Putnam's Word Book
by
Louis A. Flemming
Part 15 out of 17
sudden, a. unexpected, abrupt, unlocked for.
sue, v. prosecute.
suffering, n. distress, agony, misery, pain, discomfort, torture,
sufferance.
sufficiency, n. enough, adequacy, competence. Antonyms:
insufficiency, inadequacy.
sufficient, a. adequate. Antonyms: insufficient, inadequate.
suffocate, v. choke, stifle, smother, asphyxiate, burke.
suffocation, n. smothering, asphyxiation.
suffrage, n. vote, assent, ballot; testimony, attestation; prayer,
petition.
sugar, n. sucrose, saccharose (cane sugar); levulose (fruit
sugar); dextrose, glucose (grape sugar); muscovado (unrefined sugar);
maltose (malt sugar); lactose (milksugar); inosite (muscle sugar);
invert sugar; cassonade (raw sugar); caramel (burnt sugar). Associated
words: sacchariferous, dextrine, sorghum, saccharify, saccharimeter,
saccharimetry, saccharin, saccharoid, saccharize.
suggest, v. allude to, hint, intimate, insinuate, propose,
recommend.
suggestion, n. intimation, hint, allusion, proposal, instance,
insinuation.
suicide, n. self-murder, self-destruction; self-murderer,
_felo-de-se_.
suit, n. wooing, courtship, addresses; prosecution, action, lawsuit;
retinue, suite; petition, solicitation, entreaty, request. Associated
words: champerty, maintenance. See lawsuit.
suit, v. fit, adapt, adjust; please, gratify, satisfy; accord,
comport, agree.
suitable, a. fitting, accordant, proper, becoming, congruous,
consistent, congruent.
suite, n. retinue, staff, train of attendants.
sulky, a. sullen, morose, surly, moody.
sullen, a. morose, unamiable, sulky, intractable.
sulphur, n. brimstone.
sulphuric acid. oil of vitriol.
sum, n. amount, total, aggregate, sum total; problem, example.
sum, v. cast up, add, compute; summarize.
summary, n. recapitulation, epitome, résumé, synopsis.
summer, n. Associated Words: æstival, æstivate, æstivation.
summing up. résumé, recapitulation, peroration.
summit, n. top, pinnacle, zenith, apex, vertex, culmination.
summoner, n. apparitor.
sum up. summarize, recapitulate.
sun, n. Sol. Associated Words:: heliography, heliometry, solar,
solstice, solarize, anthelion, parhelion, halo, heliocentric, actinometer,
actinometry, heliacal, heliograph, equinox, astronomy, astronomer,
photosphere, helioscope, heliostat, paranthelion, maculæ, Hyperion.
sun bath. insolation.
sunburnt, a. tanned, blowzy, bronzed.
Sunday, n. the Lord's day. Associated Word: dominical.
sundial, n. Associated Words: sciotheric, gnomon, gnomonics,
gnomonolcgy, style, gnomonist, dialing.
sundog, n. parhelion.
sundry, a. several, divers, various.
sunny, a. genial, pleasant, cloudless, radiant.
sunrise, n. daybreak, dawn, aurora.
sun room. solarium.
sunshade, n. parasol; awning, shade.
sun's path. ecliptic.
sun spots. faculæ.
sunstroke, n. insolation, siriasis, _coup de soleil_.
sun-worship, n. heliolatry, Sabianism.
sun-worshiper, n. heliolater.
super, n. supernumerary.
superabundance, n. redundancy, excess, surfeit, superfluity,
exuberance, plethora.
superabundant, a. superfluous, redundant, excessive, plethoric.
superb, n. magnificent, grand, august, elegant.
superfluity, n. superabundance, surplusage. See superabundance.
superfluous, a. superabundant, redundant, excessive, supernumerary.
superintendent, n. overseer, guardian, supervisor, custodian,
intendant, manager, controller, principal, curator, warden.
superior, a. more excellent, surpassing, paramount, predominant.
superiority, n. predominancy, preëminence, ascendency, supremacy.
supernatural, a. miraculous, preternatural, hyperphysical.
supersede, v. replace, displace, supplant.
supine, a. negligent, heedless, listless, indolent, careless.
supplant, v. remove, displace, supersede.
supple, a. flexible, pliant, lithe. See flexible.
supplement, n. continuation, appendix, postscript, addition,
addendum.
supply, v. furnish, afford, yield, replenish, recruit, stock.
support, v. prop, brace, bolster, uphold, sustain; maintain, keep,
provide for; verify, substantiate, ratify, corroborate, confirm;
vindicate, defend, maintain; second, back, aid. Antonyms: desert,
undermine, weaken, repudiate, oppose.
support, n. prop, buttress, brace, fulcrum, bolster, stanchion,
shore, staddle, supporter; maintenance, sustenance, subsistence, finding,
livelihood; base, foundation, basis; assistance, espousal, advocacy,
countenance; Caryatid. Antonyms: nonsupport, opposition, desertion,
repudiation.
supporter, n. advocate, adherent, defender, pillar, paraclete,
sustainer, upholder, support.
suppose, v. assume, conjecture, presume, imagine, believe, imply,
surmise.
supposed, a. assumed, presumed, putative.
supposition, n. hypothesis, conjecture, surmise, assumption,
presumption, postulate.
suppositional, a. hypothetical, conjectural, supposed, assumed.
suppress, v. quell, overpower, put down; check, repress, restrain;
secrete, conceal.
suppression, n. quelling, overthrow; repression, restraint;
concealment, secretion.
supreme, a. transcendent, preëminent, superlative, paramount,
predominant.
surcingle, n. girth.
sure, a. certain, inevitable; positive, confident, assured, sanguine,
convinced; unfailing, infallible, unerring, inerrable, abiding, stable,
trustworthy, reliable, dependable, secure, safe. Antonyms: uncertain,
doubtful, dubious.
sureness, n. certainty, inevitability, assurance, certitude, safety,
positiveness.
surety, n. sureness, certainty; security, pledge, guaranty; bondsman;
substitute, hostage; sponsor; ratification, corroboration.
surface, n. exterior, outside, superficies.
surfeit, n. fullness, repletion, satiety; superabundance, plethora.
surgeon's case of instruments. tweese.
surgery, n. aciurgy.
surly, a. morose, sullen, crabbed, unamiable, gruff, inurbane,
snarling, crusty.
surmise, v. suppose, conjecture, suspect, guess, opine.
surmise, n. supposition, conjecture, guess, suspicion.
surmount, v. overtop; conquer, overcome, vanquish.
surmountable, a. superable, conquerable. Antonyms:
insuperable, unsurmountable.
surname, n. patronymic, cognomen.
surpass, v. excel, exceed, outdo, outstrip, transcend.
surpassing, a. exceeding, superior, preëminent, transcendent,
supereminent.
surplus, n. surplusage, excess, overplus, residue, remainder.
surprise, v. amaze, astonish, astound.
surprise, n. amazement, astonishment.
surprising, a. astonishing, amazing, astounding, marvelous.
surrender, v. relinquish, yield, abandon, capitulate, waive, remit.
surrender, n. relinquishment, capitulation, yielding.
surround, v. enclose, encircle, encompass, environ, hem in, corral,
invest, intrench.
surrounding, a. circumambient, encompassing, encircling ambient,
enveloping.
surroundings, n. pl. environment, entourage.
surveying, n. survey, chorometry; geodesy. Associated Words:
theodolite, transit, perambulator.
susceptible, a. sensitive, impressionable, impressible, tender.
suspect, v. mistrust, distrust, doubt; conjecture, surmise.
suspenders, n. pl. gallowses, braces.
suspense, n. uncertainty, wavering, hesitation, irresolution.
suspension, n. pendency; delay, respite, postponement, abeyance.
suspicion, n. mistrust, misgiving, distrust; surmise, conjecture,
supposition; (Colloq.) suggestion, hint.
swag, n. (Slang) booty, boodle, loot, plunder, spoil.
swaggering, n. blustering, boasting, roistering.
swallow, v. ingurgitate; gulp, bolt, engorge, englut; ingulf, suck
in, absorb, submerge, engulf, overwhelm; accept, believe, credit;
appropriate, arrogate, monopolize, engross; bear, brook, tolerate, pocket.
swallowing, n. deglutition, ingurgitation, absorption. Antonym:
aglutition.
swamp, n. marsh, morass, slough, quagmire, bog, fen, marish.
