Putnam's Word Book by Louis A. Flemming
Part 8 out of 17
humbug, n. imposition, hoax, deception, imposture, charlatanism,
quackery, cajolery; impostor, deceiver, cheat, charlatan.
humbug, v. deceive, impose on, hoax.
humdrum, a. monotonous, tedious, prosy, tiresome.--n. monotony,
tedium.
humiliate, v. humble, mortify, abash, disgrace, degrade.
humiliation, n. abasement, mortification, degradation, ignominy;
humbleness, meekness.
humility, n. meekness, lowliness, self-abasement, diffidence,
modesty.
humor, n. disposition, temper, mood; facetiousness, jocularity,
waggery, pleasantry, wit, satire; pl. caprices vagaries, whims,
fancies, whimsies.
humor, v. indulge, please, gratify, temporize. Antonyms:
discipline, deny, curb, mortify.
humorist, n. wag, droll, jester, wit.
humorous, a. facetious, droll, comical, jocular, waggish.
hump, n. protuberance, hunch.
humpbacked, a. hunchbacked, deformed.
humpy, a. protuberant, humped, uneven.
hunch, n. hump, protuberance; chunk, lump.
hundredfold, a. centuple.
hundred years. century, centenary, centennial.
Hungarian, n. Magyar.
hunger cure. nestitherapy, limotherapy, limotherapia.
hungry, a. voracious, ravenous, eager; starved, depleted, infertile,
barren.
hunky, a. (Slang) even, square, all-right, satisfactory.
hunt, v. chase, pursue, follow; search, seek, ransack, rummage,
ferret; poach (hunt unlawfully).
hunt, n. chase, pursuit, search, hunting.
hunter, n. huntsman, sportsman, Nimrod; seeker, pursuer, chaser;
Diana.
hunting, n. chase, hunt, field-sport. Associated Words: quarry,
game, poaching, poacher, mort, yoicks, hoicks.
hunting horn. bugle.
hurly-burly, n. tumult, bustle, turmoil, confusion, commotion.
hurrah, n. cheer, huzza.
hurricane, n. cyclone, tornado, typhoon.
hurried, a. cursory, hasty, superficial.
hurry, n. haste, speed, dispatch, expedition, precipitancy, celerity.
hurry, v. hasten, impel, expedite, accelerate, speed, precipitate.
hurt, v. damage, wound, impair, harm, injure, offend, harry.
hurt, n. injury, wound, detriment, harm, damage.
hurtful, a. See injurious.
husband, n. spouse, benedict. Antonyms: bachelor, celibate.
Associated Words: marital, monandry, polyandry cuckold, cuckoldom,
henpecked.
hush, v. silence, still, repress, suppress; appease, allay.
husk, n. glume, hull, rind, shell, bark, kex.
husky, a. dry, raucous, harsh, discordant, guttural, hoarse.
hussy, n. jade, quean; jilt, flirt, jill.
hustle, v. jostle.
hut, n. hovel, shack, shed.
hybrid, n. mongrel, crossbreed, cross.--a. mongrel, crossbred.
hypocrisy, n. dissimulation, Pharisaism, sanctimoniousness.
hypocrite, n. dissembler, Pharisee, formalist, dissimulator.
hypocritical, a. Pharisaical, canting, dissembling, sanctimonious,
insincere. Antonyms: sincere, unfeigned, undissembling, ingenuous.
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ice, n. Associated Words: igloo, iceberg, glacier, floe, icicle,
frazil, avalanche, curling, skate, skee, skating, skeeing, brash, glare,
serac, crampoons, calk, glaciate, glaciation, creeper, anchor ice.
iced, a. chilled, _frappe_.
Iceland moss. lichen.
icy, a. glacial, glacious.
idea, n. conception, notion, opinion, fancy, impression; intention,
design.
ideal, a. faultless, consummate, perfect.
idiocy, n. imbecility, foolishness, fatuity, folly, senselessness
idiot, n. imbecile.
idiotic, a. imbecile, foolish, fatuous, senseless.
idle, a. leisure; vain, unavailing, futile, ineffectual; indolent,
slothful, inactive, lazy, otiose.
idleness, n. indolence, sloth, inaction, laziness; futility, vanity.
Associated Word: Cocagne.
idler, n. sluggard, drone, lounger, loafer, dawdler, donothing.
idol, n. image (of a divinity), effigy, graven image; Juggernaut.
Associated Words: idolater, idolatrous, idolatry, idolize, iconoplast,
iconoclast, iconodule, idolomania, iconography, iconology, idoloclast,
iconomachy, ting, iconolatry.
idolize, v. deify, worship, adore.
ignis fatuus. Will-o'-the-wisp, Jack-with-a-lantern, decoy.
ignoble, a. humble, plebeian, untitled; base, dishonorable, low.
ignominious, a. dishonorable, shameful, infamous, disreputable.
ignominy, n. disgrace, dishonor, reproach, obloquy, shame,
humiliation.
ignoramus, n. dunce, illiterate, sciolist, wiseacre, dullard,
simpleton.
ignorance, n. illiteracy, inerudition, unenlightenment, nescience;
quackery, charlatanry.
ignorant, a. illiterate, inerudite unenlightened, uninformed,
unlearned, untaught, uneducated, unlettered, nescient; quackish,
charlatanic. Antonyms: educated, instructed, schooled, trained,
proficient, learned.
ignorantly, adv. unknowingly, unconsciously, inadvertently,
unwittingly.
ignorant person. ignoramus, illiterate.
ignore, v. disregard, slight, connive, overlook.
ill, a. ailing, sick, unwell; evil, unfavorable, adverse, bad.
ill at ease. uneasy, uncomfortable, anxious.
ill-boding, a. ominous, inauspicious.
illegal, a. illicit, unlawful, contraband, unlicensed, illegitimate.
illegality, n. unlawfulness, illegitimacy.
illegitimate, a. bastard, adulterine; illegal, illicit; spurious.
illegitimate, v. illegitimatize, bastardize.
illiberal, a. ungenerous, parsimonious, stingy; narrow-minded,
bigoted.
illiberality, n. parsimony, stinginess; narrow-mindedness, bigotry,
intolerance.
illicit, a. prohibited, unlawful.
illness, n. malady, sickness, disease.
illogical, a. fallacious, sophistical, unsound.
illusion, n. mockery, hallucination, chimera, phantasm, delusion,
glamour.
illusive, a. delusive, illusory, chimerical, mocking.
illustrate, v. elucidate, picture, demonstrate, exemplify.
illustration, n. elucidation, exemplification; comparison, example,
simile.
ill-will, n. malice, resentment, grudge, rancor, malevolence,
antipathy, hatred.
image, n. statue; effigy, figure; ikon, eikon; idol.
image breaker. iconoclast, idoloclast, vandal.
image breaking. iconoclasm, vandalism.
image worship iconolatry, iconoduly.
imaginary, a. fancied, visionary, chimerical, illusive, phantasmal.
imagination, n. fancy, conception, notion, conceit, figment,
phantasm.
imagine, v. conceive, fancy; think, suppose, opine, apprehend.
imbecile, n. idiot, witling, fool.
imbecility, n. idiocy, fatuity, foolishness, amentia.
imbedded, a. enfonced.
imitate, v. copy, ape, counterfeit; personate, impersonate, mimic,
simulate; parody, caricature.
imitation, n. copy, counterfeit; mimicry, impersonation, mimesis;
pasticcio; parody, travesty, burlesque; onomatopœoea.
imitative, a. apish, copying, mimicking, mimetic; onomatopoetic.
imitator, n. copyist, follower, mimic, mime, ape, echo, impersonator.
immanence, n. inherence, indwelling.
immanent, a. inherent, indwelling.
