direption†; abstraction, appropriation; plagiary, plagiarism;
autoplagiarism†; latrocinium†.
spoliation, plunder, pillage; sack, sackage†; rapine, brigandage,
foray, razzia†, rape, depredation, raid; blackmail.
piracy, privateering, buccaneering; license to plunder, letters of
marque, letters of mark and reprisal.
filibustering, filibusterism†; burglary; housebreaking; badger game
[Slang].
robbery, highway robbery, hold-up [U.S.], mugging.
peculation, embezzlement; fraud &c 545; larceny, petty larceny,
grand larceny, shoplifting.
thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia†, den of Cacus, den of
thieves.
blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand [U.S.].
[person who commits theft] thief &c 792.
V. steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim†,
crib, cabbage, palm; abstract; appropriate, plagiarize.
convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp; make off with, walk
off with, run off with; run away with; spirit away, seize &c (lay
violent hands on) 789.
plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate†,
despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer†,
maraud, lift cattle, poach; smuggle, run; badger [Slang]; bail up, hold
up, stick up; bunco, bunko, filibuster.
swindle, peculate, embezzle; sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck,
pigeon, fleece; defraud &c 545; obtain under false pretenses; live by
one's wits.
rob Peter to pay Paul, borrow of Peter to pay Paul; set a thief to
catch a thief.
disregard the distinction between meum and tuum [Lat.].
[receive stolen goods] fence, launder, launder money.
Adj. thieving &c v.; thievish, light-fingered; furacious†, furtive;
piratical; predaceous, predal†, predatory, predatorial†; raptorial &c
(rapacious) 789.
stolen &c v..
Phr. sic vos non vobis [Lat.].
792. Thief — N. thief, robber, homo triumliterarum [Lat.], pilferer,
rifler, filcher†, plagiarist.
spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder; harpy, shark [Slang],
land shark, falcon, mosstrooper†, bushranger†, Bedouin†, brigand,
freebooter, bandit, thug, dacoit†; pirate, corsair, viking, Paul Jones†,
buccaneer, buccanier†; piqueerer†, pickeerer†; rover, ranger, privateer,
filibuster; rapparee†, wrecker, picaroon†; smuggler, poacher; abductor,
badger [Slang], bunko man, cattle thief, chor†, contrabandist†, crook,
hawk, holdup man, hold-up [U.S.], jackleg [U.S.], kidnaper, rustler,
cattle rustler, sandbagger, sea king, skin [Slang], sneak thief,
spieler†, strong-arm man [U.S.].
highwayman, Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, Macheath, footpad, sturdy
beggar.
cut purse, pick purse; pickpocket, light-fingered gentry; sharper;
card sharper, skittle sharper; thimblerigger; rook [Slang], Greek,
blackleg, leg, welsher [Slang]; defaulter; Autolycus†, Jeremy Diddler†,
Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster; swell mob [Slang], chevalier
d'industrie [Fr.]; shoplifter.
swindler, peculator; forger, coiner; fence, receiver of stolen
goods, duffer; smasher.
burglar, housebreaker; cracksman†, magsman [Slang]; Bill Sikes,
Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild.
gang [group of thieves], gang of thieves, theft ring; organized
crime, mafia, the Sicilian Mafia, the mob, la cosa nostra [It].
[famous thieves], Dillinger, Al Capone; Robin Hood.
793. Booty — N. booty, spoil, plunder, prize, loot, swag [Slang],
pickings; spolia opima [Lat.], prey; blackmail; stolen goods.
Adj. manubial†.
3. Interchange of Property
794. Barter — N. barter, exchange, scorse†, truck system; interchange
&c 148.
a Roland for an Oliver; quid pro quo; commutation, composition;
Indian gift [U.S.].
trade, commerce, mercature†, buying and selling, bargain and sale;
traffic, business, nundination†, custom, shopping; commercial
enterprise, speculation, jobbing, stockjobbing†, agiotage†, brokery†.
deal, dealing, transaction, negotiation, bargain.
free trade.
V. barter, exchange, swap, swop†, truck, scorse†; interchange &c 148;
commutate &c (substitute) 147; compound for.
trade, traffic, buy and sell, give and take, nundinate†; carry on a
trade, ply a trade, drive a trade; be in business, be in the city; keep
a shop, deal in, employ one's capital in.
trade with, deal with, have dealings with; transact business with,
do business with; open an account with, keep an account with.
bargain; drive a bargain, make a bargain; negotiate, bid for;
haggle, higgle†; dicker [U.S.]; chaffer, huckster, cheapen, beat down;
stickle, stickle for; out bid, under bid; ask, charge; strike a bargain
&c (contract) 769.
speculate, give a sprat to catch a herring; buy in the cheapest
and sell in the dearest market, buy low and sell high; corner the
market; rig the market, stag the market.
Adj. commercial, mercantile, trading; interchangeable, marketable,
staple, in the market, for sale.
wholesale, retail.
Adv. across the counter.
Phr. cambio non e furto [It].
795. Purchase — N. purchase, emption†; buying, purchasing, shopping;
preemption, refusal.
coemption†, bribery; slave trade.
buyer, purchaser, emptor, vendee; patron, employer, client,
customer, clientele.
V. buy, purchase, invest in, procure; rent &c (hire) 788; repurchase,
buy in.
keep in one's pay, bribe, suborn; pay &c 807; spend &c 809.
make a purchase, complete a purchase; buy over the counter.
shop, market, go shopping.
Adj. purchased &c v..
Phr. caveat emptor; the customer is always right.
796. Sale — N. sale, vent, disposal; auction, roup, Dutch auction;
outcry, vendue†; custom &c (traffic) 794.
vendibility, vendibleness†.
seller; vender, vendor; merchant &c 797; auctioneer.
V. sell, vend, dispose of, effect a sale; sell over the counter, sell
by auction &c n.; dispense, retail; deal in &c 794; sell off, sell out;
turn into money, realize; bring to the hammer, bring under the hammer,
put up to auction, put up for auction; offer for sale, put up for sale;
hawk, bring to market; offer &c 763; undersell.
let; mortgage &c (security) 771.
Adj. under the hammer, on the market, for sale.
salable, marketable, vendible; unsalable &c unpurchased†, unbought;
on one's hands.
Phr. chose qui plait est a demi vendue [Fr.].
797. Merchant — N. merchant, trader, dealer, monger, chandler,
salesman; changer; regrater†; shopkeeper, shopman†; tradesman,
tradespeople, tradesfolk.
retailer; chapman, hawker, huckster, higgler†; pedlar, colporteur,
cadger, Autolycus†; sutler†, vivandiere†; costerman†, costermonger†;
tallyman; camelot; faker; vintner.
money broker, money changer, money lender; cambist†, usurer,
moneyer†, banker.
jobber; broker &c (agent) 758; buyer &c 795; seller &c 796; bear,
bull.
concern; firm &c (partnership) 712.
798. Merchandise — N. merchandise, ware, commodity, effects, goods,
article, stock, product, produce, staple commodity; stock in trade &c
(store) 636; cargo &c (contents) 190.
799. Mart — N. mart; market, marketplace; fair, bazaar, staple,
exchange, change, bourse, hall, guildhall; tollbooth, customhouse;
Tattersall's.
stall, booth, stand, newsstand; cart, wagon.
wharf; office, chambers, countinghouse, bureau; counter, compter
[Fr.].
shop, emporium, establishment; store &c 636; department store,
general store, five and ten, variety store, co-op, finding store
[U.S.], grindery warehouse†.
[food stores: list] grocery, supermarket, candy store, sweet shop,
confectionery, bakery, greengrocer, delicatessen, bakeshop, butcher
shop, fish store, farmers' market, mom and pop store, dairy, health
food store.
[specialized stores: list] tobacco shop, tobacco store,
tobacconists, cigar store, hardware store, jewelry shop, bookstore,
liquor store, gun shop, rod and reel shop, furniture store, drugstore,
chemist's [Brit.], florist, flower shop, shoe store, stationer,
stationer's, electronics shop, telephone store, music store, record
shop, fur store, sporting goods store, video store, video rental store;
lumber store, lumber yard, home improvements store, home improvement
center; gas station, auto repair shop, auto dealer, used car dealer.
mall, suburban mall, commons, pedestrian mall; shopping street.
surplus store, army-navy surplus store.
[locations where used articles are sold] auction; flea market;
yard sale, garage sale; pawn shop; antiques store; second-hand store,
second time around shop, thrift shop.
warehouse, wareroom†; depot, interposit†, entrepot [Fr.].
market-overt.
real-estate broker.
vending machine.
799a. Stock Market [specialized markets for financial instruments] —
N. stock market, stock exchange, securities exchange; bourse, board;
the big board, the New York Stock Exchange; the market, the open
market; over-the-counter market; privately traded issues.
commodities exchange, futures exchange, futures market.
the pit, the floor.
ticker, stock ticker, quotation; stock index, market index, the
Dow Jones Index, the Dow Industrials, the transportation index,
utilities, the utilities index; the New York Stock Exchange index, the
Nikkei index [Jap.Tr.]; the Financial Times index, the FTI [Brit.], the
over-the-counter index, NASDAQ index.
[person or firm trading securities] broker, stockbroker, jobber,
stock dealer, odd-lot dealer; specialist.
[person who buys or sells stocks] investor, speculator, operator;
bull, buyer; bear, short seller; scalper, arbitrager†, arbitrageur†;
stockholder, share-holder, stockholder of record; bond holder, coupon-
clipper [Sarc.].
investment; speculation.
V. speculate, invest, trade, trade stocks, play the market; buy long,
sell short, take a position, straddle; take a plunge, plunge in, take a
flier [Coll.].
799b. Securities — N. securities, stocks, common stock, preferred
stock, bonds, puts, calls, options, option contract, warrants,
commercial paper, bearer bond, tax-exempt bond, callable bond,
convertable bond†.
share, stock certificate; coupon, bond coupon.
liquid assets.
4. Monetary Relations
800. Money — N. money, legal tender; money matters, money market;
finance; accounts &c 811; funds, treasure; capital, stock; assets &c
(property) 780; wealth &c 803; supplies, ways and means, wherewithal,
sinews of war, almighty dollar, needful, cash; mammon.
[colloquial terms for money] dough, cabbage.
money-like instruments, M1, M2, sum, amount; balance, balance
sheet; sum total; proceeds &c (receipts) 810.
currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, piece [Fr.], hard
cash, cold cash; dollar, sterling coin; pounds shillings and pence;
Ls.d.; pocket, breeches pocket, purse; money in hand, cash at hand;
ready money, ready cash; slug [U.S.], wad [Slang] wad of bills [U.S.],
wad of money, thick wad of bills, roll of dough [Coll.]; rhino†, blunt†,
dust†, mopus†, tin†, salt†, chink†; argent comptant [Lat.]; bottom
dollar, buzzard dollar†; checks, dibs [Slang].
[specific types of currency] double eagle, eagle; Federal
currency, fractional currency, postal currency; Federal Reserve Note,
United States Note, silver certificate†, gold certificate†; long bit,
short bit [U.S.]; moss, nickel, pile [Slang], pin money, quarter
[U.S.], red cent, roanoke†, rock [Slang]; seawan†, seawant†; thousand
dollars, grand [Coll.].
[types of paper currency, U.S.] single, one-dollar bill; two-
dollar bill; five-dollar bill, fiver [Coll.], fin [Coll.], Lincoln;
ten-dollar bill, sawbuck; twenty-dollar bill, Jackson, double sawbuck;
fifty-dollar bill; hundred-dollar bill, C-note.
[types of U.S. coins: list] penny, cent, Lincoln cent, indian head
penny, copper [1700-1900]; two-cent piece three-cent piece [Fr.], half-
dime†, nickel, buffalo nickel, V nickel†, dime, disme†, mercury dime†,
quarter, two bits, half dollar, dollar, silver dollar, Eisenhower
dollar, Susan B.
Anthony dollar†.
precious metals, gold, silver, copper, bullion, ingot, nugget.
petty cash, pocket money, change, small change, small coin, doit†,
stiver†, rap, mite, farthing, sou, penny, shilling, tester, groat,
guinea; rouleau†; wampum; good sum, round sum, lump sum; power of money,
plum, lac of rupees.
major coin, crown; minor coin.
monetarist, monetary theory.
[Science of coins] numismatics, chrysology†.
[coin scholar or collector] numismatist.
paper money, greenback; major denomination, minor denomination;
money order, postal money order, Post Office order; bank note; bond;
bill, bill of exchange; order, warrant, coupon, debenture, exchequer
bill, assignat†; blueback [U.S.], hundi†, shinplaster [U.S.].
note, note of hand; promissory note, I O U; draft, check, cheque,
back-dated check; negotiable order of withdrawal, NOW.
remittance &c (payment) 807; credit &c 805; liability &c 806.
drawer, drawee†; obligor†, obligee†; moneyer†, coiner.
false money, bad money; base coin, flash note, slip†, kite [Slang];
fancy stocks; Bank of Elegance.
argumentum ad crumenam [Lat.].
letter of credit.
circulation, multiplier effect.
[variation in the value of currency] inflation, double-digit
inflation, hyperinflation, erosion of the currency, debasement of the
currency; deflation; stagflation.
[relative value of two currencies] exchange rate, rate of
exchange, floating exchange rates, fixed rates.
[place to exchange currencies] currency counter, currency
exchange, bureau de change [Fr.].
gold-backed currency, gold standard, silver standard.
bank account, savings account, checking account, money market
account, NOW account, time deposit, deposit, demand deposit, super NOW
account; certificate of deposit, CD.
[money symbols] $ [U.S.], US$ [U.S.]; Y; A$.
[authorities controlling currency] Federal Reserve Bank [U.S.],
central bank [U.S.]; Federal Reserve Board, board of governors of the
Federal Reserve; Treasury Department; Secret Service.
[place where money is manufactured] mint, bureau of engraving.
[government profit in manufacturing money] seigniorage.
[false money] counterfeit, funny money, bogus money, (falsehood)
545.
[cost of money] interest, interest rate, discount rate.
V. amount to, come to, mount up to; touch the pocket; draw, draw upon;
indorse &c (security) 771; issue, utter; discount &c 813; back;
demonetize, remonetize; fiscalize†, monetize.
circulate, be in circulation; be out of circulation.
[manufacture currency] mint (coins), coin; print (paper currency).
[vary the value of money] inflate, deflate; debase; devalue,
revalue.
[vary the amount of money] circulate, put in circulation; withdraw
from circulation.
