Putnam's Word Book
by
Louis A. Flemming
Part 9 out of 17
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.
lash, n. scourge, thong, whip.
lash, v. scourge, castigate, flagellate; satirize, scold, rate. See
whip.
lashing, n. scourging, castigation, flagellation; satire, scolding,
rating.
lassitude, n. languor, weariness, exhaustion, languidness,
enervation.
lasso, n. lariat, cabestro, reata.
last, a. final, hindmost, farthest, latest, ultimate.
last, v. continue, endure, remain.
lasting, a. enduring, durable, permanent, imperishable, abiding.
Antonyms: ephemeral, transitory, fleeting, transient, fugitive,
impermanent.
lastingness, n. durability, permanence, indestructibility,
imperishability.
lastly, adv. finally.
late, a. tardy, delayed; recent.
lately, adv. recently.
latent, a. concealed, dormant, undeveloped, hidden.
later, a. subsequent, posterior.
latitude, n. breadth, width; room, range, scope, extent, freedom;
laxity.
lattice, n. trellis, lattice-work; cancelli; grille.
lattice-work, n. lattice, trellis, treillage, espailier.
laud, v. extol, praise. See praise.
laundable, a. praisworth, commendable. Antonyms: illaudable,
unpraiseworthy, indign.
laudatory, a. panegyrical, eulogistic, encomiastic, adulatory,
commendatory.
laugh, v. cachinnate, roar, giggle, snicker, titter, chuckle, grin,
twitter, cackle, chortle, hawhaw.
laughable, a. risible, comic, ludicrous, droll, facetious, farcical,
amusing. See funny.
laughing, a. merry, gleeful, mirthful, smiling.
laughing gas. protoxide of nitrogen, nitrous oxide, hyponitrous
oxide.
lattice-work, n. lattice, trellis, treillage, espalier.
laud, v. extol, praise. See praise.
laudable, a. praiseworthy, commendable. Antonyms: illaudable,
unpraiseworthy, indign.
laudatory, a. panegyrical, eulogistic, encomiastic, adulatory,
commendatory.
laugh, v. cachinnate, roar, giggle, snicker, titter, chuckle, grin,
twitter, cackle, chortle, hawhaw.
laughable, a. risible, comic, ludicrous, droll, facetious, farcical,
amusing. See funny.
laughing, a. merry, gleeful, mirthful, smiling.
laughing gas. protoxide of nitrogen, nitrous oxide, hyponitrous
oxide.
laughter, n. mirth, laugh, cachinnation, giggle, snicker, roar,
cackle, grin, chortle, chuckle, guffaw, titter. Associated Words:
risible, risibles, risibility, risorial, abderian, sardonic, geloscopy,
gelastic.
laugh to scorn. deride, ridicule.
launch, v. set afloat; set going, start; throw, hurl; expatiate,
descant.
lava field. pedregal (Mexico and Western U.S.).
lavish, a. profuse, prodigal, free, unstinted; superabundant,
immoderate, excessive, exuberant.
lavish, v. spend lavishly, bestow with profusion.
law, n. statute, ordinance, edict, enactment, decree, canon, usage.
Associated Words: jurisprudence, nomology, nomography, nomocracy,
antinomy, dysnomy, neonomian, code, codex, codify, codification, digest,
forensic, legislate, legislation, legislative, enact, ordain, repeal,
veto, jurat, juratory, juridic, juridical, jurist, juris consult,
publicist, jurisprudent, juristic, pandect, moratory, judicial,
causidical, nomothetic, nomistic.
law-breaker, n. criminal, malefactor, culprit, felon, delinquent,
offender, sinner.
law-breaking, n. crime, misdemeanor, transgression, violation.
lawful, a. legal, legitimate, licit, legalized. Antonyms: See
unlawful.
lawfulness, n. legality, legitimacy. Antonyms: unlawfulness,
illegality.
lawing, n. litigation, lawsuit.
lawless, a. anarchical, riotous, mobocratic, licentious.
lawlessness, n. anarchy, unrestraint, abandon, mobocracy, license,
riot.
lawmaker, n. legislator, lawgiver, Solon.
lawmaking, n. legislation.
lawsuit, n. litigation, case, suit, action. Associated Words:
litigant, litigate, litigious, litigable, barratry.
lawyer, n. attorney, counselor, barrister, counsel, advocate,
attorney-at-law, solicitor; pettifogger; (dishonest) shyster.
Associated Words: client, clientele.
lax, a. loose, slack, flabby, relaxed; loose, vague, equivocal,
doubtful; slack, remiss, negligent; unrestrained, dissolute, licentious.
laxative, a. aperient.
laxative, n. aperient.
laxness, n. laxity, looseness; relaxation, flabbiness; remissness,
negligence, slackness.
lay, v. deposit, place; impose, assess; impute, charge, ascribe,
attribute; submit, present, offer; superimpose.
lay, n. song, ballad, lyric.
lay, a. laic, laical.
layer, n. stratum, course, tier.
laymen, n. pl. laity.
lay open. uncover, reveal, expose, disclose, exhibit, show.
lay over. overlay, cover, apply; defer, postpone, prorogue.
lay siege to. besiege, beset, bombard, obsess.
lay to heart. take to heart, be grieved at, feel keenly, consider
seriously.
lay up. store, treasure, save, hoard, garner; confine, disable.
lay wait for. lie in ambush for.
lay waste. desolate, devastate, pillage, sack, spoliate.
laziness, n. indolence, sloth.
lazy, a. indolent, slothful, sluggard, dronish. Antonyms: diligent,
industrious, sedulous, hardworking.
lazy person. sluggard, drone, idler.
lea, n. meadow, lay, mead.
leach, v. lixiviate.
leaching, n. lixiviation.
lead, n. _plumbum_ (Chem.); graphite, plumbago (black lead);
plummet; blende (mock lead).
lead, v. guide, conduct, escort, direct; precede; induce, entice,
influence, allure, persuade, actuate, impel; conduce, contribute, tend;
have precedence; have charge of, command, head.
lead, n. precedence, initiative, command, guidance.
lead astray. mislead, seduce.
leader, n. guide, commander, corypheus, pilot, bellwether,
protagonist, chief.
leadership, n. direction, command, guidance; primacy, supremacy,
domination, hegemony.
leading, a. chief, principal, premiere, influential, guiding.
leaf, n. blade, spire; folio; lithophyll (fossil leaf). Associated
words: foliar, foliferous, foliaceous, foliation, defoliate, defoliation,
frond, bract, frondation, frondesce, frondescence, verticil, whorl,
acanthus deciduous, indeciduous.
leaf-green, n. chlorophyll.
leaf-stalk, n. petiole.
league, n. alliance, confederation, coalition, confederacy, union,
federation, association.
league, v. combine, confederate.
leak, v. percolate, filter, ooze.
leaky, a. defective.
lean, v. incline, slope, recline, tend; rely, depend; careen.
lean, a. thin, lank, spare, meager, poor, skinny, gaunt, emaciated,
marcid, angular; slender, scant, bare.
leaning, a. reclining, inclining, supine.
leaning, n. inclination, tendency, propensity, bent, bias, proneness,
predisposition, proclivity; reclination.
lean-to, n. penthouse, addition, shed.
leap, v. spring, jump, vault, bound, caper, gambol, prance, cavort,
curvet.
leap, n. spring, jump, vault, bound, capriole.
leaping, a. springing, jumping, salient, saltigrade, saltatory.
leaping, n. springing, saltation, salience.
leap year. bissextile.
learn, v. master, acquire knowledge.
learned, a. educated, erudite, lettered, scholarly.
learning, n. education, erudition, lore, scholarship, knowledge.
