Synonyms and antonyms : $b An alphabetical list of words in common use, grouped with others of similar and opposite meaning

# Synonyms and antonyms : $b An alphabetical list of words in common use, grouped with others of similar and opposite meaning ### By Ordway, Edith B. (Edith Bertha)

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SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS _An Alphabetical List of Words in Common Use, Grouped with Others of Similar and Opposite Meaning_

BY

EDITH B. ORDWAY _Author of “The Etiquette of To-Day,” “Handbook of Quotations,” Etc._

NEW YORK

GEORGE SULLY AND COMPANY

_Copyright, 1913_

BY SULLY AND KLEINTEICH

_All rights reserved_

PRINTED IN U. S. A.

PREFACE

The aim in compiling this book has been to make the list of words in common use concise yet full, and authoritative yet suggestive. Above five thousand leading words are given, and the synonyms and antonyms comprise several thousand more different words.

Actual references may be multiplied by looking up a synonym or antonym, as well as by consulting cognate words, such as the corresponding noun, verb, or adjective.

In some cases common words have been omitted, because they were composed of a root word and a prefix, intensive or privative. Their synonyms and antonyms may be found under the root word.

Occasionally within the lists words closely synonymous or antonymic have been grouped within semicolons.

The part of speech of a word is designated by an abbreviation in such cases as are necessary to save confusion.

Synonyms appear immediately after the leading word; antonyms, after the abbreviation “Ant.” This order is invariable.

In the effort to make this list authoritative, the standard dictionaries and the acknowledged authorities on the subject have been consulted.

E. B. O.

ABBREVIATIONS

_a._ Adjective.

_ad._ Adverb.

_Ant._ Antonym or Antonyms.

_conj._ Conjunction.

_interj._ Interjection.

_n._ Noun.

_p.p._ Past Participle.

_prep._ Preposition.

_Syn._ Synonym or Synonyms.

_v._ Verb.

SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS

A

=Abandon.= Desert, leave, forsake, depart from, quit, give up, relinquish, discontinue, abdicate, renounce, repudiate, forswear, withdraw from, vacate, surrender, retract, recant, retire from, cast off, abjure, cede, cease, resign, forego, yield, waive, part with, let go, lay down, evacuate, drop, deliver up.

ANT. _Claim, cherish, defend, keep, hold, maintain, protect, adopt, uphold, advocate, vindicate, occupy, undertake, prosecute, pursue, follow, seek, guard, favor, retain, support, assert, haunt._

=Abandoned.= Discarded, rejected _and the p.p. of the syn. of “abandon”_; depraved, corrupt, profligate, wicked, unprincipled, shameless, sinful, hardened, impenitent, lost, demoralized, vicious, dissolute, reprobate, graceless, obdurate, licentious, incorrigible, irreclaimable, bad.

ANT. The p.p. of the ant. of “abandon”; _visited, frequented, sociable; virtuous, good, deserving, worthy, commendable, excellent, laudable; reclaimable, penitent; conscientious, correct, upright, righteous, self-controlled, high-principled, steady._

=Abandonment.= Desertion, renunciation, surrender, rejection, abandoning, relinquishment, dereliction; cession, resignation, abnegation, demission, abjuration, abdication, defection, abrogation.

ANT. _Solicitude, care, heed, watchfulness, vigilance; hospitality, entertainment, conviviality, welcome, reception; retention, completion, reclamation, support, help, correction, custody, tenacity._

=Abase.= Degrade, reduce, lower, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, humble, sink, humiliate, bring low, cast down, stoop, debase, depress, drop, take down, demean.

ANT. _Elevate, exalt, honor, promote, raise, dignify, uplift, aggrandize._

=Abasement.= Degradation, humiliation, dishonor, degeneracy, shame, depression, reduction, lowering, fall, deterioration, debasement, degeneration, vitiation, perversion, depravation, abjection, disrepute, discredit, subserviency.

ANT. _Promotion, exaltation, honor, elevation, aggrandizement, dignity, repute, reputation, standing, supremacy._

=Abash.= Bewilder, confound, disconcert, discompose, confuse, daunt, humble, dishearten, mortify, shame, humiliate, snub, discountenance.

ANT. _Embolden, cheer, encourage, animate, uphold, rally, countenance, inspirit, abet, incite, buoy._

=Abate.= Lessen, lower, reduce, diminish, moderate, decrease, decline, ebb, mitigate, subside, suppress, terminate, remove; temper, assuage, alleviate, appease, pacify; remit, allow; relax, slacken; bate, deduct; soothe, soften, qualify, allay, mollify, compose, tranquilize, quiet, quell, calm, dull, blunt; batter down, beat down, demolish, raze.

ANT. _Increase, prolong, magnify, foment, enlarge, extend, aggravate, continue, develop, revive, raise, enhance, amplify._

=Abatement.= Subsidence, decline, lowering, reduction, decrease; allowance, discount, rebate, depreciation, drawback; moderation, lessening, mitigation, assuagement, remission, sinking, settling, waning, fading, ebb, evanishment, declension, deduction, diminution.

ANT. _Increase, augmentation, enlargement, increment, accretion, development, growth, aggrandizement, dilation, accession._

=Abbreviate.= Shorten, contract, curtail, reduce, abridge, condense, epitomize, compress.

ANT. _Lengthen, extend, elongate, dilate, expand, amplify, enlarge, produce, stretch, prolong, expatiate._

=Abbreviation.= Abridgment, contraction, condensation, compend, abstract, epitome, reduction, summary, curtailment, compression.

ANT. _Expansion, amplification, expatiation, extension, production, enlargement, dilation._

=Abdicate.= Resign, relinquish _office_ (_especially of the throne_), surrender, abandon, vacate, forego, renounce, give up, cede.

ANT. _Retain, claim, occupy, maintain, usurp, seize, grasp._

=Abdomen.= Belly, paunch, ventral region, visceral cavity.

=Abduct.= Take away (_surreptitiously or forcibly_), kidnap, run away with, carry off, spirit away, drag away.

ANT. _Restore, reinstate, adduct._

=Abduction.= Withdrawal, drawing away, abstraction, kidnapping, seizure, appropriation.

ANT. _Adduction, replacement, restitution, restoration, surrender, reinstatement._

=Aberrant.= Wandering, rambling, divergent, deviating, devious, erratic; irregular, abnormal, unusual, exceptional.

ANT. _Regular, true, consistent, uniform, consecutive, normal, natural, continuous._

=Aberration.= Wandering, divergence, irregularity, rambling, disconnectedness, hallucination, illusion, delusion, eccentricity, singularity, peculiarity.

ANT. _Uniformity, consecutiveness, regularity, progression, continuity, order, type, norm._

=Abet.= Aid, assist, promote, support, sanction, uphold, countenance, encourage, advocate, incite, instigate, embolden, favor, foment, connive at, coöperate with.

ANT. _Hinder, impede, obstruct, frustrate, baffle, confound, counteract, deter, discourage, thwart, contradict, disconcert, disapprove, denounce, dissuade, expose._

=Abettor.= Assistant, helper, aid, ally, coöperator, advocate, confederate, accomplice, accessory, adviser, promoter, instigator, associate, coadjutor.

ANT. _Opponent, foe, adversary, antagonist, rival, dissuader, detector, baffler, disconcerter._

=Abeyance.= Suspense, suspension, expectancy, waiting, anticipation, dormancy, intermission, quiescence, suppression, expectation.

ANT. _Renewal, revival, resuscitation, action, operation, exercise, force, possession._

=Abhor.= Hate, detest, loathe, shrink from, recoil from, shudder at, abominate, despise, dislike, eschew, nauseate, revolt at.

ANT. _Crave, desire, enjoy, covet, esteem, like, love, relish, admire, approve, affect._

=Abhorrent.= Odious, offensive, shocking, repugnant, loathsome, revolting, horrible, repellent, repulsive, nauseating.

ANT. _Admirable, enjoyable, lovely, estimable, desirable._

=Abide.= Wait for, await, attend; endure, tolerate, bear, suffer; anticipate, watch for, expect; bide, continue, reside, dwell, sojourn, tarry, lodge, rest, stay, inhabit, remain.

ANT. _Abandon, shun; resist, reject, avoid; deport, migrate, move, journey, continue, proceed, progress._

=Abiding.= Lasting, continuing, permanent, durable, constant, stable, immutable, changeless, unchanging.

ANT. _Ephemeral, fickle, changeable, unsubstantial, perishable._

=Ability.= Power, force, might, efficiency, vigor, skill, energy, dexterity, adroitness, skilfulness, cleverness, ingenuity, talent, aptitude, facility, knack, expertness, readiness, quickness, strength, capacity, qualification, competency, genius, caliber, capability, capableness, faculty, gift, parts.

ANT. _Incapacity, weakness, inability, unreadiness, maladroitness, imbecility, impotence, disability, inaptitude, inefficiency, incompetence, disqualification, helplessness, stupidity, folly._

=Abject.= Base, vile, mean, low, despicable, contemptible, worthless, groveling, fawning, beggarly, servile, cringing, miserable, degraded, menial, ignoble.

ANT. _Dignified, honorable, exalted, worthy, venerable, illustrious, independent, princely, self-assertive, self-reliant, vain, arrogant, insolent, haughty._

=Abjure.= Renounce, relinquish, reject, forswear, forego, repudiate, disown, give up, retract, revoke, recant, disavow, disclaim, withdraw, take back, deny, apostatize, discard.

ANT. _Claim, advocate, acknowledge, profess, vindicate, assert, demand, retain, appropriate, avow._

=Able.= Accomplished, adroit, talented, clever, ingenious, apt, skilful, efficient, capable, fitted, learned, gifted, masterly, telling, vigorous, strong, proficient, competent, versed, practical, endowed, powerful, mighty.

ANT. _Incapable, ineffective, unqualified, stupid, inept, weak, inefficient, unskilful, silly, incompetent._

=Ablution.= Washing, bathing, cleansing, lavation, purification, baptism.

ANT. _Pollution, defilement, dirt, soilure, contamination, taint, stain, abomination, impurity._

=Abnegation.= Denial, abjuration, renunciation, rejection, surrender, abandonment, disallowance, abstinence.

ANT. _Assertion, vindication, license, claim, indulgence, concession; affirmation, allegation, statement, declaration, word, averment, deposition; proposal, proffer._

=Abnormal.= Singular, unnatural, unusual, irregular, peculiar, exceptional, aberrant, erratic, monstrous, preternatural.

ANT. _Normal, regular, usual, natural, typical, customary, ordinary, common._

=Aboard.= On board, on the ship, afloat, inside, within.

ANT. _Ashore, aground._

=Abode.= Home, house, place, residence, domicile, habitation, dwelling, lodging, quarters, seat.

ANT. _Halt, tent, bivouac, perch._

=Abolish.= Abrogate, annul, destroy, repeal, revoke, suppress, terminate, rescind, cancel, nullify, suppress, overthrow, extirpate, remove, prohibit, set aside, end, stamp out.

ANT. _Establish, support, sustain, cherish, confirm, continue, restore, revive, reinstate, institute, promote, legalize._

=Abominable.= Hateful, horrible, loathsome, abhorrent, foul, odious, offensive, detestable, impure, execrable.

ANT. _Desirable, admirable, enjoyable, pleasing, pure, delectable._

=Abomination.= Offense, horror, shame, wickedness, abhorrence, aversion, disgust, curse, pollution, iniquity, defilement, corruption, nuisance, annoyance.

ANT. _Acquisition, enjoyment, gratification, blessing, desire, longing, delight, benefit, pleasure, satisfaction._

=Aboriginal.= Primitive, primeval, primary, pristine, native, original, indigenous, autochthonous.

ANT. _Subsequent, imported, exotic, recent, modern, late, novel, fresh, immigrant, adventitious_.

=Abortion.= Failure, miscarriage, disappointment, non-success, vain effort, defect, frustration, blunder.

ANT. _Success, consummation, completion, realization, perfection, achievement, development, exploit, feat._

=Abound.= Team, swarm, multiply, swell, increase, flow, luxuriate, flourish, prevail, wanton, revel, exuberate.

ANT. _Waste, lack, wane, vanish, lessen, decrease, die, decay, fall._

=About.= Concerning, regarding, touching, relative to, with reference to, in regard to; near, surrounding, around; almost, nearly, well-nigh; ready, on the point of, on the eve of; around, hind part before.

ANT. _Afar, distant, remote; precisely, exactly._

=Above.= Overhead, aloft, on high; before, previously; higher, having precedence; over, exceeding, beyond, superior, excessive.

ANT. _Below, beneath, within; later, subsequently; lower; less, diminished._

=Aboveboard.= Openly, candidly, frankly, sincerely, fairly, ingenuously, unreservedly, guilelessly.

ANT. _Secretly, elusively, underhand, deceitfully, wilily._

=Above-named.= Named before, aforesaid, above-mentioned, above-cited, above-described, mentioned above.

ANT. _Named below, described below, hereinafter named._

=Abrasion.= Rubbing, friction, wearing away _or_ off, disintegration, attrition.

ANT. _Accretion, augmentation, increment; supplement, reinforcement._

=Abreast.= Alongside, side by side, aligned; against, off, opposite to.

ANT. _Ahead, astern; behind._

=Abridge.= Abbreviate, shorten, condense, diminish, reduce, contract, cut down, deprive of, divest of, epitomize, compress.

ANT. _Amplify, expand, spread out, extend, dilate._

=Abridgment.= Summary, synopsis, compend, analysis, abstract, abbreviation, epitome, outline, compendium, digest.

ANT. _Amplification, expatiation, exposition, annotation, paraphrase, expansion, comment._

=Abroad.= Far away, distant, apart, dispersed, aloof, adrift; distracted, confused, dazed, confounded; forth, out of doors.

ANT. _Near, close, collected, fast, housed; composed, poised, self-contained; within._

=Abrogate.= Abolish, cancel, set aside, annul, make void, overrule, invalidate, nullify, repeal.

ANT. _Enact, confirm, enforce, establish, continue, revive._

=Abrogation.= Repeal, rescinding, annulment, abolition, revocation, voidance, cancelation, setting aside; discontinuance, disestablishment.

ANT. _Enactment, institution, establishment; sanction, continuance, confirmation._

=Abrupt.= Sudden, unexpected, hasty, ill-timed, precipitate; steep, precipitous, craggy, rough, rugged, jagged; short, blunt, curt, unceremonious; stiff, cramped, harsh, disconnected.

ANT. _Easy, gliding; polished, smooth, undulating; expected, courteous, elegant, complaisant, suave._

=Abscond.= Depart, steal away, decamp, bolt, disappear, run off, hide, withdraw, retreat, escape, elope, slink _or_ sneak off, absent one’s self.

ANT. _Show, appear, emerge, issue, present one’s self._

=Absence.= Non-attendance, non-appearance, non-existence, absenteeism; inattention, abstraction, preoccupation, musing; want, lack, privation, defect, deficiency.

ANT. _Presence, existence, manifestation, evidence, supply; attention, consideration; immanence, inherency._

=Absent.= Away, gone; abstracted, preoccupied, inattentive, dreaming.

ANT. _Present, here; attentive, alert._

=Absolute.= Perfect, complete, supreme, autocratic, authoritative, commanding, independent, unrestricted, unqualified, unlimited, unconditioned, self-existent, self-determined, ideal; despotic, arbitrary, exacting, domineering, tyrannical, imperious, dictatorial, irresponsible; positive, actual, real, veritable, genuine, certain, categorical, unquestionable.

ANT. _Related, responsible, conditioned, limited, qualified, restricted, accountable; ductile, humble, lenient, meek, mild, yielding, compliant, complaisant; dubious, contingent, defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, mutilated, incomplete._

=Absolution.= Acquittal, remission, release, deliverance, forgiveness, pardon, shriving, shrift; indulgence, justification.

ANT. _Charge, accusation, condemnation, censure, conviction; penance, purgation, fasting, flagellation._

=Absolve.= Acquit, clear, exonerate, forgive, free, liberate, release, pardon, set free, discharge, exempt, exculpate.

ANT. _Accuse, condemn, convict, impeach, charge, compel; obligate, oblige, bind._

=Absorb.= Take in, consume, imbibe, swallow, suck up, exhaust; engross, engage, immerse, occupy, arrest, rivet (_of attention_).

ANT. _Give up, disgorge, send out, radiate, throw off, eject; dissipate, distract, disperse._

=Absorption.= Absorbing, imbibing, assimilation, destruction, consumption, exhaustion; engrossment, engagement, occupation, immersion.

ANT. _Ejection, rejection, expulsion, discharge; inadvertency, inattention, oversight, disregard._

=Abstain.= Refrain, resist, forbear, desist, deny one’s self, avoid, cease, stop, withhold, give up, relinquish.

ANT. _Indulge, wanton, revel, yield to, gratify._

=Abstemious.= Abstinent, sober, moderate, temperate, sparing, frugal, self-denying, continent.

ANT. _Sensual, self-indulgent, intemperate, greedy._

=Absterge.= Wipe off, purge, cleanse, purify, scrub, sponge, scour.

ANT. _Soil, pollute, begrime, contaminate, bespatter, bedaub._

=Abstersive.= Cleansing, purging, purifying, scouring; detergent, cathartic.

ANT. _Corruptive, contaminative, offensive._

=Abstinence.= Temperance, abstemiousness, self-control, self-restraint, self-denial, sobriety, fasting, continence, moderation, frugality.

ANT. _Excess, intoxication, self-indulgence, sensuality, wantonness, intemperance, greed, gluttony, revelry, dissipation._

=Abstinent.= Abstaining, fasting; abstemious, sober, temperate, self-restraining, self-denying, continent, austere.

ANT. _Sensual, self-indulgent, intemperate, epicurean, dissipated, incontinent, debauched._

=Abstract=, _n._ Epitome, summary, abridgment, compend, synopsis, syllabus, outline, digest, brief, compendium, gist, drift, contents.

ANT. _Amplification, disquisition, exposition, expansion, expatiation._

=Abstract=, _v._ Appropriate, withdraw, remove, separate, take away, detach, purloin, part, eliminate, distract, discriminate, abridge.

ANT. _Add, complete, increase, restore, unite, conjoin, fill up, strengthen, combine._

=Abstracted.= Separated, withdrawn, removed; subtle, refined, abstruse; inattentive, preoccupied, dreaming, absent-minded, oblivious, thoughtless, negligent, indifferent, heedless, absorbed, absent.

ANT. _Intelligible, lucid, transparent; attentive, intent, observant, alert, prompt, ready, thoughtful, wide-awake._

=Abstraction.= Disconnection, disjunction, removal, isolation, separation; preoccupation, revery, inattention, absorption, absence; taking, abduction, seizure, stealing, appropriation, purloining; classification, generalization.

ANT. _Addition, conjunction, union, restitution, importation, restoration; enumeration, analysis; attention, specification, observation, individualization._

=Abstruse.= Hidden, difficult, recondite, profound, deep, curious, occult, dark, obscure, mystical, hard, vague, indefinite, mysterious, abstract, transcendental.

ANT. _Patent, simple, obvious, trite, intelligible, manifest, lucid, clear, easy, plain, popular, superficial._

=Absurd.= Ludicrous, monstrous, nonsensical, preposterous, senseless, ridiculous, foolish, irrational, wild, unreasonable.

ANT. _Sensible, rational, reasonable, logical, wise, sagacious, sound, substantial, philosophical, reflective, consistent, true._

=Absurdity.= Unreasonableness, irrationality, foolishness, folly, fatuity, idiocy, extravagance, drivel.

ANT. _Reason, possibility; truism, axiom, maxim, adage._

=Abundance.= Profusion, wealth, affluence; flow, flood, overflow; copiousness, fertility, richness, largeness, store, plenty, exuberance, plenteousness.

ANT. _Scarcity, deficiency, rarity, scantiness, dearth, failure, poverty._

=Abundant.= Abounding, flowing, plentiful, liberal, bountiful, sufficient, lavish, plenteous, much, copious, replete, full, teeming.

ANT. _Rare, scarce, scant, deficient, insufficient, short, niggardly, sparing, impoverished, dry, drained._

=Abuse=, _n._ Misuse, dishonor, maltreatment, outrage, reviling, obloquy, defamation, insult, disparagement, reproach, ill usage.

ANT. _Kindness, praise, deference, respect, honor, good treatment, good usage._

=Abuse=, _v._ Harm, ill-treat, ill-use, injure, wrong, maltreat, oppress, molest, malign, impose on, ruin, victimize, slander, violate, ravish, defile, disparage, damage, defame, misuse.

ANT. _Cherish, protect, regard, shield, respect, care for, tend, benefit; laud, favor, applaud, extol, eulogize, praise; uphold, sustain, vindicate, conserve._

=Abusive.= Insulting, rude, denunciatory, reproachful, injurious, offensive, reviling, insolent, scurrilous, opprobrious.

ANT. _Respectful, attentive, laudatory, kind, flattering, courteous, complimentary, obsequious._

=Abut.= Be adjacent, extend, impinge, project, approximate, be contiguous, adjoin; end, border.

ANT. _Diverge, recede, return, retreat, recurve._

=Abutment.= Terminal support, buttress.

=Abuttal.= Adjacency, contiguity, nearness, juxtaposition; boundary, terminus, limit, termination.

ANT. _Interval, separation, gap, chasm, interspace, fissure, breach._

=Abyss.= Gulf, gorge, deep, chasm, profound, abysm; the pit.

ANT. _Surface, abutment, adhesion, contact, contiguity; heaven._

=Academical.= Scholastic, learned, literary, collegiate, classical.

ANT. _Illiterate, ignorant, unschooled._

=Academy.= School, seminary, institute, college, gymnasium, high school; scientific body, association of artists.

=Accede.= Consent, assent, acquiesce, comply, agree, accept, concur, approve, coincide.

ANT. _Decline, withdraw, refuse, demur, protest, dissent, reject._

=Accelerate.= Hasten, quicken, speed, precipitate, despatch, expedite, hurry, urge, push forward, press on; forward, advance, further.

ANT. _Delay, impede, clog, hinder, retard, drag, obstruct._

=Accent=, _n._ Stress, beat, emphasis, rhythm, pulsation, intonation, cadence, tone, modulation, ictus.

ANT. _Monotony, equableness, babble, flow, smoothness._

=Accentuate=, =Accent=, _v._ Lay stress upon, put the ictus on; emphasize, mark, make prominent.

ANT. _Make light of, make insignificant, underestimate, ignore._

=Accept.= Take, receive; admit, agree to, approve, acknowledge, avow; estimate, regard, value, construe.

ANT. _Refuse, decline, reject, ignore, disown, repudiate._

=Acceptable.= Welcome, pleasing, grateful, gratifying, pleasant, agreeable, pleasurable, seasonable, desirable, expedient.

ANT. _Unpleasant, disagreeable, annoying, grievous, ungrateful, unwelcome._

=Acceptance.= Reception, taking; acknowledgment, approbation, approval, satisfaction, gratification.

ANT. _Rejection, refusal, repudiation, exclusion._

=Acceptation.= Meaning, significance, sense, import, interpretation, construction, understanding; approval, adoption, acceptance.

=Access.= Entrance, approach, passage, avenue, entry; admission, admittance, audience, interview; addition, increase, gain; accession; attack, onset, fit, paroxysm.

ANT. _Exit, egress, departure; exclusion; repulse, recoil; retirement, retreat; quiescence, inertia, languor, torpor._

=Accessary=, _see_ =Accessory=.

=Accessible.= Easy of access, approachable, affable, conversible.

ANT. _Distant, cold, unapproachable, difficult._

=Accession.= Addition, increase, enlargement, extension, augmentation; arrival, influx; attainment (_of power_).

ANT. _Abandonment, decrease, ebb, drain, subsidence, departure, resignation, diminution._

=Accessory=, _n._ Confederate, assistant, helper, associate, accomplice; detail, accompaniment, subordinate element; companion, partner.

ANT. _Foe, rival, adversary, antagonist, opponent, enemy; principal, instigator._

=Accessory=, _a._ Assisting, aiding, abetting, helping, acceding, additional; supplemental, subservient, subsidiary, subordinate, conducive; accompanying, contributory, auxiliary.

ANT. _Essential, inherent; superfluous, irrelevant._

=Accident.= Chance, disaster, happening, hazard, incident, misfortune, calamity, adventure, casualty, mishap, possibility.

ANT. _Certainty, provision, plan, intention, appointment, calculation, law, necessity, purpose, preparation._

=Accidental.= Casual, unintended, fortuitous, chance; incidental, immaterial, non-essential; occasional, contingent, adventitious.

ANT. _Intended, purposed, prepared, appointed, certain._

=Acclamation.= Applause, cheer, outcry, homage, gratulation, salutation.

ANT. _Censure, execration, denunciation, obloquy, sibilation._

=Acclivity.= Rise, incline, ascent, steep, hill, height.

ANT. _Decline, declivity, hollow, descent, depth._

=Accommodate.= Oblige, serve, furnish, supply, contain, hold, convenience; adapt, reconcile, adjust, harmonize, suit, conform, arrange.

ANT. _Deprive, aggravate, inconvenience, disturb, disoblige; misfit, incommode._

=Accommodating.= Kind, obliging, considerate, unselfish, polite, yielding, conciliatory.

ANT. _Rude, churlish, disobliging, inconsiderate, exacting._

=Accompany.= Follow, attend, consort with, go with, escort, convoy.

ANT. _Abandon, leave, quit, avoid, discard, desert._

=Accomplice.= Confederate, accessory, abettor, associate, ally, aid, assistant, promoter, coadjutor.

ANT. _Rival, enemy, foe, adversary._

=Accomplish.= Complete, finish, achieve, effect, perform, carry out, attain, realize, consummate, execute, perfect, fulfil, do; equip, furnish.

ANT. _Fail, mar, spoil, frustrate, defeat, disconcert, destroy._

=Accomplished.= Educated, experienced, practiced, finished, versed, consummate, adroit, expert, apt, skilful, talented, fine, qualified, proficient, polite, elegant; completed, effected, established.

ANT. _Unskilled, unfettered, ignorant, unpolished, uncouth, inefficient, incapable, inexpert, incompetent._

=Accomplishment.= Execution, achievement, performance, completion; acquirement, attainment, proficiency, ornament, grace.

ANT. _Failure, blunder, folly, stupidity, incompetency, mismanagement, bungling._

=Accord.= Agree, correspond, harmonize; grant, concede, give, yield, deign, vouchsafe, consent, answer.

ANT. _Differ, disagree; withhold, deny, refuse._

=Accordant.= Agreeable, suitable, consonant, harmonious, congruous, agreeing, corresponding, conformable.

ANT. _Adverse, inconsistent, discordant._

=Accordingly.= Suitably, conformably, agreeably; consequently, therefore, hence, wherefore.

ANT. _Conversely, inconsistently, impertinently._

=Accost.= Approach, address, salute, greet, confront, speak to.

ANT. _Depart, rebuff, check, repulse, shun, elude, pass, ignore._

=Account=, _n._ Record, register, inventory; bill, charge; count, calculation, enumeration; statement, description, narration, relation, narrative, recital, chronicle, history; explanation, exposition; consideration, regard, motive, reason; importance, worth, dignity, profit, advantage, benefit.

ANT. _Suppression, silence; attempt, project; misannouncement._

=Account=, _v._ Esteem, regard, deem, judge, think, hold, believe, consider, view; estimate, reckon, rate; explain, solve.

ANT. _Underrate, undervalue; disesteem, misestimate; mystify, perplex, darken._

=Accountable.= Responsible, punishable, answerable, liable, amenable; accredited, delegated.

ANT. _Independent, absolute, supreme, despotic, autocratic._

=Accouter.= Equip, furnish, dress, fit out, arm, array.

ANT. _Despoil, impoverish, denude, strip, bare._

=Accredit.= Credit, authorize, trust, empower, commission, depute.

ANT. _Recall, supersede, dismiss, discard; disbelieve, distrust, suspect._

=Accredited.= Authorized, commissioned, sanctioned; confidential, trusted, believed.

ANT. _Unauthorized, distrusted, discredited._

=Accretion.= Growth, accumulation, adhesion, coherence, increase.

ANT. _Abrasion, disintegration, diminution._

=Accrue.= Result, arise, issue, ensue, follow, proceed, come, increase, augment.

ANT. _Cause, occasion; reduce, weaken, abate._

=Accumulate.= Pile, collect, gather up, bring together; store, amass, garner, treasure, husband, lay by, hoard; aggregate.

ANT. _Separate, dissipate, disperse, scatter, waste, expend._

=Accumulation.= Collection, heap, mass, accretion, hoard, store.

ANT. _Separation, segregation; unit, individual; prodigality, leakage, expenditure._

=Accuracy.= Exactness, precision, nicety, truth, carefulness, correctness, exactitude, fidelity.

ANT. _Looseness, slovenliness, incorrectness, error, fallacy, misconception, misstatement._

=Accurate.= Careful, exact, faithful, precise, truthful, correct, rigorous, close, severe, just, unerring.

ANT. _Inexact, faulty, inaccurate, defective, loose, careless._

=Accusation.= Charge, indictment, arraignment, impeachment, imputation, crimination, censure.

ANT. _Discharge, acquittal, vindication, absolution, approval._

=Accuse.= Charge, indict, arraign, incriminate, impeach, cite, summon, tax, censure, taunt, blame, reproach.

ANT. _Discharge, acquit, defend, vindicate, exonerate, pardon, absolve, condone, release._

=Accustom.= Habituate, use, be wonted, harden, familiarize, train, addict, drill, break in, discipline.

ANT. _Estrange, wean, alienate, dishabituate._

=Acerbity.= Sourness, acidity, tartness, bitterness, roughness, harshness, acrimony.

ANT. _Sweetness, mildness, softness, gentleness, smoothness._

=Ache=, _n._ Pain, dull or continued pain, anguish, suffering, agony.

ANT. _Pleasure, relief, ease, refreshment, delight._

=Achieve.= Accomplish, perform, complete, finish, realize, bring to pass, work out, conclude; obtain, acquire, gain, win, get.

ANT. _Neglect, undo, mar, omit; fail of, lose._

=Achievement.= Accomplishment, performance, attainment, completion, consummation; exploit, deed, feat.

ANT. _Forfeit, failure, negligence, frustration, blunder._

=Acknowledge.= Recognize, be aware of; admit, concede, allow, accept; confess, avow; express thanks for; own _or_ profess.

ANT. _Disclaim, disown, deny, repudiate, ignore, disavow._

=Acme.= Summit, zenith, climax, top, apex, vertex, pinnacle, culmination.

ANT. _Base, nadir, depth, ground, foundation, foot, root._

=Acquaintance.= Association, familiarity; friend; intimacy, companionship, experience, knowledge, friendship, fellowship.

ANT. _Ignorance, inexperience, unfamiliarity, ignoring._

=Acquiesce.= Assent, concur, yield, comply, submit, agree, consent.

ANT. _Object, demur, dissent._

=Acquire.= Gain, earn, win, reap, obtain, attain, achieve, get, secure; master, learn thoroughly.

ANT. _Lose, surrender, miss, forego, forfeit._

=Acquit.= Discharge, exonerate, release, absolve, excuse, pardon, exculpate.

ANT. _Charge, condemn, sentence, compel, indict, imprison._

=Acquittal.= Discharge, release, deliverance, liberation, absolution.

ANT. _Judgment, punishment, penalty, trial, retribution, correction, castigation._

=Acrimony.= Bitterness, sharpness, sourness, tartness, severity, asperity, hardness, rancor, ill-temper, spite, unkindness.

ANT. _Gentleness, good nature, kindness, sweetness, courtesy._

=Act=, _n._ Deed, performance, exploit, accomplishment, achievement, effect, movement, transaction, work.

ANT. _Cessation, inertia, quiescence, inaction, rest, repose, quiet, deliberation._

=Act=, _v._ Work, do, perform, execute; behave; play, feign, pretend, dissemble; operate, have effect; be, realize, actualize.

ANT. _Rest, cease, stop, stay; neglect, omit, mar, undo; expose, reveal, vaunt; be quiescent or latent; fancy; endure, suffer._

=Action.= Exercise, motion, movement, deed, performance; agency, force, operation; battle, conflict; gesture; representation, play; subject, plot; lawsuit, case.

ANT. _Inertia, torpor, languor; quiescence, rest, passiveness; harmony, truce, peace._

=Active.= Agile, brisk, alert, lively, quick, prompt, ready, spry; industrious, energetic, busy, diligent.

ANT. _Dull, idle, indolent, lazy, quiet, slow, stupid._

=Actual.= Real, true, genuine, certain, absolute, positive, veritable, substantial; present, sensible, perceptible.

ANT. _Possible, fictitious, supposititious, virtual, theoretical, hypothetical, conjectural._

=Acumen.= Discernment, penetration, keenness, shrewdness, insight, sharpness, sagacity, acuteness.

ANT. _Dulness, obtuseness, stupidity, bluntness._

=Acute.= Sharp, pointed, keen, shrewd; violent, intense; high, sudden, severe, distressing; subtile, ingenious, sagacious, discerning.

ANT. _Dull, blunt, obtuse, stupid, heavy; chronic; stolid._

=Adaptation.= Adjustment, fitness, conformity, suitableness, aptness, harmony.

ANT. _Incompatibility, incongruity, misfit, discord._

=Add.= Sum up, increase, adjoin, append, attach, augment, enlarge, amplify, annex, affix.

ANT. _Deduct, subtract, lessen, reduce, remove, diminish._

=Addicted.= Habituated, disposed to, inclined, prone, attached to, devoted, given over to, wedded to.

ANT. _Averse, disinclined, unaccustomed, indisposed, divorced from._

=Addition.= Accession, enlargement, increase, extension, accretion, augmentation, adjunct.

ANT. _Subtraction, decrease, diminution._

=Address=, _n._ Courtesy, manners, politeness, tact, ingenuity, dexterity, discretion, adroitness; discourse, harangue, oration, lecture, speech, appeal, request, suit, solicitation.

ANT. _Clumsiness, rudeness, stupidity, unmannerliness, folly; refusal._

=Address=, _v._ Accost, approach, court, greet, hail, salute, speak to.

ANT. _Avoid, elude, ignore, shun, cut, pass, overlook._

=Adduce.= Offer, present, advance; cite, quote, introduce, name, mention; allege.

ANT. _Withdraw, except, deduct, suppress, retract._

=Adept.= Expert, master, proficient, genius, veteran, professor.

ANT. _Novice, tyro, blunderer, inexpert._

=Adequate.= Equal, competent, fitted, qualified, suitable, sufficient, capable, adapted, satisfactory; proportionate, commensurate.

ANT. _Inferior, poor, useless, worthless, unfit, incompetent._

=Adhere.= Stick, cling, cohere, hold, cleave; belong, pertain; be attached, fixed, or devoted.

ANT. _Part, separate, sunder, sever, give way._

=Adherence.= Tenacity, attachment, constancy, fidelity, devotion,

## partisanship; adhesion.

ANT. _Desertion, separation, disunion, unfaithfulness._

=Adjacent.= Near, close, bordering, adjoining, contiguous, beside.

ANT. _Separate, distant, remote, detached, disconnected._

=Adjourn.= Postpone, delay, defer; suspend, interrupt, close, end, dissolve.

=Ant.= _Despatch, hasten, conclude, complete, terminate, consummate._

=Adjunct.= Addition, appendage, accessory, aid, advantage, help; colleague, associate.

ANT. Detriment, impediment, hindrance, obstruction, detraction.

=Adjure.= Entreat, beseech, pray, supplicate, implore, beg; swear by.

ANT. _Defy, deprecate, remonstrate, dare, expostulate, warn._

=Adjustment.= Arrangement, disposal; settlement, agreement, understanding; fitting, adaptation, conformity; regulation, rectification, accommodation.

ANT. _Disturbance, disorder, confusion; dissension, divergence; non-conformity._

=Administer.= Dispense, distribute, supply; direct, manage, control, superintend; offer, proffer, tender.

ANT. _Withhold, refuse, retain; betray, mismanage; repulse, rebuff._

=Admiration.= Wonder, approval, love, surprise, astonishment, appreciation, reverence, high regard.

ANT. _Disapproval, contempt, dislike._

=Admire.= Honor, esteem, approve, adore, wonder at, venerate, extol, marvel at, applaud, revere, respect.

ANT. _Despise, dislike, execrate, hate, abhor, scorn, detest._

=Admissible.= Allowable, lawful, permissible, possible, probable.

ANT. _Absurd, preposterous, improper, wrong, unlawful._

=Admission.= Admittance, entrance, access; avowal, acknowledgment, concession, concurrence, allowance.

ANT. _Denial, contradiction, rejection, negation._

=Admit.= Receive; accept, acknowledge, own, confess; permit, allow, suffer.

ANT. _Exclude, debar; disown, deny; dismiss, reject, repudiate._

=Admonish.= Advise, warn, caution, counsel, censure, rebuke, reprove; forewarn, remind, dissuade; instruct, teach, apprise, acquaint.

ANT. _Encourage, urge, countenance, applaud, abet, instigate._

=Admonition.= Caution, warning, advice, counsel, instruction, reminder, hint, reproof, reprehension.

ANT. _Applause, encouragement, incitement, urging, instigation._

=Ado.= Trouble, toil, labor, pains; bustle, stir, fuss, noise, turmoil.

ANT. _Quiet, calm, composure, tranquillity._

=Adopt.= Appropriate, assume; approve, accept, support, maintain; affiliate, father.

ANT. _Reject, discard; renounce, abandon, disclaim; disown, repudiate._

=Adoration.= Worship, devotion, homage, reverence, veneration, idolatry.

ANT. _Execration, disesteem, abomination, abhorrence, hatred, detestation._

=Adorn.= Beautify, decorate, embellish, ornament, garnish, illustrate, gild, bedeck, grace, dignify, honor, exalt.

ANT. _Mar, spoil, deface, disfigure, deform, denude, strip._

=Adroit.= Dexterous, expert, skilful, apt, handy, quick, clever, ready, deft, ingenious, cunning.

ANT. _Clumsy, unskilful, awkward, bungling, unhandy, maladroit._

=Adulation.= Flattery, extravagant compliment, fulsome praise, fawning, sycophancy, blandishment, obsequiousness.

ANT. _Defamation, obloquy, ridicule, satire, sarcasm, detraction, aspersion, libel._

=Adumbrate.= Shadow, outline, indicate, hint, trace, delineate; typify, represent, symbolize; darken, obscure, hide, conceal.

ANT. _Fulfil, realize, embody; misrepresent; reveal, illumine._

=Advance=, _n._ Progress, improvement, growth; offer, proposal, overture, tender, proposition; rise, appreciation.

ANT. _Regress, return, retrogression; diminution; depreciation._

=Advance=, _v._ Push _or_ send forward, propel; promote, elevate, dignify, exalt; improve, strengthen, benefit; propose, offer; furnish, lend, loan; increase, augment, raise; proceed, progress; thrive, prosper; accelerate.

ANT. _Retard, hinder, withhold, withdraw; suppress, degrade, depress; oppose, recall, weaken, retreat; lessen, diminish._

=Advantage.= Benefit, profit, expediency, favorable opportunity, blessing; behalf, account, interest; privilege, convenience, assistance, utility, service.

ANT. _Loss, disappointment, frustration, difficulty, dilemma._

=Advent.= Approach, coming, arrival, accession.

ANT. _Departure, exit, exodus, retirement._

=Adventitious.= Accidental, incidental, extrinsic, non-essential, foreign, casual; redundant, superfluous.

ANT. _Intrinsic, pertinent, regular, proper, necessary, appropriate._

=Adventure.= Chance, hazard, risk, venture, experiment, trial; event, incident, occurrence, contingency, crisis.

ANT. _Matter-of-fact, matter-of-course; prospect; monotony, routine._

=Adventurous.= Bold, daring, venturesome, rash, reckless, headlong; dangerous, perilous, uncertain; fearless, enterprising.

ANT. _Timid, nervous, hesitating, cautious, cowardly._

=Adversary.= Foe, enemy, antagonist, opponent, rival, assailant.

ANT. _Ally, helper, assistant, accomplice, aider, abettor, accessory._

=Adverse.= Opposite, contrary, conflicting; hostile, injurious, harmful; unlucky, unfortunate, disastrous.

ANT. _Favorable, friendly, propitious, fortunate, lucky._

=Adversity.= Calamity, affliction, trouble, disaster, woe, distress, suffering.

ANT. _Success, prosperity, advancement, good luck._

=Advert to.= Consider, notice, remark, heed, attend, refer, allude, mention, touch upon; regard.

ANT. _Ignore, pass, drop, overlook, omit._

=Advertent.= Mindful, regardful, attentive, watchful, observant, thoughtful, considerate, heedful.

ANT. _Thoughtless, heedless, inconsiderate, inattentive._

=Advertise.= Announce, publish, proclaim, declare, circulate, noise abroad; offer for sale; inform, notify, apprise; promulgate.

ANT. _Suppress, ignore, hush, conceal; mislead, misinform._

=Advice.= Counsel, suggestion, admonition, instruction, caution; tidings, intelligence, notice; deliberation, care, forethought; recommendation, exhortation, information.

ANT. _Remonstrance, restraint, expostulation, prohibition; deception, delusion._

=Advisable.= Judicious, expedient, politic, prudent, desirable, beneficial, profitable; proper, fitting.

ANT. _Imprudent, undesirable, inexpedient, improper, detrimental._

=Advocate.= Counsel, lawyer, attorney; defender, promoter, friend, patron, supporter, pleader, maintainer.

ANT. _Accuser, impugner, gainsayer, adversary, opponent._

=Affable.= Open, free, frank, unreserved; accessible, familiar; cordial, social, courteous, polite, obliging, urbane, benign, gracious, mild, well-bred; condescending.

ANT. _Distant, unapproachable, inaccessible, haughty, contemptuous, supercilious._

=Affair.= Business, concern, function, matter, circumstance, question, subject; event, incident, occurrence, performance; battle, combat, engagement, skirmish, collision, brush, encounter.

ANT. _Detail, item, feature, point._

=Affect.= Influence, change, transform, modify, alter; concern, interest, touch, move, impress; crave, yearn, desire, like; assume, adopt, feign, pretend; operate, act on; melt, soften, subdue, overcome.

ANT. _Shun, repel, repudiate, spurn, dislike, eschew._

=Affectation.= Airs, mannerism, pretension, pretense, foppery, display.

ANT. _Simplicity, artlessness, naturalness, genuineness._

=Affection.= Feeling, passion, attachment, fondness, tenderness, love; propensity, disposition; endearment, devotion, partiality; attribute, quality, characteristic, mark.

ANT. _Indifference, repulsion, disaffection, repugnance._

=Affiance.= Trust, confidence, homage, reliance, betrothal, fealty, faith, plighting.

ANT. _Disloyalty, distrust, treason, suspicion, infidelity._

=Affiliate.= Associate, adopt, join, connect, incorporate, annex.

ANT. _Sever, transplant, separate, disjoin, dissociate._

=Affinity.= Relationship, kin, consanguinity, propinquity; likeness, resemblance, relation, analogy, connection, correspondence; sympathy, attraction.

ANT. _Repugnance, discordance, antipathy, antagonism._

=Affirm.= Assert, swear, state, declare, maintain, allege, protest, confirm, ratify, approve, endorse, aver, asseverate, assure, avouch, establish.

ANT. _Deny, doubt, demur, contradict, negative, gainsay, impugn, oppose, dispute._

=Affirmation.= Avowal, declaration, statement, assertion, testimony, deposition, confirmation, ratification, approval, endorsement.

ANT. _Doubt, denial, contradiction, disputation, disapproval._

=Affix.= Join, annex, attach, fasten, connect to, unite to, append.

ANT. _Remove, detach, separate, unfasten._

=Affliction.= Adversity, misfortune, grief, sorrow, distress, tribulation, disaster, trial, misery, calamity, pain, anguish, trouble, hardship.

ANT. _Consolation, relief, blessing, gratification, pleasure._

=Affluence.= Wealth, fortune, riches, opulence, abundance, plenty, profusion.

ANT. _Want, scarcity, poverty, penury, lack, indigence._

=Afford.= Supply, furnish, contribute, bestow, offer, confer, bear, endure, support, yield, impart, administer.

ANT. _Withhold, deny, retain, stint, grudge, withdraw._

=Affray.= Quarrel, tussle, scuffle, scrimmage, collision, brawl, disturbance, fight, rumpus, struggle, contest, strife, encounter, feud, tumult.

ANT. _Peace, amity, friendship, good will._

=Affront.= Outrage, insult, abuse, annoyance, displeasure, offense, provocation, wrong, vexation, wound, exasperation, irritation.

ANT. _Courtesy, homage, amends, compliment, apology._

=Afire.= Ablaze, burning, ignited, aflame.

ANT. _Out, quenched, extinguished._

=Afloat.= Adrift, at sea, abroad, loose; happening, betiding, brewing.

ANT. _Moored, anchored, aground, stranded, fixed, steadfast, firm._

=Afoot.= Afloat, preparing, forthcoming, ready, brewing, on hand, astir.

ANT. _Unprepared, unprovided for, inactive, sluggish, latent._

=Aforesaid.= Above-mentioned, foregoing, preceding, abovenamed.

ANT. _Following, subsequent, subjoined, forthcoming, after-cited._

=Afraid.= Fearful, timid, apprehensive, anxious, alarmed, terrified, frightened.

ANT. _Fearless, bold, confident, reckless, venturesome, indifferent, secure, hopeful, audacious._

=Afresh.= Anew, again, newly, frequently, repeatedly, once more.

ANT. _Uniformly, connectedly, continuously._

=After.= Subsequent, later; following, behind, rear, back, posterior; concerning, about, for, in relation to; in imitation of, in the pattern of.

ANT. _Before, preceding, introducing; in front of; opposite; facing; previous or prior to, afore; in advance; previously, already._

=Again.= Anew, afresh, repeatedly; further, moreover, besides; on the contrary; back, in answer _or_ restitution, in return; once more.

ANT. _Once, continuously, uninterruptedly, uniformly._

=Against.= Opposite, across, adverse to, counter to, athwart; facing, fronting, close up to, in contact with; for, in preparation for, in expectation of; in compensation for, in requital of, to match.

ANT. _With, for, beside, accompanying, aiding, promoting._

=Agape.= Yawning, open-mouthed; wondering, gazing, dazed, amazed; curious, inquisitive, agog, astare, eager.

ANT. _Listless, lukewarm, incurious, indifferent._

=Age.= Duration; period, date, epoch, time; maturity, generation; era, century.

ANT. _Infancy, youth, boyhood, childhood; moment, instant._

=Agent.= Actor, doer, operator, promoter, performer; cause, force, power; deputy, factor, attorney, representative, substitute; means, instrument.

ANT. _Counteragent, counteractor, opponent, neutralizer; chief, principal; originator, inventor._

=Agglomeration.= Accumulation, heap, pile, mass, conglomeration, cluster.

ANT. _Dispersion, division, separation, sifting, dissipation._

=Aggrandize.= Exalt, honor, elevate, dignify, promote, advance, enrich, augment.

ANT. _Degrade, impoverish, debase, humiliate, dishonor, lower._

=Aggravate.= Exasperate, provoke, wound, make worse, intensify, embitter, heighten.

ANT. _Soothe, assuage, palliate, diminish, conciliate, alleviate._

=Aggregation.= Collection, accumulation, mass, heap, pile, amount, total, sum, result, whole, agglomeration.

ANT. _Dispersion, dissipation, separation, division; unit; element, individual, ingredient, item._

=Aggression.= Attack, invasion, encroachment, assault, injury, offense, onslaught, provocation, intrusion.

ANT. _Retaliation, repulsion, retreat, resistance, evacuation._

=Aghast.= Dismayed, horrified, terrified, frightened; amazed, astounded, startled, astonished, dumfounded.

ANT. _Cool, fearless, indifferent, unmoved, unaffected, unexcited._

=Agile.= Nimble, active, lively, smart, prompt, alert, supple, brisk, quick, ready, sprightly, spry.

ANT. _Slow, heavy, clumsy, bulky, awkward, inert, ponderous._

=Agitate.= Disturb, trouble, shake, jar, convulse; excite, rouse, ferment; fluster, hurry, disconcert; discuss, controvert, debate, examine, ventilate, investigate; deliberate, contrive, devise, plan.

ANT. _Calm, allay, pacify, smooth, compose, quiet; solve, determine, settle._

=Ago.= Past, gone, since.

ANT. _Future, coming, hereafter, hence._

=Agony.= Anguish, torture, torment, distress, throe, pangs, pain, suffering, woe, excruciation.

ANT. _Assuagement, comfort, relief, composure, ease, enjoyment._

=Agree.= Accept, assent, approve, comply, consent, concur, admit, accede.

ANT. _Contend, disagree, deny; dissent, dispute, protest, oppose, demur, differ; decline._

=Agreeable.= Suitable, proper, appropriate, befitting, accordant, conformable, consonant, welcome, amiable, pleasing, gratifying.

ANT. _Unpleasant, disobliging, obnoxious, disagreeable, unwelcome, offensive, inharmonious, unaccommodating._

=Agreement.= Contract, compact, bond, bargain, covenant, harmony, liaison, obligation, undertaking, treaty.

ANT. _Promise, understanding, parole; discord, dissension._

=Agriculture.= Farming, husbandry, cultivation of the soil, tillage.

ANT. _Fallowness, sterility, unproductiveness, waste._

=Aground.= Ashore, stranded, not afloat; exhausted in resources.

ANT. _Afloat, loose, abroad, adrift; flush._

=Ahead.= In front, forward, onward, in advance.

ANT. _Abaft, astern, back, behind, aft._

=Aid.= Help, support, assist, serve, befriend, minister to, relieve, succor; supply, give alms to; foster, protect, encourage, favor.

ANT. _Oppose, discourage, thwart, baffle, deter, confront._

=Ailing.= Sick, ill, indisposed, unwell, feeble, infirm, weakly, delicate, unhealthy, pining.

ANT. _Well, healthy, energetic, strong, vigorous._

=Ailment.= Disease, malady, indisposition, distemper, complaint.

ANT. _Health, sanity, convalescence, vigor, recovery._

=Aim.= Direction, course, tendency, bent, proclivity, bearing; intention, purpose, design, scheme; reason; view, scope, drift, mark, goal, point; endeavor, attempt, aspiration, determination.

ANT. _Deviation, divergence, deflection, digression, aberration; tangent; venture, leap, fluke, chance, hazard, speculation; neglect, avoidance, carelessness, oversight._

=Air.= Atmosphere, gas; breeze, vapor, zephyr, wind; weather; appearance, aspect, manner, sort, style, way, behavior, carriage, bearing, expression, look, demeanor, mien, fashion; tune.

=Airy.= Aërial, thin, rare, ethereal; light, subtle, sublimated; sprightly, buoyant, vivacious, volatile, jolly, jovial, light-hearted; graceful, lithe, pliant, flexible, showy, jaunty, flaunting, garish; windy, empty.

ANT. _Thick, ponderous, heavy, inert, clumsy, dull, sluggish, wooden, slow, cheerless, sullen, doleful, leaden, lugubrious._

=Akin.= Related, allied, homogeneous, cognate, similar, congenial, sympathetic.

ANT. _Foreign, alien, hostile, heterogeneous, dissimilar._

=Alacrity.= Readiness, briskness, activity, quickness, willingness, promptness, compliance, cheerfulness, eagerness, gaiety, agility.

ANT. _Slowness, reluctance, repugnance, aversion, refusal, shrinking, recoil, disinclination._

=Alarm.= Summons, tocsin, distress signal, war-cry; fear, terror, apprehension, consternation, dismay, dread, affright.

ANT. _Lullaby; confidence, quiet, composure, assurance, courage._

=Alert.= Lively, prompt, ready, prepared, vigilant, wide-awake, bustling, active, brisk, nimble, watchful, sprightly, agile.

ANT. _Slow, lazy, absent, oblivious, sluggish, dilatory, drowsy._

=Alien=, _n._ Foreigner, stranger.

ANT. _Citizen, countryman, native, naturalized person._

=Alien=, _a._ Strange, foreign, hostile, remote, distant, contrasted, contrary, unlike, unconnected.

ANT. _Pertinent, essential; domesticated, naturalized; germane, akin, appropriate._

=Alienation.= Estrangement, transfer, conveyance, disaffection, variance, rupture, breach; (_relating to the mind_) insanity, aberration, delusion, lunacy, delirium, mania, imbecility.

ANT. _Confederacy, coalition, alliance, league, union; sanity, soundness, sobriety, rationality._

=Alight.= Perch, settle, drop, lodge; dismount, descend.

ANT. _Soar, spring, ascend, start, mount._

=Alike.= Similar, kindred, same, resembling, equivalent, homogeneous, identical, analogous, uniform, akin, allied.

ANT. _Different, unequal, dissimilar, unlike, heterogeneous, distinct, various._

=Aliment.= Food, nourishment, subsistence, fare, diet, regimen, nutriment, viands, meat, sustenance.

ANT. _Poison, bane; starvation, exhaustion; venom, scourge._

=Alive.= Living, quick, subsisting, animate, alert, active, breathing; sensitive, susceptible; operative; cheerful, joyous; brisk.

ANT. _Dead, defunct, lifeless, deceased; inanimate, dull; departed, cold; dispirited._

=All=, _n._ Whole, totality.

ANT. _Part, piece, share, portion._

=All=, _a._ Whole, entire, complete, total; each, every.

ANT. _Some, part._

=Allay.= Repress, restrain, check, subdue, silence, still, hush, soothe, compose, calm, appease, lull, alleviate, mitigate, solace, abate, relieve, palliate.

ANT. _Aggravate, arouse, excite, stir, kindle, fan, provoke._

=Allege.= Declare, affirm, claim, maintain, state, asseverate; advance, aver, introduce; profess, cite.

ANT. _Contradict, gainsay, refute, deny, disprove, quash._

=Allegiance.= Fealty, loyalty, devotion, homage, faithfulness, obedience.

ANT. _Treason, rebellion, sedition, disloyalty, disaffection._

=Allegory.= Parable, fable, myth, story, tale, apologue, metaphor, illustration, simile.

ANT. _History, fact, narrative, chronicle, record._

=Alleviate.= Abate, mitigate, reduce, relieve, lessen, assuage, remove, soften, moderate, lighten.

ANT. _Augment, increase, heighten, intensify, magnify, aggravate, enhance, embitter._

=Alliance.= Connection, relationship, affinity; confederacy, league, union, treaty, co-partnership, coalition; affiliation, similarity.

ANT. _Separation, estrangement, divorce; antagonism, disruption, enmity, hostility, schism, secession._

=Allot.= Divide, apportion, distribute, deal out, dispense; assign, grant, give, appoint, destine.

ANT. _Refuse, retain, misdeal, deny, confiscate, appropriate, seize, withhold._

=Allow.= Grant, own, confess, admit; permit, let, authorize; suffer, tolerate, endure; yield, give, grant; approve, sanction, abate, remit.

ANT. _Protest, refuse, deny, disapprove, forbid, disallow, reject, withstand, resist._

=Allowance.= Leave, permission, sanction, approval; admission, acknowledgment, assent; commission; qualification, exception; ration.

ANT. _Refusal, disapproval, denial; ratification, confirmation._

=Alloy=, _n._ Admixture, adulteration, deterioration, debasement, disparagement, drawback.

ANT. _Genuineness, enhancement, purity, integrity._

=Allude.= Intimate, insinuate, point, refer, suggest, signify, hint, imply, indicate, mention.

ANT. _Demonstrate, specify, declare._

=Allure.= Decoy, entice, coax, attract, tempt, inveigle, seduce.

ANT. _Dissuade, repel, warn, chill, damp, drive away, deter, alarm, terrify._

=Allusion.= Hint, suggestion, intimation, reference, implication, innuendo.

ANT. _Mention, demonstration, specification._

=Ally=, _n._ Assistant, helper, aider, friend, associate, colleague, partner, accessory, accomplice.

ANT. _Opponent, adversary, foe, enemy, antagonist._

=Aloft.= Above, skyward, heavenward, overhead, in the air.

ANT. _Beneath, earthward, below._

=Alone.= Solitary, sole, single, isolated.

ANT. _Accompanied, associated._

=Along.= Lengthwise, onward, forward; together, beside, simultaneously.

ANT. _Across, sidewise or sideways, lateral; apart, tandem._

=Aloof.= Apart, distant, away, off.

ANT. _Close, near, together, unitedly._

=Aloud.= Distinctly, audibly, vociferously, clamorously, sonorously.

ANT. _Softly, silently, inaudibly._

=Also.= As well, likewise, too, similarly, withal, besides, in addition, in like manner.

ANT. _Nevertheless, notwithstanding, on the contrary, but, yet, in spite of, on the other hand._

=Alter.= Change, turn, vary, modify, shift, substitute, remodel, transform, convert.

ANT. _Conserve, perpetuate, preserve, arrest, solidify, retain._

=Alteration.= Change, variation, modification, shifting, mutation.

ANT. _Changelessness, identity, fixity, permanence._

=Altercation.= Dispute, contention, controversy, difference, quarrel, wrangle, dissension.

ANT. _Concord, agreement, compromise, reconciliation, unanimity, harmony, consonance._

=Alternate.= Reciprocal, every other one, one after another, in turn, interchangeable, mutual.

ANT. _Continuous, successive, consequent, proximate, sequent._

=Alternative.= Choice, option, preference, election, pick, resource.

ANT. _Compulsion, quandary, necessity; fixity, changelessness._

=Although.= Albeit, even if, supposing, grant that.

ANT. _Yet, notwithstanding._

=Altitude.= Height, elevation, loftiness, ascent, eminence.

ANT. _Depth, declivity, descent, abasement._

=Altogether.= Collectively, conjointly, wholly, quite, completely, totally, utterly, entirely, thoroughly, fully, in the mass.

ANT. _Partially, piecemeal, by instalments, partly, incompletely, by halves, wanting; individually, separately._

=Altruism.= Philanthropy, unselfishness, public spirit, devotion to others, self-sacrifice, self-forgetfulness, generosity.

ANT. _Selfishness, self-indulgence, worldliness, meanness; egoism._

=Always.= Ever, forever, eternally, for aye, evermore, everlastingly, perpetually; uniformly, invariably, generally, habitually.

ANT. _Now, momently, instantly, suddenly; sometimes, occasionally._

=Amalgamate.= Mix, commingle, unite, combine, blend, compound, incorporate, join, fuse, consolidate.

ANT. _Disintegrate, decompose, disperse, separate, dissipate, analyze._

=Amaranthine.= Of the amaranth; fadeless, imperishable, undying, immortal, perennial; purplish, amethystine.

ANT. _Ephemeral, perishable, mortal, fading._

=Amass.= Accumulate, heap up, collect, gather, hoard, store up.

ANT. _Disperse, divide, scatter, spend, squander, waste, dissipate; portion, distribute, parcel._

=Amateur.= Lover, votary, devotee; beginner, neophyte, novice, tyro, dilettante.

=Amazement.= Astonishment, bewilderment, wonder, marvel, stupefaction, confusion, perplexity, awe.

ANT. _Anticipation, calmness, coolness, familiarity, preparation, stoicism, self-possession, steadiness, composure._

=Amazing.= Astonishing, astounding, wonderful, surprising, marvelous, prodigious, strange, miraculous, stupendous, extraordinary.

ANT. _Common, familiar, trivial, commonplace, frequent, hackneyed, usual, customary._

=Ambagious.= Winding, devious, sinuous; tortuous, indirect, evasive, circuitous; diffuse, dull, tedious; dubious, enigmatical, vague.

ANT. _Direct, straight, frank, open, simple, straightforward, plain, clear, lucid, unmistakable._

=Ambassador.= Minister, envoy, legate, deputy, plenipotentiary.

=Ambient.= Surrounding, encompassing, enfolding, circling, investing.

ANT. _Penetrating, infiltrating, permeating, intervening._

=Ambiguous.= Doubtful, dubious, uncertain, indefinite, vague, obscure, indistinct, equivocal, enigmatical.

ANT. _Obvious, plain, clear, lucid, unmistakable._

=Ambition.= Emulation, rivalry, aspiration, competition, opposition.

ANT. _Contentment, moderation, indifference, satisfaction._

=Amelioration.= Amendment, improvement, promotion, bettering, elevation.

ANT. _Degeneration, deterioration, injury, detriment._

=Amenable.= Liable, responsible, answerable, accountable; open, impressible, pliant, docile.

ANT. _Obstinate, irresponsible, independent, autocratic._

=Amend.= Improve, mend, repair, ameliorate, reform, correct, rectify.

ANT. _Harm, corrupt, spoil, debase, aggravate._

=Amends.= Compensation, atonement, expiation, recompense, indemnity.

ANT. _Insult, injury, fault, offense._

=Amenity.= Softness, mildness, suavity, gentleness, refinement, amiability.

ANT. _Austerity, ungraciousness, discourtesy, moroseness._

=Amiable.= Agreeable, gentle, good-natured, pleasing, winsome, attractive, charming, lovable.

ANT. _Crusty, hateful, sullen, surly, crabbed, cruel, unlovely, gruff, disagreeable, ill-tempered._

=Amicable.= Cordial, kind, friendly, harmonious, peaceable, propitious, favorable, sociable, amiable.

ANT. _Unkind, cold, distant, hostile, adverse, unfriendly._

=Amid.= Among, between, in the midst of, betwixt, surrounded by.

ANT. _Outside, without, beyond, afar from, away from._

=Amiss.= Wrong, improper, faulty, incorrect, inaccurate, inopportune.

ANT. _Correct, right, faultless, perfect, effective, true._

=Amount=, _n._ Sum, total, aggregate, whole; effect, substance, purport.

ANT. _Portion, instalment, part; failure, deficiency._

=Ample.= Liberal, large, spacious, plentiful, copious, lavish, exuberant, bountiful, generous.

ANT. _Niggardly, stingy, scant, mean, narrow, insufficient._

=Amplify.= Augment, enlarge, expand, expatiate, increase, develop, widen, dilate, extend.

ANT. _Abbreviate, condense, reduce, abridge, amputate, epitomize, summarize._

=Amusement.= Diversion, sport, play, fun, entertainment, merriment, pastime, game, frolic, relaxation.

ANT. _Weariness, disgust, satiety, tedium, monotony, strenuosity._

=Analogy.= Likeness, relation, resemblance, similitude, comparison.

ANT. _Unlikeness, incongruity, disproportion, disagreement._

=Analysis.= Separation, dissection, investigation, partition.

ANT. _Synthesis, composition, aggregation, combination, coherence._

=Anarchy.= Misrule, disorder, lawlessness, violence, confusion.

ANT. _Law, order, government, control, organization, subjection._

=Anatomy.= Analysis, dissection; skeleton; dismemberment.

ANT. _Synthesis, organization, union, construction; body._

=Ancient.= Old, antique, antiquated, obsolete, primeval, aged.

ANT. _Modern, young, fresh, new, juvenile, upstart._

=Ancillary.= Auxiliary, helping, instrumental; subsidiary, subordinate, subservient.

ANT. _Alien, adverse, redundant, obstructive, impertinent, irrelative, counteractive._

=Angelic.= Seraphic, celestial, pure, ethereal, adorable, rapturous, heavenly, divine, spiritual.

ANT. _Demoniac, demoniacal, diabolical, hellish, fiendish, foul._

=Anger.= Fury, ire, offense, passion, choler, indignation, rage, temper, vexation, displeasure, animosity, wrath, resentment.

ANT. _Patience, self-control, self-restraint, forbearance, leniency, mildness, forgiveness, giveness, charity, love._

=Angry.= Provoked, indignant, exasperated, irritated, wrathful, furious, resentful, mad, passionate, sulky, piqued, galled.

ANT. _Calm, unresentful, peaceful, self-controlled, good-tempered, forgiving, lenient._

=Anguish.= Agony, torture, torment, pang, acute distress, extreme suffering.

ANT. _Ease, pleasure, relief, solace, assuagement, ecstasy._

=Animal.= Brute, beast, living organism, sentient being; fauna.

ANT. _Man; vegetable; angel; inanimate object, substance; soul, spirit._

=Animate.= Enliven, vivify, quicken, invigorate, revive, stimulate, waken, rouse, excite, provoke, encourage, inspire, elate.

ANT. _Deaden, discourage, deter, depress, dishearten, stifle._

=Animation.= Life, vitality, spirit, vivacity, energy, exhilaration, sprightliness, courage, force, buoyancy, vigor, liveliness.

ANT. _Dulness, deadness, spiritlessness, inertness, stolidity._

=Animosity.= Hatred, enmity, malignity, antipathy, aversion, acrimony, strife, bitterness, hostility, dissension, malice, anger.

ANT. _Congeniality, unanimity, friendship, companionship, harmony, concord, regard, alliance, kindness, sympathy._

=Annals.= Chronicles, records, registers, rolls, archives.

ANT. _Romance, tradition, hearsay, legend, lays._

=Annex.= Add, affix, attach, adjoin, append, subjoin, tag, join, unite, connect.

ANT. _Detach, disconnect, withdraw, separate, remove, disengage._

=Annihilation.= Extermination, obliteration, eradication, destruction; non-existence; oblivion, non-being, eternal blank; Nirvana.

ANT. _Perpetuation, immortality; genesis, evolution, development._

=Annotation.= Note, comment, remark, observation, gloss, scholium, explanation, illustration, elucidation.

ANT. _Narrative, text, assertion, proposition, statement._

=Announce.= Proclaim, publish, report, herald, make known, state, reveal, tell, declare, communicate, promulgate, circulate, enunciate.

ANT. _Suppress, secrete, hide, cover up, conceal, bury, withhold._

=Announcement.= Notice, proclamation, declaration, advertisement, notification, manifesto, promulgation.

ANT. _Suppression, concealment, secrecy, equivocation, ambiguity, insinuation._

=Annoyance.= Trouble, discomfort, vexation, torment, infliction, nuisance, irritation.

ANT. _Gratification, delight, ease, pleasure, relief._

=Annual=, _n._ Yearly publication, year-book, annals; plant living but a year.

ANT. _Perennial, biennial, triennial; exotic._

=Annul.= Cancel, abrogate, recall, repeal, revoke, countermand, reverse, rescind, abolish, nullify, supersede, invalidate.

ANT. _Conserve, confirm, maintain, enact, establish._

=Anomalous.= Abnormal, unnatural, irregular, peculiar, exceptional, aberrant, unusual, singular, eccentric, erratic.

ANT. _Normal, regular, usual, ordinary, common, wonted._

=Anon.= Soon, shortly, forthwith, immediately, instantly, directly, ere long; afterward, presently, again.

ANT. _Herewith, now; already, previously._

=Anonymous.= Nameless, unacknowledged, of unknown authorship.

ANT. _Identified, authorized, authenticated, attested, signed._

=Answer=, _v._ Reply, rejoin, respond; be accountable, responsible, or liable, go surety; correspond, be similar; do, serve, suit, pass; refute, defend; satisfy, fulfil.

ANT. _Challenge, defy, question, interrogate, query, summon._

=Answerable.= Refutable, responsible, amenable, liable, accountable; corresponding, correlative, suitable, proportionate.

ANT. _Independent, irresponsible, irrefutable; unsuitable, dissimilar, different._

=Antagonism.= Opposition, contradiction, hostility, animosity, enmity.

ANT. _Amity, alliance, association._

=Antecedent=, _a._ Preceding, previous, prior, foregoing, anterior, precursory.

ANT. _Subsequent, posterior, sequent, following._

=Antedate.= Date before the true time; anticipate, forestall, foretaste.

ANT. _Postdate, follow, succeed, supervene._

=Anticipate.= Forestall, expect, foretaste, antedate, forecast, apprehend, hope for, look forward to.

ANT. _Postdate, follow; reflect upon, recall, recollect, remember; despair of, doubt, dread, fear._

=Anticipation.= Expectation, prospect, hope, trust, contemplation, abeyance, foreboding, apprehension, presentiment; prescience, prevision, forethought.

ANT. _Realization, consummation, despair, enjoyment, surprise, doubt, dread, wonder, fear._

=Antipathy.= Repugnance, repulsion, aversion, detestation, abhorrence, hatred, hostility, loathing.

ANT. _Attraction, affinity, congeniality, sympathy, harmony._

=Antiquated.= Quaint, obsolete, bygone, ancient, archaic, old-fashioned.

ANT. _Modern, modish, new, recent, stylish, fashionable, fresh._

=Antiquity.= Ancient times, eld, early days; ancients, people of early days; great age; (_pl._) relics of ancient days, archeology.

ANT. _Modernity; futurity, eventuality, posterity; the present, to-day._

=Anxiety.= Perplexity, apprehension, care, concern, solicitude, worry, dread, trouble, foreboding, misgiving, eagerness, diffidence.

ANT. _Ease, confidence, contentment, apathy, acquiescence, calmness, nonchalance, assurance._

=Apathy.= Stoicism, calmness, composure, lethargy, unconcern, indifference, insensibility, immobility, quietude, phlegm, stillness.

ANT. _Fury, frenzy, susceptibility, sensitiveness, anxiety, excitement, agitation, feeling, passion, vehemence, emotion._

=Ape=, _v._ Mimic, imitate, counterfeit, copy, affect, personate, represent.

ANT. _Vary, modify, change._

=Aperture.= Opening, hole, gap, rift, chasm, loophole, orifice, cleft.

ANT. _Closure, blank wall; seclusion, imperviousness._

=Apex.= Acme, vertex, pinnacle, summit.

ANT. _Base, nadir, foot, root._

=Aphorism.= Adage, maxim, proverb, saying, dictum, apothegm, saw.

ANT. _Lecture, disquisition, discourse, sermon._

=Apiece.= Each, individually, severally, distributively, separately.

ANT. _Together, collectively, synthetically, in the aggregate._

=Apocalyptic.= In _or_ from “The Revelation of St. John the Divine”; prophetic, mystical, mysterious; manifesting, revealing, unveiling.

ANT. _Concealing, obscuring, shrouding, eclipsing._

=Apocryphal.= Unauthentic, uncanonical, legendary, fictitious, false, equivocal, doubtful, spurious.

ANT. _Palpable, authorized, accepted, authentic, genuine, current, verified, attested._

=Apology.= Plea, excuse, defense, confession, acknowledgment, justification, vindication, explanation, extenuation.

ANT. _Charge, censure, imputation, condemnation, insult, complaint, offense, wrong._

=Apostate.= Renegade, turncoat, backslider, deserter, pervert, traitor.

ANT. _Adherent, supporter, zealot, dogmatist, fanatic._

=Apothegm.= Saying, dictum, proverb, aphorism, precept, byword.

ANT. _Sermon, discourse, tirade, harangue._

=Appall.= Terrify, frighten, dismay, shock, daunt, alarm, affright.

ANT. _Reassure, embolden._

=Apparel.= Clothes, dress, raiment, attire, costume, habit, guise, garments, robes, vesture, wardrobe, equipment, trappings.

ANT. _Nudity, deshabille, rags, tatters._

=Apparent.= Seeming, probable, likely, obvious, conspicuous, manifest, clear, patent, evident, plain, legible, specious.

ANT. _Real, hidden, dubious, improbable, doubtful, unimaginable, unsupposable, minute._

=Appeal.= Address, invoke, entreat, implore, supplicate, sue, petition.

ANT. _Protest, defy, abjure, disdain, deprecate, repudiate._

=Appearance.= Semblance, look, show, pretense, guise, fashion; arrival, advent, apparition; demeanor, air, complexion, manner.

ANT. _Disappearance, evanition, departure, vanishing._

=Appease.= Calm, pacify, soothe, quell, mollify, mitigate, lull; propitiate, placate, satisfy, reconcile.

ANT. _Aggravate, exasperate, provoke, inflame, incense, excite._

=Appellation.= Epithet, title, description, designation, name.

ANT. _Anonymousness, namelessness._

=Appendage=, =Appendix=. Attachment, addition, adjunct, supplement.

ANT. _Main body, original, whole, total._

=Appertain.= Belong, inhere, adhere, regard, concern, touch, relate.

ANT. _Be remote, far-fetched, or forced, have no bearing upon._

=Appetite.= Longing, craving, desire, relish, gust, zest, liking.

ANT. _Aversion, loathing, repugnance, antipathy, disgust._

=Applause.= Praise, approbation, commendation, compliment, plaudit, acclamation, éclat, clapping of hands.

ANT. _Denunciation, censure, blame, sibilation, vituperation, hissing._

=Appliances=, _n. pl._ Means, instruments, appointments, appurtenances, tools, adjuncts, equipment; resources, steps, measures, ways; contrivances.

=Applicable.= Fit, appropriate, suitable, pertinent, apt, proper, relevant, germane; adjustable.

ANT. _Irrelevant, useless, unavailable, impertinent._

=Applicant.= Petitioner, solicitor, suitor, candidate, aspirant.

=Apply.= Use, employ, exercise, appropriate; execute, carry out, practice; devote, engage, dedicate; request, petition.

ANT. _Divert, misuse, discard, divorce._

=Appoint.= Determine, establish, fix; assign, allot, designate; nominate, name, create; equip, supply, furnish; direct, command, decree, enjoin, impose, require, ordain.

ANT. _Reserve, cancel, disarrange, reverse, withhold, retain, undo, suspend, recall, withdraw._

=Appointment.= Assignation, assignment, agreement, arrangement; meeting, tryst; station, position, office, place; decree, command, order, edict, ordinance, mandate, requirement, law.

=Apportion.= Appoint, allot, appropriate, divide, distribute, share, grant, dispense, assign, deal.

ANT. _Retain, collect, consolidate, receive, gather, divert._

=Apposite.= Apt, pertinent, suitable, seasonable, apropos, fit, applicable, adapted.

ANT. _Untimely, irrelevant, unfitting, impertinent, misplaced._

=Appraise.= Estimate, prize, value, rate, fix a price for, survey, assess, assize.

ANT. _Undervalue, discard, misprize; discount, rebate, allow._

=Appreciate.= Estimate justly, value highly, esteem, prize, raise the value of; recognize, respect.

ANT. _Undervalue, misjudge, ignore, misconceive; depreciate, disdain._

=Apprehend.= Arrest, seize, take, catch, capture; imagine, conceive, regard; perceive, realize, understand, appreciate; fear, forebode.

ANT. _Miss, lose, misunderstand, ignore, misconceive._

=Apprehension.= Arrest, capture; understanding, intelligence, mind, reason; notice, cognizance; conception, imagination; knowledge, discernment, perception, sense; opinion, fancy, sentiment, notion, fear, suspicion, anxiety.

ANT. _Escape, non-detection; sensibility, emotion; apathy, lethargy; illiteracy, stupidity, stolidity; confidence, nonchalance._

=Apprise.= Give notice, inform, tell, publish, advise, acquaint.

ANT. _Deceive, mislead, hoodwink, mystify._

=Approach=, _v._ Advance, draw near, bring near, go near, push; broach, address confidentially; resemble closely, be like, similar, _or_ equal.

ANT. _Diverge, retreat, go back; retard, restrain; be unlike._

=Approbation.= Praise, commendation, approval, liking; support, consent, sanction, indorsement, concurrence, assent.

ANT. _Censure, protest, denial, disapproval, dissatisfaction._

=Approve.= Praise, commend, sanction, support, encourage, authorize.

ANT. _Disparage, condemn, disown, repudiate, dislike._

=Approximation.= Approach, nearness, similarity, likeness, contiguity, resemblance, propinquity, neighborhood.

ANT. _Remoteness, variation, distance, difference, divergence._

=Appurtenant.= Belonging, connected, appended, attached, coordinate.

ANT. _Isolated, detached, unallied, independent._

=A priori.= Theoretically; necessarily, apodictically, constitutionally, absolutely, primordially, inductively.

ANT. _A posteriori; practically, according to experience; deductively from facts._

=Apropos.= Opportune, seasonable, apposite, timely, apt, suitable.

ANT. _Inopportune, irrelevant, untimely, inapt, unsuitable._

=Aptitude.= Disposition, knack, endowment, tendency, inclination, fitness, suitability, bias, propensity.

ANT. _Unreadiness, unskilfulness, repugnance, incongruity._

=Arbiter.= Umpire, judge, referee; controller, master, lord.

ANT. _Appellant, claimant, litigant, disputant._

=Arbitrary.= Despotic, autocratic, tyrannical, overbearing, peremptory; capricious, wilful, fanciful; imperious, dictatorial.

ANT. _Considerate, lenient, obliging, equitable._

=Arbitration.= Mediation, intercession, interposition, intervention; arbitrament, umpirage, trial, judgment, decision.

ANT. _Litigation, contention, disputation, appeal, dissension._

=Ardent.= Passionate, fervent, intense, vehement, fierce, fiery; hot, burning; zealous, enthusiastic, strenuous.

ANT. _Cool, cold, indifferent, torpid, apathetic, dispassionate, phlegmatic._

=Argument.= Reasoning, proof, evidence, controversy, discussion, debate; subject, topic, theme, thesis; summary, abstract, outline.

ANT. _Assertion, assumption; dogma._

=Aridity.= Dryness, parchedness, sterility, unfertility, barrenness; dulness, indifference, torpidity, insensibility.

ANT. _Moisture, fertility, verdancy, luxuriance, productivity._

=Arise.= Ascend, mount, get up, stand up; rebel, revolt; result, eventuate.

ANT. _Descend, dismount; submit, cower; cause, instigate._

=Aristocracy.= Government of nobles; nobility, peerage, gentry.

ANT. _Democracy; people, populace, masses, rabble._

=Arm=, _v._ Equip, array, furnish, gird, accouter, provide; fortify, cover, protect, guard; prepare.

ANT. _Divest, disarm; expose._

=Army.= Soldiery, legion, armament, forces, host, phalanx, troops.

ANT. _Individual; citizens._

=Aromatic.= Fragrant, spicy, balmy, redolent, odoriferous, ambrosial.

ANT. _Scentless, malodorous, fetid, offensive, noisome, rank._

=Arouse.= Excite, provoke, instigate, stimulate, animate, kindle, warm, whet, summon, awaken.

ANT. _Allay, mitigate, moderate, still, quiet, assuage, quell._

=Arraign.= Accuse, charge, indict, impeach, denounce; prosecute.

ANT. _Acquit, discharge, condone, release._

=Arrange.= Settle, determine, adjust; dispose, group, marshall, rank, range, distribute, place; plan, contrive, project, devise, construct, organize.

ANT. _Confuse, disturb, jumble, disperse, disorder, derange._

=Array=, _n._ Order, parade, show, exhibition, collection, arrangement, line of battle, disposition.

ANT. _Disorder, confusion, jumble._

=Arrest.= Apprehend, capture, seize, detain, hold, take prisoner; stop.

ANT. _Liberate, free, dismiss, release, discharge; expedite._

=Arrival.= Advent, coming; comer, person _or_ thing arrived.

ANT. _Departure, going._

=Arrive.= Reach, get to, come; attain, touch, overtake; happen.

ANT. _Depart, set out_ or _forth, be gone_.

=Arrogant.= Haughty, insolent, proud, lordly, disdainful, supercilious, self-important, egoistic, overbearing, dogmatic, imperious.

ANT. _Humble, diffident, polite, bashful, servile, considerate._

=Art.= Craft, business, calling, employment, trade; practical knowledge; creation of beauty; skill, dexterity, sagacity, aptitude, cleverness, ingenuity; cunning, artifice, deceit, guile.

ANT. _Misrepresentation, caricature; candor, simplicity; incompetency, inability._

=Article.= Thing, substance, commodity; part, portion, particular, point, item, member; essay, paper, monograph, brochure.

ANT. _Nothing, nullity, cipher; totality, entirety, unity, integer._

=Articulate.= Join, unite, connect, fasten together; enunciate, utter distinctly, pronounce.

ANT. _Disperse, separate, rend, dissect, disjoin, disconnect; whisper; render mute, silence, muzzle._

=Artifice.= Cunning, craft, machination, stratagem, guile, device, contrivance, cheat, imposture, trick, ruse, maneuver, wile.

ANT. _Fairness, frankness, candor, openness, sincerity, truth, honesty, artlessness, ingenuousness, simplicity._

=Artificial.= Unnatural, factitious; feigned, counterfeit, fictitious, spurious, sham; affected, forced, strained.

ANT. _Natural, genuine, spontaneous, transparent, artless, unaffected._

=Artist.= Designer, contriver, skilled workman, artisan; mechanic, operative; painter; sculptor, carver; master, master-hand.

=Ascend.= Rise, mount, soar, aspire, go up, tower.

ANT. _Descend, fall, sink._

=Ascendancy.= Power, authority, sway, dominion, rule, mastery, control, government, influence.

ANT. _Subordination, servility._

=Ascertain.= Determine, establish, settle, fix, define, verify; discover, find out, get at.

ANT. _Guess, surmise, suppose, presume, conjecture._

=Ascetic.= Austere, rigid, severe, self-denying, abstinent, stern, puritanical.

ANT. _Lenient, indulgent, epicurean, pampered, mild, tolerant._

=Ascribe.= Impute, attribute, assign, refer, charge, set down.

ANT. _Dissociate, exclude; deny, refuse; disconnect._

=Ask.= Request, petition, solicit, entreat, beg, beseech, supplicate, require of, crave, demand.

ANT. _Refuse, reject, deny; command, claim, exact, extort, enforce, insist._

=Aspect.= Air, mien, look, countenance, expression, feature, bearing; state, attitude, posture, condition, appearance; direction, outlook, prospect.

=Asperity.= Acrimony, sourness, sharpness; sternness, severity, bitterness, sullenness, ill-temper; roughness, unevenness.

ANT. _Sweetness, pleasantness; gentleness, mildness; smoothness._

=Asperse.= Slander, calumniate, traduce, vilify, attack, abuse, blemish, besmirch, vituperate, disparage, censure, slur, malign.

ANT. _Eulogize, vindicate, clear, defend, extol, praise, shield._

=Aspiration.= Pronouncing with the rough breathing; yearning, longing, ardent desire, craving, spiritual ambition.

ANT. _Apathy, inertia, indifference, dulness, aversion, repudiation, avoidance._

=Assault.= Attack, invasion, charge, onset, onslaught, aggression.

ANT. _Resistance, defense, repulsion, retaliation, undermining._

=Assemble.= Gather, collect, convene, congregate, meet, come together.

ANT. _Disperse, scatter, dismiss._

=Assembly.= Concourse, company, gathering, congregation, assemblage, meeting, convocation, throng; congress, parliament, legislature, synod, diet, council, convention; ball, dance, dancing party.

ANT. _Dispersion, dismissal, disunion, disruption._

=Assent=, _n._ Acquiescence, acknowledgment, approval, concurrence, approbation, accord, consent, agreement, compliance.

ANT. _Disagreement, dissent, difference, protest, declension._

=Assertion.= Asseveration, protestation, allegation; position, statement, word, declaration; vindication, defense, maintenance.

ANT. _Denial, contradiction, abandonment, protest, disavowal, retraction, repudiation, confutation, abjuration._

=Assess.= Tax, value, appraise, estimate, compute, fix, assign, determine, impose.

ANT. _Discount, rebate, allow._

=Assiduous.= Diligent, industrious, untiring, indefatigable, devoted, constant, attentive, painstaking, laborious, persistent, active.

ANT. _Indolent, remiss, inattentive, lazy, desultory, inconstant._

=Assignment.= Appointment, allotment; specification, fixing, determination, offer, presentation; transfer, allowance.

ANT. _Withdrawal, refusal; acceptance, reception._

=Assimilate.= Make similar, cause to resemble; digest, appropriate, incorporate, absorb.

ANT. _Contrast, reject, separate, segregate._

=Assist.= Help, aid, succor, relieve, support, befriend, serve; speed, sustain, promote, further, coöperate with, patronize.

ANT. _Hinder, oppose, antagonize, prevent, resist, counteract._

=Associate=, _n._ Companion, comrade, chum, friend, helpmate, partner, colleague, coadjutor, accomplice, ally, consort, confederate, peer.

ANT. _Antagonist, enemy, foe, opponent, rival, stranger, opposer._

=Association.= Federation, fellowship, alliance, companionship, society, union, partnership, lodge, company, confederacy, corporation, fraternity, club.

ANT. _Solitude; disintegration; independence, separation, disunion, estrangement, disruption, avoidance; individuality._

=Assortment.= Arrangement, allotment, distribution; set, class, group, parcel, collection; variety, miscellany.

ANT. _Disarrangement, displacement, misplacement; conglomeration._

=Assuage.= Soothe, pacify, mitigate, ease, alleviate, abate, calm.

ANT. _Excite, inflame, provoke, aggravate, exasperate._

=Assume.= Arrogate, feign, pretend, take, usurp, accept, affect, appropriate, claim.

ANT. _Waive, allow, surrender; doff; concede, grant, abandon, resign; demonstrate, prove, argue._

=Assumption.= Presumption, hypothesis, theory, postulate, conjecture; acceptance of, responsibility for; usurpation, arrogance, haughtiness, conceit, lordliness, impudence, effrontery.

ANT. _Truth, fact; timidity, distrust, misgiving, consternation._

=Assurance.= Confidence, effrontery, presumption, assumption, arrogance, impudence, self-reliance, boldness, assertion; pledge.

ANT. _Doubt, distrust, hesitancy, misgiving, timidity, confusion, dismay, shyness._

=Astonish.= Amaze, startle, surprise, astound, stupefy, stagger.

ANT. _Encourage, embolden, assure._

=Astute.= Keen, discerning, acute, sagacious, shrewd, sharp, cunning, subtle, discriminating, knowing, perspicacious, crafty.

ANT. _Stupid, unintelligent, imbecile, dull, idiotic, shortsighted, shallow._

=Atrocious.= Infamous, outrageous, nefarious, villainous, diabolical, heinous, flagrant, horrible.

ANT. _Humane, noble, honorable, admirable, chivalrous, generous._

=Attachment.= Adherence, friendship, regard, tenderness, love, esteem, affection, devotion, inclination, union.

ANT. _Alienation, aversion, coolness, distance, estrangement, indifference, antipathy, animosity, dislike, enmity, divorce._

=Attack=, _v._ Assault, storm, assail, invade, charge, rush upon, spring upon; censure, criticize; combat, besiege, beset.

ANT. _Withstand, defend, resist, support, shield, aid, uphold, shelter, vindicate, protest._

=Attain.= Achieve, accomplish, gain, master, secure, earn, obtain, win, acquire, accomplish.

ANT. _Lose, fail of, forfeit, give up, abandon, let go, miss._

=Attainment.= Winning, getting, accomplishing, securing; erudition, acquirement, wisdom, accomplishment, mental resources, information, learning, enlightenment.

ANT. _Inspiration, intuition, genius; ignorance._

=Attempt.= Try, undertake, seek, endeavor, essay, attack, strive.

ANT. _Abandon, shun, drop, dismiss, neglect._

=Attendance.= Presence; persons present; train, retinue; ministration, service, waiting on.

ANT. _Absence; non-attendance; neglect, abandonment._

=Attention.= Care, notice, observation, consideration, watchfulness, alertness; study, reflection, application; respect, courtesy, politeness, civility, regard; courtship, devotion, wooing.

ANT. _Indifference, carelessness, heedlessness, abstraction, distraction, absence of mind; neglect, preoccupation, ignoring._

=Attenuate.= Rarefy, thin, reduce, diminish, make slender, slim, _or_ spare, lessen.

ANT. _Amplify, dilate, swell, develop, enlarge, broaden, expand, increase._

=Attest.= Bear witness, certify, indorse, corroborate, support, authenticate; invoke, adjure; prove, show, manifest, exhibit.

ANT. _Controvert, contradict, disprove, deny, upset, refute; conceal; vitiate._

=Attire.= Dress, apparel, robes, garments, habiliments, habit, raiment, uniform, costume, livery.

ANT. _Nudity, nakedness._

=Attitude.= Position, pose, posture, situation, standing, aspect.

ANT. _State, condition, essence; amorphism._

=Attraction.= Drawing, allurement, lure, fascination, charm, enticement, witchery, grace.

ANT. _Repulsion, aversion, disinclination, repugnance._

=Attribute=, _n._ Quality, property, characteristic, peculiarity, mark.

ANT. _Essence, substance, nature, being._

=Attribute=, _v._ Ascribe, assign, impute, refer, charge, connect, associate.

ANT. _Separate, sever, sunder, disconnect, deny, dissociate._

=Audacious.= Bold, daring, fearless, courageous, venturesome, intrepid, dauntless; presumptuous, forward, assuming, impudent, impertinent, insolent.

ANT. _Timid, cowardly, cautious; unenterprising; retiring._

=Augur=, _v._ Foretell, portend, predict, presage, prophesy, divine, prognosticate, betoken.

ANT. _Demonstrate, establish, settle, prove, warrant, calculate._

=August.= Awful, imposing, majestic, stately, grand, regal, kingly, princely, noble, dignified.

ANT. _Mean, common, vulgar, beggarly, commonplace, paltry._

=Auspicious.= Successful, fortunate, lucky, happy, prosperous; propitious, promising, opportune, favorable.

ANT. _Hopeless, abortive, unpromising, unsatisfactory, discouraging._

=Austere.= Severe, hard, stiff, stern, uncompromising, unrelenting, ascetic, rigid, formal.

ANT. _Affable, kindly, indulgent, genial, bland, mild, tender._

=Authentic.= Genuine, trustworthy, veritable, accepted, authorized, certain, accredited, sure, true, reliable, original, legitimate.

ANT. _False, fictitious, spurious, unauthorized, apocryphal, fabulous, counterfeit._

=Author.= Creator, maker, contriver, originator, inventor; writer, composer.

ANT. _Destroyer, demolisher, spoiler, annihilator._

=Authority.= Power, government, empire, dominion; supremacy, control, influence, interest; order, precept, sanction, liberty, warranty; expert, master, connoisseur.

ANT. _Anarchy, license, insubordination, misrule, lynch law; embargo, restriction, hindrance, proscription, prohibition, injunction, interdiction; weakness, wrong, usurpation._

=Autocratic.= Absolute, unlimited, tyrannical, oppressive, disdainful, overbearing, arrogant.

ANT. _Subordinate, dependent, responsible, constitutional._

=Automatic.= Self-moving, self-acting.

ANT. _Voluntary, free, optional._

=Auxiliary=, _n._ Assistant, helper, confederate, aid, ally, accessory, promoter, subordinate.

ANT. _Opponent, antagonist, hinderer, opposer._

=Available.= Serviceable, useful, profitable, beneficial, advantageous.

ANT. _Useless, inappropriate, irrelevant, inoperative._

=Avaricious.= Grasping, sordid, greedy, covetous, miserly, stingy.

ANT. _Liberal, bountiful, extravagant, wasteful, prodigal, unselfish._

=Avenge.= Punish, retaliate, revenge, vindicate.

ANT. _Forgive, pardon, overlook, condone, waive, forego, remit._

=Avenue.= Access, entrance, entry, approach, passage; alley, walk, street, road; route, channel.

=Aver.= Assert, declare, say, protest, affirm, asseverate, allege.

ANT. _Deny, contradict, disavow._

=Average.= Medium, medial, middling, ordinary, tolerable, moderate, mediocre, passable.

ANT. _Extreme, excessive, perfect, extraordinary, excellent._

=Aversion.= Dislike, hatred, repugnance, disgust, loathing, antipathy, abhorrence, detestation, unwillingness.

ANT. _Sympathy, congeniality, ardor, eagerness, avidity, love, desire, affection._

=Avidity.= Eagerness, longing, desire, yearning; rapacity, craving, greediness.

ANT. _Apathy, indifference, coldness, aversion, loathing._

=Avoid.= Quit, shun, abandon, escape, elude, withdraw, forsake, dodge.

ANT. _Seek, court, approach, accost, address, affect._

=Avouch.= Assert, affirm, declare, protest, profess, asseverate.

ANT. _Deny, contradict, gainsay._

=Avow.= Confess, own, acknowledge, admit, profess, proclaim, testify.

ANT. _Disavow, repudiate, deny, contradict, disclaim, ignore._

=Awaken.= Rouse, kindle, excite, provoke.

ANT. _Allay, quiet, subdue._

=Award.= Grant, allot, accord, distribute, assign, decree, determine.

ANT. _Refuse, withhold, retain, misappropriate, deny._

=Aware.= Conscious, sensible, cognizant, knowing, apprised, mindful.

ANT. _Unconscious, ignorant, insensible._

=Awe.= Fear, dread, reverence, veneration, terror, wonder.

ANT. _Contempt, familiarity, irreverence, disrespect, insolence._

=Awful.= Dread, grand, imposing, majestic, noble, portentous, appalling, august, alarming, horrible, frightful, shocking, terrible.

ANT. _Commonplace, contemptible, despicable, vulgar, undignified._

=Awkward.= Clumsy, bungling, ungainly, uncouth, rough, unskilful.

ANT. _Clever, skilful, handy, dexterous, adroit._ =Awry.= Oblique, slanting, twisted, crooked, distorted, athwart.

ANT. _Straight, direct, true, right._

=Axiom.= Truism, postulate, self-evident proposition, necessary truth.

ANT. _Paradox, sophism, contradiction, nonsense, absurdity._

=Azure.= Blue, sky-color, cerulean.

B

=Babble.= Chatter, prattle, jibber; prate, gossip, tattle; tell secrets, blab, blurt out; murmur.

ANT. _Hush, suppress; enunciate._

=Babel.= Tumult, disorder, clamor, confusion, discord, din, pother.

ANT. _Silence; articulation, distinctness, enunciation; monotony._

=Back=, _a._ and _ad._ Remote, hindmost, in the rear; again, return.

ANT. _Near, foremost, in advance._

=Back=, _v._ Support, aid, second, sustain, assist; retire, retreat, withdraw; move backward, cause to go backward.

ANT. _Fail, disappoint; advance, push._

=Backbiter.= Slanderer, defamer, traducer, calumniator, detractor, cynic.

ANT. _Advocate, upholder, defender, vindicator._

=Backslider.= Recreant, apostate, renegade, deserter, abjurer.

ANT. _Confessor, zealot, bigot, adherent._

=Backward.= Averse, indisposed, reluctant, loath, unwilling, hesitating, wavering; dull, slow, stupid, stolid; late, tardy.