immature, a. undeveloped, embryonic, crude, unripe, premature,
untimely.
immediately, adv. instantly, forthwith, directly, straightway, at
once, now, instanter. Antonyms: hereafter, by and by, after a while.
immense, a. vast, infinite, illimitable, immeasurable.
immerse, v. submerge, plunge into, dip, immerge, douse; engross.
immersed, a. submerged, plunged into; engrossed, absorbed, occupied.
immersion, n. submersion, immersing; engrossment, absorption.
immoderate, a. excessive, exorbitant, inordinate, intemperate,
unrestrained.
immodest, a. indecorous, indelicate, shameless; lewd, unchaste,
obscene.
immodesty, n. indecorum, indelicacy, impudicity; lewdness,
unchastity, obscenity.
immoral, a. licentious, dissolute, vicious, profligate, loose,
illicit, rakish.
immorality, n. vice, licentiousness, depravity, profligacy,
obliquity.
immortality, n. deathlessness, athanasia; perpetuity.
immovable, a. fast, permanent, impassive, firm, steadfast.
impact, n. collision, forcible contact; force.
impart, v. communicate.
impartial, a. equitable, fair, disinterested, unbiased,
unprejudiced.
impartiality, n. fairness, equity, disinterestedness, justice.
impassable, a. impenetrable, pathless, impervious.
impatient, a. restless, restive, fretful, eager, impetuous.
impede, v. retard.
impediment, n. obstacle, barrier, obstruction, stumblingblock.
impending, a. imminent, threatening.
impenetrable, a. impervious, imperforable.
impenitence, n. incontrition, obduracy, impenitency.
impenitent, a. incontrite, unrepentant, obdurate, incorrigible,
recusant, relentless.
imperative, a. binding, compulsory, obligatory, imperious,
peremptory.
imperfect, a. defective, faulty, deficient, undeveloped, abortive,
fallible, frail, errable.
imperfection, n. defect, blemish, shortcoming, infirmity, foible,
deformity, disfigurement, vice, frailty, fallibility.
imperious, a. despotic, magisterial, domineering, dictatorial,
tyrannical, imperative.
imperishable, a. permanent, indestructible, enduring.
impersonate, v. personate; personify.
impersonation, n. personation, impersonating; impersonification.
impersonator, n. mimic, personator, mime, actor.
impertinent, a. irrelevant, inapplicable, impudent, saucy, rude,
insolent, malapert, flippant.
impervious, a. impermeable, impenetrable, imperviable.
impetus, n. momentum, force, impulse, incentive.
impish, a. malignant.
implacable, a. unappeasable, vindictive, pitiless, irreconcilable.
implant, v. instill, inculcate, ingraft, infix.
implied, a. tacit, inferential.
implore, v. beseech, supplicate, entreat, obsecrate.
imploring, n. supplication, obsecration.
impolite, a. discourteous, inurbane, rude, uncivil, disrespectful,
saucy, insolent, impertinent, churlish, brusque, unamiable, surly, gruff,
boorish.
impoliteness, n. discourtesy, inurbanity, incivility, impertinence,
insolence.
importance, n. moment, materiality, consequence; pomposity,
self-importance.
important, a. momentous, material, essential; pompous, consequential.
impose upon. delude, dupe, deceive, victimize.
imposing, a. impressive, stately, majestic, august.
impossibility, n. impracticability.
impossible, a. impracticable, unfeasible, unattainable.
impostor, n. pretender, cheat, charlatan, mountebank, quack,
deceiver.
imposture, n. fraud, imposition, charlatanism, deception.
impracticability, n. unfeasibility.
impracticable, a. impossible, unfeasible.
impregnate, v. fecundate.
impregnation, n. fecundation.
imprison, v. incarcerate, immure.
imprisonment, n. incarceration, durance, immurement, duress,
confinement, commitment.
impromptu, a. improvised, offhand, extempore, extemporaneous.
improper, a. indecorous, unseemly, indecent, inappropriate, wrong,
solecistic.
impropriety, n. unsuitableness, unfitness, indecorum, barbarism,
solecism.
improve, v. amend, ameliorate, rectify, better, mend; utilize, use;
gain, get better.
improvement, n. betterment, amelioration; meliorism; utilization.
improving, a. ameliorative, beneficial, amending.
impudence, n. insolence, impertinence, effrontery, rudeness.
impudent, a. insolent, impertinent, flippant, pert, brazen, saucy.
impulse, n. motive, incentive; impulsion, impetus.
impulsive, a. passionate, capricious, hasty; impellent, propulsive.
impure, a. tainted, defiled, contaminated, polluted, vitiated,
infected; adulterated, alloyed, sophisticated; unchaste, lewd, indelicate,
indecent; barbarous, vulgar, hybrid.
impurity, n. defilement, contamination, taint, pollution;
adulteration, alloy, sophistication; unchastity, lewdness, indecency,
indelicacy; pl. garblings, garbles.
inability, n. incompetence, impotence, incapability, incompetency,
inefficiency, disability.
in a body. altogether, _en masse_.
inaccuracy, n. inexactness, incorrectness, impropriety.
inaccurate, a. incorrect, inexact, erroneous, faulty, wrong.
inaction, n. inactivity, inertness, stagnation, idleness.
inactive, a. inert, motionless, quiescent, dormant, inoperative,
sluggish, stagnant, dilatory, latent, passive, torpid.
inactivity, n. inaction, passivity, inertia, lethargy, dormancy,
stagnation, torpor, latency, sloth, Fabian policy.
inadequate, a. insufficient, deficient; defective, incomplete,
imperfect.
inappropriate, a. unsuitable, unbecoming, inapplicable.
inapt, a. irrelevant, unsuitable, inept, inapplicable.
inattention, n. inadvertence, abstraction, heedlessness, disregard,
neglect, remissness.
inattentive, a. heedless, absent-minded, inadvertent, unmindful,
careless.
inbeing, n. inherence.
inborn, a. congenital, inherent, innate, instinctive, ingenerate.
incapable, a. incompetent, disqualified, unfit, insusceptible.
incarnation, n. incarnification, Avatar; personification.
incautious, a. unwary, inconsiderate, indiscreet, thoughtless.
incense, n. Associated Words: thurible, censer, thurification,
thurify, frankincense, cense, thurifer.
incentive, n. motive, spur, incitement, stimulus, inducement
provocation.
incident, n. event, happening, episode, occurrence.
incidental, a. casual, accidental, oontingent, fortuitous;
subordinate, collateral, accessory.
incite, v. instigate, stimulate, arouse, goad, spur, impel.
incitement, n. stimulus, instigation, incitation, spur, incentive.
incivility, n. discourtesy, rudeness, incomity, inurbanity,
disrespect.
inclination, n. leaning, slant; tendency, propensity, proneness,
penchant, predilection.
incline, n. slant, slope, ascent, descent, grade.--v. lean,
tend, dispose.
inclose, v. surround, encircle, circumscribe, encompass, enclose.
inclosure, n. surrounding, closure, barrier, fence, corral, stockade.
include, v. comprise, comprehend, inclose.
inclusion, n. comprisal.
income, n. revenue, proceeds; tontine, annuity. Associated Word:
fructuary.
incomparable, a. peerless, matchless, transcendent, inimitable
unrivalled, unapproachable.
incompetent, a. inefficient, unqualified, incapable; inadequate;
unfit, unsuited.
incomplete, a. unfinished, defective, imperfect, deficient, partial,
inchoate.
incomprehensible, a. inconceivable, abstruse, unfathomable.
inconsiderate, a. thoughtless, heedless, inattentive, careless.
inconsistency, n. discordance, incoherence, contrariety,
incompatibility.
inconsistent, a. disagreeing, incoherent, contradictory, discrepant,
incompatible.
inconstancy, n. fickleness, mutability, variableness, instability.
