obeisance, respect, deference, duty, service, honor; worship, adoration;
affiance, submission, veneration.
ANT. _Treason, rebellion, defiance, insubordination, disaffection._
=Home.= Habitation, hearth, residence, house, abode, dwelling, domicil,
fireside, hearthstone, ingleside.
=Homely.= Domestic, homelike; plain, coarse, uncomely, inelegant,
homespun; rather ugly.
ANT. _Handsome, beautiful, courtly, refined, elegant._
=Honest.= Honorable, fair, open, straightforward, equitable; upright,
virtuous, conscientious, just, true, faithful, trusty, reliable,
trustworthy; genuine, thorough; decent, reputable, respectable,
creditable, suitable, proper; chaste; truthful, ingenuous, sincere,
frank, unreserved, candid, good.
ANT. _Lying, unscrupulous, mendacious, untrue, deceitful, dishonest,
false, hypocritical, fraudulent, disingenuous, perfidious, faithless,
treacherous, unfaithful, traitorous; dishonorable, improper, wrong,
insincere, vicious._
=Honesty.= Integrity, uprightness, probity, justice, fairness, equity,
honor, fidelity, faithfulness; truth, truthfulness, veracity;
genuineness, thoroughness; chastity, virtue; sincerity, candor,
frankness, openness, unreserve, ingenuousness; straightforwardness,
rectitude.
ANT. _Insincerity, trickery, dishonesty, guile, fraud, deception,
unfairness, chicanery._
=Honor.= Veneration, reverence, respect, homage, deference, civility;
dignity, elevation, distinction; majesty; reputation, repute, fame,
esteem, credit, glory, consideration; integrity, probity, rectitude;
pride, nobility, eminence, high-mindedness, spirit, self-respect,
grandeur, renown.
ANT. _Contempt, irreverence, disrespect, slight, obscurity,
demoralization, degradation, debasement, disgrace, cowardice, infamy,
dishonor._
=Honorable.= Honest, upright, high-minded, illustrious, noble, great,
just, fair, trustworthy, conscientious, virtuous, estimable, reputable,
right, proper, creditable, equitable.
ANT. _Dishonorable, dishonest, false, treacherous._
=Honorary.= Unofficial, nominal, gratuitous, titular, unremunerative.
ANT. _Professional, official, remunerative, jurisdictional._
=Hoot.= Shout; cry like an owl; denounce, hiss, execrate, cry down,
decry, sibilate.
ANT. _Salute, welcome, cheer, honor, acclaim, eulogize._
=Hope.= Trust, confidence, faith, reliance; expectancy, expectation,
possibility; dependence; anticipation, prospect, longing, vision,
desire.
ANT. _Despair, despondency, distrust, abandonment, disbelief,
abjuration._
=Horizontal.= Plain, flat, level, even, plane.
ANT. _Vertical, inclined, uneven, slanting, sloping, hilly, broken,
irregular, rough, rolling, rugged._
=Horrible.= Horrid, frightful, terrible, terrific, alarming, dire,
portentous, appalling, horrific, horrifying, formidable, awful,
harrowing, dreadful, hideous, fearful; abominable, ghastly, detestable,
hateful, direful.
ANT. _Lovely, desirable, enjoyable, attractive, beautiful, fair,
pleasant, amiable._
=Horror.= Fright, alarm, dread, fear, consternation, terror, affright,
dismay, panic; abomination, abhorrence, detestation, disgust, hatred,
shuddering, antipathy; shrinking.
ANT. _Love, attraction, enticement, allurement._
=Horse.= Steed, charger, stallion, gelding, mare, colt, pony, nag,
courser, barb, filly, palfrey; cavalry, horsemen; stand, support, frame.
=Hospitable.= Generous, liberal, bountiful, open, kind, unconstrained,
unreserved, receptive, large-minded; sociable, neighborly, charitable.
ANT. _Unsociable, exclusive, retired, recluse, unneighborly, churlish._
=Host.= Entertainer; innkeeper, landlord; army, legion; multitude,
horde, throng, number, assemblage.
ANT. _Handful, sprinkling, group, knot, corps, section; guest, traveler,
boarder, lodger._
=Hostage.= Sponsor, bail, surety.
