=
KEY: Preposterous.
SYN: Monstrous, exorbitant, unreasonable, absurd, irrational,
foolish, ridiculous.
ANT: Just, due, fair, reasonable, moderate, right, judicious, orderly,
sound.
=
KEY: Prerogative.
SYN: Eight, privilege, immunity.
ANT: Disqualification, disfranchisement.
=
KEY: Presage \n.\
SYN: Omen, indication, prognostic, premonition.
ANT: fulfilment, event, occurrence, realization.
=
KEY: Presage \v.\
SYN: Predict, foresee, foretell, prognosticate, betoken, portend,
threaten, augur, [See PORTEND].
=
KEY: Prescribe.
SYN: Enjoin, order, impose, recommend, indicate, decree, dictate.
ANT: Inhibition, prohibit, discountenance, discommend.
=
KEY: Prescription.
SYN: Direction, order, recipe, usage, custom, [See CUSTOM].
=
KEY: Presence.
SYN: Nearness, influence, intercourse, closeness.
ANT: Remoteness, absence, separation, distance.
=
KEY: Present \a.\
SYN: At hand, existing, not absent, nigh, instant, immediate,
current, [See ABSENT].
=
KEY: Present \n.\
SYN: Donation, gift, offering, grant, benefaction, [See
BENEFACTION].
=
KEY: Present \v.\
SYN: Give, offer, bestow, introduce, exhibit, confer upon, [See BESTOW].
=
KEY: Presentation.
SYN: Introduction, exhibition, offer, delivery, gift, donation,
bestowal, grant, endowment.
ANT: Withdrawal, removal, concealment, suppression, retention,
withholding, refusal, nonpresentation.
=
KEY: Presentiment.
SYN: Foreboding, foretaste, forethought, prescience, forecast,
anticipation.
ANT: Surprise, inexpectancy, miscalculation.
=
KEY: Presently.
SYN: Shortly, soon, immediately, directly, [See DIRECTLY].
=
KEY: Preservation.
SYN: Safety, security, conservation, integrity, protection, nurture,
guardianship, care.
ANT: Abandonment, exposure, peril, insecurity, [See IMPAIRMENT],
infringement, injury, damage.
=
KEY: Preserve.
SYN: Defend, guard, save, keep safe, uphold, protect, maintain,
rescue, spare, [See PROTECT].
=
KEY: Preside.
SYN: Manage, superintend, direct, control, govern, [See MANAGE].
=
KEY: President.
SYN: Chairman, moderator, principal, superintendent.
ANT: Member, subordinate, constituent, corporation, society, ward,
institution.
=
KEY: Press \v.\
SYN: Urge, crowd, compel, force, squeeze, crush, compress, express,
constrain, hurry, instigate, inculcate, impress, throng, encroach,
lean, weigh, harass.
ANT: Relax, inhibit, persuade, entice, allure, solicit, touch, skim,
graze, free, liberate, ease, avoid, relieve.
=
KEY: Pressing.
SYN: Urgent compulsory, importunate.
ANT: Unimportant, slight, trivial, light.
=
KEY: Pressure \n.\
SYN: Exigency, urgency, constraining, hurry, influence, [See
EXISTENCE].
=
KEY: Presume.
SYN: Suppose, anticipate, apprehend, venture, take for granted,
conjecture, believe, deem.
ANT: Infer, deduce, prove, argue, retire, withdraw, hesitate,
distrust.
=
KEY: Presumption.
SYN: Anticipation, supposition, hypothesis, probability, assumption,
understanding, condition, concession, forwardness, arrogance,
audacity, boldness.
ANT: Proof, deduction, inference, demonstration, verification, fact,
certainty, modesty, diffidence, backwardness, bashfulness,
hesitation.
=
KEY: Presumptive.
SYN: Probable, antecedent.
ANT: Demonstrative, established.
=
KEY: Presumptuous.
SYN: Presuming, bold, overconfident, forward, rashly confident,
arrogant, bold, rash, irreverent, wilful, foolhardy, [See RASH].
