resoluteness, boldness &c. adj.; spirit, daring, gallantry,
intrepidity; contempt of danger, defiance of danger; derring-do;
audacity; rashness &c. 863; dash; defiance &c. 715; confidence,
self-reliance. manliness, manhood; nerve, pluck, mettle, game; heart,
heart of grace; spunk, guts, face, virtue, hardihood, fortitude,
intestinal fortitude; firmness &c. (stability) 150; heart of oak;
bottom, backbone, spine &c. (perseverance) 604a. resolution &c.
(determination) 604; bulldog courage. prowess, heroism, chivalry.
exploit, feat, achievement; heroic deed, heroic act; bold stroke. man,
man of mettle; hero, demigod, Amazon, Hector; lion, tiger, panther,
bulldog; gamecock, fighting-cock; bully, fire eater &c. 863. V. be
courageous &c. adj.; dare, venture, make bold; face danger, front
danger, affront danger, confront danger, brave danger, defy danger,
despise danger, mock danger; look in the face; look full in the face,
look boldly in the face, look danger in the face; face; meet, meet in
front; brave, beard; defy &c. 715. take courage, muster courage, summon
up courage, pluck up courage; nerve oneself, take heart; take heart,
pluck up heart of grace; hold up one's head, screw one's courage to the
sticking place; come up to scratch; stick to one's guns,
standfire[obs3], stand against; bear up, bear up against; hold out &c.
(persevere) 604a. put a bold face upon; show a bold front, present a
bold front; show fight; face the music. bell the cat, take the bull by
the horns, beard the lion in his den, march up to the cannon's mouth,
go through fire and water, run the gantlet. give courage, infuse
courage, inspire courage; reassure, encourage, embolden, inspirit,
cheer, nerve, put upon one's mettle, rally, raise a rallying cry; pat
on the back, make a man of., keep in countenance. Adj. courageous,
brave; valiant, valorous; gallant, intrepid; spirited, spiritful[obs3];
high-spirited, high-mettled[obs3]; mettlesome, plucky; manly, manful;
resolute; stout,.stout-hearted; iron-hearted, lion- hearted; heart of
oak; Penthesilean. bold, bold-spirited; daring, audacious; fearless,
dauntless, dreadless[obs3], aweless; undaunted, unappalled, undismayed,
unawed, unblanched, unabashed, unalarmed, unflinching,
unshrinking[obs3], unblanching[obs3], unapprehensive; confident,
self-reliant; bold as a lion, bold as brass. enterprising, adventurous;
venturous, venturesome; dashing, chivalrous; soldierly &c. (warlike)
722; heroic. fierce, savage; pugnacious &c. (bellicose) 720.
strong-minded, hardy, doughty; firm &c. (stable) 150; determined &c.
(resolved) 604; dogged, indomitable &c. (persevering) 604a. up to, up
to the scratch; upon one's mettle; reassured &c. v.; unfeared[obs3],
undreaded[obs3].
Phr. one's blood being up; courage sans peur [Fr];fortes fortuna
adjuvat [Lat][Terence]; "have I not in my time heard lions roar"
[Taming of the Shrew]; "I dare do all that may become a man"
[Macbeth]; male vincetis sed vincite [Lat][Ovid]; omne solum forti
patria[Lat]; "self- trust is the essence of heroism" [Emerson];
stimulos dedit oemula virtus [Lat][Lucan]; "strong and great, a
hero" [Longfellow]; teloque animus proestantior omni [Lat][Ovid];
"there, is always safety in valor" [Emerson]; virtus ariete
fortier[Lat][obs3].
#862. [Excess of fear.] Cowardice.—N. cowardice, pusillanimity;
cowardliness &c. adj.; timidity, effeminacy. poltroonery, baseness;
dastardness[obs3], dastardy[obs3]; abject fear, funk; Dutch courage;
fear &c. 860; white feather, faint heart; cold feet * [U. S.], yellow
streak*. coward, poltroon, dastard, sneak, recreant; shy cock, dunghill
cock; coistril[obs3], milksop, white liver, lily liver, nidget[obs3],
one that cannot say "bo" to a goose; slink; Bob Acres, Jerry Sneak.
alarmist, terrorist|!, pessimist; runagate &c. (fugitive) 623. V.
quail &c. (fear) 860; be cowardly &c. adj., be a coward &c. n.; funk;
cower,skulk, sneak; flinch, shy, fight shy, slink, turn tail; run away
&c. (avoid) 623; show, the white feather. Adj. coward, cowardly;
fearful, shy; timid, timorous; skittish; poor- spirited, spiritless,
soft, effeminate. weak-minded; infirm of purpose &c. 605; weak-hearted,
fainthearted, chickenhearted, henhearted[obs3], lilyhearted,
pigeon-hearted; white- livered[obs3], lily-livered, milk-livered[obs3];
milksop, smock-faced; unable to say "bo" to a goose. dastard,
dastardly; base, craven, sneaking, dunghill, recreant; unwarlike,
unsoldier-like. "in face a lion but in heart a deer". unmanned;
frightened &c. 860. Int. sauve qui peut[Fr]! [French: every man for
himself]; devil take the hindmost! Phr. ante tubam trepidat[Lat], one's
courage oozing out; degeneres animos timor arguit [Lat][Vergil].
#863. Rashness.—N. rashness &c. adj.; temerity, want of caution,
imprudence, indiscretion; overconfidence, presumption, audacity.
precipitancy, precipitation; impetuosity; levity; foolhardihood[obs3],
foolhardiness; heedlessness, thoughtlessness &c. (inattention) 458;
carelessness &c. (neglect) 460; desperation; Quixotism,
knight-errantry; fire eating. gaming, gambling; blind bargain, leap in
the dark, leap of faith, fool's paradise; too many eggs in one basket.
desperado, rashling[obs3], madcap, daredevil, Hotspur, fire eater,
bully, bravo, Hector, scapegrace, enfant perdu[Fr]; Don Quixote,
knight- errant, Icarus; adventurer; gambler, gamester;
dynamitard[obs3]; boomer [obs3][U. S.]. V. be rash &c. adj.; stick at
nothing, play a desperate game; run into danger &c. 665; play with
fire, play with edge tools. carry too much sail, sail too near the
wind, ride at single anchor, go out of one's depth. take a leap in the
dark, buy a pig in a poke. donner tete baissee [Fr]; knock, one's bead
against a wall &c. (be unskillful) 699; rush on destruction; kick
against the pricks, tempt Providence, go on a forlorn hope, go on a
fool's errand. reckon one's chickens before they are hatched, count
one's chickens before they are hatched, reckon without one's host;
catch at straws; trust to a broken reed, lean on a broken reed. Adj.
rash, incautious, indiscreet; imprudent, improvident, temerarious;
uncalculating[obs3]; heedless; careless &c. (neglectful) 460; without
ballast, heels over head, head over heels; giddy &c. (inattentive) 458;
wanton, reckless, wild, madcap; desperate, devil-may-care. hot-blooded,
hotheaded, hotbrained[obs3]; headlong, headstrong; breakneck;
foolhardy; harebrained; precipitate, impulsive. overconfident,
overweening; venturesome, venturous; adventurous, Quixotic, fire
eating, cavalier; janty[obs3], jaunty, free and easy. off one's guard
&c. (inexpectant) 508[obs3]. Adv. post haste, a corps perdu[Fr], hand
over head, tete baissee[Fr], headforemost[obs3]; happen what may, come
what may. Phr. neck or nothing, the devil being in one; non semper
temeritas est felix [Lat][Livy]; paucis temeritas est bono multis malo
[Lat][Phaedrus].
#864. Caution.—N. caution; cautiousness &c. adj.; discretion,
prudence, cautel|, heed, circumspection, calculation, deliberation.
foresight &c. 510; vigilance &c. 459; warning &c. 668. coolness &c.
adj.; self-possession, self-command; presence of mind, sang froid[Fr];
well-regulated mind; worldly wisdom, Fabian policy. V. be cautious &c.
adj.; take care, take heed, take good care; have a care mind, what
one is about; be on one's guard &c. (keep watch) 459; "make assurance
doubly sure" [Macbeth]. bespeak &c. (be early) 132. think twice, look
before one leaps, count the cost, look to the main chance, cut one's
coat according to one's cloth; feel one's ground, feel one's way; see
how the land lies &c. (foresight) 510; wait to see how the cat jumps;
bridle one's tongue; reculer pour mieux sauter &c. (prepare) 673[Fr];
let well alone, let well enough alone; let sleeping dogs lie, ne pas
reveiller le chat qui dort [French: don't wake a sleeping cat]. keep
out of harm's way, keep out of troubled waters; keep at a respectful
distance, stand aloof; keep on the safe side, be on the safe side.
husband one's resources &c. 636. caution &c. (warn) 668. Adj. cautious,
wary, guarded; on one's guard &c. (watchful) 459; cavendo tutus[Lat];
in medio tutissimus[Lat]; vigilant. careful, heedful; cautelous|,
stealthy, chary, shy of, circumspect, prudent, discreet, politic;
sure-footed &c. (skillful) 698. unenterprising, unadventurous, cool,
steady, self-possessed; overcautious. Adv. cautiously &c. adj. Int.
have a care! Phr. timeo Danaos [Lat][Vergil]; festina lente[Lat]. ante
victoriam ne canas triumphum [Lat: don't sing out victory before the
triumph]; "give, every man thine ear but few thy voice" [Hamlet]; he
who laughs last laughs best, il rit bien qui rit le dernier[Fr]; ni
firmes carta que no leas ni bebas agua que no veas [Sp]; nescit vox
missa reverti [Lat][Horace]; "love all, trust a few" [All's Well]; noli
irritare leones [obs3][Lat]; safe bind safe find; "if it ain't broke,
don't fix it" [Bert Lance].
#865. Desire.—N. desire, wish, fancy, fantasy; want, need,
exigency. mind, inclination, leaning, bent, animus, partiality,
penchant, predilection; propensity &c. 820; willingness &c. 602;
liking, love, fondness, relish. longing, hankering, inkling;
solicitude, anxiety; yearning, coveting; aspiration, ambition, vaulting
ambition; eagerness, zeal, ardor, empressement[Fr], breathless
impatience, overanxiety; impetuosity, &c. 825. appetite,
appetition[obs3], appetence[obs3], appetency[obs3]; sharp appetite,
keenness, hunger, stomach, twist; thirst, thirstiness; drouth,
mouthwatering; itch, itching; prurience, cacoethes[Lat], cupidity,
lust, concupiscence. edge of appetite, edge of hunger; torment of
Tantalus; sweet tooth, lickerish tooth[obs3]; itching palm; longing
eye, wistful eye, sheep's eye. [excessive desire for money] greed &c.
817a. voracity &c. (gluttony) 957. passion, rage, furore[obs3], mania,
manie|; inextinguishable desire; dipsomania, kleptomania. [Person who
desires] lover, amateur, votary, devotee, aspirant, solicitant,
candidate, applicant, supplicant; cormorant &c. 957. [Object of desire]
desideratum; want &c. (requirement) 630; "a consummation devoutly to be
wished"; attraction, magnet, allurement, fancy, temptation, seduction,
fascination, prestige, height of one's ambition, idol; whim, whimsy,
whimsey[obs3]; maggot; hobby, hobby-horse. Fortunatus's cap; wishing
cap, wishing stone, wishing well. V. desire; wish, wish for; be
desirous &c. adj. have a longing &c. n.; hope &c. 858. care for,
affect, like, list; take to, cling to, take a fancy to; fancy; prefer
&c. (choose) 609. have an eye, have a mind to; find it in one's heart
&c. (be willing) 602; have a fancy for, set one's eyes upon; cast a
sheep's eye upon, look sweet upon; take into one's head, have at heart,
be bent upon; set one's cap at, set one's heart upon, set one's mind
upon; covet. want, miss, need, feel the want of, would fain have, would
fain do; would be glad of. be hungry &c. adj.; have a good appetite,
play a good knife and fork; hunger after, thirst after, crave after,
lust after, itch after, hanker after, run mad after; raven for, die
for; burn to. desiderate[obs3]; sigh for, cry for, gape for, gasp for,
pine for, pant for, languish for, yearn for, long, be on thorns for,
hope for; aspire after; catch at, grasp at, jump at. woo, court,
solicit; fish for, spell for, whistle for, put up for; ogle. cause
desire, create desire, raise desire, excite desire, provoke desire;
whet the appetite; appetize[obs3], titillate, allure, attract, take
one's fancy, tempt; hold out temptation, hold out allurement;
tantalize, make one's mouth water, faire venir l'eau a la bouche [Fr].
gratify desire &c. (give pleasure) 829. Adj. desirous; desiring &c. v.;
inclined &c. (willing) 602; partial to; fain, wishful, optative[obs3];
anxious, wistful, curious; at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous.
craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish[obs3], ravening, with an empty
stomach, esurient[obs3], lickerish[obs3], thirsty, athirst, parched
with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy[obs3]; hungry
as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church
mouse, hungry as a bear. [excessively desirous] greedy &c. 817a.
unsatisfied, unsated, unslaked; unsaturated. eager, avid, keen;
burning, fervent, ardent; agog; all agog; breathless; impatient &c.
(impetuous) 825; bent on, intent on, set on, bent upon, intent upon,
set upon; mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire.
aspiring, ambitious, vaulting, skyaspiring, high-reaching. desirable;
desired &c. v.; in demand; pleasing &c. (giving pleasure) 829;
appetizing, appetible[obs3]; tantalizing. Adv. wistfully &c. adj.;
fain. Int. would that, would that it were! O for! esto perpetual
Phr[Lat]. the wish being father to the thought; sua cuique
voluptas[Lat]; hoc erat in votis[Lat], the mouth watering, the fingers
itching; aut Caesar aut nullus[Lat]. "Cassius has a lean and hungry
look" [Jul. Caesar]; "hungry as the grave" [Thomson]; "I was born to
other things" [Tennyson]; "not what we wish but what we want"
[Merrick]; "such joy ambition finds" [P. L.]; "the sea hath bounds but
deep desire hath none" [Venus and Adonis]; ubi mel ibi apes[Lat].
#866. Indifference.—N. indifference, neutrality; coldness &c. adj.;
anaphrodisia[obs3]; unconcern, insouciance, nonchalance; want of
interest, want of earnestness; anorexy[obs3], anorexia,
inappetency[obs3]; apathy &c. (insensibility) 823; supineness &c.
