#807. Payment.—N. payment, defrayment[ob_Roget's Thesaurus

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[obs3]; 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[obs3], 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[obs3], 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*, fork out*, 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[obs3], avails.

rent, rent roll; rental, rentage[obs3]; rack-rent.

premium, bonus; sweepstakes, tontine.

pension, annuity; jointure &c.(property) 780[obs3]; 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 [derogatory];

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. 812a. dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess[obs3], sess[obs3],

tallage[obs3], levy; abkari[obs3]; capitation tax, poll tax; doomage

[obs3][U.S.], likin[obs3]; gabel[obs3], gabelle[obs3]; gavel,

octroi[obs3], custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tithe, tenths,

exactment[obs3], 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 &c. worth.

cost (price) 812.

V. value[transitive], 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[obs3]; 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[obs3], percentage; rebate, rebatement[obs3]; backwardation,

contango[obs3]; salvage; tare and tret[obs3].

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[French];

cout en ote le gout[Fr]; vel prece vel pretio[Lat][obs3]; too high a

price

to pay, not worth it.

#815. Cheapness.—N. cheapness, low price; depreciation; bargain;

good penny &c. worth; 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[obs3].

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[obs3]; well worth the money, worth the money; magnifique et

pas

cher[French]; 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[obs3];

without charge, not charged, untaxed; scotfree, shotfree[obs3],

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[obs3], 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[Latin]; magnum est

vectigal

parsimonia [Latin][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[obs3].

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[obs3],

waste; profusion, profuseness; extravagance; squandering &c. v.;

malversation. prodigal; spendthrift, waste thrift; losel[obs3],

squanderer[obs3], locust; high roller* [U.S.]. V. be prodigal &c. adj.;

squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in*;

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[obs3]; 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[obs3],

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 [Latin]; facile largiri

de alieno[Lat]; wie gewonnen so zerronnen [German]; les fous font les

festins et les sages les mangent [French]; "spendthrift alike of money

and of wit" [Cowper]; "squandering wealth was his peculiar art"

[Dryden].

#819. Parsimony.—N. parsimony, parcity|; parsimoniousness[obs3],

stinginess &c. adj.; stint; illiberality, tenacity. avarice, greed &c.

817a. miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger,

muckworm[obs3], scrimp, lickpenny[obs3], 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 [Latin][Syrus]; "hoards after hoards his

rising raptures fill" [Goldsmith]; "the unsunn'd heaps of miser's

treasures" [Milton].

CLASS VI

WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIMENT AND MORAL POWERS

SECTION I. AFFECTIONS IN GENERAL

#820. Affections.—N. affections, affect; character, qualities,

disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament;

diathesis[obs3], 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[obs3], propension[obs3],

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[obs3];

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[obs3], 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 [obs3][med. and general].

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[obs3], 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[obs3], 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 [obs3][Scottish], aby[obs3];

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[obs3];

susceptibleness, susceptibility, susceptivity[obs3]; 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[obs3], gushing; warm hearted, tender hearted, soft

hearted; tender as a chicken; soft, sentimental, romantic;

enthusiastic, highflying[obs3], 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[obs3]; moral

insensibility; inertness, inertia; vis inertiae[Lat]; impassibility,

impassibleness; inappetency[obs3], apathy, phlegm, dullness,

hebetude[obs3], supineness, lukewarmness[obs3]. cold fit, cold blood,

cold heart; coldness, coolness; frigidity, sang froid[Fr]; stoicism,

imperturbation &c. (inexcitability) 826[obs3]; 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 &c.

(unimportance) 643 for; 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[obs3], numb,

benumb, paralyze, deaden, hebetate[obs3], stun, stupefy; brutify[obs3];

brutalize; chloroform, anaesthetize[obs3], put under; assify[obs3].

inure; harden the heart; steel, caseharden, sear. Adj. insensible,

unconscious; impassive, impassible; blind to, deaf to, dead to;

unsusceptible, insusceptible; unimpressionable[obs3],

unimpressible[obs3]; 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[obs3], torporific[obs3]; 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[obs3], insouciant, sans souci[Fr]; unambitious

&c. 866. unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited,

unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked[obs3], unstruck[obs3];

unblushing &c. (shameless) 885; unanimated; vegetative. callous,

thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious; hardened;

inured, casehardened; steeled against, proof against; imperturbable &c.

(inexcitable) 826[obs3]; 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[obs3].