=
KEY: Presuppose.
SYN: Presume, assume, postulate, surmise.
ANT: Prove, establish, infer, deduce, argue, demonstrate.
=
KEY: Pretence.
SYN: Excuse, pretext, fabrication, simulation, cloak, mask, color,
show, garb, plea, assumption, make believe, outside show,
pretension.
ANT: Verity, reality, truth, simplicity, candor, guilelessness,
openness, veritableness, actuality, fact.
=
KEY: Pretend.
SYN: Feign, similate, offer, allege, exhibit, propound, affect,
profess.
ANT: Verify, unmask, detect, test, substantiate, refute.
=
KEY: Pretention.
SYN: Claim, show, pretence, demand, profession, alleged right, [See
PRETENCE and CLAIM].
=
KEY: Pretext, [See PRETENCE].
=
KEY: Pretty \a.\
SYN: Handsome, attractive, neat, trim, tasteful, pleasing, beautiful,
fine, comely, [See ATTRACTIVE and HANDSOME].
=
KEY: Pretty, adv.
SYN: Moderately, tolerably.
=
KEY: Prevail.
SYN: Predominate, overcome, obtain, succeed, be in force, induce,
persuade, [See CONQUER].
=
KEY: Prevailing.
SYN: Controlling, ruling, influential, operative, predominant,
prevalent, rife, ascendant, most general, most common.
ANT: Mitigated, diminishing, subordinate, powerless.
=
KEY: Prevalence.
SYN: Custom, power, influence, operation, extension, predominance,
superiority, influence, efficacy, preponderance.
ANT: Disuse, desuetude, obsoleteness, decay, evanescence,
disappearance, mitigation, subordination, collapse, abandonment,
abolition, diminution, subsidence, subjection.
=
KEY: Prevaricate.
SYN: Shuffle, quibble, equivocate, palter, sophisticate, evade.
ANT: Affirm, asseverate, maintain, reiterate.
=
KEY: Prevenient.
SYN: Preliminary, prefatory, antecedent, initiatory, introductory.
ANT: Subsequent, consequent, following, attending.
=
KEY: Prevent.
SYN: Hinder, obstruct, bar, neutralize, nullify, thwart, intercept,
anticipate, forefend, frustrate, obviate, checkmate.
ANT: Promote, aid, facilitate, expedite, encourage, advance,
accelerate, induce, cause, produce.
=
KEY: Prevention.
SYN: Obstruction, stoppage, interruption, hinderance.
ANT: Help, aid, succor, acceleration.
=
KEY: Previous.
SYN: Antecedent, prior, preceding, anterior, foregoing, former,
earlier.
ANT: Subsequent, posterior, succeeding, following, later.
=
KEY: Prey.
SYN: Spoil, booty, plunder, rapine, pillage, victim, seizure, loot.
ANT: Earnings, hues, rights.
=
KEY: Price.
SYN: Cost, figure, charge, expense, compensation, value,
appraisement, worth.
ANT: Donation, discount, allowance, remittance, abatement.
=
KEY: Priceless.
SYN: Inestimable, invaluable, precious.
ANT: Cheap, valueless.
=
KEY: Pride.
SYN: Loftiness, haughtiness, lordliness, self-exaltation, arrogance,
conceit, vainglory.
ANT: Lowliness, meekness, modesty, self-distrust.
=
KEY: Priggish.
SYN: Coxcombical, dandified, foppish, affected, prim, conceited.
ANT: Plain, sensible, unaffected, simple-minded, simple-mannered.
=
KEY: Prim.
SYN: Formal, precise, demure, starched, stiff, self-conscious,
unbending, priggish.
ANT: Unformal, easy, genial, unaffected, natural, free, naive.
=
KEY: Primary.
SYN: First, original, earliest, elementary, chief, principal,
important, leading, primitive, pristine.
ANT: Secondary, subordinate, posterior, unimportant, inferior,
subsequent, later, [See PRINCIPAL].