(inactivity) 683; disdain &c. 930; recklessness &c. 863; inattention
&c. 458. anaphrodisiac[obs3], antaphrodisiac[obs3]; lust-quencher,
passion- queller[obs3]. V. be indifferent &c. adj.; stand neuter; take
no interest in &c. (insensibility) 823; have no desire for &c. 865,have
no taste for, have no relish for; not care for; care nothing for, care
nothing about; not care a straw about, not care a fig for, not care a
whit about &c. (unimportance) 643; not mind. set at naught &c. (make
light of) 483; spurn &c. (disdain) 930. Adj. indifferent, cold, frigid,
lukewarm; cool, cool as a cucumber; unconcerned, insouciant,
phlegmatic, pococurante[obs3], easygoing, devil- may-care, careless,
listless, lackadaisical; half-hearted; unambitious, unaspiring,
undesirous[obs3], unsolicitous[obs3], unattracted. [indifferent toward
people] aloof, unapproachable, remote; uncaring. unattractive,
unalluring, undesired, undesirable, uncared for, unwished[obs3],
unvalued, all one to. insipid &c. 391; vain. Adv. for aught one cares.
Int. never mind; Who cares? whatever you like, whatever. Phr. I
couldn't care less, I could care less; anything will do; es macht
nichts [German].
#867. Dislike.—N. dislike, distaste, disrelish, disinclination,
displacency[obs3]. reluctance; backwardness &c. (unwillingness) 603.
repugnance, disgust, queasiness, turn, nausea, loathing;
averseness[obs3], aversation|, aversion; abomination, antipathy,
abhorrence, horror; mortal antipathy, rooted antipathy, mortal horror,
rooted horror; hatred, detestation; hate &c. 898; animosity &c. 900;
hydrophobia; canine madness; byssa[obs3], xenophobia. sickener[obs3];
gall and wormwood &c. (unsavory) 395; shuddering, cold sweat. V.
mislike misrelish[obs3], dislike, disrelish; mind, object to; have
rather not, would rather not, prefer not to, not care for; have a
dislike for, conceive a dislike to, entertain a dislike for, take a
dislike to, have an aversion to, have an aversion for; have no taste
for, have no stomach for. shun, avoid &c. 623; eschew; withdraw from,
shrink from, recoil from; not be able to bear, not be able to
abide, not be able to endure; shrug the shoulders at, shudder at, turn
up the nose at, look askance at; make a mouth, make a wry face, make
a grimace; make faces. loathe, nauseate, abominate, detest, abhor; hate
&c. 898; take amiss &c. 900; have enough of &c. (be satiated) 869. wish
away, unwish cause dislike, excite dislike; disincline, repel, sicken;
make sick, render sick; turn one's stomach, nauseate, wamble[obs3],
disgust, shock, stink in the nostrils; go against the grain, go against
the stomach; stick in the throat; make one's blood run cold &c. (give
pain) 830; pall. Adj. disliking &c. v.; averse from, loathe, loathe to,
loth, adverse; shy of, sick of, out of conceit with; disinclined;
heartsick, dogsick[obs3]; queasy. disliked &c. v.; uncared for,
unpopular; out of favor; repulsive, repugnant, repellant; abhorrent,
insufferable, fulsome, nauseous; loathsome, loathful[obs3]; offensive;
disgusting &c. v.; disagreeable c. (painful) 830. Adv. usque ad
nauseam[Lat]. Int. faugh! foh[obs3]! ugh! Phr. non libet[Lat].
#868. Fastidiousness.—N. fastidiousness &c. adj.; nicety,
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hypercriticism, difficulty in being pleased, friandise[Fr], epicurism,
omnia suspendens naso[Lat].
epicure, gourmet.
[Excess of delicacy] prudery.
V. be fastidious &c. adj.; have a sweet tooth.
mince the matter; turn up one's nose at &c. (disdain) 930; look a
gift
horse in the mouth, see spots on the sun.
Adj. fastidious, nice, delicate, delicat[obs3], finical, finicky,
demanding, meticulous, exacting, strict, anal[vulg.], difficult,
dainty,
lickerish[obs3], squeamish, thin-skinned; squeasy[obs3], queasy; hard
to
please, difficult to please; querulous, particular, straitlaced,
scrupulous; censorious &c. 932; hypercritical; overcritical.
Phr. noli me tangere[Lat].
#869. Satiety.—N. satiety, satisfaction, saturation, repletion,
glut, surfeit; cloyment[obs3], satiation; weariness &c. 841. spoiled
child; enfant gete[Fr], enfant terrible[Fr]; too much of a good thing,
toujours perdrix[Fr]; crambe repetita[Lat][obs3]. V. sate, satiate,
satisfy, saturate; cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut., gorge, surfeit;
bore &c. (weary) 841; tire &c. (fatigue) 688; spoil. have enough of,
have quite enough of, have one's fill, have too much of; be satiated
&c. adj. Adj. satiated &c. v.; overgorged[obs3]; blase, used up, sick
of, heartsick. Int. enough! hold! eheu jam satis[Lat]! basta[obs3]!
4. CONTEMPLATIVE AFFECTIONS
#870. Wonder.—N. wonder, marvel; astonishment, amazement,
wonderment, bewilderment; amazedness &c. adj[obs3].; admiration, awe;
stupor, stupefaction; stound|, fascination; sensation; surprise &c.
(inexpectation) 5O8[obs3]. note of admiration; thaumaturgy &c.(sorcery)
992[obs3]. V. wonder, marvel, admire; be surprised &c. adj.; start;
stare; open one's eyes, rub one's eyes, turn up one's eyes; gloar|;
gape, open one's mouth, hold one's breath; look aghast, stand aghast,
stand agog; look blank &c. (disappointment) 509; tombe des nues[Fr];
not believe one's eyes, not believe one's ears, not believe one's
senses. not be able to account for &c. (unintelligible) 519; not know
whether one stands on one's head or one's heels. surprise, astonish,
amaze, astound; dumfound, dumfounder; startle, dazzle; daze; strike,
strike with wonder, strike with awe; electrify; stun, stupefy, petrify,
confound, bewilder, flabbergast, stagger, throw on one's beam ends,
fascinate, turn the head, take away one's breath, strike dumb; make
one's hair stand on end, make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's
mouth; make one stare. take by surprise &c. (be unexpected) 508. be
wonderful &c. adj.; beggar description, beggar the imagination, baffle
description; stagger belief. Adj. surprised &c. v.; aghast, all agog,
breathless, agape; open- mouthed; awestruck, thunderstruck, moonstruck,
planet-struck; spellbound; lost in amazement, lost in wonder, lost in
astonishment; struck all of a heap, unable to believe one's senses,
like a duck ion thunder. wonderful, wondrous; surprising &c. v.;
unexpected &c. 508; unheard of; mysterious &c. (inexplicable) 519;
miraculous. indescribable, inexpressible, inaffable[obs3]; unutterable,
unspeakable. monstrous, prodigious, stupendous, marvelous;
inconceivable, incredible; inimaginable[obs3], unimaginable; strange
&c. (uncommon) 83; passing strange. striking &c. v.; overwhelming;
wonder-working. Adv. wonderfully, &c. adj.; fearfully; for a wonder, in
the name of wonder; strange to say; mirabile dictu[Lat], mirabile
visu[Lat]; to one's great surprise. with wonder &c. n., with gaping
mouth; with open eyes, with upturned eyes. Int. lo, lo and behold! O!
heyday! halloo! what! indeed! really! surely! humph! hem! good lack,
good heavens, good gracious! Ye gods! good Lord! good grief! Holy
cow! My word! Holy shit![vulg.], gad so! welladay[obs3]! dear me! only
think! lackadaisy[obs3]! my stars, my goodness! gracious goodness!
goodness gracious! mercy on us! heavens and earth! God bless me! bless
us, bless my heart! odzookens[obs3]! O gemini! adzooks[obs3]!
hoity-toity! strong! Heaven save the mark, bless the mark! can such
things be! zounds! 'sdeath! what on earth, what in the world! who would
have thought it! &c. (inexpectation) 508[obs3]; you don't say so!
You're kidding!. No kidding? what do you say to that! nous verrons[Fr]!
how now! where am I? Phr. vox faucibus haesit[Lat]; one's hair standing
on end.
#871. [Absence of wonder.] Expectance.—N. expectance &c.
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(expectation) 507.
example, instance (conformity) 82.
normality (habit) 613
nine days' wonder.
V. expect &c. 507; not be surprised, not wonder &c. 870; nil
admirari[Lat], make nothing of.
Adj. expecting &c. v.; unamazed, astonished at nothing; blase &c.
(weary) 841; expected &c. v.; foreseen; unsurprising.
common, ordinary, normal, typical, usual &c. (habitual) 613.
Adv. naturally, as a matter of course.
Int. no wonder; of course.
#872. Prodigy.—N. prodigy, phenomenon; wonder, wonderment; marvel,
miracle; monster &c. (unconformity) 83; curiosity, lion, sight,
spectacle; jeu de theatre[Fr], coup de theatre; gazingstock[obs3];
sign; St. Elmo's fire, St. Elmo's light; portent &c. 512. bursting of a
shell, bursting of a bomb; volcanic eruption, peal of thunder;
thunder-clap, thunder-bolt. what no words can paint; wonders of the
world; annus mirabilis[Lat]; dignus vindice nodus[Lat]. Phr. natura il
fece e poi roppe la stampa [Ital.].
5. EXTRINSIC AFFECTIONS[1]
[1] Or personal affections derived from the opinion or feelings of
others.
#873. Repute.—N. distinction, mark, name, figure; repute,
reputation; good repute, high repute; note, notability, notoriety,
eclat, "the bubble reputation" [As You Like It], vogue, celebrity;
fame, famousness; renown; popularity, aura popularis[Lat]; approbation
&c. 931; credit, succes d'estime[Fr], prestige, talk of the town; name
to conjure with. glory, honor; luster &c. (light) 420; illustriousness
&c. adj. account, regard, respect; reputableness &c. adj[obs3].;
respectability &c. (probity) 939; good name, good report; fair name.
dignity; stateliness &c. adj.; solemnity, grandeur, splendor, nobility,
majesty, sublimity. rank, standing, brevet rank, precedence, pas,
station, place, status; position, position in society; order, degree,
baccalaureate, locus standi[Lat], caste, condition. greatness &c. adj.;
eminence; height &c. 206; importance &c. 642; preeminence,
supereminence; high mightiness, primacy; top of the ladder, top of the
tree. elevation; ascent &c. 305; superaltation[obs3], exaltation;
dignification[obs3], aggrandizement. dedication, consecration,
enthronement, canonization, celebration, enshrinement, glorification.
hero, man of mark, great card, celebrity, worthy, lion, rara avis[Lat],
notability, somebody; classman[obs3]; man of rank &c. (nobleman) 875;
pillar of the state, pillar of the church, pillar of the community.
chief &c. (master) 745; first fiddle &c. (proficient) 700; cynosure,
mirror; flower, pink, pearl; paragon &c. (perfection) 650; choice and
master spirits of the age; elite; star,.sun, constellation, galaxy.
ornament, honor, feather in one's cap, halo, aureole, nimbus; halo of
glory, blaze of glory, blushing honors; laurels &c. (trophy) 733.
memory, posthumous fame, niche in the temple of fame; immortality,
immortal name; magni nominis umbra [Lat][Lucan]. V. be conscious of
glory; be proud of &c. (pride) 878; exult &c. (boast) 884; be vain of
&c. (vanity) 880.
be distinguished &c. adj.; shine &c. (light) 420; shine forth,
figure; cut a figure, make a dash, make a splash. rival, surpass;
outshine, outrival, outvie[obs3], outjump; emulate, eclipse; throw
into the shade, cast into the shade; overshadow. live, flourish,
glitter, flaunt, gain honor, acquire honor &c. n.; play first
fiddle &c. (be of importance) 642, bear the palm, bear the bell;
lead the way; take precedence, take the wall of; gain laurels, win
laurels, gain spurs, gain golden opinions &c. (approbation) 931;
take one's degree, pass one's examination. make a noise, make
some noise, make a noise in the world; leave one's mark, exalt
one's horn, blow one's horn, star it, have a run, be run after;
come into vogue, come to the front; raise one's head. enthrone,
signalize, immortalize, deify, exalt to the skies; hand one's name
down to posterity. consecrate; dedicate to, devote to; enshrine,
inscribe, blazon, lionize, blow the trumpet, crown with laurel.
confer honor on, reflect honor on &c. v.; shed a luster on;
redound to one's honor, ennoble. give honor to, do honor to, pay
honor to, render honor to; honor, accredit, pay regard to,
dignify, glorify; sing praises to &c. (approve) 931; lock up to;
exalt, aggrandize, elevate, nobilitate[Lat]. Adj. distinguished,
distingue[Fr], noted; of note &c. n.; honored &c. v.; popular;
fashionable &c. 852. in good odor in; favor, in high favor;
reputable, respectable, creditable. remarkable &c. (important)
642; notable, notorious; celebrated, renowned, ion every one's
mouth, talked of; famous, famed; far-famed; conspicuous, to the
front; foremost; in the front rank, in the ascendant.
imperishable, deathless, immortal, never fading, aere
perennius[Lat][obs3]; time honored. illustrious, glorious,
splendid, brilliant, radiant; bright &c. 420; full-blown;
honorific. eminent, prominent; high &c. 206; in the zenith; at the
head of, at the top of the tree; peerless, of the first water.;
superior &c. 33; supereminent, preeminent. great, dignified,
proud, noble, honorable, worshipful, lordly, grand, stately,
august, princely. imposing, solemn, transcendent, majestic,
sacred, sublime, heaven-born, heroic, sans peur et sans
reproche[Fr]; sacrosanct. Int. hail! all hail! ave! viva!
vive[Fr]! long life to! banzai![Jap.]; glory be to, honor be to?
Phr. one's name being in every mouth, one's name living for ever;
sic itur ad astra[Lat], fama volat[Lat], aut Caesar aut
nullus[Lat]; not to know him argues oneself unknown; none but
himself could be his parallel, palmam qui meruit ferat
[Lat][Nelson's motto]. "above all Greek above all Roman fame"
[Pope]; - cineri gloria sera est [Lat][Martial]; "great is the
glory for the strife is hard" [Wordsworth]; honor virtutis
praemium [Lat][Cicero]; immensum gloria calcar habet
[Lat][obs3][Ovid]; "the glory dies not and the grief is past"
[Brydges]; vivit post funera virtus[Lat].