inconstant, a. fickle, changeable, volatile, flighty, mercurial,
variable.
inconvenient, a. unhandy, incommodious, inopportune, untoward.
incorrect, a. inaccurate, erroneous, inexact, wrong; ungrammatical,
solecistic.
incorrectness, n. inaccuracy, inexactness, error; impropriety.
increase, v. augment, advance, enlarge; multiply, be prolific, wax;
aggravate, enhance, extend, augment, intensify, exacerbate, amplify,
magnify, heighten, accelerate.
increase, n. augmentation, accretion, increment, accession,
amplification, addition, accrument.
increase of motion. acceleration.
incremate, v. cremate, incinerate.
incremation, n. cremation.
incumbent, a. obligatory, imposed, binding.
incumbrance, n. hindrance, impediment, incubus; mortgage, claim,
lien.
incurable, a. insanable, irremediable, immedicable; irremedicable,
irreparable.
indebtedness, n. obligation; debts, liabilities.
indecency, n. immodesty, indelicacy, shamelessness, obscenity,
ribaldry, lewdness.
indecent, a. immodest, obscene, indelicate, shameless, ribald, lewd,
unchaste.
indecision, n. vacillation, indetermination, irresolution, wavering,
inconstancy.
indecisive, a. inconclusive, vacillating, hesitating, irresolute,
wavering.
indefatigable, a. untiring, persistent, unremitting, sedulous,
unflagging.
indefinite, a. vague, indeterminate, equivocal, ambiguous,
inexplicit, inexact.
indelicacy, n. unrefinement, rudeness, indecorum, immodesty.
indelicate, a. unrefined, indecorous, immodest, unchaste, rude,
vulgar.
indemnity, n. security, insurance; restitution, reimbursement,
indemnification.
indentation, n. bruise, notch, depression, indenture, serrature, jag,
engrailment, crenellation.
independence, n. freedom, self-government, liberty, autonomy;
opulence, affluence.
independent, a. self-governing, autonomous; self-reliant; exclusive,
irrespective; affluent.
Indian, n. (aboriginal American) red man; (of mixed blood)
metisse, ladino, mestizo, guacho, griffe, mameluco, half-breed.
Associated Words: tepee, wigwam, tomahawk, lodge, wickiup, sachemdom,
pueblo, calumet, totem, totemism, powwow, roanoke, coup, gens, Manito,
pogamoggan, potlatch, chinook, runtee, travail, travois, strouding.
Indian blanket. stroud.
Indian chief. sachem, sannup, sagamore, brave.
Indian child. papoose.
Indian money. wampum, seawan, suckanhock, colcol, peag, hiagua,
kopkops.
Indian prince. Maharajah, Rajah.
Indian princess or queen. Rani, Ranee.
Indian woman. squaw, mahaly.
India rubber. caoutchouc.
indicate, v. designate, betoken, signify.
indication, n. designation, signifying; symptom, evidence, sign,
token, manifestation.
indicator, n. (as in a hotel) annunciator.
indictment, n. accusation, charge, arraignment, crimination.
indifference, n. apathy, coolness, negligence, unconcern,
nonchalance, _insouciance_; mediocrity, inferiority; neutrality,
impartiality, disinterestedness.
indifferent, a. disinterested, unconcerned, nonchalant, perfunctory,
apathetic, _insouciant_; neutral, impartial; mediocre, passable,
tolerable.
indirect, a. roundabout, circuitous, tortuous.
indiscreet, a. unwise, imprudent.
indiscretion, n. unwisdom, folly, imprudence; misstep, lapse.
indisposed, a. averse, disinclined, unwilling, loath, reluctant;
sick, ill, unwell.
indisposition, n. disinclination, averseness, reluctance,
unwillingness.
indisputable, a. undeniable, incontestable, indubitable,
incontrovertible.
indissolvable, a. indissoluble.
indocile, a. intractable, refractory, unruly.
indolence, n. idleness, laziness, indulgence, sloth, inactivity,
faineance.
indolent, a. lazy, slothful, supine, dronish, listless.
inducement, n. incentive, incitement, motive, stimulus.
indulge, v. satisfy, gratify, luxuriate; humor, pamper, cocker;
grant, allow, permit. Antonyms: mortify, deny, suppress, restrain.
indulgence, n. humoring, pampering, gratification; kindness, favor,
lenity, forbearance; absolution. Antonyms: mortification, denial,
restraint, non-indulgence.
indulgent, a. forbearing, kind, lenient, lax, merciful.
industrial science. technology, polytechnics.
industrious, a. assiduous, diligent, sedulous, persistent,
hard-working. Antonyms: idle, indolent, inactive, lazy.
industry, n. assiduity, diligence, activity; labor, work, exertion,
efforts.
indwelling, n. immanence, inherence.--a. immanent, inherent.
ineffective, a. ineffectual, unavailing, inefficacious.
inefficient, a. ineffective, inefficacious; slack, remiss,
incompetent.
inelastic, a. inductile, inextensible, rigid.
inelasticity, n. inductility, inextensibility, rigidity.
ineligible, a. disqualified.
inequality, n. disparity, disproportion, unevenness, irregularity;
unfairness, injustice; inequation.
inexcusable, a. unpardonable, indefensible, unjustifiable,
unwarrantable.
inexhaustible, a. exhaustless.
inexorable, a. unyielding, relentless, implacable, unmovable,
unrelenting.
inexperienced, a. untrained, unpractised, undisciplined, raw,
unskilled.
inexpert, a. maladroit, unskillful, bungling.
inexpressible, a. ineffable, unspeakable, unutterable.
infallibility, n. inerrability.
infallible, a. inerrable, unerring, sure, certain, undeniable.
infamous, a. disreputable, ignominious, scandalous, opprobrious,
odious, heinous.
infamy, n. disgrace, ignominy, odium, obloquy, opprobrium.
infancy, n. babyhood; minority, nonage, pupilage.
infant, n. baby; minor.
infantile paralysis. poliomyelitis.
infatuate, v. enamor, charm. Antonyms: repel, disgust,
disillusionize.
infection, n. contagion, contamination, vitiation, pollution.
infectious, a. contagious, pestiferous, epidemic, vitiating.
infer, v. deduce, imply, gather.
inference, n. deduction, conclusion, illation, corollary.
inferior, a. poorer, lower, subordinate, menial, minor, mediocre,
subaltern.
inferior, n. subordinate. Antonyms: peer, equal, superior.
inferiority, n. subordinacy, mediocrity, deficiency.
infidel, n. free-thinker, atheist, unbeliever, skeptic.
infirmity, n. See weakness.
inflammable, a. combustible, accendible; irascible, irritable,
excitable.
inflammation, n. phlogosis; phlegmasia. Associated Words:
phlogistic, phlogogenous, antiphlogistic, demulcent delitescence.
inflammatory, a. phlogistic; seditious, incendiary.
inflate, v. expand, enlarge, distend.
inflated, a. distended, blown up; bombastic, pompous, grandiloquent,
declamatory.
inflation, n. distention, expansion.
inflection, n. modulation, accent.
inflexibility, n. rigidity, stiffness; firmness, pertinacity,
obstinacy, steadfastness.
inflexible, a. unyielding, rigid, impliable; immovable, resolute,
steadfast.
influence, n. sway, control; persuasion, restraint; authority,
ascendency, prestige.
influence, v. move, persuade, induce, sway, control, prevail upon,
actuate, impel.
informal, a. unceremonious, unconventional, easy, natural,
unconstrained.
informality, n. unceremoniousness.
information, n. knowledge, intelligence, instruction; (Law)
complaint, accusation.
infringe, v. violate, transgress; encroach, trespass, intrench.
infringement, n. transgression, violation, breach, encroachment,
trespass, intrenchment.
in full. unabridged, at length.
ingenious, a. inventive, resourceful.
ingratitude, n. unthankfulness.
ingredient, n. constituent, element, component, part.
inhabitant, n. dweller, denizen, residentiary, resident, citizen.
