=
KEY: Unnecessary.
SYN: Uncalled for, useless, needless, [See NECESSARY].
=
KEY: Unpardonable.
SYN: Inexcusable, unjustifiable, [See PARDONABLE].
=
KEY: Unpleasant, [See PLEASANT].
=
KEY: Unprecedented.
SYN: Unrivalled, unexampled, unequalled, rare, [See EXCEPTIONAL and RARE].
=
KEY: Unprincipled, [See WICKED].
=
KEY: Unprofitable.
SYN: Useless, bootless, futile, fruitless, [See PROFITABLE].
=
KEY: Unqualified.
SYN: Absolute, unconditioned, outright, [See ABSOLUTE].
=
KEY: Unquestionable.
SYN: Irrefragable, incontrovertible, indubitable, undeniable,
indisputable, [See INDISPUTABLE and INCONTESTABLE].
=
KEY: Unreasonable.
SYN: Foolish, silly, absurd, preposterous, immoderate, exorbitant,
ridiculous, [See RATIONAL and EXCESSIVE].
=
KEY: Unrelenting.
SYN: Inexorable, unyielding, pitiless, stem, cruel, bard, [See HARD].
=
KEY: Unrighteous.
SYN: Wrongful, unjust, unfair, unequitable, [See RIGHTEOUS].
=
KEY: Unrivalled.
SYN: Unequalled, unique, unexampled, Incomparable, matchless,
[See INCOMPARABLE].
=
KEY: Unroll.
SYN: Unfold, open, discover, [See DISCOVER].
=
KEY: Unruffled, [See TRANQUIL].
=
KEY: Unruly.
SYN: Ungovernable, unmanageable, refractory, [See REFRACTORY].
=
KEY: Unsafe, [See SAFE].
=
KEY: Unseasonable, [See SEASONABLE].
=
KEY: Unseemly.
SYN: Unbecoming, indecorous, unsuitable, unfit, unbefitting, [See SEEMLY].
=
KEY: Unselfish, [See SELFISH].
=
KEY: Unseen.
SYN: Invisible, unnoticed, unperceived, [See VISIBLE].
=
KEY: Unsettle.
SYN: Disturb, derange, displace, ruffle, [See SETTLE].
=
KEY: Unskillful, [See CLUMSY].
=
KEY: Unsophisticated, [See SIMPLE].
=
KEY: Unsound, [see SOUND].
=
KEY: Unspeakable, [See INDESCRIBABLE].
=
KEY: Unsteady.
SYN: Wavering, unstable, variable, fickle, restless, fitful, [See STEADY].
=
KEY: Unsuccessful.
SYN: Futile, vain, ineffectual, fruitless, unfortunate, [See FUTILE].
=
KEY: Untrodden.
SYN: Trackless, pathless.
ANT: Trodden, frequented.
=
KEY: Untruth.
SYN: Lie, falsehood, fib, fiction, fabrication, deception.
ANT: Truth, fact, verity.
=
KEY: Unusual.
SYN: Rare, unwonted, singular, uncommon, remarkable, strange,
extraordinary, [See USUAL].
=
KEY: Unwearied.
SYN: Indefatigable, persevering, tireless, [See INDEFATIGUEABLE].
=
KEY: Unwilling.
SYN: Averse, backward, disinclined, loth, reluctant, [See RELUCTANT].
=
KEY: Unyielding.
SYN: Inflexible, unbending, stanch, stiff, determined, obstinate,
[See INFLEXIBLE and OBSTINATE].
=
KEY: Upbraid.
SYN: reprove, taunt, reproach, chide.
ANT: Commend, praise, eulogize, laud, compliment, applaud.
=
KEY: Uphold.
SYN: Support, sustain, elevate, raise, countenance, advocate,
sanction, encourage, defend, maintain, vindicate, stand by.
ANT: Subvert, drop, discard, betray, discountenance, oppose,
discourage, attack, repudiate, abandon, abjure, renounce.
=
KEY: Upright.
SYN: Vertical, erect, perpendicular, honest, honorable, pure,
principled, conscientious, just, fair, equitable.