=
KEY: Prime \n.\
SYN: Zenith, culmination, perfection, dawn, spring, cream, flower.
ANT: Decadence, wane, evening, refuse, winter, decay.
=
KEY: Prime \a.\
SYN: Excellent, superexcellent, first-rate, perfect, consummate.
ANT: Inferior, impaired, waning, deteriorated, ordinary, second-rate,
defective.
=
KEY: Primeval.
SYN: Archaic, primordial, indigenous, autochthonic, aboriginal,
pristine.
ANT: Subsequent, recent, modern, imported, adventitious.
=
KEY: Primitive.
SYN: Old-fashioned, primeval, quaint, simple, unsophisticated,
archaic, pristine.
ANT: Modern, new-fangled, sophisticated, modish.
=
KEY: Primordial, [See PRIMEVAL].
=
KEY: Princely.
SYN: Imperial, munificent, magnificent, superb, august, regal, royal,
supreme.
ANT: Beggarly, mean, niggardly, poverty-struck.
=
KEY: Principal.
SYN: Highest, first, main, leading, chief, primary, foremost,
pre-eminent, prominent.
ANT: Inferior, subordinate, secondary, supplemental, subject,
auxiliary, minor.
=
KEY: Principle.
SYN: Source, origin, motive, cause, energy, substance, element, power,
faculty, truth, tenet, law, doctrine, axiom, maxim, postulate, rule.
ANT: Exhibition, manifestation, application, development, issue,
exercise, operation, formation, action.
=
KEY: Prior.
SYN: Preceding, previous, former, antecedent, precedent, earlier,
anterior, foregoing, [See POSTERIOR].
=
KEY: Prismatic.
SYN: Iridescent, opalescent, polychromatous.
ANT: Achromatic, colorless.
=
KEY: Pristine, [See PRIMEVAL and PRIMITIVE].
=
KEY: Privacy.
SYN: Retirement, secrecy, solitude, seclusion, retreat, concealment.
ANT: Publicity, currency, notoriety, exposure.
=
KEY: Private.
SYN: Special, peculiar, individual, secret, not public, retired,
privy.
ANT: General, public, open, unconcealed.
=
KEY: Privation.
SYN: Deprivation, destitution, absence, negation, loss, bereavement,
hardship, want.
ANT: Accession, supply, restoration, benefaction, restitution,
presence, compensation, recovery, privilege.
=
KEY: Privilege.
SYN: Prerogative, im-munity, franchise, right, liberty, advantage,
claim, exemption.
ANT: Disfranchisement, disqualification, exclusion, prohibition,
inhibition.
=
KEY: Privy.
SYN: Secret, clandestine, cognizant, acquainted with.
ANT: Open, unsealed, not acquainted with, not cognizant of, [See
PRIVATE].
=
KEY: Prize \n.\
SYN: Booty, spoil, plunder, prey, forage, trophy, laurels, guerdon,
premium, honors, ovation, palm.
ANT: Loss, forfeiture, fine, penalty, amercement, sacrifice,
disappointment, failure, brand, stigma, infamy, mulct.
=
KEY: Prize \v.\ [See VALUE].
=
KEY: Probability.
SYN: Likelihood, presumption, verisimilitude, chance, appearance.
ANT: Unliklihood, improbability, impossibility, inconceivableness.
=
KEY: Probable.
SYN: Likely, presumable, credible, reasonable.
ANT: Unlikely, unreasonable, incredible.
=
KEY: Probation.
SYN: Essay, examination, test, trial, experiment, proof, criterion,
touchstone, ordeal, verification.
ANT: License, [See DIMINISH and SMALL], nonprobation.
=
KEY: Probe.
SYN: Prove, test, scrutinize, verify, investigate, examine, search,
silt, explore.
ANT: Skim, misinvestigate, blink, misexamine, slur, miss, gloss.
=
KEY: Probity.
SYN: Soundness, virtue, integrity, honesty, uprightness, rectitude,
principle, conscientiousness.
