ANT. _Celibacy, bachelorhood, virginity._
=Wedlock.= Marriage, matrimony, nuptial state.
ANT. _Celibacy, bachelorhood, virginity._
=Weep.= Cry, shed tears, lament, complain; drip, be soaked; sob, bewail,
bemoan; droop.
ANT. _Laugh, smile; rejoice, be cheerful, enjoy._
=Weight.= Heaviness; pressure, burden; importance, influence,
consequence, moment; ponderousness, gravity, load, power; efficacy,
impressiveness.
ANT. _Lightness, levity, volatility; insignificance, triviality,
weakness, inefficacy, worthlessness; portableness, ease, facility._
=Weighty.= Heavy, ponderous, burdensome, onerous; forcible, momentous;
efficacious, impressive, cogent.
ANT. _Easy, light, unencumbered; active, swift; slight, unimportant;
frivolous, volatile, unsettled, giddy._
=Welcome=, _n._ Greeting, salutation, reception.
ANT. _Farewell, adieu, parting, good-by, leave-taking; repulse,
repudiation._
=Welcome=, _a._ Grateful, pleasing, gladly entertained, acceptable,
agreeable, gratifying; gratuitous, free.
ANT. _Unwelcome, unpleasant, disagreeable, unacceptable._
=Welfare.= Prosperity, happiness, well-being, enjoyment, success, weal,
advantage, benefit, profit, luck, thrift.
ANT. _Adversity, misfortune, reverses, failure, ill luck, unhappiness._
=Well=, _a._ Good, desirable, fortunate, advantageous; healthy; favored,
lucky; hale, sound.
ANT. _Ill, sickly, diseased, unwell, poorly; unlucky, unfortunate._
=Well=, _adv._ Justly, rightly, abundantly, fully, adequately,
thoroughly, satisfactorily, advantageously, conveniently, properly.
ANT. _Ill, wrongly, poorly, imperfectly, improperly, badly._
=Wet.= Damp, moist, rainy, humid; nasty; dank; showery; lively,
interesting.
ANT. _Dry, parched, thirsty, arid; plain, unvarnished; shrewd, sharp,
quaint._
=Wheedle.= Cajole, flatter, entice, coax, inveigle, fawn upon.
ANT. _Deter, undeceive, detract, decry; chide, scold, rebuke, blame._
=Whereas.= Since, considering; when in fact, while, although; seeing
that; inasmuch as.
=Whimsical.= Capricious, fanciful, queer, strange, freakish, quaint,
fantastic.
ANT. _Staid, serious, sober, matter-of-fact, steady, sedate._
=White.= Snowy, pale, pallid; unblemished, innocent, pure; gray, hoary;
fortunate, happy, favorable.
ANT. _Black, dark, colorless, negro, sooty, coallike; dismal, gloomy,
forbidding, threatening, sullen, foreboding; impure, sullied._
=Whole.= All, total, complete, entire, undivided, uninjured, unbroken;
unimpaired, integral; sound, perfect, faultless, strong, well, healthy.
ANT. _Partial, imperfect, unsound, ill, sick; divided, fractional._
=Wholesome.= Salubrious, salutary, healthy, healthful, nourishing,
nutritious, strengthening, invigorating; beneficial, good; fresh, sound,
uncorrupt.
ANT. _Detrimental, deleterious, prejudicial, hurtful, pernicious,
noxious._
=Wholly.= Entirely, completely, perfectly, totally, fully, altogether,
utterly.
ANT. _Partially, imperfectly, incompletely, separately, in part._
=Wicked.= Sinful, criminal, guilty, immoral, ungodly, profane,
unrighteous, atrocious, unholy, vicious, nefarious, heinous, abandoned,
iniquitous, depraved, unprincipled, irreverent, vile, abandoned, bad,
evil, unjust, ill, outrageous, monstrous, villainous.
ANT. _Good, righteous, just, godly, virtuous, fair, honorable,
unsullied, pious, benevolent, upright, reputable, true, excellent._
=Wickedness.= Crime, sin, vice, iniquity, evil, depravity, immorality,
enormity; badness, vileness, corruption.
ANT. _Goodness, piety, godliness, righteousness, honor, virtue,
benevolence._
=Wide.= Broad, spacious, vast, extensive, comprehensive, liberal;
remote, distant, far; ample, expanded.
ANT. _Narrow, contracted, confined, cramped, constricted, limited;
bigoted, parsimonious; close, near._
=Wife.= Married woman, consort, spouse, helpmate.