Associated Words: savant, philomath, philomathy, misology, oracle,
pedant, pedantry.
lease, v. let, demise, rent.
lease, n. letting, demise; tenure. Associated Words: lessee,
lessor.
least, n. minimum. Associated Words: minimize, minimization.
least, a. smallest, minimum.
leather-burning, n. pyrography.
leathery, a. coriaceous, tough, alutaceous.
leave, n. permission; leave-taking, adieu, farewell, _congé_;
withdrawal, retirement, departure, leaving, egress.
leave, v. depart from, vacate, retire from; abandon, forsake, desert;
abstain from, forego, desist from, forbear; permit, allow, let; commit,
give over, intrust, consign, deliver; will, bequeath, devise; depart, set
out, start, go.
leaves, n. pl. foliage, leafage. See leaf.
leavetaking, n. farewell, valedictory, _congé_, adieu.
leavings, n. pl. remnants, fragments, offal, refuse, waste, scraps,
culls, orts.
lecher, n. rake, libertine, whoremonger.
lechery, n. libertinism, licentiousness.
lecture, n. discourse, address, dissertation, prelection; reproof,
scolding.
lecture, v. discourse, address; reprove, censure, rate, upbraid,
scold.
ledge, n. shelf; reef, ridge (of rocks); layer, stratum, lode.
left, n. Associated Words: sinister, sinistral, sinistrality,
sinistrorse, sinistrorsal, haw, port, larboard.
left-hand, a. sinister, left.
left-handed, a. sinister, ambilevous.
leg, n. limb, shank, shin; (bones of the leg) tibia, fibula, femur,
thigh bone, epipodiale. Associated Words: crotch, hock, hough, solen,
cradle, puttee, hip, thigh, haunch gyve, scarpines, calf, galligaskins,
spatterdashes, leggings.
legacy, n. bequest, devise.
legal, a. lawful, legitimate. Antonym: illegal.
legality, n. lawfulness, legitimacy. Antonym: illegality.
legalize, v. legitimize. Antonyms: illegalize, illegitimize.
legate, n. ambassador, envoy, representative.
legation, n. embassy.
legend, n. fable, myth; posy, inscription, motto.
legendary, a. mythical, traditional.
legerdemain, n. jugglery, sleight of hand.
legible, a. readable, decipherable. Antonym: illegible.
legion, n. host, horde, army.
legions, n. pl. battalions, troops, soldiers.
legitimate, a. lawful. Antonym: illegitimate.
lemon, n. Associated Words: citric, citrine, citrination, citrus.
lend, v. loan.
lending, n. loan.
lengthen, v. extend, elongate, stretch, prolong, protract; expatiate,
amplify.
lengthening, n. extension, elongation, protraction, prolongation.
lengthwise, adv. longitudinally.
lengthy, a. long, prolix, protracted, verbose.
lenient, a. compassionate. See merciful.
lenity, n. clemency, mercy, lenience.
Lent, n. Quadragesima.
lessen, v. reduce, diminish, minify, depreciate, minimize, decrease,
mitigate, abate.
lessening, n. reduction, diminution, decrease, decrement,
depreciation, mitigation, shrinkage, abatement.
Lesser Bear. Cynosure.
lesson, n. task, exercise.
let, v. allow, permit, suffer; lease, rent.
let, n. hindrance.
lethargy, n. drowsiness, stupor, unconsciousness.
letter, n. epistle, favor, missive, note; encyclic, encyclical,
decretal (letter of the Pope). Associated Words: correspond,
epistolical, epistolary, epistolean, epistolize, epistler, epistolar,
epistolography, postscript.
letter, n. initial (first letter).
letter-carrier, n. postman, mail-carrier, courier, mail-man, postboy,
post.
letter for letter. _literatim_.
letters, n. pl. correspondence.
letters; n. pl. learning, literature, erudition, humanities.
let-up, n. (Colloq.) abatement, assuagement, respite, subsidence.
let up. (Colloq.) abate, subside, diminish, intermit.
level, a. even, flat, plain, smooth, flush, plumb; horizontal;
steady, impartial, well-balanced. Antonyms: undulating uneven, concave,
convex, warped.
level, v. flatten, equalize, even, smooth, reduce; raze, reduce,
overthrow, demolish; adapt, adjust.
lever, n. pry. Associated Words: fulcrum, purchase, prize, prizing.
leverage, n. purchase.
levity, n. lightness, buoyancy; gayety, frivolity.
lewd, a. unchaste, lustful, licentious, libidinous, lecherous,
incontinent, ribald, lascivious, rakish, ruttish, salacious, concupiscent,
wanton, lubricous, prurient, pornographic. Antonyms: chaste, modest,
pure.
lewdness, n. unchastity, incontinence, lust, lechery, ribaldry,
salacity, concupiscence, profligacy, lasciviousness. Antonyms: chastity,
modesty, purity.
liability, n. exposure, accountability, responsibility, amenability
Antonyms: immunity, exemption.
liabilities, n. pl. debts, obligations, indebtedness.
liable, a. exposed, subject, accountable, answerable, amenable,
bound. Antonyms: exempt, immune.
libel, n. defamation, lampoon, roorback.
libel, v. defame (by some publication), lampoon.
libellous, a. defamatory, slanderous, calumnious.
liberal, a. generous, open-handed, bounteous, munificent, unstinted,
princely; profuse, lavish, ample, abundant; catholic, magnanimous,
tolerant. Antonyms: illiberal, ungenerous, stingy, limited, narrow,
bigoced.
liberality, n. generosity. Antonyms: illiberality, stinginess,
bigotry.
liberate, v. See free.
liberation, n. See freeing.
libertine, n. lecher, debauchee, rake, _roué_, profligate.
libertine, a. licentious, lecherous, profligate, rakish.
liberty, n. freedom, independence; privilege, permission. Antonyms:
captivity, bondage, servitude, subjection, constraint, serfdom, slavery.
license, n. privilege, right; lawlessness, anarchy.
license, v. legalize, permit.
licentious, a. immoral, dissolute, profligate, lewd, libertine,
rakish, lascivious; unrestrained, uncurbed, uncontrolled.
lick, v. lap; (Colloq.) flog, thrash, chastise, castigate, trounce,
drub. See whip.
lick, n. slap, stroke, blow.
licking, n. (Colloq.) flogging, chastisement, castigation,
punishment, thrashing, whipping.
lid, n. cover.
lie, n. untruth, falsehood, fib; fiction, fabrication; subterfuge,
evasion, misrepresentation.
lie, v. recline.
lie close. cuddle, nestle, snuggle.
lief, adv. willingly, gladly, freely, readily.
lien, n. incumbrance.
life, n. existence, being, animation, vitality; vivacity,
spiritedness, energy, activity, briskness, sprightliness; biography,
memoir. Associated Words: biology, biologist, vital, biometry,
biogenesis, macrobiotics, vitalization, vitalize, bioplasm, protoplasm,
elixir, biotic.