[change the type of currency] exchange currencies, change money.
charge interest; pay interest; lose interest.
Adj. monetary, pecuniary, crumenal†, fiscal, financial, sumptuary,
numismatic, numismatical†; sterling; nummary†.
Phr. barbarus ipse placet dummodo sit dives [Lat.] [Ovid]; but the
jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that honor feels [Tennyson]; Gelt
regiert die Welt [G.], money rules the world, money makes the world go
round; nervos belli pecuniam infinitam [Lat.] [Cicero]; redet Geld so
schweigt die Welt [G.]; money is the mother's milk of politics [Tip
O'Neill]; money is the root of all evil; money isn't everything; as
phony as a three-dollar bill; don't take any wooden nickels.
801. Treasurer — N. treasurer; bursar, bursary; purser, purse bearer;
cash keeper, banker; depositary; questor†, receiver, steward, trustee,
accountant, Accountant General, almoner, liquidator, paymaster,
cashier, teller; cambist†; money changer &c (merchant) 797.
financier.
Secretary of the Treasury; Chancellor of the Exchequer, minister
of finance.
802. Treasury — N. treasury, bank, exchequer, fisc, hanaper†; cash
register, kutcherry†, bursary; strong box, strong hold, strong room;
coffer; chest &c (receptacle) 191; safe; bank vault; depository &c 636;
till, tiller; purse; money bag, money box; porte-monnaie [Fr.].
purse strings; pocket, breeches pocket.
sinking fund; stocks; public stocks, public funds, public
securities, parliamentary stocks, parliamentary funds, parliamentary
securities; Consols, credit mobilier [Fr.]; bonds.
803. Wealth — N. wealth, riches, fortune, handsome fortune, opulence,
affluence; good circumstances, easy circumstances; independence;
competence &c (sufficiency) 639; solvency.
provision, livelihood, maintenance; alimony, dowry; means,
resources, substance; property &c 780; command of money.
income &c 810; capital, money; round sum &c (treasure) 800; mint
of money, mine of wealth, El Dorado [Sp.], bonanza, Pacatolus,
Golconda, Potosi.
long purse, full purse, well lined purse, heavy purse, deep
pockets; purse of Fortunatus [Lat.]; embarras de richesses [Fr.].
pelf, Mammon, lucre, filthy lucre; loaves and fishes†.
rich man, moneyed man, warm man; man of substance; capitalist,
millionaire, tippybob [Slang], Nabob, Croesus, idas, Plutus, Dives,
Timon of Athens†; Timocracy, Plutocracy; Danae.
V. be rich &c adj.; roll in wealth, roll in riches, wallow in wealth,
wallow in riches.
afford, well afford; command money, command a sum; make both ends
meet, hold one's head above water.
become rich &c adj.; strike it rich; come into a sum of money,
receive a windfall, receive an inheritance, hit the jackpot, win the
lottery; fill one's pocket &c (treasury) 802; feather one's nest, make
a fortune; make money &c (acquire) 775.
enrich, imburse.
worship the golden calf, worship Mammon.
Adj. wealthy, rich, affluent, opulent, moneyed, monied, worth much;
well to do, well off; warm; comfortable, well, well provided for.
made of money; rich as Croesus, filthy rich, rich as a Jew†;
rolling in riches, rolling in wealth.
flush, flush of cash, flush of money, flush of tin [Slang]; in
funds, in cash, in full feather; solvent, pecunious†, out of debt, in
the black, all straight.
Phr. one's ship coming in.
amour fait beaucoup mais argent fait tout [Fr.], love does much
but money does everything; aurea rumpunt tecta quietem [Lat.] [Seneca];
magna servitus ist magna fortuna [Lat.]; mammon, the least erected
spirit that fell from Heaven [Paradise Lost]; opum furiata cupido
[Lat.] [Ovid]; vera prosperita e non aver necessita [It]; wie gewonnen
so zerronnen [G.].
804. Poverty — N. poverty, indigence, penury, pauperism, destitution,
want; need, neediness; lack, necessity, privation, distress,
difficulties, wolf at the door.
bad circumstances, poor circumstances, need circumstances,
embarrassed circumstances, reduced circumstances, straightened
circumstances; slender means, narrow means; straits; hand to mouth
existence, res angusta domi [Lat.], low water, impecuniosity.
beggary; mendicancy, mendicity†; broken fortune, loss of fortune;
insolvency &c (nonpayment) 808.
empty pocket, empty purse; light purse; beggarly account of empty
boxes.
[poor people] poor man, pauper, mendicant, mumper†, beggar,
starveling; pauvre diable [Fr.]; fakir†, schnorrer†; homeless person.
V. be poor &c adj.; want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth, have
seen better days, go down in the world, come upon the parish; go to the
dogs, go to wrack and ruin; not have a penny &c (money) 800, not have a
shot in one's locker; beg one's bread; tirer le diable par la queue
[Fr.]; run into debt &c (debt) 806.
render poor &c adj.; impoverish; reduce, reduce to poverty;
pauperize, fleece, ruin, bring to the parish.
Adj. poor, indigent; poverty-stricken; badly off, poorly off, ill off;
poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job; fortuneless†,
dowerless†, moneyless†, penniless; unportioned†, unmoneyed†; impecunious;
out of money, out of cash, short of money, short of cash; without a
rap, not worth a rap &c (money) 800; qui n'a pas le sou [Fr.], out of
pocket, hard up; out at elbows, out at heels; seedy, bare-footed;
beggarly, beggared; destitute; fleeced, stripped; bereft, bereaved;
reduced; homeless.
in want &c n.; needy, necessitous, distressed, pinched,
straitened; put to one's shifts, put to one's last shifts; unable to
keep the wolf from the door, unable to make both ends meet;
embarrassed, under hatches; involved &c (in debt) 806; insolvent &c
(not paying) 808.
Adv. in forma pauperis [Lat.].
Phr. zonam perdidit [Lat.]; a penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree [Lady
Nairne]; a pobreza no hay verguenza [Sp.]; he that is down can fall no
lower [Butler]; poca roba poco pensiero [It]; steeped .
.
.
in poverty to the very lips [Othello]; the short and simple annals
of the poor [Gray].
805. Credit — N. credit, trust, tick, score, tally, account.
letter of credit, circular note; duplicate; mortgage, lien,
debenture, paper credit, floating capital; draft, lettre de creance
[Fr.], securities.
creditor, lender, lessor, mortgagee; dun; usurer.
credit account, line of credit, open line of credit.
credit card.
V. keep an account with, run up an account with; intrust, credit,
accredit.
place to one's credit, credit to one's account, place to one's
account†; give credit, take credit; fly a kite†.
Adj. crediting, credited; accredited.
Adv. on credit &c n.; on account; to the account of, to the credit of;
a compte [Fr.].
806. Debt — N. debt, obligation, liability, indebtment†, debit, score.
bill; check; account (credit) 805.
arrears, deferred payment, deficit, default, insolvency &c
(nonpayment) 808; bad debt.
interest; premium; usance†, usury; floating debt, floating capital.
debtor, debitor†; mortgagor; defaulter &c 808; borrower.
V. be in debt &c adj.; owe; incur a debt, contract a debt &c n.; run up
a bill, run up a score, run up an account; go on tick; borrow &c 788;
run into debt, get into debt, outrun the constable; run up debts, run
up bills (spend) 809.
answer for, go bail for.
[notify a person of his indebtedness: ] bill, charge.
Adj. indebted; liable, chargeable, answerable for.
in debt, in embarrassed circumstances, in difficulties;
incumbered, involved; involved in debt, plunged in debt, deep in debt,
over one's head in debt, over head and ears in debt; deeply involved;
fast tied up; insolvent &c (not paying) 808; minus, out of pocket.
unpaid; unrequited, unrewarded; owing, due, in arrear†,
outstanding; past due.
Phr. aes alienum debitorem leve gravius inimicum facit [Lat.]; neither
a borrower nor a lender be [Hamlet].
807. Payment — N. payment, defrayment†; discharge; acquittance,
quittance; settlement, clearance, liquidation, satisfaction, reckoning,
arrangement.
acknowledgment, release; receipt, receipt in full, receipt in full
of all demands; voucher.
salary, compensation, remuneration (reward) 973.
repayment, reimbursement, retribution; pay &c (reward) 973; money
paid &c (expenditure) 809.
ready money &c (cash) 800; stake, remittance, installment.
payer, liquidator &c 801.
pay cash, pay cash on the barrelhead.
V. pay, defray, make payment; paydown, pay on the nail, pay ready
money, pay at sight, pay in advance; cash, honor a bill, acknowledge;
redeem; pay in kind.
pay one's way, pay one's shot, pay one's footing; pay the piper,
pay sauce for all, pay costs; do the needful; shell out, fork out;
cough up [Coll.], fork over; come down with, come down with the dust;
tickle the palm, grease the palm; expend &c 809; put down, lay down.
discharge, settle, quit, acquit oneself of; foot the bill; account
with, reckon with, settle with, be even with, be quits with; strike a
balance; settle accounts with, balance accounts with, square accounts
with; quit scores; wipe off old scores, clear off old scores; satisfy;
pay in full; satisfy all demands, pay in full of all demands; clear,
liquidate; pay up, pay old debts.
disgorge, make repayment; repay, refund, reimburse, retribute†;
make compensation &c 30.
pay by credit card, put it on the plastic.
Adj. paying &c; paid &c v.; owing nothing, out of debt, all straight;
unowed†, never indebted.
Adv. to the tune of; on the nail, money down.
808. Nonpayment — N. nonpayment; default, defalcation; protest,
repudiation; application of the sponge†; whitewashing.
insolvency, bankruptcy, failure; insufficiency &c 640; run upon a
bank; overdrawn account.
waste paper bonds; dishonored bills, protested bills; bogus check,
bogus cheque, rubber check.
bankrupt, insolvent, debtor, lame duck, man of straw, welsher,
stag, defaulter, levanter†.
V. not pay &c 807; fail, break, stop payment; become insolvent, become
bankrupt; be gazetted.
protest, dishonor, repudiate, nullify, refuse payment.
pay under protest; button up one's pockets, draw the purse
strings; apply the sponge; pay over the left shoulder, get whitewashed;
swindle &c 791; run up bills, fly kites.
Adj. not paying, non-paying, non-performing; in debt &c 806;
behindhand, in arrear†, behind in payments, in arrears; beggared &c
(poor) 804; unable to make both ends meet, minus; worse than nothing;
worthless.
insolvent, bankrupt, in the gazette, gazetted.
unpaid &c (outstanding) 806; gratis &c 815; unremunerated.
809. Expenditure — N. expenditure, money going out; out goings, out
lay; expenses, disbursement; prime cost &c (price) 812; circulation;
run upon a bank.
payment &c 807 [Money paid]; pay &c (remuneration) 973; bribe &c
973; fee, footing, garnish; subsidy; tribute; contingent, quota;
donation &c 784.
pay in advance, earnest, handsel, deposit, installment.
investment; purchase &c 795.
V. expend, spend; run through, get through; pay, disburse; ante, ante
up; pony up [U.S.]; open the purse strings, loose the purse strings,
untie the purse strings; lay out, shell out [Slang], fork out [Slang],
fork over; bleed; make up a sum, invest, sink money.
run up debts, run up bills (debt) 806.
fee &c (reward) 973; pay one's way &c (pay) 807; subscribe &c
(give) 784; subsidize.
Adj. expending, expended &c v.; sumptuary.
Phr. vectigalia nervos esse reipublicae [Lat.] [Cicero].
810. Receipt — N. receipt, value received, money coming in; income,
incomings, innings, revenue, return, proceeds; gross receipts, net
profit; earnings &c (gain) 775; accepta†, avails.
rent, rent roll; rental, rentage†; rack-rent.
premium, bonus; sweepstakes, tontine.
pension, annuity; jointure &c (property) 780 [Obs.]; alimony,
palimony [Coll.], pittance; emolument &c (remuneration) 973.
V. receive &c 785; take money; draw from, derive from; acquire &c 775;
take &c 789.
bring in, yield, afford, pay, return; accrue &c (be received from)
785.
Adj. receiving, received &c v.; profitable &c (gainful) 775.
811. Accounts — N. accounts, accompts†; commercial arithmetic, monetary
arithmetic; statistics &c (numeration) 85; money matters, finance,
budget, bill, score, reckoning, account.
books, account book, ledger; day book, cash book, pass book;
journal; debtor and creditor account, cash account, running account;
account current; balance, balance sheet; compte rendu [Fr.], account
settled, acquit, assets, expenditure, liabilities, outstanding
accounts; profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, receipts.
bookkeeping, accounting, double entry bookkeeping, reckoning.
audit.
[person who keeps accounts] accountant, auditor, actuary,
bookkeeper, bean counter [Sarc.]; financier &c 801; accounting party;
chartered accountant, certified accountant; accounting firm, auditing
firm.
V. keep accounts, enter, post, book, credit, debit, carry over; take
stock; balance accounts, make up accounts, square accounts, settle
accounts, wind up accounts, cast up accounts; make accounts square,
square accounts.
bring to book, tax, surcharge and falsify.
audit, field audit; check the books, verify accounts.
falsify an account, garble an account, cook an account, cook the
books, doctor an account.
Adj. monetary &c 800; accountable, accounting.
812. Price — N. price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge,
figure; demand, damage; fare, hire, wages &c (remuneration) 973; value
&c 812.1.
dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess†, sess†, tallage†, levy;
abkari†; capitation tax, poll tax; doomage [U.S.], likin†; gabel†,
gabelle†; gavel, octroi†, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence,
tithe, tenths, exactment†, ransom, salvage, tariff; brokerage, wharfage,
freightage.
bill &c (account) 811; shot.
V. bear a price, set a price, fix a price; appraise, assess, doom
[U.S.], price, charge, demand, ask, require, exact, run up; distrain;
run up a bill &c (debt) 806; have one's price; liquidate.
amount to, come to, mount up to; stand one in.
fetch, sell for, cost, bring in, yield, afford.
Adj. priced &c v.; to the tune of, ad valorem; dutiable; mercenary,
venal.
Phr. no penny no paternoster [Lat.]; point d'argent point de Suisse
[Fr.], no longer pipe no longer dance, no song no supper, if you dance
you have to pay the piper, you get what you pay for, there's no such
thing as a free lunch.
one may have it for; a bon marche [Fr.].
812a. Value [intrinsic worth] — N. {ant.
to 812b} worth, rate, value, intrinsic value, quality; par value.
