Putnam's Word Book
by
Louis A. Flemming
Part 13 out of 17
ruin, n. bane, pest, plague.
ruin, n. wreck, destruction, undoing, dilapidation, disorganization,
perdition, ruination, subversion, shipwreck, downfall, havoc, demolition.
ruin, v. overthrow, subvert, destroy, wreck, ruinate, impoverish.
ruination, n. ruin.
ruinous, a. destructive.
rule, n. regulation, prescript, prescription, order, ruling;
standard, criterion, touchstone, brocard; maxim, law, canon; norm;
government, sway, regency, domination, authority, direction, empire,
dynasty, supremacy, administration, regime.
rule, v. govern, dominate; restrain, influence, sway, prevail,
dominate, preponderate, domineer.
ruler, n. governor, sovereign, monarch, president, king, potentate,
dynast, lord, satrap, rajah, emir, caliph, burgrave, procurator, Pharaoh,
interregent, despot, regent, dominator, arbiter, viceroy, vicegerent,
autocrat, oligarch, liege lord, protector, kaiser, czar, dey, doge, mogul,
pasha, bey, tetrarch, khedive, sultan, emperor.
ruling, a. regnant, reigning; predominant, dominative, dominant,
prevailing.
ruling, n. government, regnancy.
rum, a. (Slang) queer, odd, old-fashioned.
ruminate, v. meditate, muse, ponder, reflect.
rumination, n. meditation.
rummage, v. ransack.
runmy, a. (Slang) strange, odd, freakish, singular.
rumor, n. hearsay, gossip, bruit, _on dit_.
rump, n. buttocks.
rump bone. aitchbone, edgebone, natch bone.
rumple, v. crumple, wrinkle, pucker, crease.
rumple, n. crumple, pucker, wrinkle, crease.
rumpus, n. (Colloq.) disturbance, quarrel, affray, brawl, row,
fracas.
run, v. sprint, lope, scamper, scud, speed, his, hasten, scour,
scuttle, flee, race, pace, gallop, trot; proceed, flow; melt, fuse;
elapse, pass; pursue, follow, tag; stampede; abscond.
run, n. running, sprint, sprinting; course, series, repetition
pressure, demand, importunity; generality.
run, n. brook, rill, streamlet, rivulet.
run after. pursue, follow, tag.
runagate, n. renegade, deserter, apostate, vagabond.
runaway, n. fugitive, absconder, deserter, truant, renegade.
runaway, a. fugitive, absconding, truant.
run away. flee, escape, desert, elope, abscond.
run away with. accompany.
run down. decline, deteriorate; decry, belittle, disparage, derogate.
rung, n. round, rime, rundle (of a ladder).
run into. collide.
runner, n. racer, sprinter; messenger, courier.
running, a. successive, consecutive; flowing, easy, cursive;
continuous; trailing.
running after. pursuit.
running away. desertion, fleeing, absconding, elopement.
running down. decline, deterioration; decrial, disparagement.
running into. collision.
running out. expiration, extension, expatiation, extinction.
run out. expire; extend, spread; expatiate, descant; become extinct.
run over. overflow.
runround, n. (Colloq.) felon, whitlow.
runt, n. dwarf, pygmy.
run through. squander, dissipate; transfix, impale, pierce.
ruption, n. breach, rupture.
rupture, n. disruption, breach; hernia.
rural, a. rustic, country, countrified, pastoral, bucolic, agrestic.
ruralism, n. ruralness, rurality, rusticity.
ruralize, v. rusticate.
ruse, n. artifice, wile, trick, stratagem, maneuver, feint, dodge.
rush, v. press, hurry.
rush, n. activity, demand.
Russia, n. Associated Words: Russian, russianize, Russification,
russify, Russophile, Russophobia, Russophobe, Duma, vodka.
Russian peasant. muzhik, moujik.
rust, n. corrosion, ærugo, verdigris; mildew, blight, mould; pating.
rust, v. corrode; degenerate (in idleness), decline.
rustic, a. rural, country, agrestic; unpolished, countrified,
uncouth, rude, rough; coarse, plain, simple, inelegant, homely; artless,
unaffected.
rustic, n. countryman, farmer; boor, churl, hind, put, carl, yokel.
rusticate, v. ruralize.
rustle, n. rustling, frou-frou.
rustlings a. whispering, susurrous.
rust of plants. ferrugo.
rusty, a. seruginous; ferruginous; reasty, rancid, musty, fusty,
mildewed; discolored, stained; rubiginous.
rut, n. groove; roaring (of waves), rote.
rut, n. œstrus, heat, œstruation. Associated Word: œstrual.
ruth, n. pity, tenderness, compassion, mercy.
ruthful, a. pitiful, tender, compassionate, merciful.
ruthless, a. pitiless, cruel, truculent, relentless, implacable,
fell, hard-hearted.
ruthlessness, n. truculence, implacability, cruelty, mercilessness.
ruttish, a. lustful, salacious, lascivious.
rye, n. Associated Words: ergot, ergotism, ergotized.
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sack, n. bag, pouch; pillage, plunder, rapine, havoc, devastation,
spoliation.
sack, v. devastate, plunder, pillage, ravage, despoil, loot, rapine,
strip.
sacred, a. consecrated, hallowed; venerable, sainted, religious;
inviolable.
sacredness, n. sanctity, holiness; inviolability, inviolableness.
sacrifice, n. oblation, immolation; surrender, loss, giving up;
holocaust; hecatomb.
sacrifice, v. offer, immolate; surrender, give up, forego.
sacrilege, n. desecration, profanation, violation.
sacrilegious, a. impious, profane, irreverent.
sad, a. sorrowful, pathetic, plaintive, doleful, piteous, lugubrious,
rueful, mournful, dismal, funereal, gloomy, melancholy, disconsolate,
dejected, touching; calamitous, deplorable, grievous, dire, afflictive,
wretched, saturnine, grave, sober; dull, sombre, subdued; (Colloq.) bad,
naughty, troublesome, mischievous, vexatious.
sadden, v. depress, dishearten; tone down, subdue.
saddle, n. Associated Words: pommel, cantle, girth, pillion,
stirrup, saddle-tree, croup, crutch, chapelet, tilpah, tapadero, housing,
latigo, pique, panel, sinch, saddle-bow, selliform, holster, mochila.
sadness, n. melancholy, pathos, sorrow, gravity, soberness,
seriousness.
safe, a. unharmed, intact, unscathed, immune; trustworthy, reliable,
sure, secure, invulnerable, impregnable. Antonyms: unsafe, endangered,
insecure.
safe-conduct, n. convoy, guard, escort; pass, passport.
safeguard, n. defense, security, palladium, protection, convoy,
guard; passport.
safeguard, v. guard, defend, protect, shield.
safekeeping, n. guardianship, care, custody, charge, preservation.
safety, n. security, custody; immunity, exemption.
sagacious, a. intelligent, knowing, shrewd, discerning.
sagacity, n. intelligence, shrewdness, cleverness, ingenuity, wisdom.
sail, v. navigate, cruise, embark.--n. sailing, cruise,
embarkation.
sailable, a. navigable.
sailcloth, n. canvas, duck, tarpaulin, raven's-duck.
sailing, n. navigation; circumnavigation (sailing round);
orthodromics, orthodromy.
sailor, n. mariner, navigator, seaman, seafarer, tarpaulin, tar,
salt, Jacky.
sailor's song. chantey.
sailor's wages. portage.
saint, n. Associated Words: canonize, canonization, hagiology,
hagiologist, hagiolatry, hagiolater, hagiography, Hagiographa, dulia,
legend, diptych, feretory, philatory, relic, apse, reliquary, shrine,
saintism, sainthood, saintship, hagiographer, hierotheca.
sainted, a. holy, pious, saintly, consecrated; canonized.