Associated Words: paludine, paludinous, paludism, paludose, palustrine,
draco, muck, effluvium, malaria, miasma.
swamp, v. engulf, overwhelm, submerge.
swampy, a. boggy, fenny, marshy, sloughy, slumpy, queachy.
swan, n. cob (male); cygnet (young).
swap, v. (Colloq.) exchange, trade.
swarm, v. teem.
swarming, a. teeming.
swashing, a. heavy, violent, crushing.
sway, n. dominion, domination, rule.
swear, v. blaspheme, curse, imprecate, use profane language.
swearing, n. profanity, oath, blasphemy, expletive, cursing,
imprecation.
sweat, v. perspire; exude.
sweat, n. perspiration; exudation. Associated Words: sudoriferous,
sudoral, sudorific, sudatory, diaphoretic, diaphoresis, perspiratory,
empasm, bagnio, adiophoretic.
sweating-bath, n. sudatory, sudatorium, vapor-bath.
Swedish Parliament. Riksdag.
sweet, a. saccharine, honeyed, sugary, nectarean, ambrosial,
nectareous; dulcet, melodious, harmonious, mellifluous, silvery,
symphonious, tuneful; winsome, winning. Antonyms: bitter, acrid, tart,
sour.
sweetbread, n. pancreas.
sweeten, v. dulcify, edulcorate; purify, disinfect, fumigate,
deodorize.
sweetening, n. dulcification, edulcoration.
sweetheart, n. (male) lover, inamorato, beau, flame, spark, swain,
suitor; (female) ladylove, mistress, inamorata, dulcinea, darling,
flame, amaryllis.
sweets, n. pl. confectionery, sweetmeats.
sweet-smelling, a. fragrant, redolent, balmy, aromatic, savory,
sweet-scented.
swell, v. distend, dilate, expand, bloat, puff up, tumefy, intumesce;
increase, augment; heave, surge; protuberate; strut, swagger.
swell, n. swelling; augmentation, increase; protuberance, bulge;
elevation, rise.
swell, a. (Slang) fashionable, elegant, distinguished,
exquisite.--n. exquisite, fop, dandy.
swelled, a. swollen, tumid, enlarged, bloated, protuberant, turgid.
swelling, n. intumescence, turgescence, prominence, protuberance,
bump, node, blain, distention. Antonyms: subsidence, detumescence.
swelling, a. turgent, tumefacient, tumid, turgid; grandiloquent,
bombastic, grandiose.
swerve, v. deviate, deflect, diverge, turn aside.
swift, a. fleet, rapid, fast, speedy, quick.
swiftness, n. celerity, velocity, speed, rapidity, fleetness,
quickness.
swill, n. hogwash, swillings, draff.
swimming, n. natation; dizziness, vertigo, giddiness; transnatation,
supernatation. Associated Words: natatorial, natant, natatorious,
natatorium, natatory.
swimming birds. Natatores.
swindle, n. See cheat.
swine, n. pl. hogs. Associated Word: porcine.
swing, v. oscillate, vibrate; sway, brandish, flourish, wave.
swing, n. swinging; free course, liberty, unrestraint, sweep.
swinging, n. oscillation, vibration.
swinging, a. oscillatory, oscillating, vibratory.
swipe, v. strike; (Slang) steal, pluck, snatch, purloin.
Swiss, n. Switzer, Helvetian.--a. Helvetic.
Swiss Federal Council. Bundesrath.
switch, v. whip, flog; shunt, shift.
swollen, a. tumid, tumefied, bloated, purled up.
sword, n. rapier, saber, scimiter, brand, curtana, claymore,
smallsword, glaive, broadsword, cutlass, Damascus blade, spadroon, creese.
Associated Words: scabbard, sheathe, unsheathe, forte, hilt, sheath,
foible, foil, fence, fencer, gladiatorial, gladiatorism, gladiature.
swordfight, n. fencing, swordplay.
sword of mercy. curtana.
sword player, n. fencer; gladiator.
sword-shaped, a. ensiform.
sycophancy, n. obsequiousness, fawning, truckling, servility,
sycophantism.
sycophant, n. fawner, toady, flunky, lickspittle.
sycophantic, a. obsequious, fawning, adulatory, servile.
syllabus, n. compendium, abstract, synopsis.
symbolic, a. typical, emblematical.
symbolize, v. typify, emblematize.
symmetry, n. proportion, shapeliness. Antonyms: asymmetry,
disproportion.
sympathetic, a. compassionate, commiserating, pitiful, kind, tender.
sympathize, v. have sympathy, commiserate, condole with; agree, be in
accord.
sympathy, n. fellow-feeling, tenderness; pity, commiseration,
compassion, condolence; accord, agreement, rapport, concord. Antonyms:
antipathy, incompassion, inclemency, disagreement, incompatibility.
symptom, n. indication, mark, sign, evidence, diagnostic. Associated
words: symptomatic, rymptomatology, semeiology, semeiotic, semeiography,
pathognomonic, diagnosticate, diagnosis.
synopsis, n. syllabus, compendium, abstract, summary, epitome,
digest.
system, n. method, order. Antonyms: chaos, confusion, disorder.
systematic, a. methodical, orderly. Antonyms: unsystematic,
chaotic, immethodical.
systematize, v. methodize, classify.
T
Tab, n. (Colloq.) account, reckoning, check, tally, score.
table, n. tablet; schedule, synopsis, index, list; trivet
(three-legged table). Associated word: mensal.
table, v. tabulate, tabularize.
tableland, n. plateau, mesa (Southwestern U.S.).
table linen. napery.
tablet, n. lozenge, troche, trochiscus.
taboo, n. interdiction, prohibition, proscription.
taboo, v. interdict, prohibit, proscribe.
taboo, a. prohibited, forbidden, interdicted, proscribed.
tackle, n. gear, implements, equipment, rigging, apparatus.
tacky, a. sticky, adhesive; (Colloq.) dowdy, shabby, unkempt,
seedy.
tadpole, n. polliwog.
taffy, n. toffy, candy; (Slang) flattery, blandishment, blarney.
tail, n. Associated Words: caudal, dock, scut, prehensile, caudate,
bicaudal, rump, uropygium.
tailless, a. acaudate, anurous.
tailor, n. Associated Word: sartorial.
tailpiece, n. appendage.
taint, v. imbue, impregnate, corrupt, infect, vitiate, sully,
besmirch, discolor, contaminate.
taint, n. infection, contamination, vitiation, defilement, pollution.
tainted, a. infected, contaminated, defiled, imbued, vitiated,
polluted.
take, v. seize, grasp, clutch, procure, clasp, catch; confiscate,
appropriate, usurp, arrogate; deprehend, apprehend; require, need; select,
choose.
take back. recant, retract, recall, revoke, rescind, disavow, resume.
take in. comprise, encompass, comprehend, include, embrace.
take-in, n. (Colloq.) imposition, fraud, deception, swindle, cheat,
hoax.
taken, p.p. charmed, captivated, enamored, fascinated.
take off. doff, remove, divest one's self of.
take-off, n. caricature, burlesque, travesty, parody.
take the place of. supplant, supersede, displace, substitute.
take upon one's self. assume, undertake; arrogate, usurp.
taking, a. alluring, fascinating, winning, charming, captivating.
taking, n. seizure, apprehension; reprisal; prehension.
taking back. recantation, retraction, resumption, disavowal,
revocation.