[estimated value] valuation, appraisal, assessment, appraisement.
[value as estimated in a market] price current, market price,
quotation; fair price, going price; what it will fetch &c v.; what the
market will bear.
money's worth; penny's worth &c; worth.
cost (price) 812.
V. value, esteem; appreciate.
[estimate value] appraise, evaluate, assess.
Adj. valuable, estimable; worthwhile; worthy, full of worth.
precious (expensive) 814.
Phr. worth the price; worth a king's ransom; accountants who know the
price of everything and the value of nothing.
812b. Worthlessness — N. {ant.
to 812a} worthlessness, valuelessness†; lack of value; uselessness.
[low value] cheapness, shoddiness; low quality, poor quality.
[worthless item] trash, garbage.
Adj. worthless, valueless; useless.
[of low value] cheap, shoddy; slapdash.
inexpensive &c 815.
Phr. not worth the paper it's printed on, not worth a sou.
813. Discount — N. discount, abatement, concession, reduction,
depreciation, allowance; qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage,
agio†, percentage; rebate, rebatement†; backwardation, contango†;
salvage; tare and tret†.
sale, bargain; half price; price war.
wholesale, wholesale price; dealer's price; trade price.
coupon, discount coupon, cents-off coupon; store coupon,
manufacturer's coupon; double coupon discount, triple coupon discount.
V. discount, bate; abate, rebate; reduce, price down, mark down take
off, allow, give, make allowance; tax.
Adj. discounting &c v..
Adv. at a discount, below par; at wholesale; have a friend in the
business.
814. Dearness — N. dearness &c adj.; high price, famine price, fancy
price; overcharge; extravagance; exorbitance, extortion; heavy pull
upon the purse.
V. be dear &c adj.; cost much, cost a pretty penny; rise in price, look
up.
[demand a price in excess of value] overcharge, bleed, fleece,
extort.
[pay a price in excess of value] pay too much, pay through the
nose, pay too dear for one's whistle, pay top dollar.
Adj. dear; high, high priced; of great price, expensive, costly,
precious; worth a Jew's eye†, dear bought.
at a premium.
not to be had, not to be had for love or money; beyond price,
above price, priceless, of priceless value.
[priced in excess of value] unreasonable, extravagant, exorbitant,
extortionate; overpriced, more than it's woth.
Adv. dear, dearly; at great cost, heavy cost; a grands frais [Fr.].
Phr. prices looking up; le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle [Fr.]; le cout
en ote le gout [Fr.]; vel prece vel pretio [Lat.]; too high a price to
pay, not worth it.
815. Cheapness — N. cheapness, low price; depreciation; bargain; good
penny worth &c; snap [U.S.].
[Absence of charge] gratuity; free quarters, free seats, free
admission, pass, free pass, free warren, give-away, freebee [Coll.];
run of one's teeth; nominal price, peppercorn rent; labor of love.
drug in the market; deadhead†.
V. be cheap &c adj.; cost little; come down in price, fall in price.
buy for a mere nothing, buy for an old song; have one's money's
worth.
Adj. cheap; low, low priced; moderate, reasonable; inexpensive,
unexpensive†; well worth the money, worth the money; magnifique et pas
cher [Fr.]; good at the price, cheap at the price; dirt cheap, dog
cheap; cheap, cheap as dirt, cheap and nasty; catchpenny; discounted &c
813.
half-price, depreciated, unsalable.
gratuitous, gratis, free, for nothing; costless, expenseless†;
without charge, not charged, untaxed; scotfree, shotfree†, rent-free;
free of cost, free of expense; honorary, unbought, unpaid.
Adv. for a mere song, for a song; at cost, at cost price, at prime
cost, at a reduction; a bon marche [Fr.].
816. Liberality — N. liberality, generosity, munificence; bounty,
bounteousness, bountifulness; hospitality; charity &c (beneficence)
906.
V. be liberal &c adj.; spend freely, bleed freely; shower down upon;
open one's purse strings &c (disburse) 809; spare no expense, give
carte blanche [Fr.].
Adj. liberal, free, generous; charitable &c (beneficent) 906;
hospitable; bountiful, bounteous; handsome; unsparing, ungrudging;
unselfish; open handed, free handed, full handed; open hearted, large
hearted, free hearted; munificent, princely.
overpaid.
Phr. handsome is that handsome does [Goldsmith].
817. Economy — N. economy, frugality; thrift, thriftiness; care,
husbandry, good housewifery, savingness†, retrenchment.
savings; prevention of waste, save-all; cheese parings and candle
ends; parsimony &c 819.
cost-cutting, cost control.
V. be economical &c adj.; practice economy; economize, save; retrench,
cut back expenses, cut expenses; cut one's coat according to one's
cloth, make both ends meet, keep within compass, meet one's expenses,
pay one's way, pay as you go; husband &c (lay by) 636.
save money, invest money; put out to interest; provide for a rainy
day, save for a rainy day, provide against a rainy day, save against a
rainy day; feather one's nest; look after the main chance.
cut costs.
Adj. economical, frugal, careful, thrifty, saving, chary, spare,
sparing; parsimonious &c 819.
underpaid.
Adv. sparingly &c adj.; ne quid nimis [Lat.].
Phr. adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit [Lat.]; magnum est vectigal
parsimonia [Lat.] [Cicero].
817a. Greed [excessive desire] — N. covetousness, ravenousness &c
adj.; venality, avidity, cupidity; acquisitiveness (acquisition) 775;
desire &c 865.
[greed for money or material things] greed, greediness, avarice,
avidity, rapacity, extortion.
selfishness &c 943; auri sacra fames [Lat.].
grasping, craving, canine appetite, rapacity.
V. covet, crave (desire) 865; grasp; exact, extort.
Adj. greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping; rapacious;
lickerish†.
greedy as a hog; overeager; voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a
wolf; openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid†, alieni appetens
[Lat.]; insatiable, insatiate; unquenchable, quenchless; omnivorous.
818. Prodigality — N. prodigality, prodigence†; unthriftiness†, waste;
profusion, profuseness; extravagance; squandering &c v.; malversation.
prodigal; spendthrift, waste thrift; losel†, squanderer†, locust;
high roller [U.S.].
V. be prodigal &c adj.; squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth
like water; blow, blow in [Slang]; pay through the nose &c (dear) 814;
spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home,
overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw
good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet†; burn the
candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away
one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter
away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money; pour
water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger
son ble en herbe [Fr.].
Adj. prodigal, profuse, thriftless, unthrifty, improvident, wasteful,
losel†, extravagant, lavish, dissipated, overliberal; full-handed &c
(liberal) 816.
penny wise and pound foolish.
Adv. with an unsparing hand; money burning a hole in one's pocket.
Phr. amor nummi [Lat.]; facile largiri de alieno [Lat.]; wie gewonnen
so zerronnen [G.]; les fous font les festins et les sages les mangent
[Fr.]; spendthrift alike of money and of wit [Cowper]; squandering
wealth was his peculiar art [Dryden].
819. Parsimony — N. parsimony, parcity†; parsimoniousness†, stinginess
&c adj.; stint; illiberality, tenacity.
avarice, greed &c 817.1.
miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm†,
scrimp, lickpenny†, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner,
Jew, usurer; Hessian [U.S.]; pinch fist, pinch penny.
V. be parsimonious &c adj.; grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe,
screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon
nothing, skin a flint.
drive a bargain, drive a hard bargain; cheapen, beat down; stop
one hole in a sieve; have an itching palm, grasp, grab.
Adj. parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling,
scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close; fast handed, close handed,
strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing;
chary; grudging, griping &c v.; illiberal, ungenerous, churlish,
hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious,
greedy, extortionate, rapacious.
Adv. with a sparing hand.
Phr. desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia [Lat.] [Syrus]; hoards after
hoards his rising raptures fill [Goldsmith]; the unsunn'd heaps of
miser's treasures [Milton].
CLASS VI
WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIENT AND MORAL POWERS
SECTION I.
AFFECTIONS IN GENERAL
820. Affections — N. affections, affect; character, qualities,
disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis†,
idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul,
frame of mind, frame of soul; predilection, turn, natural turn of mind;
bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity,
propenseness†, propension†, propendency†; vein, humor, mood, grain,
mettle; sympathy &c (love) 897.
soul, heart, breast, bosom, inner man; heart's core, heart's
strings, heart's blood; heart of hearts, bottom of one's heart,
penetralia mentis [Lat.]; secret and inmost recesses of the heart,
cockles of one's heart; inmost heart, inmost soul; backbone.
passion, pervading spirit; ruling passion, master passion; furore†;
fullness of the heart, heyday of the blood, flesh and blood, flow of
soul.
energy, fervor, fire, force.
V. have affections, possess affections &c n.; be of a character &c n.;
be affected &c adj.; breathe.
Adj. affected, characterized, formed, molded, cast; attempered†,
tempered; framed; predisposed; prone, inclined; having a bias &c n.;
tinctured with, imbued with, penetrated with, eaten up with.
inborn, inbred, ingrained; deep-rooted, ineffaceable, inveterate;
pathoscopic†; congenital, dyed in the wool, implanted by nature,
inherent, in the grain.
affective.
Adv. in one's heart &c n.; at heart; heart and soul &c 821.
Phr. affection is a coal that must be cool'd else suffer'd it will set
the heart on fire [Venus and Adonis].
821. Feeling — N. feeling; suffering &c v.; endurance, tolerance,
sufferance, supportance†, experience, response; sympathy &c (love) 897;
impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep
sense.
warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence; fervor, fervency;
heartiness, cordiality; earnestness, eagerness; empressement [Fr.],
gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore†, fanaticism;
excitation of feeling &c 824; fullness of the heart &c (disposition)
820; passion &c (state of excitability) 825; ecstasy &c (pleasure) 827.
blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock;
agitation &c (irregular motion) 315; quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry,
fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation,
panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother,
stew, ferment; state of excitement.
V. feel; receive an impression &c n.; be impressed with &c adj.;
entertain feeling, harbor feeling, cherish feeling &c n.. respond;
catch the flame, catch the infection; enter the spirit of.
bear, suffer, support, sustain, endure, thole [Scot.], aby†; abide
&c (be composed) 826; experience &c (meet with) 151; taste, prove;
labor under, smart under; bear the brunt of, brave, stand.
swell, glow, warm, flush, blush, change color, mantle; turn color,
turn pale, turn red, turn black in the face; tingle, thrill, heave,
pant, throb, palpitate, go pitapat, tremble, quiver, flutter, twitter;
shake &c 315; be agitated, be excited &c 824; look blue, look black;
wince; draw a deep breath.
impress &c (excite the feelings) 824.
Adj. feeling &c v.; sentient; sensuous; sensorial, sensory; emotive,
emotional; of feeling, with feeling &c n.. warm, quick, lively, smart,
strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive; keen, keen as a
razor; trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic.
impressive, deep, profound, indelible; deep felt, home felt,
heartfelt; swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding,
electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic.
earnest, wistful, eager, breathless; fervent; fervid; gushing,
passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous,
enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming;
boiling over.
pervading, penetrating, absorbing; rabid, raving, feverish,
fanatical, hysterical; impetuous &c (excitable) 825.
impressed with, moved with, touched with, affected with,
penetrated with, seized with, imbued with &c 82; devoured by; wrought
up &c (excited) 824; struck all of a heap; rapt; in a quiver &c n.;
enraptured &c 829.
Adv. heart and soul, from the bottom of one's heart, ab imo pectore
[Lat.], at heart, con amore [It], heartily, devoutly, over head and
ears, head over heels.
Phr. the heart big, the heart full, the heart swelling, the heart
beating, the heart pulsating, the heart throbbing, the heart thumping,
the heart beating high, the heart melting, the heart overflowing, the
heart bursting, the heart breaking; the heart goes out, a heart as big
as all outdoors (sympathy) 897.
822. Sensibility — N. sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness; moral
sensibility; impressibility, affectibility†; susceptibleness,
susceptibility, susceptivity†; mobility; vivacity, vivaciousness;
tenderness, softness; sentimental, sentimentality; sentimentalism.
excitability &c 825; fastidiousness &c 868; physical sensibility
&c 375.
sore point, sore place; where the shoe pinches.
V. be sensible &c adj.; have a tender heart, have a warm heart, have a
sensitive heart.
take to heart, treasure up in the heart; shrink.
die of a rose in aromatic pain [Pope]; touch to the quick; touch
on the raw, touch a raw nerve.
Adj. sensible, sensitive; impressible, impressionable; susceptive,
susceptible; alive to, impassionable†, gushing; warm hearted, tender
hearted, soft hearted; tender as a chicken; soft, sentimental,
romantic; enthusiastic, highflying†, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious,
lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive; excitable &c 825;
oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned; fastidious &c 868.
Adv. sensibly &c adj.; to the quick, to the inmost core.
Phr. mens aequa in arduis [Lat.]; pour salt in the wound.
823. Insensibility — N. insensibility, insensibleness†; moral
insensibility; inertness, inertia; vis inertiae [Lat.]; impassibility,
impassibleness; inappetency†, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude†,
supineness, lukewarmness†.
cold fit, cold blood, cold heart; coldness, coolness; frigidity,
sang froid [Fr.]; stoicism, imperturbation &c (inexcitability) 826
[Obs.]; nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes; insouciance &c (indifference)
866; recklessness &c 863; callousness; heart of stone, stock and stone,
marble, deadness.
torpor, torpidity; obstupefaction†, lethargy, coma, trance,
vegetative state; sleep &c 683; suspended animation; stupor,
stupefaction; paralysis, palsy; numbness &c (physical insensibility)
376.
neutrality; quietism, vegetation.
V. be insensible &c adj.; have a rhinoceros hide; show insensibility &c
n.; not mind, not care, not be affected by; have no desire for &c 866;
have no interest in, feel no interest in, take no interest in; nil
admirari [Lat.]; not care a straw for &c (unimportance) 643; disregard
&c (neglect) 460; set at naught &c (make light of) 483; turn a deaf ear
to &c (inattention) 458; vegetate.
render insensible, render callous; blunt, obtund†, numb, benumb,
paralyze, deaden, hebetate†, stun, stupefy; brutify†; brutalize;
chloroform, anaesthetize†, put under; assify†.
inure; harden the heart; steel, caseharden, sear.