Phr. never mind; macht nichts [German], 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[obs3], galvanism, stimulation, piquance, piquancy,

provocation, inspiration, calling forth, infection; animation,

agitation, perturbation; subjugation, fascination, intoxication;

enravishment[obs3]; 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[obs3], 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[obs3], 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 - "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[obs3]; 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[obs3], 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[obs3],

desperation, madness, distraction, raving, delirium; phrensy[obs3],

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[obs3], mettlesome, high-mettled[obs3],

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[obs3], boisterous. impulsive,

impetuous, passionate; uncontrolled, uncontrollable; ungovernable,

irrepressible, stanchless[obs3], 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[obs3], imperturbability, inirritability[obs3]; even

temper, tranquil mind, dispassion; tolerance, patience, coolth [coll.].

passiveness &c. (physical inertness) 172; hebetude[obs3],

hebetation[obs3]; impassibility &c. (insensibility) 823; stupefaction.

coolness, calmness &c. adj.; composure, placidity, indisturbance[obs3],

imperturbation[obs3], sang froid[Fr], tranquility, serenity; quiet,

quietude; peace of mind, mental calmness. staidness &c. adj.; gravity,

sobriety, Quakerism[obs3]; 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[obs3], endurance,

longsufferance[obs3], forbearance; longanimity[obs3]; 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[obs3]. 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[obs3], take

in good part; aequam servare mentem [Latin]. bear the brunt, bear well;

go through, support, endure, brave, disregard. tolerate, suffer, stand,

bide; abide, aby[obs3]; 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[obs3], unexcitable; imperturbable; unsusceptible &c.

(insensible) 823; unpassionate[obs3], 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[obs3]; unresisting. meek, tolerant; patient,

patient as Job; submissive &c. 725; tame; content, resigned, chastened,

subdued, lamblike[obs3]; 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]

[1] Or those which concern one's own state of feeling.

1. Passive Affections

#827. Pleasure.—N. pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition;

oblectation, delectation, delection[obs3]; 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[French: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 [Latin: a

sound mind in a sound body][Juvenal]. 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[obs3], hedonism. honeymoon; palmy days, halcyon days; golden

age, golden time; Dixie, Dixie's land; Saturnia regna[Lat],

Arcadia[obs3], Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone[obs3]. 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 &c. 829 with; 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[obs3]. 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[obs3]; transported;

fascinated, captivated. with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes.

pleasing &c. 829; ecstatic, beatic[obs3]; painless, unalloyed, without

alloy, cloudless. Adv. happily &c. adj.; with pleasure &c.

(willingfully) 602[obs3]; with glee &c. n.. Phr. one's heart leaping

with joy. "a wilderness of sweets" [P.L.]; "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" [P.L.]; vedi Napoli e poi muori[It]; zwischen Freud und Leid ist

die Brucke nicht weit [German: 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[obs3]. 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[obs3], 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[obs3],

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[obs3]. 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. 901a; 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[obs3], delectability; amusement &c.

840. attraction &c. (motive) 615; attractiveness, attractability[obs3];

invitingness &c. adj[obs3].; 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[obs3], 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[obs3],

imparadise[obs3]; gladden &c. (make cheerful) 836; take, captivate,

fascinate; enchant, entrance, enrapture, transport, bewitch;

enravish[obs3]. 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[obs3]; 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[obs3]. charming; delightful, felicitous, exquisite; lovely

&c. (beautiful) 845; ravishing, rapturous; heartfelt, thrilling,

ecstatic; beatic[obs3]; 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[obs3]; 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[obs3],

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[obs3], afflict, distress; cut up, cut to the heart.

displease, annoy, incommode, discompose, trouble, disquiet; faze,

feaze[obs3], feeze (U[obs3].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[obs3], 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[obs3], 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[obs3],

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[obs3], 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[obs3]; 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[obs3]; 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[obs3], 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][obs3]; 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[obs3],

of good comfort; resigned &c. (patient) 826; cheerful &c. 836.

unafflicted, unvexed[obs3], unmolested, unplagued[obs3]; serene &c.

826; at rest, snug, comfortable; in one's element. satisfactory,

tolerable, good enough, OK, all right, acceptable. Adv.

contently[obs3], 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 [Ger][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[obs3]. cave of Adullam[obs3], 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][obs3]; "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[obs3].

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, 'tis too true; "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[obs3], 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[obs3]; 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[obs3];

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[obs3]; 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[obs3], sweet forgetfulness. optimism &c.

(hopefulness) 858; self complacency; hedonics[obs3], 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[obs3]; 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[obs3], jaunty,

canty[obs3]; hedonic[obs3]; riant[obs3]; sprightly, sprightful[obs3];

spry; spirited, spiritful[obs3]; lively, animated, vivacious; brisk as

a bee; sparklinly as a thrush, jolly as a sandboy[obs3]; blithesome;

gleeful, gleesome[obs3]; hilarious, rattling. winsome, bonny, hearty,

buxom. playful, playsome[obs3]; folatre[Fr], playful as a kitten,

tricksy[obs3], 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[obs3]; 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[obs3], gloom; weariness &c. 841; taedium vitae, disgust of

life; mal du pays &c. (regret) 833; anhedonia[obs3]. melancholy;

sadness &c. adj.; il penseroso[It], melancholia, dismals[obs3], blues,

lachrymals[obs3], mumps[obs3], 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[obs3], malade imaginaire[Fr], medecin tant pis[Fr];

croaker, pessimist; mope, mopus[obs3]. [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[obs3]; unlively[obs3];

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[obs3]; 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[obs3], dumpish,

mopish[obs3], 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[obs3], chopfallen[obs3], jaw

fallen, crest fallen. sad, pensive, penseroso[It], tristful[obs3];

dolesome[obs3], doleful; woebegone; lacrymose, lachrymose, in tears,

melancholic, hypped[obs3], hypochondriacal, bilious, jaundiced,

atrabilious[obs3], 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[obs3]; 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[obs3]; rollicker[obs3].