lifeless, a. dead, inanimate, spiritless, devitalized.
lifelessness, n. inanimation.
lift, v. raise, elevate.
lift, n. lifting, raising, elevation; help, assistance, aid;
elevator, dumb waiter.
lifting machine. derrick, crane, tackle.
light, n. illumination; lamp, taper, candle, lantern, head-light,
cresset; publicity, public notice; phosphorescence, luminescence; aureole,
halo, nimbus, aureola, glory. Associated Words: photology, photologist,
photophobia, catoptrics, dioptrics, photics, Ormuzd, luminary.
light, a. buoyant; easy, inoppressive; active, nimble, deft, fleet,
swift, spry; spongy, porous, well-leavened; incompact, loose, porous;
gossamery, sleazy, flimsy, thin, unsubstantial; volatile, unsteady,
mercurial, fickle, frivolous.
light, v. ignite, illumine, illuminate.
light, v. dismount, alight, descend; rest, perch, settle.
lighten, v. light, illuminate, illume; ease, relieve, alleviate.
light-fingered, a. thievish, pilfering.
light-footed, a. nimble, agile.
lighthouse, n. beacon, fanal, pharos. Associated Words: holophote,
pharology.
lighting, n. illumination.--a, luminous, luminiferous.
lightness, n. levity, levitation, buoyancy.
lightning-rod, n. paratonnerre.
like, a. similar, alike, cognate, analogous, homogeneous. Antonyms:
See unlike.
like, n. counterpart, copy, equal; liking, preference.
like, v. fancy, approve of; prefer, choose, wish.
like blazes. (Low) furiously, rapidly.
likelihood, n. probability, verisimilitude. Antonyms: unlikelihood,
improbability.
likely, a. probable, verisimilar; good-looking, comely; appropriate.
Antonyms: unlikely, improbable.
liken, v. compare.
likeness, n. similitude, resemblance, similarity, appearance, guise,
analogy; portrait, effigy, counterpart, image, copy, facsimile.
liking, n. fondness, partiality, affection, approval, preference,
predilection. Antonyms: distaste, aversion, inappetency, hatred,
antipathy, disapproval.
limb, n. branch, bough.
limber, a. flexible, pliant, limp, pliable, supple, lithe, lithesome.
Antonyms: See stiff.
lime, n. Associated Words: calcareous, calciferous, calcariferous,
calcification, calcify, calcified, calcivorous, calcination, calciform,
slack, cretification, calcigerous, kalsomine.
limit, n. bound, boundary, confine, extent; restriction, check,
restraint, limitation.
limit, v. restrict, circumscribe, define, confine.
limitation, n. limit, restriction, restraint, circumscription,
finitude.
limited, a. restricted, confined, conditioned, finite, circumscribed.
Antonyms: See unlimited.
limp, a. flaccid, flabby, limber, soft, flexile. Antonyms: See
stiff.
limp, n. halt, limping, hobble.
limpid, a. clear, pellucid, lucid. See clear.
line, n. stripe, streak; cord, rope, thread, string, cable; course,
route; branch, department; boundary, contour, periphery, circumference,
outline; lineament; row, series, rank, file; secant; hachure, hatching.
Associated Words: aliner, alignment, allineation, align, linear, lineal,
lineation, interline, interlinear, interlining, interlineation.
linen, n. napery; lingerie; damask.
linen and wool. linsey-woolsey.
lines, n. pl. reins.
linger, v. loiter, saunter, tarry, lag.
lingering, a. protracted.
link, v. join, unite, connect, couple, concatenate.
lion, n. _Felis Leo_; lioness (female); whelp, lionel (young);
Leo; griffin.
lionlike, a. leonine.
lip, n. Associated Words: labial, labially, labialize,
labialization, labialism, chiloma, labret, philtrum, pout, labiochorea,
cheiloplasty, labioplasty, harelip, blobber lip.
liquid, n. fluid.
list, n. catalogue, roster, schedule, register; selvage, selvedge,
listing.
listen, v. hearken; eavesdrop; auscultate. Antonyms: disregard,
ignore, scorn.
listening, n. hearkening; eavesdropping; auscultation, autophony.
listless, a. inattentive, indifferent, supine, heedless, unconcerned.
litigation, n. lawsuit.
litter, n. stretcher; mulch; disorder, untidiness; farrow.
little, a. small, diminutive, minute, tiny, wee, puny, dwarfish,
insignificant, infinitesimal. See small.
little, n. miniature; modicum.
little by little. piecemeal, gradually.
live, v. exist; dwell, reside, abide.
live, a. alive, quick, animate, living.
liveliness, n. animation, vivacity, sprightliness, briskness,
activity, lilt.
live longer than. survive, outlive.
lively, a. animated, spirited, vivacious, vigorous, active, brisk,
energetic, stirring, sprightly; agile, nimble; hilarious frolicsome, gay,
buoyant. Antonyms: slow, sluggish, inactive, quiet.
liver, n. Associated Words: hepatic, hepatology, hepatize,
hepatization, cirrhosis, cirrhotic, giblets, bilious, viscera,
hepatogenic, bile.
liver, heart, etc., of an animal. inmeats (edible viscera).
livid, a. ecchymosed, bruised, black and blue.
living, a. alive, quick, live; quickening, animating.
living, n. life, existence, being; livelihood, sustenance,
subsistence, maintenance; benefice.
living again. redivivus, resurrected, revived, resurgent.
living in seclusion. eremitism, anchoretism, reclusion, seclusion,
retirement.--a. hermitical, eremitic, anchoretic, solitary.
living picture. _tableau vivant_.
living together. cohabitation.
living upon others. parasitic.--n. parasitism.
lizard, n. saurian, reptile; chameleon, gecko, gila monster, iguana,
dragon.
load, v. encumber, lade, burden, freight.
load, n. burden, cargo, lading, encumbrance, weight, impediment,
incubus.
loaded, p.p. and a. laden, freighted, fraught.
loaf, v. lounge about, loiter.
loathe, v. abhor, hate, detest, abominate, despise, execrate, recoil
from.
loathing, n. abhorrence, detestation, abomination, execration,
hatred.
location, n. situation, locality, place.
lock, n. ringlet, curl, tress.
lock-jaw, n. tetanus. Associated Words: tetanic, tetanoid.
lofty, a. tall, towering.
log, n. puncheon (split log).
logical, a. consistent, sound. Antonym: illogical.
loins, n. pl. reins.
loiter, v. saunter, linger.
loitering, a. sauntering, dilatory.
