, draught.
plan, v. scheme, project, intend, devise, contrive, design, purpose.
planetarium, n. orrery.
plant, n. vegetable, herb; pl. flora (plants of a region).
plant, v. sow; settle, establish.
plant-eaters, n. pl. Herbivora.
plant-eating, a. herbivorous, phytivorous, plantivorous, phytophagous.
plant-eating, n. phytophagy.
plant green. chlorophyll, fecula.
plant louse. aphis, aphid, aphidian; pl. aphides, aphidæ.
plastic, a. formative, creative; impressible, fictile.
plateau, n. table-land, mesa.
platform, n. rostrum, stage, dais.
platitude, n. banality.
platitudinous, a. banal, trite, commonplace.
platter, n. trencher.
plaudit, n. applause, acclaim, acclamation.
plausibility, n. speciousness.
plausible, a. specious; glib, fluent, oily, smooth-tongued. Antonym: implausible.
play, v. frolic, sport, gambol, disport, frisk, skip, caper, romp, revel; wanton, dally, toy, twiddle; impersonate, personate, act; perform, execute; strum, thrum; gamble; simulate, pretend, feign, dissemble.
play, n. game, pastime, amusement, recreation, diversion, sport, disport, gambols, frolic, jest, merriment; action, use, employment, practice, exercise; comedy, drama, melodrama, farce, burlesque; dalliance, toying, twiddling; liberty, scope, swing. Associated words: dramaturgy, dramaturgist, dramatic, dramatize, dramatization, theater, rôle, repertoire.
playday, n. holiday.
player, n. idler, drone; actor, thespian, tragedian, comedian, imitator, impersonator, mime, mimic; performer, instrumentalist.
playful, a. sportive, frolicsome, prankish, jocular, sprightly, wanton.
play off. feign, simulate, dissemble.
plaything, n. bauble, gimcrack, toy.
play-writer, n. playwright, dramatist.
plea, n. defense, excuse, apology, vindication, intercession, prayer, entreaty.
plead, v. reason, argue; apologize; defend, advocate, intercede.
pleader, n. intercessor, defender, advocate.
pleasant, a. agreeable, genial, congenial, affable, amiable, enjoyable, good-humored, pleasurable. Antonyms: unpleasant, disagreeable, uncongenial, repellent, repelling, austere, unamiable, inaffable, dreary, dismal, offensive.
pleasantry, n. badinage, banter, raillery, witticism, joke, jest, jocularity, drollery, waggery, jollity, humor.
please, v. rejoice, gladden, delight, gratify, cheer, elate; satisfy, content; like, choose, prefer.
pleasing, a. pleasant, delightful, gratifying, delectable, gracious, winning.
pleasure, n. gratification, enjoyment, happiness, delectation, delight; amusement, recreation, diversion; will, choice, preference, desire; voluptuousness, sensuality. Antonym: displeasure.
pleat, n. plait.
pledge, n. gage, security, hostage, guarantee.
pledge, v. pawn, impawn, hypothecate, plight.
plenteous, a. plentiful.
plentiful, a. abundant, bounteous, ample, galore, copious, full, sufficient, lavish, replete, unstinted, prolific. Antonyms: scarce, deficient, inadequate, insufficient, scant, niggardly.
plenty, n. abundance, sufficiency, plenitude. Antonyms: See scarcity.
plethora, n. superabundance, superfluity, excess, repletion; hyperæmia.
pliability, n. flexibility, suppleness, pliancy, limberness, ductility, malleability. Antonyms: inflexibility, rigidity. See inflexibility.
pliable, a. flexible, pliant, supple, limber, lithesome, lithe, flexile, malleable; irresolute, yielding, facile, compliant. Antonyms: impliable, inflexible.
plight, n. condition, state, dilemma, predicament, situation, scrape.
plight, v. pawn, pledge; promise, betroth.
plod, v. trudge, tramp.
plodding, a. hardworking, diligent.
plot, n. conspiracy, intrigue, machination, cabal, complot; plat; imbroglio (complicated plot). Associated word: marplot.
plot, v. conspire, intrigue, cabal, complot, machinate, scheme.
plotter, n. conspirator, intriguer, intrigant, machinator, caballer, intrigante (female).
plowable, a. arable. Antonym: inarable.
plowland, n. arable, carucate.
plowman, n. plower, husbandman.
pluck, v. pull, draw; pick, gather.
pluck, n. courage, energy, spirit, stamina, pluckiness.
plucky, a. courageous, spirited, indomitable, resolute, unflinching, game.
plug, n. stopper, stopple, bung, tampoon, spile, tampion, spigot.
plumb, a. perpendicular, upright, true.
plume, v. preen, prink; pride, vaunt, boast, glory.
plump, a. fleshy, bouncing, chubby, fat, portly, stout; blunt, unreserved, unqualified.
plunder, n. booty, spoil, loot, pillage, robbery.
plunder, v. pillage, loot, rob.
plunderer, n. pillager, robber, spoiler, depredator, marauder.
plunge, v. souse, immerse, submerge, dip, douse; dive, pitch.
pocket, n. bag, sack, pouch, placket, sabretasche.
pocket-book, n. purse, wallet, portemonnaie.
pockmarked, a. pockpitted, pockfretten, pocky, pitted.
pod, n. capsule, legume, burr, shale, boll.
poem, n. sonnet, ballad, verse, distich, lyric, elegy, eclogue, idyl, madrigal, epic, ode, georgic, cid, rondeau, epilogue, epigram, elegiac, roundelay, dithyramb, dithyrambic, doggerel, rhapsody.
poet, n. bard; laureate; versifier, rhymster, poetaster; troubadour, jongleur.
poetaster, n. rhymster, verse-monger, versifier.
poetical, a. metrical, rhythmic.
poetry, n. verse, rhyme, poems, poesy, orthometry, versification, prosody, poetics. Antonym: prose. Associated word: anthology.
poignant, a. pricking, piercing, pungent.
point, n. prick, gad, goad; punctilio, nicety, subtlety; poignancy, sting; degree, step, stage; ferrule; zenith (highest point); nadir (lowest point); aiglet, tag; apex, tip.
point, v. aim, level, direct; show, indicate, designate; punctuate; taper.
point-blank, a. direct, plain, unqualified, unreserved.
pointed, a. sharp, picked, peaked, tapering, conical. Antonyms: pointless, dull.
pointer, n. indicator, index.
pointing, n. sharpening; punctuation; designation, indication.
poise, n. equipoise, balance, equilibrium.
poise, v. balance, librate.
poison, n. venom, virus, toxine, toxicant, irritant, taint, bane, ptomaine. Associated words: toxicology, toxicophobia, toxicomania, toxiferous, toxicologist, antidote, alexiteric, venenific, septiferous, envenom, infect.
poisoning, n. toxication, venenation; autotoxication (self-poisoning); tainting, vitiation, infection.
poisonous, a. toxic, toxical, venomous, noxious, baneful, virulent, malignant. Antonyms: nonpoisonous, antidotal.
poisonousness, n. toxicity, venomousness, virulence, malignancy.
poke, n. bag, sack, pocket; thrust, punch, jog, dig; dawdler, bore.
poke, v. stir up, excite; punch, thrust; gore, hook; grope.
poke fun at. (Colloq.) ridicule, deride.
poker-painting, n. pyrography, xylopyrography.
poky, a. (Colloq.) slow, dull, tiresome, tedious, prosaic.
polar lights. aurora borealis (northern); aurora australis (southern);
Pole, n. Polander, Polack.
pole, n. shaft, thill (of a vehicle); rod, perch; bergstock, alpenstock; poy (rope-dancer's pole); 5 1/2 yards, 30 1/4 square yards; jalons; quant.
polestar, n. north star, polar star, Polaris, loadstar, Cynosure.
polish, v. burnish, furbish.
polish, n. gloss, luster, sheen, glaze, glazing; courtliness, refinement.
polished, a. burnished, glistening, bright; courtly, elegant refined.
polite, a. courtly, civil, courteous, suave, urbane, deferential debonair, mannerly. Antonyms: See impolite.
politeness, n. courtliness, courtesy, civility, suavity, urbanity, deference, amenity, comity.
politic, a. political; judicious, discreet, shrewd, astute; diplomatic, strategic, artful.
politician, n. statesman, statist; demagogue (unprincipled and factious).
polliwog, n. tadpole, purwiggy.
poll tax. capitation.
pollute, v. defile, contaminate, corrupt, infect, debase, vitiate, desecrate, befoul.
pollution, n. defilement, contamination, corruption, infection debasement, vitiation.
poltroon, n. coward, craven, dastard.
pommel, v. beat, pound, maul, belabor, cudgel, thwack, club.
pomp, n. pageantry, parade, pageant.
pompous, a. stately, imposing, august; pretentious, grandiose See bombastic.
pond, n. lake (small); lagoon.
ponder, v. meditate, reflect, ruminate, think, muse.
ponderous, a. massive, heavy, cumbersome; dull, spiritless momentous, important.
pooh-pooh, v. (Colloq.) deride.
poor, a. indigent, impecunious, needy, poverty -stricken, straitened, necessitous, penniless, eleemosynary; emaciated, skinny, lean, spare, meager, bony, gaunt, thin, haggard, scrawny, angular, peaked, rawboned, pinched; inferior, mean, shabby, seedy, tacky, worthless; barren, sterile, effete infecund, inarable, exhausted, infertile; miserable, wretched, faulty, defective; despicable, contemptible, abject, sordid, sorry; unfavorable, inauspicious, unpropitious.
poorhouse, n. almshouse, infirmary.
pope, n. bishop of Rome, pontiff, Pontifex Maximus. Associated words: papal, papacy, paparchy, popish, see, popedom, popery, ablegate, nuncio, legate, Vatican, pontifical.
poppinjay, n. dandy, coxcomb. See fop.
populace, n. commonalty, proletariat, rabble.
popular, a. approved.
popularity, n. favor, esteem, approbation, celebrity.
population, n. inhabitants.
porch, n. piazza, stoop, veranda, porte-cochère, portico.
pork, n. Associated words: trichina, trichinosis.
porous, a. permeable, penetrable, pervious, percolable. Antonyms: imporous, compact.
porridge dish. porringer.
port, n. harbor, haven; port-hole, embrasure; larboard; deportment, carriage, bearing, demeanor.
portend, v. foretoken, bode, presage, foreshadow, augur.
portentous, a. ominous, premonitory; monstrous, prodigious.
porter, n. doorkeeper, concierge.
portico, n. colonnade, arcade; porch.
portion, n. part, section, piece; allotment, quota, share, contingent; inheritance; dowry.
portly, a. dignified, imposing, stately, commanding; fleshy, obese, corpulent, stout.
portray, v. delineate, depict, picture, draw, sketch, paint, describe.
portrayal, n. delineation, description, account, recital, painting, depiction.
pose, n. attitude, posture (assumed).--v. attitudinize; nonplus, bewilder, embarrass.
position, n. situation, post; attitude, posture; situation, place, job; rank, standing, status; state, condition, circumstances.
positive, a. definite, precise, unequivocal, explicit, catagorical, unmistakable; confident, certain, sure; veritable, actual, absolute; indisputable; peremptory, dogmatic.
posse, n. (Colloq.) crowd, throng, multitude.
possess, v. own; have, hold, occupy; seize, take, appropriate.
possession, n. ownership, occupancy, tenure, fruition, retention, occupation.
possessor, n. owner, proprietor; occupant, tenant, holder.
possibility, n. potentiality, contingency. Antonym: impossibility.
possible, a. potential, in posse, contingent, practicable. Antonym: impossible.
possibly, adv. maybe, perhaps, perchance, peradventure, haply.
post, n. column, pillar, pilaster; position, seat, station; office, employment, station; bollard, stanchion, pile, newel, puncheon.
post, v. placard, announce; mail.
posted, a. (Colloq.) informed.
poster, n. placard, bulletin, bill.
posterior, a. later, subsequent, ensuing, succeeding; hinder, rear.
post-mortem, n. autopsy, necropsy.
postpone, v. defer, delay, put off, procrastinate, adjourn, prorogue.
postponement, n. deferring, delay, procrastination.
posture, n. attitude.
posy, n. flower, nosegay, boutonnière, bouquet.
pot, n. kettle; chamber-pot, jorden, urinal; jardinière.
potent, a. powerful, forcible, cogent, effective, strong.
pother, n. confusion, commotion, flutter, bustle, stir.
potter's wheel. jigger, throw.
pouch, n. bag, sack; paunch; marsupium.
poultice, n. cataplasm.
pound, v. beat; comminute, pulverize, bray, triturate; maul, belabor; impound.
pound, n. pinfold; sixteen ounces (avoir.); twelve ounces (troy); sovereign, >.86.
pounder, n. pestle.
pour, v. decant.
pouring, n. decantation.
poverty, n. penury, indigence, need, destitution, privation, neediness, impecuniosity, pauperism; deficiency, paucity, infecundity, dearth, lack, meagerness, sterility, barrenness. Associated words: impoverish, impoverishment.
powder, n. dust, pulverulence; cosmetic, rouge; pounce; efflorescence.
powder, v. pulverize, triturate, comminute, levigate.
powdery, a. friable, loose; dusty, pulverized, pulverulent, mealy.
power, n. potency, might, cogency, efficacy, force; armipotence, omnipotence; influence, sway, command, domination, authority; faculty, endowment, gift.
powerful, a. mighty, potent, drastic, efficacious, intense, strong, dynamic, puissant, effective, omnipotent, armipotent, stentorian, invincible, cogent, commanding.
powerless, a. impotent. See weak.
pox, n. syphilis.
practicability, n. feasibility.
practical, a. pragmatical. Antonyms: impractical, Utopian, chimerical.
practice, n. custom, usage, habit; exercise, application, drill, rehearsal.
practice, v. exercise, apply, do, train, drill, rehearse.
praise, n. commendation, laudation, approbation, encomium, panegyric, eulogy, applause, laud, acclaim, éclat, plaudit, compliment, acclamation, puff, flattery; worship, homage, glorification; pæan. Antonyms: condemnation, dispraise, disapprobation, disparagement, denunciation, animadversion, stricture.
praise, v. laud, extol, commend, eulogize, panegyrize, applaud; magnify, glorify. Antonyms: condemn, denounce, disparage, deprecate, criticize.
praiser, n. eulogist, panegyrist, extoller, encomiast, lauder.
praiseworthy, a. laudable, commendable. Antonyms: illaudable, unpraiseworthy, indign.
prance, v. cavort.
prank, n. trick, antic, frolic, caper.
prankish, a. playful, frolicsome, sportive, mischievous, gamesome.
prate, v. babble, gabble, clatter, chatter, prattle. See talk.
prate, n. chatter, gabble, babble, twaddle.
pray, v. invoke, supplicate, entreat, implore, beg, petition, intercede.
pray against. deprecate.
prayer, n. invocation, orison, collect, suffrage, supplication, obsecration; litany, rogation, rosary, euchologion, secreta; entreaty, intercession.
preach, v. exhort.
preacher, n. homilist, exhorter, predicant, pulpiteer; missionary, evangelist, revivalist.
preaching, n. sermon, homily, exhortation. Associated words: homiletics, homiletic.
precarious, a. uncertain, insecure, unassured, doubtful
preceding, a. foregoing.
precept, n. commandment, maxim, rule, adage, behest, injunction.
precious, a. costly, expensive; valuable; dear, beloved, adored, idolized.
precious stone. jewel, gem. See stone.
precise, a. exact; formal, punctilious, particular, prim, prudish.
precision, n. exactness, accuracy; formalness, prudery.
predatory, a. predaceous, plundering.
predestination, n. foreordination, foreordainment.
predict, v. prophesy, foretell, prognosticate, forebode, portend, augur, presage, vaticinate.
prediction, n. prophecy, soothsaying, divination, augury, prognostication.
predominant, a. dominant, overruling, ascendant, supreme.
preface, n. prologue, prelude. See introduction.
prejudice, n. prejudgment, bias; harm, mischief, detriment.
preposterous, a. absurd, ridiculous, irrational, inconsistent, foolish.
presage, n. omen, augury, auspice, portent; foreknowledge, premonition.
present, n. gift, donation, largess, gratuity, douceur.
preserve, v. conserve.--n. compote.
press, n. pressure, urgency.
press, v. squeeze, crowd, compress; urge, crowd; express; embrace, hug, clasp; oppress, enjoin, constrain.
pressed together. compact, serried, crowded.
pressing, a. urgent, importunate, exigent.
pretend, v. claim; simulate, feign, affect.
pretense, n. assumption, claim, pretension; simulation, affectation; pretext, feint, subterfuge.
pretty, a. comely, fair; personable, considerable. Antonyms: plain, homely, uncomely, ugly.
prevent, v. thwart, hinder, obstruct, preclude, obviate, forestall, intercept, avert, parry, deter, frustrate.
prevention, n. obstruction, thwarting, interruption, hindrance, preclusion, obviation, interception.
preventive, a. deterrent, prophylactic, obviating.--n. prophylactic.
previous, a. former, foregoing, antecedent, prior, anterior.
prey, n. spoil, loot, plunder, booty; victim, quarry, captive; depredation, ravage, spoliation.
preying upon others. predatory.
prick, n. goad, spur, gad; sting, compunction, qualm; puncture.
prick, v. puncture, pierce, perforate; goad, spur, incite; sting, wound, hurt.
pricking, a. poignant, sharp, piercing, stinging.
prickle, n. thorn, spine, barb.
prickly, a. thorny, spiny, brambly, briery.
pride, n. self-esteem, self-respect; haughtiness, arrogance, hauteur, superciliousness, contumely, conceit, vanity, priggishness, lordliness, imperiousness. Antonyms: humility, shame, self-abasement, modesty, lowliness.
priestly, a. sacerdotal.
priestly garments. vestments, canonicals. See canonicals.
prim, a. formal, precise, demure, prudish.
prime minister. premier.
primer, n. hornbook.
primitive, a. pristine, primordial, primeval, primal; antique, quaint, old-fashioned; original, radical, primary.
principal, a. leading, chief, cardinal, paramount, main, foremost.
printing, n. typography; (for the blind) Braille.
prior, a. previous, former, antedecent, anterior.
priority, n. antecedence, anteriority, precedence.
prison, n. penitentiary, bridewell, jail, house of correction, clink, bastille.--v. imprison, incarcerate. Associated words: mittimus, commit, commitment, turnkey, warden, remand, prisoner, convict.
privacy, n. retirement, seclusion; retreat, solitude, concealment, secrecy, secret.
private, a. personal, individual; secret, secluded, covert, sequestered, hidden, unrevealed.
privates, n. pl. genitals. See sexual organs.
privation, n. deprivation, degradation; destitution, poverty, need; absence.
privilege, n. liberty, right, franchise, prerogative, immunity, advantage.
privy, n. water-closet, backhouse, jakes.
prize, n. meed, guerdon, palm, trophy, laurels, reward, premium, sweepstakes.
prize-fighter, n. pugilist.
prize-fighting, n. pugilism.
probability, n. likelihood, verisimilitude, credibleness.
probable, a. likely, credible, reasonable.
probe, v. investigate, examine.
proboscis, n. snout, trunk; haustellum (sucking proboscis).
procession, n. parade, cavalcade, cortège, train, retinue, file.
proclaim, v. See announce.
procure, v. get, obtain, acquire.
prod, n. goad.
prodigal, a. wasteful, extravagant, lavish, profuse.
profane, v. violate, desecrate; debase, prostitute, defile.
profane, a. unconsecrated, secular; unsanctified, unholy; blasphemous, irreverent, impious, sacrilegious.
profess, v. acknowledge, avow, admit; claim, pretend.
profession, n. acknowledgment, avowal; vocation, business, calling.
proficient, a. expert, adept, skilled.
profit, n. gain, emolument, dividend. Associated words: pernor, fructuary, exploit, exploitation.
profitable, a. remunerative, lucrative, gainful, beneficial. Antonyms: See unprofitable.
profound, a. abysmal, deep; abstruse, recondite. Antonym: shallow.
progress, n. progression, advancement, improvement.
prohibit, v. See forbid.
prominent, a. protuberant; conspicuous, salient; eminent, distinguished.
promiscuous, a. indiscriminate.
promise, n. pledge, word, parole, plight, betrothal, troth, vow, assurance, covenant.
promise, v. pledge, covenant, assure, plight.
promote, v. advance, forward; exalt, elevate, raise, aggrandize; brevet.
promotion, n. preferment, exaltation, advancement, furtherance, aggrandizement; brevet.
prompt, a. quick, expeditious, ready; punctual, timely.
pronunciation, n. orthoëpy; utterance, articulation, enunciation. Associated words: diacritical marks, macron, breve, diæresis, orthoëpic, orthoëpist, cacoëpy.
proof, n. verification, corroboration, attestation, certification, confirmation. Antonyms: disproof, refutation.
prop, n. buttress, stay, support, brace, fulcrum, shore, stanchion.
prop, v. buttress, brace, stay, support, sustain, shore up.
proper, a. appropriate, meet, suitable, seemly, condign, appertinent, conformable, consistent, apposite; decorous, conventional, formal, sedate, demure. Antonyms: improper, inappropriate, unsuitable.
property, n. attribute, trait; estate, wealth, chattels, goods, resources, assets, inheritance.
prophecy, n. prediction, foretelling, divination, soothsaying, prognostication, augury, vaticination.
prophesy, v. prognosticate, foretell, divine, augur, predict, vaticinate.
prophet, n. prognosticator, vaticinator, soothsayer, diviner, oracle, seer, python.
prophetess, n. sibyl, pythoness.
prophetic, a. prognostic, predictive, fatidical, oracular, divinatory, vaticinal.
prosperity, n. weal, success, well-being. Antonyms: adversity, reverses, disaster.
prostitute, n. harlot, whore, strumpet, courtesan.
prostitution, n. harlotry, social evil, whoredom; perversion, misuse, profanation.
prosy, a. prosaic, dull, tiresome, tedious, uninteresting, jejune.
protect, v. shield, defend, guard, fortify, screen, shelter, befriend.
protection, n. defense, shield, shelter, tutelage, refuge, bulwark, coverture, safeguard.
protector, n. defender, guardian, patron.
proud, a. arrogant, vain, haughty, overbearing, supercilious, cavalier, overweening, disdainful, imperious, lordly, magisterial, contumelious. Antonyms: meek, humble.
proud flesh. granulation, fungus.
provable, a. demonstrable.
prove, v. verify, corroborate, substantiate, demonstrate. Antonyms: disprove, refute.
proverb, n. aphorism, maxim, saw, adage. See saying.
provide, v. supply, furnish; stipulate, covenant, agree; cater, purvey.
provider, n. furnisher, caterer, purveyor, provisor.
provoke, v. incite, stimulate, instigate, rouse; exasperate, displease, aggravate, offend.
prowess, n. bravery, intrepidity, valor.
prudence, n. discretion, caution.
prudent, a. discreet, cautious, circumspect, provident. Antonyms: imprudent, incautious.
pry, n. lever; leverage.--v. prize; gaze, inspect.
puberty, n. Associated words: puberal, pubescence, pubescent, hebetic, impuberal.
publish, v. promulgate, proclaim, circulate, blazon, announce. Antonyms: suppress, withhold.
publisher's inscription. colophon, impress, imprint.
pucker, v. crease, corrugate, cockle, purse, wrinkle.
pucker, n. crease, corrugation, cockle, wrinkle; (Colloq.) confusion, bother, perplexity.
puckery, a. astringent.
puddle, n. pool, plashet, plash.
puerile, a. childish, silly, trifling.
puke, v. vomit.
pull, v. draw, tug, haul, tow, drag; pluck, jerk, twitch.
pulverize, v. triturate, comminute, levigate, bray.
pump, v. interrogate, question, quiz.
pun, n. paragram.
punch, v. push, poke; pierce, bore, perforate, puncture.
puncture, v. prick, perforate, pierce.
pungent, a. pricking, stinging; poignant, sharp, excruciating, severe.
punish, v. chastise, castigate, chasten, discipline.
punishment, n. chastisement, castigation, scourging, discipline, penalty, visitation, retaliation, retribution, infliction. Antonyms: immunity, impunity, acquittal, exoneration. Associated words: penal, penology, punitive, penologist, penological, reprieve, commute, commutation, Nemesis, connivance.
punning, n. paronomasia.
puny, a. undeveloped, small, undersized, diminutive, stunted, atrophied, feeble.
pup, n. puppy, whelp.
pupil, n. scholar; learner, disciple, catechumen, neophyte, tyro, novice, probationer.
pupilage, n. nonage, minority.
puppy, n. pup, whelp; coxcomb, dandy, fop.
purchasable, a. venal.
purchase, v. buy.
pure, a. chaste, virtuous, innocent, undefiled, unpolluted, inviolated, unspotted, immaculate, virgin, incorrupt, impeccable, inviolable; unadulterated, unalloyed, unsophisticated, simple, refined, genuine, uncontaminated. Antonyms: See impure.
purge, n. physic, purgative, cathartic.
purification, n. depuration, expurgation, defecation, refinement, cleansing.
purificator, n. mundatory.
purify, v. cleanse, refine, expurgate, sublime, clarify.
purity, n. chastity. Antonyms: See impurity.
purport, n. meaning, signification, import.--v. mean, intend, signify, import.
purpose, n. aim, object, design, intent, goal, view, drift.
purpose, v. intend, design, contemplate.
purveyor, n. caterer, provider; procurer, pimp, bawd, pander.
pus, n. matter, purulence. Associated words: purulent, maturate, maturation, suppurate, suppuration, indigested, fester.
push, v. shove, impel.
push, n. shove.
push, n. (Colloq.) energy, spiritedness, enterprise, aggressiveness; (Slang) crowd, gang, posse.
pushing, a. enterprising, energetic, intrusive, forward, officious, obtrusive, aggressive.
pusillanimous, a. See cowardly.
pussy, a. (Colloq.) pursy, fleshy.
put back. replace, restore, reinstate; retard, impede, delay, hinder.
put between. interpose.
put down. deposit; crush, quell, suppress, repress, vanquish overthrow; reduce, lower.
put in. insert, inject, interpolate, interpose, thrust in, interject, interlard.
put-off, n. shift, evasion, subterfuge, ruse, parry.
put off. discard, doff; delay, defer, postpone, procrastinate.
put out. eject, oust, remove, evict, dispossess, dislodge; extend, protrude; extinguish; issue, publish; dislocate; displease, offend, anger.
putter, v. potter, pother, trifle, fribble, dally, dawdle.
putting back. hindering, delay, retardation; replacement, restoration, reinstatement.
putting in. insertion, injection, interpolation.
putting in practice. application.
putting off. delay, deferment, postponement, procrastination.
putting on. investing, investiture; assumption, arrogation; instigation, incitement.
putting out. ejection, eviction, dispossession, expulsion, ousting; extinguishment, extinction; dislocation.
put to flight. rout.
put-up, a. (Colloq.) arranged, predetermined.
puzzle, v. mystify, pose, nonplus, perplex, bewilder, confuse.
puzzle, n. enigma, conundrum, intricacy, maze, crux, riddle, rebus, poser; confusion, quandary, perplexity, nonplus, bewilderment.
puzzling, a. enigmatical, perplexing, inexplicable, inscrutable, intricate, bewildering.
pyx, n. ciborium; ostensorium, monstrance; binnacle.
quack, n. charlatan, empiric, pretender, mountebank.
quack, a. empirical, charlatanic, quackish.
quackery, n. empiricism, charlatanism, charlatanry, mountebankery.
quackish, a. empirical, charlatanic.
quack medicine. nostrum.
quaggy, a. boggy, queachy, swampy, marshy, fenny.
quagmire, n. slough, swamp, marsh, morass, bog, fen.
quail, n. bobwhite.
quail, v. tremble, cower, flinch, quake, blench, falter.
quaint, a. fanciful, whimsical, odd, curious, grotesque, old-fashioned.
quake, v. quiver, tremble, shake, shudder, vibrate.
quake, n. agitation, trembling, shaking, vibration, quivering.
Quaker, n. Friend.
qualification, n. condition, restriction, modification, limitation; endowment, ability, eligibility, capability, fitness, competency; allowance, diminution, adaptation, mitigation, preparation.
qualified, a. modified, limited; competent, eligible, fitted, capable.
qualify, v. modify, limit, restrict, condition; fit, prepare, equip; modulate, vary, temper; diminish, moderate, mitigate, assuage, alleviate.
quality, n. nature, character, sort, strain, condition; characteristic, peculiarity, trait, property, attribute, attribution, accident; high rank, nobility, gentry, aristocracy.
qualm, n. nausea; compunction, regret, uneasiness.
qualmish, a. nauseated.
quandary, n. perplexity, predicament, dilemma, puzzle, difficulty, strait.
quantity, n. amount.
quarrel, n. altercation, disagreement, dispute, brawl, affray, fray, variance, bickering, contention, wrangle, spat, tiff, squabble, broil, dissension.
quarrel, v. wrangle, altercate, dispute, contend, squabble, bicker, spar, jangle; disagree, clash, dissent, differ.
quarrelsome, a. disputatious, contentious, irascible, choleric, litigious, pugnacious, brawling.
quarry, n. stone pit; game, prey.
quartering, n. quadrisection, quadripartition.
quarter note. crotchet.
quarters, n. pl. rooms, lodging; posts, stations, cantonments, barracks.
quartz, n. silica, silex.
quash, v. crush, subdue, extinguish, quell, suppress; annul, overrule.
quashing, n. extinguishment, quelling, suppression; annulment, overruling.
quaver, n. shaking, trembling, quiver.--v. shake, tremble, quiver.
quay, n. wharf.
queen, n. consort.
queer, a. odd, erratic, eccentric, peculiar, singular, unusual, uncommon, unique, whimsical, bizarre, strange, grotesque, fantastic, unconventional, nondescript, freakish, exceptional, irregular; (Colloq.) suspicious, questionable.
queer, v. (Slang) ridicule, banter, rally; spoil, discourage.
quell, v. subdue, suppress, crush, quash.
quelling, n. suppression, repression, crushing.
quench, v. slake; extinguish, stifle, suppress.
quenchless, a. unquenchable.
querulous, a. peevish, fretful, petulant, discontented, fault-finding, querimonious.
query, n. question.
quest, n. search, seeking, pursuit, request, desire, solicitation, inquiry.
question, n. interrogation, inquiry, query, quizzing, quiz, examination; objection, dispute, gainsaying, scruple, cavil; inquest, debate, discussion, disquisition, inquisition; subject, theme, topic, problem, proposition; interpellation.
question, v. interrogate, quiz, catechise, examine, inquire of, pump, heckle; doubt, query, challenge; interpellate.
questionable, a. suspicious, disputable, doubtful, debatable, problematical, moot, controvertible, dubious, indeterminate, ambiguous.
questioner, n. inquirer, interrogator, inquisitor, querist, quizzer, quiz.
questioning, a. interrogatory, inquisitive, quizzical, inquisitorial, catechistic, curious, heckling.
question mark. interrogation point, eroteme.
queue, n. pigtail (of hair), cue.
quib, n. gibe, quip, taunt, sarcasm.
quibble, n. shift, evasion, cavil, sophism, subterfuge, subtlety.
quibble, v. prevaricate, equivocate, cavil, trifle.
quibbler, n. caviler, prevaricator.
quibbling, a. trifling, evasive, prevaricative, caviling, elusive, sophistical.
quick, a. hasty, swift, fast, speedy, fleet, hurried, rapid, expeditious; living, animate, live; animated, sprightly, lively, spirited, agile, brisk, nimble, prompt, deft; irascible, passionate, choleric, excitable, hasty, sharp; summary. Antonyms: slow, dilatory, sluggish.
quicken, v. revive, vivify, vitalize, resuscitate, animate; excite, stimulate, incite, actuate; accelerate, expedite, hasten, advance, facilitate, further. Antonyms: impede, retard, hinder, obstruct, check.
quickening, n. vivification, resuscitation, reanimation, revivification, animation; excitement, stimulation, actuation, incitement; acceleration, expedition.
quickening, a. accelerative.
quickness, n. fleetness, expedition, rapidity, celerity, alacrity, agility, dispatch, velocity, haste, speed, facility.
quicksand, n. syrtis.
quid, n. cud.
quiddity, n. cavil, quibble, subterfuge.
quiet, a. calm, still, pacific, motionless, unmoved, stagnant, placid, serene, undisturbed, unruffled, halcyon, unmolested; hushed, silent, still, noiseless, inaudible; demure, meek, inoffensive, gentle, retiring, modest, unobtrusive, unassuming, undemonstrative, staid, reserved, sedate; sequestered, unfrequented, retired, secluded. Antonyms: noisy, tumultuous, boisterous, hoidenish, rude, stormy, disturbed, obtrusive, forward, demonstrative.
quiet, v. still, hush, lull, appease, allay, compose, tranquilize, pacify, becalm; assuage, alleviate, mollify, moderate, relieve. Antonyms: arouse, aggravate, exasperate, intensify, increase.
quietness, n. stillness, quiescence, quiet, repose, calmness, tranquillity, serenity, unobtrusiveness, silence, inaudibility.
quill feathers. remiges.
quilt, n. coverlet, bedquilt, counterpane.
quirk, n. evasion, subterfuge, shift;, quibble, prevarication, equivocation; retort, quip, gibe.
quirky, adv. tricky, disingenuous, deceitful.
quit, v. cease, stop, desist, discontinue, forbear, break off; abandon, leave, forsake, evacuate, surrender, resign; absolve, acquit. Antonyms: continue, persist, stay.
quitch grass. crouch grass, quack grass.
quiver, v. tremble, shake, shudder, quake.
quivering, a. trimbling, tremulous, shuddering, shaking.
quixotic, a. Utopian, impracticable, chimerical fanciful.
quiz, v. puzzle, banter, chaff; question.
quiz, n. puzzle, conundrum, poser; examination.
quod, n. (Slang) quadrangle, court.
quoit, n. discus.
quondam, a. former, sometime, old-time.
quota, n. portion, share, allotment, apportionment.
quotation, n. citation, excerpt.
quotation marks. guillemets.
rabbit, n. hare, coney, bunny, cottontail.
rabbitry, n. warren.
rabble, n. mob, rabblerout, populace.
rabid, a. violent, raging, furious; intolerant, fanatical, uncompromising, rampant.
rabies, n. hydrophobia. Associated words: rabid, rabietic, hydrophobic, antihydrophobic.
race, n. Associated words: ethnology, ethnography, ethnologist, ethnic, racial, ethnogeny, holethnos, holethnic, interracial.
race-course, n. race-track, ring, circus, career, hippodrome, curriculum, stadium.
racer, n. courser.
rack, n. pain, torture, agony; amble, pacing; crib, manger; distaff; arrack.
rack, v. stretch, strain, torture, agonize; harass, persecute, torment.
rack and ruin. (Colloq.) destruction, ruin.
racket, n. din, uproar, clamor, babel, clangor, blare, noise, hullabaloo, hilarity, vociferation; (Slang) carouse, revel, dissipation.
racy, a. fine-flavored, pungent, rich; spirited, piquant, fresh and lively. Antonyms: insipid, vapid, tasteless, flavorless, dull, prosaic.
radiance, n. effulgence, refulgence, brilliancy, brightness.
radiant, a. effulgent, refulgent, brilliant. See bright.
radiate, v. shine, beam, gleam; diverge.
radiated, a. divergent.
radiation, n. irradiance, irradiation; divergence. Antonym: convergence.
radical, a. original, fundamental; extreme, thorough-going; primitive. Antonyms: conservative, moderate, slight, trifling, derivative.
radical, n. root, etymon, radix.
radically, adv. fundamentally.
raffle, n. lottery.
raft, n. float, catamaran; (Slang) lot, multitude, collection, heap.
rag, n. tatter, flitter, shred, patch, frazzle, fragment.
ragamuffin, n. tatterdemalion, scarecrow.
rag-baby, n. mopsey, moppet.
rage, n. fury, wrath, passion; (Colloq.) vogue, mode, fashion. See anger.
ragged, a. rent, torn, frazzled; rough, jagged; ragamuffin, tatterdemalion.
raging, a. furious, raving, infuriated, wroth, frenzied, flagrant, rampant.
rag-picker, n. chiffonier.
raid, n. foray, incursion.
rail, v. upbraid, reproach, censure, scoff.
railing, n. invective, vituperation, reproach, upbraiding, contumely. See abuse.
raillery, n. banter, pleasantry, jesting, asteism.
railroad, n. railway.
railroad, v. (Colloq.) hurry, rush.
raiment, n. See clothes.
rain, n. (fine rain) drizzle, mizzle, mist, misle; shower. Antonym: drought.
rainbow, n. iris.
rain gauge. ombrometer, udometer, pluviometer, pluviograph, ombrograph, hyetometer.
rainy, a. showery, wet, pluvious, pluvial.
raise, v. uplift, lift; hoist, heave; erect, build, rear; elevate, advance, exalt; enhance, augment; excite, arouse; propagate, grow, cultivate; rear; levy, collect.
raising, n. uplifting, lifting, elevation, hoisting; erection, rearing; exaltation, elevation; propagation, growing, cultivation.
rake, n. libertine, lecher, debauchee, roué, wencher, rakehell, satyr.
rakish, a. licentious, dissolute, libertine, immoral, lecherous, lewd.
rally, v. collect, reunite; recover, recuperate; assemble; banter, satirize, joke.
ram, n. buck; (Astron.) Aries.
ram, v. cram, stuff, compress.
ramble, v. rove, range, stroll, stray, straggle, roam, wander.
ramble, n. stroll, wandering, rambling.
rambler, n. rover, wanderer, roamer, stroller.
rambling, a. roving, wandering; discursive, digressive, incoherent.
ramp, v. spring, leap, bound, romp.
rampage, n. (Slang) debauchery, passion, excess, unrestraint.
rampageous, a. (Low) rampant, unrestrained, unruly, violent.
rampancy, n. exuberance, luxuriance.
rampant, a. exuberant, luxuriant, rank, wanton, excessive; uncontrollable, violent, raging, furious, unbridled.
rampart, n. fortification, bulwark, security, vallum.
ramshackle, a. dilapidated, disjointed.
rancid, a. musty, tainted, rank, frowzy.
rancor, n. malignity, vindictiveness, hatred, virulence, malevolence, bitterness.
rancorous, a. malevolent, vindictive, malignant, hateful, virulent, bitter.
random, a. haphazard, chance, stray, aimless, hazarded.
range, v. arrange, rank, class, classify; rove, roam, ramble; correspond.
range, n. extent, reach, sweep, compass, scope, latitude; order, class, kind, series, rank; compass, register.
rank, a. exuberant, luxuriant, rampant, vigorous; violent, extreme, excessive, immoderate, gross; rancid, musty, frowzy, fetid, stale; offensive, impalatable, fulsome, foul, gross.
rank, n. row, line, range, order, tier, series; grade, class, order, division; position, station, degree; eminence, distinction.
rank, v. classify, arrange, dispose, class, group, be ranked.
rankling, n. festering, inflammation; heart-burning, resentment.
ransack, v. rummage.
ransom, n. release, liberation, redemption, deliverance.
ransom, v. redeem, rescue, liberate, deliver.
rant, v. declaim, spout, rave, vociferate.
rant, n. rodomontade, ranting, vociferation, bombast.
ranting, a. bombastic.
rap, v. knock.--n. knock, thump, thwack.
rapacious, a. predatory, predaceous, ravenous; avaricious, grasping, extortionate, voracious.
rapacity, n. voracity, rapaciousness, greediness, avarice.
rape, n. constupration, defloration, ravishment, violation.
rape, v. ravish, constuprate, violate, deflower.
rapid, a. swift, fast, fleet, expeditious, cursory, quick, speedy, hasty, furious.
rapidity, n. swiftness, celerity, velocity, haste, speed, fleetness.
rapidly, adv. swiftly, fast, post haste.
rapine, n. plundering, sack, pillage, spoliation, depredation.
rapscallion, n. (Colloq.) rascal, rogue, scoundrel, knave, miscreant.
rapt, a. enraptured, fascinated, transported, spellbound; absorbed, engrossed.
rapture, n. ecstasy, transport, delight, bliss, beatitude.
rapturous, a. ecstatic, beatific, delightful, ravishing, transporting.
rare, a. uncommon, unusual, strange, infrequent, singular, curious; exquisite, fine, incomparable, recherché; sparse, dispersed; subtile, fine, thin, rarefied, tenuous; underdone.
rare bird. rara avis.
rarebit, n. delicacy, tidbit, dainty.
rarely, adv. infrequently, seldom.
rascal, n. rogue, scoundrel, caitiff, scamp, knave, villain, miscreant, varlet, trickster, renegade, scapegrace, rapscallion.
rascality, n. chicanery, improbity. See badness.
rash, a. incautious, precipitate, overhasty, indiscreet, inconsiderate, impulsive, temerarious, madcap, headlong, foolhardy, unwary, reckless.
rash, n. exanthema, eruption, efflorescence.
rashness, n. temerity, precipitancy, indiscretion, incaution, recklessness.
rasping, a. grating.--n. pl. scobs.
rate, v. estimate, value, appraise; assess; scold, censure, chide, berate, reprove.
ratification, n. confirmation, sanction, substantiation, corroboration.
ratify, v. confirm, sanction, substantiate, corroborate.
ration, n. allowance, portion, allotment.
rational, a. reasoning; intelligent, sane, sound, judicious, wise, reasonable, equitable. Antonyms: irrational, insane, injudicious, unwise, unreasonable.
rationale, n. explanation, exposition, reason.
rattle, v. clatter; chatter, prate, babble, prattle; disconcert, confuse, discompose.
rattle, n. clatter; chatter, babble, prattle; crepitaculum; rale.
rattle-headed, a. giddy, rattle-brained, thoughtless.
ravage, v. plunder, pillage, devastate, sack, desolate, despoil.
ravage, n. plunder, pillage, devastation, spoliation, sack, despoliation, rapine.
ravel, v. unravel.
ravening, a. rapacious, insatiable, predatory, ferocious.
ravenous, a. voracious, rapacious, ravening, insatiable.
ravine, n. gorge, defile, clough, lin, gully, gulch.
raving, a. irrational, delirious, maniacal, wild, phrenetic.
ravish, v. transport, enrapture, enchant; rape.
ravishing, a. rapturous, ecstatic, transporting, beatific, delightful.
ravishment, n. ecstasy, transport, rapture; rape.
raw, a. uncooked; unprepared, crude; immature, unripe; galled, sore, sensitive; inexperienced, unskilled, green.
raw meat. Associated word: omophagic.
raw sugar. cassonade.
raze, v. erase, efface, rase; overthrow, subvert, demolish.
reach, v. attain.
reachable, a. attainable, accessible.
reach the highest point. culminate.
react, v. repeat; resist, oppose; rebound, recoil.
read, v. peruse.
readable, a. legible. Antonyms: unreadable, illegible.
reader, n. peruser.
readiness, n. promptness, facility, alacrity. Antonyms: unreadiness, reluctance.
reading, n. perusal; recitation, prelection.
reading desk. lecturn.
real, a. genuine, veritable, actual, true. Antonyms: fictitious, unreal, spurious, ostensible, artificial, feigned, sham.
reality, n. actuality, verity. Antonyms: unreality, phantasm, simulation, phantom.
realization, n. fulfillment, effectuation.
realize, v. effectuate.
really, adv. actually, truly, indeed, veritably, verily.
realm, n. kingdom, dominion; domain, region, sphere, department.
realty, n. real estate.
ream, n. twenty quires, 480 sheets.
rear, a. hindmost.
rear, v. raise, lift, elevate; erect, build; bring up.
rearing, n. elevation, raising; erection.
reason, n. motive, consideration, design, purpose, rationality, logic, account. Associated words: dialectics, logic, syllogism, premises, conclusion.
reason, v. ratiocinate, syllogize; argue, remonstrate, expostulate.
reasonable, a. rational; logical, just; conscionable, fair, moderate, equitable.
reasoner, n. logician.
reasoning, n. ratiocination, argumentation, syllogism, discursus; (sophistical or false) sophistry, fallacy, casuistry.
reata, n. lariat, lasso, riata.
rebate, n. deduction, discount, allowance.
rebel, n. insurgent, revolter, turncoat.
rebellion, n. insurrection, insurgency, mutiny, sedition, revolt, insubordination.
rebellious, a. insurgent, seditious, mutinous, insubordinate, refractory. Antonyms: dutiful, submissive, docile, compliant, deferential, obedient.
rebound, v. recoil, ricochet; reverberate, reëcho.
rebound, n. rebounding, resilience, repercussion, recoil, ricochet.
rebuff, n. repulse, resistance, opposition, repellence, check, setback.
rebuff, v. repulse, resist, repel, oppose.
rebuke, v. reprove, upbraid, censure, reprehend, chide, admonish.
rebuke, n. reproof, censure; chastisement, punishment.
recall, v. revoke, annul, retract, recant, rescind, repeal, abjure; remember, recollect.
recall, n. revocation, rescission, repeal, recantation, retraction.
recalling, a. revocatory.
recant, v. retract, abjure.
recantation, n. retraction, abjuration, retractation.
recapitulate, v. summarize.
recapitulation, n. summary, résumé.
receipt, n. receiving, reception; formula, recipe, formulary; voucher.
receive, v. take, accept; admit, allow; welcome; hold, contain.
receiver, n. recipient, donee; beneficiary; receptacle; fence (receiver of stolen goods).
receptacle, n. container, repository.
reception, n. receipt, receiving; levee, soirée, function; acceptance, welcome, admittance.