tale, n. story, romance, parable, apologue, legend, fable,
narrative, myth, jeremiad (tale of sorrow).
tale-bearer, n. scandal-monger, busybody, quidnunc, tattler,
telltale, tabby, gossip.
talent, n. endowment, faculty, gift, forte, knack, genius.
talented, a. gifted, endowed, clever.
talk, v. speak, converse, confer, confabulate, consult; babble,
prattle, prate, chatter, gabble, gibber, blather; expatiate, descant,
comment, harp, rant; palaver.
talk, n. conversation, converse, colloquy, conference, confabulation,
chat, parley, _causerie_, parlance, confab; dialogue, interlocution;
soliloquy, monologue; palaver, buncombe, blarney, blandishment, flattery,
flummery; chaff, banter, raillery, persiflage, badinage, asteistn;
chatter, babble, chit chat, gibberish, jargon, twaddle, fustian,
moonshine, hanky-panky, jabbering, rhapsody, rant, grandiloquence;
expatiation, descant.
talkative, a. garrulous, loquacious, communicative, voluble,
unreserved. Antonyms: reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, silent,
still.
talkativeness, n. garrulity, loquacity, communicativeness
multiloquence. Antonyms: reserve, reticence, taciturnity.
talker, n. conversationalist; interlocutor; chatterer, babler,
magpie, chatterbox.
tall, a. lofty, high, towering.
tally, n. mate, match, counterpart; score, account, record.
tally, v. match, conform, agree, correspond, coincide, square,
comport, accord.
tame, v. domesticate, reclaim, break; discipline, subjugate, conquer,
repress.
tame, a. docile, domesticated, gentle; prosy, dull, vapid;
submissive, subdued.
tamper, v. meddle, tinker.
tangible, a. palpable, tactile, material; substantial, evident,
perceptible, obvious.
tangle, v. snarl, entangle, interweave; embroil, insnare, entrap,
involve, perplex, enmesh. Antonyms: disentangle, unravel, extricate.
tangle, n. snarl, complication, intricacy; imbroglio, perplexity.
Antonyms: disentanglement, extrication.
tangled, a. entangled, complicated, tangly, snarled, intricate,
involved.
tank, n. reservoir, vat.
tantalize, v. torment, plague, vex, disappoint.
tap, n. stopper, plug, spigot, spile, faucet.
tap, v. broach.
tape needle. bodkin.
tapering, a. conical, taper, pyramidal, fusiform.
tapeworms, n. pl. tænia. Associated Words: tæniafuge, tæniacide,
tænioid, tæniid, proglottis, segment, cysticercus, cestode, measles.
tardy, a. slow, sluggish; dilatory, reluctant, behindhand, late.
Antonyms: punctual, prompt.
tarnish, v. dim, sully, besmirch, blacken, deface.
task, n. work, labor, assignment, stint; study, lesson, exercise.
taste, n. tasting gustation, degustation; flavor, savor, tang, race,
relish, _goût_, saporosity, sapor, gusto, gust, sapidity; liking,
fondness, appetite, appetency; tincture, infusion, dash, _soupçon_;
discernment, discrimination; foretaste, prelibation. Antonyms:
dowdiness, tawdriness, distaste vulgarity. Associated Words: gustatory,
saporific.
tasteful, a. palatable, savory, relishable, toothsome, gustable,
delicious.
tasteless, a. insipid, flat, unpalatable, vapid.
tastelessness, n. insipidity, vapidity.
tasty, a. tasteful, neat. Antonyms: dowdy, tawdry, meretricious,
inartistic.
tattle, v. tell, divulge, blab, peach.
tattler, n. tale-bearer, gossip, quidnunc, news-monger, busybody.
taunt, v. ridicule, deride, mock, reproach, revile, jeer twit, gibe.
taunt, n. ridicule, derision, jeer, reproach, gibe, quip, quirk.
taunting, a. reviling, derisive, jeering, sarcastic.
tawdry, a. gaudy, meretricious, showy, flashy, inelegant.
tax, n. assessment, toll, excise, levy, tribute, custom, duty,
impost; capitation, poll-tax; charge, exaction.
tax, v. assess; exact, demand, task.
taxable, a. assessable.
tea, n. Associated Words: theine, thea, theism, samovar, caddy,
theiform, maté, canister, cabaret, tannin.
teach, v. instruct, inform, educate, discipline, train, indoctrinate,
school, enlighten, drill, tutor, instill, inculcate, coach.
teachable, a. docile, tractable, apt, bright.
teacher, n. instructor, tutor, master, pedagogue, preceptor,
preceptress, governess, coach, usher, mentor; pl. faculty.
teaching, n. instruction, education, breeding, enlightenment,
inculcation, tuition, tutoring, indoctrination. Associated Words:
pedagogy, pedagogics, didactics, paideutics, propædeutics, didactic,
instructive, propædeutic, pædeutic, pedagogic, pedagogism, didacticism.
team, n. span, pair.
tear, n. rent, fissure, rip.
tear, v. rend, rip, lacerate, dilacerate, sunder, dismember; fume,
rage, rave, rant, storm.
tearful, a. lachrymose, weeping, maudlin.
tearing, n. rending, laceration, lancination, ripping, dismemberment.
tears, n. pl. Associated Words: lachrymal, lachrymation,
lachrymatory, lachrymals, lachrymiform, lachrymary.
tease, v. torment, plague, tantalize, hector, taunt, harass, badger.
teat, n. nipple, pap, dug, mammilla.
tedious, a. tiresome, wearisome, irksome, humdrum, monotonous.
tedium, n. tediousness, humdrum.
teem, v. multiply, be prolific, abound, overflow, swarm.
teeming, a. prolific, abounding, replete, overflowing, rife.
teeter, v. seesaw, titter, titter-totter.
teeth, n. pl. biters, incisors, molars, bicuspids, grinders, tusks,
wisdom teeth, eye teeth, canine teeth, fangs. Associated Words:
odontology, dentist, dentistry, dental, odontography, dentiloquy, denture,
cement, tartar, pyorrhea, gnash, alveoli, corona, dentifrice, dentilave,
pulp, dentiform, dentilation, cusp, overshot.
teething, n. dentition, odontiasis.
teetotaler, n. nephalist, total abstainer.
teetotalism, n. nephalism, abstinence (from spirituous liquors),
temperance.
tell, v. mention, recount, relate, narrate, enumerate, advise,
inform, recite, disclose, bruit, divulge, proclaim, expose, apprise,
peach, communicate, acquaint, notify, reveal, discern. Antonyms:
suppress, reserve, withhold, forbear.
telling, n. notification, apprising, communication, relation,
narration, recital, divulgement.
telling, a. effective, cogent, potent, conclusive.
telltale, n. tattler.
temerity, n. audacity, boldness, presumption, recklessness,
foolhardiness, rashness.
temper, v. qualify, modify, moderate, appease; anneal.
temper, n. mood, disposition, humor; passion.
temperament, n. constitution, nature, temper, disposition.
temperance, n. sobriety, nephalism, moderation.
temperate, a. moderate; dispassionate, calm; abstemious, sober,
self-denying.
tempest, n. storm, tumult, commotion, disturbance.
tempestuous, a. See stormy.
temple, n. fane, church, sanctuary, tabernacle; teocalli, pagoda,
mosque, hieron, marai.
temporal, a. secular, worldly; temporary; political, civil.
temporary, a. transitory, transient, temporal, impermanent,
ephemeral, fleeting.
tempt, v. seduce, entice, decoy, allure, induce; provoke, incite,
instigate.
temptation, n. seduction, allurement, enticement, attraction; decoy,
lure, bait, inducement.
tempter, n. seducer, siren, Circe.
tempting, a. enticing, alluring, seductive.
ten, n. Associated Words: decimal, decimate, decimation, denary,
decemvir, decemvirate.
tenacious, a. retentive; cohesive, tough; pertinacious, persistent.
tenacity, n. retentiveness; cohesiveness, toughness; pertinacity,
persistency.
tend, v. conduce, contribute; attend, accompany, guard; incline,
lean.
tendency, n. drift, inclination, proclivity, proneness, propensity,
bent, predisposition.
tender, a. delicate, fragile, sensitive, susceptible; pathetic,
touching, plaintive; sympathetic, pitiful, compassionate, kind.