#874. Disrepute.—N. disrepute, discredit; ill repute, bad repute,
bad name, bad odor, bad favor, ill name, ill odor, ill favor;
disapprobation &c. 932; ingloriousness, derogation; abasement,
debasement; abjectness &c. adj.; degradation, dedecoration[obs3]; a
long farewell to all my greatness [Henry VIII]; odium, obloquy,
opprobrium, ignominy. dishonor, disgrace; shame, humiliation; scandal,
baseness, vileness[obs3]; turpitude &c. (improbity) 940[obs3]; infamy.
tarnish, taint, defilement, pollution. stain, blot, spot, blur, stigma,
brand, reproach, imputation, slur. crying shame, burning shame;
scandalum magnatum[Lat], badge of infamy, blot in one's escutcheon;
bend sinister, bar sinister; champain[obs3], point champain[obs3];
byword of reproach; Ichabod. argumentum ad verecundiam[Lat]; sense of
shame &c. 879. V. be inglorious &c. adj.; incur disgrace &c. n.; have a
bad name, earn a bad name; put a halter round one's neck, wear a halter
round one's neck; disgrace oneself, expose oneself. play second fiddle;
lose caste; pale one's ineffectual fire; recede into the shade; fall
from one's high estate; keep in the background &c. (modesty) 881; be
conscious of disgrace &c. (humility) 879; look blue, look foolish, look
like a fool; cut a poor figure, cut a sorry figure; laugh on the wrong
side of the mouth; make a sorry face, go away with a flea in. one's
ear, slink away. cause shame &c. n.; shame, disgrace, put to shame,
dishonor; throw dishonor upon, cast dishonor upon, fling dishonor upon,
reflect dishonor upon &c. n.; be a reproach &c. n. to; derogate from.
tarnish, stain, blot sully, taint; discredit; degrade, debase, defile;
beggar; expel &c. (punish) 972. impute shame to, brand, post,
stigmatize, vilify, defame, slur, cast a slur upon, hold up to shame,
send to Coventry; tread under foot, trample under foot; show up, drag
through the mire, heap dirt upon; reprehend &c. 932. bring low, put
down, snub; take down a peg, take down a peg lower, take down a peg or
two. obscure. eclipse, outshine, take the shine out of; throw into the
shade, cast into the shade; overshadow; leave in the background, put in
the background; push into a corner, put one's nose out of joint; put
out, put out of countenance. upset, throw off one's center; discompose,
disconcert; put to the blush &c. (humble) 879. Adj. disgraced &c. v.;
blown upon; "shorn of its beams" [Milton], shorn of one's glory;
overcome, downtrodden; loaded with shame &c. n.; in bad repute &c. n.;
out of repute, out of favor, out of fashion, out of countenance; at a
discount; under a cloud, under an eclipse; unable to show one's face;
in the shade, in the background; out at elbows, down at the elbows,
down in the world. inglorious; nameless, renownless[obs3]; obscure;
unknown to fame; unnoticed, unnoted[obs3], unhonored,
unglorified[obs3]. shameful; disgraceful, discreditable, disreputable;
despicable; questionable; unbecoming, unworthy; derogatory; degrading,
humiliating, infra dignitatem[Lat], dedecorous[obs3]; scandalous,
infamous, too bad, unmentionable; ribald, opprobrious; errant,
shocking, outrageous, notorious. ignominious, scrubby, dirty, abject,
vile, beggarly, pitiful, low, mean, shabby base &c. (dishonorable) 940.
Adv. to one's shame be it spoken. Int. fie! shame! for shame! proh
pudor[Lat]! O tempora[obs3]! O mores! ough! sic transit gloria
mundi[Lat.]!
#875. Nobility.—N. nobility, rank, condition, distinction,
optimacy[obs3], blood, pur sang[Fr], birth, high descent, order;
quality, gentility; blue blood of Castile; ancien regime[Fr]. high
life, haute monde[Fr]; upper classes, upper ten thousand; the four
hundred [U. S.]; elite, aristocracy, great folks; fashionable world &c.
(fashion) 852. peer, peerage; house of lords, house of peers; lords,
lords temporal and spiritual; noblesse; noble, nobleman; lord,
lordling[obs3]; grandee, magnifico[Lat], hidalgo; daimio[obs3], daimyo,
samurai, shizoku [all Japanese]; don, donship[obs3]; aristocrat, swell,
three-tailed bashaw[obs3]; gentleman, squire, squireen[obs3],
patrician, laureate. gentry, gentlefolk; *squirarchy[obs3], better sort
magnates, primates, optimates[obs3]; pantisocracy[obs3]. king &c.
(master) 745; atheling[obs3]; prince, duke; marquis, marquisate[obs3];
earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret[obs3]; baronet, baronetcy[obs3];
knight, knighthood; count, armiger[obs3], laird; signior[obs3],
seignior; esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour[obs3]; emir, ameer[obs3],
scherif[obs3], sharif, effendi, wali; sahib; chevalier, maharaja,
nawab, palsgrave[obs3], pasha, rajah, waldgrave[obs3]. princess,
begum[obs3], duchess, marchioness; countess &c.; lady, dame; memsahib;
Dona, maharani, rani. personage of distinction, man of distinction,
personage of rank, man of rank, personage of mark, man of mark;
notables, notabilities; celebrity, bigwig, magnate, great man, star,
superstar; big bug; big gun, great gun; gilded rooster* [U. S.]; magni
nominis umbra [Lat][Lucan]; "every inch a king" [Lear]. V. be noble &c.
adj. Adj. noble, exalted; of rank &c. n.; princely, titled, patrician,
aristocratic; high-, well-born; of gentle blood; genteel, comme il
faut[Fr], gentlemanlike[obs3], courtly &c. (fashionable) 852; highly
respectable. Adv. in high quarters. Phr. Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im
Gebluete[Ger.]; adelig und edel sind zweierlei[obs3][Ger.]; noblesse
oblige[Fr.].
#876. Commonalty.—N. commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low
condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the
people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes,
humbler classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common herd; rank and
file, hoc genus omne[Lat]; the many, the general,the crowd, the people,
the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the
peasantry; king Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati[Lat], demos,
hoi polloi [Grk][Grk][Grk], great unwashed; man in the street. mob;
rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people,
residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; swinish
multitude, foex populi[obs3]; trash; profanum vulgus[Lat], ignobile
vulgus[Lat]; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry. commoner,
one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary[obs3],
proletaire[obs3], roturier[obs3], Mr. Snooks, bourgeois, epicier[Fr],
Philistine, cockney; grisette[obs3], demimonde. peasant, countryman,
boor, carle[obs3], churl; villain, villein; terrae filius[Latin: son of
the land]; serf, kern[obs3], tyke, tike, chuff[obs3], ryot[obs3],
fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail,
yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy[obs3]; rustic, hayseed*,
lunkhead [U. S.], chaw-bacon*[obs3], tiller of the soil; hewers of wood
and drawers of water, groundling[obs3]; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony
Lumpkin[obs3], looby[obs3], rube* [U. S.], lout, underling; gamin;
rough; pot-wallopper[obs3], slubberdegullion|; vulgar fellow, low
fellow; cad, curmudgeon. upstart, parvenu, skipjack[obs3]; nobody,
nobody one knows; hesterni quirites[Lat], pessoribus orti[Lat];
bourgeois gentilhomme[Fr], novus homo[Lat], snob, gent, mushroom, no
one knows who, adventurer; man of straw. beggar, gaberlunzie[obs3],
muckworm[obs3], mudlark[obs3], sans culotte, raff[obs3],
tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp,
vagabond, bezonian[obs3], panhandler*, sundowner[obs3], chiffonnier,
Cinderella, cinderwench[obs3], scrub, jade; gossoon[obs3]. Goth,
Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked cub[obs3],
rough diamond|!. barbarousness, barbarism; boeotia. V. be ignoble &c.
adj., be nobody &c. n. Adj. ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile,
sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes &c. (unimportant)
643; homely, homespun; vulgar, low-minded; snobbish. plebeian,
proletarian; of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of
mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction; lowborn, baseborn,
earthborn[obs3]; mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks; unknown to
fame, obscure, untitled. rustic, uncivilized; loutish, boorish,
clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish; rude, unlicked[obs3]. barbarous,
barbarian, barbaric, barbaresque[obs3]; cockney, born within sound of
Bow bells. underling, menial, subaltern. Adv. below the salt. Phr.
dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet [Lat][Ovid].
#877. Title.—N. title, honor; knighthood &c. (nobility) 875.
highness, excellency, grace; lordship, worship; reverence,
reverend; esquire, sir, master, Mr., signor, senor, Mein
Herr[Ger], mynheer[obs3]; your honor, his honor; serene highness;
handle to one's name. decoration, laurel, palm, wreath, garland,
bays, medal, ribbon, riband, blue ribbon, cordon, cross, crown,
coronet, star, garter; feather, feather in one,s cap; epaulet,
epaulette, colors, cockade; livery; order, arms, shield,
scutcheon; reward &c. 973.
#878. Pride.—N. dignity, self-respect, mens sibi conscia recti
[Lat][Vergil]. pride; haughtiness &c. adj.; high notions, hauteur;
vainglory, crest; arrogance &c. (assumption) 885. proud man,
highflier[obs3]; fine gentleman, fine lady. V. be proud &c. adj.; put
a good face on; look one in the face; stalk abroad, perk oneself up;
think no small beer of oneself; presume, swagger, strut; rear one's
head, lift up one's head, hold up one's head; hold one's head high,
look big, take the wall, "bear like the Turk no rival near the throne"
[Pope], carry with a high hand; ride the high horse, mount on one's
high horse; set one's back up, bridle, toss the head; give oneself airs
&c. (assume) 885; boast &c. 884. pride oneself on; glory in, take a
pride in; pique oneself, plume oneself, hug oneself; stand upon, be
proud of; put a good face on; not hide one's light under a bushel, not
put one's talent in a napkin; not think small beer of oneself &c.
(vanity) 880. Adj. dignified; stately; proud, proud-crested; lordly,
baronial; lofty-minded; highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled[obs3],
high-handed, high-plumed, high-flown, high-toned. haughty lofty, high,
mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown; vainglorious; purse-proud,
fine; proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer; bloated with pride.
supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and
mighty, overweening, consequential; arrogant &c. 885; unblushing &c.
880. stiff, stiff-necked; starch; perked stuck-up; in buckram, strait-
laced; prim &c. (affected) 855. on one's dignity, on one's high
horses,on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes; on stilts; en grand
seigneur [Fr]. Adv. with head erect. Phr. odi profanum vulgus et arceo
[Lat][Horace]. "a duke's revenues on her back" [Henry VI]; "disdains
the shadow which he treads on at noon" [Coriolanis]; "pride in their
port, defiance in their eye" [Goldsmith].
#879. Humility.—N. humility, humbleness; meekness, lowness;
lowliness, lowlihood[obs3]; abasement, self-abasement; submission &c.
725; resignation. condescension; affability &c. (courtesy) 894. modesty
&c. 881; verecundity|, blush, suffusion, confusion; sense of
shame,sense of disgrace; humiliation, mortification; let down, set
down. V. be humble &c. adj.; deign, vouchsafe, condescend; humble
oneself, demean oneself; stoop, stoop to conquer; carry coals; submit
&c. 725; submit with a good grace &c. (brook) 826; yield the palm.
lower one's tone, lower one's note; sing small, draw in one's horns,
sober down; hide one's face, hide one's diminished head; not dare to
show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for
oneself; feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious
of disgrace; drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs. blush for,
blush up to the eves; redden, change color; color up; hang one's head,
look foolish, feel small. render humble; humble, humiliate; let down,
set down, take down, tread down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make
one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; put down, take
down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the
shade &c. 874; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to
the blush; confuse, ashame[obs3], mortify, disgrace, crush; send away
with a flea in one's ear. get a setdown[obs3]. Adj. humble, lowly,
meek; modest &c. 881; humble minded, sober- minded; unoffended[obs3];
submissive &c. 725; servile, &c. 886. condescending; affable &c.
(courteous) 891. humbled &c. v.; bowed down, resigned; abashed,
ashamed, dashed; out of countenance; down in the mouth; down on one's
knees, down on one's marrowbones, down on one's uppers; humbled in the
dust, browbeaten; chapfallen[obs3], crestfallen; dumfoundered[obs3].
flabbergasted. shorn of one's glory &c. (disrepute) 874. Adv. with
downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee; on all fours, on
one's feet. under correction, with due deference. Phr. I am your
obedient servant, I am your very humble servant; my service to you; da
locum melioribus [Lat][Terence]; parvum parva decent [Lat][Horace].
#880. Vanity.—N. vanity; conceit, conceitedness; self-conceit,
self-complacency, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-esteem, self-
love, self-approbation, self-praise, self-glorification,
self-laudation, self-gratulation[obs3], self-applause, self-admiration;
amour propre[Fr]; selfishness &c. 943. airs, affected manner,
pretensions, mannerism; egotism; priggism[obs3], priggishness;
coxcombry, gaudery[obs3], vainglory, elation; pride &c. 878;
ostentation &c. 882; assurance &c. 885. vox et praeterea nihil[Lat];
cheval de bataille[Fr]. coxcomb &c. 854 Sir Oracle &c. 887. V. be vain
&c. adj., be vain of; pique oneself &c. (pride) 878; lay the flattering
unction to one's soul. have too high an opinion of oneself, have an
overweening opinion of oneself, have too high an opinion of one's
talents; blind oneself as to one's own merit; not think small beer of
oneself, not think vin ordinaire of oneself[Fr]; put oneself forward;
fish for compliments; give oneself airs &c. (assume) 885; boast &c.
884. render vain &c. adj.; inspire with vanity &c. n.; inflate, puff
up, turn up, turn one's head. Adj. vain, vain as a peacock, proud as a
peacock; conceited, overweening, pert, forward; vainglorious,
high-flown; ostentatious &c. 882; puffed up, inflated, flushed.
self-satisfied, self-confident, self-sufficient, self-flattering,
self-admiring, self-applauding, self-glorious, self-opinionated;
entente &c. (wrongheaded) 481; wise in one's own conceit,
pragmatical[obs3], overwise[obs3], pretentious, priggish; egotistic,
egotistical; soi-disant &c. (boastful) 884[Fr]; arrogant &c. 885.
unabashed, unblushing; unconstrained, unceremonious; free and easy.
Adv. vainly &c. adj. Phr. "how we apples swim!" [Swift]; "prouder than
rustling in unpaid-for silk" [Cymbeline].