ANT. _Forward, eager, willing, ready, prompt; quick, bright; previous, antecedent, prior._

=Bad.= Evil, wicked, depraved, abandoned, corrupt, immoral, unfair, unprincipled, villainous; pernicious, mischievous, hurtful, injurious, detrimental, unwholesome; unlucky, unfortunate; sad, unwelcome, distressing, disappointing; sorry, mean, shabby, vile, wretched, abominable; poor, imperfect; serious, hard, severe.

ANT. _Good, perfect, right, holy, beautiful, pleasant._

=Baffle.= Frustrate, thwart, defeat, circumvent, checkmate, undermine; bewilder, perplex, confound, disconcert.

ANT. _Aid, assist, advance, encourage, promote._

=Balance.= Poise, hold in equilibrium; weigh, compare, estimate; neutralize, counteract, compensate; equalize, square, adjust.

ANT. _Upset, cant, tilt, overbalance, subvert._

=Bald.= Bare, hairless; treeless, unsheltered, naked, verdureless; unadorned, prosaic, dull, vapid, tame, inelegant; literal, unvarnished; mere, unsupported, uncorroborated.

ANT. _Adorned, periwigged; forested, shaded; bright, elegant, rhetorical; ornate, polished, witty, scintillating._

=Baleful.= Harmful, hurtful, injurious, baneful, pernicious, deadly, ruinous.

ANT. _Innocent, beneficial, salutary, advantageous._

=Balk.= Frustrate, defeat, foil.

ANT. _Aid, promote, instigate._

=Banish.= Dismiss, drive out, eject, expel, exile, ostracize, evict, expatriate.

ANT. _Welcome, admit, protect, domesticate, harbor._

=Banquet.= Feast, treat, regalement, entertainment, festivity, carousal, cheer.

ANT. _Fast, starvation, abstinence._

=Banter=, _n._ Badinage, irony, raillery, ridicule, satire, chaff, mockery, jeering, derision.

ANT. _Discourse, discussion._

=Barbarous.= Brutal, atrocious, cruel, inhuman, merciless, savage, barbaric, barbarian.

ANT. _Civilized, humane, polite, refined, tender, delicate, cultured, elegant, nice, courtly._

=Bare.= Nude, naked, unclothed, exposed; sheer, simple, mere; bald, unadorned, meager; poor, destitute, indigent, empty.

ANT. _Dressed, protected; rich, luxurious, costly._

=Bargain.= Agreement, contract, stipulation, transaction; purchase, speculation, haggling, getting, proceeds; cheap purchase.

ANT. _Loss, misprofit; cheat._

=Barren.= Sterile, childless, unprolific; unfertile, unproductive; uninstructive, ineffectual.

ANT. _Productive, fertile, luxuriant, fecund; profitable, useful._

=Barrier.= Obstruction, hindrance, obstacle, bar, barricade, rampart; restraint, restriction.

ANT. _Thoroughfare, entrance, admittance, opening, passage._

=Base.= Cheap, worthless, inferior; vulgar, humble, unknown; mean, contemptible, servile; shameful, scandalous, vile.

ANT. _Noble, honored, exalted, pure, valued, lofty, esteemed, refined._

=Bashful.= Modest, shy, retiring, reserved, diffident.

ANT. _Bold, forward, pert, impudent, confident, conceited, egoistic._

=Basis.= Base, foundation, groundwork.

ANT. _Apex, top, superstructure._

=Bathe.= Wash, lave, cover, flood, immerse, suffuse.

ANT. _Dry, expose._

=Battle=, _n._ Fight, contest, skirmish, combat, encounter, bout, engagement, strife, action, conflict.

ANT. _Armistice, truce, concord._

=Bauble.= Trifle, toy, plaything, trinket, gimcrack, knickknack.

ANT. _Valuable, jewel, ornament, decoration, gem, possession._

=Bays.= Crown, wreath, garland, chaplet; honors, renown, plaudits, praise, glory, applause.

ANT. _Disgrace, contumely, stigma, brand._

=Beach.= Shore, strand, margin, sands, marge, rim, coast, seashore, seaboard.

ANT. _Ocean, sea, deep, main._

=Beacon=, _n._ Signal fire, mark, sign, guide, light, flame.

ANT. _Shadow; dark; will-o’-the-wisp, ignis fatuus._

=Beam=, _v._ Shine, emit rays, beacon, gleam, glitter, be radiant.

ANT. _Die out, grow dark, go out._

=Bear.= Support, sustain, hold up, carry; have, hold, possess; suffer, undergo, endure, tolerate, submit to; permit, allow; maintain, cherish, harbor; be responsible for; produce, yield, give birth to; generate.

ANT. _Drop, drag; release, give up; protest, resist, rebel, resent, reject._

=Bearing.= Behavior, deportment, demeanor, appearance, aspect, position, carriage, mien, air; relation, connection; patience, endurance; direction, course, aim; effect, force, meaning, scope; producing; bed, socket.

ANT. _Misbehavior; disconnection, independence, irrelevancy; pendency, suspension; diversion, deflection; inanity, absurdity._

=Beat.= Strike, thrash, flog, cudgel, pound, scourge, whip, batter, smite, pommel, overcome, chastise, conquer, defeat, castigate, bruise, bastinado, belabor, switch, spank, worst, vanquish.

ANT. _Soothe, stroke, caress, pat, shield, protect, mollify, heal._

=Beatific.= Ravishing, enrapturing, enchanting, transporting, ecstatic.

ANT. _Tormenting, disgusting, obnoxious._

=Beatitude.= Bliss, felicity, blessedness.

ANT. _Suffering, tribulation, pain, dolor._

=Beautiful.= Handsome, lovely, charming, fair, pretty, graceful, exquisite, beauteous, bewitching, attractive, picturesque, comely.

ANT. _Hideous, repulsive, ugly, deformed, frightful, ghastly, grim._

=Because.= Since, inasmuch as, for, as.

ANT. _Yet, notwithstanding, however, although, nevertheless._

=Beckon.= Signal, sign, call by gesture, nod.

ANT. _Ignore, repulse._

=Become.= Suit, adorn, fit, set off, be appropriate to; get _or_ grow to, turn to, change into; befall, bechance, happen to.

ANT. _Disagree, clash, mismatch._

=Becoming.= Befitting, beseeming, fit, graceful, proper, neat, suitable, congruous, worthy.

ANT. _Unseemly, indecent, derogatory, unsuitable._

=Befall.= Happen, occur, chance, betide.

ANT. _Impend, threaten, loom._

=Befitting.= Decent, becoming, suitable, proper, appropriate, expedient.

ANT. _Compulsory, obligatory; improper, inexpedient._

=Before.= Preceding, in front of; prior to, previous; in advance of, ahead of; hitherto; above, in a former place _or_ previous passage; formerly, of old, already; under the judgment _or_ control of.

ANT. _Behind, after, subsequently, later._

=Beg.= Beseech, pray, ask, request, supplicate, solicit, sue, implore, importune.

ANT. _Require, demand, extort, exact, insist; refuse._

=Beggar.= Mendicant, supplicant, pauper, suitor, applicant.

ANT. _Bestower, giver, benefactor._

=Beggary.= Want, penury, indigence, destitution.

ANT. _Riches, wealth, affluence, abundance, plenty._

=Beginning.= Origin, commencement, fountain, source, spring, start, opening, initiation, arising, outset, rise, inception, inauguration.

ANT. _End, finish, fulfilment, outcome, conclusion, termination, result, effect, expiration, completion._

=Beguile.= Cheat, deceive, befool; amuse, entertain, cheer, solace.

ANT. _Enlighten, advise; weary, bore._

=Behavior.= Conduct, deportment, manners, breeding, carriage, bearing,

## action, demeanor, life.

ANT. _Misconduct, misdemeanor._

=Behest.= Command, injunction, charge, precept.

ANT. _Option, liberty._

=Behind.= Back, astern, rearward.

ANT. Before, in front of.

=Behold.= See, look, discern, gaze, scan, observe, contemplate.

ANT. _Ignore, miss, wink, overlook, disregard, connive._

=Behoof.= Advantage, profit.

ANT. _Loss, detriment, disadvantage._

=Being.= Reality, existence, actuality; essence, inmost nature, substance, life, vital principle, root, heart.

ANT. _Nonentity, nullity, non-existence._

=Beleaguer.= Besiege, beset, blockade, invest; compass, block up, surround, obstruct, environ.

ANT. _Abandon; conquer, subdue._

=Belief.= Trust, confidence, conviction, credence, persuasion, reliance, assurance; dogma, creed, tenets, opinion, view; credit, acceptance, assent, currency.

ANT. _Distrust, denial, discredit, dissent, rejection, disavowal._

=Belligerent.= Warlike, contending, conflicting, hostile, rival, opposed, adverse, antagonistic, pugnacious, contentious, quarrelsome.

ANT. _Peaceful, friendly, forbearing, pacific, neutral._

=Belonging=, _n._ Quality, gift, endowment, attribute; property, goods, estate, chattel, possession; appendage, appurtenance, accessory.

=Belonging=, _a._ Related, connected, appertaining, congenial, cognate, accompanying.

ANT. _Alien, optional, independent, irrelevant._

=Below.= Under, beneath, underneath, hereinafter.

ANT. _Above, beforementioned, previously._

=Bend.= Curve, twist, crook, bow, deflect, deviate, diverge, twine; influence, persuade, incline, submit.

ANT. _Straighten, stiffen, direct; resist, break, crush._

=Beneath.= Below, under, underneath; unworthy of, unbefitting.

ANT. _Above, superior to; over, aloft._

=Benediction.= Benison, blessing, beatitude; gratitude, thanks, praise; benefit, grace, boon.

ANT. _Curse, censure, execration, ingratitude._

=Benefactor.= Patron, supporter, upholder, friend, contributor.

ANT. _Destroyer, enemy, oppressor, brute._

=Beneficence.= Charity, bounty, liberality, benevolence.

ANT. _Malevolence, hatred, stinginess, miserliness, niggardliness._

=Benefit.= Boon, service, advantage, profit, favor, blessing.

ANT. _Evil, loss, damage, calamity, injury, privation._

=Benevolence.= Kindness, humaneness, charitableness, good will, altruism, beneficence, liberality, philanthropy, benignity, bounty, humanity, sympathy, munificence, generosity, unselfishness, kind-heartedness.

ANT. _Malevolence, malignity, selfishness, stinginess, unkindness, brutality, churlishness, barbarity, illiberality, self-seeking, niggardliness, harshness_.

=Benign.= Kind, gracious, amiable, gentle, friendly, benevolent, humane, obliging, good.

ANT. _Hateful, harsh, brutal, churlish._

=Bequeath.= Will, leave, devise; hand down, transmit, impart.

ANT. _Withhold, alienate, disinherit._

=Bereavement.= Deprivation, loss, destitution, affliction, forlorn condition, desolation.

ANT. _Blessing, compensation, reparation, consolation, restitution, restoration, substitution._

=Bereft.= Stripped, despoiled, deprived.

ANT. _Endowed, blessed, enriched, compensated._

=Beseech.= Beg, implore, pray, ask, solicit, entreat, petition, importune.

ANT. _Grant, requite, confer; disdain, defy._

=Beset.= Surround, circle, hem in, besiege, beleaguer; embarrass.

ANT. _Defend, defy, repel._

=Beside.= Near, close together; aside from; out of.

ANT. _Far, distant._

=Besides= or =Beside=. Except, save, distinct from; moreover, furthermore, else, beyond that.

ANT. _Apart, separate from; exclusively; finally._

=Bestow.= Give, present, award, grant, confer; place, stow, store.

ANT. _Receive; seize, appropriate, usurp; disperse, throw away._

=Bet.= Stake, wager, pledge.

ANT. _Plan, calculate, dispose._

=Betide.= Happen, bechance, befall, come to pass, occur, take place.

ANT. _Result, be destined_ or _doomed_.

=Betimes.= Seasonably, in good time or season.

ANT. _Inopportune, late, tardy, unseasonable._

=Betoken.= Signify, denote, indicate, represent, imply, prove, show, augur; presage, prefigure, foretell, portend.

ANT. _Mask, hide, mislead, belie, misrepresent._

=Betray.= Reveal, expose, divulge, deliver up, deceive; manifest, show, indicate; lure, ensnare, entrap, beguile; seduce, ruin, corrupt.

ANT. _Protect, preserve, foster, cherish, conceal, suppress, guard._

=Betrothal.= Engagement, plighting, affiancing.

=Better.= Amend, ameliorate, improve, correct, advance, reform.

ANT. _Make worse, degrade, wreck, weaken, cripple, impair, injure._

=Between.= Amid, among, betwixt.

ANT. _Outside, beyond, without._

=Bewail.= Bemoan, lament, sorrow, grieve.

ANT. _Rejoice, joy, exult._

=Beware.= Take care, be cautious, be wary, look out, mind.

ANT. _Be reckless, careless; neglect, ignore._

=Bewilderment.= Confusion, embarrassment, daze, maze, perplexity, mystification.

ANT. _Enlightenment, self-possession, calmness, discernment, perspicacity._

=Bewitch.= Charm, enchant, fascinate, captivate.

ANT. _Repulse, avoid, recoil, annoy, harass._

=Beyond.= Over, across, remote, farther than, before; yonder, above, exceeding.

ANT. _Beside, near, at hand, close; behind, back; below, less than._

=Bias.= Bent, inclination, tendency, leaning, proneness, proclivity, propensity, partiality, predilection.

ANT. _Repulsion, reaction, repugnance._

=Bicker.= Wrangle, quarrel, dispute, squabble.

ANT. _Agree, sympathize, understand, harmonize._

=Bidding.= Command, order, direction, appointment, mandate; offer, bid, proposal.

ANT. _Request, solicitation; refusal, rebuff._

=Bide.= Dwell, stay, reside, wait, tarry, remain; endure, bear.

ANT. _Depart, go, move, migrate; resist, rebel, protest._

=Big.= Large, great, wide, bulky, huge, gross, fat; proud, arrogant, haughty, pompous.

ANT. _Small, little, least, thin, narrow; humble, subservient, unassuming._

=Bigot.= Zealot, fanatic, dogmatist, devotee.

ANT. _Skeptic, liberal, apostate, proselyte, doubter, agnostic._

=Bigoted.= Intolerant, opinionated, prejudiced, dogmatical, narrow-minded, one-sided.

ANT. _Liberal, broad-minded, open to conviction._

=Bill.= Account, charge, score, amount due, reckoning; draft of law; poster, placard, advertisement.

=Bind.= Fetter, tie, fasten, shackle, restrict, restrain, secure; compel, oblige, engage.

ANT. _Free, loose, set free, untie._

=Birth.= Family, parentage, origin, source, lineage, nativity, descent, extraction, race; rise.

ANT. _Death, extinction._

=Bit.= Part, piece, fragment, morsel.

ANT. _Whole, mass, aggregation._

=Biting.= Gnawing, sharp, severe, sardonic, censorious, piercing, sarcastic, trenchant.

ANT. _Pleasant, gentle, soothing, genial, flattering._

=Bitter.= Harsh, caustic, cutting, savage, acidulous, acrimonious, irate, sharp, sour, stinging, pungent, virulent.

ANT. _Sweet, honeyed, nectared, luscious, dulcet, saccharine._

=Blacken.= Slander, malign, defame, daub, bespatter, befoul, asperse, traduce, vilify, decry, calumniate.

ANT. _Clear, eulogize, vindicate, whiten, whitewash._

=Blackguard.= Rascal, scoundrel, villain.

ANT. _Gentleman._

=Blame.= Censure, rebuke, chide, reprove, reproach, condemn, vituperate, reprobate, reprehend, dispraise.

ANT. _Approve, praise, exonerate, acquit, exculpate._

=Blameless.= Pure, innocent, irresponsible, without fault.

ANT. _Guilty, implicated, blameworthy, faulty._

=Blanch.= Bleach, whiten, whitewash.

ANT. _Blacken, stain, dye, darken, color._

=Bland.= Soft, gentle, mild, affable, gracious, tender, benign, courteous, complaisant.

ANT. _Harsh, abrupt, rough, biting, savage, severe, impolite._

=Blandishment.= Flattery, coaxing, fascination, wheedling, attraction, charm, fawning, cajolery.

ANT. _Bluntness, unmannerliness, roughness, scolding, severity, sternness._

=Blank.= Bare, drear, bleak, void, empty; utter, pure, simple, mere, unqualified, unmitigated; amazed, astonished, confused, disconcerted.

ANT. _Full, replete; complex; modified, qualified; composed, controlled, self-possessed, cognizant, intelligent._

=Blasphemy.= Profanity, sacrilege, impiety, swearing.

ANT. _Reverence, godliness, veneration._

=Blast.= Shrivel, destroy, blight, kill, ruin, wither, annihilate; explode, rend, burst.

ANT. _Restore, expand, swell._

=Blazon.= Exhibit, show off, blaze, blare, trumpet, proclaim, publish.

ANT. _Conceal, hush, cover, hide, suppress, shroud, bury._

=Bleach.= Blanch, whiten.

ANT. _Blacken, darken, soil, stain._

=Bleak.= Windy, exposed, bare; cold, chill, raw, desolate, comfortless, cheerless.

ANT. _Sheltered, protected, warm, balmy, cheerful, comfortable._

=Blemish.= Blot, spot, flaw, fault, imperfection, stain; defacement, tarnish, disfigurement, disgrace, defect, dishonor, stigma, taint.

ANT. _Purity, unsulliedness, honor, integrity, wholeness._

=Blend.= Mix, unite, fuse, merge, mingle, amalgamate, combine, coalesce, harmonize.

ANT. _Separate, run, dissociate, divide._

=Bless.= Delight, gladden, make happy, thank, glorify, exalt, praise, extol, felicitate, cheer.

ANT. _Curse, anathematize, sadden, grieve._

=Blessing.= Benediction, benison; good, benefit, happiness, profit, boon, gain; glory, praise, gratitude.

ANT. _Malediction, curse; bereavement, impoverishment, calamity, deprivation, disaster, damage, detriment._

=Blight.= Pestilence, withering, blast, destruction.

ANT. _Development, maturity._

=Blind.= Sightless, unseeing, eyeless, undiscerning, ignorant, unconscious, uninformed.

ANT. _Clear-sighted, far-seeing, discerning, penetrating, conscious, keen, aware, sensitive._

=Blink.= Wink, ignore, connive, overlook.

ANT. _Notice, note, mark._

=Bliss.= Blessedness, happiness, joy, ecstasy, rapture, felicity, beatitude.

ANT. _Torment, woe, suffering, misery, accursedness._

=Blithe.= Merry, joyous, cheerful, gay, lively, airy, sportive, blithesome, mirthful, jocund, elated, vivacious, joyful.

ANT. _Dejected, heavy, dull, sullen._

=Block.= Obstruct, arrest, stop, fill.

ANT. _Free, open, clear._

=Blockhead.= Dunce, dolt, stupid fellow, numskull, ninny, simpleton, ignoramus, dullard, booby.

ANT. _Sage, adept, savant, philosopher, schoolman, luminary._

=Blood-thirsty.= Cruel, savage, ferocious, murderous, bloody, bloody-minded, gory, barbarous, inhuman, ruthless, sanguinary.

ANT. _Humane, kind, merciful, mild, tender, compassionate._

=Bloom=, _n._ Blossom, flower, flowering, efflorescence; flush, freshness, prime, vigor, glow; delicacy, innocence.

ANT. _Decay, decadence, blight, blast, roughness, toughness, ghastliness, superannuation, cadaverousness, coarseness._

=Bloom=, _v._ Blossom, bud, flower, germinate, sprout, blow, develop.

ANT. _Blight, be blasted, wither._

=Blooming.= Flourishing, flowering; young, beautiful, fair, fresh.

ANT. _Fading, waning, old, unsightly, deformed, blasted, withered._

=Blot.= Sully, spot, tarnish, spoil, discolor, pollute, stain, erase, blur, blotch, smear, smutch, obliterate.

ANT. _Cleanse, clear, whiten, blanch; perpetuate, preserve._

=Blot out.= Erase, cancel, expunge, obliterate, efface, destroy, wipe out.

ANT. _Restore, replace._

=Blow=, _n._ Knock, thump, stroke, box, buffet, calamity, cuff, cut, concussion, disaster, lash, misfortune, rap, shock, stroke, wound, affliction, blast, gale, gust; disappointment.

ANT. _Relief, comfort, blessing, consolation, assuagement._

=Bluff.= Abrupt, blunt, inconsiderate, open, rough, unmannerly, uncivil, blustering, bold, brusque, coarse, discourteous, frank, impolite, plain-spoken, rude.

ANT. _Bland, courteous, genial, polite, refined, reserved, urbane, polished._

=Blunder.= Error, mistake, misunderstanding, fault, slip, oversight, inaccuracy, delusion.

ANT. _Accuracy, correctness, truthfulness, exactness, ratification, foresight, achievement, success, correction._

=Blunt=, _a._ Obtuse, dull, pointless, edgeless, brusk, abrupt, plain, informal, stupid, stolid.

ANT. _Sharp, keen, acute, sensitive, polished, courteous, refined._

=Blunt=, _v._ Subdue, numb, harden, dull, make dull, deaden, paralyze, stupefy; moderate, allay, mitigate, assuage.

ANT. _Quicken, sharpen, instigate, excite, stimulate, animate, vitalize._

=Blush=, _n._ Bloom, color, reddening, carnation, complexion; shame, confusion, guiltiness.

ANT. _Pallor; innocence, purity, unconsciousness; boldness, effrontery._

=Bluster.= Storm, rage, insult, roar, swagger, vaunt, boast.

ANT. _Cringe, whine, whimper._

=Boast.= Vaunt, brag, swagger, magnify, make much of, swell, bluster, triumph, glory, vapor.

ANT. _Whine, cringe; minimize, apologize._

=Bodily.= Corporeally; completely, wholly, altogether, entirely, collectively, unitedly.

ANT. _Spiritually, ghostly; piecemeal, partially, gradually, fragmentarily._

=Body.= Material _or_ physical substance; carcass, corpse; trunk, stem, bulk, main part; person, individual, mortal, creature, being; company, society, corporation; system; consistency, substance; ashes, form, dust, frame, remains, clay.

ANT. _Intellect, intelligence, soul, spirit, mind; branch, limb; world, universe; mass, conglomeration._

=Boil.= Bubble, rage, effervesce, explode, fume.

ANT. _Calm, subside, cool, recover._

=Boisterous.= Loud, unrestrained, stormy, noisy, furious, violent, clamorous.

ANT. _Quiet, silent, unostentatious, mild, gentle, peaceful, calm, serene, self-possessed._

=Bold.= Courageous, fearless, adventurous, brave, intrepid, dauntless, audacious, daring, valiant.

ANT. _Timorous, fearful, retiring, shy, bashful._

=Bolster.= Support, prop, help, sustain, aid, buoy, patch, defend, maintain.

ANT. _Depress, fail, relax._

=Bombast.= Bluster, pomposity, fustian, braggadocio, rhodomontade.

ANT. _Modesty, humility, veracity, moderation, temperance._

=Bond.= Tie, fastening, manacle, fetter; compact, obligation, security.

ANT. _Option, freedom, parole, honor, discretion._

=Bondage.= Servitude, slavery, imprisonment, captivity, incarceration, subjection, serfdom, confinement, thraldom.

ANT. _Liberty, freedom, manumission, independence._

=Bondsman.= Slave, serf, captive, vassal, prisoner.

ANT. _Freeman, gentleman, master, lord._

=Bonny.= Fair, pretty, pleasant, handsome, shapely, buxom.

ANT. _Homely, ugly, unseemly, deformed, ill-favored._

=Bonus.= Premium, douceur, boon, benefit.

ANT. _Fine, penalty, discount, mulct._

=Booby.= Dunce, idiot, numskull.

ANT. _Wiseacre, solon, oracle._

=Bookish.= Pedantic, studious, learned, erudite, educated.

ANT. _Illiterate, ignorant._

=Boor.= Rustic, clown, lout, peasant, countryman, plowman, swain, bumpkin.

ANT. _Gentleman, courtier._

=Boorish.= Rude, rustic, clownish, loutish, ungainly, awkward, coarse, rough, gawky.

ANT. _Polite, civil, polished, urbane, courtly, affable, gracious._

=Bootless.= Useless, unavailing, unprofitable, profitless, vain.

ANT. _Effectual, profitable, useful, effective._

=Booty.= Plunder, prey, spoil, pillage, loot.

ANT. _Restitution, fine, forfeiture, confiscation, penalty._

=Border.= Edge, limit, boundary, brink, rim, verge, enclosure, confine, band.

ANT. _Land, tract, interior, center, space, substance._

=Bore.= Pierce, perforate, penetrate, drill; weary, plague, trouble, vex, worry, annoy.

ANT. _Delight, gratify, please._

=Bosom.= Breast, heart, affection; hollow, depths, midst, inmost recesses; retreat, retirement, quiet, privacy.

ANT. _Surface, exterior, expanse; manner, deportment, demeanor._

=Both.= Twain, two.

ANT. _Either, each, every, neither, none, not any, no one._

=Bother.= Worry, pester, perplex, harass, plague, tease, vex, molest, annoy, excite.

ANT. _Aid, assist, calm, quiet, compose._

=Bottom.= Deep, profound, base, foot; foundation, basis, groundwork; valley, meadow; ship, vessel; seat; grounds, lees, sediments; stamina, power of endurance.

ANT. _Top, height, acme, apex, summit, crown, brow; surface._

=Bound=, _v._ Skip, leap, frisk, jump, spring; confine, limit, circumscribe, terminate, restrict, restrain.

ANT. _Hobble, limp, crawl, creep, shamble; enlarge, open, extend, spread out._

=Boundary.= Margin, limit, confines, border, bound, frontier, line, marge, verge, termination, term, barrier, bourn, edge, enclosure, landmark; circumference.

ANT. _Land, region, estate, interior, territory; center, citadel; inside._

=Boundless.= Unlimited, illimitable, unbounded, measureless, infinite.

ANT. _Narrow, restricted, confined, circumscribed._

=Bountiful.= Liberal, generous, benevolent, unselfish, munificent.

ANT. _Miserly, selfish, stingy, niggardly._

=Bounty.= Liberality, gift, generosity, charity, benefaction, benignity, benevolence, munificence, donation; premium, reward, bonus.

ANT. _Closeness, stinginess, niggardliness, miserliness._

=Bower.= Recess, arbor, retreat, alcove, summerhouse.

ANT. _Open place._

=Brag.= Boast, vaunt, bully, swagger.

ANT. _Cringe, whine, whimper._

=Braid.= Bind, weave, plait, tie.

ANT. _Unbind, dishevel._

=Branch.= Member, bough, limb, shoot, arm, twig, scion, offshoot, ramification; section, department, division; article, part, portion; tributary; derivative line, cognate stock.

ANT. _Trunk, stock, stem; race, family, house._

=Brand=, _v._ Denounce, mark, stigmatize, disgrace.

ANT. _Honor, decorate, distinguish._

=Brandish.= Flourish, wield, whisk, shake, wave.

ANT. _Suspend, stay, arrest._

=Bravado.= Boasting, bragging, bluster.

ANT. _Diffidence, reserve, concealment, modesty._

=Brave.= Fearless, heroic, undaunted, undismayed, adventurous, bold, courageous, daring, dauntless, gallant, intrepid, valiant, venturesome, doughty, chivalrous, chivalric, splendid, courteous.

ANT. _Afraid, cringing, fearful, shrinking, timid, timorous, frightened, cowardly, faint-hearted, pusillanimous, churlish, discourteous, fearsome._

=Brawny.= Muscular, strong, powerful, athletic, sinewy, herculean, robust, stout.

ANT. _Weak, fragile, delicate, feeble, effeminate, lean._

=Breach.= Break, rupture, opening, fracture, flaw, fissure, rent; violation, infringement, non-observance; quarrel, difference, variance, dissension, schism, alienation.

ANT. _Integrity, wholeness, flawlessness, completeness; reconciliation, healing; conservation, observance; inviolateness; union, fidelity, amalgamation._

=Break.= Fracture, rend, part, sever, shatter, smash, shiver; weaken, impair, enfeeble, enervate; tame; make bankrupt; dismiss, discard, degrade, cashier; mitigate, assuage; interrupt, stop, cut short; open, unfold; destroy, sunder, burst, rive, crack, crush, demolish, rupture, split, transgress.

ANT. _Fasten, join, mend, secure, unite, weld, attach, bind, solder, heal, piece, conjoin, rejoin; protect, conserve; encourage, strengthen, preserve; observe, obey._

=Breast.= Bosom, heart, affection, conscience.

=Breathless.= Out of breath; lifeless, dead; exhausted, eager, absorbed, attentive, fascinated; astonished, astounded, bewildered.

ANT. _Calm, collected, cool, composed; indifferent, uninterested._

=Breed=, _n._ Lineage, race, pedigree, progeny, stock, line, family, extraction, strain.

ANT. _Ancestor, source, original, origin._

=Breed=, _v._ Bring forth, bear, beget, produce; nurture, foster, nourish; discipline, educate, instruct, train, teach, school; occasion, originate, generate, procreate, propagate, cause, evolve.

ANT. _Destroy, extirpate, stifle, extinguish._

=Breeding.= Discipline, instruction, education, nurture, training, schooling; manners, deportment.

ANT. _Ill manners, misbehavior; ignorance, illiteracy._

=Brevity.= Shortness, terseness, conciseness, compression, pithiness, succinctness, pointedness; abbreviation, abridgment.

ANT. _Prolixity, diffuseness, verbosity, length, protraction, elongation, extension, tediousness._

=Brew.= Concoct, compound, mix, hatch, foment, excite; prepare, collect, gather, grow; threaten, impend; form.

ANT. _Disperse, break, spoil, mar, miscompound._

=Bridle=, _v._ Restrain, curb, control, govern, check; bristle, ruffle; master, moderate, compress, repress.

ANT. _Relax, loosen, give vent, liberate, discharge; soothe, calm._

=Brief.= Short, concise, succinct.

ANT. _Long, tedious, diffuse._

=Bright.= Shining, resplendent, luminous, glowing, lustrous, beaming, gleaming, glistening, blazing, flaming, flashing, radiant, ruddy, refulgent, brilliant, dazzling, sparkling, scintillating, burnished; lucid, clear, transparent, pellucid, lambent, cloudless, limpid; glorious, famous, illustrious; intelligent, acute, discerning, keen, ingenious; auspicious, promising, propitious, favorable, inspiring; cheerful, merry, lively, happy, animated.

ANT. _Opaque, dull, dark, gloomy, black, ebon, shadowy, rayless, sunless, murky, cloudy, overcast, pitchy, lurid; obscure, mysterious, enigmatical, mystic, unintelligible, occult, recondite, abstruse, cabalistic, transcendental; disheartening, discouraging, dismal, cheerless; ignorant, unlettered, untaught, imbecile, rude, benighted; foul, infamous, horrible, damnable, vile, infernal, wicked, sullen, atrocious, dejected._

=Brilliant.= Bright, radiant, flashing, lustrous, glorious, luminous, effulgent, beaming, sparkling; illustrious, distinguished, celebrated, famous, renowned, eminent.

ANT. _Dark, dull, stupid, gloomy; notorious, infamous; obscure, insignificant._

=Bring.= Bear, fetch, convey; conduct, guide, lead, attend, accompany, convoy; obtain, gain, procure, produce; induce, prevail upon.

ANT. _Remove, export, send, exclude, debar, transport, abstract, subtract._

=Brisk.= Lively, quick, vivacious, active, alert, animated, prompt, sprightly, nimble, spry, agile.

ANT. _Slow, heavy, dull, sluggish, indolent, inactive, unenergetic, stagnant._

=Bristling.= Full, crowded, swarming, stocked, multifarious, multitudinous; bristly, standing on end like bristles; ruffled, roughened, corrugated, bespined; bridled, angered, offended.

ANT. _Smooth, soothed, allayed; prone; bare, nude, scant, devoid, vacant._

=Brittle.= Fragile, crumbling, shivery, frail, easily broken.

ANT. _Tough, stout, strong, hardy._

=Broach.= Open, pierce, tap; suggest, hint, approach, break; utter, publish, proclaim, give out; originate, propound.

ANT. _Repress, cork, bottle, secrete, conceal, hide._

=Broad.= Wide; large, ample, extensive, vast, spacious, capacious; liberal, tolerant, free, hospitable; spread, diffused, open; gross, vulgar, indecent, coarse.

ANT. _Narrow; contracted, restricted, confined, limited; prejudiced, illiberal, bigoted, reserved; veiled, enigmatical, shrouded, shaded; refined, delicate, sketchy; specific, pointed._

=Broil.= Affray, quarrel, contention.

=Brook.= Tolerate, bear, suffer, endure, abide, submit to, undergo, permit.

ANT. _Resist, resent, reject._

=Brotherhood.= Fraternity, fellowship, association, sodality, society.

=Browbeat.= Bully, intimidate, bulldoze, overawe.

ANT. _Rally, support._

=Bruise.= Pommel, crush, squeeze, break, pound, batter, deface.

ANT. _Heal, soothe._

=Brunt.= Shock, attack, impulse, onslaught, onset, assault.

ANT. _Repulse, resistance, endurance._

=Brutal.= Brutish, animal, beastly, bestial; savage, ferocious, cruel, harsh, uncivil, rude, rough, gruff, impolite, brusque; sensual, carnal.

ANT. _Humane, self-controlled, civilized, enlightened, elevated, noble, refined, intelligent, grand._

=Bubble.= Toy, trifle, fancy, conceit, dream, vision, froth, trash.

ANT. _Prize, treasure, reality, substance, jewel, good, advantage._

=Buffoon.= Wag, clown, jester, mountebank, harlequin, droll, punch, fool.

ANT. _Wit, genius, pedant, philosopher._

=Build.= Make, form, shape, figure, model; construct, erect, raise.

ANT. _Demolish, overthrow, destroy._

=Building.= Architecture, edifice, structure, fabric, pile, erection.

ANT. _Ruin, demolition, dilapidation, dismantlement._

=Bulk.= Magnitude, size, volume, mass; greatness, amplitude, massiveness; majority, major part, most, principal part; dimension.

ANT. _Portion, section, atom, particle; diminution, tenuity, contraction, dismemberment, disintegration._

=Bulwark.= Rampart, fortress, fortification, stronghold, intrenchment, bastion, parapet, citadel.

ANT. _Siege, bombardment, cannonade, boarding, storming._

=Bungler.= Botcher, clown, fumbler, clumsy workman, novice.

ANT. _Adept, adroit, master, artist, proficient workman, professor._

=Buoy=, _v._ Float, support, sustain; elevate, inspire, assure, animate, cheer.

ANT. _Sink, drown, depress, swamp; crush, betray, fail, deject, overcome._

=Buoyant.= Light; cheerful, hopeful, sprightly, vivacious, joyous, blithesome, jocund, sportive, jubilant, elastic, floating.

ANT. _Heavy, dejected, depressed, moody, joyless, cheerless, desponding._

=Burden.= Load, weight; cargo, freight; capacity, tonnage: impediment, incubus, grievance, trial, trouble, affliction, sorrow; chorus, refrain; topic, drift, tenor, point, substance.

ANT. _Ease, lightness; facility, airiness, light-heartedness; consolation, assuagement, alleviation, liberation, mitigation._

=Burial.= Interment, sepulture, entombment, burying.

ANT. _Exhumation, disinterment._

=Burlesque.= Parody, travesty, caricature, ridicule, farce.

ANT. _Classic, history, fact._

=Burn.= Char, consume, cremate, scorch, set on fire, singe, ignite, incinerate, kindle, blaze, cauterize, glow, smolder.

ANT. _Smother, stifle, subdue, extinguish, cool, put out; subside, glimmer, lower, pale._

=Burnish.= Brighten, polish, make to glisten, glaze, gloss.

ANT. _Dull, bedim, cloud, scratch, abrade._

=Burst.= Break, open, explode, blow up, rend, split, crack, discharge, shatter, disrupt.

ANT. _Cohere, hold, stand, stick together, adhere._

=Bury.= Inter, cover up, entomb, inearth, inhume, inurn; shroud, conceal, secrete, hide; immure, confine; cancel, compose, hush, cover with oblivion.

ANT. _Resurrect, exhume, disinter, excavate, expose, resuscitate; publish, announce, advertise._

=Business.= Employment, craft, trade, commerce, handicraft, traffic, transaction, work, vocation, job, affairs, avocation, profession, occupation, calling, concern, duty, office, interest.

ANT. _Stagnation, leisure, inactivity._

=Bustle.= Activity, stir, commotion, excitement, haste, hurry, energy, eagerness, flurry.

ANT. _Idleness, inactivity, vacation, stagnation, quiet, indolence, indifference, unconcern._

=Busy.= Engaged, employed, occupied; diligent, industrious, active, working, sedulous; brisk, stirring, bustling, agile, spry, nimble; meddling, officious.

ANT. _Idle, lazy, indolent, slothful._

=But.= Save, except, furthermore, barely, besides, however, just, only, notwithstanding, though, unless, yet, still, merely, nevertheless, provided, moreover.

=Buxom.= Bonny, blithe, shapely.

ANT. _Lean, slender, ill-shaped._

=Buy.= Purchase, bargain, acquire; bribe, corrupt, pervert, suborn, subsidize.

ANT. _Sell, hawk, retail, vend._

=By.= Through, with; at, on; from, according to; near, close by; past; along, over; before, in the sight of, in the name of; per, at.

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=Cabal.= Confederacy, conspiracy, conclave, combination, faction, crew, junto, gang, coterie, plot, political intrigue, league.

=Cadaverous.= Bloodless, pallid, pale, wan, ghastly, deathlike, ashy.

ANT. _Rosy, blushing, sanguine, incarnadine._

=Cage=, _v._ Imprison, immure, confine, incarcerate.

ANT. _Liberate, free, dismiss, unbar._

=Caitiff.= Rascal, miscreant, villain, wretch, coward, sneak, traitor, scoundrel, vagabond.

ANT. _Gentleman, patriot, philanthropist._

=Cajole.= Coax, wheedle, flatter, fawn upon, blandish; deceive, entrap, beguile, inveigle, impose upon.

ANT. _Scold, chide, warn._

=Calamitous.= Disastrous, unfortunate, unlucky, adverse, untoward, deplorable, ruinous, inauspicious, wretched, distressing, grievous, ill-starred, troublous, hapless, ill-omened.

ANT. _Fortunate, auspicious, felicitous, propitious, favorable, advantageous._

=Calamity.= Disaster, misfortune, catastrophe, mishap, trial, trouble, affliction, adversity, distress, hardship, ill luck, visitation.

ANT. _Blessing, boon, advantage, good fortune, benefaction._

=Calculate.= Number, reckon, sum up, count, compute, account, estimate, enumerate, rate; consider, deem, apportion, investigate.

ANT. _Guess, risk, chance, conjecture, stake._

=Calculating.= Wary, cautious, scheming, crafty, cool, hard, selfish; careful, circumspect, sagacious, farsighted.

ANT. _Shortsighted, improvident, rash, careless._

=Calculation.= Reckoning, computation; expectation, anticipation, prospect; foresight, forethought, caution, wariness, discretion, prudence, deliberation.

ANT. _Omission, carelessness, imprudence, indiscretion, inconsideration._

=Caliber.= Diameter, gage, capacity; faculty, scope, talent, ability, gifts, parts, endowment.

ANT. _Smallness, thinness; imbecility, incapacity, puerility._

=Call.= Cry, bellow, clamor, ejaculate, scream, roar, shout, shriek, bawl, yell, exclaim, vociferate; invite, summon, send for, bid; assemble, convene, muster; elect, ordain, appoint; invoke, appeal to.

ANT. _Be silent, hush, list, listen, harken, be still; ignore; disperse; disdain, defy._

=Calm.= Composed, peaceful, placid, quiet, still, tranquil, self-possessed, serene, undisturbed, dispassionate, sedate, collected, imperturbable, unruffled.

ANT. _Frantic, frenzied, passionate, furious, raging, stormy, violent, boisterous, agitated, excited, fierce, turbulent, wild, heated, wrathful, disturbed._

=Calumniate.= Slander, traduce, defame, vilify, revile, asperse.

ANT. _Praise, commend, vindicate, laud, honor, eulogize; shield._

=Calumny.= Slander, aspersion, defamation, detraction, abuse, obloquy.

ANT. _Vindication, justification; eulogy, panegyric._

=Camp.= Encampment, bivouac.

=Cancel.= Obliterate, scratch out, erase, efface, expunge, cross off; abolish, abrogate, nullify, annul, revoke, rescind, make void, repeal.

ANT. _Confirm, enact, perpetuate, approve, enforce, uphold, sustain, maintain, establish, record, write._

=Candid.= Honest, open, straightforward, transparent, unbiased, artless, frank, guileless, ingenuous, naive, sincere, impartial, innocent, unprejudiced, aboveboard, simple, truthful, unsophisticated, fair.

ANT. _Deceitful, designing, foxy, sharp, shrewd, crafty, artful, sly, tricky, subtle, adroit, cunning, insincere, diplomatic, intriguing, wily._

=Candidate.= Aspirant, solicitant, petitioner, canvasser, claimant, solicitor.

ANT. _Non-competitor; resigner, abandoner, abjurer._

=Canvass.= Debate, discuss, dispute, agitate; examine, investigate, scrutinize, sift, study, consider; solicit votes from, apply for.

ANT. _Admit, pass, misexamine, allow, ignore, disregard._

=Capability.= Capacity, ability, skill, power, competency, efficiency, caliber, force, faculty, scope, brains, talent.

ANT. _Dulness, inability, inaptitude, difficulty, awkwardness._

=Capacity.= Space, magnitude, volume, dimensions, extent, size, tonnage, caliber; faculty, gift, talent, genius, competency, capability, discernment, cleverness, skill, aptitude; sphere, office, province, character, function.

ANT. _Restriction, narrowness, contractedness, incapacity; incompetency, inefficiency, inability._

=Capital=, _n._ Metropolis; large letter; stock, sum invested; head of a column _or_ pillar; mental, physical, _or_ financial resources.

=Capital=, _a._ Chief, principal, essential, leading, cardinal; fatal, forfeiting life; excellent, prime, first-class, first-rate, consummate, high, important.

ANT. _Subordinate, inferior, unimportant, minor; defective, mean._

=Capitulate.= Surrender, yield, submit, stipulate.

ANT. _Resist, contend, struggle._

=Caprice.= Vagary, freak, whim, fancy, crotchet.

ANT. _Purpose, plan, determination, conviction, seriousness._

=Capricious.= Wayward, fanciful, freakish, whimsical, inconstant, uncertain, fitful, fickle, changeable.

ANT. _Firm, inflexible, unswerving, constant, decided, serious._

=Captious.= Carping, hypercritical, censorious; crabbed, snappish, touchy, cross, snarling, acrimonious, contentious; insidious, ensnaring.

ANT. _Appreciative, commendatory, complimentary, encouraging, flattering, laudatory, approving._

=Captivate.= Charm, enchant, fascinate, enamor, bewitch, please highly, lead captive, win, catch.

ANT. _Disenchant, disillusionize; disgust._

=Captivity.= Thraldom, confinement, duress, imprisonment, bondage, subjection, slavery, servitude, durance.

ANT. _Freedom, liberty, independence._

=Capture.= Seize, catch, arrest, apprehend, make captive; prize.

ANT. _Liberate, free, release; acquit._

=Care.= Anxiety, trouble, solicitude, concern, vigilance, worry, charge, caution, attention, heed, forethought, management, perplexity, watchfulness, wariness, precaution, oversight, prudence.

ANT. _Indifference, heedlessness, negligence, oversight, remissness, slight, recklessness, disregard, carelessness, inattention._

=Career.= Course, line of achievement, passage, race, flight, procedure, conduct, progress, active life, success.

=Careful.= Thoughtful, provident, considerate, reflective, heedful, diligent, pensive, regardful, contemplative.

ANT. _Careless, thoughtless, improvident, unthinking, heedless, inconsiderate, rash, wanton, idle, dreamy, trifling._

=Caress=, _v._ Embrace, fondle, kiss, pet, pamper, coddle, court, flatter.

ANT. _Vex, tease, affront, annoy, provoke, persecute._

=Cargo.= Freight, load, goods, lading, consignment, merchandise.

=Caricature.= Imitation, mimicry, parody, travesty, burlesque, exaggeration, extravaganza, takeoff, farce, monstrosity.

ANT. _Portraiture, resemblance, representation, reproduction._

=Carnage.= Massacre, bloodshed, slaughter, havoc, butchery.

ANT. _Deliverance, ransom, quarter, redemption._

=Carnal.= Sensual, fleshly, lustful, lascivious; natural, unregenerate, earthly, temporal.

ANT. _Spiritual, ethereal, refined, pure, exalted, temperate, self-controlled._

=Carnival.= Festival, revel, masquerade, rout.

ANT. _Fast, retirement, Lent, penance, mortification._

=Carol.= Sing, warble, chirp, twitter, chant, whistle, hum; hymn.

ANT. _Whine, lament, dirge, cry, croak, weep, groan, moan._

=Carousal.= Feast, festival, banquet, revel, debauch, wassail, orgies.

ANT. _Fast, abstinence, starvation; temperance, moderation; self-denial._

=Carp.= Cavil, find fault, object to, pick flaws, challenge, censure, hypercriticize.

ANT. _Concede, admit, compliment, approve, applaud, acquiesce, assent._

=Carpet.= Covering for floor; table _or_ board (_metaphorical_), consideration, consultation.

ANT. _Shelf_ (metaphorical), _rejection, oblivion, disposal_.

=Carry.= Convey, move, transport, lift, bring, bear, transmit, support, sustain, take; impel, urge, push forward; signify, infer, involve, implicate.

ANT. _Drop, let go, throw down, fall under, shake off; retard, impede; leave, be separate from._

=Case.= Box; covering, sheathe; state, condition, plight, predicament; instance, example, occurrence; circumstance, event, contingency; suit,

## action, process, trial, cause; question, subject of discussion; form,

inflection.

ANT. _Hypothesis, supposition, fancy, theory, conjecture; generalization, principle, universality._

=Cash.= Coin, money, specie, currency, capital.

ANT. _Paper money, greenbacks, bills._

=Cast.= Hurl, throw, pitch, fling, drive, thrust, sling, toss; shed, lay aside; calculate, compute, reckon; found, form; direct, turn; assign, appoint, allot; impart, shed, diffuse, communicate.

ANT. _Raise, elevate, erect; accept, approve, retain, carry; miscalculate; break, dismember, dissipate._

=Caste.= Grade, rank, order, lineage, dignity, respect.

ANT. _Abasement, degradation, disrepute, taboo, reproach, ostracism._

=Castigate.= Whip, flagellate, cane.

ANT. _Reward, encourage, caress, pat._

=Casual.= Accidental, incidental, fortuitous, chance, contingent.

ANT. _Regular, certain, fixed, ordinary, periodic, systematic._

=Casuistry.= Sophistry, fallacy, quibble; refinement.

ANT. _Reason, common sense, conscience._

=Catalogue.= List, register, index, enrolment, entry, record, roll, inventory, schedule.

ANT. _Non-registration, obliteration, oblivion, forgetfulness; non-entry, oversight, omission._

=Catastrophe.= Revolution, disaster, mishap, misfortune, calamity, cataclysm, blow, visitation.

ANT. _Victory, triumph, benefit, ovation, success, felicitation, blessing._

=Catch.= Grasp, seize, clutch, capture, clasp, secure, snatch, take, arrest, ensnare, entrap, grip, lay hold; comprehend, apprehend, understand.

ANT. _Lose, miss, fail of, let go, give up, release, restore._

=Categorical.= Plain, absolute, distinct, positive, declaratory, affirmative.

ANT. _Obscure, ambiguous, dubious, hypothetical, contingent, mystical, enigmatical._

=Category.= Class, division, order, rank; universal aspect, primitive relation.

ANT. _Essence, truth, being, substance, nature._

=Causality.= Causation, potentiality, eventuality, operativeness.

ANT. _Counteractivity, barrenness, sterility; finality._

=Cause.= Agent, origin, source, creator, spring; reason, power; designer, antecedent, originator, author, producer; condition, principle.

ANT. _Effect, result, end, production, issue, accomplishment, development, consequence, creation, fruit, event, outcome, outgrowth._

=Caution.= Care, heed, wariness, circumspection, forethought, discretion; warning, admonition, advice, counsel.

ANT. _Temerity, heedlessness, unguardedness, improvidence, imprudence._

=Cavalier=, _a._ Arrogant, haughty, overbearing, insolent, disdainful.

ANT. _Courteous; subservient, servile; civil, polite._

=Cavil.= Carp, object, censure.

ANT. _Approve, allow, concede._

=Cavity.= Opening, gap, aperture, hole, fissure.

ANT. _Obstruction, filling._

=Cease.= End, finish, desist, leave off, quit, stop, refrain, abstain, discontinue, pause, terminate.

ANT. _Begin, commence, continue, originate, inaugurate, start, set going, set in operation._

=Celebrated.= Famous, renowned, distinguished, famed, illustrious, eminent, glorious, notable, exalted.

ANT. _Obscure, unknown, unnotable, mean, insignificant, inconspicuous._

=Celebration.= Solemnization, observance, commemoration, laudation, praise, commendation.

ANT. _Oblivion, desuetude, non-observance._

=Celebrity.= Fame, renown, reputation, glory, honor, repute, eminence, distinction; person of note, “lion.”

ANT. _Obscurity, ignominy, disgrace, contempt, meanness; infamy; oblivion._

=Celerity.= Rapidity, speed, haste, velocity, swiftness, fleetness, despatch.

ANT. _Slowness, tardiness, inertness._

=Celestial.= Heavenly, angelic, supernal, ethereal, atmospheric, immortal, seraphic, divine, godlike.

ANT. _Earthly, terrestrial; human, mortal; infernal._

=Censure.= Blame, disapproval, reproach, disapprobation, reprimand, condemnation, remonstrance, rebuke.

ANT. _Praise, approval, eulogy, commendation, encouragement._

=Center.= Middle, midst.

ANT. _Perimeter, rim, bound, circumference, boundary._

=Central.= Convenient, medial, accessible.

ANT. _Remote, inaccessible, inconvenient._

=Centralize.= Concentrate, collect, localize.

ANT. _Disperse, distribute._

=Ceremonial=, _n._ Ritual, rites, formalities, etiquette.

=Ceremonial=, _a._ Ritualistic, formal, official, ministerial, pompous, sumptuous, scenic, functional.

ANT. _Private, unostentatious, undramatic, unimposing, unassuming._

=Ceremonious.= Stately, lofty, courtly; formal, studied, punctilious; prim, precise.

ANT. _Brusk, blunt, supercilious, plain, simple._

=Certain.= Sure, infallible, positive, undeniable, unfailing; assured, fixed, regular, established; true, accurate, unmistakable.

ANT. _Dubious, irregular, undecided, doubtful, exceptional, casual._

=Certainty.= Assurance, conviction, confidence, positiveness.

ANT. _Hesitation, doubt, misgiving, conjecture, indecision._

=Certify.= Acknowledge, avow, declare, prove, inform, assure, attest.

ANT. _Disavow, misinform, disprove._

=Cessation.= Stop, pause, abeyance, suspension, lull, respite.

ANT. _Incessancy, continuity, continuance._

=Chafe.= Vex, irritate, gall, rub, chagrin, tease, worry, harass, annoy, fret; rage, fume; nettle, exasperate, anger.

ANT. _Soothe, coax, calm, console, humor; submit, endure, succumb._

=Chaff.= Banter, badinage, nonsense, frivolity; refuse, trash.

ANT. _Sense, reason, pith, gist, seriousness, substance._

=Chagrin.= Humiliation, shame, mortification, confusion, discomposure, dismay, disappointment.

ANT. _Delight, glory, exultation, triumph, rejoicing._

=Challenge=, _v._ Dare, brave, defy; demand, require, claim; object to, take exceptions.

ANT. _Pass, allow, grant, concede, permit; retract, retreat._

=Champion.= Defender, protector, vindicator; hero, winner, chief, victor, combatant.

ANT. _Renegade, traitor, deserter, coward; adversary, opponent._

=Chance.= Hazard, casualty, accident, luck, fortune.

ANT. _Law, sequence, purpose, design, intention, causation, certainty._

=Change=, _n._ Transformation, variation, transition, conversion, innovation, diversion, novelty, variety, vicissitude, alteration, transmutation.

ANT. _Fixity, identity, constancy, uniformity, firmness, permanence, persistence, steadiness._

=Change=, _v._ Alter, transform, vary, turn, veer, shift, qualify, modify, exchange, diversify, convert, metamorphose, substitute.

ANT. _Continue, endure, stay, hold, keep, retain, abide, remain, persist._

=Changeless.= Stationary, undeviating, immovable, reliable, consistent.

ANT. _Fluctuating, vacillating, capricious, variable, plastic._

=Character.= Mark, figure, sign, symbol, emblem, letter; constitution, nature, disposition, turn, cast, bent; temperament, moral qualities, personality, traits, habits; person, individual; repute, reputation.

ANT. _Anonymousness; disrepute; vagueness; indefiniteness._

=Characteristic.= Attribute, peculiarity, trait, sign, indication, mark, feature, distinction, singularity, property, idiosyncrasy.

ANT. _Nondescript, generality, miscellany, commonness._

=Charge=, _v._ Load, freight, burden; intrust; impute, ascribe; accuse, impeach, incriminate, arraign, indict; command, order, require, bid; attack, assault.

ANT. _Free, acquit, liberate, discharge._

=Charitable.= Benign, bountiful, liberal; lenient, mild, considerate.

ANT. _Selfish, harsh, exacting, revengeful, churlish, censorious._

=Charity.= Benevolence, liberality, bounty, generosity, philanthropy.

ANT. _Harshness, ill will, malignity, malevolence._

=Charlatan.= Quack, mountebank, impostor, pretender, humbug, cheat.

ANT. _Victim, dupe, gull._

=Charm.= Spell, incantation, enchantment; fascination, attraction, allurement; witchery, sorcery, magic, necromancy.

ANT. _Fear, repulsion, disenchantment, disillusion._

=Chary.= Careful, cautious, wary; frugal, sparing, saving, reluctant.

ANT. _Liberal, lavish, profuse, extravagant._

=Chase.= Pursue, track, hunt, follow, prosecute; emboss, enchase.

ANT. _Flee, shun, elude, evade; abandon, relinquish._

=Chaste.= Pure, spotless, immaculate, modest, virtuous, simple, refined, classic, elegant.

ANT. _Corrupt, impure, flashy, gaudy; coarse, inelegant._

=Chasten.= Discipline, chastise, subdue, afflict, punish, soften, try.

ANT. _Indulge, pamper, spoil, demoralize._

=Chattels.= Goods, wares, effects, furniture.

ANT. _Freehold._

=Cheap.= Common, inexpensive, mean, worthless, vile, paltry, low-priced, poor, indifferent.

ANT. _Rare, costly, expensive, high, precious._

=Cheat=, _n._ Fraud, trick, artifice, swindle, deceit, fiction, imposture.

ANT. _Truth, reality, fact, honesty, authenticity, certainty, openness, sincerity._

=Check=, _v._ Restrain, curb, stop, bridle, hinder, impede, inhibit; reprove, chide, reprimand, rebuke.

ANT. _License, indulge, allow, loose, liberate, abet, instigate._

=Cheer=, _n._ Gladness, joy, gaiety, mirth, merriment, cheerfulness, happiness, hope, conviviality, plenty, hospitality.

ANT. _Gloom, dearth, sullenness, niggardliness, unsociableness._

=Cheerful.= Glad, lively, mirthful, animated, jocund, jolly, blithe, buoyant, merry, joyous.

ANT. _Gloomy, dejected, unhappy, lifeless, dull, depressing, melancholy, joyless, dispiriting._

=Cherish.= Foster, nurture, protect, shelter, treasure, comfort, cheer.

ANT. _Abandon, afflict, check, discourage._

=Chief=, _a._ Head, important, excellent, high, principal, consummate.

ANT. _Subordinate, minor, inferior._

=Chieftain.= Captain, commander, general, leader, chief.

ANT. _Vassal, minion, adherent, retainer, attendant, follower._

=Childish.= Puerile, weak, infantine; silly, foolish, trivial, trifling.

ANT. _Manly, strong, wise, sagacious; important, momentous._

=Chimerical.= Visionary, imaginary, unreal, dreamy, fanciful, fabulous.

ANT. _Real, actual, substantial, veritable._

=Chivalrous.= Knightly, gallant, gentlemanly, heroic, valiant, spirited.

ANT. _Dastardly, recreant, sneaking._

=Choice=, _n._ Option, preference, alternative, selection, election, free will.

ANT. _Necessity, compulsion; refusal; force; fate, predestination._

=Choice=, _a._ Select, dainty, rare, valuable, cherished, exquisite, precious.

ANT. _Common, ordinary, despicable, cheap, inferior._

=Choose.= Select, pick out, cull, prefer, elect.

ANT. _Cast away, reject, decline, refuse, leave, throw aside._

=Chronicle.= Annals, records, register, memorials, archives, history.

ANT. _Legend, romance, tradition._

=Cipher.= Zero, nothing, nonentity, naught; character, symbol, device, monogram; secret character, private alphabet; nobody, person of no account.

ANT. _Infinity; somebody, celebrity, star, notability, colossus._

=Circular.= Round, annular, spherical, ring-shaped.

ANT. _Linear, direct, straight._

=Circulate.= Move in a circle; diffuse, spread, disseminate, promulgate, propagate, publish, notify; travel.

ANT. _Suppress, hush, cease, stagnate; center, monopolize, appropriate._

=Circumference.= Periphery, circuit, boundary, outline, enclosure.

ANT. _Center, interior._

=Circumlocution.= Verbosity, prolixity, wordiness, diffuseness, periphrasis, redundance, tautology.

ANT. _Brevity, compression, condensation, shortness, succinctness, terseness, compactness, conciseness, directness, plainness._

=Circumscribe.= Define, limit, delineate, enclose, confine, restrict.

ANT. _Distend, dilate, expand, amplify, enlarge, extend._

=Circumspect.= Cautious, wary, heedful, attentive, careful, prudent, watchful, scrupulous, vigilant.

ANT. _Careless, reckless, incautious, heedless, unwary._

=Circumstance.= Event, situation, occurrence, position, detail, incident, feature, accompaniment, particular, point, item, condition.

ANT. _Deed, case, transaction, business, affair._

=Cite.= Call, summon, name, select, refer to, quote, mention.

ANT. _Discard, dismiss, dispute, contradict, reject, challenge, disprove._

=Citizen.= Inhabitant, dweller, townsman, burgher, resident, subject, denizen.

ANT. _Foreigner, alien, exile, visitor, tramp, transient, tourist, sight-seer._

=Civilization.= Culture, cultivation, refinement, amelioration, humanization.

ANT. _Demoralization, savagery, barbarism, rudeness._

=Claim=, _n._ Assertion, requisition, demand, call; title, privilege, right, pretension.

ANT. _Disclaimer, surrender, abjuration, waiver._

=Claim=, _v._ Demand, ask, require, call for, assert, insist, request, maintain, pretend.

ANT. _Repudiate, waive, concede, forego, abjure._

=Clamor=, _n._ Noise, uproar, hubbub, outcry, vociferation, exclamation.

ANT. _Silence, reticence, acquiescence; repression, stifling._

=Clandestine.= Secret, private, furtive, stealthy, underhand, sly, surreptitious, hidden.

ANT. _Open, aboveboard, sincere, frank._

=Class.= Company, grade, order, rank, caste, clan, circle, association, club, clique, coterie, set.

=Classical.= Refined, elegant, polished, chaste, pure.

ANT. _Corrupt, barbarous, uncouth, debased, inelegant._

=Classification.= Grouping, disposition, arrangement, distribution, category, genus, designation, order, species, nature, character; homogeneity.

ANT. _Individuality, speciality, singularity, distinction, heterogeneity._

=Clause.= Portion, section, passage, paragraph, stipulation, article, chapter, provision.

ANT. _Document, instrument, writing._

=Clean=, _a._ Pure, neat, clear, spotless, cleansed, untarnished, upright.

ANT. _Foul, impure, untidy, hampered, unclean._

=Cleanse.= Purify, wash, clean, disinfect, lave, scour, sponge, scrub, sweep, wipe, rinse, dust, purge.

ANT. _Defile, pollute, stain, deprave, sully, taint, befoul, contaminate, corrupt, vitiate._

=Clear=, _a._ Pure, bright, transparent, free, serene, unclouded, obvious, manifest, pellucid, unadorned, plain, distinct, evident, lucid, intelligible, explicit, straightforward, perspicuous.

ANT. _Mysterious, unintelligible, vague, opaque, foggy, dim, cloudy, dubious, turbid, ambiguous._

=Clever.= Gifted, expert, capable, apt, bright, ingenious, quick-witted, skilful, adroit, dexterous, intellectual, happy, smart, talented, keen, knowing, intelligent, quick, sharp.

ANT. _Foolish, slow, stupid, idiotic, thickheaded, witless, bungling, awkward, dull, ignorant, clumsy, senseless._

=Climax.= Acme, top, summit, culmination, height, consummation, zenith, head.

ANT. _Base, floor, nadir, anticlimax, depth; bathos._

=Cling.= Stick, cleave, fasten, hold, adhere.

ANT. _Drop, relax, swerve, let go._

=Close.= Packed, condensed, compressed, narrow, restricted, solid; secret, reserved; niggardly.

ANT. _Ample, wide, open, spacious, patent, public, advertised; open-handed, free, liberal._

=Clownish.= Rude, rustic, boorish, awkward, clumsy, bucolic, cloddish.

ANT. _Polite, affable, civil, urbane._

=Clumsy.= Awkward, inexpert, uncouth, bungling, unskilful, unwieldly.

ANT. _Neat, skilful, clever, expert, adroit, dexterous, workmanlike._

=Coalesce.= Blend, mix, harmonize, unite, consolidate, combine, adhere.

ANT. _Disagree, sunder, separate, sever._

=Coalition.= League, union, alliance, confederacy, combination, compact, amalgamation.

ANT. _Disruption, rebellion, disagreement, sedition, mutiny._

=Coarse.= Of large fibers, crude, rough, gross; indecent, indelicate, unrefined, unpolished, vulgar, common, ordinary.

ANT. _Fine, choice, delicate, gentle._

=Coax.= Wheedle, flatter, cajole, fawn, allure, seduce, circumvent.

ANT. _Coerce, impel, drive, intimidate._

=Coerce.= Impel, restrain, inhibit, force, compel, drive, check, intimidate.

ANT. _Persuade, coax, permit, urge, induce, tempt._

=Coexistent.= Contemporary, concurrent, coincident, simultaneous.

ANT. _Preceding or succeeding._

=Cogent.= Forcible, powerful, effective, irresistible, convincing, conclusive, persuasive, potent, urgent.

ANT. _Weak, feeble, powerless, ineffectual._

=Cogitate.= Meditate, think, reflect, consider, ponder, contemplate.

ANT. _Dream, idle, wish._

=Cognizance.= Knowledge, observation, notice, recognition, experience.

ANT. _Ignorance, oversight, neglect._

=Coherent.= Compact, consecutive, close, logical, consistent.

ANT. _Rambling, loose, discursive, aberrant._

=Coincidence.= Chance, fortuity, harmony, agreement, casualty, concurrence, contemporaneousness.

ANT. _Design, purpose, asynchronism, anachronism, difference._

=Cold.= Frigid, chilly, frosty, icy, polar, wintry; dull, lifeless, unimpassioned, sluggish, apathetic, indifferent, spiritless.

ANT. _Hot, warm, ardent, impassioned, fiery, burning, fervid, vehement, passionate._

=Colleague.= Associate, coadjutor, collaborator, helper, companion, partner, assistant, ally, confederate.

ANT. _Opponent, rival, antagonist, competitor._

=Collect.= Gather, glean, amass, garner, muster, congregate, assemble, convoke, accumulate.

ANT. _Distribute, dispense, divide, assort, deal._

=Collision.= Clash, shock, impact, concussion, encounter, contact, opposition, conflict.

ANT. _Divergence; concord, harmony, agreement, coincidence, concert, unity, amity, unison._

=Colloquy.= Dialogue, conversation, talk, discourse, consultation, conference.

ANT. _Babel, tumult, outcry, clamor; silence, taciturnity._

=Collusion.= Connivance, accompliceship, confederacy.

ANT. _Frustration, betrayal, exposure._

=Color.= Hue, tint, tinge, shade, complexion; pigment, paint; pretense, speciousness, varnish, appearance, semblance, excuse, makeshift.

ANT. _Paleness; transparency, openness._

=Combat.= Conflict, encounter, battle, struggle, contest, contention.

ANT. _Truce, surrender, mediation._

=Combination.= Association, connection, union; alliance, league; mixture, compound.

ANT. _Division, disruption, analysis, dissolution._

=Comfortable.= Agreeable, satisfactory, pleasant, convenient, commodious, snug, genial.

ANT. _Miserable, distressed, forlorn, wretched, cheerless._

=Comic.= Laughable, droll, funny, comical, farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous.

ANT. _Serious, solemn, grave, tragic, melancholy._

=Command.= Order, direct, bid, instruct, charge, enjoin; rule, govern.

ANT. _Beg, petition, supplicate, entreat; obey, yield, comply._

=Commemorate.= Celebrate, observe, perpetuate.

ANT. _Forget, abolish, ignore._

=Commence.= Begin, start, inaugurate, undertake.

ANT. _Finish, conclude, terminate._

=Commend.= Approve, encourage, applaud, praise.

ANT. _Blame, condemn, censure, denounce._

=Comment.= Remark, observe, explain, note, expound, interpret, illustrate.

ANT. _Confuse, obscure, mystify, confound, misrepresent._

=Commerce.= Trade, traffic, business, exchange.

ANT. _Embargo, inactivity, boycott._

=Commit.= Assign, confide, trust, relegate, entrust, consign.

ANT. _Omit, let pass, disregard, misconsign._

=Commodious.= Ample, spacious, convenient, comfortable, suitable.

ANT. _Narrow, cramped, ill-contrived._

=Commodity.= Staple, ware, stock, produce, article.

ANT. _Drug, refuse._

=Common.= Ordinary, habitual, everyday, familiar, frequent; coarse, vulgar, mean, low.

ANT. _Exceptional, scarce, refined, rare._

=Commotion.= Excitement, disturbance, agitation, turmoil, tumult, disorder.

ANT. _Quiet, tranquillity, calm, subsidence, pacification._

=Communicate.= Divulge, impart, disclose, tell, announce, publish.

ANT. _Secrete, suppress, conceal, withhold, reserve; repress; disavow._

=Communion.= Fellowship, intercourse, participation.

ANT. _Alienation, exclusion, deprivation, ostracism._

=Community.= Aggregation, society, commonwealth, neighborhood; fraternity, similarity, sympathy, homogeneity.

ANT. _Hostility, animosity, heterogeneity._

=Commute.= Exchange, replace, barter, compensate, mitigate, modify, lessen, diminish.

ANT. _Disallow; charge; increase, enlarge._

=Compact=, _n._ Agreement, bond, contract, treaty, covenant.

ANT. _Promise, intention._

=Compact=, _a._ Dense, close, solid, firm, compressed; concise, terse, pithy, short, brief, laconic, compendious, succinct, sententious.

ANT. _Diffuse; sparse, straggling; broadspread, unshapely; prolix, verbose._

=Companion.= Associate, partner, mate, comrade, colleague.

ANT. _Rival, antagonist, adversary._

=Companionable.= Sociable, pleasant, affable, genial, friendly, agreeable.

ANT. _Reserved, haughty, distant, cold, solitary, inaccessible._

=Company.= Concourse, gathering, crowd, throng, meeting, multitude, assembly, conclave, conference, congregation, convention, convocation.

ANT. _Privacy, retirement, solitude, dispersion, loneliness, seclusion._

=Compare.= Collate, estimate, declare similar, liken, parallel.

ANT. _Contrast, disconnect, pit, distinguish._

=Compass.= Surround, enclose; effect, achieve, consummate, complete.

ANT. _Expand, liberate; fail, bungle, mismanage._

=Compassion.= Pity, sympathy, condolence, kindness, clemency, mercy.

ANT. _Cruelty, antipathy, retaliation, vindictiveness._

=Compatible.= Consistent, accordant, congruous, congenial, harmonious.

ANT. _Hostile, adverse, impossible, destructive, contradictory._

=Compel.= Force, oblige, make necessary, coerce, constrain, necessitate.

ANT. _Hinder, prevent, delay, block, hamper, encumber._

=Compensation.= Recompense, reward, requital, satisfaction, reparation, amends, indemnification.

ANT. _Damage, injury, deprivation._

=Compete.= Contend, rival, strive, struggle.

ANT. _Share, participate._

=Competence.= Ability, capableness; sufficiency, enough, adequacy.

ANT. _Inability, weakness; poverty, want, indigence._

=Competition.= Rivalry, emulation, contest.

ANT. _Alliance, co-partnership._

=Complacent.= Pleased, satisfied, contented, amiable, pleasant, affable.

ANT. _Morose, austere, unmannerly._

=Complain.= Murmur, grumble, remonstrate, find fault, repine, lament, grieve, expostulate.

ANT. _Approve, commend, applaud, congratulate, rejoice._

=Complement.= Fulfilment, totality, counterpart, supply, correlative.

ANT. _Deficit, abatement, deficiency._

=Complete=, _a._ Perfect, finished, total, whole, entire; concluded, consummated, ended; adequate, exhaustive, thorough.

ANT. _Partial, inadequate, imperfect, unfinished._

=Complex.= Confused, involved, mixed, entangled, complicated, composite, manifold, mingled, intricate, obscure.

ANT. _Direct, obvious, plain, uniform, simple, homogeneous, unraveled._

=Complexion.= Face, feature, appearance, look, hue, character, indication.

ANT. _Heart, core; reticence, concealment, inexpression._

=Compliance.= Yielding, submission, acquiescence, docility, obedience.

ANT. _Resistance, repulsion, refusal._

=Compliment.= Flattery, praise, homage, commendation, encomium.

ANT. _Insult, contempt, discourtesy._

=Complimentary.= Commendatory, flattering, laudatory.

ANT. _Disparaging, abusive, defamatory, denunciatory._

=Component.= Constituent, factor, element, ingredient.

ANT. _Compound, entirety, sum, aggregate._

=Comport.= Conduct, behave, demean; accord, agree, harmonize.

ANT. _Contrast, militate, differ; misdemean, misconduct._

=Compose.= Compile, construct, constitute; soothe, allay, calm; write.

ANT. _Analyze, dissect; irritate, excite; criticize._

=Composition.= Formation, making; compound, mixture; arrangement, union, combination; writing, invention; agreement, compromise.

ANT. _Examination, analysis, criticism; disturbance; segregation._

=Composure.= Tranquillity, calm, repose, self-possession, serenity.

ANT. _Restlessness, perturbation._

=Compound=, _n._ Mixture, combination, amalgamation, coalescence, synthesis.

ANT. _Analysis, dissolution, resolution._

=Comprehend.= Understand, conceive, grasp; include, enclose, embrace.

ANT. _Misunderstand, misconstrue; except, exclude._

=Comprehension.= Conception, understanding, perception, apprehension, capacity, intellect, reason, mind, intelligence.

ANT. _Idiocy, nescience, misunderstanding, misconception._

=Comprehensive.= Ample, wide, inclusive, extensive, capacious, compendious.

ANT. _Narrow, shallow, restricted._

=Compress.= Condense, squeeze, contract, epitomize, abridge.

ANT. _Expand, diffuse, dilate._

=Comprise.= Include, involve, contain, comprehend, embrace, imply.

ANT. _Except, bar out, omit, reject._

=Compromise.= Adjust, arbitrate, settle; engage, pledge, commit; implicate, involve, endanger.

ANT. _Contend, fight; repudiate, disallow; exonerate, extricate._

=Compulsion.= Force, coercion, constraint, control.

ANT. _Coaxing, persuasion, inducement._

=Compunction.= Regret, remorse, contrition, penitence.

ANT. _Assurance, self-complacency, satisfaction._

=Compute.= Number, calculate, reckon, count; value, estimate, appraise.

ANT. _Guess, conjecture, surmise._

=Comrade.= Companion, compeer, colleague, associate, partner, friend.

ANT. _Opponent; stranger, alien._

=Concatenation.= Connection, continuity; series, chain, succession.

ANT. _Intermission, severing, disconnection._

=Concave.= Hollow, depressed, excavated.

ANT. _Convex, protuberant, tumular._

=Conceal.= Hide, suppress, secrete, disguise.

ANT. _Reveal, expose, make manifest, lay bare, confess, publish, divulge._

=Concede.= Surrender, admit, resign, yield, allow.

ANT. _Refuse, claim, contend, contradict, deny, contest._

=Conceit.= Notion, whim, vagary, idea, abstraction, affectation, imagination.

ANT. _Reality, fact, substance; simplicity, humility._

=Conceited.= Egoistical, opinionated, vain.

ANT. _Simple, unassuming, unaffected._

=Conceive.= Imagine, apprehend, believe, design, think, understand.

ANT. _Express, produce, execute._

=Concentrate.= Convene, assemble, congregate, muster, centralize.

ANT. _Scatter, disperse, dispense, dismiss._

=Concern.= Interest, anxiety, solicitude; affair, matter, institution.

ANT. _Indifference, carelessness, disregard._

=Concerning.= About, regarding, in relation to, respecting, in respect to, relative to, of.

ANT. _Disregarding, omitting._

=Concert.= Agreement, harmony, concord, concordance, combination, union, association.

ANT. _Opposition, disagreement, discord._

=Concession.= Surrender, grant, boon, acknowledgment, admission.

ANT. _Refusal, denial, withdrawal._

=Conciliate.= Win, gain, pacify, reconcile, propitiate.

ANT. _Alienate, irritate, estrange, lose, antagonize._

=Concise.= Succinct, condensed, terse, pregnant, pointed, brief, short, laconic.

ANT. _Prolix, verbose, diffuse, discursive, rambling, pointless._

=Conclave.= Assembly, synod, cabinet, council, bureau.

ANT. _Throng, mob, populace, concourse, crowd._

=Conclude.= Close, end, terminate, finish; decide, determine.

ANT. _Begin, commence, undertake, initiate; prolong, protract._

=Conclusion.= End, termination, finale, finis.

ANT. _Commencement, beginning, initiation._

=Conclusive.= Final, decisive, positive, definitive, indisputable.

ANT. _Dubious, vague, uncertain, problematical, theoretical, indeterminate._

=Concoct.= Brew, prepare, compound, mix.

ANT. _Spoil, upset, overbrew._

=Concoction.= Compound, brew, mixture; scheme, fiction.

ANT. _Rawness, crudity; simplicity._

=Concomitant.= Attending, coincident, attendant, synchronous.

ANT. _Antecedent; diverse, unconnected; subsequent._

=Concord.= Harmony, agreement, friendship, unanimity, accord.

ANT. _Variance, animosity, discord._

=Concourse.= Assembly, throng, crowd, mob, assemblage, gathering, multitude.

ANT. _Conclave, cabal, cabinet; desert, solitude._

=Concrete.= Solid, firm, compact; complex, conglomerate; individualized, specific, particular.

ANT. _Loose, shifting, yielding, unresisting; abstract, general._

=Concur.= Approve, harmonize, agree; help, combine, conspire.

ANT. _Disagree, dissent, part, differ, disapprove, separate._

=Concussion.= Collision, encounter, crash, impact, percussion.

ANT. _Inter-divergence; escape; tangency; failure, missing._

=Condemn.= Blame, censure, denounce, convict, sentence, reprove, doom.

ANT. _Acquit, exonerate, absolve, pardon, justify, praise, approve._

=Condense.= Concentrate, abridge, shorten.

ANT. _Expand, amplify, enlarge._

=Condescend.= Deign, vouchsafe, stoop.

ANT. _Scorn, spurn, disdain._

=Condescension.= Graciousness, favor.

ANT. _Arrogance, haughtiness, pride._

=Condign.= Adequate, deserved, merited, suitable, meet, just.

ANT. _Unmerited, inadequate; excessive or scant._

=Condiment.= Sauce, seasoning, preserve, pickle, relish, appetizer.

=Condition.= Situation, case, circumstances, plight; rank, estate, grade; proviso, consideration, stipulation.

ANT. _Concession, adaptation; relation, dependence._

=Conditionally.= Provided, provisionally, hypothetically, contingently.

ANT. _Absolutely, positively, categorically._

=Condole.= Console, commiserate, sympathize.

ANT. _Congratulate, rally, exhilarate._

=Condone.= Pardon, overlook, forgive.

ANT. _Atone, expiate, satisfy._

=Conduce.= Subserve, promote, forward, advance, contribute to, aid.

ANT. _Defeat; counteract, neutralize._

=Conduct.= Lead, direct, guide, convoy, escort; command, govern; manage, regulate; rule, superintend.

ANT. _Mislead; mismanage; follow._

=Confection.= Candy, cake, condiment, concoction, sweetmeat.

=Confederacy, Confederation.= Alliance, league, treaty, union, coalition, federation, compact.

ANT. _Secession, disruption, disunion._

=Conference.= Discourse, conversation, talk; interview, colloquy, parley, consultation; convention, convocation, meeting.

ANT. _Silence; monologue; dispersion._

=Confess.= Acknowledge, admit, disclose, own, allow, grant, concede, avow.

ANT. _Deny, conceal, repudiate, disavow, hide, dissemble._

=Confession.= Admission, avowal, acknowledgment; creed, doctrines, tenets, catechism, subscription.

ANT. _Heresy, apostasy, protest, refutation, renunciation, abjuration._

=Confide.= Trust, rely, lean, hope, depend, believe, put confidence in.

ANT. _Doubt, mistrust, disbelieve, disprove, despair of._

=Confident.= Assured, sure, positive, certain; bold, presumptuous, impudent, sanguine.

ANT. _Dubious, doubtful, undecided, vacillating._

=Confidential.= Intimate, secret, private; trusty, faithful.

ANT. _Public, patent, open; treacherous, insidious, traitorous._

=Configuration.= Outline, shape, form, contour.

ANT. _Shapelessness, indeterminateness; distortion, deformity._

=Confine=, _v._ Limit, bound, imprison, restrict, circumscribe, enclose.

ANT. _Widen, expand, liberate, unfasten, loosen, extend, dilate._

=Confirm.= Sanction, uphold, assure, establish, strengthen, substantiate, settle, corroborate.

ANT. _Shatter, weaken, upset, annul, abrogate, cancel, destroy, shake._

=Confiscate.= Forfeit, seize, escheat, condemn, sequestrate.

ANT. _Release, restore, refund._

=Conflagration.= Fire, arson, ignition, incendiarism, combustion.

ANT. _Extinction, quenching; smoldering._

=Conflict.= Contest, battle, struggle, encounter; clashing, interference, disagreement, discord.

ANT. _Amity, reconciliation, pacification, arbitration._

=Conform.= Agree, consent, harmonize, comply, correspond, comport.

ANT. _Dissent, disagree; antagonize, secede; vary, differ._

=Confound.= Confuse, perplex, bewilder, mystify; surprise, astonish, astound, startle; destroy, ruin, overwhelm; disconcert, abash, shame.

ANT. _Clear, set right, arrange, enlighten; save, protect; calm, console, soothe, restore._

=Confront.= Oppose, threaten, encounter, challenge, face, intimidate.

ANT. _Encourage, abet, countenance._

=Confuse.= Mingle, confound; derange, disturb, perplex, embarrass, obscure, mortify.

ANT. _Arrange; relieve, assist, allay; calm, restore._

=Congeal.= Freeze, convert to ice, benumb.

ANT. _Melt, thaw, dissolve._

=Congenial.= Kindred, similar, sympathetic, suited, natural, proper, agreeable.

ANT. _Disagreeable, abhorrent, unnatural, alien, dissimilar, unsuited, unsympathetic._

=Congenital.= Coeval, connatural, innate, inherent, ingenerate.

ANT. _Unnatural, assumed, extraneous, acquired, artificial, adventitious._

=Congeries, Congestion.= Conglomeration, aggregation, accumulation, plethora, repletion.

ANT. _Dissipation, diffusion, clearance, dispersion._

=Congratulate.= Felicitate, compliment, rejoice with.

ANT. _Console, condole with, commiserate._

=Congregate.= Assemble, collect, meet, convene, gather, throng.

ANT. _Disperse, disappear, separate, part, scatter._

=Congregation.= Assembly, meeting, audience, conference.

ANT. _Dispersion, dismissal._

=Congress.= Parliament, conclave, cabinet, council, assembly, legislature, synod, convention, conference.

ANT. _Cabal, sedition, uprising, mob; intrigue._

=Congruous.= Accordant, agreeing, harmonious, coherent, suitable, consistent, proper, appropriate.

ANT. _Discordant, heterogeneous, inharmonious, improper, unsuitable._

=Conjecture=, _n._ Supposition, surmise, guess, hypothesis, theory, notion, divination.

ANT. _Calculation, inference, deduction, proof; fact, surety, certainty, security._

=Conjuncture.= Combination, concurrence; emergency, crisis, exigency, juncture.

ANT. _Provision, preparation, arrangement._

=Connection.= Conjunction, combination, union, association, dependence.

ANT. _Independence, disjunction, dissociation, dissolution._

=Conquer.= Overcome, subjugate, master, vanquish, subdue, rout, defeat, overpower, overthrow, prevail over, reduce, win, surmount, worst, checkmate, beat, crush, down, discomfit.

ANT. _Surrender, capitulate, cede, forfeit, fly, yield, retreat, withdraw, retire, submit, succumb, fall, lose, resign, fail._

=Conquest.= Victory, subjugation, triumph.

ANT. _Defeat, failure, surrender, submission._

=Conscience.= Moral sense, intuition, integrity, principle.

ANT. _Irresponsibility, laxity, undutifulness, unscrupulousness._

=Conscientious.= Scrupulous, exact, upright, high-principled, honest, honorable, equitable, incorruptible, fair, faithful.

ANT. _Lax, unprincipled, unscrupulous, reprobate, dishonorable, faithless._

=Conscious.= Sensible, cognizant, aware, intelligent, advised, apprised, assured, sure, certain, informed; thinking, reflecting, rational, intellectual.

ANT. _Insensible, unaware, ignorant, dead, cold, deaf; irrational, thoughtless._

=Conscription.= Drafting, impressment.

ANT. _Volunteering, enlistment._

=Consecrate.= Dedicate, ordain; sanctify, hallow.

ANT. _Desecrate, defile._

=Consecutive.= Sequent, continuous, orderly, following.

ANT. _Disordered, rambling, discursive, illogical._

=Consent.= Assent, approve, agree, yield, comply, acquiesce.

ANT. _Refuse, resist, decline, dissent._

=Consequence.= Result, issue, sequel, effect, outgrowth, event, end, upshot; importance, dignity, moment.

ANT. _Cause, occasion, origin; axiom, postulate, premise, antecedence; insignificance, paltriness._

=Consequential.= Following, resulting, coherent, cogent, connected; pompous, self-conceited, arrogant, vainglorious.

ANT. _Incoherent, illogical; affable, accessible, humble, considerate._

=Conservation.= Protection, perpetuation, preservation, maintenance.

ANT. _Neglect, exposure, destruction, abolition._

=Conservative.= Stationary, traditional, opposed to change.

ANT. _Radical, progressive, changeable, transitional, modifiable, innovating._

=Consider.= Think, ponder, meditate, reflect, investigate, weigh, deliberate, observe, attend, regard.

ANT. _Guess, conjecture, ignore, chance, hazard._

=Considerate.= Kindly, thoughtful, reflective, careful, prudent, deliberate, serious, charitable, forbearing, cautious.

ANT. _Rash, careless, imprudent, thoughtless, rude, selfish, overbearing, injudicious._

=Consignment.= Custody, commission, delegation; sending, shipping.

ANT. _Miscommitment._

=Consistency.= Density, solidity, compactness, coherence; agreement, congruity, correspondence, uniformity, harmony, invariableness.

ANT. _Tenuity, subtility, volatility; incoherence, incongruity, contrariety, contradiction._

=Console.= Comfort, condole with, sympathize, encourage, soothe, assuage, solace.

ANT. _Distress, grieve, disturb, annoy, sadden, trouble, wound, hurt._

=Consolidate.= Solidify, harden, condense, compress, compact; thicken, strengthen, solder, cement, fuse; conjoin, combine.

ANT. _Dissolve, melt, vaporize, weaken, dissipate, sublimate, pulverize; dissect, disjoin._

=Conspicuous.= Visible, apparent, discernible, plain, clear, perceptible, noticeable; eminent, distinguished, prominent, famous, noted, manifest.

ANT. _Invisible, microscopic, hidden, imperceptible, unseen; ordinary, mediocre, commonplace._

=Conspiracy.= Intrigue, treason, cabal, plot, machination, combination; sedition.

ANT. _Legislation, congress, parliament, synod._

=Constant.= Fixed, immutable, invariable, unchanging, permanent, perpetual; resolute, firm, steady; persevering, assiduous; incessant, unbroken, continuous; faithful, true, loyal, devoted.

ANT. _Irregular, exceptional, casual, incidental, fickle, faithless, broken, treacherous, untrustworthy, false._

=Consternation.= Amazement, terror, alarm, dismay, panic, bewilderment.

ANT. _Fearlessness, boldness, composure, presence of mind._

=Constituent.= Elector, patron, voter, supporter, sender; ingredient, component, element.

ANT. _Representative, nominee; constitution, system, compound, whole._

=Constitution.= Organization, formation; quality, character, temperament, peculiarity, characteristic; charter, law.

ANT. _Conspiracy, rebellion, tyranny, anarchy, despotism, destruction, disorganization; disposition, mood, frame of mind, temper._

=Construct.= Build, erect, invent, form, shape, combine.

ANT. _Demolish, overthrow, destroy, derange._

=Construction.= Building, erection, composition, fabrication; structure, formation, form, figure; explanation, version, rendering, interpretation.

ANT. _Dislocation, dismemberment, dissolution; misunderstanding, misconception._

=Consult.= Deliberate, take counsel, confer, advise with, canvass, question, consider, regard.

ANT. _Dictate, counteract, contradict._

=Consume.= Eat up, devour; destroy, lavish, dissipate, waste, spend.

ANT. _Discard, reject, throw aside; preserve, replenish, supply, provide._

=Consummate=, _a._ Perfect, excellent, supreme, finished, complete.

ANT. _Common, faulty, defective, ordinary, mediocre._

=Consummation.= Achievement, attainment, completion, termination, accomplishment, fulfilment, realization, close, finish, finale.

ANT. _Beginning, attempt, inception, initiation, source, origin._

=Consumption.= Expenditure, use, waste, extinction, destruction.

ANT. _Development, increase, growth, enlargement, augmentation._

=Contact.= Touch, junction, contiguity, closeness, union.

ANT. _Adjacence, proximity; separation, distance, isolation._

=Contagion.= Infection; contamination, taint, pestilence, corruption.

ANT. _Prevention; antisepsis, disinfection._

=Contain.= Include, embody, comprehend, comprise, embrace; restrain, hold.

ANT. _Omit, exclude, drop, discharge; yield, give way._

=Contaminate.= Taint, defile, corrupt, sully.

ANT. _Cleanse, purify._

=Contemn.= Despise, scorn, disdain, slight.

ANT. _Venerate, respect._

=Contemplate.= Meditate, study, ponder, survey, reflect; intend, design.

ANT. _Overlook, waive, abandon; execute, complete, do._

=Contemptible.= Despicable, abject, base, worthless, mean, low.

ANT. _Respectable, venerable; worthy, estimable, important, grave._

=Contend.= Strive, fight, struggle, combat; debate, argue, dispute; affirm, assert, maintain, claim.

ANT. _Concede, allow, surrender._

=Content.= Satisfied, pleased, easy, willing, resigned, gratified.

ANT. _Reluctant, unwilling, unsatisfied, rebellious, discontent._

=Contention.= Strife, dissension, quarrel, rupture, dispute, debate, controversy, altercation.

ANT. _Peace, amity, harmony, concord, reconciliation._

=Contingent=, _a._ Casual, happening, fortuitous, dependent, incidental, provisional, uncertain.

ANT. _Independent, absolute, positive, uncontrolled, uninfluenced, unaffected._

=Continual.= Incessant, ceaseless, invariable, perpetual, constant, uninterrupted, unbroken, unremitting, continuous.

ANT. _Exceptional, irregular, casual, contingent, intermittent, interrupted, suspended._

=Continually.= Constantly, perpetually, ever, always, repeatedly, frequently, continuously.

ANT. _Occasionally, rarely, sometimes._

=Continue.= Remain, endure, persist; abide, stay, tarry; persevere, be constant or steadfast.

ANT. _Stop, cease, fail, pause._

=Contract=, _n._ Compact, stipulation, agreement, arrangement, bargain, covenant, pact, obligation, pledge, engagement, bond.

ANT. _Promise, parole, assurance, understanding, assumption._

=Contract=, _v._ Narrow, abbreviate, abridge, lessen, reduce, compress; shrivel, shrink; agree, stipulate, bargain.

ANT. _Expand, amplify, dilate; reverse, cancel, abandon._

=Contradict.= Deny, gainsay, dispute, impugn, controvert; oppose, counteract, annul, thwart, abrogate.

ANT. _Maintain, argue, confirm, state, affirm, endorse._

=Contrary.= Opposite, opposed, adverse, counter; conflicting, contradictory, antagonistic, repugnant; perverse, obstinate, stubborn, headstrong.

ANT. _Compatible, agreeing, kindred, compliant, submissive; consistent._

=Contrast=, _v._ Differentiate, discriminate, oppose, compare.

ANT. _Resemble, be like or similar, liken, harmonize._

=Contribute.= Add, give, coöperate, assist, subscribe, supply.

ANT. _Refuse, withhold, deny._

=Contribution.= Donation, offering, gift, subscription, subsidy, aid, assistance.

ANT. _Withholding, retention, reservation._

=Contrive.= Plan, design, devise, invent, project, form, frame, scheme, plot, consider; manage, make out; concert, adjust.

ANT. _Hit, chance, venture, bungle, hazard; mismanage, miscontrive._

=Control=, _v._ Direct, manage, rule, command, sway, superintend; hinder, repress, restrain, curb, check.

ANT. _License, free; neglect, abandon; mismanage, misconduct._

=Controversy.= Dispute, altercation, contention, disagreement.

ANT. _Agreement, unanimity, coincidence._

=Contumacy.= Obstinacy, stubbornness, perverseness, pertinacity, obduracy; disobedience, insolence.

ANT. _Docility, tractableness, flattering, fawning, servility._

=Contumely.= Obloquy, reproach, opprobrium, insolence, abuse, contempt, scorn, disdain, arrogance.

ANT. _Regard, consideration, adulation, obsequiousness._

=Convene.= Assemble, meet, congregate, summon, master, collect.

ANT. _Dismiss, disperse, disband, dissipate._

=Convenient.= Suitable, fit, appropriate, proper, adapted; advantageous, commodious, comfortable, useful, serviceable.

ANT. _Inconvenient, useless, awkward, superfluous; inopportune._

=Convention.= Assemblage, conference, meeting, concourse, session, synod, congress, convocation; treaty, compact.

ANT. _Recess, dissolution, prorogation; dispersion, scattering; promise, understanding, parole._

=Conventional.= Usual, customary, ordinary, habitual, regular, wonted, prevalent, social, everyday; stipulated.

ANT. _Unusual, erratic, extraordinary; legal, compulsory._

=Conversant.= Familiar, skilled, acquainted, proficient, versed.

ANT. _Strange, ignorant, unversed, unlearned._

=Conversation.= Converse, communion, intercourse, parley, talk, chat, conference, communication, discourse, colloquy, dialogue.

ANT. _Speech, oration, harangue, soliloquy, apostrophe, monologue, silence, taciturnity._

=Converse=, _a._ Opposite, reverse, contrary, counter, contradictory.

ANT. _Identical, one, same, indistinguishable; direct, primary._

=Conversion.= Alteration, transmutation, change, transformation.

ANT. _Permanence, identity, persistence, conservation._

=Convertible.= Equivalent, interchangeable, identical; reversible.

ANT. _Variant, contrary, incommensurate._

=Convey.= Take, transfer, move, change, carry, shift, transmit, transport, remove, consign, relegate.

ANT. _Retain, preserve, hold, cling to, possess._

=Conviction.= Belief, assurance, persuasion; confutation, refutation; proof, detection.

ANT. _Doubt, disbelief, misgiving; vindication, justification._

=Convince.= Persuade, satisfy, enlighten, indoctrinate, inoculate.

ANT. _Mislead, mystify, perplex, puzzle, unsettle, upset; turn, convert._

=Convivial.= Social, festive, hospitable, jovial, jolly, companionable, gay.

ANT. _Inhospitable, unsocial, unneighborly, churlish; abstemious, ascetic, austere._

=Convocation.= Convention, congress, assemblage, council, synod.

ANT. _Dispersion, disruption, dismission, dismissal._

=Convolution.= Coil, involution, spiral, twist, contortion.

ANT. _Unfolding, evolution, unraveling, explication._

=Convoy.= Escort, guard, attendance, protection.

ANT. _Capture, betrayal, onset, onslaught, hold up._

=Convulse.= Disturb, shake, agitate.

ANT. _Calm, compose, soothe, assuage._

=Cool.= Somewhat cold, chilling, frigid, freezing; unimpassioned, composed, collected, unruffled, self-possessed, sedate, placid, quiet; indifferent, unconcerned, apathetic.

ANT. _Hot, warm, burning, heated, excitable, ardent, eager._

=Coöperate.= Assist, abet, help, conspire, concur, co-labor.

ANT. _Oppose, thwart, rival, counteract, conflict, hinder, defeat, frustrate._

=Coördinate.= Equal, equivalent, proportionate, commensurate, tantamount, equipollent.

ANT. _Subordinate; disparate, extraneous; inferior, superior._

=Copy.= Portraiture, facsimile, duplicate, imitation, likeness, image, transcript, counterfeit.