recess, n. retreat, withdrawal, retirement; intermission; alcove, niche, nook, retreat; seclusion, privacy.
recipient, n. receiver, beneficiary, donee, conferree.
reciprocity, n. reciprocation, interchange.
recital, n. recitation, narration, narrative.
recitation, n. reciting, rehearsal; cantillation (recitation with musical modulations).
recite, v. relate, recount, repeat, deliver; cantillate.
reckless, a. heedless, inconsiderate, unmindful, thoughtless, temerarious, rash, uncircumspect, incautious, hasty, foolhardy.
reckon, v. compute, calculate, count, enumerate; esteem, regard.
reckoning, n. computation, calculation, enumeration; settlement, adjustment.
reclaim, v. tame, domesticate; reform.
reclamation, n. reclaiming, recovery, reformation.
reclining, a. recumbent, leaning, lying.--n. recumbence, reclination.
recluse, a. solitary, eremitic.
recluse, n. solitary, eremite, anchoret, hermit.
reclusion, n. seclusion, eremitism.
recoil, v. rebound, react; flinch, shrink, quail.
recollect, v. remember.
recollection, n. remembrance, memory, reminiscence.
recommend, v. commend, praise.
recommendation, n. commendation.
recompense, v. See repay.
reconcile, v. conciliate, propitiate, pacify; harmonize, adjust, settle. Antonyms: estrange, disaffect, alienate.
reconciliation, n. conciliation, pacification, appeasement, reunion.
recondite, a. See abstruse.
record, n. register, memoir, diary, chronicle, minute, memorandum, note, annals, document, muniment, cartulary; testimony, witness, attestation.
recorder, n. register, registrar; cartulary.
records, n. pl. annals, archives.
recover, v. regain, reclaim, retrieve, repair, recoup, recruit, rally, repossess, recuperate.
recoverable, a. retrievable.
recovery, n. retrieval, recuperation, regaining, restoration, convalescence.
recreancy, n. cowardliness, mean-spiritedness, pusillanimity, apostasy.
recreant, a. mean-spirited, pusillanimous, cowardly, craven, faithless, false, apostate.
recreation, n. pastime, amusement, relaxation, diversion, sport, fun, divertisement.
rectify, v. correct, amend.
rectitude, n. probity, integrity, uprightness, honesty, virtue.
rector, n. pastor, clergyman, priest.
rectorship, n. rectorate, pastorate.
rectory, n. parsonage.
red, n. carmine, crimson, scarlet, cerise, garnet, vermilion. Associated words: rubefacient, rubefaction.
red, a. florid, blushing, flushed, ruby, ruddy, rubicund, blowzed, rubescent, auburn (reddish brown).
redeem, v. repurchase; regain, recover; ransom, rescue, deliver.
redeemer, n. ransomer, deliverer, savior.
redemption, n. repurchase; ransom, salvation, deliverance, rescue.
red-letter, a. fortunate, auspicious, happy.
redoubtable, a. formidable, terrible; valiant, courageous, brave.
redound, v. contribute, conduce, react.
red pepper. cayenne pepper.
redress, n. reparation, amends, indemnification, relief.
reduce, v. diminish, lower, degrade, minimize, depress, debase; humble, conquer, subdue, vanquish, subjugate, subject.
reduction, n. diminution, abatement, minimization, decrement, debasement; subjugation, subjection, conquest, subdual, overthrow.
redundance, n. superabundance, superfluity, excess, plethora.
redundant, a. superabundant, superfluous, excessive, plethoric.
reëcho, n. reverberation.--v. reverberate, resound, peal.
reek, n. fume, vapor, exhalation, effluvium, steam.
reeking, a. fumy, vaporous, steaming, smoky.
reel, v. stagger.
refer, v. allude.
referable, a. attributable, ascribable, traceable, assignable.
referee, n. umpire, judge, arbitrator, arbiter.
refine, v. purify, defecate, clarify, sublimate, subtilize, sublime, devulgarize, decrassify.
refined, a. exquisite, polished, fine, well-bred, courtly, cultured; purified, sublimated, subtle, subtilized.
refinement, n. culture, elegance, polish, fastidiousness; purification, sublimation, subtility, clarification, tenuity. Antonyms: vulgarity, coarseness, crudity, barbarity, Philistinism.
reflect, v. mirror; rebound, revert; meditate, ruminate, consider, contemplate.
reflection, n. meditation, contemplation, rumination; stricture, animadversion.
reforestization, n. reforesting, reafforestation, reboising.
reforestize, v. reafforest, reboise.
reform, v. reclaim, regenerate, convert, amend.
reformable, a. corrigible. Antonym: irreformable.
reformation, n. reform, reclamation, betterment, improvement.
refraction, n. deflection.
refractory, a. See unruly.
refrain, v. restrain, curb, check; forbear, abstain, desist.
refresh, v. revive, enliven, reanimate; renovate, renew, restore.
refreshing, a. reviving, reanimating, cooling, reinvigorating, refective.
refreshment, n. collation, lunch, refection, regalement.
refuge, n. stronghold, asylum, retreat, covert; shelter, protection, security, guard; expedient, device, shift, resort.
refugee, n. fugitive, runaway.
refund, v. repay, return, restore.
refusal, n. dissent, denial, non-acceptance, negation; option, preëmption.
refuse, v. deny, decline; reject, rebuff, repulse.
refuse, n. offal, dregs, offscum, garbage, fag-ends, recrement, riffraff, lees, dross, draff, offscouring, rubbish, waste, culls.
refutable, a. confutable. Antonym: irrefutable.
refutation, n. confutation, disproof.
refute, v. confute, disprove.
regain, v. recover, retrieve.
regale, v. feast, entertain, gratify.
regalia, n. pl. insignia.
regard, v. heed, observe, consider.
regard, n. respect, esteem, estimation, opinion; respect, reference, relation; heed, attention, observation, notice. Antonyms: disregard, heedlessness. See disregard.
regardful, a. mindful, heedful, attentive, observant.
regardless, a. heedless, careless, unmindful, inattentive, indifferent.
regards, n. pl. compliments, respects.
region, n. district, quarter, locality, neighborhood, vicinity.
register, n. list, roll, schedule, roster; registrar, recorder.
register, v. record, enroll, matriculate.
registration, n. registry, enrollment, matriculation.
regret, n. sorrow, compunction, deprecation, rue.
regret, v. deplore, be sorry for, rue, deprecate.
regular, a. formal, normal, conventional, systematic: steady, uniform, methodical, constant; (Colloq.) unmitigated, thorough, out-and-out.
regularity, n. uniformity, symmetry, shapeliness, constancy, order, system, method. Antonyms: irregularity, inconstancy, unshapeliness, disorder.
rehash, n. réchauffé.
reign, n. sovereignty, rule, dominion; regnancy, sway, power, influence; kingdom, realm.
reins, n. pl. loins.
reject, v. cast away, discard; refuse, decline, rebuff, repulse, contemn, repudiate.
rejection, n. refusal, declination, rebuff, repulse, discarding, repudiation.
rejoice, v. glory, exult; gladden, cheer, delight, please, exhilarate.
rejoicing, n. joy, gladness, exultation, delight, pleasure.
relate, v. recount, narrate, tell.
related, a. allied, cognate, german, agnate, akin, kindred; consanguineous; cognate; agnate; correlated, correlative.
relation, n. connection, bearing, relationship, reference, correlation, alliance, correspondence, relevancy; affinity, consanguinity, kindred, kinship, cognation, filiation; telling, account, recital, narration, narrative, detail, report. Antonyms: irrelation, alienage.
relationship, n. kindred, affinity, alliance, kinship, cognation.
relationship by blood. consanguinity; cognation; agnation.
relationship by marriage. affinity.
relative, a. relating, referring, respecting, pertaining; particular, definite, specific, pertinent.
relative, n. relation, kinsman, kinswoman, connection; cognate, agnate. Associated words: nepotism, nepotic, nepotist.
relax, v. loosen, slacken; abate, diminish, mitigate, temper.
relaxation, n. loosening, slackening; diversion, recreation, rest.
relay, n. reinforcement.
release, v. liberate, loose, discharge, free, acquit, extricate, disengage, relinquish, absolve, remit, relieve, exonerate, disencumber.
release, n. liberation, discharge, deliverance, acquittance, extrication, exoneration, disengagement, freedom.
relentless, a. ruthless, implacable, unrelenting, inexorable, unmerciful.
relevancy, n. pertinency, applicability, relevance.
relevant, a. pertinent, germane, apposite.
reliability, n. trustworthiness.
reliable, a. trustworthy, trusty, dependable.
reliance, n. dependence, confidence, trust.
reliant, a. confident, trusting.
relics, n. pl. leavings, remains, reliquiæ, remnants; memorial, souvenir, memento, trophy, keepsake. Associated words: reliquary, confession, hierotheca.
relict, n. widow.
relief, n. alleviation, mitigation, comfort, ease, succor, palliation, assuagement, help; redress, remedy; relay, reinforcement; prominence, projection.
relieve, v. assuage, alleviate, allay, lessen, remedy, ease, mitigate, palliate, succor, extricate, disentangle, disburden, redress, disengage.
relieving, a. mitigative, assuasive, palliative, remedial, emollient, lenitive, comforting.
religious, a. pious, godly, devout, righteous, devotional; strict, exact, scrupulous, conscientious.
relinquish, v. surrender, waive, forego, renounce, cede, abandon, desert.
relinquishment, n. surrender, abandonment, renunciation.
relishable, a. palatable, gustable.
reluctance, n. unwillingness, disinclination, aversion.
reluctant, a. disinclined, unwilling, averse, loath, indisposed.
remain, v. See stay.
remainder, n. residue, remnant, balance, rest, surplus, surplusage, residuum.
remaining, a. residual, remanent, remainder.
remains, n. pl. relics, debris, remnants; corpse.
remand, v. recommit, send back.--n. recommitment.
remark, v. notice, observe, heed, see, note; say, state, assert.
remark, n. comment, observation.
remarkable, a. noteworthy, striking, extraordinary, wonderful, notable.
remediless, a. irremediable, incurable, desperate, irreparable, insanable.
remedy, v. heal, cure, repair, relieve, redress, alleviate, assuage, palliate.
remedy, n. medicine, cure, antidote, corrective, specific, restorative, panacea, alterant, carminative, medicament, arcanum, prescription, nostrum, elixir, balm; reparation, cure, redress, aid, relief.
remember, v. recollect, recall.
remembrance, n. recollection, memory, reminiscence; souvenir, keepsake, memento, memorial, trophy, reminder. Antonyms: forgetfulness, amnesia, amnesty, oblivion.
remembrancer, n. memento, souvenir, keepsake, trophy, memorial.
reminder, n. remembrancer.
remiss, a. negligent, derelict, careless, slack, heedless, neglectful.
remission, n. surrender, relinquishment; discharge, acquittance; abatement, assuagement, mitigation, subsidence; absolution, exculpation, forgiveness.
remmnant, n. remainder, residue, rest; fragment, piece.
remonstrance, n. expostulation, protest, protestation.
remonstrant, a. expostulatory, remonstrative.
remonstrate, v. expostulate, protest.
remonstrative, a. expostulatory, remonstrant.
remorse, n. self-reproach, sorrow, regret, penitence; pity, compassion, sympathy.
remorseless, a. implacable, ruthless, merciless, unmerciful.
remote, a. distant.
remoteness, n. distance.
removal, n. displacement, dislodgement, transference, expulsion, elimination, dismissal, discharge, ejection, dispossession, divestiture, extraction.
remove, v. move, displace, transfer, dislodge; dismiss, discharge, divest, dispossess, eject; extract, isolate, abstract, withdraw.
remuneration, n. See pay.
remunerative, a. profitable, lucrative.
rend, v. tear, rive, lacerate, cleave, sunder.
render, v. repay, restore; translate, interpret, construe; extract, try out; yield up, contribute.
rendering, n. repayment, restoration; contribution, surrender; translation, version; extraction.
rending, n. tearing asunder, laceration, riving.
renegade, n. deserter, recreant, backslider, turncoat; rebel, traitor; vagabond, outcast.
renew, v. renovate, rejuvenate, restore, rebuild, remodel, reconstruct, revamp, redintegrate, repair; regenerate, transform.
renewal, n. renovation, repair, restoration, redintegration, reconstruction, rejuvenation, regeneration.
renounce, v. disclaim, disown, repudiate, reject; forswear, abjure, forsake.
renouncement, n. renunciation, abnegation, repudiation, abdication, rejection.
renovation, n. restoration, renewal, rehabilitation, reconstruction.
renown, n. celebrity, repute, fame, notoriety, note.
renowned, a. famous, celebrated, eminent, far-famed, illustrious. Antonyms: unrenowned, obscure, inglorious, unknown.
renter, n. lessee, tenant.
renunciation, n. abjuration, denial, disownment, disclaimer, abnegation.
repair, v. mend, restore, patch, tinker, revamp, darn, cobble, remodel; indemnify, redress, atone for, retrieve, regain.
repair, n. renovation, restoration, reconstruction, reparation, rehabilitation.
reparable, a. restorable, retrievable. Antonyms: irreparable, irretrievable.
reparation, n. restoration, rehabilitation, instauration, renovation; atonement, restitution.
repartee, n. bon mot.
repay, v. refund, restore, reimburse; recompense, requite; revenge, avenge, retaliate.
repayment, n. restoration, reimbursement; recompense, requital; retaliation, revenge.
repeal, v. revoke, rescind, abrogate.
repeal, n. revocation, rescission, abrogation.
repeat, v. iterate, reiterate, verbigerate.
repeating, n. repetition, iteration, reiteration; verbigeration.
repel, v. repulse, rebuff, resist, oppose.
repellence, n. repulsion, rebuff, opposition.
repellent, a. repulsive, repelling.
repentance, n. penitence, contrition, compunction, remorse. Antonym: impenitence.
repentant, a. contrite, penitent. Antonyms: unrepentant, impenitent.
repetition, n. iteration, reiteration, recurrence; verbigeration; tautology; echo, rote; recapitulation; reverberation.
replace, v. restore, refund, repay.
replacement, n. restoration, reinstatement.
repletion, n. excess, superabundance, surfeit; plethora.
reply, v. answer, respond, rejoin, retort.
reply, n. answer, response, rejoinder; retort, repartee.
report, n. rumor, on dit, hearsay, bruit; account, statement, communication; fame, repute, reputation; sound, noise, repercussion, detonation, discharge, explosion; cahier; description, narrative, narration, recital.
report, v. announce, communicate, describe; bruit, circulate, promulgate, publish. Antonyms: suppress, withhold, reserve.
repose, n. rest, inactivity, motionlessness; composure, tranquillity.
repository, n. depository, storehouse, depot, magazine.
represent, v. show, typify, symbolize; personate, impersonate; portray, delineate, depict.
representative, a. delegated, vicarious; typical, figurative, symbolical, emblematic.
representative, n. deputy, delegate, vicar, proxy, agent, substitute, vicegerent, surrogate, regent, commissioner, envoy, emissary, ambassador, exponent.
repress, v. quell, subdue, suppress, overpower, restrain, curb, stifle.
repression, n. suppression, restraint, quelling, check.
reproach, v. censure, upbraid, rebuke, reprimand, revile, chide, vilify.
reproach, n. censure, scurrility, contumely, invective, odium, obloquy, shame, disgrace.
reproachful, a. upbraiding, opprobrious, abusive; shameful, disgraceful, scandalous.
reprobate, a. abandoned, depraved, profligate, incorrigible.--n.castaway, outcast, wretch.
reprobate, v. condemn, denounce, reject, abandon.
reprobation, n. condemnation, denunciation, censure abandonment.
reproduce, v. portray, duplicate, imitate; generate, beget, propagate.
reproduction, n. duplication, copy, imitation; generation, procreation, propagation.
reproof, n. See censure.
reprovable, a. culpable, censurable, reprehensible, blamable, reproachable.
reprove, v. See censure.
repudiate, v. reject, renounce, disavow, abjure, disclaim.
repudiation, n. disavowal, rejection, abjuration, disclaimer, disowning.
repugnance, n. aversion, reluctance, unwillingness, hostility, antipathy.
repugnant, a. hostile, contrary, refractory, adverse, offensive, antagonistic, opposed.
repulse, n. repulsion, repelling, rejection, refusal, rebuff.
repulsive, a. repellent, offensive, forbidding, revolting.
reputation, n. repute, name, credit, esteem, honor.
repute, n. reputation, esteem, credit.
reputed, a. putative.
request, n. asking, solicitation, demand, instance, prayer, petition, entreaty, suit, quest.
request, v. ask, supplicate, petition, beg, entreat, importune, beseech.
require, v. demand, claim, exact, need, want, necessitate, enjoin.
requirement, n. demand, requisition, requisite; command, essential, need.
requisite, a. necessary, required, essential, indispensable.
requital, n. recompense, remuneration, retribution, recaliation, reprisal.
requite, v. compensate, remunerate, repay, pay, retaliate, avenge, reciprocate.
rescue, n. deliverance, liberation, salvation, ransom, extrication, disentanglement.
rescue, v. release, deliver, liberate, recapture, redeem, save, extricate, disenthrall.
resemblance, n. likeness, similitude, similarity, analogy, parity, semblance.
resentment, n. dudgeon, umbrage, displeasure, grudge.
reserve, n. reticence, constraint, uncommunicativeness, taciturnity, restraint.
reserved, a. retained, withheld, excepted; uncommunicative, reticent, taciturn, restrained.
residence, n. dwelling, domiciliation, abode, habitancy, habitation, domicile, home.
resident, n. denizen, inhabitant, dweller, residentiary.
residue, n. remainder, remnant, residuum, rest, balance; surplus, excess.
resign, v. demit, abdicate, withdraw, surrender, relinquish, submit.
resignation, n. surrender, abdication, demit; forbearance, fortitude, long-suffering, patience.
resigned, a. surrendered; uncomplaining, submissive, patient.
resist, v. oppose, withstand, impugn, oppugn, defy, baffle, contravene, rebuff.
resistance, n. opposition, renitence, recalcitration, oppugnation, antagonism, rebuff.
resistant, a. resisting, opposing, renitent.
resistless, a. irresistible.
resolute, a. determined, unwavering, unflinching, steadfast, firm, pertinacious.
resolution, n. firmness, determination, pertinacity, persistence, steadfastness, constancy; resolve, purpose, determination; decomposition, solution, dissolution.
resolvable, a. solvable, resoluble, dissolvable.
resolve, v. determine; dissolve, liquefy.
resolve, n. resolution, determination, intention, purpose, design.
resonance, n. reverberation.
resonant, a. resounding, reverberating.
resound, v. reverberate, reëcho, peal.
resound, n. echo, reverberation.
resounder, n. resonator, reverberator.
resounding, a. resonant.
resource, n. resort, expedient, device, shift.
resources, n. pl. assets, means.
respect, n. care, caution, regard; esteem, veneration, deference, reverence, homage, obeisance; reference, regard; particular, feature. Antonyms: See disrespect.
respect, v. esteem, venerate, revere, honor, reverence.
respectable, a. reputable, honorable, estimable; moderate, fair, average.
respectful, a. deferential, courteous, polite, obeisant, reverent. Antonyms: disrespectful, discourteous, defiant, irreverent.
respective, a. relative; particular, own.
respect of persons. partiality, favoritism.
respects, n. pl. compliments, regards, devoirs.
response, n. reply, answer, rejoinder, retort, repartee, antiphon, antiphone, antiphony.
responsibility, n. accountability, liability; duty, trust.
responsible, a. accountable, answerable, amenable. Antonyms: irresponsible, unaccountable, independent.
responsive, a. responding, antiphonal.
responsory, n. antiphone, antiphony, antiphonary.
rest, n. quiet, quietness, inactivity, repose, ease, tranquillity, quiescence, stillness, stagnation, security, cessation, abeyance, intermission, respite, reprieve, pause, recess, sabbatism; cæsura, pause; support, stay, brace; residue, remainder, balance, residuum, others; surplus. Antonyms: activity, agitation, unrest, commotion.
rest, v. stop, halt, pause, desist; repose, recline, lie; trust, rely, depend, acquiesce.
restaurant, n. café, eating-house, chophouse, refectory, buffet.
restaurant keeper. restaurateur.
rest house. caravansary (in Eastern countries).
resting, a. reclining, lying, incumbent.
resting on something else. superincumbent.--n. superincumbence.
restitution, n. repayment, restoration, return, indemnification; reparation, requital, compensation.
restive, a. restless, impatient, fidgety, intractable, uneasy, fractious, rebellious.
restless, a. restive, fidgety, agitated, unquiet, uneasy, kicksy-wicksy.
restlessness, n. restiveness, the fidgets, uneasiness, agitation, turbulence, dysphoria.
restoration, n. return, restitution, replacement, reinstatement, reparation; repatriation; renewal, renovation, redintegration, reconstruction, rehabilitation, instauration; recuperation, recovery.
restore, v. repair, renew, reconstruct, rehabilitate, redintegrate, remodel; replace, refund, return; repatriate; resuscitate, reestablish, revive.
restrain, v. repress, suppress, check, bridle, curb, constrain; abridge, circumscribe, limit, restrict, narrow; withhold, forbear; debar, prevent, interdict, prohibit.
restraint, n. repression, constraint, check, suppression; limitation, prevention; confinement, duress.
restrict, v. restrain, limit, confine, repress, curb, circumscribe.
restriction, n. restraint, constraint, confinement, repression, circumscription, limitation.
result, v. terminate, end, eventuate, redound, issue, accrue, ensue.
result, n. consequence, effect, issue, event, outcome, eventuation, sequence; decision, resolve.
résumé, n. recapitulation, summary, abstract.
resurrect, v. (Slang) disentomb, disinter, unbury, exhume.
resurrection, n. resurgence, revivification.
retain, v. keep, hold, reserve.
retainment, n. retention.
retaliate, v. avenge, requite, repay.
retaliation, n. revenge, requital, retribution.
retard, v. impede.
retarding, n. retardation.
retentive, a. tenacious. Antonyms: unretentive, irretentive.
reticence, n. reserve, uncommunicativeness, taciturnity.
reticent, a. taciturn, reserved, uncommunicative.
retinue, n. train, suite, followers.
retire, v. withdraw, retreat, recede, retrocede, leave, secede.
retired, a. secluded, sequestered, unfrequented, withdrawn.
retirement, n. withdrawal, seclusion, retreat.
retiring, a. diffident, shy, coy, shrinking, reserved, modest.
retract, v. recant, rescind, recall, disavow.
retraction, n. recantation, rescission, disavowal.
retreat, n. retirement, withdrawal; refuge, asylum, seclusion, privacy, fastness.
retreat, v. retire, withdraw, recede.
retrench, v. curtail, lessen, diminish, abridge; limit, confine.
retrenchment, n. diminution, curtailment, abridgment, lessening.
retribution, n. retaliation, repayment, requital.
retrograde, v. retrocede, recede, decline, deteriorate.
retrogression, n. retrogradation, decline, regression, deterioration.
return, v. restore, repay, refund, replace; recur, regress, reappear, revert; requite, retaliate, repay; repatriate.
return, n. restoration, restitution, repayment, requital, retribution, redress; recurrence, regress, reversion; repatriation, atavism; recrudescence; relapse.
returning, a. recurrent, recurring, intermittent.
reveal, v. disclose, unveil, expose, divulge, impart.
revel, n. carousal, festivity, saturnalia.
revel, v. carouse; luxuriate, wanton.
revelation, n. disclosure, divulgement, exposition, apocalypse.
reveler, n. carouser, bacchanal, roysterer, bacchant, bacchanalian.
revelry, n. reveling, carousal, wassail, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal.
revenge, v. avenge, retaliate, wreak vengeance.
revenge, n. vengeance, retaliation.
revengeful, a. vindictive, implacable, resentful, rancorous.
revenue, n. income.
reverberate, v. resound, reëcho.
reverberation, n. resonance, reëcho.
revere, v. venerate, reverence, honor, respect.
reverence, n. veneration.
reverence, v. revere, venerate.
reverent, a. reverential, humble.
reverse, v. invert; overthrow, subvert, overturn; revoke, annul, rescind, countermand.
reverse, n. opposite, contrary, counterpart; reversal; misfortune, failure.
reversion, n. succession; atavism; escheat.
review, v. reconsider, revise, reexamine, retrace.
review, n. reëxamination, reconsideration, retrospect, revision.
revile, v. vilify, traduce, asperse, reproach, malign, calumniate.
revilement, n. vilification, traducement, aspersion, reproach, calumniation, contumely.
reviling, a. scurrilous, vituperative, contumelious, reproachful, abusive.
revisal, n. revision, emendation, recension.
revision, n. revisal, recension, emendation.
revivable, a. resuscitable.
revival, n. revivification, reanimation, resuscitation, restoration, renaissance, renascence.
revivalist, n. evangelist.
revive, v. resuscitate, reanimate, quicken, revivify, reinspirit, revitalize, restore, reinspire, rally.
revivification, n. resuscitation, reanimation, revival, quickening.
revocation, n. recall, repeal, reversal, abjuration, recantation.
revoke, v. repeal, reverse, recant, rescind, abrogate, countermand, retract, abjure.
revolt, n. rebellion, sedition, uprising, mutiny, insurrection, insubordination, insurgency.
revolt, v. rebel, mutiny; disgust, nauseate, shock, offend.
revolter, n. insurgent, rebel, mutineer, renegade.
revolting, a. nauseating, repulsive, fulsome, abhorrent, disgusting.
revolution, n. rotation, gyration; rebellion, revolt.
revolve, v. rotate, spin, gyrate, turn; devolve; brood over, ruminate, ponder, consider.
revolver, n. pistol, repeater.
revolving, a. rotary, gyrating, gyratory, rotatory.--n. revolution, rotation.
reward, n. recompense, requital, guerdon, meed, remuneration premium, bonus, bounty, douceur, merit; honorarium; retribution, retaliation, penalty.
reward, v. requite, recompense.
rhymer, n. poetaster, versifier, rhymester, rhymist.
rib, n. costa. Associated words: costal, intercostal, sternal, asternal.
ribald, a. indelicate, gross, indecent, obscene, lewd.
ribaldry, n. obscenity, indecency, lewdness.
ribbon badge of honor. cordon.
rice refuse. shude.
rich, a. wealthy, opulent, affluent, well-to-do, moneyed; abundant, copious, bountiful, plentiful; fecund, fertile, luxuriant, prolific, exuberant, teeming, productive; sumptuous, luxurious; delicious, luscious, hearty, nutritive gorgeous, elegant, beautiful; vivid, bright, intense. Antonyms: poor, infertile, indigent, plain.
rich, n. (newly rich) Nouveau riche.
riches, n. pl. See wealth.
rich man. nabob, Crœoeus, Dives, plutocrat, millionaire.
richness, n. opulence, wealth, affluence; abundance, profusion; luxuriance, sumptuousness, costliness, elegance, fertility, fecundity. Antonyms: poverty, infertility.
rickets, n. rachitis.
rickety, a. ramshackle, dilapidated, tottering, crazy.
rid, a. free, clear, disencumbered.
rid, v. free, disburden, relieve, disencumber, dispose, dispatch.
riddance, n. deliverance, relief, disencumbrance.
riddle, n. enigma, puzzle, problem, rebus, crux, conundrum, paradox.
rider, n. equestrian, horseman; equestrienne (female), jockey, postilion.
ridge, n. crest; whelk.
ridicule, n. mockery, gibe, jeer, burlesque, raillery, satire, sarcasm, irony.
ridicule, v. deride, satirize, scoff, rally, banter, burlesque, lampoon, mock, scout, jeer, taunt, twit.
ridiculous, a. preposterous, absurd, farcical, burlesque, ludicrous.
riding boots. top boots.
riding on horseback. equestrianism, equitation.
rife, a. abounding, prevalent, plentiful, replete.
rifle, v. strip, fleece, despoil, pillage, devastate.
rift, n. cleft, fissure, crack, gap, crevice, cranny, break, chink.
rig, v. equip; bedizen, accouter.
rigging, n. dress, tackle, equipment, gear.
right, a. just, true, equitable, honest, rightful, lawful, correct, true, accurate, reasonable, ethical, condign, appropriate, proper, suitable, seemly, relevant, consistent, fortunate, auspicious, favorable; dexter, dextral, dextrorse.
right, v. correct, rectify, emend; make restitution, redress.
right, n. prerogative, privilege, immunity, exemption.
right, n. uprightness, rectitude, probity, integrity, propriety, justice, morality, virtue, equity; title, claim; authority. Associated words: ethics, casuistry, deontology, redress, ethology, aretology.
right along. continuously, constantly, uninterruptedly.
right away. immediately, straightway, right off, instantly, instanter, at once.
righteous, a. pious, religious, devout, godly, saintly; equitable, just, right.
righteousness, n. godliness, holiness, sanctity. Antonym: unrighteousness.
right-handed, a. dexterous.
right-handedness, n. dexterity, dextrality.
rigid, a. inflexible, stiff, unyielding, unpliant; rigorous, severe, austere, strict.
rigidity, n. stiffness, inflexibility, severity, rigor.
rigmarole, n. (Colloq.) nonsense, flummery, balderdash, twaddle.
rigor, n. rigidity, inflexibility, austerity, severity, asperity, sternness, inclemency, stringency.
rigorous, a. severe, stringent, strict, unyielding; inclement, severe.
rile, v. (Colloq.) roil; anger, vex, offend.
rill, n. streamlet, rivulet, runnel, brook.
rily, a. (Colloq.) roily, turbid.
rim, n. brim, margin, edge, brink, verge, border; felly (rim of a wheel).
rime, n. hoarfrost.
rind, n. skin, peel. Antonym: pulp.
ring, v. sound, resound, reverberate; toll, knell, chime, ding, tinkle, clang.
ring, n. circle, hoop; grommet, gimmal, terret, manilla, lute; annulation, annulet. Associated words: annular, annularity, annulate, signet, dactyliology, dactylioglyphy, dactylioglyph, cameo, intaglio, lapidary, lapidist, posy.
ring, n. arena; clique, coterie, set, cabal.
ringing, n. sounding, resounding, reverberation, tolling, clang, chime, clam, tinkling, knell, clangor.
ringlet, n. tress, curl, lock.
ringworm, n. circular herpes, serpigo.
riot, n. tumult, uproar; revelry.
rioter, n. reveler, carouser, roysterer.
riotous, a. wanton, luxuriant, unrestrained; seditious, tumultuous, turbulent, insubordinate, rebellious.
rip, n. (Slang) harridan, hag.
ripe, a. mature, ripened; consummate, complete, perfect; suppurated, matured; rareripe.
ripeness, n. maturity, completeness, consummateness, development.
ripple, v. fret.
rise, v. ascend, mount, arise, levitate; tower; swell, increase, grow, enlarge; emerge; proceed, spring, emanate, originate; rebel, revolt; transcend (rise above).
rise, n. ascent; spring, source, origin, beginning; increase, advance, appreciation, augmentation; elevation, hill, knoll.
rise again. resurge.
risible, a. funny, ludicrous. See laughable.
rising, a. ascending, ascendant.
rising, n. ascent, ascension, rise, levitation, levee, emergence; insurrection, uprising.
rising again. resurrection, resurgence.--a. resurgent.
risk, n. unsafety, danger, peril, jeopardy, hazard, imperilment.
risk, v. hazard, endanger, peril, imperil, jeopard, jeopardize.
risky, a. hazardous, unsafe, perilous, jeopardous, dangerous, precarious.
rite, n. ceremony, ordinance.
ritual, n. liturgy, consuetudinary.
rival, n. competitor, emulator, antagonist.--a. competing, competitive, emulative.
rival, v. compete, emulate.
rivalry, n. competition, emulation, contention.
riven, a. cleft, split, rent asunder.
river, n. Associated words: potamology, potamography, riparian, riparious, fluvial, levee, wady, estuary, fluviatic, fluviatile, bayou, pothole, dredge, fluvicoline, fluviograph, fluviometer, crevasse, anadron, tributary, embouchure, barrage.
rivulet, n. rill, creek, streamlet, runnel, runlet, brook, bourn.
road, n. thoroughfare, avenue, highroad, highway, street, lane, passage, artery, roadstead, boulevard, esplanade, turnpike, tramroad, causeway, corduroy road, anchorage, impasse.
road agent. highwayman, bandit.
roam, v. ramble, stray, rove, range, wander.
roar, n. bellow, bellowing.
roar, v. bellow; boom, peal, resound, thunder.
roast, v. bake; torrefy, parch; (Colloq.) banter.
rob, v. plunder, pillage, fleece, despoil, rifle, sack, spoliate, loot, forage.
robber, n. bandit, brigand, buccaneer, burglar, depredator, despoiler, footpad, filibuster, forager, desperado, corsair, freebooter, highwayman, picaroon, marauder, pillager, pirate, plunderer, raider, thief, ladrone.
robbery, n. larceny, burglary, theft, plundering, piracy, peculation, depredation, brigandage, buccaneering, despoliation, loot, sack.
robe, n. gown.
robing room of a church. vestry, sacristy.
robust, a. strong, sinewy, muscular, brawny, stalwart, vigorous, sound.
rock, n. bowlder; crag.
rocking-horse, n. cockhorse.
rod, n. wand, cane, stick; pole, perch, 16-1/2 feet.
roe, n. roebuck; ova, spawn (of fishes).
rogue, n. knave, miscreant, scamp, rascal, sharper. See scoundrel.
roguery, n. cheating, knavery, fraud; mischievousness.
roguish, a. knavish, tricky; waggish, sportive, arch, mischievous.
roil, v. make turbid, rile.
roily, a. turbid, muddy, feculent.
roll, n. scroll; roster, record; convolution, trundle, coil.
roll, v. wheel, whirl, revolve, rotate, turn, gyrate, spin, trundle, circumgyrate; inwrap, infold, convolve; wallow, welter; rock, sway, lurch, titubate, fluctuate.
rolled, a. coiled, convoluted, involuted.
roller, n. cylinder; fillet.
rolling, a. rotating, circumrotary; undulating, hilly; voluble.
rolling, n. rotation, wheeling, circumrotation, titubation, involution.
romantic, a. imaginary, impractical, chimerical, picturesque, fanciful, fantastic.
roof timber. rafter.
room, n. space, compass, range, scope, latitude; apartment, chamber, compartment. Associated word: suite.
roomer, n. lodger.
roomy, a. spacious, capacious, commodious.
roost, n. perch.
rooster, n. cock, chanticleer; cockerel (young); capon (castrated).
root, n. rootstock, radix, taproot, spur; rootlet, radicel; tuber, bulb.
root, n. etymon, stem, radix, radical.
rooted, a. radicated; implanted, fixed, ingrained.
rooting, n. radication; burrowing; implantation.
rooting out. uprooting, eradication, extirpation.
rope, n. cordage, cable, hawser, lasso, lariat, cabestro, tether, tow; pl. shrouds, ratlines. Associated words: marline, marline spike, marling, strand, oakum, winch, windlass, lif, contline.
rope-dancer, n. funambulist, equilibrist, acrobat.
rope-dancing, n. funambulation. Associated words: funambulate, funambulatory, poy.
rope-walker, n. equilibrist.
ropy, a. stringy, tenacious, sticky.
rose, n. Associated words: attar, rodomel.
rose-colored, a. roseate, rosy; alluring.
rosedrop, n. grogblossom, rosy whelk.
rose-grower, n. rosarian.
rose rash. roseola.
rosery, n. rosarium, rosary.
rosin, n. colophony.
rostrum, n. platform, stage, dais.
rosy, a. rose-colored, roseate, ruddy, alluring.
rot, n. decomposition, decay, putrescence, corruption, putridity. Antonyms: preservation, imputrescence, incorruption, soundness.
rotary, a. turning, rotating.
rotary motion. rotation. Associated words: trochilics, trochilic.
rotate, v. revolve, turn, gyrate, whirl.
rotation, n. turning, revolution; succession.
rotten, a. decayed, putrid, putrescent, carious, corrupt, decomposed, putrefied; malodorous, fetid.
rottenness, n. putrefaction. See rot. Associated words: antiseptic, imputrescible, septic, putrescible, aseptic.
rotund, a. round, spherical, globular, orbicular.
rotundity, n. roundness, sphericity, circularity, globosity.
roué, n. rake.
rouge, n. ferric oxide, crocus; cosmetic.
rough, a. uneven, jagged, craggy, rugged, cragged, scraggy; rude, inurbane, burly, unrefined, discourteous, uncivil, blunt, bluff, brusque, austere, abrupt, gruff, boorish, uncourtly; boisterous, tumultuous, tempestuous, stormy; harsh, hard, severe, inclement, drastic, violent; harsh, grating, raucous, discordant, inharmonious; unkempt, disheveled, shaggy; incomplete, superficial, cursory, crude, uncut, unpolished, scabrous.
rough, n. bully, ruffian, rowdy.
round, a. circular, spherical, orbicular, orbed, globular, annular, discoid, rotund; cylindrical; convex, protuberant, bulging; orotund.
round, n. revolution, cycle, rotation, series, succession; rung, rundle, ranee, step; circuit, beat; bout.
roundabout, a. circuitous, indirect, tortuous; encircling, ambient, circumambient, encompassing.
roundabout language. circumlocution.
round building or room. rotunda.
roundelay, n. rondeau, rondel, round.
roundness, n. circularity, globularity, sphericity, rotundity, cylindricity, globosity, annularity, orbiculation, orotundity, convexity.
rouse, v. See arouse.
rousing, a. exciting, stirring; (Colloq.) astounding, startling.
rout, n. overthrow, defeat, discomfiture, vanquishment: clamor, tumult, uproar, din, brawl; mob, rabble.
rout, v. vanquish, defeat, scatter.
route, n. course, way, road, passage.
routine, a. custom, round, course.
rove, v. range, ramble, straggle. See wander.
rover, n. See wanderer.
row, n. (Colloq.) brawl, broil, affray, rumpus, squabble, mêlée, tumult, fracas.
row, n. rank, line, file, series.
rowdy, n. (Colloq.) ruffian, rough, bully, hoodlum, larrikin.
royal, a. kingly, regal, imperial, monarchical, palatine; august, majestic, princely.
royal mace. scepter.
royalty, n. kingship, sovereignty, regality, regency; sovereign, majesty; domain, realm.
rub, n. friction; hindrance, impediment, obstruction, pinch, difficulty; sarcasm, jeer, jibe, taunt; whetstone.
rub, v. abrade, chafe, scrape, grate, fret; embrocate; massage; graze, scour, smooth, smear, fray; burnish, furbish, polish.
rubber, n. caoutchouc, India-rubber; overshoe, galoshe, galoche; eraser. Associated words: vulcanize, vulcanization.
rubbing, n. friction, abrasion, attrition, chafing, fraying; embrocation; massage.
rubbing out. erasure, obliteration, effacement.
rubbish, n. trash, litter, lumber, refuse, debris, garbage, dross, trumpery.
rub out. erase, obliterate, expunge, efface.
rub up. burnish, scour, polish.
ruck, n. wrinkle, crease; (Colloq.) common sort.
rudder, n. Associated word: tiller.
ruddy, a. red, florid, rubicund, blowzed.
rude, a. crude, unpolished, raw, rough, indelicate, unrefined, coarse, undisciplined, uncivilized; inelegant, inartistic, artless; uncivil, discourteous, inurbane, impolite, romping, hoidenish; boisterous, turbulent, violent, inclement, tumultuous; unwrought, unfashioned.
rudiment, n. element; embryo; pl. elements, accidence.
rudimentary, n. rudimental, elementary, initial; embryonic, embryo.
rueful, a. woeful, sad, lugubrious, mournful.
ruffian, n. monster, villain, rowdy, desperado.
ruffle, n. ruff, frill, flounce, furbelow; perturbation, flurry, bustle.
ruffle, v. pucker, pleat, wrinkle; rumple, derange, disarrange, disorder; agitate, discompose, perturb, disconcert; swagger, strut.
rugged, a. irregular, rough, uneven, scraggy, cragged, craggy; inclement, tempestuous, turbulent, boisterous, wild; (Colloq.) robust, hardy, vigorous; austere, crabbed, harsh, unfeeling.
ruin, n. wreck, destruction, undoing, dilapidation, disorganization, perdition, ruination, subversion, shipwreck, downfall, havoc, demolition.
ruin, v. overthrow, subvert, destroy, wreck, ruinate, impoverish.
ruination, n. ruin.
ruinous, a. destructive.
rule, n. regulation, prescript, prescription, order, ruling; standard, criterion, touchstone, brocard; maxim, law, canon; norm; government, sway, regency, domination, authority, direction, empire, dynasty, supremacy, administration, regime.
rule, v. govern, dominate; restrain, influence, sway, prevail, dominate, preponderate, domineer.
ruler, n. governor, sovereign, monarch, president, king, potentate, dynast, lord, satrap, rajah, emir, caliph, burgrave, procurator, Pharaoh, interregent, despot, regent, dominator, arbiter, viceroy, vicegerent, autocrat, oligarch, liege lord, protector, kaiser, czar, dey, doge, mogul, pasha, bey, tetrarch, khedive, sultan, emperor.
ruling, a. regnant, reigning; predominant, dominative, dominant, prevailing.
ruling, n. government, regnancy.
rum, a. (Slang) queer, odd, old-fashioned.
ruminate, v. meditate, muse, ponder, reflect.
rumination, n. meditation.
rummage, v. ransack.
runmy, a. (Slang) strange, odd, freakish, singular.
rumor, n. hearsay, gossip, bruit, on dit.
rump, n. buttocks.
rump bone. aitchbone, edgebone, natch bone.
rumple, v. crumple, wrinkle, pucker, crease.
rumple, n. crumple, pucker, wrinkle, crease.
rumpus, n. (Colloq.) disturbance, quarrel, affray, brawl, row, fracas.
run, v. sprint, lope, scamper, scud, speed, his, hasten, scour, scuttle, flee, race, pace, gallop, trot; proceed, flow; melt, fuse; elapse, pass; pursue, follow, tag; stampede; abscond.
run, n. running, sprint, sprinting; course, series, repetition pressure, demand, importunity; generality.
run, n. brook, rill, streamlet, rivulet.
run after. pursue, follow, tag.
runagate, n. renegade, deserter, apostate, vagabond.
runaway, n. fugitive, absconder, deserter, truant, renegade.
runaway, a. fugitive, absconding, truant.
run away. flee, escape, desert, elope, abscond.
run away with. accompany.
run down. decline, deteriorate; decry, belittle, disparage, derogate.
rung, n. round, rime, rundle (of a ladder).
run into. collide.
runner, n. racer, sprinter; messenger, courier.
running, a. successive, consecutive; flowing, easy, cursive; continuous; trailing.
running after. pursuit.
running away. desertion, fleeing, absconding, elopement.
running down. decline, deterioration; decrial, disparagement.
running into. collision.
running out. expiration, extension, expatiation, extinction.
run out. expire; extend, spread; expatiate, descant; become extinct.
run over. overflow.
runround, n. (Colloq.) felon, whitlow.
runt, n. dwarf, pygmy.
run through. squander, dissipate; transfix, impale, pierce.
rupture, n. disruption, breach; hernia.
rural, a. rustic, country, countrified, pastoral, bucolic, agrestic.
ruralism, n. ruralness, rurality, rusticity.
ruralize, v. rusticate.
ruse, n. artifice, wile, trick, stratagem, maneuver, feint, dodge.
Russia, n. Associated words: Russian, russianize, Russification, russify, Russophile, Russophobia, Russophobe, Duma, vodka.
