existence, being, entity, ens, esse, subsistence
reality, actuality; positiveness
fact, matter of fact, sober reality; truth; actual existence
presence; coexistence
stubborn fact, hard fact; not a dream; no joke
center of life, essence, inmost nature, inner reality, vital principle, ontology
exist, be; have being
subsist, live, breathe, stand, obtain, be the case; occur; have place, prevail; find oneself, pass the time, vegetate
consist in, lie in; be comprised in, be contained in, be constituted by
arise; come forthbecome; bring into existence
abide, continue, endure, last, remain, stay
existent, under the sun; in existence
extant; afloat, afoot, on foot, current, prevalent; undestroyed
real, actual, positive, absolute; true; substantial, substantive; self-existing, self-existent; essential
well-founded, well-grounded; unideal, unimagined; not potential; authentic
in fact, in point of fact, in reality; indeed; de facto, ipso facto
inexistence; nonexistence, nonsubsistence; nonentity, nil; negativeness
nullity; nihility, nihilism; tabula rasa, blank; abeyance; absence; no such thing; nonbeing, nothingness, oblivion
annihilation; extinction; extinguishment, extirpation, Nirvana, obliteration
not exist; have no existence; be null and void; cease to exist; pass away, perish; be extinct, become extinct
die out; disappear; melt away, dissolve, leave not a rack behind; go, be no more; die
annihilate, render null, nullify; abrogate; destroy; take away; remove; obliterate, extirpate
inexistent, nonexistent; negative, blank; missing, omitted; absent; insubstantial, shadowy, spectral, visionary
unreal, potential, virtual; baseless, in nubibus; unsubstantial; vain
unborn, uncreated, unbegotten, unconceived, unproduced, unmade
perished, annihilated
extinct, exhausted, gone, lost, vanished, departed, gone with the wind; defunct
fabulous, ideal, supposititious
negatively, virtually
substantiality, hypostasis; person, being, thing, object, article, item; something, a being, an existence; creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum; matter; corporeity, element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality, substantialness, vital part
world; plenum
substantive, substantial; hypostatic; personal, bodily, tangible; corporeal
bodily, essentially
unsubstantiality, insubstantiality; nothingness, nihility; no degree, no part, no quantity, no thing
nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody; never a one, ne'er a one; no such thing, none in the world; nothing whatever, nothing at all, nothing on earth; not a particle; all talk, moonshine, stuff and nonsense; matter of no importance, matter of no consequence
thing of naught, man of straw, John Doe and Richard Roe, faggot voter; nominis umbra, nonentity; flash in the pan, vox et praeterea nihil
shadow; phantom; dream; ignis fatuus; air, thin air, vapor; bubble; mockery
hollowness, blank; void
inanity, fool's paradise
vanish, evaporate, fade, dissolve, melt away; disappear
unsubstantial; baseless, groundless; ungrounded; without foundation, having no foundation
visionary; immaterial; spectral; dreamy; shadowy; ethereal, airy; cloud built, cloud formed; gossamery, illusory, insubstantial, unreal
vacant, vacuous; empty; eviscerated; blank, hollow; nominal; null; inane
intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion; subjectiveness; ego; egohood; essence; essentialness
essential part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul; important part
principle, nature, constitution, character, type, quality, crasis, diathesis
habit; temper, temperament; spirit, humor, grain; disposition
endowment, capacity; capability
moods, declensions, features, aspects; peculiarities; idiosyncrasy, oddity; idiocrasy; diagnostics
be in the blood, run in the blood; be born so; be intrinsic
derived from within, subjective; intrinsic, intrinsical; fundamental, normal; implanted, inherent
essential, natural; innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; coeval with birth, genetous, haematobious, syngenic radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent; congenital, congenite; connate, running in the blood; ingenerate, ingenite; indigenous; in the grain
bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal; to the manner born; virtual
characteristic; invariable, incurable, incorrigible, ineradicable, fixed
at bottom, in the main, in effect, practically, virtually, substantially, au fond; fairly
extrinsicality, objectiveness, non ego; extraneousness; accident
derived from without; objective; extrinsic, extrinsical; extraneous
modal, adventitious; ascititious, adscititious; incidental, accidental, nonessential; contingent, fortuitous
implanted, ingrafted; inculcated, infused
state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim, mood, pickle, plight, temper; aspect, dilemma, pass, predicament
constitution, habitude, diathesis; frame, fabric; stamp, set, fit, mold, mould
mode, modality, schesis; form
tone, tenor, turn; trim, guise, fashion, light, complexion, style, character
be in a state, possess a state, enjoy a state, labor under a state
be on a footing, do, fare; come to pass
conditional, modal, formal; structural, organic
as the matter stands, as things are; such being the case
circumstance, situation, phase, position, posture, attitude, place, point; terms; regime; footing, standing, status
occasion, juncture, conjunctive; contingency
predicament; emergence, emergency; exigency, crisis, pinch, pass, push; occurrence; turning point
bearings, how the land lies
surroundings, context, environmenta; location
contingency, dependence; causation, attribution
circumstantial; given, conditional, provisional; critical; modal; contingent, incidental; adventitious; limitative
in the circumstances, under the circumstances
the circumstances, conditions; thus, in such wise
accordingly; that being the case, such being the case, in view of the circumstances; that being so, sith, since, seeing that
as matters stand; as things go, as times go
conditionally, provided, if, in case; if so, if so be, if it be so; depending on circumstances, in certain circumstances, under certain conditions; if it so happen, if it so turn out; in the event of; in such a contingency, in such a case, in such an event; provisionally, unless, without
according to circumstances, according to the occasion; as it may happen, as it may turn out, as it may be; as the case may be, as the wind blows; pro re nata
relation, bearing, reference, connection, concern
cognation; correlation; analogy; similarity; affinity, homology, alliance, homogeneity, association; approximation
filiation; interest; relevancy; dependency, relationship, relative position
comparison; ratio, proportion
link, tie, bond of union
relate to, refer to; bear upon, regard, concern, touch, affect, have to do with; pertain to, belong to, appertain to; answer to; interest
bring into relation with, bring to bear upon; connect, associate, draw a parallel; link
relative; correlative
cognate; relating to
relative to, in relation with, referable or referrible to; belonging to
appurtenant to, in common with
related, connected; implicated, associated, affiliated, allied to; en rapport, in touch with
approximative, approximating; proportional, proportionate, proportionable; allusive, comparable
in the same category; like; relevant; applicable, equiparant
thereof; as to, as for, as respects, as regards; about; concerning
anent; relating to, as relates to; with relation, with reference to, with respect to, with regard to; in respect of; while speaking of, a propos of; in connection with; by the way, by the by; whereas; for as much as, in as much as; in point of, as far as; on the part of, on the score of; quoad hoc; pro re nata; under the head of
of; in the matter of, in re
irrelation, dissociation; misrelation; inapplicability; inconnection; multifariousness; disconnection; inconsequence, independence; incommensurability; irreconcilableness; heterogeneity; unconformity; irrelevancy, impertinence, nihil ad rem; intrusion
non-pertinence
have no relation to; have no bearing upon, have no concern with, have no business with; not concern
have no business there, have nothing to do with, intrude
bring in head and shoulders, drag in head and shoulders, lug in head and shoulders
irrelative, irrespective, unrelated; arbitrary; independent, unallied; unconnected, disconnected; adrift, isolated, insular; extraneous, strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic
not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous; unconformable
irrelevant, inapplicable; not pertinent, not to the, purpose; impertinent, inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes; aside from the purpose, away from the purpose, foreign to the purpose, beside the purpose, beside the question, beside the transaction, beside the point; misplaced; traveling out of the record
remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there, quite another thing; detached, segregate; disquiparant
multifarious; discordant
incidental, parenthetical, obiter dicta, episodic
by the way, by the by; en passant, incidentally; irrespectively
without reference to, without regard to; in the abstract; a se
consanguinity, relationship, kindred, blood; parentage
filiation, affiliation; lineage, agnation, connection, alliance; family connection, family tie; ties of blood; nepotism
kinsman, kinfolk; kith and kin; relation, relative; connection; sib; next of kin; uncle, aunt, nephew, niece; cousin, cousin-german; first cousin, second cousin; cousin once removed, cousin twice removed; near relation, distant relation; brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood
family, fraternity; brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood
race, stock, generation; sept
stirps, side; strain; breed, clan, tribe, nation
related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral; cognate, agnate, connate; kindred; affiliated; fraternal
intimately related, nearly related, closely related, remotely related, distantly related, allied; german
reciprocity, reciprocation; mutuality, correlation, interdependence, connection, link, association; interchange; exchange, barter
reciprocate, alternate; interchange
exchange; counterchange
reciprocal, mutual, commutual, correlative; alternate; interchangeable; international; complemental, complementary
mutatis mutandis; vice versa; each other, one another; by turns; reciprocally
identity, sameness; coincidence, coalescence; convertibility; equality; selfness, self, oneself; identification
monotony, tautology
facsimile; homoousia: alter ego; ipsissima verba; same; self, very, one and the same; very thing, actual thing; real McCoy; no other; one and only; in the flesh
coincide, coalesce, merge
treat as the same, render the same, identical; identify; recognize the identity of
identical; self, ilk; the same
selfsame, one and the same, homoousian
coincide, coalescent, coalescing; indistinguishable; one; equivalent; tweedle dee and tweedle dum; much the same, of a muchness; unaltered
contrariety, contrast, foil, antithesis, oppositeness; contradiction; antagonism; clashing, repugnance
inversion; the opposite, the reverse, the inverse, the converse, the antipodes, the antithesis, the other extreme
contrast with, oppose; diller toto coelo
invert, reverse, turn the tables; turn topsy-turvy, turn end for end, turn upside down, turn inside out
contradict, contravene; antagonize
contrary, contrarious, contrariant; opposite, counter, dead against; converse, reverse; opposed, antithetical, contrasted, antipodean, antagonistic, opposing; conflicting, inconsistent, contradictory, at cross purposes; negative; hostile
differing toto coelo; diametrically opposite; diametrically opposed; as opposite as black and white, as opposite as light and darkness, as opposite as fire and water, as opposite as the poles; as different as night and day; quite the contrary, quite the reverse; no such thing, just the other way, tout au contraire
contra, contrariwise, per contra, on the contrary, nay rather; vice versa; on the other hand
difference; variance, variation, variety; diversity, dissimilarity
disagreement; disparity; distinction, contradistinction; alteration
modification, permutation, moods and tenses
nice distinction, fine distinction, delicate distinction, subtle distinction; shade of difference, nuance; discrimination
differentia
different thing, something else, apple off another tree, another pair of shoes; horse of a different color; this that or the other
differ, vary, ablude, mismatch, contrast; divaricate; differ toto coelo, differ longo intervallo
vary, modify
different, diverse, heterogeneous, multifarious, polyglot; distinguishable, dissimilar; varied, modified; diversified, various, divers, all manner of, all kinds of; variform; daedal
other, another, not the same; unequal
unmatched; widely apart, poles apart, distinctive, characteristic; discriminative; distinguishing
uniformity; homogeneity, homogeneousness; consistency; connaturality, connaturalness; homology; accordance; conformity; agreement; consonance, uniformness
regularity, constancy, even tenor
routine; monotony
run through
render uniform, homogenize
assimilate, level, smooth, dress
uniform; homogeneous, homologous; of a piece, consistent, connatural; monotonous, even, invariable; regular, unchanged, undeviating, unvaried, unvarying
uniformly with; in harmony with
always, invariably, without exception, without fail, unfailingly, never otherwise; by clockwork
diversity, irregularity, unevenness; multiformity; unconformity; roughness; dissimilarity, dissimilitude, divarication, divergence
diversified varied, irregular, uneven, rough; multifarious; multiform; of various kinds; all manner of, all sorts of, all kinds of
variously, in all manner of ways, here there and everywhere
similarity, resemblance, likeness, similitude, semblance; affinity, approximation, parallelism; agreement; analogy, analogicalness; correspondence, homoiousia, parity
connaturalness, connaturality; brotherhood, family likeness
alliteration, rhyme, pun
repetition; sameness; uniformity; isogamy
analogue; the like; match, pendant, fellow companion, pair, mate, twin, double, counterpart, brother, sister; one's second self, alter ego, chip of the old block, par nobile fratrum, Arcades ambo, birds of a feather, et hoc genus omne; gens de meme famille
parallel; simile; type; image; photograph; close resemblance, striking resemblance, speaking resemblance, faithful likeness, faithful resemblance
look like, resemble, bear resemblance; smack of, savor of; approximate; parallel, match, rhyme with; take after; imitate
favor, span
assimilate, approximate, bring near; connaturalize, make alike; rhyme, pun
similar; resembling
like, alike; twin
analogous, analogical; parallel, of a piece; such as, so; homoiousian
connatural, congener, allied to; akin to
approximate, much the same, near, close, something like, sort of, in the ballpark, such like; a show of; mock, pseudo, simulating, representing
exact; lifelike, faithful; true to nature, true to life, the very image, the very picture of; for all the world like, comme deux gouttes d'eau; as like as two peas in a pod, as like as it can stare; instar omnium, cast in the same mold, ridiculously like
as if, so to speak; as it were, as if it were; quasi, just as, veluti in speculum
dissimilarity, dissimilaritude; unlikeness, diversity, disparity, dissemblance; divergence, variation
difference; novelty, originality; creativeness; oogamy
vary; bear no resemblance to, differ toto coelo
dissimilar, unlike, disparate; divergent; of a different kind unmatched, unique; new, novel; unprecedented; original
nothing of the kind; no such thing, quite another thing; far from it, cast in a different mold, tertium quid, as like a dock as a daisy, as different as chalk from cheese, as different as Macedon and Monmouth; lucus a non lucendo
imitation; copying
transcription; repetition, duplication, reduplication; quotation; reproduction; mimeograph, xerox, facsimile; reprint, offprint
mockery, mimicry; simulation, impersonation, personation; representation; semblance; copy; assimilation
paraphrase, parody
plagiarism; forgery, counterfeit; celluloid
imitator, echo, cuckoo, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime; copyist, copycat; plagiarist, pirate
imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat; do like, echo, reecho, catch; transcribe; match, parallel
mock, take off, mimic, ape, simulate, impersonate, personate; act; represent
counterfeit, parody, travesty, caricature, burlesque
follow in the steps of, tread in the steps, follow in the footsteps of, follow in the wake of; take pattern by; follow suit, follow the example of; walk in the shoes of, take a leaf out of another's book, strike in with, follow suit; take after, model after; emulate
mock, mimic; modelled after, molded on
paraphrastic; literal; imitative; secondhand; imitable; aping, apish, mimicking
literally, to the letter, verbatim, literatim, sic, totidem verbis, word for word, mot a mot; exactly, precisely
no imitation; originality; creativeness
invention, creation
unimitated, uncopied; unmatched, unparalleled; inimitable; unique, original; creative, inventive, untranslated; exceptional, rare, sui generis uncommon, unexampled
variation; alteration
modification, moods and tenses; discrepance, discrepancy
deviation; aberration; innovation
deviate; diverge; alternate, swerve
modified; diversified
copy, facsimile, xerox, counterpart, effigies, effigy, form, likeness, image, picture, photo, similitude, semblance, cast, tracing, ectype, photo offset, electrotype; imitation; model, representation, adumbration, study; portrait; resemblance
duplicate; transcript, transcription; reflex, reflexion, reflection; shadow, echo; recording, scan; chip off the old block; reprint, reproduction; second edition; rechauffe; apograph, fair copy, revise
parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty, travestie, paraphrase
derivative, modification, expansion, extension
servile copy, servile imitation; plagiarism, counterfeit, fake; pasticcio
faithful; lifelike
close, conscientious
unoriginal, imitative, derivative
prototype, original, model, pattern, precedent, standard, ideal, reference, scantling, type; archetype, antitype; protoplast, module, exemplar, example, ensample, paradigm; lay- figure
text, copy, design; fugleman, keynote
die, mold; matrix, last, plasm; proplasm, protoplasm; mint; seal, punch, intaglio, negative; stamp
be an example, be a role model, set an example; set a copy
agreement; accord, accordance; unison, harmony; concord; concordance, concert; understanding, mutual understanding
conformance; uniformity
consonance, consentaneousness, consistency; congruity, congruence; keeping; congeniality; correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union
fitness, aptness
relevancy; pertinence, pertinencey; sortance; case in point; aptitude, coaptation, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility; cognation
adaption, adjustment, graduation, accommodation; reconciliation, reconcilement; assimilation
consent; concurrence; cooperation
right man in the right place, very thing; quite the thing, just the thing
agree, accord, harmonize; correspond, tally, respond; meet, suit, fit, befit, do, adapt itself to; fall in with, chime in with, square with, quadrate with, consort with, comport with; dovetail, assimilate; fit like a glove, fit to a tittle, fit to a T; match; become one; homologate
fit, suit, adapt, accommodate; graduate; adjust; dress, regulate, readjust; accord, harmonize
reconcile; fadge, dovetail, square
agreeing, suiting
in accord, accordant, concordant, consonant, congruous, consentaneous, correspondent, congenial; coherent; becoming; harmonious reconcilable, conformable; in accordance with, in harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with
at one with, of one mind, of a piece; consistent, compatible, proportionate; commensurate; on all fours
apt, apposite, pertinent, pat; to the point, to the purpose; happy, felicitous, germane, ad rem, in point, on point, directly on point, bearing upon, applicable, relevant, admissible
fit adapted, in loco, a propos, appropriate, seasonable, sortable, suitable, idoneous, deft; meet
at home, in one's proper element
a propos of; pertinently
disagreement; discord, discordance; dissonance, dissidence, discrepancy; unconformity
incongruity, incongruence; discongruity, mesalliance; jarring
dissension; conflict
bickering, clashing, misunderstanding, wrangle
disparity, mismatch, disproportion; dissimilitude, inequality; disproportionateness
variance, divergence, repugnance
inaptitude, impropriety; inapplicability
inconsistency, inconcinnity; irrelevancy
misjoining, misjoinder; syncretism, intrusion, interference; concordia discors
disagree; clash, jar
interfere, intrude, come amiss; not concern; mismatch; humano capiti cervicem jungere equinam
discordant, discrepant; at variance, at war; hostile, antagonistic, repugnant, incompatible, irreconcilable, inconsistent with; unconformable, exceptional
intrusive, incongruous; disproportionate, disproportionated; unharmonious; unconsonant; divergent, repugnant to
inapt, unapt, inappropriate, improper; unsuited, unsuitable; inapplicable, not to the point; unfit, unfitting, unbefitting; unbecoming; illtimed, unseasonable, mal a propos, inadmissible; inapposite
uncongenial; ill-assorted, ill-sorted; mismatched, misjoined, misplaced, misclassified; unaccommodating, irreducible, uncommensurable; unsympathetic
out of character, out of keeping, out of proportion, out of joint, out of tune, out of place, out of season, out of its element; at odds with, at variance with
in defiance, in contempt, in spite of; discordantly
quantity, magnitude; size; amplitude, magnitude, mass, amount, sum, quantum, measure, substance, strength, force
mathematics, mathesis
category, general conception, universal predicament
armful, handful, mouthful, spoonful, capful; stock, batch, lot, dose; yaffle
quantify, measure, fix, estimate, determine, quantitate, enumerate
quantitative, some, any, aught, more or less, a few
to the tune of, all of, a full, the sum of, fully, exactly, precisely
degree, grade, extent, measure, amount, ratio, stint, standard, height, pitch; reach, amplitude, range, scope, caliber; gradation, shade; tenor, compass; sphere, station, rank, standing; rate, way, sort
point, mark, stage
intensity, strength
comparative; gradual, shading off; within the bounds
by degrees, gradually, inasmuch, pro tanto; however, howsoever; step by step, bit by bit, little by little, inch by inch, drop by drop; a little at a time, by inches, by slow degrees, by degrees, by little and little; in some degree, in some measure; to some extent; di grado in grado
equality, parity, coextension, symmetry, balance, poise; evenness, monotony, level
equivalence; equipollence, equipoise, equilibrium, equiponderance; par, quits, a wash; not a pin to choose; distinction without a difference, six of one and half a dozen of the other; tweedle dee and tweedle dum; identity; similarity
equalization, equation; equilibration, coordination, adjustment, readjustment
drawn game, drawn battle; neck and neck race; tie, draw, standoff, dead heat
match, peer, compeer, equal, mate, fellow, brother; equivalent
equal, match, reach, keep pace with, run abreast; come to, amount to, come up to; be on a level with, lie on a level with; balance; cope with; come to the same thing
equalize level, dress, balance, equate, handicap, give points, spot points, handicap, trim, adjust, poise; fit, accommodate; adapt; strike a balance; establish equality, restore equality, restore equilibrium; readjust; stretch on the bed of Procrustes
equal, even, level, monotonous, coequal, symmetrical, coordinate; on a par with, on a level with, on a footing with; up to the mark; equiparant
equivalent, tantamount; indistinguishable; quits; homologous; synonymous
resolvable into, convertible, much at one, as broad as long, neither more nor less
much the same as, the same thing as, as good as; all one, all the same; equipollent, equiponderant, equiponderous, equibalanced; equalized
drawn; half and half; isochronal, isochronous isoperimetric, isoperimetrical; isobath, isobathic
pari passu, ad eundum, caeteris paribus; in equilibrio; to all intents and purposes
inequality; disparity, imparity; odds; difference; unevenness; inclination of the balance, partiality, bias, weight; shortcoming; casting weight, make- weight; superiority; inferiority; inequation
countervail; have the advantage, give the advantage; turn the scale; kick the beam; topple, topple over; overmatch
not come up to
unequal, uneven, disparate, partial; unbalanced, overbalanced; top-heavy, lopsided, biased, skewed; disquiparant
mean, medium, intermedium, average, balance, mediocrity, generality; median, mode; golden mean; middle
compromise; middle course, middle state; neutrality
split the difference; take the average
strike a balance, pair off
mean, intermediate; middle; average; neutral
mediocre, middle-class; commonplace
on an average, in the long run; taking one with another, taking all things together, taking it for all in all; communibus annis, in round numbers
compensation, equation; commutation; indemnification; compromise
neutralization, nullification; counteraction; reaction; measure for measure
robbing Peter to pay Paul
set-off, offset; make-weight, casting-weight; counterpoise, ballast; indemnity, equivalent, quid pro, quo; bribe, hush money; amends
counterbalance, counterclaim; cross-debt, cross-demand
make compensation; compensate, compense; indemnify; counteract, countervail, counterpoise; balance; outbalance, overbalance, counterbalance; set off; hedge, square, give and take; make up for, lee way; cover, fill up, neutralize, nullify; equalize; make good; redeem
compensating, compensatory; countervailing
in the opposite scale; equivalent
in return, in consideration; but, however, yet, still, notwithstanding; nevertheless, nathless, none the less; although, though; albeit, howbeit; mauger; at all events, at any rate; be that as it may, for all that, even so, on the other, hand, at the same time, quoad minus, quand meme, however that may be; after all is said and done; taking one thing with another
magnitude; size; multitude; immensity; enormity; infinity; might, strength, intensity, fullness; importance
great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world; mass, heap; stock; peck, bushel, load, cargo; cartload, wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance
principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part; bulk, mass
run high, soar, tower, transcend; rise to a great height, carry to a great height; know no bounds; ascend, mount
great; greater; large, considerable, fair, above par; big, huge
Herculean, cyclopean; ample; abundant
full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high; signal, at its height, in the zenith
world-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive; wholesale; many
goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary
important; unsurpassed; complete
august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic
vast, immense, enormous, extreme; inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown; towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible; marvelous
unapproachable, unutterable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, inexpressible, beyond expression, fabulous
undiminished, unabated, unreduced, unrestricted
absolute, positive, stark, decided, unequivocal, essential, perfect, finished
remarkable, of mark, marked, pointed, veriest; noteworthy; renowned
truly; decidedly, unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally, radically, downright, in all conscience; for the most part, in the main
entirely; abundantly; widely, far and wide
much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little; pretty, pretty well; enough, in a great measure, richly; to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent; on a large scale; so; never so, ever so; ever so dole; scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much; by wholesale; mighty, powerfully; with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably; beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds; incalculably, infinitely
preeminently, superlatively
immoderately, monstrously, preposterously, inordinately, exorbitantly, excessively, enormously, out of all proportion, with a vengeance
particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously, uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly, pointedly, mainly, chiefly; famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly, emphatically, <gr/kat ezochin/>, strangely, wonderfully, amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully, stupendously
furiously; severely, desperately, tremendously, extravagantly, confoundedly, deucedly, devilishly, with a vengeance; a outrance, a toute outrance
painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly, piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably, shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly
tenuity; paucity; fewness; meanness, insignificance; mediocrity, moderation
small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair
nutshell; thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful; fragment; fraction; drop in the ocean
trifle; mere nothing, next to nothing; hardly anything; just enough to swear by; the shadow of a shade
finiteness, finite quantity
diminish
small, little; diminutive; minute; fine; inconsiderable, paltry; faint; slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited; meager; sparing; few; low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes; below par, under par, below the mark; at a low ebb; halfway; moderate, modest; tender, subtle
inappreciable, evanescent, infinitesimal, homeopathic, very small; atomic, corpuscular, microscopic, molecular, subatomic
mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare; near run
dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent
to a small extent, on a small scale; a little bit, a wee bit; slightly
imperceptibly; miserably, wretchedly; insufficiently; imperfectly; faintly; passably, pretty well, well enough
partially, in part; in a certain degree, to a certain degree; to a certain extent; comparatively; some, rather in some degree, in some measure; something, somewhat; simply, only, purely, merely; at least, at the least, at most, at the most; ever so little, as little as may be, tant soit peu, in ever so small a degree; thus far, pro tanto, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak
almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but; near upon, close upon; peu s'en faut, near the mark; within an ace of, within an inch of; on the brink of; scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than
about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say; be the same, be little more or less
no ways, no way, no wise; not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow; in no wise, in no respect; by no means, by no manner of means; on no account, at no hand
superiority, majority; greatness
advantage; pull; preponderance, preponderation; vantage ground, prevalence, partiality; personal superiority; nobility
Triton among the minnows, primus inter pares, nulli secundus, captain; crackajack
supremacy, preeminence; lead; maximum; record; <gr/trikumia/>, climax; culmination; transcendence; ne plus ultra; lion's share, Benjamin's mess; excess, surplus
exceed, excel, transcend; outdo, outbalance, outweigh, outrank, outrival, out-Herod; pass, surpass, get ahead of; over- top, override, overpass, overbalance, overweigh, overmatch; top, o'ertop, cap, beat, cut out; beat hollow; outstrip
eclipse, throw into the shade, take the shine out of, outshine, put one's nose out of joint; have the upper hand, have the whip hand of, have the advantage; turn the scale, kick the beam; play first fiddle
preponderate, predominate, prevail; precede, take precedence, come first; come to a head, culminate; beat all others, bear the palm; break the record; take the cake become larger, render larger
superior, greater, major, higher; exceeding
great; distinguished, ultra; vaulting; more than a match for
supreme, greatest, utmost, paramount, preeminent, foremost, crowning; first-rate; unrivaled peerless, matchless; none such, second to none, sans pareil; unparagoned, unparalleled, unequalled, unapproached, unsurpassed; superlative, inimitable facile princeps, incomparable, sovereign, without parallel, nulli secundus, ne plus ultra; beyond compare, beyond comparison; culminating; transcendent, transcendental; plus royaliste que le Roi, more catholic than the Pope
increased; enlarged
beyond, more, over; over the mark, above the mark; above par; upwards of, in advance of; over and above; at the top of the scale, at its height
eminently, egregiously, preeminently, surpassing, prominently, superlatively, supremely, above all, of all things, the most, to crown all, <gr/kat ezokin/gr>, par excellence, principally, especially, particularly, peculiarly, a fortiori, even, yea, still more
inferiority, minority, subordinacy; shortcoming, deficiency; minimum; smallness; imperfection; lower quality, lower worth
fall short of, come short of; not pass, not come up to; want
become smaller, render smaller; hide its diminished head, retire into the shade, yield the palm, play second fiddle, be upstaged, take a back seat
inferior, smaller; small; minor, less, lesser, deficient, minus, lower, subordinate, secondary; secondrate
sub, subaltern; thrown into the shade; weighed in the balance and found wanting; not fit to hold a candle to, can't hold a candle to
least, smallest; lowest
diminished; reduced; unimportant
less; under the mark, below the mark, below par; at the bottom of the scale, at a low ebb, at a disadvantage; short of, under
increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension; dilatation; increment, accretion; accession; development, growth; aggrandizement, aggravation; rise; ascent; exaggeration exacerbation; spread; flood tide; gain, produce, product, profit
increase, augment, add to, enlarge
dilate; grow, wax, get ahead
gain strength; advance; run up, shoot up; rise; ascend; sprout
aggrandize; raise, exalt; deepen, heighten; strengthen; intensify, enhance, magnify, redouble; aggravate, exaggerate; exasperate, exacerbate; add fuel to the flame, oleum addere camino, superadd; spread
on the increase, undiminished; additional
decrease, diminution; lessening
subtraction; reduction, abatement, declension; shrinking; coarctation; abridgment; extenuation
subsidence, wane, ebb, decline; ebbing; descent; decrement, reflux, depreciation; deterioration; anticlimax; mitigation
decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge; shrink; drop off, fall off, tail off; fall away, waste, wear; wane, ebb, decline; descend; subside; melt away, die away; retire into the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low, languish, decay, crumble
bate, abate, dequantitate; discount; depreciate; extenuate, lower, weaken, attenuate, fritter away; mitigate; dwarf, throw into the shade; reduce; shorten; subtract
unincreased; decreased
addition, annexation, adjection; junction; superposition, superaddition, superjunction, superfetation; accession, reinforcement; increase; increment, supplement; accompaniment; interposition; insertion
add, annex, affix, superadd, subjoin, superpose; clap on, saddle on; tack to, append, tag; ingraft; saddle with; sprinkle; introduce; insert
become added, accrue; advene, supervene
reenforce, restrengthen; reinforce, swell the ranks of; augment
additional; supplemental, supplementary; suppletory, subjunctive; adjectitious, adscititious, ascititious; additive, extra, accessory
au reste, in addition, more, plus, extra; and, also, likewise, too, furthermore, further, item; and also, and eke; else, besides, to boot, et cetera; and so on, and so forth; into the bargain, cum multis aliis, over and above, moreover
with, withal; including, inclusive, as well as, not to mention, let alone; together with, along with, coupled with, in conjunction with; conjointly; jointly
subduction, subtraction; deduction, retrenchment; removal; ablation, sublation; abstraction; garbling
mutilation, detruncation; amputation; abscision, excision, recision; curtailment; minuend, subtrahend; decrease; abrasion
subduct, subtract; deduct, deduce; bate, retrench; remove, withdraw; take from, take away; detract
garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate; cut off, cut away, cut out; abscind, excise; pare, thin, prune, decimate; abrade, scrape, file; geld, castrate; eliminate
diminish; curtail; deprive of; weaken
less; short of; minus, without, except, excepting, with the exception of, barring, save, exclusive of, save and except, with a reservation
adjunct; addition, additament; additum, affix, appelidage, annexe, annex; augment, augmentation; increment, reinforcement, supernumerary, accessory, item; garnish, sauce; accompaniment; adjective, addendum; complement, supplement; continuation
rider, offshoot, episode, side issue, corollary; piece; flap, lappet, skirt, embroidery, trappings, cortege; tail, suffix; wing
alate, alated; winged
remainder, residue; remains, remanent, remnant, rest, relic; leavings, heeltap, odds and ends, cheesepairings, candle ends, orts; residuum; dregs; refuse; stubble, result, educt; fag-end; ruins, wreck, skeleton
stump; alluvium
surplus, overplus, excess; balance, complement; superplus, surplusage; superfluity; survival, survivance
remain; be left
exceed, survive; leave
remaining, left; left behind left over; residual, residuary; over, odd; unconsumed, sedimentary; surviving; net; exceeding, over and above; outlying, outstanding; cast off; superfluous
decrement, discount, defect, loss, deduction; afterglow; eduction; waste
mixture, admixture, commixture, commixtion; commixion, intermixture, alloyage, matrimony; junction; combination; miscegenation
impregnation; infusion, diffusion suffusion, transfusion; infiltration; seasoning, sprinkling, interlarding; interpolation adulteration, sophistication
tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice, seasoning, infusion, soupcon
alloy, amalgam; brass, chowchow, pewter; magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid, miscellany, ambigu, medley, mess, hotchpot, pasticcio, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts; jumble; salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum, gallimaufry, olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn; mosaic
half-blood, half-caste
mulatto; terceron, quarteron, quinteron
quadroon, octoroon; griffo, zambo; cafuzo; Eurasian; fustee, fustie; griffe, ladino, marabou, mestee, mestizo, quintroon, sacatra zebrule; catalo; cross, hybrid, mongrel
mix; join; combine; commix, immix, intermix; mix up with, mingle; commingle, intermingle, bemingle; shuffle; pound together; hash up, stir up; knead, brew; impregnate with; interlard; intertwine, interweave; associate with; miscegenate
be mixed; get among, be entangled with
instill, imbue; infuse, suffuse, transfuse; infiltrate, dash, tinge, tincture, season, sprinkle, besprinkle, attemper, medicate, blend, cross; alloy, amalgamate, compound, adulterate, sophisticate, infect
implex, composite, half-and-half, linsey-woolsey, chowchow, hybrid, mongrel, heterogeneous; motley; miscellaneous, promiscuous, indiscriminate; miscible
among, amongst, amid, amidst; with; in the midst of, in the crowd
purity, homogeneity
elimination; sifting
sift, winnow, bolt, eliminate; exclude, get rid of; clear; purify; disentangle
simple, uniform, of a piece, homogeneous, single, pure, sheer, neat
unmixed, unmingled, unblended, uncombined, uncompounded; elementary, undecomposed; unadulterated, unsophisticated, unalloyed, untinged, unfortified, pur et simple; incomplex
free from, exempt from; exclusive
junction; joining
joinder, union connection, conjunction, conjugation; annexion, annexation, annexment; astriction, attachment, compagination, vincture, ligation, alligation; accouplement; marriage; infibulation, inosculation, symphysis, anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation; meeting, reunion; assemblage
coition, copulation; sex, sexual congress, sexual conjunction, sexual intercourse, love-making
joint, joining, juncture, pivot, hinge, articulation, commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch; link; miter mortise
closeness, tightness
coherence; combination
join, unite; conjoin, connect; associate; put together, lay together, clap together, hang together, lump together, hold together, piece together, tack together, fix together, bind up together together; embody, reembody; roll into one
attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast
tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, stitch, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; bridge over, span
braze; pin, nail, bolt, hasp, clasp, clamp, screw, rivet; impact, solder, set; weld together, fuse together; wedge, rabbet, mortise, miter, jam, dovetail, enchase; graft, ingraft, inosculate; entwine, intwine; interlink, interlace, intertwine, intertwist, interweave; entangle; twine round, belay; tighten; trice up, screw up
be joined; hang together, hold together; cohere
joint; conjoint, conjunct; corporate, compact; hand in hand
firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved ; inseparable, indissoluble, insecable, severable
in conjunction with; fast, firmly
disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement; discontinuity; abjunction; cataclasm; inconnection; abstraction, abstractedness; isolation; insularity, insulation; oasis; island; separateness
severalty; disjecta membra; dispersion; apportionment
separation; parting
circumcision; detachment, segregation; divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption; elision; caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture; compartition ; dismemberment, dislocation; luxation; severance, disseverance; scission; rescission, abscission; laceration, dilaceration; disruption, abruption; avulsion, divulsion; section, resection, cleavage; fission; partibility, separability
fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision
dissection anatomy; decomposition; cutting instrument; buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw
be disjoined; come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces; peel off; get loose
disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair; divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate; set apart, keep apart; insulate, isolate; throw out of gear; cut adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel; disentangle; set free
sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice
cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize; dislimb; take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb; divellicate; skin; disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband; disperse; dislocate, disjoint; break up; mince; comminute; apportion
part, part company; separate, leave
discontinuous; multipartite, abstract; disjunctive; secant; isolated
insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free; unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected; distinct; adrift; straggling; rift, reft
scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable
one by one, severally, apart; adrift, asunder, in twain; in the abstract, abstractedly
vinculum, link; connective, connection; junction; bond of union, copula, intermedium, hyphen; bracket; bridge, stepping-stone, isthmus
bond, tendon, tendril; fiber; cord, cordage; ribband, ribbon, rope, guy, cable, line, halser, hawser, painter, moorings, wire, chain; string
fastening, tie; ligament, ligature; strap; tackle, rigging
standing rigging, running rigging; traces, harness; yoke; band bandage; brace, roller, fillet; inkle; with, withe, withy; thong, braid; girder, tiebeam; girth, girdle, cestus, garter, halter, noose, lasso, surcingle, knot, running knot; cabestro, cinch, lariat, legadero, oxreim; suspenders
pin, corking pin, nail, brad, tack, skewer, staple, clamp; cramp, cramp iron, detent, larigo, pawl, terret, treenail, screw, button, buckle, clasp, hasp, hinge, hank, catch, latch, bolt, latchet, tag; tooth; hook, hook and eye; lock, holdfast, padlock, rivet; anchor, grappling iron, trennel, stake, post
cement, glue, gum, paste, size, wafer, solder, lute, putty, birdlime, mortar, stucco, plaster, grout; viscum
shackle, rein; prop
bridge over, span; connect; hang
coherence, adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness; concretion accretion; conglutination, agglutination, agglomeration; aggregation; consolidation, set, cementation; sticking, soldering
connection; dependence
tenacity, toughness; stickiness; inseparability, inseparableness; bur, remora
conglomerate, concrete
cohere, adhere, stick, cling, cleave, hold, take hold of, hold fast, close with, clasp, hug; grow together, hang together; twine round
stick like a leech, stick like wax; stick close; cling like ivy, cling like a bur; adhere like a remora, adhere like Dejanira's shirt
glue; agglutinate, conglutinate; cement, lute, paste, gum; solder, weld; cake, consolidate; agglomerate
cohesive, adhesive, adhering, cohering
tenacious, tough; sticky
united, unseparated, unsessile, inseparable, inextricable, infrangible; compact
nonadhesion; immiscibility; incoherence; looseness
laxity; relaxation; loosening
freedom; disjunction; rope of sand
loosen, slacken, relax; unglue; detach
nonadhesive, immiscible; incoherent, detached, loose, baggy, slack, lax, relaxed, flapping, streaming; disheveled; segregated, like grains of sand unconsolidated, uncombined; noncohesive
combination; mixture; junction; union, unification, synthesis, incorporation, amalgamation, embodiment, coalescence, crasis, fusion, blending, absorption, centralization
alloy, compound, amalgam, composition, tertium quid; resultant, impregnation
combine, unite, incorporate, amalgamate, embody, absorb, reembody, blend, merge, fuse, melt into one, consolidate, coalesce, centralize, impregnate; put together, lump together; cement a union, marry
impregnated with, ingrained; imbued inoculated
decomposition, analysis, dissection, resolution, catalysis, dissolution; corruption; dispersion; disjunction; disintegration
decompose, decompound; analyze, disembody, dissolve; resolve into its elements, separate into its elements; electrolyze; dissect, decentralize, break up; disperse; unravel; crumble into dust
catalytic, analytical; resolvent, separative, solvent
whole, totality, integrity; totalness
entirety, ensemble, collectiveness; unity; completeness; indivisibility, indiscerptibility; integration, embodiment; integer
all, the whole, total, aggregate, one and all, gross amount, sum, sum total, tout ensemble, length and breadth of, Alpha and Omega; complex, complexus; lock stock and barrel
bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages; trunk, torso, bole, hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal part, main part; essential part
lion's share, Benjamin's mess; the long and the short; nearly, all, almost all
form a whole, constitute a whole; integrate, embody, amass; aggregate; amount to, come to
whole, total, integral, entire; complete; one, individual
unbroken, uncut, undivided, unsevered, unclipped uncropped, unshorn; seamless; undiminished; undemolished, undissolved, undestroyed, unbruised
indivisible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indiscerptible
wholesale, sweeping; comprehensive
wholly, altogether; totally; entirely, all, all in all, wholesale, in a body, collectively, all put together; in the aggregate, in the lump, in the mass, in the gross, in the main, in the long run; en masse, on the whole, bodily, en bloc, in extenso, throughout, every inch; substantially
part, portion; dose; item, particular; aught, any; division, ward; subdivision, section; chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse; article, passage; sector, segment; fraction, fragment; cantle, frustum; detachment, parcel
piece, lump, bit cut, cutting; chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale; lamina; small part; morsel, particle; installment, dividend; share
debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; excerpta; member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner; leaf, leaflet; stump; component part; sarmentum
compartment; department; county
part, divide, break; partition
fractional, fragmentary; sectional, aliquot; divided
in compartments, multifid; disconnected; partial
partly, in part, partially; piecemeal, part by part; by by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets; bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop; in detail, in lots
completion; integration; allness
entirety; perfection; solidity, solidarity; unity; all; ne plus ultra, ideal, limit
complement, supplement, make-weight; filling, up
impletion; saturation, saturity; high water; high tide, flood tide, spring tide; fill, load, bumper, bellyful; brimmer; sufficiency
complete; fill, charge, load, replenish; make up, make good; piece out, eke out; supply deficiencies; fill up, fill in, fill to the brim, fill the measure of; saturate
go the whole hog, go the whole length; go all lengths
complete, entire; whole; perfect; full, good, absolute, thorough, plenary; solid, undivided; with all its parts; all- sided
exhaustive, radical, sweeping, thorough-going; dead
regular, consummate, unmitigated, sheer, unqualified, unconditional, free; abundant
brimming; brimful, topful; chock full, choke full; as full as an egg is of meat, as full as a vetch; saturated, crammed; replete; fraught, laden; full-laden, full-fraught, full-charged; heavy laden
supplemental, supplementary; ascititious
altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in toto, quite; all out; over head and ears; effectually, for good and all, nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders; neck and heel, neck and crop; in all respects, in every respect; at all points, out and out, to all intents and purposes; toto coelo; utterly; clean, clean as a whistle; to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone; hollow, stark; heart and soul, root and branch, down to the ground
to the top of one's bent, as far as possible, a outrance
throughout; from first to last, from beginning to end, from end to end, from one end to the other, from Dan to Beersheba, from head to foot, from top to toe, from top to bottom, de fond en comble; a fond, a capite ad calcem, ab ovo usque ad mala, fore and aft; every, whit, every inch; cap- a-pie, to the end of the chapter; up to the brim, up to the ears, up to the eyes; as
on all accounts; sous tous les rapports; with a vengeance, with a witness
deficiency, short measure; shortcoming; insufficiency; imperfection; immaturity; half measures
defect, deficit, defalcation, omission; caret; shortage; interval; break; noncompletion missing link
fall short of; lack; neglect
incomplete; imperfect; unfinished; uncompleted; defective, deficient, wanting, failing; in default, in arrear; short, of; hollow, meager, lame, half-and-half, perfunctory, sketchy; crude
mutilated, garbled, docked, lopped, truncated
in progress, in hand; going on, proceeding
composition, constitution, crasis; combination; inclusion, admission, comprehension, reception; embodiment; formation
be composed of, be made of, be formed of, be made up of; consist of, be resolved into
include; contain, hold, comprehend, take in, admit, embrace, embody; involve, implicate; drag into
compose, constitute, form, make; make up, fill up, build up; enter into the composition of
containing, constitutingv
exclusion, nonadmission, omission, exception, rejection, repudiation; exile; noninclusion, preclusion, prohibition
separation, segregation, seposition, elimination, expulsion; cofferdam
exclude, bar; leave out, shut out, bar out; reject, repudiate, blackball; lay apart, put apart, set apart, lay aside, put aside; relegate, segregate; throw overboard; strike off, strike out; neglect; banish; separate
pass over, omit; garble; eliminate, weed, winnow
unrecounted, not included in; inadmissible
exclusive of, barring; except; with the exception of; save; bating
component; component part, integral part, integrant part; element, constituent, ingredient, leaven; part and parcel; contents; appurtenance; feature; member; personnel
enter into, enter into the composition of; be a component n; be part of, form part of; merge in, be merged in; be implicated in; share in; belong to, appertain to; combine, inhere in, unite
form, make, constitute, compose
extrinsicality; exteriority; alienage, alienism
foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element; alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant; creole, Africander; outsider; Dago, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner, Dutchman, tenderfoot
extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior; tramontane, ultramontane
excluded; inadmissible; exceptional
in foreign parts, in foreign lands; abroad, beyond seas; over sea on one's travels
order, regularity, uniformity, symmetry, lucidus ordo; music of the spheres
gradation, progression; seriessubordination; course, even tenor, routine; method, disposition, arrangement, array, system, economy, discipline orderliness
rank, place
be in order, become in order
form, fall in, draw up; arrange itself, range itself, place itself; fall into one's place, take one's place, take one's rank; rally round
adjust, methodize, regulate, systematize
orderly, regular; in order, in trim, in apple order, in pie order, in its proper place; neat, tidy, en regle, well regulated, correct, methodical, uniform, symmetrical, shipshape, businesslike, systematic; unconfused; arranged
in order; methodically
in -turn, - its turn; step by step; by regular -steps, -gradations, -stages, -intervals; seriatim, systematically, by clockwork, gradatim; at stated periods
disorder; derangement; irregularity; anomaly; anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness
disunion; discord
confusion; confusedness
mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss, hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch, hotch-pot; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley; mere mixture; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles
turmoil; ferment; to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business
ferment, play at cross-purposes
put out of order; derange; ravel; ruffle, rumple
disorderly, orderless; out of order, out of place, out of gear; irregular, desultory; anomalous; acephalous, deranged; aimless; disorganized; straggling; unmethodical, immethodical; unsymmetric, unsystematic; untidy, slovenly; dislocated; out of sorts; promiscuous, indiscriminate; chaotic, anarchical; unarranged; confused; deranged; topsy-turvy; shapeless; disjointed, out of joint
troublous; riotous
by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy; helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a ferment; at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes; upside down
complexity; complexness
complexus; complication, implication; intricacy, intrication; perplexity; network, labyrinth; wilderness, jungle; involution, raveling, entanglement; coil; sleave, tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels within wheels; kink, knarl; webwork
complex, complexed; intricate, complicated, perplexed, involved, raveled, entangled, knotted, tangled, inextricable; irreducible
arrangement; plan; preparation; disposal, disposition; collocation, allocation; distribution; sorting
assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization; grouping; tabulation
analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion
digest; synopsis; syntagma, table, atlas; file, database; register
organism, architecture
sieve, riddle, screen, sorter
reduce to order, bring into order; introduce order into; rally
arrange, dispose, place, form; put in order, set in order, place in order; set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot, distribute, deal; cast the parts, assign the parts; dispose of, assign places to; assort, sort; sift, riddle; put to rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array; apportion
class, classify; divide; file, string together, thread; register; catalogue, tabulate, index, graduate, digest, grade
methodize, regulate, systematize, coordinate, organize, settle, fix
unravel, disentangle, ravel, card; disembroil; feaze
embattled, in battle array; cut and dried; methodical, orderly, regular, systematic
disorder; evection, discomposure, disturbance; disorganization, deorganization; dislocation; perturbation, interruption; shuffling
inversion; corrugation; involvement
derange; disarrange, misarrange; displace, misplace; mislay, discompose, disorder; deorganize, discombobulate, disorganize; embroil, unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble; shuffle, randomize; huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot; bring into disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder; muss; break the ranks, disconcert, convulse; break in upon
unhinge, dislocate, put out of joint, throw out of gear
turn topsy-turvy; bedevil; complicate, involve, perplex, confound; imbrangle, embrangle, tangle, entangle, ravel, tousle, towzle, dishevel, ruffle; rumple
litter, scatter; mix
syncretic, syncretistic; mussy, messy; flaky; random, unordered
precedence; coming before
the lead, le pas; superiority; importance; antecedence, antecedency; anteriority; precursor; priority; precession; anteposition; epacme; preference
precede; come before, come first; head, lead, take the lead; lead the way, lead the dance; be in the vanguard; introduce, usher in; have the pas; set the fashion; open the ball; take precedence, have precedence; have the startplace before; prefix; premise, prelude, preface
precedent, antecedent; anterior; prior; before; former; foregoing; beforementioned, abovementioned, aforementioned; aforesaid, said; precursory, precursive; prevenient, preliminary, prefatory, introductory; prelusive, prelusory; proemial, preparatory
before; in advance
sequence, coming after; going after; consecution, succession; posteriority
continuation; order of succession; successiveness; paracme
secondariness; subordinancy
afterbirth, afterburden; placenta, secundines
succeed; come after, come on, come next; follow, ensue, step into the shoes of; alternate
place after, suffix, append
sequent; subsequent, consequent, sequacious, proximate, next; consecutive; alternate, amoebean
latter; posterior
after, subsequently; behind
precursor, antecedent, precedent, predecessor; forerunner, vancourier, avant-coureur, pioneer, prodrome, prodromos, prodromus, outrider; leader, bellwether; herald, harbinger; foreboding; dawn; avant-courier, avant-garde, bellmare, forelooper, foreloper, stalking-horse, voorlooper, voortrekker
prelude, preamble, preface, prologue, foreword, avant-propos, protasis, proemium, prolusion, proem, prolepsis, prolegomena, prefix, introduction; heading, frontispiece, groundwork; preparation; overture, exordium, symphony; premises
prefigurement; omen
precursory; prelusive, prelusory, preludious; proemial, introductory, prefatory, prodromous, inaugural, preliminary; precedent
sequel, suffix, successor; tail, queue, train, wake, trail, rear; retinue, suite; appendix, postscript; epilogue; peroration; codicil; continuation, sequela; appendage; tail piece, heelpiece; tag, more last words; colophon
aftercome, aftergrowth, afterpart, afterpiece, aftercourse, afterthought, aftergame; arriere pensee, second thoughts; outgrowth
beginning, commencement, opening, outset, incipience, inception, inchoation; introduction; alpha, initial; inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation, rising of the curtain; maiden speech; outbreak, onset, brunt; initiative, move, first move; narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge; fresh start, new departure
origin; source, rise; bud, germ; egg, rudiment; genesis, primogenesis, birth, nativity, cradle, infancy; start, inception, creation, starting point; dawn; evolution
title-page; head, heading; van; caption, fatihah
entrance, entry; inlet, orifice, mouth, chops, lips, porch, portal, portico, propylon, door; gate, gateway; postern, wicket, threshold, vestibule; propylaeum; skirts, border
first stage, first blush, first glance, first impression, first sight
rudiments, elements, outlines, grammar, alphabet, ABC
begin, commence, inchoate rise, arise, originate, conceive, initiate, open, dawn, set in, take its rise, enter upon, enter; set out; embark in; incept
usher in; lead off, lead the way; take the lead, take the initiative; inaugurate, head; stand at the head, stand first, stand for; lay the foundations; found; set up, set on foot, agoing, set abroach, set the ball in motion; apply the match to a train; launch, broach; open up, open the door to; set about, set to work; make a beginning, make a start; handsel; take the first step, lay the first stone, cut the first turf; break ground, break the ice, break cover; pass the Rubicon, cross the Rubicon; open fire, open the ball; ventilate, air; undertake
come into existence, come into the world; make one's debut, take birth; burst forth, break out; spring up, crop up, pop up, appear, materialize
begin at the beginning, begin ab ovo, begin again, begin de novo; start afresh, make a fresh start, shuffle the cards, resume, recommence
initial, initiatory, initiative; inceptive, introductory, incipient; proemial, inaugural; inchoate, inchoative; embryonic, rudimental; primogenial; primeval, primitive, primordial; aboriginal; natal, nascent
first, foremost, leading; maiden
at the beginning, in the beginning
first, in the first place, imprimis, first and foremost; in limine; in the bud, in embryo, in its infancy; from the beginning, from its birth; ab initio, ab ovo, ab incunabilis, ab origine
end, close, termination; desinence, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme, extremity; gable end, butt end, fag-end; tip, nib, point; tail; verge; tag, peroration; bonne bouche; bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard
consummation, denouement; finish; fate; doom, doomsday; crack of doom, day of Judgment, dies irae, fall of the curtain; goal, destination; limit, determination; expiration, expiry, extinction, extermination; death; end of all things; finality; eschatology
break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point; coup de grace, deathblow; knock-out, -blow; sockdolager
end, close, finish, terminate, conclude, be all over; expire; die; come-, draw- to a -close
have run its course; run out, pass away
put an end to, make an end of; determine; get through; achieve; stop; shut up shop; hang up one's fiddle
final, terminal, definitive; crowning; last, ultimate; hindermost; rear; caudal; vergent
conterminate, conterminous, conterminable
at an end; settled, decided, over, played out, set at rest; conclusive
penultimate; last but one, last but two, unbegun, uncommenced; fresh
in fine; at the last; once for all
middle, midst, mediety, mean; medium, middle term; center, mid-course; mezzo termine; juste milieu; halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos; nucleus, nucleolus
equidistance, bisection, half distance; equator, diaphragm, midriff; intermediate
middle, medial, mesial, mean, mid, median, average; middlemost, midmost; mediate; intermediate; equidistant; central; mediterranean, equatorial; homocentric
in the middle; midway, halfway; midships, amidships, in medias res
continuity; consecution, consecutiveness
succession, round, suite, progression, series, train chain; catenation, concatenation; scale; gradation, course; ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent
procession, column; retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array
pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race; ancestry, descent, family, house; line, line of ancestors; strain
rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team; suit; colonnade
follow in a series, form a series
arrange in a series, collate
string together, file, thread, graduate, organize, sort, tabulate
continuous, continued; consecutive; progressive, gradual; serial, successive; immediate, unbroken, entire; linear; in a line, in a row
uninterrupted, unintermitting; unremitting; perennial, evergreen; constant
seriatim; in a line
in succession, in turn; running, gradually, step by step, gradatim, at a stretch; in file, in column, in single file, in Indian file
discontinuity; disjunction; anacoluthon; interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut; gap; solution of continuity, caesura; broken thread; parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork; intermission; alternation; dropping fire
alternate, intermit, sputter, stop and start, hesitate
discontinue, pause, interrupt; intervene; break, break in upon, break off; interpose; break the thread, snap the thread; disconnect; dissever
discontinuous, unsuccessive, broken, interrupted, dicousu; disconnected, unconnected; discrete, disjunctive; fitful; spasmodic, desultory; intermitting, occasional
intermittent; alternate; recurrent
at intervals; by snatches, by jerks, by skips, by catches, by fits and starts; skippingly, per saltum; longo intervallo
term, rank, station, stage, step; degree; scale, remove, grade, link, peg, round of the ladder, status, position, place, point, mark, pas, period, pitch; stand, standing; footing, range
hold a place, occupy a place, find a place, fall into a place
assemblage; collection, collocation, colligation; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement; team; concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home; conversazione; assembly, congress; convention, conventicle; gemote; conclave; posse, posse comitatus; Noah's ark
miscellany, collectanea; museum, menagerie; museology
crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; host; populousness
clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association
volley, shower, storm, cloud
group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack; budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine, fasces, bale; seron, seroon; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock; fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook
accumulation; congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation, cumulation; glomeration, agglomeration; conglobation; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta; quantitycollector, gatherer; whip, whipper in
assemble, collect, muster; meet, unite, join, rejoin; cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate; congregate, conglomerate, concentrate; precipitate; center round, rendezvous, resort; come together, flock get together, pig together; forgather; huddle; reassemble
assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass, accumulate; collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion
closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous; as thick as hops; all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative
dispersion; disjunction; divergence; aspersion; scattering
dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution; apportionment; spread, respersion, circumfusion, interspersion, spargefaction; affusion
waifs and estrays, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra; waveson
disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute; apportion; blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth, draught off; strew, straw, strow; ted; spirtle, cast, sprinkle; issue, deal out, retail, utter; resperse, intersperse; set abroach, circumfuse
turn adrift, cast adrift; scatter to the winds
spread like wildfire, disperse themselves
unassembled; dispersed
sparse, dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread; epidemic; adrift, stray; disheveled, streaming
sparsim, here and there, passim
focus; point of convergence; corradiation; center; gathering place, resort haunt retreat; venue; rendezvous; rallying point, headquarters, home, club; depot; trysting place; place of meeting, place of resort, place of assignation; point de reunion; issue
bring to a point, bring to a focus, bring to an issue
class, division, category, categorema, head, order, section; department, subdepartment, province, domain
kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset; assortment; feather, kidney; suit; range; gender, sex, kin
manner, description, denomination, designation, character, stamp predicament; indication, particularization, selection, specification
inclusion, admission, comprehension, reception
be included in; come under, fall under, range under; belong to, pertain to; range with; merge in
include, comprise, comprehend, contain, admit, embrace, receive; inclose; embody, encircle
reckon among, enumerate among, number among; refer to; place under, arrange under, place with, place under; take into account
included, including
inclusive; congener, congenerous; of the same class; encircling
generality, generalization; universality; catholicity, catholicism; miscellany, miscellaneousness; dragnet; common run; worldwideness
everyone, everybody; all hands, all the world and his wife; anybody, N or M, all sorts
prevalence, run
prevail, be going about, stalk abroad
general, generic, collective; broad, comprehensive, sweeping; encyclopedical, widespread
universal; catholic, catholical; common, worldwide; ecumenical, oecumenical; transcendental; prevalent, prevailing, rife, epidemic, besetting; all over, covered with
Pan-American, Anglican, Pan-Hellenic, Pan-Germanic, slavic; panharmonic
every, all; unspecified, impersonal
whatever, whatsoever; to a man, one and all
always, for better for worse; in general, generally speaking; speaking generally; for the most part; in the long run
speciality, specialite; individuality, individuity; particularity, peculiarity; idiocrasy; personality, characteristic, mannerism, idiosyncrasy; specificness
singularity; reading, version, lection; state; trait; distinctive feature; technicality; differentia
particulars, details, items, counts; minutiae
I, self, I myself; myself, himself, herself, itself
specify, particularize, individualize, realize, specialize, designate, determine; denote, indicate, point out, select
descend to particulars, enter into detail, go into detail, come to the point
special, particular, individual, specific, proper, personal, original, private, respective, definite, determinate, especial, certain, esoteric, endemic, partial, party, peculiar, appropriate, several, characteristic, diagnostic, exclusive; singular; idiomatic; idiotypical; typical
this, that; yon, yonder
specially, especially, particularly
in particular, in propria persona; ad hominem; for my part
each, apiece, one by one, one at a time; severally, respectively, each to each; seriatim, in detail, in great detail, in excruciating detail, in mind-numbing detail; bit by bit; pro hac vice, pro re nata
namely, that is to say, for example, id est, exemplia gratia, e
i
videlicet, viz
to wit
normality, normalcy, normalness; familiarity, naturalness; commonness; rule, standard; customary; standard, pattern
normalize, standardize
normal, natural, unexceptional; common, usual
multiformity, omniformity; variety, diversity; multifariousness
multiform, multifold, multifarious, multigenerous, multiplex; variform, manifold, many-sided; omniform, omnigenous, omnifarious; heterogeneous, motley, mosaic; epicene, indiscriminate, desultory, irregular, diversified, different divers; all manner of; of every description, of all sorts and kinds; et hoc genus omne; and what not? de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis
conformity, conformance; observance; habituation
naturalization; conventionality; agreement
example, instance, specimen, sample, quotation; exemplification, illustration, case in point; object lesson; elucidation
standard, model, pattern
rule, nature, principle; law; order of things; normal state, natural state, ordinary state, model state, normal condition, natural condition, ordinary condition, model condition; standing dish, standing order; Procrustean law; law of the Medes and Persians; hard and fast rule
conform to, conform to rule; accommodate oneself to, adapt oneself to; rub off corners
move in a groove; follow observe the rules, go by the rules, bend to the rules, obey the rules, obey the precedents; comply with, tally with, chime in with, fall in with; be guided by, be regulated by; fall into a custom, fall into a usage; follow the fashion, follow the crowd, follow the multitude; pass muster, do as others do, hurler avec les loups; stand on ceremony; when in Rome do as the Romans do; go with the stream, go with the flow, swim with the stream, swim with the current, swim with the tide, blow with the wind; stick to the beaten track; keep one in countenance
exemplify, illustrate, cite, quote, quote precedent, quote authority, appeal to authority, put a case; produce an instance
elucidate, explain
conformable to rule; regular; according to regulation, according to rule, according to Hoyle, according to Cocker, according to Gunter; en regle, selon Ies, reges, well regulated, orderly; symmetric
conventional; of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; in the natural order of things; ordinary, common, habitual, usual, everyday, workaday
in the order of the day; naturalized
typical, normal, nominal, formal; canonical, orthodox, sound, strict, rigid, positive, uncompromising, Procrustean
secundum artem, shipshape, technical
illustrative, in point
by rule; agreeably to; in conformity with, in accordance with, in keeping with; according to; consistently with; as usual, ad instar, instar omnium; more solito, more-majorum
for the sake of conformity; as a matter of course, of course; pro forma, for form's sake, by the card
invariably
for example, for instance; exempli gratia; e
nonconformity; unconformity, disconformity; unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly; anomalousness
exception, peculiarity; infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage; teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi, monster, monstrosity, rarity; freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant; rouser, snorter
individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism
aberration; irregularity; variety; singularity; exemption; salvo
nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood, half-breed; metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto; tertium quid, hermaphrodite
phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur; griffin, griffon; centaur; saggittary; kraken, cockatrice, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent; mermaid; unicorn; Cyclops, teratology
fish out of water; neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring; one in a million, one in a way, one in a thousand; outcast, outlaw; off the beaten track; oasis
abnormalize; leave the beaten track, leave the beaten path; infringe a law, infringe a habit, infringe a usage, infringe a custom, break alaw, break a habit, break a usage, break a custom, violate a law, violate a habit, violate a usage, violate a custom; drive a coach and six through; stretch a point; have no business there; baffle all description, beggar all description
uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous; anomalous, anomalistic; out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element
irregular, arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of; misplaced; funny
unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, singular, unique, curious, odd, extraordinary; strange, monstrous; wonderful; unexpected, unaccountable; outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis; original, unconventional, unfashionable; undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled, unheard of, unfamiliar; fantastic, newfangled, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural; denaturalized
heterogeneous, heteroclite, amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid; androgynous, androgynal; unsymmetric; adelomorphous, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous
except, unless, save barring, beside, without, save and except, let alone
however, yet, but
number, symbol, numeral, figure, cipher, digit, integer; counter; round number; formula; function; series
sum, difference, complement, subtrahend; product; multiplicand, multiplier, multiplicator; coefficient, multiple; dividend, divisor, factor, quotient, submultiple, fraction; mixed number, complex number, complex conjugate; numerator, denominator; decimal, circulating decimal, repetend; common measure, aliquot part; prime number; reciprocal; totient
permutation, combination, variation; election
ratio, proportion, progression; arithmetical progression, geometrical progression, harmonical progression; percentage
figurate numbers, pyramidal numbers, polygonal numbers
power, root, exponent, index, logarithm, antilogarithm; modulus
differential, integral, fluxion, fluent
numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime, relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate, incommensurable
proportional, exponential, logarithmic, logometric, differential, fluxional, integral, totitive
positive, negative; rational, irrational; surd, radical, real; complex, imaginary; finite; infinite; impossible
numeration; numbering
pagination; tale, recension, enumeration, summation, reckoning, computation, supputation; calculation, calculus; algorithm, algorism, rhabdology, dactylonomy; measurement; statistics
arithmetic, analysis, algebra, geometry, analytical geometry, fluxions; differential calculus, integral calculus, infinitesimal calculus; calculus of differences
dead reckoning, muster, poll, census, capitation, roll call, recapitulation; account
notation, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, rule of three, practice, equations, extraction of roots, reduction, involution, evolution, estimation, approximation, interpolation, differentiation, integration
abacus, logometer, slide rule, slipstick, tallies, Napier's bones, calculating machine, difference engine, suan-pan; adding machine; cash register; electronic calculator, calculator, computer
arithmetician, calculator, abacist, algebraist, mathematician; statistician, geometer; programmer; accountant, auditor
number, count, tally, tell; call over, run over; take an account of, enumerate, muster, poll, recite, recapitulate; sum; sum up, cast up; tell off, score, cipher, compute, calculate, suppute, add, subtract, multiply, divide, extract roots
check, prove, demonstrate, balance, audit, overhaul, take stock; affix numbers to, page
amount to, add up to, come to
numeral, numerical; arithmetical, analytic, algebraic, statistical, numerable, computable, calculable; commensurable, commensurate; incommensurable, incommensurate, innumerable, unfathomable, infinite
list, catalog, catalogue, inventory, schedule; register; account; bill, bill of costs; syllabus; terrier, tally, file; calendar, index, table, atlas, contents; book, ledger; synopsis, catalogue raisonne; tableau; invoice, bill of lading; prospectus, program, programme; bill of fare, menu, carte; score, census, statistics, returns; Red book, Blue book, Domesday book; cadastre; directory, gazetter
almanac; army list, clergy list, civil service list, navy list; Almanach de Gotha, cadaster, card index, card file, rolodex, dictionary, thesaurus, Lloyd's register, nautical almanac, who's who, Guiness's Book of World Records
roll; check roll, checker roll, bead roll; muster roll, muster book; roster, panel; cartulary, diptych
unity; oneness
individuality; solitude; isolation; unification
one, unit, ace; individual; none else, no other
be one, be alone
render one; unite
one, sole, single, solitary, unitary; individual, apart, alone; kithless
unaccompanied, unattended; solus, single-handed; singular, odd, unique, unrepeated, azygous, first and last; isolated; insular
monospermous; unific, uniflorous, unifoliate, unigenital, uniliteral, unijocular, unimodular
lone, lonely, lonesome; desolate, dreary
insecable, inseverable, indiscerptible; compact, irresolvable
alone, by itself, per se, only, apart, in the singular number, in the abstract; one by one, one at a time; simply; one and a half, sesqui-
accompaniment; adjunct; context; appendage, appurtenance
coexistence, concomitance, company, association, companionship; partnership, copartnership; coefficiency
concomitant, accessory, coefficient; companion, buddy, attendant, fellow, associate, friend, colleague; consort, spouse, mate; partner, co- partner; satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller, shadow; escort, cortege; attribute
accompany, coexist, attend; hang on, wait on; go hand in hand with; synchronize; bear company, keep company; row in the same boat; bring in its train; associate with, couple with
concomitant, fellow, twin, joint; associated with, coupled with; accessory, attendant, obbligato
with, withal; together with, along with, in company with; hand in hand, side by side; cheek by jowl, cheek by jole; arm in arm; therewith, herewith; and
together, in a body, collectively
duality, dualism; duplicity; biplicity, biformity; polarity
two, deuce, couple, duet, brace, pair, cheeks, twins, Castor and Pollux, gemini, Siamese twins; fellows; yoke, conjugation; dispermy, doublets, dyad, span
pair, couple, bracket, yoke; conduplicate; mate, span
two, twin; dual, dualistic, double; binary, binomial; twin, biparous; dyadic; conduplicate; duplex; biduous, binate, diphyletic, dispermic, unijugate; tete-a-tete
both, both the one and the other
duplication; doubling
gemination, ingemination; reduplication; iteration; renewal
double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate; geminate; repeat; renew
double; doubled
bicipital, bicephalous, bidental, bilabiate, bivalve, bivalvular, bifold, biform, bilateral; bifarious, bifacial; twofold, two-sided; disomatous; duplex; double-faced, double- headed; twin, duplicate, ingeminate; second
twice, once more; over again; as much again, twofold
secondly, in the second place, again
bisection, bipartition; dichotomy, subdichotomy; halving
bifurcation, forking, branching, ramification, divarication; fork, prong; fold
half, moiety
bisect, halve, divide, split, cut in two, cleave dimidiate, dichotomize
go halves, divide with
separate, fork, bifurcate; branch off, out; ramify
cloven, cleft; bipartite, biconjugate, bicuspid, bifid; bifurcous, bifurcate, bifurcated; distichous, dichotomous, furcular; semi-, demi-, hemi
Triality, trinity; triunity
three, triad, triplet, trey, trio, ternion, leash; shamrock, tierce, spike-team, trefoil; triangle, trident, triennium, trigon, trinomial, trionym, triplopia, tripod, trireme, triseme, triskele, triskelion, trisula
third power, cube
three; triform, trinal, trinomial; tertiary; ternary; triune; triarch, triadie; triple
triplication, triplicity; trebleness, trine
treble, triple; triplicate, cube
treble, triple; tern, ternary; triplicate, threefold, trilogistic; third; trinal, trine
three times, three fold; thrice, in the third place, thirdly; trebly
trisection, tripartition, trichotomy; third, third part
trisect, divide into three parts
trifid; trisected
tripartite, trichotomous, trisulcate
Triadelphous, triangular, tricuspid, tricapsular, tridental, tridentate, tridentiferous, trifoliate, trifurcate, trigonal, trigrammic, trigrammatic, tripetalous, tripodal, tripodic, triquetral, triquetrous
Quaternity, four, tetrad, quartet, quaternion, square, quarter; tetract, tetragon
quadrangle, quadrature, quadrifoil, quadriform, quadruplet; quatrefoil
reduce to a square, square
four; quaternary, quaternal; quadratic; quartile; tetract, tetractic, tetractinal; tetrad, tetragonal
multiply by four, quadruplicate, biquadrate
fourfold; quadrable, quadrumanous, quadruple, quadruplicate, quadrible; fourth
quadrifoliate, quadrifoliolate, quadrigeminal, quadrigeminate, quadriplanar, quadriserial
four times; in the fourth place, fourthly
quadrisection, quadripartition; quartering v; fourth; quart, quarter, quartern; farthing
quarter, divide into four parts
quadrifid, quadripartite
five, cinque, quint, quincux; six, half-a-dozen, half dozen; seven; eight; nine, three times three; dicker; ten, decade; eleven; twelve, dozen; thirteen; long dozen, baker's dozen; quintuplet; twenty, score; twenty-four, four and twenty, two dozen; twenty-five, five and twenty, quarter of a hundred; forty, two score; fifty, half a hundred; sixty, three score; seventy, three score and ten; eighty, four score; ninety, fourscore and ten; sestiad
hundred, centenary, hecatomb, century; hundredweight, cwt
one hundred and forty-four, gross
thousand, chiliad; milennium, thousand years; myriad; ten thousand, ban, man; ten thousand years, banzai; lac, one hundred thousand, plum; million; thousand million, milliard, billion, trillion
centuriate; quintuplicate
five, quinary, quintuple; fifth; senary, sextuple; sixth; seventh; septuple; octuple; eighth; ninefold, ninth; tenfold, decimal, denary, decuple, tenth; eleventh; duodenary, duodenal; twelfth; in one's 'teens, thirteenth
vicesimal, vigesimal; twentieth; twenty-fourth
vicenary, vicennial
centuple, centuplicate, centennial, centenary, centurial; secular, hundredth; thousandth
division by five; quinquesection; decimation; fifth
decimate; quinquesect
quinquefid, quinquelateral, quinquepartite; quinquarticular; octifid; decimal, tenth, tithe; duodecimal, twelfth; sexagesimal, sexagenary; hundreth, centesimal; millesimal
plurality; a number, a certain number; one or two, two or three; a few, several; multitude; majority
plural, more than one, upwards of, some, certain; not alone
et cetera, etc
fraction, fractional part; part
fractional, fragmentary, inconsiderable, negligable, infinitesimal
zero, nothing; null, nul, naught, nought, void; cipher, goose egg; none, nobody, no one; nichts, nixie, nix; zilch, zip, zippo; not a soul; ame qui vive; absence; unsubstantiality
not one, not a one, not any, nary a one; not a, never a; not a whit of, not an iota of, not a drop of, not a speck of, not a jot; not a trace of, not a hint of, not a smidgen of, not a suspicion of, not a shadow of, neither hide nor hair of
multitude; numerous
numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion; legion, host; great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd; lots; all in the world and his wife
greater number, majority; multiplication, multiple
swarm with, teem with, creep with; crowd, swarm, come thick upon; outnumber, multiply; people; swarm like locusts, swarm like bees
many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few; Briarean; a hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a thousand and one; some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty; half a dozen, half a hundred; very many, full many, ever so many; numerous; numerose; profuse, in profusion; manifold, multiplied, multitudinous, multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick, studded; galore
thick coming, many more, more than one can tell, a world of; no end of, no end to; cum multis aliis; thick as hops, thick as hail; plenty as blackberries; numerous as the stars in the firmament, numerous as the sands on the seashore, numerous as the hairs on the head; and what not, and heaven knows what; endless
paucity, small number; small quantity; rarity; infrequency; handful, maniple; minority; exiguity
reduction; weeding
elimination, sarculation, decimation; eradication
reduce, diminish the number, weed, eliminate, thin, decimate
few; scant, scanty; thin, rare, thinly scattered, few and far between exiguous; infrequent; rari nantes; hardly any, scarcely any; to be counted on one's fingers; reduced
repetition, iteration, reiteration, harping, recurrence, succession, run; battology, tautology; monotony, tautophony; rhythm; diffuseness, pleonasm, redundancy
chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello, burden of a song, refrain; rehearsal; rechauffe, rifacimento, recapitulation
cuckoo; reverberation; drumming; renewal
twice-told tale; old story, old song; second edition, new edition; reappearance, reproduction; periodicity
repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp upon, battologize, hammer, redouble
recur, revert, return, reappear; renew
rehearse; do over again, say over again; ring the changes on; harp on the same string; din in the ear, drum in the ear; conjugate in all its moods tenses and inflexions, begin again, go over the same ground, go the same round, never hear the last of; resume, return to, recapitulate, reword
repetitional, repetitionary; recurrent, recurring; ever recurring, thick coming; frequent, incessant; redundant, pleonastic
monotonous, harping, iterative, unvaried; mocking, chiming; retold; aforesaid, aforenamed; above-mentioned, above-said; habitual; another
repeatedly, often, again, anew, over again, afresh, once more; ding-dong, ditto, encore, de novo, bis, da capo
again and again; over and over, over and over again; many times over; time and again, time after time; year after year; day by day; many times, several times, a number of times; many a time, full many a time; frequently
infinity, infinitude, infiniteness
perpetuity; boundlessness
know no limits, have no limits, know no bounds, have no bounds; go on for ever
infinite; immense; numberless, countless, sumless, measureless; innumerable, immeasurable, incalculable, illimitable, inexhaustible, interminable, unfathomable, unapproachable; exhaustless, indefinite; without number, without measure, without limit, without end; incomprehensible; limitless, endless, boundless, termless; untold, unnumbered, unmeasured, unbounded, unlimited; illimited; perpetual
time, duration; period, term, stage, space, span, spell, season; the whole time, the whole period; space-time; course; snap
intermediate time, while, interim, interval, pendency; intervention, intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interlude; respite
era, epoch; time of life, age, year, date; decade; moment
glass of time, sands of time, march of time, Father Time, ravages of time; arrow of time; river of time, whirligig of time, noiseless foot of time; scythe
continue last endure, go on, remain, persist; intervene; elapse; hold out
take time, take up time, fill time, occupy time
pass time, pass away time, spend time, while away time, consume time, talk against time; tide over; use time, employ time; seize an opportunity; waste time
on foot; permanent
while, whilst, during, pending; during the time, during the interval; in the course of, at that point, at that point in time; for the time being, day by day; in the time of, when; meantime, meanwhile; in the meantime, in the interim; ad interim, pendente lite; de die in diem; from day to day, from hour to hour; hourly, always; for a time, for a season
till, until, up to, yet, as far as, by that time, so far, hereunto, heretofore, prior to this, up to this point
the whole time, all the time; all along; throughout; for good
hereupon, thereupon, whereupon; then; anno Domini; A
ante Christum; A
before Christ; B
anno urbis conditae; A
anno regni; A
once upon a time, one fine morning, one fine day, one day, once
ad calendas Groecas; tempus edax rerum; truditur dies die; volat hora per orbem
carpe diem
absence of time, no time; dies non; Tib's eve; Greek Kalends, a blue moon
never, ne'er; at no time, at no period; on the second Tuesday of the week, when Hell freezes over; on no occasion, never in all one's born days, nevermore, sine die; in no degree
period, age, era; second, minute, hour, day, week, month, quarter, year, decade, decenniumm lustrum, quinquennium, lifetime, generation; epoch, ghurry, lunation, moon
century, millennium; annus magnus
horary; hourly, annual
during pleasure, during good behavior; quamdiu se bene gesserit
corridors of time, sweep of time, vesta of time, course of time, progress of time, process of time, succession of time, lapse of time, flow of time, flux of time, stream of time, tract current of time, tide of time, march of time, step of time, flight of time; duration
elapse, lapse, flow, run, proceed, advance, pass; roll on, wear on, press on; flit, fly, slip, slide, glide; run its course
out- expire; go -, pass- by; be -past
aoristic; progressive
in due time, in due season; in in due course, in due process, in the fullness of time; in time
diuturnity; a long time, a length of time; an age, a century, an eternity; slowness; perpetuity; blue moon, coon's age, dog's age
durableness, durability; persistence, endlessness, lastingness
continuance, standing; permanence survival, survivance; longevity; distance of time
protraction of time, prolongation of time, extension of time; delay
last, endure, stand, remain, abide, continue, brave a thousand years
tarry; drag on, drag its slow length along, drag a lengthening chain; protract, prolong; spin out, eke out, draw out, lengthen out; temporize; gain time, make time, talk against time
out-last, -live; survive; live to fight again
durable; lasting
of long duration, of long standing; permanent, endless, chronic, long-standing; intransient, intransitive; intransmutable, persistent; lifelong, livelong; longeval, long-lived, macrobiotic, diuturnal, evergreen, perennial; sempervirent, sempervirid; unintermitting, unremitting; perpetual
lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out
long-pending, long- winded; slow
long; for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long, for many a long day; long ago; longo intervallo
all the day long, all the year round; the livelong day, as the day is long, morning noon and night; hour after hour, day after day; for good; permanently
transience, transientness
evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, caducity, mortality, span; nine days' wonder, bubble, Mayfly; spurt; flash in the pan; temporary arrangement, interregnum
velocity; suddenness; changeableness
transient, transient boarder, transient guest
flit, pass away, fly, gallop, vanish, fade, evaporate; pass away like a cloud, pass away like a summer cloud, pass away like a shadow, pass away like a dream
transient, transitory, transitive; passing, evanescent, fleeting, cursory, short-lived, ephemeral; flying
fugacious, fugitive; shifting, slippery; spasmodic; instantaneous, momentaneous
temporal, temporary; provisional, provisory; deciduous; perishable, mortal, precarious, unstable, insecure; impermanent
brief, quick, brisk, extemporaneous, summary; pressed for time; sudden, momentary
pro tempore; for the moment, for a time; awhile, en passant, in transitu; in a short time; soon; briefly
at short notice; on the point of, on the eve of; in articulo; between cup and lip
perpetuity, eternity, everness, aye, sempiternity, immortality, athanasia; interminability, agelessness, everlastingness
perpetuation; continued existence, uninterrupted existence; perennity; permanence
last forever, endure forever, go on forever; have no end
eternize, perpetuate
perpetual, eternal; everduring, everlasting, ever-living, ever- flowing; continual, sempiternal; coeternal; endless, unending; ceaseless, incessant, uninterrupted, indesinent, unceasing; endless, unending, interminable, having no end; unfading, evergreen, amaranthine; neverending, never-dying, never-fading; deathless, immortal, undying, imperishable
always, ever, evermore, aye; for ever, for aye, till the end of the universe, forevermore, forever and a day, for ever and ever; in all ages, from age to age; without end; world without end, time without end; in secula seculorum; to the end of time, to the crack of doom, to thetill doomsday; constantly
instantaneity, instantaneousness, immediacy; suddenness, abruptness
moment, instant, second, minute; twinkling, trice, flash, breath, crack, jiffy, coup, burst, flash of lightning, stroke of time
epoch, time; time of day, time of night; hour, minute; very minute, very time, very hour; present time, right time, true time, exact correct time
twinkle, flash
instantaneous, momentary, sudden, immediate, instant, abrupt, discontinuous, precipitous, precipitant, precipitate; subitaneous, hasty; quick as thought, quick as lightning, quick as a flash; rapid as electricity
speedy, quick, fast, fleet, swift, lively, blitz; rapid
in no time, in less than no time; presto, subito, instanter, suddenly, at a stroke, like a shot; in a moment
in the blink of an eye, in the twinkling of an eye, in a trice; in one's tracks; right away; toute a l'heure; at one jump, in the same breath, per saltum, uno saltu; at once, all at once; plump, slap; at the same instant
immediately; extempore, on the moment, on the spot, on the spur of the moment; no sooner said than done; just then; slap-dash
chronometry, horometry, horology; date, epoch; style, era
almanac, calendar, ephemeris; register, registry; chronicle, annals, journal, diary, chronogram
clock, wall clock, pendulum clock, grandfather's clock, cuckoo clock, alarm clock, clock radio; watch, wristwatch, pocket watch, stopwatch, Swiss watch; atomic clock, digital clock, analog clock, quartz watch, water clock; chronometer, chronoscope, chronograph; repeater; timekeeper, timepiece; dial, sundial, gnomon, horologe, pendulum, hourglass, clepsydra; ghurry
chronographer, chronologer, chronologist, timekeeper; annalist
calendar year, leap year, Julian calendar, Gregorian calendar, Chinese calendar, Jewish calendar, perpetual calendar, Farmer's almanac, fiscal year
fix the time, mark the time; date, register, chronicle; measure time, beat time, mark time; bear date; synchronize watches
chronological, chronometrical, chronogrammatical; cinquecento, quattrocento, trecento
anachronism, metachronism, parachronism, prochronism; prolepsis, misdate; anticipation, antichronism
disregard of time, neglect of time, oblivion of time
misdate, antedate, postdate, backdate, overdate; anticipate; take no note of time, lose track of time; anachronize
undated; overdue, past due; out of date
priority, antecedence, anteriority, precedence, pre-existence; precession; precursor; the past; premises
precede, come before; forerun; go before; preexist; dawn; presage; herald, usher in
be beforehand; steal a march upon, anticipate, forestall; have the start, gain the start
prior, previous; preceding, precedent; anterior, antecedent; pre- existing, pre-existent; former, foregoing; before-mentioned, above- mentioned; aforesaid, said; introductory
before, prior to; earlier; previously
afore, aforehand, beforehand, ere, theretofore, erewhile; ere then, ere now, before then, before now; erewhile, already, yet, beforehand; on the eve of
posteriority; succession, sequence; following
subsequence, supervention; futurity; successor; sequel; remainder, reversion
follow after, come after, go after; succeed, supervene; ensue, occur; step into the shoes of
subsequent, posterior, following, after, later, succeeding, postliminious, postnate; postdiluvial, postdiluvian; puisne; posthumous; future; afterdinner, postprandial
subsequently, after, afterwards, since, later; at a subsequent, at a later period, at a later date; next, in the sequel, close upon, thereafter, thereupon, upon which, eftsoons; from that time, from that moment; after a while, after a time; in process of time
the present, the present time, the present day, the present moment, the present juncture, the present occasion; the times, the existing time, the time being; today, these days, nowadays, our times, modern times, the twentieth century; nonce, crisis, epoch, day, hour
age, time of life
present, actual, instant, current, existing, extant, that is; present-day, up-to-date, up-to-the-moment
at this time, at this moment; at the present time
now, at present; at hand
at this time of day, today, nowadays; already; even now, but now, just now; on the present occasion; for the time being, for the nonce; pro hac vice
on the nail, on the spot; on the spur of the moment, until now; to this day, to the present day
different time, other time
aoristic; indefinite
at that time, at which time, at that moment, at that instant; then, on that occasion, upon; not now, some other time
when; whenever, whensoever; upon which, on which occasion; at another, at a different, at some other, at any- time; at various times; some one of these days, one of these days, one fine morning; eventually, some day, by and by, sooner or later; some time or other; once upon a time
synchronism; coexistence, coincidence; simultaneousness, simultaneity
concurrence, concomitance, unity of time, interim
contemporary, coetanian
coexist, concur, accompany, go hand in hand, keep pace with; synchronize
synchronous, synchronal, synchronical, synchronistical; simultaneous, coexisting, coincident, concomitant, concurrent; coeval, coevous; contemporary, contemporaneous; coetaneous; coeternal; isochronous
at the same time; simultaneously
together, in concert, during the same time; in the same breath; pari passu; in the interim
at the very moment; just as, as soon as; meanwhile
futurity, futurition; future, hereafter, time to come; approaching time, coming time, subsequent time, after time, approaching age, coming age, subsequent age, after age, approaching days, coming days, subsequent days, after days, approaching hours, coming hours, subsequent hours, after hours, approaching ages, coming ages, subsequent ages, after ages, approaching life, coming life, subsequent life, after life, approaching years, coming years, subsequent years, after years; morrow; millennium, doomsday, day of judgment, crack of doom, remote future
approach of time advent, time drawing on, womb of time; destiny; eventuality
heritage, heirs posterity
prospect; foresight
look forwards; anticipate; forestall
come on, draw on; draw near; approach, await, threaten; impend
future, to come; coming; next, near; close at hand; eventual, ulterior; in prospect
prospectively, hereafter, in future; kal, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow; in course of time, in process of time, in the fullness of time; eventually, ultimately, sooner or later; proximo; paulo post futurum; in after time; one of these days; after a time, after a while
from this time; henceforth, henceforwards; thence; thenceforth, thenceforward; whereupon, upon which
soon; on the eve of, on the point of, on the brink of; about to; close upon
the past, past time; days of yore, times of yore, days of old, times of old, days past, times past, days gone by, times gone by; bygone days; old times, ancient times, former times; fore time; the good old days, the olden time, good old time; auld lang syne; eld
antiquity, antiqueness, status quo; time immemorial; distance of time; remote age, remote time; remote past; rust of antiquity
paleontology, paleography, paleology; palaetiology, archaeology; archaism, antiquarianism, medievalism, Pre-Raphaelitism; retrospect, retrospection, looking back, memory
laudator temporis acti; medievalist, Pre-Raphaelite; antiquary, antiquarian; archmologist; Oldbuck, Dryasdust
have run its course, have had its day; pass; pass by, go by, pass away, go away, pass off, go off; lapse, blow over
look back, trace back, cast the eyes back; exhume
past, gone, gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone; elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed, expired, no more, run out, blown over, has- been, that has been, extinct, antediluvian, antebellum, never to return, gone with the wind, exploded, forgotten, irrecoverable; obsolete
former, pristine, quondam, ci-devant, late; ancestral
foregoing; last, latter; recent, over night; preterperfect, preterpluperfect
retrospective, retroactive; archaeological
formerly; of old, of yore; erst, whilom, erewhile, time was, ago, over; in the olden time
anciently, long ago, long since; a long while, a long time ago; years ago, yesteryear, ages ago; some time ago, some time since, some time back
yesterday, the day before yesterday; last year, ultimo; lately
retrospectively; ere now, before now, till now; hitherto, heretofore; no longer; once, once upon a time; from time immemorial, from prehistoric times; in the memory of man; time out of mind; already, yet, up to this time; ex post facto
novelty, recency; immaturity; youth; gloss of novelty
innovation; renovation
modernism; mushroom, parvenu; latest fashion
renew; modernize
new, novel, recent, fresh, green; young; evergreen; raw, immature; virgin; untried, unhandseled, untrodden, unbeaten; fire-new, span-new
late, modern, neoteric, hypermodern, nouveau; new-born, nascent, neonatal, new-fashioned, new-fangled, new-fledged; of yesterday; just out, brand-new, up to date, up to the minute, with it, fashionable, in fashion; in, hip; vernal, renovated, sempervirent, sempervirid
fresh as a rose, fresh as a daisy, fresh as paint; spick and span
afresh, anew, lately, just now, only yesterday, the other day; latterly, of late
not long ago, a short time ago
age, antiquity; cobwebs of antiquity
maturity; decline, decay; senility
seniority, eldership, primogeniture
archaism; thing of the past, relic of the past; megatherium; Sanskrit
tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law
have had its day, have seen its day; become old
age, fade, senesce
old, ancient, antique; of long standing, time-honored, venerable; elder, eldest; firstborn
prime; primitive, primeval, primigenous; paleoanthropic, paleolithic; primordial, primordinate; aboriginal; diluvian, antediluvian; protohistoric; prehistoric; antebellum, colonial, precolumbian; patriarchal, preadamite; paleocrystic; fossil, paleozoic, preglacial, antemundane; archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite, ancestral, black-letter
immemorial, traditional, prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary; inveterate, rooted
antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete; out of date, out of fashion, out of it; stale, old-fashioned, behind the age; old-world; exploded; gone out, gone by; passe, run out; senile; time worn; crumbling; secondhand
old as the hills, old as Methuselah, old as Adam, old as history
since the world was made, since the year one, since the days of Methuselah
morning, morn, forenoon, a
prime, dawn, daybreak; dayspring, foreday, sunup; peep of day, break of day; aurora; first blush of the morning, first flush of the morning, prime of the morning; twilight, crepuscule, sunrise; cockcrow, cockcrowing; the small hours, the wee hours of the morning
spring; vernal equinox, first point of Aries
noon; midday, noonday; noontide, meridiam, prime; nooning, noontime
summer, midsummer
matin, matutinal; vernal
with the sun, with the lark
evening, eve; decline of day, fall of day, close of day; candlelight, candlelighting; eventide, nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour; sunset, sundown; going down of the sun, cock- shut, dewy eve, gloaming, bedtime
afternoon, postmeridian, p
autumn; fall, fall of the leaf; autumnal equinox; Indian summer, St
Luke's summer, St
midnight; dead of night, witching hour, witching hour of night, witching time of night; winter; killing time
vespertine, autumnal, nocturnal
youth; juvenility, juvenescence; juniority; infancy; babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood; incunabula; minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom
cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage
prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life, golden season of life; heyday of youth, school days; rising generation
young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under age, in one's teens; in statu pupillari; younger, junior; hebetic, unfledged
age; oldness
old age, advanced age, golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life
seniority, eldership; elders; firstling; doyen, father; primogeniture
geriatrics, nostology
grow old, get old
age; decline, wane, dodder; senesce
aged; old; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile; in years; ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime; gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary; venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life, advanced in years; stricken in years; wrinkled, long in the tooth, marked with the crow's foot; having one foot in the grave; doting; like the last of pea time
older, elder, oldest, eldest; senior; firstborn; ichiban, ichiro
turned of, years old; of a certain age, no spring chicken, old as Methuselah; ancestral; patriarchal; gerontic
infant, babe, baby, babe in arms; nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling; papoose, bambino; kid; vagitus
child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf
youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master
scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olivebranch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin, codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle
girl; lass, lassie; wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle; maid, maiden; virgin; hoyden
infantine, infantile; puerile; boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish; baby; newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow
in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings; at the breast; in one's teens
veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard; grandfather, grandsire; grandam; gaffer, gammer; crone; pantaloon; sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian; old stager; dotard
preadamite, Methuselah, Nestor, old Parr; elders; forefathers
adolescence, pubescence, majority; adultism; adultness
manhood, virility, maturity full age, ripe age; flower of age; prime of life, meridian of life, spring of life
man; woman; adult, no chicken
come of age, come to man's estate, come to years of discretion; attain majority, assume the toga virilis; have cut one's eyeteeth, have sown one's mild oats
adolescent, pubescent, of age; of full age, of ripe age; out of one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged, manly, virile, adult; womanly, matronly; marriageable, nubile
punctuality; promptitude; haste; suddenness
prematurity, precocity, precipitation, anticipation; a stitch in time
be beforehand
keep time, take time by the forelock, anticipate, forestall; have the start, gain the start; steal a march upon; gain time, draw on futurity; bespeak, secure, engage, preengage
accelerate; expedite; make haste
early, prime, forward; prompt; summary
premature, precipitate, precocious; prevenient, anticipatory; rath
sudden; unexpected; near, near at hand; immediate
early, soon, anon, betimes, rath; eft, eftsoons; ere long, before long, shortly
beforehand; prematurely
precipitately; too soon; before its time, before one's time; in anticipation; unexpectedly
suddenly; before one can say, at short notice, extempore; on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion; at once; on the spot, on the instant; at sight; offhand, out of hand; a' vue d'oeil; straight, straightway, straightforth; forthwith, incontinently, summarily, immediately, briefly, shortly, quickly, speedily, apace, before the ink is dry, almost immediately, presently at the first opportunity, in no long time, by and by, in a while, directly
punctuality, promptness, immediateness
be prompt, be on time, be in time; arrive on time; be in the nick of time
timely, seasonable, in time, punctual, prompt
on time, punctually, at the deadline, precisely, exactly; right on time, to the minute; in time; in good time, in military time, in pudding time, in due time; time enough; with no time to spare, by a hair's breadth
delay, delation; cunctation, procrastination; deferring, deferral
postponement, adjournment, prorogation, retardation, respite, pause, reprieve, stay of execution; protraction, prolongation; Fabian policy, medecine expectante, chancery suit, federal case; leeway; high time; moratorium, holdover
tarry, wait, stay, bide, take time; dawdle; linger, loiter; bide one's time, take one's time; gain time; hang fire; stand over, lie over
put off, defer, delay, lay over, suspend; table; shift off, stave off; waive, retard, remand, postpone, adjourn; procrastinate; dally; prolong, protract; spin out, draw out, lengthen out, stretch out; prorogue; keep back; tide over; push to the last, drive to the last; let the matter stand over; reserve; temporize; consult one's pillow, sleep on it
lose an opportunity; be kept waiting, dance attendance; kick one's heels, cool one's heels; faire antichambre; wait impatiently; await; sit up, sit up at night
late, tardy, slow, behindhand, serotine, belated, postliminious, posthumous, backward, unpunctual, untimely; delayed, postponed; dilatory; delayed
late; lateward, backward; late in the day; at sunset, at the eleventh hour, at length, at last; ultimately; after time, behind time, after the deadline; too late; too late for
slowly, leisurely, deliberately, at one's leisure; ex post facto; sine die
timeliness, occasion, opportunity, opening, room; event; suitable season, proper season, suitable time, proper time; high time; opportuneness
crisis, turn, juncture, conjuncture; crisis, turning point, given time
nick of time; golden opportunity, well timed opportunity, fine opportunity, favorable opportunity, opening; clear stage, fair field; mollia tempora; fata Morgana; spare time
seize an opportunity, use an opportunity, give an opportunity, use an occasion; improve the occasion
seize the occasion, strike while the iron is hot, battre le fer sur l'enclume, make hay while the sun shines, seize the present hour, take time by the forelock, prendre la balle au bond
opportune, timely, well-timed, timeful, seasonable
providential, lucky, fortunate, happy, favorable, propitious, auspicious, critical; suitable; obiter dicta
in proper course, in due course, in proper season, in due season, in proper time, in due time; for the nonce; in the nick of time, in the fullness of time; all in good time; just in time, at the eleventh hour, now or never
by the way, by the by; en passant, a propos; pro re nata, pro hac vice; par parenthese, parenthetically, by way of parenthesis, incidentally; while speaking of, while on the subject; extempore; on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion; on the spot
untimeliness, intempestivity, unseasonableness, inexpedience; unsuitable time, improper time; unreasonableness adj; evil hour; contretemps; intrusion; anachronism
bad time, wrong time, inappropriate time, not the right occasion, unsuitable time, inopportune time, poor timing
mistime, intrude, come amiss, break in upon; have other fish to fry; be busy, be occupied
lose an opportunity, throw away an opportunity, waste an opportunity, neglect an opportunity; allow the opportunity to pass, suffer the opportunity to pass, allow the opportunity to slip, suffer the opportunity to slip, allow the opportunity to go by, suffer the opportunity to go by, allow the opportunity to escape, suffer the opportunity to escape, allow the opportunity to lapse, suffer the opportunity to lapse, allow the occasion to pass, allow the occasion to slip by; waste time; let slip through the fingers, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen
ill-timed, mistimed; ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred; untimely, unseasonable; out of date, out of season, out of tuen; inopportune, timeless, intrusive, untoward, mal a propos, unlucky, inauspicious, infelicitous, unbefitting, unpropitious, unfortunate, unfavorable; unsuited; inexpedient
unpunctual; too late for; premature; too soon for; wise after the event, monday morning quarterbacking, twenty- twenty hindsight
as ill luck would have it, in an evil hour, the time having gone by, a day after the fair
frequency, oftness, oftenness, commonness; repetition; normality; example; routine, custom
regularity, uniformity, constancy, clock-work precision; punctuality; even tenor; system; routine; formula; rule; keynote, standard, model; precedent; conformity
recur; do nothing but; keep, keep on
frequent, many times, not rare, thickcoming, incessant, perpetual, continual, steady, constant, thick; uniform; repeated; customary; regular; according to rule
common, everyday, usual, ordinary, familiar
old-hat, boring, well-known, trivial
often, oft; ofttimes, oftentimes; frequently; repeatedly; unseldom, not unfrequently; in quick succession, in rapid succession; many a time and oft; daily, hourly; every day, every hour, every moment
perpetually, continually, constantly, incessantly, without ceasing, at all times, daily and hourly, night and day, day and night, day after day, morning noon and night, ever anon, invariably
most often; commonly
sometimes, occasionally, at times, now and then, from time to time, there being times when, toties quoties, often enough, when the mood strikes, again and again
infrequency, rareness, rarity; fewness; seldomness; uncommonness
unfrequent, infrequent; rare, rare as a blue diamond; few; scarce; almost unheard of, unprecedented, which has not occurred within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, not within one's previous experience
seldom, rarely, scarcely, hardly; not often, not much, infrequently, unfrequently, unoften; scarcely, scarcely ever, hardly ever; once in a blue moon
once; once -for all, - in a way; pro hac vice
periodicity, intermittence; beat; oscillation; pulse, pulsation; rhythm; alternation, alternateness, alternativeness, alternity
bout, round, revolution, rotation, turn, say
anniversary, jubilee, centenary
catamenia; courses, menses, menstrual flux
rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine; days of the week; Sunday, Monday; months of the year; January; feast, fast; Christmas, Easter, New Year's day
Allhallows, Allhallowmas, All Saints' Day; All Souls', All Souls' Day; Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile, Candlemas, Dewali, groundhog day, Halloween, Hallowmas, Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram, woodchuck day, St
Swithin's day, natal day; yearbook; yuletide
punctuality, regularity, steadiness
recur in regular order, recur in regular succession; return, revolve; come again, come in its turn; come round, come round again; beat, pulsate; alternate; intermit
periodic, periodical; serial, recurrent, cyclical, rhythmical; recurring
intermittent, remittent; alternate, every other
hourly; diurnal, daily; quotidian, tertian, weekly; hebdomadal, hebdomadary; biweekly, fortnightly; bimonthly; catamenial; monthly, menstrual; yearly, annual; biennial, triennial; centennial, secular; paschal, lenten
regular, steady, punctual, regular as clockwork
at regular intervals, at stated times; at fixed established, at established periods; punctually
de die in diem; from day to day, day by day
by turns; in turn, in rotation; alternately, every other day, off and on, ride and tie, round and round
irregularity, uncertainty, unpunctuality; fitfulness
capriciousness, ecrhythmus
irregular, uncertain, unpunctual, capricious, desultory, fitful, flickering; rambling, rhapsodical; spasmodic; immethodical, unmethodical, variable
change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, evolution, revolution; diversion; break
transformation, transfiguration; metamorphosis; transmutation; deoxidization; transubstantiation; mutagenesis, transanimation, transmigration, metempsychosis; avatar; alterative
conversion; revolution inversion; displacement; transference
changeableness; tergiversation
change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume
work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce; transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume; metamorphose, ring the changes
innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards; give a turn to, give a color to; influence, turn the scale; shift the scene, turn over a new leaf
recast; reverse; disturb; convert into
newfangled; changeable; transitional; modifiable; alterative
stability; quiescence; obstinacy
permanence, persistence, endurance; durability; standing, status quo; maintenance, preservation, conservation; conservation; law of the Medes and Persians; standing dish
let alone, let be, let it be; persist, remain, stay, tarry, rest; stet; hold, hold on; last, endure, bide, abide, aby, dwell, maintain, keep; stand, stand still, stand fast; subsist, live, outlive, survive; hold one's ground, keep one's ground, hold one's footing, keep one's footing; hold good
stable; persisting
permanent; established; unchanged; renewed; intact, inviolate; persistent; monotonous, uncheckered; unfailing
undestroyed, unrepealed, unsuppressed; conservative, qualis ab incepto; prescriptive; stationary
in statu quo; for good, finally; at a stand, at a standstill; uti possidetis; without a shadow of turning
cessation, discontinuance, desistance, desinence
intermission, remission; suspense, suspension; interruption; stop; stopping
closure, stoppage, halt; arrival
pause, rest, lull, respite, truce, drop; interregnum, abeyance; cloture
dead stop, dead stand, dead lock; finis, cerrado; blowout, burnout, meltdown, disintegration; comma, colon, semicolon, period, full stop; end; death
cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break off, leave off; hold, stop, pull up, stop short; stick, hang fire; halt; pause, rest; burn out, blow out, melt down
have done with, give over, surcease, shut up shop; give up
hold one's hand, stay one's hand; rest on one's oars repose on one's laurels
come to a stand, come to a standstill; come to a deadlock, come to a full stop; arrive; go out, die away; wear away, wear off; pass away; be at an end; disintegrate, self-destruct
intromit, interrupt, suspend, interpel; intermit, remit; put an end to, put a stop to, put a period to; derail; turn off, switch off, power down, deactivate, disconnect; bring to a stand, bring to a standstill; stop, cut short, arrest, stem the tide, stem the torrent; pull the check- string, pull the plug on
continuance, continuation; run; perpetuation, prolongation; persistence a; repetition
continue, persist; go on, jog on, keep on, run on, hold on; abide, keep, pursue, stick to its course, take its course, maintain its course; carry on, keep up
sustain, uphold, hold up, keep on foot; follow up, perpetuate; maintain; preserve
a; harp upon
keep going, keep alive, keep the pot boiling, keep up the ball, keep up the good work; die in harness, die with one's boots on; hold on the even tenor of one's way, pursue the even tenor of one's way
let be; stare super antiquas vias; quieta non movere; let things take their course; stare decisis
uninterrupted, unintermitting, unvarying, unshifting; unreversed, unstopped, unrevoked, unvaried; sustained; undying; inconvertible
conversion, reduction, transmutation, resolution, assimilation; evolution, sea change; change of state; assumption; naturalization; transportation; development, developing
conversion of currency, exchange of currency; exchange rate; bureau de change
chemistry, alchemy; progress, growth, lapse, flux
passage; transit, transition; transmigration, shifting
phase; conjugation; convertibility
crucible, alembic, caldron, retort
convert, pervert, renegade, apostate
be converted into; become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow, come round to, mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse; begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change
convert into, resolve into; make, render; mold, form; remodel, new model, refound, reform, reorganize; assimilate to, bring to, reduce to
convertible, resolvable into; transitional; naturalized
gradually, in transitu
reversion, return; revulsion
turning point, turn of the tide; status quo ante bellum; calm before a storm
alternation; inversion; recoil; retreat, regression, retrogression; restoration; relapse, recidivism; atavism; vicinism
revert, turn back; relapse; recoil; retreat; restore; undo, unmake; turn the tide, roll back the tide, turn the scale, tip the scale
revulsive, reactionary; retrorse
revolution, bouleversement, subversion, break up; destruction; sudden change, radical change, sweeping organic change; change of state, phase change; quantum leap, quantum jump; clean sweep, coup d'etat, counter revolution
jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilience; explosion; spasm, convulsion, throe, revulsion; storm, earthquake, cataclysm
revolutionize; new model, remodel, recast; strike out something new, break with the past; change the face of, unsex
unrecognizable; revolutionary
substitution, commutation; supplanting
metaphor, metonymy
substitute, ersatz, makeshift, temporary expedient, replacement, succedaneum; shift, pis aller, stopgap, jury rigging, jury mast, locum tenens, warming pan, dummy, scapegoat; double; changeling; quid pro quo, alternative
representative; palimpsest
price, purchase money, consideration, equivalent
substitute, put in the place of, change for; make way for, give place to; supply the place of, take the place of; supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute; step into stand in the shoes of; jury rig, make a shift with, put up with; borrow from Peter to pay Paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize; commute, redeem, compound for
substituted; ersatz; phony; vicarious, subdititious
instead; in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room of; faute de mieux
interchange, exchange; commutation, permutation, intermutation; reciprocation, transposition, shuffling; alternation, reciprocity; castling; hocus-pocus
interchangeableness, interchangeability
barter; tit for tat; cross fire, battledore and shuttlecock; quid pro quo
interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and shuttlecock; retaliate; requite
reciprocal, mutual, commutative, interchangeable, intercurrent
in exchange, vice versa, mutatis mutandis, backwards and forwards, by turns, turn and turn about; each in his turn, everyone in his turn
vicarious, subdititious
instead; in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room of; faute de mieux
mutability, inconstancy; versatility, mobility; instability, unstable equilibrium; vacillation; fluctuation, vicissitude; alternationrestlessness
fidgets, disquiet; disquietude, inquietude; unrest; agitation
moon, Proteus, chameleon, quicksilver, shifting sands, weathercock, harlequin, Cynthia of the minute, April showers; wheel of Fortune; transientness
fluctuate, vary, waver, flounder, flicker, flitter, flit, flutter, shift, shuffle, shake, totter, tremble, vacillate, wamble, turn and turn about, ring the changes; sway to and fro, shift to and fro; change and change about; waffle, blow with the wind; oscillate; vibrate between, two extremes, oscillate between, two extremes; alternate; have as man phases as the moon
changeable, changeful; changing; mutable, variable, checkered, ever changing; protean, proteiform; versatile
unstaid, inconstant; unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled; fluctuating
restless; agitated; erratic, fickle; irresolute; capricious; touch and go; inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic; vibratory; vagrant, wayward; desultory; afloat; alternating; alterable, plastic, mobile; transient; wavering
seesaw; off and on
stability; immutability
constancy; stable equilibrium, immobility, soundness, vitality, stabiliment, stiffness, ankylosis, solidity, aplomb
establishment, fixture; rock, pillar, tower, foundation, leopard's spots, Ethiopia's skin
permanence; obstinacy
stick fast; stand firm, keep firm, remain firm; weather the storm, stay the course, stick to the course, keep the faith, don't give in, don't buckle under
settle, establish, stablish, ascertain, fix, set, stabilitate; retain, keep hold; make good, make sure; fasten; set on its legs, float; perpetuate
settle down; strike roots, put down roots, take root; take up one's abode; build one's house on a rock
unchangeable, immutable; unaltered, unalterable; not to be changed, constant; permanent; invariable, undeviating; stable, durable; perennial
fixed, steadfast, firm, fast, steady, balanced; confirmed, valid; fiducial; immovable, irremovable, riveted, rooted; settled, established
vested; incontrovertible, stereotyped, indeclinable
tethered, anchored, moored, at anchor, on a rock, rock solid, firm as a rock; firmly seated, firmly established
deep-rooted, ineradicable; inveterate; obstinate
transfixed, stuck fast, aground, high and dry, stranded
indefeasible, irretrievable, intransmutable, incommutable, irresoluble, irrevocable, irreversible, reverseless, inextinguishable, irreducible; indissoluble, indissolvable; indestructible, undying, imperishable, incorruptible, indelible, indeciduous; insusceptible, insusceptible of change
eventuality, event, occurrence, incident, affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency, juncture, experience, fact; matter of fact; naked fact, bare facts, just the facts; phenomenon; advent
business, concern, transaction, dealing, proceeding; circumstance, particular, casualty, accident, adventure, passage, crisis, pass, emergency, contingency, consequence; opportunity
the world, life, things, doings, affairs in general; things in general, affairs in general; the times, state of affairs, order of the day; course of things, tide of things, stream of things, current of things, run of things, march of things, course of events; ups and downs of life, vicissitudes of life; chapter of accidents; situation
happen, occur; take place, take effect; come, become of; come off, comeabout, come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on; pass, present itself; fall; fall out, turn out; run, be on foot, fall in; befall, betide, bechance; prove, eventuate, draw on; turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up; supervene, survene; issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course; pass off
meet with; experience, enjoy, encounter, undergo, suffer, pass through, go through, be subjected to, be exposed to; fall to the lot of; be one's chance, be one's fortune, be one's lot; find; endure
happening v; going on, doing, current; in the wind, in the air, afloat; on foot, afoot, on the tapis; at issue, in question; incidental
eventful, stirring, bustling, full of incident; memorable, momentous, signal
eventually; in the event of, in case, just in case; in the course of things; as things, times go; as the world goes, wags; as the tree falls, cat jumps; as it may turn out, happen
destiny; future existence, post existence; hereafter; future state, next world, world to come, after life; futurity; everlasting life, everlasting death; life beyond the grave, world beyond the grave; prospect
impend; hang over, lie over; threaten, loom, await, come on, approach, stare one in the face; foreordain, preordain; predestine, doom, have in store for
destined; about to be, happen; coming, in store, to come, going to happen, instant, at hand, near; near, close at hand; over hanging, hanging over one's head, imminent; brewing, preparing, forthcoming; int he wind, on the cards, in reserve; that will, is to be; in prospect; looming in the distance, horizon, future; unborn, in embryo; int he womb of time, futurity; pregnant
in time, the long run; all in good time; eventually; whatever may happen; as chance would have it
cause, origin, source, principle, element; occasioner, prime mover, primum mobile; vera causa; author; mainspring; agent; leaven; groundwork, foundation
spring, fountain, well, font; fountainhead, spring head, wellhead; fons et origo, genesis; descent; remote cause; influence
pivot, hinge, turning point, lever, crux, fulcrum; key; proximate cause, causa causans; straw that breaks the camel's back
ground; reason, reason why; why and wherefore, rationale, occasion, derivation; final cause; les dessous des cartes; undercurrents
egg, germ, embryo, bud, root, radix radical, etymon, nucleus, seed, stem, stock, stirps, trunk, tap-root, gemmule, radicle, semen, sperm
nest, cradle, nursery, womb, nidus, birthplace, hotbed
causality, causation; origination; production
be the cause n of; originate; give origin to, give rise, to, give occasion to; cause, occasion, sow the seeds of, kindle, suscitate; bring on, bring to bring pass, bring about; produce; create; set up, set afloat, set on foot; found, broach, institute, lay the foundation of; lie at the root of
procure, induce, draw down, open the door to, superinduce, evoke, entail, operate; elicit, provoke
conduce to; contribute; have a hand in the pie, have a finger in the pie; determine, decide, turn the scale; have a common origin; derive its origin
caused v; causal, original; primary, primitive, primordial; aboriginal; protogenal; radical; embryonic, embryotic; in embryo, in ovo; seminal, germinal; at the bottom of; connate, having a common origin
because; behind the scenes
effect, consequence; aftergrowth, aftercome; derivative, derivation; result; resultant, resultance; upshot, issue, denouement; end; development, outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud
production, produce, work, handiwork, fabric, performance; creature, creation; offspring, offshoot; firstfruits, firstlings; heredity, telegony; premices premises
be due to, be owing to; originate in, originate from; rise -, arise, take its rise spring from, proceed from, emanate from, come from, grow from, bud from, sprout from, germinate from, issue from, flow from, result from, follow from, derive its origin from, accrue from; come to, come of, come out of; depend upon, hang upon, hinge upon, turn upon
take the consequences, sow the wind and reap the whirlwind
owing to; resulting from
derivable from; due to; caused by; dependent upon; derived from, evolved from; derivative; hereditary; telegonous
of course, it follows that, naturally, consequently; as a consequence, in consequence; through, all along of, necessarily, eventually
attribution, theory, etiology, ascription, reference to, rationale; accounting for v; palaetiology, imputation, derivation from
filiation, affiliation; pedigree
explanation; reason why
attribute to, ascribe to, impute to, refer to, lay to, point to, trace to, bring home to; put down to, set down to, blame; charge on, ground on; invest with, assign as cause, lay at, the door of, father upon; account for, derive from, point out the reason; theorize; tell how it comes; put the saddle on the right horse
referable to, referible to, due to, derivable from; owing to; putative; ecbatic
hence, thence, therefore, for, since, on account of, because, owing to; on that account; from this cause, from that cause; thanks to, forasmuch as; whence, propter hoc
why? wherefore? whence? how comes it, how is it, how happens it? how does it happen?