ANT. _Model, original, pattern, example, prototype, archetype, exemplar._

=Cordial.= Earnest, warm, hearty, ardent, affectionate, sincere, invigorating, refreshing, pleasing, grateful.

ANT. _Cool, formal, ceremonious, distant, reserved, disinclined._

=Corner.= Angle, bend, crotch, knee; nook, recess, niche, retreat.

ANT. _Abutment, protrusion, prominence, convexity, projection._

=Corollary.= Inference, conclusion, deduction, consequence.

ANT. _Problem, proposition._

=Corporal, Corporeal.= Fleshly, bodily, material, physical.

ANT. _Spiritual, mental, intellectual, moral, ethereal, immaterial._

=Corps.= Body of troops, division of army, squadron, band, company.

ANT. _Aggregate, army, host, mass, force, organization._

=Corpse.= Remains, dead body, cadaver, carcass, dust.

ANT. _Soul, spirit, individual, personality, mentality._

=Corpulent.= Fat, fleshy, plump, obese, portly, round, stout.

ANT. _Lean, thin, attenuated, emaciated, slight, slender, frail._

=Correct.= True, exact, accurate, proper, faultless, right.

ANT. _False, untrue, wrong, inexact, inaccurate, fallacious, defective._

=Corrective.= Regulative, preventive, alterative, preservative, rectifying, modifying, improving, reformatory.

ANT. _Confirmative, stimulative, intensitive, provocative, conducive._

=Correlation.= Interrelation, correspondence, apposition, interdependence, mutuality, reciprocation, interchange, reciprocity.

ANT. _Contradiction, independence, opposition, inconsistency, incongruity._

=Correspond.= Agree, suit, match, fit, tally, harmonize, answer, correlate, stand counter; communicate, write.

ANT. _Vary, disagree, clash, jar; ignore, disregard, neglect._

=Correspondence.= Adaptation, agreement, congruity; writing, letter, despatches, communication.

ANT. _Conversation; withdrawal, non-intercourse; incongruity, discord, disagreement._

=Corroborate.= Strengthen, establish, sustain, support, confirm.

ANT. _Weaken, confute, rebut, invalidate, shake, enfeeble, overthrow._

=Corrode.= Consume, eat away, waste, impair, rust, canker, wear, crumble.

ANT. _Renew, restore._

=Corrupt=, _v._ Defile, pollute, infect, taint, vitiate, demoralize, contaminate, debase, spoil, deteriorate.

ANT. _Cleanse, purify, better, correct, ameliorate._

=Corruption.= Decay, decomposition, pollution, defilement, infection, contamination, adulteration; depravity, immorality, laxity, wickedness; dishonesty, bribery.

=Cost.= Price, worth, expenditure, expense, charge, disbursement, outlay; preciousness, richness, splendor; loss, damage, pain.

=Costume.= Dress, livery, robes, uniform.

ANT. _Disguise, incognito; nudity, nakedness._

=Council.= Cabinet, bureau, chamber, conclave, synod, convocation, meeting, conference, parliament, consultation, convention.

ANT. _Cabal, league, conspiracy; multitude, mob._

=Counsel.= Advice, consultation, opinion, suggestion, recommendation, instruction, caution, admonition; deliberation, forethought; plan, design, scheme; purpose; lawyer, barrister, attorney.

=Count.= Compute, reckon, add, tell, estimate, number, enumerate, sum, calculate.

ANT. _Guess, conjecture, surmise, think, fancy._

=Countenance=, _v._ Approve, support, sanction, help, aid, abet, encourage, patronize, befriend, assist, favor.

ANT. _Oppose, confront, discourage, browbeat, face, compare, disparage._

=Counter.= Contrary, opposed, opposite, against.

ANT. _Accordant with, coincident, consonant._

=Counteract.= Oppose, foil, baffle, thwart, hinder, rival, resist, defeat, cross, frustrate, neutralize.

ANT. _Aid, coöperate, subserve, promote, advance, assist._

=Counterfeit=, _n._ Forgery, fraudulent copy, cheat, artifice, pretense, sham, fabrication.

ANT. _Exposure, detection; verity, fact, truth, reality._

=Countermand.= Abrogate, annul, revoke, rescind, recall, make void.

ANT. _Order, command, bid, charge, enjoin, direct, instruct._

=Counterpart.= Duplicate, copy; correlative, complement, supplement, obverse; match, mate, tally, twin.

ANT. _Antithesis, contradiction, contrast._

=Countervail.= Balance, compensate, make up, counterbalance, offset.

ANT. _Overthrow, unbalance, weigh down._

=Countryman.= Rustic, agriculturist, farmer, swain, yeoman, laborer, peasant, husbandman; clown, boor.

ANT. _Citizen, townsman; alien._

=Couple=, _v._ Link, unite, connect, join, clasp, tie, yoke, buckle, pair, splice, button; marry, wed.

ANT. _Loose, part, separate, detach, isolate, unclasp; divorce._

=Courage.= Bravery, valor, fearlessness, spirit, heroism, fortitude, hardihood, boldness, daring, mettle, pluck, resolution, intrepidity.

ANT. _Cowardice, timidity, fear, dread, terror, dismay, consternation._

=Course.= Route, way, road, track, race; direction, bearing, progress, process; career; succession, order, regularity; deportment, conduct; series, system.

ANT. _Deviation; disorder, discursion; hindrance, error._

=Court=, _v._ Woo, flatter, seek, invite, solicit.

ANT. _Avoid, shun, repudiate, repel, antagonize._

=Courtesy.= Politeness, affability, urbanity, civility, complaisance.

ANT. _Rudeness, incivility, churlishness, ungraciousness._

=Courtly.= Polished, elegant, polite, ceremonious, formal, respectful.

ANT. _Undignified, unrefined, coarse, awkward, boorish, plebeian._

=Covenant.= Agreement, stipulation, bond, compact, contract, bargain, arrangement, concordant, pact, treaty.

ANT. _Promise, understanding, assurance, parole._

=Cover=, _v._ Hide, conceal, overspread, overlay, secrete, cloak, veil, screen, mask, shroud, disguise; invest, clothe, wrap; protect, shelter, shield, guard, defend; comprehend, comprise, embrace; balance, compensate, countervail.

ANT. _Expose, reveal, produce, exhibit; betray, divulge; omit, exclude._

=Covet.= Desire, long for, wish for, aim after, aspire to.

ANT. _Dislike, despise; undervalue._

=Covetous.= Eager, avaricious, desirous, greedy, grasping, acquisitive, rapacious.

ANT. _Liberal, unselfish, generous, bountiful._

=Coward.= Craven, recreant, dastard.

ANT. _Hero, champion; daredevil, desperado._

=Coy.= Bashful, shy, modest, reserved, retreating, shrinking.

ANT. _Bold, forward, impertinent, pert, brazen, flippant._

=Crack.= Split, break, chop, rend, cleave, snap; craze, madden.

ANT. _Mend, unite, repair; restore, heal._

=Craft.= Skill, ability, power, talent, dexterity, aptitude, tact; artifice, shrewdness, guile, deception, cunning, deceit; art, trade, employment, vocation, calling; vessel.

ANT. _Inaptitude, tactlessness; fairness, openness, candor, sincerity, frankness, ingenuousness, straightforwardness._

=Cramp.= Restrain, hinder, check, confine, hamper, clog, fetter, cripple.

ANT. _Free, liberate, loose, expand, ease, relieve, extricate._

=Crash.= Jar, uproar, clash, rending, noise, clang, resonance.

ANT. _Murmur, whisper; silence._

=Crassitude.= Grossness, thickness, density, corpulence, obesity.

ANT. _Tenuity, agility, activity; spareness, slightness._

=Crave.= Intreat, beg, beseech, implore, supplicate, desire, long for, hunger for, yearn.

ANT. _Demand, insist, require._

=Crazy.= Shattered, broken, tottering; distracted, mad, lunatic, insane, delirious, cracked, demented, deranged.

ANT. _Sound, robust, vigorous, sane, whole._

=Create.= Form, produce, make, originate, cause, occasion, appoint, constitute; beget, engender, generate; imagine, compose, fashion, design.

ANT. _Destroy, demolish, annihilate._

=Creature.= Created being, being, animal, man, person; dependent, vassal, parasite; wretch, miscreant.

ANT. _Chimera, ghost, hallucination, fantasy, phantom, conceit, crotchet._

=Credence.= Belief, trust, faith, acceptance, confidence, reliance.

ANT. _Denial, distrust, disbelief, doubt, skepticism._

=Credentials.= Diploma, missive, title, warrant, vouchers, certificates, testimonials.

=Credible.= Probable, possible, reliable, trustworthy, likely.

ANT. _Improbable, unlikely, incredible, unreliable, untrustworthy._

=Credit.= Trust, belief, faith, confidence, credence, reliance; reputation, influence, power; esteem, regard; loan, securities.

ANT. _Insecurity; distrust; shame, disgrace, censure._

=Credulity.= Gullibility, credulousness, simplicity.

ANT. _Skepticism, suspiciousness, incredulity, shrewdness._

=Creed.= Belief, catechism, confession, articles of faith, tenets, dogmas, doctrines.

ANT. _Protest, abjuration, disbelief, recantation, retraction._

=Crestfallen.= Downcast, dispirited, dejected, disheartened, depressed, desponding, low-spirited, down-hearted.

ANT. _Exuberant, elated, confident, inspirited._

=Crew.= Gang, set, band, horde, crowd, mob, throng.

ANT. _Supercargo; bevy, galaxy, cream, élite._

=Crime.= Offense, misdeed, wrong, felony, sin, iniquity, misdemeanor, enormity, transgression, wickedness, delinquency.

ANT. _Good deed, well-doing, exploit, achievement, duty, service, benefit, benefaction, heroism._

=Criminal=, _a._ Immoral, iniquitous, sinful, unlawful, wicked, wrong, vile, nefarious, culpable, abominable, illegal, vicious.

ANT. _Virtuous, moral, innocent, just, honorable, praiseworthy, lawful, legal, right, meritorious._

=Criminate.= Charge, accuse, arraign, impeach.

ANT. _Acquit, absolve, extricate._

=Cripple=, _v._ Weaken, disable, impair, break down, cramp, curtail.

ANT. _Renovate, strengthen, augment, liberate, ease, expedite._

=Criterion.= Standard, test, rule, touchstone, measure, canon, proof.

ANT. _Eye, glance; intention, conjecture._

=Critic.= Judge, censor, reviewer, connoisseur; caviller, carper; arbiter, savant.

ANT. _Artist, author, writer, performer, maker, poet, composer._

=Critical.= Accurate, nice, exact; decisive, crucial, determining, important; dangerous, hazardous, imminent, momentous, dubious, precarious.

ANT. _Inexact, loose, undiscriminating; unimportant, inconclusive; safe, sure, settled, decided, retrieved, redressed._

=Criticism.= Censure, stricture, animadversion, review, critique.

ANT. _Approbation, praise, approval._

=Criticize.= Examine, estimate, judge, discuss, analyze, anatomize, scan, animadvert.

ANT. _Survey, overlook, slur, skim, slight, neglect._

=Crooked.= Bent, curved, bowed; distorted, twisted, wry, askew, deformed, disfigured; perverse, contumacious, capricious; dishonest, unfair, unscrupulous, knavish, deceitful, tricky.

ANT. _Straight, linear, upright, direct, honest, straightforward._

=Cross.= Fretful, petulant, peevish, snappish, touchy, morose, ill-natured, sullen, snarling, cynical, sour, out of humor, captious, crabbed, sulky.

ANT. _Amiable, genial, good-tempered, good-natured, blithesome, charming, winsome, attractive, benign._

=Crowd.= Throng, multitude, concourse, press, horde, herd, host, rabble, mob, populace.

ANT. _Cream, élite, bevy, constellation, galaxy; solitude, solitariness._

=Crown=, _n._ Diadem, coronet, garland, chaplet, wreath, laurel, bays; reward, honor, distinction, dignity; summit, crest, top, head, brow, apex.

ANT. _Base, bottom, floor, foot, pedestal, foundation, sole; infamy, shame._

=Crown=, _v._ Complete, consummate, conclude, seal, achieve, accomplish.

ANT. _Mar, spoil, frustrate, fail._

=Crucial.= Severe, trying, searching, decisive, critical, momentous, strategic.

ANT. _Superficial, indifferent, mild, lenient, lax, unimportant._

=Crude.= Raw, immature, unripe; coarse, unrefined; undigested, unconsidered, unpolished, uncouth, awkward.

ANT. _Mature; refined, sensitive; well-considered, finished, classical, highly wrought, elaborate._

=Cruel.= Inhuman, merciless, unfeeling, dire, ruthless, pitiless, relentless, savage, brutal, ferocious, blood-thirsty, sanguinary; severe, sharp, bitter, hard.

ANT. _Gentle, mild, merciful, humane, forbearing, generous._

=Crush.= Pound, crumble, demolish, overpower, squeeze, compress, bruise, shatter, raze, pulverize.

ANT. _Consolidate, compact, amalgamate, solidify, stabilitate._

=Culmination.= Zenith, success, consummation, acme, completion, apex.

ANT. _Failure, downfall, defeat, descent, decline._

=Culpable.= Blameworthy, blamable, censurable, reprehensible, faulty, wrong.

ANT. _Innocent, blameless, laudable, praiseworthy._

=Culprit.= Criminal, delinquent, felon, malefactor, offender.

ANT. _Hero, example, pattern, model, saint, upright man._

=Cultivate.= Till; fertilize; improve, refine, train, discipline, develop; study, pursue, investigate; nourish, foster, cherish, promote.

ANT. _Neglect, blight, blast; uproot, eradicate, extirpate; stifle, abandon, prevent, discourage._

=Cunning.= Craft, artifice, deceit, intrigue, subtlety, chicane.

ANT. _Candor, guilelessness, sincerity._

=Cupidity.= Longing, greed, lust; covetousness, avarice, acquisitiveness, stinginess.

ANT. _Prodigality, liberality, generosity, extravagance._

=Curb.= Restrain, check, control, repress, bridle.

ANT. _Indulge, emancipate, loose, release, free, liberate._

=Cure=, _n._ Remedy, antidote, restorative, corrective, help, specific; healing, restoration, convalescence, alleviation, renovation.

ANT. _Complaint, contagion, disease, ailment; aggravation, confirmation; inoculation._

=Curiosity.= Inquisitiveness, wonder, marvel, rarity, celebrity; inquiry, investigation, scrutiny, research.

ANT. _Indifference, heedlessness, disregard, abstraction; apathy._

=Curious.= Prying, meddling, inquisitive, searching, scrutinizing; rare, singular, strange; elegant, finished.

ANT. _Indifferent, uninterested; trite, common, usual._

=Current.= Common, general, prevalent, present, floating, popular, ordinary, vulgar.

ANT. _Obsolete, rejected, exploded; private, secret; confined._

=Curse=, _n._ Execration, malediction, anathema, denunciation; scourge, plague, torment, affliction, trouble; imprecation, ban, oath.

ANT. _Blessing, benediction, joy, crown; prosperity, welfare, luck, success._

=Cursory.= Hasty, superficial, desultory, careless, slight, rapid.

ANT. _Elaborate, searching, minute, profound._

=Custody.= Care, keeping, protection; confinement, duress, imprisonment.

ANT. _Neglect, betrayal, exposure, desertion; liberation discharge._

=Custom.= Usage, habit, fashion, practice, rule; form, formality, observance; patronage; duty, tax.

ANT. _Law, regulation, command; disuse, non-observance, desuetude._

=Cutting.= Sharp, keen; sarcastic, severe, satirical, wounding, piercing, trenchant, stinging, sardonic, cruel.

ANT. _Mild, soothing, flattering, indulgent, consoling, gratifying._

=Cynical.= Censorious, churlish, carping, cross, peevish; derisive, contemptuous, scornful, pessimistic, misanthropic.

ANT. _Genial, lenient; optimistic, philanthropic._

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=Dainty.= Exquisite, choice, rare, refined; savory, palatable, delicious, toothsome, tasty, epicurean; fastidious, luxurious.

ANT. _Common, dirty, vulgar, coarse, defiled, nasty, foul, filthy._

=Damage.= Hurt, injury, detriment, loss, mischief, impairment.

ANT. _Benefit, compensation, advantage, blessing, reparation._

=Danger.= Peril, risk, hazard, venture, insecurity, liability, jeopardy.

ANT. _Safety, security, precaution, defense._

=Daring.= Adventurous, fearless, risky, brave, courageous, dauntless, intrepid, valorous.

ANT. _Cautious, timid, wary, fearful._

=Dark.= Black, swarthy, opaque, obscure, shadowy, lurid, sunless, murky, cloudy, overcast, ebon, pitchy, secret; mysterious, enigmatical, unintelligible, occult, abstruse; gloomy, disheartening, cheerless, dismal; ignorant, rude, untaught, benighted; wicked, foul, horrible, damnable, vile, atrocious, infernal; joyless, mournful, sad, sorrowful.

ANT. _White, fair, light, radiant, bright, clear, buoyant, plain, brilliant, glaring, crystalline, transparent, dazzling, luminous, illumed; happy, joyful, festive._

=Darling.= Sweetheart, love, pet, favorite, idol, dear.

=Dash.= Strike, hurl, cast, throw, drive, send, speed, dart; alloy, adulterate; suffuse, overspread, color; disappoint, ruin, frustrate; surprise, abash.

ANT. _Raise, erect, reinstate; creep, crawl; fulfil, realize, effect._

=Dastard.= Coward, craven, recreant.

ANT. _Hero, champion; daredevil._

=Data.= Facts, basis, grounds, postulates, premises, given conditions.

ANT. _Conjectures, assumptions, inferences, deductions._

=Date.= Time, era, epoch, period, age.

ANT. _Non-duration; eternity._

=Daub.= Smear, plaster, sully, begrime, soil, deface, defile.

ANT. _Embellish, decorate; cleanse, whiten._

=Daunt.= Terrify, alarm, intimidate, appal, frighten off, tame.

ANT. _Rally, inspirit, encourage._

=Dauntless.= Valiant, fearless, intrepid, bold, indomitable, unconquerable, valorous, chivalrous, heroic, brave, daring.

ANT. _Cowardly, timid, cautious, fearful, afraid, faint-hearted, shrinking._

=Dawn.= Appear, begin, open; break, grow light, rise.

ANT. _Wane, set, sink, close._

=Dazzle.= Daze, blind; astonish, surprise, overpower, bewilder, confuse.

ANT. _Enlighten, illumine, illuminate; make clear, instruct._

=Dead.= Lifeless, breathless, inanimate, deceased, defunct, departed; dull, cold, frigid, inert, indifferent; tasteless, insipid, flat; insensible, heavy, unconscious, spiritless, still, torpid.

ANT. _Quick, live, living, animate, alive, stirring, vivacious._

=Deadly.= Mortal, fatal, destructive, noxious, murderous, malignant, pernicious, baneful, venomous.

ANT. _Vital, wholesome, life-giving._

=Deaf.= Hard of hearing; dull, insensible, heedless; inexorable, averse, disinclined; inaudible.

ANT. _Acute, listening, attentive, willing, susceptible._

=Deal.= Bargain, chaffer, trade, traffic, do business; distribute, allot, divide, share, mete out.

ANT. _Close, stop, fail; collect, gather, glean, muster._

=Dear.= Costly, high-priced, expensive, precious; beloved, valued.

ANT. _Cheap, common, inexpensive; hated, abhorred._

=Dearth.= Lack, want, scarcity, poverty.

ANT. _Plenty, abundance, luxury._

=Death.= Decease, dying, dissolution, departure, exit, expiration.

ANT. _Life, birth, rise, vitality, growth, activity._

=Debar.= Exclude, bar out, stop, prevent, prohibit, restrain, hinder.

ANT. _Admit, enclose, embrace; allow, indulge, permit, entitle._

=Debase.= Degrade, deprave, corrupt, alloy, deteriorate, lower, impair.

ANT. _Raise, enhance, exalt, honor, purify, improve, ameliorate._

=Debate=, _n._ Discussion, dispute, controversy, contention, altercation, contest.

ANT. Compliance, surrender, withdrawal of opposition.

=Debatable.= Dubious, doubtful, uncertain, disputable, problematical.

ANT. _Sure, certain, incontestable, self-evident._

=Debauch.= Seduce, corrupt, vitiate, defile.

ANT. _Purify, elevate._

=Debility.= Infirmity, weakness, languor, exhaustion, feebleness.

ANT. _Vigor, strength, nerve, energy, tone, vitality._

=Debt.= Liability, obligation, default, claim, score.

ANT. _Liquidation, assets, accommodation, credit._

=Debtor.= Borrower, mortgagor.

ANT. _Creditor, lender, mortgagee._

=Decay=, _v._ Corrupt, putrefy, decompose, rot, spoil, molder, wither, perish.

ANT. _Flourish, luxuriate, expand, vegetate, grow, increase._

=Deceit.= Fraud, deception, cheating, artifice, imposition, guile.

ANT. _Honesty, openness, fair dealing, frankness, truth, verity._

=Deceive.= Cheat, dupe, delude, beguile, fool, trick, impose upon, disappoint, mislead, circumvent, entrap.

ANT. _Enlighten, guide, disabuse, deliver._

=Deception.= Craft, cunning, lying, fraud, hypocrisy, trickery, delusion, duplicity, deceitfulness, falsehood, prevarication.

ANT. _Candor, honesty, sincerity, truth, veracity, guilelessness, frankness, simplicity._

=Decide.= Determine, settle, conclude, close, terminate, end, resolve.

ANT. _Waver, hesitate, vacillate, fluctuate, be irresolute._

=Decipher.= Reveal, explain, unravel, unfold.

ANT. _Puzzle, mystify._

=Decision.= Determination, sentence, conclusion, judgment; firmness, resolution.

ANT. _Vacillation, vagueness, uncertainty._

=Decisive.= Conclusive, positive, final, definitive, indisputable.

ANT. _Vague, hypothetical, indeterminate, dubious, problematical._

=Deck.= Adorn, dress, ornament.

ANT. _Strip, despoil; deform, deface._

=Declaim.= Recite, speak, debate, harangue.

ANT. _Study, compose, elaborate._

=Declamation.= Harangue, effusion, debate, oratory, elocution.

ANT. _Hesitation, stammering._

=Declaration.= Assertion, affirmation, avowal; publication, proclamation, official announcement.

ANT. _Denial; concealment; recantation, disavowal, retraction._

=Declare.= Announce, publish, advertise, reveal, proclaim.

ANT. _Suppress, withhold, conceal._

=Decline.= Fall, decay, decadence, degeneration; refusal, rejection, repudiation.

ANT. _Rise, advancement, improvement; acceptance._

=Declivity.= Fall, slope, descent.

ANT. _Ascent, rise._

=Decoction.= Concoction, mixture, mess.

ANT. _Rawness. crudity._

=Decompose.= Analyze, dissolve, resolve; decay, putrefy, become corrupt.

ANT. _Compound, mix, organize, compose._

=Decorate.= Adorn, embellish, improve.

ANT. _Spoil, mar, denude, deface._

=Decorum.= Dignity, order, propriety, seemliness.

ANT. _Disorder, disturbance, unseemliness._

=Decrease.= Lessen, diminish, subside, want, dwindle, curtail, retrench, reduce, lower.

ANT. _Increase, grow, augment, expand._

=Decree.= Decision, determination, law, edict, mandate, manifesto.

ANT. _Suggestion, request, hint._

=Decrepit.= Weak, infirm, tottering, aged.

ANT. _Strong, youthful._

=Decry.= Disparage, detract, depreciate, denounce, abase, traduce.

ANT. _Extol, praise, eulogize, laud._

=Dedicate.= Devote, hallow, sanctify, consecrate; address, inscribe; assign, apply, set apart.

ANT. _Desecrate, misuse, alienate._

=Deduce.= Infer, draw, derive, conclude.

ANT. _Induce, state, conjecture, guess, anticipate, foresee._

=Deed.= Performance, act, action, exploit; reality, fact, truth; document, instrument.

ANT. _Omission, failure, invalidation, reversal, recall; undoing._

=Deep.= Profound; difficult, mysterious, hard, intricate; penetrating, sagacious, astute, intelligent, discerning, shrewd; heartfelt, intense, thorough.

ANT. _Shallow; superficial, artless, undesigning; indifferent._

=Default.= Neglect, failure, omission; want, destitution, lack; lapse, forfeit, delinquency, absence.

ANT. _Satisfaction; appearance, plea; maintenance, supply; presence._

=Defeat.= Overthrow, frustration, discomfiture.

ANT. _Success, triumph, victory._

=Defect.= Fault, flaw, imperfection; omission, want, shortcoming.

ANT. _Emendation, perfection; supply, sufficiency._

=Defense.= Apology, justification, vindication; shelter, shield, protection, guard, resistance, rampart, fortress, safeguard, bulwark.

ANT. _Surrender, betrayal, exposure, hazard; challenge._

=Defer.= Delay, postpone, procrastinate, adjourn, put off; yield to, respect.

ANT. _Hasten, hurry, expedite, quicken, overdrive; slight, disregard._

=Deference.= Respect, consideration, esteem, veneration, homage.

ANT. _Disrespect, contumely, impudence, defiance, disobedience._

=Defile.= Contaminate, spoil, pollute, vitiate, infect, taint, befoul.

ANT. _Purify, cleanse, disinfect, wash, hallow, sanctify._

=Definition.= Description, exposition, comment, explanation, interpretation, rendering, translation.

ANT. _Misstatement._

=Deformity.= Ugliness, malformation, distortion, disfigurement, abnormity, hideousness.

ANT. _Grace, beauty, regularity, symmetry._

=Defrayment.= Payment, settlement, liquidation, discharge.

ANT. _Failure, insolvency, repudiation, embezzlement, nonpayment._

=Defy.= Challenge, dare, provoke, scorn, brave.

ANT. _Dread, cower, shrink, shun._

=Degeneracy.= Degradation, deterioration, growing worse, decay, decline; inferiority, meanness.

ANT. _Improvement, advancement._

=Degree.= Grade, rank, step, station, stage, quality, standing; measure, interval, space.

ANT. _Mass, magnitude, size, numbers._

=Dejected.= Disheartened, discouraged, depressed, downcast, despondent, gloomy, melancholy, low-spirited.

ANT. _Cheerful, elated, gay, blithe, inspirited, joyous, jovial, merry._

=Delay.= Postponement, procrastination; hindrance, impediment.

ANT. _Hurry, despatch, quickening, urgency; assistance, furtherance._

=Delegate=, _n._ Substitute, proxy, representative, legate, deputy.

=Delegate=, _v._ Depute, commission, appoint, empower, constitute, ordain.

ANT. _Relegate, recall, supersede, remove._

=Deleterious.= Destructive, noxious, deadly, poisonous; hurtful, harmful, injurious, pernicious, unwholesome.

ANT. _Wholesome, healthy, beneficial, sanitary, salubrious, nutritious._

=Deliberate=, _v._ Meditate, ponder, debate, confer, consider, reflect, consult, weigh, cogitate.

ANT. _Shelve, dismiss, discard, put aside; hazard, chance, risk._

=Deliberate=, _a._ Cautious, careful, wary; well-advised, purposed, studied; slow, leisurely; intentional, earnest, unbiased.

ANT. _Facetious, playful; irresolute, hesitant, faltering, vacillating; impulsive, rash, hasty; prejudiced._

=Delicacy.= Dainty, morsel, tidbit, relish; refinement, luxury, nicety, elegance; frailty, weakness; fastidiousness, scrupulousness; purity, sensibility.

ANT. _Necessaries, commons, fare; coarseness, roughness, rudeness; vigor, strength; grossness._

=Delicious.= Dainty, savory, delightful, luscious, exquisite.

ANT. _Nauseous, repulsive, bitter, loathsome, unpalatable, acrid._

=Delight.= Joy, gladness, charm, rapture, transport, satisfaction, pleasure, ecstasy, happiness, enjoyment, bliss.

ANT. _Pain, suffering, sorrow, misery, discomfort, dejection, melancholy, discontent, trouble, distress, depression._

=Delightful.= Agreeable, congenial, grateful, pleasant, refreshing, welcome, satisfying, delicious, acceptable, pleasurable.

ANT. _Miserable, depressing, disappointing, horrible, melancholy, painful, woful, wretched, mournful, saddening._

=Delineate.= Describe, figure, represent, sketch, draw, portray, depict, paint.

ANT. _Caricature, misrepresent, exaggerate._

=Delinquent.= Offender, culprit, criminal, miscreant, malefactor.

ANT. _Worthy, model, paragon, pattern, beau ideal._

=Deliver.= Free, liberate, release; save, rescue; give, hand over, transfer; yield, grant, resign, surrender; pronounce, declare, speak; discharge, deal.

ANT. _Confine, capture; suppress, retain; withdraw, betray; appropriate._

=Deluge.= Inundation, flood, overflow, rush, cataclysm.

ANT. _Drought, dearth, aridity; mist, moisture; subsidence, ebb, abatement._

=Delusion.= Error, fallacy, illusion, hallucination, trick, snare, fraud, deception, imposture.

ANT. _Fact, certainty, verity, actuality, truth, reality._

=Demand.= Require, ask, call for, insist, exact, challenge.

ANT. _Request, petition, supplicate; disclaim, forego, waive._

=Demarcation.= Outline, sketch, limit, boundary, division, enclosure, separation, distinction.

ANT. _Openness, space, expanse, extent._

=Demean.= Behave, comport, act, conduct one’s self.

ANT. _Misbehave._

=Demerit.= Fault, delinquency, misdeed, failure.

ANT. _Credit, merit, worth, excellence, desert._

=Democratic.= Popular, representative, republican, radical.

ANT. _Imperial, aristocratic, regal, oligarchical, autocratic, despotic, tyrannical, constitutional, conservative._

=Demolish.= Overthrow, destroy, overturn, raze, ruin.

ANT. _Restore, repair; build, construct, make._

=Demonstration.= Exhibition, exemplification; manifestation, illustration; evidence, proof, certainty, conclusion, consequence, induction, inference, deduction.

ANT. _Concealment, secrecy; theory, supposition._

=Demoralize.= Corrupt, deprave, vitiate, undermine, subvert.

ANT. _Stimulate, impel, promote, incite, reassure, animate, uplift._

=Demure.= Sedate, staid, modest, prudish, discreet.

ANT. _Lively, vivacious, facetious, wanton, wild._

=Denial.= Refusal; contradiction, negation, disavowal.

ANT. _Affirmation, avowal, admission, concession._

=Denizen.= Citizen, subject, inhabitant, dweller, sojourner.

ANT. _Foreigner, alien, traveler, stranger, transient._

=Denomination.= Name, designation, description, appellation, class, sect, school.

ANT. _Misnomer._

=Denounce.= Brand, defame, stigmatize, decry; accuse; menace, threaten; proscribe, vituperate.

ANT. _Eulogize, applaud, uphold, vindicate._

=Dense.= Thick, slow, compact, solid, close, thickset.

ANT. _Sparse, thin, scattered; quick, intelligent, clever, alert, ready._

=Denunciation.= Censure, arraignment; threat, menace; exposure.

ANT. _Vindication, defense, apology, plea, excuse._

=Deny.= Refuse, withhold; contradict, gainsay; renounce, abjure, disown.

ANT. _Affirm, grant, accept, concede; indulge, yield, admit._

=Depart.= Leave, go, start, sally, retire, disappear, vanish, bid farewell; die, decease.

ANT. _Arrive, alight; stay, remain, cling._

=Department.= Division, section, portion; function, office, duty, station; province, branch, line.

ANT. _Organization, whole, body._

=Dependent.= Hanging, resting, contingent, conditioned, relying, subject, relative.

ANT. _Independent, free, absolute, irrespective._

=Depict.= Portray, draw, paint, delineate.

ANT. _Caricature, parody._

=Deplorable.= Lamentable, pitiable, sad, mournful, disastrous, calamitous, grievous, distressing, melancholy.

ANT. _Acceptable, felicitous, happy, welcome, glad, joyous, beneficent, pleasing._

=Deportment.= Conduct, carriage, behavior, demeanor, character.

ANT. _Misbehavior, misconduct._

=Depose.= Dethrone, debase, degrade, dismiss, oust, displace.

ANT. _Enthrone, install, initiate, elevate, exalt, invest with power._

=Deprecate.= Regret, disapprove, lament; intercede, expostulate.

ANT. _Rejoice in, approve; invoke, imprecate, curse._

=Depreciate.= Disparage, decry, undervalue, detract, underestimate.

ANT. _Appreciate, value, esteem._

=Depredation.= Robbery, pillage, plunder, spoliation, theft, invasion, trespass, havoc, encroachment.

ANT. _Restitution, compensation, restoration, amends, reparation._

=Depression.= Lowering, degradation, abasement, perversion, depreciation, dejection, discouragement; hollow, valley, decline.

ANT. _Elevation, raising, exaltation, promotion, amelioration, preferment, prominence, eminence._

=Deprive.= Bereave, rob, divest, strip, despoil, dispossess, depose; prevent, hinder.

ANT. _Endow, enrich, invest, compensate, present, indemnify._

=Deputy.= Lieutenant, agent, representative, envoy, legate, substitute, vicegerent, proxy, delegate.

ANT. _Master, principal, governor, chief, sovereign, ruler._

=Derangement.= Disorder, confusion, disarrangement; disturbance, discomposure; madness, lunacy, insanity, mania, delirium, alienation, aberration.

ANT. _Order, arrangement, regulation; calmness; sanity, poise, rationality._

=Derision.= Scorn, contempt, ridicule, mockery, contumely, scoffing.

ANT. _Admiration, respect, reverence, regard, esteem, veneration._

=Derivation.= Source, origin, genesis, fountain, descent, root, etymology.

ANT. _Result, issue, termination, effect, application, use._

=Derogate.= Detract, depreciate, disparage, compromise, lessen.

ANT. _Esteem, value, overestimate, enhance, extol._

=Descendant.= Offspring, posterity, progeny, stock, family, lineage, scion, branch, issue.

ANT. _Ancestry, progenitor, origin, root, source, founder, parent._

=Describe.= Trace, draw, portray, mark out, represent, depict, recount, narrate, illustrate, define, explain, characterize.

ANT. _Caricature, misrepresent, distort; mystify, perplex, confuse._

=Descry.= Perceive, discern, recognize, discover, espy, see, behold, detect, find out.

ANT. _Overlook, miss, neglect._

=Desecrate.= Profane, pollute, pervert, abuse, secularize, prostitute.

ANT. _Hallow, sanctify, respect, esteem, dedicate, devote._

=Desert.= Solitude, wild, wilderness, waste.

ANT. _Oasis, pasture, meadow._

=Deserter.= Renegade, turncoat, recanter, backslider, abjurer, traitor, apostate.

ANT. _Adherent, devotee, supporter, bigot, disciple, ally._

=Deserve.= Merit, earn, win, be entitled to.

ANT. _Forfeit, lose, miss, fail of._

=Desideratum.= Very desirable thing, requisite, want, essential.

ANT. _Superfluity, surplus, perquisite._

=Design=, _n._ Intention, purpose, aim, end, scheme, proposal, project, object, plan, device, purport, meaning, drift, scope, mark; delineation, sketch, artifice, drawing, draft; invention, contrivance; cunning, guile.

ANT. _Execution, performance, structure, construction, issue, result; candor, openness, sincerity; chance, accident._

=Design=, _v._ Intend, plan, prepare, project, contrive, scheme, purpose, mean, propose; draw, delineate, sketch; contemplate, outline, plot.

ANT. _Risk, guess, conjecture, chance; misconceive, misinterpret, misrepresent._

=Designate.= Specify, particularize; describe, define, denominate, name, call, style, christen, dub; appoint, allot.

ANT. _Misname, miscall; generalize; misrepresent._

=Desirable.= Eligible, expedient, advantageous, beneficial, advisable, valuable, profitable, enviable, proper, judicious.

ANT. _Inexpedient, disadvantageous, harmful, inadvisable, evil._

=Desire.= Appetite, inclination, longing, proclivity, craving, impulse, hankering, coveting, propensity, wish; aspiration, will.

ANT. _Loathing, disgust, aversion, hate, repugnance, horror._

=Desolate=, _a._ Bereaved, comfortless, forlorn, cheerless, lonely, solitary; uninhabited, forsaken, unfrequented, waste, dreary, wild.

ANT. _Peopled, colonized, developed, cultivated; populous, crowded, frequented._

=Despair.= Desperation, discouragement, hopelessness, despondency.

ANT. _Courage, hope, expectation, anticipation, assurance, confidence, elation, cheer, trust, hopefulness, encouragement._

=Despatch=, _v._ Expedite, speed, accelerate, quicken, hasten; kill, slay.

ANT. _Delay, retard, impede, obstruct; preserve, save, spare._

=Desperate.= Wild, reckless, despondent, hopeless, wretched, forlorn, lost; heroic, extreme, defiant; precipitate, headlong, frantic.

ANT. _Cautious, timid, shy; hopeful, promising, propitious._

=Despise.= Contemn, scorn, slight, disdain, spurn.

ANT. _Respect, esteem, venerate, regard, revere._

=Despoil.= Strip, denude, ravage; rob, plunder, pillage, devastate.

ANT. _Adorn, enrich, rehabilitate._

=Despotic.= Tyrannical, absolute, imperious, autocratic, arrogant.

ANT. _Conciliatory, humane, merciful; constitutional, democratic, representative._

=Destination.= Aim, end, object, purpose, design; goal, harbor.

ANT. _Action, movement; initiation, project, effort._

=Destiny.= Fate, lot, doom, star, fortune, necessity, end, predestination.

ANT. _Choice, will, freedom, volition, free will._

=Destructive.= Ruinous, injurious, pernicious, deleterious, baneful, detrimental, hurtful, noxious.

ANT. _Constructive, restorative, beneficial, wholesome, preservative._

=Desuetude.= Disuse, non-observance, obsolescence.

ANT. _Use, custom, practice, exercise, operation._

=Desultory.= Rambling, irregular, capricious, wandering, roving, discursive, cursory, erratic, spasmodic, unsystematic.

ANT. _Methodical, continuous, periodical, diligent, exact, untiring, persevering, earnest, serious, settled, consecutive._

=Detail.= Account, narrative, recital; detachment; individual,

## particular, item, specialty, element, point, component.

ANT. _Totality, whole, generality, aggregation, mass, bulk._

=Detention.= Hindrance, retaining, restraint, stopping.

ANT. _Relinquishment, abandonment, letting go, release, liberation._

=Deter.= Hinder, discourage, prevent, restrain, withhold, terrify, scare, dishearten, dissuade.

ANT. _Incite, provoke, allure, tempt, seduce, prompt, persuade._

=Deteriorate.= Impair, degrade, debase; decline, degenerate.

ANT. _Ameliorate, promote, advance, rectify._

=Determine.= Settle, adjust, decide; ascertain, verify; influence, lead, incline; resolve.

ANT. _Vacillate, waver, unsettle, doubt._

=Detest.= Abominate, abhor, execrate, loathe, shrink from.

ANT. _Like, approve, appreciate, praise, love._

=Dethrone.= Depose, uncrown, drive out of power, cause to abdicate.

ANT. _Crown, enthrone, exalt._

=Detract.= Depreciate, disparage, lessen, derogate, calumniate, slander, defame, decry, vilify.

ANT. _Enhance, augment, increase, flatter, compliment._

=Detriment.= Loss, damage, injury, harm, evil, prejudice, disadvantage, impairment, inconvenience.

ANT. _Enhancement, remedy, augmentation, improvement, repair, reinstatement._

=Develop.= Evolve, unfold, educe, disclose, unravel, exhibit, expand, enlarge; open, grow, mature.

ANT. _Envelop, wrap, conceal, contract, compress; stunt, dwarf, hinder, prevent._

=Deviate.= Digress, wander, deflect, veer, diverge; depart, err, stray, swerve; differ, vary.

ANT. _Cohere, coincide; accompany, continue, remain; advance; converge; agree, assimilate._

=Device.= Contrivance, invention, design, project, plan, scheme, expedient, resource; wile, artifice, stratagem, evasion, fraud; emblem, symbol, type.

ANT. _Fortune, luck, hazard, hit; openness, frankness, candor._

=Devious.= Erratic, wandering, deviating, crooked, circuitous, misleading, treacherous, roundabout.

ANT. _Direct, plain, straightforward, frequented._

=Devise.= Plan, design, contrive, imagine, scheme, project, concoct; bequeath, leave.

ANT. _Mismanage, miscontrive; inherit._

=Devoid.= Void, wanting, empty, destitute, vacant, unprovided for.

ANT. _Full, supplied, provided, replete, furnished, abundant, plentiful, sufficient._

=Devolve.= Transfer, consign, convey, demise, devise, deliver; impose, place, attach, commission, charge, depute; fall, pass, be transferred.

ANT. _Deprive, withhold, recall, cancel, alienate, skip, pass, miss._

=Devotion.= Dedication, consecration, piety, religion, sanctity, holiness, worship, adoration; attachment, affection, love; ardor, earnestness, zeal, eagerness, self-sacrifice.

ANT. _Impiety, profanity, sacrilege, irreverence; aversion, alienation, antipathy, indifference, apathy._

=Devour.= Consume, gorge, eat ravenously, swallow; destroy, annihilate, waste, swallow up, expend.

ANT. _Disgorge, vomit; save, conserve._

=Dexterity.= Aptitude, skill, expertness, readiness, adroitness.

ANT. _Ineptitude, inability, weakness, awkwardness, clumsiness._

=Diadem.= Crown, chaplet, fillet, wreath, tiara, circlet.

=Diagnosis.= Investigation, determination, analysis.

ANT. _Misjudgment, error._

=Diagnostic.= Symptom, feature, sign, cue, indication, mark, index.

ANT. _Development, consummation, crisis, head, formation._

=Dialect.= Language, phraseology, tongue, speech, provincialism, idiom, accent.

=Dialogue.= Conversation between two people, colloquy, discourse, tête-à-tête.

ANT. _Monologue, soliloquy, apostrophe, oration._

=Dictate.= Direct, ordain, command, prescribe, order, bid, require, decree; utter; prompt, suggest, enjoin, instruct.

ANT. _Follow, repeat, obey, answer; accept._

=Dictation.= Injunction, precept, command, rule, maxim, direction, utterance.

ANT. _Consultation, conference, council; advice, recommendation._

=Dictatorial.= Imperious, imperative, domineering, arbitrary, absolute, unlimited, authoritative, unrestricted, overbearing.

ANT. _Condescending, supplicatory, affable, suppliant, unassuming, persuasive._

=Diction.= Expression, language, phrase, phraseology, style, verbiage, vocabulary, wording.

ANT. _Provincialism, barbarism, solecism._

=Dictionary.= Lexicon, word-book, glossary, vocabulary.

=Didactic.= Instructive, perceptive, moral, directive, educative.

ANT. _Unsound, misleading, erroneous, uninstructive, pernicious._

=Die.= Expire, decease, depart; wither, perish, decay, decline, fade; cease, vanish, disappear; sink, faint, fall; subside.

ANT. _Live, recover, be born; survive, exist; originate, develop, grow, strengthen, flourish, luxuriate, vegetate._

=Diet.= Food, victuals, nourishment, aliment, nutriment, provision, viands, rations, fare, subsistence; assembly, parliament, congress.

ANT. _Starvation, fasting, abstinence, fast; gluttony, omnivorousness._

=Difference.= Contrast, diversity, variation, variety, discrepancy, disagreement, disparity, distinction, divergence, unlikeness.

ANT. _Agreement, uniformity, unity, consonance, identity, likeness, resemblance, harmony, sameness, similarity._

=Differentiate.= Discriminate, individualize, distinguish,

## particularize, specify, segregate, identify.

ANT. _Generalize, classify, confuse, amalgamate._

=Difficult.= Arduous, exhausting, severe, onerous, trying, toilsome, hard, laborious; intricate, involved, obscure, enigmatical; unmanageable, reserved, opposed, unamenable.

ANT. _Easy, facile, trifling, slight, trivial, pleasant, light; simple, plain, clear, manifest; approachable, amenable, pliant._

=Diffident.= Modest, doubtful, reluctant, hesitating; bashful, timid, shy, self-distrustful.

ANT. _Bold, aggressive, forward, arrogant, self-conceited._

=Diffuse=, _a._ Prolix, loose, copious, rambling, verbose, longwinded, diluted.

ANT. _Epigrammatic, laconic, terse, condensed._

=Digest.= Methodize, systematize, arrange, classify, codify; study, ponder, consider, contemplate, meditate, con; master, assimilate.

ANT. _Confound, complicate, disorder, derange, disturb; reject, refuse._

=Dignified.= Stately, noble, grand, majestic, self-respecting, imposing, decorous, august, lofty, exalted, pompous.

ANT. _Stunted, low, mean, unimposing, depressed, ordinary, self-accusing._

=Dignify.= Advance, promote, exalt, ennoble, prefer; grace, honor, adorn; elevate, aggrandize.

ANT. _Humiliate, debase, degrade._

=Digress.= Deviate, ramble, wander; differ.

ANT. _Proceed, advance; harmonize, agree._

=Dilapidation.= Ruin, decay, disintegration, downfall, demolition.

ANT. _Construction, reparation; soundness, solidity; fabrication, building._

=Dilate.= Stretch wide, expand, enlarge, widen, distend.

ANT. _Compress, compact, restrict, narrow, condense, concentrate._

=Dilatory.= Slow, loitering, tardy, procrastinating, dawdling, lagging, lingering, sluggish.

ANT. _Prompt, vigilant, alert, eager, earnest._

=Diligence.= Industry, assiduity, activity, perseverance, application, attention, care, heed.

ANT. _Neglect, carelessness, idleness, inertness, inattention, desultoriness._

=Dim.= Obscure, dark, covered, hidden, dusky, indistinct, uncertain.

ANT. _Bright, clear, manifest, light._

=Dimension.= Measurement, bulk, mass, extent; (pl.) size, capacity, amplitude, massiveness, greatness.

ANT. _Segment, section, portion, part._

=Diminish.= Lessen, reduce, decrease, abate, subside, shorten, dwarf, retrench.

ANT. _Augment, amplify, increase, magnify, expand._

=Din.= Racket, clamor, noise, uproar.

ANT. _Crash, explosion; silence._

=Dingy.= Dirty, dull, soiled, tarnished, dim, obscure, somber.

ANT. _Bright, burnished, radiant, glittering, gleaming, luminous._

=Dip.= Immerse, plunge, inundate, soak, steep, drown, submerge.

ANT. _Dry, drain, parch; air, ventilate, evaporate, vaporize._

=Diplomacy.= Negotiation, indirection, tact, artful management, contrivance, circumvention; embassage, ministry, ambassadorship.

ANT. _Dismissal, congé, recall; candor, naïveté, ingenuousness; mismanagement, maladministration; self-defeat._

=Diplomatic.= Prudent, wise, tactful, astute, politic, sagacious, judicious, discreet.

ANT. _Blundering, tactless, injudicious._

=Direct=, _a._ Unswerving, straight, rectilinear, undeviating.

ANT. _Meandering, crooked, roundabout, circuitous._

=Direction.= Course, tendency, aim, bearing; oversight, management, control, superintendence, conduct; order, command; address, superscription.

ANT. _Deviation, aberration; miscontrol._

=Directly.= Straightly, immediately, forthwith, soon, speedily, instantly, promptly, presently, quickly, straightway, at once.

ANT. _Secondarily, by-and-by; remotely, obliquely, circuitously._

=Dirge.= Requiem, elegy, lament, wake, threnody, coronach.

ANT. _Anthem, Te Deum, jubilate, pæan, jubilee, halleluiah._

=Dirt.= Filth, uncleanness, dung, foulness, meanness, filthiness, defilement.

ANT. _Cleanness, purity, ablution; innocence, spotlessness._

=Dis-.= The prefix _dis-_ has usually a negative, sometimes an intensive, force. Therefore, for words beginning with it look under the antonyms of the root words. When its force is intensive, however, they will be found under the synonyms of the root words. Only a few of derived significance are here given.

=Disability.= Unfitness, inability, incompetence, incapacity, disqualification.

ANT. _Merit, fitness, recommendation, qualification, capability._

=Disabuse.= Undeceive, set right, correct, enlighten, inform, rectify.

ANT. _Deceive, delude, hoodwink._

=Disappoint.= Frustrate, foil, defeat, baffle, disconcert, mortify, vex, betray, tantalize.

ANT. _Fulfil, realize, satisfy, gratify, encourage, verify, support._

=Disaster.= Misfortune, mishap, reverse, calamity, catastrophe.

ANT. _Blessing, benefit, good fortune, profit, gain, boon._

=Disburse.= Spend, expend, consume, waste, use, lay out, pay.

ANT. _Save, economize, hoard, husband._

=Discern.= Observe, discriminate, distinguish, perceive, see, descry, behold, espy, discover, penetrate, differentiate.

ANT. _Overlook, neglect, miss._

=Discernible.= Discoverable, perceptible, visible, apparent, conspicuous, palpable, plain, manifest, evident.

ANT. _Obscure, minute, invisible, microscopic, impalpable._

=Discernment.= Sagacity, perception, discrimination, brightness, astuteness, insight, intelligence, perspicacity, penetration, acuteness, judgment, ingenuity.

ANT. _Blindness, inattention, dulness, density._

=Discharge=, _v._ Unburden, unload; expel, eject; shoot, fire; release, exonerate, acquit, liberate, free; dismiss, discard, cashier; remove, destroy; perform, execute, observe.

ANT. _Confine, charge, load, burden, contain; detain, check, delay, stop; preserve; ignore._

=Disciple.= Follower, student, believer, pupil, learner, scholar, supporter, adherent, votary.

ANT. _Master, teacher, professor, leader, rabbi._

=Discipline.= Training, teaching, drill, exercise; control, regulation, subjection, government; punishment, correction, coercion, chastisement.

ANT. _Laxity, latitude, negligence; reward, encouragement; disorganization, mutiny, rebellion, confusion, disorder._

=Discomfit.= Defeat, overpower, conquer; foil, disconcert.

ANT. _Encourage, rally, aid, assist._

=Disconcert.= Frustrate, balk, defeat, thwart, baffle; discompose, embarrass, disturb, upset, perplex, abash, confuse, bewilder.

ANT. _Assist, countenance, encourage, compose, calm, appease, pacify, tranquilize._

=Disconsolate.= Inconsolable, sorrowful, heart-broken, comfortless, melancholy, desolate, forlorn, sad.

ANT. _Joyous, cheerful, glad, merry, jovial, happy, blithe._

=Discordance.= Disagreement, discord, dissonance, conflict, opposition.

ANT. _Accordance, harmony, concord._

=Discover.= Find, detect, discern, ferret out, invent, expose, ascertain, descry, disclose, betray, indicate, manifest.

ANT. _Hide, conceal, cover, secrete, bury, suppress, withhold._

=Discreet.= Discerning, wise, sagacious, prudent, cautious, judicious, considerate, circumspect.

ANT. _Foolish, heedless, reckless, silly, imprudent, undiscerning, unrestrained._

=Discrepancy.= Dissonance, discord, discordance, difference, variation, disagreement.

ANT. _Agreement, harmony, correspondence._

=Discrimination.= Acuteness, penetration, sagacity, discernment, shrewdness, insight.

ANT. _Dulness, shortsightedness._

=Discursive.= Reasoning, argumentative; roving, wandering, rambling, desultory, inconsequent.

ANT. _Orderly, coherent, continuous; condensed, succinct, concise; strategic._

=Discuss.= Debate, argue, reason, agitate, deliberate upon, consider.

ANT. _Confound, obscure; assert, dogmatize._

=Disdain=, _n._ Contempt, scorn, disregard, haughtiness, arrogance.

ANT. _Reverence, respect, esteem, considerateness, humility._

=Disease.= Infirmity, ailment, distemper, complaint, illness, sickness, malady, indisposition, unsoundness, affection.

ANT. _Health, strength, robustness, soundness, sturdiness, vigor; convalescence; sanity, salubrity._

=Disgust=, _n._ Distaste, loathing, dislike, repugnance, aversion, abhorrence.

ANT. _Partiality, desire, liking, relish, fondness._

=Dismal.= Dark, gloomy, cheerless, dull, dreary, melancholy, lonesome, somber, sad, doleful, funereal; horrible, terrible, frightful.

ANT. _Cheerful, bright, inviting, cordial, gay, propitious, promising._

=Dismay.= Affright, terrify, appal, alarm, intimidate, daunt.

ANT. _Rally, inspirit, assure, encourage, hearten._

=Dismember.= Disintegrate, mutilate, separate, rend asunder, sever.

ANT. _Integrate, incorporate; constitute, construct._

=Dismiss.= Banish, discard, discharge, remove.

ANT. _Recall, welcome._

=Disparage.= Depreciate, decry, undervalue, underrate; defame, reproach.

ANT. _Appreciate, overestimate, extol, praise, exaggerate._

=Dispel.= Drive away, disperse, dissipate, banish, scatter.

ANT. _Collect, summon, accumulate._

=Dispensation.= Apportionment, allotment, distribution; administration; exemption; system, scheme, plan, régime.

ANT. _Retention, restriction, reservation, injunction, prohibition; enforcement._

=Disperse.= Dispel, scatter, separate; diffuse, spread, disseminate.

ANT. _Gather, collect, concentrate; recall, summon._

=Display.= Expand, unfold, extend, uncover, open, spread; exhibit, show, parade.

ANT. _Conceal, hide, wrap, dissemble, suppress._

=Disposition.= Arrangement, location, placing, grouping; management, control, regulation, direction; tendency, inclination, propensity; temper, character, nature, humor; willingness; distribution.

ANT. _Confusion, inversion, disorder; mismanagement, laxity; antipathy, repulsion; obstinacy; mood; agglomeration, collection._

=Disputant.= Litigant, debater, arguer, controversialist, competitor, claimant.

ANT. _Advocate, auxiliary, partner._

=Dispute=, _v._ Quarrel, wrangle; debate, argue, discuss, agitate, ventilate; impugn, deny, contradict, oppose, contest.

ANT. _Allow, concede, grant, forego, relinquish._

=Disquisition.= Treatise, dissertation, discourse, essay, discussion.

ANT. _Effusion, tirade, diatribe, rhodomontade._

=Dissect.= Anatomize, scrutinize, analyze, explore, investigate, examine, sift.

ANT. _Integrate, organize, compound, grasp; comprehend, discern, diagnose._

=Dissemble.= Conceal, disguise, cloak, hide, restrain, smother.

ANT. _Reveal, confess, manifest, expose, vaunt, profess._

=Dissent.= Differ, disagree, decline.

ANT. _Assent, consent, agree._

=Dissertation.= Disquisition, discussion, treatise.

=Dissipate.= Scatter, vanish, disperse, disappear, waste, squander.

ANT. _Hoard, save, gather, conserve._

=Dissociate.= Separate, sever, disjoin, divide, part, sunder, disconnect.

ANT. _Associate, join, affiliate._

=Dissolute.= Abandoned, corrupt, loose, profligate, reprobate, dissipated.

ANT. _Upright, honest, conscientious, self-controlled._

=Distance.= Remoteness, space, interval; absence, separation; reserve, coldness, stiffness.

ANT. _Proximity, contiguity, nearness, presence, neighborhood, contact._

=Distend.= Dilate, extend, spread, stretch.

ANT. _Contract, narrow, constrict, condense._

=Distil.= Drop, extract, separate; percolate, emanate, drip.

ANT. _Condense, retain; suck; hold._

=Distinct.= Separate, definite, different, clear, plain, unmistakable.

ANT. _Blurred, dim, indefinite, confused, conjoined, obscure._

=Distinguish.= Discern, perceive, tell, discriminate; differentiate; characterize, mark; separate, divide; signalize, make famous or celebrated.

ANT. _Confound, miss, confuse._

=Distinguished.= Illustrious, famous, celebrated, noted, eminent, marked, conspicuous, supreme, extraordinary, consummate.

ANT. _Obscure, inconspicuous, hidden; infamous, notorious._

=Distortion.= Deformity, twist, perversion, falsification, misrepresentation, sophistry, corruption.

ANT. _Regularity, shapeliness, symmetry; right, truth, verification, rectification._

=Distract.= Divert, perplex, confuse, disconcert, bewilder, confound, derange, craze.

ANT. _Unite, fix, compose, concentrate, collect._

=Distraction.= Confusion, perplexity, abstraction, disturbance, perturbation, agitation; inattention; absence, frenzy, madness; alienation, aberration; delirium, mania, derangement, lunacy.

ANT. _Attention, composure, self-possession, tranquillity._

=Distress=, _n._ Affliction, calamity, adversity, misery, perplexity, misfortune; agony, suffering, anguish; privation, destitution, poverty, indigence.

ANT. _Consolation, relief, assuagement, alleviation; boon, blessing, pleasure._

=Distribute.= Dispense, scatter, allot, apportion, grant, appoint.

ANT. _Restrict, retain, collect, gather, hold, reserve, keep._

=District.= Region, tract, territory, province, circuit, quarter.

=Disturb.= Agitate, shake, stir, disorder, confuse, derange; molest, annoy, plague, trouble, vex, worry; interrupt, hinder.

ANT. _Soothe, quiet, assist, compose, pacify; arrange, order._

=Diversion.= Detour, deviation, divergence; recreation, amusement, enjoyment, pastime.

ANT. _Directness, business, procedure, continuity, task, labor._

=Diversify.= Vary, change, alter, modify; variegate, streak, spot.

ANT. _Settle, fix, stereotype, arrest._

=Diversity.= Difference, dissimilitude, variation, unlikeness, divergence, dissonance, heterogeneousness, multiformity.

ANT. _Identity, similarity, uniformity, consonance, homogeneousness, coincidence._

=Divest.= Dismantle, strip, unclothe, undress, unrobe, deprive.

ANT. _Clothe, invest, shroud, indue, encumber._

=Divide.= Sever, part, separate, disunite, sunder; alienate, estrange; distribute, allot, apportion, assign, share, dispense.

ANT. _Unite, commingle, collocate, congregate, convene._

=Divination.= Magic, foretelling, augury, prophecy, presage, prediction.

ANT. _Investigation, study; information; analysis._

=Divorce=, _v._ Separate, part, sunder, alienate, disunite.

ANT. _Marry, wed, betroth, consort._

=Do.= Accomplish, achieve, bring to pass, complete, effect, realize, discharge, perpetuate, perform, commit, consummate, actualize; execute, finish, fulfil; work out, transact.

ANT. _Neglect, ruin, spoil, defeat, destroy, mar, miscarry, fail, frustrate, baffle, omit, come short._

=Docile.= Manageable, amenable, compliant, gentle, tame, submissive, yielding, tractable, pliable, obedient.

ANT. _Obstinate, firm, inflexible, stubborn, self-willed, wilful, determined, dogged, resolute, opinionated._

=Doctrine.= Tenet, dogma, opinion, belief, precept, principle, teaching, creed.

ANT. _Duty, practice, action, conduct, operation, application._

=Dogmatic.= Arrogant, authoritative, imperious, domineering, positive, self-opinionated, doctrinal, magisterial, dictatorial.

ANT. _Practical, active, modest, diffident, vacillating, considerate._

=Domestic.= Private, family, familiar, homelike.

ANT. _Public, foreign, alien, strange._

=Domicile.= Home, abode, house, residence, mansion, dwelling.

ANT. _World, wilderness; estrangement, migration, travel, exile._

=Dominance=, =Domination=. Superiority, lordship, mastery, sway, supremacy, command, ascendancy, government.

ANT. _Servility, subjection, inferiority, weakness, minority, subordination._

=Domineer.= Lord, tyrannize, dictate, bully, swagger.

ANT. _Submit, yield, bow, defer, patronize, succumb; resist, contend._

=Dominion.= Government, domination, supremacy, sway, dominance, control, authority, domain, territory, sovereignty.

ANT. _Submission, subjugation, servitude._

=Doom=, _n._ Condemnation, fate, sentence, judgment, destiny, verdict.

ANT. _Liberation, respite, escape, acquittal, discharge._

=Dormant.= Sleeping, latent, inert, quiescent.

ANT. _Active, operative, vigilant, awake, alert._

=Doubt=, _n._ Distrust, skepticism, disbelief, suspicion, suspense, hesitation, incredulity, irresolution, misgiving, unbelief, perplexity, uncertainty.

ANT. _Conviction, certainty, assurance; belief, confidence; determination, resolution, resolve._

=Downwards.= Below, beneath, down.

ANT. _Upwards, above, aloft._

=Drag.= Draw, pull, haul, bring.

ANT. _Carry, push, propel, raise._

=Drain.= Empty, exhaust, draw, strain, dry.

ANT. _Fill, supply, replenish, moisten, drench._

=Draw.= Haul, lead, pull, drag, lure, entice, attract, incline, induce.

ANT. _Repel, repulse, rebuff, alienate, estrange, reject._

=Dread=, _n._ Fear, terror, awe, apprehension, horror, alarm.

ANT. _Confidence, courage; familiarity._

=Dream.= Reverie, fancy, vision, delusion, conceit, hallucination, romance, trance, vagary.

ANT. _Fact, reality, realization, verity, certainty, substance._

=Dreary.= Dismal, gloomy, dark, lonesome, solitary, cheerless.

ANT. _Cheerful, bright, promising, inviting._

=Dress.= Clothing, garments, apparel, garb, array, uniform, attire, costume, raiment, habiliments, vesture, robes, habit, vestments.

ANT. _Nakedness, disarray, nudity, bareness, deshabille, exposure, undress._

=Drift=, _n._ Direction, bearing, course; aim, purpose, intention, scope, tendency, design; rush, impulse, current; heap, mass.

ANT. _Aimlessness, vagueness, aberrancy, indefiniteness._

=Drink.= Swallow, imbibe, quaff, drain, absorb, suck in.

ANT. _Pour, exude, disgorge, water, moisten._

=Drive.= Impel, propel, compel, push, thrust, urge; repulse, repel, resist; ride.

ANT. _Draw, attract, invite, summon._

=Droll.= Whimsical, comical, ludicrous, funny, ridiculous, odd, queer, facetious.

ANT. _Sober, solemn, tragic, funereal._

=Droop.= Languish, sink, decline, flag, pine, wither, fade, wilt.

ANT. _Prosper, revive, rally, flourish, raise, luxuriate._

=Drown.= Sink, immerse, swamp, overwhelm, overflow, inundate, deluge, flood, overcome, overpower.

ANT. _Dry, drain, air, ventilate, expose._

=Dry.= Arid, parched; thirsty, craving drink; barren, meager, dull, dreary, tedious, plain; severe, sarcastic, sharp, keen.

ANT. _Moist, fresh, juicy; lively, entertaining; fulsome, florid._

=Due.= Proper, fitting, suitable, appropriate, becoming; owing, obligatory.

ANT. _Improper, unsuitable, independent; unfair, extravagant, deficient._

=Dull.= Heavy, stupid, unintelligent, apathetic, insensible, callous, dead; inert, lifeless, inactive, slow, torpid; blunt, obtuse; gloomy, sad, dismal; dim, obscure; wearisome, dreary, tedious.

ANT. _Bright, light, sparkling, brilliant, quick, interesting, lively, keen, witty, cheery, inviting, entertaining._

=Dumb.= Speechless, mute, silent, still, inarticulate.

ANT. _Talkative, chatty, loquacious._

=Duplicate.= Copy, counterpart, facsimile, imitation, likeness, replica, reproduction, double, transcript.

ANT. _Original, pattern, prototype, archetype, model._

=Duplicity.= Deceit, deception, circumvention, guile, artifice, hypocrisy, fraud, dishonesty.

ANT. _Candor, straightforwardness, frankness, sincerity, honesty._

=Duration.= Continuance, term, period, protraction, prolongation (_in time_).

ANT. _Brevity, momentariness; infinity, eternity._

=Duty.= Office, responsibility, obligation, function, business, accountability, right, righteousness.

ANT. _Immunity, freedom, license, exemption, dispensation._

=Dwell.= Live, reside, rest, stop, stay, abide, lodge, sojourn.

ANT. _Visit, migrate, hasten, flit, roam, depart, travel._

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=Eager.= Impatient, anxious, desirous, longing, yearning, ardent, enthusiastic, earnest, animated, fervent, impetuous, vehement.

ANT. _Torpid, sluggish, slow, backward, belated, late, tardy._

=Earn.= Acquire, merit, win, get, gain, procure, deserve, achieve, obtain, realize.

ANT. _Waste, lose, spend, forfeit, squander._

=Earnest.= Eager, zealous, fervent; steady, intent, fixed; sincere, serious, true; important, momentous.

ANT. _Indifferent, irresolute, sportive, jesting, flippant._

=Ease.= Facility, knack, readiness, expertness, easiness, satisfaction, contentment, comfort, repose, refreshment, relief.

ANT. _Perplexity, irritation, annoyance, constraint, disquiet, trouble, vexation, difficulty, uneasiness, awkwardness, worry._

=Easy.= Quiet, comfortable, tranquil, compliant, facile, complacent, submissive; unaffected, natural, smooth; moderate, affluent.

ANT. _Disturbed, uncomfortable, hard, difficult, anxious, exacting._

=Ebb.= Retire, recede, abate, decrease, subside, wane, sink.

ANT. _Flow, swell, increase, flood, inundate, deluge._

=Eccentric.= Irregular, abnormal, uncommon, peculiar, singular, wayward, strange, aberrant, erratic, whimsical.

ANT. _Normal, conventional, common, usual, regular, customary._

=Echo.= Resonance, repetition, reverberation, imitation, answer.

ANT. _Sound, voice, original, tone, noise, speech._

=Eclipse=, _n._ Obscuration, dimming, obscurity, hiding, shrouding, concealment, vanishing, extinction, obliteration, annihilation, destruction.

ANT. _Illumination, enlightenment, revelation; perpetuation; radiation; unveiling, discovery._

=Economics.= Science of wealth, public _or_ political economy; household management, household economy, housewifery.

=Economize.= Save, husband, retrench, manage frugally, be frugal _or_ prudent, practice economy, avoid waste; develop resources, utilize.

ANT. _Waste, misuse, sacrifice, be lavish, profuse_, or _extravagant; squander, dissipate_.

=Economy.= Thrift, thriftiness, frugality, providence, good husbandry; management, arrangement, regulation, administration; plan, system, established order, dispensation.

ANT. _Prodigality, wastefulness, extravagance, lavishness._

=Ecstasy.= Transport, rapture, inspiration, fervor, frenzy, emotion, delight, enthusiasm, happiness.

ANT. _Coolness, dulness, ennui, weariness, tedium, indifference._

=Edge.= Border, margin, brink, rim, brim, verge; sharpness, keenness, intensity, animation, zest.

ANT. _Center, interior; dulness, bluntness, flatness; inertness, inactivity._

=Edible.= Eatable, esculent, wholesome, culinary.

ANT. _Poisonous, deleterious, harmful, dangerous, noxious, uneatable._

=Edict.= Decree, command, order, proclamation, mandate, ordinance.

ANT. _Hoax, canard; request, wish._

=Edifice.= Building, tenement, fabric, structure.

ANT. _Ruin, heap, demolition, destruction._

=Edify.= Build up, enlighten, improve, stimulate, strengthen, nurture.

ANT. _Defile, debase, mislead, misguide, pervert, corrupt._

=Edit.= Revise, correct, prepare for the press, annotate, emend; bring out; conduct, manage.

ANT. _Distort, pervert, falsify, garble, mutilate._

=Educate.= Discipline, teach, instruct, train, nurture, breed, develop.

ANT. _Dwarf, stunt, hinder; pervert, corrupt._

=Education.= Training, teaching, tuition, instruction, schooling, discipline, cultivation, breeding, development, nurture, information, knowledge, learning, reading, study.

ANT. _Ignorance, illiteracy, nescience, blindness, darkness._

=Educe.= Draw out, extract, elicit, evolve, produce.

ANT. _Adduce, cite, allege, quote, advance, name, mention; apply, insert, deposit, bestow._

=Efface.= Obliterate, erase, blot out, destroy, cancel, eradicate, expunge.

ANT. _Restore, revive, delineate, imprint, portray, replace, reinstate, renew._

=Effect=, _n._ Result, consequence, event, issue; force, efficiency, validity, weight, power; purport, drift, tenor, meaning; fact, reality, truth; impression, appearance, _ensemble_; (_pl._) chattels, goods, commodities, property, movables.

ANT. _Cause, motive, source, incentive; origin._

=Effect=, _v._ Cause, produce, accomplish, change, achieve, create, execute, perform, realize, compass, effectuate, consummate, fulfil.

ANT. _Obviate, frustrate, prevent, mar, hinder; deter, deflect._

=Effective.= Adequate, competent, effectual, sufficient; potent, cogent, efficacious, forcible, energetic, powerful; active, efficient, operative; conducive; serviceable, able, talented.

ANT. _Weak, futile, nugatory, inconducive, inoperative, inadequate, impotent, incompetent, powerless._

=Effectuate.= Accomplish, effect, execute, achieve, secure, fulfil.

ANT. _Prevent, hinder, abolish, defeat, nullify, stifle, blight._

=Effeminate.= Feminine, womanly, delicate; womanish, feeble, unmanly, timorous, enervated, soft, weak, emasculated.

ANT. _Strong, manly, masculine, virile, manlike, vigorous, hardy, robust._

=Effervesce.= Boil, bubble, froth, foam, ferment, sparkle; _express irrepressible emotion_.

ANT. _Subside; acquiesce, refrain, bear, brook, digest._

=Effete.= Barren, unfruitful; decayed, spent, exhausted, worn, wasted, decrepit.

ANT. _Vigorous, fertile, prolific, productive, exuberant, luxuriant, rank._

=Efficacious.= Effectual, effective, active, operative, powerful, adequate, cogent.

ANT. _Insufficient, inadequate, ineffectual._

=Efficacy.= Power, potency, force, competency, strength, effectiveness, vigor, energy, usefulness.

ANT. _Inefficacy, incompetency._

=Efficiency.= Power, strength, capability, virtue, energy, usefulness, productiveness, effectiveness; attentiveness, aptitude, skill, ingenuity, competence, inventiveness, readiness, ingeniousness, faculty, cleverness, genius, acuteness.

ANT. _Weakness, inability, incompetence, unproductivity; inattention, awkwardness, absence of mind, thoughtlessness, preoccupation, distraction, laziness, stupidity._

=Efficient.= Operative, active, potent, efficacious, effective, effectual; able, skilled, ready, energetic, proficient, competent.

ANT. _Inactive, impotent, ineffective, abortive; dull, inert, indolent, sluggish, senseless, stupid._

=Effigy.= Image, representation, figure, statue, likeness; dummy.

ANT. _Caricature, misrepresentation, distortion; bust, portrait._

=Efflorescence.= Flowering, blooming, blossoming, budding; outburst; bloom, luxuriance.

ANT. _Deflorescence, fading, waning, blasting, withering; nudity, bareness, denudation; absorption, desiccation._

=Effluence.= Emanation, flow, effusion, efflux; issue, outpouring; emission, discharge; abundance, overflow.

ANT. _Influx, infusion, refluence, ebb; exhaustion; absorption, retention._

=Effluvium.= Exhalation, emanation, malaria, miasma, stink, noxious vapor.

ANT. _Ventilation, scent, disinfectant; zephyr, aroma, balm._

=Effort.= Endeavor, attempt, trial, exertion, struggle, essay, strain, striving, stretch.

ANT. _Failure, frustration, futility, weakness, deficiency, misadventure; ease, inactivity, spontaneity, facility._

=Effrontery.= Assurance, impudence, audacity, shamelessness, presumption, hardihood, boldness, brass; insolence, sauciness.

ANT. _Modesty, coyness, shyness, diffidence, sensitiveness, shrinking, timidity, bashfulness._

=Effulgence.= Brilliancy, splendor, luster, brightness, radiance, refulgence, glory, flame, luminosity, resplendence.

ANT. _Darkness, tenebrosity, obscuration, gloom, opaqueness, shade._

=Effuse=, _a._ Profuse, poured forth freely, lavish, prodigal, copious, abundant, effluent.

ANT. _Dry, scanty, sparing, meager, thin._

=Effusion.= Outpouring, effluence, discharge, emission; abundance; speech, address, oration; waste, shedding, spilling.

ANT. _Infusion, absorption; essay, reading, document, instrument; influx; retention._

=Effusive.= Lavish, generous, profuse, prodigal, gushing; spread widely, diffused.

ANT. _Sparing; taciturn, laconic, curt, brief._

=Egoism.= Selfishness, self-assurance, self-conceit, self-consciousness, self-confidence, self-esteem, conceit, vanity, self-assertion, self-praise, self-admiration, self-love, self-exaltation.

ANT. _Self-abnegation, deference, self-forgetfulness, diffidence, bashfulness, humility, modesty, self-distrust, shyness, unobtrusiveness, considerateness, unostentatiousness._

=Egregious.= Surpassing, extraordinary, remarkable, enormous, monstrous, outrageous, tremendous, prodigious, peculiar; flagrant, gross.

ANT. _Ordinary, usual, commonplace, mediocre, everyday._

=Egress.= Exit, way out, departure, going out, outlet; sally.

ANT. _Entrance, avenue, approach, inlet; inroad, incursion, invasion._

=Either.= One _or_ the other of two; each, both.

ANT. _Neither, not any one of two._

=Ejaculation.= Exclamation, cry, utterance; expletive.

ANT. _Silence, speechlessness, dumfounderment; drawl; oration, speech._

=Eject.= Cast out, emit, vomit, void, evacuate; expel, dismiss, discharge, oust; reject, banish, throw aside, cast away.

ANT. _Retain, absorb; accept, receive, house, store, admit, accommodate, welcome; introduce, inject._

=Eke out.= Add to, supply, increase, stretch, raise, augment, help.

ANT. _Stint, drain, withhold, diminish, exhaust._

=Elaborate.= Improve, refine, develop, mature, execute, forge, prepare, concoct, work upon, labor over.

ANT. _Slight, neglect, disregard, overlook; miscontrive, mismanage; chance, hit, guess, conjecture, extemporize._

=Elapse.= Pass, slip, glide away, lapse; intervene.

ANT. _Wait, abide, halt, hold; continue, endure; grasp, seize._

=Elastic.= Flexible, springy, resilient, extensile, ductile, buoyant; alterable, modifiable; rebounding, recoiling.

ANT. _Rigid, tough, inflexible; crystallized, unchangeable; dull, inert._

=Elated.= Cheered, excited, exhilarated, animated, flushed, inspirited, inflated.

ANT. _Depressed, dejected, discouraged, dispirited, humiliated, abashed, confounded._

=Elder.= Senior, older, more ancient, earlier born; superior; precedent.

ANT. _Younger, junior, juvenile._

=Elect=, _a._ Picked, selected, chosen, choice; appointed, delegated; redeemed, saved; élite, accepted.

ANT. _Rejected, doomed, reprobate; abandoned, depraved._

=Election.= Selection, preference, choice; appointment by vote; alternative, free will, freedom, power to choose; discrimination, discernment, distinction; predestination.

ANT. _Postponement; rejection, reprobation, abandonment._

=Electric.= Charged with electricity, relating to electricity; inspiring, inspiriting, stimulating; lightninglike, swift, flashing, thrilling, stirring, exciting.

=Electrify.= Charge with electricity, render electric; rouse, excite, thrill, stir, astonish, astound, amaze, appal.

ANT. “_Kill_” (of something charged, from which the electricity is suddenly removed); _disconnect, sever_ (of apparatus for carrying electricity); _stupefy, soothe, deaden, calm, mesmerize_.

=Elegance.= Grace, beauty, propriety, symmetry; polish, politeness, refinement, gentility, gracefulness, taste.

ANT. _Deformity, awkwardness, coarseness, rudeness, disproportion._

=Elegant.= Graceful, well-formed, symmetrical, lovely, handsome, comely, refined, tasteful, ornamental, accomplished, polished.

ANT. _Awkward, deformed, ill-proportioned, misshapen, ungraceful, hideous, coarse, rude._

=Elegy.= Dirge, threnody, lament, jeremiad, requiem, coronach, funeral song; serious _or_ melancholy poem.

ANT. _Pæan, jubilee, halleluiah, anthem._

=Element.= Constituent, component, ingredient, part, principle, atom; (_pl._) rudiments, outlines, essential parts.

ANT. _Whole, mass, aggregate, total, totality, gross, sum, amount._

=Elementary.= Simple, uncompounded, rudimentary, primary; physical, material, natural; ultimate, component, constituent.

ANT. _Compounded, collective, aggregate, developed, organized; immaterial, incorporeal, impalpable._

=Elevate.= Raise, lift up, exalt, promote, advance, aggrandize; improve, dignify, ennoble, refine, inspire, greaten; animate, elate, cheer, excite, exhilarate.

ANT. _Lower, degrade, debase, depress, demean, humble, humiliate._

=Elevation.= Raising, elevating; promotion, aggrandizement, exaltation; dignity, refinement, improvement; amelioration; hill, height, altitude, superiority, eminence, loftiness, tallness.

ANT. _Degradation, debasement, depression, decline, fall, depth; deterioration, inferiority; shortness, stuntedness._

=Elicit.= Draw out, evoke, educe, call forth, bring out, deduce, bring to light; express, extract, evolve, worm out, extort.

ANT. _Insert, implant, introduce, inoculate, inject, infuse, instill, incorporate, insinuate; suggest._

=Eligible.= Desirable, preferable, worthy of choice, qualified, capable, suitable, prime, choice.

ANT. _Worthless, ordinary, indifferent, unprofitable, undesirable._

=Elimination.= Expulsion, exclusion, discharge, removal, rejection, eradication, erasure, riddance, obliteration.

ANT. _Inclusion, retention; approval; preservation, conservation._

=Elision.= Omission, ejection, ellipsis, abridgment, excerption.

ANT. _Insertion, inoculation, introduction, implantation; inclusion; augmentation._

=Elliptical.= Contracted, abbreviated; suggestive, latent, allusive; significant, pregnant; defective, incomplete.

ANT. _Explanatory, categorical, full; expository, declaratory, enunciative._

=Elocution.= Speech, power of expression, utterance, delivery, declamatory art; eloquence, oratory.

ANT. _Reading, lection._

=Elongation.= Protraction, extension, production, drawing out, continuation; withdrawal, distance.

ANT. _Apocope, elision, curtailment, abridgment, contraction._

=Eloquence.= Oratory, graceful utterance, appropriate expression, impassioned speech.

ANT. _Verbosity, wordiness, prolixity, tediousness; grandiloquence, bombast, fustian._

=Elucidate.= Explain, illustrate, clear, make manifest, unfold, make plain, expound.

ANT. _Confuse, mystify, obscure, puzzle, bewilder, befog._

=Elucidation.= Explanation, exposition, illustration, demonstration; comment, annotation, commentary, gloss, scholium.

ANT. _Mystification, confusion; obscurity, ambiguity._

=Elude.= Escape, avoid, shun, slip away; baffle, foil, thwart, disappoint, disconcert, balk, frustrate, evade, mock.

ANT. _Meet, encounter, confront; dare, defy; court, invite, challenge._

=Elusive, Elusory.= Evasive, delusive, equivocating, deceptive, fraudulent, fallacious, deceitful, illusory; shuffling, shifting, slippery, fugitive; shadowy, unsubstantial, intangible.

ANT. _Persistent, staple, certain, solid; true, sure, unequivocal._

=Em-=, or =en-=. A prefix meaning _in_ or _into_, sometimes interchangeable with _in-_. The form _em-_ is used before words beginning with _p_, _b_, or _m_. The prefix has also a causal force. Words beginning with this prefix, whose original meaning is simply the meaning of the root word plus that of the prefix, are omitted here, for their synonyms and antonyms may be readily formed from those of the root word.

=Emaciation.= Leanness, lankness, thinness, tenuity, attenuation, wasting, gauntness, skinniness, meagerness.

ANT. _Obesity, fatness, corpulence._

=Emanate.= Flow forth continuously, issue, arise, spring, proceed, emerge.

ANT. _End, terminate, culminate, eventuate, cease; dry up._

=Emancipate.= Free, enfranchise, liberate, rescue, release, manumit, unfetter, unchain, disenthrall, set free.

ANT. _Subjugate, enslave, enthrall, bind; disqualify, incapacitate._

=Embalm.= Preserve, cherish, enshrine, keep; scent, perfume, make fragrant; treasure, store, consecrate.

ANT. _Abandon, desecrate, expose, vulgarize, violate, profane._

=Embargo.= Prohibition, ban, restraint, hindrance, restriction; detention, stoppage.

ANT. _Permit, permission, release, discharge, congé, liberation, dismissal._

=Embark.= Ship; engage, enlist, put in, invest; launch, enter, start.

ANT. _Land, arrive, anchor, disembark, go ashore._

=Embarrass.= Entangle, perplex, make intricate _or_ difficult; distress, trouble, harass, hamper, confuse, disconcert, clog, puzzle, abash, confound, encumber.

ANT. _Extricate, relieve, disentangle, liberate, deliver; expedite, facilitate, accelerate, assist; calm, compose, tranquilize._

=Embellish.= Adorn, decorate, ornament, deck, beautify.

ANT. _Detract, diminish, derogate from, strip, destroy, denude._

=Embezzle.= Appropriate, steal, purloin, peculate; falsify, forge, counterfeit.

ANT. _Square, clear, balance; restore, refund, retrieve._

=Embitter.= Make bitter, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, enrage, anger, madden; molest, provoke, excite.

ANT. _Alleviate, soothe; compose, quiet, pacify; sweeten; delight, please, comfort._

=Emblem.= Figure, image, sign, symbol, token, type, attribute; device, cognizance, representation; badge, mark, signal.

ANT. _Disguise, decoy, incognito, ruse, blind, domino, mask._

=Embody.= Incorporate, make corporeal, concentrate, compact, integrate, combine, collect; systematize, codify; comprehend, include, embrace, comprise, contain.

ANT. _Analyze, dismember, disband, disintegrate, dissipate._

=Embolden.= Encourage, animate, reassure, inspirit, incite, urge, stimulate.

ANT. _Intimidate, frighten, alarm, deter, overwhelm, discourage._

=Embosomed.= Concealed, enveloped, surrounded, encircled, enfolded.

ANT. _Exposed, open, unconcealed, revealed._

=Embrace.= Clasp, hug, press; seize, welcome, accept; comprehend, include, cover, contain, embody, take in.

ANT. _Cast off, reject; exclude, except._

=Embroider.= Embellish, enrich, emboss, adorn with needlework.

ANT. _Darn, botch, patch, repair._

=Embroil.= Implicate, entangle, ensnarl, involve; disturb, perplex, confuse, distract, trouble.

ANT. _Extricate, separate, remove; compose, pacify, arrange, calm._

=Embryo.= Germ, rudiment, nucleus, origin.

ANT. _Development, completion, maturity, fulfilment._

=Emendation.= Amendment, correction, rectification, reformation, improvement.

ANT. _Error, defect, fault, incorrectness, inaccuracy._

=Emerge.= Rise, issue, emanate, escape; appear, become visible.

ANT. _Disappear, sink; retreat, abscond, recede; enter; depart._

=Emergency.= Exigency, urgency, necessity, crisis, difficulty, extremity, strait; juncture, turn of events; unforeseen occasion; embarrassment, difficulty, casualty.

ANT. _Rescue, deliverance, solution, provision, arrangement, anticipation, foresight, climax._

=Emigration.= Removal, exodus, migration from, colonization; departure.

ANT. _Immigration, migration to_ or _into; settlement, sojourn, abode, stay; domiciliation, domestication_.

=Eminence.= Prominence, projection, elevation, protuberance, hill, high point; distinction, celebrity, reputation, renown, repute, fame, preferment; note, conspicuousness; superiority.

ANT. _Debasement, degradation, lowliness, decline; infamy, disgrace, shame, obloquy, opprobrium, scandal._

=Eminent.= High, lofty, elevated; celebrated, distinguished, prominent, illustrious, remarkable, renowned, conspicuous, famous, reputed.

ANT. _Mediocre, worthless; infamous, notorious; egregious, outrageous._

=Emission.= Ejection, expulsion, issue; issuance, putting into circulation.

ANT. _Injection, admission, entrance._

=Emit.= Eject, expel, throw out; issue, decree, discharge; put into circulation.

ANT. _Inject; retain, withhold._

=Emollient.= Softening, laxative, balsamic, soothing, palliative.

ANT. _Irritant, astringent, irritating, galling._

=Emolument.= Gain, pay, profit, remuneration, wages, salary, income, hire, stipend, lucre, compensation; advantage, benefit; gratuity, perquisite.

ANT. _Loss, damage, waste; disadvantage._

=Emotion.= Feeling, passion, excitement, agitation, sensibility, perturbation, tremor, trepidation.

ANT. _Indifference, insensibility, impassiveness, stoicism, imperturbability._

=Emphasis.= Stress, force, ictus; weight, significance, impressiveness.

ANT. _Elision, monotony, uniformity._

=Emphatic.= Significant, expressive, strong, forcible, positive, energetic, decided, distinct, unequivocal, earnest, important, special.

ANT. _Mild, ordinary, usual, unimportant, commonplace, unnoticeable, cool, unimpassioned, undemonstrative._

=Empire.= Dominion, supremacy, sovereignty, authority, government, command, control, sway, rule, kingdom.

ANT. _Independence, insurrection, anarchy, mutiny, sedition, uprising._

=Empiric, Empirical.= Tentative, experimental, provisional, hypothetic, experiential; quackish.

ANT. _Regular, scientific, uniform, constant, inductive, categorical._

=Employ.= Engage, call, hire, use, engross, busy, exercise; apply, enlist, entrust, occupy, economize.

ANT. _Discard, dismiss, misuse._

=Employment.= Business, vocation, pursuit, calling, profession, craft, trade, occupation; service, agency, office, employ; application, engrossment.

ANT. _Leisure, laziness, indolence; recreation, vacation._

=Empower.= Commission, authorize, warrant, qualify; enable, encourage; delegate, sanction, direct.

ANT. _Hinder, prevent, discourage, disqualify, disable; recall, revoke, withdraw._

=Empty=, _a._ Void, without contents, vacant, unoccupied; destitute, devoid; unsupplied, unfurnished, unfilled; unsatisfactory, vain, hollow, unsubstantial; desolate, waste, deserted, uninhabited; senseless, weak, frivolous; clear, unencumbered, unobstructed, vacuous, untenanted, evacuated; silly, idle, deficient.

ANT. _Full, occupied, inhabited, colonized, obstructed, encumbered; cultivated, informed, well-instructed, sensible, experienced; significant, important, forcible, substantial._

=Emulation.= Rivalry, desire to excel, exceed, _or_ surpass, competition; jealousy, envy, contention; vying, aspiration, contest.

ANT. _Stagnation, inactivity, dulness; contempt, disregard, disdain, disaffection; abandonment, resignation, discouragement._

=Enable.= Empower, strengthen, qualify, make capable, capacitate, invigorate.

ANT. _Weaken, disqualify, incapacitate, disable, hinder._

=Enact.= Decree, establish by law, ordain; play, personate, represent, act, feign, dissimulate; pass.

ANT. _Abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, repeal, rescind, expunge._

=Enamor.= Charm, captivate, fascinate, inflame with love, enslave, endear, bewitch, enchain.

ANT. _Disenthrall, repel, estrange, disgust, disenchant, horrify._

=Encamp.= Bivouac, pitch, settle, quarter, camp.

ANT. _March, decamp, retire, retreat, advance, charge._

=Enchain.= Bind with chains, fetter, manacle, enslave.

ANT. _Loose, liberate, manumit, extricate, free._

=Enchant.= Charm, fascinate, bewitch, enamor, captivate, win, catch, lead captive; enrapture, ravish, transport, beatify, delight.

ANT. _Repel, estrange, disgust, horrify, shock, alienate._

=Enchantment.= Incantation, fascination, charm, conjuration, necromancy, magic, witchery, sorcery, spell; delight, rapture, ravishment, transport, bliss.

ANT. _Disillusionment, repulsion, shock, alienation._

=Encircle.= Surround, encompass, environ, gird, enclose; embrace, fold, clasp; hem in, beset, circumscribe.

=Enclose.= Encompass, encircle, shut, include, environ, envelop, wrap, circumscribe.

=Enclosure.= Space enclosed, compass, circle; yard, compound; fence, ring, limit, park, field, boundary, precinct.

ANT. _Space, waste, desert, wild, open, prairie, wilderness, stretch, void, clearing._

=Encomium.= Eulogy, praise, eulogium, panegyric, commendation, laudation, pæan, compliment, good word.

ANT. _Invective, taunt, vituperation, obloquy, vilification, slander._

=Encompass.= Encircle, enclose, gird, hem in, surround, circumscribe.

=Encounter.= Meet, confront, face, withstand; assault, combat, engage, fight, attack, contend, compete with; fall upon.

ANT. _Elude, avoid, escape, shun, miss, flee, frustrate._

=Encourage.= Inspirit, animate, embolden, hearten, incite, stimulate; cheer, comfort, console; support, countenance, reassure; advance, further; foster, abet, aid, help, patronize; prompt, urge.

ANT. _Deter, discourage, dishearten, dissuade; depress, deject; provoke, incite, exasperate; retard, hinder, prevent._

=Encroach.= Intrude, trespass, infringe, invade; creep, advance stealthily; transgress.

ANT. _Respect, recognize, observe; protect; refrain._

=Encumber.= Clog, load, impede, obstruct, hinder, burden, overload; embarrass, perplex, involve, entangle, complicate.

ANT. _Free, liberate; assist, aid, help; relieve, straighten._

=Encumbrance.= Load, impediment, hindrance; debt, claim, liability.

ANT. _Aid, assistance; relief; cancelation._

=End=, _n._ Limit, outcome, period, extremity, extent, bound, conclusion, boundary, completion, close, effect, expiration, finish, finis, finale; issue, goal, intent, fulfilment, purpose, point, result, termination, terminus; utmost, uttermost; accomplishment, achievement; cessation, consummation, design, consequence; fragment, scrap, remnant.

ANT. _Commencement, origin, beginning, source, spring, start, fountain, arising, inception, opening, initiation, outset, rise._

=End=, _v._ Cease, break off, close, complete, conclude, stop, quit, desist, terminate, finish, expire, wind up; destroy, kill, put to death.

ANT. _Begin, commence, initiate, start, open; restore, revivify._

=Endanger.= Hazard, risk, peril; commit, compromise, expose to danger, jeopardize.

ANT. _Protect, shield, save, defend, cover, screen, preserve._

=Endear.= Make dear, attach, secure the affection of, gain; conciliate.

ANT. _Estrange, alienate, embitter, antagonize._

=Endeavor=, _v._ Attempt, essay, try, strive, undertake, make effort, labor, aim, exert one’s self.

ANT. _Neglect, omit, abandon, drop, dismiss, pass by, let go, give up, throw away, up_, or _over, overlook_.

=Endless.= Interminable, boundless, limitless, infinite, immeasurable, illimitable; everlasting, perpetual, eternal, unending, without end; incessant, ceaseless, uninterrupted, continual, continuous; immortal, deathless, undying, imperishable.

ANT. _Limited, brief, temporary, periodic, transient, fugitive, finite, ephemeral, transitory, temporal._

=Endow.= Furnish with dowry, enrich, endue, put on, invest, present, furnish, qualify, supply, clothe.

ANT. _Denude, deprive, divest, spoliate, strip, impoverish, despoil._

=Endowment.= Grant, gift, bequest, bounty, present, largess, boon; property, fund, revenue; talent, faculty, power, quality, capability, aptitude, parts, genius, qualification, ability; attainment, provision, benefaction.

ANT. _Poverty, lack, incapacity, impoverishment, spoliation._

=Endure.= Suffer, submit, bear, tolerate, allow, sustain, support, undergo, abide, afford, brook; experience; continue, remain, persist, be permanent.

ANT. _Fail, sink, succumb, surrender, yield, break down, despair, droop, faint, fall, falter, give out, give up._

=Enemy.= Adversary, competitor, foe, opponent, rival, antagonist.

ANT. _Abettor, ally, friend, accomplice, supporter, helper, accessory, associate, companion, familiar, confidant, adherent._

=Energetic.= Vigorous, active, forcible, powerful, effective, potent, efficacious, efficient, able, capable.

ANT. _Weak, languid, faint, drooping, pining, exhausted, feeble; listless, spiritless, inactive._

=Energy.= Agility, activity, force, power, potency, strength, intensity, vigor, might, efficacy, efficiency; spirit, animation, life, manliness, animal spirits, zeal.

ANT. _Indolence, slowness, sloth, clumsiness, lassitude, inactivity, sluggishness, heaviness, inertness, laziness._

=Enervate.= Unnerve, weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, effeminate; break, paralyze; incapacitate.

ANT. _Invigorate, strengthen, harden, nerve, brace, empower._

=Enfeeble.= Enervate, weaken, debilitate, unnerve.

ANT. _Strengthen, nerve, invigorate, brace._

=Enfold.= Envelop, wrap, enclose, embrace, encircle, encompass.

ANT. _Disclose, unwrap, develop, reveal, expose._

=Enforce.= Urge, impress, compel, constrain, oblige, force, require, exact, exert, strain.

ANT. _Relax, abandon, remit, waive, forego._

=Enforcement.= Inculcation, execution, sanction, constraint, compulsion.

ANT. _Relaxation, abandonment, remission._

=Enfranchise.= Endow with franchise or suffrage; free, emancipate, release, qualify, manumit.

ANT. _Disenfranchise, disqualify._

=Engage.= Promise, bind, pledge, commit; plight, affiance, betroth; enlist, induce to serve; attract, allure, gain, win, entertain; arrest, fix, occupy, busy, employ, engross; encounter, attack, fight with, battle with; contend, struggle, contest; involve; stipulate, agree; adopt.

ANT. _Decline, refuse, withdraw, extricate, disengage, dismiss, discard; retreat, retract._

=Engagement.= Promise, stipulation, contract, obligation, assurance, pledge; betrothal, affiancing; employment, occupation, business, vocation; combat, battle, contest, fight, encounter, action, conflict.