Antonyms: tough, strong.
tender, n. attendant; offer, proposal, overture, proposition.
tender, v. offer, present, proffer, propose.
ten dollars. eagle.
tent, n. pavilion, tabernacle, marquee, tilt, wigwam, tepee; pl.
tentage.
tenth, n. tithe, tithing; decimal.
ten thousand. myriad. Associated Word: myriarch.
ten years. decade, decennium, decennary. Associated Words:
decennial, decennially.
terms, n. pl. stipulations, conditions; terminology, nomenclature.
terrace, n. esplanade, plateau.
terrible, a. dreadful, formidable, shocking, horrible, frightful,
dire, grewsome, nefarious; (Colloq.) severe, extreme, excessive,
immoderate.
terrify, v. appall, intimidate, daunt, horrify, alarm, shock,
frighten.
territory, n. province, region, district.
terror, n. alarm, consternation, dismay, panic, fright, affright.
test, n. trial, ordeal; standard, touchstone, criterion; crucible.
test, v. try, prove, assay.
testicles, n. pl. testes. Associated Words: castrate, castration,
testicular, emasculate, alter, geld, spade, eunuch, varicocele, scrotum,
orchitis, suspensory, orchotomy, sarcocele, hydrocele, parorchis,
orchialgia, orchic, spermatic, semen, monorchism, epididymis,
gubernaculum, gonad.
testify, v. depose, attest, asseverate, verify.
testimonial, n. credential, certificate, voucher.
testimony, n. attestation, deposition, corroboration; witness,
evidence.
testy, a. irritable, choleric, captious.
tetter, n. ringworm, herpes, fret.
text, n. passage, pericope; subject, topic, theme.
texture, n. fabric, web; grain, structure, contexture.
thankful, a. grateful.
thankfulness, n. gratitude. Antonyms: unthankfulness, ingratitude.
thankless, a. unthankful, ungrateful; unacceptable, unappreciated.
thanks, n. pl. gramercy (many thanks).
theater, n. playhouse; odeon, lyceum; arena, stage, scene, field.
theatrical, a. dramatic, histrionic, scenic; stagy, artificial.
theft, n. See stealing.
theory, n. hypothesis.
thick, a. dense, coagulated, crass, gross, inspissate, inspissated,
grumous, incrassated; compact, turbid, roily, feculent, muddy; (Colloq.)
intimate, confidential.
thicken, v. coagulate, condense, inspissate, curdle, concrete,
incrassate.
thickening, a. inspissant.
thickening, n. inspissation, condensation, coagulation, incrassation.
thicket, n. shrubbery, copse, chaparral, grove, boscage, bosk,
spinny, coppice.
thick-headed, a. pachycephalic, pachycephalous; dull, stupid,
doltish.
thicklip, n. blobberlip.
thickness, n. denseness, density, compactness; grossness, crassitude,
consistence; intimacy. Associated Words: pachometer, pachymeter.
thick-skinned, a. pachydermatous; obtuse, dull, unimpressible.
thick-tongued, a. pachyglossal, crassilingual.
thief, n. robber, pilferer, filcher, peculator; embezzler, defaulter,
peculator; plagiarist; poacher; shoplifter; kleptomaniac.
thievery, n. theft, larceny; embezzlement, peculation; shoplifting.
thievish, a. light-fingered, pilfering, predatory; stealthy,
sneaking.
thill, n. shaft (of a vehicle).
thin, a. emaciated, slender, poor, wasted, peaked, gaunt, scrawny,
lank, spare, meager, haggard, scraggy; tenuous, delicate, fine; incompact;
dilute, rare, rarefied, subtile, attenuated; sheer, flimsy, sleazy,
unsubstantial, gossamery, gauzy, diaphanous, transparent; sparse, scanty;
inadequate, insufficient, superficial.
thin, v. dilute, reduce, attenuate, rarefy, diminish, subtilize.
thing, n. object, article.
things, n. pl. (Colloq.) clothes, furniture, appurtenances,
belongings, goods, luggage, accessories, chattels, effects, traps,
impedimenta (Mil.), paraphernalia.
think, v. meditate, cogitate, ponder, contemplate, brood, reflect,
muse, consider, speculate, ruminate, opine, deem, apprehend, excogitate,
infer, surmise, mull.
thinkable, a. conceivable, cogitable, imaginable, presumable.
thinking, a. rational, pensive, reflective, contemplative,
cogitative, introspective.
thinking, n. cogitation, meditation, contemplation, thought.
thinness, n. emaciation, slenderness, gauntness, spareness,
meagerness; tenuity, delicacy, fineness; incompactness; rarity, subtilty,
subtilization; inadequacy, sparseness, scantiness.
thinning, n. dilution, reduction, attenuation, rarefaction,
subtilization. Associated Words: attenuant, diluent.
thin-skinned, a. leptodermic; sensitive, impressible, irritable.
third, a. tertiary.
thirst, n. dryness, aridity, drought. Antonym: adipsy. Associated
words: slake, quench, dipsetic, adipsous.
thirty years. Associated Words: tricennial, tricennially.
thorn, n. spine, prickle, brier; torment, plague, infliction.
thornless, a. spineless, inermis.
thorny, a. spiny, briery, prickly; vexatious, troublesome, annoying.
thorough, a. complete, profound. Antonyms: superficial, cursory,
partial, sciolistic.
thought, n. reflection, cogitation, revery, musing, meditation,
consideration, abstraction, imagination, brown study, contemplation,
deliberation, introspection, retrospection, lucubration, rumination,
preoccupation, excogitation; idea, concept, surmise, inference.
thoughtful, a. contemplative, meditative, reflective, cogitative,
wistful, pensive, preoccupied, abstracted; considerate, heedful,
circumspect, wary.
thoughtless, a. inconsiderate, careless, unmindful, remiss, rash,
inadvertent, indiscreet, heedless, unreasoning.
thousand, n. Associated Words: millennium, millennial, chiliad,
chiliasm, chiliarchy, chiliarch, chiliast, millenary, millesimal.
thrash, v. thresh.
thread, n. filament, fibre, stamen, staple, pile, raveling, lint,
warp, woof, thrum.--v. thrid.
threadbare, a. napless, pileworn, seedy, trite, hackneyed.
threat, n. menace, threatening, commination, fulmination,
intimidation.
threaten, v. menace; augur, forebode, portend; impend, be imminent.
threatening, a. imminent, ominous, impending, minatory, fulminating.
three, n. trio, trinity, triad, ternary, ternion; triplets.