ANT: Inverted, Inclined, dishonest, dishonorable, corrupt,
unprincipled, unconscientious.
=
KEY: Uproar, [See TUMULT].
=
KEY: Uproot.
SYN: Eradicate, extirpate, weed, deracinate, exterminate, destroy.
ANT: Implant, sow, foster, nurture, cultivate.
=
KEY: Upset.
SYN: Overturn, overthrow, capsize, overbalance, subvert,
disestablish.
ANT: Establish, plant, stabilitate, corroborate, confirm.
=
KEY: Upshot.
SYN: Result, conclusion, outcome.
=
KEY: Denouement, issue, finale, [See RESULT].
=
KEY: Upstart.
SYN: Plebeian, mushroom.
ANT: Personage, patrician.
=
KEY: Urbane.
SYN: Affable, courteous, refined, polite.
ANT: Boorish, discourteous, fined, coarse.
=
KEY: Urbanity.
SYN: Politeness, ment, courtesy, polished manners, suavity,
good breeding, civility, [See REFINEMENT].
=
KEY: Urge.
SYN: Press, push, drive, impel, propel, force, importune, solicit,
animate, incite, instigate, stimulate, hasten, expedite,
accelerate, despatch.
ANT: Repress, bold, retain, inhibit, coerce, restrain, cohibit,
hinder, retard, discourage, damp, obstruct.
=
KEY: Urgent.
SYN: Pressing, imperative, immediate, importunate, forcible,
strenuous, serious, grave, momentous, indeferrible.
ANT: Unimportant, insignificant, trifling, trivial, deferrable.
=
KEY: Linage.
SYN: Custom, use, fashion, prescription, treatment, [See FASHION].
=
KEY: Use \n.\
SYN: Advantage, custom, habit, practice, service, utility, usage,
[See CUSTOM].
=
KEY: Use \v.\
SYN: Employ, exercise, treat, practice, accustom, habituate, inure.
ANT: Discard, suspend, ignore, avoid, disaccustom, dishabituate,
disinure.
=
KEY: Useful.
SYN: Advantageous, profitable, helpful, serviceable, beneficial,
available, adapted, suited, conducive.
ANT: Disadvantageous, unprofitable, obstructive, retardative,
preventative, antagonistic, hostile, cumbersome, burdensome,
unbeneficial, unavailable, inconducive, useless, fruitless,
ineffectual.
=
KEY: Useless, [See CUSTOM].
=
KEY: Usher.
SYN: Herald, introduce, precede, announce.
ANT: Follow, attend, succeed.
=
KEY: Usual.
SYN: Common, customary, ordinary, normal, regular, habitual, wonted,
accustomed, general.
ANT: Uncommon, rare, exceptional, uncustomary, extraordinary,
abnormal, irregular, unusual.
=
KEY: Usurp.
SYN: Seize, arrogate, appropriate, assume.
ANT: Receive, inherit, accept.
=
KEY: Utility.
SYN: Usefulness, benefit, profit, advantage, advantageousness,
service, [See ADVANTAGE].
=
KEY: Utilize.
SYN: Localize, economize, husband.
ANT: Dissipate, waste, squander, sacrifice, lose.
=
KEY: Utmost.
SYN: Farthest, remotest, [See ADVANTAGE], Unroot, greatest.
ANT: Nearest, smallest.
=
KEY: Utter \v.\
SYN: Circulate, issue, promulgate, express, articulate, pronounce,
speak.
ANT: Recal, suppress, repress, hush, stifle, check, swallow.
=
KEY: Utter \a.\
SYN: Extreme, perfect, complete, unqualified, absolute, thorough,
consummate, entire, sheer, pure.
ANT: Imperfect, incomplete, impure.
=
KEY: Utterly.
SYN: Totally, completely, wholly, quite, altogether, entirely,
[See ALTOGETHER and COMPLETELY].
=
KEY: Vacancy.
SYN: Empty, emptiness, space, vacuity, leisure, void.
ANT: Fullness, business, occupation.
=
KEY: Vacant.
SYN: Empty, leisure, unemployed, unencumbered, unoccupied, void,
unfilled, mindless, exhausted.