ANT. _Release, liberation; dismissal; excuse._

=Engaging.= Attractive, winning, charming, pleasing, interesting, delightful.

ANT. _Repulsive, unattractive, disagreeable._

=Engender.= Beget, generate, create, breed, produce, cause, occasion, propagate.

ANT. _Stifle, destroy, extinguish. blight, prevent, neutralize._

=Engrave.= Carve, cut, chisel, imprint, cut in, infix, grave, impress deeply; sculpture, stereotype.

ANT. _Erase, obliterate, wear out, efface, destroy; carve in relief._

=Engross.= Absorb, engage, monopolize, engulf, occupy, forestall; copy.

ANT. _Distract, disperse, dissipate, scatter, vanish._

=Enhance.= Heighten, swell, raise the price of, advance; augment, increase; aggrandize.

ANT. _Undervalue, depreciate, disparage, detract, underestimate._

=Enigmatic, Enigmatical.= Obscure, puzzling, hidden, mysterious, perplexing, unintelligible, ambiguous, recondite, incomprehensible, mystical, occult.

ANT. _Plain, clear, manifest, self-evident, lucid, explanatory, open, intelligible._

=Enjoin.= Urge, admonish, advise, order, direct, command, bid, require; prohibit, restrain; commission, ordain, oblige, prescribe.

ANT. _Dissuade; remit, absolve, exonerate; recall, dispense with, disqualify._

=Enjoy.= Possess; delight in, like, be pleased with.

ANT. _Dislike, loathe, endure, tolerate, lose, disrelish._

=Enjoyment.= Pleasure, delight, happiness, gratification; fruition; possession; satisfaction, gladness, felicity.

ANT. _Misery, wretchedness, grief, affliction, suffering, calamity._

=Enlarge.= Amplify, augment, increase, extend, expand, magnify; make greater, ennoble; dilate, descant, expatiate; swell, grow.

ANT. _Contract, narrow, reduce, diminish, restrict, lessen, curtail._

=Enlighten.= Illuminate, light up; inform, teach, edify, make intelligent, instruct.

ANT. _Darken, obscure; mystify, mislead, perplex, confound._

=Enlist.= Enroll, register, incorporate, enter, embody, record, chronicle, muster.

ANT. _Erase, expunge, withdraw, dismiss, disband, muster out._

=Enliven.= Amuse, quicken, animate, rouse, invigorate, inspire, inspirit, cheer, delight, gladden, exhilarate.

ANT. _Depress, dispirit, subdue, sober, moderate, oppress, weary, paralyze, deaden, tire, stupefy._

=Enmity.= Hatred, hostility, malice, rancor, animosity, antagonism, acrimony, bitterness, ill will, malevolence, spite, malignity, maliciousness, opposition, asperity, aversion, hate, discord.

ANT. _Friendship, love, affection, esteem, cordiality, amity, alliance, concord, agreement, regard, harmony, sympathy, kindliness, kindness._

=Ennoble.= Dignify, elevate, exalt, ameliorate, enlarge, make great.

ANT. _Debase, degrade, deteriorate, depress, deprave, corrupt, vitiate._

=Enormity.= Depravity, atrocity, wickedness, villainy, outrageousness, heinousness, nefariousness, abomination, perpetration, sin.

ANT. _Innocence, righteousness, guilelessness, inoffensiveness._

=Enormous.= Huge, vast, immense, immoderate, inordinate, abnormal, exceptional, monstrous, gigantic, colossal, prodigious, elephantine; heinous, depraved, nefarious.

ANT. _Trivial, insignificant, ordinary, average, diminutive, moderate._

=Enough.= Sufficient, plenty, satisfactory, ample, abundant.

ANT. _Insufficient, short, inadequate, scant, ill-supplied, bare._

=Enrage.= Exasperate, provoke, irritate, madden, incite, incense, inflame, infuriate, excite, aggravate, anger.

ANT. _Soothe, conciliate, allay, tame, quiet, mollify, appease, pacify, tranquilize._

=Enrapture.= Enchant, entrance, enravish, delight, transport, beatify, satisfy, please, gladden, fascinate, bewitch, captivate, charm, attract, enamor, enslave.

ANT. _Disgust, nauseate, repel, torment, torture, horrify._

=Enrich.= Aggrandize, enhance, endow, augment, store, supply; adorn, decorate, ornament, embellish; fertilize.

ANT. _Impoverish, rob, denude, fleece, reduce, beggar, despoil, strip._

=Enroll.= Enlist, register, record, chronicle, embody, list, catalogue.

ANT. _Erase, expunge, withdraw._

=Enrolment.= Registration; register, record.

ANT. _Omission; withdrawal; erasure._

=Enshrine.= Treasure, preserve, cherish, embalm, consecrate.

ANT. _Lose, misplace, expose, destroy, desecrate._

=Enslave.= Captivate, charm, enthral, subjugate, master, dominate, bewitch, delight, fascinate.

ANT. _Repel, disgust, alienate; free._

=Ensue.= Follow, result, eventuate, succeed, befall, accrue, happen, take place, supervene; issue, arise, spring, come.

ANT. _Precede, herald, introduce; forewarn, threaten, premonish, caution._

=Entail.= Transfer, transmit, fix, devolve, involve, bequeath, demise, leave, induce, necessitate.

ANT. _Prevent, obviate, nullify; neutralize; estrange, alienate, supersede._

=Entangle.= Implicate, involve, compromise, entrap, knot, perplex, embarrass, confuse, intertwist, interweave, intertwine.

ANT. _Straighten, extricate, disentangle, unravel, deliver._

=Enter.= Go or come into; pierce, penetrate; begin, commence; enroll, inscribe, chronicle, note, register, record; engage in; embark, enlist, join; invade.

ANT. _Depart, leave, issue, quit, vacate; go out; finish, end; withdraw from, retire, resign._

=Enterprise.= Adventure, undertaking, effort, attempt, essay, endeavor, trial, experiment; energy, activity, readiness, willingness; progress.

ANT. _Routine, monotony, humdrum, matter-of-fact, unprogressiveness; caution, inactivity._

=Enterprising.= Venturesome, adventurous, daring, audacious, bold; prompt, alert, active, energetic, efficient, spirited, strenuous, eager, zealous, stirring; progressive, speculative.

ANT. _Timid, cautious, inactive, fearful, cowardly; conservative; wary, prudent, discreet, anxious, careful, thoughtful; indolent, unenterprising, inactive, unready, laggard._

=Entertain.= Amuse, interest, divert, cheer, delight, recreate, beguile, please, occupy, gratify, enliven, disport; consider, ponder; lodge, treat hospitably, cherish, harbor, hold, receive.

ANT. _Annoy, tire, bore, disturb, weary, distract, disquiet; refuse, reject, deny, debar, exclude, eject._

=Entertainment.= Delight, diversion, amusement, cheer, enjoyment, pastime, fun, merriment, pleasure, recreation, sport, hospitality, frolic, reception, lodging.

ANT. _Weariness, work, toil, ennui, labor, fatigue, disturbance; refusal, rejection._

=Enthrone.= Crown, instal, exalt, elevate, invest with power.

ANT. _Dethrone, depose, debase, degrade._

=Enthusiasm.= Ardor, earnestness, excitement, inspiration, frenzy, vehemence, warmth, ecstasy, passion, zeal, rapture, eagerness, devotion, fervency, fanaticism, fervor, intensity, transport.

ANT. _Indifference, caution, calmness, prudence, timidity, policy, coldness, dulness, calculation, lukewarmness, deadness, callousness._

=Entice.= Lure, attract, seduce, coax, persuade, wheedle, cajole, delude, entrap, decoy, inveigle, lead astray, induce.

ANT. _Warn, hinder, deter, repel, admonish, caution, make aware._

=Entire.= Whole, complete, perfect, unimpaired, unbroken, undiminished, undivided; full, integral, thorough, solid, unalloyed, plenary; unmixed, sheer, mere, unmitigated, pure; total, absolute.

ANT. _Partial, incomplete, broken, impaired, alloyed, limited, divided, defective, mixed; relative._

=Entitle.= Name, designate, denominate, call, style, characterize; christen; enable, fit, empower, qualify.

ANT. _Disable, disqualify._

=Entity.= Being, essence, existence.

ANT. _Nonentity, chimera, phantom, fantasy, hallucination._

=Entomb.= Bury, inter, inhume.

ANT. _Exhume, disinter._

=Entrance.= Approach, doorway, opening, door, entry, ingress, gate, gateway, inlet, portal, access, admission, admittance, entrée, introduction, penetration, avenue, adit; beginning, commencement, initiation.

ANT. _Departure, egress, refusal, exit, withdrawal, ejection, exclusion, expulsion, rejection._

=Entreat.= Beg, supplicate, solicit, beseech, implore, pray, appeal, petition, adjure, crave, importune, enjoin, urge.

ANT. _Command, insist, bid, enjoin, charge, direct; grant, heed, hear, answer, respond._

=Entry.= Entrance, ingress, access; avenue, passage, hall, inlet; minute, note, record, register, memorandum; initiation, beginning.

ANT. _Egress, exit, departure; outlet, vent; misrecord, falsification, blank, omission; conclusion, quittance, disposal._

=Entwine.= Interlace, weave, entwist, wreathe together or round.

ANT. _Disentwine, dissever, untwist._

=Enumerate.= Compute, reckon, numerate, number, tell, cite, estimate, recount, specify, detail, calculate, rehearse, recapitulate.

ANT. _Mingle, jumble, confuse; miscount, misreckon, miscalculate._

=Enunciate.= Announce, proclaim, declare; pronounce, syllable; state, propound, articulate, relate, utter, publish, promulgate.

ANT. _Mutter, babble, stammer._

=Envelop=, _v._ Wrap, surround, encircle, fold, encompass, cover, hide.

ANT. _Expose, unwrap, reveal, extract; develop._

=Envenom.= Poison, taint, vitiate, infect, pollute; embitter; enrage, provoke, exasperate, irritate, madden, inflame.

ANT. _Purify, disinfect; delight, please, gratify._

=Envious.= Jealous, suspicious, grudging.

ANT. _Friendly, kindly, well-disposed, trustful, contented, satisfied._

=Environ.= Surround, encircle, encompass, gird, belt, enclose, envelop; invest, besiege, hem in, beset.

=Envoy.= Messenger (_in diplomatic service_); ambassador, minister, legate, plenipotentiary.

ANT. _Scout, spy, orderly_ (as messengers in military service).

=Envy.= Malice, ill will; jealousy, hate, spite, hatred, grudging; chagrin, discontent, mortification.

ANT. _Admiration, good will, regard, esteem, benevolence; aspiration, emulation._

=Ephemeral.= Transient, momentary, daily, diurnal, fleeting, fugitive, brief, evanescent, transitory.

ANT. _Permanent, immortal, eternal, lasting, enduring, perpetual, abiding, persistent, perennial._

=Epigrammatic.= Pointed, terse, laconic, concise, graphic.

ANT. _Diffuse, prolix, pointless, copious, circumlocutory, verbose, periphrastic._

=Epitome.= Summary, compend, abstract, curtailment, reduction.

ANT. _Expansion, extension, amplification, dilation._

=Equable.= Even, uniform, steady, regular, proportionate, smooth, easy, invariable.

ANT. _Variable, fitful, irregular, disjointed, desultory, uneasy._

=Equal.= Like, equivalent, identical, tantamount; uniform, regular, even, steady; proportionate, commensurate; impartial, unbiased; competent, fit, adequate, sufficient; fair, equitable, just.

ANT. _Dissimilar, unsteady, incommensurate, irregular, disproportionate; incompetent, inadequate; unjust, unfair; variable, disparate._

=Equality.= Likeness, uniformity, identity, evenness, equableness, sameness of rank.

ANT. _Dissimilarity, difference._

=Equanimity.= Composure, calmness, tranquillity, steadiness, serenity.

ANT. _Impatience, perturbation, restlessness, disquiet._

=Equip.= Accouter, arm, provide, furnish, fit out, supply, dress, array, garnish, arrange, invest, clothe.

ANT. _Divest, denude, dismantle, despoil, derange._

=Equipage.= Carriage, retinue, vehicle, attendance, procession, suite, train; equipment, furniture, baggage, effects.

=Equipment.= Accouterments, apparatus, furnishings, dress, rigging, trappings, gear, outfit, provisions, equipage, arms, supplies.

=Equitable.= Upright, just, impartial, unbiased, unprejudiced, reasonable, fair, right, proper, honest, even-handed, proportionate.

ANT. _Unfair, unjust, unreasonable, partial, prepossessed, prejudiced, biased._

=Equity.= Justice, right, uprightness, rectitude, fairness, impartiality, fair play, honesty, integrity.

ANT. _Injustice, corruption, dishonesty, partiality, unfairness, prejudice._

=Equivalent.= Equal, equipollent, tantamount; synonymous, interchangeable, equiponderant.

ANT. _Unequal, incommensurate, uneven, unbalanced._

=Equivocal.= Ambiguous, indefinite, enigmatical, dubious, uncertain, doubtful, questionable, perplexing, indeterminate, indistinct, suspicious.

ANT. _Evident, clear, plain, direct, manifest, obvious, indubitable, unquestionable, perspicuous, unambiguous, lucid, distinct, certain, indisputable._

=Eradicate.= Abolish, extinguish, exterminate, extirpate, uproot, destroy, annihilate, excise.

ANT. _Cherish, encourage, instil, propagate, implant, inculcate, inspire, foster._

=Erase.= Efface, expunge, cancel, obliterate, blot out, scratch out.

ANT. _Mark, delineate, write, inscribe, imprint, engrave._

=Erect=, _a._ Upright, standing, elevated; bold, undaunted, firm.

ANT. _Leaning, lying, supine; groveling, abject; mean, servile, cowardly._

=Erect=, _v._ Raise, uplift, place _or_ set upright, build, construct; exalt, elevate, magnify; establish, institute, form, found, plant.

ANT. _Lower, incline, slant; subvert, depress, remove, destroy, demolish; debase, degrade._

=Err.= Deviate, wander, ramble, rove; mistake, misjudge, blunder; sin, fall, lapse, trip, offend, trespass, misapprehend, stray, stumble, go astray.

ANT. _Succeed, prosper; correct, rectify._

=Errand.= Message, mandate, commission, mission, charge, delegation.

ANT. _Misannouncement, misdelivery._

=Erratic.= Wandering, nomadic, roving, rambling; planetary, moving; irregular, eccentric, abnormal; desultory, aberrant, flighty, changeful, capricious.

ANT. _Static, stationary; undeviating, steady, regular, normal; unalterable, methodical, calculable._

=Erring.= Sinful, fallible, liable to err, wandering, misguided, misled.

ANT. _Virtuous, good, upright._

=Error.= Blunder, mistake, misapprehension, oversight, inaccuracy; sin, fault, offense, transgression, iniquity, trespass, delinquency, misdeed, shortcoming, wrongdoing; deception, fallacy, untruth, falsity, hallucination.

ANT. _Truth, correctness, accuracy; correction, soundness, rectification; exactness, verification._

=Erudition.= Knowledge, learning, lore, scholarship, letters.

ANT. _Illiterateness, duncedom, sciolism, ignorance, stupidity._

=Eruption.= Explosion, outbreak, outburst; sally, sudden excursion; discharge, eructation, exsufflation, ejection.

ANT. _Absorption, swallowing, engulfing, engrossment, irruption, inburst; consumption, devouring._

=Escape.= Avoid, shun, evade, flee from, elude; pass unobserved; abscond, fly, hide.

ANT. _Incur, encounter, meet, confront; suffer._

=Esoteric.= Private, secret, acroamatic, inner, inmost; abstruse, profound; special, advanced.

ANT. _Exoteric, public, popular; rudimentary, primary, elementary._

=Essence.= Nature, quintessence, substance, vital part, element; volatile part, extract; perfume; scent, odor; being, existence, entity, life.

ANT. _Accident; property; garb, clothing, surroundings._

=Essential.= Vital, necessary, indispensable, requisite, important; volatile, pure, diffusible, highly rectified; innate, inherent, immanent, leading.

ANT. _Accidental, induced, imported, adventitious; quantitative, qualitative; promotive, redundant, regulative, superfluous._

=Establish.= Fix, settle, make steadfast; decree, enact, ordain; institute, originate, constitute, found, plant, organize, form; place, secure, set up; confirm, sanction, ratify, approve; verify, prove, substantiate; fulfil, carry out, make good; endow; demonstrate.

ANT. _Unsettle, supplant, disestablish, break up, subvert, upset; misstate, refute, confute; guess, conjecture, presume, suppose, surmise._

=Estate.= State, condition; rank, position; property, possessions, fortune, effects; class, division, order; lands, demesne, domain, freehold.

ANT. _State, country, chattels, community, waste, goods, effects._

=Esteem=, _n._ Estimate, favor, regard, respect, estimation; admiration.

ANT. _Aversion, hatred, dislike, contempt, abhorrence, antipathy, repugnance, loathing._

=Esteem=, _v._ Estimate, hold, regard, prize, value, think, appreciate, deem, calculate, consider; price; believe, affect; revere, honor, respect, admire, venerate, love, like.

ANT. _Disregard, depreciate, undervalue, dislike, misprize, underrate, decry._

=Estimable.= Appreciable, calculable, computable; worthy, excellent, good, deserving, meritorious; amiable, lovable, delectable, praiseworthy.

ANT. _Unworthy, bad, indelectable, unamiable; undeserving, unlovable._

=Eternal.= Immortal, perpetual, fadeless, perennial, unfailing, imperishable, endless, everlasting, ever-living, interminable, never-ending, never-fading, unceasing, timeless, undying, unending, unfading; infinite.

ANT. _Ephemeral, transient, fleeting, mortal, temporal, transitory, evanescent, sublunary._

=Etiquette.= Manners, breeding, fashion, conventionality.

ANT. _Misobservance, nonconformance, boorishness, rudeness, singularity._

=Euphonious.= Euphonic, mellifluous, clear, musical, silvery, sweet-toned, melodious, harmonious, mellow.

ANT. _Harsh, discordant, dissonant._

=Euphuism.= Purism, finical style, fastidious delicacy, affected elegance, high-flown diction, pompous or extravagantly ornate diction; affectation, factitiousness, pedantry, highflying (_used of language_).

ANT. _Simplicity, vernacular, mother tongue, bluntness, naturalness, rusticity._

=Evacuate.= Empty; eject, expel, excrete, throw out, discharge, void; quit, leave, forsake, desert, abandon, withdraw from, relinquish.

ANT. _Seize, occupy, hold, fill._

=Evaporate.= Vaporize, disperse in vapor; disappear, evanesce, vanish; exhale, emit in vapor; turn to vapor; melt, colliquate, liquefy, dissolve, distil.

ANT. _Consolidate, compact, solidify, crystallize, indurate._

=Evasion.= Prevarication, equivocation, quibbling, subterfuge, shuffling, sophistry, tergiversation, disingenuousness; shift, quibble, fencing.

ANT. _Answer, counter-argument, grappling; straightforwardness; challenge._

=Even.= Smooth, level, flat, plane; equal, uniform, calm, steady, unruffled; fair, just, equitable; plain, flush; well-balanced.

ANT. _Variable, uneven; abrupt, inclined, rugged._

=Event.= Circumstance, chance, incident, fortune, result, possibility, sequel, outcome, fact, episode, end, contingency, case, issue, consequence; occurrence, adventure, accident.

ANT. _Cause, antecedent, operation, inducement, contribution, convergence, tendency, predisposition._

=Eventful.= Stirring, memorable, signal, momentous, important, critical, remarkable, marked, noted, notable.

ANT. _Ordinary, unmarked, eventless, uninteresting, unimportant, characterless, trivial._

=Ever.= At any time; always, perpetually, continually, evermore, eternally, aye, for aye, forever, at all times; constantly, incessantly.

ANT. _Never._

=Everlasting.= Endless, unending, perpetual, incessant, ceaseless, continual, uninterrupted, unceasing, interminable, eternal, constant, never-ending, never-ceasing; imperishable, undying, never-dying, deathless, immortal, ever-living; infinite.

ANT. _Ephemeral, transient, transitory._

=Every.= All, any, both, either, each.

ANT. _None, no one, not any one._

=Evict.= Dispossess, eject, throw out.

ANT. _Reinstate, admit; locate, lodge, settle._

=Evidence.= Testimony, ground of belief, proof; manifestation, attraction, testimony, averment, deposition, declaration, appearance, sign, token, indication, exemplification, illustration.

ANT. _Surmise, conjecture; counter-evidence; refutation, disproof; concealment, misindication, suppression, fallacy._

=Evident.= Patent, clear, palpable, manifest, transparent, visible, perceptible, obvious, open, conspicuous, apparent, distinct, discernible, indubitable, overt, plain, unmistakable, tangible; indisputable, incontrovertible.

ANT. _Doubtful, uncertain, questionable, dubious; hidden, concealed, secret, undiscovered, obscure, latent, unseen, unimagined, unknown; covert, dark, invisible; impenetrable, occult, impalpable, imperceptible, unthought of._

=Evil=, _a._ Ill, noxious, deleterious, wrong, bad, hurtful, mischievous, sinful, unhappy, adverse, unpropitious, harmful, wicked, corrupt, unfair, notorious, miserable, sorrowful.

ANT. _Wholesome, right, virtuous, beneficial, holy, pure, felicitous, happy, fortunate, joyous, welcome, grateful, worthy, good, honorable._

=Evince.= Prove, show, evidence, exhibit, manifest, demonstrate; establish; indicate, display.

ANT. _Suppress, negative, disprove, conceal._

=Evoke.= Summon, call forth; excite, arouse, elicit, rouse, provoke, educe, produce; eliminate, extract.

ANT. _Allay, stifle, stop, silence, prevent, seal._

=Exactly.= Precisely, accurately, strictly, nicely.

ANT. _Loosely, inaccurately, incorrectly, differently._

=Exaggerate.= Overstate, strain, overcharge, stretch, overcolor; amplify, enlarge, magnify, overdraw, heighten, overpaint, overestimate.

ANT. _Disparage, attenuate, palliate, understate, underestimate, minimize, mitigate, qualify, soften, modify._

=Examine.= Inspect, observe, investigate, scrutinize, consider, study; canvass, test, inquire into, search into, look into; weigh, ponder, criticize, prove, discuss, overhaul, explore.

ANT. _Conjecture, guess; discard, slur; misconsider, misinvestigate._

=Example.= Model, pattern, ideal, archetype, exemplar, standard, sample, specimen, type, warning, ensample, exemplification, prototype; copy, illustration, instance; issue, development.

ANT. _Stock, material, substance, law, rule, case, system, character, principle, quality._

=Excavate.= Hollow, dig, scoop out, cut, trench; discover, disinter.

ANT. _Inter, inhume, bury; conceal; fill, level._

=Except=, _prep._ Excepting, without, saving, unless, exclusive of.

=Except=, _v._ Exclude, save, bar; segregate, negative.

ANT. _Include, reckon, count, state, classify, propound, admit, affirm._

=Exception.= Exclusion, omission, non-inclusion; objection; affront, offense; unusual case, anomaly; qualification, separation.

ANT. _Rule, class; statement, proposition._

=Exceptionable.= Undesirable, objectionable.

ANT. _Unobjectionable, desirable, exemplary._

=Exceptional.= Irregular, rare, unusual, uncommon, unnatural, peculiar, anomalous, abnormal, aberrant, exceptive.

ANT. _Common, usual, normal, ordinary, regular._

=Excess.= Surplus, waste, extravagance, wastefulness, superfluity, lavishness, exorbitance, superabundance, dissipation, intemperance, profusion, prodigality, redundance; increase, debauchery.

ANT. _Frugality, economy; dearth, deficiency, defect, want, shortcoming, lack, need, poverty; failure, destitution, inadequacy, insufficiency, scantiness; temperance, sobriety._

=Excessive.= Superabundant, disproportionate, undue, exuberant, superfluous; immoderate, intemperate, extreme; violent, vehement; enormous, exorbitant, overmuch, inordinate, unreasonable, extravagant.

ANT. _Insufficient, scant, inadequate, lacking, wanting, deficient._

=Excitability.= Sensibility, sensitiveness; irritability, irascibility, passionateness.

ANT. _Immobility, hebetude, composure; insensitiveness, imperturbability._

=Excommunicate.= Dismiss, expel, denounce, proscribe, anathematize, exscind; exclude, banish, bar, eject, blackball.

ANT. _Admit, readmit, enroll, inaugurate._

=Excrescence.= Tumor, protuberance; superfluity, useless appendage; redundancy.

ANT. _Eradication, extirpation, excision, levigation, exsection._

=Excruciate.= Torture, torment, rack, agonize.

ANT. _Soothe, please, tranquilize._

=Exculpate.= Absolve, exonerate, acquit, clear, set right, vindicate; defend, release.

ANT. _Charge, implicate, inculpate._

=Excursion.= Trip, ramble, tour, jaunt, journey, expedition.

=Excusable.= Pardonable, venial.

ANT. _Inexcusable, unpardonable._

=Excuse=, _v._ Pardon, forgive, absolve, acquit, exonerate, exculpate; extenuate, justify; free, exempt, release, let off; overlook, regard indulgently, condone; remit, vindicate, defend, mitigate.

ANT. _Charge, condemn, inculpate, convict, sentence; exact, accuse._

=Execrable.= Detestable, cursed, loathsome, accursed, villainous, hateful, abominable, damnable, diabolical, odious, abhorrent; offensive, disgusting, nauseous, obnoxious, repulsive, revolting, vile.

ANT. _Desirable, respectable, laudable, eligible._

=Execration.= Curse, malediction, ban, anathema, imprecation of evil; detestation, abhorrence, horror, loathing, abomination; denunciation.

ANT. _Benediction, blessing._

=Execute.= Administer, perform, enforce, carry out, do.

ANT. _Fail, be lacking, disappoint._

=Exemplary.= Laudable, praiseworthy, excellent, correct, estimable, worthy, virtuous; patternlike, close, faithful, exact, scrupulous, assiduous, punctilious, rigid, punctual, rigorous; worthy of imitation, fit for a pattern.

ANT. _Detestable, objectionable, exceptionable._

=Exemplify.= Illustrate, show by example; manifest, embody, exhibit, represent.

ANT. _Belie, betray, misrepresent, falsify._

=Exempt=, _v._ Relieve, set free, release, grant immunity to, excuse, exonerate, except.

ANT. _Subject, render liable, bind, oblige; expose._

=Exempt=, _a._ Free, irresponsible, liberated, clear, absolved, privileged, unamenable.

ANT. _Liable, subject, amenable, responsible._

=Exemption.= Immunity, privilege, exception, release, freedom from liability; dispensation, license.

ANT. _Liability, amenableness, responsibility, subjection, obligation._

=Exercise=, _n._ Application, drill, employment, exertion; practice, training; occupation, use; performance, operation, act, activity,

## action.

ANT. _Inaction, idleness, relaxation, rest, inactivity; ease, recreation._

=Exertion.= Use, exercise; effort, endeavor, struggle, trial, attempt, stretch, strain; labor, toil.

ANT. _Relaxation, rest, recreation._

=Exhalation.= Evaporation; vapor, fume, steam, smoke, fog, reek; mist, damp, effluvium.

ANT. _Inhalation, exsiccation, absorption._

=Exhale.= Emit, breathe out, give out, evaporate; vaporize.

ANT. _Inhale, breathe in, inspire._

=Exhaust.= Drain, empty, expend, spend, waste, consume, squander, lavish, dissipate, destroy; prostrate, cripple, weaken, debilitate, enervate, disable, wear out, weary.

ANT. _Fill, replenish, augment, refresh, invigorate._

=Exhibit.= Show, display; manifest, express, disclose, indicate, make known, evince; offer, present, propose; betray; demonstrate, illustrate.

ANT. _Conceal, mask, hide, secrete, suppress._

=Exhibition.= Sight, representation, pageant, display, manifestation, show.

=Exhilarate.= Cheer, enliven, inspire, inspirit, stimulate, animate, elate, gladden; rejoice, delight, please.

ANT. _Depress, unnerve, unhinge, dispirit._

=Exhort.= Urge, stimulate, persuade, incite, encourage; advise, counsel, enjoin.

ANT. _Dissuade, warn, deprecate, remonstrate._

=Exigency.= Demand, urgency, need, necessity, requirement, want; pressure, crisis, emergency, juncture, quandary; conjuncture, pass, pinch, strait.

ANT. _Provision, rule, supply, course, preparation._

=Exile=, _n._ Banishment, expulsion, ostracism, proscription, expatriation; separation, isolation; banished person.

ANT. _Welcome, return; remaining; cherishing, fostering, retaining._

=Exile=, _v._ Banish, expatriate, ostracize, expel, proscribe, relegate.

ANT. _Welcome, reinstate, domesticate, domiciliate._

=Existence.= Being, subsistence; entity, essence, creature, thing; life, animation; continuation, duration.

ANT. _Nonentity, non-existence, chimera._

=Expand.= Open, spread out; dilate, enlarge, stretch, distend; swell, diffuse, extend, increase; develop, unfold, amplify.

ANT. _Contract, curtail, condense, restrict, attenuate._

=Expanse.= Extent, stretch, expansion; firmament, sky, canopy, vault, welkin; vast, void, space, breadth.

ANT. _Limit, enclosure, confine, bound._

=Expatiate.= Rove, range; dilate, enlarge, descant, be copious, launch out, amplify.

ANT. _Contract, summarize, condense, epitomize._

=Expect.= Await, look for; anticipate, rely upon, count upon, reckon or calculate upon, look forward to; look for, forecast, forebode, foresee.

ANT. _Welcome, greet, hail, recognize; realize._

=Expectation.= Anticipation, expectance, prospect, expectancy; reliance, confidence, assurance, presumption; trust, hope.

ANT. _Recollection, remembrance, retrospect; distrust, despair, discouragement._

=Expediency.= Fitness, propriety, suitableness, desirableness, advisability; advantage, utility, profit, usefulness; profitableness, advantageousness; interest.

ANT. _Disadvantage, detriment, inutility, inexpediency._

=Expedition.= Haste, speed, celerity, despatch, alertness, promptness, alacrity, quickness; enterprise, undertaking; march, voyage.

ANT. _Delay, tardiness, procrastination._

=Expend.= Disburse, spend, lay out; use, exert, consume, employ; waste, exhaust, spread, scatter, dissipate.

ANT. _Save, economize, husband._

=Expense.= Expenditure, outgo, cost, outlay; price, charge, payment.

ANT. _Income, gain, proceeds, return, profit, product, receipts._

=Expensive.= Dear, costly, high-priced; lavish, wasteful, extravagant; valuable, rich.

ANT. _Cheap, worthless, poor; economical._

=Experience=, _n._ Actual observation, feeling, or presentation; practice, experimental knowledge; experiment, trial, proof, test, knowledge, habit.

=Ant.= _Anticipation, expectation._

=Experience=, _v._ Feel, undergo, prove by trial, endure, suffer, be subject to; try, encounter.

ANT. _Evade, escape, lose, miss._

=Experienced.= Practiced, versed, accomplished, able, qualified, instructed, thoroughbred; familiar, skilled, accustomed, conversant.

ANT. _Inexperienced, strange, unpracticed._

=Experiment.= Trial, test, assay, examination, proof, touchstone, ordeal; observation, investigation, experimentation; illustration, exemplification.

ANT. _Hypothesis, conjecture, assumption._

=Explain.= Elucidate, expound, interpret, unfold, clear up, make plain; account for, make intelligible, give the reasons for, solve, warrant, trace to causes, justify; teach, decipher.

ANT. _Mystify, bewilder, obscure, darken, misinterpret._

=Explanation.= Elucidation, interpretation, exposition, illustration, description, explication; solution, warrant, justification, account, key; mutual understanding; sense.

ANT. _Confusion, misinterpretation, mystification, obscuration._

=Explicit.= Express, clear, plain, definite, positive, unambiguous, unreserved, categorical, determinate; detailed, declaratory, unobscure, stated.

ANT. _Ambiguous, doubtful, indefinite, uncertain, vague, implied, implicit, indeterminate; hinted, suggestive, obscure._

=Exponent.= Index, indication, example, type, representative, illustration, specimen; advocate, interpreter, propounder.

ANT. _System, creed, principle, opinion._

=Export=, _v._ Send out, carry out, send abroad, ship, produce.

ANT. _Import; consume._

=Exposed.= Unprotected, defenseless, unguarded, endangered.

ANT. _Guarded, defended, protected._

=Expostulate.= Object, dissuade, remonstrate.

ANT. _Abet, coincide, agree, confirm._

=Express=, _v._ Squeeze out; utter, declare, assert, speak; represent, indicate, show, signify, exhibit, denote, intimate; send by express.

ANT. _Suppress, repress, conceal._

=Express=, _a._ Explicit, clear, definite, plain, determinate, positive, categorical; exact, accurate, faithful, true, close, precise; special,

## particular; swift, rapid, fast; specific, pointed, direct.

ANT. _General; vague; leisurely; inaccurate, inexact, approximate._

=Expression.= Squeezing out; assertion, statement, utterance, declaration; phrase, mode of speech, term; general tone, pervading effect, look, cast of countenance; lively representation; modulation, feeling, execution; indication.

ANT. _Suppression, restraint, repression; face, features, lineament; falsification, misstatement, solecism, enigma._

=Expunge.= Erase, efface, obliterate, cancel, blot out, delete.

ANT. _Mark, write, trace, delineate._

=Exquisite.= Nice, accurate, delicate, discriminating, exact, refined; precious, valuable, select, choice, rare, excellent; perfect, complete, matchless, consummate; keen, poignant, acute, intense; delicious.

ANT. _Common, coarse, ordinary; unrefined._

=Extemporaneous.= Improvised, unpremeditated, extempore, impromptu, extemporary, offhand.

ANT. _Prepared, studied, premeditated, read, written, elaborated; rehearsed, recited._

=Extend.= Stretch, reach; prolong, continue, lengthen, protract; expand, dilate, enlarge, widen, augment, increase; diffuse; impart, give, offer, yield; amplify, avail, apply.

ANT. _Contract, restrict, curtail, limit, narrow, reduce, condense; miss, fail._

=Extent.= Expanse, amplitude, extension; volume, bulk, magnitude, size; stretch, reach, compass, length; degree, distance, quantity.

ANT. _Limitation, diminution, restriction._

=Extenuate.= Lessen, diminish, reduce; palliate, mitigate, excuse, qualify, apologize for.

ANT. _Enhance, aggravate, heighten._

=Exterior=, _a._ Outward, external, outer, outside, superficial; foreign, extrinsic, from without.

ANT. _Inner, internal, domestic, inward._

=Exterminate.= Eradicate, overthrow, uproot, expel, extirpate, annihilate, banish, destroy, remove, root out, wipe out.

ANT. _Augment, breed, cherish, develop, increase, populate, replenish, settle, plant, foster, propagate, colonize, build up, beget._

=Extermination.= Extirpation, annihilation, eradication, abolition, destruction, extinction, excision, elimination.

ANT. _Settlement, replenishment, augmentation, colonization, population, propagation, increase._

=External.= Outward, outer, exterior, outside, superficial; foreign, extrinsic; visible, apparent; manifest, palpable.

ANT. _Inner, internal, intestine, inmost, hidden, non-apparent._

=Extinction.= Destruction, annihilation, extirpation, extermination, abolition; extinguishment; stifling, death, suffocation, cessation, obsolescence.

ANT. _Inception, origination, birth, course, life, operation, action, exercise, continuance, prosperity, survival._

=Extinguish.= Quench; destroy, suppress, put down; extirpate, abolish, eradicate, kill, annihilate, put out.

ANT. _Replenish, replant, implant, cherish, propagate, promote, invigorate, establish, confirm, secure._

=Extort.= Exact, wrest, wrench, wring out, force; despoil, express, fleece, squeeze out, extract.

ANT. _Coax, cheat, wheedle, cajole._

=Extortionate.= Oppressive, exacting, severe, hard, harsh; exorbitant, close-fisted, rigorous, monstrous, preposterous.

ANT. _Liberal, bountiful, indulgent, fair, moderate, reasonable._

=Extract=, _n._ Selection, excerpt, passage, citation, quotation.

=Extract=, _v._ Draw, pull, take out; derive, select, quote, cite; determine, find; educe, elicit, gather, collect, extort.

ANT. _Insert, replace, incorporate, restore, reinsert, impose._

=Extraneous.= Foreign, extrinsic; non-pertinent, not germane, unessential, superfluous; unconnected, alien, unrelated, adventitious, ascititious.

ANT. _Intrinsic, vital, internal, connected, essential._

=Extraordinary.= Unusual, remarkable, uncommon, singular, signal, egregious, rare, extra; unwonted, peculiar, wonderful, unprecedented, marvelous, prodigious, monstrous, preposterous, strange.

ANT. _Common, usual, frequent, wonted, unremarkable, unimportant, ordinary._

=Extravagance.= Excess, exorbitance, enormity, unreasonableness, preposterousness; wildness, folly, absurdity, irregularity; prodigality, lavish expenditure, profusion, waste.

ANT. _Carefulness, economy, frugality, saving, provision, prudence, foresight._

=Extravagant.= Excessive, inordinate, unreasonable, preposterous, exorbitant; wild, foolish, absurd, irregular; lavish, profuse, wasteful, spendthrift, prodigal.

ANT. _Sound, sober, consistent, fair, rational, economical, frugal, careful, regular, usual._

=Extreme.= Utmost, farthest, uttermost, outermost; greatest, highest; last, final, ultimate; extravagant, immoderate, excessive, unreasonable; remote, terminal, distant, most violent.

ANT. _Initial, primal, judicious, moderate._

=Extremity.= End, verge, termination, edge, border, extreme, utmost point; close, conclusion.

ANT. _Beginning, commencement, opening, center, origin, bulk, body._

=Exudation.= Ooze, drip, percolation, excretion, secretion.

ANT. _Absorption, parching, aridity._

=Exultant.= Exulting, jubilant, triumphant, elated, joyous, transported.

ANT. _Mournful, dispirited, depressed._

=Exultation.= Elation, joy, triumph, delight, transport, ecstasy.

ANT. _Mourning, depression._

F

=Fable.= Story, myth, legend, allegory, apologue; plot, action, series of events; fiction, falsehood, lie, untruth, fabrication, forgery, invention, figment; romance, parable, novel.

ANT. _History, fact, narrative._

=Fabric.= Building, structure, edifice, pile; texture, make, workmanship, conformation; manufactured cloth, woven stuff; work, construction, tissue, web.

ANT. _Destruction, dismantlement, demolition, fragment, wreck, tatters, ruin, shreds, rags._

=Fabricate.= Build, frame, construct; make, manufacture; forge, invent, coin, feign; form, falsify, produce, devise, misrepresent.

ANT. _Demolish, tear, spoil, dismember, destroy, narrate, lacerate, copy, represent, repeat, portray._

=Fabulous.= Invented, fabricated, feigned, unreal, coined, fictitious; incredible, pretended, imaginary, false, monstrous.

ANT. _Real, actual, historic, authentic, fair, true, reasonable._

=Facetious.= Witty, jocose, jocular, humorous, waggish, funny, comical, pleasant, droll; gay, merry, sportive, lively, entertaining, sprightly; playful.

ANT. _Matter-of-fact, heavy, dull, grave, serious, saturnine, somber, lugubrious._

=Facile.= Docile, easy, mild, courteous, affable, complaisant, approachable; pliant, pliable, ductile, flexible, yielding, tractable, manageable, compliant; ready, dexterous; indulgent, weak, irresolute, characterless.

ANT. _Resolute, sturdy, obstinate, determined, inflexible, crusty, self-willed, self-reliant, independent._

=Facility.= Easiness, ease; readiness, dexterity, expertness, ability, knack; condescension, urbanity, affability, civility, complaisance, politeness; pliancy, flexibility, ductility; appliance, convenience, means, advantage, resource; quickness, adroitness.

ANT. _Effort, awkwardness, labor, difficulty._

=Fact.= Occurrence, event, deed, incident, act, performance, circumstance; reality, actuality, certainty, truth.

ANT. _Fiction, supposition, unreality, falsehood, chimera, lie, delusion, invention, hallucination, romance._

=Factious.= Turbulent, refractory, seditious, rebellious, recalcitrant, litigious, adversative, malcontent.

ANT. _Genial, complaisant, agreeable, loyal, harmonious, public-spirited, sympathetic, cooperative, auxiliary._

=Factitious.= Artificial; euphuistic, affected, finical, cramped, conventional, spurious.

ANT. _Natural, genial, unaffected, pure, genuine, truthful._

=Fade.= Vanish, evanesce, disappear, pass away; decline, languish, droop, decay, wither; lose color, grow dim, blanch, bleach, fall, sink, dwindle, pale, change, set, etiolate, fail.

ANT. _Rise, increase, bloom, grow, flourish, endure, abide, last, stand._

=Fag.= Droop, sink, grow weary, flag; drudge, toil; do menial service, tire, fatigue, jade, exhaust; work, slave.

ANT. _Idle, lounge, dawdle; strike; bask._

=Fail.= Fall short, be insufficient, be deficient; decline, sink, decay, wane, fade, break, give out; cease, disappear, become extinct; miss, miscarry, be unsuccessful, miss fire, be frustrated; omit, neglect; break, become insolvent, suspend payment; trip, lose.

ANT. _Succeed, exceed, surpass, achieve, abound, yield, excel._

=Faint.= Weak, exhausted, worn, listless, languid, wearied, dim, feeble, fatigued, faint-hearted, faded, faltering, half-hearted, irresolute, purposeless, timid, ill-defined, indistinct; unenergetic; obscure, inconspicuous.

ANT. _Prominent, marked, glaring; resolute, sturdy, vigorous, strong, fresh, hearty, daring, energetic; clear, brilliant, bright, conspicuous._

=Fair.= Spotless, unspotted, unblemished, unstained, untarnished; white, light, blond; handsome, comely, beautiful; pleasant, clear, cloudless, unclouded; favorable, prosperous; promising, hopeful; open, distinct, plain, unobstructed, unencumbered; frank, honest, ingenuous, candid, noble, honorable, upright, impartial; reasonable, proper, equitable, just; passable, tolerable, above mediocrity; serene.

ANT. _Lowering, dull, foul, ugly, disfigured, fraudulent, unfair, dishonorable._

=Faith.= Creed, doctrine, assurance, belief, confidence, assent, credence, opinion, trust, credit, reliance.

ANT. _Distrust, disbelief, dissent, doubt, incredulity, infidelity, misgiving, skepticism, unbelief, suspicion, rejection._

=Faithful.= Firm, loyal, devoted, stanch, sure, true, trustworthy, trusty, unwavering, incorruptible; attached; accurate, close, consistent, correspondent, exact, equivalent.

ANT. _Inaccurate, inexact; faithless, false, fickle, untrue, wavering, untrustworthy, capricious._

=Fall.= Drop, descend, sink; lapse, droop, gravitate; fall down, be prostrated; be lowered, be depressed; decrease, decline, be diminished, die away, sin, err, transgress, trip, trespass; die, perish; empty, be discharged, flow; happen, befall, come; become, get; pass, be transferred; be dropped, be uttered carelessly.

ANT. _Rise, soar, mount, recover, climb, ascend._

=Fallacy.= Illusion, deception, deceit, delusion, mistake, misapprehension, error, misconception; sophism, sophistry, paralogism, deceitful argument.

ANT. _Truth, logic, proof, postulate, argument, verity, fact, axiom, soundness._

=Fallible.= Erring, uncertain, ignorant, weak, frail, imperfect.

ANT. _Certain, infallible, unerring, omniscient._

=Fallow.= Pale red _or_ pale yellow; untilled, unsowed, neglected; inert, inactive, dormant; quiescent, idle, uncultivated, unproductive.

ANT. _Cultivated, tilled, productive, worked, sown, prolific, operative, fruitful._

=False.= Untrue, mendacious, unveracious, lying; dishonest, perfidious, treacherous, faithless, disloyal, dishonorable, disingenuous, double-tongued, false-hearted, double-faced, two-faced; untrustworthy, untruthful, unreliable, truthless; spurious, counterfeit, forged, not genuine, feigned, sham, hypocritical, make-believe; incorrect, improper, erroneous, unfounded, wrong; fallacious, deceptive, deceiving, deceitful, delusive, misleading, disappointing; sophistical, mock, bogus, fabricated, unfaithful.

ANT. _True, sound, correct, authentic, real, genuine, candid, conclusive, honorable, faithful._

=Falsehood.= Falsity, lie, fabrication, untruth, fiction, fib; imposture, counterfeit, cheat; fallacy, error, sophistry, forgery, deception.

ANT. _Truth, verity, correctness, fact, genuineness, honesty, honor, reality, authenticity._

=Falsify.= Misrepresent, counterfeit, belie, misstate, garble; disprove, show unsound; violate; mistake, misinterpret, betray.

ANT. _Verify, rectify, correct, check, certify, justify, expose, declare, exhibit, publish._

=Falter.= Hesitate, stutter, stammer; fail, quiver, tremble, totter; waver, be undecided, show weakness; halt, slip, dubitate, demur, flinch, vacillate.

ANT. _Proceed, speed, flow, run, discourse, determine, persevere, resolve._

=Fame.= Celebrity, honor, laurels, distinction, notoriety, renown, reputation, repute, glory, eminence, credit; report, tidings, rumor, bruit, news.

ANT. _Silence, suppression, hush; dishonor, discredit, humiliation, infamy, shame, obscurity, contempt, contumely, disgrace, disrepute, ignominy, oblivion._

=Familiar.= Conversant, well-acquainted, well-versed; intimate, close, near, friendly, fraternal, cordial, amicable; social, accessible, sociable, affable, kindly, courteous, civil, companionable, conversible; unceremonious, unconstrained, free, easy, informal; well-known; household, frank, everyday, accustomed.

ANT. _Uncommon, rare, extraordinary, strange, unaccustomed, unacquainted, new, unfamiliar, inconversant._

=Famous.= Celebrated, renowned, distinguished, remarkable, far-famed, eminent, noted, illustrious, glorious.

ANT. _Unknown, unsung, inglorious, obscure, forgotten._

=Fanatic.= Enthusiast, zealot, visionary, bigot.

ANT. _Skeptic, unbeliever, cynic._

=Fanaticism.= Intolerance, superstition, bigotry, credulity; enthusiasm, frenzy.

ANT. _Skepticism, cynicism, indifference, freethinking, latitudinarianism; disbelief, profanity; disregard, coldness._

=Fanciful.= Fantastic, grotesque, visionary, imaginative, chimerical; unreal, eccentric, quaint, imaginary, freakish, erroneous, humorsome, capricious, fitful, erratic, whimsical, absurd.

ANT. _Ordinary, usual, regular, commonplace, real, accurate, literal, prosaic, reasonable, sensible, solid, sure, true, sound, calculable, calculated; natural, sober, truthful, correct._

=Fancy.= Imagination, whim, vagary, caprice, belief, conceit, conception, desire, humor, idea, image, inclination, mood, liking, predilection, supposition; thought, notion.

ANT. _Certainty, fact, reality, truth, verity, actuality; object, subject, thought, law, order; aversion, horror._

=Farcical.= Droll, absurd, ridiculous, ludicrous; comic, funny, nonsensical, pantomimic.

ANT. _Grave, serious, tragic, solemn, dismal, ghastly, funereal._

=Fare.= Go, travel, journey, pass; prosper, be treated, prove, happen, turn out, be situated; be entertained, feed; live, speed, do.

ANT. _Toil, fast, fail, droop, sink, faint, drop, falter, halt._

=Farewell.= Adieu, good-by, valedictory, leave-taking, congé, departure,

## parting.

ANT. _Salutation, welcome, greeting._

=Fashion.= Form, shape, figure, cut, make, model, cast, mold, pattern, appearance, configuration, conformation; way, manner, sort, method; usage, custom, style, mode, conventionality; gentility; guise, character, practice, ceremony.

ANT. _Person, work, speech, dress; derangement, formlessness, shapelessness; outlandishness, strangeness, eccentricity._

=Fast=, _a._ Fixed, fastened, close, tight; firm, immovable; steadfast, constant, stanch; fortified, strong, impregnable; profound, sound, deep; swift, quick, fleet, rapid; wild, reckless, thriftless, dissipated, thoughtless, extravagant; secure, stable, unyielding, unswerving; accelerated; gay.

ANT. _Insecure, loose, slow, tardy, steady, sober, virtuous._

=Fasten.= Secure, bind, tie, attach; join, unite, connect, hold together; hold compact, affix, annex, grapple, fix.

ANT. _Undo, loose, sever, relax, remove, unfasten, detach._

=Fastidious.= Dainty, squeamish, difficult, overnice, overdelicate, queasy, critical; overrefined, censorious, particular, punctilious.

ANT. _Indulgent, uncritical, easy; coarse; omnivorous._

=Fat.= Unctuous, greasy, fatty, oily; plump, fleshy, obese, corpulent, portly, pursy; coarse, heavy, dull, sluggish, stupid; rich, profitable, lucrative; productive, fertile, fruitful; luxuriant, brawny; stout; oleaginous.

ANT. _Lean, slender, attenuated, emaciated, barren, poor, scant; marrowless; anatomical._

=Fatal.= Deadly, mortal, lethal; destructive, calamitous, baleful, ruinous, mischievous, baneful, pernicious; fateful.

ANT. _Beneficial, wholesome, vitalizing, restorative, salubrious, nutritious, slight, superficial, harmless._

=Fate.= Destiny, destination, inevitable necessity, fatality; lot, doom, predetermined event; destruction, death; final event, ultimate destruction; fortune, end.

ANT. _Will, choice, decision, independence, freedom._

=Fathom=, _v._ Sound; divine, penetrate, reach, comprehend, understand; gage, pierce, measure, probe.

ANT. _Survey, glance, scan, miss, skin, graze, overlook._

=Fathomless.= Bottomless, profound, abysmal.

ANT. _Superficial, shallow, skin-deep._

=Fatigue=, _n._ Weariness, exhaustion, lassitude; labor, hardship, toil; languor, enervation.

ANT. _Freshness, vigor, indefatigability, activity._

=Fatigue=, _v._ Harass, weary, tire, jade, exhaust, fag.

ANT. _Inspirit, refresh, enliven, animate._

=Fatuity.= Foolishness, imbecility, idiocy; folly, madness, absurdity, infatuation.

ANT. _Wisdom, sense, soundness, sobriety, discernment._

=Fault.= Defect, blemish, imperfection, flaw, weakness, failing, frailty; misdeed, misdemeanor, offense, trespass, wrong, transgression, delinquency, indiscretion; slip, error, lapse; failure, omission, want, drawback.

ANT. _Perfection, sufficiency, correctness, completeness._

=Faultless.= Without blemish, perfect; innocent, guileless, blameless, sinless, spotless, immaculate, guiltless, stainless; complete, correct, accurate.

ANT. _Incomplete, imperfect, incorrect, defective, inaccurate, corrupt, faulty, erroneous._

=Faulty.= Bad, defective, imperfect; blamable, blameworthy, culpable, reprehensible.

ANT. _Correct, complete, perfect, accurate; irreproachable, blameless, unassailable._

=Favor=, _n._ Kindness, grace, countenance, friendliness, good will; benefit, good deed, friendly turn; patronage, championship, support; letter, communication, epistle; gift, present; decoration, knot, rosette; permission, leave, pardon; advantage, preference, boon; concession, predilection, civility, regard, condescension.

ANT. _Refusal, denial, prohibition, disfavor, withholding, withdrawal, frown, disapproval, injury, discountenance._

=Favor=, _v._ Befriend, countenance, patronize, encourage; approve, regard with favor; facilitate, be propitious to; support, help, aid, assist; humor, indulge, extenuate, palliate, ease, spare; resemble, look like.

ANT. _Refuse, deny, disapprove, withdraw, withhold, prohibit, discountenance, injure, harm._

=Favorable.= Kind, friendly, propitious, willing, auspicious; conducive, contributing; beneficial, advantageous, convenient, suitable, fit; permissive, indulgent, concessive, partial, fond, liberal.

ANT. _Reluctant, unpropitious, unfavorable, impartial._

=Favorite.= Dear, beloved, pet, darling.

=Favoritism.= Partiality, invidiousness.

ANT. _Odium, prejudice; impartiality._

=Fawn upon.= Flatter, wheedle, cajole, cringe, palaver, slaver.

ANT. _Insult, deride, defy, censure, dare, satirize, rebuke, reprimand._

=Fealty.= Homage, loyalty, allegiance; fidelity, faithfulness, honor, good faith, devotion.

ANT. _Disloyalty, treachery, infidelity, disaffection, shame, dishonor._

=Fear.= Dismay, alarm, horror, awe, apprehension, dread, terror, fright, panic, tremor, timidity, trepidation, trembling, affright, consternation, disquietude, misgiving, anxiety, solicitude, concern; veneration, reverence.

ANT. _Courage, confidence, assurance, fearlessness; trust, boldness; fortitude._

=Fearful.= Afraid, apprehensive; timid, nervous, timorous, faint-hearted, cowardly; dreadful, terrible, frightful, dire; awful; shocking, terrific, horrible; hesitating.

ANT. _Venturesome, audacious, bold, confident, consolatory, inspiriting, assuring; attractive, alluring, hopeful, inviting._

=Feasible.= Manageable, possible, permissible, practicable, contrivable.

ANT. _Impossible, unallowable, impracticable._

=Feast.= Treat, banquet, regalement, entertainment, carousal; festival, holiday; delight, enjoyment.

ANT. _Starvation, scarcity, want, lack, bareness, scantiness._

=Featly.= Neatly, cleverly, dexterously, adroitly.

ANT. _Clumsily, bunglingly, hardly._

=Feature.= Lineament, cast of the face; fashion, make, aspect, appearance, conformation; prominent part, outline; characteristic, trait, point, mark, item, component, element, indication, portion, sign.

ANT. _Whole, system, countenance; arrangement, case; misindication, misinformation, falsification; blind, mask, disguise; excrescence._

=Federation.= Uniting, federating, confederation, union, league, allying, alliance, coalition, federal compact, confederacy, combination.

ANT. _Secession, disunion, sedition, mutiny, disruption._

=Fee.= Pay, reward, recompense, compensation, remuneration; feud, fief, fee-simple, unconditional tenure.

=Feeble.= Weak, not strong, enervated, debilitated, infirm, languid, sickly, languishing, declining, frail, drooping; faint, imperfect, dim; without vigor, lacking intensity; wretched, poor, dull, forceless, puny, enfeebled, nerveless; incomplete, vain, fruitless; scanty, pitiable.

ANT. _Strong, robust, active, successful, effective; abundant; powerful, muscular; forcible, cogent, telling; violent, vehement, ardent; lusty, hale, vigorous, hearty._

=Feed.= Give food to, supply, contribute to, provide for; nourish, cherish, sustain; eat, take food, take nourishment; sustain life, subsist.

ANT. _Starve, refuse, deny, withhold, take away; impoverish, steal from; diet, abstain, refrain._

=Feel.= Perceive, have feeling; be perceived; be moved, be excited, be stirred, be wrought up, be impressed; touch, handle; experience, suffer, _or_ enjoy; be affected by, be moved by; prove, sound, try, put to the test.

ANT. _Be hard or callous, insensate, apathetic, dull, numb, imperceivable, indifferent, unsusceptible, or stoical._

=Feeling.= Sense of touch; sensation, perception by touch; sensibility, emotion, sentiment, affection, passion, impression; tenderness, susceptibility; contact; pathos; consciousness, sensitiveness.

ANT. _Callousness, insensibility, imperturbability, inexcitability, coldness, insensateness._

=Feign.= Invent, imagine, devise, forge, fabricate; counterfeit, affect, assume, simulate, pretend to.

ANT. _Detect, test, unmask, refute, verify, substantiate._

=Felicitous.= Fit, appropriate, apt, pertinent, seasonable, opportune, well-timed, happy, skilful, ingenious; prosperous, successful, fortunate, lucky, auspicious, propitious; timely, joyous.

ANT. _Unhappy, unfortunate, inauspicious, untimely, inopportune, disastrous, sad._

=Felicity.= Bliss, blessedness, happiness; aptness, aptitude, fitness, propriety, felicitousness, suitableness; success, luck, fortune.

ANT. _Ill luck, bad fortune, sorrow, unhappiness, disaster, misfortune; sadness, mourning, melancholy._

=Fell=, _a._ Inhuman, cruel, barbarous, relentless, ruthless, implacable, unrelenting, pitiless, malignant, malicious, malign, savage, ferocious, bloody, blood-thirsty; direful, merciless, remorseless, fierce, truculent.

ANT. _Generous, chivalrous, lenient, humane, propitious._

=Fell=, _v._ Prostrate, level, bring to the ground, hurl down, knock down; cut down, hew down, lay low; hem; demolish, subvert, waste, bare.

ANT. _Plant, erect, support; stock, upraise, rear, propagate._

=Fellow.= Associate, companion, comrade; equal, peer, compeer; mate, match, counterpart; adherent, colleague, member; correlative, tally; partner, friend.

ANT. _Foe, opponent, antagonist, stranger, mismatch, opposite._

=Fellowship.= Companionship, familiarity, intimacy, brotherhood, acquaintance; participation, partnership, joint interest; converse, intercourse, communion; sociability, affability, kindliness; association, company; membership, society.

ANT. _Severance, disconnection, dismemberment; non-intercourse._

=Felonious.= Malignant, malign, malicious, nefarious, infamous, heinous, atrocious, cruel, felon; perfidious, traitorous, disloyal, base.

ANT. _Legal, constitutional, rightful, regular; legitimate, legalized; permissible, allowable; just, proper._

=Feminine.= Female, womanish, womanly, effeminate; delicate, tender, modest, soft.

ANT. _Robust, manly; indelicate, unfeminine; rough, rude; masculine._

=Fen.= Marsh, swamp, bog, moor, morass, quagmire.

=Fence=, _v._ Enclose, guard, fortify, defend, circumscribe, protect; elude, parry, stave.

ANT. _Open, disenclose; receive, catch, suffer._

=Ferment=, _n._ Yeast, leaven, fermentation; agitation, commotion, tumult; fever, heat, glow.

=Ferment=, _v._ Set in fermentation; excite, agitate, heat; seethe, concoct, brew; warm, chafe; effervesce, rankle, fester.

ANT. _Damp, cool; dissipate; subside, evaporate, disperse; heal._

=Fertile.= Prolific, fecund, breeding, bearing; fruitful, productive, rich, plenteous, luxuriant, exuberant, teeming; causative, conducive; pregnant; fraught, ingenious, inventive.

ANT. _Poor, sterile, barren, unproductive, ineffective, inconducive, fruitless, inoperative, uninventive, unimaginative._

=Festive.= Convivial, jovial, joyous, gay, merry, mirthful, festival.

ANT. _Solitary, deserted, ascetic, gloomy._

=Fetid.= Stinking, offensive, rank, rancid, malodorous, mephitic, noisome, foul, strong-smelling, corrupt.

ANT. _Inodorous, fresh, perfumed, scented, balmy._

=Fetter=, _n._ Chains, bondage, custody, durance, duress, manacles, irons, shackles, imprisonment, handcuffs, gyves, bonds.

=Fetter=, _v._ Shackle, clog, hamper, trammel; chain, bind, tie, confine, restrain, encumber; manacle, hinder, impede.

ANT. _Free, liberate, accelerate, expedite._

=Feud.= Contest, controversy, dispute, enmity, hostility, quarrel, strife, dissension, affray, animosity, bitterness, broil, contention, brawl, fray; antipathy.

ANT. _Friendliness, congeniality, sympathy, clanship, pacification, reconciliation, sociality, neighborliness._

=Fever.= Heat, flush, excitement, agitation, ferment; ardor, fervor, broil, passion.

ANT. _Coolness, iciness, frigidity; composure, indifference._

=Few.= Not many, small in number, hardly any, scarcely any; scant, rare, lacking.

ANT. _Many, abundant, numerous._

=Fiber.= Strength, sinews, thews, toughness; thread, staple, pile, filament.

ANT. _Laxity, debility, flabbiness._

=Fickle.= Wavering, unsteady, unstable, inconstant, variable, vacillating, volatile, mercurial, fitful, changeable, irresolute, unsettled, capricious, fanciful, unreliable, mutable; veering, restless, shifting.

ANT. _Sober, orderly, reliable, calculable, well-regulated, uniform, steady, trustworthy._

=Fiction.= Fable, falsehood, myth, invention, novel, romance, figment, story, fabrication, legend, allegory, apologue; creation.

ANT. _History, fact, literalness, reality, truth, verity, certainty._

=Fictitious.= Feigned, imaginary, invented, unreal, purely ideal, fanciful; false, counterfeit, spurious, supposititious.

ANT. _Real, true, historical, genuine, authentic, veritable._

=Fidelity.= Faithfulness, devotedness, devotion, truth, loyalty, true-heartedness, fealty, adherence to duty; accuracy, closeness, exactness, truthfulness, precision, attachment, honesty, allegiance, integrity.

ANT. _Disloyalty, treachery, untruthfulness, disaffection, inaccuracy, infidelity, inexactness._

=Field.= Tract of land; battle-field, scene of war; surface, expanse, range, scope; province, department, region, realm, domain; ground, arena; room, opportunity.

ANT. _Circumscription, constraint; interdiction, exclusion, debarment._

=Fierce.= Ravenous, infuriate, barbarous, fell; vehement, turbulent, passionate, uncurbed, untamed, raging; furious, savage, ferocious, fiery, violent, wild, impetuous; uncultivated, untrained.

ANT. _Gentle, harmless, kind, patient, submissive, sweet, tender, docile, affectionate, mild, peaceful, tame; calm._

=Fiery.= Hot, ardent, heated, fervid, flaming, glowing; impetuous, vehement, fierce, passionate, impassioned; irascible, choleric, excited, enkindled, hot-blooded, irritable.

ANT. _Cold, icy, frigid, chilly; indifferent, phlegmatic, passionless, unimpassioned, mild, tame; extinguished, quenched._

=Fight=, _n._ Combat, conflict, contest, battle, struggle, engagement, encounter, action, affair, fray, affray, brush; broil, riot; spirit, fighting temper; resistance, disposition to struggle, contention.

ANT. _Pacification, reconciliation._

=Figurative.= Typical, representative, emblematical; metaphorical, tropical; flowery, florid, ornate; poetical, rhetorical, symbolical.

ANT. _Literal, prosaic, unpoetical, unmetaphorical._

=Figure=, _n._ Form, shape, configuration, conformation, outline; image, likeness, representation, effigy; appearance; pattern, design; metaphor, trope; diagram, drawing; price; symbol, type, emblem; digit, number, numeral, character; aspect, delineation, condition, illustration.

ANT. _Misrepresentation, deformity, disfigurement._

=Figure=, _v._ Adorn, variegate, diversify; represent, signify, typify, symbolize; imagine, image, conceive, picture, represent; calculate, compute, cipher; appear, act, perform; show off, cut a dash.

ANT. _Disfigure, harm, destroy; miscalculate, mistake._

=File.= Rasp, smooth, finish; place on file; polish; perfect, refine, improve.

ANT. _Roughen, jag, acuminate, denticulate, barb, notch, cusp._

=Fill.= Make full, fill up; pervade, occupy; dilate, expand, stretch, distend; store, supply, furnish, replenish, stock; satisfy, content, sate, satiate, cloy, pall; occupy, hold, fulfil, perform; become full, be filled; gorge, appoint, glut; stuff; rise; swell, grow, increase.

ANT. _Exhaust, drain, dissatisfy, deprive, stint, vacate; misappoint; subside, ebb, evaporate, shrink, diminish._

=Filter.= Strain, ooze, percolate, exude, transude; refine, distil, leak; purify, cleanse, depurate, defecate, clarify.

ANT. _Muddle, disturb, befoul, thicken._

=Filthy.= Dirty, nasty, foul, defiled, unclean, squalid; impure, corrupt, gross; dingy, unsanitary, unwholesome.

ANT. _Pure, sweet, healthy, clean, sanitary, wholesome._

=Final.= Latest, last, eventual, ultimate; decisive, conclusive, definitive; terminal; definite, developed.

ANT. _Initiative, open, progressive, continuous, incipient, current, unconcluded, inchoate, inaugural, nascent, rudimental._

=Find.= Discover, fall upon, light upon, meet; obtain, get, procure, gain, arrive at, attain to; observe, remark, perceive, notice, discover; detect, catch; supply, furnish, provide, contribute; determine judicially, declare by verdict; confront, ascertain, experience, invent.

ANT. _Withdraw; miss, lose, elude, withhold, overlook, miscontrive._

=Fine=, _n._ Forfeit, penalty, forfeiture, mulct, amercement.

=Fine=, _a._ Minute, small, comminuted, little; slender, capillary, delicate; thin, tenuous, subtile, attenuated; light, keen, sharp; exquisite, nice, refined; excellent, superior, very good; brilliant, accomplished; beautiful, handsome, splendid, elegant; clear, pure, unadulterated; gay, showy, garish, flashy, filmy, artistic, choice, finished, high, grand, noble, generous, honorable, pretentious, pretty, ostentatious; presumptuous, casuistical.

ANT. _Rough, mean, petty, unfinished; illiberal, unimposing, paltry; modest, unaffected, affable; plain-spoken, categorical; unanalytical, unreflective; coarse, great, heavy, huge, immense, large, rude, stout, thick, blunt, big, clumsy._

=Finery.= Gewgaws, trinkets, ornaments, trimmings, tawdriness, decorations, trappings, bedizenment, tinsel, trash, dressiness.

ANT. _Ornament, dress, decoration, adornment; chasteness, sobriety, simplicity._

=Finical.= Fastidious, dainty, overparticular, squeamish, overnice, affected, elegant; dandyish, foppish, spruce.

ANT. _Effective, unaffected, practical, energetic, real, genuine, natural; outspoken, blunt, coarse, rude._

=Finish=, _v._ Accomplish, execute, complete, perform, achieve, do, get done; perfect, polish, elaborate; end, terminate, close, conclude, put an end to; shape.

ANT. _Start, commence, begin; fail, undertake; miscontrive, botch, mar, mismanage._

=Finished.= Perfect, artistic, refined, high.

ANT. _Inartistic, incomplete, poor, rude, coarse, unfinished._

=Finite.= Bounded, limited, conditioned, contracted, restricted, terminated.

ANT. _Infinite, unlimited, unbounded._

=Fire.= Blaze, burning, conflagration, flame, combustion; discharge; heat, ardor, fervor, violence, force, passion, impetuosity, fervency, intensity, animation, vigor, spirit, enthusiasm; light, luster, radiance, splendor; vivacity, inspiration, imagination; torture, affliction, trouble, bitter trial, persecution.

=First.= Foremost, leading; chief, highest, principal, capital; elementary, primary, rudimentary; earliest; primitive, primeval, pristine; in the first place, at the outset, in the beginning, first and foremost; original, onmost.

ANT. _Subsequent, secondary, subordinate, subservient, lowest, unimportant, last, hindmost._

=Fit=, _a._ Competent, fitted, qualified; suitable, appropriate, apt, apposite, meet, seemly, becoming, befitting, proper, good, decent, convenient, fitting, decorous, adapted, congruous, peculiar, particular, prepared, adequate, calculated, ripe, right, contrived, expedient.

ANT. _Awkward, misfitting, ungainly, ill-suited, inappropriate, unseemly, unprepared, unsuitable, inadequate, miscalculated, miscontrived, improper, unfit, inexpedient._

=Fitful.= Variable, irregular, impulsive, spasmodic, unstable, fickle, whimsical, fanciful, capricious, fantastic, humorsome, odd; eventful, checkered; restless, inconstant, mutable, desultory, unequal.

ANT. _Regular, equable, orderly, systematic, calculable._

=Fix.= Set, place, establish, plant, fasten, make firm; attach, tie, connect; determine, define, appoint, limit, settle; rivet, direct steadily, adjust; solidify, consolidate; link, locate, root, secure; decide.

ANT. _Displace, unsettle, remove, disarrange, uproot, transplant, transfer, weaken, shake, disestablish, reverse, disturb, change, unfix._

=Flaccid.= Limber, lax, drooping, flabby, soft, limp, yielding, relaxed, inelastic, pendulous.

ANT. _Firm, braced, plump, muscular, chubby, brawny, vigorous, strong, powerful._

=Flag=, _n._ Flagstone; streamer, banner, colors, standard, pennon, pennant, ensign, gonfalon.

=Flag=, _v._ Hang loose, droop; languish, faint, decline, pine, sink, succumb, grow weak, become dejected; pall, grow stale, lose interest, weary, tire; give in.

ANT. _Freshen, flourish; persevere, hold, brace up, struggle, persist, battle, recruit, recover._

=Flagitious.= Atrocious, heinous, flagrant, scandalous, villainous, corrupt, abandoned, profligate; enormous, monstrous, disgraceful, nefarious, aggravated.

ANT. _Creditable, honorable, noble, meritorious, justifiable, distinguished, extenuated, excusable, pardonable._

=Flaring.= Flaming, glaring, conspicuous, bright, gaudy, overcolored, flaunting, flashy, ostentatious, showy, tawdry.

ANT. _Subdued, toned, harmonized, dull, dim, dingy, neutral, dowdy, colorless._

=Flat=, _a._ Level, horizontal; even, plane, smooth; low, prostrate, laid low; dull, lifeless, spiritless, unanimated, frigid, tame, prosaic, uninteresting; pointless; vapid, tasteless, insipid, stale, dead, jejune; peremptory, absolute, positive; downright, mawkish.

ANT. _Animated, exciting, interesting, thrilling, sensational, emotional, melodramatic._

=Flaunt.= Wave ostentatiously, insolently, brazenly, or boldly; display, vaunt, flourish, toss, disport, boast; flout, flounce, flutter, parade, figure.

ANT. _Conceal, suppress, retire, skulk, recede, hide, shrivel, collapse, furl._

=Flavor.= Taste, savor, relish, zest, smack, gusto; aroma, essence, subtle quality, spirit, soul; odor.

ANT. _Insipidity, tastelessness, inodorousness, mawkishness, scentlessness, flatness._

=Flexible.= Pliable, pliant, limber, lithe, supple, crooked; affable, tractable, compliant, docile, gentle; elastic; easy, indulgent, ductile, flexile, yielding.

ANT. _Tough, rigid, inelastic, hard, inflexible, inexorable._

=Flicker.= Quiver, flutter, falter, waver, glimmer, bicker, shimmer, scintillate.

ANT. _Stream, blase, beam, shine, gleam._

=Flight.= Flying, soaring, volitation, mounting, fleeing, departure; flock; volley, shower; escape, evasion, disappearance; stampede, hegira, exodus.

ANT. _Recurrence, return, reappearance; repose, perching, alighting._

=Flimsy.= Gauzy, poor, transparent, thin; trifling, trivial, inane, puerile; weak, shallow, superficial, slight, unsubstantial; feeble, frivolous, foolish, light, trashy.

ANT. _Solid, sound, irrefragable, cogent, substantial._

=Flinch.= Wince, swerve, recoil, blench, shrink, draw back.

ANT. _Dare, face, bare, meet, endure, challenge, defy._

=Fling.= Throw, cast, toss, hurl, dart, pitch, chuck; prostrate, overthrow, throw down; wince, flounce; jeer, sneer, gibe, scoff, flaunt, taunt; emit, ejaculate.

ANT. _Snatch, grasp, hold, keep, retain, arrest, catch._

=Flippant.= Fluent, voluble, glib, talkative, nimble of speech; impertinent, pert, malapert, forward, bold; superficial, saucy, thoughtless.

ANT. _Servile, considerate, obsequious, flattering, deferential; accurate; complimentary, respectful._

=Float.= Waft, swim, be buoyed up; bear up, buoy up; spread, prevail.

ANT. _Sink, drown, die, vanish, founder._

=Flock=, _n._ Brood, bevy, herd, lot, group, pack, swarm, set, hatch, drove, covey, litter; collection, company, congregation.

=Flock=, _v._ Herd, congregate, assemble, throng, crowd, troop.

ANT. _Disperse, scatter, separate, segregate, distribute, rout._

=Flood=, _n._ Deluge, abundance, inundation, overflow, freshet; downrush, multitude.

ANT. _Drought, drain, ebb, scarcity, subsidence._

=Florid.= Flowery; flushed, rubicund; ornate, rhetorical, figurative, embellished; overwrought, sanguine, meretricious.

ANT. _Pallid, exsanguine; bloodless, anemic, unadorned, bare, sober, nude, chaste._

=Flounder.= Struggle, toss, wallow, tumble, flounce; roll, blunder, bungle.

ANT. _Emerge, course, career, speed, rise, skim, flourish._

=Flourish.= Thrive, grow; prosper, succeed, be successful; vapor, boast, brag, vaunt, bluster, show off; attain one’s prime, be in vigor; brandish, wave; speed, triumph.

ANT. _Fail, decline, fade, arrest, founder, miscarry; sheath, ground._

=Flow.= Stream, run, pour, roll on, sweep along; melt, liquefy, be molten; issue, emanate, proceed, come, grow, arise, follow, spring, result; glide, wave, undulate, float, waver, abound, be full, flood, deluge, overflow; career, progress, course.

ANT. _Halt, stick, stop, hesitate, fail, stickle, stint, beat, recoil, ebb, regurgitate; stagnate._

=Flower=, _n._ Blossom, bloom; best part; prime, vigor; figure, expression; perfection, acme, ornament, pride, gem, cream.

ANT. _Deformity, disappointment, blot, abortion; blight; scum; dregs._

=Flowing.= Running; fluent, copious, smooth; abundant, exuberant, easy, eloquent.

ANT. _Dry, dribbling, meager, strained, labored, difficult, unready, forced._

=Fluctuate.= Veer, waver, swerve, vacillate, vary, undulate, oscillate, hesitate.

ANT. _Abide, adhere, persist, stand fast, stay, stick, hold fast._

=Fluctuation.= Oscillation, undulation, unsteadiness, variation, change, shifting, rise and fall, inconstancy, hesitation, wavering, vacillation.

ANT. _Steadiness, firmness, steadfastness, constancy, stability, fixedness, stolidity; persistence, perseverance, pertinacity, obstinacy, tenacity._

=Fluency.= Smoothness, flowing quality, liquidness; copiousness, affluence, command of language, readiness of speech.

ANT. _Solidity, density, compactness, hardness; difficulty, slowness; paucity._

=Flurry=, _v._ Excite, agitate, disconcert, confuse, disturb, perturb, hurry, ruffle, worry, fluster.

ANT. _Soothe, compose, quiet, calm, mesmerize._

=Flutter.= Hover, flap, flirt; palpitate, tremble; flaunt; fluctuate, waver, oscillate, vacillate, be inconstant, be unsteady; flit, quiver, flicker.

ANT. _Perch, roost, nestle, settle, subside, collapse, rest, repose, pause, sink, lull._

=Flux.= Flow, flowing; mutation, change, shifting, transition; fusion, melting; solvent; motion, progression, substitution, transmutation.

ANT. _Stagnation, stillness, identity, invariableness, immutability, arrestation, crystallization._

=Focus.= Center; standpoint; convergence, rendezvous, nucleus.

ANT. _Circle, dispersion, divergence, dissipation._

=Foggy.= Misty, hazy; confused, dazed, bewildered, muddy, muddled; absent, stupid, obscure.

ANT. _Alert, alive, awake; lucid, clear, bright; shrewd, sharp._

=Foible.= Frailty, weakness, failing, defect, imperfection, infirmity, fault, weak point; peccadillo.

ANT. _Crime, atrocity, sin, enormity._

=Foil=, _n._ Contrast, background, set off; rapier; enhancement, setting; elucidation.

ANT. _Eclipse, outshining, extinction, overshadowing._

=Foist.= Impose, thrust; falsify, counterfeit, palm, pass.

ANT. _Expose, detect, verify, authenticate._

=Fold=, _v._ Double, enfold, enwrap, envelop, wrap, embrace, enclose.

ANT. _Unfold, expose, disengage._

=Follow.= Attend, accompany, result, pursue, succeed, chase, go after, come after, copy, ensue, heed, imitate, observe, obey, practice; shadow.

ANT. _Avoid, elude, precede, quit, disobey, cause, produce, shun, abandon._

=Follower.= Pursuer; attendant, retainer, supporter, dependant, companion, associate; adherent, disciple, pupil, partisan; imitator, copier.

ANT. _Leader, teacher, rival, antagonist, opponent._

=Folly.= Foolishness, imbecility, fatuity, stupidity, shallowness, dulness; absurdity, extravagance, infatuation, unwisdom, imprudence, nonsense, indiscretion; slip, lapse, misstep; madness, misconduct, silliness, weakness.

ANT. _Wisdom, sanity, sense, prudence, judgment, sobriety._

=Foment.= Bathe; excite, instigate, stimulate, brew, encourage, promote, abet, stir up; fan, cherish, propagate.

ANT. _Allay, extinguish, extirpate, quench, discourage._

=Fond.= Foolish, silly, weak, absurd, empty, vain, senseless, baseless; doting, affectionate, loving, attached, enamored, devoted.

ANT. _Averse, unloving, unaffectionate, strong-minded, rational, austere, sensible, well-grounded, undemonstrative._

=Fondle.= Caress, coddle, blandish, pet; dandle; spoil, indulge.

ANT. _Worry, annoy, tease, chafe, irritate, ruffle._

=Fondness.= Delusion, folly, silliness, weakness, absurdity; tenderness, doting; liking, preference, partiality, predilection, affection; relish, appetite.

ANT. _Repulsion, aversion, dislike, antipathy; hatred, contempt; harshness, brutality, loathing._

=Food.= Aliment, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, viands, sustenance, victuals, provender, regimen, pabulum, fodder, diet, forage, feed, fare; bread, meat, provisions, cheer, commons, rations, subsistence.

=Fool.= Idiot, natural; dolt, witling, driveler, blockhead, simpleton, dunce; buffoon, harlequin, droll, punch, antic, jester, clown.

ANT. _Wise man, adept, expert, scholar, master._

=Foolish.= Senseless, idiotic, silly, weak, daft, simple, irrational, insensate, shallow, brainless, witless; unwise, unreasonable, absurd, ridiculous, preposterous, indiscreet, imprudent; puerile, idle, trivial, trifling, contemptible, vain, childish; injudicious, objectionable, imbecile, nonsensical; crazed.

ANT. _Sensible, sane, clear-sighted, deep, strong-minded, sound, sagacious, wise, prudent, judicious, eligible, calculating, advisable._

=Footing.= Foothold; foundation, basis, groundwork; standing, rank, grade, status, state, condition; settlement, establishment; sum total.

ANT. _Dislodgment, ousting, unstableness._

=Foppish.= Dandyish, vain, coxcombical, dressy, dandified.

ANT. _Unassuming, modest, dowdy, unaffected, clownish, slovenly._

=Foray.= Inroad, irruption, raid, invasion, incursion; sally, escapade, dragonnade.

ANT. _Flight, retreat, recall, stampede, decampment._

=Forbear.= Abstain, avoid, withhold, refrain, forego; stop, desist, pause, cease, stay, hold, break off, give over; be tolerant, endure, be patient; shun, decline; omit; spare, tolerate, put up with.

ANT. _Seek, indulge, gratify, yield, grant, bestow; continue, advance, progress; rebel, resist._

=Forbidding.= Repulsive, repellent, unpleasant, odious, abhorrent, disagreeable, offensive; deterrent, prohibitory.

ANT. _Attractive, seductive, permissive, alluring, encouraging._

=Force=, _n._ Strength, power, energy, might, vigor; efficacy, efficiency, potency, validity, virtue, cogency, agency; compulsion, violence, constraint, coercion, enforcement; army, troop, legion, battalion, host, squadron, phalanx; instrumentality, dint, vehemence, pressure.

ANT. _Weakness, feebleness, inefficiency, counteraction, neutralization, debility, inconclusiveness, pointlessness._

=Fore=, _a._ Anterior, preceding, antecedent, prior, previous, former, foregoing; front, face; advanced, leading, head, foremost, first.

ANT. _Posterior, subsequent, following; rear, back, hindmost, last._

=Forefather.= Progenitor, ancestor, father.

ANT. _Descendants, progeny._

=Forefend.= Avert, prevent, ward off, hinder, keep off, forbid; stave, obviate.

ANT. _Remedy, rectify, cure, mend, redress._

=Forego.= Relinquish, resign, renounce, surrender, cede, yield, abandon, give up, part with, let go; waive, drop, abjure.

ANT. _Claim, assume, seize, grasp, retain, vindicate._

=Foreign.= Alien, external, exterior, outward, strange, exotic, from abroad; extraneous, extrinsic, adventitious, irrelevant; outlandish.

ANT. _Domestic, congenial, native, relative, germane._

=Forerunner.= Precursor, herald, harbinger, foregoer, avant-courier; prelude; prognostic, sign, omen, premonition; predecessor.

ANT. _Successor, follower; postlude; fulfilment._

=Foresee.= Foreknow, forecast, have prescience of; predict, anticipate, foretell, forebode, divine.

ANT. _Remember, recollect, recall, reflect._

=Foretell.= Prognosticate, foreshow, foreshadow, betoken, portend, augur, bode, forebode, presage; predict, prophesy; pre-indicate, forewarn.

ANT. _Recite, narrate, detail; recollect, remember._

=Forethought.= Foresight, anticipation, precaution, forecast, provision, prudence.

ANT. _Delay, procrastination._

=Forever.= Always, perpetually, eternally, everlastingly, ever, endlessly, evermore, aye.

ANT. _Never, at no time._

=Forfeit=, =Forfeiture=. Loss, fine, mulct, amercement, confiscation, penalty; damages.

ANT. _Bribe, premium, douceur, compensation, gratuity, reward, remuneration._

=Forge.= Beat, hammer out, fabricate, frame, form; devise, invent, coin; falsify, counterfeit; work, produce, elaborate, feign, make falsely, shape.

ANT. _Shatter, batter, shiver, blast, fuse, detect, expose; misconstrue, misshape, misfabricate; verify._

=Forgery.= Counterfeit; falsification, fraudulent imitation.

ANT. _Attestation, verification, signature; genuineness._

=Forget.= Consign to oblivion, overlook; slight, neglect, cease to care for; unlearn, pretermit, obliterate.

ANT. _Acquire, learn, recollect, remember, retain, treasure, mind._

=Forgetful.= Apt to forget; negligent, inattentive, careless, heedless, neglectful, mindless.

ANT. _Attentive, retentive, careful, mindful._

=Forgetfulness.= Aptness to forget; failure of memory; negligence, inattention, carelessness, heedlessness; oblivion.

ANT. _Retentiveness, recollection, recalling._

=Forgotten.= Unremembered, bygone, slighted, overlooked, obsolete, neglected, disregarded.

ANT. _Remembered, present, treasured, cherished, guarded, regarded._

=Forlorn.= Deserted, forsaken, solitary, abandoned, lost, friendless; wretched, miserable, pitiable, destitute, desolate; helpless, comfortless, disconsolate, wobegone; hapless, luckless; lone, lonesome.

ANT. _Supported, cherished, attended, protected, befriended, cheered._

=Form=, _n._ Shape, figure, configuration, mold, fashion, cast, cut; mode, method, formula, formulary, ritual; manner, system, sort, kind, order; regularity, arrangement; shapeliness, ceremony, formality, ceremonial; conventionality, etiquette; pattern, model; mere appearance, empty show.

=Form=, _v._ Shape, mold, fashion, constitute, arrange, frame, construct, contrive, conceive, make, produce, create, devise, invent, compose, dispose, combine.

ANT. _Deform, dislocate, distort, derange, disintegrate, dismember, dissipate, disorganize, analyze._

=Formal.= Express, explicit, positive, strict, official; regular, set, methodical, fixed, rigid, stiff; ceremonious, precise, punctilious, starched, prim, exact; essential, constitutive; external; complete, shapely, sufficient, affected, correct, stately, dignified, pompous.

ANT. _Incomplete, irregular, informal, incorrect, inadequate, easy, unassuming, unceremonious._

=Formalism.= Rigidity, parade, ceremoniousness, pomposity, externalism, punctilio.

ANT. _Simplicity, unaffectedness, unostentatiousness, unceremoniousness._

=Formality.= Custom, established mode; ceremony, etiquette, conventionality, mere form; parade, affectation, punctiliousness, stateliness.

ANT. _Informality; unceremoniousness, unconventionality; originality._

=Formation.= Creation, production; composition, constitution; arrangement, disposal, combination, disposition; construction, shape, structure.

=Former.= Anterior, antecedent, previous, prior, preceding, foregoing; quondam, late, old-time; past, bygone, foregone, previous; first-named, first-mentioned; earlier, ancient.

ANT. _Subsequent, succeeding, posterior, latter, modern, coming, future._

=Formidable.= Terrible, redoubted, tremendous, dangerous; awful, alarming, terrifying, discouraging, appalling, serious, horrible, dreadful, fearful, shocking.

ANT. _Light, trivial; feeble, harmless, contemptible, powerless, despicable, weak, helpless._

=Forthwith.= Instantly, directly, immediately, without delay, instantaneously.

ANT. _Hereafter, soon, by-and-by, presently._

=Fortification.= Fort, stronghold, fortress, fastness, castle, citadel; bulwark, fortified place.

=Fortify.= Protect, surround; reinforce, brace, stiffen, strengthen; confirm, corroborate; garrison, intrench.

ANT. _Weaken, dismantle; invalidate._

=Fortitude.= Endurance, heroism, resolution, courage; firmness, patience; bravery; calmness, resignation, hardihood, composure, stoicism.

ANT. _Impatience, timidity, flinching, irritation, faintness, delicacy, effeminacy, womanishness, childishness._

=Fortuitous.= Accidental, casual, contingent, chance, incidental, undesigned.

ANT. _Purposed, planned, designed; anticipated, foreseen._

=Fortunate.= Favored, lucky, successful, prosperous, happy, felicitous, propitious, auspicious, favorable, advantageous, providential.

ANT. _Miserable, unhappy, unlucky, ill-starred, unfortunate, wretched, woful, fallen, infelicitous, broke, crushed._

=Fortune.= Chance, accident, luck, hap, casualty, fortuity; livelihood; estate, substance, property, possessions; wealth, affluence, riches, opulence; destiny, fate, destination, doom, star, lot; issue, result, event; success.

ANT. _Design, purpose; misfortune, ill luck, poverty; inception, cause, failure._

=Forward=, _a._ Onward, progressive, advancing; front, fore, anterior; ready, prompt, eager, willing, zealous, earnest; presumptuous, confident, bold, impertinent, pert, assuming, flippant; early, premature; obtrusive, anxious, self-assertive.

ANT. _Tardy, reluctant, retiring, backward, slow, modest, indifferent._

=Forward=, _v._ Support, foster, advance, promote, further, encourage, aid, favor, help; hasten, accelerate, quicken, speed, hurry, despatch, expedite; transmit, send on, ship.

ANT. _Retard, delay, prevent, hinder, frustrate._

=Foul.= Impure, nasty, dirty, unclean, squalid, filthy, tarnished, soiled, stained, polluted, sullied; disgusting, loathsome, offensive, noisome; dishonorable, unfair, sinister, underhanded; base, scandalous, infamous, vile, wicked, dark, abominable, detestable, disgraceful, shameful; vulgar, coarse, low; abusive, insulting, scurrilous; thick, turbid, muddy; stormy, cloudy, rainy; entangled, tangled.

ANT. _Pure, uncorrupt, unstained, undefiled, uncontaminated, unsullied, stainless, fair, unspotted, spotless, unpolluted, holy._

=Found=, _v._ Base, set, fix, place, ground, rest; build, construct, raise, erect; establish, institute, originate, plant, set up; cast, mold; endow, root.

ANT. _Uproot, subvert, supplant, disestablish._

=Foundation.= Base, groundwork, basis, bottom, footing; establishment, settlement; endowment; institution, origin, rudiments, ground, substratum, underlying principle.

ANT. _Disestablishment; superstructure; demolition, ruin, overthrow._

=Founder.= Originator, institutor, establisher, planter; molder, caster; author.

ANT. _Subverter, destroyer._

=Fountain.= Spring, well, jet; source, origin, original cause, first principle.

=Fraction.= Part, portion, fragment, piece, bit, scrap, section.

ANT. _Whole, total, amount, sum, aggregate._

=Fractious.= Cross, captious, petulant, testy, peevish, fretful, irritable, waspish, snappish; pettish.

ANT. _Good-humored, blithesome, agreeable, complaisant, genial._

=Fragile.= Brittle, easily broken, frangible; infirm, frail, weak, feeble, delicate, slight.

ANT. _Tough, hardy, stout, strong._

=Fragment.= Remnant, fraction, scrap, chip, detached part, bit, piece, morsel.

ANT. _Bulk, body, whole, mass._

=Fragrance=, =Fragrancy=. Redolence, perfume, aroma, balminess, incense, grateful odor _or_ smell, pleasant scent.

=Fragrant.= Aromatic, redolent, spicy, balmy, odoriferous, perfumed, sweet-scented, odorous, sweet-smelling.

ANT. _Inodorous, scentless, fetid._

=Frail.= Fragile, brittle, frangible; weak, feeble, infirm; irresolute, erring, mutable.

ANT. _Resolute, lasting, virtuous; tough, hardy, strong, stout._

=Frame=, _n._ Framework, skeleton, carcass, framing; form, structure, system, fabric, constitution, scheme; condition, state, temper, mood.

=Frame=, _v._ Construct, build, put together; form, compose, make, constitute; invent, devise, plan, contrive; fabricate, forge.

=Franchise.= Right, privilege; exemption, immunity; freedom.

ANT. _Obligation, disability, disqualification, liability, jurisdiction._

=Frank.= Open, ingenuous, free, sincere, candid, artless, frank-hearted, without disguise, unreserved; familiar, honest, outspoken, easy, plain.

ANT. _Close, reserved; disingenuous._

=Frantic.= Furious, raving, raging, mad, wild, infuriate, frenzied, distracted; maniacal.

ANT. _Sane, sober, calm, collected, cool, unruffled, composed._

=Fraternity.= Association, circle, society, company, brotherhood, sodality, league, clan; brotherliness.

=Fraternize.= Harmonize, sympathize, consort, concur; associate with, coöperate with; coalesce.

ANT. _Renounce, abjure, forswear; ostracize._

=Fraud.= Duplicity, deceit, deception, dishonesty, treason, artifice, trick, cheat, imposture, swindle, treachery, imposition.

ANT. _Good faith, honesty, truth, uprightness, fairness, integrity._

=Fraught.= Filled, stored, laden, freighted, charged, abounding, pregnant, big; loaded, teeming.

ANT. _Devoid, divested, exempt, empty, wanting, poor, scant._

=Freakish.= Whimsical, erratic, capricious, odd, fanciful, humorsome; sportful, frisky, joking, mirthful.

ANT. _Sober, steady, demure, unwhimsical, unfanciful, reliable, consistent, equable, uniform._

=Free=, _a._ Independent, at liberty, unrestrained; released, emancipated, delivered, liberated; exempt, clear, allowed, permitted, open; unobstructed, unimpeded, unrestricted; frank, ingenuous, candid, artless, unreserved, sincere, frank-hearted; generous, liberal, bountiful, hospitable, charitable, munificent, open-handed; prodigal, lavish, immoderate; ready, eager, willing, prompt; gratuitous, spontaneous; loose, lax; familiar, unconstrained, easy, informal; detached, playing, operating, unoccupied, unhindered, unconditional, untrammeled, careless, unconfined, bounteous.

ANT. _Bound, shackled, subservient, restricted, obstructed, clogged; occupied; impeded, unlawful, compulsory, biased, subject, liable, amenable; conditional, qualified; stingy, niggardly._

=Freedom.= Independence, liberty; scope, range, play, free swing; franchise, immunity, privilege; license, laxity, looseness, familiarity.

ANT. _Slavery, serfdom, servitude; imprisonment, captivity._

=Frenzy.= Madness, rage, fury, insanity, raving, distraction, lunacy, derangement, mania, delirium, aberration of mind; fanaticism, fire.

ANT. _Calm, composure, collectedness, coolness, sanity, sobriety, equanimity._

=Frequent=, _a._ Oft-repeated; common, usual, everyday; many, repeated, recurrent, general, numerous, continual.

ANT. _Few, solitary, scanty, rare, casual._

=Fresh.= New, recent, novel; renewed, revived; blooming, flourishing, unfaded, unwilted, unwithered, well-preserved; unimpaired, undecayed; rosy, ruddy, fair, delicate, fresh-colored; well, hearty, florid, vigorous, healthy, hardy, strong; unworn, unwearied, unexhausted, unfatigued; vivid, lively, keen, unabated; unsalted; pure, cool, refreshing, sweet, health-giving, bracing; brisk, stiff, strong; raw, uncultivated, unpracticed, untrained, unskilled, inexperienced; young, untried, modern.

ANT. _Old, stale, weary, jaded; former; stagnant, impaired; original, ordinary, tarnished, faded, decayed, pallid, sickly, putrid, moldy, musty, fusty._

=Fretful.= Touchy, peevish, petulant, testy, snappish, waspish, splenetic, spleeny, captious, irritable, ill-humored, ill-tempered; fractious, impatient, discontented.

ANT. _Patient, contented, forbearing, meek, resigned, unmurmuring._

=Friction.= Attrition, abrasion, resistance, confrication, rubbing; grating, contact.

ANT. _Lubrication, non-contact, detachment, isolation._

=Friend.= Confidant, intimate, associate, companion; ally, confrère, fellow-adherent; favorer, encourager, well-wisher, advocate, patron, adherent, defender, supporter; acquaintance, familiar, chum, messmate, coadjutor.

ANT. _Opponent, foe, adversary, antagonist, enemy._

=Friendly.= Companionable, genial, neighborly, cordial, affectionate, brotherly, fond, favorable, kind, kindly, loving, well-disposed, social, tender, affable, accessible, sociable, amicable, complaisant, hearty, sincere.

ANT. _Adverse, estranged, ill-disposed, unfriendly, antagonistic, unkind, inimical, alienated, distant, disaffected, frigid, hostile, cold, indifferent, contentious, belligerent, bellicose._

=Friendship.= Affection, good will, devotion, attachment, amity, comity, consideration, favor, friendliness, love, regard, esteem, admiration.

