flowering plants. Phænogamia.

flowerless, a. cryptogamous.

flowerless plants. Cryptogamia.

flower pot. Associated Words: cachepot, girandole.

flowery, a. florid, ornate, figurative.

flowing, a. running, gliding, fluent, cursive. Antonym: stagnant.

flowing back. refluent, ebbing.--n. refluence, ebb.

flowing in. influx.--a. influent, incurrent.

flowing out. efflux, effluxion, effluence.--a. effluent,

excurrent.

flowing round. circumfluent.

fluctuate, v. vacillate, waver, oscillate, whiffle, swerve.

Antonyms: continue, persist, adhere, abide, remain, stand fast.

fluctuation, n. vacillation, wavering, oscillation, instability.

fluent, a. flowing, gliding; voluble.

fluid, n. liquid, liquor, solution.

flunk, v. (Colloq.) fail, back out.--n. failure.

flunky, n. lackey, footman, servant; snob, toady, sycophant.

flunkyism, n. toadyism, sycophancy.

flurried, a. agitated, excited, perturbed, confused.

flurry, n. squall, breeze, wind; agitation, excitement, commotion.

flush, n. blush, glow; thrill; rosiness, redness.

flush, a. liberal, prodigal, free, lavish; even, plane, level, flat;

prolific, fecund, exuberant; affluent.

fluster, v. perturb, discompose, confuse, disconcert, embarrass,

agitate.

fluster, n. perturbation, discompose, confusion, agitation.

flustrate, v. (Colloq.) fluster, agitate.

flustration, n. (Colloq.) agitation, fluster, perturbation,

confusion.

fluted, a. chamfered, channeled, grooved.

flutter, v. tremble, palpitate; hover; oscillate, fluctuate,

vacillate, waver.

flutter, n. tremor, agitation, palpitation; confusion, disorder,

commotion.

fly, a. (Slang) wide-awake, knowing.

fly, v. wing, soar, flit, mount, hover; decamp, abscond, flee.

flyaway, a. flighty, giddy, unrestrained, volatile.

flying, a. awing, volant, volitant, soaring.

flying, n. aviation, flight.

flying machine. aëroplane, aërodrome, biplane, monoplane. Associated

words: hangar, aviator, aërodynamics, aviatrix.

foam, n. froth, spume, spumescence.--v. froth, spume.

foamy, a. frothy, spumy.

fodder, n. provender, forage, stover; ensilage. Associated Words:

silo, ensile.

foe, n. antagonist, enemy, adversary, opponent.

fog, n. haze, mist, vapor, brume; confusion (of the mind).

fog, v. befog, obscure, confuse.

foggy, a. misty, hazy, brumous, vaporous; beclouded, confused,

obscure.

fogy, n. (Colloq.) fogram, mossback.

foil, v. baffle, frustrate, thwart, circumvent.

foist, v. interpolate.

fold, n. doubling, plait, convolution; sheep-pen, cote; embrace.

fold, v. double; embrace, infold, clasp.

folding stool. faldstool.

foliage, n. leafage, leaves.

folks, n. pl. (Collog.) people, persons.

follow, v. succeed, chase, pursue, tag; dodge; result, proceed, flow,

ensue, spring, issue; pursue, practice, engage in; trace, track, trail.

follower, n. pursuer; attendant, retainer, henchman; disciple,

partisan, advocate, adherent, votary; imitator, copier.

following, n. pursuance, pursuing, pursuit; sequence, consecution,

succession; adherents, dependents, retinue; vocation, trade, profession,

business.

following, a. succeeding, ensuing, consecutive, pursuant.

folly, n. foolishness, fatuity, indiscretion, unwisdom, absurdity,

imprudence.

foment, v. encourage, instigate, nurse; stupe.

fond, a. indulgent, over-affectionate, doting; affectionate, loving;

baseless, vain, unfounded.

fondle, v. caress, pet, coddle, cosset, indulge, humor.

fondness, n. indulgence, doting; affection, devotion, love;

partiality, liking, preference, predilection, propensity, appetite.

food, n. aliment, nutriment, nourishment, pabulum, nutrition, fare,

diet, bread, meat, rations, victuals, subsistence, commons, provisions,

viands, regimen, finding, sustenance, eatables, refreshments, comestibles,

trencher, ambrosia, broma, manna. Associated Words: bromatology,

bromatologist, alimental, alimentary, pabular, appetite, alimentation,

nutrition, superalimentation, pantophagist, pantophagous, pantophagy,

polyphagous, polyphagy, bromography, dietary, regimen, dietarian,

dietetics, dieter, dietist, asitia, cater, caterer, sitology, chyle,

chyme, victualer, steward, cibation, sitophobia, omnivorous, delicatessen,

proteid, nitrogen, protein, commissariat, commissary.

food for cattle. feed, fodder, provender, forage, pasturage.

food room. larder, buttery, pantry, spence.

fool, n. idiot, imbecile, natural; simpleton, dolt, dunce, defective,

witling, dotterel, driveler, blockhead, beetlehead, ninny, ignoramus,

numskull, booby, clodpate, nincompoop, ass, wiseacre, dunderhead, halfwit,

oaf, dullard, coot, mooncalf; zany, harlequin, buffoon, jester,

merry-andrew, droll, clown, scaramouch. Associated Words: stultify,

stultification.

fool, v. dupe, gull, delude, hoodwink, deceive, hoax, trick, beguile,

victimize, cully; trifle, toy, dawdle.

fooling, n. foolishness, folly; zanyism, mummery, buffoonery,

monkey-tricks, harlequinism.

foolhardy, a. daredevil, reckless, rash.

foolish, a. idiotic, senseless, irrational, silly, imbecile, witless,

insensate, weak-minded, half-witted, brainless, fatuous, fatuitous,

insagacious, unintelligent; indiscreet, imprudent, ridiculous, absurd,

asinine, inept, nonsensical, puerile.

foolishness, n. idiocy, imbecility, fatuity, silliness,

irrationality, insagacity; imprudence, indiscretion, unwisdom, folly,

absurdity, ineptitude, puerility.

fool's bauble. marotte.

foot, n. paw; hoof; base, bottom, extremity. Associated Words:

chiropody, chiropodist, pedicure, orthopedy, orthopedic, orthopedist,

pedal, plantigrade, bastinado, taligrade, palmigrade, cloven, ball,

instep, phalanges.

foot-bath, n. pediluvium, pedilavium (Eccl.).

footboy, n. page, lackey.

footing, n. foothold; rank, status, standing, grade; amount, total;

tread, step.

footlicker, n. sycophant, fawner, toady, lickspittle.

footman, n. infantryman (foot-soldier); lackey.

footpad, n. highwayman, brigand, robber, thug.

footprint, n. footmark, track, footstep; spoor.

foot-shaped, a. pediform.

foot-soldiers, n. pl. infantry.

footstep, n. footmark, footprint, track, trace, vestige; spoor;

footfall, tread, step.

footstool, n. cricket, hassock.

foozle, v. bungle.--n. foozling, bungle, bungler.

fop, n. coxcomb, dude, dandy, exquisite, popinjay, blade, jackadandy.

Antonyms: sloven, guy.

foppish, a. coxcombical, dandified, finical, exquisite. Antonyms:

slovenly, seedy.

foppishness, n. foppery, dandyism, coxcombry, dudishness.

for all that. nevertheless.

forasmuch as. in as much as, since, whereas, seeing that.

foray, n. See raid.

forbear, v. refrain, stop, pause, withhold, abstain; endure,

tolerate.

forbearance, n. withholding, refraining; long-suffering, patience,

indulgence, toleration.

forbearing, a. long-suffering, patient, indulgent, tolerant, lenient.

forbears, n. pl. ancestors, forefathers.

forbid, v. prohibit, interdict, inhibit, restrain, taboo, preclude,

proscribe.

forbidden, a. prohibited, proscribed, interdicted, contraband,

inhibited, illicit, taboo.

forbidding, a. repellent, repulsive, offensive, abhorrent, odious,

repelling, grim.

forbidding, n. prohibition, interdiction, proscription, restraint,

inhibition, taboo.

force, v. compel, coerce, necessitate, constrain, oblige, make;

impel, obtrude, extort, wrest; capture, storm; rape, ravish. Antonyms:

induce, inveigle, seduce, persuade.

force, n. strength, energy, power, vigor, might, potency, cogency,

validity, efficacy, efficiency; compulsion, coercion, violence,

constraint, tension, impetus; armament, troops, army, legion, battalion,

phalanx. Associated Words: dynamics, dyne, statics, perforce, dynamic,

mechanics, brunt, kinit.

forced, a. involuntary, compulsory, strained, far-fetched.

Antonyms: spontaneous, voluntary, discretional, optional, elective.

forcible, a. energetic, potent, effective, compulsory, coercive,

drastic, vigorous.

forcing, n. compelling, compulsion, coercion, extortion,

necessitation, constraint; rape, ravishment. Antonyms: discretion,

option, election, free-will.

forearm, n. antibrachium.

forebode, v. portend, presage, foreshadow, augur betoken, foretell.

foreboding, n. premonition, presentiment, augury, prescience,

foreknowledge.

forecast, n. predetermination, premeditation, forethought.

foredoom, v. predestine, preordain.

forefather, n. ancestor, progenitor, forbear; pl. ancestry,

lineage, progenitors, forbears.

forego, v. quit, relinquish, surrender, yield, do without; precede.

foregoer, n. predecessor, forefather; forerunner, herald, harbinger,

precursor, avant-courier.

foregoing, a. previous, anterior, preceding, fore, prior, antecedent,

aforesaid.

forehead, n. brow, sinciput. Antonym: occiput.

foreign, a. alien, extraneous, exotic, peregrine; remote,

adventitious, inappropriate.

foreigner, n. alien; emigrant, immigrant. Antonyms: native,

indigene, citizen.

foreign word, plant, or custom. exoticism, exotic.

foreknowledge, n. prescience.

foremilk, n. colostrum.

foreordain, v. preordain, predestinate, foredoom, predetermine.

foreordination, n. predestination, predetermination.

forerun, v. precede, herald.

forerunner, n. precursor, harbinger, herald, avant-courier.

foreshadow, v. presage, presignify, prognosticate, prefigure, augur.

foresight, n. prescience, foreknowledge, prudence.

foreskin, n. prepuce. Associated Words: circumcise, circumcision,

preputial.

forest, n. wood, woodland, timber-land, woods, wold, wildwood.

Associated Words: sylvan, sylviculture, nemophilist, nemophily, nemoral,

afforest, afforestation, Silenus, hamadryad, glade, reforestize,

reforestation, reboise, reafforest, forestry, forester, disboscation,

disforest disforestation, hag, assart, camass, cruise, cruiser.

forestall, v. anticipate; preoccupy, monopolize.

foretell, v. predict, prophesy, prognosticate, augur, presage,

portend, forebode, bode, divine, foreshadow, presignify.

foreteller, a. See prophet.

foretelling, a. prophetic, prognostic, portentous, predictive,

oracular, augurial, divinatory.

foretelling, n. prediction, prophecy, foreshowing, prognostication,

augury, presage, foreboding, presignification, divination, oracle.

forethought, a. aforethought, prepense, deliberate.

forethought, n. premeditation, prescience, forecast, precaution,

prudence, providence.

foretoken, n. omen, prognostic, premonition, sign, augury.

forever, adv. eternally, continually, perpetually, everlastingly.

forewarning, n. premonition.--a. premonitory.

forfeit, n. forfeiture, philopena; fine, mulct, penalty, amercement.

forge, n. smithy, stithy, smithery.

forger, n. fabricator, falsifier, counterfeiter.

forgery, n. counterfeiting, falsification, counterfeit, pseudograph,

pseudography; (Civ. Law) _falsi crimen_.

forgetfulness, n. amnesty, amnesia, oblivion, Lethe; ecmnesia.

forget-me-not, n. myosotis.

forgivable, a. pardonable, venial.

forgive, v. pardon, excuse, absolve, condone, exculpate, connive,

acquit.

forgiveness, n. pardon, remission, absolution, condonation,

acquittal, indulgence.

forgiving, a. compassionate, indulgent, placable, remissive.

Antonyms: unforgiving, implacable.

forgo, v. omit, relinquish, let slip.

fork, n. fourchette; divarication, branch, crotch; prong, tine; pew,

grain.

fork, v. ramify, branch, divaricate.

forked, a. furcated, bifurcated, crotched, zigzag.

forked support. crotchet.

forlorn, a. deserted, forsaken, lorn, disconsolate, lonesome.

form, n. shape, structure, configuration, figure, conformation, cast,

mould, _tournure_; formula, ritual; formality, ceremonial,

conventionality; symmetry; image, phantom; mould, pattern, model.

form, v. shape, fashion, mould.

formal, a. ceremonial, express, explicit, punctilious, methodical,

prim, ceremonious, conventional.

formality, n. ceremoniousness, precision, punctiliousness, ceremony;

conventionality.

formative, a. plastic, creative.

former, a. antecedent, preceding, previous, prior, foregoing, bygone,

quondam, _ci-devant_.

formerly, adv. heretofore, aforetime.

formless, a. shapeless, amorphous, chaotic.

formula, n. ritual, ceremony, ceremonial; rule, principle; recipe.

formulary, n. ritual, ceremonial, rule, formula.

forsake, v. quit, abandon, leave; renounce, reject, relinquish,

forswear.

forsaken, a. abandoned, deserted, derelict, lorn.

forsaking, n. desertion, abandonment.

forswear, v. renounce, abjure, disavow.

fort, n. fortress, fortification, citadel, fastness, stronghold,

bulwark, redoubt.

forthwith, adv. immediately, directly, instantly.

fortification, n. See fort.

fortress, n. See fort.

fortunate, a. lucky, favored; auspicious, favorable. Antonyms: See

unfortunate.

fortune-teller, n. chiromancer, palmist, chirosophist, fatiloquist,

sibyl.

fortune-telling, n. chiromancy, palmistry.

forty-niner, n. Argonaut.

forum, n. tribunal.

forward, a. anterior, fore; overready, presumptuous, brazen,

impertinent, obtrusive, intrusive; premature, precocious.

forward, v. advance, promote, accelerate, expedite, further;

transmit, send, ship.

forwarding, n. transmission.

fossil, n. Associated Words: paleontology, paleontography,

ichnology, fossiliferous, _in situ_.

fossilist, n. paleontologist.

fossilization, n. fossilification, lapidification.

fossilize, v. petrify, lapidify; mummify.