Saint Vitus's dance. chorea. Associated Word: choreic.
salable, a. vendible, marketable. Antonyms: unsalable,
unmarketable.
salacious, a. lascivious, lecherous, concupiscent. See lustful.
salad, n. Associated Word: acetarious.
sale, n. vendition, market; auction; handsel.
salient, a. prominent, conspicuous, noticeable, striking.
saliva, n. spittle, sputum, spit. Associated Words: salivate,
salivation, insalivate, insalivation, salivant, salivary, ptyalism,
salival, salivous, expectorant, drool, drivel, ptyalogogue, sialogogue,
ptysmagogue.
sally, n. spring, leap; sortie; witticism, jest, frolic, escapade.
saloon, n. grogshop, barroom, groggery, dramshop.
sal soda. carbonate of soda.
salt, n. chloride of sodium.
salt, n. seasoning, flavor, savor, taste; piquancy, wit, sense,
humor; old sailor.
saltness, n. salinity, salineness, saltiness.
salt of wisdom. alembroth.
saltpetre, n. potassium nitrate, nitre, nitrate of potash.
salt spring. saline.
salt works. salina.
salty, a. saline, brackish, saltish, salt, briny, saliferous.
salute, v. address, greet, hail, welcome, accost.--n.
salutation.
salvation, n. redemption. Associated Word: soteriology.
salve, n. ointment, cerate, embrocation, emollient, balm, unguent.
salve, v. anoint, embrocate, heal; remedy, cure.
sal-volatile, n. carbonate of ammonia, salts of hartshorn, smelling
salts.
same, a. identical, invariable, uniform, analogous, similar,
cognate; isomeric, isonomic. Antonyms: See different.
sameness, n. identity, identicalness, similarity, correspondence,
uniformity, analogy, parity, invariability, parallelism; monotony;
isomerism.
sample, n. specimen, example, illustration, exemplification,
instance, pattern.
sanction, n. confirmation, ratification, authorization, penalty,
punishment.
sanction, v. confirm, ratify, approve, countenance.
sanctity, n. godliness, saintliness, inviolability, sacredness.
sanctuary, n. shrine, sanctum, adytum; Holy of Holies; church,
temple.
sand, n. sandy soil; quicksand, syrtis; arena (Med.). Associated
words: dune, downs, arenicolous, burst, sabulosity (sandiness),
psammophilous, ammophilous, medano, eschar, os, kame, arenarious.
sand, n. (Slang) grit, pluck, nerve, courage, fearlessness,
audacity, spirit.
sand bath. arenation, psammotherapy, inhumation, saburration.
sandglass, n. hourglass.
Sandwich islands. Associated Word: Kanacka (native).
sandy, a. sabulous, gritty, arenaceous, arenose.
sane, a. underanged, rational, sound, lucid, _compos mentis_.
sanguinary, a. bloody, murderous; cruel, truculent, bloodthirsty.
sanitarium, n. sanatorium, health retreat.
sanity, n. saneness, rationality.
sap, v. mine, undermine, subvert; exhaust, drain, unsettle.
saphead, n. (Slang) simpleton, sap, dolt.
sappy, a. juicy, lush, succulent; (Low) silly, foolish,
half-witted.
sapwood, n. alburnum.
sarcastic, a. satirical, taunting, ironical, derisive, sneering.
sash, n. girdle.
Satan, n. devil, Belial, Apollyon, Abaddon, Asmodeus, Prince of
Darkness, Archfiend, the Evil One, the Tempter, the Arch Enemy.
satchel, n. handbag, valise.
satiate, v. surfeit, pall, glut, overfeed, cloy, gorge.
satiety, n. satiation, surfeit, cloyment, over-fullness.
satire, n. irony, sarcasm, ridicule, lampoon, pasquinade.
satirical, a. bitter, sarcastic, ironical, caustic, mordacious.
satirize, v. lampoon, ridicule, lash.
satisfaction, n. gratification; contentment, complacency, content,
comfort; reparation, indemnification, requital, reimbursement, recompense;
atonement, amends. Antonyms: dissatisfaction, discontent.
satisfactory, a. sufficient, satisfying, conclusive, gratify, ing,
atoning.
satisfy, v. gratify, content, appease, satiate, suffice; indemnify,
repay.
sauce, n. (Low) sauciness, impertinence, insolence, rudeness
saucy, a. impertinent, insolent, pert, impudent, malapert, flippant.
saunter, v. loiter, linger, straggle, lounge, stroll, delay, dawdle,
lag.
savable, a. salvable.
savage, a. uncivilized, barbarous; ferocious, ravenous, fierce,
untamed; brutal, fell, truculent, implacable, atrocious, ferocious,
inhuman.
savage, n. barbarian; cannibal.
savages, n. pl. Associated Words: agriology, agriologist.
save, v. rescue, deliver, redeem; preserve, conserve, keep; reserve,
hoard, garner; economize, husband; spare, obviate, prevent, forefend,
shield, protect.
save, prep. or conj. except, excepting, reserving.
saving, a. preserving, redemptory, redeeming; preservative,
conservative; frugal, thrifty, economical, provident, sparing, choice,
chary. Antonyms: lavish, extravagant, prodigal, unthrifty, profuse,
wasteful.
saving, n. treasure, hoard, reserve; exception, reservation,
salvation, rescue, redemption, deliverance; preservation, conservation;
salvage.
savingness, n. frugality, parsimony, thrift, providence, economy,
chariness. Antonyms: extravagance, prodigality, improvidence.
savory, a. gustable, palatable, toothsome, fragrant. Antonyms:
unsavory, impalatable.
savvy, v. (Slang) understand, comprehend.--n. understanding,
comprehension.
saw, n. maxim, adage, apothegm. See saying.
sawbones, n. (Nickname) surgeon.
sawer, n. sawyer.
saw tooth. serration, serrature, serrulation.
saw-toothed, a. serrate, serrated, serrulate.
say, v. utter, express, mention, pronounce, speak, declare, tell,
articulate, recite, rehearse; state, assert, affirm, allege, aver,
asseverate, predicate, cite; suppose, assume, presume.
saying, n. utterance, declaration, statement, pronunciation, mention,
assertion, affirmation, citation, averment, asseveration, alleging,
recital, rehearsal.
saying, n. maxim, saw, proverb, apothegm, aphorism, adage, dictum,
precept, axiom, motto, quotation.
scab, n. eschar, incrustation; mange.
scabby, a. scabbed, scaly, scabious, mangy.
scaffold, n. staging, scaffolding; gallows.
scalawag, n. (Slang) scamp, rascal, rogue, scapegrace, miscreant,
scoundrel, villain, caitiff, varlet.
scale, n. flake, lamina, leprosity, lamella, squama, incrustation.
scale, n. (Mus.) gamut, sol-fa. Associated Words: diatonic,
chromatic, tonic.
scale, n. (Bot.) squamula, lodicule; fulcrum.
scale, v. exfoliate, desquamate; climb, ascend, mount, clamber,
escalade.
scales, n. pl. balance; steelyards, Roman balance.
scalloped, a. pinked; crenate, crenated (Bot.).
scaly, a. flaky, squamose, leprose, squamoid, scurvy; (Low) mean,
low, contemptible, scurvy, despicable.
scamble, v. sprawl, wabble, shamble; scramble, jostle.
scamp, v. (Colloq.) slight, skimp.
scamp, n. rascal, knave, miscreant, caitiff, scapegrace, scoundrel.
scamper, v. hasten away, scud, hie, run, scuttle, scatter.
scandal, n. reproach, opprobrium, disgrace, odium, shame; slander.
scandalize, v. shock, offend, displease; disgrace; slander, defame,
vilify.
scandalous, a. defamatory, libellous, slanderous; infamous,
disgraceful, opprobrious, shameful, disreputable.
scant, a. scanty, meager, insufficient, inadequate; sparing, saving,
chary.
scant, v. limit, straiten, stint.
scantness, n. smallness, narrowness, inadequacy, insufficiency,
meagerness, scantiness.
scanty, a. insufficient, inadequate, meager; sparing, illiberal,
niggardly.
scapegrace, n. rogue, scamp, blacksheep, miscreant.
scar, n. cicatrix, seam, cicatrice; blemish, disfigurement, flaw.