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[obs3]! hail! tolderolloll[obs3]! Heaven be

praised! io triumphe[obs3]! tant mieux[Fr]! so much the better.

Phr. the heart leaping with joy; ce n'est pas etre bien aise que

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[obs3], melting mood, weeping and gnashing of

teeth. plaintiveness &c. adj.; languishment[obs3]; condolence &c. 915.

mourning, weeds, willow, cypress, crape, deep mourning; sackcloth and

ashes; lachrymatory[obs3]; knell &c. 363; deep death song, dirge,

coronach[obs3], nenia[obs3], requiem, elegy, epicedium[obs3];

threne[obs3]; monody, threnody; jeremiad, jeremiade|!; ullalulla[obs3].

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 &c. (regret) 833[Lat][Vergil]; 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[obs3], 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[obs3]; querulous, querimonious[obs3];

in the melting mood; threnetic[obs3]. 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[obs3].

Adv. de profundis[Lat]; les larmes aux yeux[Fr]. Int. heigh-ho! alas!

alack[obs3]! O dear! ah me! woe is me! lackadaisy[obs3]! well a day!

lack a day! alack a day[obs3]! wellaway[obs3]! alas the day! O tempora

O mores[obs3]! what a pity! miserabile dictu[Lat]! O lud lud[obs3]! 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[obs3]; heyday; laughter &c. 838; jocosity,

jocoseness[obs3]; 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[obs3]; Kentish fire; tiger. play; game, game at romps;

gambol, romp, prank, antic, rig, lark, spree, skylarking, vagary,

monkey trick, gambade, fredaine[obs3], escapade, echappee[Fr], bout,

espieglerie[Fr]; practical joke &c. (ridicule) 856. dance; hop, reel,

rigadoon[obs3], saraband[obs3], hornpipe, bolero, ballroom dance;

minuet[ballroom dances: list], waltz, polka, fox trot, tango, samba,

rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan;

bayadere[obs3]; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis [U.S.], break dancing;

nautch-girl; shindig* [U.S.]; skirtdance[obs3], stag dance, Virginia

reel, square dance; galop[obs3], galopade[obs3]; jig, Irish jig, fling,

strathspey[obs3]; allemande[Fr]; gavot[obs3], 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*, clambake [U.S.], donation party

[U.S.], fish fry [U.S.], jamboree*, kantikoy[obs3], nautch[obs3],

randy, squantum [obs3][U.S.], tear *, Turnerfest[obs3], yule log; fete,

festival, gala, ridotto[obs3]; 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[obs3]; wayz-goos[obs3], 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[obs3]; music hall.

park, plaisance[obs3]; national park, national forest, state park,

county park, city park, vest-pocket park, public park (public) 737a;

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[obs3], 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[obs3],

croquet, golf, curling, pallone[obs3], polo, water polo; tent pegging;

tilting at the ring, quintain[obs3][medeival]; greasy pole; quoits,

horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr

and spell[obs3]. [childrens' games] leapfrog, hop skip and jump; mother

may I; French and English, tug of war; blindman's bluff, hunt the

slopper[obs3], hide and seek, kiss in the ring; snapdragon; cross

questions and crooked answers.; crisscross, hopscotch; jacks,

jackstones[obs3], marbles; mumblety-peg, mumble-the-peg, pushball,

shinney, shinny, tag &c. billiards, pool, pingpong, pyramids,

bagatelle; bowls, skittles, ninepins, kain[obs3], American bowls[obs3];

tenpins [U.S.], tivoli. cards, card games; whist, rubber; round game;

loo, cribbage, besique[obs3], euchre, drole[obs3], ecarte[Fr],

picquet[obs3], allfours[obs3], quadrille, omber, reverse, Pope Joan,

commit; boston, boaston[obs3]; blackjack, twenty-one, vingtun[Fr];

quinze[Fr], thirty-one, put, speculation, connections, brag,

cassino[obs3], lottery, commerce, snip-snap-snoren[obs3], 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[obs3], 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[obs3], nine men's morris, go bang, solitaire; game of fox and

goose; monopoly; loto &c. [obs3] scrabble[word games: list], scribbage,

boggle, crossword puzzle, hangman. morra[obs3]; gambling &c. (chance)

621. toy, plaything, bauble; doll &c. (puppet ) 554; teetotum[obs3];

knickknack &c. (trifle) 643; magic lantern &c. (show) 448; peep show,

puppet show, raree show, gallanty show[obs3]; 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[obs3];

arbiter elegantiarum[Lat]; arbiter bibendi[Lat], archer, fan [U.S.],

toxophilite[obs3], turfman[obs3]. 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*; 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[obs3]; pleasant &c. (pleasing) 829; laughable &c.

(ludicrous) 853; witty &c. 842; fun, festive, festal; jovial, jolly,

jocund, roguish, rompish[obs3]; 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[obs3], wet blanket; pill*,

stiff*; 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[obs3]. 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][obs3].