Associated Words: thrice, treble, trialogue, triarchy, triplicate,
triplication, triplicity, trinal, triarchy, tripartition, tripod,
triptych, trisect, trisection, trireme, triumvirate, trilogy, triform,
triformity, trilling, trilemma.
three-colored, a. tricolored.
three-flowered, a. trifloral, triflorous.
threefold, a. triple.
three-forked, a. trisulcate, trifurcated.
three hundred years. tricentenary. Associated Words: tercentenary,
tricentenary, tri-centennial.
three languages. Associated Word: trilingual.
three-leaved, a. trifoliate, trifoliated.
three-legged stand. trivet, tripod.
three letters. triphthong, trigraph.
three months. trimester. Associated Words: trimestral, trimestrial,
quarterly.
three-parted, a. tripartite.
three-pointed, a. tricuspidate, tricuspid.
three-pointed spear. trident.
three-sided, a. triangular, trilateral.
three-sided figure. triangle.
three-toothed a. trident, tridentate.
three years. triennium. Associated Words: triennial, triennially.
threshold, n. doorsill.
thrift, n. frugality, economy, thriftiness, providence; prosperity.
thriftless, a. wasteful, improvident, extravagant, prodigal.
thrifty, a. sparing, economical, provident, frugal; thriving,
prosperous; luxuriant.
thrilling, a. moving, exciting, sensational.
thrive, v. flourish, prosper.
thriving, a. flourishing, thrifty, prosperous.
throat, n. pharynx, fauces; gullet, esophagus. Associated Words:
guttural, gutturalize, gargle, faucal, laryngeal, glottis, pharyngeal,
pharyngotomy, larynx.
throb, n. beating, pulsation, palpitation.--v. palpitate,
pulsate, beat.
throbbing, a. pulsating, palpitant, palpitating.
throne, n. sovereignty. Associated Words: enthrone, dethrone,
dorsal, abdicate, abdication, interregnum, accession, accede.
throw, v. pitch, hurl, fling, cast, toss, sling, heave; overturn,
prostrate, floor.
throw away. squander; reject, decline, refuse.
throw by. discard.
throw in. inject; contribute.
throwing, n. Associated Words: missile, putting.
throwing out. ejection, expulsion; eviction; ejaculation.
throwing overboard. jettison.
throw off. expel; reject, discard, abandon.
throw out. expel, evict, oust, reject; emit; discharge, excrete,
eject, egest, void, ejaculate, eliminate. Antonym: retain.
throw up. resign; vomit, puke, disgorge.
thrush, n. aphtha.
thrust, n. push, shove, allonge, stab, protrusion.
thrust, v. push, force, impel, shove, stab, pierce, protrude.
thug, n. ruffian, rough, assassin.
thunder, n. Associated Words: brontology, Thor, brontorneter,
brontograph, fulmineous, fulminatory, isobront, keraunophobia.
thunder, n. fulmination, denunciation.--v. fulminate, denounce.
thunder, v. detonate, roll, boom.
thundering, n. fulmination.--a. fulminatory.
thunderstruck, n. dumfounded, astounded, amazed.
thwart, v. frustrate, baffle, foil, balk, contravene.
tickle, v. titillate; please, delight, gladden.
tickling, n. titillation.--a. titillative.
ticklish, a. difficult, critical, delicate.
tidbit, n. delicacy, dainty, junket.
tide, n. Associated Words: ebb, flood, flow, marigray, marigram.
tidy, a. orderly, neat, trim.
tie, v. secure, fasten, bind, tether, leash. tie, n. knot,
fastening; bond, obligation; (R.R.) sleeper, crosstie.
tight, a. taut, tense; snug, close-fitting; (Colloq.) close,
penurious, stingy, parsimonious; (Colloq.) stringent; (Slang) tipsy,
boozy, fuddled, intoxicated, drunk.
tighten, v. straiten.
tile, n. Associated Words: tegular, mosaic, tessellated, parquetry.
till, v. cultivate.
tillable, a. arable, cultivable.
tilt, v. slant, slope, incline, tip, cant.
time, n. duration; while, spell, season, interval, interim, lapse,
interregnum, period; season, opportunity, leisure; tense; (Mus.)
measure, tempo; perpetuity; usance; age, date, eon, epoch, era, term.
Associated Words: horology, horography, horometry, chronology,
chronological, anachronism, anachronistic, synchronology, synchronal,
synchronous, synchronism, synchronize, synchroncity, chronometry,
gnomonics, contemporaneous, coexistent, coexistence, contemporary,
contemporaneity, simultaneous, simultaneousness, concurrence, coincident,
coincidence, gnomon, coincide, isochronal, isochronism, isochronon,
isochronous, anachronous, prochronism, chronogram, chronic, coeval,
coetaneous.
timely, a. seasonable, punctual, opportune. Antonyms: untimely,
inopportune.
timepiece, n. time-keeper, chronometer, horologe, clock, watch,
hourglass, chronograph, chronoscope, clepsydra, gnomon, repeater, sundial,
isochronon.
time-server, n. temporizer, trimmer.
time-serving, a. temporizing, trimming.
timid, a. timorous, shy, diffident, meticulous, faint-hearted,
cowardly.
timidity, n. diffidence, shyness, timorousness, cowardice.
tin, n. _stannum_; latten, prillion. Associated Words: stannary,
stannic, stanniferous, stannous, shadd.
tin mine. stannary.
tinsel, a. glittering, meretricious, specious, flashy.
tinsel, n. spangle, pinchbeck, glitter, tawdriness.
tinsmith, n. whitesmith, tinner.
tintype, n. ferrotype, stannotype.
tip, v. incline, lean, cant, tilt; careen, capsize, keel, overturn,
upset.--n. end, apex, extremity.
tiptop, n. (Colloq.) pinnacle, apex.
tirade, n. diatribe, invective, billingsgate, screed.
tire, v. fatigue, weary, jade, fag, bore, irk, tucker, exhaust.
tiresome, a. irksome, wearisome, fatiguing, tedious; toilsome,
arduous.
tissue, n. fabric, stuff, cloth, texture; web, network, fabrication.
toad-eater, n. toady.
toads, n. pl. Associated Words: ranine, ranivorous.
toadstool, n. fungus. See Fungi.
toady, n. sycophant, toad-eater, flatterer, fawner.
tobacco, n. Associated Words: tobacconist, nicotine, nicotinism,
canaster, cavendish, plug, cud, quid, fumacious, carotte, capa, perique,
mundungus, humidor.
toe, n. digit.
together, adv. unitedly, jointly, concertedly, simultaneously.
toil, n. labor, drudgery; toils, snare, trap.--v. labor, moil,
drudge.
token, n. sign, symbol, index, indication.
tolerable, a. sufferable, endurable; passable, mediocre, so-so,
ordinary.
tolerance, n. endurance, toleration, sufferance. Antonym:
intolerance.
tolerant, a. indulgent, forbearing, charitable. Antonym:
intolerant.
tolerate, v. endure, suffer, brook; allow, permit, admit.
toleration, n. tolerance, endurance, sufferance; allowance,
permission.
tomb, n. sepulchre, crypt, vault, ossuary; mausoleum (a magnificent
tomb).
tomboy, n. (Colloq.) hoiden, romp.
tombstone, n. monument; cenotaph (honoring one buried elsewhere).
Associated Words: sepulchral, epitaph, lapidary.
tomfoolery, n. (Colloq.) folly, trifling, monkey-tricks, mummery.
tone, n. sound, note; cadence, modulation; force, vigor, energy.
tone down. subdue, moderate, soften.
toneless, a. aspirated, surd, atonic, unintonated.
tongue, n. Associated Words: lingual, glossal, sublingual, fur,
tchick, barb, papillæ, lick, lap, hyoid, lincture, aglossal, frænum,
fourchette, raphe.
tonguy, a. (Colloq.) voluble, fluent, loquacious, garrulous.
tonic, n. invigorant, roborant.
tool, n. implement, utensil, instrument; cat's-paw, puppet, hireling.