ANT: Full, replenished, business, employed, engaged, occupied,
filled, thoughtful.
=
KEY: Vacate.
SYN: Resign, surrender, annul, invalidate, abrogate, neutralize.
ANT: Hold, retain, fill, occupy, substantiate.
=
KEY: Vacation.
SYN: Holiday, recreation.
ANT: Term, business.
=
KEY: Vacillate.
SYN: Fluctuate, dubitate, waver, be unsteady.
ANT: Determine, abide, adhere.
=
KEY: Vacuity.
SYN: Emptiness, inanity, nihility, space, void.
ANT: Fullness, substance, matter, occupation, quantity, bulk.
=
KEY: Vagabond.
SYN: Wanderer, vagrant, rogue, tramp.
ANT: Worker, laborer.
=
KEY: Vagary.
SYN: Whim, fancy, crotchet, freak, caprice.
ANT: Purpose, determination, judgment, conviction, seriousness.
=
KEY: Vagrant.
SYN: Vagabond, strolling, itinerant, wandering, sauntering, roaming,
roving.
ANT: Domestic, established, local, resident.
=
KEY: Vague.
SYN: General, lax, indefinite, undetermined, popular, intangible,
equivocal, unsettled, uncertain, ill-defined, pointless.
ANT: Strict, definite, determined, limited, scientific, pointed,
specific.
=
KEY: Vain.
SYN: Empty, worthless, fruitless, unsatisfying, unavailing, idle,
ineffectual, egotistic, showy, unreal, conceited, arrogant.
ANT: Solid, substantial, sound, worthy, efficient, effectual, cogent,
potent, unconceited, modest, real.
=
KEY: Valediction.
SYN: Leave-taking, farewell, adieu.
ANT: Salutation, hail, welcome, reception, recognition.
=
KEY: Valiant.
SYN: Intrepid, heroic, courageous, brave, redoubtable, stout-hearted,
valorous, gallant.
ANT: Timid, puny, cowardly, craven.
=
KEY: Valid.
SYN: Strong, powerful, cogent, weighty, sound, substantial,
available, efficient, sufficient, operative, conclusive.
ANT: Weak, invalid, powerless, unsound, unsubstantial, unavailable,
inefficient, insufficient, inoperative, obsolete, effete,
superseded, inconclusive.
=
KEY: Valor, [See COURAGE].
=
KEY: Valuable.
SYN: Precious, costly, estimable.
ANT: Cheap, vile, worthless, valueless.
=
KEY: Value \v.\
SYN: Appreciate, compute, rate, estimate, esteem, treasure, appraise,
prize.
ANT: Miscompute, misestimate, disesteem, disregard, vilipend,
underrate, undervalue, underestimate, despise, contemn, cheapen,
vilify.
=
KEY: Value \n.\ [See COURAGE].
=
KEY: Vanish.
SYN: Disappear, dissolve, melt, fade away.
ANT: Appear, approach, loom.
=
KEY: Vanity.
SYN: Emptiness, unsubstantiality, unreality, falsity, conceit,
self-sufficiency, ostentation, pride, worthlessness, triviality.
ANT: Substance, solidity, substantiality, reality, truth, modesty,
selfdistrust, simplicity, unostentatiousness, humility.
=
KEY: Vanquish.
SYN: Conquer, surmount, subdue, discomfit, confute, overcome, defeat,
master.
ANT: Succumb, yield, faint, fail.
=
KEY: Vapid.
SYN: Flat, dull, spiritless, {[irtiilw]?}, tasteless, flavorless,
insipid, {[tarn*]?}.
ANT: Spirited, animated, pungent, trenchant, pithy.
=
KEY: Vapor.
SYN: Steam, fog, mist, fume, gas, exhalation, [See WORTH].
=
KEY: Variable.
SYN: Changeable, mutable, fickle, capricious, wavering, unsteady,
inconstant, shifting.
ANT: Unchanging, unchangeable, immutable, constant, firm, true, fast,
stanch, unwavering, steady, unalterable, invariable.
=
KEY: Variance.
SYN: Difference, disagreement, discord, estrangement, antagonism,
strife, hostility, discrepancy.