#842. Wit.—N. wit, humor, wittiness; sense of humor; attic wit,

attic salt; atticism[obs3]; salt, esprit, point, fancy, whim, drollery,

pleasantry. farce, buffoonery, fooling, tomfoolery; shenanigan [U.S.],

harlequinade &c. 599[obs3]; broad farce, broad humor; fun,

espieglerie[Fr]; vis comica[Lat]. jocularity; jocosity,

jocoseness[obs3]; 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[obs3], plaisanterie[Fr], brilliant

idea; merry thought, bright thought, happy thought; sally; flash of

wit, flash of merriment; scintillation; mot[Fr], mot pour rire

[French]; 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[obs3],

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][obs3]; "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

[obs3] &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[obs3], logy [U.S.]; unimaginative;

insulse[obs3]; 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[obs3]; deadly dull and boring,

DDB[abbr].

#844. Humorist.—N. humorist, wag, wit, reparteeist[obs3],

epigrammatist, punster; bel esprit, life of the party; wit-snapper,

wit- cracker, wit-worm; joker, jester, Joe Miller|!, drole de

corps[obs3], gaillard[obs3], spark; bon diable[Fr]; practical joker.

buffoon, farceur[French], merry-andrew, mime, tumbler, acrobat,

mountebank, charlatan, posturemaster[obs3], harlequin, punch,

pulcinella[obs3], scaramouch[obs3], 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[obs3], caricaturist,

grimacier[obs3]; persifleur[obs3].

2. Discriminative Affections

#845. Beauty.—N. beauty, the beautiful, τὸ καλόν[Grk], le

beau ideal. [Science of the perception of beauty] aesthetics,

callaesthetics|!. [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[obs3];

trigness[obs3]; bloom, brilliancy, radiance, splendor, gorgeousness,

magnificence; sublimity, sublimification|. concinnity[obs3], delicacy,

refinement; charm, je ne sais quoi[Fr], style. Venus, Aphrodite[obs3],

Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo[obs3], Hyperion,

Adonis[obs3], Antionous[obs3], Narcissus. peacock, butterfly; garden;

flower of, pink of; bijou; jewel &c. (ornament) 847; work of art.

flower, flow'ret gay[obs3], wildflower; rose[flowers: list], lily,

anemone, asphodel, buttercup, crane's bill, daffodil, tulip, tiger

lily, day lily, begonia, marigold, geranium, lily of the valley,

ranunculus[ISA:herb@flowering], 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 [Scottish]; 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[obs3]; gimp;

janty[obs3], jaunty; trig, natty, quaint, trim, tidy,neat, spruce,

smart, tricksy[obs3]. bright, bright eyed; rosy cheeked, cherry

cheeked; rosy, ruddy; blooming, in full bloom. brilliant, shining;

beamy[obs3], beaming; sparkling, splendid, resplendent, dazzling,

glowing; glossy, sleek. rich, superb, magnificent, grand, fine,

sublime, showy, specious. artistic, artistical[obs3]; 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[obs3]; disfigurement &c. (blemish) 848; want of symmetry,

inconcinnity[obs3]; 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[obs3], "monstrum

horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum" [Latin][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[obs3], inartistic; unsightly, unseemly, uncomely,

unlovely; unshapely; sightless, seemless[obs3]; not fit to be seen;

unbeauteous[obs3], unbeautiful; beautiless[obs3], semibeautiful;

shapeless &c. (amorphous) 241. misshapen, misproportioned[obs3];

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[obs3]; lumbering; hulky[obs3],

hulking; unwieldy. squalid, haggard; grim, grim faced, grim visaged;

grisly, ghastly; ghost like, death like; cadaverous, grewsome[obs3],

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[obs3], ornateness; adornment, decoration, embellishment;

architecture; jewelry &c. 847a. [surface coatings for wood: list]

garnish, polish, varnish, French polish, veneer, japanning, lacquer.

[surface coatings for metal] gilding, plating, ormolu, enamel,

cloisonn. [surface coatings for human skin] cosmetics[in general],

makeup; eye shadow[list], rouge, face powder, lipstick, blush.

[ornamental surface pattern: list] pattern, diaper, powdering,

paneling, graining, pargeting[obs3]; detail; repousse (convexity) 250;

texture &c. 329; richness; tracery, molding, fillet, listel[obs3],

strapwork[obs3], coquillage[Fr], flourish, fleur-de-lis[Fr], arabesque,

fret, anthemion[obs3]; egg and tongue, egg and dart; astragal[obs3],

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[obs3], 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[L.L.L.], knot; shoulder knot,

apaulette[obs3], epaulet, aigulet[obs3], frog; star, rosette, bow;

feather, plume, pompom[obs3], panache, aigrette. finery, frippery,

gewgaw, gimcrack, tinsel, spangle, clinquant[obs3], pinchbeck, paste;

excess of ornament &c. (vulgarity) 851; gaud, pride. [ornamentation of

text] illustration, illumination, vignette. fleuron[obs3]; 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[obs3]. smarten, furbish, polish, gild, varnish,

whitewash, enamel, japan, lacquer, paint, grain. garnish, trim,

dizen[obs3], bedizen, prink[obs3], prank; trick out, fig out; deck,

bedeck, dight[obs3], bedight[obs3], array; begawd[obs3],

titivate[obs3]; 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[obs3], tesselated, festooned; champleve[Fr], cloisonne,