ANT. _Sweetheart, maiden; widow._
=Wild=, _a._ Untamed, uncultivated, undomesticated; savage, uncivilized,
rude, ferocious; violent, turbulent; disorderly, crazy, ungoverned;
visionary; unsheltered, exposed.
ANT. _Tame, domesticated, cultivated, civilized; populated, frequented;
polite, gentle, refined; rational, orderly, sane, controlled, sober,
collected._
=Wile.= Trick, snare, artifice, beguilement, allurement, stratagem,
cheat, fraud, imposture, deceit, deception, contrivance, device.
ANT. _Artlessness, openness, candor, straightforwardness._
=Wilful.= Self-determined, voluntary; obstinate, perverse, stubborn,
refractory; self-willed, headstrong; wayward; intentional, prepense,
preconceived, premeditated, designed, deliberate, purposed.
ANT. _Concessive, compliant, amenable, obedient, docile, manageable;
adventitious, accidental._
=Will=, _n._ Choice, determination, preference, volition; decree,
desire, command, purpose; control, disposal; testament; resolution,
decision, self-reliance, force; inclination, pleasure, disposition;
behest, order, direction.
ANT. _Indecision, vacillation, indeterminateness, indifference;
sensibility, perception._
=Will=, _v._ Bequeath, devise, direct; choose, decide, determine,
decree; wish, desire, incline to have; be willing.
ANT. _Die intestate; be indifferent._
=Willing.= Inclined, consenting, ready, complying; chosen, desired;
disposed, minded, desirous; voluntary.
ANT. _Loath, disinclined, reluctant, averse, backward._
=Win.= Gain, get, procure, earn; be victorious, prevail; obtain;
acquire, achieve; conquer; succeed, accomplish.
ANT. _Lose, fail of, miss, forfeit, be deprived or bereaved of._
=Wind=, _v._ Coil, twine, wreathe, twist, turn; enfold, encircle;
direct; insinuate.
ANT. _Straighten, unravel, untwist._
=Winding.= Twisting, circuitous, bending, curving, meandering, flexuous,
serpentine, sinuous.
ANT. _Straight, rectilinear, direct, undeviating, unswerving._
=Winning.= Charming, attractive, alluring, pleasing, bewitching,
winsome, fascinating, delightful, lovely, captivating, prepossessing,
enchanting.
ANT. _Repulsive, unpleasing, repellent, disagreeable, offensive,
repugnant, revolting, disgusting, odious._
=Wisdom.= Judgment, prudence, reason, understanding, sense, skill,
sagacity, attainment, discernment, depth, discretion, information,
foresight, learning, profundity, reasonableness, prescience, knowledge,
insight, judiciousness, erudition, enlightenment.
ANT. _Folly, imbecility, stupidity, error, foolishness, fatuity, idiocy,
absurdity, imprudence, indiscretion, miscalculation, nonsense,
misjudgment, silliness, senselessness._
=Wise.= Knowing, erudite, wary, learned, sagacious; crafty; judicious,
discreet; skilled, intelligent, rational; sage, sensible; logical; deep,
discerning, profound, philosophical.
ANT. _Senseless, idiotic, irrational; nonsensical, imprudent,
irrational, indiscreet, ridiculous, preposterous, insensate._
=Wish=, _v._ Long for, hanker after, desire; invoke, imprecate.
ANT. _Despise, dislike; disrelish, be averse to, displease._
=Wit.= Ingenuity, humor, satire, sarcasm, irony, burlesque; intellect,
mind, understanding, sense; man of genius or humor; penetration,
discernment, insight, acumen; facetiousness, drollery, waggery,
jocularity, sparkle, repartee, joke, playfulness, fun, witticism,
pleasantry, banter, jest, raillery.
ANT. _Stupidity, inanity, obtuseness, vapidity, dulness, commonplace,
matter-of-fact; irrationality, platitude; dolt, dullard; sobriety,
solemnity, seriousness, gravity, stolidity._
=Witchcraft.= Sorcery, enchantment, magic, necromancy, conjuration,
incantation, charm, spell, thaumaturgy.
=Witchery.= Sorcery, witchcraft; fascination, enchantment, spell,
entrancement, ravishment.
ANT. _Reality, actuality, disillusionment, bald facts._
=With.= By, on the side of, by the help of; attending, accompanying,
close; against; according to; in contrast with; upon, immediately after.