ANT: Unity, reconciliation, harmony, agreement, pacification, peace,
accommodation, consent.
=
KEY: Variation.
SYN: Deviation, alteration, mutation, diversity, departure, change,
abnormity, exception, discrepancy.
ANT: Continuance, fixity, indivergency, exemplification, law, rule,
uniformity, harmony, agreement.
=
KEY: Variegated.
SYN: Diversified, diverse colored, parti-colored, mottled, [See
EXHALATION].
=
KEY: Variety.
SYN: Difference, diversity, medley, miscellany, multiplicity,
multiformity, abnormity.
ANT: Uniformity, species, type, specimen.
=
KEY: Various.
SYN: Different, diverse, multiform, multitudinous, several, sundry,
uncertain, manifold, diversified.
ANT: One, same, identical, uniform, few, similar.
=
KEY: Varnish.
SYN: Glaze, gloss, disguise, palliate, embellish, sophisticate,
furbish.
ANT: Simplify, divest, disembellish, disencumber.
=
KEY: Vary.
SYN: Alter, dissimilate, change, modify, variegate, diversify,
differ, deviate, disagree.
ANT: Perpetuate, stabilitate, assimilate, stereotype, harmonize,
conform.
=
KEY: Vast.
SYN: Waste, wild, desolate, extensive, spacious, wide spread,
gigantic, wide, boundless, measureless, enormous, mighty, huge,
immense, colossal, prodigious, far-reaching.
ANT: Narrow, close, confined, frequented, populated, cultivated,
tended, tilled, limited, bounded, circumscribed, moderate.
=
KEY: Vaticination.
SYN: Prophecy, divination, augury, prediction.
ANT: Retrospection, realization, rehearsal, verification,
fulfillment, accomplishment.
=
KEY: Vaunt.
SYN: Boast, brag, puff, hawk, trumpet, cackle, advertise,
make a display of, flourish, cry, parade.
ANT: Repress, suppress, conceal, disparage, decry, detract.
=
KEY: Vere.
SYN: Shift, tergiversate, trim, temporize.
ANT: Stand, stick, persist, remain, adhere.
=
KEY: Vegetate.
SYN: Grow, sprout, germinate, idle, bask, pullulate, hibernate.
ANT: Fade, pine, wither, decay, rot, stir, bustle, work, energize,
operate.
=
KEY: Vehement.
SYN: Violent, impetuous, ardent, burning, fervent, raging, furious,
passionate, fervid, urgent, forcible, eager.
ANT: Mild, feeble, inanimate, subdued, controlled, unimpassioned,
passionless, cold, stoical, gentle, weak, mitigated.
=
KEY: Veil.
SYN: Intercept, hide, screen, disguise, palliate, mask, cover,
conceal.
ANT: Expose, unveil, strip, denude, exaggerate.
=
KEY: Velocity.
SYN: Quickness, swiftness, speed, celerity, rapidity, fleetness.
ANT: Slowness, sluggishness, tardiness, {[ientor]?}, languor,
cumbrousness, inactivity.
=
KEY: Venal.
SYN: Sordid, mercenary, prostitute, selfish, selfish, held for pay,
hireling.
ANT: Disinterested, unmercenary, incorrupt, [See MACULATED].
=
KEY: Venerate, [See ADORE].
=
KEY: Venerable.
SYN: Sage, wise, grave, [See ADOBE].
=
KEY: Veneration.
SYN: Reverence, adoration, worship.
ANT: Contempt, disesteem, loathing, vilification.
=
KEY: Vengeance.
SYN: Retribution, retaliation, revenge.
ANT: Forgiveness, pardon, {[condoation]?}, amnesty, grace, remission,
absolution, oblivion, indulgence, reprieve.
=
KEY: Venial.
SYN: Pardonable, excusable, remissible, justifiable.
ANT: Unpardonable, inexcusable, irremissible, mortal.
=
KEY: Venom.
SYN: Poison, virus, malice, malignity, spite.
ANT: Antidote, [See GRAVE and FOOLISH].
=
KEY: Venomous.
SYN: Poisonous, malignant, virulent, slanderous.
ANT: Wholesome, salubrious, genial, flattering, kindly.