#881. Modesty.—N. modesty; humility &c. 879; diffidence, timidity;
retiring disposition; unobtrusiveness; bashfulness &c. adj.; mauvaise
honte[Fr]; blush, blushing; verecundity|; self-knowledge. reserve,
constraint; demureness &c. adj.; "blushing honors" [Henry VIII]. V. be
modest &c. adj.; retire, reserve oneself; give way to; draw in one's
horns &c. 879; hide one's face. keep private, keep in the background,
keep one's distance; pursue the noiseless tenor of one's way, "do good
by stealth and blush to find it fame" [Pope], hide one's light under a
bushel, cast a sheep's eye. Adj. modest, diffident; humble &c. 879;
timid, timorous, bashful; shy, nervous, skittish, coy, sheepish,
shamefaced, blushing, overmodest. unpretending[obs3], unpretentious;
unobtrusive, unassuming, unostentatious, unboastful[obs3], unaspiring;
poor in spirit. out of countenance &c. (humbled) 879. reserved,
constrained, demure. Adv. humbly &c. adj.; quietly, privately; without
ceremony, without beat of drum; sans fa on. Phr. "not stepping o'er the
bounds of modesty" [Romeo and Juliet]; "thy modesty's a candle to thy
merit" [Fielding].
#882. Ostentation.—N. ostentation, display, show, flourish, parade,
etalage[Fr], pomp, array, state, solemnity; dash, splash, splurge,
glitter, strut, pomposity; pretense, pretensions; showing off; fuss.
magnificence, splendor; coup d'oeil[Fr]; grand doings. coup de theatre;
stage effect, stage trick; claptrap; mise en scene[Fr]; tour de force;
chic. demonstration, flying colors; tomfoolery; flourish of trumpets
&c. (celebration) 883; pageant, pageantry; spectacle, exhibition,
exposition, procession; turn out, set out; grand function; fte, gala,
field day, review, march past, promenade, insubstantial pageant. dress;
court dress, full dress, evening dress, ball dress, fancy dress;
tailoring, millinery, man millinery, frippery, foppery, equipage.
ceremony, ceremonial; ritual; form, formality; etiquette; puncto[Lat],
punctilio, punctiliousness; starched stateliness, stateliness. mummery,
solemn mockery, mouth honor. attitudinarian[obs3]; fop &c. 854. V. be
ostentatious &c. adj.; come forward, put oneself forward; attract
attention, star it. cut a figure, make a dash, make a splash, make a
splurge, cut a dash, cut a splash, cut a splurge; figure, figure away;
make a show, make a display; glitter. show off, show off one's paces;
parade, march past; display, exhibit, put forward, hold up; trot out,
hand out; sport, brandish, blazon forth; dangle, dangle before the
eyes. cry up &c. (praise) 931; proner[Fr], flaunt, emblazon,
prink[obs3], set off, mount, have framed and glazed. put a good face
upon, put a smiling face upon; clean the outside of the platter &c.
(disguise) 544. Adj. ostentatious, showy, dashing, pretentious;
janty[obs3], jaunty; grand, pompous, palatial; high-sounding; turgid
&c. (big-sounding) 577; gairish[obs3], garish; gaudy, gaudy as a
peacock, gaudy as a butterfly, gaudy as a tulip; flaunting, flashing,
flaming, glittering; gay &c. (ornate) 847. splendid, magnificent,
sumptuous. theatrical, dramatic, spectacular; ceremonial, ritual.
solemn, stately, majestic, formal, stiff, ceremonious, punctilious,
starched. dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, decjed out, all decked
out, en granite tenue[Fr], in best bib and tucker, in Sunday best,
endimanch, chic. Adv. with flourish of trumpet, with beat of drum, with
flying colors. ad captandum vulgus[Lat.]. Phr. honores mutant
mores[Lat].
#883. Celebration.—N. celebration, solemnization, jubilee,
commemoration, ovation, paean, triumph, jubilation, ceremony (rite)
998; holiday, fiesta, zarabanda[obs3], revelry, feast (amusement) 840;
china anniversary, diamond anniversary, golden anniversary, silver
anniversary, tin anniversary, china jubilee, diamond jubilee, golden
jubilee, silver jubilee, tin jubilee, china wedding, diamond wedding,
golden wedding, silver wedding, tin wedding. triumphal arch, bonfire,
salute; salvo, salvo of artillery; feu de joie[Fr], flourish of
trumpets, fanfare, colors flying, illuminations. inauguration,
installation, presentation; coronation; Lord Mayor's show;
harvest-home, red-letter day; trophy &,:c. 733; Te Deum &c.
(thanksgiving) 990[Lat]; fete &c. 882; holiday &c. 840; Forefathers'
Day [U. S.]. V. celebrate keep, signalize, do honor to, commemorate,
solemnize, hallow, mark with a red letter. pledge, drink to, toast, hob
and nob[obs3]. inaugurate, install, chair. rejoice &c. 838; kill the
fatted calf, hold jubilee, roast an ox. Adj. celebrating &c. v.;
commemorative, celebrated, immortal. Adv. in honor of, in commemoration
of. Int. hail! all hail! io paean, io triumphe[obs3]! "see the
conquering hero comes!".
#884. Boasting.—N. boasting &c. v.; boast, vaunt, crake|; pretense,
pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade[obs3]; gasconade;
blague[obs3], bluff, gas*; highfalutin, highfaluting[obs3]; hot air,
spread-eagleism [obs3][U. S.]; brag, braggardism[obs3]; bravado,
bunkum, buncombe; jactitation[obs3], jactancy[obs3]; bounce;
venditation|, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk,
magniloquence, teratology|, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration &c. 549.
vanity &c. 880; vox et praeterea nihil[Lat]; much cry and little wool,
brutum fulmen[Lat]. exultation; gloriation|, glorification; flourish of
trumpets; triumph &c. 883. boaster; braggart, braggadocio; Gascon[Fr],
fanfaron[obs3], pretender, soi-disant[Fr]; blower [U. S.], bluffer,
Foxy Quiller[obs3]; blusterer &c. 887; charlatan, jack-pudding,
trumpeter; puppy &c. (fop) 854. V. boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt,
Puff, show off, flourish, crake|, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger,
vapor; blague[obs3], blow, four- flush *, bluff. exult, crow, crow
over, neigh, chuckle, triumph; throw up one's cap; talk big, se faire
valoir[Fr], faire claquer son fouet[obs3][Fr], take merit to oneself,
make a merit of, sing Io triumphe[obs3], holloa before one is out of
the wood[obs3]. Adj. boasting &c. v.; magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic,
stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant[Fr];
vainglorious &c. (conceited) 880; highfalutin, highfaluting[obs3];
spread-eagle [U. S.*]. elate, elated; jubilant, triumphant, exultant;
in high feather; flushed, flushed with victory; cock-a-hoop; on stilts.
vaunted &c. v. Adv. vauntingly &c. adj. Phr. "let the galled jade
wince" [Hamlet]; facta non verba[Lat].
#885. [Undue assumption of superiority.] Insolence.—N. insolence;
haughtiness &c. adj.; arrogance, airs; overbearance[obs3]; domineering
&c. v.; tyranny &c. 739. impertinence; sauciness &c. adj.; flippancy,
dicacity|, petulance, procacity[obs3], bluster; swagger, swaggering &c.
v.; bounce; terrorism. assumption, presumption; beggar on horseback;
usurpation. impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face,
brass; shamelessness &c. adj.; effrontery, hardened front, face of
brass. assumption of infallibility. saucebox &c. (blusterer) 887[obs3].
V. be insolent &c. adj.; bluster, vapor, swagger, swell, give oneself
airs, snap one's fingers, kick up a dust; swear &c. (affirm) 535; rap
out oaths; roister. arrogate; assume, presume; make bold, make free;
take a liberty, give an inch and take an ell. domineer, bully, dictate,
hector; lord it over; traiter de haut en bas[Fr], regarder de haut en
bas[Fr]; exact; snub, huff., beard, fly in the face of; put to the
blush; bear down, beat down; browbeat, intimidate; trample down, tread
down, trample under foot; dragoon, ride roughshod over. out face,
outlook, outstare, outbrazen[obs3], outbrave[obs3]; stare out of
countenance; brazen out; lay down the law; teach one's grandmother to
suck eggs; assume a lofty bearing; talk big, look big; put on big
looks, act the grand seigneur[Fr]; mount the high horse, ride the high
horse; toss the head, carry, with a high hand. tempt Providence, want
snuffing. Adj. insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial,
dictatorial, arbitrary; high-handed, high and mighty; contumelious,
supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening,
high-flown. flippant, pert, fresh [U. S.], cavalier, saucy, forward,
impertinent, malapert. precocious, assuming, would-be, bumptious.
bluff; brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushlng[obs3], unabashed; brazen,
boldfaced-, barefaced-, brazen-faced; dead to shame, lost to shame.
impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care,
rollicking; jaunty, janty[obs3]; roistering, blustering, hectoring,
swaggering, vaporing; thrasonic, fire eating, "full of sound and fury"
[Macbeth]. Adv. with a high hand; ex cathedra[Lat]. Phr. one's bark
being worse than his bite; "beggars mounted run their horse to death"
[Henry VI]; quid times? Caesarem vehis [Lat][Plutarch]; wagahai wa
[Jap: I (expressing superiority)].
#886. Servility.—N. servility; slavery &c. (subjection) 749;
obsequiousness &c. adj.; subserviency; abasement; prostration,
prosternation|; genuflection &c. (worship) 990; fawning &c. v.; tuft-
hunting, timeserving[obs3], flunkeyism[obs3]; sycophancy &c. (flattery)
933; humility &c. 879. sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater;
tufthunter[obs3]; snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel,
lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens[Lat], hanger on, cavaliere
servente[It], led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter,
Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank[obs3]; flatterer
&c. 935; doer of dirty work; ame damnee[Fr], tool; reptile; slave &c.
(servant) 746; courtier; beat*, dead beat*, doughface * [obs3][U. S],
heeler [U. S.], homme de cour[Fr], sponger, sucker*, tagtail[obs3],
truckler. V. cringe, bow, stoop, kneel, bend the knee; fall on one's
knees, prostrate oneself; worship &c. 990. sneak, crawl, crouch, cower,
sponge, truckle to, grovel, fawn, lick the feet of, kiss the hem of
one's garment, kiss one's ass[vulg.], suck up. pay court to; feed on,
fatten on, dance attendance on, pin oneself upon, hang on the sleeve
of, avaler les couleuvres[Fr], keep time to, fetch and carry, do the
dirty work of. go with the stream, worship the rising sun, hold with
the hare and run with the hounds. Adj. servile, obsequious;
supple,supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased,
dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed;
beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical; abject, prostrate, down on ones
marrowbones; base, mean, sneaking; crouching &c. v. Adv. hat in hand,
cap in hand.
#887. Blusterer.—N. blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer[obs3],
brawler; fanfaron[obs3]; braggart &c. (boaster) 884; bully, terrorist,
rough; bulldozer [U. S.], hoodlum, hooligan*, larrikin[obs3], roarer*;
Mohock, Mohawk; drawcansir[obs3], swashbuckler, Captain Bobadil, Sir
Lucius O'Trigger, Thraso, Pistol, Parolles, Bombastes Furioso[obs3],
Hector, Chrononhotonthologos[obs3]; jingo; desperado, dare-devil, fire
eater; fury, &c. (violent person) 173; rowdy; slang-whanger*[obs3],
tough [U. S.]. puppy &c. (fop) 854; prig; Sir Oracle, dogmatist,
doctrinaire, jack- in-office; saucebox[obs3], malapert, jackanapes,
minx; bantam-cock.
SECTION III. SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS
1. SOCIAL AFFECTIONS
#888. Friendship.—N. friendship, amity; friendliness &c. adj.;
brotherhood, fraternity, sodality, confraternity; harmony &c. (concord)
714; peace &c. 721. firm friendship, staunch friendship, intimate
friendship, familiar friendship, bosom friendship, cordial friendship,
tried friendship, devoted friendship, lasting friendship, fast
friendship, sincere friendship, warm friendship, ardent friendship.
cordiality, fraternization, entente cordiale[Fr], good understanding,
rapprochement, sympathy, fellow-feeling, response, welcomeness.
affection &c. (love) 897; favoritism; good will &c. (benevolence) 906.
acquaintance, familiarity, intimacy, intercourse, fellowship, knowledge
of; introduction. V. be friendly &c. adj., be friends &c. 890, be
acquainted with &c. adj.; know; have the ear of; keep company with
&c.(sociality) 892; hold communication with, have dealings with,
sympathize with; have a leaning to; bear good will &c. (benevolent)
906; love &c. 897; make much of; befriend &c. (aid) 707; introduce to.
set one's horses together; have the latchstring out [U. S.]; hold out
the right hand of friendship, extend the right hand of friendship, hold
out the right hand of fellowship; become friendly &c. adj.; make
friends &c. 890 with; break the lee, be introduced to; make
acquaintance with, pick acquaintance with, scrape acquaintance with;
get into favor, gain the friendship of. shake hands with, fraternize,
embrace; receive with open arms, throw oneself into the arms of; meet
halfway, take in good part. Adj. friendly; amicable, amical[obs3];
well-affected, unhostile[obs3], neighborly, brotherly, fraternal,
sympathetic, harmonious, hearty, cordial, warm-hearted. friends with,
well with, at home with, hand in hand with; on good terms, on friendly
terms, on amicable terms, on cordial terms, on familiar terms, on
intimate terms, on good footing; on speaking terms, on visiting terms;
in one's good graces, in one's good books. acquainted, familiar,
intimate, thick, hand and glove, hail fellow well met, free and easy;
welcome. Adv. amicably &c. adj.; with open arms; sans ceremonie[Fr];
arm in arm. Phr. amicitia semper prodest [Lat][Seneca]; "a mystic bond
of brotherhood makes all men one" [Carlyle]; "friendship is love
without either flowers or veil" [Hare]; trulgus amicitias utilitate
probat [Lat][Ovid].
#889. Enmity.—N. enmity, hostility; unfriendliness &c. adj.; discord
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&c. 713; bitterness, rancor.
alienation, estrangement; dislike &c. 867; hate &c. 898.
heartburning[obs3]; animosity &c. 900; malevolence &c. 907.