ANT: Dishonesty, disintegrity, unsoundness, vice,
unconscientiousness, roguery, rascality.
=
KEY: Problematical.
SYN: Dubious, questionable, uncertain, doubtful.
ANT: Evident, obvious, self-evident, certain, demonstrable.
=
KEY: Procedure.
SYN: Proceeding, act, progress, course of conduct, process, [See
ACT].
=
KEY: Proceed.
SYN: Move, pass, advance, progress, continue, issue, emanate, flow,
arise.
ANT: Recede, deviate, retreat, stand, stop, stay, desist, discontinue,
retire.
=
KEY: Proceeding.
SYN: Step, measure, transaction, performance, procedure, conduct,
behavior, action, process.
ANT: Abandonment, desistence, deviation, discontinuance, inaction.
=
KEY: Proceeds.
SYN: Receipts, produce, returns, avail, profits, income, [See INCOME].
=
KEY: Procession.
SYN: Train, march, caravan, file, cortege, cavalcade, retinue.
ANT: Rabble, herd, rush, disorder, mob, confusion, rout.
=
KEY: Proclaim.
SYN: Announce, publish, promulgate, declare, enunciate, advertise,
call out, report, utter.
ANT: Repress, conceal, silentiate, obliviate, secrete.
=
KEY: Proclamation.
SYN: Announcement, edict, decree, notice, ordinance, [See DECREE].
=
KEY: Proclivity.
SYN: Tendency, propensity, bias, gravitation, disposition,
inclination, proneness.
ANT: Aversion, disinclination, indisposition.
=
KEY: Procrastinate, [See DEFER].
=
KEY: Procrastination.
SYN: Dilatoriness, delay.
ANT: Timeliness, punctuality, promptitude, alacrity.
=
KEY: Procure.
SYN: Acquire, provide, gain, get, contrive, effect, reap, win, earn,
bring about.
ANT: Miss, lose, forfeit, misprovide, miscontrive.
=
KEY: Prodigal.
SYN: Lavish, profuse, extravagant, reckless, wasteful, squandering,
improvident.
ANT: Frugal, saving, hoarding, economical, niggardly, miserly, close,
closefisted.
=
KEY: productions.
SYN: Marvellous, portentous, wonderful, astounding, enormous,
monstrous, amazing, surprising, remarkable, extraordinary, huge,
vast.
ANT: Ordinary, commonplace, everyday, usual, familiar, moderate.
=
KEY: Prodigy.
SYN: Wonder, marvel, portent, monster, miracle, [See MONSTER].
=
KEY: Produce.
SYN: Exhibit, bear, furbish, afford, cause, create, originate, yield,
extend, prolong, lengthen.
ANT: Withdraw, retain, stifle, withhold, neutralize, destroy,
annihilate, curtail, shorten, contract, reduce.
=
KEY: Produce \n.\
SYN: Product, yield, fruit, profit, effect, consequence, result,
amount, [See RESULT].
=
KEY: Product.
SYN: Fruit, result, issue, consequence, effect, emanation, work.
ANT: Cause, principle, power, motive, energy, operation, action,
tendency, law.
=
KEY: Production.
SYN: Origination, evolution, formation, genesis, product, [See
CAUSE].
=
KEY: Productive.
SYN: Fruitful, prolific, fertile, efficient, causative.
ANT: Unfruitful, barren, sterile, unproductive, inefficient, effete.
=
KEY: Proemial, [See PREFATORY].
=
KEY: Profane \a.\
SYN: Unconsecrated, secular, temporal, unsanctified, unholy,
irreligious, irreverent, ungodly, wicked, godless, impious,
blasphemous.
ANT: Holy, consecrated, sacred, spiritual, sanctified, reverent,
religious, godly, pious, devout.
=
KEY: Profane \v.\
SYN: Defile, pollute, desecrate, abuse, [See CONTAMINATE and POLLUTE].
=
KEY: Profess.