Associated Words: ratten, cocobola, kit.
tooth, n. (little tooth) denticle, dentile. Associated Words:
denticulation, serration, serrature. See teeth.
toothache, n. odontalgia. Associated Word: odontalgic.
toothless, a. agomphious, edentate, edentulous.
toothless animals. Edentata.
toothsome, n. palatable, delicious, savory, gustable.
top, n. summit, crest, apex, vertex, pinnacle, zenith, culmination,
capsheaf, meridian.
top, v. surmount, overtop, surpass.
toper, n. drunkard, sot, inebriate, guzzler.
topic, n. subject, theme; division, head, subdivision.
topknot, n. crest.
top-shaped, a. turbinate, turbinated.
torch, n. flambeau (flaming torch), cresset.
torment, n. pain, anguish, distress, torture; bane, infliction,
scourge, thorn.
torment, v. persecute, hector, tease, tantalize, harry; torture,
grill, rack, distress.
torn, a. rent, lacerated, ripped.
tornado, n. hurricane, cyclone, whirlwind.
torpid, a. numb, benumbed, unfeeling; lethargic, dull, hebetate,
sluggish, stupid.
torpidity, n. numbness, lethargy, inactivity, hebetude.
touch, v. meet, impinge; graze.
touch, n. touching, contact, contiguity, juxtaposition, osculation,
tangency; taction, tact, palpation; dash, sprinkling, _soupçon_,
infusion; animadversion, censure, stricture, reflection, slur. Associated
words: tactile, tactility, tactual, palpable, impalpable, palpability,
impalpability.
touchiness, n. irascibility, petulance, irritability.
touching, a. pathetic, affecting, moving, tender.
touching, prep. respecting, concerning, regarding.
touchstone, n. criterion, test; basanite, Lydian stone.
touchwood, n. punk, tinder, agaric, spunk.
touchy, a. irascible, irritable, petulant, testy, choleric, snappish.
tough, a. tenacious, unyielding; cohesive, adhesive; obdurate,
refractory, stubborn; (Colloq.) difficult, arduous, hard.
tour, n. journey, trip, excursion, expedition.
tousled, a. (Colloq.) disordered, disheveled.
toweling, n. crash.
tower, n. steeple, campanile, minaret, spire, belfry, turret, cupola,
dome; tourelle, barbican, pylon, martello tower; castle, citadel, donjon,
keep, fortress.
tower, v. overtop, rise above.
toy, n. gimcrack, plaything, trinket, kickshaw, bauble, teetotum,
gewgaw.
trace, n. vestige, sign, impression.
track, n. trace, vestige, footprint, footmark, foil; spoor; wake,
trail.
tract, n. Associated Words: colporteur, colportage.
trade, n. commerce, barter, traffic, business; handicraft.
Associated Words: technical, technology, technicals, technicality,
technological, polytechnic, polytechnics, vocational, Mercury.
trade, v. exchange, barter, traffic, swap (Colloq.).
trader, n. trafficker, dealer, merchant, tradesman, monger.
tradesman, n. trader, merchant; artisan, craftsman, mechanic,
journeyman, handicraftsman.
trading, a. commercial, mercantile; venal, corrupt, jobbing.
trail, n. train; track, wake, spoor, footmark, foil, trace.
trailing, a. procumbent, prostrate. Antonyms: upright, erect.
train, n. retinue, suite, attendants; series, chain.
train, v. discipline, nurture, drill; accustom, habituate,
familiarize.
trained, a. skilled, practiced, disciplined, competent. Antonym:
untrained.
training, n. discipline, nurture, drilling, exercise.
traitorous, a. perfidious, treasonable, recreant, faithless.
tramp, v. march, trudge, plod.
tramp, n. vagrant, vagabond, landloper, walleteer, nomad, hobo,
derelict.
trample, v. crush; scorn, spurn, disregard.
transaction, n. procedure, affair, deal, business.
transform, v. transfigure, metamorphose; transmute.
transformation, n. transfiguration, metamorphosis; transmutation.
transgress, v. violate, infringe, disregard.
transgression, n. violation, infringement, infraction.
transient, a. fleeting, transitory, temporary, impermanent.
translate, v. construe, render, interpret.
translation, n. rendering, interpretation.
transmogrify, v. (Colloq.) transform, metamorphose.
transparency, n. diaphaneity, translucency. Antonyms: opacity,
intransparency.
transparent, a. diaphanous, translucent, pellucid. Antonyms:
opaque, intransparent.
trap, n. snare, toil, gin, springe, pitfall; artifice, stratagem.
trap, v. entrap, ensnare, trapan, catch.
trapdoor, n. hatchway.
trappings, n. pl. decorations, paraphernalia, frippery, gear,
rigging, ornaments; caparisons, accouterments.
traps, n. pl. See things.
trash, n. rubbish, refuse, trumpery.
trashy, a. trumpery, rubbishy, waste.
travel, v. journey, itinerate, peregrinate.
travel, n. journey, tour, peregrination.
traveler, n. wayfarer, itinerant, voyager, pilgrim, tourist,
peregrinator, passenger.
traveler's handbook. itinerary.
traveling, a. wayfaring, itinerant, wandering, peripatetic.
traveling man. drummer, agent, traveling salesman.
traveling preacher. itinerant.
travesty, n. burlesque, parody, caricature, take-off.
tray, n. salver, waiter, plateau, server.
treacherous, a. traitorous, perfidious, faithless.
treachery, n. treason, perfidy, disloyalty, Punic faith.
treasury, n. exchequer; repository. Associated Words: treasurer,
fiscal, treasure-trove.
treat, v. regale, feast; negotiate; behave toward, deal with.
treatise, n. disquisition, dissertation, monograph; thesis.
treaty, n. covenant, agreement, compact, concordat, pact, protocol.
tree, n. (young) sapling, seedling; (with top cut off) pollard,
bolling; (small) staddle. Associated Words: dendrology, sylviculture,
arboriculture, arboriculturist, sylviculturist, dendrologist, arboreal,
arbor, arboreous, arborescence, arborescent, arborist, arborization,
dendrography, dendrophilous, sylvan, topiary work, thicket, copse,
coppice, grove, plashing, sawyer, dendromoeter, rampick, spinny, dendrite,
dendriform, dendroid, dendrolite, lichen, motte.
trellis, n. lattice, lattice-work, espalier, _treillage_.
tremble, v. quake, quiver, shudder, dodder, quaver, totter, vibrate,
oscillate.
trembling, n. tremor, quivering, quaver, trepidation, rigor,
oscillation.
trembling, a. doddering, shaking, infirm, quivering.
trench, n. ditch, gutter, trough, moat, channel.
trend, n. tendency.
trespass, v. encroach upon, infringe, intrude.
trial, n. test, experiment, proof, essay, examination; probation;
ordeal, crucible, criterion; effort, exertion, endeavor; adversity,
hardship, tribulation, affliction. Associated Words: empiricism,
empirical, empiric, probationer, probationary, tentative.
trick, n. ruse, artifice, stratagem, sleight, hoax, maneuver, wile,
feint, chicane; antic, prank, caper; trait, peculiarity.
trick, v. deceive, cheat, defraud, cozen, impose upon; dress,
decorate, set off, adorn.
trickery, n. deception, chicanery, artifice, duplicity,
Machiavelianism, circumvention, indirection.
trickle, v. dribble, drip, percolate, distill.
trickster, n. rogue, cheat, impostor, scoundrel.
tricky, a. trickish, knavish, unprincipled, treacherous.
trifle, n. triviality, bagatelle, doit.
trifle, v. dawdle, dally, pother, fribble, quiddle.
trifler, n. fribbler, dawdler, dallier, piddler, quiddler.
trifling, a. trivial, paltry, piddling, insignificant, piffling,
frivolous.
trifling, n. piddling, frivolity, piffle, dalliance, quibbling,
piffling.
trim, a. spruce, smart; neat, tidy.
trim, v. adjust, arrange; decorate, adorn, garnish, embellish,
bedeck, trick; prune, clip, lop; (Colloq.) rebuke, reprove, reprimand,
rate, scold.
trimming, n. embellishment, garnish, decoration; (Colloq.)
chastisement, scolding, reproof.
trinket, n. bauble, gimcrack, knickknack, gewgaw, gaud; bijou;
pl. trinkets, trinketry; bijoutry.
trip, n. jaunt; lapse, slip, stumble, misstep. Associated Words:
itinerary, itinerancy, viatic, viaticum.
triplet, n. trilling.
trite, a. hackneyed, banal, commonplace.
triumph, n. victory, conquest; exultation, ovation.
triumph, v. overcome, prevail, succeed; exult, rejoice.
triumphant, a. exultant, jubilant; victorious.
trivial, a. trifling, frivolous, insignificant, unimportant.
triviality, n. unimportance, paltriness.