fossilized, a. petrified; antiquated, old-fashioned.

foster, v. nourish, nurse, support; promote, encourage, advance.

foul, a. filthy, squalid, dirty, polluted; scurrilous, abusive,

obscene, insulting, blasphemous, vituperative, vulgar; shameful,

detestable, odious, abominable, loathsome, disgusting, repulsive,

offensive; unpropitious, unfavorable; feculent, roily, turbid, dreggy,

dreggish.

foul, v. defile, soil, dirty, pollute.

foul-mouthed, a. scurrilous, opprobrious, abusive; blasphemous,

profane, obscene, smutty.

found, v. establish, plant, institute; cast, form, mould.

foundation, n. substructure, base, groundwork; founding

establishment; endowment; grillage. Antonym: superstructure. Associated

words: fundamental, basic, caisson.

founder, n. establisher, institutor, father, planter, originator,

moulder; closh.

founder, v. fall, stumble; fail, miscarry.

fount, n. spring, fountain.

fountain, n. fount, spring, _jet d'eau_; source, fountainhead,

origin; Castalia.

four, n. quaternion, quaternary, tetrad, quadruplet, quartette;

quadruplets. Associated Words: quadrisection quadripartite,

quadripartition, quadruplication, quarter, quadruply, quadruple.

four cities. tetrapolis.

fourfold, a. quadruple, quadruples, quadruplicate.

four-footed, a. quadruped.

four-handed, a. quadrumanous.

four-handed animals. Quadrumana.

four hundred. Associated Word: quadrigenarious.

four-sided, a. quadrangular, square, quadrilateral, tetragonal,

tetrahedral.

four-sided figure. square, tetragon, quadrangle, rhombus.

foursquare, a. quadrangular.

fourth, n. quarter.

four years, quadrennium. Associated Words: quadrennial,

quadrennially.

fox, n. Reynard, Renard, tod, Charlie. Associated Words: vulpine,

vulpicide, skulk.

foxglove, n. digitalis.

foxy, a. cunning, sly, wily, crafty.

foyer, n. greenroom.

fracas, n. brawl, uproar, disturbance, quarrel.

fractious, a. unruly, perverse, irritable, ugly, waspish.

fracture, n. rupture, breach, breaking.

fragile, a. brittle, frangible, frail, delicate.

fragility, n. brittleness, frangibility, frailty.

fragment, n. remnant, chip, scrap, flinder, piece, flitter.

fragmentary, a. disconnected, fractional, incomplete.

fragrance, n. perfume, aroma, redolence. Antonyms: fetor, stench,

inodorousness.

fragrant, a. sweet-smelling, redolent, aromatic, balmy,

sweet-scented. Antonyms: inodorous, scentless, fetid.

frail, a. fragile, brittle, frangible; feeble, weak, infirm.

frailty, n. fragility, frangibility, brittleness; imperfection,

fault, defect.

frame, v. devise, plan, contrive, compose; invent, fabricate; adjust,

fit, conform.

framework, n. frame, skeleton.

frank, a. candid, unreserved, outspoken, ingenuous, undisguised.

frankness, n. candor, unreserve, ingenuousness.

frantic, a. distracted, frenzied, crazed, raving.

fraternal, a. brotherly.

fraternity, n. brotherhood, brotherliness.

fraud, n. imposture, deceit, humbug, duplicity, imposition,

chicanery, wile, circumvention, guile, hypocrisy, malversation, graft,

surreption. Associated Words: collude, collusion, collusive, connivance.

fraudulent, a. deceptive, wily, crafty, subtle, surreptitious,

knavish.

fraught, a. laden, freighted, charged, pregnant.

fray, n. fight, battle, combat, broil, affray; fret, chafe.

frazzle, v. fray, tatter.

frazzle, n. tag end, tatter.

freak, n. whim, vagary, caprice, whimsey, humor, crotchet, fancy.

freakish, a. whimsical, capricious, fanciful, erratic, crotchety,

vagarious.

freckle, n. lentigo, lenticula.

freckled, a. spotted, lentiginous.

free, v. liberate, manumit, disinthrall, deliver, emancipate,

release, enfranchise, disengage, exonerate, acquit, extricate,

disentangle.

free, a. exempt, immune, independent, unrestrained; liberated, freed,

released, emancipated, delivered; unconstrained, unreserved, informal,

familiar, frank, ingenuous, communicative, artless, candid; gratuitous,

spontaneous, voluntary, optional; liberal, open-handed, generous,

bountiful, lavish, flush, munificent, hospitable; unrestrained,

immoderate, prodigal, dissolute, lax; ready, eager, prompt, willing.

Antonyms: subject, reserved, formal, coercive, arbitrary, restrained,

bound.

free and easy. (Colloq.) informal, unceremonious, unrestrained.

freebooter, n. buccaneer, pillager, pirate, sea robber.

freebooting, n. plunder, pillaging, robbery.

freedom, n. exemption, immunity; liberty, independence,

self-government, autonomy; privileges, immunities, franchises; ease,

facility, unconstraint, laxity; candor, frankness, informality;

latitudinarianism. Antonyms: subjection, liability, dependence,

heteronomy, reserve, constraint, subordination, repression.

free-handed, a. liberal, open-handed, lavish.

freeing, n. emancipation, manumission, liberation, release,

disinthrallment, enfranchisement, extrication, disengagement, discharge,

exoneration.

free-liver, n. epicure, epicurean, voluptuary, _bon vivant_.

free-living, n. epicurism.

freely, adv. bounteously, readily, abundantly, gratuitously,

voluntarily, liberally, copiously, spontaneously, unreservedly.

free-thinker, n. infidel, unbeliever, skeptic.

free-will, a. voluntary.

freezable, a. congealable.

freeze, v. congeal.

freezing, n. congelation, congealment.

freight, n. cargo, lading, load; freightage.

Frenchism, n. Gallicism.

French policeman. gendarme.

French Protestant. Huguenot.

frenzied, a. distracted, frantic.

frenzy, n. distraction, rage, fury, delirium.

frequenter, n. habitué.

freshen, v. refresh, revive, renovate, renew.

fresh-water, a. fresh, unsalted; unskilled, raw, inexperienced,

untrained.

fret, v. chafe, abrade, fray, rub; gnaw, corrode; roughen, ruffle,

agitate; worry, harass, tease, irritate, vex, fume, rankle.

fret, n. vexation, agitation, irritation; herpes, tetter, ringworm;

whelk, wale, ridge.

fretful, a. irritable, petulant, querulous, peevish, captious,

spleeny.

fribbling, a. frivolous, trifling.

friction, n. abrasion, attrition, confrication, rubbing; clashing,

disagreement.

friend, n. wellwisher, intimate, confidante, chum, associate; patron,

advocate, adherent, supporter; ally, confrère; Quaker.

friendliness, n. comity, amity, good will, amicability.

friendly, a. amicable, favorable, kind; fraternal, hospitable,

neighborly, cordial; favorable, propitious, salutary, advantageous.

Antonyms: See unfriendly.

friendship, n. amity, intimacy, amicability, friendliness.

Antonyms: enmity, estrangement, alienation, disaffection, hostility,

aloofness.

fright, n. alarm, fear, consternation, terror, dismay; ogre,

scarecrow, guy, dowdy.

frighten, v. terrify, alarm, scare, intimidate, dismay, affright,

daunt, appall, terrorize.

frightful, a. terrible, dreadful, hideous, ogreish, fearful,

alarming, grewsome, grim, dire, direful, awful, Gorgonian, horrible.

frill, n. ruffle, gathering, furbelow.

fringe, n. edging, margin, confine, border, fimbriation.

fringed, a. fimbriate, fimbriated, fimbricate.

frisk, n. frolic, gambol.--v. leap, skip, gambol, frolic, play.

frisky, a. frolicsome, sportive, coltish, playful, gay.

frivolous, a. trivial, trifling, petty, puerile, insignificant.

friz, v. curl, crisp, frizzle.--n. curl, frizzle.

frizzle, n. curl, friz.--v. curl, crisp, frizz.

frock, n. gown; smock-frock; soutane, cassock.

frog-eating, a. ranivorous, batrachophagous.

frogs, n. pl. Associated Words: Batrachomyomachy, ranarium,

amphibious, batrachoid, batrachian, ranine.

frolic, n. prank, lark, gambol, escapade, fun.

frolicsome, a. playful, prankish, sportive, frisky.

from head to foot. throughout, completely, cap-a-pie.

front, n. facade; obverse, face; van, fore-rank, front rank.--a.

anterior, foremost.

frost, n. rime, hoarfrost; uncordiality, unsociability, reserve.

frosting, n. icing.

frosty, a. cold, icy; uncordial, distant, aloof, unsociable;

pruinose.

froth, n. spume, foam.

frothing, n. rant.

frothy, a. spumy, foamy, spumous; trivial, frivolous, unsubstantial.

froward, a. refractory, unyielding, disobedient, insubmissive,

untoward.

frown, n. scowl, lower, glower.

frowning, a. scowling, lowering, glowering, stern.

frowzy, a. strong-smelling, fetid, rank, musty, rancid, malodorous;

slatternly, disordered, untidy, disheveled, dowdy.

frugal, a. economical, saving, sparing, thrifty, provident.

frugality, n. economy, parsimony, thriftiness, thrift.

fruit, n. produce, harvest, crop; offspring, consequence, result,

outcome, fruitage.

fruit, n. fruitage, fruitery. Associated Words: pomology, Pomona,

pomologist, carpology, carpologist, carpophagous, drupe, carpomania,

raceme, fructiferous, fructify, fructification, bletting, pulp, rind,

orchard, nursery, pepinnery, fruitchafer, pomiculture, sarcocarp.

fruit-eating, a. frugivorous, fructivorous, carpophagous.

fruiterer, n. fruit-dealer, costermonger, coster.

fruitful, a. prolific, productive, fertile, frugiferous, fecund,

bountiful.

fruitless, a. unfruitful, infertile, infecund, acarpous, barren;

unavailing, useless, vain.

fruit-seller, n. fruiterer, coster, costermonger (peddler).

fruit sugar. levulose.

frump, n. (Colloq.) gossip.

frustrate, v. baffle, defeat, disappoint, foil, balk, thwart,

circumvent, nullify.

frustration, n. defeat, disappointment, balking, foiling,

nullification.

frying-pan, n. spider, skillet.

fuddled, a. muddled, tipsy, drunk, intoxicated, boozy, groggy.

fudge, n. See balderdash.

fuel, n. combustibles.

fugitive, a. fleeing; evanescent, short-lived, fugacious, volatile,

ephemeral, impermanent, transient.

fugitive, n. runaway, runagate, renegade, deserter.

fulfill, v. accomplish, complete, consummate, realize, satisfy, fill,

answer, meet; discharge, perform.

fulfillment, n. consummation, accomplishment, fruition, realization;

discharge, performance.

full, a. filled up, replete; copious, ample, plethoric, plenteous,

bountiful, abundant, liberal; complete, plenary; sated, surfeited, cloyed,

glutted, gorged, saturated; engrossed with.

full swing. _carte blanche_, liberty, unrestraint.

fulsome, a. offensive, nauseous, disgusting, excessive, gross,

immoderate.

fume, n. exhalation, reek, smoke, steam, vapor.

fume, v. smoke, reek; storm, rage, bluster.

fun, n. merriment, mirth, gayety, frolic, jest, pleasantry,

drollery, waggery, waggishness, facetiousness, divertisement amusement,

relaxation, jocularity.

function, n. duty, province, office, business, part; discharge,

performance, execution; party, entertainment, festivity, reception.

fundament, n. buttocks.

fundamental, a. basal, elementary, original, essential, radical.

fundamentally, adv. primarily, essentially, radically.

funeral, n. obsequies.

funeral director. undertaker.

funeral oration. éloge.

funeral pile. pyre.

funeral song. dirge, elegy, requiem.

funereal, a. exequial, mournful, solemn, sad.

Fungi, n. pl. Thallophytes (toadstools_, _mushrooms_, _etc.).

Associated Words: spawn, spore, mycophagy, fungivorous, mycetophagous,

amanitine, mycelium, fungic, fungicide, fungoid, fungiform, fungous,

mycologist.

fungology, n. mycology.

fungus, n. thallogen, thallophyte; granulation, proud flesh.

funk, v. stink; (Colloq.) flinch, recoil, shrink back.

funk, n. (Colloq.) recoiling, flinching; shirk, coward.

funnel, n. tunnel.

funnel-shaped, a. infundibular, infundibulate, infundibuliform.

funny, a. comic, comical, amusing, droll, laughable, farcical, witty,

jocular, jocose, ludicrous, burlesque, facetious, risible, absurd,

waggish, humorous, jesting.

fur, n. peltry, pelage. Associated Words: furrier, furriery,

tippet, pelisse.

furbelow, n. flounce, frill, ruffle.

furbish, v.polish, burnish, scour, clean.

Furies, n. pl. Erinyes, Eumenides (Tisiphone, Alecto Megæra).

furious, a. infuriated, angry, raging, violent, frenzied, turbulent,

fierce.

furnish, v. supply, provide, contribute, bestow, purvey, cater.

furniture, n. goods, movables. Associated Words: cabinet-maker,

cabinet-making, upholstering, shook.

furthermore, adv. moreover, besides.

fury, n. wrath, rage, indignation, ire, frenzy; virago, termagant,

shrew, vixen, beldame, Xantippe; agitation, excitement, turbulence.

fuse, v. melt, liquefy, dissolve, smelt; commingle, blend,

amalgamate, intermix.

fusion, n. melting, fluidity; intermingling, amalgamation, coalition,

blending, intermixture.

fuss, n. ado, bustle, to-do, pother, agitation, excitement.

fuss, v. pother, fume, fret; disturb, annoy, bother.

fussy, a. fidgety, fastidious, finical, particular, scrupulous,

overnice, pernickety.

fustian, n. bombast, rant, rodomontade; twaddle, nonsense,

balderdash.

futile, a. vain, bootless, ineffectual, unavailing, abortive,

useless.

fuzz, n. down, pubescence.

fuzzy, a. downy, pubescent.