Adj. insensible, unconscious; impassive, impassible; blind to, deaf to,
dead to; unsusceptible, insusceptible; unimpressionable†,
unimpressible†; passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless; unfeeling,
unmoral.
apathetic; leuco-†, phlegmatic; dull, frigid; cold blooded, cold
hearted; cold as charity; flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine,
sluggish, torpid, torpedinous†, torporific†; sleepy &c (inactive) 683;
languid, half-hearted, tame; numbed; comatose; anaesthetic &c 376;
stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned; palsy-stricken.
indifferent, lukewarm; careless, mindless, regardless; inattentive
&c 458; neglectful &c 460; disregarding.
unconcerned, nonchalant, pococurante†, insouciant, sans souci
[Fr.]; unambitious &c 866.
unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited,
unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked†, unstruck†; unblushing &c
(shameless) 885; unanimated; vegetative.
callous, thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious;
hardened; inured, casehardened; steeled against, proof against;
imperturbable &c (inexcitable) 826 [Obs.]; unfelt.
Adv. insensibly &c adj.; aequo animo [Lat.]; without being moved,
without being touched, without being impressed; in cold blood; with dry
eyes, with withers unwrung†.
Phr. never mind; macht nichts [G.], it is of no consequence &c
(unimportant) 643; it cannot be helped; nothing coming amiss; it is all
the same to, it is all one to.
824. Excitation — N. excitation of feeling; mental excitement;
suscitation†, galvanism, stimulation, piquance, piquancy, provocation,
inspiration, calling forth, infection; animation, agitation,
perturbation; subjugation, fascination, intoxication; enravishment†;
entrancement; pressure, tension, high pressure.
unction, impressiveness &c adj.. trail of temper, casus belli
[Lat.]; irritation &c (anger) 900; passion &c (state of excitability)
825; thrill &c (feeling) 821; repression of feeling &c 826;
sensationalism, yellow journalism.
V. excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate,
inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm
the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke;
raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up;
raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle,
apply the torch, set on fire, inflame.
stimulate; exsuscitate†; inspirit; spirit up, stir up, work up,
pique; infuse life into, give new life to; bring new blood, introduce
new blood; quicken; sharpen, whet; work upon &c (incite) 615; hurry on,
give a fillip, put on one's mettle.
fan the fire, fan the flame; blow the coals, stir the embers; fan
into a flame; foster, heat, warm, foment, raise to a fever heat; keep
up, keep the pot boiling; revive, rekindle; rake up, rip up.
stir the feelings, play on the feelings, come home to the
feelings; touch a string, touch a chord, touch the soul, touch the
heart; go to one's heart, penetrate, pierce, go through one, touch to
the quick; possess the soul, pervade the soul, penetrate the soul,
imbrue the soul, absorb the soul, affect the soul, disturb the soul.
absorb, rivet the attention; sink into the mind, sink into the
heart; prey on the mind, distract; intoxicate; overwhelm, overpower;
bouleverser [Fr.], upset, turn one's head.
fascinate; enrapture &c (give pleasure) 829.
agitate, perturb, ruffle, fluster, shake, disturb, startle, shock,
stagger; give one a shock, give one a turn; strike all of a heap; stun,
astound, electrify, galvanize, petrify.
irritate, sting; cut to the heart, cut to the quick; try one's
temper; fool to the top of one's bent, pique; infuriate, madden, make
one's blood boil; lash into fury &c (wrath) 900.
be excited &c adj.; flush up, flare up; catch the infection;
thrill &c (feel) 821; mantle; work oneself up; seethe, boil, simmer,
foam, fume, flame, rage, rave; run mad &c (passion) 825.
Adj. excited &c v.; wrought up, up the qui vive [Fr.], astir,
sparkling; in a quiver &c 821, in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in
a state of excitement; in hysterics; black in the face, overwrought,
tense, taught, on a razor's edge; hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish; all
of a twitter, in a pucker; with quivering lips, with tears in one's
eyes.
flaming; boiling over; ebullient, seething; foaming at the mouth;
fuming, raging, carried away by passion, wild, raving, frantic, mad,
distracted, beside oneself, out of one's wits, ready to burst,
bouleverse†, demoniacal.
lost, eperdu [Fr.], tempest-tossed; haggard; ready to sink.
stung to the quick, up, on one's high ropes.
exciting, absorbing, riveting, distracting &c v.; impressive,
warm, glowing, fervid, swelling, imposing, spirit-stirring, thrilling;
high-wrought; soul-stirring, soul-subduing; heart-stirring, heart-
swelling, heart-thrilling; agonizing &c (painful) 830; telling,
sensational, hysterical; overpowering, overwhelming; more than flesh
and blood can bear; yellow.
piquant &c (pungent) 392; spicy, appetizing, provocative,
provoquant†, tantalizing.
eager to go, anxious to go, chafing at the bit.
Adv. till one is black in the face.
Phr. the heart beating high, the heart going pitapat, the heart leaping
into one's mouth; the blood being up, the blood boiling in one's veins;
the eye glistening, the eyes in a fine frenzy rolling; the head turned;
when the going gets tough, the tough get going [Richard Nixon].
825. [Excess of sensitiveness] Excitability — N. excitability,
impetuosity, vehemence; boisterousness &c adj.; turbulence; impatience,
intolerance, nonendurance†; irritability &c (irascibility) 901; itching
&c (desire) 865; wincing; disquiet, disquietude; restlessness; fidgets,
fidgetiness; agitation &c (irregular motion) 315.
trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry; fluster,
flutter; pother, stew, ferment; whirl; buck fever; hurry-skurry†, thrill
&c (feeling) 821; state of excitement, fever of excitement; transport.
passion, excitement, flush, heat; fever, heat; fire, flame, fume,
blood boiling; tumult; effervescence, ebullition; boiling over; whiff,
gust, story, tempest; scene, breaking out, burst, fit, paroxysm,
explosion; outbreak, outburst; agony.
violence &c 173; fierceness &c adj.; rage, fury, furor, furore†,
desperation, madness, distraction, raving, delirium; phrensy†, frenzy,
hysterics; intoxication; tearing passion, raging passion; anger &c 900.
fascination, infatuation, fanaticism; Quixotism, Quixotry; tete
montee [Fr.].
V. be impatient &c adj.; not be able to bear &c 826; bear ill, wince,
chafe, champ a bit; be in a stew &c n.; be out of all patience, fidget,
fuss, not have a wink of sleep; toss on one's pillow.
lose one's temper &c 900; break out, burst out, fly out; go off,
fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool
[Coll.]; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take
fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear;
go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck;
battre la campagne [Fr.], faire le diable a quatre [Fr.], play the
deuce.
Adj. excitable, easily excited, in an excitable state; high-strung;
irritable &c (irascible) 901; impatient, intolerant.
feverish, febrile, hysterical; delirious, mad, moody, maggoty-
headed.
unquiet, mercurial, electric, galvanic, hasty, hurried, restless,
fidgety, fussy; chafing &c v.. startlish†, mettlesome, high-mettled†,
skittish.
vehement, demonstrative, violent, wild, furious, fierce, fiery,
hot-headed, madcap.
overzealous, enthusiastic, impassioned, fanatical; rabid &c
(eager) 865.
rampant, clamorous, uproarious, turbulent, tempestuous,
tumultuary†, boisterous.
impulsive, impetuous, passionate; uncontrolled, uncontrollable;
ungovernable, irrepressible, stanchless†, inextinguishable, burning,
simmering, volcanic, ready to burst forth, volatile.
excited, exciting &c 824.
Int. pish!, pshaw!,
Phr. noli me tangere [Lat.]; filled with fury, rapt, inspir'd
[Collins]; maggiore fretta minore atto [It].
826. [Absence of excitability, or of excitement.] Inexcitability — N.
inexcitability†, imperturbability, inirritability†; even temper,
tranquil mind, dispassion; tolerance, patience, coolth [Coll.].
passiveness &c (physical inertness) 172; hebetude†, hebetation†;
impassibility &c (insensibility) 823; stupefaction.
coolness, calmness &c adj.; composure, placidity, indisturbance†,
imperturbation†, sang froid [Fr.], tranquility, serenity; quiet,
quietude; peace of mind, mental calmness.
staidness &c adj.; gravity, sobriety, Quakerism†; philosophy,
equanimity, stoicism, command of temper; self-possession, self-control,
self-command, self-restraint, ice water in one's veins; presence of
mind.
submission &c 725; resignation; sufferance, supportance†,
endurance, longsufferance†, forbearance; longanimity†; fortitude;
patience of Job, patience on a monument [Twelfth Night], patience
'sovereign o'er transmuted ill' [Johnson]; moderation; repression of
feelings, subjugation of feeling; restraint &c 751.
tranquillization &c (moderation) 174 [Obs.].
V. be composed &c adj.. laisser faire [Fr.], laisser aller [Fr.]; take
things easily, take things as they come; take it easy, rub on, live and
let live; take easily, take cooly†, take in good part; aequam servare
mentem [Lat.].
bear the brunt, bear well; go through, support, endure, brave,
disregard.
tolerate, suffer, stand, bide; abide, aby†; bear with, put up with,
take up with, abide with; acquiesce; submit &c (yield) 725; submit with
a good grace; resign oneself to, reconcile oneself to; brook, digest,
eat, swallow, pocket, stomach.
make light of, make the best of, make 'a virtue of necessity'
[Chaucer]; put a good face on, keep one's countenance; check &c 751;
check oneself.
compose, appease &c (moderate); 174; propitiate; repress &c
(restrain) 751; render insensible &c 823; overcome one's excitability,
allay one's excitability, repress one's excitability &c 825; master
one's feelings.
make oneself easy; make one's mind easy; set one's mind at ease,
set one's mind at rest.
calm down, cool down; gentle; thaw, grow cool.
be borne, be endured; go down.
Adj. inexcitable†, unexcitable; imperturbable; unsusceptible &c
(insensible) 823; unpassionate†, dispassionate; cold-blooded, irritable;
enduring &c v.; stoical, Platonic, philosophic, staid, stayed; sober,
sober minded; grave; sober as a judge, grave as a judge; sedate,
demure, cool-headed.
easy-going, peaceful, placid, calm; quiet as a mouse; tranquil,
serene; cool as a cucumber, cool as a custard; undemonstrative.
temperate &c (moderate) 174; composed, collected; unexcited,
unstirred, unruffled, undisturbed, unperturbed, unimpassioned;
unoffended†; unresisting.
meek, tolerant; patient, patient as Job; submissive &c 725; tame;
content, resigned, chastened, subdued, lamblike†; gentle as a lamb;
suaviter in modo [Lat.]; mild as mothers milk; soft as peppermint;
armed with patience, bearing with, clement, long-suffering.
Adv. like patience on a monument smiling at grief [Twelfth Night];
aequo animo [Lat.], in cold blood &c 823; more in sorrow than in anger.
Int. patience!, and shuffle the cards.
Phr. cool calm and collected, keep calm in the midst of a storm;
adversity's sweet milk, philosophy [Romeo and Juliet]; mens aequa in
arduis philosophia stemma non inspecite [Lat.] [Seneca]; quo me cumque
rapit tempestas deferor hospes [Lat.] [Horace]; they also serve who
only stand and wait [Milton].
SECTION II
PERSONAL AFFECTIONS
1. PASSIVE AFFECTIONS
827. Pleasure — N. pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition;
oblectation, delectation, delection†; relish, zest; gusto &c (physical
pleasure) 377; satisfaction &c (content) 831; complacency.
well-being; good &c 618; snugness, comfort, ease; cushion &c 215;
sans souci [Fr.], without worry, mind at ease.
joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine; cheerfulness &c
836.
treat, refreshment; amusement &c 840; luxury &c 377.
mens sana in corpore sano [Lat.] [Juvenal], a sound mind in a
sound body.
happiness, felicity, bliss; beatitude, beautification;
enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy; summum bonum
[Lat.]; paradise, elysium &c (heaven) 981; third heaven†, seventh
heaven, cloud nine; unalloyed happiness &c; hedonics†, hedonism.
honeymoon; palmy days, halcyon days; golden age, golden time;
Dixie, Dixie's land; Saturnia regna [Lat.], Arcadia†, Shangri-La, happy
valley, Agapemone†.
V. be pleased &c 829; feel pleasure, experience pleasure &c n.; joy;
enjoy oneself, hug oneself; be in clover &c 377, be in elysium &c 981;
tread on enchanted ground; fall into raptures, go into raptures.
feel at home, breathe freely, bask in the sunshine.
be pleased with &c 829; receive pleasure, derive pleasure &c n..
from; take pleasure &c n.. in; delight in, rejoice in, indulge in,
luxuriate in; gloat over &c (physical pleasure) 377; enjoy, relish,
like; love &c 897; take to, take a fancy to; have a liking for; enter
into the spirit of.
take in good part.
treat oneself to, solace oneself with.
Adj. pleased &c 829; not sorry; glad, gladsome; pleased as Punch.
happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified; happy as a clam at
high water [U.S.], happy as a clam, happy as a king, happy as the day
is long; thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus [Lat.]; enjoying &c v.;
joyful &c (in spirits) 836; hedonic†.
in a blissful state, in paradise &c 981, in raptures, in
ecstasies, in a transport of delight.
comfortable &c (physical pleasure) 377; at ease; content &c 831;
sans souci [Fr.].
overjoyed, entranced, enchanted; enraptures; enravished†;
transported; fascinated, captivated.
with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes.
pleasing &c 829; ecstatic, beatic†; painless, unalloyed, without
alloy, cloudless.
Adv. happily &c adj.; with pleasure &c (willingfully) 602 [Obs.]; with
glee &c n..
Phr. one's heart leaping with joy.
a wilderness of sweets [Paradise Lost]; I wish you all the joy
that you can wish [M.
of Venice]; jour de ma vie; joy ruled the day and love the night
[Dryden]; joys season'd high and tasting strong of guilt [Young]; oh
happiness, our being's end and aim! [Pope]; there is a pleasure that is
born of pain [O Meridith]; throned on highest bliss [Paradise Lost];
vedi Napoli e poi muori [It]; zwischen Freud und Leid ist die Brucke
nicht weit [G.], the bridge between joy and sorrow is not wide.