in some way, in some such way; somehow, somehow or other
Whewell History of the inductive Sciences, book xviii vol
chance, indetermination, accident, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, chance medley, random, luck, raccroc, casualty, contingence, adventure, hit; fate; equal chance; lottery; tombola; toss up; turn of the table, turn of the cards; hazard of the die, chapter of accidents, fickle finger of fate; cast of the dice, throw of the dice; heads or tails, flip of a coin, wheel of Fortune; sortes, sortes Virgilianae
probability, possibility, odds; long odds, run of luck; accidentalness; main chance, odds on, favorable odds
contingency, dependence; situation
statistics, theory of Probabilities, theory of Chances; bookmaking; assurance; speculation, gaming
chance, hap, turn up; fall to one's lot; be one's -fate; stumble on light upon; take one's chance
casual, fortuitous, accidental, adventitious, causeless, incidental, contingent, uncaused, undetermined, indeterminate; random, statistical; possible; unintentional
by chance, accidentally, by accident; casually; perchance; for aught one knows; as good would have it, as bad would have it, as luck would have it, as ill-luck would have it, as chance would have it; as it may be, as it may chance, as it may turn up, as it may happen; as the case may be
power; potency, potentiality; jiva; puissance, might, force, energy; dint; right hand, right arm; ascendency, sway, control; prepotency, prepollence; almightiness, omnipotence; authority; strength
ability; ableness
competency; efficacy; efficiency; validity, cogency; enablement; vantage ground; influence
pressure; conductivity; elasticity; gravity, electricity, magnetism, galvanism, voltaic electricity, voltaism, electromagnetism; attraction; vis inertiae, vis mortua, vis viva; potential energy, dynamic energy; dynamic friction, dynamic suction; live circuit, live rail, live wire
capability, capacity; quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent; faculty, quality, attribute, endowment, virtue, gift, property, qualification, susceptibility
belong to, pertain to; lie in one's power, be in one's power; can
give power, confer power, exercise power
empower, enable, invest; indue, endue; endow, arm; strengthen; compel
powerful, puissant; potential; capable, able; equal to, up to; cogent, valid; efficient; effective, effectual, efficacious, adequate, competent; multipotent, plenipotent, omnipotent; almighty
influential; productive
by virtue of, by dint of
impotence; inability, disability; disablement, impuissance, imbecility; incapacity, incapability; inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence; indocility; invalidity, disqualification; inefficiency
telum imbelle, brutum fulmen, blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil, dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy; Quaker gun
inefficacy; failure
prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration, deliquium, collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition; emasculation, orchotomy
cripple, old woman, muff, mollycoddle
vouloir rompre l'anguille au genou, vouloir prendre la lune avec les dents
collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop; go by the board, end in smoke
deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear
unman, unnerve, enervate; emasculate, castrate, geld, alter
shatter, exhaust, weaken
powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent; inefficient, ineffective; inept; unfit, unfitted; unqualified, disqualified; unendowed; inapt, unapt; crippled, disabled
harmless, unarmed, weaponless, defenseless, sine ictu, unfortified, indefensible, vincible, pregnable, untenable
paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless; emasculate, disjointed; out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized; graveled; helpless, unfriended, fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf
null and void, nugatory, inoperative, good for nothing; ineffectual; inadequate; inefficacious
strength; power; energy; vigor, force; main force, physical force, brute force; spring, elasticity, tone, tension, tonicity
lustihood, stamina, nerve, muscle, sinew, thews and sinews, physique; pith, pithiness; virility, vitality
athletics, athleticism; gymnastics, feats of strength
adamant, steel, iron, oak, heart of oak; iron grip; grit, bone
athlete, gymnast, acrobat; superman, Atlas, Hercules, Antaeus, Samson, Cyclops, Goliath; tower of strength; giant refreshed
invigoration, refreshment, refocillation
dynamics, statics
be stronger; overmatch
strengthen, invigorate, brace, nerve, fortify, sustain, harden, case harden, steel, gird; screw up, wind up, set up; gird up one's loins, brace up one's loins; recruit, set on one's legs; vivify; refresh; refect; reenforce
strong, mighty, vigorous, forcible, hard, adamantine, stout, robust, sturdy, hardy, powerful, potent, puissant, valid
resistless, irresistible, invincible, proof against, impregnable, unconquerable, indomitable, dominating, inextinguishable, unquenchable; incontestable; more than a match for; overpowering, overwhelming; all powerful, all sufficient; sovereign
able-bodied; athletic; Herculean, Cyclopean, Atlantean; muscular, brawny, wiry, well-knit, broad-shouldered, sinewy, strapping, stalwart, gigantic
manly, man-like, manful; masculine, male, virile
unweakened, unallayed, unwithered, unshaken, unworn, unexhausted; in full force, in full swing; in the plenitude of power
stubborn, thick-ribbed, made of iron, deep-rooted; strong as a lion, strong as a horse, strong as brandy; sound as a roach; in fine feather, in high feather; like a giant refreshed
Blut und Eisen; coelitus mihi vires; du fort au diable; en habiles gens; ex vi termini; flecti non frangi
debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation; impotence; infirmity; effeminacy, feminality; fragility, flaccidity; inactivity
anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood
declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength; delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain
reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards
softling, weakling; infant; youth
drop, crumble, give way, totter, tremble, shake, halt, limp, fade, languish, decline, flag, fail, have one leg in the grave
weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, shake, deprive of strength, relax, enervate, eviscerate; unbrace, unnerve; cripple, unman; cramp, reduce, sprain, strain, blunt the edge of; dilute, impoverish; decimate; extenuate; reduce in strength, reduce the strength of; mettre de l'eau dans son vin
weak, feeble, debile; impotent; relaxed, unnerved
sapless, strengthless, powerless; weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic; nervous
soft, effeminate, feminate, womanly
frail, fragile, shattery; flimsy, unsubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread; rickety, cranky; craichy; drooping, tottering
broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied; decrepit
languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish; sickly; dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete; weather-beaten; decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear
unstrengthened, unsupported, unaided, unassisted; aidless, defenseless
on its last legs; weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat; weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water; colorless
production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture; building, architecture, erection, edification; coinage; diaster; organization; nisus formativus; putting together
establishment; workmanship, performance; achievementflowering, fructification; inflorescence
: parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture; gestation; assimilation; evolution, development, growth; entelechy; fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen
spontaneous generation; archegenesis, archebiosis; biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis; authorship, publication; works, oeuvre
biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny; tocogony, vacuolization
edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit
produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish
flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle; bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world
make productive; create; beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate; procreate, progenerate, propagate; engender; bring into being, call into being, bring into existence; breed, hatch, develop, bring up
induce, superinduce; suscitate; cause; acquire
produced, producing
productive of; prolific; creative; formative, genetic, genial, genital; pregnant; enceinte, big with, fraught with; in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of; puerperal, puerperous
digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic; ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous
destruction; waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption, disruption; consumption; disorganization
fall, downfall, ruin, perdition, crash, eboulement, smash, havoc, delabrement, debacle; break down, break up, fall apart; prostration; desolation, bouleversement, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm; washout
extinction, annihilation; destruction of life; knock-down blow; doom, crack of doom
demolition, demolishment; overthrow, subversion, suppression; abolition; biblioclasm; sacrifice; ravage, devastation, razzia; incendiarism; revolution; extirpation; commencement de la fin, road to ruin; dilapidation; sabotage
be destroyed; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all over, be all up, be all with; totter to its fall
destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume
smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground
deal destruction, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle; devour, swallow up, desolate, devastate, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate
trembling to its fall, nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall; in course of -destruction
extinct; all-destroying, all-devouring, all-engulfing
destructive, subversive, ruinous, incendiary, deletory; destroying
suicidal; deadly
with crushing effect, with a sledge hammer
reproduction, renovation; restoration; renewal; new edition, reprint, revival, regeneration, palingenesis, revivification; apotheosis; resuscitation, reanimation, resurrection, reappearance; regrowth; Phoenix
generation; multiplication
reproduce; restore; revive, renovate, renew, regenerate, revivify, resuscitate, reanimate, refashion, stir the embers, put into the crucible; multiply, repeat; resurge
crop up, spring up like mushrooms
renascent, reappearing; reproductive; suigenetic
producer, originator, inventor, author, founder, generator, mover, architect, creator, prime mover; maker; prime mover
destroyer; cankerworm; assassin; executioner; biblioclast, eidoloclast, iconoclast, idoloclast; nihilist
paternity; parentage; consanguinity
parent; father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba; genitor, progenitor, procreator; ancestor; grandsire, grandfather; great- grandfather; fathership, fatherhood; mabap
house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan; genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry; forefathers, forbears, patriarchs
motherhood, maternity; mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias, grandmother
paternal, parental; maternal; family, ancestral, linear, patriarchal
posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs; great-grandchild
child, son, daughter; butcha; bantling, scion; acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch; off-shoot, off-set; ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir-presumptive; chip off the old block; heredity; rising generation
straight descent, sonship, line, lineage, filiation, primogeniture
filial; diphyletic
fecundity, fertility, luxuriance, uberty
pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation, procreation; superfetation
milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey; second crop, aftermath; aftercrop, aftergrowth; arrish, eddish, rowen; protoplasm; fertilization
fructify; procreate, generate, fertilize, spermative, impregnate; fecundate, fecundify; teem, multiply; produce; conceive
productive, prolific; teeming, teemful; fertile, fruitful, frugiferous, fruit-bearing; fecund, luxuriant; pregnant, uberous
procreant, procreative; generative, life-giving, spermatic; multiparous; omnific, propagable
parturient; profitable
infertility, sterility, infecundity; impotence; unprofitableness
waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness
hang fire, flash in the pan, come to nothing
sterilize, addle; disable, inactivate
unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund; sine prole; fallow; teemless, issueless, fruitless; unprofitable; null and void, of no effect
agency, operation, force, working, strain, function, office, maintenance, exercise, work, swing, play; interworking, interaction; procurement
causation; instrumentality; influence; action; modus operandi
quickening power, maintaining power, sustaining power; home stroke
operate, work; act, act upon; perform, play, support, sustain, strain, maintain, take effect, quicken, strike
come play, come bring into operation; have play, have free play; bring to bear upon
operative, efficient, efficacious, practical, effectual
at work, on foot; acting; in operation, in force, in action, in play, in exercise; acted upon, wrought upon
- of; through; by means of
energy, physical energy, force, keenness
intensity, vigor, strength, elasticity; go; high pressure; fire; rush
acrimony, acritude; causiticity, virulence; poignancy; harshness
severity, edge, point; pungency
cantharides; seasoning
activity, agitation, effervescence; ferment, fermentation; ebullition, splutter, perturbation, stir, bustle; voluntary energy; quicksilver
resolution; exertion; excitation
energize, stimulate, kindle, excite, exert; sharpen, intensify; inflame; wind up
strike home, into home, hard home; make an impression
strong, energetic, forcible, active; intense, deep-dyed, severe, keen, vivid, sharp, acute, incisive, trenchant, brisk
rousing, irritation; poignant; virulent, caustic, corrosive, mordant, harsh, stringent; double-edged, double-shotted, double-distilled; drastic, escharotic; racy
potent; radioactive
fortiter in re; with telling effect
inertness, dullness
inertia, vis inertioe, inertion, inactivity, torpor, languor; quiescence; latency, inaction; passivity
mental inertness; sloth; inexcitability; irresolution; obstinacy; permanence
hang fire, smolder
inert, inactive, passive; torpid; sluggish, dull, heavy, flat, slack, tame, slow, blunt; unreactive; lifeless, dead, uninfluential
latent, dormant, smoldering, unexerted
insuspense, in abeyance
violence, inclemency, vehemence, might, impetuosity; boisterousness
effervescence, ebullition; turbulence, bluster; uproar, callithump, riot, row, rumpus, le diable a quatre, devil to pay, all the fat in the fire
severity; ferocity, rage, fury; exacerbation, exasperation, malignity; fit, paroxysm; orgasm, climax, aphrodisia; force, brute force; outrage; coup de main; strain, shock, shog; spasm, convulsion, throe; hysterics, passion
outbreak, outburst; debacle; burst, bounce, dissilience, discharge, volley, explosion, blow up, blast, detonation, rush, eruption, displosion, torrent
turmoil; ferment; storm, tempest, rough weather; squall; earthquake, volcano, thunderstorm
berserk, berserker; fury, dragon, demon, tiger, beldame, Tisiphone, Megaera, Alecto, madcap, wild beast; fire eater
run high; ferment, effervesce; romp, rampage; run wild, run amuck, run riot; break the peace; rush, tear; rush headlong, rush foremost; raise a storm, make a riot, make a row, kick up a row; rough house; bluster, rage, roar, riot, storm; boil, boil over; fume, foam, come on like a lion; wreak, bear down, ride roughshod, out Herod, Herod; spread like wildfire
break out, fly out, burst out; bounce, explode, go off, displode, fly, detonate, thunder, blow up, flash, flare, burst; shock, strain; break open, force open, prize open
sharpen, stir up, quicken, excite, incite, annoy, urge, lash, stimulate, turn on; irritate, inflame, kindle, suscitate, foment; accelerate, aggravate, exasperate, exacerbate, convulse, infuriate, madden, lash into fury; fan the flame; add fuel to the flame, pour oil on the fire, oleum addere camino
explode; let fly, fly off; discharge, detonate, set off, detonize, fulminate
violent, vehement; warm; acute, sharp; rough, rude, ungentle, bluff, boisterous, wild; brusque, abrupt, waspish; impetuous; rampant
turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging
troublous, riotous; tumultuary, tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, tameless; frenzieddesperate; infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics
fiery, flaming, scorching, hot, red-hot, ebullient
savage, fierce, ferocious, fierce as a tiger
unquelled, unquenched, unextinguished, unrepressed, unbridled, unruly; headstrong, ungovernable, unappeasable, unmitigable; uncontrollable, incontrollable; insuppressible, irrepressible; orgastic
spasmodic, convulsive, explosive; detonating
volcanic, meteoric; stormy
amain; by storm, by force, by main force; with might and main; tooth and nail, vi et armis, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet; at one fell swoop; with a high hand, through thick and thin; in desperation, with a vengeance; a outrance, a toute outrance; headlong, head foremost
moderation, lenity; temperateness, gentleness
sobriety; quiet; mental calmness
anaphrodisia; relaxation, remission, mitigation, tranquilization, assuagement, contemporation, pacification
measure, juste milieu, golden mean, <gr/ariston metron/gr>
moderator; lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic, carminative, laudanum; rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk, opium; wet blanket; palliative
keep within bounds, keep within compass; sober down, settle down; keep the peace, remit, relent, take in sail
moderate, soften, mitigate, temper, accoy; attemper, contemper; mollify, lenify, dulcify, dull, take off the edge, blunt, obtund, sheathe, subdue, chasten; sober down, tone down, smooth down; weaken; lessen; check palliate
tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off; slake; curb; tame; smooth over; pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre de l'eau dans son vin
go out like a lamb
moderate; lenient; gentle, mild, mellow; cool, sober, temperate, reasonable, measured; tempered
calm, unruffled, quiet, tranquil, still; slow, smooth, untroubled; tame; peaceful, peaceable; pacific, halcyon
unexciting, unirritating; soft, bland, oily, demulcent, lenitive, anodyne; hypnotic; sedative; antiorgastic, anaphrodisiac
mild as mother's milk; milk and water
gingerly; piano; under easy sail, at half speed; within bounds, within compass; in reason
influence; importance; weight, pressure, preponderance, prevalence, sway; predominance, predominancy; ascendency; dominance, reign; control, domination, pull; authority; capability; effect; interest
footing; purchase; play, leverage, vantage ground
tower of strength, host in himself; protection, patronage, auspices
carry weight, weigh, tell; have a hold upon, magnetize, bear upon, gain a footing, work upon; take root, take hold; strike root in
run through, pervade; prevail, dominate, predominate; out weigh, over weigh; over-ride, over-bear; gain head; rage; be -rife
spread like wildfire; have the upper hand, get the upper hand, gain the upper hand, have full play, get full play, gain full play
be recognized, be listened to; make one's voice heard, gain a hearing; play a part, play a leading part, play a leading part in; take the lead, pull the strings; turn the scale, throw one's weight into the scale; set the fashion, lead the dance
influential, effective; important; weighty; prevailing
prevalent, rife, rampant, dominant, regnant, predominant, in the ascendant, hegemonical
impotence; powerlessness; inertness; irrelevancy
uninfluential, ineffective; unconducing, unconducive, unconducting to; powerless; irrelevant
tendency; aptness, aptitude; proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility; conatus, nisus; liability; quality, nature, temperament; idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy; cast, vein, grain; humor, mood; drift; conduciveness, conducement; applicability; subservience
tend, contribute, conduce, lead, dispose, incline, verge, bend to, trend, affect, carry, redound to, bid fair to, gravitate towards; promote
conducive, working towards, in a fair way to, calculated to; liable; subservient; useful; subsidiary
for, whither
liability, liableness; possibility, contingency; susceptivity, susceptibility
incur, lay oneself open to; run the chance, stand a chance; lie under, expose oneself to, open a door to
liable, subject; in danger; open to, exposed to, obnoxious to; answerable; unexempt from; apt to; dependent on; incident to
concurrence, cooperation, coagency; union; agreement; consilience; consent, coincidence; alliance; concert; partnership
concur, conduce, conspire, contribute; agree, unite; hang together, pull together
help to
keep pace with, run parallel; go with, go along with, go hand in hand with
concurrent, in alliance with, banded together, of one mind, at one with
counteraction, opposition; contrariety; antagonism, polarity; clashing
collision, interference, inhibition, resistance, renitency, friction; reaction; retroaction; counterblast; neutralization; vis inertiae; check
voluntary opposition, voluntary resistance; repression
counteract; run counter, clash, cross; interfere with, conflict with; contravene; jostle; go against, run against, beat against, militate against; stultify; antagonize, block, oppose; traverse; withstand; hinder; repress; react
undo, neutralize; counterpoise; overpoise
antagonistic, conflicting, retroactive, renitent, reactionary; contrary
although; in spite of; against
space, extension, extent, superficial extent, expanse, stretch; room, scope, range, field, way, expansion, compass, sweep, swing, spread
latitude, play
spare room, elbow room, house room; stowage, roomage, margin; opening, sphere, arena
open space, free space; void; waste; wildness, wilderness; moor, moorland; campagna
abyss; unlimited space; infinity; world; ubiquity; length and breadth of the land
proportions, acreage; acres, acres and perches, roods and perches; square inches, square yards
ares, arpents
spacious, roomy, extensive, expansive, capacious, ample; widespread, vast, world-wide, uncircumscribed; boundless; shoreless, trackless, pathless; extended
wherever; everywhere; far and near, far and wide; right and left, all over, all the world over; throughout the world, throughout the length and breadth of the land; under the sun, in every quarter; in all quarters, in all lands; here there and everywhere; from pole to pole, from China to Peru, from Indus to the pole, from Dan to Beersheba, from end to end; on the face of the earth, in the wide world, from all points of the compass; to the four winds, to the uttermost parts of the earth
inextension, nonextension, point; dot; atom
region, sphere, ground, soil, area, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle; pale; compartment, department; clearing; domain, tract, territory, country, canton, county, shire, province, arrondissement, mofussil, parish, township, commune, ward; wapentake, hundred, riding, lathe, garth, soke, tithing, bailiwick; principality, duchy, kingdom; archduchy, archdukedom
arena, precincts, enceinte, walk, march; patch, plot, inclosure, close, enclave, field, court; street
clime, climate, zone, meridian, latitude
territorial, local, parochial, provincial, regional
place, lieu, spot, point, dot; niche, nook; hole; pigeonhole; compartment; premises, precinct, station; area, courtyard, square; abode; locality
ins and outs; every hole and corner
somewhere, in some place, wherever it may be, here and there, in various places, passim
situation, position, locality, locale, status, latitude and longitude; footing, standing, standpoint, post; stage; aspect, attitude, posture, pose
place, site, station, seat, venue, whereabouts; ground; bearings; spot
topography, geography, chorography; map
be situated, be situate; lie, have its seat in
situate, situated; local, topical, topographical
in situ, in loco; here and there, passim; here abouts, there abouts, where abouts; in place, here, there
in such and such surroundings, in such and such environs, in such and such entourage, amidst such and such surroundings, amidst such and such environs, amidst such and such entourage
location, localization; lodgment; deposition, reposition; stowage, package; collocation; packing, lading; establishment, settlement, installation; fixation; insertion
anchorage, mooring, encampment
plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment; colonization, domestication, situation; habitation; cohabitation; endenization, naturalization
place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; house, stow; establish, fix, pin, root; graft; plant; shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit; cradle; moor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; embed, imbed; vest, invest in
billet on, quarter upon, saddle with; load, lade, freight; pocket, put up, bag
inhabit; domesticate, colonize; take root, strike root; anchor; cast anchor, come to an anchor; sit down, settle down; settle; take up one's abode, take up one's quarters; plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself; squat, perch, hive, se nicher, bivouac, burrow, get a footing; encamp, pitch one's tent; put up at, put up one's horses at; keep house
endenizen, naturalize, adopt
put back, replace
situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted; domesticated; vested in, unremoved
displacement, elocation, transposition
ejectment; exile; removal
misplacement, dislocation; fish out of water
displace, displant, dislodge, disestablish; exile; ablegate, set aside, remove; take away, cart away; take off, draft off; lade
unload, empty; transfer; dispel
vacate; depart
unplaced, unhoused, unharbored, unestablished, unsettled; houseless, homeless; out of place, out of a situation
misplaced, out of its element
presence; occupancy, occupation; attendance; whereness
permeation, pervasion; diffusion
ubiety, ubiquity, ubiquitariness; omnipresence
exist in space, be present
assister; make one of, make one at; look on, attend, remain; find oneself, present oneself; show one's face; fall in the way of, occur in a place; lie, stand; occupy
people; inhabit, dwell, reside, stay, sojourn, live, abide, lodge, nestle, roost, perch; take up one's abode; tenant
resort to, frequent, haunt; revisit
fill, pervade, permeate; be diffused, be disseminated, be through; over spread, overrun; run through; meet one at every turn
present; occupying, inhabiting
moored; resiant, resident, residentiary; domiciled
ubiquitous, ubiquitary; omnipresent; universally present
peopled, populous, full of people, inhabited
here, there, where, everywhere, aboard, on board, at home, afield; here there and everywhere; in presence of, before; under the eyes of, under the nose of; in the face of; in propria persona
void, vacuum; vacuity, vacancy; tabula rasa; exemption; hiatus; lipotype!
truant, absentee
nobody; nobody present, nobody on earth; not a soul; ame qui vive
keep away, keep out of the way; play truant, absent oneself, stay away; keep aloof, hold aloof
withdraw, make oneself scarce, vacate; go away
absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home; missing; lost; wanting; omitted; nowhere to be found; inexistence
empty, void; vacant, vacuous; untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited; tenantless; desert, deserted; devoid; uninhabitable
without, minus, nowhere; elsewhere; neither here nor there; in default of; sans; behind one's back
absento nemo ne nocuisse velit; aux absents les os; briller par son absence
inhabitant; resident, residentiary; dweller, indweller; addressee; occupier, occupant; householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant; settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist; islander; denizen, citizen; burgher, oppidan, cockney, cit, townsman, burgess; villager; cottager, cottier, cotter; compatriot; backsettler, boarder; hotel keeper, innkeeper; habitant; paying guest; planter
native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones; Englishman, John Bull; newcomer
aboriginal, American, Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck, downeaster, Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan
garrison, crew; population; people; colony, settlement; household; mir
inhabit; endenizen
indigenous; native, natal; autochthonal, autochthonous; British; English; American; Canadian, Irish, Scotch, Scottish, Welsh; domestic; domiciliated, domiciled; naturalized, vernacular, domesticated; domiciliary
in the occupation of; garrisoned by, occupied by
abode, dwelling, lodging, domicile, residence, address, habitation, where one's lot is cast, local habitation, berth, diggings, seat, lap, sojourn, housing, quarters, headquarters, resiance, tabernacle, throne, ark
home, fatherland; country; homestead, homestall; fireside; hearth, hearth stone; chimney corner, ingleside; harem, seraglio, zenana; household gods, lares et penates, roof, household, housing, dulce domum, paternal domicile; native soil, native land
nest, nidus, snuggery; arbor, bower; lair, den, cave, hole, hiding place, cell, sanctum sanctorum, aerie, eyry, rookery, hive; covert, resort, retreat, perch, roost; nidification; kala jagah
bivouac, camp, encampment, cantonment, castrametation; barrack, casemate, casern
tent; building; chamber; xenodochium
tenement, messuage, farm, farmhouse, grange, hacienda, toft
cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam; pen; barn, bawn; kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang, tepee, topek
house, mansion, place, villa, cottage, box, lodge, hermitage, rus in urbe, folly, rotunda, tower, chateau, castle, pavilion, hotel, court, manor-house, capital messuage, hall, palace; kiosk, bungalow; casa, country seat, apartment house, flat house, frame house, shingle house, tenement house; temple
hamlet, village, thorp, dorp, ham, kraal; borough, burgh, town, city, capital, metropolis; suburb; province, country; county town, county seat; courthouse; ghetto
street, place, terrace, parade, esplanade, alameda, board walk, embankment, road, row, lane, alley, court, quadrangle, quad, wynd, close, yard, passage, rents, buildings, mews
square, polygon, circus, crescent, mall, piazza, arcade, colonnade, peristyle, cloister; gardens, grove, residences; block of buildings, market place, place, plaza
anchorage, roadstead, roads; dock, basin, wharf, quay, port, harbor
quarter, parish
assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn; hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow, khan, hospice; public house, pot house, mug house; gin palace; bar, bar room; barrel house, cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse; cookshop, dive, exchange; grill room, saloon, shebeen; coffee house, eating house; canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet, posada; almshouse, poorhouse, townhouse
garden, park, pleasure ground, plaisance, demesne
take up one's abode; inhabit
urban, metropolitan; suburban; provincial, rural, rustic; domestic; cosmopolitan; palatial
contents; cargo, lading, freight, shipment, load, bale, burden, jag; cartload, shipload; cup of, basket of, of; inside
stuffing, ullage
load, lade, ship, charge, fill, stuff
receptacle; inclosure; recipient, receiver, reservatory
compartment; cell, cellule; follicle; hole, corner, niche, recess, nook; crypt, stall, pigeonhole, cove, oriel; cave
capsule, vesicle, cyst, pod, calyx, cancelli, utricle, bladder; pericarp, udder
stomach, paunch, venter, ventricle, crop, craw, maw, gizzard, breadbasket; mouth
pocket, pouch, fob, sheath, scabbard, socket, bag, sac, sack, saccule, wallet, cardcase, scrip, poke, knit, knapsack, haversack, sachel, satchel, reticule, budget, net; ditty bag, ditty box; housewife, hussif; saddlebags; portfolio; quiver
chest, box, coffer, caddy, case, casket, pyx, pix, caisson, desk, bureau, reliquary; trunk, portmanteau, band-box, valise; grip, grip sack; skippet, vasculum; boot, imperial; vache; cage, manger, rack
vessel, vase, bushel, barrel; canister, jar; pottle, basket, pannier, buck-basket, hopper, maund, creel, cran, crate, cradle, bassinet, wisket, whisket, jardiniere, corbeille, hamper, dosser, dorser, tray, hod, scuttle, utensil; brazier; cuspidor, spittoon
cistern; vat, caldron, barrel, cask, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen
bail, beaker, billy, canakin; catch basin, catch drain; chatti, lota, mussuk, schooner, spider, terrine, toby, urceus
plate, platter, dish, trencher, calabash, porringer, potager, saucer, pan, crucible; glassware, tableware; vitrics
shovel, trowel, spoon, spatula, ladle, dipper, tablespoon, watch glass, thimble
closet, commode, cupboard, cellaret, chiffonniere, locker, bin, bunker, buffet, press, clothespress, safe, sideboard, drawer, chest of drawers, till, scrutoire, secretaire, davenport, bookcase, cabinet, canterbury; escritoire, etagere, vargueno, vitrine
chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of rooms, apartment, flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room, cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box; boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room, salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room, bath room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement
attic, loft, garret, cockloft, clerestory; cellar, vault, hold, cockpit; cubbyhole; cook house; entre-sol; mezzanine floor; ground floor, rez-de-chaussee; basement, kitchen, pantry, bawarchi-khana, scullery, offices; storeroom; lumber room; dairy, laundry, coach house; garage; hangar; outhouse, penthouse; lean-to
portico, porch, stoop, stope, veranda, lobby, court, hall, vestibule, corridor, passage; ante room, ante chamber; lounge; piazza
conservatory, greenhouse, bower, arbor, summerhouse, alcove, grotto, hermitage
lodging; bed; carriage
capsular; saccular, sacculated; recipient; ventricular, cystic, vascular, vesicular, cellular, camerated, locular, multilocular, polygastric; marsupial; siliquose, siliquous
size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume; largeness
greatness; expanse; amplitude, mass; proportions
capacity, tonnage, tunnage; cordage; caliber, scantling
turgidity; corpulence, obesity; plumpness
embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood
enormity, immensity, monstrosity
giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper
mountain, mound; heap
largest portion; full size, life size
large, big; great; considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy; capacious, comprehensive; spacious; mighty, towering, fine, magnificent
corpulent, stout, fat, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing; portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown; corn fed, gram fed; stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; in good case, in good condition; in condition; chopping, jolly; chub faced, chubby faced
lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, thumping, thundering, hulking; overgrown; puffy
huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous, stupendous; monster, monstrous, jumbo, mammoth, gigantean; prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Gargantuan; infinite
large as life; plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge; fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon
expansion; increase of size; enlargement, extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation; aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction; turgescence, turgidness, turgidity; dispansion; obesity; hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus; dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension; puffing, puffiness; inflation; pandiculation
dilatability, expansibility
germination, growth, upgrowth; accretion; budding, gemmation
overgrowth, overdistension; hypertrophy, tympany
bulb; plumper; superiority of size
become larger; expand, widen, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, incrassate, swell, gather; fill out; deploy, take open order, dilate, stretch, spread; mantle, wax; grow up, spring up; bud, bourgeon, shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open, burst forth; gain flesh, gather flesh; outgrow; spread like wildfire, overrun
be larger than; surpass
render larger; expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram; exaggerate; fatten
larger; full blown, full grown, full formed; big; abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate; tumefacient, tumefying
smallness; exiguity, inextension; parvitude, parvity; duodecimo; Elzevir edition, epitome, microcosm; rudiment; vanishing point; thinness
dwarf, pigmy, Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon, urchin, elf; atomy, dandiprat; doll, puppet; Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-thumb; manikin, mannikin; homunculus, dapperling, cock-sparrow
animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon; bacteria; infusoria; microzoa; phytozoaria; microbe; grub; tit, tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry; millet seed, mustard seed; barleycorn; pebble, grain of sand; molehill, button, bubble
point; atom; fragment; powder; point of a pin, mathematical point; minutiae
micrography, micrometer, microscope; vernier; scale
lie in a nutshell; become small
little; small; minute, diminutive, microscopic; microzoal; inconsiderable; exiguous, puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin, miniature, pigmy, elfin; undersized; dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish; spare, stunted, limited; cramp, cramped; pollard, Liliputian, dapper, pocket; portative, portable; duodecimo; dumpy, squat; short
impalpable, intangible, evanescent, imperceptible, invisible, inappreciable; infinitesimal, homoeopathic; atomic, corpuscular, molecular; rudimentary, rudimental; embryonic, vestigial
weazen!, scant, scraggy, scrubby; thin; granular; shrunk; brevipennate
in a small compass, in a nutshell; on a small scale
contraction, reduction, diminution; decrease of size; defalcation, decrement; lessening, shrinking
compaction; tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction, consumption, marasmus, atrophy; systole, neck, hourglass
condensation, compression, compactness; compendium; squeezing
strangulation; corrugation; astringency; astringents, sclerotics; contractility, compressibility; coarctation
become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay
be smaller than, fall short of; not come up to
render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate; boil down; constrict, constringe; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf; shorten; circumscribe; restrain
pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, grind, chip, shave, shear
astringent; shrunk, contracted
strangulated, tabid, wizened, stunted; waning
neap, compact
unexpanded; contractile; compressible; smaller
distance; space; remoteness, farness, far-cry to; longinquity, elongation; offing, background; remote region; removedness; parallax; reach, span, stride
outpost, outskirt; horizon; aphelion; foreign parts, ultima Thule, ne plus ultra, antipodes; long range, giant's stride
extend to, stretch to, reach to, spread to, go to, get to, stretch away to; range
remain at a distance; keep away, keep off, keep aloof, keep clear of, stand away, stand off, stand aloof, stand clear of
distant; far off, far away; remote, telescopic, distal, wide of; stretching to
yon, yonder; ulterior; transmarine, transpontine, transatlantic, transalpine; tramontane; ultramontane, ultramundane; hyperborean, antipodean; inaccessible, out of the way; unapproached, unapproachable; incontiguous
far off, far away; afar, afar off; off; away; a long way off, a great way off, a good way off; wide away, aloof; wide of, clear of; out of the way, out of reach; abroad, yonder, farther, further, beyond; outre mer, over the border, far and wide, "over the hills and far away; from pole to pole; to the uttermost parts, to the ends of the earth; out of hearing, nobody knows where, a perte de vue, out of the sphere of, wide of the mark; a far cry to
apart, asunder; wide apart, wide asunder; longo intervallo; at arm's length
proximity, propinquity; vicinity, vicinage; neighborhood, adjacency; contiguity
short distance, short step, short cut; earshot, close quarters, stone's throw; bow shot, gun shot, pistol shot; hair's breadth, span
purlieus, neighborhood, vicinage, environs, alentours, suburbs, confines, banlieue, borderland; whereabouts
bystander; neighbor, borderer
approach; convergencec
perihelion
adjoin, hang about, trench on; border upon, verge upon; stand by, approximate, tread on the heels of, cling to, clasp, hug; huddle; hang upon the skirts of, hover over; burn
bring near, draw near; converge; crowd; place side by side
near, nigh; close at hand, near at hand; close, neighboring; bordering upon, contiguous, adjacent, adjoining; proximate, proximal; at hand, handy; near the mark, near run; home, intimate
near, nigh; hard by, fast by; close to, close upon; hard upon; at the point of; next door to; within reach, within call
within hearing, within earshot; within an ace of; but a step, not far from, at no great distance; on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts of; in the environs
at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow, at one's finger's end, at one's side; on the tip of one's tongue; under one's nose; within a stone's throw
in sight of, in presence of; at close quarters; cheek by jole, cheek by jowl; beside, alongside, side by side, tete-a-tete; in juxtaposition; yardarm to yardarm, at the heels of; on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to; in the way
about; here abouts, there abouts; roughly, in round numbers; approximately, approximatively; as good as, well-nigh
interval, interspace; separation; break, gap, opening; hole; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha
gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet, frith, strait, gully; pass; furrow; abra; barranca, barranco; clove, gulch, notch; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus; parenthesis; voidc
incompleteness
with an interval, far between; breachy, rimose, rimulose
at intervals; longo intervallo
contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, abuttal, juxtaposition; abutment, osculation; meeting, appulse, rencontre, rencounter, syzygy, coincidence, coexistence; adhesion; touching
borderland; frontier; tangent; abutter
join, adjoin, abut on, march with; graze, touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide; coexist; adhere
contiguous; touching
conterminous, end to end, osculatory; pertingent; tangential
hand to hand; close to; with no interval
length, longitude, span; mileage
line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius
prolongation, production, protraction; tension, tensure; extension
line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league; chain; arpent, handbreadth, jornada, kos, vara
pedometer, perambulator; scale
stretch out, sprawl; extend to, reach to, stretch to; make a long arm
lengthen, extend, elongate; stretch; prolong, produce, protract; let out, draw out, spinout; drawl
enfilade, look along, view in perspective
long, longsome; lengthy, wiredrawn, outstretched; lengthened
sesquipedalian; interminable, no end of; macrocolous
linear, lineal; longitudinal, oblong
as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow; unshortened
lengthwise, at length, longitudinally, endlong, along; tandem; in a line; in perspective
from end to end, from stem to stern, from head to foot, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, from top to toe; fore and aft
brevity; littleness; a span
abbreviation, abbreviature; abridgment, concision, retrenchment, curtailment, decuration; reduction; epitome
elision, ellipsis; conciseness
abridger, epitomist, epitomizer
shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce; compress; epitomize
retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten
short, brief, curt; compendious, compact; stubby, scrimp; shorn, stubbed; stumpy, thickset, pug; chunky, decurtate; retrousse; stocky; squab, squabby; squat, dumpy; little; curtailed of its fair proportions; short by; oblate; concise; summary
breadth, width, latitude, amplitude; diameter, bore, caliber, radius; superficial extent
thickness, crassitude; corpulence; dilation
become broad, render broad
expand; thicken, widen, calibrate
broad, wide, ample, extended; discous; fanlike; outspread, outstretched; latifoliate, latifolous
thick, dumpy, squab, squat, thickset; thick as a rope
closeness, exility; exiguityc
line; hair's breadth, finger's breadth; strip, streak, vein
tenuity; emaciation, macilency, marcor
shaving, slip; thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindleshanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone
middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass; ridge, ghaut, ghat, pass; ravine
narrowing, coarctation, angustation, tapering; contraction
narrow, taper, contract; render narrow
narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like; finespun; taper, slim, slight-made; scant, scanty; spare, delicate, incapacious; contracted; unexpanded; slender as a thread
emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed
attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid, marcid, barebone, rawboned
layer, stratum, course, bed, zone, substratum, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment; table, tablet; dess; flagstone; board, plank; trencher, platter
plate; lamina, lamella; sheet, foil; wafer; scale, flake, peel; coat, pellicle; membrane, film; leaf; slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument; eschar
stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion
slice, shave, pare, peel; delaminate; plate, coat, veneer; cover
lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform; laminated, laminiferous; micaceous; schistose, schistous; scaly, filmy, membranous, flaky, squamous; foliated, foliaceous; stratified, stratiform; tabular, discoid; spathic, spathose
filament, line; fiber, fibril; funicle, vein; hair, capillament, cilium, tendril, gossamer; hair stroke; veinlet, venula, venule
wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist, whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute
strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband, roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving
beard; ramification; strand
filamentous, filamentiferous, filaceous, filiform; fibrous, fibrillous; thread-like, wiry, stringy, ropy; capillary, capilliform; funicular, wire-drawn; anguilliform; flagelliform; hairy; taeniate, taeniform, taenioid; venose, venous
height, altitude, elevation; eminence, pitch; loftiness
stature, procerity; prominence
colossus; giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard
mount, mountain; hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap; cape; headland, foreland; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights; knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height
tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola
pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff; top mast, topgallant mast
high water; high tide, flood tide, spring tide
altimetry; batophobia
tower, soar, command; hover; cap, culminate; overhang, hang over, impend, beetle, bestride, ride, mount; perch, surmount; cover; overtop; stand on tiptoe
grow higher, grow taller; upgrow; rise
high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall; gigantic; Patagonian; towering, beetling, soaring, hanging; elevated; upper; highest; high reaching, insessorial, perching
upland, moorland; hilly, knobby; mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing; cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching; aerial
incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed; prominent c
tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky
on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead; airwind; upstairs, abovestairs; in the clouds; on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of; over head and ears; breast high
over, upwards; from top to bottom
debasement, depression, prostration; depression
molehill; lowlands; basement floor, ground floor; rez de chaussee; cellar; hold; feet, heels
low water; low tide, ebb tide, neap tide, spring tide
lie low, lie flat; underlie; crouch, slouch, wallow, grovel; lower
low, neap, debased; nether most; flat, level with the ground; lying low
crouched, subjacent, squat, prostrate
under; beneath, underneath; below; downwards; adown, at the foot of; under foot, under ground; down stairs, below stairs; at a low ebb; below par
depth; deepness
profundity, depression
hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater; gulf; bowels of the earth, botttomless pit, hell
soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion; plummet, sound, probe; sounding rod, sounding line; lead
plunge; sound, heave the lead, take soundings; dig
deep, deep seated; profound, sunk, buried; submerged; subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterrene; underground
bottomless, soundless, fathomless; unfathomed, unfathomable; abysmal; deep as a well; bathycolpian; benthal, benthopelagic; downreaching, yawning
knee deep, ankle deep
beyond one's depth, out of one's depth; over head and ears
shoals; mere scratch
shallow, slight, superficial; skin deep, ankle deep, knee deep; just enough to wet one's feet; shoal, shoaly
summit, summity; top, vertex, apex, zenith, pinnacle, acme, culmination, meridian, utmost height, ne plus ultra, height, pitch, maximum, climax, culminating point, crowning point, turning point; turn of the tide, fountain head; water shed, water parting; sky, pole
tip, tip top; crest, crow's nest, cap, truck, peak, nib; end; crown, brow; head, nob, noddle, pate; capsheaf
high places, heights
topgallant mast, sky scraper; quarter deck, hurricane deck
architrave, frieze, cornice, coping stone, zoophorus, capital, epistyle, sconce, pediment, entablature; tympanum; ceiling
attic, loft, garret, house top, upper story
culminate, crown, top; overtop
highest; top; top most, upper most; tiptop; culminating
meridian, meridional; capital, head, polar, supreme, supernal, topgallant
atop, at the top of the tree
base, basement; plinth, dado, wainscot; baseboard, mopboard; bedrock, hardpan; foundation; substructure, substratum, ground, earth, pavement, floor, paving, flag, carped, ground floor, deck; footing, ground work, basis; hold, bilge
bottom, nadir, foot, sole, toe, hoof, keel, root; centerboard
bottom, undermost, nethermost; fundamental; founded on, based on, grounded on, built on
verticality; erectness
perpendicularitya; right angle, normal; azimuth circle
wall, precipice, cliff
elevation, erection; square, plumb line, plummet
stand up, stand on end, stand erect, stand upright; stick up, cock up
set up, stick up, raise up, cock up; erect, rear, raise on its legs
verticle, upright, erect, perpendicular, plumb, normal, straight, bolt, upright; rampant; standing up
rectangular, orthogonala
up, on end; up on end, right on end; a plomb, endwise; one one's legs; at right angles
horizontality; flatness; level, plane; stratum; dead level, dead flat; level plane
recumbency, lying down
reclination, decumbence; decumbency, discumbency; proneness
accubation, supination, resupination, prostration; azimuth
plain, floor, platform, bowling green; cricket ground; croquet ground, croquet lawn; billiard table; terrace, estrade, esplanade, parterre, table land, plateau, ledge
lie, recline, couch; lie down, lie flat, lie prostrate; sprawl, loll, sit down
lay down, lay out; level, flatten; prostrate, knock down, floor, fell
horizontal, level, even, plane; flat; flat as a billiard table, flat as a bowling green; alluvial; calm, calm as a mill pond; smooth, smooth as glass
recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent; lying
prone, supine, couchant, jacent, prostrate, recubant
on one's back, on all fours, on its beam ends
pendency, dependency; suspension, hanging
pedicel, pedicle, peduncle; tail, train, flap, skirt, pigtail, pendulum; hangnail
peg, knob, button, hook, nail, stud, ring, staple, tenterhook; fastening; spar, horse
hang, depend, swing, dangle; swag; daggle, flap, trail, flow; beetle
suspend, hang, sling, hook up, hitch, fasten to, append
pendent, pendulous; pensile; hanging
beetling, jutting over, overhanging, projecting; dependent; suspended
loose, flowing
pedunculate, tailed, caudate
support, ground, foundation, base, basis; terra firma; bearing, fulcrum, bait, caudex crib; point d'appui, <gr/pou sto/gr>, purchase footing, hold, locus standi; landing place, landing stage; stage, platform; block; rest, resting place; groundwork, substratum, riprap, sustentation, subvention; floor
supporter; aid; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment; cue rest, jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit, outrigger; ratlings
staff, stick, crutch, alpenstock, baton, staddle; bourdon, cowlstaff, lathi, mahlstick
post, pillar, shaft, thill, column, pilaster; pediment, pedicle; pedestal; plinth, shank, leg, socle, zocle; buttress, jamb, mullion, abutment; baluster, banister, stanchion; balustrade; headstone
frame, framework; scaffold, skeleton, beam, rafter, girder, lintel, joist, travis, trave, corner stone, summer, transom; rung, round, step, sill; angle rafter, hip rafter; cantilever, modillion; crown post, king post; vertebra
columella, backbone; keystone; axle, axletree; axis; arch, mainstay
trunnion, pivot, rowlock; peg; tiebeam; thole pin
board, ledge, shelf, hob, bracket, trevet, trivet, arbor, rack; mantel, mantle piece, mantleshelf; slab, console; counter, dresser; flange, corbel; table, trestle; shoulder; perch; horse; easel, desk; clotheshorse, hatrack; retable; teapoy
seat, throne, dais; divan, musnud; chair, bench, form, stool, sofa, settee, stall; arm chair, easy chair, elbow chair, rocking chair; couch, fauteuil, woolsack, ottoman, settle, squab, bench; aparejo, faldstool, horn; long chair, long sleeve chair, morris chair; lamba chauki, lamba kursi; saddle, pannel, pillion; side saddle, pack saddle; pommel
bed, berth, pallet, tester, crib, cot, hammock, shakedown, trucklebed, cradle, litter, stretcher, bedstead; four poster, French bed, bunk, kip, palang; bedding, bichona, mattress, paillasse; pillow, bolster; mat, rug, cushion
footstool, hassock; tabouret; tripod
Atlas, Persides, Atlantes, Caryatides, Hercules
be supported; lie on, sit on, recline on, lean on, loll on, rest on, stand on, step on, repose on, abut on, bear on, be based on; have at one's back; bestride, bestraddle
support, bear, carry, hold, sustain, shoulder; hold up, back up, bolster up, shore up; uphold, upbear; prop; under prop, under pin, under set; riprap; bandage
give support, furnish support, afford support, supply support, lend support, give foundations, furnish foundations, afford foundations, supply foundations, lend foundations; bottom, found, base, ground, imbed, embed
maintain, keep on foot; aid
supporting, supported
fundamental; dorsigerous
astride on, straddle
parallelism; coextension; equidistance
parallel; coextensive; equidistant
obliquity, inclination, slope, slant, crookedness
slopeness; leaning
bevel, tilt; bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch; distortion; bend; tower of Pisa
acclivity, rise, ascent, gradient, khudd, rising ground, hill, bank, declivity, downhill, dip, fall, devexity; gentle slope, rapid slope, easy ascent, easy descent; shelving beach; talus; monagne Russe; facilis descensus cerni
cliff, precipice; escarpment, scarp
clinometer; sine, cosine, cotangent, angle, hypothenuse
diagonal, zigzag
slope, slant, lean, incline, shelve, stoop, decline, descend, bend, keel, careen, sag, swag, seel, slouch, cant, sidle
sway, bias; slope, slant; incline, bend, crook; cant, tilt; distort
oblique, inclined; sloping
recumbent, clinal, skew, askew, slant, aslant, plagihedral, indirect, wry, awry, ajee, crooked; knock-kneed; bevel, out of the perpendicular; aslope; asquint, backhanded; recubant
uphill, rising, ascending, acclivous; downhill, falling, descending; declining, declivous, devex, anticlinal; steep, abrupt, precipitous, breakneck
diagonal; transverse, transversal; athwart, antiparallel; curved
on one side, all on one side; askew, askant, askance, edgewise, at an angle; sidelong, sideways; slopewise, slantwise; by a side wind
inversion, eversion, subversion, reversion, retroversion, introversion; contraposition; contrariety; reversal; turn of the tide
overturn; somersault, somerset; summerset; culbute; revulsion; pirouette
transposition, transposal, anastrophy, metastasis, hyperbaton, anastrophe, <gr/hysteron proteron/gr>, hypallage, synchysis, tmesis, parenthesis; metathesis; palindrome
be inverted; turn round, turn about, turn to the right about, go round, go about, go to the right about, wheel round, wheel about, wheel to the right about; turn over, go over, tilt over, topple over; capsize, turn turtle
invert, subvert, retrovert, introvert; reverse; up turn, over turn, up set, over set; turn topsy turvy
culbuter; transpose, put the cart before the horse, turn the tables
wrong side out, wrong side up; inside out, upside down; bottom upwards, keel upwards; supine, on one's head, topsy- turvy, sens dessus dessous
inverse; reverse; opposite
hirdy-girdy; heels over head, head over heels
intersection, interdigitation; decussation, transversion; convolution; level crossing
reticulation, network; inosculation, anastomosis, intertexture, mortise
net, plexus, web, mesh, twill, skein, sleeve, felt, lace; wicker; mat, matting; plait, trellis, wattle, lattice, grating, grille, gridiron, tracery, fretwork, filigree, reticle; tissue, netting, mokes; rivulation
cross, chain, wreath, braid, cat's cradle, knot; entangle
cloth, linen, muslin, cambric
cross, decussate; intersect, interlace, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, interdigitate, interlink
twine, entwine, weave, inweave, twist, wreathe; anastomose, inosculate, dovetail, splice, link
mat, plait, plat, braid, felt, twill; tangle, entangle, ravel; net, knot; dishevel, raddle
crossed, matted
cross, cruciform, crucial; retiform, reticular, reticulated; areolar, cancellated, grated, barred, streaked; textile; crossbarred, cruciate, palmiped, secant; webfooted
cross, thwart, athwart, transversely; at grade; crosswise
exteriority; outside, exterior; surface, superficies; skin; superstratum; disk, disc; face, facet; extrados
excentricity; eccentricity; circumjacence
place exteriorly, place outwardly, place outside; put out, turn out
exterior, external; outer most; outward, outlying, outside, outdoor; round about; extramural; extralimitary, extramundane
superficial, skin-deep; frontal, discoid
extraregarding; excentric, eccentric; outstanding; extrinsic; ecdemic, exomorphic
out, with out, over, outwards, ab extra, out of doors; extra muros
in the open air; sub Jove, sub dio; a ala belle etoile, al fresco
interiority; inside, interior; interspace, subsoil, substratum; intrados
contents; substance, pith, marrow; backbone; heart, bosom, breast; abdomen; vitals, viscera, entrails, bowels, belly, intestines, guts, chitterings, womb, lap; penetralia, recesses, innermost recesses; cave
place within, keep within; inclose; intern; imbed
interior, internal; inner, inside, inward, intraregarding; inmost, innermost; deep seated; intestine, intestinal; inland; subcutaneous; abdominal, coeliac, endomorphic; interstitial; inwrought; inclosed
home, domestic, indoor, intramural, vernacular; endemic
inwards, within, in, inly; here in, there in, where in; ab intra, withinside; in doors, within doors; at home, in the bosom of one's family
centrality, centricalness, center; middle; focus
core, kernel; nucleus, nucleolus; heart, pole axis, bull's eye; nave, navel; umbilicus, backbone, marrow, pith; vertebra, vertebral column; hotbed; concentrating; centralization; symmetry
center of gravity, center of pressure, center of percussion, center of oscillation, center of buoyancy; metacenter
render central, centralize, concentrate; bring to a focus
central, centrical; middle; azygous, axial, focal, umbilical, concentric; middlemost; rachidian; spinal, vertebral
middle; midst; centrally
covering, cover; baldachin, baldachino, baldaquin; canopy, tilt, awning, tent, marquee, tente d'abri, umbrella, parasol, sunshade; veil; shield
roof, ceiling, thatch, tile; pantile, pentile; tiling, slates, slating, leads; barrack, plafond, planchment, tiling, shed
top, lid, covercle, door, operculum; bulkhead
bandage, plaster, lint, wrapping, dossil, finger stall
coverlet, counterpane, sheet, quilt, tarpaulin, blanket, rug, drugget; housing; antimacassar, eiderdown, numdah, pillowcase, pillowslip; linoleum; saddle cloth, blanket cloth; tidy; tilpah, apishamore
integument, tegument; skin, pellicle, fleece, fell, fur, leather, shagreen, hide; pelt, peltry; cordwain; derm; robe, buffalo robe; cuticle, scarfskin, epidermis
clothing; mask
peel, crust, bark, rind, cortex, husk, shell, coat; eggshell, glume
capsule; sheath, sheathing; pod, cod; casing, case, theca; elytron; elytrum; involucrum; wrapping, wrapper; envelope, vesicle; corn husk, corn shuck; dermatology, conchology; testaceology
veneer, facing; engobe; pavement; scale; coating, paint; varnish a; anointing
inunction; incrustation, superposition, obduction; ground, enamel, whitewash, plaster, stucco, compo; cerement; ointment
cover; superpose, superimpose; overlay, overspread; wrap; incase; face, case, veneer, pave, paper; tip, cap, bind; bulkhead, bulkhead in; clapboard
coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar; wash; besmear, bedaub; anoint, do over; gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker, enamel, whitewash; parget; lay it on thick
overlie, overarch; endome; conceal
cutaneous, dermal, cortical, cuticular, tegumentary, skinny, scaly, squamous; covered
imbricated, loricated, armor plated, ironclad; under cover; cowled, cucullate, dermatoid, encuirassed, hooded, squamiferous, tectiform; vaginate
lining, inner coating; coating; stalactite, stalagmite
filling, stuffing, wadding, padding
wainscot, parietes, wall
line, stuff, incrust, wad, pad, fill