G

Gabble, n. gibberish, babble, prate, prating, chatter, jargon.

gabble, v. gibber, jabber, babble, prate, chatter.

gable, n. Associated Word: pediment.

gad, n. goad.

gag, v. silence, muzzle, muffle, hush, suppress; retch.

gag, n. muffler, muzzler, silencer.

gain, n. increase, profit, advantage, increment, acquisition,

accumulation, accretion, store, hoarding; emolument, lucre.

gain, v. get, acquire, achieve, win, obtain, attain; conciliate,

persuade, induce.

gainsay, v. contradict, dispute, deny, controvert, impugn.

gaiters, n. pl. spats, spatterdashes, leggings, gramashes, puttee.

gale, n. wind, tempest; excitement, confusion, flurry.

gall, n. bile; bitterness, rancor, spite, malignity.

gall, n. (Slang) impudence, audacity, effrontery, insolence.

gall, v. chafe, fret; vex, annoy, harass, worry, exasperate.

gallant, a. polite, deferential, courtly, chivalrous.

gallant, n. spark, beau, cicisbeo, philander; lover, suitor; seducer,

paramour.

gallantry, n. chivalry, bravery, heroism; courtliness, politeness,

deference; intrigue.

gall bladder. cholecystis.

gallery, n. balcony; corridor, passage, passageway; museum.

galloping, n. Associated Words: rataplan, tantivy.

gallstone, n. bilestone, biliary calculus.

galoot, n. (Slang) rowdy, blusterer.

galore, n. and a. plenty, abundance, in abundance, abounding.

gambler, n. gamester, card-sharper, blackleg, punter. Associated

words: decoy, croupier, capper, by-bidder.

gambol, v. caper, frolic, play, sport, frisk, curvet.

game, n. play, amusement, pastime, diversion, fun, sport; contest;

prey, quarry; scheme, plan, project, undertaking, enterprise, stratagem.

game, a. plucky, resolute, unyielding, courageous, unflinching,

indomitable, undaunted, unconquerable; (Colloq.) crippled, lame,

crooked, deformed.

gang, n. band, crew, company, group, crowd, set, squad, party,

number, clique.

gangling, a. (Colloq.) lanky, spindling.

gangrene, n. mortification, sphacelation.--v. mortify,

sphacelate.

gangrenous, a. mortified, mortifying, sphacelate.

gap, n. hiatus, rift, crevice, rent, interstice, chasm. See

opening.

gape, v. yawn, oscitate; gaze, stare.

gape, n. yawn, yawning, gaping, oscitancy, oscitation; rictus (the

gapes).

gaping, n. yawning, oscitancy, oscitation; staring.

garbage, n. offal, refuse, swill, waste. Associated Word:

scavenger.

garble, v. pervert, distort, falsify, misstate, wrench, misquote,

misrepresent.

garbling, n. perversion, distortion, falsification, misstatement,

misrepresentation.

gardener, n. horticulturist.

gardening, n. horticulture.

garland, n. wreath, chaplet, coronal, bays, laurel; anthology,

rosary.

garnish, v. embellish, beautify, decorate, trim, adorn.

garniture, n. garnish, garnishment, embellishment, decoration,

trimming.

garret, n. attic, cockloft.

gaseous, a. aëriform, gassy, gasiform; tenuous, thin, unsubstantial.

gash, v. slash, incise.

gash, n. incision, slash.

gasp, n. pant, panting.--v. pant.

gassing, n. (Slang) boasting, vaunt, gasconade, palaver, vapor,

moonshine.

gassy, a. gaseous, aëriform; (Slang) boastful, bombastic, vaporous,

inflated.

gate, n. entrance, portal; wicket; turnstile, turnpike; postern;

tollgate; sluice gate; stanch; herse, portcullis.

gather, v. congregate, assemble, convene, muster, collect,

concentrate; harvest, pick, glean, pluck, crop, reap; accumulate, amass,

hoard, garner; contract, compress; pucker, plait, ruffle, shirr; infer,

conclude, deduce; maturate.

gather, n. pucker, plait, ruffle, shirring.

gathering, n. collection, crowd, assembly, congregation, concourse,

assemblage, muster, party, company; accumulation, amassing, amassment;

abscess, imposthume, ulcer, boil, carbuncle, suppuration, maturation,

pustule.

gaudy, a. showy, flashy, meretricious, ostentatious, tawdry, garish.

gaunt, a. emaciated, pinched, attenuated, meager, lean.

gawk, n. gawky, booby, lout, simpleton, hind, boor.

gawky, a. ungraceful, clumsy, ungainly, loutish, boorish, uncouth.

gay, a. merry, sportive, frolicsome, lively, exhilarating, vivacious,

jolly, blithe, airy, boon, convivial, jovial, joyous; brilliant, dashing,

gallant, showy; garish, gaudy, flashing, tawdry; (Colloq.) loose,

dissolute, fast.

gayety, n. merriment, mirth, hilarity, sportiveness, conviviality,

joviality, light-heartedness, elation.

gear, n. rigging, tackle, gearing, mechanism, draught-gear;

accouterments, trappings.

geld, v. castrate.

gem, n. jewel.

general, a. indefinite, vague, ill-defined; prevalent, extensive;

usual, common, ordinary, regular. Antonyms: specific, definite.

generality, n. bulk, common run, mass, main body; universality,

generalness.

generalship, n. strategy.

generate, v. procreate, beget, engender, reproduce; originate,

produce, propagate.

generation, n. procreation, reproduction, prolification, begetting;

origination, production, formation.

generative, a. generating, procreative, genial.

generosity, n. magnanimity, nobleness; liberality, munificence,

bounty, bountifulness, beneficence, lavishsess.

generous, a. magnanimous, noble, highminded, ingenuous; munificent,

bountiful, open-handed, liberal, lavish, charitable, unstinted; abundant,

plentiful, overflowing. Antonyms: illiberal, ungenerous, stingy, scant,

miserly, penurious.

genial, a. generative, procreative; cheerful, pleasant, agreeable,

cordial, friendly, hearty.

genitals, n. pl. See sexual organs.

gentle, a. well-born, genteel, high-born; docile, tractable, tame,

subdued; mild, quiet, peaceable, meek, unobtrusive; bland, soothing,

pacific, clement, tender, humane; courteous, cultivated, deferential.

Antonyms: drastic, refractory, vicious, brusque, harsh, rough, severe,

rigorous, intractable, indocile.

gentleman, n. Antonyms: cad, boor, churl, Philistine, guy, lout.

gentlemanly, a. courteous, deferential, polite, urbane, gallant,

well-bred.

genuine, a. authentic, veritable, sterling, unmixed, real, pure;

sincere, heartfelt, unaffected. Antonyms: spurious, counterfeit, false,

supposititious, adulterated.

germ, n. origin, first principle; embryo, bud, seed, spore.

German, a. Teutonic.

german, a. related, allied.

German, n. Teuton.

German characteristic. Germanism, Teutonicism.

germane, a. related, allied, akin, relevant, appropriate.

German Federal Council. Bundesrath.

German House of Representatives. Reichstag.

German measles. rubella.

German silver. packfong.

germ destroyer. germicide.

gesture, n. gesticulation, gesturing.--v. gesticulate.

get, v. procure, obtain, acquire, secure, gain, achieve, attain,

realize; induce, persuade, prevail on, win; betake remove; receive; beget,

procreate, engender.

get ahead. advance, prosper, flourish, thrive, proceed; forestall.

getatable, a. (Colloq.) accessible. Antonym: inaccessible

get back. return; recover, recuperate, reclaim, retrieve, regain.

get clear. be acquitted, be released, escape.

get down. descend, alight, dismount.

get off. descend, alight, dismount; escape, be released, be

acquitted.

get on. mount; prosper, advance, progress.

get out. extricate, release.

get over. surmount, overcome, conquer; recover from.

getting, n. acquisition, obtaining, receiving, acquirement,

procurement.

gewgaw, n. bawble, gaud, knickknack, trifle, toy, trinket, bagatelle.

ghastly, a. cadaverous, ghostly, pallid, pale, horrible, shocking,

repulsive.

ghost, n. shade, phantom, apparition, spectre, spook, revenant,

sprite, wraith; spirit.

ghostly, a. spiritual; spectral, phantomlike.

ghost worship. sciotheism.

ghoul, n. vampire.

giant, n. colossus, monster, Hercules, Goliath, Titan, Cyclops,

Brobdingnagian, ogre.

gibberish, n. jargon, jabber, gabbling, babble, drivel.

gibe, v. scoff, flout, jeer, sneer, ridicule, deride, mock.

gibe, n. ridicule, sneer, sarcasm, derision, mockery.

giddy, a. fickle, mercurial, volatile, flighty, unstable, inconstant,

thoughtless; light-headed, dizzy, vertiginous.

gift, n. gratuity, present, largess, offering, grant, donation,

boon, bounty, bequest, benefaction, contribution, subsidy, legacy, alms,

donative, douceur, dotation, sportula; endowment, talent.

gifted, a. talented.

gigantic, a. enormous, colossal, Herculean, vast, Cyclopean,

prodigious, Titanic, Gargantuan, Brobdingnagian.

giggle, n. snicker, snigger, titter.

gimcrack, n. device, toy, plaything, trinket, knickknack, jiggumbob.

gin, n. trap, snare, springe, artifice, toils; windlass, crane;

Holland gin, schnapps.

gingerly, adv. carefully, cautiously, timidly, fastidiously.

giraffe, n. camelopard.

gird, v. encircle, engird, surround, equip, prepare.

girdle, n. cestus, sash, belt, band, cincture.

girl, n. maiden, maid, lass, lassie, damsel, miss, nymph, virgin;

domestic, maid, waitress; ingenue; soubrette; filly, gill; wench; hoiden,

hussy, minx; coleen (Anglo-Irish).

girlhood, n. maidenhood, virginity.

girth, n. belly-band; circumference.

gist, n. core, substance, pith, marrow, essence.

give, v. confer, bestow, accord, grant, vouchsafe, donate,

contribute, impart, yield, afford, assign. Antonyms: withhold, refuse.

give and take. exchange, interchange, reciprocate, alternate.

give back. return, restore, refund.

give in. yield, surrender, succumb, recede. Antonyms: resist,

withstand.

given, a. granted, assumed; disposed, inclined; stated, specified.

give off. emit, exhale.

give out. announce, proclaim, publish, report; fail, be inadequate,

be exhausted.

giver, n. donor.

give up. surrender, disgorge; yield, cease, desist, quit,

relinquish, waive, cede, succumb, abdicate, abandon, desert. Antonyms:

resist, withstand, continue, persist.

give way. withdraw, retire, recede; yield, collapse.

giving, n. conferring, bestowal, granting, benefaction.

giving and taking. reciprocity, reciprocation.

glad, a. pleased, delighted, happy, joyous, joyful, gratified,

rejoiced, merry, exhilarated, elated, cheery, animated, gladsome,

jubilant, felicitous, refreshing, exhilarating. Antonyms: sad,

sorrowful. See sad.

gladden, v. cheer, delight, please, exhilarate, gratify, buoy, elate,

rejoice.

gladness, n. delight, pleasure, elation, exhilaration, jubilation,

rejoicing.

glamour, n. charm, witchery, magic, spell; illusion, glitter,

delusion, glory. Antonyms: disillusionment, disenchantment.

glance, n. glimpse; allusion; gleam, flash, glitter.

glance, v. glimpse; allude, hint; gleam, beam, glitter.

glare, v. glitter, glisten, dazzle; frown, glower.

glaring, a. dazzling, intense, brilliant; flagrant, notorious,

barefaced.

glass, n. flint glass, crystal glass; aventurine; murrhine glass;

strass (artificial gems); schmelze (Bohemian glass); crystal,

obsidian.

glass, n. tumbler, goblet, bumper, beaker, schooner, bocal; decanter;

carafe; looking-glass, mirror, speculum, cheval glass, pier glass; lens,

spyglass, microscope, telescope, binocular, binocle, opera glass,

lorgnette, polyscope, altiscope, optigraph, prism, reflector, refractor;

hourglass; barometer; hydrometer; pipette; graduate; hygrometer; monocle;

cloche; bolthead, matrass.

glass, n. Associated Words: vitrifacture, vitrifaction, vitrics,

vitrify, vitriform, vitrified, vitrifiable, vitric, devitrify,

devitrification, glazier, glazing, crizzel, invitrifiable vitreous,

vitrescent, vitrescence, hyalography.

glasses, n. pl. spectacles, eye-glasses, pince-nez, goggles,

blinkers, barnacles, lorgnette, louchettes.

glassy, a. vitreous, crystalline, transparent, crystal.

Glauber's salt. sulphate of soda.

gleam, v. glimmer, glitter, radiate, beam, scintillate, sparkle.

gleam, n. beam, ray, glimmer, glance, flash; splendor, sparkle,

gleaming.

glee, n. merriment, joy, mirth, gayety.

gleeful, a. merry, gay, mirthful.

gleety, a. ichorous.

glib, a. smooth, slippery; fluent, voluble, bland, oily.

glimmering, n. glimmer, glimpse, inkling, glance.

glimpse, n. glance; flash; inkling.

glisten, v. sparkle, shine, gleam, flash, glitter, glister.

glister, v. sparkle, glisten, glitter.

glitter, n. brilliancy, shine, gleam, fulgency, radiance.

glitter, v. sparkle, gleam, glisten, glister.

glittering, a. sparkling, glistening, glistering, gleaming, bright,

tinsel.

globe, n. sphere, ball, orb.

gloom, n. gloominess, shadow; melancholy, depression, dejection,

despondency.

gloomy, a. dark, dismal, obscure, dim, shaded, lowering, overcast,

lurid; melancholy, dejected, sad, despondent, pessimistic, disheartened,

morose, crestfallen, glum, saturnine; disheartening, depressing,

discouraging.

glorious, a. magnificent, grand, resplendent, splendid, admirable,

noble, excellent; (Colloq.) hilarious, ecstatic, elated.

glory, n. fame, renown, honor, eminence, celebrity; pomp,

magnificence, splendor; pride, exultation, arrogance; halo, nimbus,

aureole. Antonyms: ignominy, dishonor, obscurity, ingloriousness, shame,

reproach.

glory, v. exult, boast, vaunt.