Russian peasant. muzhik, moujik.
rust, n. corrosion, ærugo, verdigris; mildew, blight, mould; pating.
rust, v. corrode; degenerate (in idleness), decline.
rustic, a. rural, country, agrestic; unpolished, countrified, uncouth, rude, rough; coarse, plain, simple, inelegant, homely; artless, unaffected.
rustic, n. countryman, farmer; boor, churl, hind, put, carl, yokel.
rusticate, v. ruralize.
rustle, n. rustling, frou-frou.
rustlings, a. whispering, susurrous.
rust of plants. ferrugo.
rusty, a. seruginous; ferruginous; reasty, rancid, musty, fusty, mildewed; discolored, stained; rubiginous.
rut, n. groove; roaring (of waves), rote.
rut, n. œstrus, heat, œstruation. Associated word: œstrual.
ruth, n. pity, tenderness, compassion, mercy.
ruthful, a. pitiful, tender, compassionate, merciful.
ruthless, a. pitiless, cruel, truculent, relentless, implacable, fell, hard-hearted.
ruthlessness, n. truculence, implacability, cruelty, mercilessness.
ruttish, a. lustful, salacious, lascivious.
rye, n. Associated words: ergot, ergotism, ergotized.
sack, n. bag, pouch; pillage, plunder, rapine, havoc, devastation, spoliation.
sack, v. devastate, plunder, pillage, ravage, despoil, loot, rapine, strip.
sacred, a. consecrated, hallowed; venerable, sainted, religious; inviolable.
sacredness, n. sanctity, holiness; inviolability, inviolableness.
sacrifice, n. oblation, immolation; surrender, loss, giving up; holocaust; hecatomb.
sacrifice, v. offer, immolate; surrender, give up, forego.
sacrilege, n. desecration, profanation, violation.
sacrilegious, a. impious, profane, irreverent.
sad, a. sorrowful, pathetic, plaintive, doleful, piteous, lugubrious, rueful, mournful, dismal, funereal, gloomy, melancholy, disconsolate, dejected, touching; calamitous, deplorable, grievous, dire, afflictive, wretched, saturnine, grave, sober; dull, sombre, subdued; (Colloq.) bad, naughty, troublesome, mischievous, vexatious.
sadden, v. depress, dishearten; tone down, subdue.
saddle, n. Associated words: pommel, cantle, girth, pillion, stirrup, saddle-tree, croup, crutch, chapelet, tilpah, tapadero, housing, latigo, pique, panel, sinch, saddle-bow, selliform, holster, mochila.
sadness, n. melancholy, pathos, sorrow, gravity, soberness, seriousness.
safe, a. unharmed, intact, unscathed, immune; trustworthy, reliable, sure, secure, invulnerable, impregnable. Antonyms: unsafe, endangered, insecure.
safe-conduct, n. convoy, guard, escort; pass, passport.
safeguard, n. defense, security, palladium, protection, convoy, guard; passport.
safeguard, v. guard, defend, protect, shield.
safekeeping, n. guardianship, care, custody, charge, preservation.
safety, n. security, custody; immunity, exemption.
sagacious, a. intelligent, knowing, shrewd, discerning.
sagacity, n. intelligence, shrewdness, cleverness, ingenuity, wisdom.
sail, v. navigate, cruise, embark.--n. sailing, cruise, embarkation.
sailable, a. navigable.
sailcloth, n. canvas, duck, tarpaulin, raven's-duck.
sailing, n. navigation; circumnavigation (sailing round); orthodromics, orthodromy.
sailor, n. mariner, navigator, seaman, seafarer, tarpaulin, tar, salt, Jacky.
sailor's song. chantey.
sailor's wages. portage.
saint, n. Associated words: canonize, canonization, hagiology, hagiologist, hagiolatry, hagiolater, hagiography, Hagiographa, dulia, legend, diptych, feretory, philatory, relic, apse, reliquary, shrine, saintism, sainthood, saintship, hagiographer, hierotheca.
sainted, a. holy, pious, saintly, consecrated; canonized.
Saint Vitus's dance. chorea. Associated word: choreic.
salable, a. vendible, marketable. Antonyms: unsalable, unmarketable.
salacious, a. lascivious, lecherous, concupiscent. See lustful.
salad, n. Associated word: acetarious.
sale, n. vendition, market; auction; handsel.
salient, a. prominent, conspicuous, noticeable, striking.
saliva, n. spittle, sputum, spit. Associated words: salivate, salivation, insalivate, insalivation, salivant, salivary, ptyalism, salival, salivous, expectorant, drool, drivel, ptyalogogue, sialogogue, ptysmagogue.
sally, n. spring, leap; sortie; witticism, jest, frolic, escapade.
saloon, n. grogshop, barroom, groggery, dramshop.
sal soda. carbonate of soda.
salt, n. chloride of sodium.
salt, n. seasoning, flavor, savor, taste; piquancy, wit, sense, humor; old sailor.
saltness, n. salinity, salineness, saltiness.
salt of wisdom. alembroth.
saltpetre, n. potassium nitrate, nitre, nitrate of potash.
salt spring. saline.
salt works. salina.
salty, a. saline, brackish, saltish, salt, briny, saliferous.
salute, v. address, greet, hail, welcome, accost.--n. salutation.
salvation, n. redemption. Associated word: soteriology.
salve, n. ointment, cerate, embrocation, emollient, balm, unguent.
salve, v. anoint, embrocate, heal; remedy, cure.
sal-volatile, n. carbonate of ammonia, salts of hartshorn, smelling salts.
same, a. identical, invariable, uniform, analogous, similar, cognate; isomeric, isonomic. Antonyms: See different.
sameness, n. identity, identicalness, similarity, correspondence, uniformity, analogy, parity, invariability, parallelism; monotony; isomerism.
sample, n. specimen, example, illustration, exemplification, instance, pattern.
sanction, n. confirmation, ratification, authorization, penalty, punishment.
sanction, v. confirm, ratify, approve, countenance.
sanctity, n. godliness, saintliness, inviolability, sacredness.
sanctuary, n. shrine, sanctum, adytum; Holy of Holies; church, temple.
sand, n. sandy soil; quicksand, syrtis; arena (Med.). Associated words: dune, downs, arenicolous, burst, sabulosity (sandiness), psammophilous, ammophilous, medano, eschar, os, kame, arenarious.
sand, n. (Slang) grit, pluck, nerve, courage, fearlessness, audacity, spirit.
sand bath. arenation, psammotherapy, inhumation, saburration.
sandglass, n. hourglass.
Sandwich islands. Associated word: Kanacka (native).
sandy, a. sabulous, gritty, arenaceous, arenose.
sane, a. underanged, rational, sound, lucid, compos mentis.
sanguinary, a. bloody, murderous; cruel, truculent, bloodthirsty.
sanitarium, n. sanatorium, health retreat.
sanity, n. saneness, rationality.
sap, v. mine, undermine, subvert; exhaust, drain, unsettle.
saphead, n. (Slang) simpleton, sap, dolt.
sappy, a. juicy, lush, succulent; (Low) silly, foolish, half-witted.
sapwood, n. alburnum.
sarcastic, a. satirical, taunting, ironical, derisive, sneering.
sash, n. girdle.
Satan, n. devil, Belial, Apollyon, Abaddon, Asmodeus, Prince of Darkness, Archfiend, the Evil One, the Tempter, the Arch Enemy.
satiate, v. surfeit, pall, glut, overfeed, cloy, gorge.
satiety, n. satiation, surfeit, cloyment, over-fullness.
satire, n. irony, sarcasm, ridicule, lampoon, pasquinade.
satirical, a. bitter, sarcastic, ironical, caustic, mordacious.
satirize, v. lampoon, ridicule, lash.
satisfaction, n. gratification; contentment, complacency, content, comfort; reparation, indemnification, requital, reimbursement, recompense; atonement, amends. Antonyms: dissatisfaction, discontent.
satisfactory, a. sufficient, satisfying, conclusive, gratify, ing, atoning.
satisfy, v. gratify, content, appease, satiate, suffice; indemnify, repay.
sauce, n. (Low) sauciness, impertinence, insolence, rudeness
saucy, a. impertinent, insolent, pert, impudent, malapert, flippant.
saunter, v. loiter, linger, straggle, lounge, stroll, delay, dawdle, lag.
savable, a. salvable.
savage, a. uncivilized, barbarous; ferocious, ravenous, fierce, untamed; brutal, fell, truculent, implacable, atrocious, ferocious, inhuman.
savage, n. barbarian; cannibal.
savages, n. pl. Associated words: agriology, agriologist.
save, v. rescue, deliver, redeem; preserve, conserve, keep; reserve, hoard, garner; economize, husband; spare, obviate, prevent, forefend, shield, protect.
save, prep.or conj. except, excepting, reserving.
saving, a. preserving, redemptory, redeeming; preservative, conservative; frugal, thrifty, economical, provident, sparing, choice, chary. Antonyms: lavish, extravagant, prodigal, unthrifty, profuse, wasteful.
saving, n. treasure, hoard, reserve; exception, reservation, salvation, rescue, redemption, deliverance; preservation, conservation; salvage.
savingness, n. frugality, parsimony, thrift, providence, economy, chariness. Antonyms: extravagance, prodigality, improvidence.
savory, a. gustable, palatable, toothsome, fragrant. Antonyms: unsavory, impalatable.
savvy, v. (Slang) understand, comprehend.--n. understanding, comprehension.
saw, n. maxim, adage, apothegm. See saying.
sawbones, n. (Nickname) surgeon.
sawer, n. sawyer.
saw tooth. serration, serrature, serrulation.
saw-toothed, a. serrate, serrated, serrulate.
say, v. utter, express, mention, pronounce, speak, declare, tell, articulate, recite, rehearse; state, assert, affirm, allege, aver, asseverate, predicate, cite; suppose, assume, presume.
saying, n. utterance, declaration, statement, pronunciation, mention, assertion, affirmation, citation, averment, asseveration, alleging, recital, rehearsal.
saying, n. maxim, saw, proverb, apothegm, aphorism, adage, dictum, precept, axiom, motto, quotation.
scab, n. eschar, incrustation; mange.
scabby, a. scabbed, scaly, scabious, mangy.
scaffold, n. staging, scaffolding; gallows.
scalawag, n. (Slang) scamp, rascal, rogue, scapegrace, miscreant, scoundrel, villain, caitiff, varlet.
scale, n. flake, lamina, leprosity, lamella, squama, incrustation.
scale, n. (Mus.) gamut, sol-fa. Associated words: diatonic, chromatic, tonic.
scale, n. (Bot.) squamula, lodicule; fulcrum.
scale, v. exfoliate, desquamate; climb, ascend, mount, clamber, escalade.
scales, n. pl. balance; steelyards, Roman balance.
scalloped, a. pinked; crenate, crenated (Bot.).
scaly, a. flaky, squamose, leprose, squamoid, scurvy; (Low) mean, low, contemptible, scurvy, despicable.
scamble, v. sprawl, wabble, shamble; scramble, jostle.
scamp, v. (Colloq.) slight, skimp.
scamp, n. rascal, knave, miscreant, caitiff, scapegrace, scoundrel.
scamper, v. hasten away, scud, hie, run, scuttle, scatter.
scandal, n. reproach, opprobrium, disgrace, odium, shame; slander.
scandalize, v. shock, offend, displease; disgrace; slander, defame, vilify.
scandalous, a. defamatory, libellous, slanderous; infamous, disgraceful, opprobrious, shameful, disreputable.
scant, a. scanty, meager, insufficient, inadequate; sparing, saving, chary.
scant, v. limit, straiten, stint.
scantness, n. smallness, narrowness, inadequacy, insufficiency, meagerness, scantiness.
scanty, a. insufficient, inadequate, meager; sparing, illiberal, niggardly.
scapegrace, n. rogue, scamp, blacksheep, miscreant.
scar, n. cicatrix, seam, cicatrice; blemish, disfigurement, flaw. Associated words: cicatricial, cicatrisive, cicatrizant, cicatrize, cicatrization, escharotic.
scarce, a. rare, unplentiful, deficient.
scarcity, n. dearth, deficiency, insufficiency, lack, drought, rarity, paucity.
scare, v. frighten, intimidate, terrify, daunt, cow, appall, startle, affright, alarm, browbeat, dismay, terrorize, overawe. Antonym: reassure.
scare, n. fright, alarm, terror, panic, consternation.
scarecrow, n. guy, effigy; ragamuffin.
scarf, n. muffler, tippet, neckcloth, neckerchief, cravat, necktie, maniple.
scarfskin, n. epidermis, cuticle.
scary, a. (Colloq.) timid, apprehensive, alarming, frightful.
scatter, v. dissipate, disperse, dispel, separate; intersperse.
scatter-brained, a. giddy, thoughtless, flighty, careless.
scattering, a. scattered, sporadic.
scattering, n. dissipation, dispersion; interspersion.
scene, n. spectacle, show, exhibition, display, view, scenery.
scenery, n. view, landscape, prospect.
scent, n. odor, smell, perfume; flair. See smell.
scepter, n. royal mace, sovereignty.
schedule, n. list, catalogue, table.
scheme, n. design, plan, project, machination, intrigue, cabal; outline, draught, arrangement, plan, system.
scheme, v. devise, excogitate, plan, machinate, plot, design.
schemer, n. plotter, intriguer, machinator, intrigant, planner, contriver.
scheming, a. artful, designing, intriguing, Machiavelian, tricky, wily, insidious. Antonyms: guileless, undesigning, artless.
schismatic, a. dissentious, heretical, dissentient, schismatical.
schismatic, n. nonconformist, dissenter, separatist, heretic, sectary.
scholar, n. pupil, student, learner, disciple; savant, philomath.
scholarly, a. scholarlike, erudite, scholastic.
scholarship, n. erudition, learning, knowledge, attainments, polymathy.
school, n. institute, academy, seminary, college, gymnasium conservatory, university; denomination, sect; shoal; clinic.
school, v. train, educate, drill, teach.
schooling, n. education, training, nurture, discipline; tuition.
scientist, n. savant.
scintilla, n. iota, trace, whit, particle, mite, bit, tittle, jot, scrap, atom.
scion, n. descendant, heir; shoot, sprout.
scoff, v. deride, ridicule, mock, sneer, gibe, jeer, contemn.
scoffer, n. derider, ridiculer, mocker, sneerer, scorner, contemner, jeerer.
scoffery, n. mockery, derision, ridicule, jeering.
scold, v. chide, berate, censure, reprimand, blame, reprove, brawl, lecture, reprehend, vituperate, rate, rebuke, declaim against.
scold, n. shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, rixatrix, Xantippe.
scolding, n. chiding, censure, rating, reprimand, reprehension, rebuke, berating.
scolding, a. berating, chiding, censorious, shrewish, reprehensory, termagant.
scoop, n. ladle; cavity, hollow; stroke, sweep, swoop.
scope, n. design, purpose; opportunity, space, room, liberty; extent, compass, purview.
scorch, v. singe, char, torrefy, burn, parch.
score, n. tally, account; notch, incision; motive, account, reason, sake, consideration, behalf; line, groove; twenty.
score, v. notch, scratch, cut; record, enter.
scorn, n. contempt, disdain, derision, contumely, mockery, slight.
scorn, v. despise, reject, contemn, disregard, scout, spurn.
scornful, a. disdainful, contemptuous, contumelious, defiant.
Scotch, n. Gaelic.
Scotchman, n. Scot, Scotsman, Caledonian, Gael, Celt.
Scotland, n. Scotia, Caledonia.
scoundrel, n. villain, knave, rascal, scamp, rogue, caitiff, reprobate, cheat, swindler, libertine, miscreant, bezonian, vagabond, wretch.
scoundrelism, n. villainy, turpitude, knavery, rascality.
scourge, n. affliction, infliction, bane, punishment.
scout, v. disdain, flout, contemn, scorn, spurn, scoff, ridicule.
scout, n. spy.
scowl, v. glower, frown, lower.--n. frown.
scowling, a. sullen, glowering, frowning, lowering.
scraggy, a. scragged, craggy; scrawny, lank, gaunt, skinny, angular.
scramble, v. scrabble, clamber; struggle, contend, strive.
scrap, n. bit, fragment, morsel, crumb; excerpt, extract; pl. cracklings.
scrapbook, n. commonplace book, album.
scrape, n. difficulty, predicament, dilemma.
scrape, v. abrade, rasp, grate, rub; gather, collect; erase, remove.
scraper, n. rasper.
scrappy, a. fragmentary, disconnected, inconsistent.
scratch, v. scrape; scribble; erase, expunge; scarify.
scratch, a. (Slang) haphazard, chance, improvised.
scrawl, n. scribble.
scrawny, a. (Colloq.) angular, lank, meager, scraggy, bony, rawboned, gaunt.
screak, n. creaking, screech, squeak.--v. screech, creak, squeak.
scream, n. shriek, screech, yell, outcry.
screech, n. shriek, scream, screak.
screechy, a. discordant, unmelodious, unmusical, strident.
screed, n. tirade, diatribe, harangue.
screen, n. shield, protection, guard, defense, traverse, fender; mask, disguise; sieve, riddle; jube, parclose, rood screen; pavesade.
screen, v. shield, defend, protect, cover, conceal, cloak, hide; sift, riddle.
screw, v. twist, wrench, force, squeeze; oppress, rack; distort.
screw, n. extortioner, skinflint.
scribe, n. writer, scrivener, amanuensis, copyist.
scrimmage, n. skirmish, scuffle, scrabble, row, fight.
scrimp, v. limit, straiten, scant, stint.
scrimp, a. scanty.
scrofula, n. king's evil. Associated words: scrofulide, scrofulous.
scrotum, n. cod. Associated words: scrotal, varicocele, spermatic cord, pneumatocele, gubernaculum, cirsotomy, dartos, urocele, sarcocele, mesorchium, scrotocele, vas deferens, suspensory.
scrub, n. jungle, thicket, brushwood.
scrubby, a. stunted, dwarfed, undeveloped, scrub, insignificant.
scrumptious, a. (Slang) fine, elegant, excellent, fastidious, particular.
scruple, n. hesitation, doubt; twenty grains.
scrupulous, a. conscientious, exact, strict, punctilious, particular.
scuffle, n. tussle, struggle, encounter, contest, fight, fray.
scullion, n. menial.
sculpture, n. statuary.
scum, n. dross, recrement, refuse, waste, froth.--v. despumate.
scurrilous, a. indecent, scurrile, opprobrious, insulting, abusive.
scurry, v. hurry, scamper, scuddle, scuttle.
scurry, a. despicable, abject, low, mean, contemptible.
scurvy, n. scorbutus.
scuttle, n. coal hod; manhole.
scuttle, v. scuddle, hurry, bustle, run.
scythe, n. Associated words: swath, snath.
scythestone, n. whetstone.
sea, n. Associated words: marine, naval, maritime, nautical, Davy Jones, pelagic, pelagian, loom, looming, submarine, ultramarine, rote, frith, estuary, fiord, kraken, Triton, haliography, haliographer, hydrography, thalassography, marinorama, nereid, mirage, nautilus, thalassotherapy.
seacoast, n. seaboard, seashore, seaside, beach, strand, seamarge.
sea cow. manatee; dugong; walrus.
sea fight. naval battle, naumachy.
sea horse. hippocampus; walrus.
sea king. Norse pirate chief, Viking (pirate).
seal, n. Associated words: rookery, pup.
seal, n. signet; assurance, ratification, attestation, authentication, confirmation; cachet (seal of a letter); breloque (jewel). Associated words: sphragistics, sigillography, sigillate.
seal, v. ratify, authenticate, confirm, attest.
sea letter. passport, sea pass.
sealing, n. confirmation, ratification, authentication, attestation, obsignation.
seam, n. suture, commissure; layer, stratum.
seamaid, n. mermaid, sea-nymph, siren.
seaman, n. sailor, seafarer, mariner, tarpaulin, tar, salt, sea dog, Jacky, beachcomber; merman; midshipman, middy, skipper, cockswain, pilot, navigator.
sear, v. cauterize, scorch.
sear, a. dry, withered, dead, sere.
search, v. examine, explore, hunt, seek, overhaul; rummage, ransack, ferret; scrutinize, probe, sift.
search, n. quest, research, pursuit.
searcher, n. seeker.
searchless, a. unsearchable, impenetrable, inscrutable.
seared, a. scorched, cauterized; callous, case-hardened.
searing, n. scorching, cautery, cauterization, cauterizing. Associated words: cauter, cauterant, cauterism, cautery.
seashore, n. seacoast, seaside, seaboard.
seasickness, n. nausea, mal de mer.
sea soldier. marine.
season, v. habituate, inure, harden, accustom, acclimatize, acclimate; dry, mature; flavor, spice.
seasonable, a. opportune, timely, suitable, apropos, convenient.
seasoning, n. condiment, spice, relish, sauce, flavor, salt, hautgoût.
seat, n. site, abode, situation, station; fundament, buttocks, bottom, breech; chair, sofa, tête-à-tête, divan, settee; banquette, dickey, rumble; bench, form; pew.
seat, v. usher.
seaweeds, n. pl. algæ, dulse, sea lettuce, confervæ, wrack; sargasso; kelp, fucus, rockweed. Associated words: algology, algous, fucivorous, fucoid, fucoidal, fucosol, laver, barilla, phycology, phycography, varec, rhabdolith.
secluded, a. sequestered, isolated, retired, withdrawn, covert, lonely.
seclusion, n. sequestration, isolation, solitude, loneliness, retirement.
second, n. backer, supporter, assistant.--v.. back, support, abet.
secondary, a. subordinate, second, inferior, minor, collateral.
secondary, n. subordinate, deputy, delegate, proxy, underling, auxiliary.
second-class, a. inferior, second-rate.
second son. Associated word: secundogeniture.
second sight. prophetic vision, deuteroscopy.
second thought. reconsideration.
secrecy, n. seclusion, privacy, retirement, concealment, confidence.
secret, a. mystery, arcanum; pl. confidences; pl. genitals; pl. penetralia. Associated words: secretive, secretory, confide, confidential.
secret, a. hidden, concealed, unrevealed, mysterious, cryptic, recondite, occult, esoteric, cabalistic, abstruse, unknown, latent; secluded, privy, withdrawn, retired, covert, private, sequestered; stealthy, underhand, clandestine, sly, surreptitious, confidential, undetected. Antonyms: overt, revealed, open, exoteric, manifest.
secretary, n. amanuensis, clerk, writer, scribe; writing-desk, escritoire, scrutoire. Associated words: secretarial, secretariat, portfolio.
secrete, v. bury, hide, conceal, shroud, disguise, cloak.
secretion, n. concealment, hiding.
secretive, a. uncommunicative, taciturn, reserved, silent, wary.
secretiveness, n. taciturnity, reserve, silence, uncommunicativeness, wariness.
secret language. cryptology, argot, flash.
secret name. cryptonym.
secrets, n. pl. confidences, mysteries; arcana, penetralia.
secret science. esoterics, cabala.
secret vice. masturbation, onanism, self-abuse.
secret writing. cryptography, cipher, steganography, cryptogram.
sect, n. school, party, denomination.
sectarian, a. denominational.
section, n. portion, part, division, segment, piece; paragraph.
secular, a. temporal, worldly, laic, civil.
secure, a. safe, confident, assured, fast, immovable, stable, indemnified. Antonyms: insecure, risky, hazardous.
secure, v. gain, procure, obtain, get, acquire; fasten, moor; guarantee, ensure, insure, assure, indemnify; defend, guard, shield, protect.
security, n. safety, confidence, assurance, certainty; warranty, surety, indemnification, pledge, indemnity, bond, guarantee, vadium; defense, protection, bulwark.
sedate, a. staid, demure, imperturbable, composed, calm.
sedative, a. composing, soothing, anodyne.
sedative, n. anæsthetic, narcotic, opiate, hypnotic.
sediment, n. precipitate, dregs, lees, settlings, grounds, feculence.
sedition, n. rebellion, revolt, insurrection, riot, mutiny, insubordination.
seditious, a. rebellious, insubordinate, insurgent, mutinous.
seduce, v. entice, tempt, betray, allure.
seducement, n. seduction, enticement.
seducer, n. Lothario.
seduction, n. enticement, temptation, allurement, lure.
seductive, a. alluring, attractive, siren, enticing.
see, v. perceive, descry, view, behold, witness, espy; discern, distinguish, observe, note, notice, observe, understand, grasp; watch, regard, look after; accompany, escort; interview, visit. Antonyms: overlook, ignore, miss, skip, connive at.
seed, n. semen, sperm; first principle, origin, source.
seed, n. kernel, grain, pip, ovule. Associated words: carpology, spermologist, seminal, semination, seminific, spermophyte, angiosperm, pericarp, angiospermous, carpolite, germinate, germination, achene, carpel, spermophyta, silique, silicle, weevil, chorion, testa, tegmen, endopleura, capsule, pod.
seedy, a. (Colloq.) shabby, tacky, threadbare; spiritless.
seeing, n. perception, viewing, espial, descrying, beholding; discernment, observation, comprehension; sight, vision. Antonyms: imperception, blindness, connivance. See sight.
seek, v. search for, hunt; aim at, strive after, attempt.
seeming, n. appearance, show, semblance, speciousness, guise, look.
seemingly, adv. apparently, ostensibly.
seemly, a. becoming, suitable, proper, appropriate, meet, befitting.
seep, v. percolate.
seer, n. prophet, vaticinator, predictor, diviner.
seething, a. boiling, ebullient.
segment, n. section, part, portion, piece; (Biol.) metamere, somite, somatome.
seize, v. apprehend, snatch, clutch, catch, gripe, grasp, grapple; arrest; confiscate, usurp, appropriate; distrain, distress.
seizure, n. apprehension, grasping; capture; confiscation, usurpation.
seldom, adv. infrequently, rarely.
select, v. pick out, choose, prefer, cull, single out, elect.--a. choice. Antonyms: promiscuous, indiscriminate.
selecting, a. elective, eclectic.
selection, n. choice, election, preference, pick; collection, assortment. Antonyms: promiscuity, indiscrimination.
self, n. ego, person, individual. Associated words: egoism, egoist, egoistic, egotism, egotist, egotistical.
self-abasement, n. self-degradation, humility, meekness.
self-abuse, n. masturbation, onanism, secret vice, self-pollution.
self-acting, a. automatic.
self-conceit, n. egotism, overweening, priggishness, vanity.
self-conceited, a. egotistical, vain, overweening, priggish, opinionated, bumptious, conceited.
self-consumption, n. autophagy.
self-defense, n. Associated word:: jujutsu.
self-deification, n. autotheism.
self-denial, n. self-abnegation, asceticism, self-sacrifice, abstemiousness. Antonyms: self-indulgence, sensuality, voluptuousness.
self-denying, a. self-sacrificing, unselfish, ascetic, abstemious.
self-evident, a. axiomatic, obvious.
self-examination, n. introspection; autoscopy.
self-explanatory, a. obvious.
self-fear, n. self-distrust, autophoby.
self-fertilization, n. autogamy.
self-government, n. self-control; democracy; autonomy. Antonyms: subjection, heteronomy, abandon, subordination.
self-heating, a. idiothermic.
self-importance, n. pompousness, pomposity, vanity, conceit.
self-important, a. pompous, vain, opinionated, bumptious.
selfish, a. ungenerous, narrow, illiberal, uncharitable.
self-knowledge, n. autology.
self-murderer, n. suicide, felo-de-se.
self-possessed, a. composed, unruffled, sedate, calm, collected.
self-possession, n. composure, equanimity, calmness, aplomb. Antonyms: discomposure, agitation.
self-righteous, a. pharisaic, sanctimonious.
self-sufficiency, n. self-complacency.
self-taught person. autodidact, automath.
self-worship, n. autolatry, idiolatry.
sell, v. vend, barter, exchange; betray; (Slang) deceive, impose upon, cheat.
sell, n. (Slang) imposition, cheat, hoax, deception, trick, fraud.
seller, n. vender, vendor.
selling, n. vendition, barter, vending, sale.
selvedge, n. listing.
semen, n. sperm, seed. Associated words: seminal, spermatic, spermatism, gonic, aspermatism, aspermia, seminific, seminiferous, spermatoid, spermatozoid, spermic, spermary, spermatorrhea, spermatozoa, emission, vesiculæ seminales, fecundate.
semicircle, n. hemicycle.
send, v. dispatch, commission, delegate; transmit, forward.
send back. return, remand, recommit.
sending back. return, remand, remandment, recommitment.
senile, a. decrepit, feeble, aged, infirm.
senility, n. dotage, decrepitude, old age.
seniority, n. eldership, superiority.
sensation, n. consciousness, feeling, perception; excitement. Associated words: æsthesiology, sensorium, sentient, sensific, sensory, sentiency, insentient, sensifacient, sensiferous, sensificatory, sensitive, æsthesiometer, æsthesiogen, catalepsy, anæsthesia.
sensational, a. melodramatic, emotional, exciting, thrilling.
sense, n. perception, sensation, sensibility, feeling, æsthesia; apprehension, understanding; wisdom, sagacity; judgment, notion, opinion, sentiment, view; conviction, consciousness. Associated words: æsthematology, æsthesiography, sensuous, sensual, sensuality, sensuousness.
sense, v. (Colloq.) perceive, recognize.
senseless, a. insensible, unconscious; absurd, silly, nonsensical, inept, foolish, idiotic, fatuous, unwise.
senselessness, n. insensibility, unconsciousness; fatuity, absurdity.
sensibility, n. susceptibility, sensitiveness, delicacy, feeling, emotion.
sensible, a. apprehensible, perceptible; susceptible, impressible, conscious, cognizant, aware; wise, judicious, discreet, intelligent. Antonyms: insensible, unconscious.
sensitive, a. susceptible, impressible, sentient, irritable.
sensual, a. unspiritual, carnal, fleshly, sensuous; voluptuous, luxurious, sybaritic, wanton, licentious, self-indulgent.
sensualist, n. voluptuary, epicure, sybarite.
sensuality, n. voluptuousness, carnality, sybaritism; wantonness, licentiousness, self-gratification.
sensuous, a. sensual. Antonym: insensuous.
sentence, n. opinion, decision, determination, judgment; axiom, maxim, precept, posy, adage, epigram, apothegm, saying.
sententious, a. terse, pithy, laconic, epigrammatic.
sentient, a. sensitive, perceptive, conscious, susceptible. Antonyms: insentient, insusceptible.
sentiment, n. thought, feeling; judgment, notion, opinion; maxim, saying, toast; sensibility, susceptibility.
sentimental, a. romantic, impressible, emotional, lackadaisical. Antonyms: unsentimental, matter-of-fact, pragmatical.
sentinel, n. guard, sentry, watchman, picket, vidette, perdue. Associated word: cordon.
separable, a. divisible, detachable, severable, partible. Antonym: inseparable.
separate, v. divide, dissolve, detach, sunder, sever, disconnect, part, disjoin, withdraw, rend, dissociate, disengage, isolate, disunite, eliminate, disintegrate, segregate, scatter, disperse, dissipate, sequester, cleave, insulate, dissever, deglutinate.
separate, a. detached, disconnected, disjoined, separated, apart, distinct, isolated, segregated, disunited, severed, withdrawn.
separation, n. division, segregation, disunion, disconnection, sequestration, disjunction, dissolution, disengagement, disintegration, insulation, isolation, rupture, dissociation, divorce, analysis, decomposition, detachment, demarcation, severance, partition, deglutination.
separatist, n. nonconformist, dissenter, sectary, schismatic.
sequel, n. continuation, conclusion, consequence, result, outcome.
sequence, n. succession, series, following; result, sequel, consequence.
sequestered, a. secluded.
serenade, n. nocturne; (burlesque) charivari, callithump.
serene, a. calm, placid, composed, tranquil, unruffled, unclouded.
serenity, n. calmness, composure, tranquillity; cloudlessness, clearness.
serf, n. bondman, thrall, slave, bond servant, villein.
serfdom, n. thralldom, slavery, subjection, bondage, servitude.
serious, a. grave, earnest, thoughtful, solemn, staid, sober, demure, saturnine; momentous, important, weighty, grave; dangerous, alarming, critical.
seriousness, n. gravity. Antonyms: levity, frivolity, triviality.
sermon, n. homily, exhortation (religious), discourse. Associated words: homiletics, homiletic, homilist.
serpent, n. snake, reptile, ophidian; basilisk, cockatrice, amphisbæna. Associated words: ophiology, ophiolatry, ophiophagous, ophiography, herpetology, ophidian, ophiologic, ophiomorphous, herpetologist, herpetotomy, herpetotomist, ophiologist, ophiomancy, echidna, echidnine, fang, uræus, serpentry, reptilian, anguiform, anguine.
serpentine, a. serpentlike, subtle, sinuous, winding, zigzag, tortuous.
servant, n. dependent, subaltern, subordinate, helper, servitor, attendant, retainer; domestic, maid, menial, drudge, valet, flunky, groom, coistril, lackey, underling, fag, coolie, butler, factotum, orderly, soubrette, equerry.
serve, v. attend, wait upon; promote, advance, contribute, conduce to; subserve; treat, requite; satisfy, suffice, content, answer, do; deal, distribute.
service, n. labor, employment, office, duty, business, function, ministry; ritual, ceremony, rite; advantage, benefit, avail, use, utility; homage, obeisance.
servile, a. slavish, abject, cringing, groveling, obsequious; dependent, enslaved.
servitude, n. bondage, enslavement.
set, v. place, put, fix, establish, locate, station; adjust, regulate, adapt; oppose, obstruct; appoint, assign.
set, a. fixed, immovable, rigid, firm, obstinate, inflexible, unyielding; regular, uniform, established, prescribed, ordained, appointed.
set, n. clique, group, class, party, coterie, circle, band, company.
set aside. displace, supersede.
setback, n. (Colloq.) backset, check, repulse, reverse, relapse.
set-off, n. offset; counterclaim, equivalent.
set-out, n. display, equipage, rig, turnout; (Colloq.) preparations.
settle, v. fix, establish; ordain, install; adjust, determine, decide; sink, subside, fall; precipitate; quiet, calm, pacify, tranquillize; colonize, people.
settlement, n. establishment; ordination, installation; colonization, colony; adjustment; subsidence.
settler, n. pioneer, colonist.
settlings, n. pl. sediment, dregs, lees, precipitate, grounds, feculence; foots.
set-to, n. (Colloq.) contest, conflict, encounter, combat, fight, scrimmage.
seven, n. heptade. Associated words: septenary, septuple, septette, septenate, septemvirate, septemvir, heptarchy.
sevenfold, a. septuple.
seven languages. Associated word: heptaglot.
seven-sided, a. heptagonal, septilateral.
seven-sided figure. heptagon, heptahedron.
seventy, n. Associated words: septuagenary, septuagesimal, Septuagint.
seventy years. Associated words: septuagenarian, septuagenary.
seven years. septennate. Associated words: septennial, septennially, septenary.
sever, v. part, divide, disunite, separate, disjoin, detach, disconnect.
several, a. various, diverse, manifold, divers, sundry.
severe, a. drastic, harsh, stern, rigorous, exact, cruel; serious, sedate, grave, austere, sober; distressing, afflictive, sharp, acute, violent, intense; inexorable, stern, exacting, peremptory, unrelenting, unmerciful; plain, austere, unembellished, unadorned; methodical, strict, precise, exact.
severity, n. rigor, rigorousness, harshness, exactness, cruelty; seriousness, gravity; violence, intensity, acuteness; austerity, simplicity, plainness; exactness, strictness, preciseness.
sew, v. stitch; baste.
sewer, n. Associated words: sewerage, sewage.
sewing woman. seamstress.
sex, n. Associated words: sexual, gender, bisexual, unisexual, epicene, hermaphrodite, hermaphroditism, androgyne, androgyny, gonad.
sexless, a. asexual, agamous.
sexton, n. janitor (of a church), sacristan, sacrist.
sexual desire. lust, venereal appetite, sexual appetite, carnal appetite, lasciviousness, venery, concupiscence, salacity, salaciousness, aphrodisia; satyriasis (immoderate); nymphomania (morbid in women); (of animals) œstrus, rut, heat, œstruation. Antonym: anaphrodisia. Associated words: aphrodisiac, antaphrodisiac, anaphrodisiac, aphrodisiacal, amative, amativeness, amorous, amorousness, amatory, antiorgastic, philter, œstrual, sedative, erotic, erotomania, sadism, satyromaniac.
sexual intercourse. coition, copulation, venery, sexual conjunction; (illicit) fornication, bawdry; prostitution, putage; adultery; incest; rape; (unnatural) sodomy, buggery, pederasty; (of birds) tread. Antonyms: continence, chastity, virginity. Associated words: venereal, incontinence, incontinent, unchastity, copulatory, gonorrhea, clap, syphilis, cenogamy, infibulation, intromittent, access, nonaccess, orgasm, fecundation, impregnate, impregnation, copulate, lecher, lechery, lecherous, libertine, libertinism, house of assignation, bawd, procurer, bawdry, pander, catamite.
sexual love. venery, amorousness, amativeness.
sexual organs. genitals, privates, private parts, organs of generation, pudenda, virilia; (male) penis, testicles; (female external) vulva, pudendum; (internal) womb, uterus, ovaries, vagina, clitoris. Associated words: agamic, agamous, protandric, protandrism, nympha, maidenhead, pudic, pubes, spermatheca, gonad, masturbation, infibulation.
sexual power. virility; fecundity. Associated word: emasculate.
sexual weakness. (male) impotency, sexual debility, invirility, emasculation, eviration; (female) sterility, defemination, infecundity.
shabby, a. seedy, threadbare, tacky (Colloq.); mean, despicable, scurvy, contemptible.
shack, n. (Colloq.) vagabond, tramp, loafer; hut, shanty, hovel, cabin.
shackle, n. handcuff, manacle, fetter.
shackle, v. manacle, hamper, fetter; impede, trammel.
shade, n. umbrage, shadow; pl. darkness, obscurity, gloom, shadows; retreat, seclusion; screen, protection, curtain, awning, blind; spirit, ghost, specter, phantom, manes; minute difference, variation, nuance.
shade, v. screen; obscure, dim, obfuscate, cloud, darken, eclipse.
shadow, n. shade, darkness, penumbra, adumbration; prefiguration. Associated words: sciagraphy, sciomachy, periscian, silhouette, sciomancy.
shadow, v. shade, screen; adumbrate, typify, symbolize; cloud, obscure.
shadowy, a. unsubstantial, visionary, illusory, chimerical.
shady, a. umbrageous, shadowy, umbriferous; sheltered, screened; (Colloq.) equivocal, questionable, corrupt.
shaft, n. arrow, spear, missile; column, obelisk; handle, helve; spire, pinnacle; pole, tongue, thill; axis.
shake, v. agitate, jar, jolt, convulse, concuss, jounce, dodder, tremble, trill, shiver, totter, joggle, jiggle, wave, vibrate, shudder.
shake, n. jar, shivering, jolt, shaking, shudder.
shaking, n. concussion, agitation, disturbance, trembling, convulsion.
shaky, a. trembling, shaking; (Colloq.) unsound, tottering.
shallow, a. shoal; superficial, frivolous, senseless.
sham, n. pretense, feint, delusion, imposition, mockery, fraud, imitation, dissimulation, simulation.
sham, a. counterfeit, spurious, pretended, dummy, unreal false, mock, simulated.
sham, v. feign, pretend, imitate, personate, dissimulate.
shame, n. ignominy, dishonor, reproach, derision, contempt discredit, opprobrium, scandal, disgrace, obloquy; mortification, abashment, humiliation, discomfiture; modesty, decency.
shame, v. humiliate, mortify, disconcert; disgrace, degrade; mock, deride, ridicule.
shamefaced, a. bashful, diffident, modest.
shameful, a. indecent, immodest, obscene; scandalous, disgraceful, reproachful, ignominious, infamous, flagitious, disreputable, vile, opprobrious.
shameless, a. immodest, unabashed, indelicate, indecent, unblushing, audacious, brazen-faced, abandoned, graceless.
shammy, n. chamois.
shape, v. form, mould, fashion, frame; adjust, regulate, design, plan, arrange.
shape, n. form, figure, guise, appearance.
shapeless, a. misshapen, unsymmetrical, unshapely, formless, amorphous.
shapely, a. symmetrical, well-formed, comely, well-proportioned.
share, v. apportion, divide; partake, participate in.
share, n. portion, allotment, quota, dole, proportion, contingent, dividend.
sharer, n. participator, partaker; divider, distributor.
shark, n. (Colloq.) sharper, trickster, cheat, swindler; fraud, trickery.
sharp, a. pointed, trenchant, incisive, keen; poignant, piercing, acute, penetrating, severe, excruciating, intense, subtile, violent; biting, sarcastic, acrimonious, acrid, cutting; sagacious, clever, perspicacious, ingenious, bright, discerning, resourceful, astute, shrewd, apt, smart, long-headed, acuminous; fierce, fiery, unquenchable, eager; exacting, close; steep, abrupt, precipitous; pungent, piquant peppery, high-seasoned: shrill, piercing; peaked, ridged.
sharpen, v. intensify, aggravate, quicken; hone, grind, point, whet.
sharpening stone. whetstone, hone, oilstone, grindstone, abradant.
sharper, n. trickster, swindler, knave, cheat, extortioner, blackleg.
sharpness, n. keenness, poignancy, acuity, acuteness, edge; asperity, acrimony, impatience; acumen, sagacity, shrewdness, astuteness, aptness; pungency, piquancy.
sharp practice. trickery, chicanery.
sharp-sighted, a. eagle-eyed, acute, perspicacious, argus-eyed.
shatter, v. shiver, demolish; disorder, derange.
shave, n. shaving; spokeshave, drawshave.
sheath, n. case, scabbard; covering.
shed, v. diffuse, emit, radiate, spread; cast, exuviate, moult, mew, discard; doff.
shed, n. outhouse, lean-to, shack, shanty.
shedding, n. (skins, shells, etc.) exuviation, ecdysis, moulting.
she-devil, n. Jezebel, fury, virago, termagant.
sheen, n. shine, luster, gloss, brightness, splendor.
sheep, n. Ovis, Ovis aries; (male) ram, buck; (female) ewe; (young) lamb, eanling; (castrated ram) wether; (leader of the flock) bellwether; hoggerel, hogget. Associated words: bleat, braxy, gid, mutton, flock, ovine, shepherd, shepherdess, cosset, raddle, yean, ean, lowbell, abigeat, sheepcote, fold.
sheep-dog, n. collie, shepherd dog.
sheepish, a. bashful, shy, over-modest.
sheepskin, n. sheep-pelt, pelt, woolfell; roan; (Cant) diploma. Associated words: fellmonger, woolpuller, skiver, budge.
sheer, a. thin; unadulterated, pure, unmixed; precipitous, abrupt, perpendicular.
shelf, n. mantel, mantelpiece; bracket, console; ledge, shallow, shoal; banquette.
shell, n. shuck, putamen; test, testa, episperm, spermoderm. Associated words: scleroid, enucleate, enucleation, inenucleable.
shell, n. armature, case, exoskeleton, shale; carapace, plastron; cockle, conch, periwinkle, cowrie, whelk, mitre shell, abilone shell; exuviae (cast-off); conchite (fossil). Associated words: conchology, conchologist, malacology, testaceous, cockled, mollusk, conchiferous, conchiform conchometer, conchometry, crustacean, exuvial, exuviate, exuviation, Loricata, bivalve, multivalve, univalve.
shell, n. framework; bomb, torpedo, shrapnel, grenade.
shell, v. hull, shuck, shale, enucleate; bombard, besiege.
shellfish, n. pl. Mollusks, Mollusca, Testacea.
shell money. wampum, hiagua, peag, colcol, kopkops, seawan, suckanhock.
shelter, n. protection, screen, cover, shield, defense, covert, security, lee; asylum, refuge, retreat, haven, sanctuary.
shelter, v. shield, protect, defend, screen, ensconce, cover. Antonym: expose.
sheltered, a. protected, covert.
shepherd, n. pastor, pastoralist. Associated words: bucolic, pastoral, staff, crook.
shibboleth, n. watchword, party cry.
shield, n. ægis, buckler, escutcheon, scutcheon, pavise, scutum; defense, protection, palladium, bulwark, safeguard. Associated words: scutal, bouche.
shield, v. defend, protect, safeguard; ward off, repel.
shield-shaped, a. thyroid.
shift, v. veer, change, turn; quirk, quibble, palter; change, substitute.
shift, n. subterfuge, device, contrivance, evasion, stratagem, trick, dodge; resource, expedient, change, substitution; chemise.
shifting, a. unstable, variable, changeable.
shiftless, a. improvident, unthrifty, thriftless, wasteful. Antonyms: thrifty, industrious.
shilly-shally, adv. irresolutely, hesitatingly.
shilly-shally, n. hesitation, irresolution, indecision, vacillation, wavering, trifling, evasion, dalliance.
shilly-shally, v. hesitate, waver, trifle, dally, vacillate, dodge, be irresolute.
shin, n. shank.
shindy, n. (Slang) uproar, disturbance, riot, row; hockey; liking, fancy.
shine, v. beam, radiate, gleam, irradiate, glisten, glow, glitter, flare, glare; excel, surpass; polish.
shine, n. luster, polish, gloss, sheen, radiance, resplendence, brilliancy, lucency, glaze.
shine, n. (Slang) liking, fancy; caper, antic, dido.
shining, a. radiant, beaming, lustrous, luminous, glowing, brilliant, lucent, bright, sleek, glazed, glistening, splendent, resplendent, glossy, shiny; conspicuous, noticeable.
shining between. interlucent.
shining round. circumfulgent.
ship, n. vessel. Associated words: barratry, hypothecate, hypothecation.
ship, v. transport; deport; (Colloq.) dismiss, send away.
shipbuilder, n. shipwright.
shipment, n. shipping, transportation; consignment.
ship mortgage. bottomry, hypothecation.
shipping, n. shipment, transportation; navigation.
shipwreck, n. wreckage; disaster, destruction, ruin, subversion, miscarriage. Associated words: salvage, flotsam, jetsam, derelict, jettison.
shipwrecked person. castaway.
shirk, v. avoid, evade, neglect.
shirt, n. smock, chemise, shift, tunic, camise.
shiver, n. splinter, sliver; shivering, tremor, horripilation.
shoal, n. shallow, sandbank, bar.--a. shallow.
shock, v. dismay, horrify, appall, terrify, frighten; stook; astound, stun, paralyze, scandalize, outrage, offend.
shock, n. impact, blow, collision, concussion, onset, brunt, clash, percussion; stroke, blow; stook, hattock.
shocking, a. scandalous, appalling, offensive, outrageous, heinous, dire.
shod, p.p. and a. calced, calceated.
shoddy, a. (Colloq.) sham, spurious, mock.
shoddy, n. rag wool, mungo.
shoe, n. boot, balmoral, Goodyear welt, clog, sock, buskin, sandal, slipper, creedmore, Creole, stogy, chopine, brogan, blucher, bottine, moccasin, oxford, sabot, pump, cracowes, poulaine, racket.
shoemaker, n. crispin, cordwainer (Archaic).
shoe mender. cobbler.
shoe mending. cobbling.
shoestring, n. shoelace, latchet.
shoot, n. chute, shute, flume, channel.
shoot, n. tiller, sucker, sprout, offshoot, chit, twig, scion.
shoot, v. discharge, fire; eject, hurl, emit, ejaculate; protrude, project, extend, jut; germinate, sprout; penetrate, dart; fusillade; tiller.
shooting, a. darting, piercing.
shop, n. workshop, factory; store; warehouse; atelier, studio.
shore, n. beach, coast, strand, marge. Associated words: littoral, circumlittoral, limicoline, shingle, beached.
shore, v. prop, brace, buttress, support, stay.
shorn, a. sheared, clipped; divested, deprived, fleeced.
short, a. brief, contracted, terse, concise, condensed, sententious, laconic, succinct, summary, epigrammatic, pithy; limited, inadequate, insufficient, deficient, scanty; abrupt, curt, uncivil; lacking, shy, unsupplied; crisp, friable, brittle. Antonyms: diffuse, prolix, long.
shortage, n. deficiency, insufficiency, inadequacy, deficit, ullage. Antonyms: See surplus.
short-billed, a. brevirostral, brevirostrate.
shortcoming, n. defect, imperfection, fault, foible, failure.
shorten, v. abridge, abbreviate, curtail, reduce, epitomize, contract, retrench, condense, diminish; limit, restrict, restrain, confine, circumscribe; dock, lop.
shortening, n. abbreviation, abridgment, contraction, curtailment, reduction, retrenchment.
shorthand, n. phonography, stenography.
short-headed, a. brachycephalous.
short-legged, a. breviped.
short-lived, a. ephemeral, mushroom, transitory.
shortness, n. brevity, briefness, conciseness, laconism, inadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency, shortage, deficit.
short-sighted, a. myopic, near-sighted; unwise, impudent, indiscreet.
short-sightedness, n. myopia, near-sightedness; unwisdom, imprudence, indiscretion.
short-sighted person. myope.
short-winged, a. brevipennate.
shot, n. discharge; projectile, bullet, ball; marksman; range, reach.
shoulder, n. Associated words: epaulet, shrug, espauliere, scapular, scapulary, baldric, infrascapular, omagra.
shoulder, v. jostle, push; assume, bear.
shoulder blade. scapula, omoplate.
shout, n. vociferation, halloo, outcry, call, hoot, clamor, acclamation.
shout, v. vociferate, yell, halloo, call, clamor, acclaim.
show, n. exposure, exhibition, exposition, demonstration, representation; display, spectacle, ostentation, parade, pomp, flourish, splurge, pageantry, splendor: appearance, semblance; pretense, puppetry, speciousness, simulation.
show, v. exhibit, present, display, uncover, reveal, disclose, manifest, divulge, evince, proclaim; direct, guide, usher, conduct; demonstrate, explain, expound, exemplify; indicate, signify.
showing, n. demonstration, exhibition, presentation, revelation, disclosure, exposition, manifestation; direction, guidance, ushering; explanation, expounding, illustration, interpretation, indication, exemplification. Associated words: ostensive, ostensible, exhibiting, expository.
showy, a. spectacular, pageant, ostentatious, pompous; garish, gaudy, meretricious, gorgeous, flashy, bedizened, gay, conspicuous, tinsel. Antonyms: inconspicuous, modest, unostentatious, quiet, subdued.
shred, n. fragment, tatter, rag, strip, frazzle.
shrew, n. scold, brawler, termagant, vixen, virago, Xantippe.
shrewd, a. astute, sharp; cunning, crafty, wily, artful, long-headed.
shrewdness, n. acumen, astuteness, sharpness, long-headedness.
shrewish, a. vixenish, termagant, brawling, clamorous.
shriek, n. screech, yell, scream.
shrill, a. piercing, acute, strident.
shrink, v. contract, shrivel, decrease, dwindle; flinch, recoil, blench, wince, winch.
shrinkage, n. contraction; (Colloq.) depreciation.
shrinking, a. coy, shy, diffident, bashful, modest, retiring.
shroud, n. winding-sheet, grave-clothes, cerements.
shroud, v. mask, screen, cloak, conceal.
shrub, n. bush; pl. shrubbery, thicket, boscage, bosket.
shuck, n. shell, husk, pod, shale.--v. shell, enucleate.
shudder, n. tremor.--v. tremble, shake, shiver, quake.
shuffle, v. jumble, intermix; equivocate, prevaricate, quibble, shift; shamble.
shuffle, n. artifice, evasion, prevarication, trick, sophism, ruse.
shun, v. avoid, elude, evade, eschew.
shut, v. close; debar, exclude, preclude; (shut up) confine, imprison, coop up, incarcerate, immure.
shy, a. timid, coy, backward, retiring, diffident, wary, cautious; (Slang) short, lacking.
shyness, n. diffidence, coyness, timidity, bashfulness.
shyster, n. (Slang) knave, impostor, rogue, cheat.
sick, a. ill, unwell, ailing, indisposed, diseased, morbid; nauseated, queasy, squeamish, qualmish; disgusted, surfeited, weary, palled, satiated.
sick, v. sick on, incite, urge.
sicken, v. nauseate, disgust, pall, surfeit, decay, languish.
sickening, a. nauseating, disgusting, fulsome, nauseous, revolting.
sickle-shaped, a. falcate, falcated.
sickly, a. invalid, unwell, unhealthy, ailing; unwholesome; pale, languid, haggard, puny, peaked.
sickness, n. illness, malady, ailment, complaint, disorder, distemper, morbidity, indisposition, invalidism, disease. Associated words: morbidity, morbific, malinger, malingerer, malingery, decumbiture, convalescent, convalescence, relapse, malaise, clinic.
sickness of stomach. nausea, qualm, qualmishness.
side, n. flank; faction, sect, party. Associated words: lateral, laterality, laterally, collateral, bilateral, equilateral, quadrilateral, longilateral, lopsided, multilateral, perimeter, ambidexter, ambidextrous, ambidexterity.
side, a. lateral, collateral, incidental.
side by side. in apposition. Associated words: apposition, juxtaposition, juxtapose, juxtaposit.
side dish. entrée, entremets.
sidehill, n. descent, declivity, decline, slope.
sidelong, a. lateral, oblique.
sidesman, n. partisan.
sidetrack, v. shunt; (Colloq.) switch off, divert.
sideways, adv.. sidewise, askance, obliquely, laterally.
sidewise, adv. sideways, askance.
siding, n. sidetrack, turnout; clapboards, weatherboarding.
siege, n. investment, blockade, besiegement. Associated words: obsidional, besiege, beleaguer, obsess, obsession, beset.