SYN: Declare, avow, acknowledge, own, confess, pretend, proclaim,
lay claim to.
ANT: Conceal, suppress, disown, disavow, repudiate, renounce,
abjure.
=
KEY: Profession.
SYN: Avowal, declaration, business, occupation, trade, calling,
vocation, [See DECLARATION].
=
KEY: Proffer.
SYN: Offer, propose, tender, volunteer.
ANT: Withhold, detain.
=
KEY: Proficiency.
SYN: Success, advancement, progress, improvement, forwardness,
dexterity.
ANT: Failure, backwardness, unsuccess, tardiness, relapse.
=
KEY: Proficient \n.\
SYN: Adept, master, expert.
ANT: Tyro, novice, ignoramus, dunce.
=
KEY: Proficient \a.\
SYN: Expert, clever, practised, skilled, trained, versed, advanced,
conversant, skilful, competent, well qualified.
ANT: backward, ignorant, unskilled, inconversant, ill-versed,
awkward, clumsy.
=
KEY: Profit.
SYN: Gain, emolument, advantage, avail, acquisition, benefit service,
use, improvement.
ANT: Loss, detriment, damage, disadvantage, waste.
=
KEY: Profitable.
SYN: Gainful, advantageous, desirable, beneficial, useful,
productive, remunerative, lucrative.
ANT: Unprofitable, disadvantageous, undesirable, detrimental,
unbeneficial, unprofitable, useless, vain, fruitless, unproductive,
unremunerative.
=
KEY: Profitless, [See PROFITABLE].
=
KEY: Profligacy.
SYN: Shamelessness, dissoluteness, depravity, reprobation.
ANT: Virtue, probity, integrity, principle, conscientiousness.
=
KEY: Profligate.
SYN: Abandoned, depraved, dissolute, degenerate, corrupt, vicious,
shameless, [See ABANDONED].
=
KEY: Profound.
SYN: Deep, fathomless, abysmal, penetrating, intimate, solemn,
abstruse, recondite, philosophical, strong, vivid, intense,
deepseated.
ANT: Shallow, superficial, commonplace.
=
KEY: Profuse.
SYN: Copious, lavish, prodigal, bountiful, exuberant, excessive.
ANT: Scanty, sparing, chary, parsimonious, niggardly, churlish,
poor.
=
KEY: Profusion.
SYN: Copiousness, prodigality, abundance, exuberance, extravagance,
multitude, mass, heap, load, flood, wealth.
ANT: Scarcity, economy, poverty, parsimony, drain, dole, driblet,
pittance.
=
KEY: Progeny.
SYN: Offspring, young, issue, scion, offshoot, descendants,
posterity, race.
ANT: Stock, parentage, ancestry.
=
KEY: Prognostic.
SYN: Sign, indication, symptom, premonition, harbinger, token,
presage, signal.
ANT: Result, reminder, memorial, record, register, misindication,
mistaken.
=
KEY: Prognosticate.
SYN: Foretell, presage, predict, forebode, foretoken, augur, portend,
indicate, betoken.
ANT: Record, register, recal, remember, note, rehearse.
=
KEY: Programme.
SYN: Advertisement, notice, plan, catalogue.
ANT: Review, rehearsal, repetition, resume, analysis, precis.
=
KEY: Progress \n.\
SYN: Advancement, advance, movement, proceeding, Way, journey,
proficiency, speed, growth.
ANT: Delay, stoppage, retreat, stay, retrogression, failure,
relapse.
=
KEY: Progress \v.\ [See ADVANCE].
=
KEY: Progression.
SYN: Series, gradation, rate.
ANT: Inversion, diminution.
=
KEY: Prohibit.
SYN: Forbid, interdict, debar, hinder, check, prevent, disallow,
inhibit.
ANT: Permit, grant, allow, sanction.
=
KEY: Prohibition.
SYN: Interdiction, inhibition, interdict, embargo, disallowance.
ANT: Allowance, permission.