Glory be to the Father. _Gloria Patri_.

gloss, n. luster, polish, sheen, glaze, enamel; show, pretense;

commentary, note, annotation, comment, postil.

gloss, v. annotate, comment, illustrate; glaze, polish; palliate,

extenuate, gloss over.

glossy, a. shining, sleek, sheeny, lustrous, polished, glazed, glacé;

specious, plausible.

glove-maker, n. glover.

glowing, a. ardent, passionate, warm, flushed; luminous,

incandescent.

glue, v. cement, glutinate, agglutinate. Antonyms: unglue,

deglutinate.

glum, a. moody, dumpish, sullen, sulky, morose, sour.

glut, v. satiate, sate, cloy, surfeit; overfeed, overstock,

oversupply.

glut, n. superfluity, superabundance, overstock, excess.

glutton, n. gormandizer, belly-god, cormorant, gormand; wolverine.

gluttonous, a. voracious, gluttonish.

gluttony, n. voracity, gormandism.

gnawer, n. rodent; pl. Rodentia.

gnawing, a. rodent.

go, v. operate, pass, move, advance, repair, hark, budge, stir,

resort, frequent, wend; circulate; tend, conduce, contribute; depart;

reach, extend.

go, n. fashion, vogue, mode, custom, style; animation, mettle,

Spirit, fire; (Colloq.) energy, life, enterprise, push, perseverance,

stamina; (Slang) circumstance, occurrence, incident, happening, event.

goad, n. gad, prick; instigation, spur, stimulant.

goad, v. urge, incite.

goal, n. bourne, end, aim, destination.

goat, n. buck; Billy goat; Nanny goat; Capra; Capricorn.

goatish, a. hircine, caprine.

go back. return, recede, retreat, retrograde, back, withdraw.

go back on. (Colloq.) apostatize, desert, renounce, forsake, be

traitorous.

go before. precede, antecede.

goblin, n. gnome, hobgoblin, spectre, bugaboo.

go between. intervene, interpose, intercede, mediate.

go-between, n. middleman, agent, broker, procurer, factor,

intermediary, arbitrator, referee, intercessor, advocate, interagent,

negotiator.

go beyond. surpass, transcend, exceed, overstep, transgress.

go-by, n. neglect, ignoring, pretermission.

god, n. deity, divinity, idol. Associated Words: deify,

deification, apotheosize, apotheosis, theogony, Olympus, pantheon,

deicide, deifie, deiform, mythology, polytheism, monotheism, theomachy,

cuhemerism, monolatry, undeify, undeification, oracle.

God, n. the Supreme Being, the Creator, Jehovah, Infinite Spirit,

Deity, the First Cause, the Almighty; (Hebrew) Elohim, El Shaddai,

Adonai, Jah. Associated Words: theism, deism, atheism, theocracy,

theocrasy, theology, theomachy, pantheism, acosmism, pancosmism,

theocentric, thearchy, theomania, theosophy, theochristic, theodicy,

theophany, demiurge, anthropomorphism, anthropomorphology, tetragrammaton,

anthropopathism, psychotheism.

godfather, n. sponsor.

godless, a. irreligious, impious, atheistical, ungodly.

godlike, a. divine.

godlessness, n. irreligion, impiety, atheism, ungodliness.

godly, a. devout, religious, pious, saintly.

godmother, n. sponsor.

godsend, n. boon, windfall.

going, n. traveling; departure; exit, egress, exodus.

going back. return, recession, retreat, withdrawal, retrogradation.

going back on. apostasy, defection, renunciation, perfidy,

desertion, unfaithfulness.

going before. precedence, antecedence, priority.--a. precedent,

antecedent, prior, preceding.

going between. intercession, mediation, intervention, interposition,

arbitration.--a. mediatorial, intercessory, mediatory.

goiter, n. bronchocele, tracheocele.

gold, n. _aurum_; bullion, (uncoined gold). Associated words:

alchemist, alchemy, auriferous, alloy, assay, assayer, assaying, filigree,

aurated, auric, aureate, aurific, aurigraphy, aurivorous, aurocephalous,

platinum, aurous, billet, carat, chlorination, chrysography, cupel, foil,

cupellation, gild, orphrey, vermeil, gilded, gilding, gilt, orris,

amalgamated, goldsmith, bonanza, schlich, inaurate, inauration, ingot,

lingot, lode, nugget, ore, ormolu, pinchbeck, blick, Mannheim gold.

golden age. Associated Word: Saturnian.

gondolier, n. Associated Word: barcarolle (song).

goneness, n. (Colloq.) inanition, faintness, exhaustion, languor.

good, a. virtuous, worthy, moral, exemplary, conscientious, sterling,

meritorious, saintly, guileless; humane, altruistic, philanthropic,

benevolent, indulgent; desirable, excellent, expedient, commendable,

beneficial, auspicious, propitious, favorable; clever, dexterous,

competent, adroit, proficient, ready.

good, n. welfare, benefit, advantage, weal, well-being, utility,

interest; virtue, excellence, worth, character, value.

good-bye, n. farewell, adieu, _au revoir_.

good fellow. trump, brick, _bon vivant_.

good graces. favor, friendship, regard.

good humor. amiability, geniality, affability, complaisance.

good-looking, a. comely, handsome, pretty, personable.

good nature. amiability, benignity, geniality, complaisance, good

humor, affability.

good-natured, a. amiable, jovial, affable, complaisant, indulgent,

good-humored, genial.

goods, n. pl. chattels, effects, possessions; merchandise, wares,

commodities.

goose, n. gander (male goose); gosling (young goose); graylag,

ganza (wild goose); goslet; pl. geese; Anseres, Anseriformes.

Associated Words: anserene, anserous, gosherd, yang, honk, gaggle,

cackle.

goose, n. simpleton, gull, dupe, witling, numskull.

gore, v. stab, pierce, penetrate.--n. blood, cruor; gusset.

gorge, n. gully, defile, ravine, pass.

gorge, v. bolt, gulp, eat greedily; glut, stuff, satiate.

gorgeous, a. magnificent, elegant, resplendent, grand, splendid.

gossip, n. tattler, tale-bearer, frump, quidnunc; gossipry.

go to bed. retire.

gourd, n. calabash.

gout, n. podagra, arthritis.

govern, v. direct, control, regulate, command, reign, influence,

restrain, bridle, guide.

governable, a. manageable, obedient, submissive.

government, n. governance, sway, dominion, command, regency,

authority, regulation, administration. Antonyms: anarchy, license,

subjection.

governor, n. chief magistrate, executive. Associated Word:

gubernatorial.

gown, n. dress; robe; wrapper; cassock, soutane.

grab, v. seize, snatch, clutch, grasp, pluck.

grace, n. compassion, lenity, mercy, benevolence, love, excellence,

virtue; beauty, loveliness, gracefulness, comeliness; refinement,

elegance, courtliness, culture, polish; holiness, saintliness, sanctity,

devoutness.

grace, v. adorn, beautify, embellish; dignify, honor, exalt.

graceful, a. elegant, easy, willowy, courtly, polished. Antonyms:

See ungraceful.

graceless, a. depraved, abandoned, reprobate, shameless,

incorrigible.

gracious, a. merciful, lenient, beneficent, compassionate, benign,

tender; graceful, elegant; courteous, debonair, complaisant, urbane,

affable.

graduate, n. alumnus; pl. alumni.

graft, v. ingraft, march.

grafting, n. ingrafting, ingraftment, inarching.

grain, n. kernel, seed; cereals (edible grains); granule, pellet.

Associated Words: granary, sheaf, shock, farina, graniferous, chaff,

glume, grits, groats, grist, Ceres, flail, thrash, windrow, frumentaceous,

frumentation.

grain, n. fiber, texture; disposition, humor, temper; particle, whit,

mite, scintilla, atom, iota, jot, trace.

grain-eating, a. granivorous.

grainy, a. granular, granulate, granulated, granulous.

grand, a. august, imposing, sublime, stately, magnificent, splendid,

palatial, lofty, consummate, glorious, superb, elegant, majestic,

gorgeous, luxurious, impressive, dignified, illustrious, noble.

grandeur, n. splendor, magnificence, elegance, sublimity, majesty,

augustness.

grandfather, n. grandsire, patriarch.

grandiose, a. impressing, imposing; bombastic, turgid, declamatory,

grandiloquent.

grandmother, n. grandam.

grandparent, n. Associated Word: aval.

grant, v. convey, transfer, code; give, bestow, allot, deign,

vouchsafe; admit, concede, allow, comply, permit.

grant, n. conveyance, transfer, cession;, concession; gift, bounty,

subsidy.

grant back. recede.

grape-culture, n. viticulture.

grapes, n. pl. Associated Words: vineyard, vineyardist, arbor,

grapery, pergola, viticolous, marc, must, prokris, rape, coulure,

racemation, tartar, argol.

grape-sugar, n. glucose, dextrose, diabetic sugar, starch sugar.

grapple, v. seize, attack, clutch, grasp, struggle, wrestle, contend.

grappling dogs. spandogs.

grappling iron. grapnel, grab, grapple.

grasp, v. seize, clutch, clinch, clasp, gripe; struggle, wrestle;

comprehend, understand.

grasp, n. seizure, apprehension, gripe, clasp, grip, prehension;

hold, possession; comprehension, understanding.

grasping, a. avaricious, sordid, covetous, niggardly, greedy.

grass, n. herbage, pasture, pasturage; sward, sod, greensward, lawn,

esplanade. Associated Words: agrostology, agrostologist, agrostography,

gramineous, graze, palea, graminology, gramineal, swath, rowen, aftermath,

turf, tussock, hassock, aftergrass, fog, glume, graminaceous.

grass-eating, a. graminivorous, herbivorous.

grass-eating animals. Herbivora.

grateful, a. thankful. Antonym: ungrateful.

gratification, n. satisfaction, indulgence, enjoyment, fruition,

pleasure, delight.

gratify, v. satisfy, indulge, content, delight, humor, Antonyms:

deny, mortify.

grating, a. harsh, jarring, rasping, discordant.

gratitude, n. thankfulness. Antonym: ingratitude.

gratuitous, a. spontaneous, free, voluntary; unrepaid, unrequited;

uncalled for, unwarranted, unfounded.

grave, a. important, momentous, serious; sober, solemn, staid,

demure, sedate, quiet, thoughtful, subdued, sepulchral.

grave, n. tomb, sepulcher, charnel-house, ossuary, sepulture;

tumulus, barrow.

grave-clothes, n. pl. cerements, shroud, winding-sheet.

gravel, n. pebbles, grit, shingle; arena; gravelstone, pebble,

calculus.

graven, a. carved, sculptured.

graver, n. engraver, sculptor; burin.

grave wax. adipocere.

gray, a. hoary; slate, drab, maltese, mouse-colored.

grease, n. lubricant, fat.--v. lubricate.

greaser, n. lubricant, lubricator.

greasy, a. sebaceous, oily, unctuous, oleaginous, fatty.

great, a. immense, enormous, prodigious, gigantic; numerous,

countless; superior, excellent, admirable; eminent, famous, illustrious,

distinguished, renowned, famed, noted; egregious, flagrant, serious,

grievous; fabulous, excessive, immoderate, exorbitant.

greatest, a. supreme, superlative, utmost, maximum.

greatest good. _summum bonum_.

great-hearted, a. magnanimous.

great-heartedness, n. magnanimity.

great spirit. Manito (Amer. Ind.)

greediness, n. avarice, voracity, avidity, covetousness, rapacity,

gluttony, insatiableness, cupidity.

greedy, a. avaricious, grasping; sordid, covetous; insatiable,

ravenous, voracious, gluttonous, rapacious; insatiate.

greedy-gut, n. (Low) glutton, gormand.

Greek, a. Grecian, Hellenic.

Greek, n. Grecian, Hellene; Romaic, Hellenic, Neo-Hellenic.

Greek, n. (Colloq.) mystery.

green, a. verdant, emerald, virid, virescent; immature, unripe; raw,

untrained, callow, unsophisticated, awkward, inexperienced, unskilled,

undisciplined, gullible; unseasoned; fresh, undecayed. Antonyms: sear,

parched, seasoned, ripe, experienced, veteran.

greenhorn, n. (Colloq.) tyro, novice, gull, dupe, yahoo, gudgeon.

greenhouse, n. conservatory.

green manuring. sideration.

greenness, n. verdancy, viridity, verdure; rawness, immaturity,

unripeness; inexperience, unsophisticatedness, gullibility..

greensand, n. marl.

green-sickness, n. chlorosis.

greet, v. address, salute, hail, accost.

greeting, n. salutation, salute.

grief, n. anguish, sorrow, heartbreak, regret, remorse, dolor,

misery, heartache, woe, tribulation, rue, affliction, bereavement, trial,

adversity, distress, grievance.

grievance, n. wrong, injustice, resentment, trouble, complaint,

gravamen (Law).

grieve, v. mourn, regret, lament, rue, weep, sorrow, bewail, deplore;

wound, afflict, try, distress, pain.

grievous, a. afflictive, distressing, deplorable, lamentable,

painful; heinous, atrocious, flagitious, outrageous, flagrant, egregious,

nefarious; plaintive, pitiful.

grill, n. gridiron, broiler.

grilling, n. broiling, grillade.

grimy, a. begrimed.

grind, v. crush, powder, pulverize, comminute, bruise, bray,

triturate, levigate; harass, persecute, oppress.

grind, n. grinding, pulverization; (Slang) drudgery; (Slang) dig.

grinder, n. abradant.

grinding, n. pulverization, trituration, crushing,

levigation.--a. abradant.

grinding stone. millstone, muller, metate.

grip, n. clutch, grasp; (Colloq.) grippe.

grip, n. (Colloq.) gripsack, valise, satchel, traveling-bag.

grip, v. seize, clutch, grasp, clinch.

gripes, n. pl. colic.

griping, n. gripes, colic.

grippe, n. influenza.

gristle, n. cartilage.

gristly, a. cartilaginous.

grit, n. firmness, resolution, courage, fortitude, spirit,

determination.

gritty, a. sandy; (Colloq.) unyielding, plucky, spirited,

determined, resolute.

grizzly bear. Ephraim (Hunter's name).

groan, n. and v. moan.

grogblossom, n. rosedrop, rosy whelk.

grogshop, n. dramshop, saloon.

groom, n. valet; hostler, stable-man; bridegroom.

groove, n. rut, channel, furrow; chamfret, rabbet, fluting; stria,

striation.

groove, v. channel, furrow; chamfer, flute.

grooved, a. channeled, chamfered, fluted, striated.

gross, n. aggregate.

grotesque, a. fantastic, bizarre, outlandish, baroque, whimsical.

grouchy, a. (Colloq.) unamiable, sullen, surly, cynical, morose,

cross.

ground, n. soil, earth, dirt, clod, loam, mould, clay, land; premise,

reason, consideration, motive, inducement, reason; terra-firma.

ground hog. woodchuck, American marmot.

groundless, a. unfounded, chimerical, baseless, unauthorized.

grounds, n. pl. settlings, sediment, dregs, precipitate.

ground squirrel. chipmunk, hackee.

groundwork, n. foundation, basis, base.

group, n. cluster, assemblage, crowd.

grouty, a. (Colloq.) unamiable, sulky, sullen, cynical, surly,

morose.

grovel, v. crawl, sneak, cringe, wallow, fawn.

groveling, a. debased, abject, servile, sneaking.

grow, v. increase, extend, augment, wax, accrue, develop, expand,

mature, flourish, thrive; vegetate, sprout, pullulate, germinate,

bourgeon; raise, cultivate. Antonyms: wane, atrophy, blast, diminish,

stunt, stagnate.

grower, n. cultivator.

growing, a. developing, waxing, increasing, flourishing.

growing together. accretion, concretion, coalescence.--a.

coalescent, accretive.

growl, n. grumble, snarl, gnarl.

growler, n. grumbler, snarler, murmurer, cynic, pessimist,

misanthrope.

growth, n. growing, development, accretion, extension, increase,

augmentation, increment, enlargement; excrescence hypertrophy, overgrowth;

germination, cultivation, pullulation, sprouting. Antonyms: atrophy,

decrease, blasting, undevelopment.

grow together. coalesce, concrete, accrete

grub, v. drudge, slave, moil; root out, uprooc, eradicate.

grub, n. caterpillar, maggot, larva, grubworm.

grub-ax, n. mattock.

grudge, n. ill-will, hatred, antipathy, rancor, aversion, enmity,

resentment, envy.

grudge, v. begrudge, resent, envy.

grudgeful, a. envious, resentful.

grudgingly, adv. unwillingly, reluctantly, sullenly, enviously

resentfully.

gruff, a. ungracious, brusque, surly, rude, impolite, stern.

grum, a. morose, surly, sour, glum; guttural, low, rumbling.

grumble, v. murmur, repine, complain, croak; growl, snarl.

grumbler, n. complainer, croaker, fault-finder, growler.

grumpy, a. (Colloq.) surly, disgruntled, grouty, irritable, sullen.

guarantee, n. warranty, security, surety.

guard, v. protect, defend, shield, shelter, fortify, preserve.