Londoner, n. cockney (Contemptuous).
lone, a. alone, lonely, isolated, desolate; unfrequented, solitary,
sequestered, secluded, lonesome.
lonely, a. sequestered, solitary, unfrequented; lonesome, desolate,
dreary, lorn.
long, a. protracted, prolonged, lengthy, extended; lingering;
extensive, inclusive; tedious, prolix, wordy, long-spun diffuse.
long, v. yearn for, hanker after, crave.
longer than broad. oblong.
long-handed, a. longimanous.
long-headed, a. shrewd, sagacious. See shrewd.
longing, n. yearning, craving.
long life. longevity.
longshoreman, n. stevedore.
long-suffering, a. forbearing, uncomplaining, patient.--n.
forbearance, patience, longanimity.
look, v. glance, gaze, stare, see, con, gloat, glare, peek, peer,
pry, peep, pore, lower, glower, scan, ogle; seem, appear; await, expect,
anticipate; examine, investigate, inspect, contemplate, scrutinize.
look, n. glance, glimpse, inspection, scrutiny, gaze; expression,
appearance, air, manner, mien, semblance, aspect, presence.
look down upon. See despise.
looking backward. retrospection, retrospect.--a. retrospective.
looking for. anticipation, expectation; search.
looking forward. anticipation, expectation, prospect, foresight.
looking forward. prospective, anticipative.
looking-glass, n. mirror; cheval glass.
looking within. introspection.--a. introspective.
look into. inspect, examine, probe, investigate.
look on. see, witness; regard, consider, deem, view.
lookout, n. observatory; watch-tower, conning tower; responsibility.
look over. examine, scrutinize, reconnoiter.
look upon. regard, esteem, consider.
look up to. honor, respect, defer to, venerate, reverence.
look within. introspect.
loop, n. staple, noose, bight.
loophole, n. excuse, plea, pretext.
loose, a. unbound, disengaged, movable, unfastened, unrestrained,
detached; relaxed; incompact, porous.
loose, v. release, disengage, free, disentangle, liberate; absolve,
remit; relax, loosen, slacken.
loosen, v. relax.
looseness, n. laxity, slackness, relaxation.
loot, n. spoil, booty, plunder, prize; plundering, pillage.
loot, v. plunder, sack, rifle, pillage.
lop, v. cut off, obtruncate.
lopsided, a. unbalanced, disproportioned.
loquacious, a. garrulous, voluble, talkative.
loquacity, n. garrulity, volubility, talkativeness.
lord, n. nobleman, peer, magnate, grandee; liege, suzerain.
lord, v. domineer.
Lord, have mercy upon us. Kyrie eleison.
lordly, a. overbearing, domineering, despotic, arrogant, imperious,
uppish.
lordship, n. seigniory, dominion.
Lord's Prayer. Pater noster.
Lord's Supper. communion, eucharist.
lore, n. learning, knowledge, wisdom, erudition.
lorn, a. forsaken, lonely, solitary.
lose, v. miss, forfeit.
lose ground. retire, recede, retreat, decline.
loss, n. forfeiture. Associated Words: damnific, damnify,
damnification.
lost, a. forfeited, missing; derelict, adrift; misspent, misemployed,
wasted; irreclaimable, incorrigible, abandoned; preoccupied, abstracted,
absent-minded.
lot, n. destiny, doom, fortune, fate; portion, parcel, part,
allotment; (Colloq.) much, many.
loth, a. disinclined, unwilling, reluctant, averse, loath,
indisposed.
lots, n. pl. Associated Word: sortilege.
loud, a. deafening, stentorian, resonant, clarion; clamorous,
vociferous, boisterous; gaudy, flashy, ostentatious, showy; emphatic,
urgent, appealing.
lounge, v. recline, loll.
lousiness, n. phthiriasis, pediculosis, pediculation.
lout, n. booby, boor, bumpkin, lubber, gawky.
loutish, a. boorish, lubberly, gawky, ungentlemanly.
lovable, a. amiable, winsome, lovely, winning.
lovableness, n. amability, winsomeness, amiability.
love, n. affection, devotion, infatuation, passion; amorousness,
amativeness; Cupid, Eros, Venus, Aphrodite, Amorino; philanthropy; storge.
love affair. liaison (an illicit love affair), amour, intrigue.
love feast (of the primitive Christians), agape.
love-letter, n. _billet-doux_, _billet d'amour_.
lovely, a. charming, delightful, delectable, amiable, pleasing.
love potion. philter.
lover, n. amoroso, inamorato, swain, suitor, admirer, philander,
gallant, beau, cicisbeo; paramour, leman.
loving, a. affectionate; enamored; amative, amorous, erotic.
loving-kindness, n. tenderness, mercy, compassion.
low, a. depressed; base, mean, vulgar, raffish, ignominious,
undignified; moderate, reasonable, cheap; humble, lowly, obscure; feeble,
faint, weak; subdued, grave, gentle; ignoble, groveling, abject, degraded,
servile, menial, sordid, base.
low, adv. softly, _sotto voce_.
low, v. moo.
lowborn, a. baseborn, plebeian.
lowbred, a. unrefined, illbred, vulgar, rude.
lower, v. drop; depress, reduce; decrease, diminish, fall, humble,
humiliate, degrade, abash, detrude, dishonor; frown, scowl, glower, look
sullen.
lower, a. nether, under.
lower classes. proletariat, proletariate, proletarians.
lowering, a. threatening, dark, sullen.
lowest, a. nethermost.
lowest point. nadir.
low life. obscurity.
lowliness, n. humility, meekness, self-abasement.
low-lived, a. mean, dishonorable, ignominious, base.
lowly, a. humble, meek, unassuming.
low-minded, a. groveling, abject, sordid, base-minded.
loyal, a. true, constant, faithful, devoted, stanch, unwavering.
loyalty, n. fidelity, constancy, faithfulness, devotion, fealty,
allegiance.
lozenge, n. tablet, troche, pastille.
lubber, n. boor, lout, bumpkin, looby, gawk, churl, lummox.
lubberly, a. boorish, loutish, gawky, clumsy, ungainly.
lucid, a. See clear.
lucidity, n. See clearness.
luck, n. fortune, chance, fortuity, haphazard, chance, hap-hazard.
Associated Words: mascot, hoodoo.
luckless, a. See unlucky.
lucky, a. fortunate; favorable, auspicious, propitious.
lucrative, a. See profitable.
ludicrous, a. comical, ridiculous. See funny.
lug, v. drag, pull, tug, haul.
luggage, n. baggage, traps.
lugubrious, a. mournful, doleful, sorrowful, woful.
lukewarm, a. tepid; indifferent, cool, unconcerned.
lukewarmness, n. tepidity; indifference, unconcern, coolness.
lull, v. hush, still, quiet, tranquillize; subside, abate.
lull, n. calm, calmness, subsidence.
lumbering, a. unwieldy, ponderous, cumbersome, ungraceful.
luminous, a. See bright.
lummox, n. (Low) booby, gawk, lout, lubber, yahoo, bumpkin, boor.
lump, n. mass, aggregation, aggregate.--v. mass, amass.
lumpish, a. inert, heavy; stupid, dull, stolid.
lumpy jaw. actinomycosis.
lunatic, n. madman, maniac, bedlamite.
lunch, n. luncheon, refection.
luncheon, n. collation, refreshment, nuncheon, tiffin.
lunge, v. allonge, longe, thrust.
lungs, n. pl. lights (lungs of an animal or bird). Associated
words: pulmonary, pulmonic, pneumonic, pleura, pleural lobe, spirometer,
pneumology.
lurch, v. sway, stagger, roll; dodge, shift, evade, bilk.
lure, n. decoy, enticement, bait.
lure, v. entice, tempt, seduce, allure, decoy.
lurking-place, n. ambush, retreat, cover.
luscious, a. delicious, delectable; cloying, fulsome, unctuous.
lush, a. juicy, succulent.
lust, n. venereal appetite, concupiscence, salacity, sexual desire;
longing, cupidity, desire, hankering. Antonym: anaphrodisia. See sexual
desire.