V. be inimical &c. adj.; keep at arm's length, hold at arm's
length;
be at loggerheads; bear malice &c. 907; fall out; take umbrage &c. 900;
harden the heart, alienate, estrange.
[not friendly, but not hostile see indifference 866].
Adj. inimical, unfriendly, hostile; at enmity, at variance, at
daggers
drawn,at open war with; up in arms against; in bad odor with.
on bad terms, not on speaking terms; cool; cold, cold hearted;
estranged, alienated, disaffected, irreconcilable.
#890. Friend.—N. friend, friend of one's bosom; alter ego; best
friend, bosom friend, soulmate, fast friend; amicus[Lat]; usque ad
aras[Lat]; fidus Achates[Lat][obs3]; persona grata. acquaintance,
neighbor, next-door neighbor, casual acquaintance, nodding
acquaintance; wellwisher. favorer, fautor[obs3], patron, Mecaenas;
tutelary saint, good genius, advocate, partisan, sympathizer; ally;
friend in need &c. (auxiliary) 711. comrade, mate, companion, familiar,
confrere, comrade, camarade[obs3], confidante, intimate; old crony,
crony; chum; pal; buddy, bosom buddy; playfellow, playmate, childhood
friend; bedfellow, bedmate; chamber fellow. associate, colleague,
compeer. schoolmate, schoolfellow[obs3]; classfellow[obs3],
classman[obs3], classmate; roommate; fellow-man, stable companion. best
man, maid of honor, matron of honor. compatriot; fellow countryman,
countryman. shopmate, fellow-worker, shipmate, messmate[obs3]; fellow
companion, boon companion, pot companion; copartner, partner, senior
partner, junior partner. Arcades ambo Pylades and Orestes Castor and
Pollux[obs3], Nisus and Euryalus[Lat], Damon and Pythias, par nobile
fratrum[Lat]. host, Amphitryon[obs3], Boniface; guest, visitor, protg.
Phr. amici probantur rebus adversis[Lat]; ohne bruder kann man leben
nicht ohne Freund[Ger]; "best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness"
[G. Eliot]; conocidos muchos amigos pocos[Sp]; "friend more divine than
all divinities" [G. Eliot]; vida sin amigo muerte sin testigo[Sp].
#891. Enemy.—N. enemy; antagonist; foe, foeman[obs3]; open enemy,
bitter enemy; opponent &c. 710; back friend. public enemy, enemy to
society. Phr. every hand being against one; "he makes no friend who
never made a foe" [Tennyson]. with friends like that, who needs
enemies?; Lord protect me from my friends; I can protect myself from my
enemies.
#892. Sociality.—N. sociality, sociability, sociableness &c. adj.;
social intercourse; consociation[obs3]; intercourse,
intercommunity[obs3]; consortship[obs3], companionship, comradeship;
clubbism[obs3]; esprit de corps. conviviality; good fellowship, good
company; joviality, jollity, savoir vivre[Fr], festivity, festive
board, merrymaking; loving cup|!; hospitality, heartiness; cheer.
welcome, welcomeness; greeting; hearty welcome, hearty reception, warm
reception; urbanity &c. (courtesy) 894; familiarity. good fellow, jolly
fellow; bon enfant[Fr], bawcock[obs3]. social circle, family circle;
circle of acquaintance, coterie, society, company. social gathering,
social reunion; assembly &c. (assemblage) 72; barbecue [U. S.], bee;
corn-husking [U. S.], corn-shucking [U. S.]; house raising, barn
raising; husking, husking-bee [U. S.]; infare[obs3]. party,
entertainment, reception, levee, at, home, conversazione[It], soiree,
matine; evening party, morning party, afternoon party, bridge party,
garden party, surprise party; kettle, kettle drum; partie carre[Fr],
dish of tea, ridotto[obs3], rout|!; housewarming; ball, festival &c;
smoker, smoker-party;sociable [U.S.], stag party, hen party, tamasha|!;
tea-party, tea-fight*. (amusement) 840; "the feast of reason and the
flow of soul" [Pope]. birthday party[parties for specific occasions],
Christmas party, New Year's Eve party, Thanksgiving Day Dinner;
bonenkai[Japan]; wedding reception. visiting; round of visits; call,
morning call; interview &c. (conversation) 588; assignation; tryst,
trysting place; appointment. club &c. (association) 712. V. be sociable
&c. adj.; know; be acquainted &c. adj.; associate with, sort with, keep
company with, walk hand in hand with; eat off the same trencher, club
together, consort, bear one company, join; make acquaintance with &c.
(friendship) 888; make advances, fraternize, embrace. be at home with,
feel at home with, make oneself at home with; make free with; crack a
bottle with; receive hospitality, live at free quarters; find the
latchstring out [U.S.]. visit, pay a visit; interchange visits,
interchange cards; call at, call upon; leave a card; drop in, look in;
look one up, beat up one's quarters. entertain; give a party &c. n.; be
at home, see one's friends, hang out, keep open house, do the honors;
receive, receive with open arms; welcome; give a warm reception &c. n.
to kill the fatted calf. Adj. sociable, companionable, clubbable,
conversable[obs3], cosy, cosey[obs3], chatty,, conversational;
homiletical. convivial; festive, festal; jovial, jolly, hospitable.
welcome, welcome as the roses in May; fted, entertained. free and
easy, hall fellow well met, familiar, on visiting terms, acquainted.
social, neighborly; international; gregarious. Adv. en famille[Fr], in
the family circle; sans fa on, sans ceremonie[Fr]; arm in arm. Phr. "a
crowd is not company" [Bacon]; "be bright and jovial among your guests
tonight" [Macbeth]; "his worth is warrant for his welcome" [Two
Gentlemen]; "let's be red with mirth" [Winter's Tale]; "welcome the
coming speed the parting guest" [Pope].
#893. Seclusion. Exclusion.—N. seclusion, privacy; retirement;
reclusion, recess; snugness &c. adj.; delitescence[obs3]; rustication,
rus in urbe[Lat]; solitude; solitariness &c. (singleness) 87;
isolation; loneliness &c. adj.; estrangement from the world, voluntary
exile; aloofness. cell, hermitage; convent &c. 1000; sanctum
sanctorum[Lat]. depopulation, desertion, desolation; wilderness &c.
(unproductive) 169; howling wilderness; rotten borough, Old Sarum.
exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription;
cut, cut direct; dead cut. inhospitality[obs3], inhospitableness &c.
adj.; dissociability[obs3]; domesticity, Darby and Joan. recluse,
hermit, eremite, cenobite; anchoret[obs3], anchorite; Simon
Stylites[obs3]; troglodyte, Timon of Athens[obs3], Santon[obs3],
solitaire, ruralist[obs3], disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic,
Diogenes; outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic[obs3]; wastrel,
foundling, wilding[obs3]. V. be secluded, live secluded &c. adj.; keep
aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the
background; keep snug; shut oneself up; deny oneself, seclude oneself
creep into a corner, rusticate, aller planter ses choux[Fr]; retire,
retire from the world; take the veil; abandon &c. 624; sport one's
oak*. cut, cut dead; refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge;
look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon; repel,
blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate; banish, outlaw,
maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at
arm's length, draw a cordon round. depopulate; dispeople[obs3],
unpeople[obs3]. Adj. secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent[obs3],
private, bye; out of the world, out of the way; "the world forgetting
by the world forgot" [Pope]. snug, domestic, stay-at-home. unsociable;
unsocial, dissocial[obs3]; inhospitable, cynical, inconversable|,
unclubbable, sauvage[Fr], troglodytic. solitary; lonely, lonesome;
isolated, single. estranged; unfrequented; uninhabitable, uninhabited;
tenantless; abandoned; deserted, deserted in one's utmost need;
unfriended[obs3]; kithless[obs3], friendless, homeless; lorn[obs3],
forlorn, desolate. unvisited, unintroduced[obs3], uninvited, unwelcome;
under a cloud, left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast. banished
&c. v. Phr. noli me tangere[Lat]. "among them but not of them" [Byron];
"and homeless near a thousand homes I stood" [Wordsworth]; far from the
madding crowd's ignoble strife [Gray]; "makes a solitude and calls it
peace" [Byron]; magna civitas magna solitudo [Lat]; "never less alone
than when alone" [Rogers]; "O sacred solitude! divine retreat!"
[Young].
#894. Courtesy.—N. courtesy; respect &c. 928; good manners, good
behavior, good breeding; manners; politeness &c. adj.; bienseance,
urbanity, comity, gentility, breeding, polish, presence; civility,
civilization; amenity, suavity; good temper, good humor; amiability,
easy temper, complacency, soft tongue, mansuetude; condescension &c.
(humility) 879; affability, complaisance, prvenance, amability[obs3],
gallantry; pink of politeness, pink of courtesy. compliment; fair
words, soft words, sweet words; honeyed phrases, ceremonial;
salutation, reception, presentation, introduction, accueil[obs3],
greeting, recognition; welcome, abord|, respects, devoir, regards,
remembrances; kind regards, kind remembrances; love, best love, duty;
empty encomium, flattering remark, hollow commendation; salaams.
obeisance &c. (reverence) 928; bow, courtesy, curtsy, scrape, salaam,
kotow[obs3], kowtow, bowing and scraping; kneeling; genuflection &c.
(worship) 990; obsequiousness &c. 886; capping, shaking hands, &c. v.;
grip of the hand, embrace, hug, squeeze, accolade, loving cup, vin
d'honneur[Fr], pledge; love token &c. (endearment) 902; kiss, buss,
salute. mark of recognition, nod; "nods and becks and wreathed smiles"
[Milton]; valediction &c. 293; condolence &c. 915. V. be courteous &c.
adj.; show courtesy &c. n. mind one's P's and Q's, behave oneself, be
all things to all men, conciliate, speak one fair, take in good part;
make the amiable, do the amiable; look as if butter would not melt in
one's mouth; mend one's manners. receive, do the honors, usher, greet,
hail, bid welcome; welcome, welcome with open arms; shake hands; hold
out the hand, press the hand, squeeze the hand, press the flesh; bid
Godspeed; speed the parting guest; cheer, serenade. salute; embrace &c.
(endearment) 902; kiss, kiss hands; drink to, pledge, hob and
nob[obs3]; move to, nod to; smile upon. uncover, cap; touch the hat,
take off the hat; doff the cap; present arms; make way for; bow; make
one's bow, make a leg; scrape, curtsy, courtesy; bob a curtsy, bob a
courtesy; kneel; bow the knee, bend the knee. visit, wait upon, present
oneself, pay one's respects, pay a visit &c. (sociability) 892; dance
attendance on &c. (servility) 886; pay attentions to; do homage to &c.
(respect) 928. prostrate oneself &c. (worship) 990. give one's duty to,
send one's duty to, &c. n. render polite &c. adj.; polish, civilize,
humanize. Adj. courteous, polite, civil, mannerly, urbane;
well-behaved, well- mannered, well-bred, well-brought up;
good-mannered, polished, civilized, cultivated; refined &c. (taste)
850; gentlemanlike &c. (fashion) 852[obs3]; gallant; on one's good
behavior. fine spoken, fair spoken, soft-spoken; honey-mouthed,
honey-tongued; oily, bland; obliging, conciliatory, complaisant,
complacent; obsequious &c. 886. ingratiating, winning; gentle, mild;
good-humored, cordial, gracious, affable, familiar; neighborly.
diplomatic, tactful, politic; artful &c. 702. Adv. courteously &c.
adj.; with a good grace; with open arms, with outstretched arms; a
bras ouverts[Fr]; suaviter in modo[Fr], in good humor. Int. hail!
welcome! well met! ave! all hail! good day, good morrow! Godspeed! pax
vobiscum[Lat]! may your shadow never be less! Phr. Tien de plus
estimable que la ceremonie[Fr]; "the very pink of courtesy" [Romeo and
Juliet].
#895. Discourtesy.—N. discourtesy;ill breeding; ill manners, bad
manners, ungainly manners; insuavity[obs3]; uncourteousness
&c.adj[obs3].; rusticity, inurbanity[obs3]; illiberality, incivility
displacency[obs3]. disrespect &c. 929; procacity[obs3], impudence;
barbarism, barbarity; misbehavior, brutality, blackguardism[obs3],
conduct unbecoming a gentleman, grossieret, brusquerie[obs3];
vulgarity, &c. 851. churlishness &c. adj.; spinosity[obs3], perversity;
moroseness &c. (sullenness) 901a. sternness &c. adj.; austerity;
moodishness[obs3], captiousness &c. 901; cynicism; tartness &c. adj.;
acrimony, acerbity, virulence, asperity. scowl, black looks, frown;
short answer, rebuff; hard words, contumely; unparliamentary language,
personality. bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast; unlicked cub[obs3];
frump, crosspatch[obs3]; saucebox &c. 887[obs3]; crooked stick;
grizzly. V. be -rude &c. adj.; insult &c. 929; treat with discourtesy;
take a name in vain; make bold with, make free with; take a liberty;
stare out of countenance, ogle, point at, put to the blush. cut; turn
one's back upon, turn on one's heel; give the cold shoulder; keep at a
distance, keep at arm's length; look cool upon, look coldly upon, look
black upon; show the door to, send away with a flea in the ear. lose
one's temper &c. (resentment) 900; sulk &c. 90la; frown, scowl, glower,
pout; snap, snarl, growl. render rude &c. ad.; brutalize,
brutify[obs3]. Adj. discourteous, uncourteous[obs3]; uncourtly[obs3];
ill-bred, ill- mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned; unbred;
unmannerly, unmannered; impolite, unpolite[obs3]; unpolished,
uncivilized, ungenteel; ungentleman- like, ungentlemanly; unladylike;
blackguard; vulgar &c. 851; dedecorous[obs3]; foul-mouthed foul-spoken;
abusive. uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious; cool; pert, forward,
obtrusive, impudent, rude, saucy, precocious. repulsive;
uncomplaisant[obs3], unaccommodating, unneighborly, ungallant;
inaffable[obs3]; ungentle, ungainly; rough, rugged, bluff, blunt,
gruff; churlish, boorish, bearish; brutal, brusque; stern, harsh,
austere; cavalier. taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant,
sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious,
venomous, contumelious; snarling &c. v.; surly, surly as a bear;
perverse; grim, sullen &c. 901a; peevish &c. (irascible) 901.
untactful, impolitic, undiplomatic; artless &c. 703; Adv.
discourteously &c. adj.; with discourtesy &c. n., with a bad grace.