Antonym: expose.

guard, n. guardsman, watch, watchman, sentinel, patrol, sentry,

picket; convoy, escort, body-guard; defense, protection, shield,

safeguard, bulwark, armor; attention, heed, watch, circumspection.

Associated Word: cordon.

guarded, a. cautious, wary, circumspect, careful, reserved,

non-committal.

guardian, n. defender, guard, tutelary saint, keeper, warden,

protector, defense, guardian angel. Antonyms: ward, protégé.

guardian, a. tutelary, protecting, tutelar.

guardianship, n. protection, care, watch, wardenship, tutelage.

guess, v. conjecture, speculate, surmise; think, suppose, presume,

apprehend, believe, daresay, opine.

guess, n. conjecture, surmise, supposition, speculation.

guesswork, n. conjecture.

guide, v. pilot, steer, direct, govern, conduct.

guide, n. conductor, pilot, director; cicerone; polestar; rudder,

regulator; mentor, monitor, counsellor; key, clew.

guidebook, n. itinerary.

guiding star. loadstar, polestar, Cynosure.

guild, n. society, association, fraternity, corporation, brotherhood.

guile, n. subtlety, cunning, wiliness, deceit, insincerity, artifice.

guileful, a. deceitful, crafty, artful, wily, subtle, designing.

guileless, a. innocent, artless, sincere, undesigning, ingenuous.

guilt, n. criminality, guiltiness, complicity, culpability, crime;

wrong, offense, transgression, sin. Antonyms: innocence, inculpability.

guiltless, a. inculpable, blameless, innocent.

guilty, a. culpable, punishable, criminal, peccant, sinful.

guise, n. way, custom, manner, mien; garb, shape, appearance, dress,

cloak.

gulch, n. gully, ravine.

gulf, n.abyss, chasm; vortex, whirlpool, rapids, maelstrom; bay.

gulfweed, n. sargasso.

gull, n. cheat, swindle, humbug, fraud; dupe, gudgeon, cully; seamew,

mew, cob.

gullet, n. esophagus.

gullible, a. credulous.

gully, n. gulch, ravine, gorge, couloir.

gumboll, n. parulis.

gummy, a. viscous, adhesive.

gumption, n. (Colloq.) shrewdness, sagacity, discernment, acumen,

common sense.

gum-yielding, a. guttiferous.

gun, n. firearm, weapon, rifle, shotgun, blunderbuss, musket,

flobert, pistol, revolver, derringer, cannon, swivel gun, matchlock,

breech-loader, stanchion gun, arquebus, Krupp gun, Winchester, howitzer,

gatling gun, flintlock. Associated Words: bayonet, gunsmith, bore,

caliber, trigger, hammer, ramod, armory, armorer, gunsmithery, holster.

gun-cotton, n. pyroxylin.

gunner, n. cannoneer.

gunroom, n. wardroom.

guns, n. pl. artillery, ordnance, cannon, armament, arms.

gunsmith, n. armorer, gunmaker.

gunwale, n. portoise.

gush, v. rush, pour, stream, spout.

gushing, a. rushing, pouring; (Colloq.) effusive, demonstrative,

ebullient, sentimental.

gusto, n. enjoyment, appreciation, relish, taste.

gut, n. intestine.--v. disembowel, eviscerate.

guts, n. pl. intestines, bowels, entrails.

gutter, n. eaves trough, cullis; conduit, channel, drain, rindle;

groove.

guttersnipe, n. (Slang) street Arab, gamin.

gutting, n. disembowelment, evisceration.

guy, n. guy-rope, stay, shore; scarecrow, dowdy, fright, effigy.

guy, v. steady, guide, shore, stay (with a rope); (Colloq.) fool,

baffle, ridicule.

gymnast, n. athlete.

gymnastic, a. athletic, calisthenic.

gymnastics, n. pl. athletics, calisthenics.

gypsy, n. Romany, Bohemian; Romany, Romanes (language); schemer,

sharper.

gypsy, a. nomadic, vagabond.

H

Habit, n. wont, custom, practice, usage, habitude, addiction, way,

routine.

habitual, a. wonted, customary, regular, accustomed.

habituate, v. accustom, addict, inure, familiarize. Antonyms:

disaccustom, wean.

hag, n. vixen, virago, termagant, harridan, fury, Jezebel, beldame.

haggard, a. gaunt, emaciated, hollow-eyed.

haggle, v. hack, hackle; chaffer, higgle.

haggler, n. higgler, chafferer.

hail, v. accost, salute, address, signal.

hail-storm, n. Associated Words: paragrandine, paragrêle.

hair, n. bristle; pubescence; pubes; tentaculum, palpus; lock, tress;

coiffure; chignon; forelock. Associated Words: trichology, depilatory,

depilitant, depilate, depilation, disheveled, bandeau, barrette, tonsure,

pomade, follicle, sac, fillet, ecdysis, endysis, bandoline, piliferous,

piliform, piligerous, coiffeur, tousled.

hairiness, n. hirsuteness, hirsuties, pubescence, villosity,

capillament, hypertrichosis.

hairless, a. bald, glabrous, depilous.

hairsplitting, a. subtle, fine.

hair-worm, n. gordius.

hairy, a. hirsute, shaggy, bristly, pubescent.

half, adv. partially, imperfectly.

half, n. moiety.

half-blooded, a. hybrid, mongrel, degenerate, half-breed.

half-hearted, a. indifferent, lukewarm, perfunctory.

half-moon, n. crescent. Associated Word: semilunar.

halfway, adv. in the middle, imperfectly, partially.--a.

intermediate, midway.

half-witted, a. imbecile, defective, silly, dull-witted, witless.

half-yearly, a. semi-annual, bi-annual.

hall, n. auditorium, lyceum; vestibule, entry, court; corridor,

passage, lobby; manor-house; odeon.

hallow, v. consecrate, venerate, reverence, sanctify, bless.

hallowed, a. holy, sacred, consecrated, dedicated, blessed,

sanctified.

hallucination, n. aberration, chimera, fallacy, self-deception,

delusion, phantasm, illusion.

halo, n. nimbus, glory, aureola, aureole.

haloed, a. glorified, aureoled.

halve, v. bisect, dimidiate.

halving, n. bisection, dichotomy, dimidiation.

hammer, n. sledge, sledge-hammer, maul, mallet, beetle, gavel, kevel,

crandall, marteline. Associated Words: peen, hephestic, poll.

hammer, v. beat, forge, malleate, beetle.

hammer and tongs. vigorously, forcibly, energetically.

hamper, v. fetter, shackle, impede, restrain, hinder, encumber,

embarrass.

hamper, n. hanaper; shackle, fetter, restraint, impediment.

hamstring, n. hough.--v. disable, cripple, lame, hough.

hand, n. paw, manus. Associated Words: chirology, chiromancy,

palmistry, chiropody, chiropodist, chirognomy, chirographer,

chirographist, chirogymnast, chirologist, cheirosophy, manicure,

chiromancer, manual, chirography, ambidextral, ambidextrous,

ambidexterity, ambidexter, achirous, chiragra, fist, manacle, castanets,

mount, discriminal, bimanual, bimanous.

handbag, n. satchel, reticule.

handbook, n. manual, guidebook, _vade mecum_, hornbook, enchiridion.

handcuff, n. manacle, fetter, shackle.

hand down. transmit (in succession).

handle, n. bail; hilt, haft.

handy, a. dexterous, adroit, ready; convenient.

hang, v. suspend; dangle; execute; droop, drop; append, attach;

depend, rest; hover, impend, threaten; lean, incline, slope; lynch.

hang, n. (Colloq.) connection, arrangement, plan.

hang back. hesitate, falter, be reluctant.

hangdog, a. sneaking, ashamed, shamefaced, guilty.

hanger-on, n. tagtail, satellite, parasite, sycophant, dependant,

vassal, minion, sponger, toady, heeler, toadeater, fawner, votary.

hanging, a. suspended, pendent, pendulous, pensile, dangling.

hanging, n. suspension; execution; drapery, valance, tapestry,

dorsal, lambrequin. Associated Words: gallows gibbet.

hanging on. persistence, tenacity, importunity.

hangman, n. executioner.

hangnail, n. agnail.

hang out. project, protrude.

hang over. impend, project.

hang to. cling.

hanker, v. long for, yearn, crave, covet, lust.

hankering, n. longing, craving, yearning.

haphazard, n. chance, accident, random.

happen, v. occur, befall, betide; supervene, intervene.

happiness, n. felicity, blessedness, delight, gladness, pleasure,

ecstasy, bliss, rapture, merriment, mirth, elation, beatitude, joy.

Antonyms: sorrow, grief. Associated Words: eudemonics, eudemonist,

eudemonism, eudemonic, beatify, beatification, hedonics, hedonist,

hedonic, hedonism, felicific, felicitate, felicitation.

happy, a. joyous, light-hearted, gay, blissful, glad, delighted,

elated, merry, ecstatic, buoyant, cheerful, gratified, joyful, beatific,

rapturous, felicitous, blithe, halcyon, charmed, exultant, ravishing,

gladdened; lucky, prosperous, successful; auspicious. Antonyms: See

unhappy.

happy-go-lucky, a. improvident, easy-going, unthrifty.

harangue, n. declamation, ranting, effusion, screed, tirade.

harangue, v. declaim, spout, rant.

harass, v. fatigue, tire, weary; annoy, vex, torment, perplex,

distress, persecute, worry, bother.

harbinger, n. forerunner, precursor, herald, messenger.

harbor, n. refuge, shelter, asylum, retreat; port, haven,

destination.

hard, a. firm, solid, compact, impenetrable, unimpressible,

unyielding, rigid, adamantine, dense, insoluble, flinty, indurate,

indurated, infrangible; arduous, laborious, wearisome, onerous,

burdensome, toilsome, tiresome, exhausting, difficult, knotty, intricate,

puzzling, incomprehensible; irresistible, uncontrollable; severe,

rigorous, unendurable, oppressive, unjust, grievous, calamitous,

incompliant; stern, unyielding, obdurate, unfeeling, exacting, insensible,

hard-hearted, callous, implacable, inflexible; repelling, constrained,

inelegant; severe, inclement, rigorous; excessive, immoderate;

unprosperous, unfavorable, disastrous.

hard case. (Colloq.) incorrigible, reprobate, derelict, outcast.

hard coal. anthracite, glance coal.

harden, v. indurate, solidify; petrify, ossify, sear, brutalize,

embitter; inure, season, fortify, steel, brace, accustom.

hardened, a. indurated; callous, inexorable, ossified, petrified,

obdurate, incorrigible, inveterate, case-hardened, seared, depraved,

graceless, impenitent, confirmed; sclerosed, sclerotic.

hardening, n. induration; habituation, confirmation; solidification,

petrifaction, ossification; sclerosis (Med.).

hard-headed, a. shrewd, astute, sagacious.

hard-hearted, a. unsympathetic, inexorable, ruthless, unsparing,

stern, obdurate, incompassionate.

hardihood, n. boldness, bravery, courage, intrepidity, fortitude;

audacity, effrontery, impudence.

hard lines. hardship, difficulties, adversity.

hardness, n. induration, compactness, impenetrability, solidity,

firmness, adamant. Associated Word: durometer.

hardship, n. privation, adversity, affliction, reverse, calamity,

disaster, visitation.

hardware, n. ironmongery.

hardy, a. courageous, intrepid, brave; hearty, hale, robust, lusty.

hare-brained, a. heedless, reckless, rash, giddy, careless.

harem, n. concubines, seraglio.

harlot, n. prostitute, courtesan, whore.

harlotry, n. prostitution, whoredom.

harm, v. injure, hurt, damage, impair, scathe, mar, deface, abuse,

misuse.

harm, n. injury, damage, detriment, scath, mischief, misfortune.

harmful, a. injurious, pernicious, detrimental, baneful, noxious,

prejudicial, deleterious, ruinous, hurtful.

harmless, a. innocuous, innoxious; inoffensive, peaceable;

uninjured, unscathed.

harmonious, a. symmetrical, correspondent, consistent, congruent,

conformable; consonant, symphonious, melodious amicable, peaceable.

Antonyms: inharmonious, discordant, antagonistic, incompatible.

harmonize, v. agree, chime, tally, correspond, accord; adjust,

reconcile.

harmony, n. concord, agreement, concurrence, consonance chime,

unison, unanimity; concordance, congruity, adaptation, consistency.