ANT. _Hostility, hatred, enmity, feud; contempt, disdain; antipathy._

=Frighten.= Alarm, affright, intimidate, scare, terrify, daunt, appall, browbeat, depress, dismay.

ANT. _Calm, soothe, comfort, ease; reassure, encourage._

=Frightful.= Terrible, fearful, terrific, dire, dread, dreadful, horrid, horrible, awful, shocking, hideous, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, alarming; ugly, monstrous.

ANT. _Pleasing, fair, attractive, encouraging, lovely, beautiful._

=Frigid.= Cold, dull, cool, uninteresting, lifeless, unanimated, tame, spiritless; formal, prim, stiff, forbidding, chilling, rigid, freezing, repulsive, repellent; inanimate, passionless, distant.

ANT. _Warm, ardent, impassioned; vehement, zealous._

=Frisk.= Leap, skip, hop, frolic, jump, romp, gambol, wanton, dance, sport, play.

ANT. _Lie, ruminate, roost, mope, sulk, rest, repose._

=Frisky.= Gay, lively, sportive, playful, coltish, wanton, frolicsome.

ANT. _Demure, sedate, pensive, meditative._

=Fritter.= Slice, break, shiver, shatter; dribble, waste, dissipate, idle.

ANT. _Husband, economize, cultivate, provide, be frugal._

=Frivolous.= Trivial, worthless, light, trifling, silly, petty, idle, flimsy, childish, puerile, foolish, trashy.

ANT. _Serious, earnest, important, grave._

=Frolic=, _n._ Gambol, lark, escapade, prank; fun, pleasantry, drollery; merriment, merry-making; play, game, festivity, sport, entertainment, gaiety, spree.

ANT. _Study, engagement, occupation, purpose, undertaking._

=Frolicsome.= Gay, lively, frisky, sportive, playful, frolic, merry, joyous; wanton, festive.

ANT. _Grave, serious, laborious, earnest, studious._

=Froward.= Contrary, fractious, perverse, contumacious, refractory, untoward, unyielding, ungovernable, wayward, disobedient, peevish, cross, captious, petulant.

ANT. _Docile, amenable, favorable, agreeable, obedient, ductile._

=Frugal.= Provident, economical, careful, choice, saving, chary, thrifty, unwasteful, sparing; parsimonious, abstinent, abstemious, temperate.

ANT. _Profuse, lavish, luxurious, extravagant, prodigal, intemperate, self-indulgent._

=Frugality.= Parsimony, thrift, providence, prudence, economy, sparing, miserliness, parsimoniousness, scrimping.

ANT. _Liberality, luxury, opulence, waste, wealth, extravagance, bounty, affluence, abundance, riches._

=Fruit.= Harvest, crop, product; production, result, effect, consequence, outcome; offspring, issue, young; produce, reward, outgrowth.

ANT. _Seed, cause, origin, operation, growth._

=Fruitful.= Productive; prolific, fertile, fecund; abundant, rich, plentiful, plenteous; pregnant, fraught, causative, successful, effectual, useful.

ANT. _Unproductive, sterile, barren, fruitless, useless, abortive, ineffectual._

=Fruition.= Fulfilment, enjoyment; reaping, attainment, use, possession.

ANT. _Loss, disappointment, non-attainment._

=Fugacious.= Transitory, transient, evanescent, fugitive, ephemeral, fleeting.

ANT. _Persistent, perennial, permanent, perpetual._

=Fulfil.= Accomplish, effectuate, effect, realize, execute, consummate, complete, perfect; obey, observe, perform, do, discharge, keep, adhere to, comply with; meet, satisfy, answer, fill, fill out; verify, achieve.

ANT. _Neglect, ignore; falsify, disappoint; render abortive; overlook, disregard, slight._

=Fulminate.= Explode, detonate; utter denunciations, thunder, fulmine, hurl threats; clamor, roar, denounce, vociferate.

ANT. _Laud, panegyrize, eulogize._

=Fulsome.= Gross, excessive, offensive, extravagant, nauseous, disgusting, repulsive, coarse, ribald, questionable, loathsome, sickening, fawning.

ANT. _Chaste, sober, delicate, nice, temperate, moderate._

=Fume=, _v._ Smoke, reek, emit vapor, exhale; rave, rage, chafe, storm, bluster, fret, flare up, be in a rage.

ANT. _Acquiesce; smile; submit, accede, consent, concur._

=Function=, _n._ Exercise, performance, execution, discharge; employment, office, duty, business, occupation, part, province; character, capacity, operation, administration, power.

ANT. _Usurpation, misdemeanor, misconduct, maladministration._

=Functionary.= Office-holder, official, officer, servant, personage, incumbent.

=Fund.= Stock, capital; supply, store; foundation, permanent fund; money, means, resources; investment.

ANT. _Expenditure, outlay, disbursement._

=Fundamental.= Essential, radical, primary, organic, constitutional, indispensable, principal, important.

ANT. _Secondary, unimportant, non-essential, ascititious, adventitious._

=Funereal.= Mournful, sad, lugubrious, woful, dark, plaintive, somber, melancholy, funeral, gloomy, dismal, sepulchral, solemn, deathlike.

ANT. _Joyous, festive, funny, stirring, lively, ridiculous, farcical._

=Funny.= Ludicrous, droll, comical, farcical, sportive, humorous, amusing, laughable, diverting, jocose, ridiculous.

ANT. _Tedious, dull, mournful, lugubrious, grave, serious, dismal, sad, lamentable._

=Furbish.= Burnish, polish, rub, scour, brighten.

ANT. _Dull, tarnish, cloud._

=Furnish.= Provide, supply; fit, equip, fit up; afford, give, bestow, contribute, present, purvey, yield.

ANT. _Withhold, withdraw; dismantle; retain, keep._

=Furtive.= Secret, sly, clandestine, stolen, stealthy, surreptitious, secretive.

ANT. _Open, public, undisguised, unconcealed, unreserved._

=Fuse.= Melt, liquefy, smelt; intermix, amalgamate, blend, commingle, intermingle; coalesce.

ANT. _Disunite, diffuse, disamalgamate, disincorporate._

=Fuss=, _n._ Hurry, worry, ado, fidget, bustle, flurry, stir, agitation, excitement, tumult.

ANT. _Quiet, peace, sedateness, calm, composure, tranquillity._

=Futile.= Trifling, frivolous, trivial; worthless, valueless, vain, idle, unprofitable, profitless, unavailing, fruitless, bootless, ineffectual; weak, ineffective, useless, nugatory.

ANT. _Cogent, effective, potent, powerful, useful, substantial, solid._

=Future.= Forthcoming, coming, advenient.

_Ant._ _Past, gone, bygone._

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=Gabble=, _n._ Prate, jargon, stuff, jabber, rattle, twaddle, chatter, gibber, gibberish, babble, gab, gossip, palaver, prattle, cackle.

ANT. _Speech, conversation, eloquence; reticence, taciturnity; mincing, mouthiness, euphuism, grandiloquence._

=Gabble=, _v._ Prate, prattle, chatter, cackle, rattle, jabber, gossip, palaver.

ANT. _Drone, drawl, murmur._

=Gag.= Silence, stifle, muzzle, muffle, hush.

ANT. _Evoke, provoke, inspire, animate._

=Gage=, _n._ Measure, standard; dimensions, estimate; security; challenge, defiance.

=Gage=, _v._ Measure, estimate, fathom, probe.

ANT. _Survey, conjecture, observe, view, scan, guess, mismeasure._

=Gain=, _n._ Profits, earnings, increase, gainings; emolument, lucre, money-making; blessing, profit, advantage, good, benefit.

ANT. _Loss, detriment, damage, privation, injury._

=Gain=, _v._ Get, acquire, win, earn, obtain, procure, secure, carry, achieve; conciliate, enlist, persuade, prevail upon, win over, gain over, bring over; reach, attain, arrive at; profit; benefit, realize, reap.

ANT. _Lose, forfeit, suffer._

=Gainful.= Advantageous, profitable, beneficial; lucrative, paying, productive, remunerative, winning.

ANT. _Unprofitable, disadvantageous, detrimental, injurious, losing, gainless._

=Gallant=, _a._ Gay, fine, magnificent, well-dressed, showy, splendid; courageous, brave, valiant, valorous, intrepid, chivalrous, fearless, bold, daring, high-spirited; noble, lofty, honorable, magnanimous, high-minded; attentive, polite, courteous; amorous; heroic.

ANT. _Cowardly, discourteous, churlish._

=Gambol.= Frisk, frolic, romp, caper, leap, hop, skip, jump, sport.

ANT. _Droop, tire, weary, flag._

=Game=, _n._ Sport, play, amusement, pastime; plan, scheme, stratagem, strategy, adventure, enterprise, measure, undertaking; quarry, prey; recreation, frolic, diversion.

ANT. _Toil, study, duty, labor; weariness, flagging; business._

=Garb.= Dress, clothes, habit, apparel, raiment, garments, vesture, costume, attire, habiliment; uniform, vestments.

ANT. _Undress; rags, tatters, shreds; nudity, nakedness._

=Garble.= Mutilate, falsify, corrupt, misrepresent, misquote, pervert; cook, dress, color, distort.

ANT. _Quote, cite, extract, recite, report verbatim._

=Garnish=. Adorn, embellish, decorate, deck, grace, beautify, ornament, prank, set off, trick out; furnish, furbish.

ANT. _Strip, dismantle, denude, bare, deprive, divest._

=Garrulity.= Loquacity, babble, loquaciousness, babbling, talkativeness, prattle, prate; verbosity, chatter.

ANT. _Reticence, taciturnity, laconism, reserve, silence._

=Garrulous.= Chattering, loquacious, verbose, talkative.

ANT. _Taciturn, speechless, laconic, reserved, reticent, silent._

=Gaud.= Trinket, finery, gewgaw, trumpery, whim, gimcrack, toy, bauble, trifle.

ANT. _Ornament, gem, decoration, jewel, valuable._

=Gaudy.= Flaunting, garish, glittering, tawdry, tinsel, flashy, showy, overdecorated, loud; bespangled, fine, gay, meretricious.

ANT. _Rich, simple, handsome, chaste._

=Gaunt.= Lean, lank, thin, meager, emaciated, slender, attenuated, spare; grim, savage, hungry.

ANT. _Docile, tractable, well-fed, tame, sleek._

=Gawky.= Awkward, clownish, ungainly, clumsy, raw, boorish, rustic, green, uncouth, loutish.

ANT. _Neat, handy, graceful, handsome._

=Gay.= Showy, bright, fine, brilliant, dashing; gaudy, flaunting, flashy, garish, tawdry, glittering, tinsel; merry, lively, jovial, cheerful, gleeful, blithe, sportive, airy, gladsome, frolicsome, jolly, hilarious, light-hearted; sprightly, smart, festive, pleasuresome.

ANT. _Heavy, sad, grave, dull, dowdy, somber, melancholy._

=Gaze=, _v._ Stare, scan, behold, regard, contemplate, view, gloat, glower.

ANT. _Wink, ignore, overlook, ogle, glance, disregard._

=General=, _a._ Ordinary, universal, common, commonplace, customary, everyday, public, prevalent, familiar, normal, popular, habitual, frequent, usual.

ANT. _Singular, uncommon, exceptional, rare, unknown, infrequent, unusual; particular, special._

=Generality.= Universality; bulk, mass, body, majority.

ANT. _Section, minority, exception, individuality._

=Generate.= Beget, procreate, engender, breed, propagate; produce, form, make, cause, bring about, originate.

ANT. _Stifle, extinguish, terminate, annihilate._

=Generation.= Procreation; production, formation; offspring, progeny, succession of descendants; family, stock, race, breed; contemporaries; period, epoch, age, era, lifetime; origination.

ANT. _Perpetuity, eternity, immortality; posterity._

=Generic.= General, common, collective, racial, comprehensive.

ANT. _Particular, personal, specific, individual._

=Generous.= Liberal, noble, magnanimous, bountiful, free, munificent, open-handed, disinterested, open-hearted, chivalrous, honorable.

ANT. _Avaricious, covetous, greedy, parsimonious, penurious, petty, rapacious, stingy, close, illiberal, ignoble, mean, miserly, niggardly, churlish, selfish._

=Genial.= Fostering, cheering, enlivening, encouraging, inspiriting; cordial, hearty; cheerful, pleasant, merry, mirthful, jovial, warm, balmy, festive, joyous, revivifying, rejuvenating, restorative.

ANT. _Cold, cutting, harsh, deleterious, noxious, deadly, destructive, blighting, lethal, ungenial._

=Genius.= Bent, turn, aptitude, aptness, faculty, capacity, endowment, talent, gift; ingenuity, invention, sagacity, intellect, brains, parts, wit, inspiration, creative _or_ inventive power; adept, proficient, master, master hand; nature, character, disposition, constitution, characteristic; spirit, tutelary deity, guardian angel; cleverness, inventiveness, skill, creativeness, giftedness, ideality, talents.

ANT. _Stupidity, senselessness, folly, dulness, imbecility, obtuseness, stolidity, inanity._

=Genteel.= Refined, polite, courteous, civil, polished, well-bred, gentlemanly _or_ ladylike; fashionable, stylish, elegant; graceful, refined, aristocratic, cultivated, cultured.

ANT. _Rude, clownish, uncultivated, ill-bred, boorish, uncultured, plebeian, unfashionable, unpolished, inelegant._

=Gentle.= Mild, bland, moderate, kind, tender, compassionate, indulgent, meek, soft, lenient, humane, clement, merciful, tender-hearted, gentle-hearted; tame, docile, peaceable, calm, peaceful, tranquil, tractable, pacific, quiet; light, zephyrlike; noble, high-born, well-born; cultivated, refined, courteous, well-bred, polished; placid, amiable.

ANT. _Rough, rude, coarse, fierce, savage; uneven, uncut; boisterous; shaggy, ragged, disordered; harsh, uncivil, offensive; tempestuous, stormy; inclement._

=Genuine.= Pure, uncorrupt, unalloyed, unadulterated, true, authentic, real, veritable; native, unaffected, sincere; sound, natural.

ANT. _Spurious, adulterated; fictitious; apocryphal, counterfeit, false, artificial._

=Germ.= Embryo, ovule, seed-bud; origin, source, first principle; nucleus, seed, bud.

ANT. _Fruit, result, development, product, produce, issue, outgrowth._

=Germane.= Related, akin, cognate, allied; pertinent, relevant, appropriate, apposite, fitting, suitable; kindred, homogeneous.

ANT. _Foreign, alien, irrelevant, unconnected._

=Germinate.= Bud, shoot, vegetate, sprout, push, burst forth, put forth, spring up.

ANT. _Rot, decay, spoil, die, putrefy, corrupt._

=Get.= Attain, earn, achieve, acquire, obtain, procure, receive, win, secure, gain.

ANT. _Abandon, lose, forfeit, surrender, forego._

=Ghastly.= Pale, wan, cadaverous, deathlike; grim, dismal, hideous, terrible, horrible, frightful, shocking, grisly; spectral, pallid.

ANT. _Blooming, fresh, ruddy, comely, buxom, seemly._

=Ghost.= Spirit, soul; apparition, specter, sprite, phantom, shade, departed spirit; vision.

ANT. _Body, organism, animal._

=Gibe.= Sneer, scoff, taunt, flout, jest, jeer, ridicule, deride, mock, rail at.

ANT. _Salute, compliment._

=Giddy.= Dizzy, vertiginous; inconstant, fickle, changeable, unsteady, mutable, unstable, vacillating, irresolute; careless, heedless, wild, reckless, headlong, thoughtless, light-headed, flighty; whirling, hare-brained, beetling, flighty.

ANT. _Slow, ponderous, stationary; earnest, thoughtful, steady; low, wary, unelevated, circumspect._

=Gift.= Bequest, benefaction, donation, boon, grant, present, largess, bribe, bounty, gratuity; endowment, talent, genius, faculty, power, capacity, capability, ability, turn, _forte_; donation, _douceur_, offering, alms, allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, dower, legacy, demise.

ANT. _Reservation, refusal, purchase; inanity, stupidity, forfeit, penalty, fine, surrender; earnings, wages, remuneration, compensation; reward, guerdon._

=Gigantic.= Vast, huge, colossal, enormous, giant, prodigious, Herculean, Cyclopean, immense, tremendous.

ANT. _Puny, feeble, dwarfish, petty, insignificant, pigmy._

=Girdle.= Gird, bind round; surround, encircle, encompass, enclose, embrace, shut in; belt, hem, environ, engirdle, begird.

ANT. _Disclose, open, disencircle, expand, ungird, disengirdle._

=Girl.= Damsel, lass, lassie, miss, maiden, maid, virgin, young unmarried woman.

=Gist.= Essence, pith, core, marrow, substance, kernel, main point, force, ground, foundation.

ANT. _Surplusage, additament, redundancy, environment; accessories; clothing, garb; excess, overplus._

=Give.= Deliver, bestow, supply, grant, cede, confer, communicate, impart, furnish; produce, yield, surrender, concede, present, afford, spare, accommodate with; pay, exchange; permit, allow, vouchsafe, deign; utter, pronounce, render; occasion, cause; devote, apply, addict, give up; sink, bend; retreat, give way, recede, retire.

ANT. _Withhold, withdraw, refuse, retain, grasp, fail, restrain, deny, take back, remove, recall; take, receive, accept; hold, support._

=Glad.= Rejoiced, pleased, gratified, delighted, happy, well-contented; cheerful, joyous, joyful, gladsome, elated, jocund, playful, light-hearted, cheery, animated; exhilarating, pleasing, bright, gratifying; blithesome, gleeful.

ANT. _Unhappy, sad, sorrowful, disastrous, sorry, dismal, disappointed, discontented, uneasy._

=Gladden.= Delight, cheer, exhilarate, bless, rejoice, gratify, make glad.

ANT. _Grieve, disappoint, depress, dispirit, trouble, wound, afflict, sadden, displease._

=Glare.= Glitter, glisten, dazzle, flare, gleam, sparkle; glower, look fierce; beam, shine, glow, ray, radiate.

ANT. _Shimmer, scintillate, waver, glimmer, smolder, burn fitfully, flash, flicker, glister; obscure, darken._

=Glassy.= Vitreous; crystal, crystalline, transparent, gleaming, lucent, brilliant, shining; smooth, polished, glacial, glabrous, brittle, pellucid, limpid, glossy, silken.

ANT. _Rough, uneven, pliant, rugged, tough, opaque, turbid, muddy, dull, dark._

=Glaze=, _v._ Set glass; calender, polish, burnish, gloss, furbish; become glassy, grow dim; vitrify.

ANT. _Roughen, corrugate, rumple, crumple, wrinkle, furrow._

=Glimpse=, _n._ Glance, glimmering, sight, inkling, flash, survey, trace, tinge.

ANT. _Observation, scrutiny, investigation, inspection, exposure, analysis, examination._

=Gloom.= Obscurity, darkness, dimness, gloominess, cloud; dejection, sadness, depression, despondency, melancholy; gloaming, twilight, shadow, obscuration, dulness, cloudiness.

ANT. _Light, radiance, clearness, daylight, brightness._

=Glorify.= Extol, exalt, magnify, bless, honor, praise; brighten, make illustrious, elevate, ennoble, adorn; laud, signalize, aggrandize, panegyrize.

ANT. _Debase, depress, abuse, abase, defame, degrade, decry, censure, blame, rebuke._

=Glorious.= Illustrious, renowned, celebrated, eminent, famed, famous, distinguished, conspicuous; resplendent, splendid, radiant, bright, brilliant; noble, lofty, exalted, supreme, high, excellent, consummate.

ANT. _Mean, debased, undistinguished, disgraced, unknown, dishonorable, inglorious._

=Glory.= Honor, renown, celebrity, fame, praise; splendor, luster, brightness, brilliancy, pride, effulgence; gloriousness, nobleness, exaltation, grandeur; radiance, state, pomp, parade, magnificence.

ANT. _Obscurity, cloud, ignominy, dishonor, degradation, disgrace, shame._

=Gloss=, _n._ Interpretation, comment, note, explanation, scholium, commentary, annotation; pretext, pretense, specious plea; luster, polish, shine, sheen; distortion, misinterpretation, perversion, twist, plea, speciousness.

ANT. _Haze, nebulousness; truth, literalness, representation, reality, verity, actuality, solution, exposition._

=Glowing.= Shining, hot, intense, ardent, excited, fiery, fervid, fervent.

ANT. _Cool, languid, dispassionate, dull, apathetic, chilling._

=Glut=, _n._ Repletion, superabundance, surplus, overplus, redundancy, overstock, superfluity.

ANT. _Scarcity, want, scantiness, dearth, failure, drainage, exhaustion._

=Glut=, _v._ Cloy, sate, satiate, pall, surfeit; gorge, cram, stuff, fill, overfeed, make replete.

ANT. _Empty, void, disgorge, eject, discharge, vomit._

=Gluttony.= Voracity, greed, gormandizement, deglutition.

ANT. _Abstinence, abstemiousness, temperance, frugality._

=Go.= Move, pass, proceed, advance, progress; walk, travel, journey, fare; depart, set out, leave; reach, extend; contribute, concur, tend, avail; eventuate, turn out; be esteemed, be reckoned; accept, approve, endure, tolerate, swallow, bear; stir, budge.

ANT. _Stand, stay, come, remain, rest, endure, persist, lack, abide, fail._

=Good=, _n._ Benefit, gain, advantage, utility, profit; welfare, weal, prosperity, interest; virtue, righteousness, excellence; abundance, riches; boon, blessing, mercy.

ANT. _Hurt, loss, detriment, injury, evil, disadvantage, ill, calamity, affliction, infliction, curse._

=Good=, _a._ Advantageous, serviceable, profitable, useful, beneficial; suitable, fit, convenient, proper, well-adapted; upright, virtuous, worthy, pious, dutiful, righteous, religious; excellent, valuable, precious, sterling, admirable, capital; kind, humane, benevolent, friendly, favorable, gracious, merciful, obliging, well-disposed; fair, unblemished, untarnished, unsullied, immaculate, honorable, unimpeached; cheerful, lively, social, genial, companionable; able, skilful, expert, ready, dexterous, well-qualified; competent; pleasant, gratifying, agreeable; considerable; real, true, serious, unfeigned; right, complete, sound, propitious, efficient, sufficient, valid, actual, reputable, just.

ANT. _Bad, wrong, evil, ill, wicked, depraved, imperfect, unsound, vicious, profane, niggardly, unpropitious, unserviceable, unsuitable, inefficient, incompetent, inadequate, invalid, fictitious, supposititious, inconsiderable, mean, disreputable, disgraceful; baneful, mischievous, pernicious, injurious, hurtful; abandoned, corrupt, immoral, unprincipled, dishonest, unfair, villainous; unfortunate, unlucky, unhappy; unwelcome, sad, depressing, discouraging, distressing; wretched, sorry, abominable; inferior, defective; severe, serious, hard, heavy._

=Good-by.= Farewell, adieu.

ANT. _Salutation, welcome, hail, greeting._

=Good-humored.= Cheerful, buoyant, placid, amiable, good-natured, good-tempered.

ANT. _Cross, ill-humored, ill-natured, unamiable, petulant, fretful, peevish._

=Goodly.= Graceful, comely, beautiful, good-looking; pleasant, happy, agreeable, desirable; excellent, fair, fine; considerable.

ANT. _Unpleasant, undesirable, inconsiderable, uncomely, ungainly, clumsy, awkward._

=Gorgeous.= Showy, glittering, splendid, shining, magnificent, resplendent, fine, rich, superb, dazzling; costly, grand, strong.

ANT. _Poor, naked, dingy, bare, threadbare, cheap; grimy, soiled; dull, obscure, dim._

=Govern.= Manage, reign over, direct, command, control, rule, sway, influence, mold, restrain, curb, moderate, guide, supervise, conduct; regulate, steer, bridle.

ANT. _Be subject, obey, submit, comply, yield; misrule, misdirect, misconduct._

=Grace.= Favor, kindness, condescension, love, benignity, good will; piety, devotion, sanctity, devoutness, faith, holiness, religion; mercy, pardon, forgiveness; elegance, polish, accomplishment, refinement; beauty, symmetry, comeliness, gracefulness, ease; short prayer; excellence, charm.

ANT. _Disfavor, deformity, pride, unkindness, gawkiness, awkwardness, inelegance._

=Graceful.= Beautiful, comely, elegant, stately, easy, natural, becoming, flowing, rounded, sinuous.

ANT. _Awkward, homely, uncouth, ugly, plain, gawky, ungraceful._

=Graceless.= Depraved, degenerate, corrupt, reprobate, dissolute, profligate, lost, abandoned, hardened, obdurate, shameless, incorrigible, wicked, irreclaimable; ungraceful, scampish, vicious, worthless.

ANT. _Graceful, virtuous, upright, conscientious, worthy; gracious, tender-hearted._

=Gracious.= Benevolent, benign, kind, favorable, benignant, compassionate, friendly, merciful, tender, lenient, condescending, mild, gentle; affable, familiar, civil, polite, easy, courteous, beneficent.

ANT. _Haughty, discourteous, ungracious, ill-disposed, churlish, unfriendly, impolite._

=Gradation.= Progress, progression, succession; graduation, precedency, arrangement, ordination, standing, rank, degree, stage, tier.

ANT. _Equality, uniformity, fraternity; abruptness, break, hiatus._

=Gradual.= Regular, progressive; slow, approximate; continuous, unintermittent, step by step, gradational.

ANT. _Sudden, momentary, instantaneous, periodic, intermittent, recurrent, broken, discontinuous, disconnected._

=Grand.= Stately, lordly, princely, august, exalted, majestic, elevated, illustrious, eminent, dignified, great, high; magnificent, glorious, superb, splendid, lofty, noble, sublime; principal, chief, main, leading, supreme; large, imposing, important, eventful, pompous, gorgeous.

ANT. _Little, undignified, unimposing, inferior, petty, paltry, secondary, unimportant, insignificant, mean, common, beggarly, contemptible, small._

=Grandeur.= Greatness, vastness, loftiness, elevation, immensity; state, dignity, majesty, stateliness, pomp, augustness, splendor; magnificence, display, ostentation.

ANT. _Meanness, paltriness; humiliation, shame, disgrace._

=Grandiloquence.= Bombast, fustian, turgidity; verbosity, pomposity, mouthiness, grandiosity, antiloquence, stiltedness, euphuism.

ANT. _Simplicity, naïveté, unaffectedness; vernacular._

=Grant.= Yield, admit, concede, allow; give, bestow, confer, deign, vouchsafe; convey, transfer; allot, accord, cede, impart.

ANT. _Withhold, withdraw, reserve, resume, deny, refuse._

=Graphic.= Vivid, lively, picturesque, well-drawn, striking, telling; illustrative, pictorial, descriptive, forcible, feeling; described.

ANT. _Undescriptive, unillustrative, unpicturesque; hazy, obscure, indefinite._

=Grasp.= Clasp, gripe, seize, grip, grapple, catch, clutch, clinch, lay hold of; hold, retain, comprehend.

ANT. _Loose, lose, abandon, relinquish, surrender, release, miss, misunderstand._

=Grateful.= Obliged, thankful, indebted, beholden; agreeable, acceptable, pleasing, pleasant, delightful, gratifying, welcome, charming, satisfying; delicious, savory, nice, cordial, luscious, refreshing, invigorating; comforting, soothing, alleviating.

ANT. _Unpleasant, unacceptable, disobliged, ungrateful, disagreeable._

=Gratification.= Satisfaction, indulgence; enjoyment, delight, pleasure, fruition; reward, recompense.

ANT. _Pain, dislike, disappointment, abstinence, stinting, discipline, inurement, abnegation._

=Gratify.= Please, delight, gladden; indulge, satisfy, humor, fulfil.

ANT. _Displease, dissatisfy, stint, deprive, deny, discipline._

=Gratitude.= Thankfulness, obligation, gratefulness.

ANT. _Thanklessness, ingratitude, ungratefulness, unthankfulness, resentment, oblivion, indignation._

=Gratuitous.= Free, voluntary, uncompensated, groundless, unwarranted, unsought, unnecessary; spontaneous, baseless, unrecompensed.

ANT. _Compulsory, involuntary, obligatory, necessitated, warranted, well-founded; unwilling, enforced, enjoined._

=Grave=, _a._ Important, weighty, serious, cogent, momentous; sober, sedate, thoughtful, staid, solemn; plain, subdued, quiet, silent; sad, pressing, demure, somber, aggravated, heavy.

ANT. _Joyous, merry, unimportant, facetious, ridiculous, trivial, light, frivolous, futile, trifling, petty, slight._

=Great.= Large, big, vast, huge, bulky, ample, immense, gigantic, enormous; much, excessive, high; numerous, countless; considerable, important, weighty; distinguished, eminent, exalted, prominent, excellent, elevated, celebrated, noted, famed, illustrious, famous, renowned; august, grand, dignified, noble, sublime, majestic, lofty; generous, magnanimous, chivalrous, high-minded; sumptuous, rich, magnificent; difficult, onerous, hard, burdensome, grievous; chief, principal, main, leading, grand; superior, preëminent; protracted, noticeable.

ANT. _Little, narrow, scanty, puny, few, short, mean, ignoble, weak, unimportant._

=Greediness.= Avidity, hunger, voracity, ravenousness, gluttony; eagerness, longing, greed, intense desire; grasping, avarice, rapacity, selfishness.

ANT. _Generosity, prodigality, benevolence._

=Greedy.= Voracious, ravenous, insatiable, gluttonous, insatiate, rapacious; eager, desirous; selfish, grasping, avaricious; hungry.

ANT. _Abstemious, abstinent, contented, apathetic, indifferent; generous, unselfish._

=Grief.= Bitterness, misery, agony, anguish, heartache, heartbreak; trial, grievance; melancholy, sadness, sorrow, trouble, tribulation, woe, mourning, affliction, distress, regret.

ANT. _Happiness, joy, elation, delight, hilarity, exultation, cheer, mirth, gaiety._

=Grievance.= Hardship, wrong, injury, burden, oppression; affliction, trial, sorrow, grief, distress, woe; complaint, trouble, injustice.

ANT. _Congratulation, boon, benefit, rejoicing, privilege, alleviation, riddance, disburdenment._

=Grieve.= Afflict, pain, hurt, distress, sadden, agonize; sorrow, mourn, lament, suffer, bewail; burden, annoy, wound, complain, deplore.

ANT. _Ease, soothe, console, please, rejoice, exult, alleviate, gratify, content, satisfy._

=Grievous.= Sad, heavy, distressing, afflictive, painful, deplorable, lamentable; hurtful, injurious, noxious, mischievous, detrimental, calamitous; atrocious, heinous, outrageous, intolerable, dreadful, flagrant, aggravated; sorrowful, baleful, burdensome, unhappy, disastrous.

ANT. _Pleasant, joyous, delightful, glad, consolatory, acceptable, welcome, grateful, light, trivial, trifling._

=Grim.= Fierce, ruthless, cruel, savage, ferocious; frightful, horrible, hideous, dire, horrid, appalling, terrific, dreadful; ugly, ghastly, sullen, stern.

ANT. _Mild, attractive, benign, placid, docile._

=Gross.= Great, large, big, bulky; dense, thick; coarse, rough, rude, unrefined, unseemly, unbecoming; indelicate, sensual, impure, vulgar, low, broad; enormous, flagrant, shameful, outrageous, grievous; palpable, manifest, glaring; whole, total, entire, aggregate; vicious, animal, bloated.

ANT. _Partial, component; net; refined, pure; elegant, delicate, subtle._

=Grotesque.= Fantastic, whimsical, fanciful, droll, odd, unnatural, strange, wild, bizarre, extravagant; ludicrous, absurd, ridiculous, antic, burlesque; quaint, old, archaic, distorted, caricatured.

ANT. _Classic, chaste, graceful, fine, severe, regular, fashionable, symmetrical, typical, formal, normal._

=Ground.= Basis, base, groundwork, support, foundation; sod, soil, clod, earth, loam, turf; region, territory, country, land, domain; estate, acres, field; motive, consideration, reason, cause, account, inducement; premise, plea.

ANT. _Superstructure, statement, argument, inference, deduction; product, development, result, effect; ocean, sea, deep, main, waters._

=Grounded.= Rooted, established, initiated, inaugurated, trained, prepared, fixed, set; indoctrinated.

ANT. _Ungrounded, unprepared, uninitiated, baseless, unfounded, groundless, unauthorized._

=Groundless.= Vain, supposititious, unfounded, false, baseless, fanciful, chimerical, gratuitous.

ANT. _Well-founded, authoritative, substantial, actual, authentic._

=Group.= Cluster, collection, assemblage, order, bunch, knot, class, clump, assembly, collocation.

ANT. _Individual, crowd, isolation, medley, confusion; dispersion, distribution, scattering._

=Grovel.= Creep, crawl, sneak, be prone, fawn, cringe, lie, grub, wallow.

ANT. _Soar, aspire, mount, rise, domineer, intimidate, dictate, browbeat._

=Grow.= Enlarge, increase, swell, expand, extend, augment; vegetate, shout, sprout, germinate; advance, wax, progress, improve; adhere; raise, produce, cultivate; accrue, become, develop, amplify.

ANT. _Diminish, recede, contract, fail, stop, die, wane, decline, subside, ebb, decay, depreciate, crumble, weaken._

=Grudge=, _n._ Hatred, pique, rancor, spite, malice, malevolence; grievance, aversion, dissatisfaction, discontent, refusal.

ANT. _Welcome, satisfaction, approval, contentment, benefaction, complacency, bestowal._

=Guardian.= Warden, keeper, protector, defender, preserver; custodian, conservator.

ANT. _Pupil, ward; traitor, betrayer; charge, minor._

=Guess.= Conjecture, divine, surmise, mistrust, suspect; find out, solve, penetrate, fathom; suppose, think, believe, fancy, imagine; hazard, risk.

ANT. _Examine, prove, investigate, establish, demonstrate, deduce, elaborate, illustrate._

=Guide=, _n._ Director, conductor, pilot; mentor, monitor, adviser, instructor, counselor; clue, key; itinerary.

ANT. _Follower, disciple, imitator, pupil._

=Guide=, _v._ Lead, conduct, pilot; direct, rule, manage, regulate, govern, control, steer; superintend, influence, train.

ANT. _Mislead, misconduct, misdirect, mismanage, misregulate, misguide, miseducate, betray, deceive, impose upon, disappoint, cheat._

=Guile.= Cunning, craft, subtlety, artifice, artfulness, deceit, duplicity, deception, fraud, wiles, trickery; treachery, insidiousness, hypocrisy.

ANT. _Frankness, simplicity, honesty, candor, generosity, sincerity, truth, veracity._

=Guilt.= Guiltiness, culpability, criminality; wrong, offensiveness, wickedness, ill desert, iniquity, sin, offense.

ANT. _Sinlessness, innocence, purity, godliness, righteousness._

=Guise.= Aspect, appearance, garb, dress, form, shape, figure, manner, mode, fashion; practice, habit, custom; semblance, plea, demeanor, mien.

ANT. _Character, person, individual, sentiment, disposition, opinion, life, mind, soul, self._

=Gumption.= Shrewdness, discernment, sagacity, skill, cleverness, ability, capacity, power, penetration, common sense.

=Gush=, _v._ Burst, stream, flow, rush, spout, pour out, flow out; sentimentalize, be overeffusive.

ANT. _Drip, drop, filter, ooze, percolate, dribble, drain, strain, trickle._

=Gust.= Taste, relish, zest, liking; pleasure, enjoyment, delight, delectation, gratification; turn, fancy, favor; blast, squall; fit, outburst, burst, paroxysm; puff, breeze, gale.

ANT. _Calm, tranquillity, subsidence, composure, restraint, zephyr; insipidity, tastelessness._

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=Habiliment.= Dress, garments, clothes, apparel, vesture, raiment, habit, costume, vestment, garb, robes, uniform, clothing.

ANT. _Undress, nudity, bareness, deshabille, divestment._

=Habit.= Condition, constitution, temperament; way, manner; dress, garb, habiliment; habituation, familiarity, association, inurement; routine, rule, custom, fashion, practice, system, habitude, use, usage, wont.

ANT. _Dishabituation, inexperience, inconversance, desuetude, disuse, breach, infringement, disusage._

=Habitation.= Abode, dwelling, lodging, domicil, headquarters, quarters, dwelling-place.

=Habitual.= Usual, customary, wonted, common, accustomed, regular, ordinary, familiar, everyday, perpetual.

ANT. _Irregular, extraordinary, unusual, occasional, exceptional, rare._

=Haggard.= Wild, wayward, intractable, refractory, unruly, untamed; gaunt, lean, spare, meager, worn, wasted, raw-boned; attenuated, wrinkled, ghastly, hollow-eyed.

ANT. _Sleek, smug, plump, chubby, comely, sightly, pretty._

=Hail.= Accost, address, salute, greet, welcome, call, speak, signal.

ANT. _Ignore, avoid, pass, cut, disdain, insult, rebuff._

=Halcyon.= Calm, quiet, placid, still, peaceful, tranquil, undisturbed, unruffled, palmy, serene, happy, golden, balmy.

ANT. _Stormy, tempestuous, troublous, boisterous, blustering, turbulent, violent._

=Hale.= Healthy, sound, strong, robust, hearty, hardy, well.

ANT. _Feeble, sickly, weak._

=Half=, _n._ Bisection, dimidiation, moiety.

ANT. _Integrity, total, whole, entirety, sum, amount, aggregate, quantity, number._

=Hallow.= Consecrate, dedicate, sanctify, devote, make holy; reverence, venerate, honor, respect, pay homage to, enshrine.

ANT. _Desecrate, profane, execrate, blaspheme, abominate._

=Halt.= Stop, hold, stand, pull up; limp, hobble; rest, falter, hamper, stammer, demur, dubitate, pause, stand still, hesitate.

ANT. _Advance, flow, speed; determine, decide, conclude, finish._

=Hamper.= Hinder, fetter, entangle, shackle, clog, encumber, restrain, impede.

ANT. _Free, liberate, loose; expedite, hasten, speed, accelerate._

=Hand.= Palm and fingers; side, direction, part; skill, dexterity, talent, ability, faculty; handiwork, workmanship; management, course; agency, share, intervention, participation; laborer, workman, operative, artificer, artisan, craftsman, employee; possession, power, control; index, pointer, indicator; chirography, handwriting; influence; handful, bunch.

ANT. _Employer._

=Handle.= Touch, feel, take; manage, use, wield; treat, discuss, discourse; deal with; operate, manipulate.

ANT. _Drop, bungle, mismanage, botch, spoil, mar._

=Handsome.= Comely, stately, well-formed, fine-looking; easy, graceful, becoming, appropriate; generous, liberal, noble, magnanimous, disinterested; ample, sufficient, large, plentiful; beautiful, pretty, lovely, elegant.

ANT. _Uncomely, ill-looking, ungenerous, illiberal, ugly, unsightly, ghastly._

=Handy.= Dexterous, adroit, skilful, skilled, ready, clever, expert; convenient, near, at hand.

ANT. _Remote, inconvenient, unwieldy, cumbrous, awkward, useless, unhandy._

=Hang.= Rest, lean, depend, poise, suspend; attach, incline, drop, decline, droop; execute; drape, adorn; dangle, be suspended, adhere, rely, stick, cling; hover, float, play; attend.

ANT. _Stand, recline, lean, lie; prop, support, uphold._

=Happen.= Chance, occur, befall, bechance, betide, fall, come to pass, fall out, take place, supervene.

ANT. _Miss, omit, fail, pass, spare, pass by, neglect, discard._

=Happiness.= Delight, joy, pleasure, satisfaction, comfort, bliss, triumph, mirth, gaiety, ecstasy, gladness, rejoicing, rapture, contentment, merriment, blessedness, felicity, cheer, enjoyment, well-being, light-heartedness, cheerfulness, brightness; beatitude, prosperity.

ANT. _Grief, sorrow, anguish, trouble, mourning, misfortune, affliction, disaster, woe, agony, distress, torture, torment, melancholy._

=Happy.= Gay, glad, joyous, cheerful, blessed, delighted, joyful, jolly, successful, rejoicing, blissful, lucky, merry, fortunate, rejoiced, jocund, buoyant, felicitous, bright, blithesome, sunny, cheering, cheery, sprightly, delightful, smiling, mirthful, pleased, prosperous, rapturous; light-hearted, blest, gladdened, charmed; ready, expert, apt, skilful, adroit, able, dexterous; seasonable, opportune, befitting, pertinent, well-timed; auspicious, propitious, favorable.

ANT. _Unlucky, unfortunate, unsuccessful, infelicitous, sorrowful, sorry, dull, lugubrious, disappointed, desponding, unhappy._

=Harangue.= Speech, public or formal address, oration; bombast, declamation, tirade, screed; effusion, rant.

ANT. _Mumble, drawl, insinuation, suggestion, stammering, reasoning, blandiloquence, stuttering._

=Harass.= Fatigue, tire, weary, annoy, exhaust; vex, plague, worry, distress, trouble, molest, disturb, torment, harry; jade, tease, irritate, chafe, harrow, pester, perplex.

ANT. _Relieve, refresh, comfort, solace, soothe, animate, inspirit._

=Harbinger.= Herald, forerunner, precursor, announcer.

ANT. _Reporter, narrator, follower, attendant, historian, relator._

=Harbor=, _n._ Asylum, refuge, shelter, cover, retreat, sanctuary, resting-place; port, haven, destination, home, anchorage.

ANT. _Labor, toil, peril, exposure, roving, wandering, voyage, roaming, pilgrimage._

=Harbor=, _v._ Shelter, lodge, protect; entertain, indulge, foster, cherish; secrete; accommodate, encourage.

ANT. _Eject, expel, discard, discourage, stifle, exclude, banish, dismiss._

=Hard.= Firm, solid, compact, impenetrable, rigid, unyielding; difficult, embarrassing, knotty, puzzling, intricate, perplexing; laborious, arduous, toilsome, wearying, fatiguing; unkind, insensible, cruel, oppressive, rigorous, severe, exacting, inflexible, obdurate, callous, unfeeling, unsympathetic; grievous, distressing, painful, calamitous, unpleasant, disagreeable; inclement, stormy, cold, severe, tempestuous; harsh, sour, acid, rough; coarse, unpalatable; unfavorable, unprosperous, unpropitious; stiff, unnatural, forced, constrained, ungraceful; excessive, intemperate; inexplicable, flinty, dense, stubborn, hardy, hardened.

ANT. _Soft, fluid, liquid, elastic, brittle, easy, penetrable, mild, lenient, tender, ductile, simple, uninvolved, intelligible, perspicuous._

=Harden.= Indurate, make hard; habituate, inure, season, form, train, accustom, discipline; fortify, strengthen, steel, nerve, brace; scar, make callous, make obdurate; consolidate, compact.

ANT. _Disinure, relax, enervate, debilitate, soften, dishabituate, melt, mollify, vaporize, colliquate._

=Hardihood.= Firmness, fortitude, resolution, mettle, pluck, manhood, courage, bravery, boldness, intrepidity, audacity, decision, determination; effrontery, assurance, brass.

ANT. _Weakness, effeminacy; timidity, fear; indecision; cowardice._

=Hardly.= Scarcely, barely, just; severely, rigorously, unkindly, roughly, cruelly; merely, narrowly.

ANT. _Fully, amply, easily, abundantly, largely._

=Hardship.= Toil, fatigue, weariness; grievance, suffering, trial, affliction, trouble, misfortune, calamity, burden, hardness; annoyance, infliction, endurance.

ANT. _Pleasure, amusement, alleviation, recreation, gratification, relief, assuagement, facilitation, treat, boon._

=Hardy.= Bold, intrepid, resolute, brave, daring, valiant, heroic, manly, stout-hearted, courageous; strong, robust, firm, lusty, stout, healthy, rigorous, hale, sound, hearty; inured, vigorous.

ANT. _Weak, uninured, irresolute, delicate, debilitated, tender, fragile, frail, infirm._

=Harm.= Injury, hurt, detriment, mischief, damage, prejudice, disadvantage; evil, criminality, wrong, wickedness; misfortune, ill, mishap.

ANT. _Benefit, boon, amelioration, improvement, compensation, reparation, remedy, healing._

=Harmless.= Innocuous, innocent, innoxious, gentle, inoffensive; unhurt, unharmed, uninjured.

ANT. _Noxious, hurtful, nocuous, savage, cruel, deadly, mischievous, violent, pernicious, destructive._

=Harmonious.= Concordant, harmonic, consonant; melodious, tuneful, musical, dulcet, mellifluous; correspondent, consistent, symmetrical, congruent; friendly, cordial, amicable, fraternal, brotherly, neighborly; accordant, proportioned, uniform, peaceful, agreeable.

ANT. _Discordant, incongruous, unshapely, harsh, disproportioned, unmelodious, sharp, grating, riotous, unfriendly, unpeaceful, quarrelsome._

=Harmony.= Concord, amity, accordance, unison, consent, unanimity, unity, accord, agreement, uniformity, symmetry, union, conformity, consonance, congruity, concurrence, consistency.

ANT. _Hostility, separation, discord, warfare, battle, variance, conflict, disagreement, disunion, dissension, contention, antagonism, contest, controversy, schism, opposition, incongruity, difference, inconsistency, disproportion._

=Harsh.= Rough, sour, crabbed, tart, hard, biting, sharp, corrosive, caustic; grating, discordant, jarring; morose, severe, stern, austere, acrimonious, ill-natured, unkind, unfeeling; rude, uncivil, blunt, ungracious, gruff, brutal, bearish; abusive, rigorous, rancorous.

ANT. _Smooth, lenient, melodious, genial, kindly, suave, bland, gentle._

=Harvest.= Fruit, crop, increase, yield, result, return, proceeds, product, growth, ingathering, harvest-feast, harvest-festival, harvest-time, harvest-home.

=Haste.= Despatch, celerity, speed, promptitude, quickness; hurry, precipitation, vehemence, precipitance; expedition, excitement, heedlessness, swiftness.

ANT. _Delay, slowness, tardiness, coolness, reflection, moderation, steadiness._

=Hasten.= Expedite, despatch, accelerate, speed, hurry, hustle, quicken, precipitate, press on, urge forward; haste, make haste; urge, press.

ANT. _Retard, impede, obstruct, demur, halt, hesitate._

=Hasty.= Quick, swift, fleet, fast, rapid, brisk, speedy; cursory, slight, hurried, superficial; headlong, rash, reckless, precipitate, indiscreet, thoughtless; passionate, touchy, irritable, petulant, waspish, excitable, fiery, hot, irascible, peppery, fretful; impetuous, crude, incomplete, immature, undeveloped.

ANT. _Tardy, slow, leisurely, careful, reflective, developed, complete, matured, elaborate, thoughtful, deliberate._

=Hateful.= Malignant, malevolent, malign; abominable, detestable, odious, execrable, abhorrent, horrid, shocking, accursed, damnable; loathsome, disgusting, nauseous, foul, repulsive, offensive, vile, obnoxious, revolting, repugnant; heinous.

ANT. _Lovely, loveable, desirable, delightful, attractive, enticing, enjoyable, tempting, pleasant._

=Hatred.= Enmity, dislike, hostility, anger, abhorrence, aversion, spite, revenge, grudge, ill will, malice, antipathy, resentment, animosity, malignity, repugnance, rancor, detestation, malevolence.

ANT. _Friendship, love, benevolence, charity, beneficence._

=Have.= Hold, occupy, own, possess, be in possession of, regard, consider, esteem; wish, require, desire; obtain, get, acquire, receive, gain; be obliged, be under necessity; take, accept; bear, bring forth; feel, entertain, enjoy, keep.

ANT. _Want, need, lose, discard, forego, miss, reject, covet, desire._

=Havoc.= Ravage, devastation, destruction, desolation, waste, ruin; carnage, slaughter; demolition, wreck.

ANT. _Conservation, enrichment, enhancement, augmentation, development, prosperity, productiveness, luxuriance._

=Hazard=, _n._ Chance, peril, venture, risk, casualty, accident, contingency, danger, jeopardy, fortuity.

ANT. _Safeguard, protection, security, surety, certainty, necessity, plan, assurance, safety; warrant, calculation, law._

=Hazy.= Foggy, misty, nebulous, filmy, gauzy, cloudy, murky, gloomy.

ANT. _Clear, crystalline, diaphanous, transparent, bright, luminous, shining._

=Head.= Top, summit, acme; front, fore part; rise, commencement, source, origin, beginning; chief part, principal part; person, individual; chief, chieftain, leader, commander, master, superintendent, director; first place; understanding, mind, thought, intellect; topic, subject; class, section, department, category, division; seat of the brain; crown, ruler, crisis, gathering, culmination, leadership, guide.

ANT. _Tail, bottom, foot, follower, servant, retainer, subordinate, subordination, inferiority, body, bulk, substance, continuation._

=Heal.= Cure, remedy, restore; reconcile, compose, soothe, harmonize, settle; be cured, get well; repair, assuage, cicatrize.

ANT. _Harm, hurt, wound, pierce, ulcerate._

=Healthy.= Healthful, sanitary, hearty, hygienic, well, vigorous, strong, sound, wholesome, hale, salutary, salubrious, invigorating, bracing.

ANT. _Unhealthy, noxious, pernicious, insalubrious; ill, sickly, unhealthful, weak, diseased, feeble, wasted, emaciated, fainting, failing, unsound, worn, frail, fragile, exhausted, delicate._

=Heart.= Organ of circulation; interior, center, essence, core, kernel; disposition, mind, will, inclination, intent, passion, purpose; spirit, courage, firmness, fortitude, resolution; love, affection, feeling, emotion; conscience, character, moral nature; nucleus, hardihood, life, benevolence.

ANT. _Hand, action, aspect, exterior, manifestation, deed, conduct, timidity._

=Heart-broken.= Forlorn, disconsolate, inconsolable, miserable, wretched, desolate, cheerless, comfortless, in despair, broken-hearted, wobegone.

ANT. _Cheerful, hopeful, trusting._

=Heartily.= Cordially, zealously, sincerely, earnestly.

ANT. _Half-heartedly, insincerely, indifferently._

=Hearty.= Earnest, warm, cordial, sincere, true, deep, profound, heartfelt, unfeigned; active, zealous, vigorous, energetic, animated; healthy, hale, sound, strong, well, robust; abundant, full, heavy; nourishing, rich, nutritious; honest, genuine.

ANT. _Delicate, infirm, unhealthy, cold, insincere, hollow, dissembling, deceptive, deceitful, hypocritical, false._

=Heat.= Warmth, high temperature; excitement, flush, vehemence, impetuosity, passion, violence, fever; ardor, earnestness, fervor, zeal; contest, race, struggle; intensity, ebullition.

ANT. _Coolness, indifference, calmness, subsidence, composure, reflection._

=Heathenish.= Heathen, pagan, Gentile; cruel, savage, inhuman, ferocious; unconverted, unChristian, unbelieving, uncivilized.

ANT. _Christian, believing, refined, civilized, polished._

=Heave.= Lift, hoist, raise, elevate; breathe, exhale; throw, toss, hurl, fling, send; uplift, upraise, subelevate.

ANT. _Dash, sink, lower, detrude, precipitate._

=Heaven.= Firmament, sky, welkin, empyrean; Paradise, bliss, Elysium; felicity, transport, ecstasy, happiness, rapture, transcendent delight.

ANT. _Gehenna, limbo, abyss, Hades, Tartarus, Avernus, infernal regions; misery, agony, torment, remorse._

=Heavenly.= Celestial, divine, angelic, seraphic, cherubic, godlike, saintly, sainted, blessed, holy, beatific, beatified, glorified, blest; enrapturing, ravishing, rapturous, transporting, ecstatic, delightful, blissful, golden.

ANT. _Demoniacal, diabolical, foul, hideous, fiendish, hellish, infernal; terrene, human, terrestrial._

=Heavy.= Weighty, ponderous, oppressive, grievous, severe, burdensome, cumbersome, afflictive; dull, sluggish, inert, inactive, stupid, torpid, indolent, slow, lifeless, inanimate; dejected, depressed, sorrowful, sad, gloomy, despondent, melancholy, disconsolate, crushed, downcast, crestfallen; onerous, difficult, laborious, hard; tedious, weary, tiresome, wearisome; loaded, encumbered, burdened; miry, muddy, clayey, cloggy, soggy, ill-raised; tempestuous, stormy, strong, violent, energetic, boisterous; impenetrable, stolid; loud, deep, roaring; dense, dark, gloomy, cloudy, lowering; thick.

ANT. _Light, trifling, trivial, agile, active, joyous, brisk, alleviative, quick, consolatory, buoyant, inspiriting, animating._

=Hector.= Threaten, bully, menace; vex, tease, annoy, worry, fret, irritate, provoke, harass, harry; swagger, bluster, boast, vaunt.

ANT. _Cower, shrink, hide, abscond, skulk._

=Heed.= Observe, regard, notice, mind, attend, harken to, listen to, obey, care, be wary or cautious.

ANT. _Slight, ignore, disregard, neglect, omit, overlook._

=Heedful.= Observing, regardful, watchful, careful, cautious, attentive, wary, provident, circumspect, mindful.

ANT. _Heedless, careless, unobserving, thoughtless, unobservant, inattentive, negligent, regardless, unmindful, neglectful, remiss, inconsiderate, precipitate, reckless, headlong, rash._

=Height.= Altitude, elevation; eminence, summit, top, apex, acme; hill, mountain; exaltation, stature, dignity, loftiness, grandeur; tallness, culmination, crisis.

ANT. _Depth, lowness, depression, base, littleness, abasement; profundity._

=Heighten.= Elevate, raise; magnify, exalt, ennoble; increase, enhance, augment, improve; aggravate, intensify; color, exaggerate, vivify, amplify, lift up.

ANT. _Lower, diminish, depress, abase, deteriorate, temper, tone, modify, qualify, extenuate._

=Heinous.= Flagrant, flagitious, infamous, villainous, nefarious, wicked, atrocious, enormous, monstrous; hateful, detestable, odious, abominable, execrable.

ANT. _Excellent, laudable, distinguished, praiseworthy, justifiable, meritorious, excusable._

=Help.= Foster, aid, assist, encourage, succor, uphold, sustain, support, abet, coöperate, second, stand by, befriend, remedy, prevent, avoid, promote, relieve.

ANT. _Obstruct, incur, resist, aggravate, oppose, thwart, discourage, withstand, counteract._

=Hereditary.= Ancestral, patrimonial; transmitted, inherited; lineal.

ANT. _Conferred, acquired, won, achieved._

=Heresy.= Heterodoxy, error, unsound doctrine, schism, unorthodoxy.

ANT. _Orthodoxy, catholicity; convention, prevailing belief._

=Heretic.= Dissenter, schismatic, nonconformist, heresiarch.

ANT. _Orthodox believer, fanatic, adherent._

=Heritage.= Inheritance, entailment, legacy, bequest, portion, patrimony, estate.

ANT. _Wages, acquisition, merit, compensation._

=Hermetically.= Secretly, mysteriously, mystically, occultly, emblematically, symbolically; air-tight, closely.

ANT. _Loosely, misfittingly; openly._

=Heroic.= Brave, valiant, courageous, bold, daring, intrepid, fearless, dauntless, noble, magnanimous, gallant; epic; violent, extreme, desperate, extravagant; undaunted, chivalrous, romantic.

ANT. _Dastardly, cowardly, cravenly, fearful, timorous._

=Hesitate.= Doubt, pause, delay, demur, waver, vacillate; falter, stammer; dubitate, scruple.

ANT. _Decide, run, flow, determine, precipitate._

=Heterodox.= Unsound, unorthodox, heretical, freethinking.

ANT. _Sound, orthodox._

=Heterogeneous.= Unlike, variant, various, confused, conglomerate, mingled, mixed, discordant, miscellaneous, dissimilar, non-homogeneous; alien, strange, different, opposed, contrary, contrasted.

ANT. _Homogeneous, identical, like, same, pure, uniform, similar, alike, accordant, congruous._

=Hew.= Cut, chop, hack; smooth, fashion, form; mold, model, engrave, carve, sculpture, turn.

ANT. _Leave intact._

=Hibernal.= Wintry, brumal, arctic, glacial, frigid.

ANT. _Summery, balmy, zephyrous, halcyon, tropical._

=Hide.= Conceal, secrete, mask, dissemble, protect, store, disguise, screen, cover, burrow, ensconce; suppress, shelter, withhold, cloak, veil, bury, inter, entomb, overwhelm.

ANT. _Expose, disclose, discover, exhume, show, tell, raise, reveal, unveil, unmask, uncover, exhibit, confess, betray, avow, divulge, disinter, make known, lay bare, lay open, publish, advertise, manifest, promulgate, admit; strip._

=Hideous.= Frightful, dreadful, appalling, horrible, ghastly, terrible, horrid, grim, shocking, grisly; unshapely, ugly, monstrous.

ANT. _Graceful, beautiful, attractive, captivating._

=High.= Prominent, superior, distinguished, preëminent; dignified, great, admirable; recondite, abstruse, occult, profound, dark, obscure, transcendental; proud, haughty, arrogant, supercilious, lordly; boastful, ostentatious, bragging, vainglorious; despotic, domineering, overbearing, tyrannical; turbulent, violent, strong, tumultuous, boisterous; extreme; complete, full; dear; shrill, acute, sharp, high-pitched; northerly, southerly; early, primeval; capital, principal; strong-flavored; noble, exalted, steep, tall, towering, uplifted, elevated, eminent, lofty.

ANT. _Low, base, degraded, inferior, mean, short, stunted, depressed, dwarfed, ignoble._

=Hinder.= Delay, embarrass, oppose, prevent, stay, stop, retard, hamper, impede, baffle, encumber, check, bar, clog, counteract, frustrate, foil, interrupt, obstruct, resist, thwart, block, balk, debar.

ANT. _Quicken, hasten, speed, accelerate, expedite, enable, facilitate, promote._

=Hinge.= Turn, depend, hang, be dependent; move, work, rotate, circulate.

ANT. _Halt, jar, grate, precipitate, abrade; give, fail._

=Hire.= Engage, commission, rent, employ; bribe, buy up; lease, let.

ANT. _Buy, purchase._

=History.= Annals, chronicle, recital, memoir, narrative, record, register, story, account, archives, narration, muniment, memorial, autobiography, biography.

ANT. _Fiction, fable._

=Hit.= Strike; reach, attain, win, secure, gain; suit, accord with; clash, collide; succeed, be successful; chance, hazard, touch, mistake.

ANT. _Fail, err, miss, mischance, swerve, deflect, overshoot._

=Hitch.= Catch, get stuck or impeded; go by jerks; fasten, unite, connect, tie, attach; bar, stick, stickle, jam.

ANT. _Run, glide, slide, rotate, flow, continue._

=Hoard.= Store, deposit, save, garner, husband, hive, accumulate, amass, treasure.

ANT. _Waste, squander, dissipate, scatter._

=Hoarse.= Husky, raucous; grating, rough, harsh, low, guttural, gruff.

ANT. _Melodious, rich, mellow, sweet, mellifluous._

=Hoary.= Hoar, white, gray, silvery, frosty.

ANT. _Dark, raven, jet, black._

=Hoax.= Deceive, cheat, impose upon; befool, bamboozle, trick, dupe.

ANT. _Guide, enlighten, inform, undeceive, direct, regulate, correct._

=Hobby.= Nag, hobby-horse; pursuit, whim, amusement, specialty, idiosyncrasy.

ANT. _Nuisance, horror, aversion, incubus, bugbear, scarecrow._

=Hold.= Possess, retain, have, occupy; clasp, grasp, clutch, clinch; restrain, confine, imprison, detain; bind, fasten, unite, connect; stop, stay, arrest, suspend, withhold; support, maintain, sustain, continue, prosecute; embrace, entertain, cherish; heed, regard, consider, notice, judge, esteem, count, reckon, deem; contain, admit; celebrate, solemnize; assemble, convene; cohere, adhere, cling, stick, cleave; be firm, be fast, persist, last, endure; be derived; think, be of opinion, believe; stand, be true.

ANT. _Drop, surrender, fail, abandon, desert, release, forego, vacate, concede, break, cease; speed, accelerate; give, dispense; disperse._

=Hollow=, _a._ Empty, void, vacant, vacuous, cavernous; insincere, false, faithless, hypocritical, treacherous, deceitful, false-hearted, pharisaical; artificial, concave, insubstantial, flimsy, transparent, senseless, unsound; deep, low, rumbling.

ANT. _Full, solid, firm, sincere, well-stored, strong, true, sound, genuine, substantial._

=Holy.= Hallowed, sacred, consecrated, blessed, devoted, set apart; righteous, saintly, spiritual, devout, saintlike, godly, religious, heavenly-minded, pious, pure; reverend, sanctified, divine.

ANT. _Cursed, polluted, unsanctified, unconsecrated, unhallowed, wicked, worldly, abominable, common, impure, unholy, secular, profane, evil._

=Homage.= Fealty, allegiance, devotion, loyalty, fidelity; reverence, obeisance, respect, deference, duty, service, honor; worship, adoration; affiance, submission, veneration.

ANT. _Treason, rebellion, defiance, insubordination, disaffection._

=Home.= Habitation, hearth, residence, house, abode, dwelling, domicil, fireside, hearthstone, ingleside.

=Homely.= Domestic, homelike; plain, coarse, uncomely, inelegant, homespun; rather ugly.

ANT. _Handsome, beautiful, courtly, refined, elegant._

=Honest.= Honorable, fair, open, straightforward, equitable; upright, virtuous, conscientious, just, true, faithful, trusty, reliable, trustworthy; genuine, thorough; decent, reputable, respectable, creditable, suitable, proper; chaste; truthful, ingenuous, sincere, frank, unreserved, candid, good.

ANT. _Lying, unscrupulous, mendacious, untrue, deceitful, dishonest, false, hypocritical, fraudulent, disingenuous, perfidious, faithless, treacherous, unfaithful, traitorous; dishonorable, improper, wrong, insincere, vicious._

=Honesty.= Integrity, uprightness, probity, justice, fairness, equity, honor, fidelity, faithfulness; truth, truthfulness, veracity; genuineness, thoroughness; chastity, virtue; sincerity, candor, frankness, openness, unreserve, ingenuousness; straightforwardness, rectitude.

ANT. _Insincerity, trickery, dishonesty, guile, fraud, deception, unfairness, chicanery._

=Honor.= Veneration, reverence, respect, homage, deference, civility; dignity, elevation, distinction; majesty; reputation, repute, fame, esteem, credit, glory, consideration; integrity, probity, rectitude; pride, nobility, eminence, high-mindedness, spirit, self-respect, grandeur, renown.

ANT. _Contempt, irreverence, disrespect, slight, obscurity, demoralization, degradation, debasement, disgrace, cowardice, infamy, dishonor._

=Honorable.= Honest, upright, high-minded, illustrious, noble, great, just, fair, trustworthy, conscientious, virtuous, estimable, reputable, right, proper, creditable, equitable.

ANT. _Dishonorable, dishonest, false, treacherous._

=Honorary.= Unofficial, nominal, gratuitous, titular, unremunerative.

ANT. _Professional, official, remunerative, jurisdictional._

=Hoot.= Shout; cry like an owl; denounce, hiss, execrate, cry down, decry, sibilate.

ANT. _Salute, welcome, cheer, honor, acclaim, eulogize._

=Hope.= Trust, confidence, faith, reliance; expectancy, expectation, possibility; dependence; anticipation, prospect, longing, vision, desire.

ANT. _Despair, despondency, distrust, abandonment, disbelief, abjuration._

=Horizontal.= Plain, flat, level, even, plane.

ANT. _Vertical, inclined, uneven, slanting, sloping, hilly, broken, irregular, rough, rolling, rugged._

=Horrible.= Horrid, frightful, terrible, terrific, alarming, dire, portentous, appalling, horrific, horrifying, formidable, awful, harrowing, dreadful, hideous, fearful; abominable, ghastly, detestable, hateful, direful.

ANT. _Lovely, desirable, enjoyable, attractive, beautiful, fair, pleasant, amiable._

=Horror.= Fright, alarm, dread, fear, consternation, terror, affright, dismay, panic; abomination, abhorrence, detestation, disgust, hatred, shuddering, antipathy; shrinking.

ANT. _Love, attraction, enticement, allurement._

=Horse.= Steed, charger, stallion, gelding, mare, colt, pony, nag, courser, barb, filly, palfrey; cavalry, horsemen; stand, support, frame.

=Hospitable.= Generous, liberal, bountiful, open, kind, unconstrained, unreserved, receptive, large-minded; sociable, neighborly, charitable.

ANT. _Unsociable, exclusive, retired, recluse, unneighborly, churlish._

=Host.= Entertainer; innkeeper, landlord; army, legion; multitude, horde, throng, number, assemblage.

ANT. _Handful, sprinkling, group, knot, corps, section; guest, traveler, boarder, lodger._

=Hostage.= Sponsor, bail, surety.

ANT. _Dictator, conqueror._

=Hostile.= Inimical, unfriendly; adverse, opposite, contrary, repugnant, opposing, opposed.

ANT. _Friendly, kindly, amicable, neighborly, cordial, congenial._

=Hostility.= Enmity, animosity, hatred, unfriendliness, ill will; opposition, repugnance, variance, contrariety.

ANT. _Companionship, congeniality, sympathy, harmony, fellow-feeling, concord, alliance, kindliness, friendship._

=Hot.= Burning, fiery, scalding, heated, very warm; irascible, impetuous, excitable, passionate, hasty, furious, violent; ardent, fervent, vehement, eager, glowing, animated, fervid; biting, pungent, sharp, acrid, peppery, stinging, piquant, high-flavored; choleric.

ANT. _Cold, frigid, cool, arctic, chilled, chilly, boreal, bleak, wintry, frosty, icy; apathetic, unresponsive, unfeeling, stoical, passionless, uninspiring, dull, dead, indifferent, unconcerned._

=Huge.= Immense, enormous, colossal, vast, bulky, stupendous, gigantic, elephantine, Herculean, Cyclopean, large, great, monstrous, prodigious.

ANT. _Petty, pigmy, puny, undersized, small, minute._

=Human.= Cosmical, ethnical, anthropological, rational, civilized.

ANT. _Inhuman, beastly, irrational, animal, brutish._

=Humane.= Kind, benevolent, benignant, accommodating, tender, compassionate, charitable, sympathetic, gentle, clement, kind-hearted; tender-hearted; elevating, refining, cultivating, rational, spiritual, humanizing; benign, merciful, gracious, pitying, human, forgiving.

ANT. _Barbarous; inhuman, unkind, cruel, unmerciful._

=Humanity.= Mankind; benevolence, kindness, philanthropy, tenderness, sympathy, charity, humaneness, good nature; human spirit, rationality, reason, culture; man, compassion, sensibility.

ANT. _Unkindness, cruelty, inhumanity, irrationality, bestiality, barbarity._

=Humanize.= Soften, make humane; civilize, cultivate, refine, polish, improve, enlighten, reclaim, educate; ameliorate, christianize.

ANT. _Barbarize, degrade, debase, brutalize, depress._

=Humble.= Meek, modest, unassuming, unobtrusive, lowly, unpretending, submissive, small, poor, low; obscure.

ANT. _High, lofty, assuming, pretentious, proud, boastful, arrogant, eminent._

=Humid.= Damp, wet, moist, vaporous, dank, spongy.

ANT. _Dry, arid, moistureless, parched._

=Humor=, _n._ Disposition, temper, bent, propensity, bias, predilection; mood, frame of mind, fancy, caprice, whim, freak, vagary, crotchet; pleasantry, fun, jocularity, wit, facetiousness.

ANT. _Nature, personality, mind, purpose, will, seriousness._

=Humorous.= Facetious, jocular, jocose, funny, comical, sportive, comic, ludicrous, pleasant, witty.

ANT. _Grave, serious, sober, matter-of-fact, solemn, sad._

=Hurry=, _n._ Flutter, flurry, precipitation, confusion, bluster, bustle, agitation, perturbation; haste, despatch, celerity, expedition, quickness, promptness.

ANT. _Slowness; composure._

=Hurry=, _v._ Haste, hasten, move quickly; urge, speed, expedite, despatch, accelerate.

ANT. _Delay, retard, slow down; loiter, saunter, move slowly._

=Hurt=, _n._ Damage, harm, injury, mischief, disadvantage, detriment, wound.

ANT. _Benefit, pleasure._

=Hurt=, _v._ Injure, harm, damage, impair, mar; pain, wound; grieve, afflict, bruise.

ANT. _Heal, soothe, console, repair, benefit, compensate, reinstate._

=Hurtful.= Harmful, injurious, mischievous, detrimental, deleterious, disadvantageous, baneful, noxious, prejudicial, pernicious, baleful.

ANT. _Helpful, beneficial, advantageous, wholesome, salubrious, good, sanative, remedial._

=Hybrid.= Mixed, impure, mongrel, mule, half-breed.

ANT. _Pure, unmixed, thoroughbred._

=Hypocrisy.= Formalism, Pharisaism, cant, pietism, sanctimoniousness, assumed piety; deceit, deception, dissimulation, false profession, imposture; sanctimony, pretense, sham, affectation.

ANT. _Sincerity, transparency, truth, honesty, genuineness, candor, frankness, openness, ingenuousness, truthfulness._

=Hypocrite.= Deceiver, impostor, pretender, cheat, dissembler; Pharisee, formalist.

ANT. _Saint, believer, Christian; dupe, bigot, fanatic, simpleton._

=Hypocritical.= Canting, Pharisaical, sanctimonious; insincere, dissembling, false, hollow, faithless, deceitful, unctuous, smug, smooth, mincing.

ANT. _Candid, truthful, sincere, plain-spoken, transparent, genuine._

=Hypothesis.= Scheme, speculation, system, supposition, conjecture, guess, surmise, theory.

ANT. _Certainty, demonstration, evidence, fact, proof, discovery._

I

=Idea.= Concept, conception, impression, judgment, plan, opinion, purpose, conceit, design, fancy, pattern, thought, theory, belief, image, imagination, notion, supposition, ideal, apprehension, fantasy, model, sentiment, archetype; doctrine, understanding; fiction.

ANT. _Object, form, subject; substance, fact, actuality, reality._

=Ideal=, _n._ Idea, archetype, original, model, standard, prototype.

ANT. _Fact, performance, reality, practice, act, accomplishment, achievement, action, realization, attainment, development, doing, incarnation, embodiment, execution._

=Ideal=, _a._ Mental, conceptional, intellectual, notional, creative, spiritual, poetical, supposititious, unreal, fictitious, imaginary, fanciful, imaginative, chimerical.

ANT. _Physical, material, visible, tangible, historical, substantial, real, actual, palpable._

=Ideality.= Imagination, conception, invention, fancy, creativeness, genius.

ANT. _Imitation, uninventiveness, copyism, unimaginativeness; literality._

=Identical.= Same, selfsame, not different; particular.

ANT. _Different, separate, contrary._

=Identify.= Prove identical, make identical, confound; unite, integrate, incorporate, recognize, verify.

ANT. _Divide, disunite, confound, confuse, overlook, mistake._

=Identity.= Sameness, unity, oneness, union, personality, individuality, convertibility.

ANT. _Difference, separateness, distinctness, contrariety, plurality._

=Idiocy.= Imbecility; foolishness, fatuity, irrationality; aberration, insanity; stupidity, folly, senselessness, incapacity.

ANT. _Intelligence, sagacity, wisdom, capacity, brilliancy, astuteness, acuteness, sense, common sense, soundness; sanity, judgment._

=Idiom.= Specialty, phrase, turn, peculiarity, characteristic.

ANT. _Barbarism, solecism._

=Idiosyncrasy.= Peculiarity, idiocrasy; constitution, temperament, specialty, characteristic, individuality, singularity, eccentricity.

ANT. _Community, universality, generality._

=Idiot.= Fool, natural, imbecile.

ANT. _Sage, authority, luminary._

=Idle.= Unbusied, unused, leisure; useless, ineffectual, fruitless, bootless, unavailing, vain, abortive, futile; trifling, trivial, unimportant, trashy, foolish, unprofitable; waste, empty; indolent, inert, lazy, slothful, unoccupied, vacant, inactive, sluggish, unemployed.

ANT. _Active, busy, diligent, industrious, employed, working; occupied; tilled; filled, populated; assiduous._

=Idolize.= Deify; adore, worship, reverence, venerate.

ANT. _Loathe, abominate, execrate, abhor._

=Ignoble.= Plebeian, vulgar, untitled, baseborn, low, mean, rustic, peasant; worthless, insignificant, contemptible; dishonorable, disgraceful, inferior, unworthy; humble.

ANT. _Honorable, eminent, exalted, noble, lordly, illustrious, grand, notable._

=Ignominious.= Dishonorable, infamous, disgraceful, shameful, scandalous, disreputable, opprobrious; despicable, base, deserving ignominy, contemptible.

ANT. _Honorable, creditable, reputable, estimable, worthy._

=Ignominy.= Dishonor, disgrace, discredit, shame, infamy, disrepute, contempt, obloquy, opprobrium, scandal, abasement, odium; reprobation, reproach.

ANT. _Credit, honor, reputation, glory, luster, distinction, renown._

=Ignoramus.= Smatterer, novice, wiseacre, dunce, simpleton, dullard, greenhorn, numskull.

ANT. _Savant, sage, luminary._

=Ignorance.= Illiteracy, stupidity, nescience, blindness, darkness.

ANT. _Knowledge, wisdom, sense, learning, erudition._

=Ignorant.= Illiterate, unlearned, unlettered, unskilled, untaught, untutored, uneducated, ill-informed, uninstructed, uninformed.

ANT. _Educated, learned, instructed, sage, wise, skilled, cultured, trained, well-informed, cultivated._

=Ignore.= Disregard, neglect, overlook, not recognize; set aside, reject; disown, repudiate.

ANT. _Own, notice, recognize, mark, visit, avow, claim._

=Ill=, _n._ Wickedness, depravity, evil; misfortune, calamity, affliction, misery, harm, pain.

ANT. _Good, blessing, fortune; righteousness, integrity, honor._

=Ill=, _a._ Bad, evil, unfortunate, unfavorable; wicked, wrong, iniquitous, naughty; sick, ailing, diseased, disordered, poorly, indisposed; cross, crabbed, surly, peevish, hateful, malicious; ill-favored, ugly.

ANT. _Well, strong, good, vigorous, healthy, robust, hearty, hale._

=Ill-bred.= Impolite, uncivil, uncourteous, uncourtly, uncouth, unpolished, rude, ill-behaved, ill-mannered.

ANT. _Polite, well-behaved, civil, refined, courteous._

=Illuminate.= Light, illumine, illume; enlighten, make wise, instruct, inspire; emblazon, irradiate.

ANT. _Darken, obscure, bedim, mislead, delude._

=Illusion.= Delusion, hallucination, deception, error, fallacy, mockery, fantasy, phantasm, chimera; dream, vision, myth.

ANT. _Body, substance, form, reality, actuality, essence._

=Illusive.= Delusive, deceptive, deceitful, fallacious; visionary, unreal, disappointing, fugitive, erroneous, false, imaginary, illusory, chimerical.

ANT. _Substantial, real, true, satisfactory, solid, permanent._

=Illustrate.= Elucidate, explain, exemplify, make clear; interpret, demonstrate, represent, embody, paint, image; adorn with pictures.

ANT. _Obscure, misinterpret, confuse, mystify, darken, misrepresent._

=Illustrious.= Glorious, splendid, brilliant, bright, radiant; famous, famed, noted, renowned, distinguished, celebrated, eminent, signal, remarkable, conspicuous; deathless, noble.

ANT. _Ignominious, disgraceful, infamous, inglorious, disreputable._

=Ill will.= Malevolence, unkindness, malice, enmity, hatred, hate, rancor, envy, grudge, uncharitableness, ill nature; antipathy, dislike, aversion.

ANT. _Good will, benevolence, beneficence._

=Im-= or =In-=. This prefix, which is regularly _in-_, and which becomes _il-_ before _l_, _ir-_ before _r_, and _im-_ before a labial, means _in_, _into_, _on_, or _among_, or denotes the negative _not_, or, occasionally, has a simple intensive meaning. Such words as begin with this prefix without modification of the combined meaning of the prefix and root word, will be easily derived from the antonyms and synonyms of the root words. Others of more derived meaning are found here.

=Image.= Statue; idol, object of worship; likeness, effigy, figure, resemblance, similitude, representation, picture; trope, metaphor; idea, copy, conception, fiction, shadow, vision.

ANT. _Person, original, substance, subject, object, reality, truth, verity._

=Imagery.= Phantasm, phantom, vision, dream; tropes, figures of speech, poetry, fancy, illustration, metaphor, similitude.

ANT. _Prose, statement, fact._

=Imagination.= Conception, invention, ideality, fancy, fantasy, creative power; esemplastic faculty; idea, notion; contrivance, scheme, device, plot; illusion.

=Imaginative.= Inventive, creative, plastic, poetical, esemplastic, poetic; conceptive, romantic, ideal, original.

ANT. _Unimaginative, unpoetical, prosaic, unromantic, literal, uninventive, matter-of-fact._

=Imagine.= Conceive, think, image, fancy, picture; devise, contrive, frame, project, invent, create, mold; suppose, assume; deem, apprehend, believe; surmise, understand, fabricate, presume.

ANT. _Represent, exhibit, depict, prove, demonstrate, verify, substantiate._

=Imbecile=, _a._ Weak, feeble, helpless, infirm, decrepit; foolish, witless, idiotic, driveling, fatuous.

ANT. _Shrewd, clever, sagacious._

=Imbecility.= Weakness, debility, feebleness, infirmity, helplessness; foolishness, childishness, idiocy, fatuity, dotage, senility.

ANT. _Strength, energy, virility, vigor, power._

=Imbibe.= Absorb, take in, suck in, swallow up; receive, gather, gain, acquire, get, pick up; assimilate, learn.

ANT. _Discard, reject, renounce, disavow, abjure, repudiate._

=Imitate.= Copy, follow, pattern after; mimic, ape, mock, impersonate, take off; burlesque, travesty, parody; represent, resemble, portray, depict, repeat, counterfeit.

ANT. _Misrepresent, caricature, alter, vary, distort, remodel, differentiate, dissimilate, modify._

=Imitative.= Imitating, copying, mimicking, aping, apish, caricaturing, unoriginal, servile.

ANT. _Original, creative, inventive._

=Immaculate.= Spotless, unspotted, stainless, unsullied, unsoiled, untainted, unblemished, untarnished, clean, pure, undefiled; innocent, guiltless, sinless, faultless, fair, holy, saintly; virgin, unpolluted.

ANT. _Impure, corrupt, sinful, contaminated, defiled, polluted, tainted, spotted._

=Immanent.= Intrinsic, inherent, internal, indwelling; empirical; innate, subjective, congenital, ingrained, natural, implicit.

ANT. _Emanant, transitive, developed, projective, exsilient, phenomenal, explicit, accidental, transcendental, transeunt._

=Immaterial.= Incorporeal, unbodied, unfleshly, spiritual, supersensible; unimportant, insignificant, unessential, non-essential, trivial, trifling.

ANT. _Material, physical, important, corporeal, essential._

=Immature.= Unripe, crude, raw, green, unformed, unprepared, imperfect, rudimentary, unfinished; premature, hasty, unseasonable, untimely; undeveloped.

ANT. _Ripe, complete, developed, mature, finished._

=Immeasurable.= Illimitable, unbounded, boundless, limitless, measureless, immense, infinite; vast, unfathomable.

ANT. _Finite, limited, circumscribed, restricted, shallow, bounded._

=Immediate.= Proximate, close, near, next; direct, unmediated; instantaneous, instant, present; contiguous.

ANT. _Distant, remote, mediate, future._

=Immediately.= Presently, this instant, straightway, directly, forthwith, at once, now, right off, instantly, without delay.

ANT. _Hereafter, by-and-by, after a while, sometime._

=Immemorial.= Olden, ancient, hoary, archaic, primitive, remote, time-honored, primordial.

ANT. _Recent, modern, late, fresh, upstart._

=Immerse.= Dip, plunge, submerge, sink, douse, duck, bury; soak, steep, macerate, drown, inundate, overwhelm.

ANT. _Dry, drain, parch, ventilate, air, ground, strand._

=Immigration.= Migration, colonization, settlement.

ANT. _Exodus, emigration._

=Imminent.= Impending, hovering, threatening.

ANT. _Improbable, doubtful, unexpected, unlikely, contingent, chimerical, problematical; warded, staved, escaped._

=Immunity.= Freedom, exemption, release, exoneration; prerogative, privilege, right, liberty, charter, franchise; dispensation.

ANT. _Liability, obligation, jurisdiction, impost, amenability, burden._

=Imp.= Sprite, hobgoblin, demon, devil, flibbertigibbet, scamp, brat.

ANT. _Cherub, angel._

=Impact.= Impulse, shock, impression, stroke; collision, contact, striking, impinging; application.

ANT. _Isolation, separation, interval, removal, avoidance, non-contact, shave._

=Impair.= Deteriorate, vitiate, injure, harm, make worse; lessen, diminish, decrease; enervate, weaken, enfeeble; reduce, damage.

ANT. _Enhance, improve, repair, augment, better, increase._

=Impassioned.= Passionate, vehement, impetuous, animated, exciting, glowing, intense, fervid, fervent, warm, ardent, zealous; spirited.

ANT. _Cool, impassive, unimpassioned, apathetic, indifferent._

=Impatience.= Uneasiness, disquietude, restlessness; haste, vehemence, eagerness, precipitation, impetuosity; heat, violence of temper, irritability, irritableness.

ANT. _Patience, calmness, endurance, composure, leniency, submission, forbearance, long-suffering._

=Impediment.= Bar, hindrance, obstacle, obstruction, difficulty, clog, encumbrance, stumbling-block, check.

ANT. _Assistance, aid, benefit, help, relief, succor, advantage; aidance, support, furtherance._

=Imperative.= Commanding, authoritative, peremptory; binding, obligatory; urgent, irresistible, dictatorial, inexorable, compulsory.

ANT. _Indulgent, lenient, supplicatory, mild, optional, discretional, entreative._

=Imperial.= Belonging to an empire, kingly, regal, sovereign, royal; majestic, grand, magnificent, exalted, great, noble, supreme, consummate, superb.

ANT. _Ignoble, servile, slavish, beggarly, mean, paltry._

=Imperious.= Magisterial, dictatorial, despotic, domineering, tyrannical, overbearing, lordly, haughty, arrogant, authoritative, exacting.

ANT. _Yielding, compliant, submissive, gentle, mild, docile, ductile._

=Impetuous.= Fierce, vehement, violent, furious, passionate, precipitate, hasty, headlong, over-zealous, reckless, rash, excitable.

ANT. _Careful, slow, deliberate, thoughtful, reflective, leisurely._

=Implement.= Utensil, tool, appliance, instrument.

ANT. _Labor, work, science, art, agriculture, manufacture._

=Implicate.= Entangle, enfold, involve, connect, associate, compromise, charge, incriminate.

ANT. _Disconnect, extricate, acquit, dissociate._

=Implication.= Entanglement, involution; inference, conclusion; intricacy, complication; concealment, latency; allusion, insinuation, innuendo, adumbration.

ANT. _Arrangement, system, orderliness; manifestation, expression, exposition, demonstration, production._

=Implicit.= Understood, implied, inferred, tacit; unreserved, unhesitating, firm, steadfast, unshaken, undoubting; involved.

ANT. _Expressed, explicit, developed, stated, plain, specific, unambiguous._

=Imply.= Involve, import, include, signify, mean, indicate, suggest, hint, denote.

ANT. _Express, declare, state, pronounce._

=Import=, _n._ Meaning, sense, purport, drift, signification, gist, spirit, bearing, tenor, intention.

ANT. _Statement, proceeding._

=Import=, _v._ Bring into; purport, denote, imply, betoken, signify, mean; concern, be of significance to; introduce.

ANT. _Export, banish, exile, send abroad._

=Importance.= Consequence, moment, weight, significance, momentousness, import, concern; avail; self-importance, pomposity.

ANT. _Nothingness, insignificance, unimportance, immateriality._

=Important.= Grave, weighty, momentous, serious, material, significant; influential, prominent, pompous, self-important, consequential; expressive, leading, main, relevant, considerable, essential, great, dignified.

ANT. _Insignificant, trivial, inconsiderable, irrelevant, secondary, petty, mean, uninfluential, minor, unimportant._

=Importunate.= Urgent, pertinacious, pressing, teasing, busy, solicitous, overurgent, overentreative.

ANT. _Modest, diffident, self-reliant, self-respecting._

=Importune.= Urge, entreat, press, solicit, dun, beset, pester, tease, worry, trouble.

ANT. _Surrender, sacrifice, abandon; grant, bestow._

=Impose.= Put, set, lay, place; appoint, enjoin, prescribe; obtrude, palm off, pass; inflict, subject.

ANT. _Remove, disburden, unload, free; hold up, arrest, disclose._

=Imposing.= Stately, august, majestic, grand, noble, commanding, impressive; striking, effective, dignified.

ANT. _Petty, undignified, unimposing, insignificant, paltry, puny._

=Imposition.= Imposing, putting, placing, laying; burden, levy, tax, constraint, oppression, injunction; deception, fraud, artifice, trickery, imposture, cheating; presumption, exaction, encroachment.

ANT. _Sanction, warrant, authority; truth, verity, fact, certainty, verification, genuineness, authenticity, honesty._

=Impost.= Tax, duty, custom, excise, levy, toll, tribute, rate; imposition.

ANT. _Revenue, proceeds, exemption, immunity._

=Impostor.= Deceiver, pretender, cheat, hypocrite, knave, charlatan, mountebank, rogue, Pharisee, trickster, dissembler.

ANT. _Guide, enlightener, detector, undeceiver._

=Imposture.= Cheat, trick, deception, imposition, fraud, ruse, delusion, dodge, artifice, wile, deceit, stratagem, hoax.

ANT. _Truth, fact, verity, reality._

=Impotence.= Disability, incapacity, incompetence, powerlessness, weakness, inefficiency, infirmity, frailty, imbecility, inability, incapability, helplessness, disqualification.

ANT. _Capacity, vigor, qualification, ability._

=Impoverish.= Make poor or indigent, exhaust, deplete, rob, beggar, fleece, denude.

ANT. _Enrich, aggrandize, augment, store, enhance, endow._

=Impregnable.= Invincible, unassailable, invulnerable, immovable, inexpugnable, secure, tenable, irrefragable.

ANT. _Pregnable, weak, exposed, defenseless, expugnable._

=Impregnate.= Fecundate, imbue, infuse, tincture, saturate, fill, fertilize; mix, combine, insert, steep, vivify, teach.

ANT. _Remove, evolve, extricate, separate, destroy, quench, extinguish, be studious, learn._

=Impression.= Printing, stamping, imprinting; stamp, impress, brand; mark; sensation, effect, influence; notion, idea, opinion, fancy.

ANT. _Concept, apprehension, comprehension._

=Impressive.= Affecting, touching, moving, stirring, powerful, striking, overpowering; forcible, solemn, imposing, important.

ANT. _Weak, feeble, vapid, tame, unimpressive, dry, insignificant._

=Improve.= Mend, gain, become better, get on, gain ground; increase, rise, be enhanced; better, amend, ameliorate, rectify; progress; avail one’s self of, use, make productive; correct, reform.

ANT. _Debase, deteriorate, vitiate, spoil, mar, impair, injure, depress._

=Improvement.= Amending, bettering, amelioration, amendment, progress, efficiency, proficiency, advancement, use, betterment; increase, correction.

ANT. _Degeneracy, retrogradation, degeneration, debasement, deterioration, retrogression._

=Impudence.= Assurance, boldness, impertinence, pertness, rudeness, sauciness, effrontery, forwardness, incivility, insolence, presumption, officiousness, intrusiveness.

ANT. _Bashfulness, humility, diffidence, meekness, lowliness, modesty, submissiveness; coyness, obsequiousness, subserviency, abasement._

=Impugn.= Attack, assail, contradict, oppose, resist, gainsay, controvert, deny, blame.

ANT. _Declare, state, allege, approve, commend, defend, repel; propose, propound, confront, face._

=Impulse.= Thrust, push, impetus; passion, instinct, proclivity, inclination, appetite; motive, influence, incitement, instigation, incentive, force, sudden thought.

ANT. _Deliberation, premeditation, rebuff, repulse._

=Impulsive.= Propulsive, impelling, moving; hot, quick, rash, hasty, passionate; wayward, impressible.

ANT. _Discreet, hesitating, reluctant, timid, calculating, wary, cautious._

=Impute.= Ascribe, refer, charge, attribute, imply, insinuate.

ANT. _Withdraw, retract, recall; clear, justify, acquit._

=Inane.= Empty, void; worthless, trifling, vacuous, vain, puerile, frivolous; pointless, feeble, vapid, characterless.

ANT. _Significant, pointed, powerful, sensible, forcible._

=Inanition.= Emptiness, vacuity, inanity; vanity, folly, puerility, worthlessness, frivolousness; exhaustion, starvation.

ANT. _Fulness, repletion, plethora; significance, meaning._

=Inaugurate.= Install, invest, induct; celebrate; commence, begin, initiate, originate.

ANT. _Divert, deprive, conclude, terminate._

=Inauguration.= Investiture, installation, induction, consecration, institution, initiation; commencement, formal opening, beginning, origination.

ANT. _Dismissal, discharge; valediction, valedictory; close, conclusion, end, termination._

=Incandescence.= White heat, incalescence, glow.

ANT. _Iciness, refrigeration, congelation, crystallization._

=Incantation.= Sorcery, charm, enchantment, spell, magic, conjuration, witchcraft, witchery, necromancy; recitation, invocation.

ANT. _Evocation, exorcism._

=Incarnation.= Embodiment, impersonation, manifestation, exemplification, personification.

ANT. _Disembodiment, abstraction, spiritualization._

=Incendiarism.= Arson; conflagration.

ANT. _Extinction, quenching, annihilation._

=Incense=, _v._ Enrage, exasperate, irritate, provoke, inflame, anger, excite, heat, chafe, sting, nettle, gall.

ANT. _Allay, soothe, pacify, appease, conciliate, mollify._

=Incentive.= Inducement, incitement, spur, impulse, stimulant, goad, motive, cause, encouragement, rousing, excitation.

ANT. _Deterrent, prohibition, warning, discouragement, dissuasion._

=Inception.= Beginning, inauguration, commencement.

ANT. _Ending, finis, conclusion, termination._

=Incessant.= Ceaseless, continual, unceasing, unremitting, perpetual, constant, everlasting, eternal, uninterrupted, unintermittent.

ANT. _Periodic, occasional, intermittent, interrupted._

=Incidence.= Impact, stroke, impingement.

ANT. _Reflection, resilience, rebound._

=Incident=, _n._ Event, occurrence, circumstance, chance, accident, fact, adventure, casualty.

ANT. _Cause, antecedent, reason, tendency, inducement, influence._

=Incident=, =Incidental=, _a._ Happening, liable; belonging, pertaining, appertaining, natural, relating; falling, impinging; casual, occasional, pertinent, fortuitous, concurrent, concomitant, accidental.

ANT. _Regular, systematic, disconnected, independent, irrelative, inherent, essential, immanent, invariable, uniform._

=Incipient.= Beginning, inchoate, commencing, embryonic.

ANT. _Final, terminal._

=Inclemency.= Harshness, severity, rigor, roughness, boisterousness, storminess, tempestuousness.

ANT. _Clemency, mildness, leniency, gentleness._

=Inclement.= Harsh, tyrannical, cruel, unmerciful, severe, rigorous, stormy, rough, boisterous.

ANT. _Benign, clement, mild, genial, merciful._

=Inclination.= Inclining, slope, leaning, slant; trend, verging, obliquity; disposition, predilection, bent, bias, proclivity, proneness, tendency, leaning, aptitude, propensity; desire, wish, fondness, liking,

## partiality; aptness, attachment, affection.

ANT. _Tangency, disinclination, divergence, ineptitude, inaptness, dislike._

=Incline=, _v._ Slant, lean, slope; trend, verge, tend; be disposed, have a desire _or_ propensity; dispose, predispose, turn, bias; bend, bow; bear, dip, induce, prompt.

ANT. _Deter, restrain, check; ascend, rise; indispose, disincline._

=Include.= Hold, contain; comprise, embody, comprehend, embrace, take in.

ANT. _Exclude, leave out._

=Inclusive.= Enclosing, encircling; including, comprehending, embracing; comprehensive, additive, implied.

ANT. _Exclusive, excepted; adversative, opposite, contrary, antithetical._

=Income.= Revenue, profits, gains; proceeds, pay, allowance.

ANT. _Expenditure, disbursement, outlay, expense._

=Incongruous.= Inconsistent, unsuitable, absurd, conflicting, discordant, discrepant, repugnant, mismated, incompatible, inapposite, contrary, contradictory, inappropriate, inharmonious, ill-matched, irreconcilable, mismatched.

ANT. _Consistent, harmonious, suitable, accordant, agreeing, compatible._

=Increase=, _n._ Accession, growth, extension, augmentation, addition, enlargement, expansion, increment; product, produce, gain, profit; offspring, issue, progeny, descendants.

ANT. _Deduction, detraction, diminution, contraction, loss, waste, detriment, curtailment, reduction, expenditure, impoverishment._

=Increase=, _v._ Advance, heighten, pile up, enhance, aggregate, dilate, magnify, spread, augment, greaten, enlarge, raise; extend, prolong; aggravate, intensify; grow; multiply, be fruitful.

ANT. _Decrease, lessen, diminish, decline, abate, lower, reduce, curtail, retrench._

=Inculcate.= Infuse, impress, enforce, instil, implant, ingraft, urge, teach.

ANT. _Insinuate, suggest, abjure, disavow, denounce._

=Incumbent.= Obligatory, binding, devolving; lying, leaning, reclining, resting, weighing down, prone; coercive, indispensable, urgent; threatening, impending.