troop, n. company, battery, squad, band, throng, crowd.
trouble, v. vex, disturb, distress, inconvenience, incommode, pester,
worry.
trouble, n. tribulation, adversity, reverses, affliction, calamity,
misfortune; vexation, annoyance, inconvenience, worry, disturbance;
torment, plague, thorn, bane.
troublesome, a. vexatious, burdensome, afflictive, harassing,
galling, wearisome.
trounce, v. (Colloq.) flog, castigate, whip.
trousers, n. pl. pants, pantaloons, breeches; trews; spatterdashes,
garnashes; knickerbockers.
trout, n. Associated Word: truttaceous.
truce, n. armistice.
truckle, v. cringe, knuckle, submit, yield.
true, a. correct, exact, accurate, veritable, authentic, real,
genuine, actual; veracious, truthful; loyal, stanch, steadfast,
unwavering; incorruptible, trustworthy, faithful, honorable. Antonyms:
See untrue.
trueblue, a. (Colloq.) incorruptible, loyal, true.
truism, n. axiom.
trump, v. impose, palm off, obtrude, deceive.
trumpery, n. falsehood, deception; rubbish, trash.--a.
worthless, deceptive, trashy.
trumpet, n. horn; shophar (Heb.). Associated Words: fanfare,
buccinal.
trump up, v. devise, fabricate.
trunk, n. body, bole, stock; proboscis; chest, coffer.
truss, v. pack, compress; skewer.
trust, n. credence, confidence, belief, reliance, affiance, faith;
credit, tick; assurance, confidence; duty, commission, charge. Antonyms:
distrust, doubt. Associated Words: fiduciary, fiducial.
trust, v. depend upon, rely upon; give credit to, tick; intrust,
commit.
trustee, n. fiduciary, regent.
trustful, a. unsuspicious, confiding, credulous, confident.
trusty, a. trustworthy, faithful, reliable.
truth, n. veracity, truthfulness; accuracy, precision, exactness,
correctness; verity, fact; truism, axiom; fidelity, constancy, loyalty,
fealty, steadfastness; candor, frankness, ingenuousness. Antonyms: See
untruth.
truthful, a. veracious, undissembling, ingenuous, veridical.
try, v. test, examine, prove; attempt, essay, endeavor; purify,
refine; hear, adjudicate, adjudge; strive, seek, strain.
try, n. attempt, essay, trial, experiment. See trial.
trying, a. severe, distressing, hard, irksome, afflictive, ordeal.
trysting-place, n. rendezvous.
tub, n. firkin, keeler, keelfat, keeve, vat, piggin.
tube, n. pipe; valinch.
tubular, a. tubiform, fistular, cannular.
tuft, n. knot, bunch, clump; tussock, crest.
tug, n. trace; pull, effort.
tumble, v. heave, toss, roll, pitch; topple.
tumble-down, a. (Colloq.) dilapidated, ramshackle.
tumbler, n. acrobat, contortionist.
tumor, n. sarcoma; myoma; carcinoma; lipoma. Associated Words:
oncology, oncotomy.
tumult, n. commotion, hurly-burly, turbulence.
tumultuous, a. disorderly, turbulent, noisy, riotous.
tune, n. air, melody; order, harmony, unison, concord, accord.
tune, v. attune, modulate, harmonize.
tuneful, a. melodious, harmonious.
tuneless, a. inharmonious, discordant, dissonant.
tunnel, n. funnel; subway.
turf, n. sward, sod, greensward; peat.
turmoil, n. commotion, uproar, tumult, turbulence, agitation.
turn, v. revolve, spin, gyrate, rotate, wheel, veer, shift, swivel;
deflect, inflect; reverse, revert; divert, avert; invert; resort, apply.
turn, n. bend, winding, meander, curve, detour, deflection, crook,
sweep; favor, kindness, service, accommodation.
turn aside. divert, avert, deflect, parry.
turned away. averted.
turning, n. rotation, revolution, spinning, gyration; eversion,
extroversion; flexure, flexion, incurvation; deviation, deflection;
circumrotation.
turning, a. revolving, rotary, rotating, gyratory, winding,
circumrotary.
turning aside. averting, deviation, diversion, deflection, parry.
turning back. retroversion, retroflexion.
turning inward. introversion.
turning over or backward. inversion, reversal.
turning point. crisis; pivot. Associated Words: pivotal, critical.
turning upside down. inversion, reversal.
turning wrong side out. extroversion, eversion.
turnip-shaped, a. napiform.
turnkey, n. warder.
turn upside down. invert, reverse.
turtle, n. tortoise; terrapin.
tussle, n. struggle, contest, scuffle, conflict.
twaddle, n. flummery, balderdash, fustian, moonshine.
twelve, n. dozen. Associated Words: dodecagon, dodecahedral,
dodecahedron, duodecimal, duodecimfid, duodecimo, duodecuple, duodenary.
twenty, n. score. Associated Words: vicenary, vigesimal,
vigesimation, icosahedron.
twenty years. Associated Word: vicennial.
twig, n. spray, branch, sprig, switch.
twilight, n. dusk, evening. Associated Words: crepuscular,
crepusculous.
twine, v. entwine, encircle, wreathe.
twinkle, v. blink, wink; flash, sparkle, scintillate.
twinkling, n. sparkling, scintillation, flash, twinkle.
twist, v. contort, writhe, squirm, convolve, pervert, coil, wrench,
distort.
twisted, a. contorted, awry, tortuous, coiled, perverted.
twisting, n. contortion, convolution, writhing, torsion, wrench,
distortion, perversion.
twit, v. taunt, upbraid, reproach.
twitch, n. jerk; twitching, vellication.--v. jerk, snatch,
vellicate.
twitter, n. chirp, chirrup.
two, n. couple, pair, brace, doublet, dyad, team, span, twain; twins.
Associated Words: dual, duality, double, dualism, duplex, duplicate,
duplication, bifarious, binary, dimidiate, dimidiation, duet, dialogue,
duarchy, bisect, bisection, halve.
two bodies. Associated Word: bicorporal.
two colors. Associated Words: dichromatic, dichromatism, dichromic.
two-faced, a. Janus-faced, bifacial.
two fingers. Associated Word: bidigitate.
twofold, a. double, duplicate.
two-footed, a. biped.
two-footed animal. biped.
two-forked, a. bifurcated, bifurcate, dichotomous.
two-handed, a. bimanous; ambidextrous.
two-handed animals. Bimana.
two-headed, a. bicephalous.
two hundred years. Associated Words: bicentenary, bicentennial.
two languages. Associated Words: bilingual, diglot, bilingualism,
bilinguist.
two-legged, a. biped.
two letters. Associated Words: biliteral, biliteralism, diphthong,
digraph, duoliteral.
two months. Associated Word: bi-monthly.
two parties. Associated Words: bipartisan, bipartisanship.
two parts. Associated Words: bipartible, bipartite, bipartition,
bipartient, bisect, bisection.
two poles. Associated Words: bipolar, bipolarity.
two-sided, a. double-faced, bilateral.
two weeks, fortnight. Associated Words: bi-weekly, fortnightly.
two years. Associated Words: biennial, biennially.
type, n. symbol, token, representation; model, exemplar, phototype,
archetype. Antonyms: antitype, variant, monstrosity.
typesetter, n. compositor; typograph (machine).
typhoid fever. enteric fever.
typical, a. emblematical, prefigurative, representative, indicative.
Antonyms: atypical, abnormal, variant, unique.
typify, v. represent, prefigure.
typographer, n. printer.
typography, n. printing.
tyrannical, a. despotic, arbitrary, autocratic, imperious, absolute,
dictatorial, domineering, oppressive, tyrannic.
tyrannize, v. domineer, persecute, oppress.
tyranny, n. despotism, absolutism, oppression, rigor, severity.
tyrant, n. despot, autocrat; oppressor, persecutor, usurper.
tyro, n. novice, neophyte, pupil, beginner.