topiary. smart, gay, trickly[obs3], flowery, glittering; new gilt, new

spangled; fine as a Mayday queen, fine as a fivepence[obs3], fine as a

carrot fresh scraped; pranked out, bedight[obs3], 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. Jewelry—N. jewel[ornaments worn by people on the

body][general], jewelry, jewellery[obs3]; 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[obs3]; chain, chatelaine; broach, pin, lapel pin,

torque. [gemstones: list] diamond, brilliant, rock[coll.]; beryl,

emerald; chalcedony, agate, heliotrope; girasol[obs3], girasole[obs3];

onyx, plasma; sard[obs3], sardonyx; garnet, lapis lazuli, opal,

peridot[ISA:gemstone], tourmaline, chrysolite; sapphire, ruby,

synthetic ruby; spinel, spinelle; balais[obs3]; oriental, oriental

topaz; turquois[obs3], turquoise; zircon, cubic zirconia; jacinth,

hyacinth, carbuncle, amethyst; alexandrite[obs3], cat's eye,

bloodstone, hematite, jasper, moonstone, sunstone[obs3]. [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[obs3]; 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[obs3], blubber lip; blain[obs3],

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[obs3], severe.

unadorned, bare, unornamented, undecked[obs3], ungarnished,

unarranged[obs3], 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; τὸ πρέπον[Grk];

#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[obs3], Corinthian, arbiter

elegantiarum[Lat], stagirite[obs3], 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];

tiré à quatre épingles[Fr].

Adv. elegantly &c. adj.

Phr. nihil tetigit quod non ornavit [Lat][from Johnson's epitaph

Goldsmith]; chacun à son goût[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[obs3].; indecorum, misbehavior. lowness, homeliness;

low life, mauvais ton[Fr], rusticity; boorishness &c. adj.; brutality;

rowdyism, blackguardism[obs3]; ribaldry; slang &c. (neology) 563. bad

joke, mauvais plaisanterie[Fr]. [Excess of ornament] gaudiness,

tawdriness; false ornament; finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw,

clinquant[obs3]; baroque, rococo. rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub,

unlicked cub[obs3]; 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[obs3], unpresentable[obs3]; contra bonos mores[Lat];

ungraceful &c. (ugly) 846. dowdy; slovenly &c. (dirty) 653; ungenteel,

shabby genteel; low, common, hoi polloi[Grk] &c. (plebeian) 876;

uncourtly[obs3]; 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[obs3], unpolished,

uncouth; plebeian; incondite[obs3]; heavy, rude, awkward; homely,

homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish,

clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous,

barbaric; Gothic, unclassical[obs3], 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.

#852. Fashion.—N. fashion, style, ton, bon ton|!, society; good

society, polite society; monde[Fr]; drawing-room, civilized life,

civilization, town, beau monde[Fr], high life, court; world;

fashionable world, gay world; Vanity Fair; show &c. (ostentation) 822.

manners, breeding &c. (politeness) 894; air, demeanor &c. (appearance)

448; savoir faire[Fr]; gentlemanliness[obs3], gentility, decorum,

propriety, biensance[Fr]; conventions of society; Mrs. Grundy;

punctilio; form, formality; etiquette, point of etiquette; dress &c.

225. custom &c. 613; mode, vogue, go; rage &c. (desire) 865; prevailing

taste; fad, trend, bandwagon, furore[obs3], thing, in thing, craze,

chic, last word. man of fashion, woman of fashion, man of the world,

woman of the world; height of fashion, pink of fashion, star of

fashion, glass of fashion, leader of fashion; arbiter elegantiarum &c.

(taste) 850[Lat]; the beautiful people, the fashion set, upper ten

thousand &c. (nobility) 875; elite &c. (distinction) 873; smart set;

the four hundred [U.S.]; in crowd. V. be fashionable &c. adj., be the

rage &c. n.; have a run, pass current. follow the fashion, conform to

the fashion, fall in with the fashion, follow the trend, follow the

crowd &c. n.; go with the stream &c. (conform) 82; savoir vivre[Fr],

savoir faire[Fr]; keep up appearances, behave oneself. set the fashion,

bring in the fashion; give a tone to society, cut a figure in society;

keep one's carriage. Adj. fashionable; in fashion &c. n.; a la mode,

comme il faut[Fr]; admitted in society, admissible in society &c. n.;

presentable; conventional &c. (customary) 613; genteel; well-bred, well

mannered, well behaved, well spoken; gentlemanlike[obs3], gentlemanly;

ladylike; civil, polite &c. (courteous) 894. polished, refined,

thoroughbred, courtly; distingue[Fr]; unembarrassed, degage[Fr];

janty[obs3], jaunty; dashing, fast. modish, stylish, chic, trendy,

recherche; newfangled &c. (unfamiliar) 83; all the rage, all the go|!;

with it, in, faddish. in court, in full dress, in evening dress; en

grande tenue[Fr] &c. (ornament) 847. Adv. fashionably &c. adj.; for

fashion's sake. Phr. a la francaise, a la parisienne; a l'

anglaise[Fr], a l' americaine[Fr]; autre temps autre mauers[Fr]; chaque

pays a sa guise[Fr].