luster, n. brightness, gloss, glitter, sheen, brilliancy.
lusterless, a. dull, lackluster.
lustful, a. lascivious, concupiscent, lecherous,
licentiou-libidinous, salacious, carnal, lickerish, ruttish, prurient
aphrodisiac, aphrodisiacal, lecherous.
lustre, n. brilliancy, glitter, radiance, resplendence.
lustrous, a. See bright.
lusty, a. robust, sturdy, stalwart, strapping, muscular.
luxuriance, n. exuberance, rampancy, richness.
luxuriant, a. exuberant, rampant, superabundant, excessive.
luxuriate, v. revel, wanton.
luxurious, a. voluptuous, epicurean, sybaritic.
luxury, n. voluptuousness, epicurism, sybaritism, luxuriousness.
lying, a. untruthful, false, mendacious, deceitful.
lying, n. falsehood, lie, untruth, mendacity, fabrication, fiction.
lying down. reclining, recumbent, accumbent; (face down) prone,
prostrate; (face upward) supine.
lying down. reclining, reclination, accubation, recumbence; (face
down) prostration, pronation; (face upward) supination, supineness.
lying in wait. ambush, ambuscade.
lying round. circumjacent.--n. circumjacence.
lyre, n. See harp.
M
Machine, n. automaton (self-moving machine); mechanism;
organization, system.
machinist, n. mechanician.
mad, a. crazy, insane, demented, maniacal, raving; indignant,
enraged, irate, resentful; rabid; distracted, wild, infatuated. See
angry.
madcap, n. hotspur, blood.--a. wild, reckless, rash.
madden, v. incense, anger, enrage, infuriate, provoke, exasperate,
vex, inflame.
made up. devised, fabricated, artificial, sham, false, counterfeit.
madhouse, n. bedlam, insane asylum.
madman, n. maniac, lunatic, bedlamite; monomaniac.
madness, n. dementia, insanity, craziness, mania, lunacy; monomania;
frenzy, rage, wrath, ire, resentment, fury, indignation, anger.
magazine, n. storehouse, depot, repository; periodical, publication,
ephemeris.
magic, n. enchantment, conjuration, wizardry, legerdemain
prestidigitation, necromancy, jugglery, sorcery; fascination, witchery,
charm.
magic, a. magical, necromantic, talismanic.
magician, n. conjurer, prestidigitator, sorcerer, wizard,
necromancer, juggler, thaumaturge.
magnet, n. loadstone.
magnetist, n. magnetician.
magnificence, n. grandeur, sublimity, splendor, majesty
magnificent, a. splendid, superb, sublime, majestic, stately, grand.
magnify, v. augment, amplify, enlarge; overstate, exaggerate.
maid, n. See girl; lady's maid, Abigail; soubrette.
maiden, a. virgin; chaste, undefiled, pure; unused, fresh, new.
maidenhead, n. maidenhood; hymen (virginal membrane).
maidenhood, n. maidhood, girlhood, virginity.
mail, n. armor, hauberk; scale, shell; post.
mail, v. post.
mail-carrier, n. postman, letter-carrier, courier.
main, a. principal, leading, chief, capital, cardinal, paramount;
requisite, necessary; sheer, pure.
main, n. ocean, high sea; gross, bulk, majority; strength, power,
might, force.
mainland, n. continent.
mainly, adv. principally, chiefly, largely.
maintain, v. support, sustain; affirm, assert, contend, claim;
conduct.
maintenance, n. support, sustenance.
majestic, a. august, imperial, regal, splendid, magnificent,
imposing.
majesty, n. grandeur, magnificence, augustness, splendor.
major, a. greater, larger. Antonym: minor.
majority, n. seniority, manhood; plurality. Antonyms: minority,
youth.
make, v. force, compel, coerce, constrain, require, necessitate,
occasion, oblige; create, construct, fabricate manufacture, compose,
invent, prepare, concoct, shape, form, forge.
make, n. construction, shape, form, structure, conformation
make account of. esteem, regard.
make away. alienate, transfer, make over.
make believe. feign, pretend, simulate, personate, affect.
make-believe, a. feigned, mock, sham, counterfeit, spurious,
supposititious, simulated.
make-believe, n. pretense, simulation, affectation, feint.
make bold. presume, venture, dare; embolden.
make good. fulfill, vindicate, justify, establish; indemnify,
reimburse, requite; verify, corroborate, confirm, ratify, substantiate.
make headway. advance, progress, thrive, prosper.
make known. declare, announce, publish, report, proclaim.
make little of. belittle, decry, disparage.
make love to. court, woo, spark.
make out. decipher.
make over, transfer, alienate, convey; remodel, rebuild, reconstruct,
revamp.
make peace between, mediate, intercede, reconcile, propitiate,
pacify, conciliate.
maker, n. manufacturer, constructor, producer.
makeshift, n. expedient, substitute.
make sport of. deride, ridicule, jeer.
make unfriendly. disaffect, alienate, estrange.
make up. reconcile, adjust, compose, settle; collect, amass,
accumulate; supply, complete, provide.
make up for. See make good.
make up to. accost, address, salute, speak to.
make up with. become reconciled.
make up a face. grimace.
make way. advance, proceed, progress.
making, n. construction, fabrication, workmanship, invention.
malady, n. disorder, distemper, ailment, complaint, disease.
malaria, n. miasma, miasm; fever and ague.
malarious, a. malarial, miasmatic.
male, a. masculine; staminate (Bot.).
malice, n. hatred, rancor, malevolence, animosity.
malicious, a. hateful, malevolent, rancorous, malignant.
malpractice, n. evil practice, misdoing, misbehavior.
maltreat, v. See abuse.
maltreatment, n. See abuse.
mammoth, a. colossal, gigantic, monstrous.
man, n. mortal, person, individual, adult, someone; mankind,
humanity; valet; Primates, Anthropidæ. Associated Words: anthropology,
anthropogeny, anthropography, anthropolite, anthropoid, anthropometry,
anthropometric, anthropocentric, anthropomorphic, android, manikin,
écorché, pithecanthrope, androphobia.
manacle, n. handcuff, fetter, shackle.
manacle, v. handcuff, shackle, restrain, fetter.
manage, v. conduct, administer, supervise, manipulate, superintend,
engineer; contrive, husband, economize.
manageable, a. governable, tractable, docile, controllable,
sequacious.
management, n. administration, conduct, guidance, regulation,
superintendence, direction, procuracy, negotiation, contrivance, intrigue,
economy, manipulation.
manager, n. conductor, administrator, superintendent, proctor,
comptroller, economist, engineer, director.
managing, a. ruling, directing, managerial.
mandate, n. command, edict, order, injunction, precept.
mandatory, a. directory, commandatory, preceptive.
mandrake, n. mandragora; May apple.
mane, n.Associated Word: roach.
man-eater, n. cannibal, anthropophagite.
man-eating, a. cannibal, anthropophagous.
man-eating, n. cannibalism, anthropophagy.
manège, n. horsemanship, equestrianism; riding school.
maneuver, n. management, ruse, stratagem, artifice, trick, finesse.
maneuver, v. scheme, finesse, plan.
maneuverer, n. strategist, tactician.
manful, a. manly, resolute, brave.