Antonyms: discord, antagonism, variance, contention, incongruity,

inconsistency, dissension, opposition.

harness, n. saddlery; accouterments, armor, array, gearing,

equipment, tackling, gear; caparison, trappings, Associated Words:

saddler, saddlery.

harness, v. equip, array, caparison, tackle.

harp, n. lyre. Associated Words: harpist, lyrist, lyrism, lyric,

plectrum.

harpy, n. extortioner, oppressor.

harrow, v. wound, lacerate, tear, distress, torture, harass.

harsh, a. inharmonious, rough, disagreeable, unpleasant, raucous;

dissonant, strident, discordant, cacophonous: austere, morose, severe,

ungracious, inurbane, discourteous, churlish, uncivil, blunt, bluff,

brusque, acrimonious, caustic, acrid, repulsive.

harum-scarum, a. (Colloq.) wild, giddy, reckless, volatile,

indiscreet, hare-brained.

harvest, n. ingathering; crop, produce, yield, fruit.

hash, n. ragout, gallimaufry, potpourri, ollapodrida, olio,

_réchauffé_ (rehash).

haste, n. celerity, swiftness, dispatch, expedition, speed,

quickness; hurry, urgency, precipitance. Antonyms: slowness,

dilatoriness.

hasten, v. accelerate, expedite, quicken, precipitate press, urge;

hurry.

hastiness, n. haste, precipitancy, precipitation, precipitance,

speediness.

hasty, a. swift, rapid, quick, fast; precipitate, rash, eager,

precipitant; cursory, hurried, superficial.

hatch, v. breed, incubate; concoct, excogitate, brew, scheme.

hatcher, n. incubator.

hatchet, n. small ax; tomahawk; machete; dolabra.

hate, v. dislike, detest, abhor, despise, abominate, loathe,

execrate.

hateful, a. execrable, odious, detestable, abominable, malevolent,

malicious.

hatred, n. hate, aversion, detestation, animosity, malignity,

antipathy, spite, feud, malice, grudge, malevolence, resentment, dislike,

abhorrence.

haughtiness, n. arrogance, hauteur, superciliousness, disdain,

contumely.

haughty, a. arrogant, supercilious, disdainful, cavalier,

magisterial, assuming, lordly.

haunt, n. resort.

hauteur, n. arrogance, contumely, superciliousness, haughtiness,

overweening.

haven, n. harbor, port, retreat, asylum, refuge, shelter.

havoc, n. destruction, devastation, waste, ruin, desolation,

demolition, wreck.

hawk, n. falcon; goshawk, kestrel. Associated Words: accipitral,

raptorial.

haystack, n. rick.

hazard, n. chance, contingency, casualty; risk, random, jeopardy,

danger, peril, venture. Antonyms: safety, security, assurance,

certainty, surety.

hazard, v. venture, risk, jeopard, endanger.

hazardous, a. perilous, precarious, risky, unsafe, dangerous.

haze, n. obscurity, dimness, fog, vapor, mist, confusion.

hazy, a. foggy, misty, vaporous; obscure, confused.

head, n. poll, cephalon; costard (Contemptuous), noddle, pate.

Associated Words: phrenology, phrenologist, craniology, craniologist,

cephalology, sinciput, occiput, cephalism, behead, decapitate,

decapitation, capitation, vertex, crown, skull, cranium, fontanel, trepan,

coronal, microcephaly, craniometry, macrocephaly, cephalic, _per capita_,

scalp.

head, n. chief, leader, commander, director; crisis, culmination;

spike; section, department, category, class.

head, a. principal, chief, leading, cardinal, foremost, main,

premier.

headache, n. megrim, cephalalgy, galea.

headdress, n. coiffure.

heading, n. title, caption.

headland, n. cape, promontory, foreland.

heading off. interception.

headless, a. acephalous; beheaded, decapitated; leaderless,

unorganized.

headlong, adv. headforemost; precipitately, rashly; pell-mell,

helter-skelter, confusedly.

head off. intercept.

headsman, n. executioner, Jack Ketch.

headstrong, a. willful, perverse, stubborn, intractable, froward.

heal, v. cure, repair; cicatrize.

healing, a. curative, sanative, restorative, remedial, mollifying,

sanatory, therapeutic, lenitive, medicinal, emollient, assuasive.

health, n. Associated Words: hygiene, Hygeia, hygienic, hygienics,

eucrasy, sanitation, sanitarian, soteriology, eutrophic, hygienist,

sanitary.

healthful, a. healthy; salubrious, wholesome.

healthy, a. hale, well, hearty; salubrious, salutary, wholesome.

Antonyms: unhealthy, ill, sickly, morbid, delicate, diseased.

heap, n. pile, mass, accumulation, lot, stack, cumulation.

heap, v. amass, accumulate, pile, stack, cumulate.

hearer, n. auditor.

hearing, n. audition, listening; audience; earshot, sound, hearing

distance. Associated Words: auditory, acoumeter, acoumetry, acoustic,

audible, audibility, audiometer, deaf, deafness, microcoustic,

microphonous, otacoustic, inaudible, inaudibility, clairaudient,

clairaudience, audient, audiphone, sonometer, audile.

hearsay, n. rumor, report, gossip, bruit, _on dit_.

heart, n. cardia; conscience, character; essence, core, pith, kernel,

marrow. Associated Words: cardiology, carditis, cardiac, cordial,

cardialgia, cardiometry, dexiocardia, systole, diastole, pericardium,

endocardium, auricle, ventricle, valve, aneurism, stethoscope,

peridiastole.

heart-broken, a. disconsolate, inconsolable, broken-hearted.

heartburn, n. cardialgia, water-brash, pyrosis.

heartburning, n. discontent, resentment, envy, rankling.

hearthstone, n. hearth, fireside, ingleside. Associated Words:

Vesta, Hestia.

heartless, a. acardiac; cruel, pitiless. See cruel.

heart-shaped, a. cordate, cordiform.

heartwood, n. duramen.

hearty, a. cordial, heartfelt, sincere; healthy, robust, hale;

nourishing, nutritious.

heat, n. warmth, caloric; cauma. Associated Words: pyrology,

pyrologist, thermology, pyrometry, pyrometer, pyronomics, calorifics,

therm, thermal, pyrography, caloric, calorie, thermic, swelter,

thermostat, thermometer, thermometry.

heat, n. vehemence, fire, ardor, impetuosity, fervor, fervency, zeal,

intensity, enthusiasm; œstrus, rut.

heat, v. warm, calefy.

heathen, a. pagan, heathenish, paganic, gentile, paganish;

irreligious, godless.

heathen, n. pagan, idolater.

heathenism, n. idolatry, paganism, pagandom, gentilism; irreligion,

godlessness.

heathenize, v. paganize.

heat stroke. insolation.

heaven, n. Paradise, Elysium, Eden, the New Jerusalem, glory;

Olympus, Elysium, Elysian, Arcadia; Valhalla, Walhalla; Nirvana.

heavenly, a. celestial, supernal; divine, beatific, ravishing,

sublime, ecstatic.

heaviness, n. weight, ponderosity, ponderousness, gravity.

heavy, a. weighty, massive, ponderous; burdensome, oppressive,

onerous, severe; unraised, soggy, indigestible, unleavened.

heavy hand. severity, oppression, persecution, tyranny, extortion.

hector, v. torment, tease, plague, bully, harass.

heed, v. mind, regard, consider, notice, attend.

heed, n. regard, attention, consideration, notice. Antonyms:

disregard, inattention.

heedful, a. attentive, circumspect, cautious, vigilant, mindful.

Antonyms: inattentive, uncircumspect, unmindful, careless, heedless.

heel bone. calcaneum, fibulare.

height, n. altitude, loftiness; elevation; stature, tallness;

eminence, exaltation; summit, zenith, apex, culmination. Associated

words: altimetry, altimeter, hypsometry, hypsometer.

heinous, a. atrocious, flagrant, flagitious, monstrous, nefarious.

heir, n. inheritor; scion; coheir, parcener.

hell, n. inferno, infernal regions, Gehenna, limbo, abyss, Avernus,

Pandemonium, Abaddon, Styx, Hades, Sheol, the grave; Naraka (Buddhism).

hellish, a. infernal, malignant, fiendish, diabolical, atrocious.

helm, n. rudder, tiller, wheel; steersman, pilot; command, control,

administration.

helmet, n. casque, headpiece, morion, sallet.

help, v. abet, assist, befriend, succor, aid, coöperate, collaborate,

second, facilitate, subsidize; remedy, ameliorate, alleviate, promote,

further.

help, n. aid, assistance, succor, support, facilitation, backing,

subsidy, subvention, coöperation; remedy, relief, cure, restorative.

helper, n. assistant, ally, auxiliary, supporter, abettor, helpmeet,

associate, coadjutor, confederate, deputy, aider, colleague, acolyte,

adjuvant, collaborator, subsidiary, co-aid, coöperator, accessory,

accomplice.

helpful, a. assistant, conducive, instrumental, useful, salutary.

helping, a. assisting, auxiliary, subsidiary, accessory.

helter-skelter, adv. (Colloq.) irregularly, disorderly, pell-mell,

headlong.

hem in. environ, surround, encompass, beset, hedge in.

hen, n. partlet; pullet (young hen).

herald, n. messenger, forerunner, precursor, harbinger, crier.

herald, v. proclaim, announce, foretell, usher in.

herd, n. drove; rabble, mob, multitude. Associated Words:

gregarious, gregal.

herdsman, n. ranchman, vaquero, cowboy, vacher.

hereditary, a. ancestral, patrimonial, inheritable, inherited.

heritage, n. inheritance, hereditament, patrimony; possession.

hermit, n. recluse, anchoret, anchorite, eremite, solitary, cenobite.

heroic, a. valiant, bold, daring, brave; desperate, drastic, extreme.

heroism, n. courage, valor, bravery, prowess, fortitude, intrepidity.

hesitancy, n. indecision, vacillation, uncertainty, irresolution,

wavering.

hesitate, v. doubt, vacillate, falter, dubitate, waver, scruple,

demur, deliberate.

hesitation, n. indecision, doubt, vacillation, reluctance, wavering.

hidden, a. covert, latent, concealed; recondite, esoteric, abstruse,

unrevealed.

hide, v. veil, cloak, conceal, dissemble, cache, secrete, mask;

skulk, lurk.

hidebound, a. untractable, bigoted, obstinate, uncompromising.

hideous, a. horrible, grim, ogreish, grisly, repulsive, ugly,

ghastly, shocking.

hiding, n. concealment, secretion.

high, a. lofty, tall, elevated, towering.

high and dry. aground, beached, stranded.

high and mighty. (Colloq.) arrogant, overbearing, domineering,

lordly.

higher, a. supernal.

highest, a. loftiest, superlative, meridian, maximum, supreme,

topgallant.

highest good. _summum bonum_.

highest point. meridian, culmination, zenith, maximum.

highfaluting, a. bombastic, grandiloquent.--n. bombast.

highflown, a. bombastic, grandiloquent, pretentious, magniloquent,

grandiose.

highflying, a. aspiring, presumptuous, ambitious, Icarian.

highgo, n. (Colloq.) spree, revel, carousal.

highhanded, a. overbearing, tyrannical, arbitrary, autocratic,

despotic.

high jinks. (Colloq.) revelry, carousal, wild sport.

highland, n. plateau.

high liver. gormand, sybarite, epicure, gourmet, voluptuary,

gastronomer, _bon vivant_.

high living. gormandism, sybaritism, epicurism, luxury. Antonyms:

asceticism, abstemiousness, moderation.

highminded, a. magnanimous, honorable, noble. Antonyms: mean, base,

low, servile, abject, ignoble.

highmindedness, n. magnanimity.

high time. full time; (Slang) carousal, revelry.

hightoned, a. shrill, acute; magnanimous, honorable; (Colloq.)

fashionable, aristocratic.

highwayman, n. bandit, desperado, road agent, outlaw, footpad.

hill, n. mound, eminence, knoll, elevation; monadnock; butte;

monticle; copple; Acropolis; foothill.

hillock, n. knoll, mound.

hilly, a. undulating, uneven, rolling.

hind, n. rustic, boor, peasant.

hinder, n. (Slang) buttocks, rump, seat, fundament.

hinder, a. rear, back.

hinder, v. retard, obstruct, hamper, impede, forestall, forefend,

check, thwart, foil.

hindrance, n. retardation, hindering; obstacle, impediment,

obstruction, restraint, frustration, encumbrance, check.

hinge joint. diarthrosis, ginglymus.

hint, v. intimate, suggest, imply, allude to, refer.

hint, n. allusion, suggestion, insinuation, intimation, innuendo,

inkling.

hip, n. haunch, huckle; (hip-bone) innominate, ilium, ischium,

pubis. Associated Words: sciatic, ischial, ischiatic, coxalgia,

acetabulum.

hire, n. salary, wages, pay, stipend, remuneration,

compensation.--v. engage; let, lease.

hireling, a. mercenary, venal.--n. mercenary.

hiss, n. sibilation, sibilance, hissing.--v. sibilate, whiz.

hissing, a. sibilant, sibilatory.

history, n. annals, chronicle, record, account; biography,

autobiography. Associated Words: historic, historicity, historian,

historiology, historiography, Clio, prehistoric.

hit, v. smite, buffet, strike.

hitch, n. catch, impediment, obstacle, obstruction,

contretemps.--v. hook, yoke, unite, attach.

hoard, v. garner, amass, save, treasure.

hoard, n. store, supply, stock, accumulation.

hoarse, a. harsh, discordant, husky, raucous, guttural.

hobgoblin, n. sprite, goblin, bugaboo.

hobo, n. (Colloq.) tramp, vagrant, vagabond.

hodgepodge, n. medley, farrago, salmagundi, potpourri.

hog, n. swine, porker; boar; sow; barrow (castrated); glutton.