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Ubiquitous, a. omnipresent.
ubiquity, n. omnipresence.
udder, n. mamma. Associated Words: escutcheon, garget.
ugly, a. repulsive, unsightly, loathsome, hideous, grewsome,
frightful; (Colloq.) crossgrained, ill-natured, unamiable, inaffable,
surly, refractory, vicious, indocile, spiteful, sullen, morose; uncomely,
hard-visaged, homely, ill-favored, hard-featured.
ulcer, n. fester, gathering, imposthume, pustule, ulceration.
Associated Words: sanies, sanious.
ulcerate, v. suppurate, fester, maturate.
ultimate, a. final, farthest, extreme.
ultimately, adv. finally.
ultra, a. extreme.
umbrage, n. resentment.
umpire, n. referee, judge, arbitrator, arbiter.
unabated, a. undiminished, unassuaged.
unable, a. incapable.
unabundant, a. scarce, deficient, rare.
unacceptable, a. objectionable, unwelcome, undesirable.
unaccountable, a. incomprehensible, inexplicable, inscrutable.
unaccustomed, a. unfamiliar, unwonted, unused.
unacquainted, a. unfamiliar, strange.
unadulterated, a. unsophisticated, unalloyed, pure.
unadvised, a. imprudent, unwise, indiscreet, inconsiderate.
unaffected, a. unmoved, untouched, unimpressed; artless, naïve,
sincere, natural, unfeigned.
unafraid, a. undaunted, unappalled, unabashed, undismayed.
unalterable, a. immutable, unchangeable.
unambitious, a. unenterprising, indifferent.
unamiable, a. cross, ungracious, surly, unfriendly, irascible.
unanimity, n. unison, accord, agreement.
unanswerable, a. irrefutable, incontrovertible.
unappeasable, a. insatiate, insatiable, unquenchable, implacable.
unappreciable, a. imperceptible.
unapproachable, a. inaccessible, distant.
unarmed, a. defenseless, unguarded, unprotected.
unasked, a. unsolicited, voluntary, free-will.
unassailable, a. impregnable, invincible, secure, invulnerable.
unassorted, a. mixed, promiscuous, indiscriminate.
unatonable, a. inexpiable, irremissible.
unattainable, a. unachievable, impracticable, impossible.
unauthentic, a. spurious, supposititious, uncanonical, apocryphal,
fictitious.
unavailing, a. futile, nugatory, ineffectual, abortive, vain,
bootless.
unavoidable, a. inevitable, unpreventable, ineludable.
unaware, a. unconscious, unmindful, insensible.
unbearable, a. intolerable, insufferable, unendurable.
unbecoming, a. inappropriate, unseemly, unsuitable, indecorous.
unbegotten, a. self-existent.
unbelief, n. incredulity, skepticism, doubt, infidelity, distrust,
suspicion.
unbelievable, a. incredible, implausible, fabulous.
unbeliever, n. doubter, skeptic, infidel, free-thinker, nullifidian.
unbelieving, a. incredulous, doubtful, skeptical, nullifidian.
unbend, v. relax.
unbending, a. inflexible, unyielding, rigid, unpliant, resolute,
incompliant.
unbiased, a. unprejudiced, impartial, unjaundiced, neutral,
disinterested.
unbidden, a. unasked, uninvited; spontaneous, voluntary, volitional.
unblamable, a. blameless, inculpable, irreprehensible, innocent.
unblushing, a. shameless, unabashed, brazen-faced, indecent,
immodest.
unbosom, v. confess, reveal, divulge.
unbounded, a. illimitable, boundless, unlimited, limitless,
immeasurable, vast, infinite, immense.
unbreakable, a. infrangible; inviolable (said of a promise or vow).
unbreakableness, n. infrangibility; inviolability.
unbreathable, a. irrespirable.
unbridled, a. unrestrained, uncurbed, uncontrolled, licentious,
immoderate.
unbroken, a. whole, intact; inviolate, inviolated; undisturbed,
sound, profound; wild, untamed.
unburnable, a. incombustible, asbestic, incremable.
unbury, v. exhume, disentomb, disinter.
unburying, n. exhumation, disentombment, disinterment.
uncanny, a. weird, eerie.
uncanonical, a. apocryphal, unauthentic.
unceasing, a. incessant, perpetual, perennial, ceaseless.
unceremonious, a. informal, unconstrained; bluff, blunt.
uncertain, a. distrustful, hesitating; dubious, precarious,
problematical, insecure; equivocal, ambiguous, indefinite, irresolute,
inconstant, fickle, variable, capricious; fallible.
uncertainty, n. distrust, hesitation, doubt, dubiousness, dubiety,
incertitude; irresolution, variableness, inconstancy, capriciousness;
ambiguity, indefiniteness; contingency, fortuity; fallibility; suspense.
unchangeable, a. immutable, invariable, changeless, stereotyped,
unalterable, unmodifiable, permanent, constant.
unchanging, a. unvarying, permanent.
uncharitable, a. illiberal, intolerant, ungenerous, bigoted,
censorious.
unchaste, a. incontinent, impure, lewd, wanton, immoral.
unchastity, n. incontinence, wantonness, lechery, licentiousness,
lewdness, impurity.
unchecked, a. unbridled, unrestrained, unhampered, untrammeled,
uncurbed.
unchurch, v. excommunicate.
uncivil, a. discourteous, rude, churlish, boorish, brusque, impolite.
uncivilized, a. savage, barbarous, unreclaimed, benighted.
unclassifiable, a. nondescript.
uncle, a. Associated Word: avuncular.
unclean, a. soiled, dirty, foul, filthy, nasty, uncleanly; tref
(Jewish); polluted, defiled, impure.
uncommon, a. unusual, singular, rare, unique, queer, strange, odd,
anomalous, exceptional, abnormal, variant, nondescript, extraordinary,
noteworthy, remarkable, aberrant.
uncommunicative, a. reserved, taciturn, reticent, secretive.
uncompelled, a. voluntary, spontaneous, gratuitous, unconstrained,
volitional.
uncomplaining, a. resigned, patient, forbearing, long-suffering,
meek.
uncomplimentary, a. unflattering, frank, derogatory, blunt.
uncompromising, a. inflexible, irreconcilable, intransigent, firm.
unconcern, n. indifference, nonchalance, apathy, disinterestedness.
unconcerned, a. indifferent, nonchalant, cool, apathetic,
disinterested.
unconditional, a. absolute, unqualified, unrestricted, _carte
blanche_.
uncongenial, a. disagreeable, unpleasant.
unconnected, a. disconnected, separate, isolated, abrupt, incoherent.
unconquerable, a. invincible, insuperable, impregnable, indomitable,
inexpugnable.
unconscionable, a. unreasonable, inordinate, exorbitant, excessive.
unconscious, a. unaware, insensible; comatose; ingenuous, artless,
naïve.
unconsciousness, n. insensibility; coma.
unconstrained, a. spontaneous, uncompelled, voluntary, natural.
uncontradictable, a. incontrovertible, indisputable, incontestable.
uncontrollable, a. ungovernable, irrepressible.
unconvincing, a. inconclusive.
uncouple, v. disconnect, detach, disjoin, loose.
uncourtly, a. rude, gawky, ungraceful, awkward, inelegant.
uncouth, a. awkward, clumsy, rude, ungainly, loutish, gawky,
ungraceful.
uncover, v. disclose, reveal, expose, show.
unction, n. anointing; unguent, ointment; fervor, emotion, fervency,
enthusiasm.
uncultivated, a. untilled, fallow.
uncultured, a. unlettered, ignorant; philistine.
undaughterly, a. unfilial.
undecaying, a. imperishable, amaranthine, perennial, undying,
fadeless; imputrescible, incorruptible.
undeceive, v. disabuse, disillusionize, disillusion.
undeceiving, n. disillusion, disillusionment.
undecided, a. unsettled, pending; wavering, irresolute, dubious,
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