ANT. _Optional, discretional, elective, voluntary._

=Incur.= Contract, become liable to; bring on; meet, run.

ANT. _Avoid, shun._

=Incursion.= Inroad, raid, invasion, irruption, descent, foray, sally, encroachment.

ANT. _Encampment, retreat, abode, settlement._

=Indebted.= Owing, obliged, beholden, under obligation.

ANT. _Disobliged, unbeholden._

=Indeed.= Truly, really, verily, positively, absolutely, in fact, veritably, certainly, in truth; strictly, in point of fact.

ANT. _By no means, not at all._

=Indefatigable.= Unwearied, untiring, persevering, persistent, assiduous, sedulous, unremitting, never-tiring, unflagging; incessant, indomitable.

ANT. _Idle, indifferent, indolent._

=Indelible.= Ineffaceable, indestructible, ingrained, indefeasible, irreversible, persistent.

ANT. _Mutable, evanescent, transient, effaceable._

=Indemnify.= Secure, save; compensate, remunerate, reimburse, requite; satisfy.

ANT. _Fine, mulct, amerce._

=Indicate.= Show, denote, mark, betoken, signify, point out, designate, specify; evidence, evince, betray, manifest, declare.

ANT. _Conceal, misdirect, falsify, misindicate, negative, contradict._

=Indication.= Indicating sign, mark, note, index, symptom, token, hint, suggestion, manifestation; evidence, demonstration, proof, prognostic.

ANT. _Silence, surmise, misdirection, undemonstrativeness, misguidance, misindication._

=Indictment.= Indicting, presentment; accusation, charge, impeachment, arraignment, crimination.

=Indifference.= Neutrality, impartiality, disinterestedness; unconcern, apathy, coolness, negligence, carelessness, inattention, heedlessness; triviality, insignificance, unimportance; inferiority; insensibility, composure.

ANT. _Importance, interest, significance, weight, gravity, affection, ardor, eagerness._

=Indifferent.= Neutral, unbiased, impartial, disinterested; cool, unconcerned, unmoved, cold, inattentive, apathetic, dead, regardless, heedless, unmindful; equal, all the same, all one, just the same; passable, tolerable, ordinary, middling, mediocre, rather poor; lukewarm, careless.

ANT. _Anxious, careful, susceptible, sympathetic, sensitive._

=Indigent.= Poor, needy, destitute, necessitous, reduced, penniless, moneyless, distressed, insolvent, in want; impecunious, straitened.

ANT. _Wealthy, moneyed, rich, affluent, opulent._

=Indignation.= Resentment, anger, ire, wrath, fury, rage, exasperation, choler; denunciation, displeasure, protestation.

ANT. _Gratification, admiration, approval, applause, complacency._

=Indignity.= Insult, outrage, affront, slight, dishonor, abuse, disrespect, contumely, reproach, opprobrium, obloquy; rudeness, contemptuousness, ignominy, disgrace.

ANT. _Deference, compliment, honor, respect._

=Indiscriminate.= Undistinguishing, undiscriminating; mixed, confused, mingled, promiscuous, indistinguishable; ill-assorted, undiscerning.

ANT. _Careful, sorted, select, discerning._

=Indisposed.= Averse, disinclined, unwilling, reluctant, backward, loath; ill, ailing, sick.

ANT. _Prompt, willing, eager, desirous, inclined; healthful, sound._

=Indite.= Compose, write, dictate, pen; prompt, suggest, word, describe, phrase.

ANT. _Transcribe, copy, imitate, duplicate._

=Individual=, _n._ Person, personage, character, some one; unit, single instance; personality.

ANT. _Species, genus, family, kind._

=Individual=, _a._ Particular, special, separate, single, unique, one; peculiar, personal; positive, decided, unconventional, independent, specific, indivisible, singular, identical, idiosyncratic.

ANT. _General, common, collective, plural, universal._

=Individuality.= Personality, distinct existence; character, decision, self-direction, originality, self-determination, uniqueness.

ANT. _Generality, mediocrity._

=Indolence.= Laziness, sloth, inertness, idleness, sluggishness, slothfulness.

ANT. _Activity, energy._

=Indomitable.= Unyielding, unconquerable, invincible; untamable, irrepressible, indefatigable.

ANT. _Effortless, feeble, languid._

=Indorse.= Superscribe; sanction, approve, vouch for, confirm, ratify; accept.

ANT. _Protest, repudiate, renounce, abjure, cancel._

=Induce.= Influence, impel, move, prompt, instigate, persuade, actuate, urge, incite, spur, prevail upon; cause, produce, effect, bring on.

ANT. _Prevent, disincline, dissuade, deter, hinder, restrain._

=Induction.= Introduction, installation, inauguration, institution; conclusion, inference, generalization, inductive method; collection, collation, application.

ANT. _Statement, hypothesis; deduction; subtraction; principle, class, law, proposition, argumentation, discourse._

=Indulge.= Gratify, yield, satisfy; humor, pamper, favor; allow, permit, suffer, cherish, foster, harbor; spoil, revel, grovel.

ANT. _Thwart, deny, disappoint, discard, contradict, renounce, counteract, mortify, abjure, discipline._

=Indulgence.= Gratification, humoring, pampering; leniency, kindness, tenderness, favor, liberality.

ANT. _Abstinence, self-sacrifice, repression, restraint._

=Indulgent.= Yielding, compliant; lenient, mild, clement, tolerant, gentle, kind, tender, forbearing.

ANT. _Harsh, severe, rough, austere, self-controlled, abstinent._

=Industrious.= Diligent, active, busy, assiduous, engaged, employed, sedulous, occupied, laborious, hard-working; brisk, persistent, persevering.

ANT. _Lazy, shiftless, idle._

=Industry.= Diligence, labor, application, assiduity, attention, constancy, exertion, intentness, patience, perseverance, persistence, sedulousness, pains, effort, activity, toil.

ANT. _Idleness, inattention, neglect, negligence, sloth, remissness, changeableness, indolence, inconstancy, inactivity, fickleness, ease, indiligence._

=Ineffable.= Unspeakable, indescribable, inexpressible, unutterable; inconceivable, unsurpassable, undeclarable, exquisite, perfect.

ANT. _Common, trivial, superficial, vulgar, commonplace, conversational, colloquial, obvious._

=Inert.= Inactive, lifeless, dead, passive, motionless; dull, indolent, torpid, lazy, idle, supine, sluggish, slothful; heavy, dormant.

ANT. _Active, alert, brisk, energetic, quick, vigorous._

=Inevitable.= Necessary, unavoidable, infallible, certain, fixed, irresistible.

ANT. _Uncertain, avoidable, indeterminate._

=Infamy.= Dishonor, shame, disgrace, discredit, ignominy, opprobrium, scandal, obloquy, abasement; villainy, disgracefulness, wickedness, atrocity, shamefulness; despair, degradation.

ANT. _Honor, reputation, renown, glory, celebrity._

=Infantile.= Young, childish, tender; babyish, weak; childlike, babylike; puerile, imbecile.

ANT. _Manly, vigorous, mature, robust._

=Infatuation.= Folly, stupefaction, foolishness, prepossession, obsession; fatuity, hallucination, madness, self-deception.

ANT. _Sagacity, soundness, wisdom, sanity, clear-sightedness._

=Infection.= Contagion; contamination, taint, bane, pest, poison, corruption, defilement, vitiation, pollution.

ANT. _Purification, disinfection, antidote, antisepsis._

=Infectious.= Contagious, catching, pestilential, pestiferous; contaminating, corrupting, defiling, polluting, poisoning, vitiating.

ANT. _Wholesome, sanative, beneficial, antiseptic._

=Infer.= Deduce, conclude, gather, collect, consider probable; derive, argue.

ANT. _State, enunciate, assume, guess, conjecture, propound, anticipate, prognosticate._

=Inference.= Conclusion, deduction, corollary, consequence; generalization, induction.

ANT. _Statement, proposition, enunciation._

=Inferiority.= Subordination; deficiency, imperfection, minority, poverty, subjection, servitude, depression; mediocrity.

ANT. _Superiority, eminence, excellence, majority, elevation, independence, mastery, exaltation._

=Infernal.= Hellish; diabolical, devilish, fiendish, demoniacal, satanic, atrocious, nefarious, dark, accursed, abominable.

ANT. _Angelic, cherubic._

=Infest.= Throng, overrun, beset, swarm in; disturb, plague, annoy, tease, harass, trouble, molest, torment, worry, pester.

ANT. _Comfort, refresh, regale, gratify._

=Infidel.= Unbeliever, disbeliever, atheist, denier, freethinker, deist, skeptic, heretic.

ANT. _Believer, pietist, devotee, Christian._

=Infidelity.= Unbelief, disbelief, skepticism; faithlessness, unfaithfulness, disloyalty.

ANT. _Fidelity, belief, faith, religiousness, credulity, credulousness; faithfulness, loyalty._

=Infinite.= Absolute, illimitable, limitless, boundless, interminable, eternal, unlimited, unmeasured, measureless, unfathomable, unconditioned, numberless, unbounded, immeasurable, innumerable, countless.

ANT. _Brief, bounded, relative, short, limited, finite, restricted, transient, transitory, small, little, evanescent, circumscribed, measurable, moderate, narrow, shallow; infinitesimal._

=Infinitesimal.= Minute, atomic, microscopic, inappreciable, inconspicuous, undiscernible, infinitely small.

ANT. _Enormous, vast, infinite, immeasurable._

=Infinitude=, =Infinity=. Boundlessness, vastness, immensity; infiniteness; eternity, absoluteness, self-determination, self-existence.

ANT. _Relativity._

=Infirm.= Weak, feeble, frail, debilitated, enfeebled, weakened; faltering, wavering, irresolute, vacillating; unsound, unstable, insecure; decrepit, lame, failing, impotent.

ANT. _Sound, forcible, firm, strong, sure, cogent, healthy, healthful._

=Infirmity.= Weakness, decrepitude, debility, feebleness, frailness, frailty; foible, fault, failing, defect; disease, malady, unsoundness.

ANT. _Strength, vigor, unhealthfulness, soundness._

=Inflame.= Excite, stimulate, incite, enkindle, rouse, animate, inspirit, work up, fire; irritate, exasperate, anger, nettle, provoke, enrage, incense, madden, infuriate; fan, embitter.

ANT. _Quench, extinguish, allay, cool, pacify, quiet._

=Inflate.= Distend, expand, swell, bloat, blow up; puff up, make conceited; increase, enlarge.

ANT. _Exhaust, empty, flatten, squeeze, compress._

=Inflated.= Distended, swollen, bloated; tumid, turgid, bombastic, stilted, declamatory, rhetorical, sophomorical, high-flown; pompous.

ANT. _Simple, plain, unaffected, concise, laconic, explicit, brief._

=Inflection.= Bend, bending, curvature, flexure, crook; variation, declension, conjugation, comparison; flexion.

ANT. _Straightness, directness, rectilinearity._

=Inflict.= Impose, lay on, put on; afflict.

ANT. _Spare, remove, alleviate, suspend._

=Infliction.= Imposition, inflicting; punishment, judgment; grievance, trouble, nuisance.

ANT. _Remission, sparing; pleasure, gratification; accommodation, condoning._

=Influence=, _n._ Authority, ascendency, control, predominance, sway; reputation, weight of character, credit; influx, inflow; effect, causation, impulse, affection, power, weight, prestige.

ANT. _Inefficiency, ineffectiveness, inefficacy, nullity, inoperativeness, neutrality._

=Influence=, _v._ Induce, incite, incline, persuade, move, stir, actuate, sway, compel, urge, instigate, prompt, lead, impel, excite, drive, draw, direct, bias.

ANT. _Prevent, restrain, retard, deter, discourage, impede, inhibit, hinder, dissuade._

=Influential.= Potent, powerful, controlling; efficacious, persuasive, forcible, guiding, considerable; authoritative.

ANT. _Weak, ineffective, inoperative, inconsiderable, unpersuasive._

=Inform.= Quicken, animate, inspire; acquaint, apprise, mention to, notify, advise, tell; educate, enlighten, instruct, impart, communicate.

ANT. _Misinstruct, misjudge, deceive, hoodwink, misinform, mystify._

=Information.= Advice, notice, intelligence; knowledge; accusation, complaint, denunciation; instruction, counsel, notification.

ANT. _Concealment, mystification, ignorance, occultation._

=Infringe.= Transgress, violate, break, disobey, nullify.

ANT. _Preserve, observe, conserve, maintain._

=Infuse.= Instil, inspire, introduce, inculcate, implant, diffuse, shed, steep, soak, water, infiltrate, insinuate, breathe into.

ANT. _Strain, dry, drain, divert, retract._

=Ingenious.= Inventive, gifted, able, clever, bright, ready, sagacious, adept, skilful.

ANT. _Unskilful, uninventive, slow, unready, unresourceful, unprepared, unapt._

=Ingenuity.= Inventiveness, ingeniousness, acuteness, skill, ability, readiness, faculty, aptitude, cunning, turn, gift, genius.

ANT. _Inability, ineptitude, clumsiness._

=Ingenuous.= Artless, open, candid, frank, sincere, straightforward, honest, transparent, guileless, truthful, childlike, naive, noble, generous, honorable.

ANT. _Mean, reserved, sly, insincere, disingenuous._

=Ingratiate.= Commend one’s self into favor, insinuate, recommend.

ANT. _Alienate, estrange._

=Ingredient.= Element, component, constituent.

ANT. _Refuse, residuum, incongruity, counteragent._

=Inherent.= Sticking fast, adhering; essential, immanent, inborn, inbred, native, natural, subjective, innate, intrinsic, inhering, congenital, indispensable, indwelling, infixed, internal, ingrained, inseparable, inwrought.

ANT. _Extrinsic, superficial, fortuitous, casual, accidental, external, outward, superfluous, transient, unconnected, supplemental, incidental, subsidiary, superadded; foreign, extraneous, separable, temporary._

=Inherit.= Get as legacy; occupy, possess, enjoy.

ANT. _Acquire, earn, gain, squander, bequeath, leave, demise, devise; dissipate, alienate._

=Inheritance.= Inheriting; heritage, patrimony; bequest, possession, legacy.

ANT. _Acquisition, purchase, donation; forfeiture, lapse; escheatment, alienation._

=Inheritor.= Heir, successor, legatee, devisee.

ANT. _Testator, devisor._

=Inimical.= Antagonistic, hostile, unfriendly; adverse, opposed, contrary, repugnant, noxious, pernicious, hurtful, harmful.

ANT. _Friendly, companionable, comradely; unanimous, agreeable, beneficial._

=Iniquity.= Injustice, wickedness, sin, unrighteousness; crime, offense, misdeed, grievance, evil-doing.

ANT. _Justice, integrity, virtue, holiness, honesty, uprightness._

=Initiation.= Introduction, entrance, admission; instruction; opening, beginning, inauguration, commencement.

ANT. _Termination, completion, finish, fulfilment, outcome._

=Initiative.= Commencement, beginning; power to originate or begin; start, leadership, example.

ANT. _Termination, wake, rear; prosecution, progress, perseverance, accomplishment._

=Injunction.= Command, order, mandate, precept, exhortation.

ANT. _Disobedience, non-observance, non-compliance, insubordination._

=Injure.= Maltreat, wrong, abuse; harm, damage, spoil, mar, disfigure, wound, cripple, sully.

ANT. _Benefit, profit, advantage, advance, repair._

=Injurious.= Wrong, unjust, iniquitous; hurtful, detrimental, pernicious, deleterious, noxious, deadly, mischievous, baneful, fatal, destructive, damaging, ruinous, disadvantageous; libelous, slanderous; prejudicial.

ANT. _Helpful, advantageous, beneficial, salutary, profitable._

=Injury.= Blemish, damage, evil, disadvantage, detriment, hurt, loss, wrong, prejudice, injustice, mischief, impairment, outrage, harm.

ANT. _Remedy, advantage, amelioration, benefit, service, boon, help, blessing, improvement, utility._

=Injustice.= Wrong, unrighteousness, iniquity, grievance, unfairness, injury.

ANT. _Equity, fairness, justice, right, rectitude, integrity, honesty, impartiality, uprightness, lawfulness, righteousness, honor, faithfulness, fair play._

=Inlet.= Opening, entrance, commencement, ingress.

ANT. _Outlet, egress, debouchure._

=Inmate.= Occupant, dweller, denizen, inhabitant, tenant, resident.

ANT. _Visitor, intruder, foreigner, stranger, traveler._

=Inn.= Hotel, public house, tavern.

=Innate.= Inherent, inborn, natural, inbred, native, congenital, organic.

ANT. _Unnatural, adventitious, assumed._

=Inner.= Inmost, within, interior, secret, close, vital.

ANT. _Outer, outermost, exterior, open._

=Innocence.= Harmlessness, inoffensiveness, innocuousness; sinlessness, purity, stainlessness, simplicity, guilelessness, guiltlessness, blamelessness.

ANT. _Guilt, offensiveness, contamination, sinfulness, impurity, guile, corruption._

=Innocent.= Pure, sinless, virtuous, upright, stainless, right, faultless, guileless, clear, clean, blameless, guiltless, harmless, inoffensive, righteous, spotless, immaculate, innocuous.

ANT. _Criminal, culpable, immoral, guilty, blameworthy._

=Innocuous.= Harmless, innocent, inoffensive, wholesome, innoxious.

ANT. _Hurtful, deleterious, insidious, obnoxious._

=Innovation.= Change, alteration, novelty, reversal.

ANT. _Archaism, conservation, maintenance, old fashion, obsolescence._

=Inoculate.= Vaccinate, impregnate, indoctrinate, instil, insert, imbue, ingraft, ingrain.

ANT. _Prune, divest; disabuse._

=Inquiry.= Query, interrogation, question, interrogatory; study, investigation, research, exploration, examination, scrutiny; asking, search.

ANT. _Guess, intuition, conjecture, assumption, supposition, hypothesis._

=Inquisitive.= Curious, meddlesome, intrusive, searching, prying, inquiring, meddling, peeping, scrutinizing.

ANT. _Uninterested, unconcerned, careless, heedless, apathetic, inattentive, indifferent._

=Inroad.= Incursion, foray, raid, irruption, encroachment, trespass, infringement, dragonnade.

ANT. _Occupation, sally, retreat, settlement, evacuation, excursion, egress._

=Insane.= Crazy, lunatic, mad, deranged, demented, crazed, delirious.

ANT. _Sane, sound, sensible, quiet, composed, sober._

=Insanity.= Delirium, dementia, frenzy, lunacy, mania, aberration, madness, alienation, derangement, monomania, hallucination, craziness.

ANT. _Sanity, clearness, rationality, lucidity, good sense, reason, intellect, intelligence._

=Inscribe.= Write, engrave, impress, imprint; address, dedicate; label, letter, mark, delineate.

ANT. _Erase, efface, cancel, expunge, obliterate._

=Inscrutable.= Incomprehensible, unsearchable, impenetrable, unintelligible, hidden, mysterious, untraceable, insolvable, profound.

ANT. _Obvious, intelligible, explainable, self-evident, familiar._

=Insert.= Set in, place in, introduce.

ANT. _Exclude, follow, add._

=Inside.= Within, internally.

ANT. _Without, outside, externally._

=Insidious.= Artful, crafty, scheming, cunning, intriguing, tricky, designing; secret, deceptive.

ANT. _Straightforward, sincere, undesigning._

=Insinuate.= Push slily, ingratiate; infuse, inculcate; hint, intimate, suggest; introduce, insert.

ANT. _Withdraw, extract, retract, alienate._

=Insipid.= Tasteless, stale, flat; spiritless, heavy, stupid, uninteresting, prosaic, tame, prosy, dull, unentertaining, characterless, flavorless.

ANT. _Racy, interesting, engaging, piquant, spirited, lively._

=Insist.= Demand, maintain, urge, contend, persist, press, persevere.

ANT. _Abandon, surrender, concede, yield, waive, forego._

=Insolence.= Rudeness, contempt, disrespect, contumely; impertinence, pertness, impudence; frowardness, disobedience, insubordination; arrogance, assumption.

ANT. _Consideration, deference, modesty, respect, politeness, bashfulness._

=Insolvent.= Bankrupt, penniless, beggared, ruined.

ANT. _Solvent, wealthy, flush, flourishing, thriving._

=Inspect.= Examine, scrutinize, investigate, oversee, superintend, supervise, overhaul.

ANT. _Overlook, connive, dismiss, glance, pretermit._

=Inspector.= Examiner, critic, visitor, superintendent, censor, supervisor.

=Inspiration.= Inhalation; afflatus, obsession; exaltation, enthusiasm, frenzy, impulse, revelation, intuition; insight, genius.

ANT. _Study, education, acquirement, learning, elaboration, observation, deduction._

=Instance.= Request, impulse, instigation, incitement; solicitation, importunity, pressure, urgency; illustration, example, citation, case, exemplification, specification; entreaty, point, prompting, persuasion, occurrence.

ANT. _Dissuasion, warning, deprecation, reluctance; rule, principle, statement._

=Instant=, _n._ Moment, twinkling, second, minute, flash, trice, jiffy;

## particular hour or moment.

ANT. _Period, time, cycle, duration; eternity, permanence, perpetuity._

=Instant=, _a._ Immediate, instantaneous, quick; pressing, earnest, urgent; current, present, passing.

ANT. _Continuous, continual; perpetual, eternal._

=Instantly.= Immediately, forthwith, directly, at once, presently, straightway.

ANT. _In the future, after a time._

=Instigate.= Incite, impel, move, urge, prompt, provoke, stimulate, rouse, influence, encourage, persuade, prevail upon.

ANT. _Repress, restrain, discourage, withhold, retard._

=Instil.= Infuse, insinuate; implant, enforce, impress, inculcate, import, introduce.

ANT. _Extract, remove, eliminate, eradicate, drain, extirpate._

=Instinct=, _n._ Impulse, proclivity, tendency, inclination, prompting, intuition.

ANT. _Reason, deliberation, experience, judgment, elaboration, experiment._

=Instinctive.= Natural, spontaneous; impulsive, unreflecting; voluntary, intuitive.

ANT. _Rational, cultivated, logical, judicious, reasonable, reasoning._

=Institute=, _v._ Found, establish, originate, appoint, settle, fix; ordain, enact, pass; begin, commence; invest, instal, appoint, induct, organize.

ANT. _Subvert, degrade, deprive, disestablish._

=Institution.= Establishment, investiture, custom, practice; college, school, academy, seminary, university.

=Instruct.= Teach, inform, train, educate, enlighten, indoctrinate; direct, command, order; acquaint, discipline, initiate.

ANT. _Misinform, misguide, mislead, deceive, neglect; brutalize; learn, study._

=Instruction.= Teaching, education, training, schooling, information, discipline, tuition, advice, counsel, direction, precept, order, command, mandate.

ANT. _Misguidance, misinformation, misdirection; pupilage, obedience._

=Instrument.= Tool, utensil, implement; agent, medium, machine; document, deed, writing, charter, indenture, record.

ANT. _Obstruction, bar, stop, preventive; counteragent, opponent, neutralizer; misapplication, counteraction._

=Instrumentality.= Intervention, medium, means, agency, mediation; use, employment.

ANT. _Property, quality, virtue, force, efficacy; non-intervention, spontaneity; counteragency, neutralization._

=Insult=, _n._ Offense affront, indignity, outrage, abuse, rudeness, dishonor, slight, disrespect.

ANT. _Respect, homage, compliment, deference._

=Insult=, _v._ Outrage, offend, dishonor, abuse; provoke, mock, ridicule.

ANT. _Respect, salute, honor, compliment, flatter, praise._

=Insure.= Make secure; assure; underwrite; provide, warrant, secure, guarantee, stabilitate.

ANT. _Imperil, jeopardize, shake, stake._

=Insurgent=, _n._ Rebel, malcontent, mutineer, traitor, rioter.

ANT. _Patriot, adherent, supporter; ruler, magistrate._

=Insurgent=, _a._ Rebellious, disobedient, mutinous, unruly, insubordinate, seditious.

ANT. _Obedient, loyal, patriotic._

=Insurrection.= Rebellion, revolt, uprising, mutiny, sedition, riot, tumult, anarchy; pronouncement.

ANT. _Law, order, peace, subjection, obedience, submission, bondage, subsidence, acquiescence; government, pacification._

=Intact.= Untouched, unhurt, unharmed, uninjured, scatheless; whole, entire, unbroken, undiminished; safe, inviolate, sacred, undefiled, uncorrupted, uncontaminated.

ANT. _Defiled, hurt, touched, injured, corrupt, affected, contaminated._

=Integrate.= Unite, combine, consolidate, solidify, incorporate; sum, complete.

ANT. _Analyze, dismember, detach, remove, amputate, disintegrate._

=Integrity.= Completeness, entirety, wholeness; honesty, rectitude, virtue, goodness, principle; uprightness, honor, probity, candor, truthfulness, conscientiousness.

ANT. _Fraud, meanness, rascality, duplicity, unfairness, underhandedness._

=Intellect.= Reason, mind, sense, brains, understanding; consciousness, instinct; ability, genius, talent.

ANT. _Matter, mechanism, force; passion; spirit, soul._

=Intellectual.= Mental, psychological, inventive, learned, cultured; philosophical, metaphysical.

ANT. _Illiterate, unlearned, ignorant._

=Intelligence.= Knowledge, information, understanding, apprehension, discernment, acumen, penetration, quickness, brightness, comprehension; news, announcement, tidings, report, rumor, statement, notice, notification, publication, advice, instruction; intellect, spirit.

ANT. _Misinformation, misunderstanding; ignorance, concealment, stupidity, misapprehension, dulness, suppression, silence._

=Intelligible.= Clear, plain, understandable, distinct, comprehensible, explainable, familiar, self-evident, obvious.

ANT. _Inscrutable, mysterious, hidden, insolvable, impenetrable, unfathomable._

=Intend.= Design, resolve, mean, propose, purpose, contemplate, determine, meditate.

ANT. _Venture, risk, hazard, chance._

=Intense.= Close, severe, strict, intent, strained; extreme; forcible, energetic, powerful; ardent, earnest, vehement, excessive, immoderate.

ANT. _Relaxed, easy, moderate, forceless, impotent, indifferent, cool, languid._

=Intensity.= Intenseness, closeness, severity, strictness; tension, force, concentration, attention, strain; vehemence, violence, excess; ardor, energy, eagerness, power, vigor, activity, strength.

ANT. _Laxity, relaxation, debility, languor, coolness, indifference._

=Intent=, _n._ Purpose, aim, object, design, end, meaning, intention, purport, scope, drift, view.

ANT. _Chance, lot, accident, fate._

=Intent=, _a._ Eager, fixed, earnest, close, bent, set.

ANT. _Distracted, diverted, indifferent._

=Intention.= Design, purpose, intent, meaning, purport.

ANT. _Chance, fortune, luck._

=Intentional.= Deliberate, contemplated, designed, intended, studied, purposed, premeditated.

ANT. _Casual, accidental, undesigned, fortuitous._

=Inter.= Bury, entomb, inhume.

ANT. _Exhume, disinter._

=Inter-.= The synonyms and antonyms of words beginning with the prefix _inter-_, signifying _between_, _among_, _amidst_, _mutually_, may be obtained by adding this meaning to that of the synonyms and antonyms of the root word, in such cases as are of simple derivation.

=Intercede.= Mediate, arbitrate, interpose, plead, make intercession, advocate, interfere.

ANT. _Abandon, excuse, incriminate, inculpate._

=Intercept.= Stop, cease; arrest, catch; obstruct, interrupt.

ANT. _Send, despatch, delegate, forward, commission, interchange._

=Intercourse.= Converse, communication, communion, commerce, connection, correspondence, intimacy, dealing, intercommunication.

ANT. _Cessation, suspension, reticence, disconnection, interception._

=Interdict.= Prohibit, forbid, proscribe, inhibit, restrain, stop, debar, disallow.

ANT. _Indulge, grant, allow, concede._

=Interest=, _n._ Advantage, benefit, profit, good; part, portion; regards, sympathy, concern, attention, curiosity, selfishness, behalf, share; authority, influence; premium.

ANT. _Disadvantage, loss; inattention, unconcern, indifference; disconnection, repudiation._

=Interfere.= Intermeddle, interpose; clash, conflict, intervene, be opposed.

ANT. _Withdraw, retract, retire, recede._

=Interior.= Inside, internal, inner, inward, inland.

ANT. _Outside, exterior._

=Interloper.= Intruder, meddler, supernumerary.

ANT. _Member, constituent._

=Intermediate.= Intervening, interposed, interjacent, included, comprised, middle, moderate.

ANT. _Surrounding, enclosing, outside, embracing, circumjacent; extreme; exclusive._

=Interment.= Burial, sepulture, inhumation.

ANT. _Exhumation, resurrection._

=Intermission.= Suspension, interruption, stoppage, rest, stop, pause, suspense, respite, interlude, remission, cessation, discontinuance, interval, interregnum.

ANT. _Continuity, continuance, constancy, uninterruptedness, permanence, perpetuity._

=Intermit.= Suspend, interrupt, relax, discontinue, break, stop, cease, abate, subside.

ANT. _Continue, prosecute; urge, despatch._

=Internal.= Inner, interior, inside; within.

ANT. _Outer, exterior, outside._

=Internecine.= Destructive, exterminating, deadly, inextinguishable, irreconcilable, mortal, internecinal.

ANT. _Desultory, incursive, marauding, skirmishing, buccaneering, guerilla, freebooting._

=Interpolate.= Introduce, insert, foist in, intercalate; interlard, interweave, import, garble, intersperse, gloss.

ANT. _Expunge, erase, expurgate; verify, authenticate; elide._

=Interpose.= Interfere, intercede, interrupt, mediate, meddle, arbitrate, intermeddle.

ANT. _Avoid, shun, retire, withdraw, hold aloof, let be, keep clear, stand aside._

=Interpret.= Explain, define, expound, elucidate, unfold, decipher; translate, render, construe; declare, represent, solve.

ANT. _Mistake, misconceive, misunderstand, falsify, misinterpret, distort, misrepresent._

=Interpretation.= Exposition, explanation, elucidation; version, construction, rendering, translation; sense, meaning, definition, signification, solution.

ANT. _Misinterpretation, misrendering; problem, text, difficulty._

=Interrogate.= Question, ask, examine, inquire of, catechise.

ANT. _Affirm, answer, assert, indorse, pronounce._

=Interrupt.= Disturb, stop, hinder, delay, interfere with; separate, disconnect, divide, sever, sunder, cut, dissolve; suspend, discontinue, break off; intersect.

ANT. _Continue, prosecute, expedite._

=Interstice.= Crevice, hole, interval, chink, cleft, cranny, gap, crack, fissure, interspace.

ANT. _Seam, suture, stop-gap._

=Interval.= Interstice; spell, season, period, term, intermediate time, interim, meantime, intermission, interspace, cessation.

ANT. _Continuity, uninterruptedness, simultaneousness._

=Intervention.= Interposition, interference, intrusion, intercession, insinuation; agency, mediation.

ANT. _Continuance, non-interference._

=Interview.= Meeting, parley, conference, consultation, colloquy, confabulation.

ANT. _Isolation, exclusion, independence, avoidance._

=Intestate.= Unwilled, undevised, unbequeathed.

ANT. _Willed, bequeathed, devised._

=Intestine=, _a._ Internal, domestic, interior, inward; civil; subjective.

ANT. _External, outward, foreign, federal; objective._

=Intimate=, _n._ Confidant, associate, crony, familiar, companion, friend.

=Intimate=, _v._ Suggest, hint, insinuate, allude to, remind of; announce, declare, communicate, tell.

ANT. _Conceal, reserve, withhold, repress._

=Intimate=, _a._ Near, close, familiar, friendly, confidential; internal, interior, inward, deep-seated, hearty; thorough, complete, direct, exact; conversant.

ANT. _Distant, strange, unfamiliar; superficial._

=Intimidate.= Frighten, alarm, scare, daunt, dismay, threaten, appal, terrify, deter, dishearten.

ANT. _Calm, compose; encourage, inspirit, animate, reassure._

=Intolerable.= Insufferable, unendurable, insupportable, unbearable.

ANT. _Endurable, comfortable, tolerable, supportable, possible to be borne._

=Intolerant.= Bigoted, unforbearing; extreme.

ANT. _Tolerant, forbearing, large-minded, indulgent._

=Intoxication.= Inebriety, inebriation, drunkenness; excitement, infatuation, exhilaration, delirium, bewilderment, hallucination, ecstasy; poison, venom.

ANT. _Antidote, sobriety, sanity, gravity, melancholy, depression; abstinence, abstemiousness._

=Intrenchment.= Ditch, dike, fortification, earthwork, moat; defense, protection, shelter, invasion, inroad, encroachment, infringement, trespass.

ANT. _Wall, rampart, mole, embankment, mound, bastion; forbearance, deference, respect._

=Intrepid.= Bold, brave, fearless, undaunted, courageous, valorous, unterrified, dauntless, chivalrous, heroic, undismayed, unawed, valiant, doughty.

ANT. _Cautious, timid, fearful, cowardly, dismayed, terrified._

=Intricacy.= Complexity, complication, entanglement, perplexity, difficulty, intricateness, obscurity, confusion.

ANT. _Directness, obviousness; system, method; disposition, array._

=Intricate.= Involved, perplexed, complicated, entangled, complex; mazy, labyrinthine, tortuous.

ANT. _Simple, direct, obvious, plain, uninvolved._

=Intrigue.= Plot, scheme, cabal, conspiracy, machination, artifice, cunning, duplicity, trickery, chicanery, ruse; liaison, amour.

ANT. _Insurrection, assault, rebellion, force, violence; sincerity, candor, honesty, openness, straightforwardness._

=Intrinsic.= Inward, internal, essential, real, genuine, true, inherent, native, innate, natural, immanent, inbred, inborn.

ANT. _Extrinsic, acquired, apparent, accidental, borrowed, assumed, pretended, added, external, adventitious._

=Introduce.= Lead in, usher in, present, conduct in, commence, make acquainted, make known, begin, preface.

ANT. _Come after, succeed, follow; end, conclude._

=Introduction.= Introducing, presentation, ushering in; preface, prelude, preamble, proem, exordium; induction, importation, insertion, commencement, preliminary; portico, gate, vestibule, entrance.

ANT. _Eduction, ejection; extraction, exportation, elimination, estrangement; completion, conclusion, end; egress._

=Introductory.= Prefatory, initiatory, preliminary, precursory, preparatory; commendatory.

ANT. _Final, conclusive, terminal, valedictory, supplemental; alienative._

=Intrude.= Obtrude, encroach, infringe, trespass, trench, interfere, meddle.

ANT. _Withdraw, retire, recede; remove, retract._

=Intrusion.= Encroachment, interference, intruding, obtrusion, infringement.

ANT. _Withdrawal, removal, retirement, retraction._

=Intuition.= Apprehension, cognition, perception, beholding; instinct, insight, recognition.

ANT. _Information, instruction, learning, experience, acquirement, induction._

=Inundate.= Flood, deluge, overflow, submerge, cover, overwhelm.

ANT. _Drain, dry, reclaim, desiccate, parch._

=Invade.= Attack, infringe, violate, encroach on, trench upon; march into, enter in, assault, assail, occupy.

ANT. _Abandon, relinquish, vacate, evacuate._

=Invalid=, _a._ Week, feeble, infirm, sick, frail; null, void; unsound, baseless, untrue, unfounded, fallacious.

ANT. _Strong, well, healthy, vigorous; sound, legal, constitutional; legitimate, authorized; genuine, true, correct, exact._

=Invalidate.= Nullify, cancel, annul, overthrow, make void.

ANT. _Conserve, maintain, establish, confirm, enact, institute._

=Invasion.= Trespass, incursion, irruption, encroachment, inroad.

ANT. _Evacuation, abandonment, relinquishment; settlement; retreat._

=Invective.= Satire, sarcasm, diatribe, railing, abuse; obloquy, denunciation, vituperation, reproach, castigation.

ANT. _Praise, commendation, encomium, eulogy, panegyric._

=Invent.= Discover, find out, devise, contrive, produce; design, concoct, elaborate; conceive, contrive, fabricate, originate, forge, frame.

ANT. _Copy, imitate, reproduce; execute._

=Invention.= Contrivance, construction, device; fiction, fabrication, falsehood; thought, idea.

ANT. _Material._

=Inventive.= Ingenious, skilful, clever, adept, resourceful.

ANT. _Slow, unskilful, uninventive._

=Inventor.= Contriver, originator, author, creator.

ANT. _Destroyer._

=Inventory.= List, catalogue, register, record, enrolment, enumeration.

=Inversion.= Reversal, transposition, alteration, deflection, violation, permutation.

ANT. _Erectness, verticality; stability, permanence, fixity, state, order, sequence; conservation._

=Invert.= Upset, overthrow, reverse, subvert.

ANT. _Restore, set up, make upright._

=Invest.= Clothe, dress, array, endow; attend, surround; lay out.

ANT. _Divest, dismantle, unclothe, strip, disrobe; deprive._

=Investigate.= Inquire, examine, test, scrutinize, prove, search, explore, inspect, criticize, discuss, study.

ANT. _Conjecture, guess._

=Investigation.= Search, examination, inquiry, research, exploration, inquisition, sifting, scrutiny, study.

ANT. _Discovery, clue, indication; solution, thread._

=Investiture.= Installation, induction, investment, habilitation.

ANT. _Divestiture, divestment._

=Inveterate.= Long-established, obstinate; malignant, spiteful, virulent; besetting, confirmed, chronic, ingrain, incarnate, habitual, deep-rooted, hardened, accustomed.

ANT. _Undeveloped, incipient, unformed._

=Invidious.= Hateful, offensive, odious; unfair, partial, inconsiderate; gratuitous.

ANT. _Fair, just, considerate, impartial, due._

=Invigorate.= Strengthen, brace, harden, nerve, refresh, stimulate, animate, exhilarate.

ANT. _Weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, deteriorate, relax, unstring, enervate._

=Invitation.= Solicitation, allurement, enticement.

ANT. _Rebuff, snub, check, repulse._

=Invite.= Ask, summon, bid, request, solicit, call, attract, entice, persuade, allure; tempt, incite, challenge.

ANT. _Repel, forbid, deprecate; exclude, discard._

=Invoke.= Supplicate, implore, solicit, summon, call, beseech, invite, challenge, invocate, appeal to, conjure, imprecate.

ANT. _Defy; deprecate, deter; ignore, elude; warn, inhibit._

=Involution.= Complication, entanglement; envelope; implication, mingling.

ANT. _Evolution, disconnection, evolvement, extrication, separation._

=Involve.= Envelop, wrap, cover; comprise, embrace, contain; connect, unite, mingle, blend, twine, interweave; implicate, entangle, complicate, embroil, embarrass, include, overwhelm, imply.

ANT. _Extricate, remove, disconnect, separate, disentangle, distinguish, explicate._

=Inward.= Secretly, privately; internal, interior, inner; within.

ANT. _Outward, external, exterior._

=Iota.= Jot, tittle, particle, atom.

ANT. _Whole, mass._

=Irate=, =Irascible=. Hasty, angry, enraged, incensed, choleric, irritable.

ANT. _Good-tempered, calm, forbearing, gentle, mild._

=Ire.= Anger, wrath, rage, fury, choler, indignation, resentment, displeasure, vexation.

ANT. _Good will, patience, forbearance, mildness, forgiveness, reconciliation, peaceableness._

=Irridescent.= Prismatic; opaline, polychromatous, nacreous.

ANT. _Blanched, neutral, colorless, dingy, achromatic._

=Isolate.= Separate, detach, dissociate; insulate.

ANT. _Associate, unite._

=Isolation.= Separation, loneliness, segregation, detachment, disconnection, insulation; solitariness, solitude.

ANT. _Organization, community, co-membership, connection; continuity, concatenation._

=Issue.= Egress, exit, outlet; delivery; copy, number, edition, impression; event, outcome, result, end, conclusion, consummation, effect, termination; children, offspring, posterity, progeny; antagonism, controversy, contest.

ANT. _Cause, principle, influence, action, working, operation; law, system, commencement; ancestry, paternity._

=Iteration.= Recital, repetition, reiteration, recurrence, harping, succession.

ANT. _Single statement._

=Itinerant=, _a._ Traveling, wandering, roving, roaming, journeying, unsettled, nomadic.

ANT. _Stationary, domestic, settled, fixed, local._

=Itinerary.= Guide, guidebook, schedule.

J

=Jade=, _v._ Tire, weary, fatigue, exhaust, fag; worry, harass, oppress.

ANT. _Refresh, recruit, invigorate, inspirit._

=Jagged.= Notched, indented, uneven, ragged.

ANT. _Smooth._

=Jangle=, _n._ Jargon, babel, bickering, wrangle, quarrel, squabble, contention.

ANT. _Argument, discourse, debate._

=Jar=, _v._ Shake, agitate; clash, interfere; wrangle, quarrel, contend, bicker, spar, squabble, jangle.

ANT. _Agree, harmonize, accord, concur._

=Jargon.= Gabble, gibberish; nonsense, twaddle, flummery, trash, stuff, gabble; slang; lingo, patois.

ANT. _Speech, conversation; discourse, oration; literature._

=Jaundiced.= Biased, prejudiced, warped, prepossessed; bilious.

ANT. _Unprejudiced, unbiased._

=Jaunty.= Airy, showy, finical, fluttering, gay, fine, bedizened, flighty, fantastic, flaunting.

ANT. _Staid, sober, sedate, dignified, demure._

=Jealous.= Envious, suspicious, resentful, covetous, invidious; anxious, apprehensive, solicitous, zealous, watchful.

ANT. _Indifferent, genial, unenvious, liberal, self-denying._

=Jealousy.= Suspicion, envy, rivalry, solicitude.

ANT. _Vigilance, watchfulness, magnanimity, generousness, friendliness; certainty._

=Jeer=, _v._ Scoff, taunt, jibe, sneer, flout, mock, jest, deride, banter.

ANT. _Flatter, compliment, praise; adulate, fawn, cringe._

=Jejune.= Empty, barren, meager, dry, sterile, bare, lean, uninteresting, thin, scant, poverty-stricken, poor, void.

ANT. _Full, rich, exuberant, racy, interesting, overwrought, redundant, abundant._

=Jeopardy.= Hazard, peril, risk, danger, venture.

ANT. _Security, safety, insurance, provision._

=Jest=, _n._ Joke, witticism, quip, sally, raillery, fun, sport.

ANT. _Seriousness, gravity, earnest._

=Jest=, _v._ Joke, sport, rally, banter, ridicule, mock, grin.

ANT. _Preach, sermonize._

=Jocose.= Humorous, facetious, witty, droll, funny, comical, jocular, sportive, merry, waggish.

ANT. _Melancholy, serious, earnest, grave, lugubrious._

=Jocund.= Joyous, joyful, merry, frolicsome, blithe, jolly, sportive, lively, playful, airy, gay, debonair, jovial, gleeful, careless, blithesome, mirthful, hilarious, sprightly, vivacious.

ANT. _Melancholy, dull, sorrowful, grave, mournful, cheerless, rueful, doleful, careworn, woful._

=Join.= Add, attach, annex; connect, couple, link, unite, conjoin, cement; adjoin, be adjacent to, connect with; associate with, confederate, league.

ANT. _Separate, disconnect, disjoin, subtract, sever._

=Joint.= Juncture, union; flexure, elbow, knee, articulation.

ANT. _Disconnection, continuity, uniformity, solution, disjunction._

=Jollification.= Revelry, conviviality, festivity, revel, carousal, wassail, carouse, fun, carnival.

ANT. _Weariness, tedium, tediousness, soberness, monotony._

=Jolly.= Merry, joyous, gay, jovial, mirthful, jocund, sportive, jocular, funny, sprightly, facetious, waggish, blithe, blithesome, cheery, cheerful; portly, bouncing, stout, plump.

ANT. _Sad, mournful, cheerless, mirthless, joyless, lugubrious, gloomy, morose._

=Jostle.= Push, crowd, hustle, collide, strike against; shake, incommode, joggle, jog, jolt.

ANT. _Clear, lead, convoy, escort, pilot, precede, extricate, attend._

=Jot.= Iota, whit, tittle, particle, atom, grain, bit, mite, scrap, scintilla, cipher, trifle, idea, thought, morsel, fraction.

ANT. _World, mass, volume, heap, bulk._

=Journey.= Travel, transit, expedition, excursion, tour, voyage, trip, pilgrimage.

ANT. _Sojourn, tarrying, delay, stop, stay, abiding, stopover._

=Jovial.= Merry, joyous, gay, festive, mirthful, jolly, gleeful, hilarious, genial, convivial.

ANT. _Ungenial, gloomy, lugubrious, melancholy, saturnine._

=Joviality.= Merriment, jollity, mirth, hilarity, gaiety, frolic, fun.

ANT. _Sadness, seriousness, soberness._

=Joy.= Gladness, delight, pleasure, happiness, transport, felicity, exultation, ecstasy, bliss, rapture, gaiety, hilarity, glee, beatitude, ravishment.

ANT. _Sorrow, grief, melancholy, affliction, tears, depression, despondency, pain, misery, trouble, despair._

=Joyful.= Glad, joyous, merry, jubilant, jocund, happy, jolly, jovial, elate, elated, delighted, buoyant.

ANT. _Grave, solemn, mournful, sad, melancholy, lugubrious._

=Jubilant.= Rejoicing, exultant, triumphant, joyous, festive, exulting, congratulatory.

ANT. _Doleful, sorrowful, remorseful, wailing, penitent, lugubrious._

=Jubilee.= Festival, season of rejoicing, feast, holiday, festivity, revel, carnival, merriment.

ANT. _Fast, mourning, humiliation, penitence._

=Judge.= Justice, referee, arbiter, arbitrator, umpire; magistrate, authority; critic, connoisseur.

ANT. _Criminal, novice, tyro, ignoramus._

=Judgment.= Discernment, estimate, award, criticism, understanding, discrimination, intelligence, taste, sagacity, penetration, wisdom, brains, prudence, sense; determination, decision, opinion, notion, conclusion; judiciousness, intellect; verdict, sentence, reward, condemnation.

ANT. _Argument, speculation, inquiry, proposition, investigation, consideration, evidence, pleading, pronouncement; fickleness, insagacity, impulsiveness._

=Judicial.= Just, well-balanced, deliberative; juridical, forensic.

ANT. _Legislative, executive, or administrative; impulsive._

=Judicious.= Discreet, wise, prudent, sagacious, sensible, reasonable, rational, sober, sound, staid, politic, enlightened, well-considered, well-chosen; discerning, thoughtful.

ANT. _Silly, imprudent, indiscreet, ill-judged, inexpedient, rash, impolitic, blind, foolish._

=Juggle=, _v._ Cheat, conjure, impose, trick, practice jugglery, deceive, defraud; bamboozle, beguile, swindle, mystify, mislead, overreach.

ANT. _Expose, enlighten, undeceive; detect, reveal, correct._

=Jumble=, _n._ Confusion, disorder, hodge-podge.

ANT. _Order, system, neatness, arrangement._

=Jump=, _v._ Leap, skip, bound, hop, spring, vault, caper; bounce, jolt, overleap; coincide, agree, accord.

ANT. _Walk, pace, promenade; dance._

=Junction.= Joining, union, combination, coalition, connection, linking, coupling; joint, juncture, angle; fastening, attachment; alliance, confederacy.

ANT. _Division, separation, disconnection, hiatus, chasm, uncoupling, disunion; continuity._

=Jungle.= Thicket, brake, wilderness, labyrinth, underbrush, entanglement.

ANT. _Open, clearing; order, arrangement, system._

=Junior.= Younger; subordinate, less advanced.

ANT. _Senior, elder, older; more advanced, superior._

=Jurisdiction.= Right, authority, sphere, judicature, legal power; government, control, sway, administration, magistracy.

ANT. _Immunity, exemption, freedom, independence._

=Just.= Upright, righteous, honest, true, conforming to justice; exact, normal, reasonable, due; equitable, fair, impartial, right, rightful, lawful; fair-minded, blameless, honorable, straightforward, virtuous, uncorrupt; accurate, correct; deserved, fit, merited, appropriate, suitable, happy, proper, harmonious.

ANT. _Evil, untrue, unjust, dishonest, prejudiced, unfair, unreasonable,

## partial, unlawful, unequitable; blameworthy, corrupt, dishonorable;

inaccurate, incorrect; undeserved, unfit, inappropriate, inharmonious._

=Justice.= Legality, equity, rectitude, fairness, law, lawfulness, right, truth, uprightness, virtue, fair play, faithfulness, impartiality, integrity, righteousness; reasonableness, desert, propriety.

ANT. _Injustice, dishonesty, favoritism, partiality, wrong, unlawfulness, unfairness, unreasonableness._

=Justification.= Vindication, defense, exoneration, exculpation; absolution; apology, advocacy, plea, maintenance.

ANT. _Censure, condemnation, conviction, implication, crimination, inculpation._

=Justify.= Vindicate, maintain, defend; absolve, clear, exonerate; pardon, exculpate; adjust; excuse.

ANT. _Condemn, convict, censure, criminate._

=Justness.= Exactness, propriety, correctness, accuracy, exactitude, strictness, fidelity, nicety.

ANT. _Incorrectness, inexactness, slovenliness._

=Juvenile.= Young, youthful, puerile, childish, boyish, girlish, infantine, immature, adolescent.

ANT. _Mature, elderly, aged, senile, adult, manly, womanly, superannuated._

=Juxtaposition.= Nearness, contiguity, adjacency, proximity, contact.

ANT. _Distance, remoteness, separateness; opposition._

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=Keen.= Sharp; acute; bitter, severe, piercing, stinging; eager, vehement, fierce; prompt, ardent, cutting, biting, sarcastic, penetrating, satirical, shrewd; poignant, acrimonious, caustic; discerning, quick, astute.

ANT. _Blunt, dull, languid, blind, indifferent, obtuse, undiscerning, slow, simple._

=Keep.= Retain, hold, reserve, detain, preserve, restrain, withhold, maintain, support, sustain, continue, guard, protect, adhere to, obey, fulfil; celebrate, honor, conduct, commemorate, solemnize; haunt, frequent; observe, perform; conceal, suppress; hinder, prevent, refrain.

ANT. _Release, speed, liberate, send, dismiss; neglect, betray, abandon, discard; disregard, disobey, transgress, forsake, desert, forget._

=Keeping.= Charge, guardianship, custody, care; holding, preservation, restraint; maintenance, support, feed, provision; harmony, consistency, congruity, conformity, agreement.

ANT. _Neglect, abuse, disregard; abandonment, destruction; non-support, betrayal; disagreement, incongruity._

=Keepsake.= Souvenir, token, remembrancer.

=Ken.= Sight, view, cognizance, knowledge, survey, range.

ANT. _Ignorance, oversight, inexperience, inobservance._

=Kernel.= Seed, grain; nucleus; core, gist.

ANT. _Peeling, meat, shell, husk._

=Key.= Lock opener; clue, guide, solution, explanation; keynote, tonic; wedge, clamp; lever.

ANT. _Mystification, confusion, mystery, secret, problem._

=Kick.= Strike or thrust at with the foot; recoil; resist, rebel, spurn, be calcitrant.

ANT. _Caress, soothe, flatter, obey._

=Kill.= Murder, massacre, assassinate, butcher, execute, despatch, slay, slaughter, put to death.

ANT. _Resuscitate, vivify, reanimate, revivify, quicken, enliven._

=Kin.= Family, birth, blood, consanguinity, descent, race, relationship, kind, kindred, affinity, alliance.

ANT. _Strangership, inaffinity, alienage, foreignership._

=Kind=, _n._ Race, family, species, breed, class, genus; character, sort, variety, nature, fashion, description, denomination, designation.

ANT. _Dissimilarity, differentiation._

=Kind=, _a._ Benign, indulgent, humane, compassionate, gentle, tender, beneficent, propitious, generous, forbearing, lenient, bounteous, clement, mild, good, obliging, bland, friendly, amicable, philanthropic, charitable, sympathetic, affectionate, tender-hearted.

ANT. _Harsh, severe, hard, cruel, unkind, rough, stern, forbidding, austere, crabbed, illiberal._

=Kindle.= Light, ignite, inflame, enkindle, set on fire; excite, arouse, awaken, stir up, stimulate, incite, animate, foment; exasperate, provoke, enrage.

ANT. _Quench, suppress, extinguish, allay._

=Kindness=, =Kindliness=. Benevolence, humanity, charity, sympathy, compassion, amiability, good nature; mildness, gentleness, softness.

ANT. _Harshness, cruelty, severity, sternness, roughness, austerity._

=Kindred=, _n._ Relationship, consanguinity, affinity; relations, kin, kith and kin, relatives, kinsmen, kinsfolk.

ANT. _Disconnection, unrelatedness; strangers, foreigners._

=Kindred=, _a._ Related, cognate, akin, allied, congenial; responsive, sympathetic.

ANT. _Unrelated, uncongenial, unallied; different, unresponsive._

=Kingdom.= Empire, monarchy, sovereignty, domain, dominion.

=Kingly.= Regal, royal, monarchical, imperial, august, sovereign, noble, splendid, magnificent, imposing, grand, majestic.

ANT. _Plebeian, humble, popular, commonplace, simple, vulgar._

=Knack.= Toy, plaything, gimcrack; dexterity, skill, adroitness, facility, aptness, aptitude, expertness, quickness.

ANT. _Clumsiness, awkwardness, ineptitude._

=Knave.= Villain, rascal, rogue, scoundrel, cheat, scamp, miscreant, swindler, scapegrace.

ANT. _Gentleman, hero; gull, dupe, simpleton._

=Knavish.= Trickish, cheating; mischievous, roguish, waggish; fraudulent, villainous.

ANT. _Honest, upright, honorable._

=Knot=, _n._ Tie, bond, intricacy, connection; entanglement, complication; joint; group, band, clique, gang, crew.

ANT. _Loosening, unfastening, unraveling, dispersion; solution, simplification; evenness, smoothness; individual._

=Knotty.= Knotted, difficult, intricate, perplexed, tough, hard, complicated.

ANT. _Plain, simple, obvious, easy, smooth, uninvolved._

=Know.= Perceive, apprehend, understand; be convinced or assured; acquaint, recognize; distinguish, comprehend.

ANT. _Be ignorant or illiterate, overlook, misunderstand, misconstrue._

=Knowing.= Intelligent, skilful, competent, well-informed, proficient, qualified, experienced, accomplished; conscious, percipient, thinking; cunning, expressive, significant; shrewd, astute, discerning, sagacious.

ANT. _Simple, innocent, gullible, stolid, silly; dull, stupid, inefficient; unresponsive, non-suggestible._

=Knowledge.= Learning, wisdom, scholarship, science, comprehension, cognition, erudition, intelligence, light, lore, perception recognition, acquaintance, intuition, experience, information, apprehension, notice, understanding, conversance, cognizance, familiarity, instruction, enlightenment; acquirements, attainments.

ANT. _Ignorance, illiteracy, unfamiliarity, rudeness, inexperience, misapprehension, misconception, misunderstanding._

L

=Labor=, _n._ Toil, exertion, work, effort, task, travail; drudgery, industry, painstaking; burden, duties.

ANT. _Ease, indolence, rest, respite, recreation, refreshment, vacation, inactivity, laziness._

=Labored.= Elaborate, studied, highly wrought, overwrought, stiff, heavy.

ANT. _Easy, natural, simple._

=Laborer.= Workman, operative, workingman, hand, employee, bread-winner.

ANT. _Employer._

=Laborious.= Toilsome, difficult, tiresome, onerous, wearisome, fatiguing, arduous, hard, burdensome, tedious, irksome; industrious, diligent, toiling, assiduous, hard-working, painstaking, sedulous, indefatigable, active.

ANT. _Easy, light, simple, facile, feasible; lazy, indolent, indiligent, idle._

=Labyrinth.= Maze, confusion, intricacy, windings; perplexity, complexity, bewilderment, involutions; difficulty.

ANT. _Simplicity, calm, perspicacity; insight, understanding._

=Lack=, _n._ Deficiency, want, need, destitution, failure, scantiness, dearth, scarcity, fault, deficit, shortness, insufficiency.

ANT. _Plenty, fulness, abundance, supply, sufficiency, competence, satisfaction._

=Laconic=, =Laconical=. Short, epigrammatic, brusk, brief, concise, pithy, sententious, terse, curt.

ANT. _Wordy, tedious, prolix, diffuse, prosy, loquacious, garrulous._

=Laggard=, _n._ Loiterer, lingerer, sluggard, saunterer, dawdler, idler.

=Laical.= Laic, lay, unprofessional; secular, temporal; civil, non-legal.

ANT. _Clerical, professional, theological, sacred, divine, ecclesiastic, ministerial, priestly, canonical, legal, sacerdotal._

=Laity.= Laymen, the people.

ANT. _Clergy, professional people._

=Lame.= Hobbling, crippled, limping; inefficient, imperfect, defective; weak, feeble, poor, unsatisfactory, insufficient; halt, faltering, impotent.

ANT. _Robust, strong, potent, efficient, cogent, effective, convincing, telling, satisfactory._

=Lament=, _v._ Mourn, bemoan, bewail, deplore, sorrow over, regret, grieve.

ANT. _Rejoice, enjoy, hail, welcome._

=Language.= Idiom, speech, dialect, tongue, patois, barbarism, diction, expression, vernacular, vocabulary, mother tongue, phraseology, discourse, conversation, talk; articulation, accents; style, utterance, voice.

ANT. _Jargon, gibberish, cry, howl, roar; speechlessness, inarticulateness, muteness, dumbness._

=Languid.= Drooping, indisposed, inanimate, feeble, weak, faint, sickly, pining, weary, listless, heavy, dull, exhausted, heartless; enervated, flagging, spiritless, unnerved, unbraced.

ANT. _Strong, vigorous, robust, active, braced, healthy, energetic, animated, alert._

=Languish.= To be languid, pine, droop, sink, faint, decline.

ANT. _Luxuriate, thrive, prosper, flourish, bloom._

=Languor.= Feebleness, weakness, faintness, weariness, lassitude, listlessness, heaviness, dulness.

ANT. _Strength, vigor, energy, freshness, lithesomeness._

=Lank.= Slender, thin, shrunken, lean, loose, slim, long, lax.

ANT. _Plump, fat, chubby, short, full, rounded._

=Lapse=, _n._ Slipping, falling, slip, fault; termination, failure; escheatment, flow, flux, progress, reversion, elapsing; apostasy.

ANT. _Stability, fixedness, retention, fixture, stoppage, uprightness; inheritance, possession._

=Large.= Colossal, ample, broad, bulky, extensive, vast, massive, spacious, wide, commodious, enormous, coarse, grand, long, gigantic, immense, huge, great, big, capacious, considerable, abundant; diffuse, comprehensive, profuse, plentiful, populous, copious, liberal; enlightened, catholic.

ANT. _Circumscribed, illiberal, contracted, niggardly, sordid, bigoted; small, little, microscopic, mean, minute, tiny, slender, trifling, trivial, diminutive, inconsiderable, slight, infinitesimal, limited, short, insignificant, scanty, petty, narrow, paltry._

=Lash=, _v._ Strike, whip, scourge, flog, beat, tie, fasten; censure, satirize, castigate.

ANT. _Soothe, smooth, caress; eulogize, compliment, extol._

=Lassitude.= Languor, weariness, weakness, debility, inertia.

ANT. _Energy, strength, robustness, vigor, freshness._

=Last=, _v._ Continue, endure, persist, remain, hold, abide, live.

ANT. _End, stop, terminate, depart, fade, cease, fail, die._

=Last=, _a._ Final, hindmost, farthest; next, past; highest or lowest, supreme, utmost; most unlikely, least fit; latest, final, concluding, ultimate.

ANT. _First, foremost, opening, introductory, initiatory; ensuing, next, nearest._

=Lasting.= Durable, permanent, unending, enduring, abiding, perpetual.

ANT. _Temporary, transient, ephemeral, momentary, occasional, periodic, recurrent._

=Late.= Slow, tardy; deceased, departed; far advanced; recent; not long past; delayed.

ANT. _Early, coming, present, future, forthcoming, existing._

=Lately.= Recently, of late, not far past, but just.

ANT. _Formerly, remotely, distantly in past or future._

=Latent.= Hidden, secret, invisible, dormant, unobserved, concealed, inapparent, potential, implicit, undeveloped, inherent.

ANT. _Visible, explicit, apparent, exposed, developed, active, conspicuous, manifest._

=Lateral.= At the side, oblique; indirect, secondary, resultant, parallel, incidental.

ANT. _Direct, primary, immediate, lineal._

=Latter.= Later, modern, more recent; last, final.

ANT. _Former, previous, ancient; penultimate._

=Laudable.= Praiseworthy, commendable.

ANT. _Blameworthy, execrable._

=Laughter.= Laughing, mirth, merriment, glee; derision, ridicule, contempt.

ANT. _Weeping, tears, sorrow, mourning, lamentation; respect, veneration, admiration._

=Launch=, _v._ Hurl, throw, let fly; set afloat; start, propel, move; expatiate, enlarge.

ANT. _Recall, repress, retain; ignore, avoid, shun._

=Lavish=, _a._ Profuse, prodigal; superabundant, excessive, extravagant, bountiful, wasteful.

ANT. _Sparing, economical, close, niggardly, chary._

=Law.= Code, canon, edict, decree, order, mandate, legislation, ordinance, rule, regulation, jurisprudence, enactment, command, commandment, economy, formula, polity, principle, statute; mode, method, sequence, adjudication, jurisdiction.

ANT. _Misrule, anarchy, disorder, insubordination, rebellion; caprice, chance, irregularity, accident, casualty._

=Lawful.= Conformable to law, legitimate, competent, constituted, authorized; legal, constitutional, rightful, regular; permissible, orderly, right, allowable, fair.

ANT. _Illegal, impermissible, unlawful, wrong._

=Lawless.= Contrary to law, illegal; unrestrained, unregulated; wild, rebellious, savage, disorderly.

ANT. _Peaceful, law-abiding, loyal, civilized, honest, tractable, well-disposed._

=Lawyer.= Counselor, attorney, counsel, advocate.

ANT. _Client._

=Lax.= Slack, vague, unconfined; dissolute, licentious; incoherent; unprincipled, loose, remiss, flabby.

ANT. _Concise, strict, rigid, coherent, compact; conscientious, principled._

=Lay.= Put, place, establish, deposit, arrange, spread, dispose, set down; allay, prostrate.

ANT. _Raise, erect, lift up; excite, disorder, disarrange._

=Lazy.= Shirking, idle, inactive, slothful, slow, sluggish.

ANT. _Industrious, energetic, active, assiduous._

=Lead=, _n._ Guidance, direction, initiative, control; precedence, priority, preëminence.

ANT. _Following, submission, subordination; inferiority._

=Lead=, _v._ Guide, conduct, direct, counsel; precede, draw, induce, entice, allure; convoy; commence, inaugurate; persuade, influence.

ANT. _Follow; dissuade, mislead, misguide; leave, abandon._

=Leader.= Guide, conductor; director, chief, head.

ANT. _Follower, disciple._

=League.= Alliance, compact, coalition, confederacy, confederation, bond, combination, union.

ANT. _Neutrality; divorce, disruption, disunion, secession, disconnection, alienation, dissolution._

=Lean=, _v._ Incline, deviate, bend, rest, rely on; conform; tend, depend, hang; slope; repose, confide.

ANT. _Support, raise, erect, stabilitate, rise, straighten._

=Lean=, _a._ Slender, spare, meager, thin, lank, gaunt, skinny, bare, scant, barren, mean; shriveled, emaciated, bony, scraggy.

ANT. _Fat, plump, brawny, well-conditioned, obese, stout._

=Leaning.= Tendency, proclivity, propensity, bias, liking, partiality, inclination.

ANT. _Loathing, aversion, repugnance, avoidance, dislike._

=Leap=, _v._ Jump, vault, spring, bound, hop, bounce.

ANT. _Walk, dive, swim, run._

=Learn.= Acquire, imbibe, attain, collect, know, gather, understand, study.

ANT. _Forget, lose; teach, instruct._

=Learned.= Erudite, versed, well-informed, scholarly, skilled, literary, conversant, read.

ANT. _Ignorant, unlearned, illiterate, unscholarly._

=Learner.= Pupil, scholar, student, disciple, novice.

ANT. _Teacher, professor, authority, adept, master, doctor._

=Learning.= Knowledge, erudition, skill, literature, science, lore, letters, education, culture, tuition, acquirements, attainments, scholarship.

ANT. _Ignorance, illiteracy, boorishness, stupidity; inspiration, revelation._

=Least.= Smallest, shortest, lowest, most unimportant, meanest, last.

ANT. _Greatest, longest, noblest, highest, most important, first, principal, main, leading, preëminent._

=Leave=, _v._ Quit, abandon, give up, forego, resign, surrender, forbear; cease, stop, desist; depart, go from; bequeath.

ANT. _Persist, stay, hold, retain; continue; arrive._

=Legal.= Authorized, legitimate, constitutional, licit, lawful, allowable.

ANT. _Illegal, unlawful, unconstitutional, lay, illegitimate._

=Legend.= Chronicle; myth, fable; inscription, motto; hearsay, fiction.

ANT. _Fact, history, truth, verity._

=Legible.= Distinct, plain, apparent, discernible, clear, manifest, decipherable, well-written.

ANT. _Illegible, cryptographic, cabalistic, undecipherable, obscure._

=Legitimate.= Lawful, valid; authorized, real, genuine, licit, allowable, normal, standard.

ANT. _Illegitimate, unallowable, unfair, unauthorized, illicit, false._

=Leisure.= Freedom, ease, vacation, convenience; opportunity, retirement, spare time.

ANT. _Occupation, employment, absorption, work, labor, constraint, engagement, business, toil._

=Leisurely.= Deliberate, convenient, easy, sauntering.

ANT. _Hurried, hasty, difficult, speedy, industrious, assiduous, eager, precipitate, expeditious._

=Lend.= Let, afford, furnish, loan, advance, grant.

ANT. _Refuse, withhold, retain, appropriate, withdraw; recall._

=Lengthen.= Elongate, stretch, extend, prolong.

ANT. _Shorten, contract, confine, narrow._

=Lengthy.= Long, drawn out, tedious, verbose, diffuse, prolix.

ANT. _Concise, comprehensive, laconic, short, brief, condensed, succinct, compact._

=Lenient.= Merciful, mild, relaxing, assuasive, softening, compassionate.

ANT. _Harsh, cruel, hard, severe, stern._

=Lessen.= Diminish, reduce, decrease, abate, lower, impair, degrade, weaken.

ANT. _Increase, enlarge, extend, develop, heighten, multiply, strengthen, spread, enhance._

=Lesson.= Instruction, precept, doctrine, study; reproof, warning, rebuke, lecture, homily.

ANT. _Misguidance, misinformation, deception._

=Let.= Permit, allow, suffer; rent, lease, hire out; assign, grant, give, contract.

ANT. _Prevent, hinder, check, thwart; refuse, deny, withhold, withdraw._

=Lethal.= Fatal, deadly, mortal, poisonous, venomous, baneful, noxious.

ANT. _Remedial, wholesome, salutary, vital, invigorating, restorative._

=Lethargy.= Drowsiness, torpor, swoon, trance, stupor, oblivion; indifference.

ANT. _Alertness, liveliness, vigilance, wakefulness, life, activity, quickness; eagerness, attention, interest._

=Letter.= Epistle; mark, character; note, communication, message, missive; (_pl._) erudition, learning.

=Level=, _n._ Plane; surface, floor; rank, standard, degree, position; ground; horizontality, equality, platform.

ANT. _Unevenness, acclivity, inequality, verticality, declivity._

=Level=, _v._ Smooth, flatten, even; overthrow; aim, direct; plane, raze, equalize.

ANT. _Roughen, furrow, graduate, grade._

=Level=, _a._ Flat, horizontal, even, plane, smooth.

ANT. _Rough, uneven, broken, rolling, undulating, hilly._

=Levity.= Inconstancy, unsteadiness, thoughtlessness, frivolity, fickleness; flightiness, volatility.

ANT. _Gravity, earnestness, seriousness, sobriety, dignity, importance._

=Levy=, _v._ Raise, collect, assess, seize, exact; attack; tax, impose, muster.

ANT. _Pay, forego, surrender, reimburse, repay, liquidate._

=Liable.= Accountable, bound, responsible, answerable, subject, exposed, obnoxious; amenable.

ANT. _Irresponsible, refractory, independent, autocratic._

=Libel=, _n._ Lampoon, satire, defamation, detraction, slander, calumny, traducement.

ANT. _Retraction, vindication, apology; puff, praise, encomium, advocacy, panegyric._

=Liberal.= Generous, munificent, beneficent, large, free, catholic, unselfish, unrestrained, tolerant; ample, profuse.

ANT. _Mean, grasping, greedy, niggardly, avaricious; narrow-minded, bigoted, prejudiced, inadequate, contracted, scanty._

=Liberate.= Deliver, set free, disengage, release.

ANT. _Confine, imprison, arrest; sentence, doom, condemn._

=Libertine.= Rake, debauchee, dissolute person, profligate.

ANT. _Ascetic, anchorite._

=Liberty.= Emancipation, choice, freedom, license, independence, leave, permission, exemption; privilege, franchise, immunity.

ANT. _Slavery, captivity, servitude, serfdom, compulsion, necessity, constraint, imprisonment, oppression, thraldom, superstition, obligation._

=License=, _n._ Permission, leave, privilege, right, warrant; laxity, disorder, anarchy, lawlessness.

ANT. _Obligation, constraint, compulsion, submission, necessity, restraint, restriction, moderation, temperance._

=License=, _v._ Permit, authorize, let.

ANT. _Prohibit, restrain, forbid, constrain, inhibit, interdict, withhold, withdraw; annul, disallow._

=Licentious.= Excessive, abusive; unrestrained, uncurbed, unruly, lawless, immoral, lewd, riotous, ungovernable, wanton, lax, dissolute, profligate, loose, sensual, impure, unchaste, lascivious.

ANT. _Temperate, strict, moderate, controlled, self-controlled, ascetic, austere, sober, self-denying, puritanic, renunciatory._

=Licit.= Lawful, legal.

ANT. _Illegal, illicit, unlawful, unlicensed, unauthorized, illegitimate, improper, forbidden._

=Lie=, _n._ Untruth, fiction, fable, deception, falsehood, falsification; delusion, illusion.

ANT. _Truth, verity, reality, fact; veracity, exactness, precision, principle, honesty, sincerity._

=Lie=, _v._ Utter a lie; rest, recline, be situated; abide, remain, continue; exist, belong, consist; lodge, sleep.

ANT. _Rise, stir, move, walk, be active, go, change, run._

=Life.= Being, soul, spirit; affairs; animation, vivacity, energy, vigor, living being; biography.

ANT. _Death, mortality, decease, lifelessness, annihilation, non-existence; lethargy, coma, stupor; demise, departure, dissolution._

=Lift=, _v._ Raise, elevate; exalt, improve; steal.

ANT. _Lower, sink, depress, let descend; reduce, degrade, humble; crush, overwhelm; hurl, dash, fling, throw._

=Ligament.= Bandage, bond, connection, ligature, strap, girth, band, brace, tie; tying, binding.

ANT. _Fracture, disconnection, dislocation, disruption, severance, laceration, splinter, rupture, break._

=Light=, _n._ Gleam, shine, glitter, flame, blaze, illumination, incandescence, glow, flash, flare, sparkle, twinkle, flicker, glare, glimmer, glistening, sheen, luster, shimmer, shining, scintillation, day; open view, publicity; enlightenment, knowledge, information; prosperity, joy, happiness, felicity.

ANT. _Dark, gloom, darkness, dimness, blackness, dusk, shade, shadow, gloominess, obscurity; extinction, night, tenebrosity, death; confusion, mystification, ignorance, misunderstanding, illiteracy, blindness, nescience._

=Light=, _a._ Bright, clear, white; unweighty, imponderable, portable, easy, volatile, insubstantial, buoyant; small, trifling, inconsiderable, moderate, insignificant; porous, spongy; unsteady, fickle, frivolous, unsettled; empty, slight, vain, capricious, thoughtless.

ANT. _Weighty, ponderous, oppressive, grievous, burdensome; onerous, difficult, laborious, hard; dejected, depressed, despondent; dull, inert, inactive._

=Like=, _v._ Be pleased with, approve, enjoy, love, relish, esteem, fancy, affect.

ANT. _Dislike, hate, loathe, detest, abhor, abominate._

=Like=, _a._ Resembling, similar; equal; probable, likely; disposed to, inclined toward; correspondent.

ANT. _Different, dissimilar, counterpart; improbable, unlikely; disinclined, indisposed._

=Likelihood.= Probability, semblance, appearance, verisimilitude.

ANT. _Improbability, inconceivability, impossibility, unlikelihood; distinction, difference, uncertainty, contrariety; inconsistency._

=Likely.= Probable, presumable, reasonable, apt, credible, conceivable, conjectural.

ANT. _Unlikely, doubtful, incredible, dubious, improbable, questionable, unreasonable._

=Likeness.= Resemblance, similarity; guise; portrait, similitude, correspondence, copy, imitation, image, representation, effigy, picture.

ANT. _Unlikeness, disparity, dissimilarity, inequality; original._

=Likewise.= Also, moreover, too, besides.

ANT. _Otherwise._

=Liking.= Inclination, pleasure, desire, preference, approval, affection, fondness, taste, partiality.

ANT. _Dislike, disrelish, abhorrence, hatred, loathing, repugnance, aversion._

=Limit.= Boundary, termination, restriction, confine, enclosure, border.

ANT. _Expanse, space, interior, center, tract, land; void._

=Limitless.= Boundless, illimitable, immeasurable, vast, immense, infinite, interminable, unrestricted, unhindered, unobstructed.

ANT. _Bounded, limited, restricted, circumscribed, defined, restrained, hindered, prevented, hampered, obstructed, conditioned._

=Limpid.= Clear, transparent, lucid, pellucid, pure, translucent, bright, crystal.

ANT. _Turbid, foul, muddy, opaque, dark, black._

=Line=, _n._ Thread, cord, hawser, rope; boundary, contour, outline; family, race; track, railroad, course, method; continuity, sequence, succession.

ANT. _Breadth, width; expanse, space, deviation, divergency, variation; discontinuance._

=Lineage.= Ancestry, family, descendants, house, breed, race, descent, progeny.

ANT. _Ancestor, source, ancestry, origin, founder, progenitor._

=Lineament.= Profile, form, feature, mark, outline.

ANT. _Face, aspect, countenance, visage, front, expression._

=Linear.= Direct, straight, rectilinear, lineal.

ANT. _Zigzag, wandering, divergent, crooked, hooked, incurvate._

=Linger.= Lag, saunter, tarry, delay, halt, stop, hesitate, wait, pause.

ANT. _Hasten, speed, push on, go, press forward, advance, progress._

=Liquid=, _a._ Fluid, flowing, fluent, running, melting, liquescent; mellifluous, soft, limpid, clear.

ANT. _Solid, hard, congealed, insoluble, solidified, concrete; harsh, discordant._

=List.= Roll, catalogue, schedule, inventory, record, register, index.

ANT. _Non-registration._

=Listen.= Harken, hear, attend, hark, heed, list.

ANT. _Ignore, scorn, neglect, slight, be deaf to._

=Listless.= Indifferent, spiritless, heedless, careless, languid, uninterested; indolent, vacant, supine, torpid.

ANT. _Interested, eager, earnest, spirited, careful, heedful, thoughtful, alert, attentive, absorbed, curious, engaged, active._

=Literal.= Unimaginative, matter-of-fact; real; accurate, correct, exact, grammatical, positive, verbal, close, plain, actual; word by word, specific.

ANT. _General, free, liberal, metaphorical._

=Literary.= Learned, bookish, literate, lettered, erudite, scholarly, well-read, studious, instructed, educated.

ANT. _Illiterate, unlettered, unscholarly._

=Literature.= Books, literary productions or works, publications, writings, belles-lettres; study, lore, reading, scholarship, attainment; inspiration, genius, intuition, the divine afflatus; science, learning, letters, erudition.

=Lithe.= Pliant, flexible, limber, supple, elastic, agile, flexile.

ANT. _Stiff, tough, inelastic, inflexible, unresponsive, hard, resistant._

=Litter.= Clutter, disorder, untidiness, rubbish.

ANT. _Order, cleanliness, arrangement, tidiness, system, method._

=Little.= Small, diminutive; insignificant, contemptible; short, brief; inefficient, weak, slight; narrow, mean, illiberal; pigmy, scanty, unimportant, inconsiderable, trivial, petty, paltry, dwarf, puny.

ANT. _Great, big, large, huge, monstrous, enormous, long, developed, bulky, full; important, momentous, grave, serious, considerable, significant; colossal._

=Live=, _v._ Have life; abide, dwell, reside; survive, remain, last; enjoy; feed, subsist; vegetate, grow, continue, behave, act, exist, breathe.

ANT. _Die, perish, depart, decay, wither, fade, vanish, fail, demise, drop, languish, expire, decline, faint, sink, fall._

=Live=, _a._ Alive, living, active, vigorous, earnest, energetic, animate.

ANT. _Defunct, inanimate, dead, moribund, deceased, departed, gone._

=Livelihood.= Support, maintenance, sustenance, subsistence; substance, living.

ANT. _Beggary, want, starvation, penury, inanition._

=Liveliness.= Sprightliness, animation, gaiety, vivacity, smartness, briskness, activity.

ANT. _Slowness, torpor, stupidity, dulness, insensibility, listlessness, languor, inertness._

=Lively.= Quick, nimble, smart, active, alert, sprightly, brisk, animated, prompt, earnest, energetic, strong, vivacious, gleeful, blithe, airy, gay, jocund, keen, eager, vivid, spirited, vigorous.

ANT. _Lifeless, dull, torpid, inanimate, inert, insensate, listless, languid, indifferent._

=Livery.= Release, deliverance; clothing, food, uniform, peculiar garb; ration, boarding; dependence, servitude, badge, retinue.

=Living=, _n._ Subsistence, estate, existence.

ANT. _Want, starvation, privation, beggary, dearth, insufficiency, paucity, poverty, indigence._

=Living=, _a._ Active, lively, vigorous; issuing, flowing; quickening, invigorating; burning, ignited; vegetating, growing.

ANT. _Dead, perishable, decaying, perishing, departed, inanimate, vanishing, deceased, defunct, withered._

=Load.= Burden, charge, weight, pack, lading, incubus, clog, encumbrance, cargo, freight, drag, oppression, pressure.

ANT. _Support, solace, alleviation, lightness, refreshment, emptiness._

=Loan=, _n._ Advance, mortgage, hypothecation.

ANT. _Foreclosure, recall, resumption._

=Loath=, _a._ Averse, unwilling, reluctant; backward, indisposed, disinclined.

ANT. _Eager, ardent, zealous, enthusiastic, anxious, desirous, impatient, impetuous, earnest, forward, fervent._

=Loathe=, _v._ Abominate, execrate, abhor, dislike, detest, hate.

ANT. _Desire, like, long for, love._

=Locality.= Position, location; town, village, city; situation, place, habitat.

=Locate.= Place, set; designate, define; establish, settle, lodge, fix, dispose.

ANT. _Remove, leave, disestablish, dislodge, displace._

=Lock=, _n._ Clasp, catch, bar, bolt, fastening, hasp, hook, latch.

=Locomotion.= Movement, travel, passage, migration.

ANT. _Rest, abode, stoppage, remanence, fixture, stationariness, permanence._

=Lodge=, _v._ Rest, remain, shelter, stay, abide, stop.

ANT. _Remove, travel, pass on, go, move, journey._

=Lofty.= Tall, sublime, exalted, dignified, stately, majestic, sublime, proud, haughty, elevated, towering, high, eminent.

ANT. _Low, stunted, ordinary, unimposing, unassuming, undignified, depressed._

=Logical.= Dialectical, reasonable, coherent, consistent, sound, argumentative, close, discriminating.

ANT. _Illogical, unsound, inconsistent, unreasonable, incoherent, undiscriminating, fallacious, inconclusive._

=Lonely=, =Lonesome=. Forlorn, forsaken, dreary, wild, desolate, secluded, solitary, depressed, alone, retired.

ANT. _Frequented, populous, companioned; cheerful, festive, gay, bustling, animated._

=Long=, _a._ Drawn out, protracted, extended; continued; lingering; distant, far away; extensive, far-reaching.

ANT. _Short, brief, curtailed, contracted, abbreviated, condensed, concise._

=Look=, _n._ Appearance, aspect; manner; glance, sight, view.

=Look=, _v._ Behold, see, stare, scan, contemplate, view, glance, descry, watch, discern, gaze, regard, inspect, survey; consider; seem, appear; face, front, take notice; expect, anticipate.

ANT. _Be blind or unseeing; overlook, miss, pass, neglect._

=Loose=, _a._ Unbound, untied, free, unattached, unfastened, unconstrained; vague; liberal, unchaste, dissolute; unconnected, rambling; lax; detached, flowing, scattered, sparse; inexact.

ANT. _Tight, close; bound, tied, fastened, secured; thick, compact, dense; accurate, exact, strict, logical, scientific; conscientious, self-controlled, firm, rigorous._

=Loquacity.= Garrulity, talkativeness.

ANT. _Taciturnity, silence, unresponsiveness._

=Lordly.= Imperious, noble, honorable; proud, haughty, lofty, majestic, magnificent.

ANT. _Humble, mean, servile, ignoble, lowly, meek, dishonorable, abject._

=Lordship=, _n._ Manor; dominion, power, authority; rule, jurisdiction.

ANT. _Subjection, subordination, homage, submission, subservience._

=Lore.= Knowledge; instruction, wisdom, advice, counsel.

ANT. _Ignorance, illiteracy, inexperience, folly, imprudence._

=Lose.= Part with, deprive of; destroy, waste, squander, wander, miss, ruin; fail of.

ANT. _Keep, retain, hold, obtain, grasp, recover, preserve, treasure, hoard, save, husband, economize, guard, utilize._

=Loss.= Failure, destruction, privation; defect, harm; waste; squandering, deprivation, forfeiture; detriment, ruin, defeat, injury, damage, disadvantage.

ANT. _Restoration, recovery, reimbursement, retention, preservation, hoarding, guarding; utilization; gain, aggrandizement, augmentation, advantage, acquisition, profit, benefit, increment, earnings._

=Lot.= Chance, accident, fate, fortune, hazard; destiny, doom, allotment, apportionment; portion, division, part, parcel, land.

ANT. _Law, arrangement, design, purpose, plan, prearrangement._

=Loud.= Noisy; clamorous, boisterous, vociferous; obstreperous, turbulent, blustering; ostentatious, gaudy.

ANT. _Gentle, subdued, soft, quiet, silent, inaudible; whispering, murmuring; rustling._

=Love=, _n._ Friendship, liking, tenderness, regard, fondness, devotion, affection, attachment, attraction, charity, courtship; good will; kindness, delight, inclination; benevolence.

ANT. _Antipathy, hatred, enmity; alienation, dislike, disaffection, estrangement, bitterness, coldness, repugnance, infidelity; desertion._

=Lovely.= Beautiful, charming, delightful, delectable, enchanting, lovable, amiable; pleasing, winning, sweet, admirable.

ANT. _Hateful, hideous, ugly, homely, unattractive, unlovely, plain, gawky, unamiable, unlovable._

=Low.= Sunken; quiet; small; submissive, humble; mean, vulgar, base, ignoble, dishonorable; moderate; feeble, weak; plain, simple; reasonable, cheap, abject, servile, slavish, degraded, vile, groveling; deep; reverent; dejected, depressed, dispirited.

ANT. _High, tall, lofty, elevated, exalted; eminent, noble, illustrious, rising, strong, influential; honorable; elaborate, ornate; notable; costly, expensive, precious, dear; arrogant, haughty, proud, masterly, lordly; high, loud, violent; irreverent, sacrilegious, blatant; elated, excited; intensified._

=Lower=, _v._ Depress, sink, reduce, diminish, humble; let down, drop; degrade, disgrace, debase; lessen.

ANT. _Raise, exalt, elevate, hoist; increase, aggrandize._

=Lower=, _a._ Inferior.

ANT. _Higher, superior, more influential._

=Lowering.= Gloomy, threatening, sullen; cloudy, overcast, murky, dark.

ANT. _Clear, bright, light; vaporless._

=Lowly.= Low, humble, unimportant, meek, modest; mean, unpretending, mild.

ANT. _Lofty, eminent, proud, arrogant, lordly, haughty, elevated; supercilious, conceited, pretentious._

=Loyal.= Faithful, true, constant, devoted, staunch, trusty, obedient, submissive.

ANT. _Inconstant, untrue, traitorous, mutinous, seditious, insurgent, insubmissive, rebellious, disobedient, unfaithful, disaffected, dastardly._

=Loyalty.= Allegiance, fidelity, fealty, faithfulness, constancy.

ANT. _Treason, treachery, unfaithfulness, disloyalty; sedition, rebellion, inconstancy, insurrection._

=Lucid.= Luminous, transparent, sane, reasonable; shining, resplendent, bright; clear; radiant, brilliant; limpid, lucent; distinct, intelligible, perspicuous, sober, sound.

ANT. _Dark, opaque, muddy, black, somber, turbid, obscure; indistinct, unintelligible, mystifying, insane, unsound, confused, involved; illegible._

=Luck.= Chance, hap, fate, fortune, hazard, casualty, accident; success, good fortune.

ANT. _Rule, law, causation, purpose, design, certainty; fate._

=Luckless.= Unfortunate, unsuccessful, unlucky, ill-fated, unprosperous, ill-starred, unpropitious, unhappy.

=Lucky.= Fortunate, successful, auspicious, prosperous, happy, favored, blessed.

=Lucrative.= Profitable, gainful, paying, remunerative.

ANT. _Disadvantageous, unremunerative, unprofitable, useless, fruitless, vain, unproductive._

=Lucre.= Gain, profit, riches, pelf, emolument, greed, mammon.

ANT. _Loss, poverty, failure, privation._

=Lucubration.= Nocturnal study, meditation, speculation, cogitation.

ANT. _Idleness, dulness, stupidity, torpor, vacuity._

=Ludicrous.= Laughable, comic, burlesque, droll, sportive, ridiculous, comical, odd, funny, farcical, absurd.

ANT. _Grave, serious, important, momentous; sad, sorrowful, melancholy, tragic, mournful, lugubrious._

=Lugubrious.= Mournful, woful, pitiable, doleful, sad, sorrowful, melancholy, complaining.

ANT. _Ludicrous, droll, ridiculous, comic, witty, jovial, absurd, funny, laughable, comical._

=Lull=, _v._ Compose, calm, quiet, soothe, hush, tranquilize, still.

ANT. _Excite, aggravate, incite, stimulate, exasperate, provoke, inflame._

=Luminous.= Shining, brilliant, bright; illuminated; enlightened, intelligent, clear, intelligible.

ANT. _Dark, black, gloomy; unintelligible, unintelligent, involved, mixed, confused._

=Lunacy.= Derangement, mania, craziness, insanity, madness, aberration.

ANT. _Sanity, intellect, reason, rationality, lucidity, intelligence, brains; mind; self-control._

=Lunatic=, _n._ Insane person, maniac, madman.

ANT. _Philosopher, sage, luminary, savant, scholar, scientist, intellectual person._

=Lunatic=, _a._ Insane, mad, crazy, cracked, deranged.

ANT. _Sane, rational, intelligent, reasonable, reasoning, intellectual, knowing, sound._

=Lure=, _n._ Enticement, decoy; allurement, bait, temptation, attraction.

=Lure=, _v._ Allure, entice, decoy, tempt, attract, inveigle, seduce.

ANT. _Warn, guide, alarm, premonish, ward, instruct, conduct, guard; extricate, save._

=Lurid.= Yellow, pale, wan, dismal, ghastly, gloomy, murky, lowering.

ANT. _Bright, luminous, radiant, clear._

=Lurk.= Lie hid, lie in wait, hide, skulk.

ANT. _Rise, spring, emerge, appear, reveal._

=Luscious.= Sweet, delicious, fulsome, cloying, savory, delightful, pleasing, grateful; sugary, honeyed; rank, nauseous, unctuous.

ANT. _Sour, sharp, tart, bitter, pungent, acid._

=Luster.= Brilliancy, brightness, splendor, glitter; renown, distinction, glory; gleam, radiance, resplendence; eminence, repute, celebrity, honor.

ANT. _Darkness, tenebrosity, blackness, gloom, obscuration; detraction, derogation, infamy, disrepute, dishonor, notoriety._

=Lustration.= Washing, purification, cleansing; lustrum.

ANT. _Defilement, contamination, infection, desecration; soiling, pollution._

=Lustrous.= Bright, shiny, gleaming, luminous, brilliant, radiant.

ANT. _Dark, black, gloomy._

=Lusty.= Stout, strong, vigorous, robust, healthful, able, lively, sturdy; bulky, large, fat.

ANT. _Weak, infirm, feeble, incapable, ailing, effete, listless, invalid, powerless, convalescent._

=Luxuriant.= Exuberant, excessive, rank, abundant, profuse, plentiful, plenteous.

ANT. _Delicate, frail, scanty, scarce, feeble._

=Luxuriate.= Grow exuberantly, feed luxuriously; flourish, indulge; revel, wanton; delight, indulge to excess.

ANT. _Toil, slave, drudge, labor, work; pine, waste, droop, decay, languish._

=Luxurious.= Voluptuous, epicurean, sensual, intemperate, effeminate, self-indulgent.

ANT. _Austere, ascetic, hard, painful, self-denying, self-controlled, temperate, restrained, restricted._

=Luxury.= Voluptuousness, epicurism, effeminacy, sensuality; dainty, delicacy, gratification; pleasure, enjoyment, delight; treat, animalism.

ANT. _Stoicism, asceticism, self-denial, austerity, hardship; spirituality._

=Lying=, _a._ False, mendacious, untruthful, untrue; recumbent.

ANT. _Truthful, true, veracious, upright, honest, accurate, exact; erect._

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=Macerate.= Weaken, soften; attenuate, make lean, waste, wear away; harass, mortify, torture; steep, soak, digest.

ANT. _Fatten, replenish, repair, pamper, swell._

=Machinate.= Plan, contrive, devise, plot, scheme, harm.

ANT. _Think aloud, speak out, be artless; counterplot, compete; expose, defeat, baffle._

=Machination.= Plot, conspiracy, intrigue, cabal, stratagem, design, trick, artifice, contrivance, scheme.

ANT. _Detection, counteraction, overthrow, baffling, defeat, exposure, defiance, challenge; conflict, competition._

=Machine.= Engine, instrument; tool, puppet; organization, machinery, system, supernatural agency.

=Maculate=, _a._ Blotched, defiled, impure, spotted, blurred, corrupt, unclean, mottled.

ANT. _Unspotted, spotless, speckless, pure, clean, immaculate._

=Mad.= Crazy, insane; excited, inflamed, furious, rabid, angry; distracted, lunatic, delirious, crazed, deranged, demented, maniac; enraged, raging; exasperated, provoked, incensed, wrathful; wild, infatuated; frenzied, frantic, raving.

ANT. _Sane, sound, sensible, quiet, composed, sober, unexcited._

=Madden.= Make mad, enrage; irritate, provoke, inflame, infuriate.

ANT. _Calm, pacify, assuage, mesmerize; heal, soothe, restore._

=Madness.= Insanity, craziness, derangement, mania, aberration; frenzy, fury, rage, delirium.

ANT. _Sanity, calmness, rationality, soberness, reason._

=Magazine.= Warehouse, receptacle, storehouse, depository, repository; periodical.

=Magic.= Sorcery, witchcraft, conjuration, necromancy, enchantment, incantation; fascination, witchery, charm.

=Magisterial.= Stately, pompous, august, lordly, dignified, lofty, official, imperious, proud, domineering, haughty, despotic, arrogant, dogmatical; dictatorial, consequential, imposing, authoritative.

ANT. _Submissive, docile, undignified, unimposing, unassuming, modest._

=Magistrate.= Judge; civil _or_ police officer, chief official.

ANT. _Citizen, prisoner, civilian, subject._

=Magnanimity.= Generosity, disinterestedness, greatness, heroism, nobleness, forbearance.

ANT. _Meanness, pettiness, paltriness, spitefulness, spleen._

=Magnanimous.= Great, elevated, generous, lofty, noble, courageous; brave, dauntless, heroic, illustrious; unselfish, exalted, chivalrous, high-minded, honorable.

ANT. _Mean, small, ignoble, base, selfish, cowardly, cringing; mediocre; parsimonious, carping._

=Magnificent.= Glorious, grand, majestic, splendid, admirable, superb, sublime; imposing, gorgeous, stately, showy; august, dignified.

ANT. _Petty, mean, paltry, little, flat, beggarly, ordinary, small-minded, tawdry, unimposing, tame._

=Magnify.= Enlarge, augment, increase, amplify; laud, extol; exaggerate; celebrate, glorify, bless, praise.

ANT. _Diminish, curtail, contract, palliate, extenuate, decry._

=Magniloquent.= Pompous, grandiloquent, bombastic, declamatory, stilted, high-flown, turgid, inflated, boastful.

ANT. _Simple, vernacular, unaffected, plain-spoken._

=Magnitude.= Extent, size; grandeur, greatness; importance; volume, dimension, mass; consequence; sublimity, loftiness.

ANT. _Smallness, diminutiveness, littleness, meagerness; insignificance, meanness, unimportance._

=Maid.= Maiden, girl, damsel, virgin, lass.

ANT. _Matron, married woman._

=Maim.= Disable, cripple, mangle, mar, mutilate, disfigure, lame.

ANT. _Restore, strengthen, invigorate, mend._

=Main=, _a._ Bulk, majority, body, principal, trunk, chief, leading, most important, first, cardinal, capital; necessary, vital, essential, indispensable, requisite; huge, enormous; absolute, entire, mere, direct.

ANT. _Subordinate, non-essential, auxiliary, minor, tributary, inferior._

=Main=, _n._ Ocean, mainland, continent; main conduit or pipe; force, power, might, strength; gross, majority.