Associated Word: porcine.

hoggish, a. swinish, gluttonous, voracious.

hoitytoity, a. flighty, giddy, thoughtless.

hold, v. sustain, restrain, retain, detain, withhold, arrest;

contain; clutch, grasp, grip, clinch.

hold back. check, restrain, impede, curb, retard.

holdback, n. check, hindrance, restraint, impediment.

holder, n. tenant, occupier; incumbent.

hold in. restrain, curb, check, repress, retain, rein.

holding, n. restraint, retention, checking, continence, tenacity,

detention; tenure, incumbency. Antonyms: incontinence, release.

hole, n. cavity, excavation, pit, perforation, rent, fissure,

opening, aperture, delve, cache, concavity, mortise, puncture, orifice,

eyelet, crevice, loophole, interstice, gap, spiracle, vent, bung, pothole,

manhole, scuttle, scupper, muset, muse; cave, holt, den, lair, retreat,

cover, hovel, burrow. Antonyms: imperforation, closure. Associated

words: auger, drill, gimlet, bodkin, bore, bit, puncture, perforate,

pink, awl, stylet, imperforable, imperforate, punch, wimble, pierce,

eyeleteer, dibble, plug, spigot, spile, gouge, puncheon, probe.

holiday, n. festival, _fête_, _fiesta_ (Sp.).

holiness, n. sanctity, piety, godliness, devoutness, sacredness.

hollow, a. excavated, cavernous, vacant, void, unfilled, empty;

cannulated; concave, depressed, gaunt, sunken; insincere, unsound, false,

hypocritical. Antonyms: convex, protuberant, sincere.

hollow, v. scoop, excavate, concave.

hollow, n. depression, cavity, valley; concavity, channel, groove,

concave, recess; correi.

holy, a. sacred, consecrated, hallowed, sanctified, saintly, godly,

pious, guileless.

Holy Ghost. Paraclete, Holy Spirit, the Comforter, the Sanctifier.

holy oil. chrism. Associated Words: chrismatory, chrismation,

chrismal, cruet, ampulla, unction.

holy water. Associated Words: asperges, aspergill, aspergillum,

aspersorium, aspersoir, stoup, font, bénitier, cruet, hyssop.

homage, n. deference, obeisance, reverence, honor; fealty, fidelity,

allegiance; adoration.

home, n. domicile, residence, dwelling-place, abode, dwelling,

hearth, hearthstone; habitat, seat; asylum, retreat. Associated Words:

domestic, domesticate, domesticity, domestication, inhabitativeness.

homeborn, a. native, indigenous.

homely, a. plain, plain-looking, uncomely; inelegant, rude.

homesickness, n. nostalgia. Associated Word: nostalgic.

homing instinct. orientation.

hone, n. oilstone.

honest, a. honorable, reputable; upright, sincere, guileless,

ingenuous, incorruptible.

honesty, n. uprightness, probity, integrity, candor, sincerity,

rectitude.

honey, n. Associated Words: melliferous, mellific, mellification,

metheglin, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellite, mellivorous, meliphagan,

meliphagous, hydromel, mead, comb.

honey-combed, a. alveolate, cellular, faviform, favaginous.

honey-dew, n. meligo, nectar.

honeysuckle, n. woodbine, caprifole.

honey-tongued, a. persuasive, seductive.

honor, n. respect, esteem, veneration, reverence, deference, homage;

probity, integrity, magnanimity, uprightness, chastity, decency, virtue,

modesty; eminence, distinction, fame; glory, excellency, pride.

Antonyms: dishonor, disesteem, irreverence, improbity, disrepute,

reproach.

honor, v. esteem, respect, revere, reverence, venerate; dignify,

exalt, elevate.

honorable, a. upright, honest, equitable, reputable, magnanimous.

honors, n. pl. titles, dignities, privileges. Associated Words:

timocracy, timocratic, honorary, honorific.

hood, n. cowl, fascinator, capote, capoch, camail, amice, chaperon,

capuchin, bashlyk (Russia).

hooded, a. cowled, capistrate.

hoodlum, n. (Colloq.) rowdy, larrikin.

hoodwink, v. deceive, impose upon, delude, hoax, dupe, overreach.

hook, n. hasp, clasp, catch; crook, tenaculum, peavey, clives,

agraffe, fluke, pot-hook, cant-hook, cleek, trammel, cottrel; snare,

decoy, trap; bill-hook, sickle.

hook, v. fasten, catch, secure; entrap, ensnare; gore; (Colloq.)

steal.

hooked, a. aquiline, bent, curvated, uncinate.

hookedness, n. aquilinity, incurvation.

hoot, v. shout, deride, denounce, execrate.

hop, v. spring, jump, skip, frisk, bound, leap, caper, trip, gambol,

dance.

hope, n. optimism, anticipation. Antonyms: despair, desperation,

pessimism.

hopeful, a. expectant, optimistic, promising, sanguine.

hopeless, a. despairing, disconsolate, desperate, unpromising

hops, n. pl. Associated Words: lupulin, humulin, lupuline.

horde, n. troop, gang, throng, crowd, multitude (nomadic and

predatory).

horn, n. antler; epithema; antenna. Associated Words:

cornification, cornute, dehorn, croche, gore, crocket.

horn, n. trumpet, bugle, cornet, trombone; cornucopia; shophar

(Jewish); spur.

horning, n. (Slang) charivari.

hornless, a. polled, mulley, mooley, dodded.

horns of a dilemma. alternatives.

horny, a. ceratose, corneous, cornified, callous, hard.

horrible, a. dreadful, terrible, hideous, shocking, grim, ghastly,

atrocious, revolting, nefarious, appalling, heinous, dire, grewsome,

execrable, awful.

horrid, a. offensive, detestable, horrible.

horror, n. abhorrence, dread, consternation, detestation.

horror-stricken, a. horror-struck, horrified, appalled.

horse, n. Equus; (male) stallion, stud, sire; (female) mare, dam;

(young) colt, foal, filly; (small) pony, tit, mustang; steed, charger,

nag, gelding, cockhorse, cob, pad, padnag, roadster, punch, broncho,

warragal, sumpter, centaur, hackney, jade, mestino, pintado, roan, bat

horse, Bucephalus, Pegasus, Dobbin, Bayard, hobby-horse. Associated

words: equine, equestrian, equestrianism, equestrienne, equerry,

fractious, hostler, groom, hostlery, postilion, coachman, jockey,

hippocampus, hippogriffe, manège, chack, hippology, hippophile, hippotomy,

tandem, equitation, farriery, equitant, paddock, hippiatrics, hippiatry,

neigh, whinny, nicker, hopple.

horse block. montoir.

horse doctor. veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon, farrier,

horse leech.

horseflesh, n. Associated Words: hippophagy, hippophagism,

hippophagist, hippophagous, equivorous.

horse-fly, n. breese-fly, bot-fly.

horse-laugh, n. guffaw, cachinnation.

horse-louse, n. nitter.

horseman, n. jockey; equestrian; cavalier; cavalryman; chasseur.

horseshoer, n. farrier, blacksmith.

horseshoeing, n. farriery.

horse-trader, n. jockey.

hose, n. hosiery; tubing.

hospital, n. infirmary, asylum, retreat, sanitarium. Associated

words: nosocomial, hospitalism.

host, n. entertainer; landlord, hotel-keeper; multitude, throng,

horde; army, legion. Associated Word: xenial.

host, n. Associated Words: ciborium, pyx, paten, monstrance,

ostensory, ostension, ostensorium.

hostile, a. antagonistic, inimical, unfriendly, repugnant, adverse.

hostility, n. enmity, animosity, unfriendliness, opposition, warfare,

aggression.

hostler, n. groom.

hot, a. torrid, sultry, fiery, scalding, scorching, grilling,

broiling, tropical, candent; vehement, passionate, irascible, fervid,

ardent, piquant, pungent, acrid, spicy.

hot-blooded, a. ardent, passionate, irritable, excitable, irascible.

hotel, n. hostelry, inn, tavern, caravansary.

hotel-keeper, n. hosteler, host, landlord, inn-keeper, Boniface.

hot room of Roman baths. caldarium.

hot springs. Thermæ.

hound, v. importune, harass.

house, n. dwelling, residence, domicile, abode, habitation; mansion,

palace; tenement; château, pavilion, villa, manse, phalanstery, lodge;

kiosk; topek; hutch; (religious house) monastery, convent; firm,

company, concern; palafitte.

house, v. shelter, protect, harbor; abide, dwell, lodge.

household, n. family, ménage.

household gods. _Lares et Penates_. Associated word: lararium.

housewarming, n. infare (Local U.S.).

hovel, n. hut, shanty, shack, cabin, den, dugout.

howl, v. yowl, roar, ululate, yawl.--n. yowling, ululation,

howling, wail.

hub, n. nave; protuberance, hummock.

hubbub, n. tumult, uproar, din, clamor, commotion, racket,

hurly-burly.

huckleberry, n. whortleberry.

huckster, n. peddler, hawker, chapman, cadger, hucksterer.

huff, n. petulance, tiff, pet.

huffy, a. petulant, touchy, irritable.

hug, n. embrace.--v. embrace, clasp.

huge, a. mammoth, colossal, vast, stupendous, enormous.

hullabaloo, n. (Colloq.) uproar, vociferation, hubbub, din, clamor,

tumult.

hum, n. drone, murmur, buzz, bombination; croon.

hum, v. drone, murmur, buzz, bombinate; croon.

humble, a. lowly, meek, modest, unassuming, unpretentious.

humble, v. humiliate, debase, abase, degrade.

humbug, n. imposition, hoax, deception, imposture, charlatanism,

quackery, cajolery; impostor, deceiver, cheat, charlatan.

humbug, v. deceive, impose on, hoax.

humdrum, a. monotonous, tedious, prosy, tiresome.--n. monotony,

tedium.

humiliate, v. humble, mortify, abash, disgrace, degrade.

humiliation, n. abasement, mortification, degradation, ignominy;

humbleness, meekness.

humility, n. meekness, lowliness, self-abasement, diffidence,

modesty.

humor, n. disposition, temper, mood; facetiousness, jocularity,

waggery, pleasantry, wit, satire; pl. caprices vagaries, whims,

fancies, whimsies.

humor, v. indulge, please, gratify, temporize. Antonyms:

discipline, deny, curb, mortify.

humorist, n. wag, droll, jester, wit.

humorous, a. facetious, droll, comical, jocular, waggish.

hump, n. protuberance, hunch.

humpbacked, a. hunchbacked, deformed.

humpy, a. protuberant, humped, uneven.

hunch, n. hump, protuberance; chunk, lump.

hundredfold, a. centuple.

hundred years. century, centenary, centennial.

Hungarian, n. Magyar.

hunger cure. nestitherapy, limotherapy, limotherapia.

hungry, a. voracious, ravenous, eager; starved, depleted, infertile,

barren.

hunky, a. (Slang) even, square, all-right, satisfactory.

hunt, v. chase, pursue, follow; search, seek, ransack, rummage,

ferret; poach (hunt unlawfully).

hunt, n. chase, pursuit, search, hunting.

hunter, n. huntsman, sportsman, Nimrod; seeker, pursuer, chaser;

Diana.

hunting, n. chase, hunt, field-sport. Associated Words: quarry,

game, poaching, poacher, mort, yoicks, hoicks.

hunting horn. bugle.

hurly-burly, n. tumult, bustle, turmoil, confusion, commotion.

hurrah, n. cheer, huzza.

hurricane, n. cyclone, tornado, typhoon.

hurried, a. cursory, hasty, superficial.

hurry, n. haste, speed, dispatch, expedition, precipitancy, celerity.

hurry, v. hasten, impel, expedite, accelerate, speed, precipitate.

hurt, v. damage, wound, impair, harm, injure, offend, harry.

hurt, n. injury, wound, detriment, harm, damage.

hurtful, a. See injurious.

husband, n. spouse, benedict. Antonyms: bachelor, celibate.

Associated Words: marital, monandry, polyandry cuckold, cuckoldom,

henpecked.

hush, v. silence, still, repress, suppress; appease, allay.

husk, n. glume, hull, rind, shell, bark, kex.

husky, a. dry, raucous, harsh, discordant, guttural, hoarse.

hussy, n. jade, quean; jilt, flirt, jill.

hustle, v. jostle.

hut, n. hovel, shack, shed.

hybrid, n. mongrel, crossbreed, cross.--a. mongrel, crossbred.

hypocrisy, n. dissimulation, Pharisaism, sanctimoniousness.

hypocrite, n. dissembler, Pharisee, formalist, dissimulator.

hypocritical, a. Pharisaical, canting, dissembling, sanctimonious,

insincere. Antonyms: sincere, unfeigned, undissembling, ingenuous.

I

ice, n. Associated Words: igloo, iceberg, glacier, floe, icicle,

frazil, avalanche, curling, skate, skee, skating, skeeing, brash, glare,

serac, crampoons, calk, glaciate, glaciation, creeper, anchor ice.

iced, a. chilled, _frappe_.

Iceland moss. lichen.

icy, a. glacial, glacious.

idea, n. conception, notion, opinion, fancy, impression; intention,

design.

ideal, a. faultless, consummate, perfect.

idiocy, n. imbecility, foolishness, fatuity, folly, senselessness

idiot, n. imbecile.

idiotic, a. imbecile, foolish, fatuous, senseless.

idle, a. leisure; vain, unavailing, futile, ineffectual; indolent,

slothful, inactive, lazy, otiose.

idleness, n. indolence, sloth, inaction, laziness; futility, vanity.

Associated Word: Cocagne.

idler, n. sluggard, drone, lounger, loafer, dawdler, donothing.

idol, n. image (of a divinity), effigy, graven image; Juggernaut.