mangel-wurtzel, n. mangold-wurtzel, scarcity-root.
mangle, v. mutilate, maim, dismember, hack; smooth, calender.
mangling, n. mutilation.
mangy, a. scabby, scurvy.
mangy creature. ronion, ronyon.
man-hater, n. misanthrope.
man-hating, a. misanthropic.
manhood, n. maturity, majority, man's estate; manliness, fortitude,
resolution, manfulness; virility; humanity, men.
mania, n. madness, insanity, craziness. See insanity.
maniac, n. madman, bedlamite.
maniacal, a. raving, mad, insane, delirious.
manifest, v. show, exhibit, reveal, disclose.
manifest, a. apparent, obvious, patent.
manifestation, n. show, exhibition, revelation, disclosure.
manifold, a. many, various, sundry, diverse, multifarious,
multitudinous, multiplex.
manikin, n. dwarf, pygmy, homunculus.
manipulate, v. handle, operate, manage.
manipulation, n. handling, management.
manly, a. manlike, resolute, brave, strong, dignified.
man-midwife, n. obstetrician, accoucheur.
manner, n. mode, method, style, fashion, way; bearing, demeanor,
mien, air, carriage, deportment; mannerism, affectation, peculiarity;
sort, kind, style; pl. civility, courtesy, politeness.
manners, n. pl. Associated Word: etiquette.
mannish, a. masculine, vigorous, bold. Antonyms: effeminate,
feminine.
man of all work. factotum.
man-of-war, n. warship, battleship, cruiser.
mansion, n. palace; manor-house, hall.
man-stealer, n. kidnapper, abductor.
man-stealing, n. kidnapping, abduction.
mantle, n. cape, cloak; pallium; mantel-piece, mantel-shelf.
mantle, v. sparkle, foam, bubble, effervesce.
manual, n. handbook.
manufactory, n. factory, shop.
manufacture, n. making, fabrication, construction.
manufacture, v. make, fabricate, construct.
manufacturing, a. industrial.
manure, n. fertilizer, dung, compost, guano. Associated Word:
fire-fanged.
manure, v. fertilize, enrich.
manuscript, n. copy; paleograph (an ancient manuscript).
man worship. anthropolatry.
many, a. various, numerous, sundry, divers, manifold, multitudinous,
myriad, multiple, innumerable.
many-sided, a. versatile; polyhedral, polyhedrical.
many-sidedness, n. versatility.
many-times, adv. frequently, oftentimes, often, repeatedly.
many-ways, adv. variously, multifariously, diversely.
map, n. chart. Associated Words: cartography, cartographer,
chorography, chorographer, atlas, hachure, contour line, culture.
map, v. sketch, plan, delineate, picture.
maple, n. Associated Words: aceric, spile.
mar, n. defacement, disfigurement, blemish, injury, defect.
mar, v. deface, damage, injure, impair.
marauder, n. See robber.
marble, n. brocatel (in a literary sense, granite-flint). Associated
words: marmoreal, marmorean.
margin, n. confine, border, edge, limit, skirt, brink, rim, brim,
verge. Associated Words: emarginate, emargination.
marine, a. maritime, naval, nautical, oceanic.
mariner, n. sailor, seaman.
marionette, n. puppet.
maritime, a. marine, naval, nautical.
mark, v. note, notice, remark, observe, see; indicate, betoken,
characterize, stamp, imprint, impress, brand, stigmatize, label.
mark, n. characteristic, impress, impression, stamp, sign, trace,
vestige, symptom, token, symbol, indication, brand, stigma; badge,
cognizance; trademark, idiograph; target, bull's-eye; preëminence,
distinction, prominence, earmark; wheal, weal, whelk.
marked, a. designated, noticeable, conspicuous, notable, salient.
market, n. mart, emporium, exchange, market-place.
marketable, a. salable, vendible. Antonyms: unmarketable,
unsalable.
marl, n. greensand.
marriage, n. matrimony, wedlock; wedding, nuptials, espousals,
nuptial rites. Antonyms: celibacy, divorce, bachelorhood, maidenhood.
Associated Words: misogamy, misogamist, affiance, affianced, affinity,
intermarriage, conjugality, misalliance, agamist, benedict, betroth,
betrothal, desponsory, ante-nuptial, sponsal, hymeneal, schatchen,
connubial, connubiality, fiancé, Hymen, fiancée, troth, plight, nuptial,
nuptiality, postnuptial, morganatic, banns, neogamist, matrimonial.
marriageability, n. nubility.
marriageable, a. nubile.
marriage song. epithalamium, prothalamion, prothalamium.
marrow, n. medulla, pith.
marrow-bones, n. pl. knees.
marry, v. wed, espouse.
Mars, n. Associated Word: Martian.
marsh, n. swamp, morass, fen, slough, bog, quagmire. See swamp.
marshal, v. arrange, range.
marsh gas. firedamp.
marsh grass. sedge.
marshy, a. boggy, fenny, swampy, sloughy, palustrine, paludine.
mart, n. market, emporium.
martial, a. military.
martinet, n. disciplinarian.
marvel, n. wonder, prodigy; amazement.
marvel, v. wonder.
marvelous, a. wonderful, amazing, stupendous, astonishing.
masculine, a. male; manly, virile, manful. Antonym: feminine.
masculineness, n. masculinity.
mask, n. disguise, pretext, subterfuge, screen, cloak, veil, ruse,
feint, blind; domino; maskoid; masquerade; mascaron.
mask, v. disguise, masquerade, veil.
masker, n. masquerader, mummer.
masquerade, n. mask, revel; disguise.
mass, n. aggregate, aggregation, totality, lump, heap, assemblage,
collection, accumulation; majority; size, bigness, bulk, dimensions,
magnitude; conglomeration, agglomeration.
mass, v. amass, assemble, accumulate, agglomerate, conglomerate.
massacre, n. carnage, butchery (of human beings), slaughter, havoc.
massacre, v. butcher, slaughter.
massage, n. Associated Words: masseuse, masseur, massotherapeutics,
massotherapy.
Mass book. missal.
massive, a. ponderous, bulky, immense, huge, cumbersome, massy.
massy, a. massive, compacted.
mast, n. nuts, acorns.
master, n. director, lord, commander, ruler, manager, governor;
employer; leader, chief; owner, possessor, proprietor; padrone.