investment; covering; dress, clothing, raiment, drapery, costume, attire, guise, toilet, toilette, trim; habiliment; vesture, vestment; garment, garb, palliament, apparel, wardrobe, wearing apparel, clothes, things
array; tailoring, millinery; finery; full dress; garniture; theatrical properties
outfit, equipment, trousseau; uniform, regimentals; continentals; canonicals; livery, gear, harness, turn-out, accouterment, caparison, suit, rigging, trappings, traps, slops, togs, toggery; masquerade
dishabille, morning dress, neglige, dressing gown, undress; kimono; lungi; shooting-coat; mufti; rags, tatters, old clothes; mourning, weeds; duds; slippers
robe, tunic, paletot, habit, gown, coat, frock, blouse, toga, smock frock, claw coat, hammer coat, Prince Albert coat, sack coat, tuxedo coat, frock coat, dress coat, tail coat
cloak, pall, mantle, mantlet mantua, shawl, pelisse, wrapper; veil; cape, tippet, kirtle, plaid, muffler, comforter, haik, huke, chlamys, mantilla, tabard, housing, horse cloth, burnoose, burnous, roquelaure; houppelande; surcoat, overcoat, great coat; surtout, spencer; mackintosh, waterproof; ulster, P-coat, dreadnought, wraprascal, poncho, cardinal, pelerine; barbe, chudder, jubbah, oilskins, pajamas, pilot jacket, talma
jacket, vest, jerkin, waistcoat, doublet, camisole, gabardine; stays, corsage, corset, corselet, bodice; stomacher; skirt, petticoat, farthingale, kilt, jupe, crinoline, bustle, panier, apron, pinafore; bloomer, bloomers; chaqueta, songtag, tablier
trousers, trowsers; breeches, pantaloons, inexpressibles, overalls, smalls, small clothes; pants, shintiyan; shorts; tights, drawers; knickerbockers; philibeg, fillibeg
headdress, headgear; chaepau, crush hat, opera hat; kaffiyeh; sombrero, jam
tam-o'-shanter, tarboosh, topi, sola topi, pagri, puggaree; cap, hat, beaver, castor, bonnet, tile, wide awake, billycock, wimple; nightcap, mobcap, skullcap; hood, coif; capote, calash; kerchief, snood; head, coiffure; crown; chignon, pelt, wig, front, peruke, periwig, caftan, turban, fez, shako, csako, busby; kepi, forage cap, bearskin; helmet; mask, domino
body clothes; linen; hickory shirt; shirt, sark, smock, shift, chemise; night gown, night shirt; bedgown, sac de nuit; jersey; underclothing under waistcoat
neckerchief, neckcloth; tie, ruff, collar, cravat, stock, handkerchief, scarf; bib, tucker; boa; girdle; cummerbund, rumal, rabat
shoe, pump, boot, slipper, sandal, galoche, galoshes, patten, clog; high-low; Blucher boot, wellington boot, Hessian boot, jack boot, top boot; Balmoral; arctics, bootee, bootikin, brogan, chaparajos; chavar, chivarras, chivarros; gums, larrigan, rubbers, showshoe, stogy, veldtschoen, legging, buskin, greave, galligaskin, gamache, gamashes, moccasin, gambado, gaiter, spatterdash, brogue, antigropelos; stocking, hose, gaskins, trunk hose, sock; hosiery
glove, gauntlet, mitten, cuff, wristband, sleeve
swaddling cloth, baby linen, layette; pocket handkerchief; ice wool; taffeta
clothier, tailor, milliner, costumier, sempstress, snip; dressmaker, habitmaker, breechesmaker, shoemaker; crispin; friseur; cordwainer, cobbler, hosier, hatter; draper, linen draper, haberdasher, mercer
invest; cover; envelope, lap, involve; inwrap, enwrap; wrap; fold up, wrap up, lap up, muffle up; overlap; sheath, swathe, swaddle, roll up in, circumvest
vest, clothe, array, dress, dight, drape, robe, enrobe, attire, apparel, accounter, rig, fit out; deck; perk, equip, harness, caparison
wear; don; put on, huddle on, slip on; mantle
habited; dighted; barbed, barded; clad, costume, shod, chausse; en grande tenue
divestment; taking off
nudity; bareness
undress; dishabille; the altogether; nudation, denudation; decortication, depilation, excoriation, desquamation; molting; exfoliation; trichosis
divest; uncover; denude, bare, strip; disfurnish; undress, disrobe; uncoif; dismantle; put off, take off, cast off; doff; peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay; expose, lay open; exfoliate, molt, mew; cast the skin
bare, naked, nude; undressed, undraped; exposed; in dishabille; bald, threadbare, ragged, callow, roofless
in a state of nature, in nature's garb, in the buff, in native buff, in birthday suit; in puris naturalibus; with nothing on, stark naked; bald as a coot, bare as the back of one's hand; out at elbows; barefoot; bareback, barebacked; leafless, napless, hairless
circumjacence, circumambience; environment, encompassment; atmosphere, medium, surroundings
outpost; border; girdle; outskirts, boulevards, suburbs, purlieus, precincts, faubourgs, environs, entourage, banlieue; neighborhood, vicinage, vicinity
surround, beset, compass, encompass, environ, inclose, enclose, encircle, embrace, circumvent, lap, gird; belt; begird, engird; skirt, twine round; hem in
circumjacent, circumambient, circumfluent; ambient; surrounding
circumferential, suburban
around, about; without; on every side; on all sides; right and left, all round, round about
interjacence, intercurrence, intervenience, interlocation, interdigitation, interpenetration; permeation
interjection, interpolation, interlineation, interspersion, intercalation; embolism
intervention, interference, interposition; intrusion, obtrusion; insinuation; insertion; dovetailing; infiltration
intermedium, intermediary; go between, bodkin, intruder, interloper; parenthesis, episode, flyleaf
partition, septum, diaphragm, midriff; dissepiment; party, wall, panel; halfway house
lie between, come between, get between; intervene, slide in, interpenetrate, permeate
put between, introduce, import, throw in, wedge in, edge in, jam in, worm in, foist in, run in, plow in, work in; interpose, interject, intercalate, interpolate, interline, interleave, intersperse, interweave, interlard, interdigitate; let in, dovetail, splice, mortise; insinuate, smuggle; infiltrate, ingrain
interfere, put in an oar, thrust one's nose in; intrude, obtrude; have a finger in the pie; introduce the thin end of the wedge; thrust in
interjacent, intercurrent, intervenient, intervening
intermediate, intermediary, intercalary, interstitial; embolismal
parenthetical, episodic; mediterranean; intrusive; embosomed; merged
between, betwixt; twixt; among, amongst; amid, amidst; mid, midst; in the thick of; betwixt and between; sandwich-wise; parenthetically, obiter dictum
circumscription, limitation, inclosure; confinement; circumvallation; encincture; envelope
circumscribe, limit, bound, confine, inclose; surround; compass about; imprison; hedge in, wall in, rail in; fence round, hedge round; picket; corral
enfold, bury, incase, pack up, enshrine, inclasp; wrap up; embay, embosom
begirt, lapt; buried in, immersed in; embosomed, in the bosom of, imbedded, encysted, mewed up; imprisoned; landlocked, in a ring fence
outline, circumference; perimeter, periphery, ambit, circuit, lines tournure, contour, profile, silhouette; bounds; coast line
zone, belt, girth, band, baldric, zodiac, girdle, tyre, cingle, clasp, girt; cordon; circlet
edge, verge, brink, brow, brim, margin, border, confine, skirt, rim, flange, side, mouth; jaws, chops, chaps, fauces; lip, muzzle
threshold, door, porch; portal; coast, shore
frame, fringe, flounce, frill, list, trimming, edging, skirting, hem, selvedge, welt, furbelow, valance
border, marginal, skirting; labial, labiated, marginated
inclosure, envelope; case; wrapper; girdle
pen, fold; pen fold, in fold, sheep fold; paddock, pound; corral; yard; net, seine net
wall, hedge, hedge row; espalier; fence; pale, paling, balustrade, rail, railing, quickset hedge, park paling, circumvallation, enceinte, ring fence
barrier, barricade; gate, gateway; bent, dingle; door, hatch, cordon; prison
dike, dyke, ditch, fosse, moat
inclose, circumscribe
limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term, bourn, verge, curbstone, but, pale; termination, terminus; stint, frontier, precinct, marches; backwoods
boundary line, landmark; line of demarcation, line of circumvallation; pillars of Hercules; Rubicon, turning point; ne plus ultra; sluice, floodgate
definite; conterminate, conterminable; terminal, frontier; bordering
thus far, thus far and no further
front; fore, forepart; foreground; face, disk, disc, frontage; facade, proscenium, facia, frontispiece; anteriority; obverse
fore rank, front rank; van, vanguard; advanced guard; outpost; first line; scout
brow, forehead, visage, physiognomy, phiz, countenance, mut; rostrum, beak, bow, stem, prow, prore, jib
pioneer; metoposcopy
be in front, stand in front
front, face, confront; bend forwards; come to the front, come to the fore
fore, anterior, front, frontal
before; in front, in the van, in advance; ahead, right ahead; forehead, foremost; in the foreground, in the lee of; before one's face, before one's eyes; face to face, vis-a-vis; front a front
rear, back, posteriority; rear rank, rear guard; background, hinterland
occiput, nape, chine; heels; tail, rump, croup, buttock, posteriors, backside scut, breech, dorsum, loin; dorsal region, lumbar region; hind quarters; aitchbone; natch, natch bone
stern, poop, afterpart, heelpiece, crupper
wake; train
reverse; other side of the shield
fall astern; bend backwards; bring up the rear
back, rear; hind, hinder, hindmost, hindermost; postern, posterior; dorsal, after; caudal, lumbar; mizzen, tergal
behind; in the rear, in the background; behind one's back; at the heels of, at the tail of, at the back of; back to back
after, aft, abaft, astern, sternmost, aback, rearward
laterality; side, flank, quarter, lee; hand; cheek, jowl, jole, wing; profile; temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip; beam
gable, gable end; broadside; lee side
points of the compass; East, Orient, Levant; West; orientation
flank, outflank; sidle; skirt; orientate
lateral, sidelong; collateral; parietal, flanking, skirting; flanked; sideling
many sided; multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral
Eastern; orient, oriental; Levantine; Western, occidental, Hesperian
sideways, sidelong; broadside on; on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside; by the side of; side by side; cheek by jowl; to windward, to leeward; laterally
right and left; on her beam ends
contraposition, opposition; polarity; inversion; opposite side; reverse, inverse; counterpart; antipodes; opposite poles, North and South
antonym, opposite
opposite; reverse, inverse; converse, antipodal, subcontrary; fronting, facing, diametrically opposite
Northern, septentrional, Boreal, arctic; Southern, Austral, antarctic
over, over the way, over against; against; face to face, vis-a- vis; as poles asunder
dextrality; right, right hand; dexter, offside, starboard
dextral, right-handed; dexter, dextrorsal, dextrorse; ambidextral
dextrad, dextrally
sinistrality; left, left hand; sinister, nearside, larboard, port
left-handed; sinister; sinistral, sinistrorsal, sinistrorse, sinistrous
sinistrally, sinistrously
form, figure, shape; conformation, configuration; make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib; stamp, type, cast, mold; fashion; contour; structure; plasmature
feature, lineament, turn; phase; posture, attitude, pose
formation, figuration, efformation; sculpture; plasmation
form, shape, figure, fashion, efform, carve, cut, chisel, hew, cast; rough hew, rough cast; sketch; block out, hammer out; trim; lick into shape, put into shape; model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture; cast, stamp; build
plastic, fictile; formative
amorphism, informity; unlicked cub; rudis indigestaque moles; disorder; deformity
disfigurement, defacement; mutilation; deforming
deface, disfigure, deform, mutilate, truncate; derange; blemish, mar
shapeless, amorphous, formless; unformed, unhewn, unfashioned, unshapen; rough, rude, Gothic, barbarous, rugged
symmetry, shapeliness, finish; beauty; proportion, eurythmy, uniformity, parallelism; bilateral symmetry, trilateral symmetry, multilateral symmetry; centrality
arborescence, branching, ramification; arbor vitae
symmetrical, shapely, well set, finished; beautiful; classic, chaste, severe
regular, uniform, balanced; equal; parallel, coextensive
arborescent, arboriform; dendriform, dendroid; branching; ramous, ramose; filiciform, filicoid; subarborescent; papilionaceous
distortion, detortion, contortion; twist, crookedness; grimace; deformity; malformation, malconformation; harelip; monstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry, anamorphosis; ugliness; talipes; teratology
distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform, misshape
out of shape, irregular, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on one side, crump, deformed; harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten; misproportioned, ill proportioned; ill- made; grotesque, crooked as a ram's horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow kneed, knock kneed; splay footed, club footed; round shouldered; snub nosed; curtailed of one's fair proportions; stumpy; gaunt; bloated; scalene; simous; taliped, talipedic
angularity, angularness; aduncity; angle, cusp, bend; fold; notch; fork, bifurcation
elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke, scythe, sickle, zigzag, kimbo, akimbo
corner, nook, recess, niche, oriel, coign
right angle a; obliquity; angle ofø, miter; acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle, reentering angle, spherical angle
angular measurement, angular elevation, angular distance, angular velocity; trigonometry, goniometry; altimetry; clinometer, graphometer, goniometer; theodolite; sextant, quadrant; dichotomy
triangle, trigon, wedge; rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond; rhomb, rhombus; quadrangle, quadrilateral; parallelogram; quadrature; polygon, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, oxygon, decagon
Platonic bodies; cube, rhomboid; tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron; prism, pyramid; parallelopiped; curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof
bend, fork, bifurcate, crinkle
angular, bent, crooked, aduncous, uncinated, aquiline, jagged, serrated; falciform, falcated; furcated, forked, bifurcate, zigzag; furcular; hooked; dovetailed; knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo, geniculated; oblique
fusiform, wedge-shaped, cuneiform; cuneate, multangular, oxygonal; triangular, trigonal, trilateral; quadrangular, quadrilateral; foursquare; rectangular, square, multilateral; polygonal
cubical, rhomboidal, pyramidal
curvature, curvity, curvation; incurvature, incurvity; incurvation; bend; flexure, flexion; conflexure; crook, hook, bought, bending; deflexion, inflexion; concameration; arcuation, devexity, turn, deviation, detour, sweep; curl, curling; bough; recurvity, recurvation; sinuosity
carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule, horseshoe, loop, crane neck; parabola, hyperbola; catenary, festoon; conchoid, cardioid; caustic; tracery; arched ceiling, arched roof; bay window, bow window
sweep, swag, sag; deviate; turn; reenter
bend, curve, incurvate; deflect, inflect; crook; turn, round, arch, arcuate, arch over, concamerate; bow, curl, recurve, frizzle
curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear; devex, devious; recurved, recurvous; crump; bowed
vaulted, hooked; falciform, falcated; semicircular, crescentic; luniform, lunular; semilunar, conchoidal; cordiform, cordated; cardioid; heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped; reniform; lentiform, lenticular; bow-legged; oblique; circular
aduncated, arclike, arcuate, beaked; bicorn, bicornuous, bicornute; clypeate, clypeiform; cymbiform, embowed, galeiform; hamate, hamiform, hamous; hooked; linguiform, lingulate; lobiform, lunate, navicular, peltate, remiform, rhamphoid; rostrate, rostriferous, rostroid; scutate, scaphoid, uncate; unguiculate, unguiform
straightness, rectilinearity, directness; inflexibility; straight line, right line, direct line; short cut
have no turning; not incline to either side, not bend to either side, not turn to either side, not deviate to either side; go straight; steer for
render straight, straighten, rectify; set straight, put straight; unbend, unfold, uncurl, unravel, unwrap
straight; rectilinear, rectilineal; direct, even, right, true, in a line; unbent, virgate
undeviating, unturned, undistorted, unswerving; straight as an arrow; inflexible
circularity, roundness; rotundity
circle, circlet, ring, areola, hoop, roundlet, annulus, annulet, bracelet, armlet; ringlet; eye, loop, wheel; cycle, orb, orbit, rundle, zone, belt, cordon, band; contrate wheel, crown wheel; hub; nave; sash, girdle, cestus, cincture, baldric, fillet, fascia, wreath, garland; crown, corona, coronet, chaplet, snood, necklace, collar; noose, lasso, lassoo
ellipse, oval, ovule; ellipsoid, cycloid; epicycloid, epicycle; semicircle; quadrant, sextant, sector
go round; encircle; describe a circle
round, rounded, circular, annular, orbicular; oval, ovate; elliptic, elliptical; egg-shaped; pear-shaped; cycloidal
convolution, involution, circumvolution; wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity; sinuosity, sinuation; meandering, circuit, circumbendibus, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages; torsion; inosculation; reticulation; rivulation; roughness
coil, roll, curl; buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle; tendril; scollop, scallop, escalop; kink; ammonite, snakestone
serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth
wind, twine, turn and twist, twirl; wave, undulate, meander; inosculate; entwine, intwine; twist, coil, roll; wrinkle, curl, crisp, twill; frizzle; crimp, crapek, indent, scollop, scallop, wring, intort; contort; wreathe
convoluted; winding, twisted
tortile, tortive; wavy; undated, undulatory; circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine; serpent, anguill, vermiform; vermicular; mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous, anfractuous, reclivate, rivulose, scolecoid; sigmoid, sigmoidal; spiriferous, spiroid
involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed; labyrinth, labyrinthic, labyrinthian, labyrinthine; peristaltic; daedalian; kinky
wreathy, frizzly, crepe, buckled; raveled
spiral, coiled, helical; cochleate, cochleous; screw-shaped; turbinated, turbiniform
in and out, round and round
rotundity; roundness
cylindricity; sphericity, spheroidity; globosity
cylinder, cylindroid, cylindrical; barrel, drum; roll, roller; rouleau, column, rolling-pin, rundle
cone, conoid; pear shape, egg shape, bell shape
sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder; spheroid, ellipsoid; oblong spheroid; oblate spheroid; drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote, clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn; knot
form into a sphere, sphere, roll into a ball; give rotundity
rotund; round; cylindric, cylindrical, cylindroid; columnar, lumbriciform; conic, conical; spherical, spheroidal; globular, globated, globous, globose; egg shaped, bell shaped, pear shaped; ovoid, oviform; gibbous; rixiform; campaniform, campanulate, campaniliform; fungiform, bead-like, moniliform, pyriform, bulbous; tres atque rotundus; round as an orange, round as an apple, round as a ball, round as a billiard ball, round as a cannon ball
convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion; camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'amswell
intumescence; tumour, tumor; tubercle, tuberosity; excrescence; hump, hunch, bunch
tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, boss, embossment, bump, clump; sugar loaf; bow; mamelon; hub, hubble; molar
pimple; wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain; boil; airbubble, blob, papule, verruca
papilla, nipple, teat, pap, breast, dug, mammilla; proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle; belly, corporation; withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange
peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag
cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves; pilaster
relief, relievo, cameo; bassorilievo, mezzorilievo, altorilievo; low relief, bas relief, high relief
hill; cape, promontory, mull; forehead, foreland; point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur; naze, ness
project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge, bunch; jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out; stick up, bristle up, start up, cock up, shoot up; swell over, hang over, bend over; beetle
raise; emboss, chase
convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting
bossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy; clavate, clavated, claviform; hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform; papulous, papilose; hemispheric, bulbous; bowed, arched; bold; bellied; tuberous, tuberculous; tumous; cornute, odontoid; lentiform, lenticular; gibbous; club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose
salient, in relief, raised, repousse; bloated
plane; level; plate, platter, table, tablet, slab
render flat, flatten; level
flat, plane, even, flush, scutiform, discoid; level; flat as a pancake, flat as a fluke, flat as a flounder, flat as a board, flat as my hand
concavity, depression, dip; hollow, hollowness; indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, alveolus, lacuna; excavation; trough; honeycomb
cup, basin, crater, punch bowl; cell; socket
valley, vale, dale, dell, dingle, combe, bottom, slade, strath, glade, grove, glen, cave, cavern, cove; grot, grotto; alcove, cul-de-sac; gully; arch; bay
excavator, sapper, miner
retire, cave in
depress, hollow; scoop, scoop out; gouge, dig, delve, excavate, dent, dint, mine, sap, undermine, burrow, tunnel, stave in
alveolate, calathiform, cup-shaped, dishing; favaginous, faveolate, favose; scyphiform, scyphose; concave, hollow, stove in; retiring; retreating; cavernous; porous; infundibul, infundibular, infundibuliform; funnel shaped, bell shaped; campaniform, capsular; vaulted, arched
acuity, acumination; spinosity
point, spike, spine, spiculum, needle, pin; prick, prickle; spur, rowel, barb; spit, cusp; horn, antler; snag; tag thorn, bristle; Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca
nib, tooth, tusk; spoke, cog, ratchet
crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille; spire, pyramid, steeple
beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle; comb; awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle
wedge; knife edge, cutting edge; blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor; scalpel; bistoury, lancet; plowshare, colter; hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill; billhook, cleaver, cutter; scythe, sickle; scissors, shears; sword; bodkin; belduque, bowie knife, paring knife; bushwhacker; drawing knife, drawing shave
sharpener, hone, strop; grindstone, whetstone; novaculite; steel, emery
taper to a point; bristle with
sharpen, point, aculeate, whet, barb, spiculate, set, strop, grind
sharp, keen; acute; acicular, aciform; aculeated, acuminated; pointed; tapering; conical, pyramidal; mucronate, mucronated; spindle shaped, needle shaped; spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient; cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated; cornute, cornuted, cornicultate; prickly; spiny, spinous; thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary; craggy; snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform; dentiform, denticulated; toothed; odontoid; starlike; stellated, stelliform; sagittate, sagittiform; arrowheaded; arrowy, barbed, spurred
acinaform; apiculate, apiculated; aristate, awned, awny, bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate; lanceolate, lanciform; awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl-shaped, scimitar- shaped, sword-shaped; setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral, xiphoid
cutting; sharp edged, knife edged; sharp as a razor, keen as a razor; sharp as a needle; sharpened
be blunt, render blunt
obtund, dull; take off the point, take off the edge; turn
blunt, obtuse, dull, bluff; edentate, toothless
polish, gloss; lubricity, lubrication
down, velvet, silk, satin; velveteen, velumen; slide; bowling green; glass, ice; asphalt, wood pavement, flags
roller, steam roller; sand paper, emery paper; flat iron, sad iron; burnisher, turpentine and beeswax
smooth, smoothen; plane; file; mow, shave; level, roll; macadamize; polish, burnish, calender, glaze; iron, hot-press, mangle; lubricate
smooth; polished
leiodermatous, slick, velutinous; even; level; plane; sleek, glossy; silken, silky; lanate, downy, velvety; glabrous, slippery, glassy, lubricous, oily, soft, unwrinkled; smooth as glass, smooth as ice, smooth as monumental alabaster, smooth as velvet, smooth as oil; slippery as an eel; woolly
tooth, grain, texture, ripple; asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity; arborescence; pilosity
brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet; fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi; lovelock; beaucatcher; curl paper; goatee; papillote, scalp lock
plumage, plumosity; plume, panache, crest; feather, tuft, fringe, toupee
wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down; byssus, moss, bur; fluff
roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set on edge, stroke the wrong way, rumple
rough, uneven, scabrous, knotted; rugged, rugose, rugous; knurly; asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn; craggy, cragged; crankling, scraggy; prickly (sharp; arborescent; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous; laciniate, laciniform, laciniose; pappose; pileous, pilose; trichogenous, trichoid; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose, crinite; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed; setous, setose, setaceous; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear
downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly; lanate, lanated; lanuginous, lanuginose; tomentose; fluffy
notch, dent, nick, cut; indent, indentation; dimple
embrasure, battlement, machicolation; saw, tooth, crenelle, scallop, scollop, vandyke; depression; jag
notch, nick, cut, dent, indent, jag, scarify, scotch, crimp, scollop, crenulate, vandyke
crenate, crenated; dentate, dentated; denticulate, denticulated; toothed, palmated, serrated
fold, plicature, plait, ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel; pucker, crow's feet; plication
fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cockle up, cocker, rimple, rumple, frizzle, frounce, rivel, twill, corrugate, ruffle, crimple, crumple, pucker; turn down, double down, down under; tuck, ruck, hem, gather
folded, fluted, pleated
furrow, groove, rut, sulcus, scratch, streak, striae, crack, score, incision, slit; chamfer, fluting; corduroy road, cradle hole
channel, gutter, trench, ditch, dike, dyke; moat, fosse, trough, kennel; ravine; tajo, thank-ye-ma'am
flute, plow; incise, engrave, etch, bite in
ribbed, striated, sulcated, fluted, canaliculated; bisulcous, bisulcate, bisulcated; canaliferous; trisulcate; corduroy; unisulcate; costate, rimiform
hole, foramen; puncture, perforation; fontanel; transforation; pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole; eye of a needle; eyelet; slot
opening; aperture, apertness; hiation, yawning, oscitancy, dehiscence, patefaction, pandiculation; chasm
embrasure, window, casement; abatjour; light; sky light, fan light; lattice; bay window, bow window; oriel; dormer, lantern
outlet, inlet; vent, vomitory; embouchure; orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle; placket
portal, porch, gate, ostiary, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door; arcade; cellarway, driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway; lich gate
way, path; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe; air pipe; vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula; adjutage, ajutage; ostium; smokestack; chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit, shaft; gallery
alley, aisle, glade, vista
bore, caliber; pore; blind orifice; fulgurite, thundertube
porousness, porosity; sieve, cullender, colander; cribble, riddle, screen; honeycomb
apertion, perforation; piercing
terebration, empalement, pertusion, puncture, acupuncture, penetration
opener, key, master key, passe-partout
open, ope, gape, yawn, bilge; fly open
perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine; tunnel; transpierce, transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch; stave in
cut a passage through; make way for, make room for
uncover, unclose, unrip; lay open, cut open, rip open, throw open
open; perforated
perforate; wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped; oscitant, gaping, yawning; patent
tubular, cannular, fistulous; pervious, permeable; foraminous; vesicular, vasicular; porous, follicular, cribriform, honeycombed, infundibular, riddled; tubulous, tubulated; piped, tubate
closure, occlusion, blockade; shutting up
obstruction; embolus; contraction; infarction; constipation, obstipation; blind alley, blind corner; keddah; cul-de-sac, caecum; imperforation, imperviousness
impermeability; stopper
close, occlude, plug; block up, stop up, fill up, bung up, cork up, button up, stuff up, shut up, dam up; blockade, obstruct
bar, bolt, stop, seal, plumb; choke, throttle; ram down, dam, cram; trap, clinch; put to the door, shut the door
shut, operculated; unopened
unpierced, imporous, caecal; closable; imperforate, impervious, impermeable; impenetrable; unpassable, impassable; invious; pathless, wayless; untrodden
unventilated; air tight, water tight; hermetically sealed; tight, snug
perforator, piercer, borer, auger, chisel, gimlet, stylet, drill, wimble, awl, bradawl, scoop, terrier, corkscrew, dibble, trocar, trepan, probe, bodkin, needle, stiletto, rimer, warder, lancet; punch, puncheon; spikebit, gouge; spear; puncher; punching machine, punching press; punch pliers
stopper, stopple; plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, stopcock, tap; rammer; ram, ramrod; piston; stop-gap; wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil, pledget, tompion, tourniquet
cover; valve, vent peg, spigot, slide valve
janitor, doorkeeper, porter, warder, beadle, cerberus, ostiary
motion, movement, move; going
stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir; evolution; kinematicss; telekinesis
step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity; clip, progress, locomotion; journey; voyage; transit
restlessness; mobility; movableness, motive power; laws of motion; mobilization
move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll, roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander; walk; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving
put in motion, set in motion; move; impel; propel; render movable, mobilize
in motion; transitional; motory, motive; shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet; restless; nomadic; erratic
under way; on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march
rest; stillness
quiescence; stagnation, stagnancy; fixity, immobility, catalepsy; indisturbance; quietism
quiet, tranquillity, calm; repose; peace; dead calm, anticyclone; statue-like repose; silence; not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring; sleep
pause, lull; stand still; standing still
lock; dead lock, dead stop, dead stand; full stop; fix; embargo
resting place; gite; bivouac; home; pillow; haven; goal
stand still, lie still; keep quiet, repose, hold the breath
remain, stay; stand, lie to, ride at anchor, remain in situ, tarry, mark time; bring to, heave to, lay to; pull up, draw up; hold, halt; stop, stop short; rest, pause, anchor; cast to an anchor, come to an anchor; rest on one's oars; repose on one's laurels, take breath; stop
stagnate; quieta non movere; let alone; abide, rest and be thankful; keep within doors, stay at home, go to bed
dwell; settle; alight stick, stick fast; stand like a post; not stir a peg, not stir a step; be at a stand
quell, becalm, hush, stay, lull to sleep, lay an embargo on
quiescent, still; motionless, moveless; fixed; stationary; immotile; at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor; stock, still; standing still
sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home; becalmed, stagnant, quiet; unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled; calm, restful; cataleptic; immovable; sleeping; silent; still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death
tout court; at the halt
travel; traveling
wayfaring, campaigning
journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation; noctambulation, noctambulism; somnambulism; outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt
equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie; basophobia
roving, vagrancy, pererration; marching and countermarching; nomadism; vagabondism, vagabondage; hoboism; gadding; flit, flitting, migration; emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration; wanderlust
plan, itinerary, guide; handbook, roadbook; Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray
procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column
vehicle; automobile, 'train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter', trolley, locomotive; legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters
depot, railway station, station
travel, journey, course; take a journey, go a journey; take a walk, go out for walk
have a run; take the air
flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the country; peragrate; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about; expatiate
walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare; promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle; paddle; tread a path
take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk, frisk, caracoler, caracole; gallop
peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on; stir one's stumps; bend one's steps, bend one's course; make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way; slide, glide, coast, skim, skate; march in procession, file on, defile
go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to
ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic; circumforanean, circumforaneous; noctivagrant, mundivagrant; locomotive
wayfaring, wayworn; travel-stained
on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare; by the Marrowbone stage:
in transitu; en route
navigation; aquatics; boating, yachting; ship; oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron
natation, swimming; fin, flipper, fish's tail
aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics; balloonery; balloon; ballooning, aviation, airmanship; flying, flight, volitation; wing, pinion
voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus; headway, sternway, leeway; fairway
sail; put to sea; take ship, get under way; set sail, spread sail, spread canvas; gather way, have way on; make sail, carry sail; plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean; walk the waters
navigate, warp, luff, scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise, coast; hug the shore, hug the land; circumnavigate
ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam
swim, float; buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, effleurer, dive, wade
fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter; take wing, take a flight; wing one's flight, wing one's way; aviate
volant, aerostatic; seafaring, nautical, maritime, naval; seagoing, coasting; afloat; navigable; aerial, aeronautic; grallatory
under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam; on the wing
traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter
tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, Alpine Club; peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling; vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly; globegirdler, globetrotter; hobo, night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman; trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro
runner, courier; Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet
pedestrian, walker, foot passenger; cyclist; wheelman
rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker
driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman; cabman, cabdriver; voiturier, vetturino, condottiere; engine driver; stoker, fireman, guard; chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman
sailor, mariner, navigator; seaman, seafarer, seafaring man; dock walloper; tar, jack tar, salt, able seaman, A
man-of-war's man, bluejacket, galiongee, galionji, marine, jolly, midshipman, middy; skipper; shipman, boatman, ferryman, waterman, lighterman, bargeman, longshoreman; bargee, gondolier; oar, oarsman; rower; boatswain, cockswain; coxswain; steersman, pilot; crew
aerial navigator, aeronaut, balloonist, Icarus; aeroplanist, airman, aviator, birdman, man-bird, wizard of the air
transfer, transference; translocation, elocation; displacement; metastasis, metathesis; removal; remotion, amotion; relegation; deportation, asportation; extradition, conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage; convection, conduction, contagion; transfer
transit, transition; passage, ferry, gestation; portage, porterage, carting, cartage; shoveling
vection, vecture, vectitation; shipment, freight, wafture; transmission, transport, transportation, transumption, transplantation, translation; shifting, dodging; dispersion; transposition; traction
transfer, transmit, transport, transplace, transplant; convey, carry, bear, fetch and carry; carry over, ferry over; hand pass, forward; shift; conduct, convoy, bring, fetch, reach; tote
send, delegate, consign, relegate, turn over to, deliver; ship, embark; waft; shunt; transpose; displace; throw; drag; mail, post
shovel, ladle, decant, draft off, transfuse
drifted, movable; portable, portative; mailable; contagious
from hand to hand, from pillar to post
on the way, by the way; on the road, on the wing; as one goes; in transitu, en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid progress
carrier, porter, bearer, tranter, conveyer; cargador; express, expressman; stevedore, coolie; conductor, locomotive, motor
beast, beast of burden, cattle, horse, nag, palfrey, Arab, blood horse, thoroughbred, galloway, charger, courser, racer, hunter, jument, pony, filly, colt, foal, barb, roan, jade, hack, bidet, pad, cob, tit, punch, roadster, goer; racehorse, pack horse, draft horse, cart horse, dray horse, post horse; ketch, sheltie; garran, garron; jennet, genet, bayard, mare, stallion, gelding; bronco, broncho, cayuse; creature, critter; cow pony, mustang, Narraganset, waler; stud
Pegasus, Bucephalus, Rocinante
ass, donkey, jackass, mule, hinny; sumpter horse, sumpter mule; burro, cuddy, ladino; reindeer; camel, dromedary, llama, elephant; carrier pigeon
carriage; ship
equine, asinine
vehicle, conveyance, carriage, caravan, van; wagon, waggon, wain, dray, cart, lorry
carriole; truck, tram; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; velocipede, hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, tricycle, quadricycle; bike
equipage, turnout; coach, chariot, phaeton, break, mail phaeton, wagonette, drag, curricle, tilbury, whisky, landau, barouche, victoria, brougham, clarence, calash, caleche, britzka, araba, kibitka; berlin; sulky, desobligeant, sociable, vis-a-vis, dormeuse; jaunting car, outside car; dandi; doolie, dooly; munchil, palki; roller skates, skate; runabout; ski; tonjon; vettura
post chaise, diligence, stage; stage coach, mail coach, hackney coach, glass coach; stage wagon, car, omnibus, fly, cabriolet, cab, hansom, shofle, four-wheeler, growler, droshki, drosky
dogcart, trap, whitechapel, buggy, four-in-hand, unicorn, random, tandem; shandredhan, char-a-bancs
motor car, automobile, limousine, motorcycle, taxicab, taxicoach
bob, bobsled, bobsleigh; cutter; double ripper, double runner; jumper, sled, sledge, sleigh, toboggan
train; accomodation train, passenger train, express trail, special train, corridor train, parliamentary train, luggage train, freight train, goods train; st class train, nd class train, rd class train, st class carriage, nd class carriage, rd class carriage, st class compartment, nd class compartment, rd class compartment; rolling stock; horse box, cattle truck; baggage car, express car, freight car, parlor car, Pullman car, sleeping car, sleeper, dome car; surface car, tram car, trolley car; box car, box wagon; horse car; lightning express; luggage van; mail, mail car, mail van
shovel, spool, spatula, ladle, hod, hoe; spade, spaddle, loy; spud; pitchfork
ship, vessel, sail; craft, bottom
navy, marine, fleet, flotilla; shipping
man of war; transport, tender, storeship; merchant ship, merchantman; packet, liner; whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter; fishing boat, pilot boat; trawler, hulk; yacht; baggala; floating hotel, floating palace; ocean greyhound
ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruise ship; mail steamer, riverboat, showboat, paddle steamer, paddle wheeler, sidewheeler, screw steamer tug; line of steamer
boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, cock boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht
catamaran, coracle, gondola, carvel, caravel; felucca, caique, canoe; galley, galleyfoist; bilander, dogger, hooker, howker; argosy, carack; galliass, galleon; polacca, polacre, tartane, junk, lorcha, praam, proa, prahu, saick, sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah; nuggah; kayak, keel boat, log canoe, pirogue; quadrireme, trireme; stern-wheeler; wanigan, wangan, wharf boat
balloon; airship, aeroplane; biplane, monoplane, triplane; hydroplane; aerodrome; air balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon; aerostat, Montgolfier; kite, parachute
afloat, aboard; on board, on ship board; hard a lee, hard a port, hard a starboard, hard a weather
velocity, speed, celerity; swiftness
rapidity, eagle speed; expedition; pernicity; acceleration; haste
spurt, rush, dash, race, steeple chase; smart rate, lively rate, swift rate
rattling rate, spanking rate, strapping rate, smart pace, lively pace, swift pace, rattling pace, spanking pace, strapping pace; round pace; flying, flight
lightning, light, electricity, wind; cannon ball, rocket, arrow, dart, hydrargyrum, quicksilver; telegraph, express train; torrent
eagle, antelope, courser, race horse, gazelle, greyhound, hare, doe, squirrel, camel bird, chickaree, chipmunk, hackee, ostrich, scorcher
Mercury, Ariel, Camilla, Harlequin
log, log line
move quickly, trip, fisk; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle; scud, scuddle; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, sweep, skim, brush; cut along, bowl along; scorch; rush; dash on, dash off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over the ground
hurry; accelerate, put on; quicken; quicken one's pace, mend one's pace; clap spurs to one's horse; make haste, make rapid strides, make forced marches, make the best of one's way; put one's best leg foremost, stir one's stumps, wing one's way, set off at a score; carry sail, crowd sail; go off like a shot, go like a shot, go ahead, gain ground; outstrip the wind, fly on the wings of the wind
keep up with, keep pace with; outstrip; outmarch
fast, speedy, swift, rapid, quick, fleet; aliped; nimble, agile, expeditious; express; active; flying, galloping
light footed, nimble footed; winged, eagle winged, mercurial, electric, telegraphic; light-legged, light of heel; swift as an arrow
quick as a thought
apace; at a great rate, at full speed, at railway speed; full drive, full gallop; posthaste, in full sail, tantivy; trippingly; instantaneously
under press of sail, under press of canvas, under press of sail and steam; velis et remis, on eagle's wing, in double quick time; with rapid strides, with giant strides; a pas de geant; in seven league boots; whip and spur; ventre a terre; as fast as one's legs will carry one, as fast as one's heels will carry one; as fast as one can lay legs to the ground, at the top of one; s speed; by leaps and bounds; with haste
languor; drawl; creeping
lentor
retardation; slackening
delay; claudication
jog trot, dog trot; mincing steps; slow march, slow time
slow goer, slow coach, slow back; lingerer, loiterer, sluggard, tortoise, snail; poke; dawdle
creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle; grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire
retard, relax; slacken, check, moderate, rein in, curb; reef; strike sail, shorten sail, take in sail; put on the drag, apply the brake; clip the wings; reduce the speed; slacken speed, slacken one's pace; lose ground
slow, slack; tardy; dilatory; gentle, easy; leisurely; deliberate, gradual; insensible, imperceptible; glacial, languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade, snail-like; creeping
leisurely; piano, adagio; largo, larghetto; at half speed, under easy sail; at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a funeral pace; in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings; haud passibus aequis
gradatim; by degrees, by slow degrees, by inches, by little and little; step by step, one step at a time; inch by inch, bit by bit, little by little, seriatim; consecutively
impulse, impulsion, impetus; momentum; push, pulsion, thrust, shove, jog, jolt, brunt, booming, boost, throw; explosion; propulsion
percussion, concussion, collision, occursion, clash, encounter, cannon, carambole, appulse, shock, crash, bump; impact; elan; charge; beating
blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip; slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff; squash, dowse, swap, whap, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce, calcitration; ruade; arietation; cut, thrust, lunge, yerk; carom, carrom, clip , jab, plug ù, sidewinder ù, sidewipe ù
hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail; ram, rammer; battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat; cant hook; cudgel; ax
dynamics; seismometer, accelerometer, earthquake detector
impel, push; start, give a start to, set going; drive, urge, boom; thrust, prod, foin; cant; elbow, shoulder, jostle, justle, hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter; run against, bump against, butt against; knock one's head against, run one's head against; impinge; boost; bunt, carom, clip ù; fan, fan out; jab, plug
strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pink, lunge, yerk; kick, calcitrate; butt, strike at; whip c
come into a collision, enter into collision; collide; foul; fall foul of, run foul of; telescope
impulsive, impellent; booming; dynamic, dynamical; impelled
recoil; reaction, retroaction; revulsion; bounce, rebound, ricochet; repercussion, recalcitration; kick, contrecoup; springing back
elasticity; reflexion, reflex, reflux; reverberation; rebuff, repulse; return
ducks and drakes; boomerang; spring, reactionist
recoil, react; spring back, fly back, bounce back, bound back; rebound, reverberate, repercuss, recalcitrate; echo, ricochet
refluent, repercussive, recalcitrant, reactionary; retroactive
on the rebound, on the recoil
direction, bearing, course, vector; set, drift, tenor; tendency; incidence; bending, trending
dip, tack, aim, collimation; steering steerage
point of the compass, cardinal points; North East, South, West; N by E, ENE, NE by N, NE; rhumb, azimuth, line of collimation
line, path, road, range, quarter, line of march; alignment, allignment; air line, beeline; straight shoot
tend towards, bend towards, point towards; conduct to, go to; point to, point at; bend, trend, verge, incline, dip, determine
steer for, steer towards, make for, make towards; aim at, level at; take aim; keep a course, hold a course; be bound for; bend one's steps towards; direct one's course, steer one's course, bend one's course, shape one's course; align one's march, allign one's march; to straight, go straight to the point; march on, march on a point
s'orienter, see which way the wind blows; box the compass; take the air line
directed towards; pointing towards
bound for; aligned, with alligned with; direct, straight; undeviating, unswerving; straightforward; North, Northern, Northerly
towards; on the road, on the high road to; en avant; versus, to; hither, thither, whither; directly; straight as an arrow, forwards as an arrow; point blank; in a bee line to, in a direct line to, as the crow flies, in a straight line to, in a bee line for, in a direct line for, in a straight line for, in a bee line with, in a direct line with, in a straight line with; in a line with; full tilt at, as the crow flies
before the wind, near the wind, close to the wind, against the wind; windwards, in the wind's eye
through, via, by way of; in all directions, in all manner of ways; quaquaversum, from the four winds
deviation; swerving
obliquation, warp, refraction; flection, flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure; declination
diversion, digression, depart from, aberration; divergence; zigzag; detour; divagation
vagrancy, evagation; bypaths and crooked ways; byroad
alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend; bend, curve; swerve, heel, bear off; gybe, wear
intervert; deflect; divert, divert from its course; put on a new scent, shift, shunt, draw aside, crook, warp
stray, straggle; sidle; diverge; tralineate; digress, wander; wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy
fly off at a tangent; glance off; wheel about, face about; turn to the right about, face to the right about; waddle; go out of one's way; lose one's way
aberrant, errant; excursive, discursive; devious, desultory, loose; rambling; stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag; crab-like
astray from, round about, wide of the mark; to the right about; all manner of ways; circuitously
obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard
precession, leading, heading; precedence; priority; the lead, le pas; van; precursor
go before, go ahead, go in the van, go in advance; precede, forerun; usher in, introduce, herald, head, take the lead; lead the way, lead the dance; get the start, have the start; steal a march; get before, get ahead, get in front of; outstrip; take precedence
leading, precedent
in advance, before, ahead, in the van, in the lead; foremost, headmost; in front
sequence; coming after; following pursuit
follower, attendant, satellite, shadow, dangler, train
follow; pursue; go after, fly after
attend, beset, dance attendance on, dog; tread in the steps of, tread close upon; be in the wake of, be in the trail of, be in the rear of, go in the wake of, go in the trail of, go in the rear of, follow in the wake of, follow in the trail of, follow in the rear of; follow as a shadow, hang on the skirts of; tread on the heels of, follow on the heels of; camp on the trail
behind; in the rear, in the train of, in the wake of; after
progress, progression, progressiveness; advancing
advance, advancement; ongoing; flood, tide, headway; march; rise; improvement
advance; proceed, progress; get on, get along, get over the ground; gain ground; forge ahead; jog on, rub on, wag on; go with the stream; keep one; s course, hold on one's course; go on, move on, come one, get on, pass on, push on, press on, go forward, move forward, come forward, get forward, pass forward, push forward, press forward, go forwards, move forwards, come forwards, get forwards, pass forwards, push forwards, press forwards, go ahead, move ahead, come ahead, get ahead, pass ahead, push ahead, press ahead; make one's way, work one's way, carve one's way, push one's way, force one's way, edge one's way, elbow one's way; make progress, make head, make way, make headway, make advances, make strides, make rapid strides; go ahead, shoot ahead; distance; make up leeway
progressive, profluent; advanced
forward, onward; forth, on, ahead, under way, en route for, on one's way, on the way, on the road, on the high road, on the road to; in progress; in mid progress; in transitu
regress, regression; retrocession, retrogression, retrograduation, retroaction; reculade; retreat, withdrawal, retirement, remigration; recession; recess; crab-like motion
refluence, reflux; backwater, regurgitation, ebb, return; resilience reflexion; volte-face
counter motion, counter movement, counter march; veering, tergiversation, recidivation, backsliding, fall; deterioration; recidivism, recidivity
recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde, retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish, crawl; withdraw; rebound; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern; backwater, put about; take the back track; veer round; double, wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy
turn tail, turn round, turn upon one's heel, turn one's back upon; retrace one's steps, dance the back step; sound a retreat, beat a retreat; go home
retrograde, retrogressive; regressive, refluent, reflex, recidivous, resilient; crab-like; balky; reactionary
back, backwards; reflexively, to the right about; a reculons, a rebours
propulsion, projection; propelment; vis a tergo; push, shove; ejaculate; ejection; throw, fling, toss, shot, discharge, shy
projectiles, ballistics, archery
propeller, screw, twin screws, turbine
missile, projectile, ball, discus, quoit, brickbat, shot
arrow, gun, ballista
shooter; shot; archer, toxophilite; bowman, rifleman, marksman; good shot, crack shot; sharpshooter
propel, project, throw, fling, cast, pitch, chuck, toss, jerk, heave, shy, hurl; flirt, fillip
dart, lance, tilt; ejaculate, jaculate; fulminate, bolt, drive, sling, pitchfork
send; send off, let off, fire off; discharge, shoot; launch, send forth, let fly; dash
put in motion, set in motion; set agoing, start; give a start, give an impulse to; impel; trundle; expel
carry one off one's legs; put to flight
propulsive, projectile
traction; drawing
draught, pull, haul; rake; towage, haulage
draw, pull, haul, lug, rake, drag, tug, tow, trail, train; take in tow
wrench, jerk, twitch, touse; yank
tractile, tractive
approach, approximation, appropinquation; access; appulse; afflux, affluxion; advent; pursuit
approach, approximate, appropinquate; near; get near, go near, draw near; come to close quarters, come near; move towards, set in towards; drift; make up to; gain upon; pursue; tread on the heels of; bear up; make the land; hug the shore, hug the land
approximative; affluent; impending, imminent (destined
recession, retirement, withdrawal; retreat; retrocession; departure; recoil; flight
recede, go, move back, move from, retire; withdraw, shrink; come away, move away, go away, get away, drift away; depart; retreat; move off, stand off, sheer off; fall back, stand aside; run away
remove, shunt
attraction, attractiveness; attractivity; drawing to, pulling towards, adduction, magnetism, gravity, attraction of gravitation
loadstone, loadstar; magnet, siderite
attract; draw towards, pull towards, drag towards; adduce
attrahent, attractive, adducent, adductive
repulsion; driving from
repulse, abduction
repel, push from, drive from; chase, dispel; retrude; abduce, abduct; send away; repulse
keep at arm's length, turn one's back upon, give the cold shoulder; send off, send away with a flea in one's ear
repellent, repulsive; abducent, abductive
convergence, confluence, concourse, conflux, congress, concurrence, concentration; convergency; appulse, meeting; corradiation
assemblage; resort; asymptote
converge, concur, come together, unite, meet, fall in with; close with, close in upon; center round, center in; enter in; pour in
gather together, unite, concentrate, bring into a focus
convergent, confluent, concurrent; centripetal; asymptotical, asymptotic; confluxible
divergence, divergency; divarication, ramification, forking; radiation; separation; dispersion; deviation; aberration
diverge, divaricate, radiate; ramify; branch off, glance off, file off; fly off, fly off at a tangent; spread, scatter, disperse; deviate; part
divergent, radiant, centrifugal; aberrant
arrival, advent; landing; debarkation, disembarkation; reception, welcome, vin d'honneur
home, goal; landing place, landing stage; bunder; resting place; destination, harbor, haven, port; terminus, halting place, halting ground; journey's end; anchorage
return, recursion, remigration; meeting; rencounter, encounter
arrive; get to, come to; come; reach, attain; come up with, come up to; overtake, make, fetch; complete; join, rejoin
light, alight, dismount; land, go ashore; debark, disembark; put in, put into; visit, cast anchor, pitch one's tent; sit down; get to one's journey's end; make the land; be in at the death; come back, get back, come home, get home; return; come in; make one's appearance; drop in; detrain; outspan
come to hand; come at, come across; hit; come upon, light upon, pop upon, bounce upon, plump upon, burst upon, pitch upon; meet; encounter, rencounter; come in contact
here, hither
welcome! hail! all Hail! good-day, good morrow!
departure, decession, decampment; embarkation; outset, start; removal; exit; exodus, hejira, flight
leave taking, valediction, adieu, farewell, goodbye, auf wiedersehen, sayonara, dosvidanya, ciao, aloha, hasta la vista; stirrup cup; valedictorian
starting point, starting post; point of departure, point of embarkation, place of departure, place of embarkation; port of embarkation
depart; go away; take one's departure, set out; set off, march off, put off, start off, be off, move off, get off, whip off, pack off, go off, take oneself off; start, issue, march out, debouch; go forth, sally forth; sally, set forward; be gone; hail from
leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose, vamose; go one's way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly, flit, wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go aboard; set sail' put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get under way, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut one's stick; take leave; say good bye, bid goodbye
disappear; abscond; entrain; inspan
valedictory; outward bound
whence, hence, thence; with a foot in the stirrup; on the wing, on the move
begone!; farewell! adieu! goodbye! good day! au revoir! fare you well! God bless you! God speed! all aboard! auf wiedersehen! au plaisir de vous revoir! bon voyage! gluckliche Reise! vive valeque!
ingress; entrance, entry; introgression; influx, intrusion, inroad, incursion, invasion, irruption; ingression; penetration, interpenetration; illapse, import, infiltration; immigration; admission; insinuation; insertion
inlet; way in; mouth, door; barway; path; conduit; immigrant
have the entree; enter; go into, go in, come into, come in, pour into, pour in, flow into, flow in, creep into, creep in, slip into, slip in, pop into, pop in, break into, break in, burst into, burst in; set foot on; ingress; burst in upon, break in upon; invade, intrude; insinuate itself; interpenetrate, penetrate; infiltrate; find one's way into, wriggle into, worm oneself into
give entrance to; insert
egress, exit, issue; emersion, emergence; outbreak, outburst; eruption, proruption; emanation; egression; evacuation; exudation, transudation; extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing; gush; outpour, outpouring; effluence, effusion; effluxion, drain; dribbling
defluxion; drainage; outcome, output; discharge
export, expatriation; emigration, remigration; debouch, debouche; emunctory; exodus; emigrant
outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate; pore; vomitory, outgate, sally port; way out; mouth, door; path; conduit; airpipe
amerge, emanate, issue; egress; go out of, come out of, move out of, pass out of, pour out of, flow out of; pass out of, evacuate
exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate, transcolate; egurgitate; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, well out; pour, trickle; effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch; come forth, break forth; burst out, burst through; find vent; escape
reception; admission, admittance, entree, importation; introduction, intromission; immission, ingestion, imbibation, introception, absorption, ingurgitation, inhalation; suction, sucking; eating, drinking; insertion; interjection; introit
give entrance to, give admittance to, give the entree; introduce, intromit; usher, admit, receive, import, bring in, open the door to, throw in, ingest, absorb, imbibe, inhale; let in, take in, suck in; readmit, resorb, reabsorb; snuff up, swallow, ingurgitate; engulf, engorge; gulp; eat, drink
admitted
admissible; absorbent
ejection, emission, effusion, rejection, expulsion, eviction, extrusion, trajection; discharge; emesis
egestion, evacuation, vomition; ructation, eructation; bloodletting, venesection, phlebotomy, paracentesis; expuition, exspuition; tapping, drainage; clearance, clearage
deportation; banishment; rouge's march; relegation, extradition; dislodgment
bouncer, chucker-out
give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern, excrete; embogue; secrete, secern; extravasate, shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop; perspire; breathe, blow
tap, draw off; bale out, lade out; let blood, broach
eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott; chasser; banish; bounce ; fire , fire out ; throw throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside; push throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside; shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away; brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away; discharge; send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift; turn out, bundle out; throw overboard; give the sack to; send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about; strike off the roll; turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop; pack off; send away with a flea in the ear; send to Jericho; bow out, show the door to
turn out of doors, turn out of house and home; evict, oust; unhouse, unkennel; dislodge; unpeople, dispeople; depopulate; relegate, deport
empty; drain to the dregs; sweep off; clear off, clear out, clear away; suck, draw off; clean out, make a clean sweep of, clear decks, purge
embowel, disbowel, disembowl; eviscerate, gut; unearth, root out, root up; averuncate; weed out, get out; eliminate, get rid of, do away with, shake off; exenterate
vomit, spew, puke, keck, retch; belch out; cast up, bring up; disgorge; expectorate, clear the throat, hawk, spit, sputter, splutter, slobber, drivel, slaver, slabber; eructate; drool
unpack, unlade, unload, unship; break bulk; dump
be let out; ooze
emitting, emitted
begone! get you gone! get away, go away, get along, go along, get along with you, go along with you! go your way! away with! off with you! go about your business! be off! avaunt! aroynt! allez-vous-en! jao! va- t'en!