ANT. _Dictator, conqueror._
=Hostile.= Inimical, unfriendly; adverse, opposite, contrary, repugnant,
opposing, opposed.
ANT. _Friendly, kindly, amicable, neighborly, cordial, congenial._
=Hostility.= Enmity, animosity, hatred, unfriendliness, ill will;
opposition, repugnance, variance, contrariety.
ANT. _Companionship, congeniality, sympathy, harmony, fellow-feeling,
concord, alliance, kindliness, friendship._
=Hot.= Burning, fiery, scalding, heated, very warm; irascible,
impetuous, excitable, passionate, hasty, furious, violent; ardent,
fervent, vehement, eager, glowing, animated, fervid; biting, pungent,
sharp, acrid, peppery, stinging, piquant, high-flavored; choleric.
ANT. _Cold, frigid, cool, arctic, chilled, chilly, boreal, bleak,
wintry, frosty, icy; apathetic, unresponsive, unfeeling, stoical,
passionless, uninspiring, dull, dead, indifferent, unconcerned._
=Huge.= Immense, enormous, colossal, vast, bulky, stupendous, gigantic,
elephantine, Herculean, Cyclopean, large, great, monstrous, prodigious.
ANT. _Petty, pigmy, puny, undersized, small, minute._
=Human.= Cosmical, ethnical, anthropological, rational, civilized.
ANT. _Inhuman, beastly, irrational, animal, brutish._
=Humane.= Kind, benevolent, benignant, accommodating, tender,
compassionate, charitable, sympathetic, gentle, clement, kind-hearted;
tender-hearted; elevating, refining, cultivating, rational, spiritual,
humanizing; benign, merciful, gracious, pitying, human, forgiving.
ANT. _Barbarous; inhuman, unkind, cruel, unmerciful._
=Humanity.= Mankind; benevolence, kindness, philanthropy, tenderness,
sympathy, charity, humaneness, good nature; human spirit, rationality,
reason, culture; man, compassion, sensibility.
ANT. _Unkindness, cruelty, inhumanity, irrationality, bestiality,
barbarity._
=Humanize.= Soften, make humane; civilize, cultivate, refine, polish,
improve, enlighten, reclaim, educate; ameliorate, christianize.
ANT. _Barbarize, degrade, debase, brutalize, depress._
=Humble.= Meek, modest, unassuming, unobtrusive, lowly, unpretending,
submissive, small, poor, low; obscure.
ANT. _High, lofty, assuming, pretentious, proud, boastful, arrogant,
eminent._
=Humid.= Damp, wet, moist, vaporous, dank, spongy.
ANT. _Dry, arid, moistureless, parched._
=Humor=, _n._ Disposition, temper, bent, propensity, bias, predilection;
mood, frame of mind, fancy, caprice, whim, freak, vagary, crotchet;
pleasantry, fun, jocularity, wit, facetiousness.
ANT. _Nature, personality, mind, purpose, will, seriousness._
=Humorous.= Facetious, jocular, jocose, funny, comical, sportive, comic,
ludicrous, pleasant, witty.
ANT. _Grave, serious, sober, matter-of-fact, solemn, sad._
=Hurry=, _n._ Flutter, flurry, precipitation, confusion, bluster,
bustle, agitation, perturbation; haste, despatch, celerity, expedition,
quickness, promptness.
ANT. _Slowness; composure._
=Hurry=, _v._ Haste, hasten, move quickly; urge, speed, expedite,
despatch, accelerate.
ANT. _Delay, retard, slow down; loiter, saunter, move slowly._
=Hurt=, _n._ Damage, harm, injury, mischief, disadvantage, detriment,
wound.
ANT. _Benefit, pleasure._
=Hurt=, _v._ Injure, harm, damage, impair, mar; pain, wound; grieve,
afflict, bruise.
ANT. _Heal, soothe, console, repair, benefit, compensate, reinstate._
=Hurtful.= Harmful, injurious, mischievous, detrimental, deleterious,
disadvantageous, baneful, noxious, prejudicial, pernicious, baleful.
ANT. _Helpful, beneficial, advantageous, wholesome, salubrious, good,
sanative, remedial._
=Hybrid.= Mixed, impure, mongrel, mule, half-breed.