#896. Congratulation.—N. congratulation, gratulation[obs3];
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felicitation; salute &c. 894; condolence &c. 915; compliments of the
season.
V. congratulate, gratulate[obs3]; felicitate; give one joy, wish
one
joy; compliment; tender one's congratulations, offer one's
congratulations;
wish many happy returns of the day, wish a merry Christmas and a happy
new
year.
praise,laud (commendation) 931.
congratulate oneself &c. (rejoice) 838.
Adj. congratulatory, gratulatory[obs3].
Phr. "I wish you all the joy that you can wish" [Merchant of
Venice]; best wishes.
#897. Love.—N. love; fondness &c. adj.; liking; inclination &c.
(desire) 865; regard, dilection|, admiration, fancy. affection,
sympathy, fellow-feeling; tenderness &c. adj.; heart, brotherly love;
benevolence &c. 906; attachment. yearning, ἔρως, tender passion, amour;
gyneolatry[obs3]; gallantry, passion, flame, devotion, fervor,
enthusiasm, transport of love, rapture, enchantment, infatuation,
adoration, idolatry. Cupid, Venus; myrtle; true lover's knot; love
token, love suit, love affair, love tale, love story; the, old story,
plighted love; courtship &c. 902; amourette[obs3]; free love. maternal
love, στοργή[Grk], parental love; young love, puppy love.
attractiveness; popularity; favorite &c. 899. lover, suitor, follower,
admirer, adorer, wooer, amoret[obs3], beau, sweetheart, inamorato[It],
swain, young man, flame, love, truelove; leman[obs3], Lothario,
gallant, paramour, amoroso[obs3], cavaliere servente[It], captive,
cicisbeo[obs3]; caro sposo[It]. inamorata, ladylove, idol, darling,
duck, Dulcinea, angel, goddess, cara sposa[It]. betrothed, affianced,
fiancee. flirt, coquette; amorette[obs3]; pair of turtledoves; abode of
love, agapemone[obs3]. V. love, like, affect, fancy, care for, take an
interest in, be partial to, sympathize with; affection; be in love &c.
with adj.; have a love &c. n. for, entertain a love &c. n. for, harbor
cherish a love &c. n. for; regard, revere; take to, bear love to, be
wedded to; set one's affections on; make much of, feast one's eyes on;
hold dear, prize; hug, cling to, cherish, pet. burn; adore, idolize,
love to distraction, aimer eperdument[Fr]; dote on, dote upon; take a
fancy to, look sweet upon; become enamored &c. adj.; fall in love with,
lose one's heart; desire &c. 865. excite love; win the heart, gain the
heart, win the affections, gain the affections, secure the love, engage
the affections; take the fancy of have a place in the heart, wind round
the heart; attract, attach, endear, charm, fascinate, captivate,
bewitch, seduce, enamor, enrapture, turn the head. get into favor;
ingratiate oneself, insinuate oneself, worm oneself; propitiate, curry
favor with, pay one's court to, faire l'aimable[Fr], set one's cap at,
flirt. Adj. loving &c. v.; fond of; taken with, struck with; smitten,
bitten; attached to, wedded to; enamored; charmed &c. v.; in love;
love-sick; over head and ears in love, head over heels in love.
affectionate, tender, sweet upon, sympathetic, loving; amorous,
amatory; fond, erotic, uxorious, ardent, passionate, rapturous,
devoted, motherly. loved &c. v. beloved well beloved, dearly beloved;
dear, precious, darling, pet, little; favorite, popular. congenial;
after one's mind, after one's taste, after one's fancy, after one's own
heart, to one's mind, to one's taste, to one's fancy, to one's own
heart. in one's good graces &c. (friendly) 888; dear as the apple of
one's eye, nearest to one's heart. lovable, adorable; lovely, sweet;
attractive, seductive, winning; charming, engaging, interesting,
enchanting, captivating, fascinating, bewitching; amiable, like an
angel. Phr. amantes amentes [Lat][Terence]; credula res amor est
[Lat][Ovid]; militat omnis amasius [Lat][Ovid]; love conquers all,
omnia vincit amor [Lat][Vergil]; si vis amari ama [obs3][Lat][Seneca];
"the sweetest joy, the wildest woe" [Bailey].
#898. Hate.—N. hate, hatred, vials of hate.
disaffection, disfavor; alienation, estrangement, coolness; enmity
&c. 889; animosity &c. 900. umbrage, pique, grudge; dudgeon,
spleen bitterness, bitterness of feeling; ill blood, bad blood;
acrimony; malice &c. 907; implacability &c. (revenge) 919.
repugnance &c. (dislike) 867; misanthropy, demonophobia[obs3],
gynephobia[obs3], negrophobia[obs3]; odium, unpopularity;
detestation, antipathy; object of hatred, object of execration;
abomination, aversion, bete noire; enemy &c. 891; bitter pill;
source of annoyance &c. 830. V. hate, detest, abominate, abhor,
loathe; recoil at, shudder at; shrink from, view with horror, hold
in abomination, revolt against, execrate;scowl &c. 895; disrelish
&c. (dislike) 867. owe a grudge; bear spleen, bear a grudge, bear
malice &c. (malevolence) 907; conceive an aversion to, take a
dislike to. excite hatred, provoke hatred &c. n.; be hateful &c.
adj.; stink in the nostrils; estrange, alienate, repel, set
against, sow dissension, set by the ears, envenom, incense,
irritate, rile; horrify &c. 830; roil. Adj. hating &c. v.;
abhorrent; averse from &c. (disliking) 867; set against. bitter
&c. (acrimonious) 895 implacable &c. (revengeful) 919. unloved,
unbeloved, unlamented, undeplored, unmourned[obs3], uncared for,
unendeared[obs3], un-valued; disliked &c. 867. crossed in love,
forsaken, rejected, lovelorn, jilted. obnoxious, hateful, odious,
abominable, repulsive, offensive, shocking; disgusting &c.
(disagreeable) 830; reprehensible. invidious, spiteful; malicious
&c. 907. insulting, irritating, provoking. at daggers drawn[Mutual
hate]; not on speaking terms &c. (enmity) 889; at loggerheads.
Phr. no love lost between.
#899. Favorite.—N. favorite, pet, cosset, minion, idol, jewel,
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spoiled child, enfant gat[Fr]; led captain; crony; fondling; apple of
one's eye, man after one's own heart; persona grata.
love[person who is a favorite (terms of address)], dear, darling,
duck, duckey, honey, sugar, jewel; mopsey[obs3], moppet, princess;
sweetheart, sweetie &c. (love) 897.
teacher's pet.
general favorite, universal favorite; idol of the people.
#900. Resentment.—N. resentment, displeasure, animosity, anger,
wrath, indignation; exasperation, bitter resentment, wrathful
indignation. pique, umbrage, huff, miff, soreness, dudgeon, acerbity,
virulence, bitterness, acrimony, asperity, spleen, gall; heart-burning,
heart- swelling; rankling. ill humor, bad humor, ill temper, bad
temper; irascibility &c. 901; ill blood &c. (hate) 898; revenge &c.
919. excitement, irritation; warmth, bile, choler, ire, fume, pucker,
dander, ferment, ebullition; towering passion, acharnement[Fr], angry
mood, taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums. burst, explosion,
paroxysm, storm, rage, fury, desperation; violence &c. 173; fire and
fury; vials of wrath; gnashing of teeth, hot blood, high words. scowl
&c. 895; sulks &c. 901a. [Cause of umbrage] affront, provocation,
offense; indignity &c. (insult) 929; grudge, crow to pluck, bone to
pick, sore subject, casus belli[Lat]; ill turn, outrage. Furies,
Eumenides. buffet, slap in the face, box on the ear, rap on the
knuckles. V. resent; take amiss, take ill, take to heart, take offense,
take umbrage, take huff, take exception; take in ill part, take in bad
part, take in dudgeon; ne pas entendre raillerie[Fr]; breathe revenge,
cut up rough. fly into a rage, fall into a rage, get into a rage, fly
into a passion; bridle up, bristle up, froth up, fire up, flare up;
open the vials of one's wrath, pour out the vials of one's wrath. pout,
knit the brow, frown, scowl, lower, snarl, growl, gnarl, gnash, snap;
redden, color; look black, look black as thunder, look daggers; bite
one's thumb; show one's teeth, grind one's teeth; champ the bit, champ
at the bit. chafe, mantle, fume, kindle, fly out, take fire; boil, boil
over; boil with indignation, boil with rage; rage, storm, foam, vent
one's rage, vent one's spleen; lose one's temper, stand on one's hind
legs, stamp the foot, stamp with rage, quiver with rage, swell with
rage, foam with rage; burst with anger; raise Cain. have a fling at;
bear malice &c. (revenge) 919. cause anger, raise anger; affront,
offend; give offense, give umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult,
discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique; excite &c. 824;
irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile; sting, sting to the quick;
rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense, inflame, enrage, aggravate, add
fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom,
embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one's gizzard;
rankle &e. 919; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw,
strike on the raw. put out of countenance, put out of humor; put one's
monkey up, put one's back up; raise one's gorge, raise one's dander,
raise one's choler; work up into a passion; make one's blood boil, make
the ears tingle; throw, into a ferment, madden, drive one mad; lash
into fury, lash into madness; fool to the top of one's bent; set by the
ears. bring a hornet's nest about one's ears. Adj. angry, wrath, irate;
ireful, wrathful; cross &c. (irascible) 901; Achillean[obs3]; sulky,
&c. 901a; bitter, virulent; acrimonious &c. (discourteous) &c. 895;
violent &c. 173. warm, burning; boiling, boiling over; fuming, raging;
foaming, foaming at the mouth; convulsed with rage. offended &c. v.;
waxy, acharne; wrought, worked up; indignant, hurt, sore; set against.
fierce, wild, rageful[obs3], furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate,
rabid, savage; relentless &c. 919. flushed with anger, flushed with
rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a
rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way; on one's high ropes, up in
arms; in high dudgeon. Adv. angrily &c. adj.; in the height of passion;
in the heat of passion, in the heat of the moment. Int. tantaene animis
coelestibus irae [Lat][Vergil]! marry come up! zounds! 'sdeath! Phr.
one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up;
fervens difficili bile jecur[Lat]; the gorge rising, eyes flashing
fire; the blood rising, the blood boiling; haeret lateri lethalis
arundo [Lat][Vergil]; "beware the fury of a patient man" [Dryden];
furor arma ministrat [Lat][Vergil]; ira furor brevis est [Lat][Horace];
quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius[Lat]; "What, drunk with
choler?" [Henry IV].
#901. Irascibility.—N. irascibility, irascibleness, temper;
crossness &c. adj.; susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability,
tartness, acerbity, protervity; pugnacity &c. (contentiousness) 720.
excitability &c. 825; bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper,
irritable &c. adj. temper; genus irritabile[Lat], hot blood. ill humor
&c. (sullenness) 901a; asperity &c., churlishness &c. (discourtesy)
895. huff &c. (resentment) 900; a word and a blow. Sir Fretful
Plagiary; brabbler[obs3], Tartar; shrew, vixen, virago, termagant,
dragon, scold, Xantippe; porcupine; spitfire; fire eater &c.
(blusterer) 887; fury &c. (violent person) 173. V. be irascible &c.
adj.; have a temper &c. n., have a devil in one; fire up &c. (be angry)
900. Adj. irascible; bad-tempered, ill-tempered; irritable,
susceptible; excitable &c. 825; thin-skinned &c. (sensitive) 822;
fretful, fidgety; on the fret. hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot,
testy, touchy, techy[obs3], tetchy; like touchwood, like tinder; huffy;
pettish, petulant; waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate,
choleric, shrewish, "sudden and quick in quarrel" [As You Like It].
querulous, captious, moodish[obs3]; quarrelsome, contentious,
disputatious; pugnacious &c. (bellicose) 720; cantankerous,
exceptious[obs3]; restiff &c. (perverse) 901a[obs3]; churlish &c.
(discourteous) 895. cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross
as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs; fractious, peevish,
acaritre[obs3]. in a bad temper; sulky &c. 901a; angry &c. 900.
resentful, resentive[obs3]; vindictive &c. 919. Int. pish! Phr. a vieux
comptes nouvelles disputes[Fr]; quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor
[Lat][Seneca]; vino tortus et ira [Lat][Horace].
#901a. Sullenness.—N. sullenness &c. adj.; morosity[obs3], spleen;
churlishness &c. (discourtesy) 895; irascibility &c. 901. moodiness &c.
adj.; perversity; obstinacy &c. 606; torvity|, spinosity[obs3];
crabbedness &c. adj. ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor;
sulks, dudgeon, mumps[obs3], dumps, doldrums, fit of the sulks,
bouderie[Fr], black looks, scowl; grouch; huff &c. (resentment) 900. V.
be sullen &c. adj.; sulk; frown, scowl, lower, glower, gloam[obs3],
pout, have a hangdog look, glout[obs3]. Adj. sullen, sulky;
ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill- disposed; grouty
[obs3][U. S.]; in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper,
in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor; out of temper,
out of humor; knaggy[obs3], torvous[obs3], crusty, crabbed; sour, sour
as a crab; surly &c. (discourteous) 895. moody; spleenish[obs3],
spleenly[obs3]; splenetic, cankered. cross, crossgrained[obs3];
perverse, wayward, humorsome[obs3]; restiff[obs3], restive;
cantankerous, intractable, exceptious[obs3], sinistrous[obs3], deaf to
reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward; cussed [U. S.]. dogged &c.
(stubborn) 606. grumpy, glum, grim, grum[obs3], morose, frumpish; in
the sulks &c. n.; out of sorts; scowling, glowering, growling; grouchy.
peevish &c. (irascible) 901.