=
KEY: Project \v.\
SYN: Throw, cast, hurl, propel, shoot, discharge, propound, intend,
forecast, jut, extend, reach, bulge, stand out.
ANT: Recal, withdraw, draw, retract, pull, attract, rebound, recoil,
adduce, revert, rebate.
=
KEY: Project \n.\
SYN: Plan, purpose, design, scheme, contrivance, device.
ANT: Hazard, chance, venture.
=
KEY: Projectile.
SYN: Missile.
ANT: Weapon, sidearms, handarms.
=
KEY: Projection.
SYN: Protuberance, prominence, convexity, propulsion, emission.
ANT: Recess, cavity, concavity, return, indentation, hollow,
attraction, recoil, rebound, ricochet, reaction.
=
KEY: Prolific, [See PRODUCTION].
=
KEY: Prolix.
SYN: Diffuse, lengthy, tedious, circumlocutory, prosaic, verbose,
minute, toilsome, wordy.
ANT: Condensed, terse, epigrammatic, curt, brief, laconic.
=
KEY: Prolong.
SYN: Lengthen, extend, protract, continue, delay, retard.
ANT: Curtail, shorten, contract, discontinue.
=
KEY: Prominent.
SYN: Jutting, protuberant, relieved, embossed, extended, manifest,
conspicuous, eminent, distinguished, main, important, leading,
characteristic, distinctive.
ANT: Receding, concave, rebated, indented, hollowed, engraved,
intailed, withdrawn, inconspicuous, minor, secondary, unimportant,
indistinctive, undistinguishable, subordinate.
=
KEY: Promiscuous.
SYN: Mingled, [See {[cooFRO]?}], undistinguished, unselected,
unarranged, undistributed, unassorted, common, unreserved, casual,
disorderly, unordered.
ANT: Sorted, select, orderly, arranged, distributed, reserved,
as sorted, exclusive, nice.
=
KEY: Promise \v.\ [(DEF: to engage by word of mouth, as distinguished from a bond)].
SYN: Engage, assure.
ANT: Covenant, pledge, stipulate.
=
KEY: Promise \n.\
SYN: Engagement, assurance, word, pledge, [See ASSURANCE].
=
KEY: Promontory.
SYN: Headland, jutland, cape.
ANT: Bay, cove, recess.
=
KEY: Promote.
SYN: Aid, further, advance, excite, exalt, raise, elevate, prefer.
ANT: Discourage, repress, hinder, check, allay, depress, degrade,
dishonor.
=
KEY: Promotion.
SYN: Furtherance, advancement, encouragement, preferment,
elevation.
ANT: Hinderance, obstruction, impediment, retardation.
=
KEY: Prompt.
SYN: Ready, alert, responsive, active, quick, brisk, apt,
unhesitating.
ANT: Unready, sluggish, irresponsive, inactive.
=
KEY: Promptitude.
SYN: Readiness, promptness, quickness, alertness, alacrity,
activity.
ANT: Unreadiness, sluggishness, inaction, inertness, tardiness,
hesitation.
=
KEY: Promulgate.
SYN: Divulge, announce, publish, spread, propound, disseminate,
proclaim, advertise.
ANT: Repress, conceal, suppress, stifle, hush, burke,
discountenance.
=
KEY: Prone.
SYN: Disposed, inclined, bent, tending, apt, recumbent, prostrate,
flat.
ANT: Indisposed, disinclined, unapt, averse, upright.
=
KEY: Pronounce.
SYN: Articulate, utter, declare, propound, deliver, assert, affirm,
enunciate, express.
ANT: Mispronounce, mispropound, misaffirm, suppress, stifle, silence,
choke, swallow, gabble, mumble.
=
KEY: Proof.
SYN: Test, trial, examination, criterion, essay, establishment,
probation, demonstration, evidence, testimony, scrutiny.
ANT: Disproof, failure, invalidity, shortcoming, fallacy,
undemonstrativeness, reprobation.
=
KEY: Prop \n.\
SYN: Support, stay, buttress, shore, strut, pin.