Associated Words: cicatricial, cicatrisive, cicatrizant, cicatrize,
cicatrization, escharotic.
scarce, a. rare, unplentiful, deficient.
scarcity, n. dearth, deficiency, insufficiency, lack, drought,
rarity, paucity.
scare, v. frighten, intimidate, terrify, daunt, cow, appall, startle,
affright, alarm, browbeat, dismay, terrorize, overawe. Antonym:
reassure.
scare, n. fright, alarm, terror, panic, consternation.
scarecrow, n. guy, effigy; ragamuffin.
scarf, n. muffler, tippet, neckcloth, neckerchief, cravat, necktie,
maniple.
scarfskin, n. epidermis, cuticle.
scary, a. (Colloq.) timid, apprehensive, alarming, frightful.
scatter, v. dissipate, disperse, dispel, separate; intersperse.
scatter-brained, a. giddy, thoughtless, flighty, careless.
scattering, a. scattered, sporadic.
scattering, n. dissipation, dispersion; interspersion.
scene, n. spectacle, show, exhibition, display, view, scenery.
scenery, n. view, landscape, prospect.
scent, n. odor, smell, perfume; _flair_. See smell.
scepter, n. royal mace, sovereignty.
schedule, n. list, catalogue, table.
scheme, n. design, plan, project, machination, intrigue, cabal;
outline, draught, arrangement, plan, system.
scheme, v. devise, excogitate, plan, machinate, plot, design.
schemer, n. plotter, intriguer, machinator, intrigant, planner,
contriver.
scheming, a. artful, designing, intriguing, Machiavelian, tricky,
wily, insidious. Antonyms: guileless, undesigning, artless.
schismatic, a. dissentious, heretical, dissentient, schismatical.
schismatic, n. nonconformist, dissenter, separatist, heretic,
sectary.
scholar, n. pupil, student, learner, disciple; savant, philomath.
scholarly, a. scholarlike, erudite, scholastic.
scholarship, n. erudition, learning, knowledge, attainments,
polymathy.
school, n. institute, academy, seminary, college, gymnasium
conservatory, university; denomination, sect; shoal; clinic.
school, v. train, educate, drill, teach.
schooling, n. education, training, nurture, discipline; tuition.
scientist, n. savant.
scintilla, n. iota, trace, whit, particle, mite, bit, tittle, jot,
scrap, atom.
scion, n. descendant, heir; shoot, sprout.
scoff, v. deride, ridicule, mock, sneer, gibe, jeer, contemn.
scoffer, n. derider, ridiculer, mocker, sneerer, scorner, contemner,
jeerer.
scoffery, n. mockery, derision, ridicule, jeering.
scold, v. chide, berate, censure, reprimand, blame, reprove, brawl,
lecture, reprehend, vituperate, rate, rebuke, declaim against.
scold, n. shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, rixatrix, Xantippe.
scolding, n. chiding, censure, rating, reprimand, reprehension,
rebuke, berating.
scolding, a. berating, chiding, censorious, shrewish, reprehensory,
termagant.
scoop, n. ladle; cavity, hollow; stroke, sweep, swoop.
scope, n. design, purpose; opportunity, space, room, liberty; extent,
compass, purview.
scorch, v. singe, char, torrefy, burn, parch.
score, n. tally, account; notch, incision; motive, account, reason,
sake, consideration, behalf; line, groove; twenty.
score, v. notch, scratch, cut; record, enter.
scorn, n. contempt, disdain, derision, contumely, mockery, slight.
scorn, v. despise, reject, contemn, disregard, scout, spurn.
scornful, a. disdainful, contemptuous, contumelious, defiant.
Scotch, n. Gaelic.
Scotchman, n. Scot, Scotsman, Caledonian, Gael, Celt.
Scotland, n. Scotia, Caledonia.
scoundrel, n. villain, knave, rascal, scamp, rogue, caitiff,
reprobate, cheat, swindler, libertine, miscreant, bezonian, vagabond,
wretch.
scoundrelism, n. villainy, turpitude, knavery, rascality.
scourge, n. affliction, infliction, bane, punishment.
scout, v. disdain, flout, contemn, scorn, spurn, scoff, ridicule.
scout, n. spy.
scowl, v. glower, frown, lower.--n. frown.
scowling, a. sullen, glowering, frowning, lowering.
scraggy, a. scragged, craggy; scrawny, lank, gaunt, skinny, angular.
scramble, v. scrabble, clamber; struggle, contend, strive.
scrap, n. bit, fragment, morsel, crumb; excerpt, extract; pl.
cracklings.
scrapbook, n. commonplace book, album.
scrape, n. difficulty, predicament, dilemma.
scrape, v. abrade, rasp, grate, rub; gather, collect; erase, remove.
scraper, n. rasper.
scrappy, a. fragmentary, disconnected, inconsistent.
scratch, v. scrape; scribble; erase, expunge; scarify.
scratch, a. (Slang) haphazard, chance, improvised.
scrawl, n. scribble.
scrawny, a. (Colloq.) angular, lank, meager, scraggy, bony,
rawboned, gaunt.
screak, n. creaking, screech, squeak.--v. screech, creak,
squeak.
scream, n. shriek, screech, yell, outcry.
screech, n. shriek, scream, screak.
screechy, a. discordant, unmelodious, unmusical, strident.
screed, n. tirade, diatribe, harangue.
screen, n. shield, protection, guard, defense, traverse, fender;
mask, disguise; sieve, riddle; jube, parclose, rood screen; pavesade.
screen, v. shield, defend, protect, cover, conceal, cloak, hide;
sift, riddle.
screw, v. twist, wrench, force, squeeze; oppress, rack; distort.
screw, n. extortioner, skinflint.
scribe, n. writer, scrivener, amanuensis, copyist.
scrimmage, n. skirmish, scuffle, scrabble, row, fight.
scrimp, v. limit, straiten, scant, stint.
scrimp, a. scanty.
scrofula, n. king's evil. Associated Words: scrofulide, scrofulous.
scrotum, n. cod. Associated Words: scrotal, varicocele, spermatic
cord, pneumatocele, gubernaculum, cirsotomy, dartos, urocele, sarcocele,
mesorchium, scrotocele, _vas_ _deferens_, suspensory.
scrub, n. jungle, thicket, brushwood.
scrubby, a. stunted, dwarfed, undeveloped, scrub, insignificant.
scrumptious, a. (Slang) fine, elegant, excellent, fastidious,
particular.
scruple, n. hesitation, doubt; twenty grains.
scrupulous, a. conscientious, exact, strict, punctilious, particular.
scuffle, n. tussle, struggle, encounter, contest, fight, fray.
scullion, n. menial.
sculpture, n. statuary.
scum, n. dross, recrement, refuse, waste, froth.--v. despumate.
scurrilous, a. indecent, scurrile, opprobrious, insulting, abusive.
scurry, v. hurry, scamper, scuddle, scuttle.
scurry, a. despicable, abject, low, mean, contemptible.
scurvy, n. scorbutus.
scuttle, n. coal hod; manhole.
scuttle, v. scuddle, hurry, bustle, run.
scythe, n. Associated Words: swath, snath.
scythestone, n. whetstone.
sea, n. Associated Words: marine, naval, maritime, nautical, Davy
Jones, pelagic, pelagian, loom, looming, submarine, ultramarine, rote,
frith, estuary, fiord, kraken, Triton, haliography, haliographer,
hydrography, thalassography, marinorama, nereid, mirage, nautilus,
thalassotherapy.
seacoast, n. seaboard, seashore, seaside, beach, strand, seamarge.
sea cow. manatee; dugong; walrus.
sea fight. naval battle, naumachy.
sea horse. hippocampus; walrus.
sea king. Norse pirate chief, Viking (pirate).
seal, n. Associated Words: rookery, pup.
seal, n. signet; assurance, ratification, attestation,
authentication, confirmation; cachet (seal of a letter); breloque
(jewel). Associated Words: sphragistics, sigillography, sigillate.
seal, v. ratify, authenticate, confirm, attest.
sea letter. passport, sea pass.
sealing, n. confirmation, ratification, authentication, attestation,
obsignation.
seam, n. suture, commissure; layer, stratum.
seamaid, n. mermaid, sea-nymph, siren.
seaman, n. sailor, seafarer, mariner, tarpaulin, tar, salt, sea dog,
Jacky, beachcomber; merman; midshipman, middy, skipper, cockswain, pilot,
navigator.
sear, v. cauterize, scorch.
sear, a. dry, withered, dead, sere.
search, v. examine, explore, hunt, seek, overhaul; rummage, ransack,
ferret; scrutinize, probe, sift.
search, n. quest, research, pursuit.
searcher, n. seeker.
searchless, a. unsearchable, impenetrable, inscrutable.
seared, a. scorched, cauterized; callous, case-hardened.
searing, n. scorching, cautery, cauterization, cauterizing.