#902. [Expression of affection or love.] Endearment.—N. endearment,
caress; blandishment, blandiment|; panchement, fondling, billing and
cooing, dalliance, necking, petting, sporting, sparking, hanky-panky;
caressing. embrace, salute, kiss, buss, smack, osculation,
deosculation|; amorous glances. courtship, wooing, suit, addresses, the
soft impeachment; lovemaking; serenading; caterwauling. flirting &c.
v.; flirtation, gallantry; coquetry. true lover's knot, plighted love;
love tale, love token, love letter; billet-doux, valentine. honeymoon;
Strephon and Chloe[obs3]. V. caress, fondle, pet, dandle; pat, pat on
the head, pat on the cheek; chuck under the chin, smile upon, coax,
wheedle, cosset, coddle, cocker, cockle; make of, make much of;
cherish, foster, kill with kindness. clasp, hug, cuddle; fold in one's
arms, strain in one's arms; nestle, nuzzle; embrace, kiss, buss, smack,
blow a kiss; salute &c. (courtesy) 894; fold to the heart, press to the
bosom. bill and coo, spoon, toy, dally, flirt, coquet; gallivant,
galavant; philander; make love; pay one's court to, pay one's addresses
to, pay one's attentions to; serenade; court, woo; set one's cap at; be
sweet upon, look sweet upon; ogle, cast sheep's eyes upon; faire les
yeux doux[Fr]. fall in love with, win the affections &c. (love) 897;
die for. propose; make an offer, have an offer; pop the question;
plight one's troth, plight one's faith. Adj. caressing &c. v.; "sighing
like furnace" [Shakespeare]; love- sick, spoony. caressed &c. V. Phr.
"faint heart neer won fair lady"; "kisses honeyed by oblivion" [G.
Eliot].
#903. Marriage.—N. marriage, matrimony, wedlock, union,
intermarriage, miscegenation, the bonds of marriage, vinculum
matrimonii[Lat], nuptial tie. married state, coverture, bed,
cohabitation. match; betrothment &c. (promise) 768; wedding, nuptials,
Hymen, bridal; espousals, spousals; leading to the altar &c. v.;
nuptial benediction, epithalamium[obs3]; sealing. torch of Hymen,
temple of Hymen; hymeneal altar; honeymoon. bridesmaid,
bridesman[obs3], best man; bride, bridegroom. married man, married
woman, married couple; neogamist[obs3], Benedict, partner, spouse,
mate, yokemate[obs3]; husband, man, consort, baron; old man, good man;
wife of one's bosom; helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman,
old lady, good wife, goodwife. feme[Fr], feme coverte[Fr]; squaw, lady;
matron, matronage, matronhood[obs3]; man and wife; wedded pair, Darby
and Joan; spiritual wife. monogamy, bigamy, digamy[obs3],
deuterogamy[obs3], trigamy[obs3], polygamy; mormonism; levirate[obs3];
spiritual wifery[obs3], spiritual wifeism[obs3]; polyandrism[obs3];
Turk, bluebeard[obs3]. unlawful marriage, left-handed marriage,
morganatic marriage, ill- assorted marriage; mesalliance; mariage de
convenance[Fr]. marriage broker; matrimonial agency, matrimonial agent,
matrimonial bureau, matchmaker; schatchen[Ger]. V. marry, wive, take to
oneself a wife; be married, be spliced; go off, pair off; wed, espouse,
get hitched[U.S. slang], lead to the hymeneal altar, take "for better
for worse", give one's hand to, bestow one's hand upon. marry, join,
handfast[obs3]; couple &c. (unit) 43; tie the nuptial knot; give away,
give away in marriage; seal; ally, affiance; betroth &c. (promise) 768;
publish the banns, bid the banns; be asked in church. Adj. married &c.
v.; one, one bone and one flesh. marriageable, nubile. engaged,
betrothed, affianced. matrimonial, marital, conjugal, connubial,
wedded; nuptial, hymeneal, spousal, bridal. Phr. the gray mare the
better horse; "a world-without-end bargain" [Love's Labor's Lost];
"marriages are made in Heaven" [Tennyson]; "render me worthy of this
noble wife" [Julius Caesar]; si qua voles apte nubere nube pari
[Lat][Ovid].
#904. Celibacy.—N. celibacy, singleness, single blessedness;
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bachelorhood, bachelorship[obs3]; misogamy[obs3], misogyny.
virginity, pucelage[obs3]; maidenhood, maidenhead.
unmarried man, bachelor, Coelebs, agamist[obs3], old bachelor;
misogamist[obs3], misogynist; monogamist; monk.
unmarried woman, spinster; maid, maiden;virgin, feme sole[Fr], old
maid; bachelor girl, girl-bachelor; nun.
V. live single, live alone.
Adj. unmarried, unwed, unwedded[obs3]; wifeless, spouseless[obs3];
single.
#905. Divorce.—N. divorce, divorcement; separation; judicial
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separation, separate maintenance; separatio a mensa et thoro[Lat],
separatio a vinculo matrimonii [Lat].
trial separation, breakup; annulment.
widowhood, viduity[obs3], weeds.
widow, widower; relict; dowager; divorcee; cuckold; grass widow,
grass
widower; merry widow.
V. live separate; separate, divorce, disespouse[obs3], put away;
wear
the horns.
2. DIFFUSIVE SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS
#906. Benevolence.—N. benevolence, Christian charity; God's love,
God's grace; good will; philanthropy &c. 910; unselfishness &c. 942.
good nature, good feeling, good wishes; kindness, kindliness &c. adj.;
loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-
feeling, sympathy: goodness of heart, warmth of heart; bonhomie; kind-
heartedness; amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness; love &c.
897; friendship &c. 888. toleration, consideration, generosity; mercy
&c. (pity) 914. charitableness &c. adj.; bounty, almsgiving; good
works, beneficence, "the luxury of doing good" [Goldsmith]. acts of
kindness, a good turn; good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind
treatment. good Samaritan, sympathizer, bon enfant[Fr]; altruist. V. be
benevolent &c. adj.; have one's heart in the right place, bear good
will; wish well, wish Godspeed; view with an eye of favor, regard with
an eye of favor; take in good part; take an interest in, feel an
interest in; be interested in, feel interested in; sympathize with,
empathize with, feel for; fraternize &c. (be friendly) 888. enter into
the feelings of others, do as you would be done by, meet halfway. treat
well; give comfort, smooth the bed of death; do good, do a good turn;
benefit &c. (goodness) 648; render a service, be of use; aid &c. 707.
Adj. benevolent; kind, kindly; well-meaning; amiable; obliging,
accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored.
warm-hearted, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, large-hearted, broad-
hearted; merciful &c. 914; charitable, beneficent, humane, benignant;
bounteous, bountiful. good-natured, well-natured; spleenless[obs3];
sympathizing, sympathetic; complaisant &c. (courteous) 894; well-meant,
well-intentioned. fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly; paternal,
maternal, fraternal; sororal[obs3]; friendly &c. 888. Adv. with a good
intention, with the best intentions. Int. Godspeed! much good may it
do! Phr. "act a charity sometimes" [Lamb]; "a tender heart, a will
inflexible" [Longfellow]; de mortuis nil nisi bonum [Lat: say only good
things about the dead, don't speak ill of the dead]; "kind words are
more than coronets" [Tennyson]; quando amigo pide no hay manana[Lat];
"the social smile, the sympathetic tear" [Gray].
#907. Malevolence.—N. malevolence; bad intent, bad intention;
unkindness, diskindness[obs3]; ill nature, ill will, ill blood; bad
blood; enmity &c. 889; hate &c. 898; malignity; malice, malice
prepense[obs3]; maliciousness &c. adj.; spite, despite; resentment &c.
900. uncharitableness &c. adj.; incompassionateness &c. 914a[obs3];
gall, venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity[obs3], acerbity
churlishness &c. (discourtesy) 895. hardness of heart, heart of stone,
obduracy; cruelty; cruelness &c. adj.; brutality, savagery;
ferity[obs3], ferocity; barbarity, inhumanity, immanity|, truculence,
ruffianism; evil eye, cloven foot; torture, vivisection. ill turn, bad
turn; affront &c. (disrespect) 929; outrage, atrocity; ill usage;
intolerance, persecution; tender mercies [ironical]; "unkindest cut of
all" [Julius Caesar]. V. be malevolent &c. adj.; bear spleen, harbor
spleen, bear a grudge, harbor a grudge, bear malice; betray the cloven
foot, show the cloven foot. hurt &c. (physical pain) 378; annoy &c.
830; injure., harm, wrong; do harm to, do an ill office to; outrage;
disoblige, malign, plant a thorn in the breast. molest, worry, harass,
haunt, harry, bait, tease; throw stones at; play the devil with; hunt
down, dragoon, hound; persecute, oppress, grind; maltreat; illtreat,
ill-use. wreak one's malice on, do one's worst, break a butterfly on
the wheel; dip one's hands in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood; have
no mercy &c. 914a. Adj. malevolent, unbenevolent; unbenign;
ill-disposed, ill- intentioned, ill-natured, ill-conditioned,
ill-contrived; evil-minded, evil-disposed; black-browed[obs3].
malicious; malign, malignant; rancorous; despiteful, spiteful;
mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent;
unamiable, uncharitable; maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling.
harsh, disobliging; unkind, unfriendly, ungracious; inofficious[obs3];
invidious; uncandid; churlish &c. (discourteous) 895; surly, sullen &c.
901a. cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted; black-hearted, hard-hearted,
flint- hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted; hard of heart,
unnatural; ruthless &c. (unmerciful) 914a; relentless &c. (revengeful)
919. cruel; brutal, brutish; savage, savage as a bear, savage as a
tiger; ferine[obs3], ferocious; inhuman; barbarous, barbaric,
semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary;
bloodthirsty &c. (murderous) 361; atrocious; bloodyminded[obs3].
fiendish, fiendlike[obs3]; demoniacal; diabolic, diabolical; devilish,
infernal, hellish, Satanic; Tartaran. Adv. malevolently &c. adj.; with
bad intent &c. n. Phr. cruel as death; "hard unkindness' alter'd eye"
[Gray]; homo homini lupus [Lat][Plautus]; mala mens[Lat], malus animus
[Lat][Terence].; "rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind"
[Hamlet]; "sharp-tooth'd unkindness" [Lear].
#908. Malediction.—N. malediction, malison[obs3], curse,
imprecation, denunciation, execration, anathema, ban, proscription,
excommunication, commination[obs3], thunders of the Vatican,
fulmination, maranatha[obs3]; aspersion, disparagement, vilification,
vituperation. abuse; foul language, bad language, strong language,
unparliamentary language; billingsgate, sauce, evil speaking; cursing
&c. v.; profane swearing, oath; foul invective, ribaldry, rude
reproach, scurrility. threat &c. 909; more bark than bite; invective
&c. (disapprobation) 932. V. curse, accurse[obs3], imprecate, damn,
swear at; curse with bell book and candle; invoke curses on the head
of, call down curses on the head of; devote to destruction. execrate,
beshrew[obs3], scold; anathematize &c. (censure) 932; bold up to
execration, denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate, thunder
against; threaten &c. 909. curse and swear; swear, swear like a
trooper; fall a cursing, rap out an oath, damn. Adj. cursing, cursed
&c. v. Int. woe to! beshrew[obs3]! ruat coelum[Lat]! ill betide, woe
betide; confusion seize! damn! damn it! damn you! damn you to hell! go
to hell! go to blazes! confound! blast! curse! devil take! hang! out
with! a plague upon! out upon! aroynt[obs3]! honi soit[Fr]!
parbleu[Fr]! Phr. delenda est Carthago[Lat].
#909. Threat.—N. threat, menace; defiance &c. 715; abuse,
minacity[obs3], intimidation; denunciation; fulmination; commination
&c. (curse) 908[obs3]; gathering clouds &c. (warning) 668. V. threat,
threaten; menace; snarl, growl, gnarl, mutter, bark, bully. defy &c.
715; intimidate &c. 860; keep in terrorem[Lat], hold up in
terrorem[Lat], hold out in terrorem[Lat]; shake the fist at, double the
fist at, clinch the fist at; thunder, talk big, fulminate, use big
words, bluster, look daggers, stare daggers. Adj. threatening,
menacing; minatory, minacious[obs3]; comminatory[obs3], abusive; in
terrorem[Lat]; ominous &c. (predicting) 511 ; defiant &c. 715; under
the ban. Int. vae victis[Lat]! at your peril! do your worst!
#910. Philanthropy.—N. philanthropy, humanity, humanitarianism
universal benevolence; endaemonism[obs3], deliciae humani generis[Lat];
cosmopolitanism, utilitarianism, the greatest happiness of the greatest
number, social science, sociology. common weal; socialism, communism,
Fourierism|!, phalansterianism[obs3], Saint Simonianism[obs3].
patriotism, civism[obs3], nationality, love of country, amor
patriae[Lat], public spirit. chivalry, knight errantry[obs3];
generosity &c. 942. philanthropist, endaemonist[obs3], utilitarian,
Benthamite, socialist, communist, cosmopolite, citizen of the world,
amicus humani generis[Lat]; knight errant; patriot. Adj. philanthropic,
humanitarian, utilitarian, cosmopolitan; public- spirited, patriotic;
humane, large-hearted &c. (benevolent) 906; chivalric; generous &c.
942. Adv. pro bono publico[Lat], pro aris et focis [Lat][obs3][Cicero].
Phr. humani nihil a me alienum puto [Lat][Terence]; omne solum forti
patria [Lat][Ovid]; un bien fait n'est jamais perdu[Fr].
#911. Misanthropy.—N. misanthropy, incivism; egotism &c.
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(selfishness) 943; moroseness &c. 901a; cynicism.
misanthrope, misanthropist, egotist, cynic, man hater, Timon,
Diogenes.
woman hater, misogynist.
Adj. misanthropic, antisocial, unpatriotic; egotistical
&c.(selfish)
943; morose &c. 901a.
#912. Benefactor.—N. benefactor, savior, good genius, tutelary
saint, guardian angel, good Samaritan; pater patriae[Lat]; salt of the
earth &c. (good man); 948; auxiliary &c. 711.
#913. [Maleficent being] Evil doer—N. evil doer, evil worker;
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wrongdoer &c. 949; mischief-maker, marplot; oppressor, tyrant;
destroyer,
Vandal; iconoclast|!.
firebrand, incendiary, fire bug [U. S.], pyromaniac; anarchist,
communist|!, terrorist.
savage, brute, ruffian, barbarian, semibarbarian[obs3], caitiff,
desperado; Apache[obs3], hoodlum, hood, plug-ugly*, pug-ugly* [U.S.],
Red
Skin, tough [U. S.]; Mohawk, Mo-hock, Mo-hawk; bludgeon man, bully,
rough,
hooligan, larrikin[obs3], dangerous classes, ugly customer; thief &c.