828. Pain — N. mental suffering, pain, dolor; suffering, sufferance;
ache, smart &c (physical pain) 378; passion.
displeasure, dissatisfaction, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet;
malaise; inquietude, uneasiness, vexation of spirit; taking; discontent
&c 832.
dejection &c 837; weariness &c 841; anhedonia†.
annoyance, irritation, worry, infliction, visitation; plague,
bore; bother, botheration; stew, vexation, mortification, chagrin,
esclandre [Fr.]; mauvais quart d'heur [Fr.].
care, anxiety, solicitude, trouble, trial, ordeal, fiery ordeal,
shock, blow, cark†, dole, fret, burden, load.
concern, grief, sorrow, distress, affliction, woe, bitterness,
heartache; carking cares; heavy heart, aching heart, bleeding heart,
broken heart; heavy affliction, gnawing grief.
unhappiness, infelicity, misery, tribulation, wretchedness,
desolation; despair &c 859; extremity, prostration, depth of misery.
nightmare, ephialtes†, incubus.
pang, anguish, agony; torture, torment; purgatory &c (hell) 982.
hell upon earth; iron age, reign of terror; slough of despond &c
(adversity) 735; peck of troubles; ills that flesh is heir to &c (evil)
619 [Hamlet]; miseries of human life; unkindest cut of all [Julius
Caesar].
sufferer, victim, prey, martyr, object of compassion, wretch,
shorn lamb.
V. feel pain, suffer pain, experience pain, undergo pain, bear pain,
endure pain &c n., smart, ache &c (physical pain) 378; suffer, bleed,
ail; be the victim of.
labor under afflictions; bear the cross; quaff the bitter cup,
have a bad time of it; fall on evil days &c (adversity) 735; go hard
with, come to grief, fall a sacrifice to, drain the cup of misery to
the dregs, sup full of horrors [Macbeth].
sit on thorns, be on pins and needles, wince, fret, chafe, worry
oneself, be in a taking, fret and fume; take on, take to heart; cark†.
grieve; mourn &c (lament) 839; yearn, repine, pine, droop,
languish, sink; give way; despair &c 859; break one's heart; weigh upon
the heart &c (inflict pain) 830.
Adj. in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain &c n.; suffering &c v.;
pained, afflicted, worried, displeased &c 830; aching, griped, sore &c
(physical pain) 378; on the rack, in limbo; between hawk and buzzard.
uncomfortable, uneasy; ill at ease; in a taking, in a way;
disturbed; discontented &c 832; out of humor &c 901.1; weary &c 841.
heavy laden, stricken, crushed, a prey to, victimized, ill-used.
unfortunate &c (hapless) 735; to be pitied, doomed, devoted,
accursed, undone, lost, stranded; fey.
unhappy, infelicitous, poor, wretched, miserable, woe-begone;
cheerless &c (dejected) 837; careworn.
concerned, sorry; sorrowing, sorrowful; cut up, chagrined,
horrified, horror-stricken; in grief, plunged in grief, a prey to grief
&c n.; in tears &c (lamenting) 839; steeped to the lips in misery;
heart-stricken, heart-broken, heart-scalded; broken-hearted; in despair
&c 859.
Phr. the iron entered into our soul; haeret lateri lethalis arundo
[Lat.] [Vergil]; one's heart bleeding; down, thou climbing sorrow
[Lear]; mirth cannot move a soul in agony [Love's Labor's Lost]; nessun
maggior dolere che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria [It];
sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things [Tennyson]; the
Niobe of Nations [Byron].
829. [Capability of giving pleasure; cause or source of pleasure.]
Pleasurableness — N. pleasurableness, pleasantness, agreeableness &c
adj.; pleasure giving, jucundity†, delectability; amusement &c 840.
attraction &c (motive) 615; attractiveness, attractability†;
invitingness &c adj.†; harm, fascination, enchantment, witchery,
seduction, winning ways, amenity, amiability; winsomeness.
loveliness &c (beauty) 845; sunny side, bright side; sweets &c
(sugar) 396; goodness &c 648; manna in the wilderness, land flowing
with milk and honey; bittersweet; fair weather.
treat; regale &c (physical pleasure) 377; dainty; titbit†, tidbit;
nuts, sauce piquante [Fr.].
V. cause pleasure, produce pleasure, create pleasure, give pleasure,
afford pleasure, procure pleasure, offer pleasure, present pleasure,
yield pleasure &c 827.
please, charm, delight, becharm†, imparadise†; gladden &c (make
cheerful) 836; take, captivate, fascinate; enchant, entrance,
enrapture, transport, bewitch; enravish†.
bless, beatify; satisfy; gratify, desire; &c 865; slake, satiate,
quench; indulge, humor, flatter, tickle; tickle the palate &c (savory)
394; regale, refresh; enliven; treat; amuse &c 840; take one's fancy,
tickle one's fancy, hit one's fancy; meet one's wishes; win the heart,
gladden the heart, rejoice the heart, warm the cockles of the heart; do
one's heart good.
attract, allure &c (move) 615; stimulate &c (excite) 824;
interest.
make things pleasant, popularize, gild the pill, sugar-coat the
pill, sweeten.
Adj. causing pleasure &c v.; laetificant†; pleasure-giving, pleasing,
pleasant, pleasurable; agreeable; grateful, gratifying; leef†, lief,
acceptable; welcome, welcome as the roses in May; welcomed; favorite;
to one's taste, to one's mind, to one's liking; satisfactory &c (good)
648.
refreshing; comfortable; cordial; genial; glad, gladsome; sweet,
delectable, nice, dainty; delicate, delicious; dulcet; luscious &c 396;
palatable &c 394; luxurious, voluptuous; sensual &c 377.
[of people] attractive &c 615; inviting, prepossessing, engaging;
winning, winsome; taking, fascinating, captivating, killing; seducing,
seductive; heart-robbing, alluring, enticing; appetizing &c (exciting)
824; cheering &c 836; bewitching; enchanting, entrancing, enravishing†.
charming; delightful, felicitous, exquisite; lovely &c (beautiful)
845; ravishing, rapturous; heartfelt, thrilling, ecstatic; beatic†;
beatific; seraphic; empyrean; elysian &c (heavenly) 981.
palmy, halcyon, Saturnian.
Phr. decies repetita placebit [Lat.]; charms strike the sight but merit
wins the soul [Pope]; sweetness and light [Swift]; beauty is only skin
deep.
830. [Capability of giving pain; cause or source of pain]. Painfulness
— N. painfulness &c adj.; trouble, care &c (pain) 828; trial;
affliction, infliction; blow, stroke, burden, load, curse; bitter pill,
bitter draught; waters of bitterness.
annoyance, grievance, nuisance, vexation, mortification, sickener†;
bore, bother, pother, hot water, sea of troubles [Hamlet], hornet's
nest, plague, pest.
cancer, ulcer, sting, thorn; canker &c (bane) 663; scorpion &c
(evil doer) 913; dagger &c (arms) 727; scourge &c (instrument of
punishment) 975; carking care, canker worm of care.
mishap, misfortune &c (adversity) 735; desagrement [Fr.],
esclandre [Fr.], rub.
source of irritation, source of annoyance; wound, open sore; sore
subject, skeleton in the closet; thorn in the flesh, thorn in one's
side; where the shoe pinches, gall and wormwood.
sorry sight, heavy news, provocation; affront &c 929; head and
front of one's offending [Othello].
infestation, molestation; malignity &c (malevolence) 907.
V. cause pain, occasion pain, give pain, bring pain, induce pain,
produce pain, create pain, inflict pain &c 828; pain, hurt, wound.
pinch, prick, gripe &c (physical pain) 378; pierce, lancinate†,
cut.
hurt the feelings, wound the feelings, grate upon the feelings,
grate upon the nerves, jar upon the feelings; wring the heart, pierce
the heart, lacerate the heart, break the heart, rend the heart; make
the heart bleed; tear the heart strings, rend the heart strings; draw
tears from the eyes.
sadden; make unhappy &c 828; plunge into sorrow, grieve, fash†,
afflict, distress; cut up, cut to the heart.
displease, annoy, incommode, discompose, trouble, disquiet; faze,
feaze†, feeze [U.S.]; disturb, cross, perplex, molest, tease, tire, irk,
vex, mortify, wherret†, worry, plague, bother, pester, bore, pother,
harass, harry, badger, heckle, bait, beset, infest, persecute,
importune.
wring, harrow, torment, torture; bullyrag; put to the rack, put to
the question; break on the wheel, rack, scarify; cruciate†, crucify;
convulse, agonize; barb the dart; plant a dagger in the breast, plant a
thorn in one's side.
irritate, provoke, sting, nettle, try the patience, pique, fret,
rile, tweak the nose, chafe, gall; sting to the quick, wound to the
quick, cut to the quick; aggrieve, affront, enchafe†, enrage, ruffle,
sour the temper; give offense &c (resentment) 900.
maltreat, bite, snap at, assail; smite &c (punish) 972.
sicken, disgust, revolt, nauseate, disenchant, repel, offend,
shock, stink in the nostrils; go against the stomach, turn the stomach;
make one sick, set the teeth on edge, go against the grain, grate on
the ear; stick in one's throat, stick in one's gizzard; rankle, gnaw,
corrode, horrify, appal†, appall, freeze the blood; make the flesh
creep, make the hair stand on end; make the blood curdle, make the
blood run cold; make one shudder.
haunt the memory; weigh on the heart, prey on the heart, weigh on
the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, prey on the spirits;
bring one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; add a nail to one's
coffin.
Adj. causing pain, hurting &c v.; hurtful &c (bad) 649; painful;
dolorific†, dolorous; unpleasant; unpleasing, displeasing; disagreeable,
unpalatable, bitter, distasteful; uninviting; unwelcome; undesirable,
undesired; obnoxious; unacceptable, unpopular, thankless.
unsatisfactory, untoward, unlucky, uncomfortable.
distressing; afflicting, afflictive; joyless, cheerless,
comfortless; dismal, disheartening; depressing, depressive; dreary,
melancholy, grievous, piteous; woeful, rueful, mournful, deplorable,
pitiable, lamentable; sad, affecting, touching, pathetic.
irritating, provoking, stinging, annoying, aggravating,
mortifying, galling; unaccommodating, invidious, vexatious;
troublesome, tiresome, irksome, wearisome; plaguing, plaguy†; awkward.
importunate; teasing, pestering, bothering, harassing, worrying,
tormenting, carking.
intolerable, insufferable, insupportable; unbearable, unendurable;
past bearing; not to be borne, not to be endured; more than flesh and
blood can bear; enough to drive one mad, enough to provoke a saint,
enough to make a parson swear, enough to gag a maggot.
shocking, terrific, grim, appalling, crushing; dreadful, fearful,
frightful; thrilling, tremendous, dire; heart-breaking, heart-rending,
heart-wounding, heart-corroding, heart-sickening; harrowing, rending.
odious, hateful, execrable, repulsive, repellent, abhorrent;
horrid, horrible, horrific, horrifying; offensive.
nauseous, nauseating; disgusting, sickening, revolting; nasty;
loathsome, loathful†; fulsome; vile &c (bad) 649; hideous &c 846.
sharp, acute, sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel, biting,
caustic; cutting, corroding, consuming, racking, excruciating,
searching, grinding, grating, agonizing; envenomed; catheretic†, pyrotic
[Med.].
ruinous, disastrous, calamitous, tragical; desolating, withering;
burdensome, onerous, oppressive; cumbrous, cumbersome.
Adv. painfully &c adj.; with pain &c 828; deuced.
Int. hinc illae lachrymae! [Lat.],
Phr. surgit amari aliquid [Lat.]; the place being too hot to hold one;
the iron entering into the soul; he jests at scars that never felt a
wound [Romeo and Juliet]; I must be cruel only to be kind [Hamlet];
what deep wounds ever closed without a scar? [Byron].
831. Content — N. content, contentment, contentedness; complacency,
satisfaction, entire satisfaction, ease, heart's ease, peace of mind;
serenity &c 826; cheerfulness &c 836; ray of comfort; comfort &c (well-
being) 827.
reconciliation; resignation &c (patience) 826.
[person who is contented] waiter on Providence.
V. be content &c adj.; rest satisfied, rest and be thankful; take the
good the gods provide, let well alone, let well enough alone, feel
oneself at home, hug oneself, lay the flattering unction to one's soul.
take up with, take in good part; accept, tolerate; consent &c 762;
acquiesce, assent &c 488; be reconciled to, make one's peace with; get
over it; take heart, take comfort; put up with &c (bear) 826.
render content &c adj.; set at ease, comfort; set one's heart at
ease, set one's mind at ease, set one's heart at rest, set one's mind
at rest; speak peace; conciliate, reconcile, win over, propitiate,
disarm, beguile; content, satisfy; gratify &c 829.
be tolerated &c 826; go down, go down well, go down with; do; be
OK.
Adj. content, contented; satisfied &c v.; at ease, at one's ease, at
home; with the mind at ease, sans souci [Fr.], sine cura [Lat.],
easygoing, not particular; conciliatory; unrepining†, of good comfort;
resigned &c (patient) 826; cheerful &c 836.
unafflicted, unvexed†, unmolested, unplagued†; serene &c 826; at
rest, snug, comfortable; in one's element.
satisfactory, tolerable, good enough, OK, all right, acceptable.
Adv. contently†, contentedly, to one's heart's content; a la bonne heure
[Fr.]; all for the best.
Int. amen &c (assent) 488; very well, all the better, so much the
better, well and good; it will do, that will do; it cannot be helped.
Phr. nothing comes amiss.
a heart with room for every joy [Bailey]; ich habe genossen das
irdische Gluck ich habe gelebt und geliebet [G.] [Schiller]; nor cast
one longing lingering look behind [Gray]; shut up in measureless
content [Macbeth]; sweet are the thoughts that savor of content [R.
Greene]; their wants but few their wishes all confined
[Goldsmith]; might as well relax and enjoy it.
832. Discontent — N. discontent, discontentment; dissatisfaction;
dissent &c 489.
disappointment, mortification; cold comfort; regret &c 833;
repining, taking on &c v.; heart-burning, heart-grief; querulousness &c
(lamentation) 839; hypercriticism.
inquietude, vexation of spirit, soreness; worry, concern, fear &c
860.
[person who is discontented] malcontent, grumbler, growler,
croaker, dissident, dissenter, laudator temporis acti [Lat.]; censurer,
complainer, fault-finder, murmerer†.
cave of Adullam†, indignation meeting, winter of our discontent
[Henry VI]; with what I most enjoy contented least [Shakespeare].