ANT. _Pure, unmixed, thoroughbred._
=Hypocrisy.= Formalism, Pharisaism, cant, pietism, sanctimoniousness,
assumed piety; deceit, deception, dissimulation, false profession,
imposture; sanctimony, pretense, sham, affectation.
ANT. _Sincerity, transparency, truth, honesty, genuineness, candor,
frankness, openness, ingenuousness, truthfulness._
=Hypocrite.= Deceiver, impostor, pretender, cheat, dissembler; Pharisee,
formalist.
ANT. _Saint, believer, Christian; dupe, bigot, fanatic, simpleton._
=Hypocritical.= Canting, Pharisaical, sanctimonious; insincere,
dissembling, false, hollow, faithless, deceitful, unctuous, smug,
smooth, mincing.
ANT. _Candid, truthful, sincere, plain-spoken, transparent, genuine._
=Hypothesis.= Scheme, speculation, system, supposition, conjecture,
guess, surmise, theory.
ANT. _Certainty, demonstration, evidence, fact, proof, discovery._
I
=Idea.= Concept, conception, impression, judgment, plan, opinion,
purpose, conceit, design, fancy, pattern, thought, theory, belief,
image, imagination, notion, supposition, ideal, apprehension, fantasy,
model, sentiment, archetype; doctrine, understanding; fiction.
ANT. _Object, form, subject; substance, fact, actuality, reality._
=Ideal=, _n._ Idea, archetype, original, model, standard, prototype.
ANT. _Fact, performance, reality, practice, act, accomplishment,
achievement, action, realization, attainment, development, doing,
incarnation, embodiment, execution._
=Ideal=, _a._ Mental, conceptional, intellectual, notional, creative,
spiritual, poetical, supposititious, unreal, fictitious, imaginary,
fanciful, imaginative, chimerical.
ANT. _Physical, material, visible, tangible, historical, substantial,
real, actual, palpable._
=Ideality.= Imagination, conception, invention, fancy, creativeness,
genius.
ANT. _Imitation, uninventiveness, copyism, unimaginativeness;
literality._
=Identical.= Same, selfsame, not different; particular.
ANT. _Different, separate, contrary._
=Identify.= Prove identical, make identical, confound; unite, integrate,
incorporate, recognize, verify.
ANT. _Divide, disunite, confound, confuse, overlook, mistake._
=Identity.= Sameness, unity, oneness, union, personality, individuality,
convertibility.
ANT. _Difference, separateness, distinctness, contrariety, plurality._
=Idiocy.= Imbecility; foolishness, fatuity, irrationality; aberration,
insanity; stupidity, folly, senselessness, incapacity.
ANT. _Intelligence, sagacity, wisdom, capacity, brilliancy, astuteness,
acuteness, sense, common sense, soundness; sanity, judgment._
=Idiom.= Specialty, phrase, turn, peculiarity, characteristic.
ANT. _Barbarism, solecism._
=Idiosyncrasy.= Peculiarity, idiocrasy; constitution, temperament,
specialty, characteristic, individuality, singularity, eccentricity.
ANT. _Community, universality, generality._
=Idiot.= Fool, natural, imbecile.
ANT. _Sage, authority, luminary._
=Idle.= Unbusied, unused, leisure; useless, ineffectual, fruitless,
bootless, unavailing, vain, abortive, futile; trifling, trivial,
unimportant, trashy, foolish, unprofitable; waste, empty; indolent,
inert, lazy, slothful, unoccupied, vacant, inactive, sluggish,
unemployed.
ANT. _Active, busy, diligent, industrious, employed, working; occupied;
tilled; filled, populated; assiduous._
=Idolize.= Deify; adore, worship, reverence, venerate.
ANT. _Loathe, abominate, execrate, abhor._
=Ignoble.= Plebeian, vulgar, untitled, baseborn, low, mean, rustic,
peasant; worthless, insignificant, contemptible; dishonorable,
disgraceful, inferior, unworthy; humble.
ANT. _Honorable, eminent, exalted, noble, lordly, illustrious, grand,
notable._
=Ignominious.= Dishonorable, infamous, disgraceful, shameful,
scandalous, disreputable, opprobrious; despicable, base, deserving
ignominy, contemptible.