792.
cockatrice, scorpion, hornet.
snake, viper, adder, snake in the grass; serpent, cobra, asp,
rattlesnake, anaconda|!.
canker-worm, wire-worm; locust, Colorado beetle; alacran[obs3],
alligator, caymon[obs3], crocodile, mosquito, mugger, octopus; torpedo;
bane &c. 663.
cutthroat &c. (killer) 461.
cannibal; anthropophagus|!, anthropophagist|!; bloodsucker,
vampire,
ogre, ghoul, gorilla, vulture; gyrfalcon|!, gerfalcon|!.
wild beast, tiger, hyena, butcher, hangman; blood-hound,
hell-hound,
sleuth-hound; catamount [U. S.], cougar, jaguar, puma.
hag, hellhag[obs3], beldam, Jezebel.
monster; fiend &c. (demon) 980; devil incarnate, demon in human
shape;
Frankenstein's monster.
harpy, siren; Furies, Eumenides.
Hun, Attila[obs3], scourge of the human race.
Phr. faenum habet in cornu [Lat].
3. SPECIAL SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS
#914. Pity.—N. pity, compassion, commiseration; bowels, of
compassion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning,
forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency &c. (lenity) 740;
charity, ruth, long- suffering. melting mood; argumentum ad
misericordiam[Lat], quarter, grace, locus paenitentiae[Lat].
sympathizer; advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher. V. pity;
have pity, show pity, take pity &c. n.; commiserate, compassionate;
condole &c. 915; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep,
melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of. forbear, relent, relax, give
quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis[Lat], give a coup de grace,
put out of one's misery. raise pity, excite pity &c. n..; touch,
soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm. ask for mercy &c. v.;
supplicate &c. (request) 765; cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel;
deprecate. Adj. pitying &c. v.; pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic,
touched. merciful, clement, ruthful; humane; humanitarian &c.
(philanthropic) 910; tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken;
soft, soft hearted; unhardened[obs3]; lenient &c. 740; exorable[obs3],
forbearing; melting &c. v.; weak. Int. for pity's sake! mercy! have
mercy! cry you mercy! God help you! poor thing! poor dear! poor
fellow! woe betide! "quis talia fando temperet a lachrymiss!"
[Lat][Vergil]. Phr. one's heart bleeding for; haud ignara mali miseris
succurrere disco [Lat][Vergil]; "a fellow feeling makes one wondrous
kind" onor di bocca assai giova e poco costa[Garrick][It].
#914a. Pitilessness.—N. pitilessness &c. adj.; inclemency; severity
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&c. 739; malevolence &c. 907.
V. have no mercy, shut the gates of mercy &c. 914; give no
quarter.
Adj. pitiless, merciless, ruthless, bowelless; unpitying,
unmerciful,
inclement; grim-faced, grim-visaged; incompassionate[obs3],
uncompassionate; inexorable; harsh &c. 739; unrelenting &c. 919.
#915. Condolence.—N. condolence; lamentation &c. 839; sympathy,
consolation. V. condole with, console, sympathize express pity, testify
pity; afford consolation, supply consolation; lament &c. 839 with;
express sympathy for; feel grief in common with, feel sorrow in common
with; share one's sorrow.
4. RETROSPECTIVE SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS
#916. Gratitude.—N. gratitude, thankfulness, feeling of obligation,
sense of obligation. acknowledgment, recognition, thanksgiving,
thanksgiving, giving thanks; thankful good will. thanks, praise,
benediction; paean; Te Deum &c. (worship) 990[Lat]; grace, grace before
meat, grace after meat, grace before meals, grace after meals; thank
offering. requital. V. be grateful &c. adj.; thank; give thanks, render
thanks, return thanks, offer thanks, tender thanks &c. n.; acknowledge,
requite. feel under an obligation, be under an obligation, lie under an
obligation; savoir gr[Fr]; not look a gift horse in the mouth; never
forget, overflow with gratitude; thank one's stars, thank one's lucky
stars, bless one's stars; fall on one's knees. Adj. grateful, thankful,
obliged, beholden, indebted to, under obligation. Int. thanks! many
thanks! gramercy[obs3]! much obliged! thank you! thank you very much!
thanks a lot! thanks a heap, thanks loads [coll.]; thank Heaven! Heaven
be praised! Gott sei Dank[Ger]!.
#917. Ingratitude.—N. ingratitude, thanklessness, oblivion of
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benefits, unthankfulness[obs3].
"benefits forgot"; thankless task,thankless office.
V. be ungrateful &c. adj.; forget benefits; look a gift horse in
the
mouth.
Adj. ungrateful, unmindful, unthankful; thankless, ingrate,
wanting in
gratitude, insensible of benefits.
forgotten; unacknowledged, unthanked[obs3], unrequited,
unrewarded;
ill-requited.
Int. thank you for nothing! thanks for nothing! "et tu Brute!"
[Julius Caesar].
Phr. "ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend" [Lear].
#918. Forgiveness.—N. forgiveness, pardon, condonation, grace,
#
remission, absolution, amnesty, oblivion; indulgence; reprieve.
conciliation; reconcilement; reconciliation &c. (pacification)
723;
propitiation.
excuse, exoneration, quittance, release, indemnity; bill of
indemnity,
act of indemnity, covenant of indemnity, deed of indemnity; exculpation
&c.
(acquittal) 970.
longanimity[obs3], placability; amantium irae[Lat]; locus
paenitentiae[Lat]; forbearance.
V. forgive, forgive and forget; pardon, condone, think no more of,
let
bygones be bygones, shake hands; forget an injury. excuse, pass over,
overlook; wink at &c. (neglect) 460; bear with; allow for, make
allowances
for; let one down easily, not be too hard upon, pocket the affront.
let off, remit, absolve, give absolution, reprieve; acquit &c.
970.
beg pardon, ask pardon, implore pardon &c. n.; conciliate,
propitiate,
placate; make up a quarrel &c. (pacify) 723; let the wound heal.
Adj. forgiving, placable, conciliatory,.
forgiven &c. v.; unresented[obs3], unavenged, unrevenged[obs3].
Adv. cry you mercy.
Phr. veniam petimusque damusque vicissim [Lat][Horace]; more in
sorrow
than in anger; comprendre tout c'est tout pardonner[Fr]; "the offender
never pardons" [Herbert].
#919. Revenge.—N. revenge, revengement[obs3]; vengeance;
avengement[obs3], avengeance|, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud,
blood for blood retaliation &c. 718; day of reckoning. rancor,
vindictiveness, implacability; malevolence &c. 907; ruthlessness &c.
914a. avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides. V. revenge, avenge;
vindicate; take one's revenge, have one's revenge; breathe revenge,
breathe vengeance; wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's anger. have
accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a bone to pick, have a
rod in pickle. keep the wound green; harbor revenge, harbor vindictive
feeling; bear malice; rankle, rankle in the breast. Adj. revengeful,
vengeful; vindictive, rancorous; pitiless &c. 914a; ruthless, rigorous,
avenging. unforgiving, unrelenting; inexorable, stony-hearted,
implacable; relentless, remorseless. aeternum servans sub pectore
vulnus[Lat]; rankling; immitigable. Phr. manet ciratrix[Lat], manet
alid mente repostum[Lat][obs3]; dies irae dies illa[Lat]; "in high
vengeance there is noble scorn" [G. Eliot]; inhumanum verbum est ultio
[Lat][Seneca]; malevolus animus abditos dentes habet
[Lat][obs3][Syrus]; "now infidel I have thee on the hip" [Merchant of
Venice].
#920. Jealousy.—N. jealousy,jealousness; jaundiced eye; envious
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suspicion, suspicion; "green-eyed monster" [Othello]; yellows; Juno.
V. be jealous &c. adj.; view with jealousy, view with a jealous
eye.
Adj. jealous, jealous as a barbary pigeon[obs3]; jaundiced,
yellow-
eyed, envious, hornmad.
#921. Envy.—N. envy; enviousness &c. adj.; rivalry; jalousie de
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milier[Fr]; illwill, spite.
V. envy, covet, burst with envy.
Adj. envious, invidious, covetous; alieni appetens[Lat].
Phr. "base envy withers at another's joy" [Thomson]; caeca invidia
est [Lat][Livy]; multa petentibus desunt multa [Lat][Horace]; summa
petit
livor [Lat][Ovid].
SECTION IV. MORAL AFFECTIONS
1. MORAL OBLIGATIONS
#922. Right.—N. right; what ought to be, what should be; fitness
&c. adj.; summum jus[Lat]. justice, equity; equitableness &c. adj.;
propriety; fair play, impartiality, measure for measure, give and take,
lex talionis[Lat]. Astraea[obs3], Nemesis, Themis. scales of justice,
evenhanded justice, karma; suum cuique[Lat]; clear stage, fair field
and no favor, level playing field. morals &c. (duty) 926; law &c. 963;
honor &c. (probity) 939; virtue &c. 944. V. be right &c. adj.; stand to
reason. see justice done, see one righted, see fair play; do justice
to; recompense &c. (reward) 973; bold the scales even, give and take;
serve one right, put the saddle on the right horse; give every one his
due, give the devil his due; audire alteram partem[Lat]. deserve &c.
(be entitled to) 924. Adj. right, good; just, reasonable; fit &c. 924;
equal, equable, equatable[obs3]; evenhanded, fair. legitimate,
justifiable, rightful; as it should be, as it ought to be; lawful &c.
(permitted) 760, (legal) 963. deserved &c. 924. Adv. rightly &c. adj.;
bon droit[Fr], au bon droit[Fr], in justice, in equity,, in reason.
without distinction of persons, without regard to persons, without
respect to persons; upon even terms. Int. all right! fair's fair. Phr.
Dieu et mon droit[Fr]; "in equal scale weighing delight and dole"
[Hamlet]; justitia cuum cuique distribuit [Lat][Cicero]; justitiae
soror incorrupta fides[Lat]; justitia virtutem regina[Lat]; "thrice is
he armed that hath his quarrel just" [Henry VI].
#923. Wrong.—N. wrong; what ought not to be, what should not be;
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malum in se[Lat]; unreasonableness, grievance; shame.
injustice; tort [Law]; unfairness &c. adj.; iniquity, foul play.
partiality, leaning, bias; favor, favoritism; nepotism, party
spirit,
partisanship; bigotry.
undueness &c. 925; wrongdoing (vice) 945; unlawfulness &c. 964.
robbing Peter to pay Paul &c. v.; the wolf and the lamb; vice &c.
945.
"a custom more honored in the breach than the observance"
[Hamlet].
V. be wrong &c. adj.; cry to heaven for vengeance.
do wrong &c. n.; be inequitable &c. adj.; favor, lean towards;
encroach upon, impose upon; reap where one has not sown; give an inch
and
take an ell, give an inch and take an mile; rob Peter to pay Paul.
Adj. wrong, wrongful; bad, too bad; unjust, unfair; inequitable,
unequitable[obs3]; unequal, partial, one-sided; injurious,
tortious[Law].
objectionable; unreasonable, unallowable, unwarrantable,
unjustifiable; improper, unfit; unjustified &c. 925; illegal &c. 964;
iniquitous; immoral &c. 945.
in the wrong, in the wrong box.
Adv. wrongly &c. adj.
Phr. it will not do.
#924. Dueness.—N. due, dueness; right, privilege, prerogative,
prescription, title, claim, pretension, demand, birthright. immunity,
license, liberty, franchise; vested interest, vested right. sanction,
authority, warranty, charter; warrant &c. (permission) 760;
constitution &c. (law) 963; tenure; bond &c. (security) 771. claimant,
appellant; plaintiff &c. 938. V. be due &c. adj. to, be the due &c. n.
of; have right to, have title to, have claim to; be entitled to; have a
claim upon; belong to &c. (property) 780. deserve, merit, be worthy of,
richly deserve. demand, claim; call upon for, come upon for, appeal to
for; revendicate[obs3], reclaim; exact; insist on, insist upon;
challenge; take one's stand, make a point of, require, lay claim to,
assert, assume, arrogate, make good; substantiate; vindicate a claim,
vindicate a right; fit for, qualify for; make out a case. give a right,
confer a right; entitle; authorize &c. 760; sanctify, legalize, ordain,
prescribe, allot. give every one his due &c. 922; pay one's dues; have
one's due, have one's rights. use a right, assert, enforce, put in
force, lay under contribution. Adj. having a right to &c. v.; entitled
to; claiming; deserving, meriting, worthy of. privileged, allowed,
sanctioned, warranted, authorized; ordained, prescribed,
constitutional, chartered, enfranchised. prescriptive, presumptive;
absolute, indefeasible; unalienable, inalienable;
imprescriptible[obs3], inviolable, unimpeachable, unchallenged;
sacrosanct. due to, merited, deserved, condign, richly deserved.
allowable &c. (permitted) 760; lawful, licit, legitimate, legal;
legalized &c. (law) 963. square, unexceptionable, right; equitable &c.
922; due, en r gle; fit, fitting; correct, proper, meet, befitting,
becoming, seemly; decorous; creditable, up to the mark, right as a
trivet; just the thing, quite the thing; selon les r gles[Fr]. Adv.
duly, ex officio, de jure[Lat]; by right, by divine right; jure
divino[Lat], Dei gratia[Lat], in the name of. Phr. civis Romanus sum
[Lat][Cicero]; chaque saint sa chandelle[Fr].
#925. [Absence of right.] Undueness.—N. undueness &c. adj.; malum
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prohibitum[Lat]; impropriety; illegality &c. 964.
falseness &c. adj.; emptiness of title, invalidity of title;
illegitimacy.
loss of right, disfranchisement, forfeiture.
usurpation, tort, violation, breach, encroachment, presumption,
assumption, seizure; stretch, exaction, imposition, lion's share.
usurper, pretender.
V. be undue &c. adj.; not be due &c. 924.
infringe, encroach, trench on, exact; arrogate, arrogate to
oneself;
give an inch and take an ell; stretch a point, strain a point; usurp,
violate, do violence to.
disfranchise, disentitle, disqualify; invalidate.
relax &c. (be lax) 738; misbehave &c. (vice) 945; misbecome[obs3].
Adj. undue; unlawful &c. (illegal) 964; unconstitutional; illicit;
unauthorized, unwarranted, disallowed, unallowed[obs3], unsanctioned,
unjustified; unentitled[obs3], disentitled, unqualified, disqualified;
unprivileged, unchartered.
illegitimate, bastard, spurious, supposititious, false; usurped.
tortious [Law].
undeserved, unmerited, unearned; unfulfilled.
forfeited, disfranchised.
improper; unmeet, unfit, unbefitting, unseemly; unbecoming,
misbecoming[obs3]; seemless[obs3]; contra bonos mores[Lat]; not the
thing,
out of the question, not to be thought of; preposterous, pretentious,
would-be.
Phr. filius nullius.