Associated Word: dominicide.
master, v. conquer, overpower, subject, subjugate, overcome, subdue,
vanquish.
masterful, a. domineering, imperious, arbitrary.
master-hand, n. expert, adept, dabster.
masterly, a. skillful, proficient, adroit, dexterous, finished.
masterpiece, n. masterstroke, _chef-d'œuvre_.
mastery, n. dominion, command, supremacy, superiority, rule, sway,
mastership, preëminence, leadership, influence; victory, triumph;
acquirement, acquisition, attainment, dexterity, skill.
masturbation, n. onanism, self-abuse, self-pollution.
mat, n. rug; matting; petate.
mat, v. felt together, entangle, twist, interweave, snarl.
match, n. tally, mate, equal, peer; contest, competition, tournament,
tourney; lucifer match, locofoco.
match, v. rival, equal, cope with; contend, pit, oppose; tally,
correspond, be proportionate; adapt, fit, proportion, comport, harmonize;
mate, couple, combine, sort, join.
matchable, a. comparable, proportionable, correspondent, similar.
matchless, a. peerless, incomparable, inimitable, unequalled,
transcendent, surpassing.
mate, n. companion, associate, friend, chum, crony, compeer,
intimate, partner, colleague; match, equal; assistant, subordinate;
checkmate.
mate, v. oppose, cope with, vie with, compete with; match, marry.
material, n. substance, matter, fabric, stuff, cloth, staple;
plasma.
material, a. corporeal, bodily, physical; important, essential,
momentous.
materiality, n. corporeity, material existence; importance.
materially, adv. substantially; essentially, vitally.
materia medica. medicines; acology.
matrimonial, a. connubial, nuptial, hymeneal, conjugal.
matrimony, n. marriage, wedlock.
matron, n. dame.
matronly, a. elderly, dignified, matronal.
matted, a. tangled, snarled, entangled.
matter, n. substance, material, body; essence, pith, embodiment,
elements; importance, significance, moment, consequence, weight,
materiality; pus, purulence; manuscript, copy. Associated Words:
material, immaterial, materiality, immateriality, atom, molecule,
chemistry, hylism, hylotheism, hylopathism, hylogenesis, materialism,
physics, somatics, somatology.
matter, v. import, signify, be of importance; maturate, suppurate.
matter-of-fact, a. practical, pragmatical, unimaginative,
commonplace, prosaic.
maturate, v. suppurate; mature.
maturation, n. suppuration; maturing.
mature, a. full-grown, ripe, developed, perfect; prepared, finished.
Antonyms: See immature.
mature, v. ripen, develop, perfect, season.
maturity, n. development, ripeness, perfection, completion.
Antonym: immaturity.
maudlin, a. over-emotional, tearful; tipsy, fuddled, intoxicated.
maul, v. pound, pommel, beat, club, cudgel.
maul, n. beetle, mall.
mauling, n. pounding, beating, clubbing, cudgelling.
maw, n. stomach; craw, crop.
mawkish, a. nauseous, sickening, loathful, disgusting; squeamish,
fastidious.
maxim, n. axiom, adage, proverb, aphorism, apothegm, saw, precept.
maybe, adv. perhaps, possibly, peradventure, haply.
Mayflower, n. hawthorn, white thorn; trailing arbutus.
maze, n. perplexity, bewilderment; labyrinth, intricacy.
maze, v. perplex, bewilder, confuse, puzzle.
mazy, a. intricate, labyrinthian, confusing.
mead, n. metheglin, hydromel; meadow, lea.
meadow, n. mead, lea.
meadow mice. Arvicola. Associated Words: arvicoline, arvicolous.
meager, a. poor, emaciated, gaunt; barren, sterile, unproductive,
arid.
meal, n. repast.
mealy, a. farinaceous.
mean, v. intend, purpose, design, contemplate; signify, purport,
denote, betoken, imply, typify, indicate.
mean, a. contemptible, despicable, low-minded, base, abject,
groveling, dishonorable, shabby, scurvy, servile, menial, undignified,
unbecoming, disingenuous; obscure, ignoble, plebeian, inglorious,
undistinguished, vulgar; penurious, illiberal, sordid, miserly, stingy,
mercenary parsimonious, ungenerous; midway, average, moderate, middle,
medium, mediocre; intermediate, mediate, intervening; insignificant,
paltry, inconsequential, piddling, frivolous, inferior, poor.
mean, n. middle, medium.
meander, v. wind, turn.
meandering, a. winding, tortuous, crooked, serpentine, meandrous.
meaning, n. signification, significance, import, acceptation, intent.
Associated Words: lexicology, semasiology.
meaningly, adv. significantly.
meanly, adv. dishonorably, basely, ungenerously.
means, n. property, possessions, wealth, resources, riches, estate;
instrument, agency, instrumentality, method, way, facility; expedient,
resource, contrivance, resort, device, artifice.
meantime, n. interval, interim, meanwhile.
meantime, adv. meanwhile.
meanwhile, adv. meantime, during the interval.
measles, n. rubeola.
measurable, a. mensurable, computable.
measure, n. gauge, rule; dimensions, capacity, size, extent, degree,
limit; quantity, amount; proportion, allotment, share; metre; act, step,
means.
measure, v. gauge, mete; appraise, estimate, compute, adjust; allot,
mete out, apportion, distribute.
measureless, a. immeasurable.
measurement, n. mensuration; dimensions, size, extent, area,
capacity, bulk.
meat, n. flesh (of _animals_). See flesh.
meat pie. mince pie; pasty.
mechanic, n. mechanician, artisan, artificer, handicraftsman,
craftsman.
mechanical, a. automatic, involuntary.
mechanician, n. machinist.
medal, n. medallion.
meddle, v. interfere, interpose, intermeddle, obtrude.
meddlesome, a. officious, intrusive, obtrusive, pragmatical,
intermeddling.
meddling, n. interference, intrusion, intermeddling.
mediation, n. intercession.
mediator, n. intercessor. See peacemaker.
mediatorial, a. intercessory, mediatory, propitiatory.
medical, a. medicinal, therapeutical, therapeutic, curative.
medicinal, a. medicative, medical, therapeutic.
medicine, n. materia medica, medicament, remedy, restorative,
corrective, specific, physic, antidote, tonic, panacea; nostrum.
mediocre, a. middling, ordinary, medium, commonplace.
mediocrity, n. commonplaceness, indifference, middle state.
meditate, v. contemplate, muse, ponder, cogitate, reflect, think.
meditation, n. contemplation, musing, cogitation, reflection,
thought.
meditative, a. thoughtful, contemplative, reflective.
Mediterranean Sea. Associated Word: Levant.
medium, a. intermediate, middling, mean, average, médiocre.
medium, n. middle; means, instrumentality, agency; menstruum;
psychic.
medley, n. mixture, jumble, hodgepodge, potpourri, olio, mélange,
farrago.
meed, n. reward, recompense, prize; merit, desert, worth.
meek, a. humble, unassuming, modest, retiring, docile, lowly.
meerschaum, n. magnesite, seafoam, sepiolite.
meet, v. encounter, confront, collide, converge, engage; intercept;
assemble, congregate, convene, collect, muster; agree, harmonize, unite;
equal, satisfy, fulfill, match. Antonyms: avoid, elude, escape,
disperse, scatter.
meet, a. suitable, proper, befitting, seemly, appropriate.
meeting, n. assembly, assemblage, congregation, convention,
convocation, conference, synod, mall, concourse, gathering, mustering;
juncture, convergence, crossing, junction, confluence; encounter;
collision, clash; interception; interview; tryst, rendezvous.
melancholia, n. hypochondria, hypochondriasis.
melancholy, n. despondency, hypochondria, dejection, disconsolation,
melancholia.
melancholy, a. despondent, hypochondriac, depressed, disconsolate,
dispirited.
mêlée, n. affray, scuffle, set-to, brawl, fight (hand to hand).
melodious, a. tuneful, harmonious, dulcet, musical, sweet,
euphonious, ariose, mellifluous.
melody, n. music; descant, tune, song, air, theme. Antonyms:
discord, dissonance.
melt, v. dissolve, liquefy, thaw, fuse, soften, blend, swale,
colliquate.
meltable, a. dissolvable, soluble, liquefiable, fusible.
melted, a. molten.
melting, a. dissolving, thawing; affecting, touching.
melting, n. dissolution, liquefaction, fusion, thawing, inteneration,
dissipation, colliquation.
melting-pot, n. crucible.
member, n. part, organ, limb; constituent, component, part.
memento, n. souvenir, keepsake, memorial.
memoir, n. biography, autobiography.
memorandum, n. record, minute, note.
memorial, a. commemorative.
memory, n. remembrance, recollection, reminiscence; retrospection.