Associated Words: cauter, cauterant, cauterism, cautery.
seashore, n. seacoast, seaside, seaboard.
seasickness, n. nausea, _mal de mer_.
sea soldier. marine.
season, v. habituate, inure, harden, accustom, acclimatize,
acclimate; dry, mature; flavor, spice.
seasonable, a. opportune, timely, suitable, apropos, convenient.
seasoning, n. condiment, spice, relish, sauce, flavor, salt,
_hautgoût_.
seat, n. site, abode, situation, station; fundament, buttocks,
bottom, breech; chair, sofa, tête-à-tête, divan, settee; banquette,
dickey, rumble; bench, form; pew.
seat, v. usher.
seaweeds, n. pl. algæ, dulse, sea lettuce, confervæ, wrack; sargasso;
kelp, fucus, rockweed. Associated Words: algology, algous, fucivorous,
fucoid, fucoidal, fucosol, laver, barilla, phycology, phycography, varec,
rhabdolith.
secluded, a. sequestered, isolated, retired, withdrawn, covert,
lonely.
seclusion, n. sequestration, isolation, solitude, loneliness,
retirement.
second, n. backer, supporter, assistant.--v.. back, support,
abet.
secondary, a. subordinate, second, inferior, minor, collateral.
secondary, n. subordinate, deputy, delegate, proxy, underling,
auxiliary.
second-class, a. inferior, second-rate.
second son. Associated Word: secundogeniture.
second sight. prophetic vision, deuteroscopy.
second thought. reconsideration.
secrecy, n. seclusion, privacy, retirement, concealment, confidence.
secret, a. mystery, arcanum; pl. confidences; pl.
genitals; pl. _penetralia_. Associated Words: secretive, secretory,
confide, confidential.
secret, a. hidden, concealed, unrevealed, mysterious, cryptic,
recondite, occult, esoteric, cabalistic, abstruse, unknown, latent;
secluded, privy, withdrawn, retired, covert, private, sequestered;
stealthy, underhand, clandestine, sly, surreptitious, confidential,
undetected. Antonyms: overt, revealed, open, exoteric, manifest.
secretary, n. amanuensis, clerk, writer, scribe; writing-desk,
escritoire, scrutoire. Associated Words: secretarial, secretariat,
portfolio.
secrete, v. bury, hide, conceal, shroud, disguise, cloak.
secretion, n. concealment, hiding.
secretive, a. uncommunicative, taciturn, reserved, silent, wary.
secretiveness, n. taciturnity, reserve, silence, uncommunicativeness,
wariness.
secret language. cryptology, argot, flash.
secret name. cryptonym.
secrets, n. pl. confidences, mysteries; arcana, _penetralia_.
secret science. esoterics, cabala.
secret vice. masturbation, onanism, self-abuse.
secret writing. cryptography, cipher, steganography, cryptogram.
sect, n. school, party, denomination.
sectarian, a. denominational.
section, n. portion, part, division, segment, piece; paragraph.
secular, a. temporal, worldly, laic, civil.
secure, a. safe, confident, assured, fast, immovable, stable,
indemnified. Antonyms: insecure, risky, hazardous.
secure, v. gain, procure, obtain, get, acquire; fasten, moor;
guarantee, ensure, insure, assure, indemnify; defend, guard, shield,
protect.
security, n. safety, confidence, assurance, certainty; warranty,
surety, indemnification, pledge, indemnity, bond, guarantee, vadium;
defense, protection, bulwark.
sedate, a. staid, demure, imperturbable, composed, calm.
sedative, a. composing, soothing, anodyne.
sedative, n. anæsthetic, narcotic, opiate, hypnotic.
sediment, n. precipitate, dregs, lees, settlings, grounds, feculence.
sedition, n. rebellion, revolt, insurrection, riot, mutiny,
insubordination.
seditious, a. rebellious, insubordinate, insurgent, mutinous.
seduce, v. entice, tempt, betray, allure.
seducement, n. seduction, enticement.
seducer, n. Lothario.
seduction, n. enticement, temptation, allurement, lure.
seductive, a. alluring, attractive, siren, enticing.
see, v. perceive, descry, view, behold, witness, espy; discern,
distinguish, observe, note, notice, observe, understand, grasp; watch,
regard, look after; accompany, escort; interview, visit. Antonyms:
overlook, ignore, miss, skip, connive at.
seed, n. semen, sperm; first principle, origin, source.
seed, n. kernel, grain, pip, ovule. Associated Words: carpology,
spermologist, seminal, semination, seminific, spermophyte, angiosperm,
pericarp, angiospermous, carpolite, germinate, germination, achene,
carpel, spermophyta, silique, silicle, weevil, chorion, testa, tegmen,
endopleura, capsule, pod.
seedy, a. (Colloq.) shabby, tacky, threadbare; spiritless.
seeing, n. perception, viewing, espial, descrying, beholding;
discernment, observation, comprehension; sight, vision. Antonyms:
imperception, blindness, connivance. See sight.
seek, v. search for, hunt; aim at, strive after, attempt.
seeming, n. appearance, show, semblance, speciousness, guise, look.
seemingly, adv. apparently, ostensibly.
seemly, a. becoming, suitable, proper, appropriate, meet, befitting.
seep, v. percolate.
seer, n. prophet, vaticinator, predictor, diviner.
seething, a. boiling, ebullient.
segment, n. section, part, portion, piece; (Biol.) metamere,
somite, somatome.
seize, v. apprehend, snatch, clutch, catch, gripe, grasp, grapple;
arrest; confiscate, usurp, appropriate; distrain, distress.
seizure, n. apprehension, grasping; capture; confiscation,
usurpation.
seldom, adv. infrequently, rarely.
select, v. pick out, choose, prefer, cull, single out,
elect.--a. choice. Antonyms: promiscuous, indiscriminate.
selecting, a. elective, eclectic.
selection, n. choice, election, preference, pick; collection,
assortment. Antonyms: promiscuity, indiscrimination.
self, n. ego, person, individual. Associated Words: egoism, egoist,
egoistic, egotism, egotist, egotistical.
self-abasement, n. self-degradation, humility, meekness.
self-abuse, n. masturbation, onanism, secret vice, self-pollution.
self-acting, a. automatic.
self-conceit, n. egotism, overweening, priggishness, vanity.
self-conceited, a. egotistical, vain, overweening, priggish,
opinionated, bumptious, conceited.
self-consumption, n. autophagy.
self-defense, n. Associated Word:: jujutsu.
self-deification, n. autotheism.
self-denial, n. self-abnegation, asceticism, self-sacrifice,
abstemiousness. Antonyms: self-indulgence, sensuality, voluptuousness.
self-denying, a. self-sacrificing, unselfish, ascetic, abstemious.
self-evident, a. axiomatic, obvious.
self-examination, n. introspection; autoscopy.
self-explanatory, a. obvious.
self-fear, n. self-distrust, autophoby.
self-fertilization, n. autogamy.
self-government, n. self-control; democracy; autonomy. Antonyms:
subjection, heteronomy, abandon, subordination.
self-heating, a. idiothermic.
self-importance, n. pompousness, pomposity, vanity, conceit.
self-important, a. pompous, vain, opinionated, bumptious.
selfish, a. ungenerous, narrow, illiberal, uncharitable.
self-knowledge, n. autology.
self-murderer, n. suicide, _felo-de-se_.
self-possessed, a. composed, unruffled, sedate, calm, collected.
self-possession, n. composure, equanimity, calmness, _aplomb_.
Antonyms: discomposure, agitation.
self-righteous, a. pharisaic, sanctimonious.
self-sufficiency, n. self-complacency.
self-taught person. autodidact, automath.
self-worship, n. autolatry, idiolatry.
sell, v. vend, barter, exchange; betray; (Slang) deceive, impose
upon, cheat.
sell, n. (Slang) imposition, cheat, hoax, deception, trick, fraud.
seller, n. vender, vendor.
selling, n. vendition, barter, vending, sale.
selvedge, n. listing.
semen, n. sperm, seed. Associated Words: seminal, spermatic,
spermatism, gonic, aspermatism, aspermia, seminific, seminiferous,
spermatoid, spermatozoid, spermic, spermary, spermatorrhea, spermatozoa,
emission, _vesiculæ seminales_, fecundate.
semicircle, n. hemicycle.
send, v. dispatch, commission, delegate; transmit, forward.
send back. return, remand, recommit.
sending back. return, remand, remandment, recommitment.
senile, a. decrepit, feeble, aged, infirm.
senility, n. dotage, decrepitude, old age.
seniority, n. eldership, superiority.
sensation, n. consciousness, feeling, perception; excitement.