Associated Words: idolater, idolatrous, idolatry, idolize, iconoplast,

iconoclast, iconodule, idolomania, iconography, iconology, idoloclast,

iconomachy, ting, iconolatry.

idolize, v. deify, worship, adore.

ignis fatuus. Will-o'-the-wisp, Jack-with-a-lantern, decoy.

ignoble, a. humble, plebeian, untitled; base, dishonorable, low.

ignominious, a. dishonorable, shameful, infamous, disreputable.

ignominy, n. disgrace, dishonor, reproach, obloquy, shame,

humiliation.

ignoramus, n. dunce, illiterate, sciolist, wiseacre, dullard,

simpleton.

ignorance, n. illiteracy, inerudition, unenlightenment, nescience;

quackery, charlatanry.

ignorant, a. illiterate, inerudite unenlightened, uninformed,

unlearned, untaught, uneducated, unlettered, nescient; quackish,

charlatanic. Antonyms: educated, instructed, schooled, trained,

proficient, learned.

ignorantly, adv. unknowingly, unconsciously, inadvertently,

unwittingly.

ignorant person. ignoramus, illiterate.

ignore, v. disregard, slight, connive, overlook.

ill, a. ailing, sick, unwell; evil, unfavorable, adverse, bad.

ill at ease. uneasy, uncomfortable, anxious.

ill-boding, a. ominous, inauspicious.

illegal, a. illicit, unlawful, contraband, unlicensed, illegitimate.

illegality, n. unlawfulness, illegitimacy.

illegitimate, a. bastard, adulterine; illegal, illicit; spurious.

illegitimate, v. illegitimatize, bastardize.

illiberal, a. ungenerous, parsimonious, stingy; narrow-minded,

bigoted.

illiberality, n. parsimony, stinginess; narrow-mindedness, bigotry,

intolerance.

illicit, a. prohibited, unlawful.

illness, n. malady, sickness, disease.

illogical, a. fallacious, sophistical, unsound.

illusion, n. mockery, hallucination, chimera, phantasm, delusion,

glamour.

illusive, a. delusive, illusory, chimerical, mocking.

illustrate, v. elucidate, picture, demonstrate, exemplify.

illustration, n. elucidation, exemplification; comparison, example,

simile.

ill-will, n. malice, resentment, grudge, rancor, malevolence,

antipathy, hatred.

image, n. statue; effigy, figure; ikon, eikon; idol.

image breaker. iconoclast, idoloclast, vandal.

image breaking. iconoclasm, vandalism.

image worship iconolatry, iconoduly.

imaginary, a. fancied, visionary, chimerical, illusive, phantasmal.

imagination, n. fancy, conception, notion, conceit, figment,

phantasm.

imagine, v. conceive, fancy; think, suppose, opine, apprehend.

imbecile, n. idiot, witling, fool.

imbecility, n. idiocy, fatuity, foolishness, amentia.

imbedded, a. enfonced.

imitate, v. copy, ape, counterfeit; personate, impersonate, mimic,

simulate; parody, caricature.

imitation, n. copy, counterfeit; mimicry, impersonation, mimesis;

pasticcio; parody, travesty, burlesque; onomatopœoea.

imitative, a. apish, copying, mimicking, mimetic; onomatopoetic.

imitator, n. copyist, follower, mimic, mime, ape, echo, impersonator.

immanence, n. inherence, indwelling.

immanent, a. inherent, indwelling.

immature, a. undeveloped, embryonic, crude, unripe, premature,

untimely.

immediately, adv. instantly, forthwith, directly, straightway, at

once, now, instanter. Antonyms: hereafter, by and by, after a while.

immense, a. vast, infinite, illimitable, immeasurable.

immerse, v. submerge, plunge into, dip, immerge, douse; engross.

immersed, a. submerged, plunged into; engrossed, absorbed, occupied.

immersion, n. submersion, immersing; engrossment, absorption.

immoderate, a. excessive, exorbitant, inordinate, intemperate,

unrestrained.

immodest, a. indecorous, indelicate, shameless; lewd, unchaste,

obscene.

immodesty, n. indecorum, indelicacy, impudicity; lewdness,

unchastity, obscenity.

immoral, a. licentious, dissolute, vicious, profligate, loose,

illicit, rakish.

immorality, n. vice, licentiousness, depravity, profligacy,

obliquity.

immortality, n. deathlessness, athanasia; perpetuity.

immovable, a. fast, permanent, impassive, firm, steadfast.

impact, n. collision, forcible contact; force.

impart, v. communicate.

impartial, a. equitable, fair, disinterested, unbiased,

unprejudiced.

impartiality, n. fairness, equity, disinterestedness, justice.

impassable, a. impenetrable, pathless, impervious.

impatient, a. restless, restive, fretful, eager, impetuous.

impede, v. retard.

impediment, n. obstacle, barrier, obstruction, stumblingblock.

impending, a. imminent, threatening.

impenetrable, a. impervious, imperforable.

impenitence, n. incontrition, obduracy, impenitency.

impenitent, a. incontrite, unrepentant, obdurate, incorrigible,

recusant, relentless.

imperative, a. binding, compulsory, obligatory, imperious,

peremptory.

imperfect, a. defective, faulty, deficient, undeveloped, abortive,

fallible, frail, errable.

imperfection, n. defect, blemish, shortcoming, infirmity, foible,

deformity, disfigurement, vice, frailty, fallibility.

imperious, a. despotic, magisterial, domineering, dictatorial,

tyrannical, imperative.

imperishable, a. permanent, indestructible, enduring.

impersonate, v. personate; personify.

impersonation, n. personation, impersonating; impersonification.

impersonator, n. mimic, personator, mime, actor.

impertinent, a. irrelevant, inapplicable, impudent, saucy, rude,

insolent, malapert, flippant.

impervious, a. impermeable, impenetrable, imperviable.

impetus, n. momentum, force, impulse, incentive.

impish, a. malignant.

implacable, a. unappeasable, vindictive, pitiless, irreconcilable.

implant, v. instill, inculcate, ingraft, infix.

implied, a. tacit, inferential.

implore, v. beseech, supplicate, entreat, obsecrate.

imploring, n. supplication, obsecration.

impolite, a. discourteous, inurbane, rude, uncivil, disrespectful,

saucy, insolent, impertinent, churlish, brusque, unamiable, surly, gruff,

boorish.

impoliteness, n. discourtesy, inurbanity, incivility, impertinence,

insolence.

importance, n. moment, materiality, consequence; pomposity,

self-importance.

important, a. momentous, material, essential; pompous, consequential.

impose upon. delude, dupe, deceive, victimize.

imposing, a. impressive, stately, majestic, august.

impossibility, n. impracticability.

impossible, a. impracticable, unfeasible, unattainable.

impostor, n. pretender, cheat, charlatan, mountebank, quack,

deceiver.

imposture, n. fraud, imposition, charlatanism, deception.

impracticability, n. unfeasibility.

impracticable, a. impossible, unfeasible.

impregnate, v. fecundate.

impregnation, n. fecundation.

imprison, v. incarcerate, immure.

imprisonment, n. incarceration, durance, immurement, duress,

confinement, commitment.

impromptu, a. improvised, offhand, extempore, extemporaneous.

improper, a. indecorous, unseemly, indecent, inappropriate, wrong,

solecistic.

impropriety, n. unsuitableness, unfitness, indecorum, barbarism,

solecism.

improve, v. amend, ameliorate, rectify, better, mend; utilize, use;

gain, get better.

improvement, n. betterment, amelioration; meliorism; utilization.

improving, a. ameliorative, beneficial, amending.

impudence, n. insolence, impertinence, effrontery, rudeness.

impudent, a. insolent, impertinent, flippant, pert, brazen, saucy.

impulse, n. motive, incentive; impulsion, impetus.

impulsive, a. passionate, capricious, hasty; impellent, propulsive.

impure, a. tainted, defiled, contaminated, polluted, vitiated,

infected; adulterated, alloyed, sophisticated; unchaste, lewd, indelicate,

indecent; barbarous, vulgar, hybrid.

impurity, n. defilement, contamination, taint, pollution;

adulteration, alloy, sophistication; unchastity, lewdness, indecency,

indelicacy; pl. garblings, garbles.

inability, n. incompetence, impotence, incapability, incompetency,

inefficiency, disability.

in a body. altogether, _en masse_.

inaccuracy, n. inexactness, incorrectness, impropriety.

inaccurate, a. incorrect, inexact, erroneous, faulty, wrong.

inaction, n. inactivity, inertness, stagnation, idleness.

inactive, a. inert, motionless, quiescent, dormant, inoperative,

sluggish, stagnant, dilatory, latent, passive, torpid.

inactivity, n. inaction, passivity, inertia, lethargy, dormancy,

stagnation, torpor, latency, sloth, Fabian policy.

inadequate, a. insufficient, deficient; defective, incomplete,

imperfect.

inappropriate, a. unsuitable, unbecoming, inapplicable.

inapt, a. irrelevant, unsuitable, inept, inapplicable.

inattention, n. inadvertence, abstraction, heedlessness, disregard,

neglect, remissness.

inattentive, a. heedless, absent-minded, inadvertent, unmindful,

careless.

inbeing, n. inherence.

inborn, a. congenital, inherent, innate, instinctive, ingenerate.

incapable, a. incompetent, disqualified, unfit, insusceptible.

incarnation, n. incarnification, Avatar; personification.

incautious, a. unwary, inconsiderate, indiscreet, thoughtless.

incense, n. Associated Words: thurible, censer, thurification,

thurify, frankincense, cense, thurifer.

incentive, n. motive, spur, incitement, stimulus, inducement

provocation.

incident, n. event, happening, episode, occurrence.

incidental, a. casual, accidental, oontingent, fortuitous;

subordinate, collateral, accessory.

incite, v. instigate, stimulate, arouse, goad, spur, impel.

incitement, n. stimulus, instigation, incitation, spur, incentive.

incivility, n. discourtesy, rudeness, incomity, inurbanity,

disrespect.

inclination, n. leaning, slant; tendency, propensity, proneness,

penchant, predilection.

incline, n. slant, slope, ascent, descent, grade.--v. lean,

tend, dispose.

inclose, v. surround, encircle, circumscribe, encompass, enclose.

inclosure, n. surrounding, closure, barrier, fence, corral, stockade.

include, v. comprise, comprehend, inclose.

inclusion, n. comprisal.

income, n. revenue, proceeds; tontine, annuity. Associated Word:

fructuary.

incomparable, a. peerless, matchless, transcendent, inimitable

unrivalled, unapproachable.

incompetent, a. inefficient, unqualified, incapable; inadequate;

unfit, unsuited.

incomplete, a. unfinished, defective, imperfect, deficient, partial,

inchoate.

incomprehensible, a. inconceivable, abstruse, unfathomable.

inconsiderate, a. thoughtless, heedless, inattentive, careless.

inconsistency, n. discordance, incoherence, contrariety,

incompatibility.

inconsistent, a. disagreeing, incoherent, contradictory, discrepant,

incompatible.

inconstancy, n. fickleness, mutability, variableness, instability.

inconstant, a. fickle, changeable, volatile, flighty, mercurial,

variable.

inconvenient, a. unhandy, incommodious, inopportune, untoward.

incorrect, a. inaccurate, erroneous, inexact, wrong; ungrammatical,

solecistic.

incorrectness, n. inaccuracy, inexactness, error; impropriety.

increase, v. augment, advance, enlarge; multiply, be prolific, wax;

aggravate, enhance, extend, augment, intensify, exacerbate, amplify,

magnify, heighten, accelerate.

increase, n. augmentation, accretion, increment, accession,

amplification, addition, accrument.

increase of motion. acceleration.

incremate, v. cremate, incinerate.

incremation, n. cremation.

incumbent, a. obligatory, imposed, binding.

incumbrance, n. hindrance, impediment, incubus; mortgage, claim,

lien.

incurable, a. insanable, irremediable, immedicable; irremedicable,

irreparable.

indebtedness, n. obligation; debts, liabilities.

indecency, n. immodesty, indelicacy, shamelessness, obscenity,

ribaldry, lewdness.

indecent, a. immodest, obscene, indelicate, shameless, ribald, lewd,

unchaste.

indecision, n. vacillation, indetermination, irresolution, wavering,

inconstancy.

indecisive, a. inconclusive, vacillating, hesitating, irresolute,

wavering.

indefatigable, a. untiring, persistent, unremitting, sedulous,

unflagging.

indefinite, a. vague, indeterminate, equivocal, ambiguous,

inexplicit, inexact.

indelicacy, n. unrefinement, rudeness, indecorum, immodesty.

indelicate, a. unrefined, indecorous, immodest, unchaste, rude,

vulgar.

indemnity, n. security, insurance; restitution, reimbursement,

indemnification.

indentation, n. bruise, notch, depression, indenture, serrature, jag,

engrailment, crenellation.

independence, n. freedom, self-government, liberty, autonomy;

opulence, affluence.

independent, a. self-governing, autonomous; self-reliant; exclusive,

irrespective; affluent.

Indian, n. (aboriginal American) red man; (of mixed blood)

metisse, ladino, mestizo, guacho, griffe, mameluco, half-breed.

Associated Words: tepee, wigwam, tomahawk, lodge, wickiup, sachemdom,

pueblo, calumet, totem, totemism, powwow, roanoke, coup, gens, Manito,

pogamoggan, potlatch, chinook, runtee, travail, travois, strouding.

Indian blanket. stroud.

Indian chief. sachem, sannup, sagamore, brave.

Indian child. papoose.

Indian money. wampum, seawan, suckanhock, colcol, peag, hiagua,

kopkops.

Indian prince. Maharajah, Rajah.

Indian princess or queen. Rani, Ranee.

Indian woman. squaw, mahaly.

India rubber. caoutchouc.

indicate, v. designate, betoken, signify.

indication, n. designation, signifying; symptom, evidence, sign,

token, manifestation.

indicator, n. (as in a hotel) annunciator.

indictment, n. accusation, charge, arraignment, crimination.

indifference, n. apathy, coolness, negligence, unconcern,

nonchalance, _insouciance_; mediocrity, inferiority; neutrality,

impartiality, disinterestedness.

indifferent, a. disinterested, unconcerned, nonchalant, perfunctory,

apathetic, _insouciant_; neutral, impartial; mediocre, passable,

tolerable.

indirect, a. roundabout, circuitous, tortuous.

indiscreet, a. unwise, imprudent.

indiscretion, n. unwisdom, folly, imprudence; misstep, lapse.

indisposed, a. averse, disinclined, unwilling, loath, reluctant;

sick, ill, unwell.

indisposition, n. disinclination, averseness, reluctance,

unwillingness.

indisputable, a. undeniable, incontestable, indubitable,

incontrovertible.

indissolvable, a. indissoluble.

indocile, a. intractable, refractory, unruly.

indolence, n. idleness, laziness, indulgence, sloth, inactivity,

faineance.

indolent, a. lazy, slothful, supine, dronish, listless.

inducement, n. incentive, incitement, motive, stimulus.

indulge, v. satisfy, gratify, luxuriate; humor, pamper, cocker;

grant, allow, permit. Antonyms: mortify, deny, suppress, restrain.

indulgence, n. humoring, pampering, gratification; kindness, favor,

lenity, forbearance; absolution. Antonyms: mortification, denial,

restraint, non-indulgence.

indulgent, a. forbearing, kind, lenient, lax, merciful.

industrial science. technology, polytechnics.

industrious, a. assiduous, diligent, sedulous, persistent,

hard-working. Antonyms: idle, indolent, inactive, lazy.

industry, n. assiduity, diligence, activity; labor, work, exertion,

efforts.

indwelling, n. immanence, inherence.--a. immanent, inherent.

ineffective, a. ineffectual, unavailing, inefficacious.

inefficient, a. ineffective, inefficacious; slack, remiss,

incompetent.

inelastic, a. inductile, inextensible, rigid.

inelasticity, n. inductility, inextensibility, rigidity.