Antonyms: oblivion, forgetfulness, Lethe, amnesia, ecmnesia. Associated
words: mnemonics, mnemonic, mnemonician, mnemotechny, phrenotypics,
Mnemosyne, immortalize, immemorial, memorable, memorabilia, memorize,
remember, amnesic.
menace, n. threat, threatening.
menace, v. threaten.
menacing, a. threatening, minatory.
ménage, n. household, family.
mend, v. repair, patch; improve.
mendacious, a. lying, untruthful, false, deceitful.
mendacity, n. untruthfulness, lying, falsehood, lie, untruth.
mendicant, n. beggar.--a. begging.
mending, n. repairing, patching, restoration; improvement.
menial, a. serving; low, servile.
mental, a. intellectual.
mentality, n. intellectuality.
mentor, n. monitor, counselor, guide.
mentorial, a. admonitory, monitory.
mercantile, a. trading, commercial.
mercenary, a. hired, hireling, purchased; greedy, sordid, avaricious,
grasping.
mercenary, n. hireling.
merchandise, n. wares, goods, commodities.
merchant, n. trader, dealer, trafficker, shopkeeper, tradesman.
merchantable, a. salable, vendible, marketable.
merciful, a. pitiful, lenient, clement, compassionate, benignant,
indulgent, kind, gracious, forgiving.
merciless, a. unmerciful, remorseless, cruel, pitiless, ruthless,
inexorable, implacable.
Mercury, n. Hermes; quicksilver; messenger.
Mercury's staff. caduceus.
mercy, n. clemency, pity, lenity, leniency, lenience, compassion,
forgiveness, placability; discretion, disposal; blessing, favor.
Antonyms: revenge, implacability, inclemency, incompassion.
mercy seat. propitiatory.
merely, a. purely, absolutely; simply, barely, only.
merge, v. swallow up, absorb, immerse, take in; be swallowed up, be
absorbed.
merger, n. absorption.
meridian, n. noon, midday; culmination, zenith, pinnacle, apex.
Antonym: nadir.
meridian, a. midday, meridional.
merit, n. desert, worth, meed, worthiness; worth, excellence,
goodness; reward; pl. claim, right. Antonym: demerit.
merit, v. deserve, earn.
meritorious, a. worthy, commendable, meedful, deserving.
merriment, n. mirth, gayety, glee, levity, laughter, sportiveness,
jocularity.
merry, a. mirthful, gay, jolly, gleeful, jovial, sportive, jocular,
bonny.
mesa, n. tableland, plateau.
mesh, n. net, network.
mess, n. rations, food; mixture, medley, farrago, litter, hodgepodge,
jumble, mélange.
message, n. communication, notice, word; telegram, despatch,
cablegram.
messenger, n. courier, herald, forerunner, precursor, harbinger,
mercury, emissary.
metaphor, n. simile.
meteor, n. fireball, shooting star; bolis, bolide.
meteoric stone. meteorite, aërolite.
methodical, a. systematic, orderly, methodic. Antonyms:
immethodical, unsystematic.
meticulous, a. timid, fearful, diffident.
mettle, n. spirit, disposition; pluck, nerve, hardihood, stamina,
spirit.
mettled, a. high-spirited, mettlesome, fiery, ardent.
mettlesome, a. spirited, mettled.
mew, v. moult.
mew, n. cage, coop; sea-mew, gull, cob.
miasma, n. malaria.
miaul, n. mew, caterwaul.
midbrain, n. mesencephalon.
midday, n. noon, meridian, noontide.
middle, a. mean, medial; intermediate, intervening.
middle, n. center, midst.
Middle Ages. Associated Words: medieval, medievalism, medievalist,
medievals.
middle class. _bourgeoisie_.
middleman, n. factor, go-between, agent, broker, commissioner.
middling, a. mediocre, medium, passable, tolerable, average, so-so,
ordinary.
midwife, n. accoucheuse, obstetrician (female).
midwifery, n. obstetrics, tocology.
mien, n. aspect, air, manner, demeanor, appearance, bearing,
deportment.
miff, n. pique, pet, tiff, displeasure.
miff, v. displease, vex, offend (slightly).
miffed, a. offended, displeased, piqued, provoked.
might, n. strength, power, force, puissance, potency.
mighty, a. strong, powerful, potent, invincible.
mighty, adv. (Colloq.) very.
migratory, a. roving, wandering, nomadic, unsettled.
Mikado, n. Emperor of Japan.
mild, a. gentle, indulgent, tender, merciful, clement, lenient,
bland, demulcent, lenitive, emollient, mitigative. Antonyms: severe,
drastic, rigorous, violent, harsh.
mildew, n. mould, mustiness, must, blight.
military, a. martial.
military command. strategy, generalship, tactics, logistics.
military dress. regimentals, uniform.
military rule. stratocracy.
militia, n. troops, military; trainband.
milk, n. Associated Words: emulsion, emulsify, lacteal,
lactiferous, lactation milch, lactometer lactic, lactivorous, koumiss,
whey, curd, serum, lactage, rennet, clabber, lactifuge, casein, curdle,
posset.
milkiness, n. lactescence.
milkmaid, n. dairymaid.
milkman, n. dairyman.
milk room. dairy.
milky, a. lacteal, lactean, emulsive.
Milky Way. Galaxy.
milt, n. spleen.
mimic, n. mime, mimicker, imitator, personator.
mimic, v. personate, ape, imitate, mock.
mimicry, n. mocking; imitation, mimesis.
mince, v. hash.
mind, v. obey, regard; consider, heed, mark, note; purpose, intend,
design. Antonyms: disobey, disregard, ignore.
mind, n. intellect, faculties; opinion, judgment; temperament, humor,
disposition. Associated Words: mental, mentality, mentally,
intellectual, intellectuality, intellectually, psychic, psychical,
psychiatry, psychography, psychology, psychologist, menticulture,
alienist, alienism, telepathy, telepathic, noemics, nomology, noölogy
metaphysics, psychotherapy, psychotherapeutics, psychodynamic,
psychopathology, psychopathic, psychological, psychopathy, psychosis,
noetic, subliminal, _compos mentis, non compos mentis_.
mindful, a. heedful, regardful, observant.
mindless, a. irrational; unmindful, heedless, inattentive.
mingle, v. blend, mix, intermix, amalgamate, intermingle,
incorporate; consort, associate, fraternize.
mingling, n. blending, mixture, intermixture, amalgamation.
minister, n. ambassador, envoy, plenipotentiary, delegate:
ecclesiastic, parson, divine, rector. See clergyman.
minister, v. administer, serve; officiate.
ministerial, a. clerical; ambassadorial.
ministration, n. officiating, ministry.
ministry, n. ministration; cabinet, administration.
minnow, n. minim, minny.
minny, n. minnow.
minor, a. subordinate, secondary, less, smaller.
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