Antonyms: sojourner, pilgrim, visitor.
inherent, a. innate, adhering, inexistent, inborn, inalienable.
inheritable, a. hereditable.
inheritance, n. heritage, patrimony, legacy.
inhuman, a. savage, barbarous, fiendish, brutal, cruel.
inhumanity, n. cruelty, brutality, barbarity, mercilessness.
injection, n. immission, injecting; enema, clyster, lavement.
injure, v. damage, harm, hurt, impair, disfigure, maim, mar, wound.
injurious, a. hurtful, harmful, detrimental, pernicious, deleterious,
baneful, noxious, maleficent, prejudicial; defamatory, derogatory,
detractory.
injury, n. damage, detriment, harm, hurt, wound, impairment,
mutilation, defacement, violation, lesion. Associated Words: vulnerable,
vulnerability, invulnerable, invulnerability, inviolable, vulnific.
injustice, n. inequity, unfairness; grievance.
inkling, n. hint, intimation, allusion.
inkstand, n. standish.
inky, a. atramentous, atramental, atramentarious.
inlaid work. marquetry, parquetry, mosaic.
inland, a. interior, internal.
inlet, n. entrance, ingress; bay, recess, bight, estuary, cove,
frith, bayou.
inmate, n. occupant.
inn, n. lodging house, tavern, hotel; cabaret, caravansary, khan.
innate, a. inborn, inherent, native.
inner, a. internal, interior; obscure, esoteric, innermost parts,
recesses, _penetralia_, sanctuary.
innocence, n. blamelessness, guilelessness, guiltlessness,
impeccability, inoffensiveness.
innocent, a. blameless, guileless, guiltless, impeccable,
inoffensive, sinless, artless, inculpable, irreproachable,
irreprehensible, inerrable, irresponsible, virtuous, unsophisticated.
inquiring, a. curious, inquisitive.
inquiry, n. question, query, interrogation; research, investigationm
scrutiny.
inquisitive, a. inquiring, mousing, curious, intrusive, prying,
meddlesome. Antonyms: indifferent, unconcerned, uninterested.
insane, a. demented, crazy, mad, deranged, delirious, dementate;
paranoiac. Antonyms: sane, rational.
insane asylum. bedlam, bethlehem, madhouse, retreat.
insanity, n. dementia, alienation of mind, madness, lunacy,
craziness, derangement, frenzy, delirium, mania, hallucination, aberration
of mind, bedlamism; paranoia, monomania. Antonyms: sanity, rationality,
lucidity. Associated Words: alienist, alienism.
insatiable, a. unappeasable; voracious, rapacious, omnivorous.
inscrutable, a. incomprehensible, inexplicable, unsearchable.
insect, n. Associated Words: entomology, entomologist, entomologic,
chrsalis, pupa, cicada, cocoon, credpitaculum, entomophilous, entornophily,
entomtaxy, entomotomy, insecticidal, insectifuge, insectile, larva,
lepidopterist, larvarium, stridor, stridulate, stridulation, silphology,
stridulatory, nymph, horismology, imago.
insect-eaters, n. pl. Insectivora, Entomophaga.
insect-eating, a. insectivorous, entomophagous.
insect powder. insecticide, pyrethrum, entomologic, chrysalis, pupa,
cicada, cocoon, crepitaculum, entomophilous, entomophily, entomotaxy,
entomotomy, insecticidal, insectifuge, insectile, larva, lepidopterist,
larvarium, stridor, stridulate, stridulation, silphology, stridulatory,
nymph, horismology, imago.
insect-eaters, n. pl. Insectivora, Entomophaga.
insect-eating, a. insectivorous, entomophagous.
insect powder. insecticide, pyrethrum.
insecure, a. risky, unsafe, precarious, rickety, unstable,
dangerous.
insecurity, n. unsafely, risk, instability, precariousness.
insensibility, n. unconsciousness, torpor, coma, narcosis, lethargy,
numbness, narcoma, insusceptibility, anæsthesia, stupefaction, stupor,
carus.
insensible, a. unfeeling, numb, insensate, torpid, unimpressible,
unsusceptible, unconscious; imperceptible, gradual, imperceivable.
inseparable, a. indivisible, indissoluble.
insert, v. interpolate, intercalate, interject, ingraft, inosculate.
insertion, n. interjection, interpolation, intercalation,
inosculation.
inside, a. internal, inner, interior.
insides, n. pl. entrails; _penetralia_, recesses.
insight, n. discernment.
insignificance, n. unimportance, pettiness, immateriality,
triviality, inanity.
insignificant, n. meaningless; unimportant, immaterial, petty,
trivial, paltry.
insincere, a. disingenuous, dissembling, false, hypocritical,
affected, deceitful.
insincerity, n. duplicity, disingenuousness, hypocrisy,
dissimulation.
insinuation, n. innuendo, intimation; ingratiation.
insist, v. persist, press, urge, contend.
insistence, n. persistence, pertinacity, importunity, urgency,
contention, instance.
insnare, v. ensnare, entrap, seduce, inveigle, allure, entangle.
insolation, n. sunstroke, siriasis, sun bath.
insolence, n. impudence, contumely, impertinence, contumacy,
effrontery, disrespect.
insinuation, n. innuendo, intimation; ingratiation.
insist, v. persist, press, urge, contend.
insistence, n. persistence, pertinacity, importunity, urgency,
contention, instance.
insistent, a. persistent, importunate, insisting.
insnare, v. ensnare, entrap, seduce, inveigle, allure, entangle.
insolation, n. sunstroke, siriasis; sun bath.
insolence, n. impudence, contumely, impertinence, contumacy,
effrontery, disrespect.
insolent, a. impudent, contumelious, overbearing, disrespectful
contemptuous.
insoluble, a. indissoluble; unexplainable, insolvable, inexplicable.
inspect, v. examine.
inspiration, n. inhalation (breathing in); divine afflatus,
theopneusty.
inspiring, a. inspiriting, elevating, promethean.
in spite of. notwithstanding, despite, nevertheless.
install, v. instate, induct.
installation, n. induction.
instance, n. persistency, request, solicitation, urgency; example,
case, illustration.
instantly, adv. immediately, forthwith, at once, instanter, urgently,
persistently.
instep, n. metatarsus, acrotarsium.
instruct, v. teach, indoctrinate, edify, enlighten, coach.
instruction, n. nurture, tuition, teaching, information,
indoctrination, inculcation, education, admonition; edification,
enlightenment; propædeutics.
instructive, a. edifying, didactic, preceptive, mentorial;
propædeutic.
instructor, n. teacher, preceptor, tutor, master, coach, mentor,
counselor, monitor, trainer.
instrument, n. tool, utensil, implement; agent, means, medium.
insufferable, a. intolerable, unendurable; detestable, offensive.
insufficiency, n. deficiency, inadequacy.
insufficient, a. inadequate, deficient, incommensurate, lacking.
insult, n. indignity, affront.
insult, v. offend, affront, flout.
insulting, a. offensive, contemptuous, contumelious, scurrilous.
insurance, n. assurance, indemnity.
insure, v. assure, indemnify; underwrite.
insurgency, n. revolt, rebellion, insubordination, mutiny.
insurgent, a. rebellious, mutinous, insubordinate, insurrectionary.
insurgent, n. rebel, revolter, mutineer, insurrectionist.
intaglio, n. diaglyph. Antonym: cameo.
intelligence, n. knowledge, discernment, insight, acumen.
intelligent, a. clever, discerning, astute, bright, knowing, apt,
sensible.