deglutition, gulp, epulation, mastication, manducation, rumination; hippophagy, ichthyophagy; gluttony
mouth, jaws, mandible, mazard, chops
potation, draught, libation; carousal; drunkenness
food, pabulum; aliment, nourishment, nutriment; sustenance, sustentation; nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board; commissariat; prey, forage, pasture, pasturage; fare, cheer; diet, dietary; regimen; belly timber, staff of life; bread, bread and cheese
comestibles, eatables, victuals, edibles, ingesta; grub, grubstake, prog, meat; bread, bread stuffs; cerealia; cereals; viands, cates, delicacy, dainty, creature comforts, contents of the larder, fleshspots; festal board; ambrosia; good cheer, good living
beef, bisquit, bun; cornstarch; cookie, cooky; cracker, doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake, hominy; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, peice de resistance, roast and boiled; remove, entree, entremet, hors d'oeuvre; releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets; kickshaws; condiment
alligator pear, apple, apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon, succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut
table, cuisine, bill of fare, menu, table d'hote, ordinary, entree
meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana
mouthful, bolus, gobbet, morsel, sop, sippet
drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup; potion, dram, draught, drench, swill; nip, sip, sup, gulp
wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barlycorn, stingo, heavy wet; grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop, wassail; gin; coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates; bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer; Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, mate' mint julep
eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble
live on; feed upon, batten upon, fatten upon, feast upon; browse, graze, crop, regale; carouse; eat heartily, do justice to, play a good knife and fork, banquet
break bread, break one's fast; breakfast, lunch, dine, take tea, sup
drink in, drink up, drink one's fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up; lap; swig; swill, tipple; empty one's glass, drain the cup; toss off, toss one's glass; wash down, crack a bottle, wet one's whistle
eatable, edible, esculent, comestible, alimentary; cereal, cibarious; dietetic; culinary; nutritive, nutritious; gastric; succulent; potable, potulent; bibulous
omnivorous, carnivorous, herbivorous, granivorous, graminivorous, phytivorous; ichthyivorous; omophagic, omophagous; pantophagous, phytophagous, xylophagous
excretion, discharge, emanation; exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis; evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement; bloody flux; cacation; coeliac- flux, coeliac-passion; dysentery; perspiration, sweat; subation, exudation; diaphoresis; sewage; eccrinology
saliva, spittle, rheum; ptyalism, salivation, catarrh; diarrhoea; ejecta, egesta, sputa; excreta; lava; exuviae
hemorrhage, bleeding; outpouring
excrete; emanate
insertion, implantation, introduction; insinuation; planting
injection, inoculation, importation, infusion; forcible ingress; immersion; submersion, submergence, dip, plunge; bath; interment
clyster, enema, glyster, lavage, lavement
insert; introduce, intromit; put into, run into; import; inject; interject; infuse, instill, inoculate, impregnate, imbue, imbrue
graft, ingraft, bud, plant, implant; dovetail
obtrude; thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in, drive in, pop in, whip in, drop in, put in; impact; empierce
imbed; immerse, immerge, merge; bathe, soak; dip, plunge
insert itself; plunge in medias res
extraction; extracting
removal, elimination, extrication, eradication, evolution
evulsion, avulsion; wrench; expression, squeezing; extirpation, extermination; ejection; export
extractor, corkscrew, forceps, pliers
extract, draw; take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out; wring from, wrench; extort; root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out; eradicate; pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots; averruncate; unroot; uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge
remove; educe, elicit; evolve, extricate; eliminate; eviscerate
express, squeeze out, press out
passage, transmission; permeation; penetration, interpenetration; transudation, infiltration; endosmose exosmose; endosmosis; intercurrence; ingress; egress; path; conduit; opening; journey; voyage
pass, pass through; perforate; penetrate, permeate, thread, thrid, enfilade; go through, go across; go over, pass over; cut across; ford, cross; pass and repass, work; make one's way, thread one's way, worm one's way, force one's way; make a passage form a passage; cut one's way through; find its way, find its vent; transmit, make way, clear the course; traverse, go over the ground
intercurrent; endosmosmic, endosmotic
transcursion, transiliency, transgression; trespass; encroachment, infringement; extravagation, transcendence; redundance
transgress, surpass, pass; go beyond, go by; show in front, come to the front; shoot ahead of; steal a march upon, steal a gain upon
overstep, overpass, overreach, overgo, override, overleap, overjump, overskip, overlap, overshoot the mark; outstrip, outleap, outjump, outgo, outstep, outrun, outride, outrival, outdo; beat, beat hollow; distance; leave in the lurch, leave in the rear; throw into the shade; exceed, transcend, surmount; soar
encroach, trespass, infringe, trench upon, intrench on; strain; stretch a point, strain a point; cross the Rubicon
beyond the mark, ahead
shortcoming, failure; falling short
default, defalcation; leeway; labor in vain, no go
incompleteness; imperfection; insufficiency; noncompletion; failure
come short of, fall short of, stop short of, come short, fall short, stop short; not reach; want; keep within bounds, keep within the mark, keep within the compass
break down, stick in the mud, collapse, flat out, come to nothing; fall through, fall to the ground; cave in, end in smoke, miss the mark, fail; lose ground; miss stays
unreached; deficient; short, short of; minus; out of depth; perfunctory
within the mark, within the compass, within the bounds; behindhand; re infecta; to no purpose; for from it
ascent, ascension; rising; acclivity, hill; flight of steps, flight of stairs; ladder
rocket, lark; sky rocket, sky lark; Alpine Club
ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's way up, start up; shoot up, go into orbit; aspire
climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade, surmount; scale, scale the heights
go aloft, fly aloft; tower, soar, take off, spring up; hover, spire, plane, swim, float, surge; leap
scandent, buoyant; supernatant, superfluitant; excelsior
descent, descension, declension, declination; fall; falling
: slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute; titubation, stumble; fate of Icarus
avalanche, debacle, landslip, landslide
declivity, dip, hill
descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop, slip, slide, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink, droop, come down a peg; slump
dismount, alight, light, get down; swoop; stoop; fall prostrate, precipitate oneself; let fall
tumble, trip, stumble, titubate, lurch, pitch, swag, topple, topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down; tilt, sprawl, plump down, come down a cropper
descendent; decurrent, decursive; labent, deciduous; nodding to its fall
downhill, downwards
elevation; raising
erection, lift; sublevation, upheaval; sublimation, exaltation; prominence
lever; crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch; dredge, dredger, dredging machine; dumbwaiter, elevator, escalator, lift
heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch up, perk up, tilt up; rear, hoist, heave; uplift, upraise, uprear, upbear, upcast, uphoist, upheave; buoy, weigh mount, give a lift; exalt; sublimate; place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal
take up, drag up, fish up; dredge
stand up, rise up, get up, jump up; spring to one's feet; hold oneself, hold one's head up; drawn oneself up to his full height
stilted, attollent, rampant
on stilts, on the shoulders of, on one's legs, on one's hind legs
depression; dip; abasement; detrusion; reduction
overthrow, overset, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion, precipitation
bow; courtesy, curtsy; genuflexion, genuflection, kowtow, obeisance, salaam
depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude, pitch, precipitate
overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears
sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head; cower; recline
at a low ebb; prostrate; detrusive
leap, jump, hop, spring, bound, vault, saltation
dance, caper; curvet, caracole; gambade, gambado; capriole, demivolt; buck, buck jump; hop skip and jump; falcade
kangaroo, jerboa; chamois, goat, frog, grasshopper, flea; buckjumper; wallaby
leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp, cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet, caracole; foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start; frisk; jump about; trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes
saltatory, frisky
plunge, dip, dive, header; ducking
plunge, dip, souse, duck; dive, plump; take a plunge, take a header; make a plunge; bathe
submerge, submerse; immerse; douse, sink, engulf, send to the bottom
get out of one's depth; go to the bottom, go down like a stone, drop like a lead balloon; founder, welter, wallow
circuition, circulation; turn, curvet; excursion, circumvention, circumnavigation, circumambulation; northwest passage; circuit
wrench; evolution; coil, corkscrew
turn, bend, wheel; go about, put about; heel; go round to the right about, turn round to the right about; turn on one's heel; make a circle, make a complete circle, describe a circle, describe a complete circle; go throughø, go throughø, pass throughø, pass throughø
circumnavigate, circumambulate, circumvent; go the round, make the round of
wind, circulate, meander; whisk, twirl; twist; make a detour
circuitous; circumforaneous, circumfluent
rotation, revolution, gyration, circulation, roll; circumrotation, circumvolution, circumgyration; volutation, circination, turbination, pirouette, convolution
verticity, whir, whirl, eddy, vortex, whirlpool, gurge; countercurrent; cyclone, tornado; surge; vertigo, dizzy round; Maelstrom, Charybdis; Ixion
wheel, screw, whirligig, rollingstone, windmill; top, teetotum; roller; flywheel; jack; caster
axis, axle, spindle, pivot, pin, hinge, pole, swivel, gimbals, arbor, bobbin, mandrel
rotate; roll along; revolve, spin; turn round; circumvolve; circulate, gyre, gyrate, wheel, whirl, twirl, trundle, troll, bowl
roll up, furl; wallow, welter; box the compass; spin like a top, spin like a teetotum
rotary, rotary; circumrotatory, trochilic, vertiginous, gyratory; vortical, vorticose
head over heels, round and round, like a horse in a mill
evolution, unfolding, development; evolvement; unfoldment; eversion
evolve; unfold, unroll, unwind, uncoil, untwist, unfurl, untwine, unravel; disentangle; develop
oscillation; vibration, libration; motion of a pendulum; nutation; undulation; pulsation; pulse
alternation; coming and going
ebb and flow, flux and reflux, ups and down
fluctuation; vacillation
wave, vibratiuncle, swing, beat, shake, wag, seesaw, dance, lurch, dodge; logan, loggan, rocking-stone, vibroscope
oscillate; vibrate, librate; alternate, undulate, wave; rock, swing; pulsate, beat; wag, waggle; nod, bob, courtesy, curtsy; tick; play; wamble, wabble; dangle, swag
fluctuate, dance, curvet, reel, quake; quiver, quaver; shake, flicker; wriggle; roll, toss, pitch; flounder, stagger, totter; move up and down, bob up and down
pass and repass, ebb and flow, come and go; vacillate; teeter
brandish, shake, flourish
oscillatory, undulatory, pulsatory, libratory, rectilinear; vibratory, vibratile; pendulous
to and fro, up and down, backwards and forwards, hither and yon, seesaw, zigzag, wibble-wabble, in and out, from side to side, like buckets in a well
agitation, stir, tremor, shake, ripple, jog, jolt, jar, jerk, shock, succussion, trepidation, quiver, quaver, dance; jactitation, quassation; shufflingc
twitter, flicker, flutter
disquiet, perturbation, commotion, turmoil, turbulence; tumult, tumultuation; hubbub, rout, bustle, fuss, racket, subsultus, staggers, megrims, epilepsy, fits; carphology, chorea, floccillation, the jerks, St
Vitus's dance, tilmus
spasm, throe, throb, palpitation, convulsion
restlessness
ferment, fermentation; ebullition, effervescence, hurly-burly, cahotage; tempest, storm, ground swell, heavy sea, whirlpool, vortex; whirlwind
be agitated; shake; tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf; quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire, writhe, toss, shuffle, tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle; wriggle, wriggle like an eel; dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet, prance, cavort; squirm
throb, pulsate, beat, palpitate, go pitapat; flutter, flitter, flicker, bicker; bustle
ferment, effervesce, foam; boil, boil over; bubble up; simmer
toss about, jump about; jump like a parched pea; shake like an aspen leaf; shake to its center, shake to its foundations; be the sport of the winds and waves; reel to and fro like a drunken man; move from post to pillar and from pillar to post, drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post, keep between hawk and buzzard
agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt; jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate
agitated tremulous; desultory, subsultory; saltatoric; quasative; shambling; giddy-paced, saltatory, convulsive, unquiet, restless, all of a twitter
by fits and starts; subsultorily
per saltum; hop skip and jump; in convulsions, in fits
materiality, materialness; corporeity, corporality; substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum; physical condition
matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum; frame
object, article, thing, something; still life; stocks and stones; materials
physics; somatology, somatics; natural philosophy, experimental philosophy; physicism; physical science, philosophie positive, materialism; materialist; physicist; somatism, somatist
material, bodily; corporeal, corporal; physical; somatic, somatoscopic; sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial
objective, impersonal, nonsubjective, neuter, unspiritual, materialistic
immateriality, immaterialness; incorporeity, spirituality; inextension; astral plane
personality; I, myself, me; ego, spirit; astral body; immaterialism; spiritualism, spiritualist
disembody, spiritualize
immaterial, immateriate; incorporeal, incorporal; incorporate, unfleshly; supersensible; asomatous, unextended; unembodied, disembodied; extramundane, unearthly; pneumatoscopic; spiritual
personal, subjective, nonobjective
world, creation, nature, universe; earth, globe, wide world; cosmos; kosmos; terraqueous globe, sphere; macrocosm, megacosm; music of the spheres
heavens, sky, welkin, empyrean; starry cope, starry heaven, starry host; firmament; Midgard; supersensible regions; varuna; vault of heaven, canopy of heaven; celestial spaces
heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids; nebulae; galaxy, milky way, galactic circle, via lactea
sun, orb of day, Apollo, Phoebus; photosphere, chromosphere; solar system; planet, planetoid; comet; satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen; aerolite, meteor; planetary ring; falling star, shooting star; meteorite, uranolite
constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt, Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades
colures, equator, ecliptic, orbit
astronomy; uranography, uranology; cosmology, cosmography, cosmogony; eidouranion, orrery; geodesy; star gazing, star gazer; astronomer; observatory; planetarium
cosmic, cosmical; mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious, terraqueous, terrene, terreous, telluric, earthly, geotic, under the sun; sublunary, subastral
solar, heliacal; lunar; celestial, heavenly, sphery; starry, stellar; sidereal, sideral; astral; nebular; uranic
in all creation, on the face of the globe, here below, under the sun
gravity, gravitation; weight; heaviness
specific gravity; pondorosity, pressure, load; burden, burthen; ballast, counterpoise; lump of, mass of, weight of
lead, millstone, mountain, Ossa on Pelion
weighing, ponderation, trutination; weights; avoirdupois weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight; grain, scruple, drachma, ounce, pound, lb, arroba, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod
gram, centigram, milligram, microgram, kilogram; nanogram, picogram, femtogram, attogram
balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam, weighbridge; spring balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical balance, two-pan balance, one-pan balance; postal scale, baby scale
gravitate, weigh, press, cumber, load
weigh, poise
weighty; weighing
heavy as lead; ponderous, ponderable; lumpish, lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome; cumbrous, unwieldy, massive
incumbent, superincumbent
levity; lightness
imponderability, buoyancy, volatility
feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer, straw, cork, bubble, balloon; float, buoy; ether, air
leaven, ferment, barm, yeast
float, rise, swim, be buoyed up
lighten, leaven
light, subtile, airy; imponderous, imponderable; astatic, weightless, ethereal, sublimated; gossamery; suberose, suberous; uncompressed, volatile; buoyant, floating
light as a feather, light as a thistle, light as air
density, solidity; solidness
impenetrability, impermeability; incompressibility; imporosity; cohesion; constipation, consistence, spissitude
specific gravity; hydrometer, areometer
condensation; caseation; solidation, solidification; consolidation; concretion, coagulation; petrification; crystallization, precipitation; deposit, precipitate; inspissation; thickening
indivisibility, indiscerptibility, indissolvableness
solid body, mass, block, knot, lump; concretion, concrete, conglomerate; cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum; bone, gristle, cartilage; casein, crassamentum, legumin
become solid, render solid
solidify, solidate; concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate; curd, curdle; lopper; fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize; petrify
condense, thicken, inspissate, incrassate; compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate
dense, solid; solidified
caseous; pukka; coherent, cohesive; compact, close, serried, thickset; substantial, massive, lumpish; impenetrable, impermeable, imporous; incompressible; constipated; concrete; knotted, knotty; gnarled; crystalline, crystallizable; thick, grumous, stuffy
undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed
indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible
rarity, tenuity; absence of solidity; subtility; subtilty, subtlety; sponginess, compressibility
rarefaction, expansion, dilatation, inflation, subtilization
rarefy, expand, dilate, subtilize
rare, subtile, thin, fine, tenuous, compressible, flimsy, slight; light; cavernous, spongy
unsubstantial; uncompact, incompressed; rarefiable
rigidity; renitence, renitency; inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity  
induration, petrifaction; lapidification, lapidescence; vitrification, ossification; crystallization
stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz, granite, adamant; bone, cartilage; hardware; heart of oak, block, board, deal board; iron, steel; cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron; nail; brick, concrete; cement
harden, stiffen, indurate, petrify, temper, ossify, vitrify; accrust
hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm; starch, starched; stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding; inflexible, tense; indurate, indurated; gritty, proof
adamant, adamantine, adamantean; concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic, vitreous; horny, corneous; bony; osseous, ossific; cartilaginous; hard as a rock
stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker
softness, pliableness
flexibility; pliancy, pliability; sequacity, malleability; ductility, tractility; extendibility, extensibility; plasticity; inelasticity, flaccidity, laxity
clay, wax, butter, dough, pudding; alumina, argil; cushion, pillow, feather bed, down, padding, wadding
mollification; softeningv
soften, mollify, mellow, relax, temper; mash, knead, squash
bend, yield, relent, relax, give
soft, tender, supple; pliant, pliable; flexible, flexile; lithe, lithesome; lissom, limber, plastic; ductile; tractile, tractable; malleable, extensiole, sequacious, inelastic; aluminous; remollient
flabby, limp, flimsy
doughy, spongy
flaccid, flocculent, downy; oedematous, medullary, argillaceous, mellow
soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk; yielding as wax, tender as chicken
elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience, renitency, buoyancy
rubber, India rubber, latex, caoutchouc, whalebone, gum elastic, baleen, natural rubber; neoprene, synthetic rubber, Buna-S, plastic
stretch, flex, extend, distend, be elastic
bounce, spring back
elastic, flexible, tensile, spring, resilient, renitent, buoyant
want of elasticity, absence of elasticity; inelasticity
unyielding, inelastic, inflexible; irresilient
tenacity, toughness, strength; grip, grasp, stickiness; sequacity; stubbornness; glue, cement, glutinousness, sequaciousness, viscidity
leather; white leather, whitleather; gristle, cartilage
tenacious, tough, strong, resisting, sequacious, stringy, gristly cartilaginous, leathery, coriaceous, tough as whitleather; stubborn
fragility, friability, frangibility, fissibility; house of cards, house of glass
break, crack, snap, split, shiver, splinter, crumble, break short, burst, fly, give way; fall to pieces; crumble to, crumble into dust
brittle, brash, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile; splitting
lacerable, splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass
structure, organization, anatomy, frame, mold, fabric, construction; framework, carcass, architecture; stratification, cleavage
substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma; constitution, staple, organism
organography, osteology, myology, splanchnology, neurology, angiography, adeology; angiography, adenography
texture, surface texture; intertexture, contexture; tissue, grain, web, surface; warp and woof, warp and weft; tooth, nap; fineness of grain; coarseness of grain, dry goods
structural, organic; anatomic, anatomical
textural, textile; fine grained, coarse grained; fine, delicate, subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny; coarse; homespun
powderiness, pulverulence; sandiness
efflorescence; friability
powder, dust, sand, shingle; sawdust; grit; meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule; crumb, seed, grain; particle; limature, filings, debris, detritus, scobs, magistery, fine powder; flocculi
smoke; cloud of dust, cloud of sand, cloud of smoke; puff of smoke, volume of smoke; sand storm, dust storm
pulverization, comminution, attenuation, granulation, disintegration, subaction, contusion, trituration, levigation, abrasion, detrition, multure; limitation; tripsis; filingv
mill, arrastra, gristmill, grater, rasp, file, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, teeth, grinder, grindstone, kern, quern, koniology
come to dust; be disintegrated, be reduced to powder
reduce to powder, grind to powder; pulverize, comminute, granulate, triturate, levigate; scrape, file, abrade, rub down, grind, grate, rasp, pound, bray, bruise; contuse, contund; beat, crush, cranch, craunch, crunch, scranch, crumble, disintegrate; attenuate
powdery, pulverulent, granular, mealy, floury, farinaceous, branny, furfuraceous, flocculent, dusty, sandy, sabulous, psammous; arenose, arenarious, arenaceous; gritty, efflorescent, impalpable; lentiginous, lepidote, sabuline; sporaceous, sporous
pulverizable; friable, crumbly, shivery; pulverized
attrite; in pieces
friction, attrition; rubbing
confrication, detrition, contrition, affriction, abrasion, arrosion, limature, frication, rub; elbow grease; rosin; massage; roughness
rub, scratch, scrape, scrub, slide, fray, rasp, graze, curry, scour, polish, rub out, wear down, gnaw; file, grind
set one's teeth on edge; rosin
anatriptic; attrite
smoothness; unctuousness
lubrication, lubrification; anointment; oiling
synovia; glycerine, oil, lubricating oil, grease; saliva; lather
lubricate, lubricitate; oil, grease, lather, soap; wax
fluidity, liquidity; liquidness
fluid, inelastic fluid; liquid, liquor; lymph, humor, juice, sap, serum, blood, serosity, gravy, rheum, ichor, sanies; chyle
solubility, solubleness
hydrology, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics
flow; liquefy, melt, condense
liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy; ichorous; fluent
liquefied; uncongealed; soluble
gaseity; vaporousness
flatulence, flatulency; volatility; aeration, aerifiction
elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek, effluvium, flatus; cloud; ammonia, ammoniacal gas; volatile alkali; vacuum, partial vacuum
pneumatics, pneumatostatics; aerostatics, aerodynamics
gasmeter, gasometer; air bladder, swimming bladder, sound
vaporize, evaporate, evanesce, gasify, emit vapor; diffuse
gaseous, aeriform, ethereal, aerial, airy, vaporous, volatile, evaporable, flatulent
liquefaction; liquescence, liquescency; melting; colliquation, colliquefaction; thaw; liquation, deliquation, deliquescence; lixiviation, dissolution
solution, apozem, lixivium, infusion, flux
solvent, menstruum, alkahest
render liquid; liquefy, run; deliquesce; melt; solve; dissolve, resolve; liquate; hold in solution; condense, precipitate, rain
liquescent, liquefiable; deliquescent, soluble, colliquative
vaporization, volatilization; gasification, evaporation, vaporation; distillation, cupellation, cohabation!, sublimination, exhalation; volatility
vaporizer, still, retort; fumigation, streaming; bay salt, chloride of sodium
render -gaseous; vaporize, volatilize; distill, sublime; evaporate, exhale, smoke, transpire, emit vapor, fume, reek, steam, fumigate; cohobate; finestill
volatile; evaporable, vaporizable
water; serum, serosity; lymph; rheum; diluent; agua, aqua, pani
dilution, maceration, lotion; washing
immersion, humectation, infiltration, spargefaction, affusion, irrigation, douche, balneation, bath
deluge; high water, flood tide
add water, water, wet; moisten; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle
watery, aqueous, aqatic, hydrous, lymphatic; balneal, diluent; drenching
weak; wet
air; common air, atmospheric air; atmosphere; aerosphere
open air; sky, welkin; blue sky; cloud
weather, climate, rise and fall of the barometer, isobar
aerology, aerometry, aeroscopy, aeroscopy, aerography; meteorology, climatology; pneumatics; eudioscope, baroscope, aeroscope, eudiometer, barometer, aerometer; aneroid, baroscope; weather gauge, weather glass, weather cock
exposure to the air, exposure to the weather; ventilation; aerostation, aeronatics, aeronaut
air, ventilate, fan
containing air, flatulent, effervescent; windy
atmospheric, airy; aerial, aeriform; meteorological; weatherwise
in the open air, a la belle etoile, al fresco; sub jove dio
moisture; moistness
humidity, humectation; madefaction, dew; serein; marsh; hygrometry, hygrometer
moisten, wet; humect, humectate; sponge, damp, bedew; imbue, imbrue, infiltrate, saturate; soak, drench
not have a dry thread; perspire
moist, damp; watery; madid, roric; undried, humid, sultry, wet, dank, luggy, dewy; roral, rorid; roscid; juicy
wringing wet, soaking wet; wet through to the skin; saturated
swashy, soggy, dabbled; reeking, dripping, soaking, soft, sodden, sloppy, muddy; swampy; irriguous
siccity, aridity, drought, ebb tide, low water
exsiccation, desiccation; arefaction, dephlegmation, drainage; drier, desiccative, dessicator
dry; dry up, soak up; sponge, swab, wipe; exsiccate, desiccate; drain, parch
be fine, hold up
dry, anhydrous, arid; adust, arescent; dried
undamped; juiceless, sapless; sear; husky; rainless, without rain, fine; dry as a bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a biscuit
water proof, water tight
sea, ocean, main, deep, brine, salt water, waves, billows, high seas, offing, great waters, watery waste; wave, tide
hydrography, hydrographer; Neptune, Poseidon, Thetis, Triton, Naiad, Nereid; sea nymph, Siren; trident, dolphin
oceanic; marine, maritime; pelagic, pelagian; seagoing; hydrographic; bathybic, cotidal
at sea, on sea; afloat
land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma
continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta; tongue of land, neck of land; isthmus, oasis; promontory; highland
coast, shore, scar, strand, beach; playa; bank, lea; seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach; ironbound coast; loom of the land; derelict; innings; alluvium, alluvion; ancon
soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot; rock, crag
acres; real estate; landsman
land, come to land, set foot on the soil, set foot on dry land; come ashore, go ashore, debark
earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian; alluvial; terrene; landed, predial, territorial; geophilous; ripicolous
ashore; on shore, on land
land covered with water, gulf, gulph, bay, inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou, fiord, armlet; frith, firth, ostiary, mouth; lagune, lagoon; indraught; cove, creek; natural harbor; roads; strait; narrows; Euripus; sound, belt, gut, kyles; continental slope, continental shelf
lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle, slab, well, artesian well; standing water, dead water, sheet of water; fish pond, mill pond; ditch, dike, dyke, dam; reservoir; alberca, barachois, hog wallow
plain, table-land, face of the country; open country, champaign country; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt; moor, moorland; bush; plateau; campagna; alkali flat, llano; mesa, mesilla, playa; shaking prairie, trembling prairie; vega
meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather; lea, ley, lay; grounds; maidan, agostadero
champaign, alluvial; campestral, campestrial, campestrian, campestrine
marsh, swamp, morass, marish, moss, fen, bog, quagmire, slough, sump, wash; mud, squash, slush; baygall, cienaga, jhil, vlei
marsh, marshy; swampy, boggy, plashy, poachy, quaggy, soft; muddy, sloppy, squashy; paludal; moorish, moory; fenny
island, isle, islet, eyot, ait, holf, reef, atoll, breaker; archipelago; islander
insular, seagirt; archipelagic
stream
flow; blow
jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau; sluice
water spout, water fall; cascade, force, foss; lin, linn; ghyll, Niagara; cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm; debacle, inundation, deluge; chute, washout
rain, rainfall; serein; shower, scud; downpour; driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst; hyetology, hyetography; predominance of Aquarius, reign of St
Swithin; mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash; dropping
stream, course, flux, flow, profluence; effluence; defluxion; flowing
current, tide, race, coulee
spring, artesian well, fount, fountain; rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet; streamlet, brooklet; branch; runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river; reach, tributary
body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash; spring tide, high tide, full tide; bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre; fresh, freshet; indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow; confluence, corrivation
wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple; <gr/anerythmon gelasma/gr>; beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps; rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea
hydrodynamics; hydraulics, hydraulicostatics; rain gauge, flowmeter; pegology
irrigation; pump; watering pot, watering cart; hydrant, syringe; garden hose, lawn spray; bhisti, mussuk
flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out
rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks; pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in; mizzle
flow into, fall into, open into, drain into; discharge itself, disembogue
pour; pour out; shower down, irrigate, drench; spill, splash
stanch; dam, up; obstruct
fluent; diffluent, profluent, affluent; tidal; flowing
meandering, meandry, meandrous; fluvial, fluviatile; streamy, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous  ; stillatitious
wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation, eluvium; air; breath, breath of air; puff, whiff, zephyr; blow, drift; aura; stream, current, jet stream; undercurrent
gust, blast, breeze, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon; simoon, simoom; harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen blast; blizzard, barber, candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther
ventosity; rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of weather; dirty sky, mare's tail; thick squall, black squall, white squall
anemography, aerodynamics; wind gauge, weathercock, weather vane; anemometer, anemoscope
sufflation, insufflation, perflation, inflation, afflation; blowing, fanning
: errhine; sternutative, sternutatory; sternutation; hiccup, hiccough; catching of the breath
Eolus, Boreas, Zephyr, cave of Eolus
air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator, punkah; branchiae, gills, flabellum, vertilabrum
blow, waft; blow hard, blow great guns, blow a hurricane
wuther; stream, issue
respire, breathe, puff; whif, whiffle; gasp, wheeze; snuff, snuffle; sniff, sniffle; sneeze, cough
fan, ventilate; inflate, perflate; blow up
windy, flatulent; breezy, gusty, squally; stormy, tempestuous, blustering; boisterous
pulmonic, pulmonary
conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe; funnel; tunnel; water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks
air pipe, air tube; airhole, blowhole, breathinghole, venthole; shaft, flue, chimney, funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand, trachea; bronchus, bronchia; larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle; ventiduct, ventilator; louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds; blowpipe; pipe; jhilmil; smokestack
semiliquidity; stickiness
viscidity, viscosity; gummosity, glutinosity, mucosity; spissitude, crassitude; lentor; adhesiveness
inspissation, incrassation; thickening
jelly, mucilage, gelatin; carlock, fish glue; ichthyocol, ichthycolla; isinglass; mucus, phlegm; pituite, lava; glair, starch, gluten, albumen, milk, cream, protein; treacle; gum, size, glue; wax, beeswax; emulsion, soup; squash, mud, slush, slime, ooze; moisture; marsh
inspissate, incrassate; thicken, mash, squash, churn, beat up
semifluid, semiliquid; tremellose; half melted, half frozen; milky, muddy
lacteal, lactean, lacteous, lactescent, lactiferous; emulsive, curdled, thick, succulent, uliginous
gelatinous, albuminous, mucilaginous, glutinous; gelatin, mastic, amylaceous, ropy, clammy, clotted; viscid, viscous; sticky, tacky; slab, slabby; lentous  , pituitous; mucid, muculent, mucous
bubble, foam, froth, head, spume, lather, suds, spray, surf, yeast, barm, spindrift
cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser; scud, messenger, rack, nimbus; cumulus, woolpack, cirrus, stratus; cirrostratus, cumulostratus; cirrocumulus; mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky; curl cloud; frost smoke; thunderhead
nephelognosy; nephograph, nephology
effervescence, fermentation; bubbling
nebula; cloudliness; nebulosity
bubble, boil, foam, froth, mantle, sparkle, guggle, gurgle; effervesce, ferment, fizzle
frothy, nappy, effervescent, sparkling, mousseux, up
thunderheaded; vaporous, nebulous, overcast
pulp, taste, dough, curd, pap, rob, jam, pudding, poultice, grume
pultaceous, grumous; baccate
unctuosity, lubricity; ointment; anointment; lubrication
unctuous, oily, oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous; unguinous; fat, fatty, greasy; waxy, butyraceous, soapy, saponaceous, pinguid, lardaceous; slippery
oil, fat, butter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard, dripping exunge, blubber; glycerin, stearin, elaine, oleagine; soap; soft soap, wax, cerement; paraffin, spermaceti, adipocere; petroleum, mineral, mineral rock, mineral crystal, mineral oil; vegetable oil, colza oil, olive oil, salad oil, linseed oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, nut oil; animal oil, neat's foot oil, train oil; ointment, unguent, liniment; aceite, amole, Barbados tar; fusel oil, grain oil, rape oil, seneca oil; hydrate of amyl, ghee; heating oil, oil, distillate, residual oils, kerosene, jet fuel, gasoline, naphtha; stearin
resin, rosin; gum; lac, sealing wax; amber, ambergris; bitumen, pitch, tar; asphalt, asphaltum; camphor; varnish, copal, mastic, magilp, lacquer, japan
resiny, resinous; bituminous, pitchy, tarry; asphaltic, alsphaltite
organized world, organized nature; living nature, animated nature; living beings; organic remains, fossils
protoplasm, cytoplasm, protein; albumen; structure; organization, organism
biology; natural history, organic chemistry, anatomy, physiology; zoology; botany; naturalist
archegenesis; antherozoid, bioplasm, biotaxy, chromosome, dysmeromorph; ecology, oecology; erythroblast, gametangium, gamete, germinal matter, invagination; isogamy, oogamy; karyaster; macrogamete, microgamete; metabolism, anabolism, catabolism; metaplasm, ontogeny, ovary, ovum, oxidation, phylogeny, polymorphism, protozoa, spermary, spermatozoon, trophoplasm, vacuole, vertebration, zoogloea, zygote
Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, Lamarkism, neoLamarkism, Weismannism
morphology, taxonomy
organic, organized; karyoplasmic, unsegmentic, vacuolar, zoogloeic, zoogloeoid
mineral world, mineral kingdom; unorganized matter, inorganic matter, brute matter, inanimate matter
mineralogy, geology, geognosy, geoscopy; metallurgy, metallography; lithology; oryctology, oryctography
inorganic, inanimate, inorganized; lithoidal; azoic; mineral
life, vitality, viability; animation; vital spark, vital flame, soul, spirit
respiration, wind; breath of life, breath of one's nostrils; lifeblood; Archeus; existence
vivification; oxygen; vital air, vital force; vitalization; revivification; Prometheus; life to come
physiology, biology; animal ecology
nourishment, staff of life
live, breathe, respire; subsist; walk the earthbe spared
see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life; quicken; revive; come to life
give birth to; bring to life, put into life, vitalize; vivify, vivificate; reanimate; keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door; support life
living, alive; in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living; on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated; animative; lively; all alive and kicking; tenacious of life
vital, vitalic; vivifying, vivified
viable, zoetic; Promethean
death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality, morbidity
end of life, cessation of life, loss of life, extinction of life, ebb of life
death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne; rigor mortis; Stygian shore
King of terrors, King Death; Death; doom
euthanasia; break up of the system; natural death, natural decay; sudden death, violent death; untimely end, watery grave; debt of nature; suffocation, asphyxia; fatal disease; death blow
necrology, bills of mortality, obituary; death song
die, expire, perish; meet one's death, meet one's end; pass away, be taken; yield one's breath, resign one's breath; resign one's being, resign one's life; end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly career; breathe one's last; cease to live, cease to breathe; depart this life; be no more
go off, drop off, pop off; lose one's life, lay down one's life, relinquish one's life, surrender one's life; drop into the grave, sink into the grave; close one's eyes; fall dead, drop dead, fall down dead, drop down dead; break one's neck; give up the ghost, yield up the ghost; be all over with one
pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips; join the greater number, join the majority; come to dust, turn to dust; cross the Stygian ferry, cross the bar; go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy Jones's locker, go to the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death
dead, lifeless; deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct; late, gone, no more; exanimate, inanimate; out of the world, taken off, released; departed this life
dead and gone; dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits; launched into eternity, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead
moribund, morient; hippocratic; in articulo, in extremis; in the jaws of death, in the agony of death; going off; aux abois; one one's last legs, on one's death bed; at the point of death, at death's door, at the last gasp; near one's end, given over, booked; with one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the grave
stillborn; mortuary; deadly
post obit, post mortem
homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion; effusion of blood; blood, blood shed; gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery; battue
massacre; fusillade, noyade; Thuggism
deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus; execution; judicial murder; martyrdom
butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur; guet-a-pens; gallows, executioner; maneater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder
regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide
suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath; immolation, auto da fe, holocaust
suffocation, strangulation, garrote; hanging
deadly weapon; Aceldama
slaughtering; phthiozoics; sport, sporting; the chase, venery; hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing; pig-sticking; sportsman, huntsman, fisherman; hunter, Nimrod; slaughterhouse, shambles, abattoir
fatal accident, violent death, casualty
kill, put to death, slay, shed blood; murder, assassinate, butcher, slaughter, victimize, immolate; massacre; take away life, deprive of life; make away with, put an end to; despatch, dispatch; burke, settle, do for
strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown
saber; cut down, cut to pieces, cut the throat; jugulate; stab, run through the body, bayonet, eviscerate; put to the sword, put to the edge of the sword
shoot dead; blow one's brains out; brain, knock on the head; stone, lapidate; give a deathblow; deal a deathblow; give a quietus, give a coupe de grace
behead, bowstring, electrocute, gas
hunt, shoot
cut off, nip in the bud, launch into eternity, send to one's last account, sign one's death warrant, strike the death knell of
give no quarter, pour out blood like water; decimate; run amuck; wade knee deep in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood
die a violent death, welter in one's blood; dash out one's brains, blow out one's brains; commit suicide; kill oneself, make away with oneself, put an end to oneself, put an end to it all
murderous, slaughterous; sanguinary, sanguinolent; blood stained, blood thirsty; homicidal, red handed; bloody, bloody minded; ensanguined, gory
mortal, fatal, lethal; dead, deadly; mortiferous , lethiferous; unhealthy; internecine; suicidal
sporting; piscatorial, piscatory
corpse, corse, carcass, cadaver, bones, skeleton, dry bones; defunct, relics, reliquiae, remains, mortal remains, dust, ashes, earth, clay; mummy; carrion; food for worms, food for fishes; tenement of clay this mortal coil
shade, ghost, manes
organic remains, fossils
cadaverous, corpse-like; unburied; sapromyiophyllous
interment, burial, sepulture; inhumation; obsequies, exequies; funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile; cremation
funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity; kneel, passing bell, tolling; dirge; cypress; orbit, dead march, muffled drum; mortuary, undertaker, mute; elegy; funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon; epitaph
graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth; cerement
coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn
grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place, burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate; burning ghat; crematorium, crematory; dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence
sexton, gravedigger
monument, cenotaph, shrine; grave stone, head stone, tomb stone; memento mori; hatchment, stone
exhumation, disinterment; necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination; zoothapsis
inter, bury; lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tomb; inhume; lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mumify; toll the knell; put to bed with a shovel; inurn
exhume, disinter, unearth
burial, funereal, funebrial; mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary; elegiac; necroscopic
in memoriam; post obit, post mortem; beneath the sod
animal life; animation, animality, animalization; animalness, corporeal nature, human system; breath
flesh, flesh and blood; physique; strength
fleshly, human, corporeal
vegetable life; vegetation, vegetability; vegetality
rank, lush; vegetable, vegetal, vegetive
animal, animal kingdom; fauna; brute creation
beast, brute, creature, created being; creeping thing, living thing; dumb animal, dumb creature
flocks and herds, live stock; domestic animals, wild animals; game, ferae naturae; beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea; black game, black grouse; blackcock, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe
mammal, quadruped, bird, reptile, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, zoophyte; animalcule; alligator, crocodile; honeybee; saurian; trout
horse; cattle, kine, ox; bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn; sheep; lamb, lambkin; ewe, ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer, stot; tag, teg; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu
dog, hound; pup, puppy; whelp, cur, mongrel; house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog; mastiff; blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound; harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever; Newfoundland; water dog, water spaniel; pug, poodle; turnspit; terrier; fox terrier, Skye terrier; Dandie Dinmont; collie
cat; puss, pussy; grimalkin; gib cat, tom cat; fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe; caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar
bird; poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl; feathered tribes, feathered songster; singing bird, dicky bird; canary, warbler; finch; aberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon
snake, serpent, viper, eft; asp, aspick; vermin
animal, zoological
equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy; piscatory, piscatorial; molluscous, vermicular; gallinaceous, rasorial, solidungulate, soliped
vegetable, vegetable kingdom; flora, verdure
plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass
annual; perennial, biennial, triennial; exotic
timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte
arboretum
bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan; blow, blowth; floret, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia
foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella; spray; leaf
flower, blossom, bine; flowering plant; timber tree, fruit tree; pulse, legume
vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous; herbaceous, herbal; botanic; sylvan, silvan; arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical; woody, grassy; verdant, verdurous; floral, mossy; lignous, ligneous; wooden, leguminous; vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy; endogenous, exogenous
zoology, zoonomy, zoography, zootomy; anatomy; comparative anatomy; animal physiology, comparative physiology; morphology; mammalogy
anthropology, ornithology, ichthyology, herpetology, ophiology, malacology, helminthology, entomology, oryctology, paleontology, mastology, vermeology; ichthy ichthyotomy; taxidermy
botany; physiological botany, structural botany, systematic botany; phytography, phytology, phytotomy; vegetable physiology, herborization, dendrology, mycology, fungology, algology; flora, romona; botanic garden; hortus siccus, herbarium, herbal
botanist; herbist, herbarist, herbalist, herborist, herbarian
botanize, herborize
husbandry, taming
circuration, zoohygiantics; domestication, domesticity; manege, veterinary art; farriery; breeding, pisciculture
menagerie, vivarium, zoological garden; bear pit; aviary, apiary, alveary, beehive; hive; aquarium, fishery; duck pond, fish pond
neatherd, cowherd, shepherd; grazier, drover, cowkeeper; trainer, breeder; apiarian, apiarist; bull whacker, cowboy, cow puncher, farrier; horse leech, horse doctor; vaquero, veterinarian, vet, veterinary surgeon
cage; hencoop, bird cage, cauf; range, sheepfold
tame, domesticate, acclimatize, breed, tend, break in, train; cage, bridle
pastoral, bucolic; tame, domestic
agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming; georgics, geoponics; tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage; horticulture, arboriculture, floriculture; landscape gardening; viticulture
husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist; agricultor, agriculturist; yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil, woodcutter, backwoodsman; granger, habitat, vigneron, viticulturist; Triptolemus
field, meadow, garden; botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden; nursery; green house, hot house; conservatory, bed, border, seed plot; grassplot, grassplat, lawn; park; parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard; vineyard, vinery; orangery; farm
cultivate; till the soil; farm, garden; sow, plant; reap, mow, cut; manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow, harrow, rake, weed, lop and top; backset
agricultural, agrarian, agrestic
arable, predial, rural, rustic, country; horticultural
man, mankind; human race, human species, human kind, human nature; humanity, mortality, flesh, generation
anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthroposophy; ethnology, ethnography; humanitarian
human being; person, personage; individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody; one; such a one, some one; soul, living soul; earthling; party, head, hand; dramatis personae; quidam
people, persons, folk, public, society, world; community, community at large; general public; nation, nationality; state, realm; commonweal, commonwealth; republic, body politic; million; population
cosmopolite; lords of the creation; ourselves
human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social; cosmopolitan; anthropoid
man, male, he, him; manhood; gentleman, sir, master; sahib; yeoman, wight, swain, fellow, blade, beau, elf, chap, gaffer, good man; husband; Mr
mister; boy
cock, drake, gander, dog, boar, stag, hart, buck, horse, entire horse, stallion; gibcat, tomcat; he goat, Billy goat; ram, tup; bull, bullock; capon, ox, gelding, steer, stot
male, he, masculine; manly, virile; unwomanly, unfeminine
woman, she, her, female, petticoat
feminality, muliebrity; womanhood
womankind; the sex, the fair; fair sex, softer sex; weaker vessel
dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs
lady, donna belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer; Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani; good woman, good wife; squaw; wife; matronage, matronhood
bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist
nymph, wench, grisette; girl
sissy, betty, cot betty, cotquean, henhussy, molly coddle, muff, old woman
hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare; she goat, Nanny goat, tabita; ewe, cow; lioness, tigress; vixen
female, she; feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely; womanish, effeminate, unmanly; gynecic, gynaecic
sensibility; sensitiveness
physical sensibility, feeling, impressibility, perceptivity, aesthetics; moral sensibility
sensation, impression; consciousness
feel, perceive
sharpen, cultivate, tutor
cause sensation, impress; excite an impression, produce an impression
sensible, sensitive, sensuous; aesthetic, perceptive, sentient; conscious
acute, sharp, keen, vivid, lively, impressive, thin-skinned
insensibility, physical insensibility; obtuseness
palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia, anaesthesia; sleep; hemiplegia, motor paralysis
anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral; nitrous oxide, laughing gas; exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen; refrigeration
have a thick skin, have a rhinoceros hide
anaesthetize, blunt, pall, obtund, benumb, paralyze; put under the influence of chloroform
stupefy, stun
insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient, callous, thick- skinned, pachydermatous; hard, hardened; case hardened; proof, obtuse, dull; anaesthetic; comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead
pleasure; physical pleasure, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure; bodily enjoyment, animal gratification, hedonism, sensuality; luxuriousness
dissipation, round of pleasure, titillation, gusto, creature comforts, comfort, ease; pillow; luxury, lap of luxury; purple and fine linen; bed of downs, bed of roses; velvet, clover; cup of Circe
treat; refreshment, regale; feast; delice; dainty; bonne bouche
source of pleasure; happiness
feel pleasure, experience pleasure, receive pleasure; enjoy, relish; luxuriate in, revel in, riot in, bask in, swim in, drink up, eat up, wallow in; feast on; gloat over, float on; smack the lips
live on the fat of the land, live in comfort
bask in the sunshine, faire ses choux gras
luxurious, voluptuous, sensual, comfortable, cosy, snug, in comfort, at ease
pleasant, agreeable
pain; suffering, suffrance; bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain; mental suffering; dolour, ache; aching
smart; shoot, shooting; twinge, twitch, gripe, headache; hurt, cut; sore, soreness; discomfort, malaise; cephalalgia, earache, gout, ischiagra, lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia, otalgia, podagra, rheumatism, sciatica; tic douloureux, toothache, tormina, torticollis
spasm, cramp; nightmare, ephialtes; crick, stitch; thrill, convulsion, throe; throb; pang; colic; kink
sharp pain, piercing pain, throbbing pain, shooting pain, sting, gnawing pain, burning pain; excruciating pain
anguish, agony; torment, torture; rack; cruciation, crucifixion; martyrdom, toad under a harrow, vivisection
feel pain, experience pain, suffer pain, undergo pain
suffer, ache, smart, bleed; tingle, shoot; twinge, twitch, lancinate; writhe, wince, make a wry face; sit on thorns, sit on pins and needles
give pain, inflict pain; lacerate; pain, hurt, chafe, sting, bite, gnaw, gripe; pinch, tweak; grate, gall, fret, prick, pierce, wring, convulse; torment, torture; rack, agonize; crucify; excruciate  ; break on the wheel, put to the rack; flog; grate on the ear
in a state of pain; pained
gouty, podagric, torminous
painful; aching
sore, raw
touch; tact, taction, tactility; feeling; palpation, palpability; contrectation; manipulation; massage
hand, finger, forefinger, thumb, paw, feeler, antenna; palpus
touch, feel, handle, finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble; twiddle, tweedle; pass the fingers over, run the fingers over; manipulate, wield; throw out a feeler
tactual, tactile; tangible, palpable; lambent
titillation, formication, aura; stereognosis
itch, tingle, creep, thrill, sting; prick, prickle; tickle, titillate
stereognostic, titillative
numbness; anaesthesia; pins and needles
numb; benumbed
deadened; intangible, impalpable
heat, caloric; temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity; incalescence, incandescence; glow, flush; fever, hectic
phlogiston; fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze; bonfire; firework, pyrotechny; wildfire; sheet of fire, lambent flame; devouring element; adiathermancy; recalescence
summer, dog days; canicular days; baking heat, white heat, tropical heat, Afric heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, blood heat; sirocco, simoom; broiling sun; insolation; warming
pyrology; thermology, thermotics; thermometer
glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, broil, blaze, flame; smolder; parch, fume, pant
heat; recalesce; thaw, give
hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal, thermic; calorific; fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow
sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular; close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive; reeking
red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning
hot, piping hot; like a furnace, like an oven; hot as fire, hot as pepper; hot enough to roast an ox
fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling
in flames, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool
volcanic, plutonic, igneous; isothermal, isothermic, isotheral
cold, coldness
frigidity, inclemency, fresco
winter; depth of winter, hard winter; Siberia, Nova Zembla
ice; snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift; sleet; hail, hailstone; rime, frost; hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost; barf; glaze, lolly; icicle, thick- ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall; iceberg, icefloe; floe berg; glacier; nev‚e, serac; pruina
chill; shivering
goose skin, rigor, horripilation, chattering of teeth
shiver, starve, quake, shake, tremble, shudder, didder, quiver; perish with cold; chill; horripilate
cold, cool; chill, chilly; gelid, frigid, algid; fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved; shivering
aguish, transi de froid; frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped
cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas; cool as a cucumber, cool as custard
icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal; hyperborean, hyperboreal; icebound; frozen out
unwarmed, unthawed; lukewarm, tepid; isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic
coldly, bitterly
pierre fendre
increase of temperature; heating
calefaction, tepefaction, torrefaction; melting, fusion; liquefaction; burning
ambustion, combustion; incension, accension; concremation, cremation; scorification; cautery, cauterization; ustulation, calcination; incineration, cineration; carbonization; cupellation
ignition, inflammation, adustion, flagration; deflagration, conflagration; empyrosis, incendiarism; arson; auto dafe
coction, ebullition, estuation, elixation, decoction; ebullioscope; geyser
furnace; blanket, flannel, fur; wadding; clothing
match; incendiary; petroleuse
cauterizer; caustic, lunar caustic, apozem, moxa; aqua fortis, aqua regia; catheretic, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid; radium
sunstroke, coup de soleil; insolation
pottery, ceramics, crockery, porcelain, china; earthenware, stoneware; pot, mug, terra cotta, brick, clinker
cinder, ash, scoriae, embers; slag
coke, carbon, charcoal; wood alcohol, turpentine, tea tree oil; gasoline, kerosene, naptha, fuel oil; wax, parafin; residue, tar
inflammability, combustibility
diathermancy, transcalency
heat, warm, chafe, stive, foment; make hot; sun oneself
fire; set fire to, set on fire; kindle, enkindle, light, ignite, strike a light; apply the match to, apply the torch to; rekindle, relume; fan the flame, add fuel to the flame; poke the fire, stir the fire, blow the fire; make a bonfire of
melt, thaw, fuse; liquefy
burn, inflame, roast, toast, fry, grill, singe, parch, bake, torrefy, scorch; brand, cauterize, sear, burn in; corrode, char, calcine, incinerate; smelt, scorify; reduce to ashes; burn to a cinder; commit to the flames, consign to the flames
boil, digest, stew, cook, seethe, scald, parboil, simmer; do to rags
take fire, catch fire; blaze
molten, sodden; r‚chauff‚; heating
inflammable, combustible; diathermal, diathermanous; burnt
volcanic, radioactive
refrigeration, infrigidation, reduction of temperature; cooling
congelation, conglaciation; ice; solidification; ice box
extincteur; fire annihilator; amianth, amianthus; earth-flax, mountain-flax; flexible asbestos; fireman, fire brigade a
incombustibility, incombustibleness
cool, fan, refrigerate, refresh, ice; congeal, freeze, glaciate; benumb, starve, pinch, chill, petrify, chill to the marrow, regelate, nip, cut, pierce, bite, make one's teeth chatter
damp, slack quench; put out, stamp out; extinguish; go out, burn out a
frozen out; cooling
incombustible; uninflammable, unflammable; fireproof
furnace, stove, kiln, oven; hearth, focus, athanor, hypocaust, reverberatory; volcano; forge, fiery furnace; limekiln; Dutch oven; tuyere, brasier, salamander, heater, warming pan; boiler, caldron, seething caldron, pot; urn, kettle; chafing-dish; retort, crucible, alembic, still; waffle irons; electric heater, electric furnace, electric resistance heat
fire-place, fire-dog, fire-irons; grate, range, kitchener; caboose, camboose; poker, tongs, shovel, hob, trivet; andiron, gridiron; frying-pan, stew-pan, backlog
hothouse, bakehouse, washhouse; laundry; conservatory
sudatory; Turkish bath, Russian bath, vapor bath, warm bath; vaporarium
refrigerator, refrigeratory; frigidarium; cold storage; icehouse, icepail, icebag, icebox; cooler, damper; wine cooler; freezing mixture
fuel, firing, combustible
coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon, charcoal; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder; ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou, bavin; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge
brand, torch, fuse; wick; spill, match, light, lucifer, congreve, vesuvian, vesta, fusee, locofoco; linstock
candle; oil
carbonaceous; combustible, inflammable
thermometer, thermometrograph, thermostat, thermoscope; pyrometer, calorimeter
taste, flavor, gust, gusto, savor; gout, relish; sapor, sapidity; twang, smack, smatch; aftertaste, tang
tasting; degustation, gustation
palate, tongue, tooth, stomach
taste, savor, smatch, smack, flavor, twang; tickle the palate; smack the lips
sapid, saporific; gustable, gustatory; gustful; strong; palatable
insipidity, blandness; tastelessness
void of taste; insipid; tasteless, gustless, savorless; ingustible, mawkish, milk and water, weak, stale, flat, vapid, fade, wishy-washy, mild; untasted
pungency, piquancy, poignancy haut-gout, strong taste, twang, race
acrimony; roughness; unsavoriness
niter, saltpeter; mustard, cayenne, caviare; seasoning; niter, saltpeter, brine; carbonate of ammonia; sal ammoniac, sal volatile, smelling salts; hartshorn
dram, cordial, nip
nicotine, tobacco, snuff, quid; segar; cigar, cigarette; weed; fragrant weed, Indian weed; Cavendish, fid, negro head, old soldier, rappee, stogy
season, spice, salt, pepper, pickle, brine, devil
smoke, chew, take snuff
pungent, strong; high-, full-flavored; high-tasted, high- seasoned; gamy, sharp, stinging, rough, piquant, racy; biting, mordant; spicy; seasoned
hot, hot as pepper; peppery, vellicating, escharotic, meracious; acrid, acrimonious, bitter; rough; unsavory
salt, saline, brackish, briny; salty as brine, salty as a herring, salty as Lot's wife
condiment, seasoning, sauce, spice, relish, appetizer
salt; mustard, pepper, curry, sauce piquante; caviare, onion, garlic, pickle; achar, allspice; bell pepper, Jamaica pepper, red pepper; chutney; cubeb, pimento
relish, zest; appetizer
titbit, dainty, delicacy, ambrosia, nectar, bonne-bouche; game, turtle, venison; delicatessen
tickle the palate, tickle the appetite; flatter the palate
relish, like, smack the lips
savory, delicious, tasty, well-tasted, to one's taste, good, palatable, nice, dainty, delectable; toothful, toothsome; gustful, appetizing, lickerish, delicate, exquisite, rich, luscious, ambrosial
amaritude; acrimony, acridity; roughness; acerbity, austerity; gall and wormwood, rue, quassia, aloes; marah; sickener
sicken, disgust, nauseate, pall, turn the stomach
unsavory, unpalatable, unsweet; ill-flavored; bitter, bitter as gall; acrid, acrimonious; rough
offensive, repulsive, nasty; sickening
nauseous; loathsome, fulsome; unpleasant
sweetness, dulcitude
sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection, confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep; sugar-candy, sugar-plum; licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat; apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose; maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar; mithai, sorghum, taffy
nectar; hydromel, mead, metheglin, honeysuckle, liqueur, sweet wine
pastry, pie, tart, puff, pudding
dulcification, dulcoration
sweeten; edulcorate; dulcorate, dulcify; candy; mull
sweet; saccharine, sacchariferous; dulcet, candied, honied, luscious, lush, nectarious, melliferous; sweetened
sweet as a nut, sweet as sugar, sweet as honey
acid, acidity; acetous fermentation
vinegar, verjuice, crab, alum; acetic acid, lactic acid
be sour; sour, turn sour
acidify, acidulate
sour; acid, acidulous, acidulated; tart, crabbed; acetous, acetose; acerb, acetic; sour as vinegar, sourish, acescent, subacid; styptic, hard, rough
odor, smell, odorament, scent, effluvium; emanation, exhalation; fume, essence, trail, nidor, redolence
sense of smell; scent; act of smelling
olfaction, olfactories
smell, smell of, smell strong of; exhale; give out a smell
smell, scent; snuff, snuff up; sniff, nose, inhale
odorant, odorous, odoriferous; smelling, strong-scented; redolent, graveolent, nidorous, pungent
olfactory, quick-scented
inodorousness; absence of smell, want of smell
deodorant, deodorization, deodorizer
inodorous, inodorate; scentless; without smell, wanting smell
deodorized, deodorizing
fragrance, aroma, redolence, perfume, bouquet; sweet smell, aromatic perfume
agalloch, agallochium; aloes wood; bay rum; calambac, calambour; champak, horehound, lign-aloes, marrubium, mint, muskrat, napha water, olibanum, spirit of myrcia
incense; musk, frankincense; pastil, pastille; myrrh, perfumes of Arabia; otto, ottar, attar; bergamot, balm, civet, potpourri, pulvil; nosegay; scent, scentbag; sachet, smelling bottle, vinaigrette; eau de Cologne; thurification
smell sweet, scent, perfume, embalm
fragrant, aromatic, redolent, spicy, balmy, scented sweet- smelling, sweet-scented; perfumed, perfumatory; thuriferous; fragrant as a rose, muscadine, ambrosial
fetor; bad
smell, bad odor; stench, stink; foul odor, malodor; empyreuma; mustiness
rancidity; foulness
stoat, polecat, skunk; assafoetida; fungus, garlic; stinkpot; fitchet, fitchew, fourmart, peccary
smell; stink, stink in the nostrils, stink like a polecat; smell strong
smell offensively
fetid; strong-smelling; high, bad, strong, fulsome, offensive, noisome, rank, rancid, reasty, tainted, musty, fusty, frouzy; olid, olidous; nidorous; smelling, stinking; putrid; suffocating, mephitic; empyreumatic
sound, noise, strain; accent, twang, intonation, tone; cadence; sonorousness
audibility; resonance; voice; aspirate; ideophone; rough breathing
acoustics; phonics, phonetics, phonology, phonography; diacoustics, diaphonics; phonetism
produce sound; sound, make a noise; give out sound, emit sound; resound
sounding; soniferous; sonorous, sonorific; resonant, audible, distinct; stertorous; phonetic; phonic, phonocamptic
silence; stillness; peace, hush, lull; muteness; solemn silence, awful silence, dead silence, deathlike silence
silence, still, hush; stifle, muffle, stop; muzzle, put to silence
silent; still, stilly; noiseless, soundless; hushed
soft, solemn, awful, deathlike, silent as the grave; inaudible
hush! silence! soft! whist! tush! chut! tut! pax! be quiet! be silent! be still! shut up!; chup! chup rao! tace!