Associated Words: æsthesiology, sensorium, sentient, sensific, sensory,
sentiency, insentient, sensifacient, sensiferous, sensificatory,
sensitive, æsthesiometer, æsthesiogen, catalepsy, anæsthesia.
sensational, a. melodramatic, emotional, exciting, thrilling.
sense, n. perception, sensation, sensibility, feeling, æsthesia;
apprehension, understanding; wisdom, sagacity; judgment, notion, opinion,
sentiment, view; conviction, consciousness. Associated Words:
æsthematology, æsthesiography, sensuous, sensual, sensuality,
sensuousness.
sense, v. (Colloq.) perceive, recognize.
senseless, a. insensible, unconscious; absurd, silly, nonsensical,
inept, foolish, idiotic, fatuous, unwise.
senselessness, n. insensibility, unconsciousness; fatuity, absurdity.
sensibility, n. susceptibility, sensitiveness, delicacy, feeling,
emotion.
sensible, a. apprehensible, perceptible; susceptible, impressible,
conscious, cognizant, aware; wise, judicious, discreet, intelligent.
Antonyms: insensible, unconscious.
sensitive, a. susceptible, impressible, sentient, irritable.
sensual, a. unspiritual, carnal, fleshly, sensuous; voluptuous,
luxurious, sybaritic, wanton, licentious, self-indulgent.
sensualist, n. voluptuary, epicure, sybarite.
sensuality, n. voluptuousness, carnality, sybaritism; wantonness,
licentiousness, self-gratification.
sensuous, a. sensual. Antonym: insensuous.
sentence, n. opinion, decision, determination, judgment; axiom,
maxim, precept, posy, adage, epigram, apothegm, saying.
sententious, a. terse, pithy, laconic, epigrammatic.
sentient, a. sensitive, perceptive, conscious, susceptible.
Antonyms: insentient, insusceptible.
sentiment, n. thought, feeling; judgment, notion, opinion; maxim,
saying, toast; sensibility, susceptibility.
sentimental, a. romantic, impressible, emotional, lackadaisical.
Antonyms: unsentimental, matter-of-fact, pragmatical.
sentinel, n. guard, sentry, watchman, picket, vidette, perdue.
Associated Word: cordon.
separable, a. divisible, detachable, severable, partible. Antonym:
inseparable.
separate, v. divide, dissolve, detach, sunder, sever, disconnect,
part, disjoin, withdraw, rend, dissociate, disengage, isolate, disunite,
eliminate, disintegrate, segregate, scatter, disperse, dissipate,
sequester, cleave, insulate, dissever, deglutinate.
separate, a. detached, disconnected, disjoined, separated, apart,
distinct, isolated, segregated, disunited, severed, withdrawn.
separation, n. division, segregation, disunion, disconnection,
sequestration, disjunction, dissolution, disengagement, disintegration,
insulation, isolation, rupture, dissociation, divorce, analysis,
decomposition, detachment, demarcation, severance, partition,
deglutination.
separatist, n. nonconformist, dissenter, sectary, schismatic.
sequel, n. continuation, conclusion, consequence, result, outcome.
sequence, n. succession, series, following; result, sequel,
consequence.
sequestered, a. secluded.
sere, a. dry, withered, sear.
serenade, n. nocturne; (burlesque) charivari, callithump.
serene, a. calm, placid, composed, tranquil, unruffled, unclouded.
serenity, n. calmness, composure, tranquillity; cloudlessness,
clearness.
serf, n. bondman, thrall, slave, bond servant, villein.
serfdom, n. thralldom, slavery, subjection, bondage, servitude.
serious, a. grave, earnest, thoughtful, solemn, staid, sober, demure,
saturnine; momentous, important, weighty, grave; dangerous, alarming,
critical.
seriousness, n. gravity. Antonyms: levity, frivolity, triviality.
sermon, n. homily, exhortation (religious), discourse. Associated
words: homiletics, homiletic, homilist.
serpent, n. snake, reptile, ophidian; basilisk, cockatrice,
amphisbæna. Associated Words: ophiology, ophiolatry, ophiophagous,
ophiography, herpetology, ophidian, ophiologic, ophiomorphous,
herpetologist, herpetotomy, herpetotomist, ophiologist, ophiomancy,
echidna, echidnine, fang, uræus, serpentry, reptilian, anguiform, anguine.
serpentine, a. serpentlike, subtle, sinuous, winding, zigzag,
tortuous.
servant, n. dependent, subaltern, subordinate, helper, servitor,
attendant, retainer; domestic, maid, menial, drudge, valet, flunky, groom,
coistril, lackey, underling, fag, coolie, butler, factotum, orderly,
soubrette, equerry.
serve, v. attend, wait upon; promote, advance, contribute, conduce
to; subserve; treat, requite; satisfy, suffice, content, answer, do; deal,
distribute.
service, n. labor, employment, office, duty, business, function,
ministry; ritual, ceremony, rite; advantage, benefit, avail, use, utility;
homage, obeisance.
servile, a. slavish, abject, cringing, groveling, obsequious;
dependent, enslaved.
servitude, n. bondage, enslavement.
set, v. place, put, fix, establish, locate, station; adjust,
regulate, adapt; oppose, obstruct; appoint, assign.
set, a. fixed, immovable, rigid, firm, obstinate, inflexible,
unyielding; regular, uniform, established, prescribed, ordained,
appointed.
set, n. clique, group, class, party, coterie, circle, band, company.
set aside. displace, supersede.
setback, n. (Colloq.) backset, check, repulse, reverse, relapse.
set-off, n. offset; counterclaim, equivalent.
set-out, n. display, equipage, rig, turnout; (Colloq.)
preparations.
settle, v. fix, establish; ordain, install; adjust, determine,
decide; sink, subside, fall; precipitate; quiet, calm, pacify,
tranquillize; colonize, people.
settlement, n. establishment; ordination, installation; colonization,
colony; adjustment; subsidence.
settler, n. pioneer, colonist.
settlings, n. pl. sediment, dregs, lees, precipitate, grounds,
feculence; foots.
set-to, n. (Colloq.) contest, conflict, encounter, combat, fight,
scrimmage.
seven, n. heptade. Associated Words: septenary, septuple, septette,
septenate, septemvirate, septemvir, heptarchy.
sevenfold, a. septuple.
seven languages. Associated Word: heptaglot.
seven-sided, a. heptagonal, septilateral.
seven-sided figure. heptagon, heptahedron.
seventy, n. Associated Words: septuagenary, septuagesimal,
Septuagint.
seventy years. Associated Words: septuagenarian, septuagenary.
seven years. septennate. Associated Words: septennial,
septennially, septenary.
sever, v. part, divide, disunite, separate, disjoin, detach,
disconnect.
several, a. various, diverse, manifold, divers, sundry.
severe, a. drastic, harsh, stern, rigorous, exact, cruel; serious,
sedate, grave, austere, sober; distressing, afflictive, sharp, acute,
violent, intense; inexorable, stern, exacting, peremptory, unrelenting,
unmerciful; plain, austere, unembellished, unadorned; methodical, strict,
precise, exact.
severity, n. rigor, rigorousness, harshness, exactness, cruelty;
seriousness, gravity; violence, intensity, acuteness; austerity,
simplicity, plainness; exactness, strictness, preciseness.
sew, v. stitch; baste.
sewer, n. Associated Words: sewerage, sewage.
sewing woman. seamstress.
sex, n. Associated Words: sexual, gender, bisexual, unisexual,
epicene, hermaphrodite, hermaphroditism, androgyne, androgyny, gonad.
sexless, a. asexual, agamous.
sexton, n. janitor (of a church), sacristan, sacrist.
sexual desire. lust, venereal appetite, sexual appetite, carnal
appetite, lasciviousness, venery, concupiscence, salacity, salaciousness,
aphrodisia; satyriasis (immoderate); nymphomania (morbid in women);
(of animals) œstrus, rut, heat, œstruation. Antonym: anaphrodisia.
Associated Words: aphrodisiac, antaphrodisiac, anaphrodisiac,
aphrodisiacal, amative, amativeness, amorous, amorousness, amatory,
antiorgastic, philter, œstrual, sedative, erotic, erotomania, sadism,
satyromaniac.
sexual intercourse. coition, copulation, venery, sexual conjunction;
(illicit) fornication, bawdry; prostitution, putage; adultery; incest;
rape; (unnatural) sodomy, buggery, pederasty; (of birds) tread.