ANT. _Honorable, creditable, reputable, estimable, worthy._
=Ignominy.= Dishonor, disgrace, discredit, shame, infamy, disrepute,
contempt, obloquy, opprobrium, scandal, abasement, odium; reprobation,
reproach.
ANT. _Credit, honor, reputation, glory, luster, distinction, renown._
=Ignoramus.= Smatterer, novice, wiseacre, dunce, simpleton, dullard,
greenhorn, numskull.
ANT. _Savant, sage, luminary._
=Ignorance.= Illiteracy, stupidity, nescience, blindness, darkness.
ANT. _Knowledge, wisdom, sense, learning, erudition._
=Ignorant.= Illiterate, unlearned, unlettered, unskilled, untaught,
untutored, uneducated, ill-informed, uninstructed, uninformed.
ANT. _Educated, learned, instructed, sage, wise, skilled, cultured,
trained, well-informed, cultivated._
=Ignore.= Disregard, neglect, overlook, not recognize; set aside,
reject; disown, repudiate.
ANT. _Own, notice, recognize, mark, visit, avow, claim._
=Ill=, _n._ Wickedness, depravity, evil; misfortune, calamity,
affliction, misery, harm, pain.
ANT. _Good, blessing, fortune; righteousness, integrity, honor._
=Ill=, _a._ Bad, evil, unfortunate, unfavorable; wicked, wrong,
iniquitous, naughty; sick, ailing, diseased, disordered, poorly,
indisposed; cross, crabbed, surly, peevish, hateful, malicious;
ill-favored, ugly.
ANT. _Well, strong, good, vigorous, healthy, robust, hearty, hale._
=Ill-bred.= Impolite, uncivil, uncourteous, uncourtly, uncouth,
unpolished, rude, ill-behaved, ill-mannered.
ANT. _Polite, well-behaved, civil, refined, courteous._
=Illuminate.= Light, illumine, illume; enlighten, make wise, instruct,
inspire; emblazon, irradiate.
ANT. _Darken, obscure, bedim, mislead, delude._
=Illusion.= Delusion, hallucination, deception, error, fallacy, mockery,
fantasy, phantasm, chimera; dream, vision, myth.
ANT. _Body, substance, form, reality, actuality, essence._
=Illusive.= Delusive, deceptive, deceitful, fallacious; visionary,
unreal, disappointing, fugitive, erroneous, false, imaginary, illusory,
chimerical.
ANT. _Substantial, real, true, satisfactory, solid, permanent._
=Illustrate.= Elucidate, explain, exemplify, make clear; interpret,
demonstrate, represent, embody, paint, image; adorn with pictures.
ANT. _Obscure, misinterpret, confuse, mystify, darken, misrepresent._
=Illustrious.= Glorious, splendid, brilliant, bright, radiant; famous,
famed, noted, renowned, distinguished, celebrated, eminent, signal,
remarkable, conspicuous; deathless, noble.
ANT. _Ignominious, disgraceful, infamous, inglorious, disreputable._
=Ill will.= Malevolence, unkindness, malice, enmity, hatred, hate,
rancor, envy, grudge, uncharitableness, ill nature; antipathy, dislike,
aversion.
ANT. _Good will, benevolence, beneficence._
=Im-= or =In-=. This prefix, which is regularly _in-_, and which becomes
_il-_ before _l_, _ir-_ before _r_, and _im-_ before a labial, means
_in_, _into_, _on_, or _among_, or denotes the negative _not_, or,
occasionally, has a simple intensive meaning. Such words as begin with
this prefix without modification of the combined meaning of the prefix
and root word, will be easily derived from the antonyms and synonyms of
the root words. Others of more derived meaning are found here.
=Image.= Statue; idol, object of worship; likeness, effigy, figure,
resemblance, similitude, representation, picture; trope, metaphor; idea,
copy, conception, fiction, shadow, vision.
ANT. _Person, original, substance, subject, object, reality, truth,
verity._
=Imagery.= Phantasm, phantom, vision, dream; tropes, figures of speech,
poetry, fancy, illustration, metaphor, similitude.
ANT. _Prose, statement, fact._
=Imagination.= Conception, invention, ideality, fancy, fantasy, creative
power; esemplastic faculty; idea, notion; contrivance, scheme, device,
plot; illusion.