loudness, power; loud noise, din; blare; clang, clangor; clatter, noise, bombilation, roar, uproar, racket, hubbub, bobbery, fracas, charivari, trumpet blast, flourish of trumpets, fanfare, tintamarre, peal, swell, blast, larum, boom; resonance
vociferation, hullabaloo; lungs; Stentor
artillery, cannon; thunder
peal, swell, clang, boom, thunder, fulminate, roar; resound
speak up, shout; bellow
rend the air, rend the skies; fill the air; din in the ear, ring in the ear, thunder in the ear; pierce the ears, split the ears, rend the ears, split the head; deafen, stun; faire le diable a quatre; make one's windows shake; awaken the echoes, startle the echoes
loud, sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; deep, full, powerful, noisy, blatant, clangorous, multisonous; thundering, deafening v; trumpet-tongued; ear-splitting, ear-rending, ear-deafening; piercing; obstreperous, rackety, uproarious; enough to wake the dead, enough to wake seven sleepers
shrill clamorous stentorian, stentorophonic
aloud; at the top of one's voice, lustily, in full cry
faint sound, whisper, breath; undertone, underbreath; murmur, hum, susurration; tinkle
whisper, breathe, murmur, purl, hum, gurgle, ripple, babble, flow; tinkle; mutter; susurrate
steal on the ear; melt in the air, float on the air
inaudible; scarcely audible, just audible; low, dull; stifled, muffled; hoarse, husky; gentle, soft, faint; floating; purling, flowing
liquid; soothing; dulcet; susurrant, susurrous
in a whisper, with bated breath, sotto voce, between the teeth, aside; piano, pianissimo; d la sourdine; out of earshot inaudibly
decrepitation, crepitation; report thud; burst, explosion, discharge, detonation, firing, salvo, volley
squib, cracker, gun, popgun
rap, snap, tap, knock; click; clash; crack, crackle; crash; pop; slam, bang, clap; brustle; burst on the ear; crepitate, rump
berloque, bombination, rumbling; tattoo; dingdong; tantara; rataplan; whirr; ratatat; rubadub; pitapat; quaver, clutter, charivari, racket; cuckoo; repetition; peal of bells, devil's tattoo; reverberation
roll, drum, rumble, rattle, clatter, patter, clack; bombinate
hum, trill, shake; chime, peal, toll; tick, beat
drum in the ear, din in the ear
monotonous; like a bee in a bottle
resonance; ring
ringing
reflexion, reflection, reverberation
low note, base note, bass note, flat note, grave note, deep note; bass; basso, basso profondo; baritone, barytone; contralto
resound, reverberate, reecho, `resonate`; ring, jingle, gingle, chink, clink; tink, tinkle; chime; gurgle plash, goggle, echo, ring in the ear
resonant, reverberant, tinnient, tintinnabulary; deep-toned, deep-sounding, deep-mouthed; hollow, sepulchral; gruff
thud, thump, dead sound; nonresonance; muffled drums, cracked bell; damper; silencer
sound dead; stop the sound, damp the sound, deaden the sound, deaden the reverberations, dampen the reverberations
nonresonant, dead
sibilation; zip; hiss
sternutation; high note
goose, serpent
hiss, buzz, whiz, rustle; fizz, fizzle; wheeze, whistle, snuffle; squash; sneeze; sizzle, swish
sibilant; hissing
wheezy; sternutative
discord; stridor; roughness, sharpness
cacophony; cacoepy
acute note, high note; soprano, treble, tenor, alto, falsetto, penny trumpet, voce di testa
creak, grate, jar, burr, pipe, twang, jangle, clank, clink; scream; yelp; buzz
set the teeth on edge, ‚corcher les oreilles; pierce the ears, split the ears, split the head; offend the ear, grate upon the ear, jar upon the ear
stridulous, harsh, coarse, hoarse, horrisonous, rough, gruff, grum, sepulchral, hollow
sharp, high, acute, shrill; trumpet-toned; piercing, ear-piercing, high-pitched, high-toned; cracked; discordant; cacophonous
voice; hubbub; bark
vociferation, outcry, hullabaloo, chorus, clamor, hue and cry, plaint; lungs; stentor
cry, roar, shout, bawl, brawl, halloo, halloa, hoop, whoop, yell, bellow, howl, scream, screech, screak, shriek, shrill, squeak, squeal, squall, whine, pule, pipe, yaup
cheer; hoot; grumble, moan, groan
snore, snort; grunt
vociferate; raise up the voice, lift up the voice; call out, sing out, cry out; exclaim; rend the air; thunder at the top of one's voice, shout at the top of one's voice, shout at the pitch of one's breath, thunder at the pitch of one's breath; s'‚gosiller; strain the throat, strain the voice, strain the lungs; give a cry
clamant, clamorous; vociferous; stentorian; open-mouthed
bowwow, ululation, latration, belling; reboation; wood-note; insect cry, fritiniancy, drone; screech owl; cuckoo
cry, roar, bellow, blare, rebellow
bark; yelp; bay, bay at the moon; yap, growl, yarr, yawl, snarl, howl; grunt, gruntle; snort; squeak; neigh; bray; mew, mewl; meow; purr; caterwaul, pule; bleat; low, moo; troat, croak, peep; coo; gobble; quack; gaggle, guggle; crow, caw, screech; cackle, cluck, clack; chuck, chuckle; chirp, cheep, chirrup, twitter, cuckoo; hum, buzz; hiss; blatter
blatant, latrant, remugient, mugient; deep- mouthed, full-mouthed; rebellowing, reboant
melody, rhythm, measure; rhyme
pitch, timbre, intonation, tone
scale, gamut; diapason; diatonic chromatic scale, enharmonic scale; key, clef, chords
modulation, temperament, syncope, syncopation, preparation, suspension, resolution
staff, stave, line, space, brace; bar, rest; appoggiato, appoggiatura; acciaccatura
note, musical note, notes of a scale; sharp, flat, natural; high note; low note; interval; semitone; second, third, fourth; diatessaron
breve, semibreve, minim, crotchet, quaver; semiquaver, demisemiquaver; sustained note, drone, burden
tonic; key note, leading note, fundamental note; supertonic, mediant, dominant; submediant, subdominant; octave, tetrachord; major key, minor key, major scale, minor scale, major mode, minor mode; passage, phrase
concord, harmony; emmeleia; unison, unisonance; chime, homophony; euphony, euphonism; tonality; consonance; consent; part
harmony, harmonics; thorough-bass, fundamental- bass; counterpoint; faburden
piece of music; composer, harmonist, contrapuntist
harmonize, chime, symphonize, transpose; put in tune, tune, accord, string
harmonious, harmonical; in concord
in tune, in concert; unisonant, concentual, symphonizing, isotonic, homophonous, assonant; ariose, consonant
measured, rhythmical, diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic
melodious, musical; melic; tuneful, tunable; sweet, dulcet, canorous; mellow, mellifluous; soft, clear, clear as a bell; silvery; euphonious, euphonic, euphonical; symphonious; enchanting; fine-toned, full-toned, silver-toned
discord, discordance; dissonance, cacophony, want of harmony, caterwauling; harshness
Babel; Dutch concert, cat's concert; marrowbones and cleavers
jar
discordant; dissonant, absonant; out of tune, tuneless; unmusical, untunable; unmelodious, immelodious; unharmonious, inharmonious; singsong; cacophonous; harsh; jarring
music; concert; strain, tune, air; melody; aria, arietta; piece of music, sonata; rondo, rondeau; pastorale, cavatina, roulade, fantasia, concerto, overture, symphony, variations, cadenza; cadence; fugue, canon, serenade, notturno, dithyramb; opera, operetta; oratorio; composition, movement; stave; passamezzo, toccata, Vorspiel
instrumental music; full score; minstrelsy, tweedledum and tweedledee, band, orchestra; concerted piece, potpourri, capriccio
vocal music, vocalism; chaunt, chant; psalm, psalmody; hymn; song; canticle, canzonet, cantata, bravura, lay, ballad, ditty, carol, pastoral, recitative, recitativo, solfeggio
Lydian measures; slow music, slow movement; adagio
minuet; siren strains, soft music, lullaby; dump; dirge; pibroch; martial music, march; dance music; waltz
solo, duet, duo, trio; quartet, quartett; septett; part song, descant, glee, madrigal, catch, round, chorus, chorale; antiphon, antiphony; accompaniment, second, bass; score; bourdon, drone, morceau, terzetto
composer; musician
compose, perform; attune
musical; instrumental, vocal, choral, lyric, operatic; harmonious; Wagnerian
adagio; largo, larghetto, andante, andantino; alla capella; maestoso, moderato; allegro, allegretto; spiritoso, vivace, veloce; presto, prestissimo; con brio; capriccioso; scherzo, scherzando; legato, staccato, crescendo, diminuendo, rallentando, affettuoso; obbligato; pizzicato; desto
musician, artiste, performer, player, minstrel; bard; accompanist, accordionist, instrumentalist, organist, pianist, violinist, flautist; harper, fiddler, fifer, trumpeter, piper, drummer; catgut scraper
band, orchestral waits
vocalist, melodist; singer, warbler; songster, chaunter, chauntress, songstress; cantatrice
choir, quire, chorister; chorus, chorus singer; liedertafel
nightingale, philomel, thrush; siren; bulbul, mavis; Pierides; sacred nine; Orpheus, Apollo, the Muses Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore; tuneful nine, tuneful quire
performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization
play, pipe, strike up, sweep the chords, tweedle, fiddle; strike the lyre, beat the drum; blow the horn, sound the horn, wind the horn; doodle; grind the organ; touch the guitar; thrum, strum, beat time
execute, perform; accompany; sing a second, play a second; compose, set to music, arrange
sing, chaunt, chant, hum, warble, carol, chirp, chirrup, lilt, purl, quaver, trill, shake, twitter, whistle; sol-fa; intone
have an ear for music, have a musical ear, have a correct ear
adagio, andante
musical instruments; band; string- band, brass-band; orchestra; orchestrina
monochord, polychord; harp, lyre, lute, archlute; mandola, mandolin, mandoline; guitar; zither; cither, cithern; gittern, rebeck, bandurria, banjo; bina, vina; xanorphica
viol, violin; fiddle, kit; viola, viola d'amore, viola di gamba; tenor, cremona, violoncello, bass; bass viol, base viol; theorbo, double base, contrabasso, violone, psaltery; bow, fiddlestick
piano, pianoforte; harpsichord, clavichord, clarichord, manichord; clavier, spinet, virginals, dulcimer, hurdy-gurdy, vielle, pianino, Eolian harp
organ; harmonium, harmoniphon; American organ, barrel organ, hand organ; accordion, seraphina, concertina; humming top
flute, fife, piccolo, flageolet; clarinet, claronet; basset horn, corno di bassetto, oboe, hautboy, cor Anglais, corno Inglese, bassoon, double bassoon, contrafagotto, serpent, bass clarinet; bagpipes, union pipes; musette, ocarina, Pandean pipes; reed instrument; sirene, pipe, pitch-pipe; sourdet; whistle, catcall; doodlesack, harmoniphone
horn, bugle, cornet, cornet-a-pistons, cornopean, clarion, trumpet, trombone, ophicleide; French horn, buglehorn, saxhorn, flugelhorn, althorn, helicanhorn, posthorn; sackbut, euphonium, bombardon, tuba
cymbal, bell, gong; tambour, tambourine; drum, tom-tom; tabor, tabret, tabourine, taborin; side drum, kettle drum; tympani; tymbal, timbrel, castanet, bones; musical glasses, musical stones; harmonica, sounding-board, rattle; tam-tam, zambomba
reed, tuning fork, triangle, Jew's harp, musical box, harmonicon, xylophone
sordine, sordet; sourdine, sourdet; mute
audition, auscultation; eavesdropping; audibility
acute ear, nice ear, delicate ear, quick ear, sharp ear, correct ear, musical ear; ear for music
ear, auricle, lug, acoustic organs, auditory apparatus; eardrum, tympanum; ear trumpet, speaking trumpet; telephone, phonograph, gramophone, megaphone, phonorganon, microphone
hearer, auditor, listener, eavesdropper
auditory, audience
hear, overhear; hark, harken; list, listen; give an ear, lend an ear, bend an ear; catch a sound, prick up one's ears; give ear, give a hearing, give audience to
hang upon the lips of, be all ears, listen with both ears
become audible; meet the ear, fall upon the ear, catch the ear, reach the ear; be heard; ring in the ear
auditory, auricular, acoustic; phonic
hark, hark ye! hear! list, listen! O yes! Oyez!
deafness, hardness of hearing, surdity; inaudibility, inaudibleness
have no ear; shut one's ears, stop one's ears, close one's ears; turn a deaf ear to
render deaf, stun, deafen
deaf, earless, surd; hard of hearing, dull of hearing; deaf-mute, stunned, deafened; stone deaf; deaf as a post, deaf as an adder, deaf as a beetle, deaf as a trunkmaker
inaudible, out of hearing
light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil; sunbeam, moonbeam; aurora
day; sunshine; light of day, light of heaven; sun light; daylight, broad daylight, noontide light; noontide, noonday
glint; play of light, flood of light; phosphorescence, lambent flame
flush, halo, glory, nimbus, aureola
spark, scintilla; facula; sparkling
emication, scintillation, flash, blaze, coruscation, fulguration; flame; lightning, levin, ignis fatuus
luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion, reflection; gloss, tinsel, spangle, brightness, brilliancy, splendor; effulgence, refulgence; fulgor, fulgidity; dazzlement, resplendence, transplendency; luminousness
luminosity; lucidity; renitency, nitency; radiance, radiation; irradiation, illumination
actinic rays, actinism; Roentgen-ray, Xray; photography, heliography; photometer
optics; photology, photometry; dioptrics, catoptrics
chiaroscuro, clairobscur, clear obscure, breadth, light and shade, black and white, tonality
reflection, refraction, dispersion; refractivity
shine, glow, glitter; glister, glisten; twinkle, gleam; flare, flare up; glare, beam, shimmer, glimmer, flicker, sparkle, scintillate, coruscate, flash, blaze; be bright
reflect light, daze, dazzle, bedazzle, radiate, shoot out beams; fulgurate
clear up, brighten
lighten, enlighten; levin; light, light up; irradiate, shine upon; give out a light, hang out a light; cast light upon, cast light in, throw light upon, throw light in, shed light upon, shed luster upon; illume, illumine, illuminate; relume, strike a light; kindle
luminous, luminiferous; lucid, lucent, luculent, lucific, luciferous; light, lightsome; bright, vivid, splendent, nitid, lustrous, shiny, beamy, scintillant, radiant, lambent; sheen, sheeny; glossy, burnished, glassy, sunny, orient, meridian; noonday, tide; cloudless, clear; unclouded, unobscured
gairish, garish; resplendent, transplendent; refulgent, effulgent; fulgid, fulgent; relucent, splendid, blazing, in a blaze, ablaze, rutilant, meteoric, phosphorescent; aglow
bright as silver; light as day, bright as day, light as noonday, bright as noonday, bright as the sun at noonday
actinic; photogenic+, graphic; heliographic; heliophagous
blackness; obscurity, gloom, murk; dusk
Cimmerian darkness, Stygian darkness, Egyptian darkness; night; midnight; dead of night, witching hour of night, witching time of night; blind man's holiday; darkness visible, darkness that can be felt; palpable obscure; Erebus
shade, shadow, umbra, penumbra; sciagraphy
obscuration; adumbration, obumbration; obtenebration, offuscation, caligation; extinction; eclipse, total eclipse; gathering of the clouds
shading; distribution of shade; chiaroscuro
darken, obscure, shade; dim; tone down, lower; overcast, overshadow; eclipse; obfuscate, offuscate; obumbrate, adumbrate; cast into the shade becloud, bedim, bedarken; cast a shade, throw a shade, spread a shade, cast a shadow, cast a gloom, throw a shadow, spread a shadow, cast gloom, throw gloom, spread gloom
extinguish; put out, blow out, snuff out; doubt
dark, darksome, darkling; obscure, tenebrious, sombrous, pitch dark, pitchy; caliginous; black
sunless, lightless; somber, dusky; unilluminated; nocturnal; dingy, lurid, gloomy; murky, murksome; shady, umbrageous; overcast; cloudy; darkened
dark as pitch, dark as a pit, dark as Erebus
benighted; noctivagant, noctivagous
in the dark, in the shade
darkness; paleness
half light, demi-jour; partial shadow, partial eclipse; shadow of a shade; glimmer, gliming; nebulosity; cloud; eclipse
aurora, dusk, twilight, shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut time; break of day, daybreak, dawn
moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade, moonshine; starlight, owl's light, candlelight, rushlight, firelight; farthing candle
be dim, grow dim
flicker, twinkle, glimmer; loom, lower; fade; pale, pale its ineffectual fire
dim, bedim, obscure
dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark
faint, shadowed forth; glassy; cloudy; misty; blear; muggy, fuliginous; nebulous, nebular; obnubilated, overcast, crepuscular, muddy, lurid, leaden, dun, dirty; looming
pale; confused
luminary; light; flamespark, scintilla; phosphorescence
sun, orb of day, Phoebus, Apollo, Aurora; star, orb; meteor, falling star, shooting star; blazing star, dog star, Sirius; canicula, Aldebaran; constellation, galaxy; northern light, aurora borealis; southern lights, aurora australis; zodiacal light; anthelion; day star, morning star; Lucifer; mock sun, parhelion; phosphor, phosphorus; sun dog; Venus; polar lights
lightning; chain lightning, fork lightning, sheet lightning, summer lightning; phosphorus; ignis fatuus; Jack o'lantern, Friar's lantern; will- o'-the-wisp, firedrake, Fata Morgana
glowworm, firefly
gas; gas light, lime light, electric light; lamp; lantern, lanthorn; dark lantern, bull's-eye; candle, bougie, taper, rushlight; oil; wick, burner; Argand, moderator, duplex; torch, flambeau, link, brand; gaselier, chandelier, electrolier, candelabrum, girandole, sconce, luster, candlestick
firework, fizgig; pyrotechnics; rocket, lighthouse
self-luminous; phosphoric, phosphorescent; radiant
shade; awning; parasol, sunshade, umbrella; chick; portiere; screen, curtain, shutter, blind, gauze, veil, mantle, mask; cloud, mist, gathering
umbrage, glade; shadow
draw a curtain; put up a shutter, close a shutter; veil
shady, umbrageous
transparence, transparency; clarity; translucence, translucency; diaphaneity; lucidity, pellucidity, limpidity; fluorescence; transillumination, translumination
transparent medium, glass, crystal, lymph, vitrite, water
transparent, pellucid, lucid, diaphanous, translucent, tralucent, relucent; limpid, clear, serene, crystalline, clear as crystal, vitreous, transpicuous, glassy, hyaline; hyaloid, vitreform
opacity; opaqueness
film; cloud
obstruct the passage of light; obfuscate, offuscate
opaque, impervious to light; adiaphanous; dim; turbid, thick, muddy, opacous, obfuscated, fuliginous, cloud, hazy, misty, foggy, vaporous, nubiferous, muggy
smoky, fumid, murky, dirty
semitransparency, opalescence, milkiness, pearliness; gauze, muslin; film; mica, mother-of-pearl, nacre; mist
semitransparent, semipellucid, semidiaphanous, semiopacous, semiopaque; opalescent, opaline; pearly, milky; frosted, nacreous
color, hue, tint, tinge, dye, complexion, shade, tincture, cast, livery, coloration, glow, flush; tone, key
pure color, positive color, primary color, primitive complementary color; three primaries; spectrum, chromatic dispersion; broken color, secondary color, tertiary color
local color, coloring, keeping, tone, value, aerial perspective
chromatics, spectrum analysis, spectroscopy; chromatism, chromatography, chromatology; prism, spectroscope
pigment, coloring matter, paint, dye, wash, distemper, stain; medium; mordant; oil paint painting
color, dye, tinge, stain, tint, tinct, paint, wash, ingrain, grain, illuminate, emblazon, bedizen, imbue; paint
colorific, tingent, tinctorial; chromatic, prismatic; full-colored, high-colored, deep-colored; doubly-dyed; polychromatic; chromatogenous; tingible
bright, vivid, intense, deep; fresh, unfaded; rich, gorgeous; gay
gaudy, florid; gay, garish; rainbow-colored, multihued; showy, flaunting, flashy; raw, crude; glaring, flaring; discordant, inharmonious
mellow, pastel, harmonious, pearly, sweet, delicate, tender, refined
achromatism; decoloration, discoloration; pallor, pallidity; paleness
etiolation; neutral tint, monochrome, black and white
lose color; fade, fly, go; become colorless
turn pale, pale
deprive of color, decolorize, bleach, tarnish, achromatize, blanch, etiolate, wash out, tone down
uncolored; colorless, achromatic, aplanatic; etiolate, etiolated; hueless, pale, pallid; palefaced, tallow- faced; faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan, sallow, dead, dingy, ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster; discolored
light-colored, fair, blond; white
pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale as a corpse
albification, etiolation; lactescence
snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster; albata, eburin, German silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe, ceruse, pearl white; white lead, carbonate of lead
whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash, silver
white; milk-white, snow-white; snowy; niveous, candid, chalky; hoar, hoary; silvery; argent, argentine; canescent, cretaceous, lactescent
whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond; blanched
high in tone, light
white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as silver; like ivory
swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color; chiaroscuro
nigrification, infuscation
jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow
negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black; buck, -nigger; coon, sambo
lampblack, ivory black, blueblack; writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink, Indian ink
blacken, infuscate, denigrate; blot, blotch; smutch; smirch; darken
black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebon, atramentous, jetty; coal-black, jet-black; fuliginous, pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky, dingy, murky, Ethiopic; low-toned, low in tone; of the deepest dye
black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight; nocturnal; nigrescent; gray; obscure
neutral tint, silver, pepper and salt, chiaroscuro, grisaille
Payne's gray; black
gray, grey; iron-gray, dun, drab, dingy, leaden, livid, somber, sad, pearly, russet, roan; calcareous, limy, favillous; silver, silvery, silvered; ashen, ashy; cinereous, cineritious; grizzly, grizzled; slate- colored, stone-colored, mouse-colored, ash-colored; cool
bister, ocher, sepia, Vandyke brown
tan, embrown, bronze
brown, bay, dapple, auburn, castaneous, chestnut, nut-brown, cinnamon, russet, tawny, fuscous, chocolate, maroon, foxy, tan, brunette, whitey brown; fawn-colored, snuff-colored, liver-colored; brown as a berry, brown as mahogany, brown as the oak leaves; khaki
sun-burnt; tanned
red, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink, lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose, rose du Barry; magenta, damask, purple; flesh color, flesh tint; color; fresh color, high color; warmth; gules
ruby, carbuncle; rose; rust, iron mold
cinnabar, cochineal; fuchsine; ruddle, madder; Indian red, light red, Venetian red; red ink, annotto; annatto, realgar, minium, red lead
rubescence, rubicundity, rubification; erubescence, blush
be red, become red
blush, flush, color up, mantle, redden
redden, rouge; rubify, rubricate; incarnadine
ruddle
reddish; rufous, ruddy, florid, incarnadine, sanguine; rosy, roseate; blowzy, blowed; burnt; rubicund, rubiform; lurid, stammell blood red; russet buff, murrey, carroty, sorrel, lateritious; rubineous, rubricate, rubricose, rufulous
rose-colored, ruby-colored, cherry-colored, claret-colored, flame- colored, flesh-colored, peach-colored, salmon-colored, brick-colored, brick-colored, dust-colored
erubescent; reddened
red as fire, red as blood, red as scarlet, red as a turkey cock, red as a lobster; warm, hot; foxy
blue and yellow; vert
emerald, verd antique, verdigris, malachite, beryl, aquamarine; absinthe, crˆme de menthe
terre verte, verditer, verdine
greenness, verdure; viridity, viridescence; verditure
green, verdant; glaucous, olive; green as grass; verdurous
emerald green, pea green, grass green, apple green, sea green, olive green, bottle green
greenish; virent, virescent
gamboge; cadmium-yellow, chrome-yellow, Indian-yellow king's-yellow, lemonyellow; orpiment, yellow ocher, Claude tint, aureolin; xanthein, xanthin; zaofulvin
crocus, saffron, topaz; xanthite; yolk
jaundice; London fog; yellowness
icterus; xantho-cyanopia, xanthopsia
yellow, aureate, golden, flavous, citrine, fallow; fulvous, fulvid; sallow, luteous, tawny, creamy, sandy; xanthic, xanthous; jaundiced- auricomous
gold-colored, citron-colored, saffron-colored, lemon-colored, sulphur- colored, amber-colored, straw-colored, primrose-colored, creamcolored; xanthocarpous, xanthochroid, xanthopous
yellow as a quince, yellow as a guinea, yellow as a crow's foot
warm, advancing
blue and red, bishop's purple; aniline dyes, gridelin, amethyst; purpure; heliotrope
lividness, lividity
purple, violet, plum-colored, lavender, lilac, puce, mauve; livid
garter-blue; watchet
ultramarine, smalt, cobalt, cyanogen; Prussian blue, syenite blue; bice, indigo; zaffer
lapis lazuli, sapphire, turquoise; indicolite
blueness, bluishness; bloom
blue, azure, cerulean; sky-blue, sky-colored sky-dyed; cerulescent; bluish; atmospheric, retiring; cold
orange, red and yellow; gold; or; flame color
ocher, Mars'orange, cadmium
cardinal bird, cardinal flower, cardinal grosbeak, cardinal lobelia
gild, warm
orange; ochreous; orange-colored, gold-colored, flame-colored, copper-colored, brass-colored, apricot-colored; warm, hot, glowing
variegation; colors, dichroism, trichroism; iridescence, play of colors, polychrome, maculation, spottiness, striae
spectrum, rainbow, iris, tulip, peacock, chameleon, butterfly, tortoise shell; mackerel, mackerel sky; zebra, leopard, cheetah, nacre, ocelot, ophite, mother-of-pearl, opal, marble
check, plaid, tartan, patchwork; marquetry-, parquetry; mosaic, tesserae, strigae; chessboard, checkers, chequers; harlequin; Joseph's coat; tricolor
variegate, stripe, streak, checker, chequer; bespeckle, speckle; besprinkle, sprinkle; stipple, maculate, dot, bespot; tattoo, inlay, damascene; embroider, braid, quilt
many-colored, many-hued; divers-colored, party-colored; dichromatic, polychromatic; bicolor, tricolor, versicolor; of all the colors of the rainbow, of all manner of colors; kaleidoscopic
iridescent; opaline, opalescent; prismatic, nacreous, pearly, shot, gorge de pigeon, chatoyant; irisated, pavonine
pied, piebald; motley; mottled, marbled; pepper and salt, paned, dappled, clouded, cymophanous
mosaic, tesselated, plaid; tortoise shell
spotted, spotty; punctated, powdered; speckled
freckled, flea- bitten, studded; flecked, fleckered; striated, barred, veined; brinded, brindled; tabby; watered; grizzled; listed; embroidered
daedal; naevose, stipiform; strigose, striolate
vision, sight, optics, eyesight
view, look, espial, glance, ken, coup d'oeil; glimpse, glint, peep; gaze, stare, leer; perlustration, contemplation; conspection, conspectuity; regard, survey; introspection; reconnaissance, speculation, watch, espionage, espionnage, autopsy; ocular inspection, ocular demonstration; sight-seeing
point of view; gazebo, loophole, belvedere, watchtower
field of view; theater, amphitheater, arena, vista, horizon; commanding view, bird's eye view; periscope
visual organ, organ of vision; eye; naked eye, unassisted eye; retina, pupil, iris, cornea, white; optics, orbs; saucer eyes, goggle eyes, gooseberry eyes
short sight; clear sight, sharp sight, quick sight, eagle sight, piercing sight, penetrating sight, clear glance, sharp glance, quick glance, eagle glance, piercing glance, penetrating glance, clear eye, sharp eye, quick eye, eagle eye, piercing eye, penetrating eye; perspicacity, discernment; catopsis
eagle, hawk; cat, lynx; Argus
evil eye; basilisk, cockatrice
see, behold, discern, perceive, have in sight, descry, sight, make out, discover, distinguish, recognize, spy, espy, ken; get a sight of, have a sight of, catch a sight of, get a glimpse of, have a glimpse of, catch a glimpse of; command a view of; witness, contemplate, speculate; cast the eyes on, set the eyes on; be a spectator of; look on; see sights; see at a glance
look, view, eye; lift up the eyes, open one's eye; look at, look on, look upon, look over, look about one, look round; survey, scan, inspect; run the eye over, run the eye through; reconnoiter, glance round, glance on, glance over turn one's looks upon, bend one's looks upon; direct the eyes to, turn the eyes on, cast a glance
observe; watch; see with one's own eyes; watch for; peep, peer, pry, take a peep; play at bopeep
look full in the face, look hard at, look intently; strain one's eyes; fix the eyes upon, rivet the eyes upon; stare, gaze; pore over, gloat on; leer, ogle, glare; goggle; cock the eye, squint, gloat, look askance
visual, ocular; optic, optical; ophthalmic
eagle-eyed, hawk-eyed, lynx-eyed, keen-eyed, Argus-eyed
visibly; in sight of, with one's eyes open at sight, at first sight, at a glance, at the first blush; prima facie
blindness, cecity, excecation, amaurosis, cataract, ablepsy, prestriction; dim-sightedness; ablepsia; Braille, Braille-type; guttaserena, noctograph, teichopsia
not see; lose sight of; have the eyes bandaged; grope in the dark
not look; close the eyes, shut the eyes-, turn away the eyes, avert the eyes; look another way; wink; shut the eyes to, be blind to, wink at, blink at
blind, blindfold; hoodwink, dazzle, put one's eyes out; throw dust into one's eyes; jeter de la poudre aux yeux; screen from sight
blind; eyeless, sightless, visionless; dark; stone-blind, sand- blind, stark-blind; undiscerning; dimsighted
blind as a bat, blind as a buzzard, blind as a beetle, blind as a mole, blind as an owl; wall-eyed
blindly, blindfold; darkly
dim sight, dull sight half sight, short sight, near sight, long sight, double sight, astigmatic sight, failing sight; dimsightedness; purblindness, lippitude; myopia, presbyopia; confusion of vision; astigmatism; color blindness, chromato-pseudo-blepsis, Daltonism; nyctalopia; strabismus, strabism, squint; blearedness, day blindness, hemeralopia, nystagmus; xanthocyanopia, xanthopsia; cast in the eye, swivel eye, goggleeyes; obliquity of vision
nictitation; blinkard, albino
dizziness, swimming, scotomy; cataract; ophthalmia
blinker; screen
deceptio visus; refraction, distortion, illusion, false light, anamorphosis, virtual image, spectrum, mirage, looming, phasma; phantasm, phantasma, phantom; vision; specter, apparition, ghost; ignis fatuus specter of the Brocken magic mirror; magic lantern; mirror lens
see double; have a mote in the eye, have a mist before the eyes, have a film over the eyes; see through a prism, see through a glass darkly; wink, blink, nictitate; squint; look askant, askant askance; screw up the eyes, glare, glower; nictate
dazzle, loom
myopic, presbyopic; astigmatic moon-eyed, mope-eyed, blear-eyed, goggle-eyed, gooseberry-eyed, one-eyed; blind of one eye, monoculous; half-blind, purblind; cock-eyed, dim-eyed, mole-eyed; dichroic
blind as a bat; winking
spectator, beholder, observer, looker-on, onlooker, witness, eyewitness, bystander, passer by; sightseer; rubberneck, rubbernecker
spy; sentinel
witness, behold; look on; rubber , rubberneck
optical instruments; lens, meniscus, magnifier; microscope, megascope, tienoscope
spectacles, specs, glasses, barnacles, goggles, eyeglass, pince-nez
periscopic lens; telescope, glass, lorgnette; spyglass, opera glass, binocular, binoculars, field glass; burning glass, convex lens
mirror, reflector, speculum; looking-glass, pier-glass, cheval-glass
prism; camera lucida, camera obscura; magic lantern; stereopticon; chromatrope, thaumatrope; stereoscope, pseudoscope, polyscope, kaleidoscope
photometer, eriometer, actinometer, lucimeter, radiometer; abdominoscope, gastroscope, helioscope, polariscope, polemoscope, spectroscope
abdominoscopy; gastroscopy; microscopy, microscopist
visibility, perceptibility; conspicuousness, distinctness
conspicuity, conspicuousness; appearance; bassetting; exposure; manifestation; ocular proof, ocular evidence, ocular demonstration; field of view; periscopism
appear, open to the view; meet the eye, catch the eye; basset; present itself, show manifest itself, produce itself, discover itself, reveal itself, expose itself, betray itself; stand forth, stand out; materialize; show; arise; peep out, peer out, crop out; start up, spring up, show up, turn up, crop up; glimmer, loom; glare; burst forth; burst upon the view, burst upon the sight; heave in sight; come in sight, come into view, come out, come forth, come forward; see the light of day; break through the clouds; make its appearance, show its face, appear to one's eyes, come upon the stage, float before the eyes, speak for itself; attract the attention; reappear; live in a glass house
visible, perceptible, perceivable, discernible, apparent; in view, in full view, in sight; exposed to view, en ‚vidence; unclouded
obvious; plain, clear, distinct, definite; well defined, well marked; in focus; recognizable, palpable, autoptical; glaring, staring, conspicuous; stereoscopic; in bold, in strong relief
periscopic, panoramic
before one's eyes, under one's eyes; before one, … vue d'oeil, in one's eye, oculis subjecta fidelibus
in sight of; before one's eyes
invisibility, invisibleness, nonappearance, imperceptibility; indistinctness
mystery, delitescence
concealment; latency
be hidden; lurk; escape notice
conceal; put out of sight
not see; lose sight of
invisible, imperceptible; undiscernible, indiscernible; unapparent, non-apparent; out of sight, not in sight; … perte de vue; behind the scenes, behind the curtain; viewless, sightless; inconspicuous, unconspicuous; unseen; covert; eclipsed, under an eclipse
dim; mysterious, dark, obscure, confused; indistinct, indistinguishable; shadowy, indefinite, undefined; ill-defined, ill-marked; blurred, fuzzy, out of focus; misty; veiled; delitescent
appearance, phenomenon, sight, spectacle, show, premonstration, scene, species, view, coup d'oeil; lookout, outlook, prospect, vista, perspective, bird's-eye view, scenery, landscape, picture, tableau; display, exposure, mise en scŠne; rising of the curtain
phantasm, phantom
pageant, spectacle; peep-show, raree-show, gallanty-show; ombres chinoises; magic lantern, phantasmagoria, dissolving views; biograph, cinematograph, moving pictures; panorama, diorama, cosmorama, georama; coup de th‚ƒtre, jeu de th‚ƒtre; pageantry; insigniaaspect, angle, phase, phasis, seeming; shape; guise, look, complexion, color, image, mien, air, cast, carriage, port, demeanor; presence, expression, first blush, face of the thing; point of view, light
lineament feature trait lines; outline, outside; contour, face, countenance, physiognomy, visage, phiz
cast of countenance, profile, tournure, cut of one s jib, metoposcopy; outside
appear; be visible, become visible; seem, look, show; present the appearance of, wear the appearance of, carry the appearance of, have the appearance of, bear the appearance of, exhibit the appearance of, take the appearance of, take on the appearance of, assume the appearance, present the semblance of, wear the semblance of, carry the semblance of, have the semblance of, bear the semblance of, exhibit the semblance of, take the semblance of, take on the semblance of, assume the semblance of; look like; cut a figure, figure; present to the view; show
apparent, seeming, ostensible; on view
apparently; to all seeming, to all appearance; ostensibly, seemingly, as it seems, on the face of it, prima facie; at the first blush, at first sight; in the eyes of; to the eye
disappearance, evanescence, eclipse, occultation
departure; exit; vanishing point; dissolving views
disappear, vanish, dissolve, fade, melt away, pass, go, avaunt; be gone
leave no trace, leavego off the stage; suffer an eclipse, undergo an eclipse; retire from sight; be lost to view, pass out of sight
evanescent; missing, lost; lost to sight, lost to view; gone
intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle; rationality; cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties; faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius; brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers; wit; ability; wisdom; Vernunft, Verstand
soul, spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia mentis, divina particula aurae, heart's core; the Absolute, psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle
organ of thought, seat of thought; sensorium, sensory, brain; head, headpiece; pate, noddle, skull, scull, pericranium, cerebrum, cranium, brainpan, sconce, upper story
metaphysics; psychics, psychology; ideology; mental philosophy, moral philosophy; philosophy of the mind; pneumatology, phrenology; craniology, cranioscopy
ideality, idealism; transcendentalism, spiritualism; immateriality; universal concept, universal conception
metaphysician, psychologist
note, notice, mark; take notice of, take cognizance of be aware of, be conscious of; realize; appreciate; ruminate; fancy
intellectual, mental, rational, subjective, metaphysical, nooscopic, spiritual; ghostly; psychical, psychological; cerebral; animastic; brainy; hyperphysical, superphysical; subconscious, subliminal
immaterial; endowed with reason
absence of intellect, want of intellect; imbecility
: brutality, brute force
instinct, brute instinct
unendowed with reason, void of reason
thought; exercitation of the intellect, exercise of the intellect; intellection; reflection, cogitation, consideration, meditation, study, lucubration, speculation, deliberation, pondering; head work, brain work; cerebration; deep reflection; close study, application
abstract thought, abstraction contemplation, musing; brown study; reverie, Platonism; depth of thought, workings of the mind, thoughts, inmost thoughts; self-counsel self-communing, self- consultation; philosophy of the Absolute, philosophy of the Academy, philosophy of the Garden, philosophy of the lyceum, philosophy of the Porch
association of thought, succession of thought, flow of thought, train of thought, current of thought, association of ideas, succession of ideas, flow of ideas, train of ideas, current of ideas
after thought, mature thought; reconsideration, second thoughts; retrospection; excogitation; examination invention
think, reflect, cogitate, excogitate, consider, deliberate; bestow thought upon, bestow consideration upon; speculate, contemplate, meditate, ponder, muse, dream, ruminate; brood over, con over; animadvert, study; bend -, apply mind; digest, discuss, hammer at, weigh, perpend; realize, appreciate; fancy; trow
take into consideration; take counsel; commune with oneself, bethink oneself; collect one's thoughts; revolve in the mind, turn over in the mind, run over in the mind; chew the cud upon, sleep upon; take counsel of one's pillow, advise with one's pillow
rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, crack one's brains, beat one's brains, cudgel one's brains; set one's brain to work, set one's wits to work
harbor an idea, entertain an idea, cherish an idea, nurture an idea; take into one's head; bear in mind; reconsider
occur; present itself, suggest itself; come into one's head, get into one's head; strike one, flit across the view, come uppermost, run in one s head; enter the mind, pass in the mind, cross the mind, flash on the mind, flash across the mind, float in the mind, fasten itself on the mind, be uppermost in the mind, occupy the mind; have in one's mind
make an impression; sink into the mind, penetrate into the mind; engross the thoughts
thoughtful, pensive, meditative, reflective, museful, wistful, contemplative, speculative, deliberative, studious, sedate, introspective, Platonic, philosophical
lost in thought; deep musing
in the mind, under consideration
incogitancy, vacancy, inunderstanding; fatuity; thoughtlessness; vacuity
not think; not think of; dismiss from the mind, dismiss from the thoughts
put away thought; unbend the mind, relax the mind, divert the mind
vacant, unintellectual, unideal, unoccupied, unthinking, inconsiderate, thoughtless; absent; diverted; irrational; narrow-minded
unthought of, undreamt 'of, unconsidered; off one's mind; incogitable, not to be thought of
idea, notion, conception, thought, apprehension, impression, perception, image, <gr/eidolon/gr>, sentiment, reflection, observation, consideration; abstract idea; archetype, formative notion; guiding conception, organizing conception; image in the mind, regulative principle
view; theory; conceit, fancy; phantasy
point of view; field of view
subject of thought, material for thought; food for the mind, mental pabulum
subject, subject matter; matter, theme, <gr/noemata/gr>, topic, what it is about, thesis, text, business, affair, matter in hand, argument; motion, resolution; head, chapter; case, point; proposition, theorem; field of inquiry; moot point, problem
float in the mind, pass in the mind
thought of; uppermost in the mind; in petto
under consideration; in question, in the mind; on foot, on the carpet, on the docket, on the tapis; relative to
interest, thirst for knowledge; curiosity, curiousness; inquiring mind; inquisitiveness
sightseer, quidnunc, newsmonger, Paul Pry, eavesdropper; gossip; rubberneck
take an interest in, stare, gape; prick up the ears, see sights, lionize; pry; nose; rubberneck
curious, inquisitive, burning with curiosity, overcurious; inquiring; prying; inquisitorial; agape
incuriosity, incuriousness
insouciance; indifference
have no curiosity; take no interest in; mind one's own business
incurious, uninquisitive, indifferent; impassive; uninterested
attention; mindfulness
intentness, intentiveness; alertness; thought; advertence, advertency; observance, observation; consideration, reflection, perpension; heed; heedfulness; particularity; notice, regard
circumspection; study, scrutiny inspection, introspection; revision, revisal
active application, diligent application, exclusive application, minute application, close application, intense application, deep application, profound application, abstract application, labored application, deliberate application, active attention, diligent attention, exclusive attention, minute attention, close attention, intense attention, deep attention, profound attention, abstract attention, labored attention, deliberate attention, active thought, diligent thought, exclusive thought, minute thought, close thought, intense thought, deep thought, profound thought, abstract thought, labored thought, deliberate thought, active study, diligent study, exclusive study, minute study, close study, intense study, deep study, profound study, abstract study, labored study, deliberate study
minuteness, attention to detail
indication, calling attention to
attend, advert to, observe, look, see, view, remark, notice, regard, take notice, mark; give attention to, pay attention to, pay heed to, give heed to; incline an ear to, lend an ear to; trouble one's head about; give a thought to, animadvert to; occupy oneself with; contemplate; look at, look to, look after, look into, look over; see to; turn the mind to, bend the mind to, apply the mind to, direct the mind to, give the mind to, turn the eye to, bend the eye to, apply the eye to, direct the eye to, give the eye to, turn the attention to, bend the attention to, apply the attention to, direct the attention to, give the attention to; have an eye to, have in one's eye; bear in mind; take into account, take into consideration; keep in sight, keep in view; have regard to, heed, mind, take cognizance of entertain, recognize; make note of, take note of; note
examine cursorily; glance at, glance upon, glance over; cast the eyes over, pass the eyes over; run over, turn over the leaves, dip into, perstringe; skim; take a cursory view of
examine, examine closely, examine intently; scan, scrutinize, consider; give one's mind to, bend one's mind to; overhaul, revise, pore over; inspect, review, pass under review; take stock of; fix the eye on, rivet attention on, fix attention on, devote the eye to, fix the mind on, devote the thoughts to; hear out, think out; mind one's business
revert to; watch; hearken to, listen to; prick up the ears; have the eyes open, keep the eyes open; come to the point
meet with attention; fall under one's notice, fall under one's observation; be under consideration
catch the eye, strike the eye; attract notice; catch the attention, awaken the attention, wake the attention, invite the attention, solicit the attention, attract the attention, claim the attention excite the attention, engage the attention, occupy the attention, strike the attention, arrest the attention, fix the attention, engross the attention, absorb the attention, rivet the attention, catch the mind, awaken the mind, wake the mind, invite the mind, solicit the mind, attract the mind, claim the mind excite the mind, engage the mind, occupy the mind, strike the mind, arrest the mind, fix the mind, engross the mind, absorb the mind, rivet the mind, catch the thoughts, awaken the thoughts, wake the thoughts, invite the thoughts, solicit the thoughts, attract the thoughts, claim the thoughts excite the thoughts, engage the thoughts, occupy the thoughts, strike the thoughts, arrest the thoughts, fix the thoughts, engross the thoughts, absorb the thoughts, rivet the thoughts; be present to the mind, be uppermost in the mind
bring under one's notice; point out, point to, point at, point the finger at; lay the finger on, indigitate, indicate; direct attention to, call attention to; show; put a mark upon; call soldiers to; bring forward
attentive, mindful, observant, regardful; alive to, awake to; observing
alert, open-eyed; intent on, taken up with, occupied with, engaged in; engrossed in, wrapped in, absorbed, rapt; breathless; preoccupied; watchful
breathless, undistracted, upon the stretch; on the watch
see! look, look here, look you, look to it! mark! lo! behold! soho! hark, hark ye! mind! halloo! observe! lo and behold! attention! nota bene
I'd have you to know; notice! O yes! Oyez! dekko! ecco! yoho!
inattention, inconsideration; inconsiderateness
oversight; inadvertence, inadvertency, nonobservance, disregard
supineness; ‚tourderie, want of thought; heedlessness; insouciance
abstraction; absence of mind, absorption of mind; preoccupation, distraction, reverie, brown study, deep musing, fit of abstraction
overlook, disregard; pass by not observe; think little of
close one's eyes to, shut one's eyes to; pay no attention to; dismiss from one's thoughts, discard from one's thoughts, discharge from one's thoughts, dismiss from one's mind, discard from one's mind, discharge from one's mind; drop the subject, think no more of; set aside, turn aside, put aside; turn away from, turn one's attention from, turn a deaf ear to, turn one's back upon
abstract oneself, dream, indulge in reverie
escape notice, escape attention; come in at one ear and go out at the other; forget
call off the attention, draw off the attention, call away the attention, divert the attention, distract the mind; put out of one's head; disconcert, discompose; put out, confuse, perplex, bewilder, moider, fluster, muddle, dazzle; throw a sop to Cerberus
inattentive; unobservant, unmindful, unheeding, undiscerning; inadvertent; mindless, regardless, respectless, listless; blind, deaf; bird-witted; hand over head; cursory, percursory; giddy- brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained; unreflecting, ‚cervel‚, inconsiderate, offhand, thoughtless, dizzy, muzzy, brainsick; giddy, giddy as a goose; wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying; heedless, careless
absent, abstracted, distrait; absentminded, lost; lost in thought, wrapped in thought; rapt, in the clouds, bemused; dreaming on other things, musing on other things; preoccupied, engrossed; in a reverie
off one's guard; napping; dreamy; caught napping
disconcerted, put out
inattentively, inadvertently
per incuriam, sub silentio
stand at ease, stand easy!
care, solicitude, heed; heedfulness
vigilance, surveillance, eyes of Argus, watch, vigil, look out, watch and ward, loeil du maitre
alertness; attention; prudence, circumspection; anxiety; forethought; precaution; tidiness; accuracy; minuteness, attention to detail
reck; take care; pay attention to; take care of; look to, look after, see to, see after; keep an eye on, keep a sharp eye on; chaperon, matronize, play gooseberry; keep watch, keep watch and ward; mount guard, set watch, watch; keep in sight, keep in view; mind, mind one's business
look sharp, look about one; look with one's own eyes; keep a good lookout, keep a sharp lookout; have all one's wits about one, have all one's eyes about one; watch for; keep one's eyes open, have the eyes open, sleep with one's eye open
careful regardful, heedful; taking care
particular; prudent; considerate; thoughtful; provident; alert; sure-footed
guarded, on one's guard; on the qui vivre, on the alert, on watch, on the lookout; awake, broad awake, vigilant; watchful, wakeful, wistful; Argus-eyed; wide awake; on the watch for
tidy; accurate; scrupulous; cavendo tutus
with care, gingerly
neglect; carelessness
negligence; omission, laches, default; supineness; inattention; nonchalance; imprudence, recklessness; slovenliness; improvidence; noncompletion; inexactness
trifler, waiter on Providence; Micawber
take no care of; neglect; let slip, let go; lay aside, set aside, cst aside, put aside; keep out of sight, put out of sight; lose sight of
overlook, disregard; pass over, pas by; let pass; blink; wink at, connive at; gloss over; take no note of, take no thought of, take no account of, take no notice of; pay no regard to; laisser aller
scamp; trifle, fribble; do by halves; cut; slight; play with, trifle with; slur, skim, skim the surface; effleurer; take a cursory view of
slur over, skip over, jump over, slip over; pretermit, miss, skip, jump, omit, give the go-by to, push aside, pigeonhole, shelve, sink; ignore, shut one's eyes to, refuse to hear, turn a deaf ear to; leave out of one's calculation; not attend to, not mind; not trouble oneself about, not trouble one's head about, not trouble oneself with; forget; be caught napping; leave a loose thread; let the grass grow under one's feet
put off one's guard, throw off one's guard
unmindful, negligent, neglectful; heedless, careless, thoughtless; perfunctory, remiss
inconsiderate; uncircumspect, incircumspect; off one's guard; unwary, unwatchful, unguarded; offhand
supine; inattentive; insouciant; imprudent, reckless
slovenly; inexact; improvident
unheeded, uncared-for, unperceived, unseen, unobserved, unnoticed, unnoted, unmarked, unattended to, unthought of, unregarded, unremarked, unmissed; shunted, shelved
unexamined, unstudied, unsearched, unscanned, unweighed, unsifted, unexplored
abandoned; buried in a napkin, hid under a bushel
hand over head, anyhow; in an unguarded moment; per incuriam
never mind, no matter, let it pass
inquiry; request; search, research, quest, pursuit
examination, review, scrutiny, investigation, indagation; perquisition, perscrutation, pervestigation; inquest, inquisition; exploration; exploitation, ventilation
sifting; calculation, analysis, dissection, resolution, induction; Baconian method
strict inquiry, close inquiry, searching inquiry, exhaustive inquiry; narrow search, strict search; study
scire facias, ad referendum; trial
interrogation, interrogatory; interpellation; challenge, examination, cross-examination, catechism; feeler, Socratic method, zetetic philosophy; leading question; discussion
reconnoitering, reconnaissance; prying
espionage, espionnage; domiciliary visit, peep behind the curtain; lantern of Diogenes
question, query, problem, desideratum, point to be solved, porism; subject of inquiry, field of inquiry, subject of controversy; point in dispute, matter in dispute; moot point; issue, question at issue; bone of contention; plain question, fair question, open question; enigma; knotty point; quodlibet; threshold of an inquiry
inquirer, investigator, inquisitor, inspector, querist, examiner, catechist; scrutator scrutineer scrutinizer; analyst; quidnunc
inquire, seek, search; look for, look about for, look out for; scan, reconnoiter, explore, sound, rummage, ransack, pry, peer, look round; look over, go over, look through, go through; spy, overhaul
scratch the head, slap the forehead
look into every hole and corner, peer into every hole and corner, pry into every hole and corner; nose; trace up; hunt out, fish out, ferret out; unearth; leave no stone unturned
seek a clue, seek a clew; hunt, track, trail, mouse, dodge, trace; follow the trail, follow the scent; pursue; beat up one's quarters; fish for; feel for
investigate; take up an inquiry, institute an inquiry, pursue an inquiry, follow up an inquiry, conduct an inquiry, carry on an inquiry, prosecute an inquiry
look at, look into; preexamine; discuss, canvass, agitate
examine, study, consider, calculate; dip into, dive into, delve into, go deep into; make sure of, probe, sound, fathom; probe to the bottom, probe to the quick; scrutinize, analyze, anatomize, dissect, parse, resolve, sift, winnow; view in all its phases, try in all its phases; thresh out
bring in question, subject to examination; put to the proof; audit, tax, pass in review; take into consideration; take counsel
ask, question, demand; put the question, pop the question, propose the question, propound the question, moot the question, start the question, raise the question, stir the question, suggest the question, put forth the question, ventilate the question, grapple with the question, go into a question
put to the question, interrogate, catechize, pump; cross-question, cross-examine; dodge; require an answer; pick the brains of, suck the brains of; feel the pulse
inquisitive; requisitive, requisitory; catechetical, inquisitorial, analytic; in search of, in quest of; on the lookout for, interrogative, zetetic; all searching
undetermined, untried, undecided; in question, in dispute, in issue, in course of inquiry; under discussion, under consideration, under investigation
Sub judice, moot, proposed; doubtful
what? why? wherefore? whence? whither? where? quaere? how comes it, how happens it, how is it? what is the reason? what's the matter, what's in the wind? what on earth? when? who? nicht wahr?