=Withdraw.= Take back, recall, retire; draw back, remove; recede,
depart.
ANT. _Offer, afford; produce; repeat, reiterate, confirm; renew;
furnish, propose, give._
=Withhold.= Hold back, restrain, impede, hamper; retain, refuse;
suppress, check, rein in, inhibit, stint, forbear; detain.
ANT. _Let go, give, bestow, confer; admit, yield; furnish, allow,
provide, permit; encourage, embolden, cheer, hearten, animate._
=Within=, _a._ Inside, inwardly, internally, indoors, in the limits of.
ANT. _Without, outside, outwardly, externally, outdoors._
=Without=, _prep._ Out of, beyond, out of the limits of, in the absence
of, in separation from; independently of; exclusive of, omitting.
ANT. _Within, inside of, in the limits of, including, embracing._
=Without=, _conj._ Unless, except.
=Withstand.= Oppose, resist, confront, thwart, combat, prevent,
contradict.
ANT. _Concede, grant, assist, submit, acquiesce, abet, countenance,
encourage, support._
=Witness=, _n._ Attestation, testimony, evidence, proof; one who attests
or is directly cognizant of; eye-witness; deponent, corroborator;
spectator, auditor, voucher.
ANT. _Belief, hearsay, rumor, report; invalidation, refutation._
=Witty.= Acute, sharp, smart, facetious, arch, keen, amusing, humorous,
satirical, taunting, ironical.
ANT. _Dull, stupid, obtuse, dry, prosaic, prosy, tiresome, tedious,
serious._
=Woe.= Grief, sorrow, misery, calamity; curse, malediction;
disconsolateness, tribulation, melancholy, agony, depression,
unhappiness.
ANT. _Joy, delight, pleasure, prosperity, enjoyment, bliss, felicity,
welfare, cheerfulness, merriment._
=Woful.= Sorrowful, distressed, wretched, afflicted, unhappy, sad;
paltry, poor, piteous, disconsolate, miserable, burdened, troubled.
ANT. _Joyous, light-hearted, cheerful, merry, rejoiced, glad, delighted,
gay, blessed._
=Womanhood.= Muliebrity, maturity in woman, feminality; womanliness;
woman, womankind.
ANT. _Manhood, manliness, masculinity; man, mankind._
=Womanish.= Effeminate, weak, foolishly feminine.
ANT. _Mannish, aping a man, foolishly masculine._
=Womanly.= Becoming a woman, feminine, delicate, refined.
ANT. _Manly, strong, virile, becoming a man._
=Wonder=, _n._ Astonishment, admiration, amazement, surprise, awe,
bewilderment, curiosity; portent, miracle, prodigy, marvel; phenomenon,
sight, rarity, spectacle.
ANT. _Expectation, anticipation; familiarity, apathy, indifference;
foreknowledge, prescience; ennui; satiety; platitude, truism,
commonplace._
=Wonderful.= Amazing, astonishing, marvelous, surprising, improbable,
strange, incredulous; startling, awesome, portentous, extraordinary,
prodigious, wondrous.
ANT. _Commonplace, familiar, expected, ordinary, wonted, hackneyed,
customary, habitual._
=Wonted.= Accustomed, usual, habitual, customary, habituated, used,
conventional, regular, frequent, common.
ANT. _Exceptional, unusual, unused, unconventional, infrequent,
irregular._
=Wood.= Forest, grove, thicket; timber, trees; copse, woodland,
forestland.
ANT. _Open, prairie, clearing._
=Word.= Term, expression, accents, tongue, vocable; account, tidings,
message; statement, declaration, affirmation, promise; (_pl._)
contention, dispute, wrangling, altercation; speech, talk, discourse,
language.
ANT. _Idea, conception, suggestion; sentence, unit of composition,
paragraph._
=Work=, _n._ Exertion, activity, effort, toil, employment, labor;
business, duty; product, fabric, production, performance, manufacture;
act, deed, service, result, effect, achievement, feat; composition,
structure; management, treatment, operation, issue, fruit; occupation;
action, drudgery.
ANT. _Frustration, abortion, hodge-podge; failure, deficiency, defect,
fault; miscarriage; rest, inertia, fruitlessness, inoperativeness;
inefficiency, futility; repose, relaxation, ease, vacation, idleness,
leisure, recreation._
=Work=, _v._ Exert one’s self, labor, be engaged, toil; operate, act,
perform; effect, affect, conduce, influence; strain; use, utilize;
produce, accomplish; prevail upon, manage, lead; ferment.