Siena marble. brocatel.
sieve, n. strainer, sifter, bolt, bolter, riddle, tammis, tammy.
sievelike, a. cribrate, cribrose, cribriform.
sift, v. bolt, cribble, riddle; investigate.
sifting, n. bolting; (Pharm.) cribration; investigation.
sigh, n. suspiration.--v. suspire.
sight, n. vision; seeing, view, perception; visibility; spectacle, phenomenon, panorama, vista, gapeseed, cynosure; (Colloq.) great number, many, multitude, great quantity. Associated words: optics, optical, optic, ocular, optician, caligo, astigmatism, perimeter, perimetry, amaurosis, visual, visualize, apparition.
sightly, a. comely, attractive, handsome.
sign, n. omen, auspice, portent, prodigy, prognostic, augury, foretoken, presage; mark, token, indication, symptom, index, emblem, symbol; trace, vestige, ensign, signal, beacon; gesture, motion; signature. Associated words: ominous, portentous, augurial, semeiology, semeiological, sematology, semiotic, semeiography.
sign, v. signify, mark, indicate, betoken; subscribe.
signal, n. sign, ensign, beacon. Associated word: pharology.
signal, a. memorable, remarkable, noticeable, notable.
signature, n. autograph, sign-manual. Associated word: signatory.
signer, n. subscriber, signatory.
significance, n. meaning, import; consequence, importance, force.
significant, a. momentous, important; indicative, significative. Antonyms: insignificant, unimportant, meaningless.
signification, n. meaning, import, acceptation, sense.
signify, v. indicate, betoken, denote; mean; matter.
silence, n. stillness, quietness; taciturnity, muteness, reserve; secrecy.
silence, v. still, hush, quiet, suppress, lull, quell, appease.
silent, a. still, quiet, noiseless, inaudible; taciturn, reserved, mute; quiescent.
silkworms, n. pl. Associated words: sericulture, mulberry, cocoon, filature, cocoonery, bombic, bombyx, filator, muscardine.
silky, a. sericeous, silken.
sill, n. threshold; window sill.
silliness, n. folly, foolishness, puerility, stupidity, inanity, inaneness, absurdity, senselessness, ineptitude.
silly, a. witless, foolish, simple, fatuous, imbecile, half-witted; stupid, unwise, inept, absurd, inane, nonsensical, senseless, puerile.
silver, n. argentum; bullion (uncoined silver). Associated words: filigree, platinum, desilverize, desilverization, patio, vermeil, fulguration, silversmith.
silvery, a. silver, argent, argentine, argentous, argentiferous.
similar, a. like, corresponding, resembling, homogeneous, analogous.
similarity, n. analogy, homogeneity, likeness, similitude, correspondence.
simile, n. comparison, metaphor.
simoon, n. desert wind, khamsin, samiel.
simper, n. smirk.
simple, a. incomplex, uncompounded, single, elementary, uncombined, mere; plain, unaffected, artless, naïve, unsophisticated; credulous, gullible, silly, oafish. Antonyms: complex, complicated, intricate, artful, crafty, elaborate.
simpleton, n. dolt, dunce, numskull, lackbrain, oaf, witling, fool.
simulation, n. pretense, feint, feigning, affectation.
simultaneous, a. contemporaneous, synchronal, synchronous.
sin, n. iniquity, transgression, wickedness, delinquency, peccadillo, offense, peccancy, unrighteousness. Associated words: ponerology, hamartiology, peccable, peccability, peccant, peccavi, impeccable, impeccability.
sin, v. do wrong, trespass, transgress.
sincere, a. heartfelt, genuine, unfeigned, undissembling. Antonyms: See insincere.
sincerity, n. honesty, unaffectedness, frankness. Antonyms: insincerity, dissimulation.
sinew, n. tendon; muscle, thew.
sinful, a. iniquitous, wrong, immoral, wicked, depraved, vicious, unrighteous.
sinfulness, n. iniquity, immorality, depravity, wickedness.
sing, v. carol, warble, chant, hymn, hum, troll, yodel, croon.
singe, v. sweal, swale, scorch.
singer, n. vocalist, songster, songstress, minstrel, chanter, cantatrice, cantor, prima donna, precentor, bard, troubadour, jongleur, musician.
single, a. individual, alone, particular, isolated, sporadic, solitary; unmarried, celibate; simple, unmixed; honest, sincere, ingenuous, frank.
single, v. single out, choose, select, separate, isolate, segregate.
single-hearted, a. sincere, honest, guileless.
single-minded, a. artless, undesigning, guileless.
singsong, n. monotone.--a. monotonous, drawling.
singular, a. unusual, unconventional, uncommon, strange, peculiar, unwonted, rare, extraordinary, exceptional, odd, whimsical, eccentric, bizarre, queer, unique, unprecedented, unexampled, curious.
singularity, n. peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, individuality; curiosity, freak, abnormality, rarity, abnormity, queerness, eccentricity.
sinister, a. left; unlucky, inauspicious, evil, wrong, forbidding.
sink, v. subside, descend, decline, fall; immerse, submerge, engulf, merge.
sinker, n. plummet.
sinking, n. subsidence, fall, decrease, decline.
sinless, a. innocent, guiltless, undefiled, perfect, blameless, faultless.
sinner, n. wrong-doer, delinquent, miscreant, trespasser. See wrong-doer.
siren, a. bewitching, fascinating, enticing.
sister, n. Associated words: sororicide, sororize, sorosis, sororal.
site, n. location.
sitting, n. Associated words: sedentary, assession, astasia.
situation, n. position, place, post, employment, job, location, site, station, position; circumstance, condition, plight, predicament, exigency.
sitz bath. hip bath.
six, n. Associated words: sexenary, hexaplar, sextant, sextuple, sextet, sestet, sextic, senary.
six-cornered, a. hexangular, hexagonal.
six days. hexahemeron.
six fingers or toes. Associated words: sexidigitism, sexidigitist.
sixfold, a. sextuple.
six-footed, a. hexapod.
six months. semester. Associated words: half-yearly, semi-annual, bi-annual, semestral.
six-sided, a. cubic, hexahedral, hexagonal.
six-sided body. cube, hexahedron.
six-sided figure. hexagon.
sixty, n. Associated words: sexagenary, sexagesimal.
sixty years. Associated words: sexagenarian, sexagenary.
six years. Associated words: sexennial, sexennially.
size, n. magnitude, volume, dimensions, amplitude, bulk, extent, bigness.
skedaddle, v. (Slang) run away, flee, decamp, scuttle, scamper, scurry.
skeptic, n. unbeliever, infidel.
skeptical, a. doubtful, disbelieving, incredulous. Antonym: credulous.
skepticism, n. doubt, incredulity, infidelity; Pyrrhonism. Antonym: credulity.
sketch, n. draught, outline, plan, drawing, design, scenario, esquisse.
sketch, v. draught, portray, draw, depict, delineate.
skill, n. adroitness, ingenuity, cleverness, technic, dexterity, proficiency, expertness, facility, deftness, knack. Antonyms: maladroitness, empiricism, quackery, inexpertness, clumsiness.
skillful, a. skilled, expert, adroit, dexterous, adept, masterly, proficient, deft, able, efficient, competent, accomplished. Antonyms: unskillful, empirical, maladroit.
skimp, v. (Colloq.) scamp, slight, scrimp, save.
skimpy, a. (Colloq.) scant, skimp.
skin, n. integument, tegument, derm; epidermis, cuticle, scarfskin; true skin, dermis, derma, cutis; membrane, epithelium, ecteron, enderon, ecderon; pelt, pell, pelage, peltry; hide, kip; husk, hull, glume; (of fruit) peel, peeling, rind, paring, epicarp; pellicle, film; episperm, testa, tegmen; slough, exuviae (cast-off-skin); parchment, vellum. Antonyms: pulp, flesh. Associated words: dermatology, dermatologist, dermic, dermatic, dermal, cutaneous, dermatitis, dermatography, dermatoid, smegma, caul, dermatopathic, dermoplastic, dermoplasty, hypodermic, subcutaneous, dermatopathy, exuviate, exuviation, desquamate, desquamation, slough, dermatophyte, dermostosis, cuticular, epidermal, apellous, abrasion, emphractic, excoriation.
skin, v. flay, excoriate; pare, peel; (Slang) cheat, defraud, fleece.
skin-deep, a. superficial.
skinflint, n. miser, niggard, curmudgeon, scrimp, screw.
skinny, a. emaciated, gaunt, rawboned, poor.
skip, v. omit, pass, disregard; caper, gambol, jump, leap; ricochet.
skip, n. omission; gambol, caper, hop, leap; ricochet.
skipper, n. sea-captain; cheese maggot.
skirt, n. petticoat (underskirt); kilt; fustanella; kirtle; margin, border, edge, rim.
skirt opening. placket.
skit, n. reflection, jeer, gibe, satire, squib.
skittish, a. timorous, shy; volatile, restless, wanton.
skulk, v. sneak, slink, lurk.
skull, n. cranium; death's-head. Associated words: cranial, acrania, acranial, craniology, phrenology, trepan, trephine, fontanel, sphenoid, cephalism, parietes, parietal, crossbones, occiput, frontal, sinciput.
skullcap, a. calotte.
sky, n. firmament, welkin, empyrean, azure, the heavens. Associated words: meridian, zenith, nadir, horizon, uranology, uranography, zodiac.
sky-blue, a. azure, cerulean.
skyey, a. ethereal.
slack, a. lax, loose, relaxed; remiss, negligent, careless, shiftless; inactive, slow.
slacken, v. moderate, retard, slack, reduce; loosen, relax; diminish, abate, mitigate; slake; relax, flag.
slackness, n. looseness, laxity, negligence, remissness, carelessness, shiftlessness; relaxation, diminution.
slag, n. scoria, cinders, recrement, dross, refuse.
slake, v. quench; slack; abate, decrease, allay.
slam-bang, adv. (Collog.) violently, forcibly, noisily, loudly.
slander, v. malign, defame, traduce, asperse, vilify, calumniate, backbite, scandalize, libel.
slander, n. defamation, calumny, aspersion, libel, vilification, scandal, abuse, traducement, backbiting, roorback, vituperation.
slanderous, a. defamatory, malicious, vituperative, calumnious, libellous.
slant, n. slope, incline, inclination, obliquity.--v. slope, incline.
slanting, a. sloping, oblique, slant.--n. obliquity, inclination, tilt.
slap, n. cuff, buffet.--v. box, cuff, buffet.
slap, adv. (Colloq.) suddenly, violently, unceremoniously, instantly.
slap-dash, adv. (Colloq.) carelessly, at random, all at once.
slash, n. incision, gash, cut, slit.
slate, n. argillite, argillaceous schist; grapholite.--v. enroll, register.
slated, a. registered, enrolled (for an appointment).
slattern, n. draggle-tail, drab, trollop, niopsy, malkin, drabble-tail.
slatternly, a. slattern, untidy, draggle-tailed.
slaughter, n. butchery. See killing.
slaughter-house, n. abattoir, shambles.
slave, n. vassal, bond servant, bondslave, bondman, thrall, serf, captive, helot; drudge. Associated words: abolitionism, abolitionist, blackbird, maroon.
slavery, n. bondage, enslavement, servitude, inthrallment, captivity, bond service, vassalage, thralldom, subjection, helotism; drudgery.
slave warehouse. barracoon.
slavish, a. servile, menial, abject, groveling.
sleazy, a. flimsy, thin, gauzy.
sled, n. sleigh, sledge, toboggan.
sleek, adv. (Low) easily, dexterously.
sleep, v. slumber, repose; doze, drowse; lie dormant; hibernate; lodge.
sleep, n. slumber, repose; nap, doze, drowse, snooze, dozing; siesta; dormancy, lethargy; trance; sopor, coma, carus; somnipathy, somnolism; dogsleep. Associated words: hypnology, hypnotic, agrypnotic, hypnosis, hypnotism, narcotic, opiate, dwale, somniloquence, somniloquism, somnial, somniferous, hypnophobia, hypnogogic, stupefacient, mesmeric, soporific, dormitive, soporiferous, soporous, somnific, somnolent, somniloquous, antihypnotic, morphean, oversleep, morphine, narcosis, lullaby, incubation, hypnogenic, Mara, Morpheus, Hypnos, Somnus, dormitory, diurnation, cubicle, insomniac, hibernation, somnipathist, somniloquist, agrypnia, wake, awaken.
sleeper, n. slumberer; drone, sluggard; tie; joist.
sleepiness, n. drowsiness, somnolence.
sleeping, a. asleep, slumbering, dormant.
sleepless, a. wakeful, insomnious, insomnolent.
sleeplessness, n. wakefulness, insomnia, insomnolence.
sleep of plants. nyctitropism. Associated word: nyctitropic.
sleepwalker, n. somnambulist, noctambulist, somnambulator, somnambule.
sleepwalking, n. somnambulism, somnambulation, somnambulance, noctambulism, noctambulation. Associated words: somnambulate, somnambulistic, somnambular, somnambulic.
sleepy, a. drowsy, somnolent, dozy; soporiferous, somniferous, soporific, dormitive, narcotic, somnific, hypnotic; dormant, sluggish, lethargic, torpid, dull.
sleeve, n. Associated word: chevron.
sleigh, n. cutter, sled, sledge, bobsled, toboggan, jumper, pung.
sleight of hand. prestidigitation, jugglery, legerdemain, magic, conjury. Associated words: prestidigitator, juggler, conjurer, magician, legerdemamist.
slender, a. slim, slight, thin, spare, lank, spindling; delicate, feeble, fragile, frail, tenuous; trivial, inconsiderable; abstemious, frugal, spare, plain.
slice, n. chop, collop; rasher, flitch.
slick, a. sleek, sleeky, smooth.
slide, n. slip; flume, shoot, chute.
slide, v. slip, glide, lapse, elapse, skid.
slight, a. inconsiderable, trivial, insignificant, trifling, petty, paltry; desultory, cursory, superficial, indifferent.
slight, n. neglect, inattention, disregard, snub.
slight, v. overlook, neglect, disregard, ignore.
slightly, adv. somewhat; superficially, cursorily, hastily.
slim, a. thin, gaunt, poor, lank, spare, spindling, meager; slight, insufficient, inconsiderable, paltry.
slime, n. mud, mire, ooze, liman.
slimsy, a. (Colloq.) flimsy, frail, poor.
slip, v. slide, glide; err, trip; omit, lose; foist; elapse.
slip, n. lapse, error, indiscretion, transgression, peccadillo, mistake; twig, cutting, scion, shoot; escape, riddance, desertion; wrapper, covering.
slipper, n. slipshoe; (Oriental) baboosh, babouche.
slipperiness, n. smoothness, glibness, lubricity.
slippery, a. smooth, glib; inconstant, unstable; loose, incontinent, lubric.
slipshod, a. slovenly, careless, negligent.
slit, n. gash, incision.
sliver, n. splinter.
slobber, v. drivel, drool, slabber, slaver; smear, daub, defile.
slogan, n. war cry, rallying cry.
slope, n. inclination, slant, obliquity, acclivity; declivity.
sloping, a. oblique, slanting; acclivous; declivous.
slosh, n. slush, sludge.
sloth, n. sluggishness, indolence, laziness.
slothful, a. dronish, lazy, indolent, supine, sluggish, idle, inactive.
slouchy, a. slouching, ungainly, awkward.
slough, n. quagmire, bog, morass; swale; exuviae.
sloughing, n. ecdysis, exuviation.
slovenly, a. untidy, disorderly, frowzy, careless.
slow, a. deliberate, moderate, gradual; dilatory, languid, unready, phlegmatic, lingering, torpid, sluggish, slack, leisurely; (Colloq.) wearisome, dull, prosaic, uninteresting, tiresome.
slow, v. slacken, relax, moderate, delay, retard.
sluggish, a. idle, lazy, slothful; inactive, slow, inert.
slump, n. (Colloq.) depreciation.
slur, v. soil, sully; disparage, traduce, asperse; blur, mackle.
slur, n. stain, mark; innuendo, reproach, brand.
slush, n. slosh, sludge.
slut, n. bitch (femaledog); slattern, quean, malkin.
sly, a. cautious, nimble, skillful, arch, wary, knowing, shrewd, cunning, wily, artful; subtle, stealthy, clandestine, covert, surreptitious, furtive.
smack, n. taste; kiss, buss; crack, snap.
smacking, a. brisk, smart, resounding.
small, a. little, minute, diminutive, petty, slight, inconsiderable, puny, tiny, weazened, undeveloped, dwarfish, runty, wee, stunted, inappreciable, undersized, atrophied; miniature; trivial, insignificant, trifling, frivolous; mean, narrow-minded, illiberal, sordid, ungenerous, contracted; short, limited; piping, feeble, weak; microscopic, infinitesimal, molecular, corpuscular, atomic, fine; homeopathic.
smallpox, n. variola; varioloid (modified smallpox after vaccination). Associated words: vaccination, vaccine, virus, variolation, vaccinate, pock, pockmark, pockmarked, antivariolus, variolus, pocky, papule, pustule.
smart, v. sting, prick, suffer.
smart, a. acute, bright, clever, apt, brilliant, gifted, talented; precocious; vigorous, energetic, forcible; fashionable, pretentious, trim, elegant; fresh, smacking, brisk; agile, nimble, lively; pungent, poignant, intense, keen. Antonyms: dull, inapt, dowdy, tawdry.
smash, v. shiver, crush.--n. destruction, ruin, wreck; bankruptcy.
smatterer, n. sciolist, superficialist.
smattering, n. sciolism, superficial knowledge.
smear, v. besmear, daub.--n. smooch, smutch, blotch, daub.
smeary, a. dauby, sticky, viscous.
smell, n. olfaction; odor, savor, scent; (sweet smell) fragrance, aroma, perfume, redolence; (offensive smell) stink, fetor, stench. Antonyms: inodorousness, scentlessness, anosmia. Associated words: olfactory, reek, fume, perfume, inodorous, malodorous, odoriferous, odorous, osphresiology, osphretic, odorless, deodorize, deodorization, emanation, effluvium, sniff, whiff, disinfect, disinfection, unsavory, savory.
smell, v. scent; savor; stink.
smelling, n. olfaction, osmesis (Med.).
smelling salts. sal-volatile, carbonate of ammonia. Associated word: vinaigrette.
smile, n. smiling; propitiousness, favor.
smirch, n. smutch, discoloration, smooch.
smite, v. strike, buffet; blast, destroy; afflict, chasten, visit.
smithereens, n. pl. (Colloq.) atoms, fragments, smithers, splinters.
smitten, p.p. of smite. stricken; blasted; afflicted, chastened; enamored, fascinated, infatuated, captivated.
smock, n. shift, chemise, shirt, blouse.
smockfaced, a. smoothfaced, girlish, beardless.
smoke, n. fume, reek, effluvium; smudge (dense smoke). Associated words: capnomancy, flue, chimney, soot, tewel.
smoke, v. reek; fume; infumate; fumigate; suffumigate; smolder.
smoking, n. smoldering; fuming; fumigation; infumation suffumigation.
smoky, a. fumid, fumy, sooty, reeky, fumacious, fuliginous.
smooch, n. smutch, stain, smudge.
smooth, v. level, plane, sleek, flatten, planish, levigate; facilitate, pave.
smooth, a. even, plain, flat, level, abraded, levigated, slippery, sleek, glary; unruffled, placid; voluble, fluent; suave, oily, bland, insinuating, flattering, smooth-tongued. Antonyms: rough, abrupt.
smoothfaced, a. beardless, smockfaced.
smoothness, n. evenness, levelness, sleekness; volubility, fluency; suavity.
smooth over. palliate, gloze, extenuate, mitigate.
smooth-spoken, a. smooth-tongued, adulatory, plausible, glib. Antonyms: brusque, abrupt.
smother, v. suffocate, stifle; extinguish, repress, suppress; smolder.
smuggler, n. contrabandist.
smut, n. scot, dirt, smutch; mildew, blight; obscenity, lewdness, ribaldry.
smut, v. stain, blacken, sully, tarnish; crock.
smutty, a. obscene, lewd, ribald, indecent, gross.
snail, n. sluggard, drone; slug.
snake, n. serpent, reptile. See serpent.
snakestone, n. madstone; ammonite.
snaky, a. serpentine, winding; insinuating, subtle, deceitful.
snap, n. spell, period, season, interval; catch, clasp; fillip, crack, smack, fico; (Collog.) energy, briskness, vigor; (Slang) sinecure.
snappish, a. captious, irascible, testy, petulant, splenetic, cross.
snare, n. catch, wile, trap, gin, lure, decoy, trapan, toils.
snarl, v. entangle, complicate, involve, knot; confuse, enmesh, insnare; growl, gnarl. Antonyms: disentangle, unravel, extricate.
snarl, n. complication, entanglement, intricacy, knot; confusion; growl.
snarler, n. growler, grumbler, fault-finder, cynic.
snatch, v. seize, grasp, gripe, wrest, pluck, grab, twitch.
sneak, v. skulk, slink, lurk, snoop.
sneaking, a. lurking, skulking, slavish, underhand, covert, stealthy.
sneer, v. mock, gibe, scoff, flout, jeer, deride, ridicule, scout.
sneer, n. gibe, scoff, jeer, gird, derision.
sneezing, n. sternutation. Associated words: sternutative, sternutatory.
snicker, n. giggle, titter, snigger.
snide, a. (Slang) tricky, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent.
sniff, v. snuff; scent, smell.--n. snuff, breath.
snob, n. upstart, pretender, parvenu; rat, knobstick.
snobbish, a. pretentious, assuming, overbearing, uppish.
snoring, n. Associated word: stertorous.
snot, n. snivel, mucus (from the nose).
snotty, a. snively, mean, despicable.
snout, n. nose (of a beast), muzzle, proboscis; nozzle.
snow, n. Associated words: pluviography, flurry, sleet, spoondrift, drift, flake, igloo, slush, avalanche, hyetology, meteorology, blizzard.
snowy, a. niveous, snowlike.
snub, v. slight, ignore, disregard.
snub, n. slight, check, rebuke.
snuff, n. maccaboy, rappee; sniff.
snug, a. cozy; concealed, close; comfortable, compact.
soak, v. drench, saturate; absorb, imbibe; macerate imbrue, steep.
soaked, a. drenched, saturated, sodden.
soaking, a. drenching, saturating.
soap, n. Associated words: saponify, saponification, saponifiable, saponin, lather, suds.
soapiness, n. saponacity.
soap liniment. opodeldoc.
soapstone, n. steatite.
soapy, a. saponaceous.
sob, v. weep.
sober, a. temperate, abstinent, abstemious; unintoxicated; solemn, grave, demure, sedate; dispassionate, unimpassioned, calm, rational.
sobriety, n. soberness; gravity.
sociable, a. affable, friendly, companionable, genial, social, unreserved. Antonyms: unsociable, inaffable.
social, a. civil, civic; sociable; festive, convivial.
social evil. prostitution.
socialism, n. Communism, Fourierism, Saint Simonianism, humanitarianism.
society, n. sodality, association, fraternity, club, confraternity, guild; verein (Ger.); companionship, association, fellowship, company.
sockdologer, n. (Slang) poser, facer, settler, conclusive answer.
sod, n. sward, turf; peat.
sodden, a. boiled, seethed; soaked, saturated.
sofa, n. tête-à-tête, divan, causeuse.
soft, a. mellow; yielding, impressible, impressionable, malleable, fictile, plastic, pliable; bland, emollient, grateful, delicate, subdued; flexible, flaccid, facile, compliant, irresolute; conciliatory, mild; effeminate, unmanly silly, foolish; queachy.
soft coal. bituminous coal.
soften, v. intenerate, mollify; palliate, extenuate, qualify, modify, relax, mitigate, emolliate, appease, temper, abate; subdue, tone down.
softening, a. demulcent, lenient, assuasive, emollient, relaxing, mollient, mollifying.
softness, n. mellowness, impressibility, plasticity, flaccidity, fictility, emollescence.
soft parts of the body. Associated word: sarcology.
soft soap. (Colloq.) blandishment, blarney, palaver, buncombe, wheedling, cajolery, flattery.
soil, n. ground, earth, dirt, humus, land, loam, mold; dirt, pollution, defilement; manure, dung, fæces, excrement.
soil, v. dirty, defile, pollute, besmear, contaminate, taint, besmirch, sully, tarnish, begrime.
soldier, n. warrior; private; cadet; recruit; veteran; cavalry; infantry; cohort; sepoy; chasseur; zouave; volunteer; conscript; myrmidon; cossack; guerrilla; trooper; skirmisher; grenadier; uhlan; dragoon.
soldierly, a. martial, military.
soldier's dress. uniform, regimentals.
solecism, n. blunder, impropriety, barbarism.
solemn, a. serious, sober, grave; impressive, awe-inspiring, august, majestic.
solemness, n. solemnity, gravity, impressiveness, seriousness.
solicit, v. ask, seek, request.
solicitation, n. request, instance, entreaty, invitation.
solid, a. dense, compact, hard, impenetrable, firm, unyielding, imporous, concrete, substantial; unanimous, united, undivided. Antonyms: porous, incompact, hollow, spongy, soft, plastic, unstable, fallacious.
solidness, n. solidity, firmness, compactness, stability, imporosity; validity.
soliloquy, n. monologue.
solitary, a. unfrequented, secluded, lonely; single, individual; eremetic, hermitical.
solitary, n. recluse, anchoret, hermit, eremite.
solitude, n. loneliness, isolation, seclusion, eremitism, retirement; wilderness. Associated words: apanthropy, monophobia, eremophobia.
solution, n. dissolution, melting, liquefaction, resolution, disintegration; disentanglement, explanation, elucidation, explication.
solvent, n. menstruum, dissolvent, resolvent.
somersault, n. somerset.
sometimes, adv. at intervals, now and then, occasionally.
son, n. Associated words: filial, filiation, unfilial, filicide, mulier, mulierty.
song, n. hymn, chant, lay, ditty, ballad, onody, chansonnette, lyric, lilt, lied, pæan, cantata, aria, sonnet, strain, round, rhapsody, dirge, chanson.
songcraft, n. versification, poesy, poetry.
song of Solomon. canticle.
song of triumph. pæan.
sonorous, a. resonant, resounding; high-sounding, stentorian, vibrant.
sonship, n. filiation.
soothe, v. compose, tranquilize, pacify, assuage, mollify, calm.
soothing, a. bland, emollient, demulcent, gratifying, quieting, sedative.
soothsayer, n. seer, prophet, diviner, haruspice, foreteller.
soothsaying, n. prophecy, augury, divination, prediction, prognostication.
sooty, a. fuliginous, soot-covered.
sophism, n. fallacy, paralogy, fallacious reasoning.
sophistical, a. fallacious, unsound.
sophistry, n. fallacy, paralogy, paralogism.
sophomoric, a. inflated, bombastic, pretentious.
soprano, n. descant, treble.
sorcerer, n. conjurer, necromancer, magician, enchanter, juggler, wizard.
sorcery, n. necromancy, magic, enchantment, witchcraft, black art.
sordid, a. low, degraded, abject, base.
sore, a. ulcerated, cankered, ulcerous, raw, inflamed, irritated; distressing, grievous, severe; grieved, pained, hurt, sensitive.
sore, n. ulcer, ulceration, imposthume, pustule, boil, abscess, canker, fester, blain, gathering; (venereal sore) chancre, chancroid. Associated words: antiseptic, slough, proud flesh, poultice, salve, ointment, pledget, spleget.
sore, adv. grievously, sorely, severely, greatly.
sorrow, n. grief, regret, remorse, misery, heaviness, rue, unhappiness, contrition, dolor, agony, distress, compunction, bereavement.
sorrow, v. grieve, mourn, regret, deplore, bewail, lament.
sorrowful, a. See sad.
sorry, a. melancholy, mournful, dismal, depressing, sad; abject, despicable, miserable, mean, paltry, contemptible, pitiful; contrite, penitent, chagrined, pained.
sort, n. kind, species, character, description, strain, class.
sort, v. assort, classify; conjoin; choose, select, cull; consort, associate, fraternize; harmonize, agree, accord, conform.
so-so, a. middling, passable, tolerable, mediocre, ordinary, average.
sot, n. toper, drunkard, bibber.
soul, n. spirit, Psyche. Associated words: psychology, psychic, psychological, psychomachy, transmigration, metempsychosis, psychogenesis, psychopannychism, theodicy, monopsychism.
sound, a. whole, intact, perfect, flawless, unimpaired; healthy; logical; severe, hard, heavy; sane, rational; profound, undisturbed, unbroken; valid, legal, lawful: seaworthy; sensible, irrefutable, convincing.
sound, n. strait, narrows, channel.
sound, v. fathom, gauge; examine, try, test, probe, explore; proclaim, publish, herald; resound.
sound, n. noise, report. Associated words: acoustic, acoustics, acoustician, catacoustics, cataphonics, phonetic, phonetics, polycoustic, phonetism, phonology, polycoustics, diacoustics, diaphonics, phonic, soniferous, sonification, megaphone, sonorescence, diacritical, harmonics, phonation, polyphone, polyphonic, polyphonist, polyphony, monophonic, monophthong, homophone, homophonic, homophony, modulate, modulation.
sounding, n. bathymetry; examination; proclamation; resonance, reverberation.
sounding, a. sonorous, resonant, sonant.
soundless, a. unfathomable, abysmal; silent, noiseless, aphonic, surd.
sound-producing, a. sonorific.
soup, n. broth, bouillon, consommé, pottage, purée, bisk, bisque, julienne.
soup dish. tureen.
sour, a. acid, tart, acetose, acerbitous, acrid; rancid, musty; curdled, loppered; imbittered, morose, misanthropic, unamiable, dour, cynical, surly, grum, austere, crabbed, cross.
sour, v. curdle, acidify, lopper, spoil, acidulate; imbitter, embitter.
source, n. origin, spring, fountain, rise.
sourness, n. acidity, tartness, acerbity, sharpness; rancidity, mustiness; asperity, acrimony, moroseness, cynicism, crossness.
souse, v. pickle; douse, immerse, plunge, submerge.
soutane, n. cassock.
southerner, n. southron.
southern lights. aurora australis.
south wind. Auster, Notus.
souvenir, n. keepsake, reminder, memento; trophy.
sovereign, a. supreme, chief, paramount, predominant; controlling, effectual, efficacious.
sovereignty, n. dominion, supremacy, sway, empire, scepter, dynasty.
sow, v. propagate, disseminate, scatter, plant.
space, n. extension, vacancy; vacuum; distance, interval; interspace (intervening space); interstice; abyss. Associated words: plenum, plenist, vacuist, spacial.
spacious, a. capacious, roomy, vast.
spade, n. spud (narrow, with long handle).
Spain, n. Iberia. Associated words: Hispanicism, Hispanic, Spanish, Spaniard, Iberian.
span, n. nine inches; team, yoke, pair.
spare, v. forbear, refrain, be merciful.
spare, a. thin, lean, poor, gaunt, meager, lank; superfluous.
sparing, a. economical, frugal, saving, parsimonious, chary; scanty, scarce, meager; compassionate, indulgent, forbearing, merciful, lenient.
spark, v. court, woo, philander.
sparkle, v. glitter, coruscate, glisten, scintillate, twinkle, gleam.
sparkle, n. scintillation, glitter, gleaming, brilliancy.
sparkling, a. glittering, flashing, brilliant, twinkling, coruscant, glistening, lambent, scintillant, glistering; spirited, vigorous, impassioned, bright; mantling, gleaming, bubbling.
sparse, a. scattered, thin, innumerous, meager.
Spartan, a. hardy, undaunted, courageous, doughty.
spasm, n. convulsion, paroxysm, fit, throe.
spasmodic, a. intermittent, fitful, convulsive.
spat, n. tiff, quarrel, dispute, dissension.
spats, n. pl. gaiters, spatterdashes.
spawn, n. roe, ova, eggs (of fishes, frogs, etc.); mycelium.
speak, v. utter, pronounce, say, articulate, enunciate, express, talk; discourse, address, declaim, harangue, preach, lecture, rant, descant, expatiate; accost, address; declare, publish, proclaim, announce, bruit. Antonyms: repress, suppress, refrain.
speaker, n. orator, discourser, spokesman, prolocutor, mouthpiece, interlocutor, chairman.
speaking alone. monologue, soliloquy.
speaking together. conference, collocution.
spear, n. lance, javelin, harpoon, assagai, trident, jireed; shoot, spire, blade.
special, a. particular, especial, specific, exceptional.
specialty, n. particularity; speciality.
specie, n. coin, cash, metallic money.
species, n. group, class, kind, brood, sort, variety.
specific, a. definite, precise, specified; characteristic, particular, special.
specify, v. designate, particularize, individualize, name.
specimen, n. example, sample, model, copy, pattern.
specious, a. plausible; obvious, manifest.
speck, n. spot, stain; atom, mite, particle, bit.
speckled, a. spotted, mottled.
spectacle, n. scene, sight, show, exhibition, pageant.
spectator, n. beholder, witness, bystander, onlooker, observer.
specter, n. phantom, apparition, shade, ghost, manes, spirit, wraith, spook.
spectral, a. phantomlike, ghostly.
speculate, v. theorize, meditate, conjecture, guess, think.
speculation, n. theory, supposition, conjecture; contemplation, thought.
speculative, a. contemplative, meditative; theoretical, supposititious.
speech, a. utterance, speaking; language, talk, conversation, parlance, words; tongue, dialect; patois; discourse, oration, address, plea, declamation, dissertation, epilogue, allocution, exhortation, disquisition, effusion, descant; harangue, diatribe, tirade, screed, rhapsody, philippic, invective, rant; soliloquy, monologue; dialogue; colloquy; trialogue; interlocution; improvisation; toast; equivocation, prevarication, quibbling; ambages, pseudology, amphibology, amphiboly, dilogy. Associated words: extempore, extemporaneous, extemporize, extemporization, impromptu, improvise, improvisation, brogue, aphasia, amnesia, oratory, elocution, rhetoric, oratorical, rhetorical, rhetorician, elocutionary, peroration, voluble, volubility, fluent, fluency.
speechless, a. dumb, mute, aphasic, inarticulate.
speechlessness, n. dumbness, muteness, obmutescence, taciturnity, aphasia.
speed, n. velocity, swiftness, rapidity, celerity, haste, expedition, dispatch, posthaste; impetuosity. Associated words: tachymeter, tachometer, trechometer, stathmograph, momentum, impetus.
speed, v. hurry, hasten; accelerate, expedite, quicken, dispatch, facilitate; prosper, favor.
speedy, a. swift, quick, fast, rapid, fleet, hasty, hurried, expeditious.
spell, n. charm, incantation, exorcism; period, season, interval.
spell, v. orthographize; decipher, read, unravel, unfold; charm, bewitch.
spellbound, a. fascinated, charmed, enchanted, bewitched.
speller, n. orthographist, orthographer.
spelling, n. orthography. Associated words: orthographic, phonetic, glossic, nomic, homographic, homography, homograph, heterographic, heterography, cacographic, cacography.
spend, v. expend, disburse.
spender, n. prodigal, spendthrift.
spending, n. expenditure, disbursement.
spendthrift, n. waster, spender, prodigal, squanderer
spent, a. exhausted, tired, consumed, worn out.
sperm-whale, n. cachelot, spermaceti whale.
sphere, n. globe, orb, ball; province, circuit, beat, purview, compass, circle; station, position, rank; region, domain, realm; orbit.
spice, n. condiment; piquancy, pungency.
spicy, a. aromatic, fragrant; piquant, pungent, sharp.
spider, n. araneidan; scorpion, tarantula; pl. Araneina, Arachnida. Associated words: arachnology, arachnologist, araneidan, araneiform, web, arachnoid, arachnophagous, spinneret, arachnean, falcer, cobweb, cocoon, retiary, arachnidium.
spigot, n. stopper, plug, stopple.
spin, v. whirl, twirl, revolve, gyrate; protract, prolong, extend.
spinach, n. Associated word: spinaceous.
spinal, a. vertebral, rachidian.
spinal cord. myelon, myel.
spindle-shaped, a. fusoid, fusiform.
spindling, a. tall and slender.
spine, n. backbone, spinal column, rachis, chine. Associated words: Vertebrata, Invertebrata, vertebra, vertebrate, cyrtosis, chiropractic, chiropractor, spondyle, coccyx, rickets, ependyma, ependymis.
spineless, a. invertebrate.
spinet, n. virginal, clarichord.
spinning, n. whirling, twirling.
spiral, a. winding, cochleate, helical, turbinated, helicoid.
spire, n. steeple; shoot, stalk, blade, spear; top, peak, summit.
spirit, n. soul; shade, apparition, specter, ghost, phantom, revenant; animus; vivacity, energy, life, ardor, enthusiasm, zeal, force, intensity; temper, mood; meaning, intent, significance; pl. manes.
spirit, v. inspirit, animate, encourage; spirit away, carry off, kidnap, abduct.
spirited, a. animated, lively, ardent, mettlesome, fervent, passionate.
spit, v. expectorate; spawl, sputter; eject.
spit, n. spittle, sputum, saliva. Associated words: salivary, salivous, salivant, salivate, salivation, ptyalin.
spite, n. malignity, malice, rancor, hate, resentment, defiance, spleen.
spiteful, a. malicious, malign, malignant, rancorous, hateful.
spitting, n. expectoration.
spittoon, n. cuspidor, spitbox.
splash, v. plash, dash, spatter, dabble.-- n. daub, splotch, blot.
spleen, n. milt; anger, spite, malice, choler; melancholy, depression. Associated words: splenic, splenetic, splenography, splenology, splenotomy, splenitis, lienal, lienitis, splenalgia, splenocele, splenoid.
spleeny, a. irritable, petulant, choleric, irascible; melancholy.
splendid, a. bright, brilliant; magnificent, grand, superb, imposing, sumptuous; illustrious, glorious, distinguished, celebrated, famous.
splendor, n. brilliancy, brightness; magnificence, pageantry, pomp, grandeur; renown, glory, eminence, sublimity, fame.
splice, v. interweave, unite, braid together.
splinter, n. sliver, flinder.
split, v. rive, cleave, sunder, rend, divide, separate, rift, burst, rupture, disunite, disrupt.
split, n. crack, rent, fissure, rift; (Colloq.) breach, separation, disunion, rupture.
split, a. cleft, riven, divided, sundered, rent, disunited cloven.
splitting, n. fission, cleavage, riving, sundering, rupture disruption. Associated words: fissile, fissility.
splotch, n. smear, smudge, smutch, daub, spot, stain.
spoil, v. plunder, rob, pillage, ravage, depredate, despoil devastate, sack; corrupt, vitiate, debase, mar, demoralize, deprave, sophisticate, infect, defile, contaminate; disfigure, deface, damage; decay, addle, putrefy, rot.
spoil, n. plunder, pillage, booty, prize, gain, loot; waste, robbery, devastation, sacking, rapine, spoliation; corruption, decay, vitiation.
spoke, n. radius, ray; rung, round.
spoken, a. oral, nuncupative, parole.
spokesman, n. speaker, mouthpiece, prolocutor.
sponge, v. imbibe, absorb; expunge, efface, erase, obliterate.
sponger, n. parasite, hanger-on, trencher friend.
spongy, a. porous, spongoid, spongiform, incompact; absorbent, bibulous.