answer, response, reply, replication, riposte, rejoinder, surrejoinder, rebutter, surrebutter, retort, repartee; rescript, rescription; antiphon, antiphony; acknowledgment; password; echo; counter statement
discoverya; solution; rationale; clue
Oedipus; oracle; return
answer, respond, reply, rebut, retort, rejoin; give for answer, return for answer; acknowledge, echo
explain; solve; discovera; fathom, hunt out; satisfy, set at rest, determine
responsive, respondent; conclusive
because; on the scent, on the right scent
experiment; essay; analysis; trial, tentative method, tƒtonnement
verification, probation, experimentum crucis, proof, criterion, diagnostic, test, crucial test
crucible, reagent, check, touchstone, pix; assay, ordeal; ring; curcuma paper, turmeric paper
empiricism, rule of thumb
feeler; pilot balloon, messenger balloon; pilot engine; scout; straw to show the wind
speculation, random shot, leap in the dark
analyzer, analyst; adventurer; experimenter, experimentist, experimentalist
experiment; essay; try, assay; make an experiment, make a trial of; give a trial to; put on trial, subject to trial; experiment upon; rehearse; put to the test, bring to the test, submit to the test, submit to the proof; prove, verify, test, touch, practice upon, try one's strength
grope; feel one's way, grope for one's way; fumble, tƒtonner, aller ƒ tƒtons, put out a feeler, throw out a feeler; send up a pilot balloon; see how the land lies, see how the wind blows; consult the barometer; feel the pulse; fish for, bob for; cast for, beat about for; angle, trawl, cast one's net, beat the bushes
try one's fortune; explore
experimental, empirical
probative, probatory, probationary, provisional; analytic, docimastic; tentative
under probation, on one's trial
comparison, collation, contrast; identification; comparative estimate, relative estimate
simile, similitude, analogy; allegory
compare to, compare with; collate, confront; place side by side; set against one another, pit against one another; contrast, balance
identify, draw a parallel, parallel
compare notes; institute a comparison; parva componere magnis
comparative; metaphorical
comparable; judged by comparison
relatively; as compared with
discrimination, distinction, differentiation, diagnosis, diorism; nice perception; perception of difference, appreciation of difference; estimation; nicety, refinement; taste; critique, judgment; tact; discernment; acuteness, penetration; nuances
dope, past performances
discriminate, distinguish, severalize; separate; draw the line, sift; separate the chaff from the wheat, winnow the chaff from the wheat; split hairs
estimate; know which is which, know what is what, know " a hawk from a handsaw
take into account, take into consideration; give due weight to, allow due weight to; weigh carefully
dioristic, discriminative, distinctive; nice
indiscrimination; indistinctness, indistinction; uncertainty
not discriminate; overlook a distinction: confound, confuse
indiscriminate; undistinguished, undistinguishable; unmeasured; promiscuous, undiscriminating
measurement, admeasurement, mensuration, survey, valuation, appraisement, assessment, assize; estimate, estimation; dead reckoning, reckoning; gauging
metrology, weights and measures, compound arithmetic
measure, yard measure, standard, rule, foot rule, compass, calipers; gage, gauge; meter, line, rod, check; dividers; velo
flood mark, high water mark; index
scale; graduation, graduated scale; nonius; vernier bathometer, galvanometer, heliometer, interferometer, odometer, ombrometer, pantometer, pluviometer, pneumatometer, pneumometer, radiometer, refractometer, respirometer, rheometer, spirometer, telemeter, udometer, vacuometer, variometer, viameter, thermometer, barometer, anemometer, dynamometer, goniometer meter; landmark; balance, scale; marigraph, pneumatograph, stethograph; rain gauge, rain gage
coordinates, ordinate and abscissa, polar coordinates, latitude and longitude, declination and right ascension, altitude and azimuth
geometry, stereometry, hypsometry; metage; surveying, land surveying; geodesy, geodetics, geodesia; orthometry, altimetry; cadastre
astrolabe, armillary sphere
land surveyor; geometer
measure, mete; value, assess, rate, appraise, estimate, form an estimate, set a value on; appreciate; standardize
span, pace step; apply the compass
gauge, plumb, probe, sound, fathom; heave the log, heave the lead; survey
take an average; graduate
metric, metrical
measurable, geodetical
evidence; facts, premises, data, praecognita, grounds
indication; criterion
testimony, testification; attestation; deposition; examination
admission; authority, warrant, credential, diploma, voucher, certificate, doquet, docket; testamur; record; document; piŠce justificative; deed, warranty; signature, seal; exhibit
witness, indicator; eyewitness, earwitness; deponent; sponsor; cojuror
oral evidence, documentary evidence, hearsay evidence, external evidence, extrinsic evidence, internal evidence, intrinsic evidence, circumstantial evidence, cumulative evidence, ex parte evidence, presumptive evidence, collateral evidence, constructive evidence; proof; evidence in chief
secondary evidence; confirmation, corroboration, support; ratification; authentication; compurgation, wager of law, comprobation
citation, reference
evince, show, betoken, tell of; indicate; imply, involve, argue, bespeak, breathe
have weight, carry weight; tell, speak volumes; speak for itself
rest upon, depend upon; repose on
testify, depose, witness, vouch for; sign, seal, undersign, set one's hand and seal, sign and seal, deliver as one's act and deed, certify, attest; acknowledge
make absolute, confirm, prove
indorse, countersign, corroborate, support, ratify, bear out, uphold, warrant
adduce, attest, cite, quote; refer to, appeal to; call, call to witness; bring forward, bring into court; allege, plead; produce witnesses, confront witnesses; collect evidence, bring together evidence, rake up evidence
have a case, make out a case; establish, authenticate, substantiate, verify, make good, quote chapter and verse; bring home to, bring to book
indicative, indicatory; deducible; grounded on, founded on, based on; corroborative, confirmatory
by inference; according to, witness, a fortiori; still more, still less; raison de plus; in corroboration
of; valeat quantum; under seal, under one's hand and seal
counter evidence; evidence on the other side, evidence on the other hand; conflicting evidence; disproof, refutation; negation
plea; vindication counter protest; argument; other side of the shield, other side of the coin, reverse of the shield
countervail, oppose; rebut; subvert; cheek, weaken; contravene; contradict; tell another story, turn the scale, alter the case; turn the tables; cut both ways; prove a negative
unattested, unauthenticated, unsupported by evidence; supposititious
on the contrary, per contra
qualification, limitation, modification, coloring
allowance, grains of allowance, consideration, extenuating circumstances; mitigation
condition, proviso, exception; exemption; salvo, saving clause; discount; restriction
qualify, limit, modify, leaven, give a color to, introduce new conditions, narrow, temper
allow for, make allowance for; admit exceptions, take into account; modulate
conditional; exceptional
hypothetical; contingent
provided, provided always; if, unless, but, yet; according as; conditionally, admitting, supposing; on the supposition of; with the understanding, even, although, though, for all that, after all, at all events
with grains of allowance, cum grano salis; exceptis excipiendis; wind and weather permitting; if possible
subject to; with this proviso
possibility, potentiality; what may be, what is possible
practicability, feasibility; practicableness
contingency, chance
stand a chance; admit of, bear
possible; in the cards, on the dice; in posse, within the bounds of possibility, conceivable, credible; compatible; likely
practicable, feasible, performable, achievable; within reach, within measurable distance; accessible, superable, surmountable; attainable, obtainable; contingent
possibly, by possibility; perhaps, perchance, peradventure; maybe, may be, haply, mayhap
if possible, wind and weather permitting, God willing, Deo volente, D
as luck may have it
what cannot, what can never be; sour grapes; hopelessness
attempt impossibilities; square the circle, wash a blackamoor white; skin a flint; make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, make bricks without straw; have nothing to go upon; weave a rope of sand, build castles in the air, prendre la lune avec les dents, extract sunbeams from cucumbers, set the Thames on fire, milk a he-goat into a sieve, catch a weasel asleep, rompre l'anguille au genou, be in two places at once
impossible; not possible; absurd, contrary to reason; unlikely; unreasonable; incredible; beyond the bounds of reason, beyond the bounds of possibility, beyond the realm of possibility; from which reason recoils; visionary; inconceivable; prodigious; unimaginable, inimaginable; unthinkable
impracticable unachievable; unfeasible, infeasible; insuperable; unsurmountable, insurmountable; unattainable, unobtainable; out of reach, out of the question; not to be had, not to be thought of; beyond control; desperate; incompatible; inaccessible, uncomeatable, impassable, impervious, innavigable, inextricable; self- contradictory
out of one's power, beyond one's power, beyond one's depth, beyond one's reach, beyond one's grasp; too much for; ultra crepidam
probability, likelihood; credibleness; likeliness
vraisemblance, verisimilitude, plausibility; color, semblance, show of; presumption; presumptive evidence, circumstantial evidence; credibility
reasonable chance, fair chance, good chance, favorable chance, reasonable prospect, fair prospect, good prospect, favorable prospect; prospect, wellgrounded hope; chance
give color to, lend color to; point to; imply; bid fair; stand fair for; stand a good chance, run a good chance
think likely, dare say, flatter oneself; expect; count upon
probable, likely, hopeful, to be expected, in a fair way
plausible, specious, ostensible, colorable, ben trovato, well-founded, reasonable, credible, easy of belief, presumable, presumptive, apparent
belike; in all probability, in all likelihood; very likely, most likely; like enough; ten to one; apparently, seemingly, according to every reasonable expectation; primƒ facie; to all appearance
improbability, unlikelihood; unfavorable chance, bad chance, ghost of a chance, little chance, small chance, poor chance, scarcely any chance, no chance; bare possibility; long odds; incredibility
improbable, unlikely, contrary to all reasonable expectation
rare; unheard of, inconceivable; unimaginable, inimaginable; incredible; more than doubtful
certainty; necessity; certitude, surety, assurance; dead certainty, moral certainty; infallibleness
infallibility, reliability; indubitableness, inevitableness, unquestionableness
gospel, scripture, church, pope, court of final appeal; res judicata, ultimatum positiveness; dogmatism, dogmatist, dogmatizer; doctrinaire, bigot, opinionist, Sir Oracle; ipse dixit
fact; positive fact, matter of fact; fait accompli
insure, ensure, assure; clinch, make sure; determine, decide, set at rest, know
dogmatize, lay down the law
certain, sure, assured
solid, well-founded
unqualified, absolute, positive, determinate, definite, clear, unequivocal, categorical, unmistakable, decisive, decided, ascertained
inevitable, unavoidable, avoidless; ineluctable
unerring, infallible; unchangeable; to be depended on, trustworthy, reliable, bound
unimpeachable, undeniable, unquestionable; indisputable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indubitable; irrefutable; conclusive, without power of appeal
indubious; without doubt, beyond a doubt, without a shade or shadow of doubt, without question, beyond question; past dispute; clear as day; beyond all question, beyond all dispute; undoubted, uncontested, unquestioned, undisputed; questionless, doubtless
authoritative, authentic, official
sure as fate, sure as death and taxes, sure as a gun
evident, self-evident, axiomatic; clear, clear as day, clear as the sun at noonday
for certain, certes, sure, no doubt, doubtless, and no mistake, flagrante delicto, sure enough, to be sure, of course, as a matter of course, a coup sur, to a certainty; in truth; at any rate, at all events; without fail; coute que coute, coute qu'il coute; whatever may happen, if the worst come to the worst; come what may, happen what may, come what will; sink or swim; rain or shine
uncertainty, incertitude, doubt; doubtfulness
dubiety, dubitation, dubitancy, dubitousness
hesitation, suspense; perplexity, embarrassment, dilemma, bewilderment; timidity; vacillation; diaporesis, indetermination
haze, fog; obscurity; ambiguity; contingency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility; open question; onus probandi; blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other; needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay; roving commission
lose the clue, lose the clew, scent; miss one's way
not know what to make of, not know which way to turn, not know whether one stands on one s head or one's heels; float in a sea of doubt, hesitate, flounder; lose oneself, lose one's head; muddle one's brains
put out, pose, puzzle, perplex, embarrass; confuse, confound; bewilder, bother, molder, addle the wits, throw off the scent, ambiguas in vulgus spargere voces; keep in suspense
doubt; hang in the balance, tremble in the balance; depend
uncertain; casual; random; changeable
doubtful, dubious; indecisive; unsettled, undecided, undetermined; in suspense, open to discussion; controvertible; in question
vague; indeterminate, indefinite; ambiguous, equivocal; undefined, undefinable; confused; mystic, oracular; dazed
enigmatic, paradoxical, apocryphal, problematical, hypothetical; experimental
fallible, questionable, precarious, slippery, ticklish, debatable, disputable; unreliable, untrustworthy
contingent, contingent on, dependent on; subject to; dependent on circumstances; occasional; provisional
unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative; unascertained, unconfirmed; undemonstrated; untold, uncounted
in a state of uncertainty, in a cloud, in a maze; bushed, off the track; ignorant
afraid to say; out of one's reckoning, astray, adrift; at sea, at fault, at a loss, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus; puzzled
lost, abroad, d‚sorient‚; distracted, distraught
pendente lite; sub spe rati
reasoning ratiocination rationalism; dialectics, induction, generalization
discussion, comment; ventilation; inquiry
argumentation, controversy, debate; polemics, wrangling; contention logomachy; disputation, disceptation; paper war
art of reasoning, logic
process of reasoning, train of reasoning, chain of reasoning; deduction, induction; synthesis, analysis
argument; case, plaidoyer, opening; lemma, proposition, terms, premises, postulate, data, starting point, principle; inference
prosyllogism, syllogism; enthymeme, sorites, dilemma, perilepsis, a priori reasoning, reductio ad absurdum, horns of a dilemma, argumentum ad hominem, comprehensive argument; empirema, epagoge
reasoner, logician, dialectician; disputant; controversialist, controvertist; wrangler, arguer, debater polemic, casuist, rationalist; scientist; eristic
logical sequence; good case; correct just reasoning, sound reasoning, valid reasoning, cogent reasoning, logical reasoning, forcible reasoning, persuasive reasoning, persuasory reasoning, consectary reasoning, conclusive; subtle reasoning; force of argument, strong point, strong argument
arguments, reasons, pros and cons
reason, argue, discuss, debate, dispute, wrangle- argufy, bandy words, bandy arguments; chop logic; hold an argument, carry on an argument; controvert; canvass; comment upon, moralize upon; spiritualize; consider
open a discussion, open a case; try conclusions; join issue, be at issue; moot; come to the point; stir a question, agitate a question, ventilate a question, torture a question; take up a side, take up a case
contend, take one's stand upon, insist, lay stress on; infer
rationalistic; argumentative, controversial, dialectic, polemical; discursory, discursive; disputatious; Aristotelian, eristic, eristical
debatable, controvertible
logical; relevant
for, because, hence, whence, seeing that, since, sith, then thence so; for that reason, for this reason, for which reason; for as, inasmuch as; whereas, ex concesso, considering, in consideration of; therefore, wherefore; consequently, ergo, thus, accordingly; a fortiori
in conclusion, in fine; finally, after all, au bout du compt, on the whole, taking one thing with another
intuition, instinct, association; presentiment; rule of thumb
sophistry, paralogy, perversion, casuistry, jesuitry, equivocation, evasion; chicane, chicanery; quiddet, quiddity; mystification; special pleading; speciousness
nonsense; word-fence, tongue- fence
false reasoning, vicious reasoning; petitio principii, ignoratio elenchi; post hoc ergo propter hoc; non sequitur, ignotum per ignotius
misjudgment; false teaching
sophism, solecism, paralogism; quibble, quirk, elenchus, elench, fallacy, quod-libet, subterfuge, subtlety, quillet; inconsistency, antilogy; claptrap, mere words
meshes of sophistry, cobwebs of sophistry; flaw in an argument; weak point, bad case
overrefinement; hairsplitting
judge intuitively, judge by intuition; hazard a proposition, hazard a guess, talk at random
reason ill, reason falsely
misjudge; paralogize
pervert, quibble; equivocate, mystify, evade, elude; gloss over, varnish; misteach; mislead
cavil, refine, subtilie, split airs; misrepresent
beg the question, reason in a circle, cut blocks with a razor, beat about the bush, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold, prove that black is white and white black, travel out of the record, parler d tort et a travers, put oneself out of court, not have a leg to stand on
intuitive, instinctive, impulsive; independent of reason, anterior to reason; gratuitous, hazarded; unconnected
unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid; unwarranted, not following; inconsequent, inconsequential; inconsistent; absonous, absonant; unscientific; untenable, inconclusive, incorrect; fallacious, fallible; groundless, unproved
deceptive, sophistical jesuitical; illusive, illusory; specious, hollow, plausible, ad captandum
evasive; irrelevant
weak, feeble, poor, flimsy, loose, vague, irrational; nonsensical; foolish; frivolous, pettifogging, quibbling; finespun, overrefined
at the end of one's tether, au bout de son latin
by intuition; illogically
demonstration, proof; conclusiveness
apodeixis, apodixis, probation, comprobation
logic of facts; experimentum crucis; argument; rigorous establishment, absolute establishment
demonstrate, prove, establish; make good; show, evince, manifest; verify settle the question, reduce to demonstration, set the question at rest
make out, make out a case; prove one's point, have the best of the argument; draw a conclusion
follow, follow of course; stand to reason; hold good, hold water
demonstrative, demonstrable; probative, unanswerable, conclusive; apodeictic, apodeictical; irresistible, irrefutable, irrefragable
categorical, decisive, crucial
proven; unconfuted, unanswered, unrefuted; evident
deducible, consequential, consectary, inferential, following
of course, in consequence, consequently, as a matter of course
confutation, refutation; answer, complete answer; disproof, conviction, redargution, invalidation; exposure, exposition; clincher; retort; reductio ad absurdum; knock down argument, tu quoque argument; sockdolager
confute, refute, disprove; parry, negative, rebut, redargue, expose, show the fallacy of, defeat; demolish, break; overthrow, overturn scatter to the winds, explode, invalidate; silence; put to silence, reduce to silence; clinch an argument, clinch a question; give one a setdown, stop the mouth, shut up; have, have on the hip
not leave a leg to stand on, cut the ground from under one's feet
be confuted; fail; expose one's weak point, show one's weak point
confuting, confuted
capable of refutation; refutable, confutable
condemned on one's own showing, condemned out of one's own mouth
result, conclusion, upshot; deduction, inference, ergotism, illation; corollary, porism; moral
estimation, valuation, appreciation, judication; dijudication, adjudication; arbitrament, arbitrement, arbitration; assessment, ponderation; valorization
award, estimate; review, criticism, critique, notice, report
decision, determination, judgment, finding, verdict, sentence, decree; res judicata
plebiscite, voice, casting vote; vote; opinion; good judgment
judge, umpire; arbiter, arbitrator; assessor, referee; censor, reviewer, critic; connoisseur; commentator; inspector, inspecting officer
judge, conclude; come to a conclusion, draw a conclusion, arrive at a conclusion; ascertain, determine, make up one's mind
deduce, derive, gather, collect, draw an inference, make a deduction, weet, ween
form an estimate, estimate, appreciate, value, count, assess, rate, rank, account; regard, consider, think of; look upon; review; size up
settle; pass an opinion, give an opinion; decide, try, pronounce rule; pass judgment, pass sentence; sentence
doom; find; give judgment, deliver judgment; adjudge, adjudicate; arbitrate, award, report; bring in a verdict; make absolute, set a question at rest; confirm
comment, criticize; pass under review; investigate
hold the scales, sit in judgment; try a cause, hear a cause
judicious; determinate, conclusive
on the whole, all things considered
discovery, detection, disenchantment; ascertainment, disclosure, find, revelation
discover, find, determine, evolve; fix upon; find out, trace out, make out, hunt out, fish out, worm out, ferret out, root out; fathom; bring out, draw out; educe, elicit, bring to light; dig up, grub up, fish up; unearth, disinter
solve, resolve; unriddle, unravel, unlock; pick the lock, open the lock; find a clue, find a clew to; interpret; disclose
trace, get at; hit it, have it; lay one's finger upon, lay one's hands upon; spot; get at the truth, arrive at the truth; put the saddle on the right horse, hit the right nail an the head, hit the nail an the head
be near the truth, burn; smoke, seent, sniff, smell a rat
open the eyes to; see through, see daylight, see in its true colors, see the cloven foot; detect; catch, catch tripping
pitch upon, fall upon, light upon, hit upon, stumble upon, pop upon; come across; meet with, fall in with
recognize, realize, verify, make certain of, identify
misjudgment, obliquity of judgment; miscalculation, miscomputation, misconception; hasty conclusion
prejudgment, prejudication, prejudice; foregone conclusion; prenotion, prevention, preconception, predilection, prepossession, preapprehension, presumption, presentiment; fixed idea, preconceived idea; id‚e fixe; mentis gratissimus error; fool's paradise
esprit de corps, party spirit, partisanship, clannishness, prestige
bias, warp, twist; hobby, fad, quirk, crotchet, partiality, infatuation, blind side, mote in the eye
one-sided views, partial views, narrow views, confined views, superficial views, one-sided ideas, partial ideas, narrow ideas, confined ideas, superficial ideas, one-sided conceptions, partial conceptions, narrow conceptions, confined conceptions, superficial conceptions, one-sided notions, partial notions, narrow notions, confined notions, superficial notions; narrow mind; bigotry; odium theologicum; pedantry; hypercriticism
misjudge, misestimate, misthink, misconjecture, misconceive; fly in the face of facts; miscalculate, misreckon, miscompute
overestimate; underestimate
prejudge, forejudge; presuppose, presume, prejudicate; dogmatize; have a bias
have only one idea; jurare in verba magistri, run away with the notion; jump to a conclusion, rush to a conclusion; look only at one side of the shield; view with jaundiced eye, view through distorting spectacles; not see beyond one's nose; dare pondus fumo; get the wrong sow by the ear
give a bias, give a twist; bias, warp, twist; prejudice, prepossess
ill-judging, wrong-headed; prejudiced
jaundiced; shortsighted, purblind; partial, one-sided, superficial
narrow-minded, narrow-souled; mean-spirited; confined, illiberal, intolerant, besotted, infatuated, fanatical, entgtg, positive, dogmatic, conceited; opinative, opiniative; opinioned, opinionate, opinionative, opinionated; self-opinioned, wedded to an opinion, opiniƒtre; bigoted; crotchety, fussy, impracticable; unreasonable, stupid; credulous; warped
exaggeration; vanity; optimism, pessimism, pessimist
much cry and little wool, much ado about nothing; storm in a teacup; fine talking
overestimate, overrate, overvalue, overprize, overweigh, overreckon, overstrain, overpraise; eulogize; estimate too highly, attach too much importance to, make mountains of molellills, catch at straws; strain, magnify; exaggerate; set too high a value upon; think much of, make much of, think too much of, make too much of; outreckon; panegyrize
extol, extol to the skies; make the most of, make the best of, make the worst of; make two bites of a cherry
underestimation; depreciation; pessimism, pessimist; undervaluing
underrate, underestimate, undervalue, underreckon; depreciate; disparage; not do justice to; misprize, disprize; ridicule; slight; neglect; slur over
make light of, make little of, make nothing of, make no account of; belittle; minimize, think nothing of; set no store by, set at naught; shake off as dewdrops from the lion's mane
depreciating, depreciated
unvalued, unprized
belief; credence; credit; assurance; faith, trust, troth, confidence, presumption, sanguine expectation; dependence on, reliance on
persuasion, conviction, convincement, plerophory, self-conviction; certainty; opinion, mind, view; conception, thinking; impression; surmise; conclusion
tenet, dogma, principle, way of thinking; popular belief
firm belief, implicit belief, settled belief, fixed rooted deep-rooted belief, staunch belief, unshaken belief, steadfast belief, inveterate belief, calm belief, sober belief, dispassionate belief, impartial belief, well-founded belief, firm opinion, implicit opinion, settled opinion, fixed rooted deep-rooted opinion, staunch opinion, unshaken opinion, steadfast opinion, inveterate opinion, calm opinion, sober opinion, dispassionate opinion, impartial opinion, well-founded opinion; uberrima fides
system of opinions, school, doctrine, articles, canons; article of faith, declaration of faith, profession of faith; tenets, credenda, creed; thirty-nine articles a; catechism; assent; propaganda
believe, credit; give faith to, give credit to, credence to; see, realize; assume, receive; set down for, take for; have it, take it; consider, esteem, presume
unbelief, disbelief, misbelief; discredit, miscreance; infidelity; dissent; change of opinion; retractation
doubt; skepticism, misgiving, demure; distrust, mistrust; misdoubt, suspicion, jealousy, scruple, qualm; onus probandi
incredibility, incredibleness; incredulity
disbelieve, discredit; not believe; misbelieve; refuse to admit; refuse to believe
doubt; be doubtful
doubt the truth of; be skeptical as to
diffide; distrust, mistrust; suspect, smoke, scent, smell a rat; have doubts, harbor doubts, entertain doubts, suspicions; have one's doubts
demure, stick at, pause, hesitate, scruple; stop to consider, waver
hang in suspense, hang in doubt
throw doubt upon, raise a question; bring in, call in question; question, challenge, dispute; deny; cavil; cause a doubt, raise a doubt, start a doubt, suggest a doubt, awake a doubt, make suspicion; ergotize
startle, stagger; shake one's faith, shake one's belief, stagger one's faith, stagger one's belief
unbelieving; incredulous as to, skeptical as to; distrustful as to, shy as to, suspicious of; doubting
doubtful; disputable; unworthy of, undeserving of belief; questionable; suspect, suspicious; open to suspicion, open to doubt; staggering, hard to believe, incredible, not to be believed, inconceivable
fallible; undemonstrable; controvertible
cum grano salis; with grains of allowance
credulity, credulousness
gullible, cullibility; gross credulity, infatuation; self delusion, self deception; superstition; one's blind side; bigotry; hyperorthodoxy; misjudgment
jurare in verba magistri; follow implicitly; swallow, gulp down; take on trust; take for granted, take for gospel; run away with a notion, run away with an idea; jump to a conclusion, rush to a conclusion; think the moon is made of green cheese; take for granted, grasp the shadow for the substance; catch at straws
credulous, gullible; easily deceived; simple, green, soft, childish, silly, stupid; easily convinced; over-credulous, over confident, over trustful; infatuated, superstitious; confiding
incredulousness, incredulity; skepticism, pyrrhonism!; want of faith
scrupulosity; suspicion
unbeliever, skeptic; misbeliever
pyrrhonist; heretic
distrust; refuse to believe; shut one's eyes to, shut one's ears to; turn a deaf ear to; hold aloof, ignore, nullis jurare in verba magistri
incredulous, skeptical, unbelieving, inconvincible; hard of belief, shy of belief, disposed to doubt, indisposed to believe; suspicious, scrupulous, distrustful
The word miscreant, which originally meant simply misbeliever, has now quite another meaningSee Trench, On the Study of Words, p
assent, assentment; acquiescence, admission; nod; accord, concord, concordance; agreement; affirmance, affirmation; recognition, acknowledgment, avowal; confession of faith
unanimity, common consent, consensus, acclamation, chorus, vox populi; popular belief, current belief, current opinion; public opinion; concurrence; cooperation
ratification, confirmation, corroboration, approval, acceptance, visa; indorsement
assent; give assent, yield assent, nod assent; acquiesce; agree; receive, accept, accede, accord, concur, lend oneself to, consent, coincide, reciprocate, go with; be at one with
go along with, chime in with, strike in with, close in with; echo, enter into one's views, agree in opinion; vote, give one's voice for; recognize; subscribe to, conform to, defer to; say yes to, say ditto, amen to, say aye to
acknowledge, own, admit, allow, avow, confess; concede; come round to; abide by; permit
arrive at an understanding, come to an understanding, come to terms, come to an agreement
confirm, affirm; ratify, approve, indorse, countersign; corroborate
go with the stream, swim with the stream; be in fashion, join in the chorus; be in every mouth
assenting v; of one accord, of one mind; of the same mind, at one with, agreed, acquiescent, content; willing
uncontradicted, unchallenged, unquestioned, uncontroverted
carried, agreed nem
unanimous; agreed on all hands, carried by acclamation
yes, yea, ay, aye, true; good; well; very well, very true; well and good; granted; even so, just so; to be sure; truly, exactly, precisely, that's just it, indeed, certainly, certes!, ex concesso; of course, unquestionably, assuredly, no doubt, doubtless
be it so; so be it, so let it be; amen; willingly
affirmatively, in the affirmative
with one consent, with one voice, with one accord; unanimously, una voce, by comon consent, in chorus, to a man, nem
nemine contradicente, nemine dissentiente; without a dissentient voice; as one man, one and all, on all hands
dissent; discordance; difference diversity of opinion
nonconformity; protestantism, recusancy, schism; disaffection; secession; recantation
dissension; discontent; cavilling
protest; contradiction; noncompliance
dissentient, dissenter; non-juror, non-content, nonconformist; sectary, separatist, recusant, schismatic, protestant, heretic
dissent, demur; call in question; differ in opinion, disagree; say no; refuse assent, refuse to admit; cavil, protest, raise one's voice against, repudiate; contradict
have no notion of, differ toto caelo; revolt at, revolt from the idea
shake the head, shrug the shoulders; look askance, look askant
secede; recant
dissenting v; negative; dissident, disentient; unconsenting; non-content, nonjuring; protestant, recusant; unconvinced, unconverted
unavowed, unacknowledged; out of the question
discontented; unwilling; extorted
sectarian, denominational, schismatic; heterodox; intolerant
no; at variance, at issue with; under protest
God forbid! not for the world; I'll be hanged if; never tell me; your humble servant, pardon me
knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence; acquaintance, experience, ken, privity, insight, familiarity; comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation; intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition; acroamatics!
light, enlightenment; glimpse, inkling; glimmer, glimmering; dawn; scent, suspicion; impression; discoverya
system of knowledge, body of knowledge; science, philosophy, pansophy; acroama!; theory, aetiology; circle of the sciences; pandect, doctrine, body of doctrine; cyclopedia, encyclopedia; school
tree of knowledge; republic of letters
erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters; literature; book madness; book learning, bookishness; bibliomania, bibliolatry; information, general information; store of knowledge; education; culture, menticulture, attainments; acquirements, acquisitions; accomplishments; proficiency; practical knowledge; liberal education; dilettantism; rudiments
deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate knowledge, acroatic knowledge, acroamatic knowledge, vast knowledge, extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learning; omniscience, pantology
march of intellect; progress of science, advance of science, advance of learning; schoolmaster abroad
know, ken, scan, wot; wot aware, be aware
- of; ween, weet, trow, have, possess
conceive; apprehend, comprehend; take, realize, understand, savvy, appreciate; fathom, make out; recognize, discern, perceive, see, get a sight-of, experience
know full well; have some knowledge of, possess some knowledge of; be au courant
have in one's head, have at one' fingers ends; know by heart, know by rote; be master of; connaitre le dessous des cartes, know what's what
see one's way; discovera
cognitive; acroamatic
aware of, cognizant of, conscious of; acquainted with, made acquainted with; privy to, no stranger to; au -fait, au courant; in the secret; up to, alive to; behind the scenes, behind the curtain; let into; apprized of, informed of; undeceived
proficient with, versed with, read with, forward with, strong with, at home in; conversant with, familiar with
erudite, instructed, leaned, lettered, educated; well conned, well informed, well read, well grounded, well educated; enlightened, shrewd, savant, blue, bookish, scholastic, solid, profound, deep-read, book- learned; accomplished; omniscient; self-taught
ascertained, well-known, recognized, received, notorious, noted; proverbial; familiar, familiar as household words, familiar to every schoolboy; hackneyed, trite, commonplace
cognoscible, cognizable
to one's knowledge, to the best of one's knowledge
ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa, crass ignorance, ignorance crasse; unacquaintance; unconsciousness
darkness, blindness; incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity
unknown quantities, x, y, z
sealed book, terra incognita, virgin soil, unexplored ground; dark ages
smattering, sciolism, glimmering; bewilderment; incapacity
pedantry; charlatanry, charlatism; Philister, Philistine
not know; know not, know not what, know nothing of; have no idea, have no notion, have no conception; not have the remotest idea; not know chalk from cheese
ignore, be blind to; keep in ignorance
see through a glass darkly; have a film over the eyes, -glimmering
wonder whether; not know what to make of; not pretend to take upon, not take upon one self to say
ignorant; nescient; unknowing, unaware, unacquainted, unapprized, unwitting, unweeting, unconscious; witless, weetless; a stranger to; unconversant
uninformed, uncultivated, unversed, uninstructed, untaught, uninitiated, untutored, unschooled, misguided, unenlightened; Philistine; behind the age
shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate; unread, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish; empty-headed; pedantic
in the dark; benighted, belated; blinded, blindfolded; hoodwinked; misinformed; au bout de son latin, at the end of his tether, at fault; at sea; caught tripping
unknown, unapprehended, unexplained, unascertained, uninvestigated, unexplored, unheard of, not perceived; concealed; novel
unawares; for anything, for aught one knows; not that one knows
God knows, Heaven knows, the Lord knows, nobody knows
scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman, professor, graduate, wrangler; academician, academist; master of arts, doctor, licentiate, gownsman; philosopher, master of math; scientist, clerk; sophist, sophister; linguist; glossolinguist, philologist; philologer; lexicographer, glossographer; grammarian; litterateur, literati, dilettanti, illuminati; fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi, Sanskritist; sinologist, sinologue; Mezzofanti, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas
bookworm, helluo librorum; bibliophile, bibliomaniac; bluestocking, bas-bleu; bigwig, learned Theban, don; Artium Baccalaureus, Artium Magister
learned man, literary man; homo multarum literarum; man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius
antiquarian, antiquary; archaeologist
pedant, doctrinaire; pedagogue, Dr
Pangloss; pantologist, criminologist
learned; brought up at the feet of Gamaliel
ignoramus, dunce; wooden spoon; no scholar
sciolist, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar; charlatan; wiseacre
greenhorn; novice, tyro; numskull
lubber; fool; pedant
bookless, shallow; ignorant
fact, reality; plain matter of fact; nature; truth, verity; gospel; orthodoxya; authenticity; veracity; correctitude
accuracy, exactitude; exactness, preciseness
precision, delicacy; rigor, mathematical precision, punctuality; clockwork precision; conformity to rule; nicety
orthology; ipsissima verba; realism
plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth, unalloyed truth, unqualified truth, stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic truth; nuda veritas; the very thing; not an -illusion; real Simon Pure; unvarnished tale; the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth; just the thing
be the case; sand the test; have the true ring; hold good, hold true, hold water
render true, prove true
real, actual; veritable, true; right, correct; certain; substantially true, categorically true; true to the letter, true as gospel; unimpeachable; veracious; unreconfuted, unconfuted; unideal, unimagined; realistic
exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just; strict, severe; close; literal; rigid, rigorous; scrupulous; religiously exact, punctual, mathematical, scientific; faithful, constant, unerring; curious, particular, nice, delicate, fine; clean-cut, clear-cut
genuine, authentic, legitimate; orthodoxa; official, ex officio
pure, natural, sound, sterling; unsophisticated, unadulterated, unvarnished, uncolored; in its true colors; pukka
well-grounded, well founded; solid, substantial, tangible, valid; undistorted, undisguised; unaffected, unexaggerated, unromantic, unflattering
verily, indeed, in reality; with truth; certainly; actually; in effect
ad amussim; verbatim, verbatim et literatim; word for word, literally, literatim, totidem vervis, sic, to the letter, chapter and verse, ipsissimis verbis; ad unguem; to an inch; to a nicety, to a hair, to a tittle, to a turn, to a T; au pied de la lettre; neither more nor less; in every respect, in all respects; sous tous les rapports; at any rate, at all events; strictly speaking
error, fallacy; misconception, misapprehension, misstanding, misunderstanding; inexactness
laxity; misconstruction; miscomputation; non sequitur; mis-statement, mis-report; mumpsimus
mistake; miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight, misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread; trip, stumble; botchery; slip of the tongue, slip of the pen; lapsus linguae, clerical error; bull; haplography
illusion, delusion; false impression, false idea; bubble; self-decit, self-deception; mists of error
heresy; hallucination; false light; dream; fable; bias; misleading
cause error; mislead, misguide; lead astray, lead into error; beguile, misinform; delude; give a false impression, give a false idea; falsify, misstate; deceive; lie
err; be -in error
be mistaken
be deceived; mistake, receive a false impression, deceive oneself; fall into error, lie under error, labor under an error
be in the wrong, blunder; misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand, misreckon, miscount, miscalculate
play at cross purposes, be at cross purposes
trip, stumble; lose oneself; go astray; fail; be in the wrong box; take the wrong sow by the ear; put the saddle on the wrong horse; reckon without one's host; take the shadow for the substance; dream
erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious, apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless; unsubstantial; heretical; unsound; illogical
inexact, unexact inaccurate, incorrect; indefinite
illusive, illusory; delusive; mock, ideal; spurious; deceitful; perverted
controvertible, unsustainable; unauthenticated, untrustworthy
exploded, refuted; discarded
in error, under an error
out, out in one's reckoning; aberrant; beside the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the truth; astray; on a false scent, on the wrong scent; in the wrong box; at cross purposes, all in the wrong; all out
maxim, aphorism; apothegm, apophthegm; dictum, saying, adage, saw, proverb; sentence, mot, motto, word, byword, moral, phylactery, protasis
axiom, theorem, scholium, truism, postulate
reflection; conclusion; golden rule; principle, principia; profession of faith; settled principle, formula
wise maxim, sage maxim, received maxim, admitted maxim, recognized maxim; true saying, common saying, hackneyed saying, trite saying, commonplace saying
aphoristic, proverbial, phylacteric; axiomatic, gnomic
as the saying is, as they say
absurdity, absurdness
imbecility; alogy, nonsense; paradox, inconsistency; stultiloquy, stultiloquence; nugacity
blunder, muddle, bull; Irishism!, Hibernicism!; slipslop; anticlimax, bathos; sophism
farce, galimathias, amphigouri, rhapsody; farrago; betise; extravagance, romance; sciamachy
sell, pun, verbal quibble, macaronic
jargon, fustian, twaddle; exaggeration; moonshine, stuff; mare's nest, quibble, self-delusion
vagary, tomfoolery, mummery, monkey trick, boutade, escapade
play the fool; talk nonsense, parler a tort et a travess; battre la campagne; <gr/ hanemolia bazein/gr>; be absurd
absurd, nonsensical, preposterous, egregious, senseless, inconsistent, ridiculous, extravagant, quibbling; self-annulling, self- contradictory; macaronic, punning
foolish; sophistical; unmeaning; without rhyme or reason; fantastic
intelligence, capacity, comprehension, understanding; cuteness, sabe , savvy ; intellect; nous, parts, sagacity, mother wit, wit, esprit, gumption, quick parts, grasp of intellect; acuteness
acumen, subtlety, penetration, perspicacy, perspicacity; discernment, due sense of, good judgment; discrimination; cunning; refinement
head, brains, headpiece, upper story, long head; eagle eye, eagle- glance; eye of a lynx, eye of a hawk
wisdom, sapience, sense; good sense, common sense, horse sense, plain sense; rationality, reason; reasonableness adj; judgment; solidity, depth, profundity, caliber; enlarged views; reach of thought, compass of thought; enlargement of mind
genius, inspiration, geist, fire of genius, heaven-born genius, soul; talent
prudence; vigilance; tact; foresight; sobriety, self-possession, aplomb, ballast
a bright thought, not a bad idea
have all one's wits about one; understand; catch an idea, take in an idea; take a joke, take a hint
see through, see at a glance, see with half an eye, see far into, see through a millstone; penetrate; discern; foresee
discriminate; know what's what; listen to reason
intelligent, quick of apprehension, keen, acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen witted, clear witted, sharp- eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake; canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted; discerning, perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute; nimble-witted, needle- witted; sharp as a needle; alive to; clever; arch; pas si bete; acute
wise, sage, sapient, sagacious, reasonable, rational, sound, in one's right mind, sensible, abnormis sapiens, judicious, strong-minded
unprejudiced, unbiased, unbigoted, unprepossessed; undazzled, unperplexed; unwarped judgment, impartial, equitable, fair
cool; cool-headed, long-headed, hardheaded, strong-headed; long- sighted, calculating, thoughtful, reflecting; solid, deep, profound
oracular; heaven-directed, heaven-born
prudent; sober, stand, solid; considerate, politic, wise in one's generation; watchful; provident; in advance of one' age; wise as a serpent, wise as Solomon, wise as Solon
wise, sensible, reasonable, judicious; well- judged, well-advised; prudent, politic; expedient
want of -intelligence, want of - intellect; shadowness, silliness, foolishness
imbecility, incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, clouded perception, poor head, apartments to let; stupidity, stolidity; hebetude, dull understanding, meanest capacity, shortsightedness; incompetence
one's weak side; bias; infatuation
simplicity, puerility, babyhood; dotage, anility, second childishness, fatuity; idiocy, idiotism; driveling
folly, frivolity, irrationality, trifling, ineptitude, nugacity, inconsistency, lip wisdom, conceit; sophistry; giddiness; eccentricity; extravagance; rashness
have no -brains, have no sense
trifle, drivel, radoter, dote; ramble; play the fool, play the monkey; take leave of one's senses; not see an inch beyond one's nose; stultify oneself; talk nonsense
unintelligent, unintellectual, unreasoning; mindless, witless, reasoningless, brainless; halfbaked; having no head; not -bright; inapprehensible
weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed, buffle headed, chuckle headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded; beef headed, fat witted, fat-headed
weak-minded, feeble-minded; dull minded, shallow minded, lack-brained; rattle-brained, rattle headed; half witted, lean witted, short witted, dull witted, blunt-witted, shallow-pated, clod-pated, addle-pated; dim-sighted, short-sighted; thick-skulled; weak in the upper story
shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony; dull, dull as a beetle; stupid, heavy, insulse, obtuse, blunt, stolid, doltish; asinine; inapt; prosaic; hebetudinous
childish, child-like; infantine, infantile, babyish, babish; puerile, anile; simple; old-womanish
fatuous, idiotic, imbecile, driveling; blatant, babbling; vacant; sottish; bewildered
blockish, unteachable Boeotian, Boeotic; bovine; ungifted, undiscerning, unenlightened, unwise, unphilosophical; apish; simious
foolish, silly, senseless, irrational, insensate, nonsensical, inept; maudlin
narrow-minded; bigoted; giddy; rash; eccentric
foolish, unwise, injudicious, improper, unreasonable, without reason, ridiculous, silly, stupid, asinine; ill- imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised; mal entendu; inconsistent, irrational, unphilosophical; extravagant; sleeveless, idle; useless; inexpedient; frivolous
sage, wise man; master mind, master spirit of the age; longhead, thinker
authority, oracle, luminary, shining light, esprit fort, magnus Apollo, Solon, Solomon, Nestor, Magi
man of learning; expert; wizard
wiseacre, bigwig
venerable, reverenced, emeritus
fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer; chowderhead, chucklehead; dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl; goose, goosecap; imbecile; gaby; radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany; trifler, babbler; pretty fellow; natural, niais
child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop
oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony
bull head, dunderhead, addlehead, blockhead, dullhead, loggerhead, jolthead, jolterhead, beetlehead, grosshead, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead; numbskull, thickskull; lackbrain, shallowbrain; halfwit, lackwit; dunderpate; lunkhead
sawney, gowk; clod, clod-hopper; clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate; bull calf; gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube; men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham
un sot a triple etage, sot; jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche
dotard, driveler; old fogey, old woman; crone, grandmother; cotquean, henhussy
greenhorn; dunce; lubber; madman
one who will not set the Thames on fire, one who did not invent gunpowder; qui n'a pas invente' la poudre; no conjuror
sanity; soundness
rationality, sobriety, lucidity, lucid interval; senses, sober senses, sound mind, mens sana
retain one's senses, retain one's reason
come to one's senses, sober down
render -sane adj; bring to one's senses, sober
sane, rational, reasonable, compos mentis, of sound mind; sound, sound-minded; lucid
self-possessed; sober, sober-minded
in one's sober senses, in one's right mind; in possession of one's faculties
disordered reason, disordered intellect; diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind; derangement, unsoundness
insanity, lunacy; madness
mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration; paranoia; dementation, dementia, demency; phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain; delusion, hallucination; lycanthropy; brain storm!
vertigo, dizziness, swimming; sunstroke, coup de soleil, siriasis
fanaticism, infatuation, craze; oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania; kleptodipsomania; hypochondriasis; melancholia, hysteria; amentia
screw loose, tile loose, slate loose; bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story
become insane adj; lose one's senses, lose one's reason, lose one's faculties, lose one's wits; go mad, run mad; rave, dote, ramble, wander; drivel; have a screw loose
have a devil; avoir le diable au corps; lose one; s head
render mad, drive mad
madden, dementate, addle the wits, derange the head, infatuate, befool; turn the brain, turn one's head
insane, mad, lunatic; crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; shatterpated; mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained; off one's head
maniacal; delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring mad
corybantic, dithyrambic; rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild; haggard, mazed; flighty; distracted, distraught; bewildered
mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter; of unsound mind
touched in one's head, wrong in one's head, not right in one's head, not in one's right mind, not right in one's wits, upper story; out of one's mind, far gone, out of one's senses, out of one's wits; not in one's right mind
fanatical, infatuated, odd, eccentric; hypped, hyppish
imbecile, silly
madman, lunatic, maniac, bedlamite, candidate for Bedlam, raver, madcap; energumen; automaniac, monomaniac, dipsomaniac, kleptomaniac; hypochondriac; crank, Tom o'Bedlam
dreamer; rhapsodist, seer, highflier, enthusiast, fanatic, fanatico; exalte'; knight errant, Don Quixote
memory, remembrance; retention, retentiveness; tenacity; veteris vestigia flammae; tablets of the memory; readiness
reminiscence, recognition, recollection, rememoration; recurrence, retrospect, retrospection
suggestion; prompting
hint, reminder; remembrancer, flapper; memorial; commemoration
memorandum
things to be remembered, token of remembrance, memento, souvenir, keepsake, relic, memorabilia
art of memory, artificial memory; memoria technica; mnemonics, mnemotechnics; phrenotypics; Mnemosyne
retentive memory, tenacious memory, green memory!, trustworthy memory, capacious memory, faithful memory, correct memory, exact memory, ready memory, prompt memory
celebrity, fame, renown, reputation
remember, mind; retain the memory of, retain the remembrance of; keep in view
recognize, recollect, bethink oneself, recall, call up, retrace; look back, trace back, trace backwards; think back, look back upon; review; call upon, recall upon, bring to mind, bring to remembrance; carry one's thoughts back; rake up the past
have in the thoughts, hold in the thoughts, bear in the thoughts, carry in the thoughts, keep in the thoughts, retain in the thoughts, have in the memory, hold in the memory, bear in the memory, carry in the memory, keep in the memory, retain in the memory, have in the mind, hold in the mind, bear in the mind, carry in the mind, keep in the mind, retain in the mind, hold in remembrance; be in one's thoughts, live in one's thoughts, remain in one's thoughts, dwell in one's thoughts, haunt one's thoughts, impress one's thoughts, be in one's mind, live in one's mind, remain in one's mind, dwell in one's mind, haunt one's mind, impress one's mind, dwell in one's memory
sink in the mind; run in the head; not be able to get out of one's head; be deeply impressed with; rankle
recur to the mind; flash on the mind, flash across the memory
remind; suggest; prompt; put in mind, keep in mind; fan the embers; call up, summon up, rip up; renew; infandum renovare dolorem; jog the memory, flap the memory, refresh the memory, rub up the memory, awaken the memory; pull by the sleeve; bring back to the memory, put in remembrance, memorialize
task the memory, tax the memory
get at one's fingers' ends, have at one's fingers', learn at one's fingers', know one's lesson, say one's lesson, repeat by heart, repeat by rote; say one's lesson; repeat, repeat as a parrot; have at one's fingers' ends
commit to memory, memorize; con over, con; fix in the memory, rivet in the memory, imprint in the memory, impress in the memory, stamp in the memory, grave in the memory, engrave in the memory, store in the memory, treasure up in the memory, bottle up in the memory, embalm in the memory, enshrine in the memory; load the memory with, store the memory with, stuff the memory with, burden the memory with
redeem from oblivion; keep the memory alive, keep the wound green; tangere ulcus; keep up the memory of; commemorate
remembering, remembered
mindful, reminiscential; retained in the memory
pent up in one's memory; fresh; green, green in remembrance; unforgotten, present to the mind; within one's memory
indelible; uppermost in one's thoughts; memorable
by heart, by rote; without book, memoriter
in memory of; in memoriam; memoria in aeterna; suggestive
oblivion, obliviousness, lethe; forgetfulness
obliteration of, insensibility to the past
short memory, treacherous memory, loose memory, slippery memory, failing memory; decay of memory, failure of memory, lapse of memory; waters of Lethe, waters of oblivion
amnesty, general pardon
forget; be forgetful
fall into oblivion, sink into oblivion; have a short memory
have no head
forget one's own name, have on the tip of one's tongue, come in one ear and go out the other
slip memory, escape memory, fade from memory, die away from the memory; lose, lose sight of
unlearn; efface, discharge from the memory; consign to oblivion, consign to the tomb of the Capulets; think no more of; cast behind one's back, wean one's thoughts from; let bygones be bygones
unremembered, past recollection, bygone, out of mind; buried in oblivion, sunk in oblivion; clean forgotten; gone out of one's head, gone out of one's recollection
forgetful, oblivious, mindless, Lethean; insensible to the past; heedless
expectation, expectance, expectancy; anticipation, reckoning, calculation; foresight
contemplation, prospection, lookout; prospect, perspective, horizon, vista; destiny
suspense, waiting, abeyance; curiosity; anxious expectation, ardent expectation, eager expectation, breathless expectation, sanguine expectation; torment of Tantalus
hope; trust; auspices; assurance, confidence, presumption, reliance
expect; look for, look out for, look forward to; hope for; anticipate; have in prospect, have in contemplation; keep in view; contemplate, promise oneself; not wonder at, not wonder if
wait for, tarry for, lie in wait for, watch for, bargain for; keep a good lookout for, keep a sharp lookout for; await; stand at abide, bide one's time, watch
foresee; prepare for; forestall; count upon; think likely
lead one to expect; have in store for
prick up one's ears, hold one's breath
expectant; expecting
on the watch; open-eyed, open-mouthed; agape, gaping, all agog; on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, on the tiptoe of expectation; aux aguets; ready; curious; looking forward to
long expected, foreseen; in prosepct
prospective; in one's eye, in one's view, in the horizon; impending
with bated breath; arrectis auribus
inexpectation, non-expectation; false expectation; miscalculation
surprise, sudden burst, thunderclap, blow, shock; bolt out of the blue; wonder; eye opener
not expect; be taken by surprise; start; miscalculate; not bargain for; come upon, fall upon
turn up, pop, drop from the clouds; come upon one, burst upon one, flash upon one, bounce upon one, steal upon one, creep upon one; come like a thunder clap, burst like a thunderclap, thunder bolt; take by surprise, catch by surprise, catch unawares, catch napping; yach
pounce upon, spring a mine upon
surprise, startle, take aback, electrify, stun, stagger, take away one's breath, throw off one's guard; astonish
nonexpectant; surprised
unwarned, unaware; off one's guard; inattentive
unexpected, unanticipated, unlooked for, unforeseen, unhoped for; dropped from the clouds; beyond expectation, contrary to expectation, against expectation; out of one's reckoning; unheard of; startling; sudden
abruptly, unexpectedly, plump, pop, a l'improviste, unawares; without notice, without warning, without a; like a thief in the night, like a thunderbolt; in an unguarded moment; suddenly
disappointment; blighted hope, balk; blow; slip 'twixt cup and lip; nonfulfillment of one's hopes; sad disappointment, bitter disappointment; trick of fortune; afterclap; false expectation, vain expectation; miscalculation; fool's paradise; much cry and little wool
be disappointed; look blank, look blue; look aghast, stand aghast; find to one's cost; laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth; find one a false prophet
not realize one's hope, not realize one's expectation
disappoint; crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope, disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's hope; balk, jilt, bilk; play one false, play a trick; dash the cup from the lips, tantalize; dumfounder
disconcerted, aghast; disgruntled; out of one's reckoning
foresight, prospicience, prevision, long- sightedness; anticipation; providence
forethought, forecast; predeliberation, presurmise; foregone conclusion; prudence
foreknowledge; prognosis; precognition, prescience, prenotion, presentiment; second sight; sagacity; antepast, prelibation, prophasis
prospect; foretaste; prospectus
foresee; look forwards to, look ahead, look beyond; scent from afar; look into the future, pry into the future, peer into the future
see one's way; see how the land lies, see how the wind blows, see how the cat jumps
anticipate; expect; be beforehand; predict; foreknow, forejudge, forecast; presurmise; have an eye to the future, have an eye to the main chance; respicere finem; keep a sharp lookout; forewarn
prescient; farseeing, farsighted; sagacious; weatherwise; provident; prospective
prediction, announcement; program, programme; premonition; prognosis, prophecy, vaticination, mantology, prognostication, premonstration; augury, auguration; ahariolation, hariolation; foreboding, aboding; bodement, abodement; omniation, omniousness; auspices, forecast; omen; horoscope, nativity; sooth, soothsaying; fortune telling; divination; necromancy
astrology, horoscopy, judicial astrology
prefiguration, prefigurement; prototype, type
predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate, tell fortunes; cast a horoscope, cast a nativity; advise; forewarn
presage, augur, bode; abode, forebode; foretoken, betoken; prefigure, preshow; portend; foreshow, foreshadow; shadow forth, typify, pretypify, ominate, signify, point to
usher in, herald, premise, announce; lower
hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope; bid fair, promise, lead one to expect; be the precursor
predictive, prophetic; fatidic, fatidical; vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent, haruspical, Sibylline; weatherwise
ominous, portentous, augurous, augurial, augural; auspicial, auspicious; prescious, monitory, extispicious, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of
omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice; sign; harbinger; yule candle!