intemperance, n. excess, immoderation, debauchery.
intemperate, a. immoderate, excessive, unrestrained.
intend, v. design, purpose, propose, contemplate, plan.
intended, n. fiancé (male), fiancée (female).
intense, a. extreme, excruciating.
intensify, v. aggravate, exacerbate, heighten.
intention, n. design, plan, purpose, aim.
intentional, a. deliberate, premeditated. Antonyms: unintentional,
inadvertent, accidental.
intercede, v. mediate, interpose, propitiate.
intercession, n. mediation, interposition, propitiation.
intercessor, n. mediator, interceder, propitiator, make-peace.
interchange, n. reciprocation, reciprocity, permutation; alternation.
interest, n. concern; share, portion, part, participation; advantage,
benefit, weal, behoof; usury. Antonyms: boredom, ennui, indifference,
unconcern.
interested, a. concerned; prejudiced, partial. Antonyms:
disinterested, unconcerned, bored.
interfere, v. clash, conflict; intermeddle, interpose, intervene.
interference, n. clashing, collision; intermeddling, interposition,
intervention.
interlining, n. interlineation.
interloper, n. intruder, interferer.
intermediate, a. intervening, interjacent; interlocutory (Law).
intermittent, a. remittent, periodical, recurrent.
internal, a. inward, interior, inside, inner; esoteric; intrinsic;
inherent.
interpret, v. construe, translate, render.
interpretation, n. rendering, rendition, translation; exegesis,
exegetics, hermeneutics, isagogics, anagogics, dittology.
interrogation point. eroteme.
interval, n. interstice (space between); interim, meantime
intervening, a. intermediate, interjacent.
intervention, n. interference, interposition; mediation,
intercession.
intestines, n. pl. entrails, bowels, inwards, guts; omentum, caul,
vermiform appendix, colon, rectum, hindgut, enteron, cæcum, ileum, ileus,
volvulus, jejunum, duodenum, alimentary canal; chitterlings. Associated
words: enterology, splanchnology, enterography, splanchnography,
enteropathy, enteroplasty, enterotomy, enteralgia, enterolith, enteritis,
intestinal, enteric, crypt, peristalsis, vermiculation, alvine, viscerate,
visceration, eviscerate, evisceration, disembowel, disembowelment.
intolerable, a. insufferable, unendurable.
intolerance, n. bigotry, dogmatism, illiberality.
intolerant, a. bigoted, unforbearing, illiberal.
intrenchment, n. earthwork, fortification; encroachment,
infringement, invasion, inroad.
intricacy, n. complication, entanglement, complexity.
intricate, a. complicated, entangled, involved, labyrinthian, mazy.
intrigue, n. conspiracy, machination, cabal, plot; amour (illicit
love affair), liaison.
intrigue, v. plot, scheme, machinate, cabal.
intriguer, n. machinator, plotter, schemer, Figaro, intrigant,
intrigante (female).
intriguing, a. scheming, Machiavelian, wily.
intrinsic, a. inherent, innate, real, genuine. Antonym: extrinsic.
introduction, n. preface, proem, exordium, prelude, prolegomenon,
prologue, foreword; presentation; interpolation interposition, initiation.
introductory, a. preliminary, proemial, prefatory.
intrude, v. infringe, invade, encroach, obtrude, interlope.
intrusion, n. encroachment, obtrusion, infringement, interloping.
intrusive, a. obtrusive. Antonyms: unintrusive, unobtrusive,
retiring.
intrust, v. commit, confide.
invade, v. infringe, encroach, trespass, intrench, trench.
invalid, a. null, void, of no efficacy; baseless, unfounded.
invalid, a. valetudinary.
invalid, n. valetudinarian.
invalidate, v. annul, abrogate, cancel, quash, nullify.
invalidation, n. nullification, abrogation, annulment.
invalidism, n. valetudinarianism.
invasion, n. irruption, foray, raid, aggression; violation,
infringement, encroachment, intrenchment.
inveigle, v. wheedle, seduce.
inveiglement, n. wheedling, seduction.
investigate, v. probe, sift, examine.
investigation, n. examination, inquiry, research.
invidious, a. objectionable, offensive.
invincible, a. indomitable, unconquerable.
invisible, a. imperceptible, microscopic, evanescent.
invitation, n. bidding, call, summons.
invite, v. bid, ask, summon; allure, induce, entice.
invocation, n. prayer, supplication.
involuntary, a. uncontrollable, instinctive, automatic, compulsory,
forced.
inwards, n. pl. entrails, intestines, bowels, guts; viscera;
giblets, inmeats, umbles.
iota, n. scintilla, tittle, atom, mite, jot, whit, bit, particle.
Ireland, n. Erin, Emerald Isle.
iridescent, a. prismatic, nacreous.
iris, n. flower-de-luce, _fleur-de-lis_, flag.
Irish, a. Hibernian.
Irishman, n. Hibernian, Milesian, Teague, Pat, Paddy.
iron, v. smooth; mangle.
irons, n. pl. fetters, chains, handcuffs, shackles, manacles,
hampers, gyves.
ironworker's pneumonia. siderosis.
irrecoverable, a. irretrievable.
irregular, a. inconformable, abnormal, anomalous, exceptional,
unsymmetrical, unusual, erose, baroque, aberrant.
irregularity, n. inconformableness, abnormality, asymmetry, anomaly,
aberration, intermittency.
irreligious, a. ungodly, impious, godless, sacrilegious, blasphemous,
profane.
irresolute, a. wavering, vacillating, inconstant, fickle,
double-minded.
irresolution, n. indecision, vacillation, inconstancy, fickleness.
irresponsible, a. unaccountable, unanswerable, unreliable.
irritable, a. irascible, fretful, spleeny, choleric, petulant, fiery,
captious, splenetic.
irritate, v. intensify, stimulate; provoke, vex, annoy, offend,
chafe.
isinglass, n. fishglue, ichthyocol, ichthyocolla; mica; carlock.
island, n. isle, eyot, holm, islet; atoll. Associated Words:
insular, insularity, archipelago, lagoon, coral, maroon, marooner.
isolate, v. insulate, segregate, dissociate, detach, separate.
isolated, a. insulated, separate, solitary, segregated, sporadic.
isolation, n. insulation, segregation; loneliness, solitude.
issue, v. gush, disembogue; sally forth, debouch; proceed, emanate,
ensue, follow, result.
Italian laborers. Associated Word: padrone.
Italian paste. macaroni, vermicelli.
itch, n. psora, scabies; prurigo; sycosis (barber's itch); eczema;
pruriency.
itching, a. tingling, prurient.
ivory, n. Associated Words: eburnean, eburnine, eburin,
eburnification, eburnation.
ivy, n. Associated Words: hederaceous, hederal, hederic,
hederiferous, hederose.
J
Jab, n. (Colloq.) thrust, punch, dig.
jabber, n. gibberish, chatter, gabble, babble.--v. gabble,
gibber, babble, chatter.
jackass, n. donkey; dolt, simpleton, witling, ignoramus, fool.
jacket, n. coat, jerkin, blouse, spencer, bolero, pea-jacket sontag,
blazer, sweater, reefer, jersey, jumper, cardigan jacket, grego,
garibaldi, camisole, temiak (Eskimo); cleading.
jade, n. nephrite, jadeite; nag, plug; hussy, wench, quean.
jag, n. notch, cleft, barb, protuberance.--v. notch.
jagged, a. cleft, jaggy, notched, serrated, erose, sharp.
jail, n. prison, lockup, calaboose, workhouse, limbo.
jail bird. prisoner.
jailer, n. warden, turnkey, sheriff.
jail fever. typhus fever.
jam, n. preserve, conserve; crowd, throng, crush.
jam, v. squeeze, crowd, press, wedge in, bruise.
jamboree, n. (Slang) carousal, revelry, carouse, spree.
jangle, n. clashing, clang, discord, dissonance; wrangling, quarrel,
dispute, altercation.
jangle, v. clash, clang; quarrel, wrangle, dispute, altercate.
jangling, a. discordant, dissonant, clashing, inharmonious.
janitor, n. doorkeeper, porter, _concierge_; (female) janitress,
janitrix.