Antonyms: continence, chastity, virginity. Associated Words: venereal,
incontinence, incontinent, unchastity, copulatory, gonorrhea, clap,
syphilis, cenogamy, infibulation, intromittent, access, nonaccess, orgasm,
fecundation, impregnate, impregnation, copulate, lecher, lechery,
lecherous, libertine, libertinism, house of assignation, bawd, procurer,
bawdry, pander, catamite.
sexual love. venery, amorousness, amativeness.
sexual organs. genitals, privates, private parts, organs of
generation, pudenda, virilia; (male) penis, testicles; (female
external) vulva, pudendum; (internal) womb, uterus, ovaries, vagina,
clitoris. Associated Words: agamic, agamous, protandric, protandrism,
nympha, maidenhead, pudic, pubes, spermatheca, gonad, masturbation,
infibulation.
sexual power. virility; fecundity. Associated Word: emasculate.
sexual weakness. (male) impotency, sexual debility, invirility,
emasculation, eviration; (female) sterility, defemination, infecundity.
shabby, a. seedy, threadbare, tacky (Colloq.); mean, despicable,
scurvy, contemptible.
shack, n. (Colloq.) vagabond, tramp, loafer; hut, shanty, hovel,
cabin.
shackle, n. handcuff, manacle, fetter.
shackle, v. manacle, hamper, fetter; impede, trammel.
shade, n. umbrage, shadow; pl. darkness, obscurity, gloom,
shadows; retreat, seclusion; screen, protection, curtain, awning, blind;
spirit, ghost, specter, phantom, manes; minute difference, variation,
nuance.
shade, v. screen; obscure, dim, obfuscate, cloud, darken, eclipse.
shadow, n. shade, darkness, penumbra, adumbration; prefiguration.
Associated Words: sciagraphy, sciomachy, periscian, silhouette,
sciomancy.
shadow, v. shade, screen; adumbrate, typify, symbolize; cloud,
obscure.
shadowy, a. unsubstantial, visionary, illusory, chimerical.
shady, a. umbrageous, shadowy, umbriferous; sheltered, screened;
(Colloq.) equivocal, questionable, corrupt.
shaft, n. arrow, spear, missile; column, obelisk; handle, helve;
spire, pinnacle; pole, tongue, thill; axis.
shake, v. agitate, jar, jolt, convulse, concuss, jounce, dodder,
tremble, trill, shiver, totter, joggle, jiggle, wave, vibrate, shudder.
shake, n. jar, shivering, jolt, shaking, shudder.
shaking, n. concussion, agitation, disturbance, trembling,
convulsion.
shaky, a. trembling, shaking; (Colloq.) unsound, tottering.
shallow, a. shoal; superficial, frivolous, senseless.
sham, n. pretense, feint, delusion, imposition, mockery, fraud,
imitation, dissimulation, simulation.
sham, a. counterfeit, spurious, pretended, dummy, unreal false, mock,
simulated.
sham, v. feign, pretend, imitate, personate, dissimulate.
shame, n. ignominy, dishonor, reproach, derision, contempt discredit,
opprobrium, scandal, disgrace, obloquy; mortification, abashment,
humiliation, discomfiture; modesty, decency.
shame, v. humiliate, mortify, disconcert; disgrace, degrade; mock,
deride, ridicule.
shamefaced, a. bashful, diffident, modest.
shameful, a. indecent, immodest, obscene; scandalous, disgraceful,
reproachful, ignominious, infamous, flagitious, disreputable, vile,
opprobrious.
shameless, a. immodest, unabashed, indelicate, indecent, unblushing,
audacious, brazen-faced, abandoned, graceless.
shammy, n. chamois.
shanty, n. hut, hovel, shack.
shape, v. form, mould, fashion, frame; adjust, regulate, design,
plan, arrange.
shape, n. form, figure, guise, appearance.
shapeless, a. misshapen, unsymmetrical, unshapely, formless,
amorphous.
shapely, a. symmetrical, well-formed, comely, well-proportioned.
share, v. apportion, divide; partake, participate in.
share, n. portion, allotment, quota, dole, proportion, contingent,
dividend.
sharer, n. participator, partaker; divider, distributor.
shark, n. (Colloq.) sharper, trickster, cheat, swindler; fraud,
trickery.
sharp, a. pointed, trenchant, incisive, keen; poignant, piercing,
acute, penetrating, severe, excruciating, intense, subtile, violent;
biting, sarcastic, acrimonious, acrid, cutting; sagacious, clever,
perspicacious, ingenious, bright, discerning, resourceful, astute, shrewd,
apt, smart, long-headed, acuminous; fierce, fiery, unquenchable, eager;
exacting, close; steep, abrupt, precipitous; pungent, piquant peppery,
high-seasoned: shrill, piercing; peaked, ridged.
sharpen, v. intensify, aggravate, quicken; hone, grind, point, whet.
sharpening stone. whetstone, hone, oilstone, grindstone, abradant.
sharper, n. trickster, swindler, knave, cheat, extortioner, blackleg.
sharpness, n. keenness, poignancy, acuity, acuteness, edge; asperity,
acrimony, impatience; acumen, sagacity, shrewdness, astuteness, aptness;
pungency, piquancy.
sharp practice. trickery, chicanery.
sharp-sighted, a. eagle-eyed, acute, perspicacious, argus-eyed.
shatter, v. shiver, demolish; disorder, derange.
shave, n. shaving; spokeshave, drawshave.
sheath, n. case, scabbard; covering.
shed, v. diffuse, emit, radiate, spread; cast, exuviate, moult, mew,
discard; doff.
shed, n. outhouse, lean-to, shack, shanty.
shedding, n. (skins_, _shells_, _etc.) exuviation, ecdysis,
moulting.
she-devil, n. Jezebel, fury, virago, termagant.
sheen, n. shine, luster, gloss, brightness, splendor.
sheep, n. _Ovis_, _Ovis aries_; (male) ram, buck; (female) ewe;
(young) lamb, eanling; (castrated ram) wether; (leader of the flock)
bellwether; hoggerel, hogget. Associated Words: bleat, braxy, gid,
mutton, flock, ovine, shepherd, shepherdess, cosset, raddle, yean, ean,
lowbell, abigeat, sheepcote, fold.
sheep-dog, n. collie, shepherd dog.
sheepish, a. bashful, shy, over-modest.
sheepskin, n. sheep-pelt, pelt, woolfell; roan; (Cant) diploma.
Associated Words: fellmonger, woolpuller, skiver, budge.
sheer, a. thin; unadulterated, pure, unmixed; precipitous, abrupt,
perpendicular.
shelf, n. mantel, mantelpiece; bracket, console; ledge, shallow,
shoal; banquette.
shell, n. shuck, putamen; test, testa, episperm, spermoderm.
Associated Words: scleroid, enucleate, enucleation, inenucleable.
shell, n. armature, case, exoskeleton, shale; carapace, plastron;
cockle, conch, periwinkle, cowrie, whelk, mitre shell, abilone shell;
exuviae (cast-off); conchite (fossil). Associated Words: conchology,
conchologist, malacology, testaceous, cockled, mollusk, conchiferous,
conchiform conchometer, conchometry, crustacean, exuvial, exuviate,
exuviation, Loricata, bivalve, multivalve, univalve.
shell, n. framework; bomb, torpedo, shrapnel, grenade.
shell, v. hull, shuck, shale, enucleate; bombard, besiege.
shellfish, n. pl. Mollusks, Mollusca, Testacea.
shell money. wampum, hiagua, peag, colcol, kopkops, seawan,
suckanhock.
shelter, n. protection, screen, cover, shield, defense, covert,
security, lee; asylum, refuge, retreat, haven, sanctuary.
shelter, v. shield, protect, defend, screen, ensconce, cover.
Antonym: expose.
sheltered, a. protected, covert.
shepherd, n. pastor, pastoralist. Associated Words: bucolic,
pastoral, staff, crook.
shibboleth, n. watchword, party cry.
shield, n. ægis, buckler, escutcheon, scutcheon, pavise, scutum;
defense, protection, palladium, bulwark, safeguard. Associated Words:
scutal, bouche.
shield, v. defend, protect, safeguard; ward off, repel.
shield-shaped, a. thyroid.
shift, v. veer, change, turn; quirk, quibble, palter; change,
substitute.
shift, n. subterfuge, device, contrivance, evasion, stratagem, trick,
dodge; resource, expedient, change, substitution; chemise.
shifting, a. unstable, variable, changeable.
shiftless, a. improvident, unthrifty, thriftless, wasteful.