=Imaginative.= Inventive, creative, plastic, poetical, esemplastic,
poetic; conceptive, romantic, ideal, original.
ANT. _Unimaginative, unpoetical, prosaic, unromantic, literal,
uninventive, matter-of-fact._
=Imagine.= Conceive, think, image, fancy, picture; devise, contrive,
frame, project, invent, create, mold; suppose, assume; deem, apprehend,
believe; surmise, understand, fabricate, presume.
ANT. _Represent, exhibit, depict, prove, demonstrate, verify,
substantiate._
=Imbecile=, _a._ Weak, feeble, helpless, infirm, decrepit; foolish,
witless, idiotic, driveling, fatuous.
ANT. _Shrewd, clever, sagacious._
=Imbecility.= Weakness, debility, feebleness, infirmity, helplessness;
foolishness, childishness, idiocy, fatuity, dotage, senility.
ANT. _Strength, energy, virility, vigor, power._
=Imbibe.= Absorb, take in, suck in, swallow up; receive, gather, gain,
acquire, get, pick up; assimilate, learn.
ANT. _Discard, reject, renounce, disavow, abjure, repudiate._
=Imitate.= Copy, follow, pattern after; mimic, ape, mock, impersonate,
take off; burlesque, travesty, parody; represent, resemble, portray,
depict, repeat, counterfeit.
ANT. _Misrepresent, caricature, alter, vary, distort, remodel,
differentiate, dissimilate, modify._
=Imitative.= Imitating, copying, mimicking, aping, apish, caricaturing,
unoriginal, servile.
ANT. _Original, creative, inventive._
=Immaculate.= Spotless, unspotted, stainless, unsullied, unsoiled,
untainted, unblemished, untarnished, clean, pure, undefiled; innocent,
guiltless, sinless, faultless, fair, holy, saintly; virgin, unpolluted.
ANT. _Impure, corrupt, sinful, contaminated, defiled, polluted, tainted,
spotted._
=Immanent.= Intrinsic, inherent, internal, indwelling; empirical;
innate, subjective, congenital, ingrained, natural, implicit.
ANT. _Emanant, transitive, developed, projective, exsilient, phenomenal,
explicit, accidental, transcendental, transeunt._
=Immaterial.= Incorporeal, unbodied, unfleshly, spiritual,
supersensible; unimportant, insignificant, unessential, non-essential,
trivial, trifling.
ANT. _Material, physical, important, corporeal, essential._
=Immature.= Unripe, crude, raw, green, unformed, unprepared, imperfect,
rudimentary, unfinished; premature, hasty, unseasonable, untimely;
undeveloped.
ANT. _Ripe, complete, developed, mature, finished._
=Immeasurable.= Illimitable, unbounded, boundless, limitless,
measureless, immense, infinite; vast, unfathomable.
ANT. _Finite, limited, circumscribed, restricted, shallow, bounded._
=Immediate.= Proximate, close, near, next; direct, unmediated;
instantaneous, instant, present; contiguous.
ANT. _Distant, remote, mediate, future._
=Immediately.= Presently, this instant, straightway, directly,
forthwith, at once, now, right off, instantly, without delay.
ANT. _Hereafter, by-and-by, after a while, sometime._
=Immemorial.= Olden, ancient, hoary, archaic, primitive, remote,
time-honored, primordial.
ANT. _Recent, modern, late, fresh, upstart._
=Immerse.= Dip, plunge, submerge, sink, douse, duck, bury; soak, steep,
macerate, drown, inundate, overwhelm.
ANT. _Dry, drain, parch, ventilate, air, ground, strand._
=Immigration.= Migration, colonization, settlement.
ANT. _Exodus, emigration._
=Imminent.= Impending, hovering, threatening.
ANT. _Improbable, doubtful, unexpected, unlikely, contingent,
chimerical, problematical; warded, staved, escaped._
=Immunity.= Freedom, exemption, release, exoneration; prerogative,
privilege, right, liberty, charter, franchise; dispensation.
ANT. _Liability, obligation, jurisdiction, impost, amenability, burden._
=Imp.= Sprite, hobgoblin, demon, devil, flibbertigibbet, scamp, brat.