sponsor, n. godparent; surety. Associated words: sponsorial, sponsorship, sponsion, ward, protégé.
spontaneous, a. instinctive, voluntary, impulsive, unforced
spontaneous generation. abiogenesis.
spook, n. ghost, spirit, specter, apparition, phantom, hobgoblin.
spooney, a. (Colloq.) silly, sentimental, foolishly fond.
spoor, n. track, trail (of a wild animal).
sporadic, a. separate, single, isolated.
sport, n. amusement, game, recreation, fun, play, diversion, pastime, jollity, pleasantry, hilarity, gayety, merriment; derision, mockery, ridicule, jeer; plaything, toy; monstrosity; (Slang) sportsman.
sport, v. frolic, play, caper, disport; (Colloq.) exhibit wear, display.
sportive, a. frolicsome, merry, boon, frisky, sprightly, prankish, gamesome.
spot, n. speck, speckle, mark, blot, discoloration, fleck, dapple, blotch, smutch; stain, reproach, blemish, flaw; place, locality; areola, areolet, areolation, ocellus.
spot, v. dapple, variegate, mottle, speckle, blot, sully, stain, maculate.
spotless, a. immaculate, unspotted, stainless, unsullied, irreproachable, blameless.
spotted, a. speckled, dappled, dotted, discolored, variegated, bespeckled, flecked, freckled, spotty, soiled, piebald, mottled, blotched, pinto, pied, pintado, party-colored, specked, plashy, finchbacked, rubican, ocellated.
spotted fever. cerebro-spinal meningitis, typhus fever.
spotted sickness. pint.
spout, v. spurt, squirt, gush; rant, harangue; (Cant) pawn.
spout, h. nozzle; conduit, trough, adjutage; waterspout; gargoyle; dale.
spouter, n. declaimer, ranter, haranguer.
spout hole. blowhole, spiracle.
spouting, n. harangue, declamation, magniloquence, ranting.
spray, n. twig, sprig, branch.
spray, n. Associated words: atomize, atomization, atomizer, spoondrift, nebulize, nebulizer, nebulization.
spread, v. extend, stretch, expand, dilate; unfurl, unroll, open; disseminate, bruit, circulate, propagate, promulgate, diffuse, emit; suffuse; cover, overspread, mantle; expatiate.
spread, n. extent, compass, reach; (Colloq.) feast; cover.
spreadeagle, a. bombastic, boastful, magniloquent, grandiloquent.
spreading, n. extension, expansion, dilation; dissemination, propagation, promulgation, diffusion, circulation; suffusion, circumfusion; radiation.
spree, n. (Colloq.) carousal, debauch, revelry, orgies, bacchanals, wassail, saturnalia.
sprig, n. shoot, slip, twig, spray.
sprightliness, n. animation, liveliness, vivacity, activity, briskness, lilt.
sprightly, a. lively, brisk, animated, debonair, vivacious, sportive, gay.
spring, v. dart, shoot; bound, leap, jump, hop, vault; emerge, rise, arise; rebound, recoil, fly back; bend, warp; issue, emanate, originate, flow, arise.
spring, n. leap, bound, saltation, vault, jump; resilience, elasticity, springiness; fount, fountain, source; cause, origin, motive, source; springtime, vernal season.
spring, n. Associated word: pegology.
springboard, n. batule, batule board.
springy, a. elastic, resilient, rebounding, recoiling; spongy, yielding, queachy.
sprinkle, v. scatter, strew; besprinkle, bedew, asperse.
sprinkling, n. aspersion, besprinkling.
sprinter, n. runner.
sprite, n. elf, goblin, pixy, fay, specter, phantom, ghost.
sprout, v. germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, grow, vegetate; branch, ramify; tiller.
sprout, n. shoot, tiller, chit, sucker, scion; aerospire, plumule; rattoon.
sprouting, n. germination.
spruce, a. natty, jaunty, neat, finical, trim.
spry, a. agile, nimble, quick, brisk, sprightly, alert.
spunk, n. touchwood, punk, amadou.
spunk, n. (Colloq.) spirit, mettle, pluck.
spunky, a. (Colloq.) mettlesome, plucky, spirited.
spur, n. rowel, goad, prick; snag, projection; incitement, stimulus, goad, incentive, instigation, impetus, provocation; spine (on a cock's leg).
spur, v. goad, incite, urge, stimulate, instigate, impel.
spurious, a. counterfeit, sham, false, mock, adulterine, unauthentic.
spurn, v. reject, scorn, contemn, despise, scout.
spurn, n. rejection, disdain, scorning.
spurt, n. gushing, spouting, jet, ejection.--v. gush, spout, jet.
spy, n. scout; emissary (disguised).-- v. espy, see.
spying, n. espionage, espial.
squab, a. plump, stout, fat; unfledged, unfeathered.
squabble, n. wrangle, dispute, altercation. See quarrel.
squad, n. band, gang, knot, bevy, company.
squalid, a. filthy, foul, nasty, dirty.
squalidness, n. squalor.
square, n. quadrate, quadrature; block, area; equality, level, agreement.
square, a. equitable, true, just, honest, impartial; even, balanced, adjusted; quadrate, quadratic.
square, v. adjust, fit, suit; balance, settle; conform, agree, accord.
squares, n. pl. Associated words: tessellate, tessellated, tessellation, mosaic, checkered.
squeak, v. creak; (Colloq.) betray, tell, confess.
squeal, v. cry, yell; (Slang) tell, betray, confess.
squeeze, v. compress, gripe, pinch; oppress, extort; crowd, elbow, press.
squeeze, n. compression, pressure; (Colloq.) exaction, extortion.
squelch, v. (Colloq.) crush, silence, quell, stifle, abash.
squib, n. satire, lampoon, pasquinade.
squint-eyed, a. cross-eyed, cock-eyed, gimlet-eyed.
squinting, n. strabismus; cross-eye.
squirm, v. wriggle, writhe, twist.
squirrel skin. vair.
s-shaped, a. sigmoid, sigmoidal, sigmate.
stab, v. pierce, thrust, gore, transfix; backbite, malign.
stab, n. thrust, wound, stoccado.
stability, n. fixedness, firmness, permanence, constancy, steadiness. Antonyms: instability, unsteadiness.
stable, a. steady, firm, immovable, unwavering, constant, permanent.
stable, n. barn; mews. Associated words: paddock, equerry.
stack, n. pile, rick.
staff, n. rod, stick, cane; truncheon; mace; crozier; support; bourdon.
stag, n. hart.
stage, n. platform, rostrum; scaffold, staging; theater, playhouse, arena, boards; degree, step, point; drama. Associated words: histrionic, histrionism, histrionicism, proscenium, postscenium, parascenium, coulisse, wing.
stagecoach, n. stage, omnibus, diligence (France).
stagger, v. reel, totter, sway; shock, astound, dumfound.
stagnant, a. motionless, standing, quiet; inactive, dull, sluggish.
stagy, a. theatrical, assumed, bombastic.
staid, a. sedate, demure, serious, settled.
stain, v. soil, sully, defile, taint.
stain, n. blot, taint, discoloration, tarnish.
stainless, a. immaculate, spotless.
stairway, n. stairs, staircase, flight of stairs; escalator (moving stairway); caracole (spiral staircase). Associated words: baluster, balustrade, newel, landing, riser, tread, banister, nosing, dog-legged.
stake, n. picket, pale, post; pledge, wager, bet; venture, risk, hazard.
stake, v. venture, risk, hazard, wager, bet, pledge.
stale, a. vapid, musty, fusty, flat, insipid, mawkish; trite, common, banal, hackneyed, commonplace.
staleness, n. vapidity, mustiness, insipidity; triteness, banality.
stalk, n. stem, axis, petiole, pedicel, peduncle, spire, stipe, culm, kecksy.
stall, n. stable; booth, stand; seat. Associated words: manger, stanchion.
stalwart, a. strapping, brawny, muscular, redoubted, athletic, strong.
stamina, n. vigor, strength, sturdiness, backbone.
stamp, v. impress, imprint; stomp (Colloq.).
stamp, n. impression, imprint, die; hallmark; pestle.
stamp out. extinguish, crush, quell.
stamps, n. pl. Associated words: philately, philatelist, philatelic, timbrology, frank, grill, surcharge.
stanch, a. loyal, steadfast, constant, true, unwavering; sound.
stand, v. endure, bear, weather, brook, suffer, tolerate, yield to, abide, submit; agree, accord, be consistent; stagnate.
stand, n. halt, stop, pause, stay; tripod, trivet; situation, location, position, post; stall, booth; quandary, perplexity; resistance, opposition, withstanding; stillion.
standard, n. criterion, model, type, pattern, norm; gauge, measure; flag, colors; labarum, vexillum.
standard-bearer, n. color-bearer, color-sergeant, ensign, vexillary; leader.
stand by. befriend, vindicate, advocate, defend, maintain.
standing, a. erect; stagnant; lasting, permanent, persistent.
standing, n. status.
standing out. prominent, projecting, protuberant, jutting out; conspicuous, salient.
standing out. prominence, projection, protuberance, bulge, protrusion; conspicuousness, salience; persistence, incompliance, obduracy.
standing up for. defense, justification, support, advocacy.
stand in hand. behoove, be advantageous, conduce to one's interest.
stand it. endure, tolerate, bear, brook.
stand off. keep aloof, refrain; refuse, resist, withstand.
stand out. project, overhang, jut out, beetle; resist, withstand.
standpoint, n. point of view, viewpoint.
stand up for. defend, support, espouse, champion, advocate, justify, vindicate.
star, n. luminary, planet; asterisk, asterism; pentalpha; pentacle; meteor. Associated words: astronomy, astronomer, astronomical, astrolatry, astrolater, astrogeny, astrology, astrologer, astrological, astrometry, astromancy, sidereal, astral, horoscope, constellation, zodiac, observatory, galaxy, acronycal, cosmical, astrophotography, astrophysics, periastral, stellar, interstellar, intersidereal, orbit.
star, v. bespangle.
starched, a. stiff, ceremonious, prim, formal, punctilious, precise.
starchy, a. amylaceous, amyloid, starched.
starry, a. bespangled; astral, stellar, stellary, radiated, stelliform.
start, v. set out, go, initiate, launch, institute, embark.
startle, v. scare, surprise, affright.
starvation, n. famishment.
starve, v. famish.
state, n. condition, plight, category, situation, pass, predicament, circumstances; rank, quality; pomp, grandeur, magnificence; commonwealth; canton. Associated words: federal, federalist, federalism, federalize, confederate, confederation, gerrymander, secession.
state, v. assert, affirm, aver, allege, say, specify, declare.
statehouse, n. capitol.
stately, a. imposing, dignified, august, pompous, majestic, formal.
statement, n. assertion, affirmation, specification, avowal, averment, narration, dictum.
station, n. standing, rank, status; depot; situation, place.
statue, n. image; acrolith, caryatid; xoanon. Associated words: sculpture, statuary, sculptor, statuesque, figurine, esquisse.
status, n. standing, rank, station, condition.
statute, n. law. Associated words: statutable, statutory, purview.
stay, v. sojourn, tarry, lodge, remain, continue, abide; support, prop, buttress, brace, uphold, strengthen; delay, obstruct, hinder, restrain, appease, withhold, forbear, withstand, impede, retard.
stay, n. sojourn, abidance, stop; dependence, support, upholder; impediment, hindrance, obstruction, restraint.
steadfast, a. firm, fixed; constant, unswerving, unwavering, stanch, unshaken.
steady, a. steadfast, constant; stable, firm, fixed; unremitted, constant, uniform, undeviating. Antonyms: intermittent, infrequent, occasional, inconstant, unsteady.
steal, v. pilfer, filch, peculate, purloin, poach, abstract, rob, defraud, pirate, plunder, crib, pillage, rapine loot, thieve, embezzle, peculate, plagiarize; insinuate, creep furtively, go stealthily, sneak, slink, skulk; ratten.
stealer, n. See thief.
stealing, n. theft, larceny, robbery, pilfering, peculation, thievery, abstraction, looting, cribbing, rapine, depredation, surreption, piracy, plundering, pillage, embezzlement, peculation, shop lifting, plagiarism. Associated words: light-fingered, booty, spoil, plunder, loot, swag, spoils, predatory, fence, kleptomania.
stealthy, a. clandestine, sly, secret, furtive, skulking, underhand.
steam, n. vapor, reek, fume, emanation, effluvium, exhalation, stufa.
steam organ. calliope.
steel, n. Associated words: siderotechny, siderurgy, bessemerize, Bessemer, damaskeen, damask.
steel, v. fortify, brace, nerve.
steel-engraving, n. siderography.
steep, a. precipitous, abrupt, sheer, perpendicular: (Slang) excessive, immoderate.
steep, n. precipice, cliff, abrupt declivity; escarpment, scarp.
steep, v. soak, macerate, imbrue, infuse.
steeple, n. spire, tower, turret; minaret.
steer, v. guide, pilot, control, govern.
steerable, a. dirigible.
steering, n. guiding. Associated words: tiller, rudder, helm.
steersman, n. helmsman, pilot, cockswain.
stem, n. trunk, body; peduncle, pedicel, petiole, stalk, culm; root, etymon, radical, radix, theme.
stem, v. oppose, withstand, breast, resist, check.
stench, n. fetor, stink.
stenography, n. phonography, shorthand.
step, n. pace; stair, round; footstep, footprint, footmark, track; grade, degree, gradation; measure, action, procedure, expedient; stride (a long step).
step, v. pace, stride.
stepmother, n. Associated word: novercal.
steps, n. pl. stairs; stile; perron.
sterile, a. barren, infecund, unproductive, unfruitful, unprolific.
sterility, v. barrenness, infecundity, unproductiveness. Associated words: sterilize, sterilization.
stern, a. austere, rigorous, exacting, strict, hard-hearted.
sternness, n. austerity, severity, rigor, strictness.
stew, n. (Colloq.) confusion, agitation; ragout.
steward, n. purveyor; major-domo; seneschal, dapifer; manciple.
stewpan, n. skillet.
stick, n. switch, rod, birch; billet; fagot; wand; cane, staff, walking-stick; club, cudgel; goad, gad; gambrel, garrot, ferule, skewer, batlet; stake; boomerang, woomerah; stab, thrust; maul-stick; sprag; pl. chatwood.
stick, v. pierce, stab, penetrate, impale, transfix, gore; insert, thrust, push, infix; paste, cement, glue, attach, affix; cleave, cling, adhere, remain, abide; stall; hesitate, scruple; adhere, agglutinate, glutinate, cohere; pose, puzzle, disconcert; stick out, project, jut, protrude. (Slang) impose upon, cheat.
sticker, n. poster; label; adhesive, glue, cement, mucilage, paste, agglutinant; (Colloq.) puzzle, poser.
stickiness, n. adhesiveness, viscosity, tenacity, cohesiveness, glutinousness.
sticking, n. adhesion, adherence, coherence, cleaving, cohesion, agglutination.
sticking out. projecting, protruding, prominent.--n. projection, protrusion, prominence.
stickle, v. contend, altercate, dispute, quibble, scruple, haggle, higgle, chaffer; trim, prevaricate, shift, palter, play fast and loose.
stickler, n. haggler, higgler, contender.
sticktoitiveness, n. (Colloq.) pertinacity, persistence, perseverance, diligence, tenacity.
stick up for. (Colloq.) assert and defend, vindicate.
sticky, a. adhesive, viscous, viscid, mucilaginous, glutinous, clammy, tenacious.
stiff, a. inflexible, rigid, firm, unbending, inelastic, stark, impliable, rigorous, unyielding, inductile; strong, violent, forcible, inopposable; pertinacious, obstinate, tenacious, uncompromising, incompliant; constrained, formal, starched, affected, unnatural, precise, prim, ceremonious, prudish, punctilious; cramped, graceless, inelegant; (Slang) high, immoderate, large. Antonyms: limber, flaccid, limp, flexible, lithe.
stiff joint. anchylosis.
stiff neck. obstinacy, contumacy, intractability, incompliance, stubbornness.
stiff-necked, a. obstinate, intractable, perverse, contumacious, stubborn, obdurate.
stiffness, n. inflexibility, rigidity, firmness; prudery, constraint, precision, formality; tension. Antonyms: pliability, limpness, flexibility, flaccidity, ease, relaxation, informality.
stifling, a. close, oppressive, suffocating.
still, a. motionless, unruffled, stagnant, quiescent, inert, stationary, placid, tranquil; noiseless, inaudible, silent, mum.
still, v. calm, compose, quiet, silence, hush.
still-hunt, n. stalking.
stilted, a. bombastic, pompous, grandiose, highflown, grandiloquent.
stimulant, n. excitant; provocation, stimulus, spur, goad.
stimulate, v. excite, incite, instigate, arouse, provoke, goad, spur.
stimulus, n. incentive; pl. stimuli.
sting, n. aculeus, prick; goad, incitement.
stinginess, n. parsimony, illiberality, penuriousness, closeness, avarice. Antonyms: liberality, generosity.
stingy, a. parsimonious, illiberal, close, penurious, miserly, avaricious, close-fisted, sordid, niggardly. Antonyms: liberal, generous.
stink, n. stench, fetor.
stinking, a. fetid, malodorous, offensive, noisome, ill-smelling.
stinkstone, n. anthraconite, swinestone.
stint, n. limit, restraint, restriction; assignment, allotment.
stint, v. limit, restrict, restrain, confine, stent, straiten.
stipend, n. Associated words: stipendiary, stipendiate, stipendiarian.
stir, v. move, budge.
stir, n. agitation, tumult, bustle, commotion, flutter, ado, activity, confusion, flurry, disturbance, fuss.
stirring, a. animated, lively, strenuous, active, enterprising.
stock, n. goods, merchandise, wares, reserve.
stock, v. replenish, supply, furnish.
stockjobbing, n. agiotage.
stockings, n. pl. hosiery, hose.
stocky, a. (Colloq.) stout, plump.
stodgy, a. stuffed, distended, lumpish.
stogy, a. heavy, coarse, clumsy.
stolen goods. booty, loot, spoil, plunder, pillage. Associated word: fence.
stolid, a. dull, impassive, stupid, obtuse.
stomach, v. resent, dislike; (Colloq.) bear, brook, tolerate, stand, endure.
stomach, n. (of ruminants) fardingbag, paunch, rumen, reticulum, psalterium, manyplies, abomasum, omasum; (of birds) gizzard, crop, maw.
stomach, n. Associated words: gastric, gastrology, gastronomy, gastritis, agastric, rennet, tripe, stomachal, stomachic, alvine, gastrectomy, pylorous, gastroscope, gastroscopy, stomacher, paunchy, paunch, anticardium, gastralgia, abdomen, abdominous.
stomach-ache, n. (Colloq.) colic.
stone, n. rock, bowlder; pebble; calculus, concretion; flint, granite, marble, quartz, adamant, shale, flag, flagstone, cobblestone, rubble, brash, shingle; monolith, polyolith; cairn, muller, merestone; cromlech; madstone, snakestone; aërolite, meteorite; (of fruit) endocarp, pit, nut, putamen. Associated words: petrify, petrifaction, lithology, lithography, lithic, lapidary, lithoglypher, lithoglyptic, litholatry, lapidescence, lapidescent, lapidify, lapillation, lapidification, lapidific, lapilli, catapult, quarry, petrography, lapidist, petrology, geology, lithogenesis, lithification, wimble, Niobe, petrescence, petrescent, petrifactive, petrologist, concrete, lapidarian, lapidarious, fossil, schist, scapple, lichen, regolith, monadnock, saxatile, saxicoline, saxicavous, saxifrage, saxifragous.
stone, n. (precious and semi-precious) gem, jewel, diamond, brilliant, beryl, emerald, chalcedony, bloodstone, agate, heliotrope girasole, onyx, sardonyx, garnet, sardine stone, jade, opal, peridot, chrysolite, sapphire, ruby, topaz, turquoise, turquoise matrix, zircon, hyacinth, carbuncle, amethyst, pearl, coral, bijou, doublet, carnelian, briolette, cabochon, chatoyant, rhinestone, amphibole, aquamarine, tourmaline, rhodolite, spinel, bufonite. Antonyms: paste, strass, gewgaw, gimcrack, tinsel, pinchbeck, gaud, bauble, foil stone. Associated words: lapidary, lapidist, lapidarian, cameo, intaglio, facet, naif, anaglyph, briquet, collet, platinum, bizet, caret, anaglyphic, diaglyptic, anaglyphies, glyptography, table, bezel, girdle, pavilion, cadrans, mound, mount, dichroiscope, dichroism, dichroscope.
stone pit. quarry.
stone coffin. sarcophagus.
stonecutting, n. stereotomy.
stonecutter's consumption. chalicosis.
stony, a. rocky, flinty, adamantine, petrous; unrelenting, pitiless.
stool, n. footstool, cricket, hassock, ottoman, tabouret, buffet; tripod, trivet; faldstool; excrement, fæces.
stoop, v. bend; condescend, deign, descend.
stoop, n. condescension, descent; porch, veranda, piazza.
stop, v. obstruct, close up; stanch; arrest, hinder, impede, block, stay, check; repress, restrain, suppress, deter, interrupt, suspend, thwart, preclude, intercept, impede; halt, pause, stagnate, stand; refrain from, discontinue, cease, desist, suspend, intermit; break off, forbear: lodge, tarry. Antonyms: continue, persist.
stop, n. cessation, discontinuation, surcease, pause, suspension, intermission, interception, interruption, obstruction, obstacle, impediment.
stoppage, n. arrest, stopping, detention, stop.
stopper, n. stopple, cork, bung.
store, n. shop; accumulation, stock, abundance, plenty, hoard, supply.
store, v. stock, replenish, save, hoard, garner, husband, treasure up.
storehouse, n. warehouse, repository, depot, store, magazine, promptuary.
storm, n. tempest. Antonyms: calm, subsidence, serenity, tranquillity.
storm, v. assault, attack, besiege, expugn; rage, fume, rant.
storminess, n. inclemency, tempestuousness, boisterousness, violence.
stormy, a. tempestuous, boisterous, inclement, rugged, impetuous; violent, furious, wild; agitated, disturbed. Antonyms: calm, pacific, serene.
story, n. fiction, tale, anecdote, romance, novel, fable, legend, myth, parable, apologue, chronicle, record, history, narrative, narration, yarn, rehearsal, recital, tradition, jeremiad; falsehood, canard; floor, loft; mezzanine, entresol.
story-teller, n. raconteur.
stout, a. strong, powerful, vigorous, enduring, durable, tough; portly, fleshy, corpulent, thickset, obese, burly, chubby, fat.
straddle, v. bestride.
straight, a. perpendicular, vertical, plumb, erect, upright; direct, rectilinear, undeviating, unswerving; square, honest, equitable, honorable; (Slang) unmixed, clear, undiluted. Antonyms: indirect, oblique, crooked, devious, circuitous. See crooked.
straight-out, a. (Colloq.) unqualified, thoroughgoing, artless, undesigning.
straightway, n. immediately, at once, directly, forthwith.
strain, v. stretch, tighten; sprain, wrench; percolate, filter, defecate, filtrate; overtask, overwork.
strain, n. pedigree, race, lineage, extraction; sort, kind; overexertion, effort; tension, intension; tune, melody; style, manner.
strained, a. tense, unnatural, forced, artificial, agonistic, farfetched.
strainer, n. colander, filter, sieve.
strait, n. narrows, channel; dilemma, difficulty, pinch, exigency, restriction.
straiten, v. limit, restrict, narrow, confine, constrain, tighten, embarrass.
straitened, a. restricted, embarrassing, distressing.
strait-laced, a. uncompromising, rigorous, strict, prudish, prim, precise.
stranded, a. wrecked, aground, beached.
strange, a. foreign, unfamiliar, exotic, outlandish; novel, odd, unusual, queer, unique, nondescript, exceptional, singular, peculiar, rare, erratic, unique, bizarre, eccentric, inexplicable; unaccustomed, unfamiliar; reserved, distant, unfriendly; unknown. Antonyms: familiar, accustomed, wonted, commonplace, conventional.
strangle, v. choke, throttle, suffocate; stifle, suppress; garrote.
strangling, n. strangulation, choking, suffocation, suppression, constriction.
strap, n. thong, strop, leash.
strapping, a. (Colloq.) stalwart, able-bodied, large, muscular, brawny.
stratagem, n. artifice, device, machination, maneuver, intrigue, ruse, finesse.
straw, n. stalk, culm; litter, mulch; sennet, platting.
straw roof. thatch, thatching.
strawy, a. stramineous.
stray, v. wander, rove, roam, swerve, deviate; err, sin.
stray, n. estray, waif.
streak, n. stripe, wale, whelk, ridge, vein.
streaked, a. striped, streaky, whelky, striated, whelked, brindled, barred, veined.
stream, n. current, river, creek, brook, race, run, rivulet, rill, runnel; drift, course, tendency; torrent; arroyo; flume.
stream, v. pour, gush, run; radiate, shed.
streamer, n. ensign, pennon, banner, banderole, flag.
street, n. highway, avenue, thoroughfare, boulevard.
street car. trolley car; tram (England).
street cleaner. scavenger.
street railway. tramway (England).
strength, n. force, vigor, power, might, hardihood, potency, puissance, stamina; tenacity, toughness, durability; impregnability, invincibility; security, validity, conclusiveness, cogency, efficacy; support, stay; intensity, vividness; virility; vehemence, violence, force, impetuosity; fortitude; robustness, lustiness, stoutness, brawniness, muscularity, thew, sturdiness. Antonyms: debility, delicacy, fragility, weakness, impotency, frailty, infirmity.
strengthen, v. invigorate, brace, nerve, steel, fortify, harden; intensify, heighten; confirm, corroborate, sustain.
strengthening, a. invigorating, roborant, tonic, fortifying.
strenuous, a. zealous, ardent, valiant, intrepid, vigorous, active, energetic.
strenuousness, n. zeal, ardor, intrepidity, earnestness, strenuosity, activity, energy.
stress, n. urgency, pressure; emphasis, accent; severity, inclemency; significance, importance.
stretch, v. extend, elongate, lengthen, spread; overstate, exaggerate; distend.
stretcher, n. litter.
stretching, n. tension, distension, extension, porrection, pandiculation, intension.
strict, a. rigorous, stringent, exacting, rigid. Antonyms: lax, remiss, indulgent.
stricture, n. animadversion, criticism; contraction.
strife, n. conflict, struggle, contention, emulation, competition, battle.
strike, v. hit, smite, buffet, knock, beat, thump, whack, cuff, slap; deal, inflict; impress, affect.
striking, a. impressive, noticeable, astonishing, surprising, forcible.
string, n. cord, line, twine, warp; fillet, ribbon; series, chain, concatenation, row; chord; leash, learn; thong. Associated words: polychord, monochord.
stringent, a. binding, restrictive, rigid, severe, rigorous, exact.
stringer, n. sleeper, tie; joist.
stringy, a. fibrous, filamentous; ropy, viscid, tenacious, viscous.
strip, n. shred, fillet, batten, cleat, list.
strip, v. deprive, divest, dispossess, dismantle; plunder, desolate, devastate, pillage, sack, fleece, rifle, despoil; undress, disrobe, denude, uncover.
stripe, n. streak, band, wale, wheal, whelk, ridge, striation, stria.
stripe, n. (Colloq.) sort, likeness, color, kind.
striped, a. streaked, striate, striated.
stripping, n. deprivation, divestiture, divestment, dispossession, dismantling; plunder, desolation, devastation, depredation, despoliation, fleecing, sacking, rapine; denudation, undressing, denuding, disrobing.
strive, v. struggle, try, endeavor, contend, vie, cope.
stroll, v. ramble, rove, range, stray, straggle, wander.
strolling, a. wandering, nomadic, itinerant, roving, vagrant, straggling.
strong, a. firm, tough, enduring, hale, sound, robust, hardy, durable, puissant; powerful, mighty, invincible, impregnable, irresistible, fortified; virile, athletic, muscular, brawny, vigorous, stout, strapping, lusty, sturdy, sinewy, stalwart, thewy, able-bodied; violent, forcible, impetuous, vehement; potent, cogent, influential, urgent, convincing, conclusive; ardent, eager, zealous, strenuous, stanch, unwavering, determined; spirituous, intoxicating, alcoholic; vivid, dazzling, intense, glaring; effective, drastic, potent; racy, pungent, piquant; tough, tenacious; rank, strong-smelling; valid. Antonyms: weak, vulnerable, frail, fragile, delicate, faint, mild, frangible.
stronghold, n. fastness, fort, fortress, muniment, donjon, citadel, keep, bulwark.
strong-smelling, a. fetid, rank, frowzy, rancid, malodorous, offensive, musty.
struggle, n. conflict, contest, strife.
struggle, v. strive, cope, grapple, labor.
stub, n. stump, counterfoil.
stubble, n. eddish, rowen, arrish.
stubborn, a. unyielding, obstinate, obdurate, mulish, refractory, indocile, headstrong, inflexible, intractable, perverse, contumacious, impersuadable, recalcitrant, stiff-necked, rugged, persistent, incompliant.
stuck-up, a. (Colloq.) proud, arrogant, haughty, vain, overbearing, cavalier, supercilious, uppish.
studio, n. atelier.
study, n. research, excogitation, lucubration, cogitation; étude (Mus.); curriculum (course of study).
study, v. muse, pore, con over, lucubrate, excogitate; dig, grind.
stuff, n. material, fabric, cloth; trash, refuse, rubbish; goods, things; nonsense, balderdash.
stuff, v. cram, press, stow, crowd, fill.
stuffing, n. filling, forcemeat, dressing, farce.
stumbling-block, n. difficulty, obstruction, hindrance, barrier, stumbling-stone.
stump, v. (Colloq.) dare, challenge, nonplus.
stun, v. overcome, stupefy, dumfound, bewilder.
stunning, a. overpowering, stupefying; astonishing, striking, fine.
stunt, v. dwarf, atrophy.
stunted, a. dwarfed, atrophied, undeveloped, scrubby, undersized.
stupefier, n. stupefacient, narcotic, opiate.
stupefy, v. dull, benumb, hebetate, blunt, besot.
stupid, a. dull, stolid, obtuse, sluggish, inept, bovine, beef-witted, beetle-headed, besotted, fat-witted, doltish, undiscerning; prosaic, vapid, prosy, humdrum, uninspiring tame; lethargic, comatose, stupefied, torpid, insensible. Antonyms: shrewd, sharp, apt, spirited, lively, exciting, interesting.
stupor, a. lethargy, insensibility, unconsciousness, narcoma, torpor, coma.
sturdy, a. obstinate, stubborn, pertinacious; strong, hardy, robust.
sty, n. hordeolum.
style, n. mode, vogue, fashion; manner, way, method.
stylish, a. modish, fashionable, in vogue, á la mode, genteel, smart.
Styx, n. Associated words: Stygian, Charon.
suasion, n. persuasion, inducement.
suave, a. urbane, courteous, debonair, bland, affable.
suavity, n. urbanity, courtesy, affability.
subdue, v. conquer, vanquish, subject, overpower, subjugate, crush, master, quell; tone down, soften.
subdued, a. vanquished, conquered, submissive, tame.
subject, a. exposed, liable, prone; answerable, amenable; subservient, subordinate. Antonyms: exempt, immune, independent, free.
subject, v. subordinate, expose.
subject, n. dependant, subordinate; topic, subject matter, theme.
subjection, n. subjugation, conquest, subordination, subserviency.
sublime, a. exalted, grand, magnificent, glorious, majestic.
submerge, v. plunge, immerse, sink, submerse; overflow, flood, deluge, inundate.
submerging, n. submergence, submersion, immersion, inundation.
submission, n. compliance, acquiescence, surrender, resignation, obedience; meekness, submissiveness, fortitude, forbearance, long-sufferance.
submissive, a. yielding, obedient, tractable, meek, resigned, passive. Antonyms: insubmissive, defiant, intractable, rebellious, refractory.
submit, v. yield, surrender, succumb, acquiesce, comply, tolerate, stand. Antonyms: resist, rebel, disobey, revolt.
subservient, a. subordinate, subject, inferior; serviceable, conducive.
subside, v. decrease, sink, abate, fall.
subsidence, n. decrease, abatement.
substantiate, v. verify, corroborate, confirm, prove.
substantiation, n. corroboration, confirmation, verification.
substitute, v. exchange, commute.
substitute, n. deputy, proxy, representative, agent, lieutenant, delegate, vicar, envoy, locum tenens; makeshift, expedient, shift, resource. Associated word: vicarious.
substitution, n. exchange, commutation.
subterfuge, n. artifice, evasion, shift, sophistry, excuse.
subtile, a. rare, fine, ethereal, delicate; crafty, artful.
subtilty, n. rarity, fineness, ethereality; refinement; artifice, craft, guile, cunning.
subtle, a. artful, cunning, sly, designing, crafty; refined, discriminating.
subtlety, n. cunning, artfulness, guile, craftiness; discernment, penetration.
suburbs, n. pl. environs, purlieus, outskirts, confines.
succeeding, a. subsequent, following.
success, n. prosperity, triumph, victory, good fortune.
successful, a. prosperous, victorious, triumphant, fortunate.
succession, n. sequence, consecution; chain, line, series.
successive, a. consecutive.
successor, n. Antonym: predecessor.
succor, n. assistance, help, relief.
suck, v. imbibe, absorb; engulf.
sucker, n. shoot, tiller, scion, sprout; embolus, piston, valve.
sucker, n. (Slang) dupe, gull, cully, greenhorn; parasite, sponger, toady.
suckling, n. lactation.--a. unweaned.
sudden, a. unexpected, abrupt, unlocked for.
sue, v. prosecute.
suffering, n. distress, agony, misery, pain, discomfort, torture, sufferance.
sufficiency, n. enough, adequacy, competence. Antonyms: insufficiency, inadequacy.
sufficient, a. adequate. Antonyms: insufficient, inadequate.
suffocate, v. choke, stifle, smother, asphyxiate, burke.
suffocation, n. smothering, asphyxiation.
suffrage, n. vote, assent, ballot; testimony, attestation; prayer, petition.
sugar, n. sucrose, saccharose (cane sugar); levulose (fruit sugar); dextrose, glucose (grape sugar); muscovado (unrefined sugar); maltose (malt sugar); lactose (milksugar); inosite (muscle sugar); invert sugar; cassonade (raw sugar); caramel (burnt sugar). Associated words: sacchariferous, dextrine, sorghum, saccharify, saccharimeter, saccharimetry, saccharin, saccharoid, saccharize.
suggest, v. allude to, hint, intimate, insinuate, propose, recommend.
suggestion, n. intimation, hint, allusion, proposal, instance, insinuation.
suicide, n. self-murder, self-destruction; self-murderer, felo-de-se.
suit, n. wooing, courtship, addresses; prosecution, action, lawsuit; retinue, suite; petition, solicitation, entreaty, request. Associated words: champerty, maintenance. See lawsuit.
suit, v. fit, adapt, adjust; please, gratify, satisfy; accord, comport, agree.
suitable, a. fitting, accordant, proper, becoming, congruous, consistent, congruent.
suite, n. retinue, staff, train of attendants.
sulky, a. sullen, morose, surly, moody.
sullen, a. morose, unamiable, sulky, intractable.
sulphur, n. brimstone.
sulphuric acid. oil of vitriol.
sum, n. amount, total, aggregate, sum total; problem, example.
sum, v. cast up, add, compute; summarize.
summary, n. recapitulation, epitome, résumé, synopsis.
summer, n. Associated words: æstival, æstivate, æstivation.
summing up. résumé, recapitulation, peroration.
summit, n. top, pinnacle, zenith, apex, vertex, culmination.
summoner, n. apparitor.
sum up. summarize, recapitulate.
sun, n. Sol. Associated words:: heliography, heliometry, solar, solstice, solarize, anthelion, parhelion, halo, heliocentric, actinometer, actinometry, heliacal, heliograph, equinox, astronomy, astronomer, photosphere, helioscope, heliostat, paranthelion, maculæ, Hyperion.
sun bath. insolation.
sunburnt, a. tanned, blowzy, bronzed.
Sunday, n. the Lord's day. Associated word: dominical.
sundial, n. Associated words: sciotheric, gnomon, gnomonics, gnomonolcgy, style, gnomonist, dialing.
sundog, n. parhelion.
sundry, a. several, divers, various.
sunny, a. genial, pleasant, cloudless, radiant.
sunrise, n. daybreak, dawn, aurora.
sun room. solarium.
sunshade, n. parasol; awning, shade.
sun's path. ecliptic.
sun spots. faculæ.
sunstroke, n. insolation, siriasis, coup de soleil.
sun-worship, n. heliolatry, Sabianism.
sun-worshiper, n. heliolater.
super, n. supernumerary.
superabundance, n. redundancy, excess, surfeit, superfluity, exuberance, plethora.
superabundant, a. superfluous, redundant, excessive, plethoric.
superb, n. magnificent, grand, august, elegant.
superfluity, n. superabundance, surplusage. See superabundance.
superfluous, a. superabundant, redundant, excessive, supernumerary.
superintendent, n. overseer, guardian, supervisor, custodian, intendant, manager, controller, principal, curator, warden.
superior, a. more excellent, surpassing, paramount, predominant.
superiority, n. predominancy, preëminence, ascendency, supremacy.
supernatural, a. miraculous, preternatural, hyperphysical.
supersede, v. replace, displace, supplant.
supine, a. negligent, heedless, listless, indolent, careless.
supplant, v. remove, displace, supersede.
supple, a. flexible, pliant, lithe. See flexible.
supplement, n. continuation, appendix, postscript, addition, addendum.
supply, v. furnish, afford, yield, replenish, recruit, stock.
support, v. prop, brace, bolster, uphold, sustain; maintain, keep, provide for; verify, substantiate, ratify, corroborate, confirm; vindicate, defend, maintain; second, back, aid. Antonyms: desert, undermine, weaken, repudiate, oppose.
support, n. prop, buttress, brace, fulcrum, bolster, stanchion, shore, staddle, supporter; maintenance, sustenance, subsistence, finding, livelihood; base, foundation, basis; assistance, espousal, advocacy, countenance; Caryatid. Antonyms: nonsupport, opposition, desertion, repudiation.
supporter, n. advocate, adherent, defender, pillar, paraclete, sustainer, upholder, support.
suppose, v. assume, conjecture, presume, imagine, believe, imply, surmise.
supposed, a. assumed, presumed, putative.
supposition, n. hypothesis, conjecture, surmise, assumption, presumption, postulate.
suppositional, a. hypothetical, conjectural, supposed, assumed.
suppress, v. quell, overpower, put down; check, repress, restrain; secrete, conceal.
suppression, n. quelling, overthrow; repression, restraint; concealment, secretion.
supreme, a. transcendent, preëminent, superlative, paramount, predominant.
surcingle, n. girth.
sure, a. certain, inevitable; positive, confident, assured, sanguine, convinced; unfailing, infallible, unerring, inerrable, abiding, stable, trustworthy, reliable, dependable, secure, safe. Antonyms: uncertain, doubtful, dubious.
sureness, n. certainty, inevitability, assurance, certitude, safety, positiveness.
surety, n. sureness, certainty; security, pledge, guaranty; bondsman; substitute, hostage; sponsor; ratification, corroboration.
surface, n. exterior, outside, superficies.
surfeit, n. fullness, repletion, satiety; superabundance, plethora.
surgeon's case of instruments. tweese.
surgery, n. aciurgy.
surly, a. morose, sullen, crabbed, unamiable, gruff, inurbane, snarling, crusty.
surmise, v. suppose, conjecture, suspect, guess, opine.
surmise, n. supposition, conjecture, guess, suspicion.
surmount, v. overtop; conquer, overcome, vanquish.
surmountable, a. superable, conquerable. Antonyms: insuperable, unsurmountable.
surname, n. patronymic, cognomen.
surpass, v. excel, exceed, outdo, outstrip, transcend.
surpassing, a. exceeding, superior, preëminent, transcendent, supereminent.
surplus, n. surplusage, excess, overplus, residue, remainder.
surprise, v. amaze, astonish, astound.
surprise, n. amazement, astonishment.
surprising, a. astonishing, amazing, astounding, marvelous.
surrender, v. relinquish, yield, abandon, capitulate, waive, remit.
surrender, n. relinquishment, capitulation, yielding.
surround, v. enclose, encircle, encompass, environ, hem in, corral, invest, intrench.
surrounding, a. circumambient, encompassing, encircling ambient, enveloping.
surroundings, n. pl. environment, entourage.
surveying, n. survey, chorometry; geodesy. Associated words: theodolite, transit, perambulator.
susceptible, a. sensitive, impressionable, impressible, tender.
suspect, v. mistrust, distrust, doubt; conjecture, surmise.
suspenders, n. pl. gallowses, braces.
suspense, n. uncertainty, wavering, hesitation, irresolution.
suspension, n. pendency; delay, respite, postponement, abeyance.
suspicion, n. mistrust, misgiving, distrust; surmise, conjecture, supposition; (Colloq.) suggestion, hint.
swag, n. (Slang) booty, boodle, loot, plunder, spoil.
swaggering, n. blustering, boasting, roistering.
swallow, v. ingurgitate; gulp, bolt, engorge, englut; ingulf, suck in, absorb, submerge, engulf, overwhelm; accept, believe, credit; appropriate, arrogate, monopolize, engross; bear, brook, tolerate, pocket.
swallowing, n. deglutition, ingurgitation, absorption. Antonym: aglutition.
swamp, n. marsh, morass, slough, quagmire, bog, fen, marish. Associated words: paludine, paludinous, paludism, paludose, palustrine, draco, muck, effluvium, malaria, miasma.
swamp, v. engulf, overwhelm, submerge.
swampy, a. boggy, fenny, marshy, sloughy, slumpy, queachy.
swan, n. cob (male); cygnet (young).
swap, v. (Colloq.) exchange, trade.
swarm, v. teem.
swarming, a. teeming.
swashing, a. heavy, violent, crushing.
sway, n. dominion, domination, rule.
swear, v. blaspheme, curse, imprecate, use profane language.
swearing, n. profanity, oath, blasphemy, expletive, cursing, imprecation.
sweat, v. perspire; exude.
sweat, n. perspiration; exudation. Associated words: sudoriferous, sudoral, sudorific, sudatory, diaphoretic, diaphoresis, perspiratory, empasm, bagnio, adiophoretic.
sweating-bath, n. sudatory, sudatorium, vapor-bath.
Swedish Parliament. Riksdag.
sweet, a. saccharine, honeyed, sugary, nectarean, ambrosial, nectareous; dulcet, melodious, harmonious, mellifluous, silvery, symphonious, tuneful; winsome, winning. Antonyms: bitter, acrid, tart, sour.
sweetbread, n. pancreas.
sweeten, v. dulcify, edulcorate; purify, disinfect, fumigate, deodorize.
sweetening, n. dulcification, edulcoration.
sweetheart, n. (male) lover, inamorato, beau, flame, spark, swain, suitor; (female) ladylove, mistress, inamorata, dulcinea, darling, flame, amaryllis.
sweets, n. pl. confectionery, sweetmeats.
sweet-smelling, a. fragrant, redolent, balmy, aromatic, savory, sweet-scented.
swell, v. distend, dilate, expand, bloat, puff up, tumefy, intumesce; increase, augment; heave, surge; protuberate; strut, swagger.
swell, n. swelling; augmentation, increase; protuberance, bulge; elevation, rise.
swell, a. (Slang) fashionable, elegant, distinguished, exquisite.--n. exquisite, fop, dandy.
swelled, a. swollen, tumid, enlarged, bloated, protuberant, turgid.
swelling, n. intumescence, turgescence, prominence, protuberance, bump, node, blain, distention. Antonyms: subsidence, detumescence.
swelling, a. turgent, tumefacient, tumid, turgid; grandiloquent, bombastic, grandiose.
swerve, v. deviate, deflect, diverge, turn aside.
swift, a. fleet, rapid, fast, speedy, quick.
swiftness, n. celerity, velocity, speed, rapidity, fleetness, quickness.
swill, n. hogwash, swillings, draff.
swimming, n. natation; dizziness, vertigo, giddiness; transnatation, supernatation. Associated words: natatorial, natant, natatorious, natatorium, natatory.
swimming birds. Natatores.
swindle, n. See cheat.
swine, n. pl. hogs. Associated word: porcine.
swing, v. oscillate, vibrate; sway, brandish, flourish, wave.
swing, n. swinging; free course, liberty, unrestraint, sweep.
swinging, n. oscillation, vibration.
swinging, a. oscillatory, oscillating, vibratory.
swipe, v. strike; (Slang) steal, pluck, snatch, purloin.
Swiss, n. Switzer, Helvetian.--a. Helvetic.