ANT. _Rest, recreate, stop, repose, halt, relax, be at ease, lie,
recline, sleep, slumber; fail, miscarry, be wanting, lapse._
=Workman.= Worker, artificer, laborer, artisan, mechanic, operative,
craftsman; toiler, hand; master.
ANT. _Employer, superintendent, inspector, supervisor, director,
overseer._
=Workmanship.= Handicraft, execution, skill, art, manipulation,
handiwork.
ANT. _Bungling, botching._
=World.= Earth, universe, creation; affairs, interests, life, action,
occupation; inhabitants, people, mankind; globe, cosmos, planet, nature;
public, society, human race.
ANT. _Heaven; atom, individual._
=Worldly.= Human, common; secular, temporal; mundane, terrestrial,
earthly; fleshly, carnal; universal; sublunary; sordid, selfish,
ambitious, earthborn, groveling.
ANT. _Spiritual, ethereal, celestial, heavenly, lunar, solar;
incorporeal, ghostly; ideal, abstract, mental, intellectual; sacred,
holy, pure._
=Worry=, _n._ Care, anxiety, fret, solicitude, torment, vexation,
trouble, annoyance, plague, disquiet; perplexity, concern, fear,
apprehension, uneasiness, misgiving.
ANT. _Trust, calm, courage, serenity, tranquillity, placidity, quiet,
ease of mind, resolution, dauntlessness._
=Worship=, _n._ Reverence, homage, adoration, submission,
obsequiousness, honor, abjectness.
ANT. _Detestation, hatred, abhorrence, loathing, disgust, antipathy,
assertion, defiance, challenge._
=Worship=, _v._ Adore, reverence, revere, idolize, respect, defer,
venerate, deify, honor, exalt.
ANT. _Defy, dare; abhor, detest, hate, disdain, abominate, contemn,
loathe._
=Worth.= Desert, merit, excellence; price, rate; value, quality,
equivalence; virtue, character, worthiness, integrity; credit, cost,
estimate.
ANT. _Demerit, worthlessness, cheapness, uselessness, futility,
poverty._
=Worthless.= Undeserving, useless, valueless, vile, mean, miserable,
poor, wretched, abject, unworthy, ignoble, abandoned, depraved; refuse,
waste.
ANT. _Costly, valuable, dear, high-priced, expensive; sumptuous,
splendid, rich, precious; useful, excellent, estimable, virtuous,
worthy._
=Worthy.= Valuable, deserving, estimable, virtuous; suitable, adapted,
meritorious, exemplary, upright, righteous, honest, honorable.
ANT. _Worthless, valueless, ignoble, defective, unsuitable._
=Wound=, _v._ Hurt, injure, damage, harm, cut, stab, rend, lacerate,
pain; annoy, mortify, offend.
ANT. _Heal, allay, cure, remedy, soothe, repair; appease, assuage,
comfort, harmonize._
=Wrap=, _v._ Wind, fold, cover, envelop, enfold, involve, conceal, hide,
muffle.
ANT. _Unwind, unfold, lay bare, reveal, develop, expose._
=Wrath.= Fury, ire, resentment, passion, anger, rage, exasperation,
indignation, choler, irritation.
ANT. _Calmness, control, restraint, composure, placidity, serenity._
=Wrathful.= Furious, raging, indignant, passionate, choleric, ireful,
angry, exasperated, incensed, irate, wroth, mad, provoked, resentful.
ANT. _Calm, collected, controlled, repressed, masterly, restrained,
good-tempered._
=Wreath.= Garland, chaplet, festoon, crown, bays, diadem.
=Wreck=, _n._ Ruins, remains, rubbish, wreckage, débris; havoc,
destruction, shipwreck, ruin, desolation, perdition, demolition.
ANT. _Preservation, conservation, saving, protection, security._
=Wrench=, _v._ Pull, twist, wrest, force, strain, sprain; pervert,
distort, wring.
ANT. _Straighten, untwist; rectify._
=Wretched.= Miserable, calamitous, afflicted, unhappy, degraded, woful;
worthless, paltry; forlorn, wobegone, comfortless, distressed; shocking,
deplorable, depressing, sad; contemptible, mean, pitiful, debased,
humiliated.
ANT. _Prosperous, flourishing, fortunate, happy, enviable, felicitous,
successful, thriving; valuable; honored, noble, exalted._
=Wrong=, _a._ Injurious, unjust, faulty, detrimental, unfit; improper,
incorrect; mistaken, erroneous; illegal, immoral.