ANT. _Cherub, angel._
=Impact.= Impulse, shock, impression, stroke; collision, contact,
striking, impinging; application.
ANT. _Isolation, separation, interval, removal, avoidance, non-contact,
shave._
=Impair.= Deteriorate, vitiate, injure, harm, make worse; lessen,
diminish, decrease; enervate, weaken, enfeeble; reduce, damage.
ANT. _Enhance, improve, repair, augment, better, increase._
=Impassioned.= Passionate, vehement, impetuous, animated, exciting,
glowing, intense, fervid, fervent, warm, ardent, zealous; spirited.
ANT. _Cool, impassive, unimpassioned, apathetic, indifferent._
=Impatience.= Uneasiness, disquietude, restlessness; haste, vehemence,
eagerness, precipitation, impetuosity; heat, violence of temper,
irritability, irritableness.
ANT. _Patience, calmness, endurance, composure, leniency, submission,
forbearance, long-suffering._
=Impediment.= Bar, hindrance, obstacle, obstruction, difficulty, clog,
encumbrance, stumbling-block, check.
ANT. _Assistance, aid, benefit, help, relief, succor, advantage;
aidance, support, furtherance._
=Imperative.= Commanding, authoritative, peremptory; binding,
obligatory; urgent, irresistible, dictatorial, inexorable, compulsory.
ANT. _Indulgent, lenient, supplicatory, mild, optional, discretional,
entreative._
=Imperial.= Belonging to an empire, kingly, regal, sovereign, royal;
majestic, grand, magnificent, exalted, great, noble, supreme,
consummate, superb.
ANT. _Ignoble, servile, slavish, beggarly, mean, paltry._
=Imperious.= Magisterial, dictatorial, despotic, domineering,
tyrannical, overbearing, lordly, haughty, arrogant, authoritative,
exacting.
ANT. _Yielding, compliant, submissive, gentle, mild, docile, ductile._
=Impetuous.= Fierce, vehement, violent, furious, passionate,
precipitate, hasty, headlong, over-zealous, reckless, rash, excitable.
ANT. _Careful, slow, deliberate, thoughtful, reflective, leisurely._
=Implement.= Utensil, tool, appliance, instrument.
ANT. _Labor, work, science, art, agriculture, manufacture._
=Implicate.= Entangle, enfold, involve, connect, associate, compromise,
charge, incriminate.
ANT. _Disconnect, extricate, acquit, dissociate._
=Implication.= Entanglement, involution; inference, conclusion;
intricacy, complication; concealment, latency; allusion, insinuation,
innuendo, adumbration.
ANT. _Arrangement, system, orderliness; manifestation, expression,
exposition, demonstration, production._
=Implicit.= Understood, implied, inferred, tacit; unreserved,
unhesitating, firm, steadfast, unshaken, undoubting; involved.
ANT. _Expressed, explicit, developed, stated, plain, specific,
unambiguous._
=Imply.= Involve, import, include, signify, mean, indicate, suggest,
hint, denote.
ANT. _Express, declare, state, pronounce._
=Import=, _n._ Meaning, sense, purport, drift, signification, gist,
spirit, bearing, tenor, intention.
ANT. _Statement, proceeding._
=Import=, _v._ Bring into; purport, denote, imply, betoken, signify,
mean; concern, be of significance to; introduce.
ANT. _Export, banish, exile, send abroad._
=Importance.= Consequence, moment, weight, significance, momentousness,
import, concern; avail; self-importance, pomposity.
ANT. _Nothingness, insignificance, unimportance, immateriality._
=Important.= Grave, weighty, momentous, serious, material, significant;
influential, prominent, pompous, self-important, consequential;
expressive, leading, main, relevant, considerable, essential, great,
dignified.
ANT. _Insignificant, trivial, inconsiderable, irrelevant, secondary,
petty, mean, uninfluential, minor, unimportant._
=Importunate.= Urgent, pertinacious, pressing, teasing, busy,
solicitous, overurgent, overentreative.
ANT. _Modest, diffident, self-reliant, self-respecting._
=Importune.= Urge, entreat, press, solicit, dun, beset, pester, tease,
worry, trouble.
ANT. _Surrender, sacrifice, abandon; grant, bestow._