Swiss Federal Council. Bundesrath.
switch, v. whip, flog; shunt, shift.
swollen, a. tumid, tumefied, bloated, purled up.
sword, n. rapier, saber, scimiter, brand, curtana, claymore, smallsword, glaive, broadsword, cutlass, Damascus blade, spadroon, creese. Associated words: scabbard, sheathe, unsheathe, forte, hilt, sheath, foible, foil, fence, fencer, gladiatorial, gladiatorism, gladiature.
swordfight, n. fencing, swordplay.
sword of mercy. curtana.
sword player, n. fencer; gladiator.
sword-shaped, a. ensiform.
sycophancy, n. obsequiousness, fawning, truckling, servility, sycophantism.
sycophant, n. fawner, toady, flunky, lickspittle.
sycophantic, a. obsequious, fawning, adulatory, servile.
syllabus, n. compendium, abstract, synopsis.
symbolic, a. typical, emblematical.
symbolize, v. typify, emblematize.
symmetry, n. proportion, shapeliness. Antonyms: asymmetry, disproportion.
sympathetic, a. compassionate, commiserating, pitiful, kind, tender.
sympathize, v. have sympathy, commiserate, condole with; agree, be in accord.
sympathy, n. fellow-feeling, tenderness; pity, commiseration, compassion, condolence; accord, agreement, rapport, concord. Antonyms: antipathy, incompassion, inclemency, disagreement, incompatibility.
symptom, n. indication, mark, sign, evidence, diagnostic. Associated words: symptomatic, rymptomatology, semeiology, semeiotic, semeiography, pathognomonic, diagnosticate, diagnosis.
synopsis, n. syllabus, compendium, abstract, summary, epitome, digest.
system, n. method, order. Antonyms: chaos, confusion, disorder.
systematic, a. methodical, orderly. Antonyms: unsystematic, chaotic, immethodical.
systematize, v. methodize, classify.
Tab, n. (Colloq.) account, reckoning, check, tally, score.
table, n. tablet; schedule, synopsis, index, list; trivet (three-legged table). Associated word: mensal.
table, v. tabulate, tabularize.
tableland, n. plateau, mesa (Southwestern U.S.).
table linen. napery.
tablet, n. lozenge, troche, trochiscus.
taboo, n. interdiction, prohibition, proscription.
taboo, v. interdict, prohibit, proscribe.
taboo, a. prohibited, forbidden, interdicted, proscribed.
tackle, n. gear, implements, equipment, rigging, apparatus.
tacky, a. sticky, adhesive; (Colloq.) dowdy, shabby, unkempt, seedy.
tadpole, n. polliwog.
taffy, n. toffy, candy; (Slang) flattery, blandishment, blarney.
tail, n. Associated words: caudal, dock, scut, prehensile, caudate, bicaudal, rump, uropygium.
tailless, a. acaudate, anurous.
tailor, n. Associated word: sartorial.
tailpiece, n. appendage.
taint, v. imbue, impregnate, corrupt, infect, vitiate, sully, besmirch, discolor, contaminate.
taint, n. infection, contamination, vitiation, defilement, pollution.
tainted, a. infected, contaminated, defiled, imbued, vitiated, polluted.
take, v. seize, grasp, clutch, procure, clasp, catch; confiscate, appropriate, usurp, arrogate; deprehend, apprehend; require, need; select, choose.
take back. recant, retract, recall, revoke, rescind, disavow, resume.
take in. comprise, encompass, comprehend, include, embrace.
take-in, n. (Colloq.) imposition, fraud, deception, swindle, cheat, hoax.
taken, p.p. charmed, captivated, enamored, fascinated.
take off. doff, remove, divest one's self of.
take-off, n. caricature, burlesque, travesty, parody.
take the place of. supplant, supersede, displace, substitute.
take upon one's self. assume, undertake; arrogate, usurp.
taking, a. alluring, fascinating, winning, charming, captivating.
taking, n. seizure, apprehension; reprisal; prehension.
taking back. recantation, retraction, resumption, disavowal, revocation.
tale, n. story, romance, parable, apologue, legend, fable, narrative, myth, jeremiad (tale of sorrow).
tale-bearer, n. scandal-monger, busybody, quidnunc, tattler, telltale, tabby, gossip.
talent, n. endowment, faculty, gift, forte, knack, genius.
talented, a. gifted, endowed, clever.
talk, v. speak, converse, confer, confabulate, consult; babble, prattle, prate, chatter, gabble, gibber, blather; expatiate, descant, comment, harp, rant; palaver.
talk, n. conversation, converse, colloquy, conference, confabulation, chat, parley, causerie, parlance, confab; dialogue, interlocution; soliloquy, monologue; palaver, buncombe, blarney, blandishment, flattery, flummery; chaff, banter, raillery, persiflage, badinage, asteistn; chatter, babble, chit chat, gibberish, jargon, twaddle, fustian, moonshine, hanky-panky, jabbering, rhapsody, rant, grandiloquence; expatiation, descant.
talkative, a. garrulous, loquacious, communicative, voluble, unreserved. Antonyms: reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, silent, still.
talkativeness, n. garrulity, loquacity, communicativeness multiloquence. Antonyms: reserve, reticence, taciturnity.
talker, n. conversationalist; interlocutor; chatterer, babler, magpie, chatterbox.
tall, a. lofty, high, towering.
tally, n. mate, match, counterpart; score, account, record.
tally, v. match, conform, agree, correspond, coincide, square, comport, accord.
tame, v. domesticate, reclaim, break; discipline, subjugate, conquer, repress.
tame, a. docile, domesticated, gentle; prosy, dull, vapid; submissive, subdued.
tamper, v. meddle, tinker.
tangible, a. palpable, tactile, material; substantial, evident, perceptible, obvious.
tangle, v. snarl, entangle, interweave; embroil, insnare, entrap, involve, perplex, enmesh. Antonyms: disentangle, unravel, extricate.
tangle, n. snarl, complication, intricacy; imbroglio, perplexity. Antonyms: disentanglement, extrication.
tangled, a. entangled, complicated, tangly, snarled, intricate, involved.
tank, n. reservoir, vat.
tantalize, v. torment, plague, vex, disappoint.
tap, n. stopper, plug, spigot, spile, faucet.
tap, v. broach.
tape needle. bodkin.
tapering, a. conical, taper, pyramidal, fusiform.
tapeworms, n. pl. tænia. Associated words: tæniafuge, tæniacide, tænioid, tæniid, proglottis, segment, cysticercus, cestode, measles.
tardy, a. slow, sluggish; dilatory, reluctant, behindhand, late. Antonyms: punctual, prompt.
tarnish, v. dim, sully, besmirch, blacken, deface.
task, n. work, labor, assignment, stint; study, lesson, exercise.
taste, n. tasting gustation, degustation; flavor, savor, tang, race, relish, goût, saporosity, sapor, gusto, gust, sapidity; liking, fondness, appetite, appetency; tincture, infusion, dash, soupçon; discernment, discrimination; foretaste, prelibation. Antonyms: dowdiness, tawdriness, distaste vulgarity. Associated words: gustatory, saporific.
tasteful, a. palatable, savory, relishable, toothsome, gustable, delicious.
tasteless, a. insipid, flat, unpalatable, vapid.
tastelessness, n. insipidity, vapidity.
tasty, a. tasteful, neat. Antonyms: dowdy, tawdry, meretricious, inartistic.
tattle, v. tell, divulge, blab, peach.
tattler, n. tale-bearer, gossip, quidnunc, news-monger, busybody.
taunt, v. ridicule, deride, mock, reproach, revile, jeer twit, gibe.
taunt, n. ridicule, derision, jeer, reproach, gibe, quip, quirk.
taunting, a. reviling, derisive, jeering, sarcastic.
tawdry, a. gaudy, meretricious, showy, flashy, inelegant.
tax, n. assessment, toll, excise, levy, tribute, custom, duty, impost; capitation, poll-tax; charge, exaction.
tax, v. assess; exact, demand, task.
taxable, a. assessable.
tea, n. Associated words: theine, thea, theism, samovar, caddy, theiform, maté, canister, cabaret, tannin.
teach, v. instruct, inform, educate, discipline, train, indoctrinate, school, enlighten, drill, tutor, instill, inculcate, coach.
teachable, a. docile, tractable, apt, bright.
teacher, n. instructor, tutor, master, pedagogue, preceptor, preceptress, governess, coach, usher, mentor; pl. faculty.
teaching, n. instruction, education, breeding, enlightenment, inculcation, tuition, tutoring, indoctrination. Associated words: pedagogy, pedagogics, didactics, paideutics, propædeutics, didactic, instructive, propædeutic, pædeutic, pedagogic, pedagogism, didacticism.
tear, v. rend, rip, lacerate, dilacerate, sunder, dismember; fume, rage, rave, rant, storm.
tearful, a. lachrymose, weeping, maudlin.
tearing, n. rending, laceration, lancination, ripping, dismemberment.
tears, n. pl. Associated words: lachrymal, lachrymation, lachrymatory, lachrymals, lachrymiform, lachrymary.
tease, v. torment, plague, tantalize, hector, taunt, harass, badger.
teat, n. nipple, pap, dug, mammilla.
tedious, a. tiresome, wearisome, irksome, humdrum, monotonous.
tedium, n. tediousness, humdrum.
teem, v. multiply, be prolific, abound, overflow, swarm.
teeming, a. prolific, abounding, replete, overflowing, rife.
teeter, v. seesaw, titter, titter-totter.
teeth, n. pl. biters, incisors, molars, bicuspids, grinders, tusks, wisdom teeth, eye teeth, canine teeth, fangs. Associated words: odontology, dentist, dentistry, dental, odontography, dentiloquy, denture, cement, tartar, pyorrhea, gnash, alveoli, corona, dentifrice, dentilave, pulp, dentiform, dentilation, cusp, overshot.
teething, n. dentition, odontiasis.
teetotaler, n. nephalist, total abstainer.
teetotalism, n. nephalism, abstinence (from spirituous liquors), temperance.
tell, v. mention, recount, relate, narrate, enumerate, advise, inform, recite, disclose, bruit, divulge, proclaim, expose, apprise, peach, communicate, acquaint, notify, reveal, discern. Antonyms: suppress, reserve, withhold, forbear.
telling, n. notification, apprising, communication, relation, narration, recital, divulgement.
telling, a. effective, cogent, potent, conclusive.
telltale, n. tattler.
temerity, n. audacity, boldness, presumption, recklessness, foolhardiness, rashness.
temper, v. qualify, modify, moderate, appease; anneal.
temper, n. mood, disposition, humor; passion.
temperament, n. constitution, nature, temper, disposition.
temperance, n. sobriety, nephalism, moderation.
temperate, a. moderate; dispassionate, calm; abstemious, sober, self-denying.
tempest, n. storm, tumult, commotion, disturbance.
tempestuous, a. See stormy.
temple, n. fane, church, sanctuary, tabernacle; teocalli, pagoda, mosque, hieron, marai.
temporal, a. secular, worldly; temporary; political, civil.
temporary, a. transitory, transient, temporal, impermanent, ephemeral, fleeting.
tempt, v. seduce, entice, decoy, allure, induce; provoke, incite, instigate.
temptation, n. seduction, allurement, enticement, attraction; decoy, lure, bait, inducement.
tempter, n. seducer, siren, Circe.
tempting, a. enticing, alluring, seductive.
ten, n. Associated words: decimal, decimate, decimation, denary, decemvir, decemvirate.
tenacious, a. retentive; cohesive, tough; pertinacious, persistent.
tenacity, n. retentiveness; cohesiveness, toughness; pertinacity, persistency.
tend, v. conduce, contribute; attend, accompany, guard; incline, lean.
tendency, n. drift, inclination, proclivity, proneness, propensity, bent, predisposition.
tender, a. delicate, fragile, sensitive, susceptible; pathetic, touching, plaintive; sympathetic, pitiful, compassionate, kind. Antonyms: tough, strong.
tender, n. attendant; offer, proposal, overture, proposition.
tender, v. offer, present, proffer, propose.
ten dollars. eagle.
tent, n. pavilion, tabernacle, marquee, tilt, wigwam, tepee; pl. tentage.
tenth, n. tithe, tithing; decimal.
ten thousand. myriad. Associated word: myriarch.
ten years. decade, decennium, decennary. Associated words: decennial, decennially.
terms, n. pl. stipulations, conditions; terminology, nomenclature.
terrace, n. esplanade, plateau.
terrible, a. dreadful, formidable, shocking, horrible, frightful, dire, grewsome, nefarious; (Colloq.) severe, extreme, excessive, immoderate.
terrify, v. appall, intimidate, daunt, horrify, alarm, shock, frighten.
territory, n. province, region, district.
terror, n. alarm, consternation, dismay, panic, fright, affright.
test, n. trial, ordeal; standard, touchstone, criterion; crucible.
testicles, n. pl. testes. Associated words: castrate, castration, testicular, emasculate, alter, geld, spade, eunuch, varicocele, scrotum, orchitis, suspensory, orchotomy, sarcocele, hydrocele, parorchis, orchialgia, orchic, spermatic, semen, monorchism, epididymis, gubernaculum, gonad.
testify, v. depose, attest, asseverate, verify.
testimonial, n. credential, certificate, voucher.
testimony, n. attestation, deposition, corroboration; witness, evidence.
testy, a. irritable, choleric, captious.
tetter, n. ringworm, herpes, fret.
text, n. passage, pericope; subject, topic, theme.
texture, n. fabric, web; grain, structure, contexture.
thankful, a. grateful.
thankfulness, n. gratitude. Antonyms: unthankfulness, ingratitude.
thankless, a. unthankful, ungrateful; unacceptable, unappreciated.
thanks, n. pl. gramercy (many thanks).
theater, n. playhouse; odeon, lyceum; arena, stage, scene, field.
theatrical, a. dramatic, histrionic, scenic; stagy, artificial.
theft, n. See stealing.
theory, n. hypothesis.
thick, a. dense, coagulated, crass, gross, inspissate, inspissated, grumous, incrassated; compact, turbid, roily, feculent, muddy; (Colloq.) intimate, confidential.
thicken, v. coagulate, condense, inspissate, curdle, concrete, incrassate.
thickening, a. inspissant.
thickening, n. inspissation, condensation, coagulation, incrassation.
thicket, n. shrubbery, copse, chaparral, grove, boscage, bosk, spinny, coppice.
thick-headed, a. pachycephalic, pachycephalous; dull, stupid, doltish.
thicklip, n. blobberlip.
thickness, n. denseness, density, compactness; grossness, crassitude, consistence; intimacy. Associated words: pachometer, pachymeter.
thick-skinned, a. pachydermatous; obtuse, dull, unimpressible.
thick-tongued, a. pachyglossal, crassilingual.
thief, n. robber, pilferer, filcher, peculator; embezzler, defaulter, peculator; plagiarist; poacher; shoplifter; kleptomaniac.
thievery, n. theft, larceny; embezzlement, peculation; shoplifting.
thievish, a. light-fingered, pilfering, predatory; stealthy, sneaking.
thill, n. shaft (of a vehicle).
thin, a. emaciated, slender, poor, wasted, peaked, gaunt, scrawny, lank, spare, meager, haggard, scraggy; tenuous, delicate, fine; incompact; dilute, rare, rarefied, subtile, attenuated; sheer, flimsy, sleazy, unsubstantial, gossamery, gauzy, diaphanous, transparent; sparse, scanty; inadequate, insufficient, superficial.
thin, v. dilute, reduce, attenuate, rarefy, diminish, subtilize.
things, n. pl. (Colloq.) clothes, furniture, appurtenances, belongings, goods, luggage, accessories, chattels, effects, traps, impedimenta (Mil.), paraphernalia.
think, v. meditate, cogitate, ponder, contemplate, brood, reflect, muse, consider, speculate, ruminate, opine, deem, apprehend, excogitate, infer, surmise, mull.
thinkable, a. conceivable, cogitable, imaginable, presumable.
thinking, a. rational, pensive, reflective, contemplative, cogitative, introspective.
thinking, n. cogitation, meditation, contemplation, thought.
thinness, n. emaciation, slenderness, gauntness, spareness, meagerness; tenuity, delicacy, fineness; incompactness; rarity, subtilty, subtilization; inadequacy, sparseness, scantiness.
thinning, n. dilution, reduction, attenuation, rarefaction, subtilization. Associated words: attenuant, diluent.
thin-skinned, a. leptodermic; sensitive, impressible, irritable.
third, a. tertiary.
thirst, n. dryness, aridity, drought. Antonym: adipsy. Associated words: slake, quench, dipsetic, adipsous.
thirty years. Associated words: tricennial, tricennially.
thorn, n. spine, prickle, brier; torment, plague, infliction.
thornless, a. spineless, inermis.
thorny, a. spiny, briery, prickly; vexatious, troublesome, annoying.
thorough, a. complete, profound. Antonyms: superficial, cursory, partial, sciolistic.
thought, n. reflection, cogitation, revery, musing, meditation, consideration, abstraction, imagination, brown study, contemplation, deliberation, introspection, retrospection, lucubration, rumination, preoccupation, excogitation; idea, concept, surmise, inference.
thoughtful, a. contemplative, meditative, reflective, cogitative, wistful, pensive, preoccupied, abstracted; considerate, heedful, circumspect, wary.
thoughtless, a. inconsiderate, careless, unmindful, remiss, rash, inadvertent, indiscreet, heedless, unreasoning.
thousand, n. Associated words: millennium, millennial, chiliad, chiliasm, chiliarchy, chiliarch, chiliast, millenary, millesimal.
thrash, v. thresh.
thread, n. filament, fibre, stamen, staple, pile, raveling, lint, warp, woof, thrum.--v. thrid.
threadbare, a. napless, pileworn, seedy, trite, hackneyed.
threat, n. menace, threatening, commination, fulmination, intimidation.
threaten, v. menace; augur, forebode, portend; impend, be imminent.
threatening, a. imminent, ominous, impending, minatory, fulminating.
three, n. trio, trinity, triad, ternary, ternion; triplets. Associated words: thrice, treble, trialogue, triarchy, triplicate, triplication, triplicity, trinal, triarchy, tripartition, tripod, triptych, trisect, trisection, trireme, triumvirate, trilogy, triform, triformity, trilling, trilemma.
three-colored, a. tricolored.
three-flowered, a. trifloral, triflorous.
threefold, a. triple.
three-forked, a. trisulcate, trifurcated.
three hundred years. tricentenary. Associated words: tercentenary, tricentenary, tri-centennial.
three languages. Associated word: trilingual.
three-leaved, a. trifoliate, trifoliated.
three-legged stand. trivet, tripod.
three letters. triphthong, trigraph.
three months. trimester. Associated words: trimestral, trimestrial, quarterly.
three-parted, a. tripartite.
three-pointed, a. tricuspidate, tricuspid.
three-pointed spear. trident.
three-sided, a. triangular, trilateral.
three-sided figure. triangle.
three-toothed, a. trident, tridentate.
three years. triennium. Associated words: triennial, triennially.
threshold, n. doorsill.
thrift, n. frugality, economy, thriftiness, providence; prosperity.
thriftless, a. wasteful, improvident, extravagant, prodigal.
thrifty, a. sparing, economical, provident, frugal; thriving, prosperous; luxuriant.
thrilling, a. moving, exciting, sensational.
thrive, v. flourish, prosper.
thriving, a. flourishing, thrifty, prosperous.
throat, n. pharynx, fauces; gullet, esophagus. Associated words: guttural, gutturalize, gargle, faucal, laryngeal, glottis, pharyngeal, pharyngotomy, larynx.
throb, n. beating, pulsation, palpitation.--v. palpitate, pulsate, beat.
throbbing, a. pulsating, palpitant, palpitating.
throne, n. sovereignty. Associated words: enthrone, dethrone, dorsal, abdicate, abdication, interregnum, accession, accede.
throw, v. pitch, hurl, fling, cast, toss, sling, heave; overturn, prostrate, floor.
throw away. squander; reject, decline, refuse.
throw by. discard.
throw in. inject; contribute.
throwing, n. Associated words: missile, putting.
throwing out. ejection, expulsion; eviction; ejaculation.
throwing overboard. jettison.
throw off. expel; reject, discard, abandon.
throw out. expel, evict, oust, reject; emit; discharge, excrete, eject, egest, void, ejaculate, eliminate. Antonym: retain.
throw up. resign; vomit, puke, disgorge.
thrush, n. aphtha.
thrust, n. push, shove, allonge, stab, protrusion.
thrust, v. push, force, impel, shove, stab, pierce, protrude.
thug, n. ruffian, rough, assassin.
thunder, n. Associated words: brontology, Thor, brontorneter, brontograph, fulmineous, fulminatory, isobront, keraunophobia.
thunder, n. fulmination, denunciation.--v. fulminate, denounce.
thunder, v. detonate, roll, boom.
thundering, n. fulmination.--a. fulminatory.
thunderstruck, n. dumfounded, astounded, amazed.
thwart, v. frustrate, baffle, foil, balk, contravene.
tickle, v. titillate; please, delight, gladden.
tickling, n. titillation.--a. titillative.
ticklish, a. difficult, critical, delicate.
tidbit, n. delicacy, dainty, junket.
tide, n. Associated words: ebb, flood, flow, marigray, marigram.
tie, v. secure, fasten, bind, tether, leash.
tie, n. knot, fastening; bond, obligation; (R.R.) sleeper, crosstie.
tight, a. taut, tense; snug, close-fitting; (Colloq.) close, penurious, stingy, parsimonious; (Colloq.) stringent; (Slang) tipsy, boozy, fuddled, intoxicated, drunk.
tighten, v. straiten.
tile, n. Associated words: tegular, mosaic, tessellated, parquetry.
till, v. cultivate.
tillable, a. arable, cultivable.
tilt, v. slant, slope, incline, tip, cant.
time, n. duration; while, spell, season, interval, interim, lapse, interregnum, period; season, opportunity, leisure; tense; (Mus.) measure, tempo; perpetuity; usance; age, date, eon, epoch, era, term. Associated words: horology, horography, horometry, chronology, chronological, anachronism, anachronistic, synchronology, synchronal, synchronous, synchronism, synchronize, synchroncity, chronometry, gnomonics, contemporaneous, coexistent, coexistence, contemporary, contemporaneity, simultaneous, simultaneousness, concurrence, coincident, coincidence, gnomon, coincide, isochronal, isochronism, isochronon, isochronous, anachronous, prochronism, chronogram, chronic, coeval, coetaneous.
timely, a. seasonable, punctual, opportune. Antonyms: untimely, inopportune.
timepiece, n. time-keeper, chronometer, horologe, clock, watch, hourglass, chronograph, chronoscope, clepsydra, gnomon, repeater, sundial, isochronon.
time-server, n. temporizer, trimmer.
time-serving, a. temporizing, trimming.
timid, a. timorous, shy, diffident, meticulous, faint-hearted, cowardly.
timidity, n. diffidence, shyness, timorousness, cowardice.
tin, n. stannum; latten, prillion. Associated words: stannary, stannic, stanniferous, stannous, shadd.
tin mine. stannary.
tinsel, a. glittering, meretricious, specious, flashy.
tinsel, n. spangle, pinchbeck, glitter, tawdriness.
tinsmith, n. whitesmith, tinner.
tintype, n. ferrotype, stannotype.
tip, v. incline, lean, cant, tilt; careen, capsize, keel, overturn, upset.--n. end, apex, extremity.
tiptop, n. (Colloq.) pinnacle, apex.
tirade, n. diatribe, invective, billingsgate, screed.
tire, v. fatigue, weary, jade, fag, bore, irk, tucker, exhaust.
tiresome, a. irksome, wearisome, fatiguing, tedious; toilsome, arduous.
tissue, n. fabric, stuff, cloth, texture; web, network, fabrication.
toad-eater, n. toady.
toads, n. pl. Associated words: ranine, ranivorous.
toadstool, n. fungus. See Fungi.
toady, n. sycophant, toad-eater, flatterer, fawner.
tobacco, n. Associated words: tobacconist, nicotine, nicotinism, canaster, cavendish, plug, cud, quid, fumacious, carotte, capa, perique, mundungus, humidor.
toe, n. digit.
together, adv. unitedly, jointly, concertedly, simultaneously.
toil, n. labor, drudgery; toils, snare, trap.--v. labor, moil, drudge.
token, n. sign, symbol, index, indication.
tolerable, a. sufferable, endurable; passable, mediocre, so-so, ordinary.
tolerance, n. endurance, toleration, sufferance. Antonym: intolerance.
tolerant, a. indulgent, forbearing, charitable. Antonym: intolerant.
tolerate, v. endure, suffer, brook; allow, permit, admit.
toleration, n. tolerance, endurance, sufferance; allowance, permission.
tomb, n. sepulchre, crypt, vault, ossuary; mausoleum (a magnificent tomb).
tomboy, n. (Colloq.) hoiden, romp.
tombstone, n. monument; cenotaph (honoring one buried elsewhere). Associated words: sepulchral, epitaph, lapidary.
tomfoolery, n. (Colloq.) folly, trifling, monkey-tricks, mummery.
tone, n. sound, note; cadence, modulation; force, vigor, energy.
tone down. subdue, moderate, soften.
toneless, a. aspirated, surd, atonic, unintonated.
tongue, n. Associated words: lingual, glossal, sublingual, fur, tchick, barb, papillæ, lick, lap, hyoid, lincture, aglossal, frænum, fourchette, raphe.
tonguy, a. (Colloq.) voluble, fluent, loquacious, garrulous.
tonic, n. invigorant, roborant.
tool, n. implement, utensil, instrument; cat's-paw, puppet, hireling. Associated words: ratten, cocobola, kit.
tooth, n. (little tooth) denticle, dentile. Associated words: denticulation, serration, serrature. See teeth.
toothache, n. odontalgia. Associated word: odontalgic.
toothless, a. agomphious, edentate, edentulous.
toothless animals. Edentata.
toothsome, n. palatable, delicious, savory, gustable.
top, n. summit, crest, apex, vertex, pinnacle, zenith, culmination, capsheaf, meridian.
top, v. surmount, overtop, surpass.
toper, n. drunkard, sot, inebriate, guzzler.
topic, n. subject, theme; division, head, subdivision.
topknot, n. crest.
top-shaped, a. turbinate, turbinated.
torch, n. flambeau (flaming torch), cresset.
torment, n. pain, anguish, distress, torture; bane, infliction, scourge, thorn.
torment, v. persecute, hector, tease, tantalize, harry; torture, grill, rack, distress.
torn, a. rent, lacerated, ripped.
tornado, n. hurricane, cyclone, whirlwind.
torpid, a. numb, benumbed, unfeeling; lethargic, dull, hebetate, sluggish, stupid.
torpidity, n. numbness, lethargy, inactivity, hebetude.
touch, v. meet, impinge; graze.
touch, n. touching, contact, contiguity, juxtaposition, osculation, tangency; taction, tact, palpation; dash, sprinkling, soupçon, infusion; animadversion, censure, stricture, reflection, slur. Associated words: tactile, tactility, tactual, palpable, impalpable, palpability, impalpability.
touchiness, n. irascibility, petulance, irritability.
touching, a. pathetic, affecting, moving, tender.
touching, prep. respecting, concerning, regarding.
touchstone, n. criterion, test; basanite, Lydian stone.
touchwood, n. punk, tinder, agaric, spunk.
touchy, a. irascible, irritable, petulant, testy, choleric, snappish.
tough, a. tenacious, unyielding; cohesive, adhesive; obdurate, refractory, stubborn; (Colloq.) difficult, arduous, hard.
tour, n. journey, trip, excursion, expedition.
tousled, a. (Colloq.) disordered, disheveled.
toweling, n. crash.
tower, n. steeple, campanile, minaret, spire, belfry, turret, cupola, dome; tourelle, barbican, pylon, martello tower; castle, citadel, donjon, keep, fortress.
tower, v. overtop, rise above.
toy, n. gimcrack, plaything, trinket, kickshaw, bauble, teetotum, gewgaw.
trace, n. vestige, sign, impression.
track, n. trace, vestige, footprint, footmark, foil; spoor; wake, trail.
tract, n. Associated words: colporteur, colportage.
trade, n. commerce, barter, traffic, business; handicraft. Associated words: technical, technology, technicals, technicality, technological, polytechnic, polytechnics, vocational, Mercury.
trade, v. exchange, barter, traffic, swap (Colloq.).
trader, n. trafficker, dealer, merchant, tradesman, monger.
tradesman, n. trader, merchant; artisan, craftsman, mechanic, journeyman, handicraftsman.
trading, a. commercial, mercantile; venal, corrupt, jobbing.
trail, n. train; track, wake, spoor, footmark, foil, trace.
trailing, a. procumbent, prostrate. Antonyms: upright, erect.
train, n. retinue, suite, attendants; series, chain.
train, v. discipline, nurture, drill; accustom, habituate, familiarize.
trained, a. skilled, practiced, disciplined, competent. Antonym: untrained.
training, n. discipline, nurture, drilling, exercise.
traitorous, a. perfidious, treasonable, recreant, faithless.
tramp, v. march, trudge, plod.
tramp, n. vagrant, vagabond, landloper, walleteer, nomad, hobo, derelict.
trample, v. crush; scorn, spurn, disregard.
transaction, n. procedure, affair, deal, business.
transform, v. transfigure, metamorphose; transmute.
transformation, n. transfiguration, metamorphosis; transmutation.
transgress, v. violate, infringe, disregard.
transgression, n. violation, infringement, infraction.
transient, a. fleeting, transitory, temporary, impermanent.
translate, v. construe, render, interpret.
translation, n. rendering, interpretation.
transmogrify, v. (Colloq.) transform, metamorphose.
transparency, n. diaphaneity, translucency. Antonyms: opacity, intransparency.
transparent, a. diaphanous, translucent, pellucid. Antonyms: opaque, intransparent.
trap, n. snare, toil, gin, springe, pitfall; artifice, stratagem.
trap, v. entrap, ensnare, trapan, catch.
trapdoor, n. hatchway.
trappings, n. pl. decorations, paraphernalia, frippery, gear, rigging, ornaments; caparisons, accouterments.
traps, n. pl. See things.
trash, n. rubbish, refuse, trumpery.
trashy, a. trumpery, rubbishy, waste.
travel, v. journey, itinerate, peregrinate.
travel, n. journey, tour, peregrination.
traveler, n. wayfarer, itinerant, voyager, pilgrim, tourist, peregrinator, passenger.
traveler's handbook. itinerary.
traveling, a. wayfaring, itinerant, wandering, peripatetic.
traveling man. drummer, agent, traveling salesman.
traveling preacher. itinerant.
travesty, n. burlesque, parody, caricature, take-off.
tray, n. salver, waiter, plateau, server.
treacherous, a. traitorous, perfidious, faithless.
treachery, n. treason, perfidy, disloyalty, Punic faith.
treasury, n. exchequer; repository. Associated words: treasurer, fiscal, treasure-trove.
treat, v. regale, feast; negotiate; behave toward, deal with.
treatise, n. disquisition, dissertation, monograph; thesis.
treaty, n. covenant, agreement, compact, concordat, pact, protocol.
tree, n. (young) sapling, seedling; (with top cut off) pollard, bolling; (small) staddle. Associated words: dendrology, sylviculture, arboriculture, arboriculturist, sylviculturist, dendrologist, arboreal, arbor, arboreous, arborescence, arborescent, arborist, arborization, dendrography, dendrophilous, sylvan, topiary work, thicket, copse, coppice, grove, plashing, sawyer, dendromoeter, rampick, spinny, dendrite, dendriform, dendroid, dendrolite, lichen, motte.
trellis, n. lattice, lattice-work, espalier, treillage.
tremble, v. quake, quiver, shudder, dodder, quaver, totter, vibrate, oscillate.
trembling, n. tremor, quivering, quaver, trepidation, rigor, oscillation.
trembling, a. doddering, shaking, infirm, quivering.
trench, n. ditch, gutter, trough, moat, channel.
trend, n. tendency.
trespass, v. encroach upon, infringe, intrude.
trial, n. test, experiment, proof, essay, examination; probation; ordeal, crucible, criterion; effort, exertion, endeavor; adversity, hardship, tribulation, affliction. Associated words: empiricism, empirical, empiric, probationer, probationary, tentative.
trick, n. ruse, artifice, stratagem, sleight, hoax, maneuver, wile, feint, chicane; antic, prank, caper; trait, peculiarity.
trick, v. deceive, cheat, defraud, cozen, impose upon; dress, decorate, set off, adorn.
trickery, n. deception, chicanery, artifice, duplicity, Machiavelianism, circumvention, indirection.
trickle, v. dribble, drip, percolate, distill.
trickster, n. rogue, cheat, impostor, scoundrel.
tricky, a. trickish, knavish, unprincipled, treacherous.
trifle, n. triviality, bagatelle, doit.
trifle, v. dawdle, dally, pother, fribble, quiddle.
trifler, n. fribbler, dawdler, dallier, piddler, quiddler.
trifling, a. trivial, paltry, piddling, insignificant, piffling, frivolous.
trifling, n. piddling, frivolity, piffle, dalliance, quibbling, piffling.
trim, a. spruce, smart; neat, tidy.
trim, v. adjust, arrange; decorate, adorn, garnish, embellish, bedeck, trick; prune, clip, lop; (Colloq.) rebuke, reprove, reprimand, rate, scold.
trimming, n. embellishment, garnish, decoration; (Colloq.) chastisement, scolding, reproof.
trinket, n. bauble, gimcrack, knickknack, gewgaw, gaud; bijou; pl. trinkets, trinketry; bijoutry.
trip, n. jaunt; lapse, slip, stumble, misstep. Associated words: itinerary, itinerancy, viatic, viaticum.
triplet, n. trilling.
trite, a. hackneyed, banal, commonplace.
triumph, n. victory, conquest; exultation, ovation.
triumph, v. overcome, prevail, succeed; exult, rejoice.
triumphant, a. exultant, jubilant; victorious.
trivial, a. trifling, frivolous, insignificant, unimportant.
triviality, n. unimportance, paltriness.
troop, n. company, battery, squad, band, throng, crowd.
trouble, v. vex, disturb, distress, inconvenience, incommode, pester, worry.
trouble, n. tribulation, adversity, reverses, affliction, calamity, misfortune; vexation, annoyance, inconvenience, worry, disturbance; torment, plague, thorn, bane.
troublesome, a. vexatious, burdensome, afflictive, harassing, galling, wearisome.
trounce, v. (Colloq.) flog, castigate, whip.
trousers, n. pl. pants, pantaloons, breeches; trews; spatterdashes, garnashes; knickerbockers.
trout, n. Associated word: truttaceous.
truce, n. armistice.
truckle, v. cringe, knuckle, submit, yield.
true, a. correct, exact, accurate, veritable, authentic, real, genuine, actual; veracious, truthful; loyal, stanch, steadfast, unwavering; incorruptible, trustworthy, faithful, honorable. Antonyms: See untrue.
trueblue, a. (Colloq.) incorruptible, loyal, true.
truism, n. axiom.
trump, v. impose, palm off, obtrude, deceive.
trumpery, n. falsehood, deception; rubbish, trash.--a. worthless, deceptive, trashy.
trumpet, n. horn; shophar (Heb.). Associated words: fanfare, buccinal.
trump up, v. devise, fabricate.
trunk, n. body, bole, stock; proboscis; chest, coffer.
truss, v. pack, compress; skewer.
trust, n. credence, confidence, belief, reliance, affiance, faith; credit, tick; assurance, confidence; duty, commission, charge. Antonyms: distrust, doubt. Associated words: fiduciary, fiducial.
trust, v. depend upon, rely upon; give credit to, tick; intrust, commit.
trustee, n. fiduciary, regent.
trustful, a. unsuspicious, confiding, credulous, confident.
trusty, a. trustworthy, faithful, reliable.
truth, n. veracity, truthfulness; accuracy, precision, exactness, correctness; verity, fact; truism, axiom; fidelity, constancy, loyalty, fealty, steadfastness; candor, frankness, ingenuousness. Antonyms: See untruth.
truthful, a. veracious, undissembling, ingenuous, veridical.
try, v. test, examine, prove; attempt, essay, endeavor; purify, refine; hear, adjudicate, adjudge; strive, seek, strain.
try, n. attempt, essay, trial, experiment. See trial.
trying, a. severe, distressing, hard, irksome, afflictive, ordeal.
trysting-place, n. rendezvous.
tub, n. firkin, keeler, keelfat, keeve, vat, piggin.
tube, n. pipe; valinch.
tubular, a. tubiform, fistular, cannular.
tuft, n. knot, bunch, clump; tussock, crest.
tumble, v. heave, toss, roll, pitch; topple.
tumble-down, a. (Colloq.) dilapidated, ramshackle.
tumbler, n. acrobat, contortionist.
tumor, n. sarcoma; myoma; carcinoma; lipoma. Associated words: oncology, oncotomy.
tumult, n. commotion, hurly-burly, turbulence.
tumultuous, a. disorderly, turbulent, noisy, riotous.
tune, n. air, melody; order, harmony, unison, concord, accord.
tune, v. attune, modulate, harmonize.
tuneful, a. melodious, harmonious.
tuneless, a. inharmonious, discordant, dissonant.
tunnel, n. funnel; subway.
turf, n. sward, sod, greensward; peat.
turmoil, n. commotion, uproar, tumult, turbulence, agitation.
turn, v. revolve, spin, gyrate, rotate, wheel, veer, shift, swivel; deflect, inflect; reverse, revert; divert, avert; invert; resort, apply.
turn, n. bend, winding, meander, curve, detour, deflection, crook, sweep; favor, kindness, service, accommodation.
turn aside. divert, avert, deflect, parry.
turned away. averted.
turning, n. rotation, revolution, spinning, gyration; eversion, extroversion; flexure, flexion, incurvation; deviation, deflection; circumrotation.
turning, a. revolving, rotary, rotating, gyratory, winding, circumrotary.
turning aside. averting, deviation, diversion, deflection, parry.
turning back. retroversion, retroflexion.
turning inward. introversion.
turning over or backward. inversion, reversal.
turning point. crisis; pivot. Associated words: pivotal, critical.
turning upside down. inversion, reversal.
turning wrong side out. extroversion, eversion.
turnip-shaped, a. napiform.
turnkey, n. warder.
turn upside down. invert, reverse.
turtle, n. tortoise; terrapin.
tussle, n. struggle, contest, scuffle, conflict.
twaddle, n. flummery, balderdash, fustian, moonshine.
twelve, n. dozen. Associated words: dodecagon, dodecahedral, dodecahedron, duodecimal, duodecimfid, duodecimo, duodecuple, duodenary.
twenty, n. score. Associated words: vicenary, vigesimal, vigesimation, icosahedron.
twenty years. Associated word: vicennial.
twig, n. spray, branch, sprig, switch.
twilight, n. dusk, evening. Associated words: crepuscular, crepusculous.
twine, v. entwine, encircle, wreathe.
twinkle, v. blink, wink; flash, sparkle, scintillate.
twinkling, n. sparkling, scintillation, flash, twinkle.
twist, v. contort, writhe, squirm, convolve, pervert, coil, wrench, distort.
twisted, a. contorted, awry, tortuous, coiled, perverted.
twisting, n. contortion, convolution, writhing, torsion, wrench, distortion, perversion.
twit, v. taunt, upbraid, reproach.
twitch, n. jerk; twitching, vellication.--v. jerk, snatch, vellicate.
twitter, n. chirp, chirrup.
two, n. couple, pair, brace, doublet, dyad, team, span, twain; twins. Associated words: dual, duality, double, dualism, duplex, duplicate, duplication, bifarious, binary, dimidiate, dimidiation, duet, dialogue, duarchy, bisect, bisection, halve.
two bodies. Associated word: bicorporal.
two colors. Associated words: dichromatic, dichromatism, dichromic.
two-faced, a. Janus-faced, bifacial.
two fingers. Associated word: bidigitate.
twofold, a. double, duplicate.
two-footed, a. biped.
two-footed animal. biped.
two-forked, a. bifurcated, bifurcate, dichotomous.
two-handed, a. bimanous; ambidextrous.
two-handed animals. Bimana.
two-headed, a. bicephalous.
two hundred years. Associated words: bicentenary, bicentennial.
two languages. Associated words: bilingual, diglot, bilingualism, bilinguist.
two-legged, a. biped.
two letters. Associated words: biliteral, biliteralism, diphthong, digraph, duoliteral.
two months. Associated word: bi-monthly.
two parties. Associated words: bipartisan, bipartisanship.
two parts. Associated words: bipartible, bipartite, bipartition, bipartient, bisect, bisection.
two poles. Associated words: bipolar, bipolarity.
two-sided, a. double-faced, bilateral.
two weeks, fortnight. Associated words: bi-weekly, fortnightly.
two years. Associated words: biennial, biennially.
type, n. symbol, token, representation; model, exemplar, phototype, archetype. Antonyms: antitype, variant, monstrosity.
typesetter, n. compositor; typograph (machine).
typhoid fever. enteric fever.
typical, a. emblematical, prefigurative, representative, indicative. Antonyms: atypical, abnormal, variant, unique.
typify, v. represent, prefigure.
typographer, n. printer.
typography, n. printing.
tyrannical, a. despotic, arbitrary, autocratic, imperious, absolute, dictatorial, domineering, oppressive, tyrannic.
tyrannize, v. domineer, persecute, oppress.
tyranny, n. despotism, absolutism, oppression, rigor, severity.
tyrant, n. despot, autocrat; oppressor, persecutor, usurper.