=
KEY: Vent.
SYN: Outlet, opening, discharge, passage, utterance, [See OPENING].
=
KEY: Venture \n.\
SYN: Speculation, risk, chance, hazard, stake, undertaking, luck,
experiment, throw.
ANT: Nonspeculation, caution, reservation, calculation, certainty,
law, method.
=
KEY: Venture \v.\ [See HAZARD].
=
KEY: Venturesome.
SYN: Risky, intrepid, foolhardy, [See HAZARD].
=
KEY: Venturous.
SYN: Daring, rash, intrepid, audacious.
ANT: Unventuresome, cautious, timid, unenterprising.
=
KEY: Veracious.
SYN: true, credible, reliable, honest, truth-loving, truthful,
historical.
ANT: false, mendacious, inveracious, deceitful, unhistorical,
romantic, imaginative.
=
KEY: Veracity.
SYN: Truth, truthfulness, credibility, exactness, accuracy, [See
ADVENTUROUS].
=
KEY: Verbal.
SYN: Oral, spoken, parole, vocal, unwritten, unrecorded.
ANT: Written, documentary, epistolary, recorded.
=
KEY: Verbose.
SYN: Windy, prolix, prosy, tedious.
ANT: Curt, laconic, succinct, terse, concise.
=
KEY: Verdict.
SYN: Finding, judgment, answer, opinion, decision, sentence.
ANT: Nondeclaration, indecision, indetermination.
=
KEY: Verge \n.\
SYN: Border, brim, edge, rim, limit, margin, brink, eve.
ANT: Heart, depth, center, midst.
=
KEY: Verge \v.\
SYN: Tend, bend, slope, incline, approach, approximate, trend, bear.
ANT: Decline, deviate, revert, depart, recede, return, back,
retrocede.
=
KEY: Verify.
SYN: Establish, confirm, fulfill, authenticate, substantiate,
identify, realize, test, warrant, demonstrate.
ANT: Disestablish, subvert, fail, falsify, mistake, misrepresent,
misstate, disappoint, misdemonstrate.
=
KEY: Verisimilitude.
SYN: Probability, consistency, likelihood.
ANT: Improbability, inconsistency, unlikelihood.
=
KEY: Veritable.
SYN: true, actual, real, authentic, original.
ANT: false, fictitious, unreal, unauthentic, spurious,
supposititious, feigned, sham, untrue.
=
KEY: Verity.
SYN: Truth, reality, actuality, in existence.
ANT: Falsity, unreality, supposition, hypothesis, conjecture,
chimera, dream, delusion, fancy, phantasy.
=
KEY: Vernal.
SYN: Spring, youthful, genial, balmy, nascent.
ANT: Wintry, aged, brumal, hibernal, harsh, ungenial, cutting,
autumnal, decadent, declining.
=
KEY: Versatile.
SYN: Changeable, unsteady, unfixed, capricious, varied, many-sided,
multigenous, manifold, variable, mobile, plastic, ready.
ANT: Immovable, immutable, fixed, unvaried, unvarying, one-sided,
uniform, invariable, stolid, immobile, unready.
=
KEY: Versed.
SYN: Skilled, practiced, conversant, acquainted, initiated,
indoctrinated, clever, familiar, thoroughly acquainted,
proficient.
ANT: Unskilled, ill-versed, unpracticed, inconversant, unfamiliar,
uninitiated, ignorant, awkward, strange, unversed, untaught.
=
KEY: Version.
SYN: Rendering, statement, account, [See FALSEHOOD].
=
KEY: Vertical.
SYN: Perpendicular, upright.
ANT: Inclined, sloped, scarped.
=
KEY: Vest.
SYN: Kobe, clothe, furnish, endow.
ANT: Divest, strip, unrobe, denude, deprive.
=
KEY: Vestige.
SYN: Trace, mark, indication, sign, token, remnant, record, trail,
scent.
ANT: Misindication, obliteration, effacement, non-indication,
indemonstrableness, deletion.
=
KEY: Veteran.
SYN: Habitue, expert, adept, proficient.
ANT: Tyro, recruit, novice, lubber.
=
KEY: Vex.