#853. Ridiculousness.—N. ridiculousness &c. adj.; comicality,

oddity &c. adj.; extravagance, drollery. farce, comedy; burlesque &c.

(ridicule) 856; buffoonery &c. (fun) 840; frippery; doggerel verses;

absurdity &c. 497; bombast &c. (unmeaning) 517; anticlimax, bathos;

eccentricity, monstrosity &c. (unconformity) 83; laughingstock &c. 857.

V. be ridiculous &c. adj.; pass from the sublime to the ridiculous;

make one laugh; play the fool, make a fool of oneself, commit an

absurdity. Adj. ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny,

laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd; whimsical, whimsical as

a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint,

bizarre; screaming; eccentric &c. (unconformable) 83; strange,

outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird; awkward &c. (ugly) 846.

extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated,

stilted, burlesque, mock heroic. drollish; seriocomic, tragicomic;

gimcrack, contemptible &c. (unimportant) 643; doggerel; ironical &c.

(derisive) 856; risible. Phr. risum teneatis amici [Horace]; rideret

Heraclitus; du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas [Napoleon].

#854. Fop.—N. fop, fine gentleman; swell; dandy, dandiprat|!;

exquisite, coxcomb, beau, macaroni, blade, blood, buck, man about town,

fast man; fribble, milliner|!; Jemmy Jessamy|!, carpet knight; masher,

dude. fine lady, coquette; flirt, vamp.

#855. Affectation.—N. affectation; affectedness &c. adj.; acting a

part &c. v.; pretense &c. (falsehood) 544, (ostentation) 882; boasting

&c. 884. charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity; pretension, airs,

pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism; teratology &c. (altiloquence)

577. mannerism, simagree, grimace. conceit, foppery, dandyism, man

millinery, coxcombry, puppyism. stiffness, formality, buckram; prudery,

demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism; mauvais

honte, false shame. affector, performer, actor; pedant, pedagogue,

doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist; grimacier; lump of

affectation, precieuse ridicule[Fr], bas bleu[Fr], blue stocking,

poetaster; prig; charlatan &c. (deceiver) 548; petit maitre &c. (fop)

854; flatterer &c. 935; coquette, prude, puritan. V. affect, act a

part, put on; give oneself airs &c. (arrogance) 885; boast &c. 884;

coquet; simper, mince, attitudinize, pose; flirt a fan; overact,

overdo. Adj. affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic,

stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum; canting,

insincere. not natural, unnatural; self-conscious; maniere; artificial;

overwrought, overdone, overacted; euphuist &c. 577. stiff, starch,

formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish,

puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical,

foppish, dandified; finical, finikin; mincing, simpering, namby-pamby,

sentimental. Phr. "conceit in weakest bodies strongest works" [Hamlet].

#856. Ridicule.—N. ridicule, derision; sardonic smile, sardonic

grin; irrision[obs3]; scoffing &c. (disrespect) 929; mockery, quiz|!,

banter, irony, persiflage, raillery, chaff, badinage; quizzing &c. v.;

asteism[obs3].

squib, satire, skit, quip, quib[obs3], grin.

parody, burlesque, travesty, travestie[obs3]; farce &c. (drama)

599;

caricature.

buffoonery &c. (fun) 840; practical joke; horseplay.

scorn, contempt &c. 930.

V. ridicule[transitive], deride, mock, taunt; snigger; laugh in

one's sleeve; tease[ridicule lightly], badinage, banter, rally, chaff,

joke, twit, quiz, roast; haze [U.S.]; tehee[obs3]; fleer[obs3]; show

up.

[i.p.] play upon, play tricks upon; fool to the top of one's bent;

laugh at, grin at, smile at; poke fun at.

satirize, parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty.

turn into ridicule; make merry with; make fun of, make game of,

make a

fool of, make an April fool of[obs3]; rally; scoff &c. (disrespect)

929.

raise a laugh &c. (amuse) 840; play the fool, make a fool of

oneself.

Adj. derisory, derisive; mock, mocking; sarcastic, ironic,

ironical,

quizzical, burlesque, Hudibrastic[obs3]; scurrilous &c. (disrespectful)

929.

Adv. in ridicule &c. n.

#857. [Object and cause of ridicule.] Laughingstock.—N.

laughingstock, jestingstock[obs3], gazingstock[obs3]; butt, game, fair

game; April fool &c. (dupe) 547[obs3].

original, oddity; queer fish, odd fish; quiz, square toes; old

monkey,

old fogey, fogey monkey, fogy monkey; buffoon &c. (jester) 844;

pantomimist

&c. (actor) 599.

schlemiel.

jest &c. (wit) 842.

Phr. dum vitant stulti vitia in contraria currunt[Lat].

3. PROSPECTIVE AFFECTIONS

#858. Hope.—N. hope, hopes; desire &c. 865; fervent hope, sanguine

expectation, trust, confidence, reliance; faith &c. (belief) 484;

affiance,

assurance; secureness, security; reassurance.

good omen, good auspices; promise, well grounded hopes; good

prospect,

bright prospect; clear sky.

assumption, presumption; anticipation &c. (expectation) 507.

hopefulness, buoyancy, optimism, enthusiasm, heart of grace,

aspiration.