Ubiquitous, a. omnipresent.
ubiquity, n. omnipresence.
udder, n. mamma. Associated words: escutcheon, garget.
ugly, a. repulsive, unsightly, loathsome, hideous, grewsome, frightful; (Colloq.) crossgrained, ill-natured, unamiable, inaffable, surly, refractory, vicious, indocile, spiteful, sullen, morose; uncomely, hard-visaged, homely, ill-favored, hard-featured.
ulcer, n. fester, gathering, imposthume, pustule, ulceration. Associated words: sanies, sanious.
ulcerate, v. suppurate, fester, maturate.
ultimate, a. final, farthest, extreme.
ultimately, adv. finally.
ultra, a. extreme.
umbrage, n. resentment.
umpire, n. referee, judge, arbitrator, arbiter.
unabated, a. undiminished, unassuaged.
unable, a. incapable.
unabundant, a. scarce, deficient, rare.
unacceptable, a. objectionable, unwelcome, undesirable.
unaccountable, a. incomprehensible, inexplicable, inscrutable.
unaccustomed, a. unfamiliar, unwonted, unused.
unacquainted, a. unfamiliar, strange.
unadulterated, a. unsophisticated, unalloyed, pure.
unadvised, a. imprudent, unwise, indiscreet, inconsiderate.
unaffected, a. unmoved, untouched, unimpressed; artless, naïve, sincere, natural, unfeigned.
unafraid, a. undaunted, unappalled, unabashed, undismayed.
unalterable, a. immutable, unchangeable.
unambitious, a. unenterprising, indifferent.
unamiable, a. cross, ungracious, surly, unfriendly, irascible.
unanimity, n. unison, accord, agreement.
unanswerable, a. irrefutable, incontrovertible.
unappeasable, a. insatiate, insatiable, unquenchable, implacable.
unappreciable, a. imperceptible.
unapproachable, a. inaccessible, distant.
unarmed, a. defenseless, unguarded, unprotected.
unasked, a. unsolicited, voluntary, free-will.
unassailable, a. impregnable, invincible, secure, invulnerable.
unassorted, a. mixed, promiscuous, indiscriminate.
unatonable, a. inexpiable, irremissible.
unattainable, a. unachievable, impracticable, impossible.
unauthentic, a. spurious, supposititious, uncanonical, apocryphal, fictitious.
unavailing, a. futile, nugatory, ineffectual, abortive, vain, bootless.
unavoidable, a. inevitable, unpreventable, ineludable.
unaware, a. unconscious, unmindful, insensible.
unbearable, a. intolerable, insufferable, unendurable.
unbecoming, a. inappropriate, unseemly, unsuitable, indecorous.
unbegotten, a. self-existent.
unbelief, n. incredulity, skepticism, doubt, infidelity, distrust, suspicion.
unbelievable, a. incredible, implausible, fabulous.
unbeliever, n. doubter, skeptic, infidel, free-thinker, nullifidian.
unbelieving, a. incredulous, doubtful, skeptical, nullifidian.
unbend, v. relax.
unbending, a. inflexible, unyielding, rigid, unpliant, resolute, incompliant.
unbiased, a. unprejudiced, impartial, unjaundiced, neutral, disinterested.
unbidden, a. unasked, uninvited; spontaneous, voluntary, volitional.
unblamable, a. blameless, inculpable, irreprehensible, innocent.
unblushing, a. shameless, unabashed, brazen-faced, indecent, immodest.
unbosom, v. confess, reveal, divulge.
unbounded, a. illimitable, boundless, unlimited, limitless, immeasurable, vast, infinite, immense.
unbreakable, a. infrangible; inviolable (said of a promise or vow).
unbreakableness, n. infrangibility; inviolability.
unbreathable, a. irrespirable.
unbridled, a. unrestrained, uncurbed, uncontrolled, licentious, immoderate.
unbroken, a. whole, intact; inviolate, inviolated; undisturbed, sound, profound; wild, untamed.
unburnable, a. incombustible, asbestic, incremable.
unbury, v. exhume, disentomb, disinter.
unburying, n. exhumation, disentombment, disinterment.
uncanny, a. weird, eerie.
uncanonical, a. apocryphal, unauthentic.
unceasing, a. incessant, perpetual, perennial, ceaseless.
unceremonious, a. informal, unconstrained; bluff, blunt.
uncertain, a. distrustful, hesitating; dubious, precarious, problematical, insecure; equivocal, ambiguous, indefinite, irresolute, inconstant, fickle, variable, capricious; fallible.
uncertainty, n. distrust, hesitation, doubt, dubiousness, dubiety, incertitude; irresolution, variableness, inconstancy, capriciousness; ambiguity, indefiniteness; contingency, fortuity; fallibility; suspense.
unchangeable, a. immutable, invariable, changeless, stereotyped, unalterable, unmodifiable, permanent, constant.
unchanging, a. unvarying, permanent.
uncharitable, a. illiberal, intolerant, ungenerous, bigoted, censorious.
unchaste, a. incontinent, impure, lewd, wanton, immoral.
unchastity, n. incontinence, wantonness, lechery, licentiousness, lewdness, impurity.
unchecked, a. unbridled, unrestrained, unhampered, untrammeled, uncurbed.
unchurch, v. excommunicate.
uncivil, a. discourteous, rude, churlish, boorish, brusque, impolite.
uncivilized, a. savage, barbarous, unreclaimed, benighted.
unclassifiable, a. nondescript.
uncle, a. Associated word: avuncular.
unclean, a. soiled, dirty, foul, filthy, nasty, uncleanly; tref (Jewish); polluted, defiled, impure.
uncommon, a. unusual, singular, rare, unique, queer, strange, odd, anomalous, exceptional, abnormal, variant, nondescript, extraordinary, noteworthy, remarkable, aberrant.
uncommunicative, a. reserved, taciturn, reticent, secretive.
uncompelled, a. voluntary, spontaneous, gratuitous, unconstrained, volitional.
uncomplaining, a. resigned, patient, forbearing, long-suffering, meek.
uncomplimentary, a. unflattering, frank, derogatory, blunt.
uncompromising, a. inflexible, irreconcilable, intransigent, firm.
unconcern, n. indifference, nonchalance, apathy, disinterestedness.
unconcerned, a. indifferent, nonchalant, cool, apathetic, disinterested.
unconditional, a. absolute, unqualified, unrestricted, carte blanche.
uncongenial, a. disagreeable, unpleasant.
unconnected, a. disconnected, separate, isolated, abrupt, incoherent.
unconquerable, a. invincible, insuperable, impregnable, indomitable, inexpugnable.
unconscionable, a. unreasonable, inordinate, exorbitant, excessive.
unconscious, a. unaware, insensible; comatose; ingenuous, artless, naïve.
unconsciousness, n. insensibility; coma.
unconstrained, a. spontaneous, uncompelled, voluntary, natural.
uncontradictable, a. incontrovertible, indisputable, incontestable.
uncontrollable, a. ungovernable, irrepressible.
unconvincing, a. inconclusive.
uncouple, v. disconnect, detach, disjoin, loose.
uncourtly, a. rude, gawky, ungraceful, awkward, inelegant.
uncouth, a. awkward, clumsy, rude, ungainly, loutish, gawky, ungraceful.
uncover, v. disclose, reveal, expose, show.
unction, n. anointing; unguent, ointment; fervor, emotion, fervency, enthusiasm.
uncultivated, a. untilled, fallow.
uncultured, a. unlettered, ignorant; philistine.
undaughterly, a. unfilial.
undecaying, a. imperishable, amaranthine, perennial, undying, fadeless; imputrescible, incorruptible.
undeceive, v. disabuse, disillusionize, disillusion.
undeceiving, n. disillusion, disillusionment.
undecided, a. unsettled, pending; wavering, irresolute, dubious, controvertible.
undecipherable, a. illegible.
undefinable, a. unexplainable, undeterminable.
undefined, a. vague, indefinite, obscure; boundless, limitless.
undemonstrative, a. staid, quiet, demure, phlegmatic, sedate.
undeniable, a. incontestable, indisputable, unquestionable, indubitable, irrefragable, incontrovertible, unimpeachable.
under, prep. beneath, below, subordinate, inferior, subject to.
under, a. subordinate, subaltern, inferior, subjacent.
underbrush, n. undergrowth, jungle.
underground, a. subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene, subterrestrial.
underhand, a. underhanded, surreptitious, clandestine, covert.
underhand, adv. clandestinely, covertly, secretly, surreptitiously.
underhanded, a. covert, clandestine, surreptitious, underhand.
underline, v. underscore.
underling, n. subordinate, inferior, understrapper.
underlying, a. fundamental, basic.
underrate, v. underestimate, undervalue, underprize.
understand, v. comprehend, apprehend, grasp, discern.
understandable, a. comprehensible, intelligible.
understanding, n. comprehension, discernment, apprehension; accord, entente, harmony, agreement. Associated word: tacit.
under the rose. secretly, privately, confidentially, sub rosa.
undervalue, v. depreciate, vilipend, despise; underrate, underestimate.
under water. submarine, subaquatic, subaqueous, submerged.
underwear, n. underclothing; lingerie.
underwrite, v. insure; subscribe.
undeserved, a. unmerited, unjust.
undeserving, a. unworthy, unmeritorious, indign.
undesigned, a. unpremeditated, unintentional, accidental.
undesigning, a. artless, guileless, sincere.
undesirable, a. inexpedient; objectionable, unacceptable, ineligible.
undetermined, a. unsettled, irresolute, wavering, indeterminate, abeyant.
undeveloped, a. in embryo, embryonic, immature, abeyant, embryo, imperfect; atrophied, dwarfed, rudimentary, stunted, abortive, puny.
undevelopment, n. immaturity; atrophy, abortion; embryo.
undignified, a. unseemly, unbecoming, groveling, servile, obsequious.
undiminished, a. unabated, unlessened.
undiscernible, a. imperceptible, indiscernible.
undisputable, a. incontrovertible, incontestable, indisputable, undeniable.
undissolvable, a. insoluble, indissolvable, indissoluble.
undo, v. reverse, annul, nullify, abrogate, neutralize, invalidate; loose, unfasten, disentangle; impoverish, ruin.
undoing, n. reversal, annulment, invalidation, abrogation; impoverishment, ruin.
undoubted, a. indubitable, unquestioned, unchallenged, undisputed.
undoubting, a. sure, confident, sanguine, implicit.
undress, n. dishabille, negligee.
undress, v. disrobe, strip, divest, doff, disarray.
undressing, n. disrobing, stripping.
undue, v. unreasonable, immoderate, exorbitant, excessive, disproportioned.
undutiful, a. disobedient, unfilial.
undying, a. deathless, immortal.
unearth, v. uncover, disclose, ferret out.
unearthly, a. weird, supernatural, preternatural, eerie, apalling, terrific.
uneasiness, n. restlessness, inquietude, perturbation, anxiety, agitation, malaise.
uneasy, a. restless, restive, anxious, perturbed, impatient.
uneatable, a. inedible, incomestible.
uneducated, a. illiterate, benighted. See ignorant.
unemotional, a. phlegmatic.
unendurable, a. intolerable, insufferable.
unequal, a. unmatched, uneven, disparate; ill-balanced, disproportioned, incommensurate, inequitable; inequable, irregular; inadequate, insufficient.
unequaled, a. unmatched, unexampled, incomparable, superior, preëminent, peerless, unsurpassed, unrivaled, exceeding, superlative, sans pareil.
unequalness, n. inequality, unevenness, disproportion, inadequacy.
unerasable, a. indelible, inerasable, permanent.
unerring, a. certain, sure, unfailing, infallible, inerrable, impeccable.
unescapable, a. inevitable, unavoidable.
unessential, a. nonessential, immaterial, unnecessary.
uneven, a. jagged, rugged, rough, hummocky, humpy, protuberant, unequal.
unexcelled, a. unequaled, unsurpassed, superior, supreme.
unexcitable, a. imperturbable, phlegmatic.
unexhaustible, a. exhaustless, inexhaustible.
unexpected, a. unforeseen, unanticipated, unlooked for.
unexperienced, a. inexperienced, unpracticed.
unexplainable, a. inexplicable, inscrutable, uninterpretable.
unexpressible, a. inexpressible, unutterable, ineffable.
unextinguishable, a. unquenchable, insuppressible.
unfading, a. perennial, amaranthine, permanent, enduring.
Unfailing, a. sure, certain, constant, inexhaustible, infallible, inevitable.
unfair, a. unjust, partial, unconscionable, inequitable, disingenuous.
unfairness, n. injustice, inequity, partiality.
unfaithful, a. disloyal, faithless, perfidious, undutiful, renegade, apostate, recreant, derelict, false, treacherous, traitorous, treasonable, untrustworthy, pervert, inconstant, unsteadfast, fickle.
unfaithfulness, n. disloyalty, perfidy, apostasy, recreancy, inconstancy, treachery, treason, bad faith, dereliction, fickleness, defection.
unfaltering, a. steadfast, unwavering, unswerving.
unfamiliar, a. unaccustomed, strange, novel; inconversant, unacquainted.
unfathered, a. fatherless; bastard, illegitimate.
unfathomable, a. abyssmal, immeasurable; inscrutable.
unfavorable, a. adverse, inimical, unpropitious, inauspicious, malign, derogatory, hostile.
unfeathered, a. unfledged, callow, squab.
unfeeling, a. insensible, insensate, insentient, numb, apathetic, impassible, impassive; stoic, callous, cruel, stern, incompassionate, unpitying, brutal, inclement.
unfeelingness, n. insensibility, impassibility, impassivity, torpidity, numbness, apathy; unkindness, cruelty, stoicism, incompassion, inclemency.
unfeigned, a. genuine, sincere, unaffected, unassumed.
unfinished, a. incomplete.
unfit, a. unsuitable, ineligible, inappropriate, unqualified, incompetent, inapt, inept.
unfit, v. disqualify, incapacitate, disable.
unfitness, n. ineligibility, unsuitableness, incompetency, irrelevance, disqualification.
unflattering, a. uncomplimentary, derogatory, frank.
unfledged, a. callow, unfeathered, squab.
unflinching, a. resolute.
unfold, v. unfurl, expand, evolve, unroll; disentangle, unravel, resolve; divulge, disclose, reveal, elucidate.
unfoldment, n. evolution, evolvment, expansion, unrolling; disentanglement, interpretation, explanation.
unforced, a. spontaneous, voluntary, optional, unconstrained.
unforgivable, a. unpardonable, irremissible, inexpiable.
unforgiving, a. implacable, irremissive, relentless.
unfortunate, a. unlucky, unsuccessful, disastrous, ill-starred, ill-fated.
unfounded, a. baseless, groundless.
unfriendliness, n. enmity, inimicalness, hostility, disfavor, antipathy, disaffection, alienation, estrangement, unfriendship.
unfriendly, a. hostile, ill-disposed, inimical, malign, unamicable, disaffected, alienated, estranged, antagonistic, unfavorable, adverse.
unfruitful, a. unproductive, effete, unprolific, infertile, acarpous.
ungainly, a. awkward, gawky, ungraceful, lumbering, loutish, wooden, uncouth.
ungenerous, a. illiberal, narrow, sordid, uncharitable, stingy.
unglue, v. deglutinate.
ungodly, a. godless, impious, irreverent, profane, unrighteous.
ungovernable, a. unruly, unmanageable, refractory, intractable, mutinous, impotent, irrepressible, rampant, unbridled, impetuous.
ungraceful, a. awkward, uncourtly, clumsy, uncouth, lumbering, ungainly, wooden, gawky.
ungrateful, a. ingrateful, unthankful; disagreeable, offensive.
ungratefulness, n. ingratitude.
ungrateful person. ingrate.
unguarded, a. defenseless, unprotected; incautious, unwary.
unhair, v. depilate.
unhairing, n. depilation. Associated word: depilatory.
unhallowed, a. unsanctified, profane.
unhandy, a. inconvenient; clumsy, awkward, maladroit.
unhappiness, n. infelicity, misery, distress, sorrow, woe.
unhappy, a. infelicitous, unfortunate; miserable, wretched, sad, sorrowful, disconsolate, woeful, distressed, heart-sick, mournful, lugubrious; deplorable, calamitous, distressing, grievous, inauspicious, unpropitious, malign.
unharmed, a. unscathed, inviolate, uninjured, unhurt, intact, scathless.
unharmonious, a. inharmonious, discordant, dissonant, harsh.
unhealable, a. insanable, incurable.
unhealthful, a. unwholesome, insalubrious, unsanitary, unhealthy, morbific, pestiferous.
unhealthfulness, n. insalubrity, unwholesomeness.
unhealthy, a. unhealthful, unwholesome, insalubrious, noxious, noisome, pestiferous, pernicious, unsanitary, unhygienic, morbid, morbific, pestilent, insalutary; sickly, unsound, diseased, morbid, invalid.
unheard of. unprecedented, exceptional; unknown, obscure.
unheeded, a. disregarded, ignored, unnoticed.
unholy, a. unhallowed, unconsecrated, profane, impious, evil, ungodly.
unhonored, a. inglorious, unsung, unrenowned, obscure.
unhurt, a. See unharmed.
uniform, a. unvarying, invariable, constant, undeviating; consonant, consistent. Antonyms: diverse, difform, anomalous, variant, heterogeneous, variable.
uniform, n. livery, dress, regimentals.
uniformity, n. sameness, even tenor; invariability, regularity, equableness, conformity, consonance, consistency. Antonyms: diversity, variation, anomaly.
unimaginative, a. matter-of-fact, prosaic, literal, practical, unromantic.
unimportance, n. immateriality, insignificance, triviality, paltriness.
unimportant, a. immaterial, insignificant, trivial, paltry.
unimpressible, a. unimpressionable, impassible, stoical, impassive.
unintentional, a. accidental, unpremeditated, fortuitous, undesigned.
union, n. coalition, combination, merger, fusion, unification, incorporation, conjunction, amalgamation, coalescence, junction, league, confederacy, federation, alliance; agreement, concurrence, unison. Antonyms: disunion. See separation.
unique, a. unmatched, unexampled.
unite, v. join, combine, annex, associate, link, couple, yoke, splice; consolidate, merge, amalgamate, fuse, confederate, unify, coalesce, concur, coöperate.
united, a. combined, incorporate, federated, confederate, affiliated, unified, blended, leagued, conjugate, yoked, amalgamated.
unity, n. oneness, singleness; concord, harmony, agreement, uniformity, unison, concert.
universal language. pasilaly; Esperanto.
universal writing. pasigraphy.
unjust, a. unfair, inequitable, iniquitous, unmerited.
unjustifiable, a. indefensible, inexcusable, unwarrantable.
unkind, a. cruel, harsh, austere, rigorous, incompassionate, inclement, brutal.
unkindness, n. cruelty, brutality, severity, incompassion, incivility, disfavor.
unknowable, a. incognizable, incognoscible, unascertainable, unintelligible, incomprehensible.
unknowingly, adv. unwittingly, ignorantly, unconsciously, inadvertently.
unknown, a. obscure, inglorious, unrenowned, nameless, undistinguished; unascertained, unexplored, unapprehended; anonymous.
unknown person. stranger, ignote.
unladylike, a. hoidenish, pert, ill-bred.
unlawful, a. illegal, illicit, contraband, illegitimate, unlicensed.
unleavened, a. azymous.
unleavened bread. azym.
unlike, a. dissimilar, different, diverse, sundry, variant, heterogeneous, unique, nondescript.
unlikelihood, n. improbability, unlikeliness.
unlikely, a. improbable; unpromising.
unlikeness, n. dissimilarity, dissimilitude, difference, contrast.
unlimited, a. limitless, illimitable, infinite, absolute, unbounded.
unload, v. disburden, unlade, relieve.
unlooked-for, a. unexpected, unanticipated, unforeseen, chance.
unlovely, a. uncomely, homely, plain, unattractive, repulsive.
unlucky, a. unfortunate, luckless, ill-starred, unhappy, untoward.
unmaidenly, a. hoidenish, rude, boisterous, pert.
unman, v. emasculate, castrate; dishearten, discourage, unnerve, intimidate; emolliate, effeminate.
unmanageable, a. ungovernable, intractable, refractory, fractious; cumbersome, unwieldy.
unmanly, a. ignoble, cowardly, mean; womanish, effeminate cockney.
unmanned, a. emasculated, effeminate.
unmannerly, a. impolite, discourteous, boorish, uncivil, rude.
unmanning, n. emasculation, castration; debilitation; discouragement.
unmarried, a. single, celibate.
unmarried man. bachelor, celibate, agamist.
unmarried woman. spinster.
unmatchable, a. peerless, matchless, incomparable, inimitable, unique.
unmatched, a. unequaled, matchless, incomparable, nonpareil.
unmeaning, a. meaningless, senseless; insignificant, inexpressive.
unmeant, a. unintentional.
unmelodious, a. discordant, harsh, dissonant, inharmonious, unmusical.
unmeltable, a. infusible.
unmerciful, a. cruel, pitiless, merciless, inclement, unsparing, stern, unrelenting, ruthless, brutal, incompassionate, unkind; (Colloq.) excessive, fabulous, exorbitant, immoderate.
unmindful, a. oblivious, inadvertent, inattentive, heedless.
unmistakable, a. manifest, palpable, obvious, patent, evident, distinct, unambiguous.
unmixable, a. immiscible.
unmixableness, n. immiscibility.
unmovable, a. fixed, stable, immobile.
unmoved, a. calm, dispassionate, indifferent, unstirred, impassive, stoical.
unmusical, a. inharmonious, discordant.
unnatural, a. abnormal, monstrous, anomalous, aberrant, variant, preternatural, exceptional, irregular; artificial, affected, feigned, assumed simulated, constrained.
unnecessary, a. superfluous, useless, needless, uncalled for, expletive, redundant, supernumerary.
unneighborly, a. unsociable, exclusive, distant, unaccommodating.
unnoticed, a. unheeded, unnoted, surreptitious.
unobjectionable, a. unexceptionable.
unobtainable, a. unprocurable, unattainable, inaccessible.
unobtrusive, a. unpretentious, unassuming, modest.
unorthodox, a. heterodox.
unpacifiable, a. implacable, unappeasable, unreconcilable.
unpaid, a. outstanding, payable, due, unliquidated.
unpardonable, a. inexpiable, unatonable, irremissible, unforgivable.
unpassable, a. impassable.
unpenetrable, a. impenetrable, impervious, imperforable.
unpierceable, a. imperforable, impenetrable.
unplanted, a. fallow.
unpleasant, a. disagreeable, uncongenial.
unplowed, a. fallow.
unpopular, a. disliked, obnoxious, odious, offensive.
unpopularity, n. odium, disesteem, obnoxiousness.
unpractical, a. impractical, visionary, Utopian.
unpraiseworthy, a. uncommendable, illaudable, indign.
unprejudiced, a. impartial, unbiased, unjaundiced.
unpremeditated, a. extemporaneous, offhand, impromptu, extempore.
unpretending, a. unobtrusive, modest, unpretentious, unostentatious.
unpretentious, a. unpretending.
unpreventable, a. unavoidable, inevitable.
unprincipled, a. unscrupulous.
unproductive, a. unfruitful, barren.
unprofessional, a. amateur.
unprofitable, a. unremunerative, profitless; futile, fruitless, unavailing.
unpromising, a. unlikely; inauspicious, unpropitious.
unqualified, a. incompetent, ineligible; absolute, unconditional.
unquenchable, a. unslakable, insatiate, insatiable, quenchless.
unquestionable, a. incontrovertible, irrefutable, incontestable, indubitable, obvious, indisputable.
unquestioned, a. undoubted, implicit.
unravel, v. disentangle, extricate, ravel; decipher, unfold.
unreachable, a. inaccessible.
unreadable, a. illegible.
unreal, a. fanciful, imaginary, visionary, unsubstantial, shadowy, chimerical, illusive, phantasmal, phantasmagorial.
unreasonable, a. irrational, absurd, unwise, preposterous, senseless; excessive, exorbitant, unfair, unconscionable, inordinate.
unreclaimable, a. irreclaimable, irretrievable, hopeless, incorrigible.
unrecognized, a. ignored, disregarded, unacknowledged.
unreconcilable, a. antagonistic, incompatible, irreconcilable, implacable, unpacifiable.
unrecoverable, a. irrecoverable, irreparable, irretrievable, irrecuperable.
unredeemed, a. forfeited, unransomed, unfulfilled.
unrefonnable, a. irreformable, incorrigible.
unrelenting, a. relentless, implacable, inexorable, remorseless, pitiless, unmerciful.
unreliable, a. untrustworthy, undependable, uncertain.
unremediable, a. irremediable.
unremitting, a. indefatigable, persevering, unceasing, constant.
unrepairable, a. irreparable.
unrepentant, a. impenitent, incontrite.
unreserve, n. frankness, candor, ingenuousness.
unreserved, a. frank, undissembling, candid, ingenuous; unconditioned, unlimited.
unresistible, a. irresistible.
unresisting, a. passive, submissive, long-suffering.
unrest, n. unquietness, restlessness, uneasiness, disquietude, inquietude.
unrestrained, a. unbridled, ungoverned, uncurbed, riotous, impotent, saturnalian, rampant; licentious, dissolute, profligate.
unrestraint, n. freedom, liberty, license, abandon.
unrestricted, a. unlimited, unfettered, uncircumscribed.
unrevivable, a. irrevivable, irresuscitable.
unrighteous, a. unholy, evil, iniquitous, wicked, vicious.
unrivaled, a. peerless, matchless, inimitable, incomparable, supreme.
unroll, v. unfold, unfurl, evolve.
unrolling, n. unfolding, unfurling, evolvement, evolution.
unromantic, a. prosaic, pragmatical, matter-of-fact, practical, literal.
unruly, a. turbulent, ungovernable, refractory, insubordinate, fractious, insurgent, indocile, disobedient, froward, vicious, intractable, rebellious.
unsafe, a. insecure, risky, perilous, dangerous, hazardous, imperiled, precarious.
unsafety, n. insecurity, danger, risk, peril, hazard, jeopardy.
unsalable, a. invendible, unmarketable.
unsatisfactory, a. disappointing, insufficient.
unsatisfiable, a. insatiable, insatiate.
unsavory, a. offensive, rank, unpleasant; insipid, savorless, mawkish, unpalatable, vapid.
unsay, v. recall, retract, recant.
unsaying, n. recantation, retraction.
unscrupulous, a. unprincipled, unconscientious, dishonest, dishonorable, knavish.
unsearchable, a. inscrutable.
unseasonable, a. inopportune, ill-timed, untimely, premature.
unseasonably, adv. malapropos, untimely.
unseemly, a. unbecoming, improper, indecorous.
unseen, a. invisible, unperceived, secret, unnoticed, unobserved, clandestine, surreptitious, furtive, concealed, underhand.
unselfish, a. magnanimous, disinterested, altruistic, charitable.
unselfishness, n. magnanimity, altruism, beneficence, liberality.
unsentimental, a. matter-of-fact, prosaic, pragmatical, practical.
unserviceableness, n. inutility.
unsettle, v. disorder, derange, upset, unhinge, disconcert.
unsettled, a. undetermined, dubious, unadjusted, controvertible, disputable; irresolute, fickle, changeable; roily, feculent, turbid.
unshapely, a. misshapen, deformed.
unsheltered, a. exposed, unprotected.
unshod, a. discalced, barefooted, discalceated.
unshrinking, a. unflinching, determined, resolute.
unsightly, a. offensive, repulsive.
unskilled, a. unpracticed, unskillful, empirical.
unskillful, a. maladroit, inexpert, unskilled, clumsy.
unsociable, a.morose, uncompanionable, inaffable, ungenial, taciturn.
unsolvable, a. insoluble, inexplicable.
unsophisticated, a. unadulterated; innocent, guileless, gullible, ingenuous.
unsound, a. defective, impaired; sophistical, fallacious, illogical, untenable.
unsparing, a. liberal, ungrudging, profuse; severe, unmerciful.
unspeakable, a. ineffable, unutterable, inexpressible.
unstable, a. insecure, unsteady, irresolute, inconstant, erratic.
unsteadfast, a. unstable, inconstant, wavering, irresolute.
unsteady, a. inconstant, precarious, wavering, variable, vacillating, wabbly.
unstinted, a. plentiful.
unstudied, a. extemporaneous, extempore, impromptu, offhand.
unsubmissive, a. insubordinate, refractory.
unsuccessful, a. unfortunate, unlucky, unprosperous; abortive, fruitless, unavailing, bootless, ineffectual, futile.
unsuitable, a. inappropriate, incongruous, incompatible.
unsupplied, a. destitute.
unsurmountable, a. insuperable.
unsurpassed, a. peerless, transcendent, superior, unrivaled, matchless.
unsusceptible, a. unimpressionable, unfeeling.
unsuspecting, a. unsuspicious, gullible, credulous, indubious, unsophisticated.
unsustainable, a. untenable, controvertible.
untangle, v. unravel, disentangle.
untaxed, a. scot-free, exempt.
unteachable, a. indocile, intractable.
unthankful, a. ungrateful.
unthankfulness, n. ingratitude.
untidy, a. disorderly, slatternly, littered.
untillable, a. inarable.
unfilled, a. fallow.
untimely, a. premature, unseasonable, inopportune, ill-timed, malapropos.
untiring, a. indefatigable, unceasing, tireless, unremitting, unwearied.
untrodden, a. trackless, pathless.
untrue, a. inveracious, mendacious, false, untruthful, unfaithful.
untruth, n. falsehood, fiction, fabrication, lie.
untruthful, a. inveracious, mendacious, lying.
untruthfulness, n. mendacity, inveracity, falsehood.
untwist, v. unravel, disentangle, feaze.
unused, a. unaccustomed, unfamiliar.
unusual, a. uncommon, curious, rare, odd, unique, extraordinary, anomalous, irregular.
unutterable, a. unspeakable, ineffable.
unvarying, a. invariable, monotonous, uniform.
unveil, v. expose, uncover, reveal, disclose.
unviolated, a. inviolate, inviolated, inviolable.
unwarrantable, a. unjustifiable, indefensible.
unwavering, a. steadfast, resolute.
unwearied, a. indefatigable.
unweighable, a. imponderable.
unwholesome, a. baneful, insalubrious. See unhealthy.
unwieldy, a. ponderous, cumbersome, clumsy.
unwilling, a. reluctant, indisposed, loath, disinclined, averse.
unwind, v. disentangle, unravel.
unwise, a. imprudent, injudicious, inexpedient, indiscreet.
unwittingly, adv. unknowingly, undesignedly, inadvertently.
unworthy, a. unmeritorious, undeserving, despicable, contemptible.
unwritten, a. traditional.
unyielding, a. inflexible, stiff, unbending, incompliant, indomitable, insubmissive, tenacious, unimpressible, impliable, obdurate, intractable, game, resolute.
upbraid, v. reproach, scold, chide, rate, reprove, reprimand, twit.
upbraiding, n. scolding, reproach, reprimand, censure, reprehension.
up grade. ascent, acclivity.
uphill, a. ascending, acclivous, rising.
uphold, v. support, sustain, vindicate, defend.
upkeep, n. maintenance.
upper, n. vamp (of a shoe).
upper-hand, n. advantage, mastery, dominion, control.
upper ten. (Colloq.) aristocracy, élite, bon ton.
uppish, a. (Colloq.) proud, arrogant, assuming.
upright, a. erect, perpendicular, vertical; honorable, honest.
uprightness, n. perpendicularity, verticality, erectness; honesty, integrity.
uproar, n. turmoil, fracas, clamor, tumult, commotion, din, hubbub.
uproarious, a. (Colloq.) clamorous, obstreperous, boisterous, noisy, turbulent.
uproot, v. eradicate, extirpate.
uprooting, n. eradication, extirpation.
upset, v. overturn, overset, capsize, invert, overthrow; disconcert, discompose, perturb, agitate, unnerve, excite.
upshot, n. event, result, issue, outcome, consequence.
upside down. inverted; disordered, topsy-turvy.
upstart, n. parvenu, snob, mushroom.
up to snuff. (Slang) knowing, acute, sharp.
upward, a. ascending, acclivous (sloping upward).
urge, v. egg, importune, exhort; impel, force; incite, instigate, goad.
urgency, n. insistence, pressure; importunity; exigency, stress, necessity; incitement.
urgent, a. pressing, imperative, insistent, exigent, importunate, pertinacious, imperious.
urine, n. piss, emiction; stale (urine of horses and cattle). Associated words: uronology, urinal, urinate, urination, micturition, urethra, uric, uretic, uriniferous, enuresis, anuresis, diabetis, strangury, urolith, lateritious sediment, uroscopy, urinary, urea, diuretic.
usage, n. treatment; custom, practice, use.
use, n. employment, application, service, utilization, exploitation; necessity, need; utility, avail, advantage, usefulness, service; custom, usage, practice. Antonyms: disuse, obsolescence, desuetude, inutility. Associated words: obsolescent, obsolete, obsoletism, utilitarian, utilitarianism, utilizable, chrestomathic.
use, v. employ, apply, utilize, exploit; treat, behave toward; practice, exercise; consume, exhaust; accustom, habituate, familiarize, inure.
useful, a. serviceable, advantageous, available.
usefulness, n. utility, advantage.
useless, a. unserviceable, futile, worthless, unavailing, bootless, ineffectual, null, nugatory, abortive.
uselessness, n. inutility, futility, unserviceableness.
usher, v. show to a seat; introduce, forerun, precede, herald, escort.
usual, a. ordinary, general, accustomed, conventional, prevailing, everyday. Antonyms: See unusual.
usually, adv. ordinarily, generally, customarily, commonly.
usurp, v. arrogate, seize, appropriate, accroach.
usurpation, n. arrogation, seizure, appropriation.
utility, n. usefulness. Antonym: inutility. Associated words: utilitarian, utilitarianism, utilizable.
utilize, v. use, employ, exploit.
utmost, a. farthest out, extreme, last; greatest, maximum, uttermost.
Utopian, a. chimerical, visionary, fanciful, air-built.
utter, v. speak, pronounce, express.
utter, a. complete, absolute, perfect; unconditional, unqualified, peremptory.
utterable, a. pronounceable, expressible.
utterance, n. speech, articulation.
utterly, adv. entirely, completely, wholly, unconditionally, altogether.
Vacancy, n. emptiness; space, vacuum, chasm, gap; leisure, vacation, intermission.
vacant, a. empty, unfilled, void, uninhabited, untenanted; leisure, unemployed. Antonyms: full, filled, occupied.
vacate, v. empty, evacuate, resign, abdicate; annul, abrogate, invalidate.
vacation, n. evacuation, resignation, abdication; invalidation, abrogation; intermission, holidays, recess.
vaccinate, v. inoculate.
vaccination, n. inoculation (with the cowpox).
vacillate, v. fluctuate, waver, veer, oscillate, whiffle.
vacillating, a. irresolute, changeable, wavering, undecided, inconstant.
vacillation, n. fluctuation, indecision, changeableness, oscillation, irresolution, inconstancy.
vagabond, n. vagrant, tramp, mendicant, beggar; rascal, rogue, scamp, knave.
vagabond, a. vagrant, wandering, nomadic, landloping.
vagabondage, n. vagrancy, vagabondism, nomadism.
vagary, n. whim, caprice, fancy, freak, whimsey, humor.
vagrancy, n. vagabondage.
vagrant, n. tramp; beggar, vagabond, rascal.--a. wandering, nomadic, vagabond.
vague, a. indefinite, ambiguous, obscure, uncertain, groundless, hazy, indistinct.
vagueness, n. indefiniteness, ambiguity, obscurity, uncertainty.
vain, a. conceited, arrogant, egotistical, overweening, vainglorious; nugatory, fruitless, ineffectual, frustrate, unavailing, bootless, futile, abortive, ineffective, empty; delusive, chimerical, unsatisfying, unsubstantial, deceitful.
vainglorious, a. boastful, pretentious, assuming, arrogant, conceited, overweening.
vainglory, n. vanity, boasting, gasconade.
vale, n. dell, valley, dale, dingle.
valiant, a. See brave.
valid, a. cogent, logical, justifiable, efficacious, well-grounded. Antonyms: See invalid.
validity, n. strength, cogency, soundness, force. Antonym: invalidity.
valise, n. portmanteau, satchel, gripsack.
valley, n. vale, hollow, bottom, dale, ravine, dingle, glen, clough, dell.
valor, n. See bravery.
valuable, a. costly, precious, rare, expensive; esteemed, worthy; serviceable, useful.
valuable, n. treasure.
valuation, n. appraisement, appraisal.
value, n. worth, excellence.
value, v. appraise; prize, esteem, appreciate.
vamose, v. (Slang) decamp, depart quickly, go.
vampire, n. extortioner, bloodsucker.
vandal, n. destroyer, iconoclast, hun.
vanish, v. See disappear.
vanishing, a. evanescent, disappearing, transient.--n. disappearance, evanescence.
vanity, n. unsubstantialness, unreality, inanity, delusiveness, emptiness, sham; conceit, self-admiration, egotism.
vanquish, v. overcome, defeat, subjugate, subdue, rout, overpower.
vanquishment, n. defeat, subjugation, routing, conquering.
vapid, a. lifeless, spiritless; insipid, stale, tasteless; prosy, tame.
vapidity, n. lifelessness; insipidity, tastelessness; prosiness, tameness.
vapor, n. gas, haze, fog, fume, effluvium, exhalation, reek, emanation, rack. Associated words: atmology, atmolysis, atomize, atomization, exhale, emanate.
vaporize, v. evaporate.
vaporous, a. halituous, vapory, foggy.
variability, n. variableness, mutability, inconstancy, unsteadfastness.
variable, a. mutable, changeable. See changeable. Antonyms: invariable, unchangeable.
variance, n. change, alteration; dissension, disagreement, difference, nonconformity.
variation, n. mutation, change; deviation, diversity, discrepancy; diversification.
varied, a. various, diversified, different, motley.
variegated, a. mottled, diversified, motley, divers-colored, party-colored, polychrome.
variety, n. diversity, diversification, multiplicity, variousness; assortment, collection; kind, class, species.
various, a. manifold, diverse, sundry, numerous, multifarious.
varnish, v. lacquer, japan, enamel, glaze; gloss over, palliate, extenuate.
varnish, n. lacquer; gloss, palliation, extenuation.
vary, v. diversify, variegate, modify; deviate, depart, swerve; disagree; modify, alternate.
vassal, n. feudatory, beneficiary, subject, liege, liegeman.
vast, a. spacious, immense, monstrous, huge, extensive, immeasurable.
vault, n. crypt, tomb, catacomb, ossuarium.
vault, v. leap over, spring, bound, jump; tumble.
vaunt, v. See boast.
veal, n. Associated word: vituline.
veering, n. shift, shifting; vacillation, tergiversation; temporizing, time-serving.
vegetable, n. plant, truck.
vegetable oyster. salsify.
vegetate, v. sprout, grow, germinate, pullulate; rusticate, hibernate.
vehemence, n. fervency, impetuosity, intensity, zeal. See ardor.
vehement, a. fervent, impetuous, ardent, passionate, eager.
vehicle, n. conveyance, carriage; medium, instrument; excipient.
veil, v. screen, cloak, disguise, shroud, mask, conceal.
veil, n. disguise, pretense, cloak, mask, mantilla.
veiled, a. hidden, disguised, incognito.
vein, n. Associated word: venous. See blood vessel.
vein, n. seam, lode.
venal, a. purchasable, mercenary, hireling.
vend, v. See sell.
venerate, v. reverence, revere, honor, esteem.
veneration, n. reverence, honor.
venereal disease. gonorrhea, clap; syphilis.
venereal sore. chancre, chancroid (soft chancre).
venery, n. amorousness, amativeness; sexual intercourse, coition.
vengeance, n. retribution, avengement, revenge; Nemesis, retaliation. Associated word: wreak.
venial, a. pardonable. Antonyms: See unpardonable.
vent, n. airhole, aperture, venthole; touchhole; spiracle blowhole; outlet, emission, escape.
vent, v. emit, utter, say, discharge.
venthole, n. touchhole, vent, bung, orifice, spiracle.
ventriloquism, n. ventriloquy, gastriloquy.
ventriloquist, n. gastriloquist, polyphonist.
venture, n. chance, risk, hazard, contingency.
venture, v. dare, hazard, risk.
venturesome, a. daring, bold, intrepid, undaunted, temerarious.
Venus, n. Aphrodite, Cytherea; Morning Star, Lucifer Phosphor; Evening Star, Hesper, Hesperus.
veracious, a. truthful.
veracity, n. truthfulness. Associated words: compurgation, compurgator, compurgatorial.
verbal, a. oral.
verbiage, n. wordiness, verbosity, perissology, prolixity, pleonasm.
verdant, a. See green.
verdict, n. finding, decision.
verification, n. confirmation, corroboration, authentication, attestation, proof.
verify, v. corroborate, confirm, attest, authenticate, prove.
vermifuge, n. anthelmintic, helminthagogue.
verse, n. stitch; poetry, versification; stanza, stave, staff, text; l'envoi.
versed, a. acquainted, skilled, proficient, conversant.
versification, n. orthometry.
version, n. rendition, translation.
vertex, n. apex, top, summit, crown, zenith.
vertical, a. upright, perpendicular, plumb. Antonyms: horizontal, flat, level.
very, a. veritable, true, real, actual, unquestionable, identical, same, selfsame.
very, adv. exceedingly, highly, greatly, extremely, excessively, surpassingly.
vessel, n. dish, utensil, receptacle; boat, ship; duct, canal, tube.
vest, n. waistcoat.
vest, v. invest.
vestibule, n. hall, antechamber, lobby.
vestige, n. trace, sign, mark.
vestments, n. pl. canonicals (priestly garments); pontificals; cassock, cotta (choir vestments). Associated words: vested, vestiarian, vestiary, vestry.
vestry, n. vestry-room, sacristy.
veterinarian, n. veterinary surgeon, horse doctor, farrier, horse leech.
veterinary art. farriery.
veterinary surgeon. veterinarian, farrier.
vex, v. tease, plague, harass, torment, tantalize, hector, annoy, irritate, trouble, bother, distress.
vexation, n. discomfiture, irritation, chagrin, mortification, annoyance.
vexatious, a. annoying, troublesome, carking, irritating, provoking, aggravating, afflictive, burdensome, anxious.
vibrate, v. brandish, flourish, swing; oscillate, librate; quiver, shake; fluctuate, vacillate.
vibration, n. oscillation, swinging, vacillation, libration.
vibratory, a. vibratile, oscillatory, swinging, fluctuating, oscillating, libratory.
vicar, n. deputy, lieutenant, vicegerent.
vice, n. sin, iniquity, licentiousness, immorality; defect, fault, blemish, imperfection.
vicinity, n. neighborhood, vicinage; nearness, propinquity, proximity.
vicious, a. immoral, evil; defective, faulty, imperfect; refractory, unruly, unmanageable; foul, noxious; (Colloq.) malignant, hateful.
victim, n. (Colloq.) gull, dupe, gudgeon, cully, prey.
victor, n. conqueror, champion, master.
victorious, a. triumphant, conquering, successful, exultant.
victory, n. triumph, conquest, mastery. Antonyms: See defeat. Associated words: trophy, epinicial.
victualler, n. caterer.
vie, v. contend, compete, emulate.
view, n. scene, landscape, vista, perspective, panorama, prospect, scenery; seeing, sight, survey, inspection, aspect, scrutiny, supervision, beholding; opinion, judgment, impression, conception; design, intention, intent.
viewy, a. visionary, fanciful, quixotic; spectacular, panoramic, picturesque.
vigilance, n. watchfulness, circumspection, attention, caution.
vigilant, a. watchful, attentive, circumspect, wakeful.
vigor, n. strength, force, lustiness, energy, endurance, virility, hardihood.
vigorous, a. strong, lusty, robust; energetic, cogent, forcible, luxuriant.
vile, a. base, depraved, vicious, iniquitous, felonious, atrocious, outrageous, shameless; worthless, mean, despicable, contemptible, abject, scurvy, sordid, debased, ignoble, miserable, wretched.
vilify, v. malign, revile, vituperate, traduce, calumniate.
village, n. hamlet, borough, thorpe, dorp, burg. Antonyms: city, town.
villain, n. See scoundrel.
villainous, a. unprincipled, knavish, arrant, depraved, atrocious.
villainy, n. depravity, wickedness, turpitude, rascality, scoundrelism, atrocity.
vim, n. (Colloq.) activity, energy, spirit, life. Antonyms: lifelessness, languor.
vindicate, v. justify.
vindication, n. justification, defense.
vindicator, n. justifier, champion, advocate.
vindictive, a. revengeful, implacable, malevolent, rancorous.
vine, n. Associated words: lattice, trellis, tendril, arbor, pergola, bower, bine, cordon, amplectant, capreolate, cirrose, pourridie, cirrus.
vinegar, n. Associated words: acetic, acetification, acetify, mother, guile, wort, gyle, insolation, cruet.
vinegary, a. acetous, sour, unamiable.
violate, v. break, disobey, transgress, contravene, profane, desecrate.
violation, n. transgression, infringement, breach, infraction, contravention, profanation, desecration. Antonyms: inviolability, keeping, obedience.
violator, n. trespasser, infringer, transgressor, infractor.
violence, n. force, impetuosity, vehemence, intensity, severity, wildness, fury; injury, violation, profanation, outrage, assault.
violent, a. passionate, vehement, impetuous, fierce, impotent, ungovernable, outrageous, poignant, severe. Antonyms: See mild.
violet, n. mauve.
violin, n. fiddle; kit.
virgin, n. vestal.
virgin, a. vestal, virginal; chaste, pure, stainless; impregnant.
virginal generation. parthenogenesis.
virginity, n. maidenhood, chastity.
Virgin Mary. Madonna, Theotokos (Theol.). Associated words: mariolatry, mariolater, hyperdulia, Ave Maria.
virile, a. masculine, vigorous, strong; potent. Antonyms: invirile, emasculated, impotent.
virility, n. manhood, manly vigor. Antonyms: invirility, impotency, emasculation.
virtual, a. potential, energizing; practical, essential.
virtually, adv. practically, really, substantially, potentially.
virtue, n. excellence, worth, goodness, purity, morality, integrity. Associated words: aretology, aretaics.
virtuous, a. good, exemplary, moral, pure, continent, upright.
virulent, a. poisonous, venomous; malignant, bitter, acrimonious.
visible, a. perceivable, perceptible, discernible, apparent, evident, manifest. Antonyms: invisible, imperceptible.
vision, n. sight; apparition, dream, phantasm, specter, phantom, hallucination, illusion.
visionary, a. dreamy, imaginative, romantic, fanciful, illusory, chimerical, Utopian.
visionary, n. castle-builder, dreamer, illusionist.
visitor, n. guest. Antonym: host.
vitiate, v. debase, corrupt, demoralize, contaminate, deprave, spoil.
vitiation, n. debasement, corruption, demoralization, depravation, contamination.
vixen, n. virago, scold, shrew, termagant, Tartar, Xantippe, spitfire.
voice, n. utterance, speech; vote, choice, election, suffrage. Associated words: phonology, phonetics, phonation, phonography, oral, vocal, non-vocal, aphonic, arsis, ictus, vocalize, modulate, modulation, inflection.
void, a. vacant, empty, vacuous; destitute, devoid, lacking; ineffectual, invalid, nugatory, vain.
void, v. evacuate, eject, discharge, egest, pass; nullify, abrogate, annul.
voidance, n. evacuation, discharge, egestion.
volatile, a. See changeable.
volcano, n. Associated words: crater, lapilli, lava, scoria, obsidian, volcanic, eruption, belch.
volley, n. salvo; outpouring, storm, discharge.
voluble, a. glib, fluent, oily, talkative.
volume, n. book, tome; dimensions, compass, size, bulk, mass.
voluntary, a. free, volitional, unforced, spontaneous. Antonyms: See involuntary.
volunteer, n. Antonym: conscript.
voluptuary, n. sensualist, epicure, sybarite, bon vivant. Antonym: ascetic.
voluptuous, a. sensual, epicurean, sybaritic. Antonyms: ascetic, abstemious, austere.
vomit, v. puke; spew, emit, belch, disgorge, eject.
vomiting, n. emesis, vomition, puking, spew. Associated words: emetic, antemetic, qualmish, gag, retch, nausea, nauseate.
voracious, a. rapacious, ravenous, insatiable, fierce, gluttonous, cormorant.
voracity, n. rapacity, voraciousness, greediness.
votary, n. devotee, votarist.
vote, n. suffrage; ballot, ticket; referendum, plebiscite. Associated words: enfranchise, enfranchisement, disenfranchise, disenfranchisement, suffragist, elect, election electoral, electorate, acclamation, franchise, poll.
vote, v. (Colloq.) declare.
voter, n. elector, suffragist.
voters, n. pl. electorate.
voting place. poll.
vouch, v. attest, corroborate, warrant.
voucher, n. attestator.
vow, n. pledge. Associated words: votary, votive.
vowel, n. Associated words: macron, breve, diæresis.
vulgar, a. unrefined, plebeian, ignoble, low-born, coarse, inelegant, ribald, risque, broad, gross. Antonyms: refined, dainty, pure, chaste.
vulgarity, n. unrefinement, dowdiness.
vulgar-looking, a. dowdy.
Wabble, v. stagger, vacillate, reel.
waddle, v. toddle, totter.
wade, v. ford.
wading birds. Grallatores, Grallæ.
wading place. ford.
wager, v. bet, stake, pledge, hazard, speculate.
wages, n. compensation, pay, earnings, hire, salary.
waggery, n. humor, facetiousness, pleasantry, drollery, jesting, jocularity.
waggish, a. frolicsome, facetious, roguish, arch, sportive, prankish.
wagon, n. vehicle, wain; caravan, van.
wagon-maker, n. wainwright, wagonwright, wheelwright.
waif, n. estray, stray, wastrel.
waist, n. corsage, bodice; blouse, basque; girth (waist measure).
waistcoat, n. vest, doublet.
wait, v. tarry, stay, linger, await, abide; (Colloq.) delay, postpone, defer, procrastinate.
wait, n. waiting, delay, halt, stop; ambush, ambuscade.
waiter, n. attendant, servitor, lackey, garçon (Fr.); salver, tray.
waiting, n. tarrying, lingering, delay; abeyance, suspension, quiescence.
waiting-room, n. station, depot.
waive, v. relinquish, forego, surrender.
wake, v. awake, waken; arouse, rouse, revive.
wakeful, a. sleepless, insomnolent; vigilant, watchful.
wakefulness, n. sleeplessness, insomnia, insomnolence; vigilance, watchfulness.
waken, v. awake, awaken, wake.