SYN: Tease, irritate, provoke, plague, torment, tantalize, bother,
worry, pester, trouble, disquiet, afflict, harass, annoy.
ANT: Soothe, appease, gratify, quiet, please.
=
KEY: Vexation.
SYN: Chagrin, uneasiness, mortification.
ANT: Pleasure, enjoyment, [See INTERPRETATION].
=
KEY: Vibrate.
SYN: Oscillate, swing, undulate, shake, quiver, wave.
ANT: Be at rest, [See PLEASURE].
=
KEY: Vicarious.
SYN: Substitutive, deputed, delegated, representative,
procuratorial.
ANT: Personal, self-performed.
=
KEY: Vice.
SYN: Corruption, fault, defect, evil, crime, immorality, sin,
badness.
ANT: Purity, faultlessness, perfection, virtue, immaculateness,
goodness, soundness.
=
KEY: Vicinity.
SYN: Juxtaposition, neighborhood, nearness, proximity.
ANT: Distance, remoteness, separation, removal.
=
KEY: Vicious.
SYN: Corrupt, faulty, defective, bad, morbid, peccant, debased,
profligate, unruly, impure, depraved.
ANT: Pure, sound, perfect, virtuous, healthy.
=
KEY: Vicissitude.
SYN: Change, alternation, interchange, revolution, mutation,
ups and downs.
ANT: Perpetuity, stability, changelessness, immutability, fixity.
=
KEY: Victim.
SYN: Sufferer, prey, sacrifice, martyr, dupe, grill.
ANT: Sacrificer, seducer.
=
KEY: Victorious, [See TRIUMPHANT].
=
KEY: Victory.
SYN: Conquest, triumph, ovation, success.
ANT: Failure, defeat, frustration, disappointment, abortion,
miscarriage, nonsuccess.
=
KEY: Victuals.
SYN: Food, fare, provisions, bread, viands, meat, repast.
=
KEY: Vie.
SYN: Strive, contend, contest, {[wpe]?}, compete, emulate, rival.
ANT: Yield, succumb, retire, surrender.
=
KEY: View \v.\
SYN: Behold, examine, Inspect, explore, survey, consider,
contemplate, reconnoitre, observe, regard, estimate, judge.
ANT: Ignore, overlook, disregard, misconsider, misinspect,
misobserve, misestimate, misjudge.
=
KEY: View \n.\
SYN: Sight, vision, survey, examination, inspection, judgment,
estimate, scene, representation, apprehension, sentiment,
conception, opinion, object, aim, intention, purpose, design, end,
light, aspect.
ANT: Blindness, occultation, obscuration, darkness, misexamination,
deception, error, delusion, misjudgment, misrepresentation,
misconception, airlessness, nonintention.
=
KEY: Vigilance.
SYN: Watchfulness, observance, wakefulness, sleeplessness,
carefulness, activity, circumspection.
ANT: Drowsiness, inattention, carelessness, indulgence, somnolence,
inobservance, inactivity, indifference, connivance, unwatchfulness.
=
KEY: Vigilant, [See WATCHFUL].
=
KEY: Vigorous.
SYN: Strong, lusty, powerful, energetic, efficacious, nervous,
robust, virile, manly, active, resolute.
ANT: Weak, feeble, powerless, Inactive, nerveless, enervated, debile,
debilitated, effete, emasculated, inactive, irresolute, indolent.
=
KEY: Vile.
SYN: Cheap, worthier, valueless, low, base, mean, despicable, hateful,
bad, impure, vicious, abandoned, abject, sinful, sordid, ignoble,
wicked, villainous, degraded, wretched.
ANT: costly, rare, precious, valuable, high, exulted, noble,
honorable, lofty, venerable.
=
KEY: Vilify.
SYN: Debase, degrade, spoil, deteriorate, mar, defame, traduce,
asperse, stigmatize, slander, upbraid, abuse, decry, cheapen.
ANT: Purify, refine, exalt, raise, improve, enhance, eulogize, praise,
laud, panegyrize, commend.
=
KEY: Villain.
SYN: Scoundrel, ruffian, wretch, [See WATCHFUL].
=
KEY: Villainous.