ANT. _Bay, gulf; island; inability, weakness; tributaries; minority._

=Mainly.= Chiefly, principally; largely, greatly, mightily, absolutely, primarily, entirely.

ANT. _Secondarily, subordinately; partially, somewhat, slightly._

=Maintain.= Uphold, assert, vindicate, allege, support, sustain; defend, continue; supply; provide; affirm.

ANT. _Retract, deny, withdraw; fail, turn traitor to._

=Maintenance.= Sustenance, support, vindication, defense, justification, provisions, subsistence, livelihood.

=Majestic.= August, sublime, magnificent, regal, royal, pompous, stately, dignified, elevated, imperial, princely, grand, imposing.

ANT. _Low, humble, mean, sordid, groveling; plebeian, vulgar, common; unassuming._

=Majesty.= Dignity, power, authority, loftiness, stateliness, augustness, grandeur, elevation.

ANT. _Meanness, paltriness; humility._

=Majority.= Superiority, seniority; eldership, priority; bulk, preponderance.

ANT. _Minority, inferiority, juniority._

=Make.= Produce, falsify; find; acquire; travel over; cause; esteem, suppose, represent; compel, force; be; amount to; attain, reach, arrive at; manage, interfere; proceed, tend, move, go; contribute, increase, accrue, constrain, bring about, occasion, require; shape, fabricate, construct, fashion, frame, manufacture, perform, do; become, compose, constitute, create, establish, effect, execute, reach, get, render.

ANT. _Abolish, demolish, annihilate, break, disintegrate, unmake, undo; destroy, defeat, mar, disestablish, miss, lose, fail of; upset; misrepresent, mismanage; hesitate, stop; decrease, diminish._

=Maker.= Creator, former, manufacturer, builder, constructor; author, composer, writer, compiler.

ANT. _Destroyer, exterminator, annihilator._

=Make up.= Collect; constitute, form; reconcile, settle, adjust, compose; make good, compensate; supply, furnish, provide; determine.

ANT. _Distribute, disperse, scatter; pi; default._

=Mal-= or =Male-=. A prefix denoting _ill_. For words thus compounded and not found here, see the synonyms and antonyms of the root word, from which derivatives may be readily chosen.

=Malady.= Disorder, distemper, disease, sickness, ailment, illness; complaint, indisposition.

ANT. _Health, sanity, vigor, robustness, soundness._

=Malediction.= Curse, cursing, execration, imprecation, denunciation, anathema.

ANT. _Benediction, blessing, praise, compliment._

=Malefactor.= Evil-doer, culprit, felon, criminal, convict, outlaw.

ANT. _Benefactor, hero._

=Malice.= Spite, ill will, malevolence, grudge, pique, bitterness, animosity, malignity, rancor, maliciousness, virulence.

ANT. _Good will, benevolence, kindliness._

=Manacle=, _n._ Handcuff, shackle, fetter.

=Manacle=, _v._ Handcuff, shackle, fetter, bind, chain.

ANT. _Unbind, unfetter, unchain._

=Manage.= Direct, govern, control, wield, order, contrive, concert, conduct, transact; administer, regulate, supervise, superintend, handle, rule.

ANT. _Mismanage, misgovern, misconduct, upset, misuse, derange; let go._

=Manageable.= Tractable, governable, controllable, tamable, docile.

ANT. _Unmanageable, untamable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, difficult, impracticable, impossible, refractory._

=Management.= Conduct, administration, government, guidance, direction, care, charge, contrivance, intrigue; skill, address; economy, treatment, superintendence, surveillance; negotiations, dealings, transactions.

ANT. _Misconduct, maladministration, mismanagement._

=Manager.= Director, superintendent, supervisor, comptroller, governor, overseer, conductor; economist.

ANT. _Workman, follower, workingman, employee._

=Mandate.= Command, commission, order, charge, precept, injunction, requirement, edict.

ANT. _Petition, request, entreaty, suggestion._

=Maneuver= (=Manœuvre=), _n._ Management; stratagem, artifice, scheme, plan, trick, ruse, intrigue; evolution, movement; operation, tactics, contrivance.

ANT. _Countermovement, defeat, check, bafflement, counteraction, detection, neutralization._

=Maneuver=, _v._ Perform an evolution, move; scheme, plot, intrigue, manage, contrive.

ANT. _Counteract, play up to, check, checkmate._

=Mangle.= Cut, bruise, mutilate, lacerate, maim, hack, tear; destroy, mar, spoil; polish, calender, smooth, press.

ANT. _Restore, heal._

=Manhood.= Virility, maturity; humanity; courage, resolution, bravery, hardihood, fortitude, manliness, manfulness.

ANT. _Womanhood, femininity; effeminacy; cowardliness, cowardice, delicacy._

=Mania.= Insanity, derangement, madness, lunacy, aberration, alienation, delirium, frenzy.

ANT. _Sanity, health, soundness; poise, self-control._

=Maniac.= Lunatic, madman, insane, bedlamite.

=Manifest=, _a._ Open, clear, evident, apparent, visible, conspicuous, plain, obvious; patent, palpable, unmistakable, distinct, indubitable.

ANT. _Hidden, indistinct, inconspicuous, occult, latent, obscure, confused, hazy, foggy._

=Manifest=, _v._ Reveal, declare, evince, make known, disclose, discover, display, show, exhibit, evidence, expose.

ANT. _Hide, cover, conceal._

=Manifold.= Various, duplicate, multiplied; numerous, many, multitudinous; diverse, multifarious; sundry.

ANT. _Few, rare, limited, scarce, scant; uniform, facsimile._

=Mankind.= Man; humanity, humankind; men; society.

ANT. _Womankind; childhood; divinity, deity, Heaven, God; earth, world, universe, nature, creation; cattle, animals, minerals, vegetables._

=Manly.= Bold, daring, valorous, courageous, undaunted, hardy, dignified; intrepid, heroic, vigorous, firm, noble, chivalrous; mature, masculine, manlike.

ANT. _Womanly, childlike; timid, womanish, childish, unmanly, boyish, weak, dastardly, cowardly; effeminate._

=Manner.= Mode, custom, habit, deportment, fashion, air, look, mien, aspect, appearance; behavior, conduct; method, form, style.

ANT. _Being, action, proceeding, life, work, performance, project, business._

=Mannerism.= Characteristic, peculiarity, uniformity, self-repetition, self-consciousness, affectation, idiosyncrasy, specialty.

ANT. _Unaffectedness, simplicity, naturalness, character, genuineness._

=Mannerly.= Civil, complaisant, respectful, courteous, polite, urbane, refined, well-behaved, ceremonious, well-bred.

ANT. _Rude, coarse, unmannerly, rough, impolite, uncivil, boorish._

=Manufacture=, _n._ Making, production, fabrication; product, composition, construction, manipulation, molding.

ANT. _Use, consumption, employment, wear._

=Manumission.= Release, emancipation, liberation, deliverance, enfranchisement, dismissal, discharge.

ANT. _Slavery, capture, subjugation; restraint, repression, coercion._

=Manumit.= Release, liberate, enfranchise, free, emancipate.

ANT. _Enslave, capture, subjugate, enthral._

=Many.= Frequent, manifold, diverse, divers, sundry, numerous, multiplied, various, abundant, multifarious.

ANT. _Few, rare, scarce, infrequent, scanty._

=Mar.= Injure, mark, spoil, ruin, blemish, damage, disfigure, deface, hurt, harm, impair, maim, deform.

ANT. _Make, mend, restore, improve, reinstate, enhance, repair, conserve._

=Marauder.= Plunderer, robber, ravager, pillager, outlaw, bandit, brigand, freebooter, rover, invader.

ANT. _Guard, sentry, keeper, steward, ranger, outpost._

=Margin.= Border, edge, brim, lip, rim, brink, verge, confine, limit, skirt, boundary, extremity; loophole, profit, interest, leeway.

ANT. _Center, main, space; limitation, stringency, restriction._

=Marine.= Naval, nautical, maritime; oceanic, salt-water, pelagic.

ANT. _Terrene, fresh-water, terrestrial, land._

=Marital.= Connubial, nuptial, hymeneal, conjugal, wedded, matrimonial.

ANT. _Single, unwedded, celibate._

=Maritime.= Marine, oceanic, nautical.

ANT. _Terrene, land._

=Mark=, _n._ Impress, stamp, vestige, impression, imprint, track, evidence, proof, characteristic, badge, indication; distinction, eminence, importance.

ANT. _Effacement, obliteration, erasure, plainness._

=Mark=, _v._ Remark, notice, regard, heed, show, betoken, characterize, denote, stamp, imprint, impress, brand; label, designate, observe, stigmatize, signalize, specify, specialize; decorate.

ANT. _Overlook, ignore, omit; mislabel, misindicate, mismark._

=Marked.= Noted, notable, prominent, remarkable, eminent, distinguished, conspicuous.

ANT. _Ordinary, mean, commonplace, everyday, undistinguished._

=Marriage.= Matrimony, wedlock, wedding, espousal, nuptials, conjugal union, spousal, union.

ANT. _Divorce, celibacy, virginity, bachelorhood, widowhood, maidenhood._

=Marrow.= Medulla, pith, essence, quintessence; gist, substance, cream, kernel.

ANT. _Excrescence, surplusage, redundancy, superfluity; surface, exterior; amplification; body, volume, mass._

=Marsh.= Fen, swamp, quagmire, morass, bog, slough.

ANT. _Solid ground._

=Marshal=, _v._ Order, arrange, direct, guide, lead, rank, array, dispose, draw up; herald.

ANT. _Disarray, misguide, disarrange, disorder._

=Martial.= Warlike, military, soldierly, brave.

ANT. _Peaceful, unmilitary, unwarlike._

=Martyrdom.= Martyrlike state; torture, torment, persecution; confession.

ANT. _Denial, retraction; abjuration, renegation._

=Marvel=, _n._ Wonder, prodigy, miracle; surprise, astonishment, amazement, admiration; portent, phenomenon.

ANT. _Commonplace, imposture, cipher, farce, trifle._

=Marvelous.= Wonderful, astonishing, surprising, strange, improbable, incredible; miraculous, stupendous, extraordinary, wondrous, supernatural, portentous, prodigious.

ANT. _Commonplace, everyday, regular, normal, customary, natural, anticipated, current, calculated, expected._

=Masculine.= Male, manly, virile, manlike; strong, robust, powerful, bold, hardy, courageous.

ANT. _Feminine, womanly, womanlike, female; effeminate, womanish._

=Mask=, _n._ Cover, disguise, pretext, subterfuge, screen; revel, frolic, evasion, pretense, ruse, plea; redoubt; domino, blind, veil; hypocrisy.

ANT. _Truth, nakedness, candor, verity, openness; exposure, detection, unmasking._

=Mask=, _v._ Disguise, cover, hide, protect, conceal, veil, shroud, screen.

ANT. _Expose, unmask, discover, detect._

=Mass.= Quantity, sum, bulk, magnitude, body, size, main part, majority; aggregate, whole, totality; heap, assemblage, combination, concretion.

ANT. _Fragment, section, portion, bit, morsel, minority, segment._

=Massacre=, _v._ Murder, butcher, kill, slaughter, slay.

ANT. _Preserve, spare, rescue, restore._

=Massive.= Compacted, weighty, heavy, massy, ponderous, bulky, huge, immense, vast, solid, colossal.

ANT. _Slight, slender, frail, airy; petty, small, light._

=Master=, _n._ Ruler, director, manager, leader, employer, owner, governor, superintendent, commander, captain; teacher, instructor, tutor; adept; possessor, proprietor; professor, head, chief.

ANT. _Servant, slave, pupil, employee, subject, learner, student._

=Master=, _v._ Conquer, subdue, vanquish, overcome; acquire, learn.

ANT. _Yield, fail, surrender, succumb._

=Masterly.= Imperious, domineering, arbitrary, despotic; skilful, clever, expert, dexterous, adroit; finished, excellent, artistic, consummate.

ANT. _Humble, obedient, compliant, rude, clumsy, bungling._

=Mastery.= Authority, dominion, supremacy; victory, triumph, preëminence, ascendency, superiority; acquirement, attainment, acquisition; skill, dexterity, cleverness, ability.

ANT. _Subservience, tutelage, submission, guidance, obedience, inexpertness, ignorance; defeat, failure, surrender._

=Masticate.= Grind, chew.

ANT. _Bolt, gobble, swallow._

=Match=, _n._ Equal, mate; contest; union, marriage; competition, trial; companion; pair.

ANT. _Superior, inferior; disparity, mismatch, oddity, inequality._

=Match=, _v._ Mate, rival, oppose, equal; correspond; adapt, fit, suit; marry; harmonize; join, couple, combine.

ANT. _Fail, exceed, surpass, preponderate; separate, dissociate._

=Matchless.= Unequaled, peerless, unparalleled, incomparable, inimitable, consummate, exquisite, excellent, surpassing, unrivaled.

ANT. _Common, ordinary, mediocre, everyday, commonplace, general._

=Mate=, _n._ Companion, associate, compeer, match, equal; fellow, intimate; assistant, subordinate; peer.

ANT. _Stranger; superior, inferior; principal, chief, head._

=Material=, _n._ Substance, solidity, weight, stuff, matter.

ANT. _Work, production, design; spirit, purpose._

=Material=, _a._ Corporeal, physical; important, essential; momentous, vital, weighty; bodily.

ANT. _Spiritual, sublimated, incorporeal, evanescent, ethereal._

=Matrimony.= Marriage, wedlock.

ANT. _Celibacy, virginity._

=Matron.= Wife, widow, dame; housekeeper, head nurse; dowager.

ANT. _Girl, maid, maiden, virgin, spinster, miss, lass._

=Matter.= Substance, body, material, constituency; concern, affair, business; trouble, difficulty; amount, portion, space; sense, significance, moment; import, importance; topic, subject, question; thing, event.

ANT. _Immateriality, incorporeality, spirituality; mind, soul, spirit, intellect; animus, zeal, temper._

=Mature.= Ripe, perfect, ready, perfected, completed, full-grown.

ANT. _Raw, crude, blighted, immature, undeveloped, unripe._

=Matutinal.= Morning, dawning, early, waking.

ANT. _Vesper, evening, late, waning, twilight._

=Maudlin.= Tearful, sentimental, weak, silly; drunken; intoxicated, inebriated, tipsy, muddled.

ANT. _Dry, sober, sensible, unsentimental, unromantic._

=Mawkish.= Nauseous, disgusted, squeamish; insipid, flat, stale, sickly, disgusting, loathsome, maudlin.

ANT. _Sensible, savory, fine, sound, palatable, pungent._

=Maxim.= Principle, axiom, proverb, aphorism, apothegm, adage, saying, saw, dictum, precept, rule.

ANT. _Sophism, quibble, absurdity, enigma, paradox._

=Maximum.= Greatest; climax, zenith, apex, acme, culmination, completion, utmost, ultimate.

ANT. _Minimum, least; morsel, fragment; initiative, commencement; decrease, wane; incompletion, abortion._

=Maybe=, _ad._ Perhaps, possibly, haply, mayhap.

=Maze.= Labyrinth, intricacy; bewilderment, uncertainty, perplexity; embarrassment.

ANT. _Clue, elimination, explication; solution._

=Meager.= Thin, lean, lank, poor, gaunt, starved, hungry, emaciated, barren, scanty.

ANT. _Stout, brawny, fat, chubby; abundant, fertile, copious._

=Mean=, _n._ Middle, medium, average, intermediate point; (_pl._) resources, property, revenue; media.

ANT. _Extreme, excess, exorbitance, enormity, extravagance; poverty, end, purpose, object._

=Mean=, _v._ Purpose, intend, design; signify, import, indicate, denote, express.

ANT. _Do, perform, execute; say, state, enunciate, declare._

=Mean=, _a._ Ignoble, abject, beggarly, wretched, degraded, degenerate, vulgar, vile, servile, menial, groveling, slavish, dishonorable, disgraceful, shameful, despicable, contemptible, paltry, sordid.

ANT. _Noble, kingly, heroic, princely, exalted, generous, eminent, honorable, spirited, liberal, masterly, worthy, bountiful, munificent._

=Meaning.= Purpose, aim, intention, import, design, object; sense, explanation, significance, interpretation, force, purport, acceptation.

ANT. _Statement; proceeding; affidavit, declaration._

=Meanness.= Stinginess, illiberality, sordidness, vileness, penuriousness, niggardliness, abjectness, baseness; destitution, poverty, lowness, scantiness, smallness, rudeness, selfishness.

ANT. _Nobleness, generosity, unselfishness, liberality, large-heartedness._

=Measure=, _n._ Dimension, capacity, quantity, amount; moderation, restraint; extent, limit, proportion, degree; rule, gage, standard; meter.

ANT. _Bulk, mass; segment, section, portion; immensity, infinity._

=Measureless.= Unlimited, infinite, immeasurable, immense, boundless, limitless, vast, unbounded.

ANT. _Circumscribed, finite, limited, bounded, restricted._

=Mechanic.= Artificer, artisan, handicraftsman, hand, craftsman, operative, workman.

ANT. _Artist, designer, planner, architect, constructor._

=Mechanical.= Approximate, empirical; machine-made; automatic, involuntary, blind; habitual, unreflective, spontaneous, effortless, unimpassioned.

ANT. _Labored, feeling, self-conscious, forced, spirited, appreciative, lifelike, lively, animated, impassioned._

=Meddle.= Interfere, handle, disturb; intrude, interpose, intervene, intercede; mediate, arbitrate.

ANT. _Withdraw, retire, remove, recede, retreat._

=Meddlesome.= Meddling, intrusive, officious; pragmatical, interfering; impertinent, obtrusive.

ANT. _Unobtrusive, modest, unofficious, shy, retiring, unassuming, reserved._

=Mediate=, _v._ Intervene, reconcile, interpose, intercede, arbitrate.

ANT. _Retire, withdraw, let be, leave, abandon._

=Mediation.= Interposition, intercession, intervention, arbitration, interference, adjustment, reconciliation.

ANT. _Indifference, neutrality; non-interference._

=Mediator.= Reconciler, intercessor, interceder, advocate, umpire, propitiator.

=Medicament.= Remedy, specific, medicine, cure, relief, help, restorative.

ANT. _Irritant, infection, aggravation, hurt, disease._

=Medicate.= Drug, treat, heal, cure.

ANT. _Harm, infect; catch, contract._

=Medicine=, _n._ Drug, physic, remedy, medicament; antidote, corrective, salve, cure; therapeutics.

ANT. _Poison, virus, bane; aggravation._

=Mediocre.= Moderate, indifferent, ordinary, mean, medium, average, middling, commonplace.

ANT. _Superior, inferior, extraordinary, distinguished, distinctive._

=Mediocrity.= Inferiority, average, moderate or middle state, medium; moderation; commonplace, mean; sufficiency.

ANT. _Excellence, superiority, distinction, brilliance, rarity._

=Meditate.= Consider, ponder, revolve, study, weigh, plan, contrive, devise, scheme, purpose, intend; contemplate, muse, reflect, think, cogitate.

ANT. _Execute, enact, complete, consummate._

=Medium=, _n._ Middle, mean; moderation, average; proportion; mediator, intermediary; means, agency, instrumentality.

=Medium=, _a._ Middle, mean, middling, intermediate, medial, mediocre, central.

ANT. _Outer, extreme, distant, remote._

=Medley.= Mixture, jumble, miscellany, potpourri, hodge-podge; tumult, confusion, litter, diversity, complexity.

ANT. _Order, harmony, simplicity; arrangement, classification, assortment, disposition, grouping._

=Meed.= Merit, reward, recompense; worth, desert; guerdon, premium, prize, award, remuneration; gift, present.

ANT. _Penalty, punishment, brand, stigma, amercement._

=Meek.= Submissive, yielding, unassuming, gentle; mild, patient, humble; lowly, modest.

ANT. _Bold, arrogant, proud, self-assertive, irritable, presumptuous, high-spirited._

=Meet=, _v._ Join; confront, encounter; be present; perceive, experience, suffer; equal, satisfy; assemble, congregate; harmonize, agree, unite; fulfil, comply, gratify, answer.

ANT. _Miss, escape, elude; be absent; avoid, separate, vary, diverge, decline, part, disagree; disappoint, fall short, fail._

=Meet=, _a._ Suitable, fit, proper, appropriate, qualified, convenient.

ANT. _Inappropriate, unfit, inconvenient, unsuited, improper._

=Meeting.= Conference, assembly, company, convention, congregation, junction, union, confluence; interview, encounter; assemblage, concourse, gathering.

=Melancholy=, _n._ Melancholia; depression, dejection, brooding, gloominess.

ANT. _Happiness, gladness, sanity, merriment, mirth, cheer, hopefulness._

=Melancholy=, _a._ Sad, dispirited, low-spirited, down-hearted, unhappy, hypochondriac, heavy, doleful, afflictive; dejected, depressed, disconsolate, gloomy, sorrowful, moody, desponding; grave, somber, dark.

ANT. _Happy, cheerful, gladsome, sprightly, lively, merry, mirthful, blithesome, gleeful._

=Mellifluous.= Smooth, honeyed, sweet, mellow, euphonious, silvery, dulcet.

ANT. _Raucous, hoarse, discordant, harsh, rough, broken, abrupt._

=Mellow.= Ripe, soft, tender; subdued, delicate; genial, jovial.

ANT. _Unripe, hard, green, acid, sour; harsh, glaring; discordant._

=Melodious.= Musical, agreeable, harmonious, dulcet, sweet, tuneful, rhythmical, concordant, mellifluous.

ANT. _Discordant, harsh, dissonant, raucous, jarring, inharmonious._

=Melody.= Harmony, rhythm, air, tune, music, song, sweetness of sound, descant, theme, unison, symphony.

ANT. _Discord, jarring, dissonance, harshness, discordance._

=Melt.= Liquefy, fuse, thaw, mollify, soften; be dissipated, run, blend, flow, dissolve.

ANT. _Harden, combine, consolidate, unite, crystallize._

=Member.= Organ, limb; constituent, part; clause, phrase; essential; portion, component.

ANT. _Whole, body, entirety, aggregate, sum, totality, community, society, association, organization, constitution._

=Memoir.= Memorial, biography, record, narrative, chronicle, register.

=Memorable.= Important, illustrious, remarkable, extraordinary, signal, distinguished, famous, celebrated, great, conspicuous, prominent.

ANT. _Ordinary, trivial, commonplace, insignificant, mediocre._

=Memorial.= Monument, record, memorandum, memento, souvenir.

ANT. _Silence, oblivion; non-observance; erasure._

=Memory.= Remembrance, recollection, reminiscence; fame, renown, reputation; monument; retrospection, retrospect; perpetuation, retention.

ANT. _Oblivion, oversight, unmindfulness, obliviousness, forgetfulness._

=Menace=, _n._ Threat, evil intention, denunciation, threatening.

ANT. _Good will, benediction, blessing, kindness; protection._

=Mend.= Help, amend, emend, correct, rectify; repair, improve, reform, better, restore, ameliorate.

ANT. _Impair, damage, spoil, corrupt; harm, deteriorate, pervert._

=Mendacity.= Lying, deceit, falsehood, untruth, duplicity, lie, untruthfulness, deception; prevarication.

ANT. _Truth, honesty, rectitude, uprightness, veracity, accuracy, exactness._

=Menial.= Servile, mean; domestic; dependent, attendant.

ANT. _Noble, independent, autocratic, supreme, superior._

=Mental.= Intellectual, spiritual, metaphysical, subjective, psychological, psychical, intelligent.

ANT. _Physical, corporeal, objective, bodily._

=Mention=, _n._ Reference, allusion, notice, remembrance, hint, communication, observation, declaration.

ANT. _Omission, silence, suppression, forgetfulness, neglect._

=Mention=, _v._ Speak of, notice, announce, observe, remark, hint, declare, tell, state, report, disclose, allude to, name, refer to.

ANT. _Suppress, omit, be silent about, forget, silence, drop, neglect, disregard, slight._

=Mercantile=. Commercial, traffic, business; wholesale, retail; interchangeable, marketable.

ANT. _Professional; unmercantile, unmarketable, stagnant, unprofitable._

=Mercenary.= Paid, hired, hireling, venal; greedy, sordid, avaricious, selfish.

ANT. _Generous, unselfish, lavish, prodigal, liberal, philanthropic, benevolent._

=Merchandise.= Wares, commodities, goods; trade, traffic, commerce; stock.

=Merchant.= Trader, shopkeeper, dealer, tradesman, trafficker; importer.

ANT. _Shopman, salesman, retailer, pedler, huckster._

=Merciful.= Compassionate, tender, humane, gracious, kind, mild, clement, benignant, lenient, pitiful, forgiving; tender-hearted.

ANT. _Remorseless, pitiless, inexorable, unrelenting, severe, cruel, hard, illiberal._

=Mercy.= Compassion, grace, favor, helpfulness, clemency, forbearance, tenderness, forgiveness, gentleness, pardon, blessing, pity, kindness, mildness, lenity, benevolence, benignity, lenience, leniency.

ANT. _Harshness, rigor, severity, sternness, penalty, justice, vengeance, revenge, punishment, hardness, cruelty, implacability, ruthlessness, inhumanity, brutality, exaction._

=Mere.= Unmixed, pure, absolute, unqualified, simple, bare, unaffected; unadulterated.

ANT. _Compound, mixed, impure, blended, combined, adulterated._

=Meridian=, _n._ Midday, noon, zenith, height, culmination, summit, apex, pinnacle, acme.

ANT. _Midnight, antipodes, depth, profundity, base, depression, nadir._

=Merit=, _n._ Desert, worth, excellence, reward, approbation; worthiness, credit, goodness.

ANT. _Worthlessness, error, unworthiness, demerit, weakness, imperfection, fault._

=Merry.= Gay, jovial, sportive; cheerful, happy; blithe, lively, sprightly, vivacious, mirthful, gleeful, joyous, jocund, hilarious.

ANT. _Gloomy, sad, disconsolate, dismal, moody, dejected._

=Message.= Notice, word, communication, missive, letter, intimation.

ANT. _Interception, silence, non-communication, neglect._

=Messenger.= Carrier, harbinger, intelligencer, courier, forerunner, herald, precursor.

=Metaphysical.= Mental, intellectual, psychological, abstract, general, ideal, psychical, subjective, rational, abstruse, conceptual.

ANT. _Physical, substantial, physiological, material, practical, objective, palpable, external._

=Method.= Order, system, rule, way, manner, mode, course, arrangement, process, means, regularity.

ANT. _Disorder, experimentation, guesswork, conjecture, attempt, empiricism._

=Midst.= Middle, center, heart; thick; press; burden.

ANT. _Circumference, rim, surface, border, outside, perimeter._

=Mien.= Aspect, manner, bearing, look, carriage, deportment, appearance.

ANT. _Character, disposition, nature, constitution, personality._

=Might.= Force, energy, power, means, resources; strength, capacity, ability.

ANT. _Weakness, feebleness, infirmity, impotence; inability, inefficiency, incapability; want, lack._

=Mild.= Gentle, pleasant, clement, kind, soft, bland; moderate, placid, tender, genial, meek.

ANT. _Harsh, fierce, savage, rough, wild, violent, merciless, severe._

=Mind.= Understanding, intellect, soul; opinion, judgment, belief; choice, inclination, liking, intent, will; courage, spirit; remembrance, memory, recollection; reason, brain, sense, consciousness, disposition, intelligence, thought, instinct.

ANT. _Body, matter, brute force, brawn, limbs, material substance, members; feelings, emotions, heart, affections, sensibilities; conduct; forgetfulness, obliviousness._

=Mindful.= Regardful, attentive, heedful, observant, thoughtful, careful.

ANT. _Inattentive, regardless, careless, forgetful, oblivious, absent-minded._

=Mingle.= Combine, join, confuse, compound, mix; unite, associate; intermarry; blend, amalgamate.

ANT. _Separate, sever, segregate, dissolve, sift, sort, classify, analyze._

=Minister=, _n._ Delegate, official, ambassador; clergyman, priest, parson, ecclesiastic, preacher, divine, vicar, curate; envoy.

ANT. _Monarch, master, superior, principal; layman; government._

=Minor=, _a._ Inferior, less important, smaller, less, junior, unimportant, younger.

ANT. _Major, greater, older, senior, elder, main, important._

=Minute.= Small, tiny, slender, diminutive, slight, little; precise,

## particular, detailed, critical, circumstantial, exact, fine, comminuted,

specific; inconsiderable; microscopic.

ANT. _Monstrous, great, enormous, grand, huge; general, abstract, broad, comprehensive; inexact, superficial._

=Miraculous.= Supernatural, super-physical; wonderful, awesome.

ANT. _Natural, ordinary, scientific._

=Mis-.= A prefix used in the sense of _amiss_, _wrong_, _ill_. Words to which this prefix but adds this meaning are omitted here, and their synonyms and antonyms may usually be readily found by reference to the root words.

=Misanthropy.= Cynicism, hatred, egoism.

ANT. _Philanthropy, benevolence, altruism, humanitarianism._

=Miscellany.= Mass, mixture, collection, medley, jumble, variety, hodge-podge, diversity.

ANT. _Selection, system, arrangement, order, group, assortment, classification._

=Mischief.= Damage, harm, hurt, injury, detriment, evil, ill; mishap, trouble.

ANT. _Benefit, good, blessing, profit, gratification, compensation, favor._

=Miser.= Niggard, skinflint, curmudgeon, churl.

ANT. _Spendthrift, profligate._

=Miserable.= Abject, forlorn, pitiable, wretched, mean; worthless, despicable, contemptible; unfortunate, unlucky.

ANT. _Comfortable, happy, respectable, contented, cheerful, easy._

=Misery.= Unhappiness, wretchedness, woe; calamity, disaster, misfortune.

ANT. _Happiness, contentment, ease, comfort, pleasure, enjoyment._

=Misfortune.= Adversity, failure, ill luck, hardship, harm, ill, affliction, calamity, blow, disaster, disappointment, trial, tribulation, sorrow, ruin, distress, stroke, misery, reverse, mischance, visitation, chastening, trouble, chastisement, misadventure, bereavement, mishap.

ANT. _Consolation, blessing, boon, happiness, joy, prosperity, relief, triumph, success, comfort, good fortune, gratification, good luck, pleasure._

=Mission.= Message, errand, commission, deputation; embassy; ministry, legation; trust, office.

ANT. _Assumption, usurpation, self-appointment; faithlessness, betrayal._

=Mist.= Fog, vapor; obscuration, cloudiness, perplexity, bewilderment, haze.

ANT. _Clarity, brightness; perspicuity, revelation, clearness, discernment, insight, understanding; lucidity._

=Mob.= Rabble, masses, dregs of the people, the vulgar, populace, crowd, canaille, lower classes.

ANT. _Élite, aristocracy, nobility, nobles, patricians._

=Mobile.= Movable, excitable, inconstant, changeable, fickle; variable, ductile, sensitive.

ANT. _Immovable, firm, set, steady, unvarying, unchangeable, inexorable._

=Model.= Mold, copy, design, example, image, imitation, standard, type, representation, pattern, prototype, facsimile, original, archetype; norm.

ANT. _Imitation; work, production, execution; accomplishment._

=Moderate=, _a._ Sparing, temperate, frugal, calm, mild; limited, restrained, reasonable; dispassionate, controlled; abstinent, sober; austere, ascetic.

ANT. _Immoderate, intemperate, luxurious, excessive, extravagant._

=Modern.= New, novel, modish, fashionable, present, late, extant, recent.

ANT. _Past, ancient, antiquated, old, antique, obsolete, former._

=Modesty.= Humility, lowliness, humbleness, meekness, shyness, reserve, coldness, bashfulness, backwardness, constraint, timidity, unobtrusiveness, coyness.

ANT. _Frankness, freedom, impudence, indiscretion, self-conceit, sauciness, abandon, arrogance, confidence, egoism, assumption, assurance, boldness, forwardness, haughtiness, loquacity, pertness, pride, vanity, self-sufficiency, openness, effrontery._

=Moment.= Instant, twinkling, consequence, weight, consideration, force, value, signification, avail; second, trice.

ANT. _Age, period, decade, century, generation; insignificance, unimportance, triviality._

=Monarch.= Ruler, sovereign; king, prince, emperor, queen.

ANT. _Subject, peer, plebes._

=Money.= Coin, cash, currency, gold, funds, property, specie, silver, bills, bullion, notes, capital.

=Monopoly.= Exclusiveness, possession, privilege, appropriation, engrossment, preëmption.

ANT. _Community, partnership, competition, free trade; participation, sharing; communism; socialism._

=Monotonous.= Unvarying, uniform, wearisome, dull, tedious, same, unison, humdrum, undiversified; similar, like.

ANT. _Varied, changed, diversified; harmonic; lively; divergent, variant._

=Monster.= Prodigy, enormity, marvel, portent; monstrosity, wonder; demon, fiend, dragon, sphinx, colossus, leviathan; ogre.

ANT. _Pigmy, dwarf, elf; angel, beauty, cherub._

=Monstrous.= Abnormal, extraordinary, prodigious, portentous, marvelous, unnatural; vast, immense, colossal, stupendous; shocking, horrible, hateful, terrible, hideous.

ANT. _Beautiful, small, reasonable, little, shapely, regular, fair, pretty, comely; ordinary, familiar, natural; charming, lovely._

=Moral=, _a._ Dutiful, right, virtuous, just, worthy, ethical; intellectual, spiritual, religious, pious, righteous, ideal.

ANT. _Immoral, wrong, sinful, unjust, unworthy, vicious, gross; irreligious, impious, sensual; physical, bodily, carnal._

=Moreover.= Besides, further, in addition; also, likewise, in addition to.

ANT. _Finally, lastly._

=Morose.= Gruff, gloomy, crusty, crabbed, acrimonious, severe, snappish, sullen, surly, churlish, dogged, ill-humored, ill-natured, sulky.

ANT. _Bland, gentle, benignant, good-natured, kind, loving, pleasant, sympathetic, genial, amiable, friendly, tender, indulgent, complaisant, mild._

=Mortal.= Deathlike; deadly, destructive, poisonous; vulnerable, vital; human, perishable, ephemeral, transient, transitory.

ANT. _Immortal, undying, everlasting, eternal, divine, celestial, life-giving, perennial._

=Motherly.= Maternal, motherlike, parental; kind, loving, affectionate.

ANT. _Paternal, fatherlike, fatherly; harsh, unloving, unkind, hateful._

=Motion.= Movement, change, action, act, passage, move, process, transit, transition.

ANT. _Quiescence, quiet, rest, repose, stillness, immobility._

=Motive.= Incentive, incitement, inducement, reason, spur, stimulus, cause; object, purpose; argument, conviction; impulse, prompting.

ANT. _Deed, achievement, execution, action, attempt, project; deflector, preventive, dissuasion, deterrent._

=Mourn.= Lament, grieve, regret, rue, bewail, sorrow.

ANT. _Exult, joy, rejoice, be joyful, triumph, make merry._

=Mournful.= Lugubrious, heavy, sad, sorrowful, grievous, calamitous.

ANT. _Joyful, jubilant, gladsome, cheerful, happy, pleasant, joyous._

=Move.= Stir, agitate, trouble, affect, persuade, actuate, impel, prompt, instigate, incite, offer, induce.

ANT. _Stop, stay, arrest, prevent, deter; calm, appease, deflect._

=Movement.= Motion; compulsion, stimulation, incitement, agitation, arousing, instigation.

ANT. _Stoppage, stay, pause, calm, quiet._

=Much.= Great; long; considerable; abundant; far; ample, plenteous.

ANT. _Little, small, scarce, few, scanty, near; narrow._

=Multiplication.= Teeming, multiplicity, multitude, increase, plurality, reproduction, augmentation, swarming, multifariousness, multitudinousness.

ANT. _Diminution, division, subtraction, reduction; extinction; rarity, scantiness; unity, singularity._

=Multitude.= Throng, crowd, assembly, assemblage, commonalty, swarm, populace; host, rabble, mob, concourse.

ANT. _Individual, solitude; aristocracy; oligarchy; scantiness, paucity, scarcity._

=Mundane.= Worldly, terrestrial, earthly; sublunary; secular, temporal.

ANT. _Unworldly, spiritual, celestial, eternal, supramundane, stellar, solar, lunar._

=Munificent.= Bounteous, bountiful, liberal, generous; beneficent, free, lavish, extravagant.

ANT. _Small, niggardly, saving, sparing, mean, close._

=Musical.= Melodious, harmonious, tuneful, symphonious, mellifluous, rhythmical.

ANT. _Discordant, inharmonious, harsh, raucous, unmelodious._

=Mute.= Silent, dumb, speechless; voiceless; still, unpronounced; unresponsive; taciturn.

ANT. _Talkative, chattering, garrulous, vocal, speaking, loquacious, loud, noisy._

=Mutual.= Common, correlative, reciprocal, joint, interchangeable.

ANT. _Detached, distinct, disunited, separate, severed, sundered, unshared, unreciprocated, unrequited, disconnected._

=Mysterious.= Abstruse, enigmatical, dark, mystical, occult, obscure, secret, transcendental, unknown, unfathomable, mystic, hidden, inexplicable, inscrutable, cabalistic, incomprehensible, recondite.

ANT. _Clear, plain, apparent, manifest, bright, light, explainable, simple, comprehensible, obvious, easy, revealed, understood._

=Mystic.= Unknowable, obscure, mysterious; allegorical, enigmatical; transcendental; cabalistic, symbolical.

ANT. _Familiar, simple, ordinary, commonplace, obvious, plain._

=Myth.= Fable, tradition, legend; parable, invention, fiction, allegory; falsehood, lie.

ANT. _Truth, fact, history, narrative, incident._

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=Nabob.= Millionaire, Crœsus, viceroy, governor, Dives.

ANT. _Beggar, suppliant._

=Naked.= Nude, bare; defenseless, unprotected, destitute; manifest, undisguised; simple, mere, plain; unclothed, undraped, denuded; uncolored, unvarnished.

ANT. _Robed, draped, veiled, dressed, shrouded, muffled; protected, sheltered; colored, varnished, qualified._

=Name=, _n._ Appellation, denomination, cognomen, designation, surname, title, style, epithet.

=Name=, _v._ Call, indicate, designate, specify, mention, denominate, style, nominate.

ANT. _Miscall, misname, misindicate; be nameless or anonymous; hint, suggest, shadow, intimate, imply._

=Narrate.= Relate, tell, recount, describe, detail, rehearse, report, recite.

ANT. _Misrepresent, mistake; suppress, conceal._

=Narrative.= Narration, recital, account, rehearsal, relation, description, story, tale, history.

=Narrow.= Not wide, straitened, limited, without margin; bigoted, illiberal; parsimonious, niggardly, selfish; close, scrutinizing, exact; slender, spare, thin, contracted, cramped.

ANT. _Wide, broad, ample, expanded, thick; generous, benevolent; unlimited; liberal._

=Nascent.= Embryo, rudimental, budding, incipient.

ANT. _Grown, developed, mature; aged; confirmed, set._

=Nasty.= Filthy, foul, dirty, offensive, damp, disgusting, disagreeable, wet; indecent, obscene.

ANT. _Pleasant, sweet, agreeable, savory, nice, pure._

=Nation.= People, race, stock; realm, community, state, commonwealth.

=Native.= Innate, natal, natural, original, indigenous.

ANT. _Alien, artificial, foreign, unnatural, acquired, assumed._

=Natural.= Native; essential, normal, regular, intrinsic, cosmical, spontaneous, original, artless, ingenuous; kind, affectionate; genuine, unaffected.

ANT. _Abnormal, monstrous, unnatural, improbable, adventitious, fictitious, coarse; artful, affected._

=Nature.= Creation, universe; essence, constitution; kind, sort, character, quality; temper, disposition, mood; mind, intelligence; vitality.

ANT. _Thing, subject, object, man, being, creature, monstrosity, unnaturalness; art, fiction, romance, invention._

=Naught.= Nothing, cipher, zero.

ANT. _Anything, everything, aught._

=Naughty.= Mischievous, perverse, froward; bad, corrupt, worthless, good-for-nothing; refractory, wicked.

ANT. _Good, worthy, well-behaved, tractable, pure, docile, innocent._

=Nausea.= Seasickness, loathing, disgust, qualm; repugnance, aversion.

ANT. _Enjoyment, taste, delight, relish._

=Nautical.= Marine, maritime, naval, oceanic.

=Near=, _ad._ Nigh, not remote, almost, nearly, well-nigh, intimately, closely.

=Near=, _a._ Nigh, close, adjacent, adjoining, approximate; imminent, impending, forthcoming, approaching; familiar, dear, intimate; immediate; literal, accurate; narrow, parsimonious; short; proximate, contiguous, present, ready.

ANT. _Distant, remote, far; reserved, uncordial, cool, stiff; indistinct, obscure, future._

=Nearly.= Almost, well-nigh, intimately, closely, approximately.

ANT. _Quite, entirely, distantly, remotely._

=Neat.= Trim, tidy, prim, precise, spruce, clean, cleanly, orderly, natty, dapper, nice.

ANT. _Negligent, slack, slovenly, slouchy, dirty, soiled, disorderly, dowdy, untidy, rough, unkempt, rude, uncared for._

=Necessary.= Essential, inevitable, needful, infallible, undeniable, indispensable, required, requisite, unavoidable.

ANT. _Optional, useless, contingent, worthless, casual, non-essential, needless._

=Necessitate.= Force, compel, coerce, make necessary, oblige, constrain, make, drive, impel.

ANT. _Persuade, convince, induce, tempt, coax, allure; liberate, release._

=Necessity.= Need, requirement, want, compulsion, fate, fatality, requisite, destiny, essential, emergency, extremity, exigency, indispensableness, urgency, unavoidableness, sine qua non.

ANT. _Choice, contingency, doubt, option, freedom, uncertainty, fortuity, doubtfulness, dubiousness, possibility._

=Need.= Exigency, emergency, extremity, strait, distress, indigence, penury.

ANT. _Competence, affluence, choice, wealth, luxury, profuseness; superfluity, uselessness, dispensableness; casualty, accident; contingency, freedom._

=Needful.= Requisite, needy, necessitous, distressful, essential, indispensable.

ANT. _Contingent, casual, unnecessary, unessential, discretional, optional, needless._

=Needless.= Unnecessary, useless, superfluous, groundless, gratuitous.

ANT. _Needful, useful, helpful, obligatory._

=Nefarious.= Wicked, abominable, iniquitous, execrable, atrocious, impious.

ANT. _Noble, honorable, admirable, laudable; benevolent, generous, humane._

=Negation.= Denial, disavowal, disclaimer, contradiction.

ANT. _Assertion, declaration, deposition, avowal, affirmation, allegation, protestation, claim._

=Negative=, _a._ Denying, indirect, unaffirmative, privative, disclaiming.

ANT. _Positive, direct, assertive, attributive, affirmative, declarative._

=Neglect=, _n._ Negligence, failure, omission, disregard, oversight, indifference, remissness, slight, thoughtlessness, slackness, default, carelessness, disrespect, heedlessness, inadvertence, inattention, scorn.

ANT. _Care, attention, notice, regard, esteem, consideration, respect._

=Negotiate.= Transfer, sell, pass, arrange, treat, bargain, trade, communicate, transact, effect, perform.

ANT. _Stop, quash, mismanage, misconduct._

=Neighborly.= Kind, civil, social, friendly, near, adjoining, adjacent, neighboring, friendly, attentive.

ANT. _Individual, solitary, personal, distant, remote, unkind, uncivil, unfriendly._

=Nerve.= Steadiness, firmness, fortitude, self-command, resolution, strength, courage, pluck, endurance, coolness, presence of mind.

ANT. _Weakness, cowardice, timidity, feebleness, nervelessness._

=Nervous.= Excitable, agitated, annoyed, irritable, weak, fearful; strong, vigorous, spirited, nervy, forceful.

ANT. _Self-possessed, self-controlled, poised, calm, composed; dull, inert, phlegmatic, sluggish._

=Neutral.= Neuter, undecided, indifferent, unpronounced, uninterfering, negative, impartial, unavowed, unaffiliated.

ANT. _Interested, interfering, positive, partial, active, allied, avowed, declared._

=Neutralize.= Render neutral, invalidate, counteract, counterbalance, countervail, render inoperative.

ANT. _Enhance, intensify, aggravate._

=New.= Fresh, modern, novel, late, recent, juvenile, upstart, young, new-fangled, youthful, new-fashioned.

ANT. _Old, antique, ancient, old-fashioned, aged, elderly._

=News.= Information, tidings, intelligence, advice, word, report, account, announcement, rumor.

ANT. _Ignorance, silence, nonpublication, suppression; misintelligence, misreport._

=Nice.= Exquisite, accurate, correct, precise, particular, punctilious, squeamish, finical, effeminate, silly, exact, critical, definite, strict, fastidious, cautious, scrupulous; discerning, discriminating; fine, minute, refined, delicate, dainty, pleasant, agreeable.

ANT. _Coarse, rude, rough, inaccurate, blind, undiscriminating, unscrupulous, incautious, undiscerning, careless, negligent, disagreeable, nauseous._

=Nicety.= Fastidiousness, accuracy, scrupulousness, delicacy, precision, daintiness, subtlety, distinction, exactness.

ANT. _Coarseness, roughness, inaccuracy, rudeness._

=Niggardly.= Avaricious, covetous, parsimonious, miserly, sordid, sparing, penurious, stingy.

ANT. _Generous, bountiful, copious, ample, profuse, abundant, bounteous, plentiful, munificent._

=Nimble.= Alert, brisk, bustling, lively, prompt, quick, speedy, swift, spry, agile, sprightly, active.

ANT. _Clumsy, dilatory, dull, heavy, inert, inactive, slow, unready, sluggish._

=Nobility.= Greatness, dignity, superiority, nobleness, eminence, elevation, worthiness; family, rank, title, birth; aristocracy, peerage, patrician class.

ANT. _Obscurity, meanness, serfdom, paltriness, plebeianism._

=Noble.= Honorable, worthy, dignified, elevated, superior, sublime, great, eminent, stately. generous, liberal, free, aristocratic, patrician, illustrious, grand, lordly, renowned, magnificent, knightly.

ANT. _Ignoble, plebeian, paltry, vulgar, baseborn, low-born, rustic, peasant, contemptible, unworthy, mean._

=Nobody.= No person, no one, not anybody, cipher, nonentity.

ANT. _Somebody, notability, celebrity, colossus, star._

=Nocturnal.= Nightly, dark, tenebrose, gloomy.

ANT. _Daily, diurnal, solar, brilliant, light._

=Noise.= Cry, outcry, clamor, din, clatter, uproar; rumor, report, rattle, tumult.

ANT. _Music, melody, harmony; silence, hush, stillness, voicelessness._

=Noiseless.= Silent, quiet, inaudible.

ANT. _Noisy, uproarious, turbulent, clamorous, boisterous, brawling, tumultuous, loud._

=Noisome.= Noxious, insalubrious, unwholesome, mischievous, destructive, nocuous, hurtful, pestilential, harmful.

ANT. _Wholesome, salutary, salubrious, beneficial._

=Noisy.= Loud, clamorous, stunning, boisterous, turbulent.

ANT. _Noiseless, subdued, inaudible, whispering; melodious, tuneful._

=Nominal.= Literal, verbal, titular; formal, avowed, pretended, ostensible, supposititious.

ANT. _Veritable, essential, intrinsic, actual, substantial, important, real, serious, true._

=Nominate.= Name, specify, appoint, designate, entitle.

ANT. _Suggest, withdraw, reject, indicate, cancel, deprive, recall._

=Nonsense.= Folly, silliness, absurdity, trash, inanity, platitude, pretense.

ANT. _Sense, wisdom, fact, truth, gravity, reason, science._

=Normal.= Regular, ordinary, natural, standard, usual, typical, recognized, common.

ANT. _Exceptional, abnormal, uncommon, singular, unusual, monstrous, irregular, peculiar, rare, unprecedented, remarkable, unnatural._

=Notable.= Plain, evident, noted, noticeable, distinguished, memorable, extraordinary, conspicuous, manifest; notorious.

ANT. _Ordinary, mean, commonplace, everyday, undistinguished, unimpressive, insignificant._

=Note.= Memorandum, comment, remark, record, scholium; account, catalogue, bill; heed, observation; reputation, distinction, celebrity, fame, repute, renown.

ANT. _Misindication, misrepresentation, misleader._

=Notice=, _n._ Observation, regard, cognizance, information, advice, news, intelligence, intimation, announcement, premonition, instruction, warning, attention, consideration.

ANT. _Oversight, disregard, neglect, slight, ignorance, connivance, omission, heedlessness, misinformation._

=Notice=, _v._ Mark, observe, note, heed, regard, perceive, see, remark, mention, comment on, attend, mind.

ANT. _Overlook, disregard, misjudge, neglect._

=Notification.= Information, notice, declaration, publication, announcement, advertisement.

=Notify.= Intimate, declare, publish, announce, acquaint, warn, apprise, communicate, inform.

ANT. _Withhold, conceal, suppress, misinform, misreport._

=Notion.= Idea, conception, apprehension, sentiment, judgment, opinion, belief, impression, estimation, conceit, conviction.

ANT. _Misconception, misapprehension, frustration, falsification._

=Notorious.= Distinguished, conspicuous, remarkable, famous, celebrated, noted, renowned.

ANT. _Suspected, reputed, reported._

=Notwithstanding=, _conj._ Still, however, although, but, nevertheless, howbeit, yet, though.

=Notwithstanding=, _prep._ Despite, in spite of.

=Nourish.= Feed, foster, cherish, nurse, tend, support, maintain, train, educate, promote.

ANT. _Starve, blight, destroy, kill._

=Nourishment.= Nutrition, nutriment, food, aliment, provision, sustenance.

ANT. _Poison, venom, bane, starvation, exhaustion._

=Novel=, _a._ New, recent, modern, fresh, strange, uncommon, rare, unusual, fantastic, odd, upstart, new-fangled.

ANT. _Venerable, ancient, old-fashioned, time-honored._

=Noxious.= Noisome, injurious, hurtful, pernicious, unwholesome, deadly, poisonous.

ANT. _Wholesome, salutary, beneficial, healthful, salubrious._

=Nucleus.= Kernel, core, center.

ANT. _Exterior, face, appearance._

=Nudity.= Nakedness, exposure, bareness.

ANT. _Clothing, dress, vestment, drapery._

=Nugatory.= Trifling, vain, insignificant, futile, ineffectual, unavailing, trivial, worthless, useless, null.

ANT. _Important, potent, momentous, efficacious, successful, grave, serious, satisfactory._

=Nuisance.= Annoyance, plague, pest, affliction, bane, trouble.

ANT. _Pleasure, delight, benefit, blessing, gratification._

=Nullify.= Revoke, annul, cancel, abolish, render void, abrogate, neutralize, repeal.

ANT. _Enact, confirm, perpetuate, establish, stabilitate._

=Numb.= Enfeebled, destitute, torpid, benumbed, insensible, paralyzed, deadened.

ANT. _Alive, alert, sensitive, keen, lively, animated, attentive._

=Number=, _n._ Aggregation, multitude, collection, numeral, numerous, quantity.

ANT. _Scarcity, fewness, paucity._

=Number=, _v._ Count, enumerate, calculate, tell, compute, reckon, estimate.

ANT. _Guess, hazard, conjecture; lump, mass._

=Numberless.= Innumerable, infinite, countless.

ANT. _Few, scarce, rare, infrequent._

=Numerous.= Many, abundant, diverse, multifarious, manifold, sundry.

ANT. _Few, scarce, rare, infrequent._

=Nuptial.= Wedding, marriage, hymeneal, espousal, connubial, bridal.

ANT. _Bachelor, virgin._

=Nurse=, _v._ Nourish, cherish, foster, attend, manage, train, educate, teach, feed, nurture.

ANT. _Starve, kill, destroy; neglect._

=Nurture.= Nourish, nurse, tend, cherish, educate, train, feed.

ANT. _Neglect, deprive, disregard, slight._

=Nutriment.= Aliment, food, sustenance, nourishment, sustentation, subsistence, nutrition.

ANT. _Starvation, detriment, exhaustion, poison, decay, inanition._

=Nutrition.= Nutriment, feeding, sustentation.

ANT. _Poison, venom._

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=Oath.= Curse, imprecation, profanity, swearing, adjuration, affidavit, anathema, ban, blasphemy, denunciation, execration, malediction, vow, reprobation, sworn statement.

ANT. _Blessing, benediction, benison._

=Obdurate.= Firm, unbending, inflexible, unyielding, obstinate, stubborn, impenitent, callous, unfeeling, insensible.

ANT. _Yielding, teachable, tender, docile, amenable, flexible, softened._

=Obedience.= Submission, duty, compliance, respect, dutifulness, subservience.

ANT. _Resistance, rebellion, transgression, disobedience, antagonism, insubordination._

=Obedient.= Dutiful, respectful, compliant, submissive, humble, yielding, obsequious, modest, docile.

ANT. _Disrespectful, undutiful, arrogant, hard, unyielding, obstinate, obdurate, stubborn._

=Obesity.= Fatness, corpulence, fleshiness, corpulency.

ANT. _Leanness, thinness._

=Obey.= Submit, yield, comply.

ANT. _Resist, refuse, disobey._

=Object=, _n._ Reality, fact, existence, phenomenon; aim, intention, end, purpose, appearance, motive, design, sight, view, goal.

ANT. _Subject, idea, fancy, conception._

=Objective.= Outward, external, extrinsic, concrete, universal, actual, positive, real.

ANT. _Subjective, intrinsic, abstract, notional._

=Oblation.= Offering, gift, sacrifice, contribution, presentation.

ANT. _Spoliation, sacrilege, withholding, refusal._

=Obligation.= Responsibility, engagement, contract, agreement, bond, covenant, stipulation, necessity, debt, duty, compulsion.

ANT. _Choice, freedom, assurance, promise, declaration, intention._

=Oblige.= Bind, please, gratify, accommodate, favor, constrain, compel, force, coerce, benefit, necessitate, obligate.

ANT. _Release, acquit; persuade, induce; annoy, disoblige._

=Obliging.= Civil, courteous, complaisant, kind, considerate, accommodating, compliant.

ANT. _Discourteous, inconsiderate, rude, disobliging, unaccommodating._

=Oblique.= Indirect, slanting, inclined, perverse, disingenuous, diagonal, divergent, angular.

ANT. _Straightforward, rectilineal._

=Oblivion.= Forgetfulness, disremembrance.

ANT. _Memory, reminiscence, remembrance, recollection, celebration, commemoration._

=Obloquy.= Censure, odium, contumely, reproach, gainsaying, reviling, calumny, slander, detraction.

ANT. _Praise, acclamation, encomium, panegyric._

=Obnoxious.= Odious, detrimental, blameworthy, pernicious, offensive.

ANT. _Pleasant, grateful, independent, wholesome, beneficial, salutary._

=Obscure=, _a._ Abstruse, deep, involved, difficult, hidden, profound, mysterious, ambiguous, unintelligible, cloudy, complex, complicated, dark, darksome, dense, dim, doubtful, intricate, dusky, indistinct, enigmatical, incomprehensible, muddy, turbid, shadowy, misty, unknown, secluded, unascertained, remote.

ANT. _Clear, luminous, distinct, lucid, plain, plain-spoken, intelligible, prominent, eminent._

=Obsequious.= Servile, cringing, fawning, compliant, submissive, deferential, sycophantic, flattering.

ANT. _Impudent, self-assertive, independent, arrogant, insubmissive, haughty, proud._

=Observance.= Observation, heeding, form, practice, custom, attention, celebration, ceremony, performance.

ANT. _Inobservance, inattention, disuse, disregard, disrespect, omission, unceremoniousness, informality._

=Observant.= Observing, watchful, attentive, regardful, obedient, mindful, careful, heedful.

ANT. _Unmindful, disobedient, disregardful, heedless._

=Observation.= Contemplation, remark, study, notice, view, conclusion, judgment, attention, comment, note, observance.

ANT. _Inattention, oversight, silence, ignorance, inadvertence._

=Observe.= Remark, note, watch, heed, see, discover, attend, comment.

ANT. _Overlook, misconceive, misunderstand._

=Obsolete.= Disused, ancient, neglected, antiquated, archaic, effete, past, old-fashioned, old, rare, obsolescent.

ANT. _Fashionable, modern, current, customary, new, novel, extant._

=Obstacle.= Impediment, obstruction, difficulty, hindrance, barrier, check.

ANT. _Course, proceeding, career, advancement, progress._

=Obstinacy.= Pertinacity, firmness, resoluteness, inflexibility, persistency, perverseness, contumacy.

ANT. _Flexibility, docility, complaisance._

=Obstinate.= Perverse, obdurate, intractable, determined, stubborn, resolved, resolute, inflexible, unyielding, intractable, indomitable, unflinching, contumacious, decided, dogged, mulish, heady, headstrong, fixed, firm, immovable, opinionated, persistent, pertinacious, refractory, unconquerable.

ANT. _Pliant, docile, submissive, dutiful, gentle, obedient, compliant, tractable, yielding, amenable, complaisant, irresolute, wavering, undecided, pliable, teachable._

=Obstruct.= Bar, barricade, hinder, oppose, impede, stay, stop, arrest, check, embarrass, clog, choke, retard, interrupt.

ANT. _Aid, facilitate, accelerate, forward, promote, clear, advance, open, pave the way for, further, free, expedite._

=Obstruction.= Obstacle, barrier, bar, impediment, check, clog, hindrance.

ANT. _Course, proceeding, advancement, progress, career._

=Obtain.= Attain, gain, procure, acquire, earn, win.

ANT. _Lose, forfeit, surrender, forego._

=Obtrude.= Intrude, force, interfere, thrust.

ANT. _Suggest, hint, insinuate; retire, withdraw._

=Obtuse.= Blunt, dull, stupid, unintelligent, stolid.

ANT. _Keen, quick, sharp, intelligent, acute, clever._

=Obverse.= Opposite, facing.

ANT. _Hinder, reverse._

=Obvious.= Opposing; plain, evident, clear, manifest, apparent, discovered, perceived, open, explicit, patent.

ANT. _Remote, obscure, far-fetched, involved, latent._

=Occasion=, _v._ Cause, produce, create, induce, originate, furnish, compose, constitute, generate.

=Occasionally.= Sometimes, casually, rarely.

ANT. _Always, constantly, regularly, frequently._

=Occult.= Secret, concealed, hidden, unknown, invisible, latent, eclipsed, unrevealed, mysterious.

ANT. _Developed, plain, exposed, patent, clear, familiar, open._

=Occupancy.= Possession, occupation, tenury.

ANT. _Eviction, ejection, dispossession._

=Occupation.= Occupancy, avocation, employment, engagement, vocation, calling, office, trade, profession.

ANT. _Idleness, leisure, vacancy, vacation, abandonment, resignation._

=Occupy.= Possess, hold, employ, fill.

ANT. _Abandon, release, desert, surrender, vacate, concede._

=Occur.= Happen, appear, meet, befall, betide, take place.

ANT. _Threaten, pass, impend._

=Occurrence.= Event, happening, incident, affair, adventure, circumstance, transaction, episode.

ANT. _Cause, antecedent, inducement, predisposition, tendency, contribution._

=Odd.= Quaint, unmatched, queer, unusual, eccentric, fantastical, droll, comical, singular, peculiar.

ANT. _Common, usual, regular, normal, matched._

=Odious.= Hateful, detestable, disgusting, abominable, repulsive, forbidding, unpopular, invidious, loathsome.

ANT. _Pleasing, pleasant, acceptable, agreeable, grateful, delectable, bewitching, charming._

=Odium.= Hatred, abhorrence, detestation, antipathy, unpopularity, offensiveness.

ANT. _Welcome, acceptableness, popularity._

=Odor.= Scent, perfume, smell, fragrance, aroma, redolence; trail, effluvium, fume.

ANT. _Inodorousness._

=Odorous.= Fragrant, perfumed, balmy, aromatic, odorant.

ANT. _Scentless, inodorous; fetid._

=Offend.= Displease, affront, harm, pain, annoy, transgress.

ANT. _Please, gratify, conciliate._

=Offense.= Umbrage, misdeed, delinquency, transgression, fault, affront, indignity, outrage, insult.

ANT. _Defense, guiltlessness, innocence._

=Offensive.= Disagreeable, obnoxious, distasteful, impertinent, disgusting, rude, saucy, opprobrious, insulting, insolent, attacking, abusive, invading, assailant.

ANT. _Defensive, pleasing, grateful, savory._

=Offer.= Propose, propound, tender, sacrifice, immolate, undertake, attempt, try, proffer.

ANT. _Withhold, withdraw, retract, retain, alienate, divert._

=Offhand.= Instant, ready, extemporaneous, unpremeditated, unstudied, impromptu.

ANT. _Premeditated, elaborate, studied, thought-out._

=Office.= Service, duty, custom, position, charge, authority, function, business.

ANT. _Leisure, vacancy, sinecure, resignation._

=Officer.= Official, functionary, director, dignitary, manager, administrator.

ANT. _Member, servant, private, employee._

=Official=, _a._ Administrative, authoritative, functional, professional.

ANT. _Private, unofficial, unprofessional._

=Officiate.= Act, serve, perform.

ANT. _Witness, retire._

=Officious.= Impertinent, meddlesome, interfering, forward, intrusive, pushing.

ANT. _Negligent, backward, remiss; retiring, modest._

=Often.= Frequently, repeatedly, commonly, many times, not seldom.

ANT. _Infrequently, seldom, rarely._

=Old.= Aged, ancient, primitive, pristine, antique, antiquated, old-fashioned, obsolete; senile; gray, hoary, olden, immemorial, time-honored, decrepit, elderly, patriarchal, remote, venerable, time-worn.

ANT. _Youthful, childlike, young; recent, modern, fresh, new-fashioned, current._

=Omen.= Prognostic, augury, presage, sign, portent, foreboding.

ANT. _Fulfilment, event, occurrence, realization._

=Ominous.= Significant, portentous, unpropitious, threatening, inauspicious, foreboding, premonitory, suggestive.

ANT. _Encouraging, auspicious, propitious._

=Omit=, _v._ Leave out, neglect, forbear, fail, miss, overlook.

ANT. _Consider, observe, notice, attend, regard._

=Omnipotent.= All-powerful, irresistible, Almighty.

ANT. _Powerless, inefficient, impotent._

=Omniscient.= All-knowing, infallible, all-wise.

ANT. _Shortsighted, fallible, ignorant._

=One.= Single, individual, solitary, certain, undivided, common, united, unitary.

ANT. _Many, several; few._

=Onerous.= Burdensome, oppressive, heavy, toilsome, difficult, laborious, responsible.

ANT. _Light, easy, trivial._

=Only=, _ad._ Solely, singly, exclusively, merely, barely, wholly.

ANT. _Among, amongst, together, collectively._

=Only=, _a._ Single, sole, alone, preëminent, chief.

ANT. _Many, together, several, mixed._

=Onset=, =Onslaught=. Assault, attack, storming, aggression, invasion.

ANT. _Repulse, resistance, protection, shelter, support, defense._

=Onward.= Forward, in advance, ahead.

ANT. _Aback, astern, backward._

=Opaque.= Impervious, not transparent, obscure, unintelligible.

ANT. _Pellucid, translucent, transparent, obvious, clear, intelligible, perspicuous._

=Open=, _v._ Unclose, disclose, expose, explain, begin, commence, initiate.

ANT. _Close, shut, cover, conceal; conclude, terminate; misinterpret, mystify._

=Open=, _a._ Unclosed, uncovered, unprotected, exposed, plain, obvious, evident, public, artless, candid, free, available, accessible, undisguised, ingenuous.

ANT. _Closed, barred, inaccessible, unavailable, reserved, shut, secreted._

=Opening.= Aperture, hole, space, breach, gap, fissure; start, inauguration, commencement, initiation, beginning; opportunity.

ANT. _Obstruction, stop-gap, termination, enclosure, close, end, conclusion, inopportunity, unseasonableness._

=Operation.= Agency, action, exercise, production, influence, force, performance, result, procedure, effect, execution.

ANT. _Failure, uselessness, futility, ineffectiveness, inefficiency, powerlessness, inaction, cessation, rest._

=Opinion.= Persuasion, idea, sentiment, view, conviction, judgment, notion, impression, estimation.

ANT. _Evidence, argument, inquiry, speculation, investigation, pleading._

=Opponent.= Antagonist, foe, adversary, enemy, rival.

ANT. _Helper, assistant, accomplice, ally._

=Opportune.= Timely, seasonable, convenient, ready, suitable, auspicious, meet, appropriate.

ANT. _Untimely, unseasonable, inopportune, infelicitous._

=Opportunity.= Occasion, convenience, occurrence, turn, opening.

ANT. _Lapse, omission, inopportuneness, contre-temps._

=Oppose.= Combat, withstand, contradict, deny, gainsay, oppugn, contravene, check, obstruct.

ANT. _Aid, abet, support, advance, expedite._

=Opposite.= Facing, contrary, repugnant, antagonistic, adverse, counter, contradictory, opposed.

ANT. _Agreeing, coincident, harmonious, conformable, suiting, fitting, accordant._

=Opposition.= Restraint, defeat, resistance, hostility, obstacle, obstruction, animosity.

ANT. _Sympathy, harmony, concord, alliance, congeniality._

=Oppress.= Impose, weigh down, burden, grind, persecute, overwhelm, crush, overpower, subdue.

ANT. _Encourage, assist, support, befriend._

=Oppression.= Cruelty, tyranny, hardship, injustice, severity.

ANT. _Kindness, mercy, justice, clemency, leniency._

=Oppressive.= Heavy, oppressing, rigorous, tyrannical, unjust, extortionate, grinding.

ANT. _Light, easy, compassionate, just, humane, generous._

=Opprobrium.= Disgrace, infamy, reproach, contempt, scandal, obloquy, odium.

ANT. _Popularity, welcome, acceptableness._

=Option.= Choice, preference, selection, discretion, wish, election.

ANT. _Compulsion, necessity, obligation._

=Opulence.= Wealth, riches, fortune, affluence, independence.

ANT. _Poverty, impecuniosity, indigence, want._

=Oracle.= Revelation; prophet, angel.

ANT. _Empiricism, pragmatism._

=Oracular.= Prophetic, ominous, portentous; authoritative, positive, dogmatical; wise, grave, sage; obscure, equivocal, ambiguous.

ANT. _Cautious, modest, vacillating, diffident._

=Oral.= Verbal, unwritten, vocal, spoken, traditional.

ANT. _Documentary, written._

=Oration.= Address, speech, discourse, harangue, lecture, disputation, declamation, effusion.

ANT. _Reasoning, suggestion, insinuation._

=Oratory.= Eloquence, rhetoric, elocution, declamation.

ANT. _Hesitation, stammering, dulness._

=Orb.= Sphere, globe, ball; circle, orbit, circuit; disk; revolution.

=Orbit.= Revolution, path, circuit, sphere.

ANT. _Deviation, eccentricity, perturbation._

=Ordain.= Set, regulate, establish, appoint, decree, constitute, institute, prescribe, dictate.

ANT. _Revoke, subvert, cancel, countermand._

=Ordeal.= Test, trial, experiment, probation, proof, scrutiny, assay, investigation.

ANT. _Result, event; argument, evidence, plea, discussion._

=Order.= Arrangement, system, procedure, method, rule, regulation; command, mandate, rank, direction, grade, class, character, kind, management, injunction, prohibition, requirement, instruction.

ANT. _Allowance, consent, leave, permission, permit, liberty, license._

=Orderly.= Regular, obedient, systematic, quiet, peaceable, methodical, well-regulated.

ANT. _Disorderly, riotous, irregular._

=Ordinance.= Statue, law, edict, decree, rescript, regulation, institute, rule.

ANT. _Custom, usage, tradition, fashion._

=Ordinary.= Normal, usual, common, customary, settled, frequent, wonted, habitual, indifferent, mediocre, plain, commonplace.

ANT. _Extraordinary, superior, unusual, uncommon._

=Organic.= Inherent, fundamental, essential, constitutional, radical, vital; organized, systematized.

ANT. _Non-essential, circumstantial, provisional, contingent, inorganic, secondary._

=Organization.= Structure, form, construction; organism.

ANT. _Disorganization._

=Organize.= Arrange, constitute, shape, adjust, frame, establish, construct, systematize.

ANT. _Disorganize, dismember, disband, break up, annul._

=Origin.= Source, rise, commencement, spring, fountain, derivation, cause, root, foundation.

ANT. _Termination, conclusion, extinction._

=Original.= Primitive, new, primary, pristine, genuine, inventive, peculiar, initiatory, primordial, ancient, former, first.

ANT. _Subsequent, later, derivative, modern, terminal._

=Originate.= Begin, cause, commence, start, invent, create, spring, rise.

ANT. _Prosecute, conduct; conclude, finish, end._

=Ornament.= Decoration, embellishment, adornment.

ANT. _Disgrace, brand, disfigurement, detraction._

=Ornate.= Adorned, beautiful, embellished, decorated, elaborate, rich, ornamented.

ANT. _Bare, bald, nude, plain, naked._

=Orthodox.= Sound, conventional, approved, correct.

ANT. _Heretical, unorthodox, liberal, radical._

=Ostensible.= Exhibited, avowed, professed, apparent, pretended, declared, manifest, specious, plausible, outward.

ANT. _Real, actual, genuine, veritable, concealed, hidden._

=Ostentation.= Display, boasting, show, boast, vaunting, flourish, pageant, pomp, parade, pageantry.

ANT. _Diffidence, modesty, reserve, timidity, shrinking, retirement, quietness, unobtrusiveness._

=Ostracism.= Banishment, exclusion, expulsion, blackball, excommunication, separation.

ANT. _Admittance, enlistment, enrolment; welcome, fellowship._

=Outbreak.= Outburst, eruption, tumult, commotion, rebellion, insurrection, riot, conflict.

ANT. _Quiet, order, pacification, subsidence, quelling._

=Outcast.= Exile, vagabond, reprobate, castaway, pariah, vagrant.

=Outcry.= Clamor, tumult, vociferation, alarm, yell, scream, noise.

ANT. _Quiet, silence; acclamation, plaudit._

=Outer.= Outside, outward, external, exterior.

ANT. _Inward, inside, internal, interior._

=Outlaw.= Brigand, bandit, robber, highwayman, marauder, freebooter.

=Outlet.= Egress, exit, vent.

ANT. _Entrance, ingress._

=Outline.= Contour, sketch, delineation, draft, plan.

ANT. _Form, substance, bulk, figure, field, ground, space; object, subject._

=Outrage.= Outbreak, offense, violence, mischief, abuse, affront, insult, indignity.

ANT. _Favor; self-restraint, self-control._

=Outrageous.= Violent, furious, excessive, exorbitant, wanton, atrocious, monstrous, nefarious, heinous.

ANT. _Moderate, reasonable, justifiable._

=Outskirts.= Border, edge, outpost, precincts, environs, suburbs.

ANT. _Interior, center, bulk, mass, body, heart._

=Outstanding.= Uncollected, undischarged, unappropriated, unpaid; projecting; opposing.

ANT. _Collected, appropriated, gathered, paid; supporting; reëntrant._

=Outward.= Out, outer, external, exterior, public, visible, sensible, extraneous, superficial, apparent, extrinsic, ostensible.

ANT. _Internal, intrinsic, inward, withdrawn._

=Overcast.= Cloudy, lowering, obscured, murky, darkened, overspread, eclipsed.

ANT. _Cloudless, clear, luminous._

=Overcome.= Vanquish, conquer, surmount, excel, overthrow, subjugate, rule, domineer over.

ANT. _Lose, forfeit, surrender, fail, submit, retreat, succumb._

=Overflow=, _n._ Redundancy, inundation, deluge, exuberance, superabundance.

ANT. _Subsidence, deficiency, exhaustion._

=Overruling.= Governing, controlling, superior, predominant, directing, prevailing.

ANT. _Governed, controlled, inferior, subordinate._

=Oversight.= Charge, superintendence, management, supervision, command, care, watchfulness, surveillance, control, inspection, direction, watch; omission, error, inadvertence.

ANT. _Mismanagement, negligence, disregard, slight; particularity, attention to minutiæ._

=Overt.= Public, manifest, apparent, deliberate, open, avowed.

ANT. _Covert, secret, furtive, clandestine, implied._

=Overthrow.= Upset, ruin, demolish, destroy, overcome, defeat.

ANT. _Restore, reinstate, revive._

=Overture.= Proposal, proposition, offer, opening, prelude, invitation, advance, initiation.

ANT. _Inaction, quiescence._

=Overweening.= Rash, arrogant, egoistic, vain, haughty, conceited.

ANT. _Affable, courteous, sociable, condescending, gracious, polite, approachable._

=Overwhelm.= Submerge, engulf, immerse, overpower, extinguish, bury, crush, sink, subdue, vanquish, conquer, defeat.

ANT. _Raise, reinstate, reëstablish, rescue, extricate._

=Owe.= Be indebted for, be obliged for, borrow, hypothecate, attribute.

ANT. _Repay, requite, defray, liquidate._

=Own.= Possess, grant, acknowledge, admit, confess, avow.

ANT. _Lose, disown, abandon, forfeit, alienate, disinherit, abjure._

P

=Pacific.= Appeasing, reconciling, tranquil, mild, calm, peaceful, conciliatory.

ANT. _Harsh, irritating, exasperating, quarrelsome, turbulent, tumultuous, warlike._

=Pacification.= Conciliation, compromise, reconcilement, adjustment, reconciliation.

ANT. _Warfare, fighting, hostilities, war._

=Pact.= Agreement, league, compact, covenant, bargain, stipulation, alliance, bond.

ANT. _Understanding, promise, parole, honor._

=Pæan.= Jubilation.

ANT. _Dirge._

=Pagan=, _a._ Gentile, heathen, idolater.

ANT. _Christian, believer._

=Paganism.= Heathenism, polytheism, pantheism.

ANT. _Christianity, Christendom._

=Pageant.= Spectacle, exhibition, display, show, ceremony, procession, parade.

ANT. _Illusion, mockery, fantasmagoria, dream._

=Pageantry.= Pomp, parade, display, show, spectacle, splendor, magnificence.

=Pain=, _n._ Agony, ache, distress, suffering, torture, anguish, torment, pang, throe, paroxysm, twinge, woe, grief.

ANT. _Ease, peace, rapture, enjoyment, relief, solace, comfort, delight._

=Pain=, _v._ Hurt, grieve, afflict, disquiet, trouble, distress, agonize, torment, torture.

ANT. _Please, delight, rejoice, charm, refresh._

=Painful.= Disquieting, troublesome, afflictive, distressing, laborious, grievous, toilsome, arduous, difficult.

ANT. _Pleasant, pleasurable, acceptable, agreeable, grateful, desirable, delectable, delicious._

=Painstaking.= Careful, diligent, attentive, faithful, laborious.

ANT. _Neglectful, heedless, unmindful, disregardful, improvident, thoughtless, careless._

=Paint.= Color, picture, depict, delineate, sketch, draw, portray.

ANT. _Misrepresent, caricature, daub._

=Pair.= Two, couple, span, brace, yoke.

ANT. _One, several, many._

=Pale.= Pallid, white, wan, colorless, dim, sallow.

ANT. _Ruddy, high-colored, conspicuous, brilliant._

=Palliate.= Cover, conceal, extenuate, hide, veil, screen, cloak, gloss over, apologize for, mitigate.

ANT. _Alleviate; aggravate, heighten, increase, intensify._

=Palm.= Laurels, bays, prize, trophy, crown.

ANT. _Shame, blot, stigma, brand._

=Palpable.= Perceptible, obvious, plain, gross, material, corporeal, manifest, evident, patent, distinct.

ANT. _Immaterial, intangible, ethereal, impalpable, indistinct, dubious, imperceptible._

=Paltry.= Contemptible, worthless, mean, vile, pitiful, trifling.

ANT. _Valuable, estimable, admirable, worthy, grand, excellent, magnificent._

=Panegyric.= Eulogy, encomium, praise, laudation, commendation.

ANT. _Satire, sarcasm, tirade, stricture, invective, philippic._

=Pang.= Agony, anguish, distress, paroxysm, throe.

ANT. _Pleasure, delight, refreshment, enjoyment, gratification._

=Parable.= Fable, allegory, apologue, similitude.

ANT. _History, fact, narrative._

=Parade=, _n._ Ostentation, display, show, pomp, pageant, spectacle, procession.

ANT. _Modesty, humility, retirement, simplicity, plainness, seclusion, suppression._

=Paradise.= Bliss, heaven, Eden, ecstasy, Elysium.

ANT. _Purgatory, hell, torture, misery, torment._

=Paradox.= Contradiction, ambiguity, absurdity, enigma, mystery.

ANT. _Axiom, postulate, precept, truism, proposition._

=Parallel.= Correspondent, correlative, analogous, concurrent, equidistant.

ANT. _Different, opposed, divergent, irrelative, incongruous._

=Paralyze.= Deaden, benumb, unnerve, destroy, impair, enfeeble, prostrate, debilitate.

ANT. _Nerve, strengthen, restore, invigorate._

=Paramount.= Supreme, preëminent, chief, superior, principal.

ANT. _Minor, inferior, secondary, subordinate._

=Parasite.= Flatterer, sycophant, courtier.

ANT. _Calumniator, traducer, detractor._

=Pardon=, _n._ Absolution, mercy, forgiveness, forbearance, remission, acquittal, indulgence.

ANT. _Penalty, punishment, vengeance, retribution, retaliation._

=Pardon=, _v._ Condone, forgive, absolve, excuse, overlook, remit, pass over or by, acquit.

ANT. _Convict, castigate, condemn, chastise, correct, punish, doom, sentence, scourge, visit upon, recompense, chasten._

=Pardonable.= Excusable, forgivable, venial.

ANT. _Inexcusable, unpardonable._

=Parentage.= Descent, extraction, lineage, birth, stock, pedigree.

=Parsimonious.= Avaricious, frugal, sparing, close, stingy, penurious, niggardly, illiberal.

ANT. _Liberal, profuse, unsparing, extravagant._

=Part=, _n._ Fraction, fragment, section, atom, segment, element, piece, portion, instalment, constituent, component, ingredient, member,

## particle, share, subdivision.

ANT. _Whole, mass, bulk, entirety, quantity, totality._

=Partake.= Share, participate.

ANT. _Yield, forfeit, forego, relinquish._

=Partial.= Biased, restricted, specific, limited, imperfect, incomplete, unfair, unjust, warped, interested, inequitable.

ANT. _Unrestricted, universal, general, equitable, just, unbiased, impartial._

=Particle.= Atom, corpuscle, iota, grain, jot, mite, molecule, element, whit, tittle, scrap, shred, scintilla.

ANT. _Mass, quantity, sum, entirety, sum total, whole, aggregate, total._

=Particular=, _n._ Detail, point, feature.

ANT. _Whole, subject, case._

=Particular=, _a._ Sole, single, individual, respective, appropriate, personal, singular, important, peculiar, especial, specific, precise, critical, circumstantial.

ANT. _Universal, general, comprehensive, indiscriminate, abstract, inaccurate, inexact, undiscriminating._

=Parting.= Separation, leave-taking, farewell, dividing, division, disruption, detachment.

ANT. _Union, attachment._

=Partisan.= Adherent, follower, supporter, disciple.

ANT. _Opponent, antagonist, adversary._

=Partition.= Division, distribution, separation, allotment, apportionment; compartment, interspace, barrier.

ANT. _Combination, inclusion, comprehension, collection, union._

=Partly.= In part, somewhat, partially, not wholly.

ANT. _Altogether, entirely, completely, to the full extent._

=Partner.= Associate, colleague, coadjutor, confederate, participator, partaker, comrade, mate, companion.

ANT. _Rival, competitor, opponent, adversary, alien._

=Partnership.= Company, firm, union, connection, society, interest, house, association, participation.

ANT. _Independence, disconnection, disjunction, disunion, dissociation._

=Pass.= Go, move, proceed, disappear, vanish, depart, take place, occur, elapse, spend, live, experience; transcend, exceed; send, transmit, deliver; utter, promise, pledge; finish.

ANT. _Hold up; abide, wait, halt, continue, endure._

=Passable.= Navigable, current, acceptable, tolerable, admissible, moderate, traversable, mediocre.

ANT. _Impassable, impenetrable, inadmissible, impervious; excellent._

=Passage.= Transit, conveyance, journey, way, road, path, hall, course, progress, process, vestibule, corridor.

=Passible.= Susceptible, sensitive, sensible, impressible.

ANT. _Impassible, insusceptible, unsensitive._

=Passion.= Feeling, emotion, susceptibility, sentiment, ardor, excitement, desire, anger, warmth, vehemence.

ANT. _Indifference, apathy, coldness, coolness, frigidity._

=Passive.= Quiescent, unopposing, enduring, submissive, patient, unresisting, inert, inactive, relaxed, negative.

ANT. _Resistant, positive, impatient, vehement, active, alert._

=Past.= Gone by, elapsed, ended, spent, departed, late, accomplished.

ANT. _Present; future._

=Pastime.= Entertainment, recreation, sport, play, amusement, diversion.

ANT. _Business, work, task, labor, occupation, study._

=Patent.= Open, expanded, evident, apparent, manifest, public.

ANT. _Ambiguous, questionable, dubious._

=Paternal.= Fatherly, tender, careful, hereditary.

ANT. _Careless, rough, harsh; acquired, conferred, won._

=Path.= Footway, track, pathway, route, course, road; method.

=Pathetic.= Affecting, emotional, moving, pitiful, tender, touching, melting, plaintive.

ANT. _Ludicrous, ridiculous, farcical, unaffecting._

=Pathless.= Untrodden, impenetrable, trackless.

ANT. _Trodden, frequented._

=Patience.= Composure, calmness, leniency, fortitude, sufferance, submission, endurance, forbearance, resignation, long-suffering.

ANT. _Anger, impatience, ire, passion, fury, frenzy, rage, temper, vexation, petulance, wrath, fretfulness, peevishness._

=Patient.= Resigned, passive, enduring, unrepining, calm, forbearing, long-suffering.

ANT. _Impatient, insubmissive, malcontent, vehement, resistant._

=Patrician.= Noble, aristocratic, high-born, well-born.

ANT. _Plebeian, churlish, ordinary, peasant._

=Patrimony.= Heritage, inheritance, estate.

=Pattern.= Archetype, exemplar, specimen, sample, design, mold.

ANT. _Caricature, misrepresentation, monstrosity, perversion._

=Paucity.= Scantiness, deficiency, fewness, lack, want, rarity.

ANT. _Fulness, number, frequency, abundance, quantity._

=Pause=, _n._ Stop, cessation, interruption, suspension, hesitation, suspense, doubt.

ANT. _Continuance, continuity, perseverance, progress, progression, advancement._

=Pause=, _v._ Stop, cease, intermit, wait, stay, tarry, demur, hesitate.

ANT. _Continue, proceed, persist, persevere, advance._

=Pay=, _n._ Earnings, stipend, salary, wages, allowance, retainer, remuneration, payment, compensation, hire, fee, requital, honorarium.

=Pay=, _v._ Recompense, requite, satisfy, compensate, discharge, remunerate, fulfil, expend, liquidate, disburse.

ANT. _Deprive, defraud, retain, exact, hoard, invest._

=Payment.= Pay, compensation, satisfaction, content, salary, reward, wages, recompense, requital, return.

=Peace.= Quiet, calm, repose, tranquillity, stillness, silence, harmony, amity, concord, reconciliation, order, pacification.

ANT. _Noise, disturbance, disorder, war, strife, discord, variance, tumult, agitation, hostility._

=Peaceable.= Peaceful, pacific, undisturbed, tranquil, quiet, mild, serene, still.

ANT. _Warlike, quarrelsome, hostile, savage, fierce, violent, restless._

=Peasant.= Countryman, rustic, swain, laborer, villager.

ANT. _Citizen, townsman._

=Peculiar.= Special, especial, individual, particular, appropriate, unusual, singular, strange, rare.

ANT. _General, universal, ordinary, public, common._

=Peculiarity.= Individuality, singularity, idiosyncrasy, distinctiveness, specialty, characteristic, particularity.

ANT. _Universality, generality, uniformity, homogeneity, community._

=Pedigree.= Lineage, descent, ancestry, genealogy, birth, parentage.

ANT. _Ancestor, founder, origin; plebeianism; extinction._

=Peer.= Equal, match, mate, comrade, associate; nobleman.

ANT. _Superior; subordinate._

=Peerless.= Unmatched, matchless, unequaled, unique, superlative, paramount.

ANT. _Ordinary, mediocre, commonplace._

=Peevish.= Querulous, cross, testy, ill-tempered, captious, discontented, petulant, irritable, ill-natured, irascible.

ANT. _Good-natured, easy, genial, mild, complaisant, gentle._

=Penal.= Punitive, retributive, corrective.

ANT. _Preventive, reparatory; honorary, remunerary._

=Penalty.= Retribution, forfeiture, fine, punishment, amercement, mulct.

ANT. _Reward, wages, guerdon, prize, honorarium, remuneration, compensation._

=Pendent.= Pendulous, overhanging, hanging, suspended, depending.

ANT. _Supported, sustaining, propped._

=Penetrate.= Enter, pierce, comprehend, discern, understand, perforate, permeate, fathom.

ANT. _Glance off, be tangent to, find impermeable; misunderstand, mistake; float._

=Penetration.= Discernment, sagacity, acuteness, discrimination, sharpness, observation, insight.

ANT. _Obtuseness, shortsightedness; stupidity, shallowness, dulness._

=Penitence.= Repentance, contrition, remorse, sorrow, regret, compunction.

ANT. _Self-approval, gratulation; obduracy, hardheartedness._

=Penitent=, =Penitential=. Repentant, contrite, doing penance.

ANT. _Impenitent, obdurate, hardhearted._

=Pensive.= Thoughtful, sad, wistful, meditative, dreamy, sober; serious, mournful, melancholy, solemn, reflective.

ANT. _Joyous, glad, happy, gay, care-free, thoughtless, unreflecting._

=Penurious.= Covetous, parsimonious, stingy, avaricious, niggardly, sordid.

ANT. _Liberal, bountiful, generous, prodigal._

=Penury.= Want, privation, indigence, poverty, destitution, beggary, need.

ANT. _Wealth, abundance, affluence, luxury, competence._

=People.= Nation, race, population, state, tribe, community, commonwealth.

=Perceivable=, =Perceptible=. Discernible, distinguishable, cognizable, observable.

ANT. _Imperceptible, indistinguishable, insensible, inappreciable._

=Perceive.= Comprehend, apprehend, conceive, understand.

ANT. _Ignore, lose, miss, fail of, overlook, misconceive, misapprehend._

=Perception.= Discernment, apprehension, recognition, understanding, comprehension, feeling, sensation, sense.

ANT. _Conception, concept, imagination, idea, notion; misunderstanding._

=Percolate.= Filter, strain, exude, drain, ooze.

ANT. _Flow, rush, stream, run, disgorge._

=Percussion.= Shock, clash, collision, concussion, encounter.

ANT. _Recoil, rebound, reverberation._

=Perdition.= Loss, ruin, destruction, overthrow, wreck, demolition.

ANT. _Restoration, recovery, rescue, salvation._

=Peremptory.= Decisive, positive, absolute, final, authoritative, arbitrary, express, dogmatical, determined, resolute.

ANT. _Hortatory, mild, entreative, expostulatory, suggestive._

=Perennial.= Perpetual, unceasing, never failing, enduring, continual, constant, permanent, uninterrupted.

ANT. _Occasional, intermittent, periodic, uncertain; perishing, ephemeral, transient, fleeting._

=Perfect.= Finished, complete, entire, faultless, consummate, accurate, ideal, finished, absolute, completed, correct, immaculate, sinless, blameless, holy, undefiled, stainless, spotless, unblemished.

ANT. _Imperfect, bad, deficient, blemished, faulty, corrupt, poor, inferior, incomplete, perverted, worthless, spoiled, insufficient, meager, defective, short, scant, marred, defaced, corrupted, deformed, fallible, ruined._

=Perfection.= Excellence, completeness, faultlessness, maturity, wholeness, consummation, perfectness.

ANT. _Defect, imperfection, incompleteness, blemish._

=Perfectly.= Thoroughly, exquisitely, completely, faultlessly, entirely, fully, wholly, exactly, accurately.

ANT. _Imperfectly, faultily, partially, inaccurately._

=Perfidious.= False, treacherous, faithless, disloyal, dishonest, untrustworthy.

ANT. _True, loyal, stanch, upright, faithful, honest, trustworthy._

=Perform.= Complete, accomplish, execute, do, discharge, fulfil; represent, act, play, enact, consummate, achieve.

ANT. _Spoil, injure, harm, ruin, mar; fail of, misconduct._

=Performance.= Completion, consummation, execution, accomplishment, achievement, work, production, act, action, deed, exploit, feat.

ANT. _Failure, defeat, omission, abortion, undoing, nonperformance._

=Perfume.= Odor, redolence, balminess, fragrance, smell, aroma, scent.

ANT. _Stench, stink, fume._

=Perfunctory.= Mechanical, careless, listless, indifferent.

ANT. _Animated, spirited, assiduous, careful, ardent, zealous, interested._

=Perhaps.= By chance, peradventure, perchance, maybe, haply, possibly.

ANT. _Certainly, inevitably._

=Peril.= Hazard, risk, jeopardy, danger, venture, insecurity, liability.

ANT. _Safety, assurance, certainty, security._

=Period.= Time, cycle, age, epoch, limit, end, conclusion; era, duration, date, term, continuance, termination, conclusion, bound.

ANT. _Eternity, infinity, perpetuity, endlessness, everlasting._

=Periodical.= Recurring, regular, stated, recurrent, systematic, calculable, serial.

ANT. _Indeterminate, eccentric, fitful, spasmodic, irregular._

=Permanent.= Enduring, abiding, changeless, constant, durable, steadfast, unchangeable, immutable, invariable, fixed, unchanging, stable, lasting, persistent, perpetual.

ANT. _Transient, brief, fleeting, evanescent, passing, transitory, momentary, temporary, ephemeral._

=Permission.= Authority, allowance, consent, liberty, leave, license, permit, authorization.

ANT. _Hindrance, opposition, objection, denial, prevention, prohibition, refusal, resistance._

=Pernicious.= Mischievous, baneful, destructive, noisome, deleterious, harmful, hurtful, poisonous, noxious, pestilential, unhealthful, unwholesome, detrimental, deadly, evil, foul, injurious, insalubrious, pestiferous, perverting, ruinous.

ANT. _Helpful, invigorating, salutary, advantageous, good, favorable, life-giving, rejuvenating, useful, serviceable, beneficent, wholesome, beneficial, healthful._

=Perpetual.= Continual, endless, unceasing, unfailing, incessant, constant, eternal, everlasting, perennial, permanent, enduring.

ANT. _Periodic, transient, recurrent, temporary, occasional, casual, momentary._

=Perplex.= Entangle, involve, complicate, embarrass, puzzle, bewilder, confuse, distract, annoy, confound, trouble, worry, disturb, pester, bother, mystify.

ANT. _Enlighten, clear, explicate, simplify, elucidate, illumine, unfold, explain, manifest, calm, quiet, control, please, instruct, solve, illustrate, make intelligible, account for._

=Perplexity.= Confusion, bewilderment, disturbance, distraction, doubt, embarrassment, astonishment, amazement.

ANT. _Composure, calmness; discernment, insight._

=Perseverance.= Persistency, tenacity, steadfastness, steadiness, constancy, pertinacity, indefatigableness, resolution.

ANT. _Fitfulness, caprice, instability, variableness, irregularity; indecision, vacillation, wavering, irresoluteness._

=Perspicacity.= Acuteness, keenness, discernment, penetration, perspicaciousness, insight, sagacity, astuteness, distinctness, explicitness.

ANT. _Dulness, stupefaction, obtuseness, hebetude, stolidity, inobservance, insensibility._

=Perspicuity.= Plainness, lucidity, clearness, explicitness, intelligibility, transparency, perspicuousness.

ANT. _Obscurity, turbidness, unintelligibility, incomprehensibility, indefiniteness, doubtfulness, mysticism, confusion._

=Persuade.= Dispose, allure, entice, urge, move, influence, prevail upon, coax, bring over, incline, convince, lead, induce, incite, win over, impel.

ANT. _Deter, discourage, restrain, hinder, repel, dissuade, hold back._

=Pertinent.= Apposite, relevant, suitable, appropriate, proper, fit, adapted.

ANT. _Unrelated, unsuitable, impertinent, incongruous, alien, unconnected, discordant, inharmonious._

=Pertness.= Impertinence, boldness, forwardness, sauciness, flippancy, impudence, briskness, liveliness, smartness, sprightliness.

ANT. _Diffidence, humility, modesty, shyness, bashfulness, demureness._

=Perverse.= Obstinate, contrary, fractious, froward, intractable, petulant, wilful, wayward, ungovernable, stubborn, factious, untoward.

ANT. _Compliant, genial, accommodating, governable, kind, obliging, complaisant, amenable._

=Petition=, _n._ Prayer, supplication, entreaty; solicitation, application, suit, appeal, address.

ANT. _Protest, claim, expostulation, demand, injunction, dictation, exaction, dissension, dissent._

=Philanthropy.= Love, good will, charity, benevolence, humanity, public-spiritedness.

ANT. _Misanthropy, ill will, selfishness._

=Philosopher.= Student, theorist, speculator, teacher, master, savant, schoolman, doctor; adept.

ANT. _Learner, pupil, beginner; ignoramus, dunce._

=Philosophical.= Rational, wise, temperate, calm, cool, reasonable, sound, collected, composed, sedate, tranquil, Platonic.

ANT. _Popular, crude, loose, inaccurate, illogical, irrational, unsound, unscientific, thoughtless, hotheaded, impulsive._

=Physical.= Material, natural, corporal, sensible, visible, tangible, bodily, corporeal.

ANT. _Mental, spiritual, immaterial, unsubstantial, hyperphysical, intangible, moral, unreal, intellectual, invisible._

=Picturesque.= Graphic, vivid, artistic, beautiful, scenic, pictorial, graceful, comely, seemly.