V. be discontented &c adj.; quarrel with one's bread and butter;
repine; regret &c 833; wish one at the bottom of the Red Sea; take on,
take to heart; shrug the shoulders; make a wry face, pull a long face;
knit one's brows; look blue, look black, look black as thunder, look
blank, look glum.
take in bad part, take ill; fret, chafe, make a piece of work
[Fr.]; grumble, croak; lament &c 839.
cause discontent &c n.; dissatisfy, disappoint, mortify, put out,
disconcert; cut up; dishearten.
Adj. discontented; dissatisfied &c v.; unsatisfied, ungratified;
dissident; dissentient &c 489; malcontent, malcontented, exigent,
exacting, hypercritical.
repining &c v.; regretful &c 833; down in the mouth &c (dejected)
837.
in high dudgeon, in a fume, in the sulks, in the dumps, in bad
humor; glum, sulky; sour as a crab; soured, sore; out of humor, out of
temper.
disappointing &c v.; unsatisfactory.
frustrated (failure) 732.
Int. so much the worse!,
Phr. that won't do, that will never do, it will never do; curtae nescio
quid semper abest rei [Lat.] [Horace]; ne Jupiter Quidem omnibus placet
[Lat.]; poor in abundance, famished at a feast [Young].
833. Regret — N. regret, repining; homesickness, nostalgia; mal du
pays, maladie [Fr.]; lamentation &c 839; penitence &c 950.
bitterness, heartburning†.
recrimination (accusation) 938.
laudator temporis acti &c (discontent) 832 [Lat.].
V. regret, deplore; bewail &c (lament) 839; repine, cast a longing
lingering look behind; rue, rue the day; repent &c 950; infandum
renovare dolorem [Lat.].
prey on the mind, weigh on the mind, have a weight on the mind;
leave an aching void.
Adj. regretting &c v.; regretful; homesick.
regretted &c v.; much to be regretted, regrettable; lamentable &c
(bad) 649.
Adv. regrettably, unfortunately; most unfortunately.
Int. alas!; what a pity!, hang it!,
Phr. 'tis pity [Contr.], 'tis too true [Contr.]; sigh'd and look'd and
sigh'd again [Dryden]; I'm sorry.
834. Relief — N. relief; deliverance; refreshment &c 689; easement,
softening, alleviation, mitigation, palliation, soothing, lullaby.
solace, consolation, comfort, encouragement.
lenitive, restorative &c (remedy) 662; cushion &c 215; crumb of
comfort, balm in Gilead.
V. relieve, ease, alleviate, mitigate, palliate, soothe; salve; soften,
soften down; foment, stupe†, poultice; assuage, allay.
cheer, comfort, console; enliven; encourage, bear up, pat on the
back, give comfort, set at ease; gladden the heart, cheer the heart;
inspirit, invigorate.
remedy; cure &c (restore) 660; refresh; pour balm into, pour oil
on.
smooth the ruffled brow of care, temper the wind to the shorn
lamb, lay the flattering unction to one's soul.
disburden &c (free) 705; take a load off one's chest, get a load
off one's chest, take off a load of care.
be relieved; breathe more freely, draw a long breath; take
comfort; dry the tears, dry the eyes, wipe the tears, wipe the eyes.
Adj. relieving &c v.; consolatory, soothing; assuaging, assuasive†;
balmy, balsamic; lenitive, palliative; anodyne &c (remedial) 662;
curative &c 660.
Phr. here comes a man of comfort [Measure for Measure].
835. Aggravation — N. aggravation, worsening, heightening;
exacerbation; exasperation; overestimation &c 482; exaggeration &c 549.
V. aggravate, render worse, heighten, embitter, sour; exacerbate;
exasperate, envenom; enrage, provoke, tease.
add fuel to the fire, add fuel to the flame; fan the flame &c
(excite) 824; go from bad to worse &c (deteriorate) 659.
Adj. aggravated &c v.; worse, unrelieved; aggravable†; aggravating &c
v..
Adv. out of the frying pan into the fire, from bad to worse, worse and
worse.
Int. so much the worse!,
836. Cheerfulness — N. cheerfulness &c adj.; geniality, gayety,
l'allegro [Fr.], cheer, good humor, spirits; high spirits, animal
spirits, flow of spirits; glee, high glee, light heart; sunshine of the
mind, sunshine of the breast; gaiete de coeur [Fr.], bon naturel [Fr.].
liveliness &c adj.; life, alacrity, vivacity, animation,
allegresse†; jocundity, joviality, jollity; levity; jocularity &c (wit)
842.
mirth, merriment, hilarity, exhilaration; laughter &c 838;
merrymaking &c (amusement) 840; heyday, rejoicing &c 838; marriage
bell.
nepenthe, Euphrosyne†, sweet forgetfulness.
optimism &c (hopefulness) 858; self complacency; hedonics†,
hedonism.
V. be cheerful &c adj.; have the mind at ease, smile, put a good face
upon, keep up one's spirits; view the bright side of the picture, view
things en couleur de rose [Fr.]; ridentem dicere virum [Lat.], cheer
up, brighten up, light up, bear up; chirp, take heart, cast away care,
drive dull care away, perk up.
keep a stiff upper lip.
rejoice &c 838; carol, chirrup, lilt; frisk, rollick, give a loose
to mirth.
cheer, enliven, elate, exhilarate, gladden, inspirit, animate,
raise the spirits, inspire; perk up; put in good humor; cheer the
heart, rejoice the heart; delight &c (give pleasure) 829.
Adj. cheerful; happy &c 827; cheery, cheerly†; of good cheer, smiling;
blithe; in spirits, in good spirits; breezy, bully, chipper [U.S.]; in
high spirits, in high feather; happy as the day is long, happy as a
king; gay as a lark; allegro; debonair; light, lightsome, light
hearted; buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy; janty†,
jaunty, canty†; hedonic†; riant†; sprightly, sprightful†; spry; spirited,
spiritful†; lively, animated, vivacious; brisk as a bee; sparkling,
sportive; full of play, full of spirit; all alive.
sunny, palmy; hopeful &c 858.
merry as a cricket, merry as a grig†, merry as a marriage bell;
joyful, joyous, jocund, jovial; jolly as a thrush, jolly as a sandboy†;
blithesome; gleeful, gleesome†; hilarious, rattling.
winsome, bonny, hearty, buxom.
playful, playsome†; folatre [Fr.], playful as a kitten, tricksy†,
frisky, frolicsome; gamesome; jocose, jocular, waggish; mirth loving,
laughter-loving; mirthful, rollicking.
elate, elated; exulting, jubilant, flushed; rejoicing &c 838;
cock-a-hoop.
cheering, inspiriting, exhilarating; cardiac, cardiacal†; pleasing
&c 829; palmy.
Adv. cheerfully &c adj..
Int. never say die!, come!, cheer up!, hurrah!, &c 838; hence loathed
melancholy!, begone dull care!, away with melancholy!,
Phr. a merry heart goes all the day [A winter's Tale]; as merry as the
day is long [Much Ado]; ride si sapis [Lat.] [Martial].
837. Dejection — N. dejection; dejectedness &c adj.; depression,
prosternation†; lowness of spirits, depression of spirits; weight on the
spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits; low spirits,
bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits; heart sinking;
heaviness of heart, failure of heart.
heaviness &c adj.; infestivity†, gloom; weariness &c 841; taedium
vitae, disgust of life; mal du pays &c (regret) 833; anhedonia†.
melancholy; sadness &c adj.; il penseroso [It], melancholia,
dismals†, blues, lachrymals†, mumps†, dumps, blue devils, doldrums;
vapors, megrims, spleen, horrors, hypochondriasis [Med.], pessimism; la
maladie sans maladie [Fr.]; despondency, slough of Despond;
disconsolateness &c adj.; hope deferred, blank despondency; voiceless
woe.
prostration of soul; broken heart; despair &c 859; cave of
despair, cave of Trophonius demureness &c adj.; gravity, solemnity;
long face, grave face.
hypochondriac, seek sorrow, self-tormentor, heautontimorumenos†,
malade imaginaire [Fr.], medecin tant pis [Fr.]; croaker, pessimist;
mope, mopus†.
[Cause of dejection] affliction &c 830; sorry sight; memento mori
[Lat.]; damper, wet blanket, Job's comforter.
V. be dejected &c adj.; grieve; mourn &c (lament) 839; take on, give
way, lose heart, despond, droop, sink.
lower, look downcast, frown, pout; hang down the head; pull a long
face, make a long face; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; grin a
ghastly smile; look blue, look like a drowned man; lay to heart, take
to heart.
mope, brood over; fret; sulk; pine, pine away; yearn; repine &c
(regret) 833; despair &c 859.
refrain from laughter, keep one's countenance; be grave, look
grave &c adj.; repress a smile.
depress; discourage, dishearten; dispirit; damp, dull, deject,
lower, sink, dash, knock down, unman, prostrate, break one's heart;
frown upon; cast a gloom, cast a shade on; sadden; damp one's hopes,
dash one's hopes, wither one's hopes; weigh on the mind, lie heavy on
the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, lie heavy on the
spirits, prey on the spirits; damp the spirits, depress the spirits.
Adj. cheerless, joyless, spiritless; uncheerful, uncheery†; unlively†;
unhappy &c 828; melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste [Fr.],
clouded, murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful,
lamentable, dreadful.
dreary, flat; dull, dull as a beetle, dull as ditchwater†;
depressing &c v.. melancholy as a gib cat; oppressed with melancholy, a
prey to melancholy; downcast, downhearted; down in the mouth, down in
one's luck; heavy-hearted; in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the
suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in doleful dumps, in bad humor;
sullen; mumpish†, dumpish, mopish†, moping; moody, glum; sulky &c
(discontented) 832; out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of
spirits; ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low;
weary &c 841; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen†,
chopfallen†, jaw fallen, crest fallen.
sad, pensive, penseroso [It], tristful†; dolesome†, doleful;
woebegone; lacrymose, lachrymose, in tears, melancholic, hypped†,
hypochondriacal, bilious, jaundiced, atrabilious†, saturnine, splenetic;
lackadaisical.
serious, sedate, staid, stayed; grave as a judge, grave as an
undertaker, grave as a mustard pot; sober, sober as a judge, solemn,
demure; grim; grim-faced, grim-visaged; rueful, wan, long-faced.
disconsolate; unconsolable, inconsolable; forlorn, comfortless,
desolate, desole [Fr.], sick at heart; soul sick, heart sick; au
desespoir [Fr.]; in despair &c 859; lost.
overcome; broken down, borne down, bowed down; heartstricken &c
(mental suffering) 828 [Obs.]; cut up, dashed, sunk; unnerved,
unmanned; down fallen, downtrodden; broken-hearted; careworn.
Adv. with a long face, with tears in one's eyes; sadly &c adj..
Phr. the countenance falling; the heart failing, the heart sinking
within one; a plague of sighing and grief [Henry IV]; thick-ey'd musing
and curs'd melancholy [Henry IV]; the sickening pang of hope deferred
[Scott].
838. [Expression of pleasure.] Rejoicing — N. rejoicing, exultation,
triumph, jubilation, heyday, flush, revelling; merrymaking &c
(amusement) 840; jubilee &c (celebration) 883; paean, Te Deum &c
(thanksgiving) 990 [Lat.]; congratulation &c 896.
smile, simper, smirk, grin; broad grin, sardonic grin.
laughter (amusement) 840.
risibility; derision &c 856.
Momus; Democritus the Abderite†; rollicker†.
V. rejoice, thank one's stars, bless one's stars; congratulate oneself,
hug oneself; rub one's hands, clap one's hands; smack the lips, fling
up one's cap; dance, skip; sing, carol, chirrup, chirp; hurrah; cry for
joy, jump for joy, leap with joy; exult &c (boast) 884; triumph; hold
jubilee &c (celebrate) 883; make merry &c (sport) 840.
laugh, raise laughter &c (amuse) 840.
Adj. rejoicing &c v.; jubilant, exultant, triumphant; flushed, elated,
pleased, delighted, tickled pink.
amused &c 840; cheerful &c 836.
laughable &c (ludicrous) 853.
Int. hurrah!, Huzza!, aha!†, hail!, tolderolloll!†, Heaven be praised!,
io triumphe!†, tant mieux! [Fr.], so much the better.
Phr. the heart leaping with joy; ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de
rire [Fr.]; Laughter holding both his sides [Milton]; le roi est mort,
vive le roi; with his eyes in flood with laughter [Cymbeline].
839. [Expression of pain.] Lamentation — N. lament, lamentation; wail,
complaint, plaint, murmur, mutter, grumble, groan, moan, whine,
whimper, sob, sigh, suspiration, heaving, deep sigh.
cry &c (vociferation) 411; scream, howl; outcry, wail of woe,
ululation; frown, scowl.
tear; weeping &c v.; flood of tears, fit of crying, lacrimation,
lachrymation†, melting mood, weeping and gnashing of teeth.
plaintiveness &c adj.; languishment†; condolence &c 915.
mourning, weeds, willow, cypress, crape, deep mourning; sackcloth
and ashes; lachrymatory†; knell &c 363; deep death song, dirge,
coronach†, nenia†, requiem, elegy, epicedium†; threne†; monody, threnody;
jeremiad, jeremiade†; ullalulla†.
mourner; grumbler &c (discontent) 832; Noobe; Heraclitus.
V. lament, mourn, deplore, grieve, weep over; bewail, bemoan; condole
with &c 915; fret &c (suffer) 828; wear mourning, go into mourning, put
on mourning; wear the willow, wear sackcloth and ashes; infandum
renovare dolorem [Lat.] [Vergil]; &c (regret) 833 give sorrow words.
sigh; give a sigh, heave, fetch a sigh; waft a sigh from Indus to
the pole [Pope]; sigh 'like a furnace' [As you Like It]; wail.
cry, weep, sob, greet, blubber, pipe, snivel, bibber†, whimper,
pule; pipe one's eye; drop tears, shed tears, drop a tear, shed a tear;
melt into tears, burst into tears; fondre en larmes [Fr.]; cry oneself
blind, cry one's eyes out; yammer.
scream &c (cry out) 411; mew &c (animal sounds) 412; groan, moan,
whine; roar; roar like a bull, bellow like a bull; cry out lustily,
rend the air.
frown, scowl, make a wry face, gnash one's teeth, wring one's
hands, tear one's hair, beat one's breast, roll on the ground, burst
with grief.
complain, murmur, mutter, grumble, growl, clamor, make a fuss
about, croak, grunt, maunder; deprecate &c (disapprove) 932.
cry out before one is hurt, complain without cause.