Japan, n. Nippon, Flowery Kingdom. Associated Words: Japanese,
geisha, coolie, Mikado, samurai, shizoku, heimin, kwazoku, Mongol,
Mongolian, kimono, Dairi, daimio, saki, Tycoon, Shogun.
japan, n. lacquer, varnish, enamel.
jar, n. crock; gurglet; shock, jolt, vibration.--v. jolt,
jounce, shock, discompose, unsettle; grate.
jargon, n. gibberish, drivel, babble, gabble, twaddle, bosh; cant,
slang, flash, argot, dialect.
jaundice, n. icterus.--v. prejudice.
jaundiced, a. prejudiced, biased, warped.
jaunty, a. airy, showy, finical, affected, fine.
jaw, n. Jawbone, jowl; maxilla (upper jaw); mandible (lower jaw).
jaw, v. (Low) scold, upbraid, berate, clamor, rail at.
jawless, a. agnathic, agnathous.
jaw muscle. masseter.
jayhawker, n. guerrilla.
jealous, a. suspicious, distrustful.
jealousy, n. suspicion, distrust.
jeer, v. mock, deride, ridicule, taunt, jibe.
jeering, n. mockery, derision, ridicule, scoffing, sneer, taunt.
jellylike, a. gelatinous, colloid.
jeopard, v. imperil, risk, expose, endanger, hazard.
jeopardize, v. jeopard.
jeopardy, n. danger, peril, hazard, exposure.
jerk, v. twitch, yerk.
jerked beef. charqui.
jerky, a. abrupt, unconnected.
jest, n. joke, witticism, quip, _jeu d' esprit_, Joe Miller.
jest, v. joke.
jester, n. joker, wag; buffoon, merry-andrew, clown, harlequin, zany.
jesting, n. joking, jest, raillery, banter, persiflage,
facetiousness, badinage, jocularity.
jesting, a. waggish, jocular, facetious, sportive.
jet, v. spurt, spout, gush; protrude, project.--n. spouting,
spurt, gush.
Jew, n. Hebrew, Israelite, Judahite, Judean, Semite, Yid; Rabbi,
Sadducee, Pharisee, Levite. Associated Words: Yiddish, ghetto, kosher,
tref, Talmud, kittel, sephardic, Sanhedrim, synagogue, Jewry, Judaism,
judaize.
Jewish, a. Hebrew, Judaic, Israelitish, Hebraic, Semitic.
Jewish beggar. schnorrer.
Jewish marriage broker. schatchen.
jewel, n. gem, brilliant.
jewelry, n. jewels; bijoutry.
Jew's pitch. asphaltum, bitumen.
Jezebel, n.virago, she-devil, fury, Gorgon, termagant.
jibe, v. (Colloq.) agree, harmonize, fit.
jiffy, n. (Colloq.)moment, instant, second, trice.
jill, n. coquette, flirt; sweetheart, gill.
jilt, n. coquette, flirt.
jingle, n. tinkling, jingling, tintinnabulation; rhyme.--v.
tinkle.
job, n. task; situation, position.
jocose, a. facetious, waggish, sportive, merry, jocular, humorous.
jocular, a. jesting, jocose, sportive, merry, waggish.
jocularity, n. jesting, waggishness, waggery, facetiousness,
drollery.
jog, n. shake, jolt, jar, shove; hitch, break.
jog, v. push, shake, jostle; suggest to, notify, remind.
johnny cake. hoecake, corncake.
join v. connect, couple, unite, combine, associate, add, append,
annex, link, conjoin, mortise, dowel, splice, knit, dovetail, mingle,
coalesce, unify, confederate; abut. Antonyms: disjoin, disconnect. See
separate.
joiner, n. link, coupling, bond; woodworker, carpenter.
joint, n. gimbal joint, dove-tail joint, joggle joint, mortise joint,
miter, dowel, scarf joint, rabbet joint.
joint, n. articulation; suture, commissure, knuckle. Associated
words: arthrology, arthrography, synosteology arthrectomy, synovia,
articular, bursa, synovial, internode, internodal, anchylose, dislocate,
dislocation, luxate, luxation.
joint, a. combined, joined, united.
jointed, a. articulated, hinged; knotted, gnarled.
jointless, a. acondylous, anarthrous, inarticulate.
joke, n. jest, witticism, jocosity, sally, _jeu d'esprit_, quip,
quirk, Joe Miller.
joke, v. rally, banter, jest.
joking, n. jesting, rallying, banter, persiflage, jocularity,
waggishness.
jokingly, adv. sportively, jestingly, waggishly, jocularly.
jolly, a. jovial, vivacious, congenial, convivial, mirthful,
sportive, gay, facetious, boon, waggish, jocular, jocose, witty, blithe,
sprightly, cheery.
jolly, v. (Colloq.) make good-natured, joke, jest, cheer,
encourage.
jolt, n. jar, shock, jounce, jolting.--v. shake, jar, jounce.
jot, n. iota, point, tittle, bit, mite, atom, scintilla, ace,
particle, whit.
jotting, n. memorandum, note, entry.
jounce, n. jolt, shake, jolting.--v. jolt, shake, jar.
journal, n. day-book, daily register, record; diary; periodical,
publication, magazine, gazette, ephemeris.
journey, n. trip, tour, pilgrimage, excursion, travel, jaunt,
peregrination. Associated Words: itinerary, itinerancy, viatic,
viaticum.
journeyman, n. handicraftsman, artisan. Antonyms: apprentice,
amateur.
joust, v. tilt.
Jove, n. Jupiter.
jovial, a. jolly, mirthful, gay, merry, sportive, hilarious, gleeful.
joviality, n. gayety, jollity, sportiveness, liveliness.
joy, n. gladness, exultation, jubilation, mirth, festivity glee,
elation, merriment.
joyful, a. joyous, glad, elated, jubilant, exhilarating, happy,
buoyant, merry, encouraging, felicitous.
joyous, a. joyful.
jubilant, a. joyful, exultant, triumphant.
jubilation, n. rejoicing, exultation, triumph.
Judas, n. betrayer, traitor.
Judas, a. traitorous, treacherous, disloyal, perfidious.
judge, v. adjudge, adjudicate, try; discern, distinguish,
discriminate, decide; esteem, think, consider, reckon, deem, regard;
arbitrate.
judge, n. justice, judger; arbitrator, arbiter, umpire, referee;
connoisseur, critic; puisne; deemster (Isle of Man). Associated Words:
judicial, judicially, judicable, judicatory, judicature, judiciary.
judges, n. pl. judiciary.
judgment, n. decision, adjudication, arbitrament, arbitration,
adjudgment; sentence, decree, verdict; discrimination, discernment.
judgment-seat, n. court, tribunal, bar, judicatory.
judicial, a. judicative, judicatory, juridical, judiciary.
judicious, a. prudent, discreet, well-advised.
jug, n. pitcher, ewer, demijohn, flagon; bellarmine, long-beard.
juggler, n. prestidigitator, magician, conjurer; cheat, impostor;
jongleur.
jugglery, n. sleight of hand, legerdemain, prestidigitation, magic,
conjuring; imposture, trickery, hankey-pankey.
juice, n.. sap, lush; must.
juicy, a. succulent, sappy, lush, luscious. Antonyms: juiceless,
sapless, dry.
jumble, v. confuse, disarrange, entangle, mix
jumble, n. disorder, confusion, disarray, mixture, entanglement,
chaos, hodgepodge.
jump, v. spring, bound, leap, hop, caper, vault; bounce, jolt.
jump, n. leap, spring, bound, hop, vault, caper, jolt.
junction, n. union, coalition; juncture.
juncture, n. joint, seam; crisis, conjuncture, point, exigency.
jungle, n. thicket, brake, boscage, brush.
junket, n. delicacy, sweetmeat; feast, banquet. --v. feast,
banquet, regale, entertain.
junta, n. council, tribunal, assembly, convention.
junto, n. secret council, cabal, clique, faction.
jury, n. Associated Words: impanel, panel, venire, venire, facias,
tales, talesman.
juryman, n. juror.
just, a. upright, honest, conscientious, honorable, straightforward;
condign, merited, deserved, due; reasonable, conscionable, equitable,
fair; unbiased, impartial correct, exact, accurate, proper, appropriate.