[person who is hopeful] optimist, utopian, utopist[obs3].

castles in the air, castles in Spain, chateaux en Espagne[Fr], le

pot aut lait[Fr], Utopia, millennium; day dream, golden dream;

dream of Alnaschar[obs3]; airy hopes, fool's paradise; mirage &c.

(fallacies of vision) 443; fond hope. beam of hope, ray of hope,

gleam of hope, glimmer of hope, flash of hope, dawn of hope, star

of hope; cheer; bit of blue sky, silver lining, silver lining of

the cloud, bottom of Pandora's box, balm in Gilead; light at the

end of the tunnel. anchor, sheet anchor, mainstay; staff &c.

(support) 215; heaven &c. 981. V. hope, trust, confide, rely on,

put one's trust in; lean upon; pin one's hope upon, pin one's

faith upon &c. (believe) 484. feel hope, entertain hope, harbor

hope, indulge hope, cherish hope, feed hope, foster hope, nourish

hope, encourage hope, cling to hope, live in hope, &c. n.; see

land; feel assured, rest assured, feel confident, rest confident

&c. adj. presume; promise oneself; expect &c. (look forward to)

507. hope for &c. (desire) 865; anticipate. be hopeful &c. adj.;

look on the bright side of, view on the sunny side, voir en

couleur de rose[Fr], make the best of it, hope for the best; put a

good face upon, put a bold face upon, put the best face upon; keep

one's spirits up; take heart, take heart of grace; be of good

heart, be of good cheer; flatter oneself, "lay the flattering

unction to one's soul" catch at a straw[hamlet], hope against

hope, reckon one's chickens before they are hatched, count one's

chickens before they are hatched. [cause hope] give hope, inspire

hope, raise hope, hold out hope &c. n.; promise, bid fair, augur

well, be in a fair way, look up, flatter, tell a flattering tale;

raise expectations[sentient subject]; encourage, cheer, assure,

reassure, buoy up, embolden. Adj. hoping &c. v.; in hopes &c. n.;

hopeful, confident; secure &c. (certain) 484; sanguine, in good

heart, buoyed up, buoyant, elated, flushed, exultant,

enthusiastic; heartsome[obs3]; utopian. unsuspecting,

unsuspicious; fearless, free from fear, free from suspicion, free

from distrust, free from despair, exempt from fear, exempt from

suspicion, exempt from distrust, exempt from despair;

undespairing[obs3], self reliant. probable, on the high road to;

within sight of shore, within sight of land; promising,

propitious; of promise, full of promise; of good omen; auspicious,

de bon augure[Fr]; reassuring; encouraging, cheering, inspiriting,

looking up, bright, roseate, couleur de rose[Fr], rose- colored.

Adv. hopefully &c. adj. Int. God speed! Phr. nil desperandum

[Lat][Horace]; never say die, dum spiro spero[Lat], latet

scintillula forsan[Lat], all is for the best, spero meliora[Lat];

every cloud has a silver lining; "the wish being father to the

thought" [Henry IV]; "hope told a flattering tale"; rusticus

expectat dum defluat amnis[Lat][obs3]. at spes non fracta[Lat];

ego spem prietio non emo [Lat][Terence]; un Dieu est ma

fiance[Fr]; "hope! thou nurse of young desire" [Bickerstaff]; in

hoc signo spes mea[Lat]; in hoc signo vinces[Lat]; la speranza e

il pan de miseri[It]; l'esperance est le songe d'un homme

eveille[Fr]; "the mighty hopes that make us men" [Tennyson]; "the

sickening pang of hope deferred" [Scott].

#859. [Absence, want or loss of hope.] Hopelessness.—N.

hopelessness &c. adj.; despair, desperation; despondency, depression

&c. (dejection) 837; pessimism, pessimist; Job's comforter; bird of bad

omen, bird of ill omen. abandonment, desolation; resignation,

surrender, submission &c. 725. hope deferred, dashed hopes; vain

expectation &c. (disappointment) 509. airy hopes &c. &c 858; forlorn

hope; gone case, dead duck, gone coon* [U.S.]; goner*; bad job, bad

business; enfant perdu[Fr]; gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon;

slough of Despond, cave of Despair; immedicabile vulnus[Lat]. V.

despair; lose all hope, give up all hope, abandon all hope, relinquish

all hope, lose the hope of, give up the hope of, abandon the hope of,

relinquish the hope of; give up, give over; yield to despair; falter;

despond &c. (be dejected) 837; jeter le manche apres la cognee[Fr].

inspire despair, drive to despair &c. n.; disconcert; dash one's hopes,

crush one's hopes, destroy one's hopes; hope against hope. abandon;

resign, surrender, submit &c. 725. Adj. hopeless, desperate,

despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir[Fr], forlorn, desolate;

inconsolable &c. (dejected) 837; broken hearted. unpromising,

unpropitious; inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening, clouded over. out

of the question, not to be thought of; impracticable &c. 471; past

hope, past cure, past mending, past recall; at one's last gasp &c.