Wales, n. Cambria (Ancient name).
walk, n. stroll, promenade, constitutional; gait, step, carriage; sidewalk, mall; ambulatory. Associated words: ambulant, ambulatory, ambulatorial, peripatetic pedometer, odograph, gradient, gravigrade, stilts, shambling, shuffling, locomotion, alure.
walk, v. stroll, tramp, stride, plod, trudge, tread, ambulate, pace, march, promenade, shamble, stalk, strut, step, bundle, toddle, daddle, waddle, shuffle, gad, galavant, hike, saunter, foot it, slouch; perambulate (walk through or about).
walker, n. pedestrian, ambulator, perambulator.
walking, n. ambulation, pedestrianism, strolling, perambulation.
walking papers. dismissal.
wall, n. foundation; partition; defense, breastwork, rampart, battlement, bulwark, parapet, fortification. Associated words: mural, murage dado, buttress, coping, intramural, wainscot, alcove, niche, abutment, pointing, fresco, studding, underpinning.
wallet, n. pocket-book, purse.
wallow, v. welter, flounder; grovel.
walrus, n. morse, sea-cow.
wand, n. verge, rod; baton, mace, truncheon.
wander, v. ramble, range, rove, stroll, roam, stray, straggle, itinerate, saunter, gad, peregrinate, digress, expatiate; depart, deviate, swerve.
wanderer, n. nomad, vagrant, rover, rambler, stroller, peregrinator, vagabond, itinerant, pilgrim, waif, wayfarer, landloper.
wandering, n. rambling, ranging, roving, strolling, itineracy, peregrination, pilgrimage; digression, expatiation, departure, deviation, divergence, errantry; aberration, delirium, raving, irrationality; divagation.
wandering, a. nomadic, migratory, itinerant, vagrant, vagabond, landloping, wayfaring, errant, unsettled, devious, excursive, digressive, deviating.
wane, v. decrease, diminish, fade.--n. decrease, diminution, decrescence.
want, n. deficiency, lack, dearth, scarcity, need, default, absence, shortness, inadequacy, paucity, insufficiency, scarceness; desideratum, requirement; destitution, distress, straits, privation, indigence, penury, poverty.
want, v. need, require; desire, wish, crave.
wanting, a. absent, lacking, missing, deficient, defective, needy, destitute.
wanton, a. unrestrained, uncontrolled, unchecked, unbridled undisciplined; luxuriant, rampant, exuberant, excessive, rank; dissolute, licentious, immoral, unchaste; frolicsome, playful, sportive; reckless, heedless, inconsiderate.
war, n. hostilities, warfare, strife, battle, crusade, belligerence. Associated words: Bellona, Mars, belligerent, bellicose, tactics, casus belli, strategy, cartel, campaign, mobilize, mobilization, demobilize, demobilization, munitions, disarmament.
war, v. contend, fight, combat, militate, wage war.
warble, v. trill, carol, yodel.
warble, n. trill, carol, yodel.
warcry, n. slogan, war-whoop.
ward, n. guardianship, guard, tutelage; protégé. Associated word: pupillary.
ward, v. ward off, fend off, avert, parry, repel, forefend.
warden, n. church warden; keeper, custodian, curator, warder.
warder, n. keeper, guard, warden; mace, truncheon; turnkey.
warding off. parry, evasion, averting.
wardship, n. pupillage, pupillarity, minority.
warehouse, n. storehouse, depot, magazine, repository, depository.
wares, n. pl. merchandise, commodities.
warfare, n. war, hostilities; crusade, struggle, strife, militancy.
war-horse, n. charger; Bucephalus.
warlike, a. military, martial, belligerent, bellicose.
warm, a. lukewarm, tepid, thermal; zealous, ardent, fervent, sanguine, fervid, glowing, eager, enthusiastic; temperate, genial; irascible, choleric, irritable, peppery, fiery; vehement, violent, heated, passionate, animated, spirited; sultry, muggy; incalescent.
warm, v. heat.
warm-blooded, a. homothermous, homoiothermal.
warmed over. réchauffé.
warm room of Roman baths. tepidarium.
warmth, n. heat; ardor, fervor, passion, earnestness, fervency, cordiality, vehemence, enthusiasm, zeal, empressement.
warn, v. admonish, caution, notify, premonish, apprise, advise, forewarn, signal.
warner, n. admonisher, monitor, sentinel, sentry, mentor.
warning, a. cautioning, monitory, mentorial, monitorial, ominous, admonitory, admonishing.
warning, n. premonition, forewarning; caution, admonition, monition; portent, omen, beacon.
warp, v. twist, bend, bulge; pervert, distort, bias.
warped, a. twisted, bent, bulging, protuberant, distorted.
warp thread. stamen.
warrant, v. guarantee, assure, insure; justify, defend; affirm, attest, vouch.
warrant, n. commission, authority; guaranty, surety; voucher, attestation.
warrantable, a. justifiable, defensible.
warranty, n. guaranty, guarantee, security, warrant.
wart, n. excrescence, ecphyma, verruca; condyloma (venereal wart). Associated word: catheretic.
warty, a. excrescent, verrucose, verruciform.
wary, a. guarded, cautious, circumspect, careful, vigilant.
wash, v. lave, bathe, absterge, foment, rinse; launder.
wash, n. lotion.
washbowl, n. lavatory, washbasin, laver.
washerwoman, n. laundress.
washhouse, n. laundry.
washing, n. ablution, bath, bathing, lavement; abstersion, detersion, fomentation; laundering, laundry.
washing away. detergent, abluent.
washing soda. sodium carbonate.
washstand, n. commode.
wasp, n. Associated words: vespid, vespiform, vespine, vespoid.
waspish, a. irascible, irritable, snappish, touchy, petulant.
wasp nest. vespiary.
waste, v. squander, misspend, fritter away, dissipate, dawdle; desolate, devastate, despoil, sack, pillage, ravage, strip; decline, decay, pine, wither, dwindle, molder.
waste, a. refuse, rejected, unused, unproductive, untilled, inarable, worthless; desolate, devastated, stripped, ravaged, pillaged; superfluous, exuberant, unnecessary; excrementitious.
waste, n. wasting, squandering, dissipation, decrement, prodigality; wilderness, wild, desert; remnants, offal, recrement, garbage, refuse, rubbish; desolation, devastation rapine, ravage, havoc, destruction, sacking, pillage, despoliation.
wasteful, a. extravagant, prodigal, unthrifty, improvident infrugal, lavish, thriftless.
waster, n. spendthrift, prodigal, squanderer.
wasting, n. squandering, dissipation, prodigality, improvidence; emaciation, decline.
watch, n. vigil, outlook, attention; watcher, patrol, watchman, sentry, perdue, picket, guard, sentinel, vedette, guardsman, Argus.
watch, n. horologe.
watch, v. keep vigil, be on the lookout, keep guard.
watchful, a. vigilant, heedful, attentive, alert, circumspect wary, Argus-eyed.
watchfulness, n. vigilance, circumspection, wariness, heedfulness.
watching, n. vigil, vigilance; espionage, surveillance.
watchmaker, n. horologer, horologist.
watchmaking, n. horology, horography.
watchman, n. sentinel, guard, Argus, Cerberus. See watch.
watch-pocket, n. fob.
watch-tower, n. observatory.
watchword, n. countersign, password, shibboleth, parole.
water, v. irrigate.
Water, n. Associated words: aquatic, aquarium, aqueduct, alluvial, alluvion, affusion, aquapuncture, alluvium, diluvium, anhydrous, enhydrous, amphibious, amphibian, aquiferous, aquiform, aquiparous, buoy, coffer, cofferdam, debacle, cataclysm, dehydrate, dehydration, irrigation, diluvian, douche, glairin, baregin, hydragogue, hydrant, hydrate, hydration, hydrated, hydraulicon, hydrodynamics, hydroextractor, hydrogen, oxygen, hydrognosy, hydrographer, hydrography, hydrologist, reservoir, hydrolysis, hydromania, hydromaniac, hydraulic, hydromancy, hydromechanics, hydrometry, hydrophanous, hygrophilous, hydrorrhea, hydroscope, hydrostatic, hydrofuge, hydrostatics, hydrotic, hydrotherapeutics, hydrous, siphon, seepage, philhydrous, sluice, turbine, hydraulics, current, undertow.
water, n. lymph; serum.
water-bearer, n. Aquarius.
water bottle. carafe.
water brash. water-qualm, pyrosis.
water-clock, n. clepsydra; hydroscope.
water-closet, n. privy.
water color. aquarelle.
water-course, n. channel, ditch, canal, moat, sewer, drain, aqueduct, gutter, trench, wady.
water-cure, n. hydropathy.
water-doctor, n. hydropathist.
waterfall, n. cascade, cataract, fall, linn.
wateriness, n. aquosity.
waterless, a. anhydrous.
water-lily, n. Nymphæ.
waterman, n. ferryman, boatman.
water-nymph, n. Naiad, hydriad.
water on the brain. hydrocephalus.
water on the chest. hydrothorax.
water plant. aquatic, hydrophyte. Associated word: hydrophytology.
water-pox, n. varicella, swine-pox.
water-qualm, n. water brash, pyrosis.
watershed, n. divide.
water sports. aquatics.
water wheel. tympanum, turbine.
watery, a. aqueous; ichorous, serous, sanious.
watery discharge. hydrorrhea.
wattle, n. gill, caruncle.
wave, n. undulation, surge, eagre, bore, swell, billow, breaker; ripple; whitecap; signal, flourish; swelling, excitement, tide. Associated words: rote, trough, rut, crest.
wave, v. undulate, float, flutter; flourish, brandish; beckon, signal.
waver, v. vacillate, fluctuate, veer, oscillate, hesitate.
wavering, a. vacillating, fluctuating, oscillating, unstable, irresolute, uncertain.
wavering, n. vacillation, fluctuation, indecision, irresolution, oscillation, hesitancy.
wavy, a. undulatory, undulating, undulated.
wax, n. beeswax; spermaceti; adipocere (grave wax); ozocerite, mineral wax. Associated-words: cerography, ceroplastics, ceroplasty, cerograph, cerographist, cerotic, ceromancy, cerate, encaustic, ceroma, inceration, cerotene, incerative, cerographic, ceroplastic, cetin.
wax, v. cere; increase, grow, develop, become larger.
waxy, a. waxen, ceraceous, ceral; facile, pliable, fictile, impressible, plastic.
way, n. manner, method, mode, fashion, style, guise, custom, habitude, wont, practice; distance, interval, space; passage, transit, progression, advance; means, device, expedient, contrivance; direction; road, track, path, thoroughfare.
wayfarer, n. traveler, pilgrim, passenger, wanderer.
wayfaring, a. traveling, passing.
way in. entrance.
waylay, v. ambush.
way out. exit, egress.
wayward, a. disobedient, perverse, froward, willful, intractable, headstrong.
waywiser, n. odometer, pedometer, perambulator.
weak, a. feeble, infirm, debilitated, weakly, fragile, delicate, invalid, emasculated, enervated; vulnerable, assailable, unguarded, unprotected, exposed; frail, pliant, tender; peccable, fallible, errable, erring, indiscreet; impotent, ineffectual, inefficacious, ineffective; illogical, unsustained, inconclusive, lame, unsatisfactory; vacillating, irresolute, wavering, unstable; diluted, thin, insipid, vapid; slight, gauzy, sleazy, flimsy, brittle, fragile; unsound, unsubstantial, defective, unsafe, rickety.
weaken, v. debilitate, enfeeble, enervate, unnerve, emasculate, incapacitate, sap, undermine, unman, exhaust, deplete; dilute, thin; invalidate; impair, diminish, lower, decline.
weakening, a. debilitant; diluent, attenuant.
weak-kneed, a. yielding, irresolute, pliant, vacillating.
weak-minded, a. feeble-minded, foolish, shallow, witless.
weakness, n. debility, feebleness, infirmity, enervation, debilitation, frailness, fragility, impotence, invalidism; vulnerability, accessibility, exposedness; foible, defect, deficiency; peccability, errability, fallibility; inefficacy, ineffectiveness; vacillation, indecision, instability, irresolution; atony, asthenia.
wealth, n. opulence, affluence, riches, fortune, competence. Associated words: economics, Pluto, plutocracy, plutology, chrysology, chrematistics, plutomania, plutocrat, plutocratic, magnate.
wealthy, a. opulent, affluent, rich, capitalistic, independent.
wean, v. disaccustom, alienate, detach.
weaning, n. ablactation; alienation.
wear away. abrade, fray, erode, corrode, fret, chafe.
wearied, a. tired, fatigued, exhausted, weary, fagged, jaded.
weariness, n. fatigue, lassitude, languor, exhaustion, ennui.
wearing away. abrasion, attrition, detrition, corrosion, erosion.
weary, a. tired, fatigued, worn, exhausted, wearied, spent, fagged, ennuyé.
weary, v. tire, fatigue, exhaust, jade, fag, bore.
weather, n. Associated words: meteorology, meteorologist, barometer.
weather-cock, n. weather-vane.
weave, v. entwine, interlace, mat, plait, braid, plat, fabricate.
weaving, n. Associated words: loom, textile, textorial, textrine, spindle.
web-footed, a. palmiped, palmated, fin-toed, lobate.
wedding, n. nuptials, marriage, espousals.
wedge, n. embolus, chock, quoin, scotch.
wedge-shaped, a. cuneiform, sphenoid.
weed, v. uproot, extirpate.
weeding, n. sarculation; extirpation, rooting out.
weeding machine. aberuncator.
week day. Associated word: ferial.
weekly, a. hebdomadary, hebdomadal.
weeping, n. sobbing, crying.
weevil, n. curculio.
weighable, a. ponderable.
weight, n. heaviness, ponderousness, gravity, ponderosity, poise, heft; encumbrance, pressure, incubus, clog, burden; importance, consequence, moment, significance.
weighty, a. heavy, ponderous, massive, onerous; momentous, important, pregnant, serious.
welcome, n. greeting, salutation.
welfare, n. prosperity, happiness, weal, success, well-being.
well, a. good, desirable, fortunate, expedient, favorable, beneficial, advantageous; healthy, sound, undiseased, hale, hearty.
Welsh, a. Cymric, Cambrian.--n. Cymry.
Welshman, n. Cambrian.
welter, v. wallow, flounder, roll.
west, n. Associated words: Occident, Hesperian, Hesperus, Hesperides.
western, a. occidental.
west wind. Associated word: favonian.
wet, a. damp, moist, humid, soaked.
wet, v. moisten, dampen, soak, imbrue, saturate.
wet blanket. check, damper, discouragement.
whalebone, n. baleen.
whale oil. train oil.
wharf, n. pier, quay, dock; jetty.
whatnot, a. étagère, cabinet.
wheat, n. Associated word: mattamore. See grain.
wheedle, v. cajole, blandish, inveigle.
wheedling, n. cajolery, blandishment, inveiglement.
wheel, n. cycle; truckle, caster, roulette, rowel; gear, cogwheel, miter wheel; pulley, sheave (wheel of a pulley). Associated words: spoke, felly, hub, strake, tire, straddle, cog, sprocket, linchpin, arbor, axle, axletree, sprag, traction, trochilics, trochilic, ratchet, flange, skid, rotiform.
whetstone, n. oilstone. Associated word: coticular.
whey cure. serumtherapy, serotherapy.
whim, n. vagary, caprice, fancy, crotchet, freak, humor, maggot, notion, quirk.
whimsey, n. whim.
whimsical, a. capricious, vagarious, notional, crotchety, fantastic.
whine, n. whimper, puling, complaint.--v. whimper, pule, complain.
whiningly, a. plaintively, querulously.
whinny, n. and v. neigh.
whip, v. lash, beat, thrash, flog, drub, punish, chastise, trounce, flagellate, castigate, scourge, switch, spank, maul, fustigate; (Slang) conquer, defeat; jerk, snatch, whisk.
whip, n. horsewhip, crop, scourge, lash, switch, rattan, thong, knout, cat-o-nine-tails, quirt (rawhide); koorbash (Africa).
whipping, n. chastisement, castigation, punishment, scourging, trouncing, flagellation, beating, lashing, fustigation, flogging, mauling; defeat.
whippletree, n. whiffletree, swingletree, singletree.
whirl, v. spin, revolve, twirl, rotate, gyrate, wheel, pirouette.
whirl, n. circumvolution, rotation, gyration, swirl.
whirling, a. spinning, rotating, vertiginous, gyratory.
whirling, n. spinning, rotation, gyration, turbination, pirouette.
whirlpool, n. maelstrom, vortex, eddy; Charybdis.
whirlwind, n. cyclone, typhoon.
whiskers, n. pl. beard; (of a cat) vibrissa.
whiskey, n. spiritus frumenti. Associated words: faints, distill, distiller, distillery, poteen, moonshine, moonshiner.
whisper, n. susurrus, susurration, whispering, sibilation; innuendo, suggestion, intimation.
whistling, n. rhonchus, râle (Med.).
whit, n. particle, atom, iota, jot, tittle, bit, mite, mote, ace, scintilla, scrap.
white, a. blanched, bleached, etiolate, pale; hoary.
white heat. incandescence.
white hot. incandescent.
white lead. ceruse, carbonate of lead.
white livered, a. cowardly, pusillanimous, dastardly.
whiten, v. bleach, blanch, pale, etiolate, decolorize.
whitening, n. bleaching, blanching, etiolation.
white race. Caucasian race.
whites, n. leucorrhea, fluor albus.
Whitsunday, n. Pentecost, Whitsuntide.
whole, a. all, total, entire; intact, complete, inviolate, integral, unbroken, unscathed, unabridged.
whole, n. sum, total, totality, all, aggregate, gross, integral. Antonyms: part, portion, fraction, disintegration.
wholeness, n. entirety, completeness, integrity. Associated words: integral, integrate, integration, integrant.
wholesome, a. healthy, salubrious, salutary, nutritious, beneficial. Antonyms: See unhealthy.
whoop, n. halloo, hoot, shout, yell.
whooping-cough, n. chin cough, pertussis.
whore, n. harlot, prostitute, strumpet, courtesan, wench, Cyprian, bawd, drab, punk, woman of ill fame, demirep.
whoredom, n. prostitution, fornication, lewdness, harlotry, bawdry.
whorehouse, n. brothel, bawdy-house.
whoremaster, n. lecher, fornicator, whoremonger; pimp, procurer, pander.
whoremonger, n. whoremaster, debauchee, rake, wencher.
whorish, a. lewd, incontinent, licentious, meretricious, libidinous.
wicked, a. sinful, iniquitous, evil, immoral, depraved, vicious, pernicious, abandoned, unrighteous, heinous, flagitious.
wickedness, n. iniquity, depravity, immorality, sinfulness, vice, infamy, atrocity, evil, offense, flagrancy, unrighteousness.
wide, a. broad: extensive, vast; comprehensive.
wide-awake, a. alert, keen, vigilant, watchful, wary, attentive.
widespread, a. prevalent, extended, extensive.
widow, n. relict. Associated words: viduage, dower weeds, widowhood.
width, n. breadth.
wife, n. spouse, consort, helpmate, partner. Associated words: uxoricide, uxorious, uxoriousness, coverture, dowry, polygamy, polygamist, monogamy, dower, dot, uxorial.
wig, n. peruke, toupee, periwig, toupet, jasey, scratch wig, bagwig.
wiggle, v. squirm, wriggle.
wigmaker, n. perruquier.
wigwam, n. tepee.
wild, a. untamed, undomesticated, feral, ferine; desert, waste, uncultivated, uninhabited; savage, ferocious, barbarous, uncivilized, cannibal; unrestrained, violent, turbulent, tempestuous, riotous, wanton, uncontrolled; visionary, bizarre, grotesque, impracticable; agrarian, agrestial.
wile, n. artifice, deception, guile, trick, ruse, craft.
will, n. volition, preference, choice; command, wish behest, order.
will, n. testament, devise. Associated words: intestate, intestacy, testate, testacy, testamentary, testator, testatrix, surrogate, bequeathable, bequeather, bequeathment, bequest, codicil, devisee, devisor, intestable, legacy, legatee, legator, testable, nuncupative.
will, v. bequeath, devise, leave; decree, ordain, direct, order; wish, desire, want.
willful, a. refractory, headstrong, perverse, disobedient, inflexible.
willing, a. disposed, voluntary, desirous.
willingness, n. readiness, disposition, alacrity.
will-o'-the-wisp, n. ignis fatuus, Jack-o'-lantern, Jack-with-a-lantern.
willow, n. osier. Associated words: osiery, osiered, salicaceous, salicin, withe, wicker.
willowy, a. lithe, graceful, pliant; osier, osiered.
wily, a. crafty, artful, intriguing, designing, tricky, insidious, politic.
wince, v. shrink, flinch, recoil.
wind, n. breeze, zephyr; draught; gale, squall; hurricane, tornado, cyclone, tempest, whirlwind, flurry; simoon, sirocco, monsoon, chinook, trade wind, levanter, typhoon, harmattan, solano. Associated words: anemology, anemography, anemometry, Typhon, Æolus, gust, æolian, bellows, cenemograph, anemophilous, fan, blast, æolic, sough, soughing, lee, leeward, windward, anemogram, anemograph.
wind, n. flatulence. Associated words: belch, belching, eructation, crepitus, ructation, tympany, carminative, flatulent, tympanitis.
wind, v. coil, twine, twist, wreathe; crook, meander, curve, deviate, sinuate, bend.
windflower, n. anemone.
wind gauge. anemometer.
winding, n. convolution, labyrinth, detour, meander, meandering, crook, bend, curve, angle, sinuation, contortion.
winding, a. circuitous, labyrinthian, meandering, spiral, serpentine, tortuous, deviating.
winding-up, n. conclusion, settlement, dénouement, finale, end.
windlass, n. winch.
window, n. casement, ventilator, transom, fenestella, oriel, dormer window, bay window, luthern, rose window, moucharaby, œil-de-bœuf, lunette window. Associated words: fenestral, fenestrated, fenestration, squilgee, cancelli, tracery, mullion, mullioned, sash, sill, reveal, jamb, foliation, lintel, rabbet, splay, louver boarding, interfenestration, lattice, shutter.
windpipe, n. trachea, weasand, throttle. Associated words: tracheal, tracheary, tracheitis, tracheotomy, tracheocele, tracheoscopy, bronchus.
windy, a. squally, gusty, tempestuous; flatulent.
wine, n. Associated words: vinous, vintage, viniculture, vintner, vinometer, mull, stum, œnology, œnophilist, vinaceous, flagon, lees, œnolin.
wine-bibber, n. tippler.
wing, n. pinion. Associated words: alary, alate, alation, elytra, neuration, shard.
wing, n. annex, ell; flank.
wink, v. nictate, nictitate; overlook, ignore, connive at.
winking, n. nictation, nictitation.
winning, n. achievement, gaining.
winning, a. charming, captivating, winsome, engaging.
winter, n. Associated words: hibernation, hibernal, hibernacle, hyemation, hibernaculum, hyemal, brumal.
winter, v. hibernate.
wipe, v. swab; expunge, efface, obliterate, erase.
wipe, n. gibe, taunt, jeer, sarcasm.
wireless telegraphy. Associated word: marconigram.
wire-pulling, n. intrigue.
wisdom, n. lore, learning, sapience, erudition, knowledge, enlightenment.
wise, a. erudite, sapient, learned, philosophical, enlightened, sage; sagacious, expedient.
wiseacre, n. pretender, sciolist, ignoramus.
wisely, adv. prudently, judiciously, sapiently, sagaciously.
wise man. Solon, sage, oracle, luminary, authority, philosopher, Nestor, savant, philomath, scholar.
wise men (of the East). Magi.
wish, v. desire, aspire; invoke, imprecate; congratulate, felicitate (wish happiness to).
wish, n. desire, longing, aspiration, hankering.
wishbone, n. merry thought, furculum; fourchette.
wishing, n. longing, aspiration.
wit, n. sense, understanding; repartee, drollery, facetiousness, jocularity, waggishness; wag, humorist.
witch, n. sorceress, enchantress; hag; siren; warlock (male witch).
witchcraft, n. sorcery, enchantments, necromancy, black art, conjuration, incantation; fascination, witchery.
witchery, n. witchcraft, sorcery; fascination, spell, charm, entrancement.
witch-hazel, n. hamamelis.
witching, a. bewitching, fascinating, charming.
withdraw, v. retire, retreat, quit; recall, retract, recant, disavow.
withdrawal, n. retirement, retreat; retraction, recantation, disavowal.
withering, a. blighting, blasting, marcescent.
with foal. pregnant.
withhold, v. refrain, abstain; refuse, deny.
withholding, n. restraint, repression, abstinence; refusal, denial.
witness, v. testify, bear witness, confirm, corroborate, attest.
witness, n. attestation, testimony, evidence; eye-witness, deponent, attestor.
witty, a. facetious, droll, sharp.
witty sayings. witticisms, conceits, facetiæ, bons mots.
wizard, n. wonder-worker, magician, conjurer, sorcerer, enchanter, necromancer.
wizardry, n. wonder-working, sorcery, necromancy.
wolf, n. coyote; werewolf, lycanthrope.
wolfish, a. lupine, ravenous.
woman, n. dame, matron; mulier; adult. Associated words: gynecology, gynecologist, gyniatrics, gyneocracy, gynecocracy, gynocracy, gynecian, gynarchy, gyneolatry, gyneolater, gynephobia, gynecopathy, philogynist, philogyny, misogyny, femicide, matriarchy, gynæceum.
woman-hater, n. misogynist.
womanhood, n. womanliness, femininity, feminality.
womanish, a. effeminate, feminine.
womb, n. uterus, venter, matrix, matrice. Associated words: uterine, metritis.
wonder, n. surprise, astonishment, amazement, awe; phenomenon, miracle, prodigy, marvel, rarity.
wonder, v. marvel.
wonderful, a. marvelous, wondrous, phenomenal, miraculous, portentous.
wonder-worker, n. wizard, magician, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, necromancer.
wonder-working, n. wizardry, magic, sorcery, thaumaturgy, necromancy.
wonder-working, a. magical, thaumaturgic, miraculous, necromantic, wizard.
wont, n. habit, custom, practice.
wonted, a. accustomed, customary, usual, habitual.
wood, n. timber; duramen, heartwood; alburnum, sapwood; kindling, fuel. Associated words: kyanize, fissile, fissility, lignification, lignify, ligniferous, lignescent, lignite, lignivorous, xylopyrography, pyrography, veneer, cord.
wood, n. forest, wold, grove, woodland, timberland, copse.
woodbine, n. honeysuckle, caprifole, eglantine; Virginia creeper.
woodcoal, n. charcoal; lignite, brown coal.
wood-engraving, n. xylography; woodcut.
wooden shoe. sabot, clog.
woodman, n. forester.
wood-nymph, n. dryad, hamadryad.
woods, n. pl. forest.
wood-sugar, n. xylose.
woody, a. wooden, ligneous; sylvan, bosky.
wooing, n. courtship.
wool, n. fleece; worsted, merino, pelotage; mortling, Associated words: laniferous, lanifical, lanigerous, lanolin, depilate, depilation, depilatory.
woolly, a. downy, fleecy, nappy, lanate.
word, n. term, vocable; etymon, root; derivative; signal, order, command; promise, affirmation, parole.
wordbook, n. dictionary, lexicon, thesaurus, glossary.
word for word. verbatim, literally.
wordiness, n. verbosity, prolixity, verbiage, pleonasm, redundancy.
wording, n. phrasing.
words, n. pl. phraseology; vocabulary. Associated words: glossary, glossarist, glossography, glossology, glossologist, lexicology, lexicologist, etymology, etymologist, etymologize, neology, lexicography, terminology, paronomasia, pun, punning, onomatopœoea, syncope, syncopation, literal, literally, literalism, transliteration, verbal, verbalist, verbalism, battology, logomachy, logomachist, verbarium, apocope, kyriology, metonomy, autonomasia, multiloquence, perissology, purism, purist, elision, polysynthesis, coin, coinage, apheresis, aphetic, aphetism, aphesis, onomatopoiesis, metaphrase, acrostic, rebus, synecdoche, verbicide, verbomaniac, locution.
words of an opera. libretto. Associated word: librettist.
wordy, a. diffuse, prolix, verbose, redundant, pleonastic. Antonyms: terse, succinct, laconic.
work, v. toil, labor, strive; drudge, slave; operate, manipulate, perform; ferment, effervesce. Antonyms: shirk, idle, dabble, loaf, soldier (Colloq.).
work, n. industry, toil, labor, employment, occupation; effort, exertion, striving; drudgery; diligence, assiduity; business, duty, job, task; magnum opus. Antonyms: idleness, dalliance, trifling, sloth, sluggardy, truancy, dabbling, dilettanteism, relaxation, leisure, vacation.
work-bag, n. reticule.
worker, n. artisan, artificer, craftsman, handicraftsman, journeyman, mechanic, workman, laborer, operative, industrial. Antonyms: idler, drone, dabbler, sluggard, truant, dilettante, loafer, shirker.
working, a. industrious.
working together. coöperation; collusion; concurrence; collaboration.
workman, n. artisan, artificer, craftsman, journeyman. See worker.
work together. coöperate; collude; concur; collaborate.
world, n. earth, creation, universe, cosmos; globe; planet; macrocosm, microcosm. Associated words: cosmology, cosmologist, cosmography, cosmogony, cosmographer, cosmogonist, cosmometry, cosmoplastic, cosmic, cosmolatry, cosmopolite, cosmopolitan, cataclysm, ante-mundane, secularize, secularization, secularist, supermundane, geography, geology, paleontology, tellurian, telluric.
wordliness, n. secularity, secularism.
worldly, a. terrestrial, earthly, mundane, terrene; secular, temporal.
worldly-minded, a. irreligious, sordid, groveling.
worm, v. wriggle, insinuate.
worm killer. vermicide.
worm medicine. vermifuge, anthelmintic, helminthagogue.
worms, n. pl. Associated words: helminthology, helminthologist, vermeology, vermeologist, vermifugal, verminivorous, vermin, vermiculate, vermiculated, vermiculation, tænifuge, helminthic, helminthiasis, vermicious, vermicular, vermiculose, anthelmintic, wormy.
worm-shaped, a. vermiform, vermicular, wormlike.
worn away. eroded, abraded, attrite.
worry, v. harass, vex, annoy, torment, tease, fret, trouble, pester, badger, harry, importune; be anxious, be solicitous, fret.
worry, a. anxiety, fretting, apprehension, concern, solicitude. Antonym: unconcern.
worrying, a. anxious, distressing, carking.
worship, n. adoration, homage; idolatry, deification, apotheosis. Associated words: liturgies, liturgy, ritual, cult, fetish, fetishism, totem, totemism.
worship, v. adore, revere; idolize, deify, apotheosize, glorify.
worst, v. defeat, vanquish, conquer, overcome, overthrow, discomfit, rout.
worth, n. worthiness, excellence, virtue, merit, integrity, honor; value.
worthless, a. valueless, good-for-nothing, futile, trashy, unworthy, trumpery, scurvy, contemptible.
worthy, a. meritorious, excellent, estimable, deserving, reputable, exemplary, upright.
would-be, a. self-styled, soi-disant, presumptuous.
wound, n. hurt, injury, scath, lesion, trauma; traumatism. Associated words: vulnerable, vulnerability, invulnerable, invulnerability, vulnerary, vulnific, sanies, sanious, pledget, spleget, dossil, ichor, probe, antiseptic, inviolable, violable, tent, autoplasty.
wound, v. injure, scath, hurt, maim, disable.
wrangle, n. altercation, dispute, squabble, brawl, bickering, quarrel.
wrangle, v. altercate, dispute, squabble, bicker, quarrel.
wrangler, n. disputant.
wrap, v. infold, swathe, bemuffle, envelop, muffle, swaddle.
wrapper, n. house-dress; negligee, kimono, peignoir; envelope, wrap, covering, capsule; tillot.
wrath, n. See anger.
wreath, n. garland, chaplet, festoon, crown.
wreck, n. desolation, ruin, havoc, devastation, ravage debris, derelict.
wreck, v. demolish, destroy, ruin, shatter, strand, founder, undo, raze.
wrest, v. wrench, wring, extort; distort, pervert, garble, falsify, misconstrue.
wretch, n. outcast, pariah, pilgarlic, vagabond, knave, rogue, scoundrel, caitiff, miscreant, scapegrace, villain, rascal, renegade, reprobate, rake, scullion, poltroon, varlet, ronion, libertine, blackguard, cullion, bezonian.
wretched, a. miserable, unhappy; contemptible, abject, despicable, paltry.
wring, v. writhe, squeeze, pinch; distort, pervert, wrest, exact, extort.
wrinkle, n. corrugation, pucker, crease, furrow, rumple, crinkle, ruck; (Colloq.) notion, fancy, whim, caprice, vagary, freak, whimsey; pl. crow's feet.
wrinkle, v. rumple, pucker, corrugate, crease, cockle, ruck, crumple.
wrinkled, a. corrugated, rumpled, puckered, cockled, creased, rugous.
wrist, n. carpus. Associated words: carpal, carpale.
write, v. inscribe, indite; superscribe (write on the top or outside of anything); subscribe.
writer, n. scribe, scrivener, penman, secretary, amanuensis, correspondent, essayist, clerk, copyist, author, hack, calligrapher.
writing, n. handwriting, chirography, penmanship, hand, calligraphy; document, writ, indenture, debenture, certificate, charter, holograph; inscription, superscription, subscription. Associated words: graphology, agraphia, graphomania, cacoëthes scribendi, cursive, uncial, clerical, stylus, planchette, scotograph script, literary, cacography.
writing-desk, n. secretary, escritoire.
writing-room, n. scriptorium.
written above. superscript, suprascript.
written under. subscript, subscribed.
wrong, a. immoral, bad, wicked, sinful, evil, improper, criminal, vicious, unjust, contraband, wrongful, iniquitous, blameworthy, reprehensible, base, crooked, sinister; erroneous, mistaken, untrue, false, inaccurate, inexact, incorrect; inappropriate, unsuitable; reverse.
wrong, n. injustice, inequity, oppression, disservice, trespass, transgression, injury, tort, offense, grievance, detriment; error, falsity; immorality, vice, iniquity, sin, evil, improbity, guilt, misdoing, malpractice, offense, delinquency, peccancy, dereliction, mischief, obliquity, misdemeanor.--adv. amiss, erroneously.
wrong, v. cheat, damnify, defraud, maltreat, abuse.
wrong-doer, n. sinner, criminal, culprit, delinquent, offender, malefactor, transgressor, miscreant, profligate, pervert, crook, prevaricator.
wrong-doing, n. misdemeanor, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, dereliction, iniquity, sin, immorality, wickedness, indiscretion, prevarication, chicanery, delinquency, transgression, graft, malfaction, demerit, default.
wrong-timed, a. ill-timed, inopportune, unseasonable.
wrought, a. worked, elaborated, finished.
wrought up. excited, perturbed, distracted, discomposed, agitated.
wry, a. twisted, distorted, awry; wrested, perverted.
wryneck, n. torticollis.
X-ray, n. the Röntgen ray. Associated words: fluoroscope, fluoroscopy, cryptoscopy, cryptoscope.
Y. Associated words: ypsiloid, ypsiliform.
yank, n. (Colloq.) pull, jerk, twitch.--v. pull, jerk, twitch, snatch.
yard, n. three feet; enclosure, court, area, garth, courtyard, quadrangle, curtilage (Law).
yarn, n. worsted, warp, abb, spinel. Associated word: skein.
yawn, v. gape, oscitate.
yawn, n. gape, gaping, yawning, oscitation, oscitancy.
yawning, a. gaping, oscitant.
yearbook, n. annual.
yearly, a. annual, anniversary.--adv. annually.
yearn, v. long, desire, hanker after, pine.
yearning, n. longing, hankering, pining.
yeast, n. harm, leaven, ferment.
yeasty, a. barmy.
yell, n. outcry, scream, shriek, howl, yowl, vociferation.
yell, v. scream, shriek, screech, bawl, howl, yowl, vociferate, hoot.
yellow, a. golden, sallow, tawny, ecru, amber, fallow, fulvous, croconic, jaundiced, fulvid, buff, luteous, saffron, ocherous, lurid.
yellowbird, n. goldfinch.
yellow race. Mongols, Mongolians.
yellows, n. jaundice; jeterus.
yes, adv. yea, aye, ay.--n. affirmative, consent.
yield, v. produce, pay, return; submit, surrender, succumb, give up, capitulate; resign, relinquish, cede, forego, waive; concede, admit, grant, allow. Antonyms: resist, retain, withhold, refuse, withstand.
yield, n. product, crop, harvest.
yielding, n. production, bearing, surrender, relinquishment, submission, compliance, acquiescence, succumbing.
yielding, a. compliant, tractable, submissive, amenable, unresisting, docile, indulgent, irresolute, facile; plastic, fictile, pliant, flexible. Antonyms: See unyielding.
yoke, n. oxbow and bar, crosspiece; team, span, pair, couple; bond, link, chain, coupling.
yoke, v. couple, join, unite, link, hitch together; subject, enslave.
yokel, n. bumpkin, boor, rustic.
yolk, n. yelk, vitellus, oviplasma.
young, a. juvenile, youthful, immature, adolescent.
young, n. offspring. Associated words: beget, prolific, fecundity, procreation, fetus, brood, generation, fetiferous, pregnant, pregnancy.
younger, a. junior.
youngest born. Associated word: postremogeniture.
youth, n. juvenility, youthfulness; adolescence, teens, minority, nonage, juniority; young man, lad, boy, stipling, cadet, minor, juvenile, adolescent. Associated words: rejuvenescence, rejuvenation, rejuvenate, rejuvenescent, rejuvenating, juvenescence, juvenescent.
youthful, a. immature, juvenile, adolescent, boyish. Antonyms: adult, manly, mature.
Z. izzard, zed.
zany, n. jester, buffoon, clown, harlequin, merry-an-drew.
zanyism, n. harlequinism, buffoonery, clownishness.
zeal, n. fervor, ardor, zealotry, intensity, passion, devotion, devotedness.
zealot, n. enthusiast, partisan, devotee, fanatic.
zealous, a. ardent, eager, strenuous, fervent, passionate, intense, devoted, impassioned.
zenith, n. culmination, pinnacle, acme, summit, apex. Antonym: nadir.
zero, n. cipher, nothing, naught.
zest, n. relish, flavor, taste; enjoyment, relish, gusto.
zinc, n. spelter.
automobile, n. motor car, autocar, motor. Associated words: garage, tonneau, carburetter, chassis, automobilist, chauffeur, mechanician.
baby carriage. perambulator.
balloon, n. Montgolfier (hot-air balloon). Associated words: parachute, inflate, inflation, deflate, deflation, dirigible.
birth rate. natality.
blood poisoning. pyæmia.
blue, n. indigo.
books, n. pl. Associated words: literature, literary, bibliomaniac, bibliophagist, bibliotaph, bookcraft, bookworm.
break up. disorganize, disrupt.
burglar, n. housebreaker, cracksman (Slang).
burglary, n. housebreaking. Associated word: burglarious.
buttonhole bouquet. boutonnière.
Christ, n. Jesus, the Savior, the Messiah, the Annointed, Immanuel, the Redeemer, God the Son, the Mediator, the Intercessor, the Advocate, Son of God, Son of Man, Lamb of God, Logos, the Word, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, King of Glory, Prince of Peace, Son of Righteousness, Light of the World, Good Shepherd, Incarnation, Hypostatic Union. Associated words: dominical, Christology, Christian, deicide, bambino, kenosis, psilanthropist, psilanthropy, Antichrist, christocentric, pietà.
coffee, n. Associated word: demi-tasse.
college student. undergraduate.
color, n. Associated words: polychrome, party-colored, variegated, variegation.
come back. return, recur.
coming back. return, recurrence.
coming down. descent.
coming up. ascent.
consumption, n. tuberculosis. Associated words: tubercular, tubercle, tuberculin, hectic, consumptive, pectoral.
crime, n. Associated words: accessory, accomplice, perpetrate, perpetration, perpetrator, incorrigible.
date, n. Associated words: chronology, chronological, chronologist, antedate, antedating, prolepsis, metachronism, prochronize, prochronism.
death, n. Associated words: mortuary, rigor mortis.
death rate. mortality.
die sooner than. predecease.
electricity, n. Associated words: volt, voltage, ohm, kilowatt, ampere, amperage, armature, current, amperemeter, battery, dynamo, motor, voltaic, magnet, charge, coil, induction, conductor, nonconductor, insulate, insulation, farad, electrology, electric, electrician, electrify, electrification, electrifiable, electrition, electrization, electrizer, electrocute, electrocution, electrodynamics, electrodynamometer, electrotherapeutics, electrolysis.
electric light. incandescent light; arc light; electrolier (lamp or chandelier).
expression, n. locution.
famous person. celebrity, notable.
five, n. Associated word: quintan.
five-sided figure. pentagon.
funeral, n. exequies.
funeral procession. cortège.
going in. entrance, penetration.
going up. ascent, ascension, rise.
go through. penetrate, permeate.
go up. ascend, rise.
green, n. chlorine; chlorophyll.
happen again. recur.
high priest. pontiff, pontifex. Associated words: pontifical, pontificate, pontificals.
humming birds. Associated word: trochilidist.
imagination, n. fantasy.
improve, v. Antonyms: deteriorate, decline, degenerate.
iron, n. cast iron; wrought iron; pig iron; spiegel iron. Associated words: ferriferous, ferrous, billet, ore, forge, founder, foundry, ironmaster, ironmonger, ironmongery, ironsmith, ironware, irony, ironbound, pyrites, metallurgy, metallurgist, siderurgy, siderotechny, siderognost, siderurgical, malleable, smelt, smeltery, anneal, siderite, shadrach, larget, manganese, carbon, speiss.
jaw, n. Associated words: gnathic, gnathism, gnathic index, undershot, overshot, prognathous, prognathism, prognathic, orthognathous, orthognathism, mesognathous, gonion, paragnathous, inframaxillary, intermaxillary, submaxillary, maxillary, supramaxillary, admaxillary, lantern-jawed.
khan keeper. khanjee.
language, n. Associated words: purist, purism, euphuism, euphuist, euphuistic, euphuize, euphemism, euphemistic, euphemize, charism, locution, provincial, provincialism, localism, solecism, solecistical, barbarism, vulgarism.
lock-jaw, n. trismus.
marriage rate. nuptiality.
metals, n. pl. Associated words: metallic, metallurgy, metallography, metalliferous, metalliform, metalline, metallist, metallurgical, metallurgist, alloy, lode, dross recrement, bimetallic, bimetallism, monometallic, monometallism.
minerals, n. pl. Associated words: mineralogy, mineralogist, mineralize, mineralization, mineralogize, sclerometer, chondrule, paramorphism, geology.
mouth, n. Associated words: oral, oriform, stomatology, stomatoplasty, palate, stomatic, uvula, collutory, cibarian, grimace, splaymouth, buccal.
moving pictures. photo play. Associated words: cinematograph, biograph, vitascope, bioscope, kinematograph, kinetograph, kineograph, chronophotograph, film, scenario.
muscles, n. pl. Associated words: muscular, muscularity, myology, myolin, myography, myosin, myologist, tonicity, collagen, coördination, myotomy.
northern, a. hyperborean.
nose, n. Associated word: nasute.
occur again. recur.
older, a. senior, elder.
parent, n. father; mother; begetter; author, originator, source. Associated words: parental, parricide, foster, filiation, prepotent, prepotency.
people, n. Associated words: demotic, democratic, democracy, popular, lay, depopulate, depopulation.
philosopher's stone. Associated word: carmot.
pickpocket, n. dip. (Thieves' slang).
pillar saint. stylite, pillarist.
pistol case. holster.
prayer-book, n. breviary; missal.
priest, n. presbyter, minister, rector; padre (Sp. Amer. and India); flamen (Rom. Antiq.); hierophant; hierarch; hieromartyr. Associated words: acolyte, hierarchy, hierocracy, hagiarchy, exeat, hierarchism, hierarchal, hieratic, hagiocracy, unfrock, ordain, ordination, sacerdotalism, pontificate, pontific, pontifical, priesthood, Holy Orders, priestcraft, priest-ridden, soutane, cassock, vestments, canonicals, rectory, incumbent.
provincial words. Associated word: patavinity.
roundabout, a. circumlocutory, circumlocutional, periphrastic.
self-propelling, a. automatic.
sending, n. transmission.
shorthand writer. stenographer.
short pants. (Colloq.) knickerbockers, knee breeches.
speechifier, n. declaimer, haranguer, orator.
speechify, v. declaim, harangue.
speed gauge. speedometer.
stools, n. pl. dejecta.
strap-shaped, a. ligulate.
trade, n. craft.
vulgar person. vulgarian.
weal, n. prosperity, welfare, happiness.
willy-nilly, adv. willingly or unwillingly.
with a bad grace. reluctantly, perfunctorily, ungraciously.
with a good grace. graciously, willingly, gracefully.
wood-tar oil. creosote.
workmanship, n. craftsmanship.