Antonyms: dishonest, inequitable, undeserved. See unjust.
just, adv. precisely, exactly; closely, nearly, almost; barely,
scarcely, only.
justice, n. justness, quity, impartiality; judge. Antonyms:
inequity, injustice.
justifiable, a. warrantable, defensible, vindicable.
justification, n. vindication, exuplpation, exoneration, defense.
justifier, n. justificatior, vindicator, defender.
justify, v. vindicate, warrant, excuse, exonorate, exculpate,
absolve, defend.
justle, v. clash, bump, jostle, collide.
justly, adv. honestly, fairly, equitably, impartially.
justness, n. justice, fairness, equity, impartiality, condignness.
jut, v. jut out, project, protrude.--n. projection, jutt.
jutting, a. projecting, protruding.
jutting out. projection, projecture, protrusion
jutty, n. pier, mole, jetty.
juvenile, a. youthful, young, immature.
juvenility, n. youthfulness, immaturity.
K
Keel over. (Colloq.) overturn, capsize, tip over.
keen, a. sharp, acute, trenchant; penetrating, shrewd, astute,
discerning; piercing, poignant, excruciating, a crimonious, mordacious,
bitter, intense, severe; eager, ardent, ravenous, vehement.
keep, n. custody, charge; maintenance, support; stronghold, donjon;
condition, case.
keep, v. detain, restrain, hold, retain, repress, withhold; preserve,
conserve; maintain, continue; guard, shield, defend, protect, screen,
preserve; entertain, harbor; observe, adhere to, fulfill; commemorate,
celebrate, solemnize; support, sustain, provide for.
keep back. reserve, withhold; restrain, repress, check.
keep company with. associate with, accompany, go with.
keep down. hold in subjection, restrain, hinder, subdue.
keeper, n. warden; superintendent, curator, custodian, guardian,
attendant, defender, overseer.
keep from. abstain from, refrain from.
keeping, n. holding, restraint, custody, guard, guardianship,
protection, tutelage; detention, retention; maintenance support,
subsistence, board; conformity, congruity, harmony, consistency,
correspondence; observance; celebration, commemoration, fulfillment.
keeping back. reservation, reserving, withholding; restraint,
repression, checking.
keep on. proceed, continue, persist.
keepsake, n. memento, souvenir.
keep to. adhere to.
keep under. hold in subjection, subdue, mortify.
keep up. maintain, continue.
kelter, n. (Colloq.) condition, order.
kernel, n. seed, grain; nucleus; gist, core, pith, substance,
essence, marrow. Associated Words: enucleate, enucleation, exacinate,
exacination.
kerosene, n. coal oil, petroleum.
kettle, n. caldron (a large kettle).
kettledrum, n. tympano; pl. tympani.
key, n. Associated Words: claviger, clavigerous, cleidomancy,
escutcheon, lock.
key, n. pitch, tone.
key, n. clew, solution, guide, explanation, elucidation, clavis;
wharf, quay; forelock, cotter, bar, pin; samara.
keyboard, n. clavier.
kick, v. spurn, calcitrate, recalcitrate, winch; resist, oppose;
recoil.
kick, n. kicking, opposition.
kicking, n. spurning, recalcitration, calcitration, winch;
opposition, resistance.
kicking, a. recalcitrant, calcitrant, resistant.
kiddy, v. (Slang) deceive, outwit, hoax.
kidnap, v. abduct.
kidnapper, n. abductor, man-stealer.
kidnapping, n. abduction.
kidney, n. Associated Words: nephrology, nephrotomy, nephritis,
renal, emunctory, nephritic, loins, reins.
kidney, n. sort, kind, variety, disposition.
kidney-shaped, a. reniform.
kidney stone. nephrite, jade.
kill, v. slay, slaughter, murder, assassinate, butcher, despatch,
execute, lynch, massacre, burke, immolate, guillotine, decimate, destroy,
blast; counteract, neutralize; quell, extinguish.
killer, n. slayer, murderer, butcher, assassin, assassinator,
executor, destroyer.
killing, n. slaying, slaughter, butchering, butchery, assassination,
massacre, strangulation, immolation, holocaust, execution, fusillade,
carnage, murder, manslaughter, chaud-medley, lynching, guillotine,
burkism, garrote, chance-medley, decimation, assideration, destruction,
blasting; counteraction, neutralization.
killing, a. fatal, mortal, deadly, destructive; captivating,
charming, fascinating.
kilt, n. filibeg.
kilter, n. (Colloq.) condition, order.
kin, n. relationship; relatives, relations, kindred, kinsfolk,
kinsmen.
kin, a. kindred.
kind, a. indulgent, compassionate, merciful, lenient, clement,
benignant, gracious, benevolent, kind-hearted, forbearing, benign,
beneficent, humane, obliging.
kind, n. variety, genus, species, strain, breed, nature, genre, sort,
style, character, description, kidney.
kind-hearted, a. compassionate, lenient, clement, kind.
kindle, v. enkindle, fire, ignite, incite, inflame, rouse.
kindling, n. enkindling, incitement, accension.
kindly, a. kind.
kindness, n. compassion, benignity, benevolence, kindliness,
graciousness, clemency, compassionateness; favor, service, good turn.
kindred, n. relationship; relatives, relations, kinsfolk, kin,
kinsmen.
kindred, a. related, congenial, allied, similar.
kine, n. pl. cows, cattle.
king, n. monarch, sovereign, potentate, regulus. Associated Words:
regicide royalty, regnal, regnant, regnancy, regalia, viceroy, camarilla,
dynastic, dynasty.
kingdom, n. empire, dominion, sovereignty, monarchy, realm.
kingly, a. royal, regal, monarchical; sovereign, august, majestic,
grand. Antonyms: servile, mean, abject, slavish, unkingly.
king's evil. scrofula.
kink, v. snarl, become entangled.
kink, n. snarl, knot, entanglement, twist; crotchet, whim, caprice,
eccentricity.
kinky, a. snarled, tangled, knotted; crotchety, eccentric,
capricious.
kinsman, n. relative.
kiss, v. osculate.
kiss, n. osculation, buss, smack; pax (kiss of peace).
kissing, n. osculation.--a. osculant, oscillatory.
kitchen, n. cookroom, cuisine, scullery (back kitchen); galley
(Nautical). Associated Words: scullion, culinary, olitory.
kith, n. acquaintance.
knack, n. gimcrack, trinket, toy, plaything, knickknack, kickshaws,
gewgaw, bauble; skill, readiness, aptitude, proficiency, dexterity,
adroitness; trick, device.
knarl, n. knot, gnarl, knag, knurl, node.
knarled, a. knotted, gnarled, knurly, gnarly, knotty, knurled,
knarred.
knave, n. villain, rascal, scamp. See scoundrel.