ANT. _Right, upright, lawful, equitable, fair, just, becoming, proper,
suitable, appropriate, fit; correct, true, actual, real._
=Wrought.= Worked, elaborated; performed, done, effected, executed,
produced, manufactured.
ANT. _Rough, crude, coarse, raw, unpolished._
=Wry.= Twisted, distorted; misdirected, perverted, wrested; askew,
contorted, deformed, deranged; crooked, awry.
ANT. _Straight, rectilinear, direct, upright, erect; perpendicular,
shapely, comely, symmetrical, proper, well-formed._
Y
=Yawn.= Open wide, gape; desire, be eager.
ANT. _Close, shut, engulf._
=Yearly.= Annual, happening each year, per annum, every year, year by
year.
ANT. _Perennial, everlasting, evergreen._
=Yearn.= Long, desire, be eager, covet, crave, hanker.
ANT. _Loathe, revolt, recoil, shudder at, despise._
=Yell=, _v._ Cry out, shriek, scream, holler.
ANT. _Keep silence, subdue, silence._
=Yet.= Besides, nevertheless, notwithstanding, however, still,
eventually, ultimately, at last, so far, thus far, hitherto, at present;
over and above; further; now.
=Yield.= Furnish, produce, afford, bear, render; relinquish, give in,
let go, forego; accede, acquiesce; resign, surrender, concede, allow,
grant, submit, succumb; comply, consent, agree.
ANT. _Withdraw, withhold, retain, deny, refuse, vindicate, assert,
claim, disallow, appropriate, resist, dissent, protest, struggle,
strive._
=Yielding.= Conceding, producing, surrendering, supple, pliant,
submissive, unresisting, obsequious, attentive, flexible, compliant,
accommodating.
ANT. _Defiant, resisting, obstinate, firm, stiff, hard, perverse._
=Yoke=, _n._ Bond, chain, link, tie; servitude, bondage, vassalage,
service, thraldom, subjection, subservience.
ANT. _Freedom, liberty; authority, command._
=Yoke=, _v._ Couple, conjoin, connect, link; enslave, subjugate.
ANT. _Dissever, divorce, disconnect, liberate, release, manumit,
enfranchise._
=Young.= Juvenile, immature; inexperienced, innocent, ignorant;
youthful, boyish, girlish, childlike.
ANT. _Old, mature, adult; experienced, knowing; senile, aged, decrepit,
venerable; antique, antiquated, obsolete; superannuated._
=Youth.= Adolescence, childhood, infancy; youthfulness, juvenility;
minority; lad, boy, girl, youngster.
ANT. _Age, senility, maturity._
=Youthful.= Puerile, juvenile, immature, young, fresh, vigorous, unripe,
callow, childish, boyish, childlike, girlish, adolescent.
ANT. _Mature, adult, full-grown, ripe, ripened._
Z
=Zeal.= Ardor, eagerness, earnestness, fervor, enthusiasm, energy,
feeling, devotion, intensity, passion, spirit.
ANT. _Apathy, indifference, coldness, carelessness, sluggishness,
torpor._
=Zealot.= Partisan, bigot, enthusiast, fanatic, devotee, visionary,
dreamer.
ANT. _Renegade, traitor, deserter; lukewarm person._
=Zealous.= Ardent, anxious, earnest, enthusiastic, fervid, eager,
steadfast, keen, fervent, devoted, prompt, ready, fiery, passionate.
ANT. _Lukewarm, indifferent, cold, apathetic, passionless, phlegmatic._
=Zenith.= Height, pinnacle, acme, summit, culmination, maximum, apex,
top.
ANT. _Nadir, lowest point, depth, minimum._
=Zephyr.= West wind, breeze, gentle wind.
ANT. _Gale, furious wind._
=Zero.= Naught, cipher, nothing.
ANT. _Something, existence, creation; infinity._
=Zest.= Flavor, appetizer, pleasure, gusto, gust, enjoyment, relish,
sharpener, enhancement, savor, taste, smack, sauce, appetite.
ANT. _Distaste, disrelish, detriment._
=Zone.= Girdle, belt, girth, cincture, band, baldric; region, climate,
clime; circuit, circumference; zodiac; orbit.
ANT. _Sphere, universe._
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained.
2. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
3. Enclosed bold font in =equals=.