bird of ill omen; signs of the times; gathering clouds; warning
oracle; prophet, seer, soothsayer, augur, fortune teller, witch, geomancer, aruspex; aruspice, haruspice; haruspex; Sibyl; Python, Pythoness; Pythia; Pythian oracle, Delphian oracle; Monitor, Sphinx, Tiresias, Cassandra, Sibylline leaves; Zadkiel, Old Moore; sorcerer; interpreter
supposition, assumption, assumed position, postulation, condition, presupposition, hypothesis, postulate, postulatum, theory; thesis, theorem; data; proposition, position; proposal; presumption; divination
conjecture; guess, guesswork, speculation; rough guess, shot; conjecturality; surmise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion
inkling, suggestion, hint; bare supposition, vague supposition, loose supposition, loose suggestion
suppose, conjecture, surmise, suspect, guess, divine; theorize; presume, presurmise, presuppose; assume, fancy, wis, take it; give a guess, speculate, believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take for granted
put forth; propound, propose; start, put a case, submit, move, make a motion; hazard out, throw out a suggestion, put forward a suggestion, put forward conjecture
allude to, suggest, hint, put it into one's head
suggest itself; run in the head; marvel if, wonder if, wonder whether
given, mooted, postulatory; assumed
suppositive, suppositious; gratuitous, speculative, conjectural, hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposable, presumptive, putative; suppositional
suggestive, allusive
if, if so be; an; on the supposition
ex hypothesi; in the case, in the event of; quasi, as if, provided; perhaps; for aught one knows
imagination; originality; invention; fancy; inspiration; verve
warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy
ideality, idealism; romanticism, utopianism, castle-building
dreaming; phrensy, frenzy; ecstasy, extasy; calenture; reverie, trance; day dream, golden dream; somnambulism
conception, Vorstellung, excogitation; cloudland, dreamland; flight of fancy, fumes of fancy; creation of the brain, coinage of the brain; imagery
conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera; phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey, whimsy; vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza; air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare
flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, chateau en Espagne; Utopia, Atlantis, happy valley, millennium, fairyland; land of Prester John, kindgom of Micomicon; work of fiction; Arabian nights; le pot au lait; dream of Alnashar
illusion; phantom; Fata Morgana; vapor; stretch of the imagination; mythogenesis
idealist, romanticist, visionary; mopus; romancer, dreamer; somnambulist; rhapsodist; castle-builder, fanciful projector
imagine, fancy, conceive; idealize, realize; dream, dream of
create, originate, devise, invent, coin, fabricate; improvise, strike out something new
set one's wits to work; strain one's invention, crack one's invention; rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains; excogitate
give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give fancy; indulge in reverie
conjure up a vision; fancy oneself, represent oneself, picture- oneself, figure to oneself; vorstellen
float in the mind; suggest itself
ben trovato; air drawn, airbuilt
v, imaginative; original, inventive, creative, fertile
romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic, Utopian, Quixotic
ideal, unreal; in the clouds, in nubibus; unsubsantial; illusory
fabulous, legendary; mythic, mythological; chimerical; imaginary, visionary; notional; fancy, fanciful, fantastical; whimsical; fairy, fairy- like; gestic
meaning; signification, significance; sense, expression; import, purport; force; drift, tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring; scope
gist, essence, spirit
matter; subject, subject matter; argument, text, sum and substance
genera meaning, broad meaning, substantial meaning, colloquial meaning, literal meaning, plain meaning, simple meaning, natural meaning, unstrained meaning, true meaning, honest meaning, prima facie meaning
literally; after acceptation
synonym; implication, allusion; suggestion; figure of speech; acceptation
mean, signify, express; import, purport; convey, imply, breathe, indicate, bespeak, bear a sense; tell of, speak of; touch on; point to, allude to; drive at; involve; declare
expressive, suggestive, allusive; significant, significative, significatory; pithy; full of meaning, pregnant with meaning
declaratory; intelligible; literal; synonymous; tantamount; implied; explicit
to that effect; that is to say
empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil
nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, bavardage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie; inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae; twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash; poppy-cock; stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle; absurdity; vagueness
mean nothing; be unmeaning
twaddle, quibble, scrabble
unmeaning; meaningless, senseless; nonsensical; void of sense
inexpressive, unexpressive; vacant; not significant; insignificant
trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling
unmeant, not expressed; tacit
inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable
intelligibility; clearness, explicitness
lucidity, comprehensibility, perspicuity; legibility, plain speaking; precision; <gr/phonanta synetoisy/gr>; a word to the wise
speak for itself, speak volumes; tell its own tale, lie on the surface
popularize, simplify, clear up; elucidate
understand, comprehend, take, take in; catch, grasp, follow, collect, master, make out; see with half an eye, see daylight, see one's way; enter into the ideas of; come to an understanding
intelligible; clear, clear as day, clear as noonday; lucid; perspicuous, transpicuous; luminous, transparent
easily understood, easy to understand, for the million, intelligible to the meanest capacity, popularized
plain, distinct, explicit; positive; definite
graphic; expressive; illustrative
unambiguous, unequivocal, unmistakable; unconfused; legible, recognizable; obvious
in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English
unintelligibility; incomprehensibility, imperspicuity; inconceivableness, vagueness
obscurity; ambiguity; doubtful meaning; uncertainty; perplexity; spinosity; obscurum per obscurius; mystification; latency; transcendentalism
paradox; riddle, enigma, puzzle; diagnus vindice nodus; sealed book; steganography, freemasonry
pons asinorum, asses' bridge; high Dutch, Greek, Hebrew; jargon
require explanation; have a doubtful meaning, pass comprehension
conceal; darken; confuse; perplex
not understand; lose, lose the clue; miss; not know what to make of, be able to make nothing of, give it up; not be able to account for, not be able to make either head or tail of; be at sea; wonder; see through a glass darkly
not understand one another; play at cross purposes
unintelligible, unaccountable, undecipherable, undiscoverable, unknowable, unfathomable; incognizable, inexplicable, inscrutable; inapprehensible, incomprehensible; insolvable, insoluble; impenetrable
illegible, as Greek to one, unexplained, paradoxical; enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzling; indecipherable
obscure, dark, muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist, dim, nebulous, shrouded in mystery; undiscernible; misty; hidden; latent
indefinite; perplexed; undetermined, vague, loose, ambiguous; mysterious; mystic, mystical; acroamatic, acroamatical; metempirical; transcendental; occult, recondite, abstruse, crabbed
inconceivable, inconceptible; searchless; above comprehension, beyond comprehension, past comprehension; beyond one's depth; unconceived
inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable
double meaning; ambiguity, double entente, double entendre, pun, paragram, calembour, quibble, equivoque, anagram; conundrum; word play; homonym, homonymy; amphiboly, amphibology; ambilogy, ambiloquy
Sphinx, Delphic oracle
equivocation; white lie, mental reservation; paltering
have two meanings; equivocate
equivocal, ambiguous, amphibolous, homonymous; double-tongued; enigmatical, indeterminate
figure of speech; facon de parler, way of speaking, colloquialism
phrase; figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis; metonymy, synecdoche; autonomasia!, irony, figurativeness
image, imagery; metalepsis, type, anagoge, simile, personification, prosopopoeia, allegory, apologue, parable, fable; allusion, adumbration; application
personify, allegorize, adumbrate, shadow forth, apply, allude to
metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical, typical, tralatitious, parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical; ironical; colloquial; tropical
so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself; as it were
interpretation, definition; explanation, explication; solution, answer; rationale; plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation; meaning
translation; rendering, rendition; redition; literal translation, free translation; key; secret; clew; clavis, crib, pony
exegesis; expounding, exposition; hermeneutics; comment, commentary; inference; illustration, exemplification; gloss, annotation, scholium, note; elucidation, dilucidation; eclaircissement, mot d'enigme
symptomatology, semeiology; metoposcopy, physiognomy; paleography; oneirology
acception, acceptation, acceptance; light, reading, lection, construction, version
equivalent, equivalent meaning; synonym; para-phrase, metaphrase; convertible terms, apposition; dictionary; polyglot
interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, render; do into, turn into; transfuse the sense of
find outa the meaning of; read; spell out, make out; decipher, unravel, disentangle; find the key of, enucleate, resolve, solve; read between the lines
account for; find the cause, tell the cause of; throw light upon, shed light upon, shed new light upon, shed fresh light upon; clear up, elucidate
illustrate, exemplify; unfold, expound, comment upon, annotate; popularize
take in a particular sense, understand in a particular sense, receive in a particular sense, accept in a particular sense; understand by, put a construction on, be given to understand
explanatory, expository; explicative, explicatory; exegetical; construable
polyglot; literal; paraphrastic, metaphrastic; consignificative, synonymous; equivalent
that is to say, id est, videlicet, to wit, namely, in other words
literally, strictly speaking; in plain, in plainer terms, in plainer words, in plainer English; more simply
misinterpretation, misapprehension, misunderstanding, misacceptation, misconstruction, misapplication; catachresis; eisegesis; cross-reading, cross-purposes; mistake
misrepresentation, perversion, exaggeration; false coloring, false construction; abuse of terms; parody, travesty; falsification
misinterpret, misapprehend, misunderstand, misconceive, misspell, mistranslate, misconstrue, misapply; mistake
misrepresent, pervert; explain wrongly, misstate; garble; distort, detort; travesty, play upon words; stretch the sense, strain the sense, stretch the meaning, strain the meaning, wrest the sense, wrest the meaning; explain away; put a bad construction on, put a false construction on; give a false coloring
be at cross purposes, play at cross purposes
untranslated, untranslatable
interpreter; expositor, expounder, exponent, explainer; demonstrator
scholiast, commentator, annotator; metaphrast, paraphrast; glossarist, prolocutor
spokesman, speaker, mouthpiece
dragoman, courier, valet de place, cicerone, showman; oneirocritic
manifestation; plainness
plain speaking; expression; showing
exposition, demonstration; exhibition, production; display, show; showing off; premonstration
indicationpublicity; disclosure; openness; ‚panchement
make manifest, render manifest
bring forth, bring forward, bring to the front, bring into view; give notice; express; represent, set forth, exhibit; show, show up; expose; produce; hold up to view, expose to view; set before one, place before one, lay before one, one's eyes; tell to one's face; trot out, put through one's paces, bring to light, display, demonstrate, unroll; lay open; draw out, bring out; bring out in strong relief; call into notice, bring into notice; hold up the mirror; wear one's heart upon his sleeve; show one's face, show one's colors; manifest oneself; speak out; make no mystery, make no secret of; unfurl the flag; proclaim
indicate; disclose; elicita
appear; transpire; speak for itself, stand to reason; stare one in the face, rear its head; give token, give sign, give indication of; tell its own tale
manifest, apparent; salient, striking, demonstrative, prominent, in the foreground, notable, pronounced
flagrant; notorious; arrant; stark staring; unshaded, glaring
defined, definite
distinct, conspicuous; obvious, evident, unmistakable, indubitable, not to be mistaken, palpable, self-evident, autoptical; intelligible
plain, clear, clear as day, clear as daylight, clear as noonday; plain as a pike staff, plain as the sun at noon-day, plain as the nose on one's face, plain as the way to parish church
explicit, overt, patent, express; ostensible; open, open as day; naked, bare, literal, downright, undisguised, exoteric
unreserve, frank, plain-spoken; barefaced
disclosed; capable of being shown, producible; inconcealable, unconcealable
manifestly, openly
before one's eyes, under one's nose, to one's face, face to face, above board, cartes sur table, on the stage, in open court, in the open streets; in market overt; in the face of day, face of heaven; in broad daylight, in open daylight; without reserve; at first blush, prima facie, on the face of; in set terms
latency, inexpression; hidden meaning, occult meaning; occultness, mystery, cabala, anagoge; silence; concealment; more than meets the eye, more than meets the ear; Delphic oracle; le dessous des cartes, undercurrent
allusion, insinuation; innuendo; adumbration
snake in the grass; secret
darkness, invisibility, imperceptibility
lurk, smolder, underlie, make no sign; escape observation, escape detection, escape recognition; lie hid
laugh in one's sleeve; keep back
involve, imply, understand, allude to, infer, leave an inference; whisper
latent; lurkingv
secret; occult; implied
dormant; abeyant
unapparent, unknown, unseen; in the background; invisible; indiscoverable, dark; impenetrable; unspied, unsuspected
unsaid, unwritten, unpublished, unbreathed, untalked of, untold, unsung, unexposed, unproclaimed, undisclosed, unexpressed; not expressed, tacit
undeveloped, solved, unexplained, untraced, undiscovereda, untracked, unexplored, uninvented
indirect, crooked, inferential; by inference, by implication; implicit; constructive; allusive, covert, muffled; steganographic; understood, underhand, underground; delitescent, concealed
by a side wind; sub silentio; in the background; behind the scenes, behind one's back; on the tip of one's tongue; secretly; between the lines
information, enlightenment, acquaintance, knowledge; publicity
communication, intimation; notice, notification; enunciation, annunciation; announcement; communiqu‚; representation, round robin, presentment
case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition; news; return; account; statement
mention; acquainting v; instruction; outpouring; intercommunication, communicativeness
informant, authority, teller, intelligencer, reporter, exponent, mouthpiece
informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective; sleuth; mouchard, spy, newsmonger; messenger; amicus curiae
valet de place, cicerone, pilot, guide; guidebook, handbook; vade mecum; manual; map, plan, chart, gazetteer; itinerary
hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in the ear, subaudition, cue, byplay; gesture; gentle hint, broad hint; verbum sapienti; word to the wise; insinuation
tell; inform, inform of; acquaint, acquaint with; impart, impart to; make acquaintance with, apprise, advise, enlighten, awaken
let fall, mention, express, intimate, represent, communicate, make known; publish; notify, signify, specify, convey the knowledge of
let one know, have one to know; give one to understand; give notice; set before, lay before, put before; point out, put into one's head; put one in possession of; instruct; direct the attention to
announce, annunciate; report, report progress; bringword, send word, leave word, write word; telegraph, telephone; wire; retail, render an account; give an account ); state
show cause; explain
hint; given an inkling of; give a hint, drop a hint, throw out a hint; insinuate; allude to, make allusion to; glance at; tip the wink; suggest, prompt, give the cue, breathe; whisper, whisper in the ear
give a bit of one's mind; tell one plainly, tell once for all; speak volumes
undeceive, unbeguile; set right, correct, open the eyes of, disabuse
be informed of; know; learn; get scent of, gather from; awaken to, open one's eyes to; become alive, become awake to; hear, overhear, understand
come to one's ears, come to one's knowledge; reach one's ears
communique; reported
expressive; explicit; plain spoken
nuncupative, nuncupatory; declaratory, expository; enunciative; communicative, communicatory
concealment; hiding
occultation, mystification
seal of secrecy; screen; disguise; masquerade; masked battery; hiding place; cryptography, steganography; freemasonry
stealth, stealthiness; obreption; slyness
latitancy, latitation; seclusion; privacy, secrecy, secretness; incognita
reticence; reserve; mental reserve, reservation; arriere pensee, suppression, evasion, white lie, misprision; silence; suppression of truth; underhand dealing; closeness, secretiveness
latency; snake in the grass; secret; stowaway
conceal, hide, secrete, put out of sight; lock up, seal up, bottle up
cover, screen, cloak, veil, shroud; cover up one's tracks; screen from sight, screen from observation; drawing the veil; draw the curtain, close the curtain; curtain, shade, eclipse, throw a view over; be cloud, be mask; mask, disguise; ensconce, muffle, smother; befog; whisper
keep from; keep back, keep to oneself; keep snug, keep close, keep secret, keep dark; bury; sink, suppress; keep from, keep from out of view, keep from out of sight; keep in the shade, throw into the shade, throw into background; stifle, hush up, smother, withhold, reserve; fence with a question; ignore
keep a secret, keep one's own counsel; hold one's tongue; make no sign, not let it go further; not breathe a word, not breathe a syllable about; not let the right hand know what the left is doing; hide one's light under a bushel, bury one's talent in a napkin
keep in the dark, leave in the dark, keep in the ignorance; blind, blind the eyes; blindfold, hoodwink, mystify; puzzle; bamboozle
suffer an eclipse; retire from sight, couch; hide oneself; lie hid, lie in perdu, lie in close; lie in ambush; seclude oneself; lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, prowl; steal into, steal out of, steal by, steal along; play at bopeep, play at hide and seek; hide in holes and corners; still hunt
hidden; secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark; cryptic, cryptical; private, privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate; tortuous
behind a screen; undercover, under an eclipse; in ambush, in hiding, in disguise; in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a dark corner; in the shade, in the dark; clouded, wrapt in clouds; invisible; buried, underground, perdu; secluded
undisclosed, untold; covert; mysterious
irrevealable, inviolable; confidential; esoteric; not to be spoken of
obreptitious, furtive, stealthy, feline; skulking
surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner; sly
secretive, evasive; reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up; close, close as wax; taciturn
in secret, in private, in one's sleeve, in holes and corners; in the dark
jancuis clausiss, with closed doors, a huis clos; hugger mugger, a la derobee; under the cloak of, under the rose, under the table; sub rosa, en tapinois, in the background, aside, on the sly, with bated breath, sotto voce, in a whisper, without beat of drum, a la sourdine
behind the veil; beyond mortal ken, beyond the grave, beyond the veil; hid from mortal vision; into the eternal secret, into the realms supersensible, into the supreme mystery
in confidence, in strict confidence, in strictest confidence; confidentially
between ourselves, between you and me; entre nous, inter nos, under the seal of secrecy; a couvert
underhand, by stealth, like a thief in the night; stealthily
behind the scenes, behind the curtain, behind one's back, behind a screen; incognito; in camera
disclosure; retection; unveilingv
deterration, revealment, revelation; exposition, exposure; expose; whole truth; telltale
acknowledgment, avowal; confession, confessional; shrift
bursting of a bubble; denouement
disclose, discover, dismask; draw the veil, draw aside the veil, lift the veil, raise the veil, lift up the veil, remove the veil, tear aside the veil, tear the curtain; unmask, unveil, unfold, uncover, unseal, unkennel; take off the seal, break the seal; lay open, lay bare; expose; open, open up; bare, bring to light
divulge, reveal, break; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell; breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales, come out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out; make public; unriddle a; split
acknowledge, allow, concede, grant, admit, own, confess, avow, throw off all disguise, turn inside out, make a clean breast; show one's hand, show one's cards; unburden one's mind, disburden one's mind, disburden one's conscience, disburden one's heart; open one's mind, lay bare one's mind, tell a piece of one's mind; unbosom oneself, own to the soft impeachment; say the truth, speak the truth; turn King's evidence; acknowledge the corn
raise the mask, drop the mask, lift the mask, remove the mask, throw off the mask; expose; lay open; undeceive, unbeguile; disabuse, set right, correct, open the eyes of; d‚sillusionner
be disclosed; transpire, come to light; come in sight; become known, escape the lips; come out, ooze out, creep out, leak out, peep out, crop-out; show its face, show its colors; discover itself; break through the clouds, flash on the mind
hiding place; secret place, secret drawer; recess, hold, holes and corners; closet, crypt, adytum, abditory, oubliette
ambush, ambuscade; stalking horse; lurking hole, lurking place; secret path, back stairs; retreat
screen, cover, shade, blinker; veil, curtain, blind, cloak, cloud
mask, visor, vizor, disguise, masquerade dress, domino
pitfall; trap
lie in ambush; lie in wait for; set a trap for; ambuscade, ambush
publication; public announcement; promulgation, propagation, proclamation, pronunziamento; circulation, indiction, edition; hue and cry
publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit; vox populi; report
the Press, public press, newspaper, journal, gazette, daily; telegraphy; publisher
circular, circular letter; manifesto, advertisement, ad
placard, bill, affiche, broadside, poster; notice
publish; make public, make known; speak of, talk of; broach, utter; put forward; circulate, propagate, promulgate; spread, spread abroad; rumor, diffuse, disseminate, evulgate; put forth, give forth, send forth; emit, edit, get out; issue; bring before the public, lay before the public, drag before the public; give out, give to the world; put about, bandy about, hawk about, buzz about, whisper about, bruit about, blaze about; drag into the open day; voice
proclaim, herald, blazon; blaze abroad, noise abroad; sound a trumpet; trumpet forth, thunder forth; give tongue; announce with beat of drum, anounce with flourish of trumpets; proclaim from the housetops, proclaim at Charing Cross
advertise, placard; post, post up afficher, publish in the Gazette, send round the crier
raise a cry, raise a hue and cry, raise a report; set news afloat
be published; be public, become public
come out; go about, fly about, buzz about, blow about; get about, get abroad, get afloat, get wind; find vent; see the light; go forth, take air, acquire currency, pass current; go the rounds, go the round of the newspapers, go through the length and breadth of the land; virum volitare per ora; pass from mouth to mouth; spread; run like wildfire, spread like wildfire
current; in circulation, public; notorious; flagrant, arrant; open; trumpet-tongued; encyclical, encyclic, promulgatory; exoteric
in open court, with open doors
news; information; piece of news, budget of news, budget of information; intelligence, tidings
word, advice, aviso, message; dispatch, despatch; telegram, cable, marconigram, wire, communication, errand, embassy
report, rumor, hearsay, on dit, flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame; talk, oui dire, scandal, eavesdropping; town tattle, table talk; tittle tattle; canard, topic of the day, idea afloat
fresh news, stirring news; glad tidings
old story, old news, stale news, stale story; chestnut
narrator; newsmonger, scandalmonger; talebearer, telltale, gossip, tattler
transpire; rumor
many-tongued; rumored; publicly rumored, currently rumored, currently reported; rife, current, floating, afloat, going about, in circulation, in every one's mouth, all over the town
as the story goes, as the story runs; as they say, it is said; by telegraph, by wireless
secret; dead secret, profound secret; arcanum, mystery; latency; Asian mystery; sealed book, secrets of the prison house; le desous des cartes
enigma, riddle, puzzle, nut to crack, conundrum, charade, rebus, logogriph; monogram, anagram; Sphinx; crux criticorum
maze, labyrinth, Hyrcynian wood; intricacy, meander
problem; paradox; unintelligibility; terra incognita
secret; involved; labyrinthian, mazy
messenger, envoy, emissary, legate; nuncio, internuncio; ambassador
marshal, flag bearer, herald, crier, trumpeter, bellman, pursuivant, parlementaire, apparitor
courier, runner; dak, estafette; Mercury, Iris, Ariel
commissionaire; errand boy, chore boy; newsboy
mail; post, post office; letter bag; telegraph, telephone; cable, wire; carrier pigeon
reporter, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; penny- a-liner; special correspondent, own correspondent; spy, scout; informer
affirmance, affirmation; statement, allegation, assertion, predication, declaration, word, averment; confirmation
asseveration, adjuration, swearing, oath, affidavit; deposition; avouchment; assurance; protest, protestation; profession; acknowledgment; legal pledge, pronouncement; solemn averment, solemn avowal, solemn declaration
remark, observation; position, saying, dictum, sentence, ipse dixit
emphasis; weight; dogmatism; dogmatics
assert; make an assertion
have one's say; say, affirm, predicate, declare, state; protest, profess
put forth, put forward; advance, allege, propose, propound, enunciate, broach, set forth, hold out, maintain, contend, pronounce, pretend
depose, depone, aver, avow, avouch, asseverate, swear; make oath, take one's oath; make an affidavit, swear an affidavit, put in an affidavit; take one's Bible oath, kiss the book, vow, vitam impendere vero; swear till one is black in the face, swear till one is blue in the face, swear till all's blue; be sworn, call Heaven to witness; vouch, warrant, certify, assure, swear by bell book and candle
swear by; insist upon, take one's stand upon; emphasize, lay stress on; assert roundly, assert positively; lay down, lay down the law; raise one's voice, dogmatize, have the last word; rap out; repeat; reassert, reaffirm
announce; acknowledge; attest; adjure
declaratory, predicatory, pronunciative, affirmative, soi-disant; positive; certain; express, explicit; absolute, emphatic, flat, broad, round, pointed, marked, distinct, decided, confident, trenchant, dogmatic, definitive, formal, solemn, categorical, peremptory; unretracted; predicable
with emphasis, ex-cathedra, without fear of contradiction
I must say, indeed, i' faith, let me tell you, why, give me leave to say, marry, you may be sure, I'd have you to know; upon my word, upon my honor; by my troth, egad, I assure you; by jingo, by Jove, by George; troth, seriously, sadly; in sadness, in sober sadness, in truth, in earnest; of a truth, truly, perdy, in all conscience, upon oath; be assured; yes; I'll warrant, I'll warrant you, I'll engage, I'll answer for it, I'll be bound, I'll venture to say, I'll take my oath; in fact, forsooth, joking apart; so help me God; not to mince the matter
negation, abnegation; denial; disavowal, disclaimer; abjuration; contradiction, contravention; recusation, protest; recusancy; flat contradiction, emphatic contradiction, emphatic denial, dementi
qualification; repudiation; retraction; confutation; refusal; prohibition
deny; contradict, contravene; controvert, give denial to, gainsay, negative, shake the head
disown, disaffirm, disclaim, disavow; recant; revoke
dispute; impugn, traverse, rebut, join issue upon; bring in question, call in question; give the lie in his throat
deny flatly, deny peremptorily, deny emphatically, deny absolutely, deny wholly, deny entirely; give the lie to, belie
repudiate; set aside, ignore; rebut; qualify; refuse
deniedv
contradictory; negative, negatory; recusant; at issue upon
no, nay, not, nowise; not a bit, not a whit, not a jot; not at all, not in the least, not so; no such thing; nothing of the kind, nothing of the sort; quite the contrary, tout au contraire, far from it; tant s'en faut; on no account, in no respect; by no, by no manner of means; negatively
instruction; edification; education; tuition; tutorage, tutelage; direction, guidance; opsimathy
qualification, preparation; training, schoolingv
discipline; exercise, excitation; drill, practice
persuasion, proselytism, propagandism, propaganda; indoctrination, inculcation, inoculation
explanation; lesson, lecture, sermon; apologue, parable; discourse, prolection, preachment; chalk talk; Chautauqua
exercise, task; curriculum; course, course of study; grammar, three R's, initiation, A
elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education; propaedeutics, moral tuition
gymnastics, calisthenics; physical drill, physical education; sloyd
teach, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor; cram, prime, coach; enlighten
inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infix, ingraft, infiltrate; imbue, impregnate, implant; graft, sow the seeds of, disseminate
given an idea of; put up to, put in the way of; set right
sharpen the wits, enlarge the mind; give new ideas, open the eyes, bring forward, improve
expound; lecture; read a lesson, give a lesson, give a lecture, give a sermon, give a discourse; incept; hold forth, preach; sermonize, moralize; point a moral
train, discipline; bring up, bring up to; form, ground, prepare, qualify; drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture, drynurse, breed, rear, take in hand; break, break in; tame; preinstruct; initiate; inure
put to nurse, send to school
direct, guide; direct attention to; impress upon the mind, impress upon the memory; beat into, beat into the head; convince
teachingv; taughtv
educational; scholastic, academic, doctrinal; disciplinal; instructive, didactic; propaedeutic, propaedeutical
misteaching, misinformaton, misintelligence, misguidance, misdirection, mispersuasion, misinstruction, misleadingv
perversion, false teaching; sophistry; college of Laputa; the blind leading the blind
misinform, misteach, misdescribe, misdirect, misguide, misinstruct, miscorrect; pervert; put on a false scent, throw off the scent; deceive; mislead; misrepresent; lie; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces, preach to the wise, teach one's grandmother to suck eggs
render unintelligible; bewilder; mystify; unteach
misteachingv; unedifying
learning; acquisition of knowledge, acquisition of skill; acquirement, attainment; edification, scholarship, erudition; acquired knowledge, lore, wide information; self- instruction; study, reading, perusal; inquiry
apprenticeship, prenticeship; pupilage, pupilarity; tutelage, novitiate, matriculation
docility; aptitude
learn; acquire knowledge, gain knowledge, receive knowledge, take in knowledge, drink in knowledge, imbibe knowledge, pick up knowledge, gather knowledge, get knowledge, obtain knowledge, collect knowledge, glean knowledge, glean information, glean learning
acquaint oneself with, master; make oneself master of, make oneself acquainted with; grind, cram; get up, coach up; learn by heart, learn by rote
read, spell, peruse; con over, pore over, thumb over; wade through; dip into; run the eye over, run the eye through; turn over the leaves
study; be studious
consume the midnight oil, mind one's book
go to school, go to college, go to the university; serve an apprenticeship, serve one's time; learn one's trade; be informed; be taught
studious; scholastic, scholarly; teachable; docile; apt, industrious
at one's books; in statu pupillari
teacher, trainer, instructor, institutor, master, tutor, director, Corypheus, dry nurse, coach, grinder, crammer, don; governor, bear leader; governess, duenna; disciplinarian
professor, lecturer, reader, prelector, prolocutor, preacher; chalk talker, khoja; pastor; schoolmaster, dominie, usher, pedagogue, abecedarian; schoolmistress, dame, monitor, pupil teacher
expositor; preceptor, guide; guru; mentor; pioneer, apostle, missionary, propagandist, munshi, example
learner, scholar, student, pupil; apprentice, prentice; articled clerk; beginner, tyro, abecedarian, alphabetarian; alumnus, eleve
recruit, novice, neophyte, inceptor, catechumen, probationer; chela, fellow-commoner; debutant
schoolboy; fresh, freshman; junior soph, junior; senior soph, senior; sophister, sophomore; questionist
class, form, remove; pupilage
disciple, follower, apostle, proselyte; fellow-student, condisciple
in statu pupillari, in leading strings
school, academy, university, alma mater, college, seminary, Lyceum; institute, institution; palaestra, Gymnasium, class, seminar
day school, boarding school, preparatory school, primary school, infant school, dame's school, grammar school, middle class school, Board school, denominational school, National school, British and Foreign school, collegiate school, art school, continuation school, convent school, County Council school, government school, grant-in-aid school, high school, higher grade school, military school, missionary school, naval school, state-aided school, technical school, voluntary school, school; school of art; kindergarten, nursery, creche, reformatory
pulpit, desk, reading desk, ambo, lecture room, theater, amphitheater, forum, state, rostrum, platform, hustings, tribune
school book, horn book, text book; grammar, primer, abecedary, rudiments, manual, vade mecum; encyclopedia, cyclopedia; Lindley Murray, Cocker; dictionary, lexicon
professorship, lectureship, readership, fellowship, tutorship; chair
School Board Council of Education; Board of Education; Board of Studies, Prefect of Studies; Textbook Committee; propaganda
scholastic, academic, collegiate; educational
veracity; truthfulness, frankness
truth, sincerity, candor, honesty, fidelity; plain dealing, bona fides; love of truth; probity; ingenuousness
the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth; honest truth, sober truth; unvarnished tale; light of truth
speak the truth, tell the truth; speak by the card; paint in its true colors, show oneself in one's true colors; make a clean breast; speak one's mind; not lie, not deceive
truthful, true; veracious, veridical; scrupulous; sincere, candid, frank, open, straightforward, unreserved; open hearted, true hearted, simple-hearted; honest, trustworthy; undissembling; guileless, pure; truth-loving; unperjured; true blue, as good as one's word; unaffected, unfeigned, bona fide; outspoken, ingenuous; undisguised
truly; in plain words; in truth, with truth, of a truth, in good truth; as the dial to the sun, as the needle to the pole; honor bright; troth; in good sooth, in good earnest; unfeignedly, with no nonsense, in sooth, sooth to say, bona fide, in foro conscientiae; without equivocation; cartes sur table, from the bottom of one's heart; by my troth
falsehood, falseness; falsity, falsification; deception; untruth; guile; lying; untruth; guile; lying
misrepresentation; mendacity, perjury, false swearing; forgery, invention, fabrication; subreption; covin
perversion of truth, suppression of truth; suppressio veri; perversion, distortion, false coloring; exaggeration; prevarication, equivocation, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud; suggestio falsi; mystification; simulation; dissimulation, dissembling; decit; blague
sham; pretense, pretending, malingering
lip homage, lip service; mouth honor; hollowness; mere show, mere outside; duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug; jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism; Machiavelism, "organized hypocrisy'; crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery; charlatanism, charlatanry; gammon; bun-kum, bumcombe, flam; bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery; Judas kiss; perfidy; il volto scioltlo i pensieri stretti
unfairness; artfulness; misstatement
be a liar; speak falsely
tell a lie; lie, fib; lie like a trooper; swear false, forswear, perjure oneself, bear false witness
misstate, misquote, miscite, misreport, misrepresent; belie, falsify, pervert, distort; put a false construction upon
prevaricate, equivocate, quibble; palter, palter to the understanding; repondre en Normand; trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose
garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to; give a gloss, put a gloss, put false coloring upon; color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider; varnish right and puzzle wrong; exaggerate; blague
invent, fabricate; trump up, get up; force, fake, hatch, concoct; romance; cry "wolf!'
dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe; play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a part; affect; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour
cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror; hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces; deceive
false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless, trothless; unfair, uncandid; hollow-hearted; evasive; uningenuous, disingenuous; hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior; forsworn
canting; hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical; tartuffish; Machiavelian; double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing; Janus faced; smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued; plausible; mealy-mouthed; affected
collusive, collusory; artful; perfidious; spurious; untrue; falsified
a la Tartufe, with a double tongue; silly
deception; falseness; untruth; imposition, imposture; fraud, deceit, guile; fraudulence, fraudulency; covin; knavery; misrepresentation; bluff; straw-bail, straw bid; spoof
delusion, gullery; juggling, jugglery; slight of hand, legerdemain; prestigiation, prestidigitation; magic; conjuring, conjuration; hocus-pocus, escamoterie, jockeyship; trickery, coggery, chicanery; supercherie, cozenage, circumvention, ingannation, collusion; treachery; practical joke
trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; thimblerig; card sharping, artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem; confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft; ballot-box stuffing barney, brace game, bunko game, drop game, gum game, panel game, shell game, skin game
snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin; springe, springle; noose, hoot; bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens; cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime; dionaea, Venus's flytrap; ambush; trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom; spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery; mine; flytrap; green goods; panel house
Cornish hug; wolf in sheep's clothing; disguise, disguisement; false colors, masquerade, mummery, borrowed plumes; pattes de velours
mockery; copy; counterfeit, sham, make- believe, forgery, fraud; lie; hollow mockery
whited sepulcher, painted sepulcher; tinsel, paste, false jewelry, scagliola, ormolu, German silver, albata, paktong, white metal, Britannia metal, paint; jerry building; man of straw
illusion; ignis fatuus; mirage
deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes
impose upon, practice upon, play upon, put upon, palm upon, foist upon; snatch a verdict; bluff off, bluff; bunko, four flush, gum, spoof, stuff
circumvent, overreach; outreach, out wit, out maneuver; steal a march upon, give the go-by, to leave in the lurch
set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime; decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; trick; entrap, intrap, ensnare; nick, springe; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; immesh; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity, dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over; gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble
cog, cog the dice; live by one's wits, play at hide and seek; obtain money under false pretenses; conjure, juggle, practice chicanery; deacon
play off, palm off, foist off, fob- off
lie; misinform; mislead; betray; be deceived
deceiving; cunning; prestigious, prestigiatory; deceptive, deceptious; deceitful, covinous; delusive, delusory; illusive, illusory; elusive, insidious, ad captandum vulgus
untrue; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide, pseudo, spurious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious, artificial, bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated; catchpenny; Brummagem; simulated
under false colors, under the garb of, under cover of; over the left
untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not, fib, bounce, crammer, taradiddle, whopper; jhuth
forgery, fabrication, invention; misstatement, misrepresentation; perversion, falsification, gloss, suggestio falsi; exaggeration
invention, fabrication, fiction; fable, nursery tale; romance; absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement; thing devised by the enemy; canard; shave, sell, hum, traveler; s tale, Canterbury tale, cock and bull story, fairy tale, fake, press agent's yarn; claptrap
myth, moonshine, bosh, all my eye and Betty Martin, mare's nest, farce
irony; half truth, white lie, pious fraud; mental reservation
pretense, pretext; false plea; subterfuge, evasion, shift, shuffle, make-believe; sham
profession, empty words; Judas kiss; disguise
untrue, false, trumped up; void of foundation, without- foundation; fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths; unfounded, ben trovato, invented, fabulous, fabricated, forged; fictitious, factitious, supposititious, surreptitious; elusory, illusory; ironical; soi-disant
dupe, gull, gudgeon, gobemouche, cull, cully, victim, pigeon, April fool; jay, sucker; laughingstock; Cyclops, simple Simon, flat; greenhorn; fool; puppet, cat's paw
be deceived, be the dupe of; fall into a trap; swallow the bait, nibble at the bait; bite, catch a Tartar
credulous; mistaken
deceiver; dissembler, hypocrite; sophist, Pharisee, Jesuit, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Joseph Surface, Tartufe, Janus; serpent, snake in the grass, cockatrice, Judas, wolf in sheep's clothing; jilt; shuffler, stool pigeon
liar; story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a triple etage, Scapin; bunko steerer, carpetbagger, capper, faker, fraud, four flusher, horse coper, ringer, spieler, straw bidder
imposter, pretender, soi-disant, humbug; adventurer; Cagliostro, Fernam Mendez Pinto; ass in lion's skin; actor
quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco, saltimbanque, empiric, quacksalver, medicaster, Rosicrucian, gypsy; man of straw
conjuror, juggler, trickster, prestidigitator, jockey; crimp, decoy, decoy duck; rogue, knave, cheat; swindler; jobber
exaggeration; expansion; hyperbole, stretch, strain, coloring; high coloring, caricature, caricatura; extravagance; Baron Munchausen; men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale; fish story, gooseberry
storm in a teacup; much ado about nothing; puff, puffery; rant
figure of speech, facon de parler; stretch of fancy, stretch of the imagination; flight of fancy
false coloring; aggravation
exaggerate, magnify, pile up, aggravate; amplify; overestimate; hyperbolize; overcharge, overstate, overdraw, overlay, overshoot the mark, overpraise; make over much, over the most of; strain, strain over a point; stretch, stretch a point; go great lengths; spin a long yarn; draw with a longbow, shoot with a longbow; deal in the marvelous
out-Herod Herod, run riot, talk at random
heighten, overcolor; color highly, color too highly; broder; flourish; color; puff
overwrought; bombastic; hyperbolical, on stilts; fabulous, extravagant, preposterous, egregious, outre, highflying
indication; symbolism, symbolization; semiology, semiotics, semeiology, semeiotics; Zeitgeist
lineament, feature, trait, characteristic, diagnostic; divining rod; cloven hoof; footfall
sign, symbol; index, indice, indicator; point, pointer; exponent, note, token, symptom; dollar mark
type, figure, emblem, cipher, device; representation; epigraph, motto, posy
gesture, gesticulation; pantomime; wink, glance, leer; nod, shrug, beck; touch, nudge; dactylology, dactylonomy; freemasonry, telegraphy, chirology, byplay, dumb show; cue; hint; clue, clew, key, scent
signal, signal post; rocket, blue light; watch fire, watch tower; telegraph, semaphore, flagstaff; cresset, fiery cross; calumet; heliograph; guidon; headlight
mark, scratch, line, stroke, dash, score, stripe, streak, tick, dot, point, notch, nick; asterisk, red letter, italics, sublineation, underlining, jotting; print; imprint, impress, impression; note, annotation; blaze, cedilla, guillemets, hachure; quotation marks, tilde
[For identification badge, criterion; countercheck, countermark, countersign, counterfoil; duplicate, tally; label, ticket, billet, letter, counter, check, chip, chop; dib; totem; tessera, card, bill; witness, voucher; stamp; cacher; trade mark, Hall mark; signature, autograph, autography; attestation; hand, hand writing, sign manual; cipher; seal, sigil, signet; paraph, brand; superscription; indorsement, endorsement; title, heading, docket; mot de passe, mot du guet; pass-parole; shibboleth; password, watchword, catchword; address card, visiting card; carte de visite; credentials; open sesame; timbrology
insignia; banner, banneret, bannerol; bandrol; flag, colors, streamer, standard, eagle, labarum, oriflamb, oriflamme; figurehead; ensign; pennon, pennant, pendant; burgee, blue Peter, jack, ancient, gonfalon, union jack; banderole, quarantine flag; vexillum; yellow-flag, yellow jack; tricolor, stars and stripes; bunting
heraldry, crest; coat of arms, arms; armorial bearings, hatchment; escutcheon, scutcheon; shield, supporters; livery, uniform; cockade, epaulet, chevron; garland, love knot, favor
beacon, cairn, post, staff, flagstaff, hand, pointer, vane, cock, weathercock; guidepost, handpost, fingerpost, directing post, signpost; pillars of Hercules, pharos; bale-fire, beacon-fire; l'etoile du Nord; landmark, seamark; lighthouse, balize; polestar, loadstar, lodestar; cynosure, guide; address, direction, name; sign, signboard
warning; omen; prefigurement
trace, record
warning; alarm
milestone, milepost
brand, fool's cap
check, telltale; test; mileage ticket; milliary
notification; advertisement
word of command, call; bugle call, trumpet call; bell, alarum, cry; battle cry, rallying cry; angelus; reveille; sacring bell, sanctus bell
exposition, proof; pattern
indicate; be the -sign
- of; denote, betoken; argue, testify; bear the -impress
- of; connote, connotate
represent, stand for; typify; symbolize
put an indication, put a mark
note, mark, stamp, earmark; blaze; label, ticket, docket; dot, spot, score, dash, trace, chalk; print; imprint, impress; engrave, stereotype
signalize; underscore; give a signal, hang out a signal; beckon; nod; wink, glance, leer, nudge, shrug, tip the wink; gesticulate; raise the finger, hold up the finger, raise the hand, hold up the hand; saw the air
wave a banner, unfurl a banner, hoist a banner, hang out a banner
wave the hand, wave a kerchief; give the cue; show one's colors; give an alarm, sound an alarm; beat the drum, sound the trumpets, raise a cry
sign, seal, attest; underline; call attention to; give notice
indicative, indicatory; denotative, connotative; diacritical, representative, typical, symbolic, pantomimic, pathognomonic, symptomatic, characteristic, demonstrative, diagnostic, exponential, emblematic, armorial; individual
known by, recognizable by; indicated
pointed, marked
denotable; indelible
in token of; symbolically
trace, vestige, relic, remains; scar, cicatrix; footstep, footmark, footprint; pug; track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste
monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement; obelisk, pillar, column, monolith; memorial; memento; testimonial, medal; commemoration
record, note, minute; register, registry; roll; cartulary, diptych, Domesday book, dooms day book; catalogue raisonne; entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket; notch; muniment, deed; document; deposition, proces verbal; affidavit; certificate
notebook, memorandum book, pocketbook, commonplace book; portfolio; pigeonholes, excerpta, adversaria, jottings, dottings
gazette, gazetteer; newspaper, daily, magazine; almanac, almanack; calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger; cashbook, petty cashbook
archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book; statistics; compte rendu; Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of; Hansard's Debates; chronicle, annals, legend; history, biography; Congressional Records
registration; registry; enrollment, inrollment; tabulation; entry, booking; signature; recorder; journalism
record; put on record, place on record; chronicle, calendar, hand down to posterity; keep up the memory; commemorate; report; commit to writing, reduce to writing; put in writing, set down in writing, writing in black and white; put down, jot down, take down, write down, note down, set down; note, minute, put on paper; take note, make a note, take minute, take memorandum; make a return
mark; sign
enter, book; post, post up, insert, make an entry of; mark off, tick off; register, enroll, inscroll; file
obliteration; erasure, rasure; cancel, cancellation; circumduction; deletion, blot; tabula rasa; effacement, extinction
efface, obliterate, erase, rase, expunge, cancel; blot out, take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge out; wipe off, rub off; wipe away; deface, render illegible; draw the pen through, apply the sponge
be effaced; leave no trace
out of print; printless; leaving no trace; intestate; unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten
dele; out with it!
recorder, notary, clerk; registrar, registrary, register; prothonotary; amanuensis, secretary, scribe, babu, remembrancer, bookkeeper, custos rotulorum, Master of the Rolls
annalist; historian, historiographer; chronicler, journalist; biographer; antiquary; memorialist; interviewer
representation, representment; imitation; illustration, delineation, depictment; imagery, portraiture, iconography; design, designing; art, fine arts; painting; sculpture; engraving; photography, cinematography; radiography, autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy
personation, personification; impersonation; drama
copy; drawing, sketch, drought, draft; plot, chart, figure, scheme
image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness; very image; effigy, facsimile
figure, figure head; puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay- figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust; statue, statuette
hieroglyphic, anaglyph; diagram, monogram
map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation; ichnography, cartography; atlas; outline, scheme; view; radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph; spectrogram, heliogram
represent, delineate; depict, depicture; portray; take a likeness, catch a likeness
hit off, photograph, daguerreotype; snapshot; figure, shadow forth, shadow out; adumbrate; body forth; describe; trace, copy; mold
dress up; illustrate, symbolize
paint; carve; engrave
personate, personify; impersonate; assume a character; pose as; act; play; mimic; hold the mirror up to nature
represent, representing
representative; illustrative; represented
imitative, figurative; iconic
like; graphic; cinquecento quattrocento, trecento
misrepresentation, distortion, caricatura, exaggeration; daubing
bad likeness, daub, sign painting; scratch, caricature; anamorphosis; burlesque, falsification, misstatement; parody, lampoon, take-off, travesty
misrepresent, distort, overdraw, exaggerate, caricature, daub; burlesque, parody, travesty
painting; depicting; drawing
design; perspective, sciagraphy, skiagraphy; chiaroscuro composition; treatment
historical painting, portrait painting, miniature painting; landscape painting, marine painting; still life, flower painting, scene painting; scenography
school, style; the grand style, high art, genre, portraiture; ornamental art
monochrome, polychrome; grisaille
pallet, palette; easel; brush, pencil, stump; black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel; paint; watercolor, body color, oil color; oils, oil paint; varnisha, priming; gouache, tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass; enamel; encaustic painting; mosaic; tapestry
photography, heliography, color photography; sun painting
picture, painting, piece, tableau, canvas; oil painting; fresco, cartoon; easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft; pencil drawing, water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink; sketch, outline, study
photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph, heliograph; daguerreotype, talbotype, calotype, heliotype
portrait; whole length, full length, half length; kitcat, head; miniature; shade, silhouette; profile
landscape, seapiece; view, scene, prospect; panorama, diorama; still life
picture gallery, exhibit; studio, atelier; pinacotheca
paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple, hatch, dash off, chalk out, square up; color, dead color, wash, varnish; draw in pencil
stencil; depict
pictorial, graphic, picturesque
pencil, oil
sculpture, insculpture; carving
high relief, low relief, bas relief; relief; relieve; bassorilievo, altorilievo, mezzorilievo; intaglio, anaglyph; medal, medallion; cameo
marble, bronze, terra cotta, papier-mache; ceramic ware, pottery, porcelain, china, earthenware; cloisonne, enamel, faience, Laocoon, satsuma
cast; glyptotheca
sculpture, carve, cut, chisel, model, mold; cast
sculptured
in relief, anaglyptic, ceroplastic, ceramic; parian; marble
engraving, chalcography; line engraving, mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving; dry point, bur; etching, aquatinta; chiseling; plate engraving, copperplate engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving; xylography, lignography, glyptography, cerography, lithography, chromolithography, photolithography, zincography, glyphograph, y xylograph, lignograph, glyptograph, cerograph, lithograph, chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph, glyphograph, holograph
impression, print, engraving, plate; steelplate, copperplate; etching; mezzotint, aquatint, lithotint; cut, woodcut; stereotype, graphotype, autotype, heliotype
graver, burin, etching point, style; plate, stone, wood block, negative; die, punch, stamp
printing; plate printing, copperplate printing, anastatic printing, color printing, lithographic printing; type printing; three-color process
illustration, illumination; half tone; photogravure; vignette, initial letter, cul de lampe, tailpiece
engrave, grave, stipple, scrape, etch; bite, bite in; lithograph
insculptured; engraved
artist; painter, limner, drawer, sketcher, designer, engraver; master, old master; draughtsman; copyist, dauber, hack; enamel, enameler, enamelist; caricaturist
historical painter, landscape painter, marine painter, flower painter, portrait painter, miniature painter, miniaturist, scene painter, sign painter, coach painter; engraver; Apelles; sculptor, carver, chaser, modeler, figuriste, statuary; Phidias, Praxiteles; Royal Academician
photographer, cinematographer, lensman, cameraman, camera technician, camera buff; wildlife photographer
language; phraseology; speech; tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King's or Queen's English; dialect
confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie; pantomime; onomatopoeia; betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation; pasigraphy
lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology; linguistics, chrestomathy; paleology, paleography; comparative grammar
literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics; genius of language; scholarship
lingual, linguistic; dialectic; vernacular, current; bilingual; diglot, hexaglot, polyglot; literary
letter; character; hieroglyphic; type; capitals; digraph, trigraph; ideogram, ideograph; majuscule, minuscule; majuscule, minuscule; alphabet, ABC, abecedary, christcross-row
consonant, vowel; diphthong, triphthong; mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural
syllable; monosyllable, dissyllable, polysyllable; affix, suffix
spelling, orthograph; phonography, phonetic spelling; anagrammatism, metagrammatism
cipher, monogram, anagram; doubleacrostic
literal; alphabetical, abecedarian; syllabic; majuscular, minuscular; uncial
word, term, vocable; name; phrase; root, etymon; derivative; part of speech; ideophone
dictionary, vocabulary, lexicon, index, glossary, thesaurus, gradus, delectus, concordance
etymology, derivation; glossology, terminology orismology; paleology
lexocography; glossography; lexicologist, verbarian
verbal, literal; titular, nominal
conjugate, paronymous; derivative
neology, neologism; newfangled expression; caconym; barbarism; archaism, black letter, monkish Latin; corruption, missayingk, antiphrasis
paranomasia, play upon words; word play; double-entendre; palindrome, paragram, clinch; abuse of language, abuse of terms
dialect, brogue, patois, provincialism, broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism; Gypsy lingo, Romany, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir
dog Latin, macaronics, gibberish; confusion of tongues, Babel; jargon; babu English, chi-chi
colloquialism; byword; technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot, St
Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street slang
pseudonym; Mr
So-and-so; wha d'ye call 'em, whatchacallim, what's his name; thingummy, thingumbob; je ne sais quoi
neologist, coiner of words
coin words; Americanize, Anglicize
neologic, neological; archaic; obsolete; colloquial; Anglice
nomenclature; naming
nuncupation, nomination, baptism; orismology; onomatopoeia; antonomasia
name; appelation, appelative; designation title; heading; caption; denomination; by-name, epithet
style, proper name; praenomen, agnomen, cognomen; patronymic, surname; cognomination; eponym; compellation, description, antonym; empty title, empty name; handle to one's name; namesake
term, expression, noun
byword; convertible terms; technical term; cant
name, call, term, denominate designate, style, entitle, clepe, dub, christen, baptize, characterize, specify, define, distinguish by the name of; labelbe -called
take the name of, bean the name of, go by the name of, go under the name of, rejoice in the name of
hight, ycleped, known as; what one may well, call fairly, call properly, call fitly
nuncupatory, nuncupative; cognominal, titular, nominal, orismological
misnomer; lucus a non lucendo; Mrs
Malaprop; what d'ye call 'em; Hoosier
nickname, sobriquet, by-name; assumed name, assumed title; alias; nom de course, nom de theatre, nom de guerre, nom de plume; pseudonym, pseudonymy
misname, miscall, misterm; nickname; assume a name
pseudonymous; soi-disant; self called, self styled, self christened; so-called
nameless, anonymous; without a having no name; innominate, unnamed; unacknowledged
paraphrase; periphrase mottophraseology
express, phrase; word, - it; give -words, - expression -to; voice arrange in word, clothe in words, put into words, express by words; couch in terms; find words to express; speak by the card; call, denominate, designate, dub
in round, in set, in good, set- terms; inset phrases
grammar, accidence, syntax, praxis, punctuation; parts of speech; jussive; syllabication; inflection, case, declension, conjugation; us et norma loquendi; Lindley Murray; correct style, philology
parse, punctuate, syllabicate
solecism; bad grammar, false grammar, faulty grammar; slip of the pen, slip of the tongue; lapsus linguae; slipslop; bull; barbarism, impropriety
use bad grammar, faulty grammar; solecize, commit a solecism; murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English, break Priscian's head
ungrammatical; incorrect, inaccurate; faulty; improper, incongruous; solecistic, solecistical
style, diction, phraseology, wording; manner, strain; composition; mode of expression, choice of words; mode of speech, literary power, ready pen, pen of a ready writer; command of language; authorship; la morgue litteraire
express by words; write
perspicuity, perspicuousness; plain speaking; definiteness, definition; exactness; explicitness, lucidness
lucid; explicit; exact
obscurity; involution; hard words; ambiguity; unintelligibleness; vagueness, inexactness; what d'ye call 'em; darkness of meaning
crabbed, involved, confused
brevity, laconism; Tacitus; ellipsis; syncope; abridgment; compression; epitome; monostich; brunch word, portmanteau word
condense; abridge; abstract; come to the point
concise, brief, short, terse, close; to the point, exact; neat, compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary; pregnant; compendious; succinct; elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious
briefly, summarily; in brief, in short, in a word, in a few words; for shortness sake; to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief; it comes to this, the long and the short of it is
verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum; flow of words; looseness
Polylogy, tautology, battology, perissology; pleonasm, exuberance, redundance; thrice-told tale; prolixity; circumlocution, ambages; periphrase, periphrasis; roundabout phrases; episode; expletive; pennya- lining; richness
run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge, dilate, amplify, expand, inflate; launch out, branch out; rant
maunder, prose; harp upon; dwell on, insist upon
digress, ramble, battre la campagne, beat about the bush, perorate, spin a long yarn, protract; spin out, swell out, draw out; battologize
diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome, long-winded, longspun, long-drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling, episodic; flatulent, frothy
at large, in extenso; about it and about it
vigor, power, force; boldness, raciness
intellectual, force; spirit, point, antithesis, piquancy; verve, glow, fire, warmth; strong language; gravity, sententiousness; elevation, loftiness, sublimity
eloquence; command of words, command of language
vigorous, nervous, powerfor, forcible, trenchant, i