(death) 360; given up, given over. incurable, cureless, immedicable,

remediless, beyond remedy; incorrigible; irreparable, irremediable,

irrecoverable, irreversible, irretrievable, irreclaimable,

irredeemable, irrevocable; ruined, undone; immitigable. Phr. "lasciate

ogni speranza voi ch'entrate" [Dante]; its days are numbered; the worst

come to the worst; "no change, no pause, no hope, yet I endure"

[Shelley]; "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon" [Milton]; "mene

mene tekel upharson" [Old Testament].

#860. Fear.—N. fear, timidity, diffidence, want of confidence;

apprehensiveness, fearfulness &c. adj.; solicitude, anxiety, care,

apprehension, misgiving; feeze [obs3][U.S.]; mistrust &c. (doubt) 485;

suspicion, qualm; hesitation &c. (irresolution) 605. nervousness,

restlessness &c. adj.; inquietude, disquietude, worry, concern;

batophobia[obs3]; heartquake[obs3]; flutter, trepidation, fear and

trembling, perturbation, tremor, quivering, shaking, trembling,

throbbing heart, palpitation, ague fit, cold sweat; abject fear &c.

(cowardice) 862; mortal funk, heartsinking[obs3], despondency; despair

&c. 859. fright; affright, affrightment[obs3]; boof alarm[obs3][U.S.],

dread, awe, terror, horror, dismay, consternation, panic, scare,

stampede [of horses]. intimidation, terrorism, reign of terror. [Object

of fear] bug bear, bugaboo; scarecrow; hobgoblin &c. (demon) 980;

nightmare, Gorgon, mormo[obs3], ogre, Hurlothrumbo[obs3], raw head and

bloody bones, fee-faw-fum, bete noire[Fr], enfant terrible[Fr].

alarmist &c. (coward) 862. V. fear, stand in awe of; be afraid &c.

adj.; have qualms &c. n.; apprehend, sit upon thorns, eye askance;

distrust &c. (disbelieve) 485. hesitate &c. (be irresolute) 605;

falter, funk, cower, crouch; skulk &c. (cowardice) 862; "let 'I dare

not' wait upon 'I would'"; take fright, take alarm; start, wince,

flinch, shy, shrink; fly &c. (avoid) 623. tremble, shake; shiver,

shiver in one's shoes; shudder, flutter; shake like an aspen leaf,

tremble like an aspen leaf, tremble all over; quake, quaver, quiver,

quail. grow pale, turn pale; blench, stand aghast; not dare to say

one's soul is one's own. inspire fear, excite fear, inspire awe, excite

awe; raise aprehensions[obs3]; be in a daze, bulldoze [U. S.]; faze,

feeze [obs3][U. S.]; give an alarm, raise an alarm, sound an alarm;

alarm, startle, scare, cry "wolf," disquiet, dismay; fright, frighten,

terrify; astound; fright from one's propriety; fright out of one's

senses, fright out of one's wits, fright out of one's seven senses;

awe; strike all of a heap, strike an awe into, strike terror; harrow up

the soul, appall, unman, petrify, horrify; pile on the agony. make

one's flesh creep, make one's hair stand on end, make one's blood run

cold, make one's teeth chatter; take away one's breath, stop one's

breath; make one tremble &c. haunt; prey on the mind, weigh on the

mind. put in fear, put in bodily fear; terrorize, intimidate, cow,

daunt, overawe, abash, deter, discourage; browbeat, bully; threaten &c.

909. Adj. fearing &c. v.; frightened &c. v.; in fear, in a fright &c.

n.; haunted with the fear of &c. n.; afeard[obs3]. afraid, fearful;

timid, timorous; nervous, diffident, coy, faint- hearted, tremulous,

shaky, afraid of one's shadow, apprehensive, restless, fidgety; more

frightened than hurt. aghast; awe-stricken, horror-stricken,

terror-stricken, panic- stricken, awestruck, awe-stricken,

horror-struck; frightened to death, white as a sheet; pale, pale as a

ghost, pale as death, pale as ashes; breathless, in hysterics.

inspiring fear &c. v.; alarming; formidable, redoubtable; perilous &c.

(danger) 665; portentous; fearful; dread, dreadful; fell; dire,

direful; shocking; terrible, terrific; tremendous; horrid, horrible,

horrific; ghastly; awful, awe-inspiring; revolting &c. (painful) 830;

Gorgonian. Adv. in terrorem[Lat]. Int. "angels and ministers of grace

defend us!" [Hamlet]. Phr. ante tubam trepidat[Latin]; horresco

referens[Latin], one's heart failing one, obstupui steteruntque comae

et vox faucibus haesit [Lat][Vergil]. "a dagger of the mind" [Macbeth];

expertus metuit [Lat][Horace]; "fain would I climb but that I fear to

fall" [Raleigh]; "fear is the parent of cruelty" [Froude]; "Gorgons and

hydras and chimeras dire" [Paradise Lost]; omnia tuta timens

[Latin][Vergil]; "our fears do make us traitors" [Macbeth].

#807. Payment.—N. payment, defrayment[obs3]; discharge; acquittance,