Adj. lamenting &c v.; in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes; sorrowing,
sorrowful &c (unhappy) 828; mournful, tearful; lachrymose; plaintive,
plaintful†; querulous, querimonious†; in the melting mood; threnetic†.
in tears, with tears in one's eyes; with moistened eyes, with
watery eyes; bathed in tears, dissolved in tears; like Niobe all tears
[Hamlet].
elegiac, epicedial†.
Adv. de profundis [Lat.]; les larmes aux yeux [Fr.].
Int. heigh-ho!, alas!, alack!†, O dear!, ah me!, woe is me!,
lackadaisy!†, well a day!, lack a day!, alack a day!†, wellaway!†, alas
the day!, O tempora O mores!†, what a pity!, miserabile dictu! [Lat.], O
lud lud!†, too true!,
Phr. tears standing in the eyes, tears starting from the eyes; eyes
suffused, eyes swimming, eyes brimming, eyes overflowing with tears; if
you have tears prepare to shed them now [Julius Caesar]; interdum
lacrymae pondera vocis habent [Lat.] [Ovid]; strangled his language in
his tears [Henry VIII]; tears such as angels weep [Paradise Lost].
840. Amusement — N. amusement, entertainment, recreation, fun, game,
fun and games; diversion, divertissement; reaction, solace; pastime,
passetemps [Fr.], sport; labor of love; pleasure &c 827.
relaxation; leisure &c 685.
fun, frolic, merriment, jollity; joviality, jovialness†; heyday;
laughter &c 838; jocosity, jocoseness†; drollery, buffoonery,
tomfoolery; mummery, pleasantry; wit &c 842; quip, quirk.
[verbal expressions of amusement: list] giggle, titter, snigger,
snicker, crow, cheer, chuckle, shout; horse laugh, belly laugh, hearty
laugh; guffaw; burst of laughter, fit of laughter, shout of laughter,
roar of laughter, peal of laughter; cachinnation†; Kentish fire; tiger.
play; game, game at romps; gambol, romp, prank, antic, rig, lark,
spree, skylarking, vagary, monkey trick, gambade, fredaine†, escapade,
echappee [Fr.], bout, espieglerie [Fr.]; practical joke &c (ridicule)
856.
dance; hop, reel, rigadoon†, saraband†, hornpipe, bolero, ballroom
dance; [ballroom dances: list], minuet, waltz, polka, fox trot, tango,
samba, rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan;
bayadere†; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis [U.S.], break dancing;
nautch-girl; shindig [U.S.]; skirtdance†, stag dance, Virginia reel,
square dance; galop†, galopade†; jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey†;
allemande [Fr.]; gavot†, gavotte, tarantella; mazurka, morisco†, morris
dance; quadrille; country dance, folk dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de
Coverley; ballet &c (drama) 599; ball; bal, bal masque, bal costume;
masquerade; Terpsichore.
festivity, merrymaking; party &c (social gathering) 892; blowout
[U.S.], hullabaloo, hoedown, bat [U.S.], bum [U.S.], bust [Slang],
clambake [U.S.], donation party [U.S.], fish fry [U.S.], jamboree
[Slang], kantikoy†, nautch†, randy, squantum [U.S.], tear [Slang],
Turnerfest†, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto†; revels, revelry,
reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet &c
(food) 298; regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal;
jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre [Fr.],
regatta, field day; treat.
round of pleasures, dissipation, a short life and a merry one,
racketing, holiday making.
rejoicing &c 838; jubilee &c (celebration) 883.
bonfire, fireworks, feu-de-joie, firecracker.
holiday; gala day, red letter day, play day; high days and
holidays; high holiday, Bank holiday; May day, Derby day; Saint Monday,
Easter Monday, Whit Monday; Bairam†; wayz-goos†, bean feast; Arbor Day,
Declaration Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day,
Thanksgiving Day; Mardi gras [Fr.], mi-careme [Fr.], feria [Lat.],
fiesta.
place of amusement, theater; hall, concert room, ballroom,
assemblyroom†; music hall.
park, plaisance†; national park, national forest, state park,
county park, city park, vest-pocket park, public park (public) 737.1;
arbor; garden &c (horticulture) 371; pleasure ground, playground,
cricketground, croquet ground, archery ground, hunting ground; tennis
court, racket court; bowling alley, green alley; croquet lawn, rink,
glaciarum†, skating rink; roundabout, merry-go-round; swing; montagne
Russe [Fr.].
game of chance, game of skill.
athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament,
pugilism &c (contention) 720; sports &c 622; horse racing, the turf;
aquatics &c 267; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis;
hockey, football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets,
fives, trap bat and ball, battledore and shuttlecock, la grace; pall-
mall, tipcat†, croquet, golf, curling, pallone†, polo, water polo; tent
pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain [Mediev.]; greasy pole; quoits,
horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr
and spell†.
[childrens' games] leapfrog, hop skip and jump; mother may I;
French and English, tug of war; blindman's bluff, hunt the slopper†,
hide and seek, kiss in the ring; snapdragon; cross questions and
crooked answers.; crisscross, hopscotch; jacks, jackstones†, marbles;
mumblety-peg, mumble-the-peg, pushball, shinney, shinny, tag &c;
billiards, pool, pingpong, pyramids, bagatelle; bowls, skittles,
ninepins, kain†, American bowls†; tenpins [U.S.], tivoli.
cards, card games; whist, rubber; round game; loo, cribbage,
besique†, euchre, drole†, ecarte [Fr.], picquet†, allfours†, quadrille,
omber, reverse, Pope Joan, commit; boston, boaston†; blackjack, twenty-
one, vingtun [Fr.]; quinze [Fr.], thirty-one, put, speculation,
connections, brag, cassino†, lottery, commerce, snip-snap-snoren†, lift
smoke, blind hookey, Polish bank, Earl of Coventry, Napoleon, patience,
pairs; banker; blind poker, draw poker, straight poker, stud poker;
bluff, bridge, bridge whist; lotto, monte, three-card monte, nap,
penny-ante, poker, reversis†, squeezers, old maid, fright, beggar-my-
neighbor; baccarat.
[cards: list] ace, king, queen, knave, jack, ten, nine, eight,
seven, six, five, four, trey, deuce; joker; trump, wild card.
[card suits: list] spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds; major suit,
minor suit.
bower; right bower, left bower; dummy; jackpot; deck.
[hands at poker: list] pair, two pair, three of a kind, straight,
flush, full-house, four of a kind, royal flush; misere &c [board games:
list] chess, draughts, checkers, checquers, backgammon, dominos,
merelles†, nine men's morris, go bang, solitaire; game of fox and goose;
monopoly; loto &c; [word games: list], scrabble, scribbage, boggle,
crossword puzzle, hangman.
morra†; gambling &c (chance) 621.
toy, plaything, bauble; doll &c (puppet ) 554; teetotum†;
knickknack &c (trifle) 643; magic lantern &c (show) 448; peep show,
puppet show, raree show, gallanty show†; toy shop; quips and cranks and
wanton wiles, nods and becks and wreathed smiles [Milton].
entertainer, showman, showgirl; dancer, tap dancer, song-and-dance
man; vaudeville act; singer; musician &c 416.
sportsman, gamester, reveler; master of ceremonies, master of
revels; pompom girl†; arbiter elegantiarum [Lat.]; arbiter bibendi
[Lat.], archer, fan [U.S.], toxophilite†, turfman†.
V. amuse, entertain, divert, enliven; tickle the fancy; titillate,
raise a smile, put in good humor; cause laughter, create laughter,
occasion laughter, raise laughter, excite laughter, produce laughter,
convulse with laughter; set the table in a roar, be the death of one.
recreate, solace, cheer, rejoice; please &c 829; interest; treat,
regale.
amuse oneself, game; play a game, play pranks, play tricks; sport,
disport, toy, wanton, revel, junket, feast, carouse, banquet, make
merry, drown care; drive dull care away; frolic, gambol, frisk, romp;
caper; dance &c (leap) 309; keep up the ball; run a rig, sow one's wild
oats, have one's fling, take one's pleasure; paint the town red
[Slang]; see life; desipere in loco [Lat.], play the fool.
make holiday, keep holiday; go a Maying.
while away the time, beguile the time; kill time, dally.
smile, simper, smirk; grin, grin like a Cheshire cat; mock, laugh
in one's sleeve; laugh, laugh outright; giggle, titter, snigger, crow,
snicker, chuckle, cackle; burst out, burst into a fit of laughter;
shout, split, roar.
shake one's sides, split one's sides, hold both one's sides; roar
with laughter, die with laughter.
Adj. amusing, entertaining, diverting &c v.; recreational, recreative,
lusory†; pleasant &c (pleasing) 829; laughable &c (ludicrous) 853; witty
&c 842; fun, festive, festal; jovial, jolly, jocund, roguish, rompish†;
playful, playful as a kitten; sportive, ludibrious†.
funny; very funny, hilarious, uproarious, side-splitting.
amused &c v.; pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw [Pope];
laughing &c v.; risible; ready to burst, ready to split, ready to die
with laughter; convulsed with laughter, rolling in the aisles.
Adv. on the light fantastic toe [Milton], at play, in sport.
Int. vive la bagatelle! [Fr.], vogue la galere! [Fr.],
Phr. deus nobis haec otia fecit [Lat.]; dum vivimus vivamus [Lat.];
dulce est desipere in loco [Lat.] [Horace]; (every room) hath blazed
with lights and brayed with minstrelsy [Timon of Athens]; misce
stullitiam consiliis brevem [Lat.] [Horace].
841. Weariness — N. weariness, defatigation†; lassitude &c (fatigue)
688; drowsiness &c 683.
disgust, nausea, loathing, sickness; satiety &c 869; taedium vitae
&c (dejection) 837; boredom, ennui.
wearisomeness, tediousness &c adj.; dull work, tedium, monotony,
twice-told tale.
bore, buttonholer, proser†, wet blanket; pill [Slang], stiff
[Slang]; heavy hours, the enemy (time).
V. weary; tire &c (fatigue) 688; bore; bore to death, weary to death,
tire to death, bore out of one's skull, bore out of one's life, weary
out of one's life, tire out of one's life, bore out of all patience,
weary out of all patience, wear out one's patience, tire out of all
patience; set to sleep, send to sleep; buttonhole.
pall, sicken, nauseate, disgust.
harp on the same string; drag its slow length along, drag its
weary length along.
never hear the last of; be tired of, be sick of, be tired with &c
adj.; yawn; die with ennui.
[of journalistic articles] MEGO, my eyes glaze over.
Adj. wearying &c v.; wearing; wearisome, tiresome, irksome;
uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull,
arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat; prosy, prosing; slow, soporific,
somniferous.
disgusting &c v.; unenjoyed†.
weary, tired &c v.; drowsy &c (sleepy) 683; uninterested,
flagging, used up, worn out, blase, life-weary, weary of life; sick of.
Adv. wearily &c adj.; usque ad nauseam [Lat.].
Phr. time hanging heavily on one's hands; toujours perdrix [Fr.];
crambe repetita [Lat.].
842. Wit — N. wit, humor, wittiness; sense of humor; attic wit, attic
salt; atticism†; salt, esprit, point, fancy, whim, drollery, pleasantry.
farce, buffoonery, fooling, tomfoolery; shenanigan [U.S.],
harlequinade &c 599 [Obs.]; broad farce, broad humor; fun, espieglerie
[Fr.]; vis comica [Lat.].
jocularity; jocosity, jocoseness†; facetiousness; waggery,
waggishness; whimsicality; comicality &c 853.
banter, badinage, retort, repartee, smartness, ready wit, quid-
pro-quo; ridicule &c 856.
jest, joke, jape, jibe; facetiae [Lat.], levity, quips and cranks;
capital joke; canorae nugae [Lat.]; standing jest, standing joke,
private joke, conceit, quip, quirk, crank, quiddity, concetto†,
plaisanterie [Fr.], brilliant idea; merry thought, bright thought,
happy thought; sally; flash of wit, flash of merriment; scintillation;
mot [Fr.], mot pour rire [Fr.]; witticism, smart saying, bon-mot, jeu
d'esprit [Fr.], epigram; jest book; dry joke, quodlibet, cream of the
jest.
word-play, jeu de mots [Fr.]; play of words, play upon words; pun,
punning; double entente, double entendre &c (ambiguity) 520 [Fr.];
quibble, verbal quibble; conundrum &c (riddle) 533; anagram, acrostic,
double acrostic, trifling, idle conceit, turlupinade†.
old joke, tired joke, flat joke, Joe Miller†.
V. joke, jest, crack a joke, make a joke, jape, cut jokes; perpetrate a
joke; pun, perpetrate a pun; make fun of, make merry with; kid, kid
around, fool around; set the table in a roar &c (amuse) 840.
retort; banter &c (ridicule) 856; ridentem dicere verum [Lat.];
joke at one's expense.
take in jest.
[make a joke which is not funny] bomb, fall flat; go over like a
lead balloon.
Adj. witty, attic; quick-witted, nimble-witted; smart; jocular, jocose,
humorous; facetious, waggish, whimsical; kidding, joking, puckish;
playful &c 840; merry and wise; pleasant, sprightly, light, spirituel†,
sparkling, epigrammatic, full of point, ben trovato [It]; comic &c 853.
zany, madcap.
funny, amusing &c (amusement) 840.
Adv. jokingly, in joke, in jest, in sport, in play.
Phr. adhibenda est in jocando moderatio [Lat.]; gentle dullness ever
loves a joke [Pope]; leave this keen encounter of our wits [Richard
III]; just joking, just kidding; surely you jest!.
843. Dullness — N. dullness, heaviness, flatness; infestivity† &c 837,
stupidity &c 499; want of originality; dearth of ideas.
prose, matter of fact; heavy book, conte a dormir debout [Fr.];
platitude.
V. be dull &c adj.; prose, take au serieux [Fr.], be caught napping.
render dull &c adj.; damp, depress, throw cold water on, lay a wet
blanket on; fall flat upon the ear.
no joke, serious matter (importance) 642.
Adj. dull, dull as ditch water; unentertaining, uninteresting, flat,
dry as dust; unfunny, unlively†, logy [U.S.]; unimaginative; insulse†;
dry as dust; prosy, prosing, prosaic; matter of fact, commonplace,
pedestrian, pointless; weary stale flat and unprofitable [Hamlet].
stupid, slow, flat, insipid, vapid, humdrum, monotonous;
melancholic &c 837; stolid &c 499; plodding.
boring, tiresome, tedious &c 841.