knavery, n. villainy, rascality, scoundrelism, chicanery,
knavishness, roguery.
knavish, a. unprincipled, rascally, villainous.
knee, n. Associated Words: genuflect, genuflection, ham, hock,
gonitis, stifle, geniculate, dib, quadriceps.
knee breeches. smallclothes, knickerbockers.
kneecap, n. patella, kneepan.
kneeling desk. priedieu.
knees, n. pl. marrowbones.
knickerbockers, n. pl. knee breeches, smallclothes.
knickknack, n. gimcrack, gewgaw, bauble, trinket, knack, curio,
bric-a-brac.
knife, n. dagger, stiletto, dirk, poniard, bowie-knife, misericorde,
anlace, yataghan, machete, bolo, handjar, skean, creese, barong, sword,
billhook, saber; scalpel, lancet, bistoury; jackknife, pen-knife,
pocket-knife. Associated Words: cutler, cutlery, sheath, sheathe,
unsheathe, scabbard, cultrivorous, cultrate, cultriform, tang, scale,
spring, blade, kick, spatula.
knight, n. man-at-arms; champion, partisan, lover, gallant.
knighthood, n. chivalry. Associated Word: accolade.
knightly, a. chivalrous, gallant.
knob, n. excrescence, boss, lump, tubercle, knop, stud, hard
swelling; finial, knosp.
knock, v. rap; clash, bump; strike, beat.--n. blow, stroke; rap.
knock about. (Colloq.) wander about, saunter, stroll.
knock down. fell, floor, prostrate.
knockknee, n. inknee.
knock under. yield, submit, give in.
knoll, n. hillock, mound.
knop, n. See knob.
knot, n. entanglement, snarl, intricacy, complication; cluster,
group, band, bevy, gang, company; joint, node, knag, burl, gnarl, knob,
nodule, nodosity; tuft, bunch.
knot, v. entangle, tie, snarl. Antonyms: disentangle, unravel,
untie.
knotted, a. knurled, knaggy, gnarled, gnarly; snarled, entangled,
interwoven.
knotty, a. knotted, gnarled, crossgrained; intricate, difficult,
complicated.
knowable, a. ascertainable, cognizable, cognoscible, intelligible,
recognizable. Antonyms: unknowable, unascertainable, incognoscible,
unrecognizable.
knowall, n. (Colloq.) wiseacre, quidnunc.
knowing, a. intelligent, sagacious, wise, clever; expressive,
significant; (Colloq.) artful, sharp, cunning.
knowingly, adv. consciously, intelligently, wittingly, designedly,
sagely, purposely, sapiently, significantly, expressively.
knowledge, n. learning, lore, erudition, culture, enlightenment,
attainments, information; cognizance, apprehension, cognition,
understanding, ken; omniscience (universal knowledge); prescience
(foreknowledge); polymathy. Antonyms: sciolism, ignorance,
inerudition, dilettanteism pedantry, unfamiliarity.
knuckle bones. dibs.
knuckle to. (Colloq.) submit to, yield, cringe, obey.
kodak, n. camera (portable).
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labor, n. toil, work, drudgery, task, industry, travail.
labor, v. toil, work, drudge, slave, moil, travail.
labored, a. studied, elaborate, overwrought, stiff, unnatural.
laborer, n. toiler, workman, stevedore, roustabout, drudge, hack,
peon, coolie, navvy.
laborious, a. toilsome, arduous, onerous; diligent, industrious,
sedulous.
labyrinth, n. maze, intricacy, complexity.
lace, n. string, cord, thong, aglet.
lacerate, v. tear, rend, mangle, laniate, harrow, wound, harry,
distress.
laceration, n. tearing, rending, laniation, harrowing, wound.
lack, v. need, want, be in need of, require, sedulous.
labyrinth, n. maze, intricacy, complexity.
lace, n. string, cord, thong, aglet.
lacerate, v. tear, rend, mangle, laniate, harrow, wound, harry,
distress.
laceration, n. tearing, rending, laniation, harrowing, wound.
lack, v. need, want, be in need of, require.
lack, n. want, need, deficiency, dearth, paucity, scarcity, drought,
default, deficit, insufficiency, inadequacy, shortness.
lackadaisical, a. pensive, dreamy, languishing, die-away.
lackey, n. flunky.
lacking, a. deficient, insufficient, unsupplied, shy, wanting,
devoid.
ladylove, n. See sweetheart.
lag, v. fall behind, loiter, linger, delay, saunter.
laggard, n. loiterer, lagger, lingerer, saunterer, idler.
lake, n. pond; lagoon. Associated Words: lacustrine, lacustral.
lamb, n. eanling, yeanling, lambkin, cosset.
lambaste, v. (Low) pommel, maul, belabor, beat, strike.
lame, v. disable, maim, cripple, hamstring.
lame, a. crippled, hobbling, limping, halt, deformed, game, maimed,
disabled; inconclusive, unconvincing, inefficient, feeble, unsatisfactory.
lament, v. bemoan, weep, wail, deplore, grieve, bewail, mourn.
lamentable, a. deplorable, grievous, pitiable, distressing,
sorrowful.
lamentation, n. wailing, lament, grief, bewailing, plaint, sorrow.
lamented, a. mourned for, deplored.
lampoon, v. libel, defame, satirize.
lampoon, n. libel, pasqinade, iambic.
lance, n. spear, javelin, harpoon.
land, n. terra firma; country; freehold, ground, soil, earth; realty,
real estate; demesne, glebe, close, garth, holm, arado, assart, reliction,
dereliction, alluvium, cadastre, appanage, arable, fallow, allodium,
innings, abuttal; farm, plantation; continent, island, peninsula, delta,
isthmus, headland, cape, plateau, barens. Associated Words: agronomy,
agronomist, agronomics, agronomic, agricultre, agricultral, agriculturist,
georgics, geoponics, escheat, arable, inarable, agrarian, agrarianism,
agrarianize, topography, tilth, terrain, terrene, till, geoscopy,
geoponic.
land, v. disembark, debark; capture.
landing, n. disembarkation, debarkation; wharf, dock, quay; capture.
landlord, n. host, hotel-keeper, inn-keeper, Boniface; owner,
proprietor.
Land of promise. Canaan.
landscape, n. scene, scenery, view, prospect.
language, n. speech, tongue, vernacular; dialect; idiom, phraseology,
diction; argot, flash, slang, lingo, cant, jargon, gibberish; Volapuk,
pasilaly, Esperanto. Associated Words: lingual, linguistic, linguist,
linguistics, philology, philologist, philological, polyglot, glottology,
glossology, paleography, glossologist, monoglot, grammar grammarian,
chrestomathy, glossolaly, collingual.
languid, a. unanimated, flagging, lifeless, supine, listless,
sluggish, tardy, slow.
languor, n. exhaustion, lassitude, inanition, listlessness.
lanky, a. gangling, overgrown.
lapse, n. slip, misstep, indiscretion; backsliding; devolution.
lard, n. grease; leaflard, flare; axunge.--v. interlard.
larder, n. buttery, pantry, spence.
lardy, a. lardaceous.
large, a. big, extensive, huge, unwieldy, vast, massive, immense,
colossal, gigantic, bulky; ample, copious, liberal, unstinted; generous,
liberal, munificent, princely; hypertrophied; spacious, commodious,
capacious.
lariat, n. lasso, reata.
lark, n. frolic.
larrup, v. (Colloq.) whip, beat, trounce, flog.
larva, n. caterpillar, grub, maggot; pl. larvæ. Associated
words: silphology, pupa, chrysalis.
lascivious, a. lewd, libidinous, salacious. See lustful.
large, a. big, extensive, huge, unwieldy, vast, massive, immense,
colossal, gigantic, bulky; ample, copious, liberal, unstinted; generous,
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