Antonyms: thrifty, industrious.
shilly-shally, adv. irresolutely, hesitatingly.
shilly-shally, n. hesitation, irresolution, indecision, vacillation,
wavering, trifling, evasion, dalliance.
shilly-shally, v. hesitate, waver, trifle, dally, vacillate, dodge,
be irresolute.
shin, n. shank.
shindy, n. (Slang) uproar, disturbance, riot, row; hockey; liking,
fancy.
shine, v. beam, radiate, gleam, irradiate, glisten, glow, glitter,
flare, glare; excel, surpass; polish.
shine, n. luster, polish, gloss, sheen, radiance, resplendence,
brilliancy, lucency, glaze.
shine, n. (Slang) liking, fancy; caper, antic, dido.
shining, a. radiant, beaming, lustrous, luminous, glowing, brilliant,
lucent, bright, sleek, glazed, glistening, splendent, resplendent, glossy,
shiny; conspicuous, noticeable.
shining between. interlucent.
shining round. circumfulgent.
ship, n. vessel. Associated Words: barratry, hypothecate,
hypothecation.
ship, v. transport; deport; (Colloq.) dismiss, send away.
shipbuilder, n. shipwright.
shipment, n. shipping, transportation; consignment.
ship mortgage. bottomry, hypothecation.
shipping, n. shipment, transportation; navigation.
shipwreck, n. wreckage; disaster, destruction, ruin, subversion,
miscarriage. Associated Words: salvage, flotsam, jetsam, derelict,
jettison.
shipwrecked person. castaway.
shirk, v. avoid, evade, neglect.
shirt, n. smock, chemise, shift, tunic, camise.
shiver, n. splinter, sliver; shivering, tremor, horripilation.
shoal, n. shallow, sandbank, bar.--a. shallow.
shock, v. dismay, horrify, appall, terrify, frighten; stook; astound,
stun, paralyze, scandalize, outrage, offend.
shock, n. impact, blow, collision, concussion, onset, brunt, clash,
percussion; stroke, blow; stook, hattock.
shocking, a. scandalous, appalling, offensive, outrageous, heinous,
dire.
shod, p.p. and a. calced, calceated.
shoddy, a. (Colloq.) sham, spurious, mock.
shoddy, n. rag wool, mungo.
shoe, n. boot, balmoral, Goodyear welt, clog, sock, buskin, sandal,
slipper, creedmore, Creole, stogy, chopine, brogan, blucher, bottine,
moccasin, oxford, sabot, pump, cracowes, poulaine, racket.
shoemaker, n. crispin, cordwainer (Archaic).
shoe mender. cobbler.
shoe mending. cobbling.
shoestring, n. shoelace, latchet.
shoot, n. chute, shute, flume, channel.
shoot, n. tiller, sucker, sprout, offshoot, chit, twig, scion.
shoot, v. discharge, fire; eject, hurl, emit, ejaculate; protrude,
project, extend, jut; germinate, sprout; penetrate, dart; fusillade;
tiller.
shooting, a. darting, piercing.
shop, n. workshop, factory; store; warehouse; atelier, studio.
shore, n. beach, coast, strand, marge. Associated Words: littoral,
circumlittoral, limicoline, shingle, beached.
shore, v. prop, brace, buttress, support, stay.
shorn, a. sheared, clipped; divested, deprived, fleeced.
short, a. brief, contracted, terse, concise, condensed, sententious,
laconic, succinct, summary, epigrammatic, pithy; limited, inadequate,
insufficient, deficient, scanty; abrupt, curt, uncivil; lacking, shy,
unsupplied; crisp, friable, brittle. Antonyms: diffuse, prolix, long.
shortage, n. deficiency, insufficiency, inadequacy, deficit, ullage.
Antonyms: See surplus.
short-billed, a. brevirostral, brevirostrate.
shortcoming, n. defect, imperfection, fault, foible, failure.
shorten, v. abridge, abbreviate, curtail, reduce, epitomize,
contract, retrench, condense, diminish; limit, restrict, restrain,
confine, circumscribe; dock, lop.
shortening, n. abbreviation, abridgment, contraction, curtailment,
reduction, retrenchment.
shorthand, n. phonography, stenography.
short-headed, a. brachycephalous.
short-legged, a. breviped.
short-lived, a. ephemeral, mushroom, transitory.
shortness, n. brevity, briefness, conciseness, laconism, inadequacy,
deficiency, insufficiency, shortage, deficit.
short-sighted, a. myopic, near-sighted; unwise, impudent, indiscreet.
short-sightedness, n. myopia, near-sightedness; unwisdom, imprudence,
indiscretion.
short-sighted person. myope.
short-winged, a. brevipennate.
shot, n. discharge; projectile, bullet, ball; marksman; range, reach.
shoulder, n. Associated Words: epaulet, shrug, espauliere,
scapular, scapulary, baldric, infrascapular, omagra.
shoulder, v. jostle, push; assume, bear.
shoulder blade. scapula, omoplate.
shout, n. vociferation, halloo, outcry, call, hoot, clamor,
acclamation.
shout, v. vociferate, yell, halloo, call, clamor, acclaim.
show, n. exposure, exhibition, exposition, demonstration,
representation; display, spectacle, ostentation, parade, pomp, flourish,
splurge, pageantry, splendor: appearance, semblance; pretense, puppetry,
speciousness, simulation.
show, v. exhibit, present, display, uncover, reveal, disclose,
manifest, divulge, evince, proclaim; direct, guide, usher, conduct;
demonstrate, explain, expound, exemplify; indicate, signify.
showing, n. demonstration, exhibition, presentation, revelation,
disclosure, exposition, manifestation; direction, guidance, ushering;
explanation, expounding, illustration, interpretation, indication,
exemplification. Associated Words: ostensive, ostensible, exhibiting,
expository.
showy, a. spectacular, pageant, ostentatious, pompous; garish,
gaudy, meretricious, gorgeous, flashy, bedizened, gay, conspicuous,
tinsel. Antonyms: inconspicuous, modest, unostentatious, quiet, subdued.
shred, n. fragment, tatter, rag, strip, frazzle.
shrew, n. scold, brawler, termagant, vixen, virago, Xantippe.
shrewd, a. astute, sharp; cunning, crafty, wily, artful, long-headed.
shrewdness, n. acumen, astuteness, sharpness, long-headedness.
shrewish, a. vixenish, termagant, brawling, clamorous.
shriek, n. screech, yell, scream.
shrill, a. piercing, acute, strident.
shrink, v. contract, shrivel, decrease, dwindle; flinch, recoil,
blench, wince, winch.
shrinkage, n. contraction; (Colloq.) depreciation.
shrinking, a. coy, shy, diffident, bashful, modest, retiring.
shroud, n. winding-sheet, grave-clothes, cerements.
shroud, v. mask, screen, cloak, conceal.
shrub, n. bush; pl. shrubbery, thicket, boscage, bosket.
shuck, n. shell, husk, pod, shale.--v. shell, enucleate.
shudder, n. tremor.--v. tremble, shake, shiver, quake.
shuffle, v. jumble, intermix; equivocate, prevaricate, quibble,
shift; shamble.
shuffle, n. artifice, evasion, prevarication, trick, sophism, ruse.
shun, v. avoid, elude, evade, eschew.
shut, v. close; debar, exclude, preclude; (shut up) confine,
imprison, coop up, incarcerate, immure.
shy, a. timid, coy, backward, retiring, diffident, wary, cautious;
(Slang) short, lacking.
shyness, n. diffidence, coyness, timidity, bashfulness.
shyster, n. (Slang) knave, impostor, rogue, cheat.
sick, a. ill, unwell, ailing, indisposed, diseased, morbid;
nauseated, queasy, squeamish, qualmish; disgusted, surfeited, weary,
palled, satiated.
sick, v. sick on, incite, urge.
sicken, v. nauseate, disgust, pall, surfeit, decay, languish.
sickening, a. nauseating, disgusting, fulsome, nauseous, revolting.
sickle-shaped, a. falcate, falcated.
sickly, a. invalid, unwell, unhealthy, ailing; unwholesome; pale,
languid, haggard, puny, peaked.