Phr. davus sum non Aedipus†; deadly dull and boring, DDB.
844. Humorist — N. humorist, wag, wit, reparteeist†, epigrammatist,
punster; bel esprit, life of the party; wit-snapper, wit-cracker, wit-
worm; joker, jester, Joe Miller†, drole de corps†, gaillard†, spark; bon
diable [Fr.]; practical joker.
buffoon, farceur [Fr.], merry-andrew, mime, tumbler, acrobat,
mountebank, charlatan, posturemaster†, harlequin, punch, pulcinella†,
scaramouch†, clown; wearer of the cap and bells, wearer of the motley;
motley fool; pantaloon, gypsy; jack-pudding, jack in the green, jack a
dandy; wiseacre, wise guy, smartass [Coll.]; fool &c 501.
zany, madcap; pickle-herring, witling†, caricaturist, grimacier†;
persifleur†.
2. DISCRIMINATIVE AFFECTIONS
845. Beauty — N. beauty, the beautiful, to kalon [Gr.], le beau ideal.
[Science of the perception of beauty] aesthetics, callaesthetics†.
[-beauty of people] pulchritude, form, elegance, grace, beauty
unadorned, natural beauty; symmetry &c 242; comeliness, fairness &c
adj.; polish, gloss; good effect, good looks; belle tournure†;
trigness†; bloom, brilliancy, radiance, splendor, gorgeousness,
magnificence; sublimity, sublimification†.
concinnity†, delicacy, refinement; charm, je ne sais quoi [Fr.],
style.
Venus, Aphrodite†, Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo†,
Hyperion, Adonis†, Antionous†, Narcissus.
peacock, butterfly; garden; flower of, pink of; bijou; jewel &c
(ornament) 847; work of art.
flower, flow'ret gay†; [flowers: list] wildflower; rose, lily,
anemone, asphodel, buttercup, crane's bill, daffodil, tulip, tiger
lily, day lily, begonia, marigold, geranium, lily of the valley,
ranunculus, rhododendron, windflower.
pleasurableness &c 829.
beautifying; landscaping, landscape gardening; decoration &c 847;
calisthenics†.
[person who is beautiful] beauty; hunk (of men).
V. be beautiful &c adj.; shine, beam, bloom; become one &c (accord) 23;
set off, grace.
render beautiful &c adj.; beautify; polish, burnish; gild &c
(decorate) 847; set out.
snatch a grace beyond the reach of art [Pope].
Adj. beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely,
graceful, elegant, prepossessing; attractive &c (inviting) 615;
delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny
[Scot.]; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well-
proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical &c (regular) 242; harmonious
&c (color) 428; sightly.
fit to be seen, passable, not amiss.
goodly, dapper, tight, jimp†; gimp; janty†, jaunty; trig, natty,
quaint, trim, tidy, neat, spruce, smart, tricksy†.
bright, bright eyed; rosy cheeked, cherry cheeked; rosy, ruddy;
blooming, in full bloom.
brilliant, shining; beamy†, beaming; sparkling, splendid,
resplendent, dazzling, glowing; glossy, sleek.
rich, superb, magnificent, grand, fine, sublime, showy, specious.
artistic, artistical†; aesthetic; picturesque, pictorial; fait a
peindre [Fr.]; well-composed, well grouped, well varied; curious.
enchanting &c (pleasure-giving) 829; becoming &c (accordant) 23;
ornamental &c 847.
undeformed, undefaced, unspotted; spotless &c (perfect) 650.
Phr. auxilium non leve vultus habet [Lat.] [Ovid]; beauty born of
murmuring sound [Wordsworth]; flowers preach to us if we will hear
[C.G.
Rossetti]; gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus [Lat.]
[Vergil]; none but the brave deserve the fair [Dryden]; thou who hast
the fatal gift of beauty [Byron].
846. Ugliness — N. ugliness &c adj.; deformity, inelegance; acomia†;
disfigurement &c (blemish) 848; want of symmetry, inconcinnity†;
distortion &c 243; squalor &c (uncleanness) 653.
forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face,
spretae injuria formae [Vergil].
[person who is ugly] eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight,
fright; monster; dog [Coll.], woofer [Coll.], pig [Coll.]; octopus,
specter, scarecrow, harridan†, satyr†, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban,
Aesop†, monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum [Lat.]
[Vergil].
V. be ugly &c adj.; look ill, grin horribly a ghastly smile, make
faces.
render ugly &c adj.; deface; disfigure, defigure†; distort &c 23;
blemish &c (injure) 659; soil &c (render unclean) 653.
Adj. ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a
dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned) 849; homely; ordinary,
unornamental†, inartistic; unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely;
unshapely; sightless, seemless†; not fit to be seen; unbeauteous†,
unbeautiful; beautiless†, semibeautiful; shapeless &c (amorphous) 241.
misshapen, misproportioned†; monstrous; gaunt &c (thin) 203; dumpy
&c (short) 201; curtailed of its fair proportions; ill-made, ill-
shaped, ill-proportioned; crooked &c (distorted) 243; hard featured,
hard visaged; ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored; ill-looking;
unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing.
graceless, inelegant; ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff;
rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety; gawky;
lumping, lumpish†; lumbering; hulky†, hulking; unwieldy.
squalid, haggard; grim, grim faced, grim visaged; grisly, ghastly;
ghost like, death like; cadaverous, grewsome†, gruesome.
frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding; repellant,
repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre; grody [Coll.], grody to the
max [Coll.]; horrid, horrible; shocking &c (painful) 830.
foul &c (dirty) 653; dingy &c (colorless) 429; gaudy &c (color)
428; disfigured &c v.; discolored.
847. Ornament — N. ornament, ornamentation, ornamental art; ornature†,
ornateness; adornment, decoration, embellishment; architecture; jewelry
&c 847.1.
[surface coatings for wood: list] garnish, polish, varnish, French
polish, veneer, japanning, lacquer.
[surface coatings for metal] gilding, plating, ormolu, enamel,
cloisonné.
[surface coatings for human skin] cosmetics (in general), makeup;
[Makeup list], eye shadow, rouge, face powder, lipstick, blush.
[ornamental surface pattern: list] pattern, diaper, powdering,
paneling, graining, pargeting†; detail; repousse (convexity) 250;
texture &c 329; richness; tracery, molding, fillet, listel†, strapwork†,
coquillage [Fr.], flourish, fleur-de-lis [Fr.], arabesque, fret,
anthemion†; egg and tongue, egg and dart; astragal†, zigzag, acanthus,
cartouche; pilaster &c (projection) 250; bead, beading; champleve ware
[Fr.], cloisonne ware; frost work, Moresque [Lat.], Morisco, tooling.
[ornamental cloth] embroidery; brocade, brocatelle†, galloon, lace,
fringe, trapping, border, edging, trimming; hanging, tapestry, arras;
millinery, ermine; drap d'or [Fr.].
wreath, festoon, garland, chaplet, flower, nosegay, bouquet, posy,
daisies pied and violets blue, tassel, [Love's Labor's Lost], knot;
shoulder knot, apaulette†, epaulet, aigulet†, frog; star, rosette, bow;
feather, plume, pompom†, panache, aigrette.
finery, frippery, gewgaw, gimcrack, tinsel, spangle, clinquant†,
pinchbeck, paste; excess of ornament &c (vulgarity) 851; gaud, pride.
[ornamentation of text] illustration, illumination, vignette.
fleuron†; head piece [Fr.], tail piece [Fr.]; cul-de-lampe [Fr.];
flowers of rhetoric &c 577; work of art.
V. ornament, embellish, enrich, decorate, adorn, bead, beautify,
adonize†.
smarten, furbish, polish, gild, varnish, whitewash, enamel, japan,
lacquer, paint, grain.
garnish, trim, dizen†, bedizen, prink†, prank; trick out, fig out;
deck, bedeck, dight†, bedight†, array; begawd†, titivate†; dress, dress
up; spangle, bespangle, powder; embroider, work; chase, emboss, fret,
emblazon; illuminate; illustrate.
become &c (accord with) 23.
Adj. ornamented, beautified &c v.; ornate, rich, gilt, begilt†,
tesselated, festooned; champleve [Fr.], cloisonne, topiary.
smart, gay, trickly†, flowery, glittering; new gilt, new spangled;
fine as a Mayday queen, fine as a fivepence†, fine as a carrot fresh
scraped; pranked out, bedight†, well-groomed.
in full dress &c (fashion) 852; dressed to kill, dressed to the
nines, dressed to advantage; in Sunday best, en grand tenue [Fr.], en
grande toilette [Fr.]; in best bib and tucker, endimanche [Fr.].
showy, flashy; gaudy &c (vulgar) 851; garish, gairish†; gorgeous.
ornamental, decorative; becoming &c (accordant) 23.
847a. [ornaments worn by people on the body] Jewelry — N. jewel
[general],, jewelry, jewellery†; bijoutry†; bijou, bijouterie [Fr.];
trinket; fine jewelry; costume jewelry, junk jewelry; gem, gemstone,
precious stone.
[forms of jewelry: list] necklace, bracelet, anklet; earring;
locket, pendant, charm bracelet; ring, pinky ring; carcanet†; chain,
chatelaine; broach, pin, lapel pin, torque.
[gemstones: list] diamond, brilliant, rock [Coll.]; beryl,
emerald; chalcedony, agate, heliotrope; girasol†, girasole†; onyx,
plasma; sard†, sardonyx; garnet, lapis lazuli, opal, peridot,
tourmaline, chrysolite; sapphire, ruby, synthetic ruby; spinel,
spinelle; balais†; oriental, oriental topaz; turquois†, turquoise;
zircon, cubic zirconia; jacinth, hyacinth, carbuncle, amethyst;
alexandrite†, cat's eye, bloodstone, hematite, jasper, moonstone,
sunstone†.
[jewelry materials derived from living organisms] pearl, cultured
pearl, fresh-water pearl; mother of pearl; coral.
[person who sells jewels] jeweler.
[person who studies gemstones] gemologist; minerologist.
[person who cuts gemstones] lapidary, lapidarian.
[study of gemstones] gemology, gemmology; minerology.
V. shine like a diamond.
Adj. bejeweled; diamond &c n. (gemstones).
gemological.
848. Blemish — N. blemish, disfigurement, deformity; adactylism†; flaw,
defect &c (imperfection) 651; injury &c (deterioration) 659; spots on
the sun†; eyesore.
stain, blot; spot, spottiness; speck, speckle, blur.
tarnish, smudge; dirt &c 653.
[blemish on a person's skin: list] freckle, mole, macula [Anat.],
patch, blotch, birthmark; blobber lip†, blubber lip; blain†, maculation;
scar, wem†; pustule; whelk; excrescence, pimple &c (protuberance) 250.
V. disfigure &c (injure) 659; speckle.
Adj. pitted, freckled, discolored; imperfect &c 651; blobber-lipped,
bloodshot; injured &c (deteriorated) 659.
849. Simplicity — N. simplicity; plainness, homeliness; undress,
chastity.
V. be simple &c adj.. render simple &c adj.; simplify, uncomplicate.
Adj. simple, plain; homely, homespun; ordinary, household.
unaffected; ingenuous, sincere (artless) 703; free from
affectation, free from ornament; simplex munditiis [Lat.] [Horace];
sans facon [Fr.], en deshabille [Fr.].
chaste, inornate†, severe.
unadorned, bare, unornamented, undecked†, ungarnished, unarranged†,
untrimmed, unvarnished.
bald, flat, dull.
Phr. veritatis simplex oratio est [Lat.].
850. [Good taste.] Taste — N. taste; good taste, refined taste,
cultivated taste; delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto,
tact, finesse; nicety &c (discrimination) 465; to prepon [Gr.]; polish,
elegance, grace.
judgment, discernment &c 465.
dilettantism, dilettanteism; virtu; fine art; culture,
cultivation.
[Science of taste] aesthetics.
man of taste &c; connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscente, virtuoso,
amateur, dilettante, Aristarchus†, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum
[Lat.], stagirite†, euphemist.
caviare to the general [Hamlet].
V. appreciate, judge, criticise, discriminate &c 465
Adj. in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty; unaffected, pure, chaste,
classical, attic; cultivated, refined; dainty; esthetic, aesthetic,
artistic; elegant &c 578; euphemistic.
to one's taste, to one's mind; after one's fancy; comme il faut
[Fr.]; tire a quatre epingles [Fr.].
Adv. elegantly &c adj..
Phr. nihil tetigit quod non ornavit [Lat.] [from Johnson's epitaph on
Goldsmith]; chacun a son gout [Fr.]; oculi pictura tenentur aures
cantibus [Lat.] [Cicero].
851. [Bad taste.] Vulgarity — N. vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism,
Vandalism, Gothicism†; mauvis gout [Fr.], bad taste; gaucherie,
awkwardness, want of tact; ill-breeding &c (discourtesy) 895.
courseness &c adj.†; indecorum, misbehavior.
lowness, homeliness; low life, mauvais ton [Fr.], rusticity;
boorishness &c adj.; brutality; rowdyism, blackguardism†; ribaldry;
slang &c (neology) 563.
bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie [Fr.].
[Excess of ornament] gaudiness, tawdriness; false ornament;
finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant†; baroque, rococo.
rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub†; clown &c
(commonalty) 876; Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu &c
876; frump, dowdy; slattern &c 653.
V. be vulgar &c adj.; misbehave; talk shop, smell of the shop.
Adj. in bad taste vulgar, unrefined.
coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming†,
unpresentable†; contra bonos mores [Lat.]; ungraceful &c (ugly) 846.
dowdy; slovenly &c (dirty) 653; ungenteel, shabby genteel; low,
common, hoi polloi [Gr.], &c (plebeian) 876; uncourtly†; uncivil &c
(discourteous) 895; ill bred, ill mannered; underbred; ungentlemanly,
ungentlemanlike; unladylike, unfeminine; wild, wild as an unbacked
colt.
untutored, unschooled (ignorant) 491.
unkempt.
uncombed, untamed, unlicked†, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian;
incondite†; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred;
provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish,
blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic, unclassical†,
doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish; uncultivated; Bohemian.
obsolete &c (antiquated) 124; unfashionable; newfangled &c
(unfamiliar) 83; odd &c (ridiculous) 853.
particular; affected &c 855; meretricious; extravagant, monstrous,
horrid; shocking &c (painful) 830.
gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo; bedizened, tricked
out, gingerbread; obtrusive.