ANT: Superstructure, superincumbency, top-weight, gravitation,
extirpation, subverter, destroyer.
=
KEY: Prop \v.\
SYN: Sustain, support, stay, maintain, [See SUPPORT].
=
KEY: Propagate.
SYN: Breed, generate, produce, originate, spread, extend, expand,
disseminate, diffuse, increase, multiply, promulgate, propound,
broach.
ANT: Extinguish, strangle, stifle, neutralize, reduce, contract,
suppress, diminish, fail, dwindle, die, contradict.
=
KEY: Propel.
SYN: Hurl, project, drive, urge.
ANT: Retard, detain, withhold.
=
KEY: Propensity.
SYN: Bent, predilection, proclivity, [See PROCLIVITY].
=
KEY: Proper.
SYN: Peculiar, appertinent, personal, own, constitutional, special,
befitting, adapted, suited, suitable, appropriate, just, fair,
equitable, right, decent, becoming, fit.
ANT: Common, inappertinent, alien, universal, nonspecial,
unbefitting, unadapted, unsuited, unsuitable, inappropriate, wrong,
indecent, unbecoming, improper.
=
KEY: Property.
SYN: Quality, attribute, peculiarity, nature, characteristic,
possessions, goods, wealth, estate, gear, resources, ownership, [See
ATTRIBUTE]. \n.\ [See and ESTATE].
=
KEY: Prophesy, [See FORETELL].
=
KEY: Prophetic.
SYN: Predictive, ominous, portentous, premonitory, fatidical,
oracular, sibylline.
ANT: Historic, narrative, chronicled, recorded, recitative,
commemorative.
=
KEY: Propinquity.
SYN: Nearness, proximity, contiguity, adjacence.
ANT: Distance, remoteness, longitude, separation.
=
KEY: Propitiate.
SYN: Conciliate, secure, appease, win, reconcile, pacify.
ANT: Exasperate, alienate, offend, estrange.
=
KEY: Propitious.
SYN: Timely, favorable, auspicious, beneficial, friendly,
welldisposed, gracious, benign, fortunate.
ANT: Untimely, untoward, unseasonable, unfavorable, inauspicious,
unfriendly, hostile, antagonistic, adverse, ill-disposed,
unpropitious.
=
KEY: Proportion.
SYN: Adaptation, relation, rate, distribution, adjustment, symmetry,
interrelationship, uniformity, correlation.
ANT: Misproportion, misadjustment, incongruity, disparity,
disharmony, disorder, irrelation, disproportion.
=
KEY: Proposal.
SYN: Offer, overture, tender, suggestion, design, proposition,
scheme.
ANT: Withholding, withdrawal, retention, reticence, dissuasive,
warning, prohibition.
=
KEY: Propose.
SYN: Offer, tender, proffer, bring forward, purpose, intend, mean,
propound, move, design, [See {[OKFKB]?}].
=
KEY: Proposition.
SYN: Statement, affirmation, declaration, sentence.
ANT: Misstatement, interjection, babel, jargon, sound, riddle,
paradox.
=
KEY: Propound.
SYN: Propose, promulgate, express, declare, maintain, advocate,
propagate, broach.
ANT: Repress, suppress, contradict, withdraw, repudiate, renounce,
abjure, recal, retract.
=
KEY: Propriety.
SYN: Fitness, appropriateness, justness, correctness, expediency,
decorum, [See EXPEDIENCY and DECORUM].
=
KEY: Prorogation, [See PROROGUE].
=
KEY: Prorogue.
SYN: Adjourn, postpone, defer.
ANT: Convene, continue, prolong, expedite, despatch.
=
KEY: Prosaic.
SYN: Pull, matter-of-fact, tedious, prolix.
ANT: Poetic, animated, interesting, lively, fervid, eloquent,
graphic.
=
KEY: Proscribe.
SYN: Denounce, condemn, reject, interdict, ostracize, disallow,
prohibit, forbid.
ANT: Permit, sanction, encourage, enjoin.
=