sickness, n. illness, malady, ailment, complaint, disorder,
distemper, morbidity, indisposition, invalidism, disease. Associated
words: morbidity, morbific, malinger, malingerer, malingery, decumbiture,
convalescent, convalescence, relapse, malaise, clinic.
sickness of stomach. nausea, qualm, qualmishness.
side, n. flank; faction, sect, party. Associated Words: lateral,
laterality, laterally, collateral, bilateral, equilateral, quadrilateral,
longilateral, lopsided, multilateral, perimeter, ambidexter, ambidextrous,
ambidexterity.
side, a. lateral, collateral, incidental.
side by side. in apposition. Associated Words: apposition,
juxtaposition, juxtapose, juxtaposit.
side dish. entrée, entremets.
sidehill, n. descent, declivity, decline, slope.
sidelong, a. lateral, oblique.
sidesman, n. partisan.
sidetrack, v. shunt; (Colloq.) switch off, divert.
sideways, adv., sidewise, askance, obliquely, laterally.
sidewise, adv., sideways, askance.
siding, n. sidetrack, turnout; clapboards, weatherboarding.
siege, n. investment, blockade, besiegement. Associated Words:
obsidional, besiege, beleaguer, obsess, obsession, beset.
Siena marble. brocatel.
sieve, n. strainer, sifter, bolt, bolter, riddle, tammis, tammy.
sievelike, a. cribrate, cribrose, cribriform.
sift, v. bolt, cribble, riddle; investigate.
sifting, n. bolting; (Pharm.) cribration; investigation.
sigh, n. suspiration.--v. suspire.
sight, n. vision; seeing, view, perception; visibility; spectacle,
phenomenon, panorama, vista, gapeseed, cynosure; (Colloq.) great number,
many, multitude, great quantity. Associated Words: optics, optical,
optic, ocular, optician, caligo, astigmatism, perimeter, perimetry,
amaurosis, visual, visualize, apparition.
sightly, a. comely, attractive, handsome.
sign, n. omen, auspice, portent, prodigy, prognostic, augury,
foretoken, presage; mark, token, indication, symptom, index, emblem,
symbol; trace, vestige, ensign, signal, beacon; gesture, motion;
signature. Associated Words: ominous, portentous, augurial, semeiology,
semeiological, sematology, semiotic, semeiography.
sign, v. signify, mark, indicate, betoken; subscribe.
signal, n. sign, ensign, beacon. Associated Word: pharology.
signal, a. memorable, remarkable, noticeable, notable.
signature, n. autograph, sign-manual. Associated Word: signatory.
signer, n. subscriber, signatory.
significance, n. meaning, import; consequence, importance, force.
significant, a. momentous, important; indicative, significative.
Antonyms: insignificant, unimportant, meaningless.
signification, n. meaning, import, acceptation, sense.
signify, v. indicate, betoken, denote; mean; matter.
silence, n. stillness, quietness; taciturnity, muteness, reserve;
secrecy.
silence, v. still, hush, quiet, suppress, lull, quell, appease.
silent, a. still, quiet, noiseless, inaudible; taciturn, reserved,
mute; quiescent.
silkworms, n. pl. Associated Words: sericulture, mulberry, cocoon,
filature, cocoonery, bombic, bombyx, filator, muscardine.
silky, a. sericeous, silken.
sill, n. threshold; window sill.
silliness, n. folly, foolishness, puerility, stupidity, inanity,
inaneness, absurdity, senselessness, ineptitude.
silly, a. witless, foolish, simple, fatuous, imbecile, half-witted;
stupid, unwise, inept, absurd, inane, nonsensical, senseless, puerile.
silver, n. _argentum_; bullion (uncoined silver). Associated
words: filigree, platinum, desilverize, desilverization, patio, vermeil,
fulguration, silversmith.
silvery, a. silver, argent, argentine, argentous, argentiferous.
similar, a. like, corresponding, resembling, homogeneous, analogous.
similarity, n. analogy, homogeneity, likeness, similitude,
correspondence.
simile, n. comparison, metaphor.
simoon, n. desert wind, khamsin, samiel.
simper, n. smirk.
simple, a. incomplex, uncompounded, single, elementary, uncombined,
mere; plain, unaffected, artless, naïve, unsophisticated; credulous,
gullible, silly, oafish. Antonyms: complex, complicated, intricate,
artful, crafty, elaborate.
simpleton, n. dolt, dunce, numskull, lackbrain, oaf, witling, fool.
simulate, v. pretend, feign.
simulation, n. pretense, feint, feigning, affectation.
simultaneous, a. contemporaneous, synchronal, synchronous.
sin, n. iniquity, transgression, wickedness, delinquency,
peccadillo, offense, peccancy, unrighteousness. Associated Words:
ponerology, hamartiology, peccable, peccability, peccant, _peccavi_,
impeccable, impeccability.
sin, v. do wrong, trespass, transgress.
sincere, a. heartfelt, genuine, unfeigned, undissembling. Antonyms:
See insincere.
sincerity, n. honesty, unaffectedness, frankness. Antonyms:
insincerity, dissimulation.
sinew, n. tendon; muscle, thew.
sinful, a. iniquitous, wrong, immoral, wicked, depraved, vicious,
unrighteous.
sinfulness, n. iniquity, immorality, depravity, wickedness.
sing, v. carol, warble, chant, hymn, hum, troll, yodel, croon.
singe, v. sweal, swale, scorch.
singer, n. vocalist, songster, songstress, minstrel, chanter,
cantatrice, cantor, prima donna, precentor, bard, troubadour, jongleur,
musician.
single, a. individual, alone, particular, isolated, sporadic,
solitary; unmarried, celibate; simple, unmixed; honest, sincere,
ingenuous, frank.
single, v. single out, choose, select, separate, isolate, segregate.
single-hearted, a. sincere, honest, guileless.
single-minded, a. artless, undesigning, guileless.
singsong, n. monotone.--a. monotonous, drawling.
singular, a. unusual, unconventional, uncommon, strange, peculiar,
unwonted, rare, extraordinary, exceptional, odd, whimsical, eccentric,
bizarre, queer, unique, unprecedented, unexampled, curious.
singularity, n. peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, individuality; curiosity,
freak, abnormality, rarity, abnormity, queerness, eccentricity.
sinister, a. left; unlucky, inauspicious, evil, wrong, forbidding.
sink, v. subside, descend, decline, fall; immerse, submerge, engulf,
merge.
sinker, n. plummet.
sinking, n. subsidence, fall, decrease, decline.
sinless, a. innocent, guiltless, undefiled, perfect, blameless,
faultless.
sinner, n. wrong-doer, delinquent, miscreant, trespasser. See
wrong-doer.
siren, a. bewitching, fascinating, enticing.
sister, n. Associated Words: sororicide, sororize, sorosis,
sororal.
site, n. location.
sitting, n. Associated Words: sedentary, assession, astasia.
situation, n. position, place, post, employment, job, location, site,
station, position; circumstance, condition, plight, predicament, exigency.
sitz bath. hip bath.
six, n. Associated Words: sexenary, hexaplar, sextant, sextuple,
sextet, sestet, sextic, senary.
six-cornered, a. hexangular, hexagonal.
six days. hexahemeron.
six fingers or toes. Associated Words: sexidigitism,
sexidigitist.
sixfold, a. sextuple.
six-footed, a. hexapod.
six months. semester. Associated Words: half-yearly, semi-annual,
bi-annual, semestral.
six-sided, a. cubic, hexahedral, hexagonal.
six-sided body. cube, hexahedron.
six-sided figure. hexagon.
sixty, n. Associated Words: sexagenary, sexagesimal.
sixty years. Associated Words: sexagenarian, sexagenary.
six years. Associated Words: sexennial, sexennially.
size, n. magnitude, volume, dimensions, amplitude, bulk, extent,
bigness.
skedaddle, v. (Slang) run away, flee, decamp, scuttle, scamper,
scurry.
skeptic, n. unbeliever, infidel.
skeptical, a. doubtful, disbelieving, incredulous. Antonym:
credulous.
skepticism, n. doubt, incredulity, infidelity; Pyrrhonism. Antonym:
credulity.
sketch, n. draught, outline, plan, drawing, design, scenario,
esquisse.
sketch, v. draught, portray, draw, depict, delineate.
skid, n. drag, clog, skidpan.
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