SYN: Base, knavish, depraved, infamous, [See RASCAL].
=
KEY: Vindicate.
SYN: Assert, maintain, uphold, clear, support, defend, claim,
substantiate, justify, establish.
ANT: Waive, abandon, surrender, forego, disprove, disestablish,
neutralize, nullify, destroy, subvert, annul, vitiate.
=
KEY: Vindictive.
SYN: Revengeful, spiteful, unforgiving, unrelenting, Implacable,
rancorous, unmerciful.
ANT: Forgiving, generous, forbearing, merciful, unvindictive.
=
KEY: Violate.
SYN: Ravish, injure, abuse, disturb, hurt, rape, outrage, debauch,
break, infringe, profane, transgress, disobey.
ANT: Respect, foster, observe, regard, preserve, cherish, protect,
obey.
=
KEY: Violence.
SYN: Vehemence, impetuosity, force, rape, outrage, rage, profanation,
injustice, fury, infringement, fierceness, oppression.
ANT: Lenity, mildness, self-restraint, feebleness, gentleness,
respect, forbearance, self-control, observance, obedience,
preservation, conservation, protection.
=
KEY: Violent.
SYN: Vehement, raving, furious, forcible, outrageous, raging,
passionate, {[See Vm:]?}.
=
KEY: Virago.
SYN: Termagant, vixen, scold, shrew, Jezebel.
=
KEY: Virgin \n.\
SYN: Maid, maiden, damsel, girl.
ANT: Matron, married woman, strumpet, whore, prostitute, bawd.
=
KEY: Virgin \a.\
SYN: Maidenly, undefiled, unpolluted, untouched, fresh.
ANT: Unmaidenly, defiled, polluted, ravished, used, cultivated.
=
KEY: Virile.
SYN: Manly, masculine, robust, nervous, vigorous.
ANT: Feeble, debile, puerile, effeminate, emasculate.
=
KEY: Virtual.
SYN: Potential, implied, constructive, practical, substantial,
indirect, essential, implicit.
ANT: Stated, expressed, categorical, direct, sensible, material,
definite, developed, explicit.
=
KEY: Virtue.
SYN: Power, capacity, strength, force, efficacy, excellence, value,
morality, goodness, uprightness, purity, chastity, salubrity.
ANT: Weakness, incapacity, inability, inefficacy, badness,
corruption, vice, immorality, impurity, unchastity, virulence,
malignancy.
=
KEY: Virtuous.
SYN: Upright, moral, chaste, modest, pure, [See FRANTIC].
=
KEY: Virulence.
SYN: Venom, poison, acrimony, malignity, malignancy, bitterness,
malevolence.
ANT: Mildness, salubriousness, assuagement, abatement, virtue,
benevolence.
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KEY: Viscid.
SYN: Glutinous, ropy, gelatinous, sticky, cohesive.
ANT: Watery, limpid, tenacious, incohesive.
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KEY: Visible.
SYN: Perceptible, apparent, clear, plain, obvious, conspicuous,
observable, discernible, palpable, manifest, distinguishable,
evident.
ANT: Imperceptible, nonapparent, inconspicuous, impalpable,
microscopic, invisible, inobservable, concealed, eclipsed,
withdrawn, indiscernible, indistinguishable.
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KEY: Vision, [See VIEW].
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KEY: Visionary.
SYN: Fanciful, dreamy, chimerical, baseless, shadowy, imaginary,
unreal, fabulous, romantic.
ANT: Actual, real, truthful, sound, substantial, palpable,
unromantic, sober, veritable.
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KEY: Vital.
SYN: Living, animate, life-supporting, life-containing, essential,
necessary, important, indispensable, inseparable, paramount,
material.
ANT: Mortal, lethal, cadaverous, lifeless, inanimate, unessential,
unimportant, secondary, separable, immaterial.
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KEY: Vitiate.
SYN: Impair, corrupt, spoil, injure, invalidate, deteriorate, taint.
ANT: Corroborate, confirm, substantiate, justify, vindicate,
sanction.
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KEY: Vivacious.
SYN: Alive, lively, animated, sprightly, sportive, active, brisk, gay,