ANT. _Unseemly, ugly, inartistic, ungraceful, tame, flat, insipid._

=Piety.= Sanctity, godliness, holiness, religion, reverence, devotion, grace.

ANT. _Impiety, sacrilege, sinfulness, ungodliness, hypocrisy, formalism, sanctimoniousness._

=Piquant.= Tart, sharp, pungent, stimulating, biting, racy, stinging, cutting, severe.

ANT. _Flat, tame, dull, insipid._

=Pique.= Resentment, umbrage, irritation, displeasure, grudge, offense.

ANT. _Delight, gratification, pleasure, satisfaction, contentment, approval, complacency._

=Piteous.= Sorrowful, mournful, affecting, doleful, lamentable, woful, rueful, sad, pitiable, pitiful.

ANT. _Joyous, glad, merry, happy, cheerful, comfortable, desirable, pleasant, agreeable, delectable._

=Pitiful.= Lamentable, mournful, base, contemptible, piteous, pathetic, pitiable, touching, sorrowful, woful, wretched, despicable, moving, paltry.

ANT. _Exalted, glorious, helpful, great, grand, sublime, superior, beneficent, commanding, august, dignified, noble, lofty, mighty, superb._

=Pity.= Sympathy, mercy, tenderness, condolence, compassion, commiseration.

ANT. _Cruelty, severity, mercilessness, sternness, hardness, rigor, inhumanity, brutality, barbarity, harshness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, hardheartedness, ferocity, truculence._

=Placid.= Pleased, contented, unruffled, undisturbed, peaceful, serene, tranquil, quiet, gentle, collected, calm, composed, passionless.

ANT. _Discontent, disturbed, distressed, anxious, distracted, perplexed, distrait; vehement, wild, passionate, impulsive, agitated, ruffled, excited, impassioned._

=Plain.= Artless, undisguised, sincere, frank, honest, ingenuous, candid, unembellished, simple, downright, blunt, distinct, apparent, manifest, open, clear, evident, visible, obvious, unmistakable, conspicuous, level, flat, smooth; easy, natural, homely, ugly; simple, frugal.

ANT. _Unnatural, pretended, affected, assumed, feigned, artificial, insincere, vain, pretentious, conceited; ornate, ornamented, decorated, embellished; involved, obscure, hidden, invisible, inconspicuous, uneven, undulating, rugged, broken, ambiguous, abrupt, obstructed, uncertain, enigmatical, abstruse; beautiful, sophisticated, artful._

=Plant=, _v._ Seed, set, sow, seed down, set out.

ANT. _Eradicate, uproot, extirpate, weed out, root up._

=Plausible.= Specious, seeming, pretending, fair-spoken, passable, pretentious, ostensible, apparent; colorable, feasible.

ANT. _Genuine, transparent, true, sterling, veritable, unmistakable, authentic, sincere, unaffected._

=Plead.= Advocate, ask, beg, urge, argue, solicit, entreat, implore, press.

ANT. _Grant, bestow, answer._

=Pleasant.= Kindly, obliging, attractive, pleasing, pleasurable, agreeable, kind, good-natured.

ANT. _Disagreeable, gloomy, glum, harsh, hateful, repulsive, unpleasant, repellent, offensive, unkind, forbidding, dreary, arrogant, austere, grim, ill-natured, ill-humored, repelling._

=Pleasure.= Satisfaction, comfort, solace, joy, gladness, delight, will, choice, purpose, command, kindness, enjoyment, gratification, happiness, self-indulgence, voluptuousness.

ANT. _Suffering, affliction, pain, sorrow, sadness, distress, misery, compulsion, force, coercion; mourning, depression, dejection, melancholy, misfortune, poverty, want._

=Plenitude.= Fulness, abundance, completeness, plenty, repletion, plethora; luxury, affluence, exuberance, wealth, richness, profusion, amplitude, enough, supply, sufficiency.

ANT. _Want, need, scarcity, scantiness, dearth, insufficiency, restriction, poverty, partiality, stint, reserve, narrowness, penury, impecuniosity._

=Plentiful.= Bountiful, generous, large, abundant, adequate, copious, enough, full, profuse, rich, sufficient, complete, exuberant, plenteous, replete, teeming, affluent, ample, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, overflowing, abounding.

ANT. _Deficient, drained, impoverished, scanty, insufficient, small, sparing, stingy, straitened, poor, scant, exhausted, inadequate, mean, miserly, narrow, niggardly, scarce, short, scrimped._

=Plot.= Intrigue, conspiracy, cabal, contrivance, scheme, stratagem, project, combination, machination; story.

ANT. _Blunder, botch; misarrangement, miscontrivance._

=Poet.= Bard, author of poems, singer, rimester, rimer, versifier.

=Poetical.= Metrical, rhythmical, lyric, rimed, versified; imaginative, fictitious, creative.

ANT. _Prosaic, unpoetical, unrimed, unversified, unrhythmic; commonplace, matter-of-fact, unimaginative, realistic; mathematical, historical._

=Poetry.= Meter, rime, numbers, poesy, song, verse, poem, metrical composition.

ANT. _Prose, prosaic speech, prosaic writing._

=Poignant.= Pricking, piercing, sharp, pungent; pointed, keen, satirical.

ANT. _Blunt, dull, obtuse, insipid, pointless, vapid, inexpressive._

=Poisonous.= Venomous, baneful, corrupting, noxious, pestilential, malignant, virulent, pestiferous, deleterious, mephitic.

ANT. _Salubrious, wholesome, healthful, beneficial, sanative, genial, remedial, hygienic._

=Polite.= Courteous, civil, courtly, obliging, gracious, polished, accomplished, complaisant, cultivated, cultured, elegant, genteel, urbane, well-behaved, well-mannered, well-bred.

ANT. _Awkward, clownish, unmannerly, uncouth, boorish, blunt, impertinent, brusk, bluff, impolite, insolent, coarse, ill-bred, ill-behaved, rude, rustic, impudent, ill-mannered, untutored, uncivil, untaught, discourteous, unpolished, insulting._

=Politeness.= Courtesy, civility, gentility, refinement, courtliness, elegance, urbanity, good breeding, decorum, complaisance, affability.

ANT. _Rudeness, arrogance, incivility, churlishness, ungraciousness, insolence, sauciness, impertinence, effrontery, presumption._

=Poor.= Needy, indigent, destitute; lean, emaciated; feeble, dejected; shabby, mean; unfavorable, uncomfortable; barren; sterile; inadequate, insignificant, insufficient; meek.

ANT. _Rich, wealthy, affluent, opulent; splendid, costly, valuable, estimable; fruitful, abundant, luxuriant, productive, prolific; copious, abounding, ample, well-supplied, comfortable, favorable; adequate, sufficient; important, significant, arrogant, self-assertive._

=Popular.= Cheap, common, ordinary, inferior; familiar, plain, easy, comprehensible; favorite, liked, approved, accepted, accredited; current, prevalent, general, prevailing; pertaining to the people, vulgar, plebeian; mediocre.

ANT. _Unpopular, exclusive, aristocratic, snobbish; special, excellent, unique, superior, eminent; selfish, narrow, illiberal, uncharitable; sole, only, scientific, restricted, esoteric; odious, detested._

=Position.= Situation, station, assertion, place, posture, locality, site; attitude; state, condition, circumstances; principle, doctrine, proposition, dictum, affirmation, thesis; rank.

=Positive.= Real, actual, absolute, explicit, definite, confident, certain, dogmatic; defined, precise, clear; veritable, substantial, true; indisputable, incontrovertible; indubitable; decisive, unconditional, imperative, unequivocal, settled, assured, express.

ANT. _Negative, denying, indirect, disavowing, disclaiming, privative; relative; unreal, fictitious, imaginative, contingent, dependent, implied, conditional, dubious, unsubstantial, indefinite, equivocal._

=Possession.= Control, ownership, tenure, retention, management, occupation; (_pl._) property, estate, wealth, dominion.

ANT. _Dispossession, resignation, surrender, abandoning, renouncing._

=Potent.= Powerful, mighty, puissant, strong, able, efficient, efficacious, forcible, cogent, influential, effective, active, energetic.

ANT. _Impotent, powerless, weak, feeble, infirm; inefficient, incapable, incompetent, incapacitated._

=Potential.= Possible, implicit, undeveloped, virtual, immanent, inherent, intrinsic.

ANT. _Actual, explicit, real, objective, developed, express, determinate, positive, clear, definite._

=Poverty.= Distress, beggary, indigence, destitution, pauperism, penury, privation, want, need, mendicancy.

ANT. _Wealth, riches, affluence, luxury, comfort._

=Power.= Ability, competency, capacity, faculty, aptitude, dexterity, efficiency, might, talent, energy, skill, strength, readiness, capability, cleverness, expertness, efficacy, force, qualification, cogency, susceptibility.

ANT. _Feebleness, weakness, helplessness, impotence, incompetence, inability, inaptitude, dulness, awkwardness, imbecility, incapacity, inefficiency, unskilfulness, maladroitness, stupidity._

=Practice=, _n._ Usage, habit, custom; performance, application, system; manner, method, mode, experience.

ANT. _Theory, speculation, assumption, ideal, conjecture, abstraction._

=Practice=, _v._ Do, perform, exercise, carry out, execute; teach, train; habituate, try; apply, use; pursue.

ANT. _Abandon, misuse, disuse, neglect, disregard, slight, omit, pass over._

=Praise=, _n._ Applause, approval, cheering, compliment, acclaim, adulation, acclamation, approbation, cheers, plaudit, eulogy, encomium, flattery, laudation, panegyric, sycophancy.

ANT. _Abuse, blame, censure, contempt, reproach, ignominy, slander, scorn, obloquy, animadversion, condemnation, denunciation, disapprobation, disparagement, vituperation, reproof, disapproval, repudiation, hissing, vilification._

=Praise=, _v._ Laud, eulogize, celebrate, magnify, glorify; honor, commend; applaud, extol, compliment.

ANT. _Decry, blame, censure, reprove, disparage, depreciate, discredit, traduce, condemn._

=Pray.= Ask, beg, beseech, entreat, implore, invoke, petition, supplicate, request, importune, bid, plead, call upon, conjure.

=Precarious.= Doubtful, dubious, hazardous, perilous, risky, insecure, uncertain, unsettled, unsteady, unstable, unassured.

ANT. _Firm, settled, stable, sure, certain, real, undoubted, unquestionable, actual, assured, immutable, incontestable, undeniable, infallible, strong, steady._

=Precaution.= Foresight, prudence, forethought, providence, wariness, care.

ANT. _Thoughtlessness, improvidence, carelessness, imprudence._

=Precedent=, _n._ Example, antecedent, case, instance, pattern, authority, warrant.

=Precept.= Commandment, law, injunction, mandate, rule, direction, principle, maxim; doctrine, dogma; order; instruction.

ANT. _Hint, suggestion, allusion, insinuation, prompting, impulse, instigation._

=Precise.= Accurate, exact, correct, definite, scrupulous, punctilious,

## particular, nice, formal; explicit, terse.

ANT. _Inaccurate, inexact, incorrect, heedless, careless, incautious, implicit, ambiguous, circumlocutory, loose, vague, informal, unceremonious._

=Predatory.= Plundering, pillaging, ravaging, rapacious, marauding.

ANT. _Protecting, guarding, watching, keeping, sheltering, shielding, saving._

=Predestination.= Fate, necessity, foreknowledge, foreordination.

ANT. _Choice, freedom, free will, independence, uncertainty, accident, chance, free agency._

=Prediction.= Prophecy, prognostication, foreboding, divination, augury, soothsaying, vaticination, foretelling, presage.

ANT. _Reminiscence, recollection, report; history, narration, account._

=Preface.= Introduction, proem, preamble, prologue, exordium, prelude.

ANT. _Sequel, postscript, appendix, peroration, epilogue, conclusion._

=Prefer.= Choose, elect, select, desire, pick out, fancy, single out, fix upon; elevate, advance, promote; offer, proffer, present, address.

ANT. _Reject, discard, decline, refuse, repudiate; degrade, depress; postpone, defer, withhold._

=Prejudice.= Bias, partiality, unfairness, preconception, prepossession, presumption.

ANT. _Certainty, evidence, proof, conviction, conclusion, demonstration, reason, reasoning._

=Preliminary.= Prior, introductory, preparatory, prefatory, proemial, previous, precedent, antecedent.

ANT. _Subsequent, following, consequent, appended, succeeding._

=Premium.= Reward, remuneration, recompense, prize, bonus, bounty, guerdon, meed, bribe, douceur, enhancement, gratuity.

ANT. _Penalty, fine, mulct, amercement, forfeiture, depredation, decline, fall, loss._

=Preposterous.= Irrational, foolish, monstrous, absurd, perverted, extravagant, ridiculous, exorbitant.

ANT. _Reasonable, moderate, right, just, due, fair, judicious, mediocre, commonplace._

=Presence.= Person, personality, individuality, port, mien, appearance, nearness, immediacy; vicinity, neighborhood.

ANT. _Absence, distance, remoteness, separation; society, world; temperament, character._

=Preservation.= Security, safety, maintenance, conservation, integrity, protection, care, guardianship, watch and ward, soundness.

ANT. _Exposure, abandonment, impairment, peril, damage, injury._

=Presumption.= Assumption, arrogance, effrontery, audacity, assurance; presupposition, hypothesis, guess, conjecture, belief, opinion, judgment, understanding, concession, condition.

ANT. _Modesty, deference, diffidence, bashfulness, hesitation; proof, deduction, demonstration, verification, certainty, fact._

=Pretend.= Claim, represent, allege, simulate, feign, profess; counterfeit.

ANT. _Verify, substantiate, refute, detect, expose, unmask, test._

=Pretense.= Disguise, excuse, affectation, mask, show, pretension, semblance, wile, trick, subterfuge, simulation, ruse, assumption, pretext, seeming, dissimulation, air, cloak, color.

ANT. _Candor, sincerity, ingenuousness, frankness, honesty, truth, openness, reality, simplicity, guilelessness, fact, actuality._

=Prevalence.= Success, superiority, predominance, preponderance; influence, force, power, strength, efficacy; universality, extension, acceptation, custom, operation.

ANT. _Decay, desuetude, disappearance, evanescence, subordination, collapse, destruction, abolition, subsidence, subjection, diminution._

=Previous.= Antecedent, before, earlier, precedent, preliminary, introductory, prior, preceding, front, forward, former, foregoing, anterior.

ANT. _After, concluding, following, consequent, later, posterior, latter, succeeding, subsequent, hindmost, hinder, hind._

=Price.= Expense, outlay, worth, expenditure, value, charge, cost.

=Pride.= Arrogance, insolence, reserve, haughtiness, self-esteem, presumption, superciliousness, vanity, ostentation, conceit, self-respect, self-exaltation, disdain, vainglory, self-conceit, self-complacency.

ANT. _Humility, lowliness, modesty, self-distrust, meekness, self-abasement._

=Primary.= First, fundamental, primitive, original, preparatory; chief, principal, pristine; elementary, leading.

ANT. _Secondary, posterior, subsequent, later, following; unimportant, subordinate, inferior; supplemental, auxiliary._

=Prime=, _n._ Perfection, culmination, apex, zenith; dawn, opening, youth, spring, beginning; cream, flower.

ANT. _Wane, winter, evening; decadence, decay._

=Primeval.= Immemorial, original, old, primal, patriarchal, native, primitive, pristine, uncreated, ancient, aboriginal, autochthonic, indigenous, prime, primary, primordial.

ANT. _Foreign, fresh, late, modern, new, novel, recent, exotic, adventitious._

=Principal.= Highest, most important, chief, main; leading, foremost, preëminent, capital, essential; primary, first.

ANT. _Subordinate, inferior, secondary, auxiliary, supplemental, minor, dependent, subservient, ancillary._

=Principle.= Source, cause, origin; faculty, endowment; postulate, truth, maxim, axiom; rule, law; element; doctrine, dogma, opinion; ground, motive, reason; integrity, rectitude, uprightness, probity, virtue, worth, honor.

ANT. _Result, sequence, development, issue; application, action, operation, exercise, manifestation, exhibition; iniquity, immorality._

=Prize.= Trophy, honor, reward, premium, guerdon, palm, laurels; capture; gain, advantage; spoil, plunder, booty.

ANT. _Loss, failure, fine, forfeiture; brand, stigma, infamy._

=Probation.= Examination, trial, ordeal, test, assay, proof, experiment.

ANT. _License, irresponsibility, non-probation._

=Proclaim.= Publish, announce, declare, promulgate, herald, advertise, enunciate, utter, blaze abroad, report, make known.

ANT. _Silence, repress, suppress, conceal, secrete; retract, recall._

=Prodigal=, _a._ Extravagant, profuse, lavish, bountiful, wasteful, squandering.

ANT. _Economical, thrifty, saving, frugal; close, miserly, niggardly._

=Profession.= Avowal, declaration, claim; occupation, vocation, employment; law, theology, or medicine; assertion, acknowledgment; representation, pretense, protestation.

ANT. _Denial, concealment, suppression; retraction, recantation, disavowal; leisure, fad, hobby, avocation; trade, business._

=Proficient.= Expert, adept, skilful, skilled, competent, conversant, qualified, practiced, accomplished, finished, trained.

ANT. _Unskilled, inexpert, awkward, ignorant, backward, inconversant, incompetent, untrained, unpracticed, inept._

=Profit.= Gain, advantage, benefit, emolument, improvement, proceeds, utility, usefulness, returns, value, receipts, avail, expediency, good, service.

ANT. _Damage, destruction, harm, hurt, loss, injury, waste, ruin, detriment, disadvantage._

=Profitable.= Lucrative, beneficial, useful, advantageous, productive, desirable, gainful, remunerative.

ANT. _Useless, vain, fruitless, unproductive, unremunerative, unprofitable, undesirable, disadvantageous, detrimental, unbeneficial._

=Profound.= Deep, descending; thorough; fathomless, abysmal; mysterious, abstruse, occult, obscure, recondite; complete; penetrating, intimate, intense, philosophical.

ANT. _Superficial, shallow, commonplace, external, slight, apparent, obvious, incomplete; surface._

=Progress.= Advance, advancement, attainment, increase, improvement, proficiency, progression, growth, development.

ANT. _Delay, check, retrogression, stay, stop, stoppage, falling off, relapse, decline, falling back._

=Prohibit.= Forbid, hinder, inhibit, interdict, preclude, prevent, debar, disallow.

ANT. _Allow, empower, let, license, order, require, sanction, authorize, command, direct, enjoin, permit, warrant, suffer, tolerate, put up with, give permission, give consent, consent to._

=Prolific.= Fertile, fruitful, productive, generating, teeming, active.

ANT. _Barren, sterile, unproductive, unfruitful, effete._

=Prolix.= Long, diffuse, tiresome, prolonged, protracted; wordy, verbose, prosaic, rambling, discursive; tedious, wearisome.

ANT. _Condensed, terse, concise, brief, laconic, curt, epigrammatic._

=Prominent.= Projecting, manifest, protuberant, conspicuous; eminent, distinguished, famous, celebrated, important, main, principal, leading, characteristic.

ANT. _Receding, hollowed, concave, indented, engraved; insignificant, secondary, unimportant, minor, indistinguishable, indistinct, subordinate, inconspicuous, trivial, immaterial, unessential._

=Promote.= Encourage, forward, foster, push, advance, aid, assist, foment, excite, further, help, raise, urge forward, urge on, elevate, exalt.

ANT. _Abase, allay; hinder, prevent, foil, frustrate._

=Prompt.= Ready, quick, agile, alert, brisk, nimble, expeditious; willing, hasty, inclined, disposed, responsive, unhesitating.

ANT. _Dilatory, slow, tardy, lingering, loitering, inactive, sluggish, unready, unresponsive, procrastinating, behindhand, backward._

=Pronounce.= Deliver, speak, utter, articulate, enunciate; declare, affirm; propound, assert, express.

ANT. _Mispronounce, gabble, mumble; silence, suppress; deny, retract._

=Propagate.= Increase, diffuse, disseminate, promote; spread, extend, generate, promulgate, circulate.

ANT. _Strangle, stifle, extinguish, suppress, repress, check, hush up; contract, diminish, reduce; contradict, deny._

=Proper.= Own, individual, peculiar, particular; right, fit, decent; personal, constitutional, special, specific; suitable, appropriate, seemly, legitimate; decent, respectable.

ANT. _Common, universal, general; unfitting, inappropriate, unsuitable, unseemly, indecent, wrong, improper, unbecoming, unbefitting._

=Propitiation.= Expiation, satisfaction, atonement, reconciliation.

ANT. _Reprobation, retribution, vengeance, wrath, alienation, estrangement, curse, penalty, punishment, offense, condemnation, chastisement._

=Propitious.= Auspicious, kind, benign, gracious, friendly, benignant, clement, kindly, favorable, merciful.

ANT. _Adverse, antagonistic, hostile, repellent, unfriendly, unpropitious, unfavorable, ill-disposed, forbidding, inauspicious._

=Proportion.= Ratio, symmetry, relation, harmony, share, lot; equality, similarity; adjustment, distribution; arrangement, adaptation.

ANT. _Disproportion, disparity, disorder, incongruity, discrepancy, absurdity, contrariety._

=Proposal.= Bid, offer, overture, proposition.

ANT. _Acceptance, denial, refusal, rejection, repulse, disapproval._

=Proposition.= Proposal, statement, offer, declaration; overture, suggestion, proffer, tender; position, thesis, dictum, assertion, affirmation, doctrine.

ANT. _Withdrawal, recantation, abjuration, disavowal, revocation._

=Prosperity.= Thrift, weal, welfare, happiness, well-being, success, good fortune.

ANT. _Woe, misfortune, ill luck, failure, adversity, calamity, reverses, affliction, distress, disaster, misery._

=Protest=, _v._ Assert, aver, attest, testify; affirm, declare; asseverate, avow, profess; expostulate, remonstrate, repudiate, deprecate, denounce.

ANT. _Retract, withdraw, abjure, revoke; coincide, sanction, agree, endorse, subscribe, acquiesce._

=Protract.= Defer, continue, delay, extend, elongate, lengthen, procrastinate, postpone, prolong, draw out.

ANT. _Abbreviate, contract, conclude, hasten, hurry, reduce, shorten, abridge, curtail, limit._

=Proud.= Arrogant, haughty, presumptuous, lordly; worthy, admirable, grand, splendid, magnificent, ostentatious; lofty, supercilious, imperious, boastful, elated, imposing, vainglorious.

ANT. _Humble, unassuming, unobtrusive, meek, lowly, mild, submissive, unpretending, deferential, affable, unpresuming, mean._

=Proverb.= Axiom, byword, dictum, adage, aphorism, maxim, motto, precept, truism, saying, saw, apothegm.

=Provide.= Prepare, supply, afford, contribute, furnish; engage, bargain, agree; stipulate; procure.

ANT. _Neglect, withhold, refuse, mismanage, appropriate, overlook; divert, alienate, misuse; fail, disappoint._

=Provocation.= Vexation, incitement, stimulus, incentive; affront, insult, offense, indignity.

ANT. _Pacification, mitigation, assuagement; deference, compliment, homage, honor, respect._

=Prowess.= Heroism, valor, gallantry, bravery, courage, intrepidity.

ANT. _Fear, effeminacy, timidity, cowardice, cowardliness, pusillanimity._

=Prudence.= Discretion, frugality, forethought, judgment, judiciousness, providence, care, caution, foresight, wisdom, consideration, carefulness, circumspection.

ANT. _Folly, heedlessness, prodigality, recklessness, indiscretion, wastefulness, improvidence, imprudence, thoughtlessness, rashness._

=Prudent.= Cautious, considerate, judicious, provident; circumspect, sagacious, wise, discreet; frugal, economical, thrifty.

ANT. _Reckless, inconsiderate, improvident, wasteful, extravagant, lavish, prodigal; indiscreet, unwise; foolish, rash, imprudent, audacious._

=Public.= Common, general, popular, social, open; notorious.

ANT. _Private, individual, secret, domestic, secluded, close, personal._

=Punctilious.= Exact, particular, precise, careful, nice, scrupulous, conscientious; punctual, ceremonious.

ANT. _Careless, slovenly, unscrupulous; informal, unceremonious._

=Puny.= Small, feeble, inferior, petty; weak, diminutive, undeveloped, dwarfed, stunted, undersized, tiny.

ANT. _Large, great, robust, developed, fine, vigorous; colossal, gigantic._

=Pupil.= Learner, disciple, student, novice, ward, tyro.

ANT. _Teacher, master, proficient, scholar, adept; guardian._

=Purchase=, _v._ Buy, obtain, procure, secure, acquire, bargain for, barter for, get.

ANT. _Exchange, sell, barter, dispose of, put to sale._

=Pure.= Innocent, unsullied, spotless, unspotted, stainless, true, guiltless, incorrupt, clean, genuine, chaste, guileless, classic, classical, holy, immaculate, virtuous, real, sheer, mere, simple, unmixed, unpolluted, unadulterated, unmingled, undefiled, unblemished, uncorrupted, unstained, untainted, untarnished, upright, perfect.

ANT. _Impure, indecent, polluted, foul, tainted, unchaste, immodest, lewd, obscene, indelicate, defiled, dirty, filthy, gross, mixed, stained, sullied, unclean, tarnished, adulterated._

=Purpose=, _n._ Design, end, intention, aim, scope, meaning, object, plan, intention, purport, effect, project.

ANT. _Lot, chance, accident, haphazard, casualty, fate._

=Put.= Deposit, place, set, lay; cause, produce, propose, state; attach, attribute, assign; assume, suppose; entice, constrain.

ANT. _Remove, raise, withdraw, displace, transpose, transfer, change._

=Putrid.= Decayed, decomposed, rotten, stinking, putrefied, foul, offensive.

ANT. _Clean, sweet, wholesome, fragrant, pure, healthful, fresh._

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=Quaint.= Odd, antique; curious, fanciful, affected, whimsical; archaic, singular, unusual; antiquated, extraordinary, droll.

ANT. _Commonplace, usual, ordinary, common; fashionable, modish, modern._

=Quality.= Property, peculiarity, sort, disposition, temper; character, attribute, rank, part, position; characteristic; acquisition; nature, trait, mood, condition, station, capacity, tendency.

ANT. _Negation, heterogeneity, anomalousness, lack of distinction, nondescript, weakness, ineffectiveness, incapacity, disqualification._

=Quantity.= Greatness, measure, amount, bulk, extent, size, aggregate, length, duration, content, comprehensiveness.

ANT. _Scantiness, want, deficiency, margin, deterioration, diminution, waste, wear, loss._

=Queer.= Curious, bizarre, droll, comical, odd, peculiar, quaint, strange, uncommon, unusual, whimsical, singular, ridiculous, anomalous, fantastic, funny, erratic, extraordinary, ludicrous, grotesque, laughable, preposterous, unique, unmatched, eccentric, crotchety.

ANT. _Common, customary, normal, ordinary, usual, regular, familiar, natural._

=Querimonious=, =Querulous=. Lamenting, complaining, whining, bewailing, mourning, murmuring, discontented, dissatisfied, malcontent.

ANT. _Contented, easy, uncomplaining, satisfied, complacent, cheerful, genial, good-tempered._

=Query=, =Question=, _n._ Inquiry, doubt; point, topic, subject; dispute, discussion, debate; investigation, examination; experimentation, scrutiny, interrogation.

ANT. _Solution, explanation, answer, reply, response; concession, admission._

=Question=, _v._ Ask, interrogate, catechize, doubt, controvert, dispute; examine, converse with; call in question; inquire, investigate, query, dubitate.

ANT. _Answer, reply, satisfy, respond._

=Quick.= Speedy, expeditious, active, rapid, nimble, fleet, alert, lively, sprightly; alive, living, animate; agile, brisk, ready; hasty, swift; impatient, eager, passionate; fresh, bracing, keen, sharp; sensitive, perceptive, intelligent.

ANT. _Slow, tardy, inactive, inert, sluggish, dull, insensitive, deliberate, gradual, moderate, late, unready, dilatory, slack, unresponsive, lingering, heavy, stupid, wearisome._

=Quicken.= Hasten, hurry, accelerate, despatch, drive, expedite, facilitate, further, speed, urge, promote, advance, make haste, press forward.

ANT. _Hinder, impede, check, obstruct, retard, clog, delay._

=Quiet=, _n._ Rest, repose, tranquillity, silence, calm, peace, stillness.

ANT. _Tumult, noise, shouting, action, commotion, activity, storm; unrest, excitement, agitation, disturbance, turmoil._

=Quiet=, _a._ Tranquil, unruffled, smooth, unmolested, peaceful, undisturbed, peaceable, calm, patient, contented, hushed, still, placid; gentle, mild, undemonstrative, meek.

ANT. _Turbulent, tumultuous, uproarious, disturbed, agitated, wild, excited, violent, uneasy, boisterous, restless, confused, noisy._

=Quote.= Cite, recite, plagiarize, repeat, excerpt, extract, paraphrase.

ANT. _Suppress, ignore, disdain, omit._

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=Rabble.= Mob, crowd, people, populace; herd, the masses, multitudes, commonalty; scum, dregs.

ANT. _Aristocracy, nobility, élite, galaxy._

=Racy.= Lively, piquant, pungent, spicy, spirited, forcible, flavorous, rich.

ANT. _Flat, cold, flavorless, insipid, stale, stupid, tasteless, dull, prosy, vapid._

=Radiant.= Lustrous, brilliant, splendid, gorgeous, glittering, glaring, radiating, beaming, resplendent, shining, sparkling, luminous, effulgent, glorious.

ANT. _Dull, dark, somber, murky, lusterless, non-luminous, sunless, shadowy, lurid, cloudy, gloomy, obscure, overcast, ebon, black._

=Radical.= Fundamental, innate, essential, native, natural, original, organic, primitive; entire, complete, extreme, thorough, positive, perfect, thorough-going, total; ingrained, constitutional.

ANT. _Superficial, tentative, trial; inadequate, incomplete, moderate,

## partial, palliative, slight; conservative._

=Raise.= Lift, elevate, heave; exalt, advance, enhance; increase, excite, aggravate, intensify, heighten, set upright; awaken, arouse, originate, produce, effect, cause; build, erect; levy, collect; propagate, breed, rear; bring up, incite, start; utter, summon; cultivate.

ANT. _Depress, lower, drop, sink, let down; degrade, disgrace; debase, humble, reduce; lessen, diminish, decrease._

=Ramble.= Rove, roam, wander, range, stroll, saunter, straggle, stray.

ANT. _Speed, hasten, drive, run, proceed, rush, hurry._

=Random=, _a._ Chance, haphazard, fortuitous, casual, wandering, stray, wild, aimless, purposeless, unpremeditated, accidental, vague.

ANT. _Aimed, intended, controlled, purposed, deliberate, designed, intentional, regular, systematic, planned._

=Ransom=, _v._ Redeem, liberate, rescue, deliver, release, emancipate, indemnify.

ANT. _Hold for ransom, kidnap, imprison, hold as hostage, indict, fine, mulct, prosecute._

=Rapid.= Swift, quick, fast, fleet, hasty, brisk, expeditious, hurried.

ANT. _Slow, deliberate, cumbrous, lazy, retarded, moderate, gradual, dilatory, lingering, tardy._

=Rapidity.= Rapidness, haste, celerity, speed, velocity, agility, swiftness, fleetness, quickness, despatch.

ANT. _Slowness, dilatoriness, tardiness, delay, deliberateness, moderation._

=Rare.= Curious, extraordinary, incomparable, odd, peculiar, remarkable, precious, scarce, singular, strange, uncommon, unusual, unprecedented, unique, unparalleled, infrequent.

ANT. _General, usual, normal._

=Rash.= Precipitate, headlong, indiscreet, foolhardy, hasty, heedless, thoughtless, incautious, careless, inconsiderate, unwary.

ANT. _Cautious, wary, discreet, thoughtful, prudent, calculating; timid, hesitating, reluctant._

=Rational.= Sane, sound, intelligent, reasonable, sensible, wise, discreet, judicious; reasoning, intellectual; sagacious, equitable, enlightened.

ANT. _Irrational, insane, unsound, foolish, absurd, injudicious, unreasonable, preposterous, unintelligent, extravagant._

=Raw.= Unprepared, uncooked, immature, unripe, unseasoned, inexperienced, unpracticed, untried, unwrought, unfinished; bare, galled; chilly, bleak.

ANT. _Cooked, dressed, prepared, developed, mature, ripe, mellow, seasoned, practiced, experienced, tried, tested, expert, habituated, familiar, trained; healed; genial, balmy._

=Reach.= Attain, arrive, get to, enter, land, come to, gain.

ANT. _Depart, leave, set out, weigh anchor, embark, start, go, go away, set sail._

=Ready.= Prompt, expeditious, speedy, unhesitating, dexterous, apt, skilled, handy, expert, facile, easy, opportune, fitted, prepared, disposed, free, willing, cheerful.

ANT. _Tardy, slow, inexpeditious, hesitating, clumsy, inept, unskilled, inexpert, hard, difficult, inopportune, unfit, ill-prepared, unwilling, reluctant, unresponsive, unaccommodating._

=Real.= Actual, veritable, genuine, demonstrable, substantial, authentic, certain; developed, essential, positive; true, unquestionable.

ANT. _Illusory, imaginary, unreal, untrue, supposititious, fictitious, hypothetical, fabulous, fanciful, conceived, supposed, feigned, reported, visionary, theoretical._

=Reality.= Verity, actuality, substance, truth, genuineness, authenticity, fact, substantiality, existence.

ANT. _Fiction, falsehood, untruth, myth, imagination, fabrication, fancy, supposition, unreality, chimera, vision, hypothesis, hollowness._

=Realm.= Domain, kingdom, region, province, country, department, empire, state; jurisdiction, sovereignty, dominion.

ANT. _Anarchy, insurrection; independence; democracy._

=Rear.= Lift, elevate, erect, raise, build, establish, exalt, foster, construct, breed, educate, instruct, train, discipline, cherish.

ANT. _Tear down, degrade, undermine, depress, overthrow; destroy, kill, demolish, subvert, stifle, extinguish._

=Reason=, _n._ Cause, ground, aim, motive, account, argument, design, consideration, end, object, purpose, principle.

ANT. _Pretext, pretense, falsification; unreason, unreasonableness, irrationality, absurdity, fallacy._

=Reason=, _v._ Debate, demonstrate, argue, contend, discuss, prove, establish, question, controvert, wrangle, dispute.

ANT. _Quibble, pervert, equivocate, evade, mystify; cavil, refine; misrepresent; dictate, assert._

=Reasoning.= Argument, argumentation, debate, ratiocination.

ANT. _Sophistry, instinct, intuition, presentiment._

=Rebellious.= Intractable, refractory, seditious, unmanageable, contumacious, disobedient, insubordinate, mutinous, ungovernable, uncontrollable.

ANT. _Deferential, compliant, docile, manageable, obedient, submissive, subservient, yielding, tractable, gentle, controllable, dutiful._

=Recant.= Retract, revoke, recall, abjure, disown, disavow, renounce.

ANT. _Profess, confess, assert, declare, enunciate, maintain, hold; vindicate._

=Reception.= Admission, receipt; entertainment; acceptance, credence; welcome.

ANT. _Rejection, dismissal, repudiation, denial, protest, renunciation, disavowal._

=Recite.= Describe, recapitulate, detail, number; repeat, deliver, rehearse; relate, narrate, recount; quote; count, enumerate, tell.

ANT. _Misquote, garble, falsify, misrepresent, pervert; forget, fail._

=Reckless.= Mindless, negligent, thoughtless, regardless, unconcerned, inattentive, remiss, improvident, rash, inconsiderate.

ANT. _Circumspect, careful, wary, thoughtful, mindful, attentive, considerate, provident, prudent, calculating._

=Recognize.= Acknowledge, confess, own, allow, concede, identify, avow.

ANT. _Overlook, repudiate, disown, ignore, disavow, disclaim._

=Reconcile.= Placate, propitiate, pacify, appease; conciliate, reunite, content, harmonize; adjust, settle, compose.

ANT. _Separate, sever, alienate, estrange, disaffect._

=Reconciliation.= Reconcilement, reunion, pacification, appeasement, propitiation, atonement, expiation; adjustment, restoration, harmony.

ANT. _Separation, estrangement, alienation, disaffection._

=Record.= Account, entry, enrolment, catalogue, enumeration, inventory, register, roll; archive, chronicle, document, history, inscription, instrument, memorandum, memorial, muniment, schedule, scroll.

=Recover.= Cure, heal, retrieve, restore; be cured or healed, recruit, recuperate, resume; reanimate, repossess.

ANT. _Relapse, sink, die, fail, grow worse._

=Recovery.= Repossession, resumption; recruiting, healing, restoration; regaining, recuperation, convalescence, retrieval, redemption, resuscitation, revival; vindication, reinstatement, reëstablishment.

ANT. _Loss, forfeiture, privation, damage, ruin, destruction, waste; illness, relapse, declension, incurableness, hopelessness._

=Recreation.= Sport, amusement, diversion, refreshment, reanimation; holiday, pastime, relaxation.

ANT. _Toil, labor, work, industry, employment, fatigue, weariness, lassitude, exhaustion._

=Rectitude.= Justice, honesty, uprightness, fairness, integrity, straightforwardness, conscientiousness, equity.

ANT. _Iniquity, wrong, injustice, immorality, corruption, dishonesty, duplicity, underhandedness._

=Redemption.= Ransom, release, rescue, retrieval, recovery, deliverance, liberation, salvation; discharge, fulfilment; atonement, compensation.

ANT. _Abandonment, forfeiture, sacrifice, betrayal, deprivation, desertion._

=Reduce.= Lessen, decrease, curtail, abate, shorten, impair, lower, subjugate, subject; diminish, attenuate, abridge, contract; subdue.

ANT. _Magnify, augment, expand, amplify, exalt, raise, invigorate, promote, restore, repair, renovate, transform._

=Redundant.= Exuberant, superabundant, overflowing, pleonastic; superfluous, excessive, copious, plentiful; unnecessary.

ANT. _Requisite, necessary, sufficient, enough; scanty, deficient, scarce, wanting, lacking, incomplete, inadequate, insufficient._

=Refinement.= Culture, elegance, cultivation, civilization, politeness.

ANT. _Coarseness, grossness, rudeness, rusticity, barbarism, boorishness, brutality, clownishness, savagery, vulgarity._

=Reflect.= Consider, think, cogitate, meditate, contemplate, ruminate, ponder, muse; animadvert.

ANT. _Idle, dream, imagine, fancy, wander, rove; disregard, neglect._

=Reform=, _v._ Amend, correct, rectify, emend, repair, better, improve, restore, reclaim, mend; remodel.

ANT. _Corrupt, impair, vitiate, deteriorate, deform; spoil, deprave, pollute, defile, injure, contaminate._

=Refuge.= Shelter, asylum, retreat, covert; protection, sanctuary, stronghold, defense; hiding-place, harbor.

ANT. _Exposure, peril, snare, menace, pitfall, danger, threat._

=Regard=, _v._ Consider, observe, remark, heed, mind, respect, esteem, estimate, value; attend, notice; contemplate; revere, reverence.

ANT. _Overlook, disregard, miss, neglect, omit; misprize; dislike, hate, loathe; contemn._

=Regret=, _n._ Grief, concern, sorrow, lamentation, repentance, penitence, self-condemnation; compunction, remorse, contrition.

ANT. _Joy, exultation, happiness, delight, self-gratulation, approbation; praise, commendation; felicitation._

=Regular.= Orderly, methodical; conformable, agreeing; governed, subject; normal; constituted, selected; customary, systematic, stated, established, periodical, recognized, formal, recurrent, certain.

ANT. _Unusual, exceptional, rare, irregular, abnormal, eccentric, capricious, variable, uncertain, erratic._

=Regulation.= Rule, method, principle, precept; adjustment, disposal; arrangement, ordering, disposition, government, control.

ANT. _Disorder, anarchy, license, misgovernment, misrule, non-regulation, caprice, maladjustment, derangement._

=Rehearse.= Recapitulate, detail, recount, describe, tell; narrate, repeat, recite, relate; practice.

ANT. _Misrepresent; act, perform, play._

=Rejoice.= Delight, joy, exult, triumph, please, cheer, exhilarate, gladden, transport, charm, enliven, gratify, make happy.

ANT. _Mourn, grieve, weep, lament, pain, distress, defeat, sadden, deaden, vex, annoy, oppress, afflict, trouble, depress, burden, deject._

=Relation.= Recital, rehearsal, account, narration, tale, narrative, detail, description; kindred, affinity, consanguinity, kinsman, kinswoman; connection, association, pertinency, relevancy, agreement.

ANT. _Action, happening, occurrence; alien, stranger, foreigner; absoluteness, disagreement, dissociation, disconnection, irrelevancy._

=Release=, _v._ Discharge, extricate, disengage, quit, acquit; free, loose, liberate; exempt, indemnify; deliver, remit.

ANT. _Hold, bind, constrain, confine, fetter, shackle, fine, imprison, sentence, condemn._

=Relief.= Alleviation, mitigation, aid, help, succor, assistance, redress, remedy, indemnification; exemption, deliverance, refreshment, support, comfort.

ANT. _Oppression, persecution, aggravation, severity, cruelty; weariness, discomfort, exhaustion._

=Religion.= Devotion, faith, piety, righteousness, holiness, morality, godliness, pietism, worship, theology.

ANT. _Irreligion, atheism, unbelief, blasphemy, impiety, godlessness, profanity, sacrilege, ungodliness, wickedness._

=Relinquish.= Resign, leave, quit, forsake, abandon, renounce, desert, forbear, forego; surrender, discontinue.

ANT. _Retain, hold, keep, detain, preserve, support, cling to, sustain, maintain; continue, be constant to, persevere, persist._

=Reluctant.= Loath, slow, disinclined, indisposed, averse, backward, opposed, unwilling.

ANT. _Eager, favorable, willing, inclined, desirous, disposed._

=Remain.= Wait, tarry, rest, sojourn, last, dwell; stay, abide, continue, endure; survive, outlive.

ANT. _Leave, abandon, depart, remove, go, disappear, flit; die, pass._

=Remark.= Comment, note, observation, utterance, annotation.

=Remarkable.= Observable, rare, noticeable, extraordinary, unusual, strange, wonderful, notable, eminent; distinguished, famous, prominent, conspicuous; singular, peculiar, individual.

ANT. _Ordinary, usual, commonplace, mediocre, everyday, common, general._

=Remembrance.= Memory, recollection, reminiscence; memento, souvenir, memorandum, memorial, token.

ANT. _Oblivion, forgetfulness._

=Reminiscence.= Memory, recollection, remembrance; remnant, relic, trace.

ANT. _Oblivion, forgetfulness; announcement, warning, suggestion, prognostic._

=Remote.= Removed, far, distant; irrelevant, not related; foreign, indirect, unconnected, alien, unallied; separate, abstract.

ANT. _Near, close, direct, related, connected, contiguous, immediate; present, pressing, urgent; proximate; essential, important._

=Rend.= Burst, break, rip, sever, mangle, rupture, sunder, tear, lacerate, rive, slit.

ANT. _Mend, reunite, secure, unite, weld, heal, join, solder, sew, stitch._

=Render.= Return, pay back, restore; requite; give up, yield, surrender; furnish, contribute, deliver; translate, interpret, set forth, exhibit, try out; apportion, give, present, assign.

ANT. _Keep, withhold, appropriate, retain, refuse, use, apply, employ; alienate, misapportion._

=Renounce.= Abandon, abjure, deny, disavow, disown, forswear, disclaim, retract, repudiate, revoke, recall, refuse, reject, discard, recant.

ANT. _Advocate, avow, claim, assert, defend, hold, proclaim, own, acknowledge, cherish, retain, uphold, vindicate, maintain._

=Renown.= Fame, distinction, notice, repute, name, reputation, celebrity, honor, glory, eminence.

ANT. _Disgrace, shame, dishonor, disrepute, discredit, degradation, taint, stain, brand._

=Renunciation.= Denial, disownment, renouncement, disclaimer, rejection, abjuration, recantation, abandonment.

ANT. _Maintenance, support, vindication, assertion, defense, apology, justification._

=Repeat.= Reiterate, renew, relate, recapitulate, recite, reproduce, rehearse, renovate.

ANT. _Discontinue, drop, end, finish, stop, cease, break off, interrupt._

=Repentance.= Penitence, regret, remorse, sorrow, compunction, contrition, self-condemnation, contriteness.

ANT. _Impenitence, obstinacy, obduracy; comfort, complacency, approval, hardness, content, self-approval, self-complacency, self-congratulation; stubbornness._

=Repletion.= Fulness, superabundance, plethora, abundance, amplitude, sufficiency, enough.

ANT. _Scarcity, want, lack, insufficiency, need._

=Reply.= Answer, respond, rejoin, replicate.

ANT. _Question, query, ask, inquire; disregard, pass, drop, ignore._

=Report.= Account, description, narration, narrative, recital, rehearsal, relation, record, tale, rumor, statement, story.

ANT. _Allegory, fabrication, fiction._

=Repose=, _n._ Rest, recumbency, reclination, ease, quiet, quietness, tranquillity, peace; calmness, quiescence.

ANT. _Unrest, agitation, tumult, movement, restlessness, turmoil, commotion, distraction._

=Represent.= Present anew, portray, typify, delineate; personate, act; perform; depict, describe, show, exhibit.

ANT. _Misrepresent; falsify, caricature, distort._

=Reproach=, _n._ Disrepute, opprobrium, discredit, dishonor, invective, contumely, reviling, vilification, abuse, scurrility, insolence, insult, scorn, contempt, ignominy, shame, scandal, disgrace, infamy.

ANT. _Approbation, satisfaction, praise, encouragement, exaltation, commendation, honor, applause, eulogy, assent, acceptance, approval._

=Reproach=, _v._ Chide, rebuke, revile, condemn, vilify; blame, censure, taunt, upbraid, reprove.

ANT. _Praise, approve, commend, laud, applaud, eulogize._

=Reproof.= Comment, criticism, disapproval, chiding, reproach, upbraiding, reproval, admonition, animadversion; censure, blame, condemnation, denunciation, objurgation, reprehension, rebuke, reprimand; reflection, check.

ANT. _Commendation, panegyric, approbation, applause, approval, encomium, praise, eulogy._

=Reprove.= Admonish, blame, reproach, censure, condemn, reprimand, warn, upbraid, chide, check, chasten, find fault with, expostulate with, rebuke, reprehend, remonstrate with, take to task.

ANT. _Abet, applaud, encourage, cheer, countenance, incite, urge on, impel, instigate, approve._

=Repugnant.= Opposite, opposed, adverse, contrary, inconsistent, irreconcilable, hostile, inimical; incompatible, loath; heterogeneous.

ANT. _Harmonious, friendly, amicable, willing, consistent, compatible, congruous; homogeneous._

=Reputable.= Honorable, respectable, estimable, creditable.

ANT. _Disreputable, disgraceful, dishonorable, discreditable, despicable._

=Requite.= Avenge, pay off, quit, punish, retaliate, revenge; satisfy, settle with, reward, return, repay, remunerate, recompense, compensate, reciprocate.

ANT. _Absolve, acquit, forgive, excuse, neglect, pardon, slight, forget, overlook, pass over._

=Research.= Inquiry, scrutiny, examination, experimentation, exploration, discovery, investigation, study, observation.

ANT. _Ignorance, oversight, inobservance; shallowness, superficiality, sciolism._

=Reserve=, _n._ Reservation, retention, limitation, backwardness, coldness, shyness, coyness, modesty; taciturnity, restraint, repression, constraint.

ANT. _Profuseness, prodigality, diffusion; affability, geniality, cordiality, abandonment, surrender, openness, frankness, transparency, indiscretion, volubility._

=Resignation.= Relinquishment, forsaking, abandonment, abdication, renunciation, endurance; patience, long-suffering, forbearance; acquiescence, submission.

ANT. _Maintenance, grasp, resistance, retention, rebellion, remonstrance, contention, reservation, holding, keeping, retaining, detention; murmuring, dissatisfaction, discontent, protestation._

=Resolute.= Determined, decided, fixed, steadfast, constant, persevering, firm, bold, unshaken, steady; undaunted, unflinching, stout-hearted.

ANT. _Irresolute, timid, hesitating, doubtful, wavering, vacillating, capricious, variable, weak, undetermined, undecided._

=Resources.= Expedient, means, resort, contrivance; supplies, devices, money, wealth, appliances, funds.

ANT. _Destitution, poverty, indigence, bareness, want, exhaustion, inanition, lack, drain._

=Respectable.= Estimable, honorable, worthy, considerable, reputable, honest; passable.

ANT. _Unworthy, bad, mean, dishonorable, dishonest, paltry, inconsiderable._

=Resplendent.= Brilliant, splendid, glorious, luminous, effulgent, gorgeous, shining, glittering, burnished.

ANT. _Dull, tarnished, lusterless, somber, dimmed, sullied._

=Rest.= Pause, peace, quiet, stillness, tranquillity, intermission, cessation, ease, calm, peacefulness, calmness, quiescence, stop, repose, quietude, quietness, recreation, sleep, slumber.

ANT. _Agitation, commotion, disturbance, excitement, restlessness, strain, stir, tumult, work, unrest, toil, disquiet, motion, movement, rush._

=Restive.= Restless, restiff, fidgety, fretful, fractious, refractory, intractable, impatient, rebellious, skittish; resentful, recalcitrant, balky, vicious, unruly, stubborn, mulish, mutinous, obstinate.

ANT. _Docile, gentle, submissive, passive, quiet, tractable, yielding, obedient, manageable, peaceable._

=Restore.= Return, replace, refund, repay, reinstate, rebuild, repair, revive, heal, cure, recover.

ANT. _Remove, steal, appropriate, abstract, destroy, shatter, injure, dilapidate, impair; deprive; wound, harm._

=Restrain.= Constrain, hold in, check, repress, circumscribe, confine, curb, hinder, hold, hold back, restrict, suppress, withhold, bridle, abridge, keep back, keep down, keep in, keep under.

ANT. _Let loose, set free, release, arouse, aid, emancipate, animate, incite, excite, encourage, free, impel._

=Result.= Consequence, issue, conclusion, effect; end, event, termination, product, outcome; inference, deduction; resolution, determination.

ANT. _Cause, beginning, commencement, rise, origin, antecedent, prognostic, initiation, premonition, indication._

=Retinue.= Attendants, suite, followers, train, retainers, satellites, escort, cortège.

ANT. _Solitariness, non-attendance._

=Retirement.= Privacy, solitude, loneliness, seclusion.

ANT. _Company, converse, society, fellowship, companionship, association._

=Retribution.= Requital, retaliation, payment, recompense; repayment, compensation, reward, return; penalty, punishment, visitation.

ANT. _Remission, reprieve; pardon, condonation, sparing._

=Retrospect.= Review, survey, reconsideration, reëxamination; recollection, reminiscence, memory.

ANT. _Prospect, prophecy, anticipation, forecasting, prognostication, speculation._

=Return=, _v._ Turn back, come back; reply, respond; answer; restore, recompense, remit, render; reappear, recur; revert, retaliate.

ANT. _Depart, vanish, disappear, remove; retain, misappropriate; withhold._

=Revelation.= Disclosure, manifestation, apocalypse.

ANT. _Concealment, shrouding, veiling, mystery, obscuration, cloud, cloudiness, hiding._

=Revenge.= Retaliation, retribution, vengeance, avenging, requital.

ANT. _Mercy, pardon, reconciliation, pity, compassion, excuse, grace, forgiveness._

=Revenue.= Income; taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, receipts; produce, return, wealth, proceeds.

ANT. _Outgo, waste, expenditure, expense, deductions, impoverishment._

=Reverse=, _n._ Contrary, opposite, counterpart; change, vicissitude; inversion, counter-position; derangement, alteration; rear, back; misfortune, defeat.

ANT. _Obverse, front; order, arrangement, version, position, location; continuance, perpetuation, identity, stability, regularity, uniformity._

=Revive.= Reanimate, reinvigorate; restore, raise, recover, renew, recall; awake, revivify, resuscitate.

ANT. _Kill, destroy, extinguish, discourage; decline, die, droop._

=Revolution.= Lawlessness, insurrection, revolt, riot, sedition, anarchy, insubordination, rebellion, mutiny, confusion, disorder, tumult, disintegration.

ANT. _Government, submission, obedience, authority, control, command, dominion, domination, law, empire, rule, sovereignty, loyalty, supremacy, order._

=Revolve.= Roll, rotate, turn.

ANT. _Bind, grind, stand, slide, slip, stick, chafe._

=Reward=, _n._ Recompense, compensation, remuneration, pay, requital, retribution, punishment.

=Rich.= Wealthy, opulent, affluent, supplied, abounding; abundant, copious, bountiful; fertile, productive; valued, sumptuous, precious, costly; high-seasoned; luscious; vivid.

ANT. _Poor, indigent, needy, impoverished, destitute, impecunious, penniless; lacking, scanty, scarce, meager; barren, sterile; trivial, worthless, unproductive, fruitless, paltry, valueless; dull, tame, dry._

=Riches.= Opulence, wealth, affluence, richness, plenty, abundance.

ANT. _Poverty, want, indigence, scarcity, need, lack, impecuniosity._

=Riddle.= Conundrum, paradox, problem, puzzle, enigma.

ANT. _Axiom, answer, explanation, solution, proposition._

=Ridicule.= Derision, raillery, banter, burlesque, irony, satire, mocking, sarcasm, gibe, jeer, sneer.

ANT. _Respect, homage, veneration, deference, honor._

=Right=, _n._ Claim, liberty, prerogative, license, privilege, exemption, franchise, immunity, duty, justice, uprightness, integrity; title, ownership; interest; rectitude, correctness, power; propriety, fitness, suitableness.

ANT. _Wrong, falsehood, incorrectness, perverseness; liability, illegitimacy, non-legality, usurpation, injustice, impropriety, unfitness, encroachment, force, violence._

=Righteous.= Holy, uncorrupt, honest, equitable, rightful, upright, virtuous, just, good, conscientious.

ANT. _Unholy, corrupt, dishonest, unjust, wicked, evil, unscrupulous, vicious, false, unprincipled, profligate._

=Ripe.= Mature, complete, finished; perfect, developed, full-grown; fit, consummate; prepared; full, seasoned, mellow.

ANT. _Raw, unripe, crude, fresh, green, unseasoned, unprepared._

=Rise=, _v._ Arise, issue, flow, proceed, spring, ascend, emanate.

ANT. _Descend, drop, fall, go down, set, settle, sink, decline._

=Rival=, _v._ Emulate, antagonize, compete with, contend, strive, oppose, equal.

ANT. _Surrender, yield, defer, retire._

=Robber.= Brigand, marauder, pirate, plunderer, thief, burglar, bandit, highwayman, footpad, despoiler, depredator, raider, buccaneer, forager, freebooter.

=Robust.= Strong, lusty, sinewy, muscular, hale, hearty, vigorous, forceful; healthy, sturdy, sound; violent, rude, rough.

ANT. _Puny, weak, delicate, frail, sickly, emaciated, thin, slender, gentle, mild, considerate, tender._

=Romantic.= Sentimental, fanciful, fantastic, fictitious, wild, extravagant, chimerical.

ANT. _Unromantic, truthful, unvarnished, unadorned, veritable, actual, real, realistic, reasonable._

=Root.= Radix, radicle, stock, origin, foundation, base, source, stem, parent, commencement, beginning, radical, bottom.

ANT. _Branch, ramification, product, issue, progeny, superstructure._

=Rough.= Uneven, uncut, boisterous, unpolished; coarse, disordered, shaggy, ragged; rude, uncivil, harsh; loud, offensive; tempestuous, stormy; rugged, knotty, craggy, gruff; incomplete; uncourteous, churlish, blunt.

ANT. _Smooth, plain, level, polished, flat, glossy, sleek, soft, mild, quiet, refined, tender, gentle; balmy, zephyrlike._

=Routine.= Practice, custom, procedure, round, course, wont, order; gradation, rotation, sequence, tenor, system, method; regulation.

=Royal.= August, kinglike, majestic, munificent, princely, regal, magnificent, kingly.

ANT. _Beggarly, contemptible, mean, poor, servile, slavish, vile._

=Rude.= Rough, uneven, shapeless, unfashioned, rugged, uncouth, inelegant, rustic, vulgar, raw, clownish, unskilful, untaught, illiterate, ignorant, uncivil, impolite, saucy, impudent, insolent, surly, uncivilized, brutal, barbarous, savage, violent, fierce, tumultuous, impetuous, boisterous, inclement, severe.

ANT. _Polite, urbane, accomplished, cultivated, courteous, refined, civil, affable, courtly, gracious, elegant, polished, well-bred, obliging; modest, bashful; considerate, serene, placid, genial, calm; fashionable, modern, civilized, modish._

=Rugged.= Rough, uneven, rude, wrinkled, cragged, harsh, hard, crabbed; steep, precipitate; violent, sour, surly, boisterous, tumultuous, stormy, inclement, tempestuous; austere, severe; ruffled, blunt.

ANT. _Smooth, even, gentle, soft, low; pleasant, kindly; balmy, soothing; complaisant, mild._

=Rule.= Regulation, law, precept, maxim, canon, order, method, direction, control, sway, empire; principle, practice; domination, mastery, government; test, criterion, formula.

ANT. _Exception, deviation, eccentricity, irregularity._

=Run.= Race, hasten, speed, proceed, hurry, scamper, post; go, flow, glide, move, roll on; melt, fuse; pass, advance; course, fly, rush; hustle; pursue; cast, shape, mold; drive, force; indicate, mark out; incur, encounter, venture, risk; conduct, manage, carry on; flee.

ANT. _Delay, walk, halt, stop, saunter, rest, linger, hesitate; harden; retrograde, slip._

=Rustic.= Rural, sylvan, pastoral, country, countrified, bucolic, agricultural, verdant; artless, inelegant, plain, rude, unpolished, untaught, unsophisticated; awkward, boorish, outlandish, clownish, coarse, hoydenish, uncouth.

ANT. _City-like, urban; accomplished, elegant, cultured, polite, urbane, polished, well-bred, refined._

=Ruthless.= Cruel, pitiless, harsh, relentless, unsparing.

ANT. _Tender, gentle, pitiful, compassionate, lenient, regretful, long-suffering._

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=Sable.= Dark, black, ebon, somber.

ANT. _Light, white, cheerful, bright, ivory._

=Sacrament.= Eucharist, Lord’s Supper, communion; ceremony, rite, service, solemnity, ordinance, observance.

=Sacred.= Holy, divine, hallowed, consecrated, dedicated, devoted, religious, venerable, reverend.

ANT. _Secular, profane, common, unconsecrated, human._

=Sacrifice=, _n._ Offering, propitiation, expiation, thanksgiving; destruction, immolation, devotion, surrender; oblation, atonement.

ANT. _Offense, transgression; retention, reservation; acceptance._

=Sad.= Sorrowful, mournful, dejected, gloomy, depressed, sedate, cheerless, downcast, grievous; dull, grave, dark, somber; afflicted; calamitous; serious, staid; melancholy, disconsolate, despondent, disastrous, deplorable.

ANT. _Cheerful, joyous, glad, mirthful, jubilant, jovial, light-hearted; exultant, gay, exhilarated, happy, blithe._

=Sagacious.= Sage, sensible, keen, discerning, clear-sighted, apt, acute, intelligent, sharp, wise, rational, shrewd, able, keen-sighted, keen-witted, judicious, perspicacious, quick-scented, sharp-witted.

ANT. _Obtuse, senseless, irrational, silly, stupid, simple, unintelligent, undiscerning, dull, absurd, foolish, futile, sottish, ignorant._

=Sale.= Bargain, barter, deal, exchange, trade, change.

=Salient.= Leaping, bounding, jumping; projecting; prominent, conspicuous, noticeable, significant; strategic.

ANT. _Retreating, retiring, low-lying; unimportant, inconspicuous, unnoticeable, minor, inconsiderable, subordinate, insignificant._

=Salvation.= Saving, preservation, deliverance; redemption; rescue.

ANT. _Perdition, destruction, damnation, condemnation, loss._

=Sample.= Specimen, example, illustration, case, instance, exemplification.

ANT. _Total, whole, exception, aggregate; abnormality, monstrosity._

=Sanction.= Authorization, authority, countenance; ratification, confirmation, approbation; approval, support, seal, allowance.

ANT. _Discountenance, disallowance, unauthorization; cancelation, nullification; disapproval, non-support._

=Sanguine.= Blood-red, crimson; warm, ardent; hopeful, lively, animated, cheerful; confident, enthusiastic, buoyant; trustful.

ANT. _Pallid, cold, frigid; unresponsive, depressed, lifeless, despondent, despairing, dejected, anxious, suspicious, misgiving, distrustful._

=Sanity.= Saneness, soundness, rationality; reasonableness, wisdom; amenableness.

ANT. _Insanity, aberration, derangement, unsoundness, irrationality, madness, lunacy, alienation, dementia, folly._

=Sarcasm.= Taunt, gibe; scorn, contempt, satire; irony, sneer, ridicule.

ANT. _Compliment, eulogy, praise, approbation, appreciation, panegyric._

=Satisfy.= Satiate, sate, compensate; cloy, surfeit, suffice, content, glut, fill, requite; relieve, reassure, convince; please, recompense, gratify, fulfil.

ANT. _Deprive, deny, starve, stint, refuse; annoy, tantalize; aggravate, tease; displease._

=Savage.= Wild, uncultivated, untamed, uncivilized, rude, brutish, brutal, barbarous, cruel, inhuman, fierce, pitiless, merciless, atrocious, ferocious; murderous, violent.

ANT. _Tame, civilized, cultivated, domesticated, tender, refined, polished, gentle, humane, considerate, pitiful, merciful, protective, generous, subdued, chivalrous, clement, self-controlled._

=Save.= Preserve, rescue, deliver; lay up, reserve, keep; spare, prevent; protect; be economical, hoard, husband; obviate, snatch, catch.

ANT. _Lose, destroy, abandon, imperil, expose, endanger, risk, hazard; waste, lavish, spend, fling away._

=Say.= Utter, express, tell, speak, declare; repeat, rehearse, recite; assert; mention, suggest; suppose; answer; respond, reply; state, pronounce; affirm, deny; allege.

ANT. _Silence, hush, whisper, mumble; be taciturn; suppress, repress; mispronounce._

=Scarce.= Rare, infrequent, deficient; uncommon; scant, sparing, meager, insufficient; unusual, unique, singular, wanting, few, precious.

ANT. _Plenty, abundant, frequent, plentiful, common, thick._

=Scheme=, _n._ Plan, project, contrivance, design, purpose, plot, device; system, outline; machination, intrigue, stratagem, cabal, conspiracy; theory.

ANT. _Blunder, derangement, misarrangement, bungle, botch._

=Scholar.= Learner, pupil, student, savant, disciple.

ANT. _Dunce, fool, ignoramus, illiterate person, idiot, idler._

=Science.= Literature, art, knowledge; truth, facts; skill, expertness; comprehension; information, investigation, experimentation, learning, experience.

ANT. _Ignorance, error, smattering, fallacy, sciolism; inexperience, unfamiliarity, incomprehension._

=Scorn=, _n._ Disdain, derision, contumely, despite, slight, mockery, dishonor; contempt, disregard; sneer, opprobrium.

ANT. _Compliment, commendation, deference, approval, esteem, respect, regard, approbation._

=Scruple=, _n._ Unwillingness, hesitation, doubt; particle; qualm, reluctance, misgiving.

ANT. _Confidence, assurance, recklessness, heedlessness; daring, self-complacency._

=Scrupulous.= Cautious, careful, conscientious, hesitating; exact, nice; questioning, unwilling, punctilious, precise; diffident, dubious.

ANT. _Reckless, confident, careless, unconscientious, self-complacent, heedless, unwary, incautious, daring._

=Scrutiny.= Examination, inspection, observation, search, sifting, exploration, inquisition, inquiry.

ANT. _Oversight, misobservance, disregard, slight, inattention._

=Season.= Time, period, term, interval, spell, while; occasion, opportunity, timeliness, seasonableness.

ANT. _Contretemps, unseasonableness, untimeliness, unsuitableness._

=Seasonable.= Opportune, suitable, timely, fit, convenient, appropriate, normal; periodical; welcome.

ANT. _Inopportune, unsuitable, unfit, untimely, inconvenient, inappropriate, unwelcome, unexpected, abnormal._

=Secure=, _a._ Undisturbed, assured, heedless, inattentive; easy, unanxious, trustful, insured; obtained, acquired; fast, firm; defended, guarded, protected, certain, sheltered, safe.

ANT. _Disturbed, endangered, imperiled, insecure, hazardous; anxious, distrustful, suspicious, careful, precarious; loose, drifting, doubtful, dubious._

=Sedate.= Settled, composed, calm, quiet, tranquil, still, serene, unruffled, undisturbed, contemplative, sober, serious; passive.

ANT. _Flighty, disturbed, uneasy, restless, excited, discomposed, agitated, indiscreet; active, moving; frivolous._

=Sedition.= Riot, rebellion, revolt, insurrection, mutiny; outbreak, uprising, secession, treason; insubordination; tumult, turmoil, anarchy.

ANT. _Peace, pacification, order, quiet, orderliness, obedience, allegiance, fealty, union, patriotism, fidelity._

=See.= Perceive, behold, descry, view; observe, discern, understand, comprehend; watch, look after; interview, visit; associate, meet; accompany, escort; attend, heed, be attentive; gaze, glance at.

ANT. _Be blind; overlook, mistake; misunderstand, miscomprehend; pass, ignore, neglect; disregard, misconceive._

=Seek.= Search, try for, solicit, inquire for, strive after, hunt, follow, trace, prosecute, attempt, endeavor, investigate.

ANT. _Shun, elude, ignore, neglect, disregard, avoid, relinquish, drop, abandon, discard._

=Seldom.= Rarely, not often, infrequently; hardly ever, occasionally.

ANT. _Often, frequently, generally, commonly, regularly, habitually, invariably, uniformly, systematically._

=Selection.= Choice, pick, preference, election, option.

ANT. _Repudiation, rejection, discarding, refusal; exclusion._

=Self-abnegation.= Self-renunciation, self-sacrifice, self-control, self-devotion, self-immolation, self-denial.

ANT. _Self-indulgence, self-gratification, self-will, selfishness, self-seeking._

=Selfish.= Self-seeking, mean, ungenerous, narrow, illiberal, mercenary, greedy, egoistical, self-indulgent.

ANT. _Generous, liberal, altruistic, philanthropic, beneficent, self-denying, public-spirited, magnanimous, unselfish, considerate._

=Send.= Sling, throw, fling, hurl, lance, launch, propel, project, cast, dart, despatch, discharge, drive, emit; forward, transmit, impel, dismiss, delegate, depute.

ANT. _Receive, keep, retain, hold; bring, carry, hand, get, give, convey._

=Sensation.= Emotion, sense, feeling, perception.

ANT. _Apathy, non-sensibility, non-perception, indifference._

=Sense.= Understanding, reason; cognition, apprehension; deduction; perception, feeling; recognition, discernment; reasoning; opinion, judgment, notion, meaning, import, signification.

ANT. _Nonsense, misunderstanding; stupidity, non-apprehension; non-comprehension; stolidity, inertness, non-observance; fancy, folly, unsoundness._

=Sensibility.= Feeling, sensitiveness, susceptibility, impressibility.

ANT. _Coldness, deadness, unconsciousness, hardness, numbness, insensibility._

=Sentiment.= Thought, opinion, notion, sensibility, feeling; susceptibility, impressibility, impression, conviction; emotion; maxim, saying, toast.

ANT. _Nonsense, conjecture, vacuity; assumption, prejudice, preconception._

=Separate=, _v._ Disunite, divide, sever; come between, part; disjoin, divorce; disengage, detach; sunder; withdraw, eliminate, remove, segregate.

ANT. _Unite, consolidate, integrate, connect, join, attach, link, weld, engage, wed; gather, convene, collect._

=Sequence.= Succession, following, consequence, arrangement, order; series, progression, continuity.

ANT. _Precedence, introduction, priority; disorder, disconnection; intermission, irregularity._

=Serious.= Sober, earnest, momentous, grave; thoughtful, sedate, solemn; important, weighty; dangerous.

ANT. _Gay, thoughtless, frivolous, laughing, joking, jocose, careless, trifling, trivial, unimportant, light, insignificant._

=Serve.= Obey, minister to, subserve, promote, aid, help, abet, assist, benefit, succor.

ANT. _Command, order, manage; obstruct, counteract, retard, defeat, injure, thwart, oppose._

=Set.= Put, seat, place, fix; affix, attach; fasten, make stable or firm; obstruct, embarrass; determine upon, fix upon; plant; frame; stiffen, solidify; adjust, regulate, adapt; prepare; replace; spread; stud, variegate; value at, rate at; establish, furnish, prescribe, strengthen, stabilitate, ground, confirm, determine, appoint, assign.

ANT. _Remove, uproot, transfer, eradicate, transplant, unsettle, weaken, soften, destroy, demolish; disperse, discard; denude, disarrange, divest, strip; misvalue, under- or over-rate; abolish, frustrate._

=Settle.= Regulate, arrange, compose, decide; establish; still, calm; clear; restore; depress, sink, lower, make compact, harden; determine, adjust, make up, pacify; liquidate, balance; colonize, people.

ANT. _Disturb, confuse, derange; agitate, unsettle, excite, uproot, overturn; obstruct; elevate, upheave, break up; discompose, disorder, rise, ascend, move; misregulate, aggravate._

=Severe.= Stern, strict, austere, hard, relentless, rigorous, unrelenting, inexorable, harsh, inflexible, rigid, morose, stiff, uncompromising, unmitigated, unyielding; critical, grave, serious.

ANT. _Lenient, clement, unexacting, mild, easy, gay, cheerful, joyous; loose, slack, inexact, indulgent, uncritical, moderate, kind, considerate._

=Shade.= Shadow; darkness, obscurity; screen, shelter, protection; body, spirit, ghost; umbrage, adumbration; degree, minuteness; seclusion.

ANT. _Light, illumination, sunshine, brightness, daylight; glare, radiance, exposure; publicity; quantity, amount; defenselessness._

=Shake.= Agitate, fluctuate, flutter, oscillate, quake, quiver, quaver, rock, shiver, shudder, totter, tremble, waver, wave, sway, swing, vibrate, thrill, jar.

ANT. _Fasten, fix, set, secure, settle, confirm._

=Shame.= Disgrace, reproach, dishonor, ignominy; degradation, contempt, infamy; diffidence, modesty, discredit; humiliation, abashment; decency, decorum.

ANT. _Fame, honor, glory, approval, renown, credit; impudence, shamelessness, indecency, immodesty, indecorum, impropriety._

=Shape.= Appearance, figure, aspect, form, guise; outline; embodiment; character, fashion, mold, pattern, cast, model.

ANT. _Imitation, reproduction, copy; deformity, disfigurement._

=Sharp.= Quick, sagacious, witty, discerning, shrewd, ingenious, sour, acid, tart, acrid, biting, poignant, acrimonious, sarcastic, bitter, painful, afflictive, violent, fierce, ardent, fiery; acute, keen, trenchant, astute, subtle, penetrating, discriminating, inventive, piquant; severe, vigilant, attentive; caustic, cutting; eager, hungry; thin, emaciated; shrill, high; exacting, close.

ANT. _Dull, blunt, slow, obtuse, undiscerning, unresourceful, sweet, honeyed, cloying, saccharine, mellow; soft, gentle, mild, tender, considerate, kindly, lenient, clement; uninventive, indifferent, sluggish, inactive, tame, characterless, spiritless, careless, inattentive; thick; generous, unexacting._

=Shelter.= Defend, guard, harbor, protect, shield, screen, ward, cover, conceal.

ANT. _Expose, betray, imperil, endanger, exhibit, lay bare, discover, attack._

=Short.= Brief, contracted, inadequate, limited, scanty; insufficient, incomplete, imperfect; abrupt, petulant, quick; near, direct, straight; succinct, concise, condensed, compendious; terse, pithy, laconic, curt, sententious; severe, uncivil; narrow; destitute.

ANT. _Long, protracted, extended, adequate, ample, sufficient, plentiful, abundant, copious; perfect, complete; civil, suave, complaisant; circuitous, indirect; tedious, prolix, verbose, extended, wordy; broad; provided for._

=Show=, _v._ Exhibit, present, display; tell, reveal; direct, conduct; clear, prove, manifest, explain, evince; bestow, confer; appear, look, seem; demonstrate, unfold, inform, teach; evidence.

ANT. _Conceal, hide, withhold, suppress, obscure, mystify, cloak, wrap; contradict, deny, refute, disprove, falsify; misinterpret._

=Shrewd.= Keen, critical, subtle, arch, astute, sagacious, acute, discerning, penetrating; malicious, evil, vicious; wily, artful, cunning; clever, sharp, able; discriminating, intelligent.

ANT. _Stolid, stupid, unintelligent, dull, thick, unsagacious, undiscerning, undiscriminating; plain, blank, blunt, frank; kindly, sincere, benevolent; fair, open._

=Sick.= Diseased, ill, disordered, distempered, indisposed, weak, ailing, feeble, morbid; imperfect, impaired, weakened, corrupted; disgusted, surfeited.

ANT. _Healthy, whole, well, sound, strong, robust, salubrious, vigorous, hale, wholesome, salutary._

=Side.= Margin, edge, verge, border, boundary; party, sect, faction, interest, cause, policy, behalf; face, aspect, plane; slope, declivity; half.

ANT. _Center, interior, body, heart, core; opposition, secession, neutrality._

=Sight.= Vision, show, representation, exhibition; faculty of seeing, view; visibility, spectacle; inspection, examination; opinion, judgment; perception, ken, cognizance; contemplation, survey; insight; appearance.

ANT. _Blindness, non-visibility, obscuration; non-appearance; oversight, neglect; disappearance; vanishing; impression, prejudice._

=Sign.= Mark, manifestation, indication, presage, symbol, type, token, emblem, note, omen, signal, prognostic, symptom.

=Significant.= Expressive, suggestive, important; weighty, momentous; manifest, intimating, declarative, betokening, implying, meaning, denoting; telling, speaking; forcible; conspicuous.

ANT. _Insignificant, meaningless, inconspicuous, mute, inexpressive, expressionless, unsuggestive._

=Silence.= Stillness, hush, restfulness, quiet, muteness, noiselessness, calm, peace, tranquillity; dumbness, taciturnity; obscurity, secrecy, oblivion.

ANT. _Noise, sound, tumult, clamor, roar, storm, din, unrest, babel, commotion, reverberation, resonance, agitation, clatter; talkativeness, loquacity, garrulity; publicity, fame, rumor, repute, celebrity._

=Similar.= Corresponding, like, resembling, uniform, homogeneous; congruous, harmonious.

ANT. _Dissimilar, unlike, different, alien, discordant, heterogeneous, incongruous._

=Simple.= Silly; single, uncombined; plain, unadorned; mere; sincere, artless, unaffected, natural; direct, clear, perspicuous; credulous, foolish; humble, undistinguished, lowly; innocent; elementary.

ANT. _Complex, double, compound, combined, mixed; ornate, adorned; blended, fused, multiform; artful, affected, artificial; indirect, complicated, circuitous, skeptic, pragmatic; proud, haughty, distinguished, celebrated; various, organized, elaborate; designing, insincere, double-minded; developed, perfect._

=Sin.= Evil, crime, guilt, offense, wickedness, fault, vice, criminality, misdeed; viciousness, ungodliness, wrong, wrongdoing, unrighteousness, iniquity, transgression, immorality, depravity, delinquency.

ANT. _Virtue, godliness, rectitude, uprightness, sinlessness, excellence, blamelessness, goodness, holiness, innocence, morality, integrity, purity, righteousness, right._

=Sing.= Chant, carol, chirp, hum, warble, chirrup.

=Singular.= Unexampled, eminent, unprecedented, extraordinary, remarkable, uncommon, rare, unusual, peculiar, strange, odd, eccentric, fantastic; individual, unique; conspicuous, consummate, exceptional,

## particular; curious, queer.

ANT. _Common, everyday, ordinary, commonplace, general, universal, usual, regular, customary, frequent, numerous; unnoticeable, normal, typical, inconspicuous, humdrum._

=Sink.= Subside, drop, droop, decay, lower, lessen; submerge, immerse, engulf; depress, degrade, debase, diminish; fall, descend; decline, dwindle, decrease; weary, flag, abate; reduce; drown; attenuate.

ANT. _Rise, ascend, mount, increase, augment, aggrandize, swell; flourish, exalt, heighten, promote, enhance; encourage, perpetuate._

=Situation.= Site, station, post, case, plight, state; location, position; place, office; condition; locality, seat, ground, spot; circumstance, predicament; category; employment; footing, aspect; birth, standing.

ANT. _Absence, dislodgment, displacement, non-assignment._

=Skeptic.= Agnostic, doubter, freethinker, infidel, unbeliever, deist, atheist, disbeliever.

ANT. _Christian, believer._

=Sketch=, _n._ Outline, picture, design, drawing, draft; skeleton, plan, brief.

=Skilful.= Expert, dexterous, apt, handy, adroit, clever, deft, proficient, skilled, trained, accomplished, happy, ingenious, practiced; adept, masterly, cunning.

ANT. _Unskilled, clumsy, inexpert, unskilful, unintelligent, awkward, incompetent, unprepared, untrained, unable, untaught, bungling, helpless, maladroit, shiftless._

=Slander=, _v._ Defame, disparage, depreciate, malign, asperse, calumniate, libel, vilify, revile, traduce, decry, backbite.

ANT. _Extol, eulogize, laud, praise, vindicate, defend._

=Slang.= Vulgarity, cant, colloquialism, vulgarism.

ANT. _Diction, language._

=Slender.= Small, narrow, slim; weak, feeble, slight; moderate, trivial, inconsiderable, meager; spare, abstemious, frugal.

ANT. _Thick, stout, robust, broad, ample, deep, bulky, considerable, massive, weighty; giant, colossal._

=Slippery.= Smooth, glib; mutable, uncertain, fickle, inconstant; unstable, changeable; wanton, loose, unchaste; icy, glassy, insecure, perilous, unsafe; shifty, elusive; deceptive, evasive; unprincipled.

ANT. _Rough, firm, safe, secure, stable; constant, certain, dependable, upright, sincere, outright, trustworthy, sound._

=Slow.= Deliberate, dilatory, lingering, gradual, moderate, procrastinating, tardy; inert, inactive, sluggish, drowsy, dull, delaying, dawdling.

ANT. _Nimble, active, brisk, alert, lively, prompt, speedy, quick, spry, swift, agile._

=Small.= Little, diminutive, inconsiderable; inconsequential, uninfluential, trivial, insignificant; paltry, mean, incapable, unable; short; weak, slender, gentle, low; tiny, puny; unimportant; scanty, moderate; sordid, selfish; inferior, unintellectual, ungifted, unintelligent.

ANT. _Large, great, big, extensive, enormous, bulky, massive, weighty, ample, spacious, broad, strong, stout, generous, liberal, munificent; important, significant, notable, influential, distinguished, gifted, magnanimous, intelligent, intellectual, superior, competent._

=Smart.= Acute, quick, lively, brisk, clever, dashy, showy; pungent, pricking; keen, severe, poignant; vigorous, sharp; active, shrewd; efficient, witty; pretentious, spruce; fresh.

ANT. _Dull, heavy, blunt, obtuse, dense, stupid; aching; slow, inactive, sluggish, inefficient, shabby, dowdy, boorish, clownish._

=Sneer.= Jeer, mock, gibe, taunt, fling, scoff.

ANT. _Smile, laugh; flatter, compliment; cheer._

=Sober.= Abstinent, abstemious, moderate, regular; steady, collected, quiet, cool, staid, somber; temperate; dispassionate, self-controlled, calm, self-possessed, solemn, sedate.

ANT. _Intemperate, intoxicated, drunk, impassioned, excited, heated, furious, passionate; unreasonable, immoderate, uncontrolled, agitated, extravagant; erratic, eccentric._

=Socialism.= Communism, collectivism, fabianism.

=Society.= Companionship, fellowship, company; participation, connection; association, partnership; community, sodality, communion, intercourse.

ANT. _Solitude, solitariness, privacy, separation, segregation; individuality, personality; disconnection, dissociation, unsociability._

=Soft.= Yielding, impressible, malleable; smooth, delicate; agreeable, gentle, flowing; flexible; mild, tender, conciliatory, kind; effeminate, weak; easy; quiet, peaceful, tranquil.

ANT. _Hard, unyielding, impervious, tough, stubborn, impermeable; non-resilient; disagreeable, harsh, brusk, gruff, unkind; strong, manly; virile; rough, coarse, rigid, rigorous, abrupt; resolute, determined._

=Solemnity.= Gravity, formality, ritual, ceremonial, sobriety, seriousness, reverence, devotion; celebration, observance; sanctity, awfulness, sacredness; impressiveness.

ANT. _Levity, triviality, gaiety, vulgarity; secularity, desecration, profanity; meaning, unimpressiveness, unimposingness; simplicity._

=Solid.= Hard, sound, real, valid, weighty, profound; compact, resistant, dense; heavy; strong, firm, stable; substantial; impenetrable; cubic.

ANT. _Hollow, yielding, soft, resilient, malleable, fluid, flexible, impressible, liquid; brittle, frail; light, trifling, frivolous; invalid, weak, fallacious, unsound._

=Solitude.= Loneliness, solitariness, loneness, recluseness, retiredness; withdrawal, remoteness, destitution, absence; seclusion, retirement; desertion, retreat, wilderness, desert, privacy, isolation.

ANT. _Populousness, society, popularity, throng, crowd, intercourse, meeting, convening, populace, multitude._

=Solution.= Disruption, separation, breach; disentanglement, explanation, clearing up; resolution, disintegration; release, discharge; solvency; disconnection, discontinuance; key, answer, elucidation.

ANT. _Union, amalgamation, conjunction, connection, combination, entanglement, complication; continuity; integration; obscurity, confusion, perplexity, mystification._

=Soothe.= Soften, allay, compose, tranquilize, pacify; humor, flatter, please; assuage, calm, mollify, comfort; lull; mitigate, relieve.

ANT. _Rouse, excite, disturb, disquiet; aggravate, displease, scold, irritate, exasperate, annoy, infuriate; dissatisfy._

=Sordid.= Vile, base, gross; mean, avaricious, covetous, niggardly; greedy; low, degraded; stingy, close, ungenerous, penurious; illiberal.

ANT. _Pure, noble, honorable, refined; generous, unselfish, liberal, broad, munificent, uncovetous; prodigal, profuse, lavish; high-minded._

=Soul.= Spirit, life, courage, fire, ardor; vitality, animus; leader, inspirer; passion, fervor, affection; person; reason, intellect, emotions; ghost, specter.

ANT. _Lifelessness, soullessness; body; coldness, spiritlessness; irrationality, unintellectuality._

=Sound=, _n._ Noise, note, tone, report; impulse, vibration.

ANT. _Silence; taciturnity; stillness, hush, lull, muteness._

=Sound=, _a._ Whole, unbroken, unharmed, free, perfect, healthy; firm, strong, solid, safe; correct, true, orthodox; deep, profound, undisturbed; right; legal, valid, undefective; entire, thorough, substantial, irrefutable.

ANT. _Unsound, broken, partial, harmed; imperfect, soft, diseased; weak, mellow, unsafe; incorrect, untrue, heterodox; light, trivial, fragile; illegal, illegitimate, invalid, defective; insubstantial, fallacious, hollow, unfounded._

=Sovereign=, _n._ King, prince, potentate, monarch, emperor; ruler.

ANT. _Subject, peasant, serf._

=Sovereign=, _a._ Supreme, paramount, superior, chief; independent, unlimited, absolute; controlling, efficacious; princely, royal; primary, principal, regal, imperial; predominant.

ANT. _Inferior, subordinate, subservient, ministerial, secondary, subject; popular, menial; inefficient, unefficacious, uncertain, weak._

=Space.= Extension, room; interval, duration, time; capacity, distance, measure, quantity; boundlessness, illimitableness; immeasurableness, immensity.

ANT. _Confinement, proximity, limitation, restriction, contiguity, continuity._

=Spare=, _a._ Scanty, sparing, frugal, wanting, lacking, parsimonious, needed, chary; superfluous; lean, meager, thin, gaunt.

ANT. _Ample, abundant, profuse, plentiful, liberal, bountiful, unsparing, unstinted, unrestricted, generous; plump, fat, corpulent, portly._

=Sparse.= Scattered, sprinkled, infrequent, thin, scanty, meager, few.

ANT. _Dense, thick, plentiful, many, populous, crowded, numerous, frequent, multitudinous._

=Speak.= Say, talk, tell, utter, discourse, articulate, converse, express, chat, chatter, enunciate, pronounce; announce, declaim, declare, deliver.

ANT. _Be mute or dumb; keep silence, be taciturn; suppress; recall._

=Speculation.= Venture; theory, view, notion, conjecture; consideration, meditation, contemplation, thought, weighing; hypothesis, scheme.

ANT. _Certainty, fact, verity, proof, realization, verification._

=Speech.= Address, discourse, language, speaking, talk, oration, utterance, sermon, harangue, dissertation, oratory, disquisition.

ANT. _Hush, silence, stillness, taciturnity, speechlessness._

=Spirit.= Life, soul; ghost, specter; fairy, sprite; energy, vivacity, ardor, courage, enthusiasm; intellectuality; meaning, intent; vapor; distilled liquid; air, breath; intelligence, immateriality, essence, disembodiment, apparition; activity, earnestness, zeal; temper, disposition; principle, motive.

ANT. _Substance, body, corporeity, flesh, frame, materiality, embodiment, organization; spiritlessness, timidity, lifelessness, soullessness, deadness, torpor, dejection, slowness._

=Spiritual.= Immaterial, incorporeal, mental, intellectual; holy, divine, heavenly-minded; ecclesiastical, sacred; moral; religious, ethical.

ANT. _Carnal, fleshly, material, sensuous; gross; unspiritual._

=Splendid.= Shining, showy, magnificent, sumptuous, pompous; illustrious, brilliant, famous; gorgeous, grand, glorious; imposing; superb, heroic, noble.

ANT. _Dull, tame, obscure, tarnished, tawdry, somber, beggarly, gloomy, poor, ordinary, ineffective, inglorious, insignificant, mean, low._

=Spontaneous.= Free, intentional, voluntary, willing, unbidden, impulsive, automatic, instinctive, deliberate.

ANT. _Forced, compelled, coerced, unwilling, reluctant._

=Spread=, _v._ Open, unfurl, disperse, distribute, scatter, circulate, disseminate, dispense; extend, stretch, expand, amplify; divulge, propagate, publish, diffuse.

ANT. _Collect, condense, contract, furl, gather, close, shut; confine, suppress, restrict, recall, conceal, hush, localize._

=Spring=, _v._ Leap, bound, jump; shoot, fly, dart, start; emerge; bend, warp; proceed, issue, result; burst, emanate, flow; rise, originate, germinate.

ANT. _Settle, alight, arrive, land, drop; end, terminate, debouch, finish, eventuate._

=Spy.= Scout, emissary, detective.

=Stable=, _a._ Steady, abiding, firm, strong, durable; fixed, established; constant, resolute, unwavering; secure, stanch, permanent; solid, lasting, perpetual; immobile, rigid, unmovable.

ANT. _Vacillating, wavering, unsteady, toppling, weak, tottering, infirm, insecure, precarious, frail, unstable; transient, ephemeral, evanescent, vanishing, non-durable._

=Stain=, _v._ Blot, spot, sully, tarnish, tinge, tint, color, discolor, disgrace, dishonor, dye, soil.

ANT. _Preserve inviolate or unspotted._

=Stand=, _v._ Rest, continue upright or erect, be situated or located; cease, stop, pause, halt; endure, last; maintain, be fixed or steady; be, consist; agree, accord; endure, sustain, bear; withstand; submit to.

ANT. _Advance, move, proceed, progress; fail, fall, die, depart, run, yield, succumb, drop; give up, surrender; retaliate, avenge, resent._

=Standard=, _n._ Flag, colors, banner, ensign; criterion, test; support, frame; model, type, norm; gage, measure, scale; upright; exemplar.

ANT. _Misrule, mismeasurement, misadjustment, misfit, non-criterion._

=State=, _v._ Declare, tell, assert, affirm, asseverate, allege, testify, assure, swear, set forth, protest, predicate, pronounce, specify, propound, maintain, inform, express, depose, claim, avow, avouch, aver, certify.

ANT. _Deny, contradict, controvert, disprove, refute, repudiate, waive, contravene, dispute, gainsay, oppose, retract._

=Station.= Depot; place, spot, position, stand; office, sphere; state, rank, condition, occupation, business.

ANT. _Removal, departure; dislodgment, ejection, displacement; locomotion._

=Stay=, _v._ Stop; prop, hold up, support, sustain; hold, restrain; hold back, hinder, delay; check; fasten, secure; continue, abide, remain; dwell, tarry, linger, wait; forbear; rest, depend, rely.

ANT. _Loose, liberate, free; fail, let fall; expedite, speed, accelerate; proceed, advance, progress, go on; move, depart; oppress, burden; overthrow._

=Steadfast.= Established, firm; constant, resolute; grounded, rooted, placed; resolved, unwavering, stanch.

ANT. _Unsteady, unattached; vacillating, wavering, weak, insecure, irresolute, inconstant, unreliable._

=Steep.= Sharp, sheer, high, precipitous, abrupt.

ANT. _Gradual, level, slight, flat, easy, gentle, horizontal, low._

=Stiff.= Rigid, inflexible, strong, obstinate, pertinacious, rigorous, constrained, affected; unbending, unpliant; starched; formal, ceremonious, difficult, punctilious, stately; austere, peremptory, inexorable, uncompromising.

ANT. _Flexible, pliant, unaffected, amenable, easy, yielding, affable, genial, unceremonious, informal; pliable, malleable; considerate, compromising._

=Still.= Noiseless; inert, stagnant, serene; motionless, restful, quiet; silent, calm, soundless, low; hushed, mute, placid, quiescent; stationary; gentle, soft, mild, pacific, peaceful.

ANT. _Disturbed, agitated, moved, restless; noisy, moving, loud, resonant, turbulent; unquiet, rough, harsh._

=Stop.= Suppress, discontinue, delay, interrupt; close, obstruct; arrest, impede; restrain, hinder, repress; cease, halt, stay, tarry; bar, seal; suspend, end, terminate.

ANT. _Assist, advance, continue, expedite, speed, hasten, promote; clear, open; improve, push, benefit; progress; facilitate; initiate, commence, begin._

=Storm.= Agitation, disturbance, tempest.

ANT. _Calm, hush, peace, serenity, stillness, tranquillity, fair weather._

=Story.= Narrative, legend, anecdote, account, tale, record, recital, incident, myth, narration, novel, relation.

ANT. _Annals, chronicle, biography, history, memoir._

=Stout.= Corpulent; portly; vigorous, strong, lusty, robust; firm, resolute, bold; tough; large, bulky; brawny; valiant, courageous, redoubtable.

ANT. _Thin, slender, weak, lean, frail, feeble, attenuated, emaciated; timid, irresolute, cowardly._

=Strange.= Outlandish, wonderful, astonishing, marvelous, uncommon, irregular, queer, odd, eccentric; foreign, new, novel, unusual; reserved, distant; unfamiliar, unaccustomed, inexperienced.

ANT. _Familiar, usual, common, general, universal, accustomed, ordinary, home, domestic, regular, customary, habitual, commonplace._

=Strength.= Robustness, toughness, hardness, stoutness, spirit, lustiness, puissance, authority; force, vigor, power; endurance, resistance; security, validity; firmness; intensity; virtue; energy, nerve, sinew, fiber; soundness.

ANT. _Weakness, thinness, frailty, softness, delicacy; imbecility, feebleness; spiritlessness, impotence, inability; insecurity, invalidity; wavering._

=Strenuous.= Eager, pressing, urgent; zealous, ardent, earnest; bold, intrepid; strong, determined, resolute; vigorous, energetic, vehement, forceful.

ANT. _Weak, irresolute, vacillating, wavering, enervated, undetermined._

=Strong.= Powerful, cogent, muscular; robust, lusty, sinewy, hale, hearty, vigorous, forceful; enduring, resistant; violent, forcible; ardent, zealous, vehement, earnest, solid, nourishing; firm; capable, potent, effective, influential, sound; pungent; hardy, tenacious.

ANT. _Weak, feeble, infirm, sickly, exhausted, debilitated, wanting, pliant, frail, soft; low, faint; spiritless, foolish; wavering, impotent, powerless, defenseless, insecure, delicate; unefficacious, unconvincing, unsatisfactory, unavailing, flaccid, nerveless._

=Stubborn.= Obstinate, inflexible, obdurate, headstrong, harsh, intractable, firm, contumacious, heady; unbending, unyielding, persistent, refractory.

ANT. _Yielding, pliant, mild, gentle, docile, tractable, manageable, flexible, pliable; vacillating, wavering, irresolute, undecided._

=Studious.= Contemplative, observant; sedulous, earnest, diligent; studied; absorbed, meditative, thoughtful, attentive, pondering, devoted, musing, cogitative; careful, literary, reflective, assiduous.

ANT. _Illiterate, unliterary, idle, indulgent, careless, inattentive, thoughtless, negligent, regardless, indifferent._

=Study=, _n._ Application, learning, acquisition, meditation, contemplation; diligence, consideration, thought, research, endeavor, knowledge, purpose, intention, attention, concentration.

ANT. _Idleness, dawdling, illiteracy, ease, indifference, indiligence, negligence, carelessness, unstudiousness, thoughtlessness._

=Stupid.= Simple, insensible, sottish, sluggish, senseless, doltish, heavy, dull; stolid, insensate, obtuse, prosy.

ANT. _Quick, bright, sharp, intelligent, responsive, clever, sensible, eager, animated, penetrating._

=Stupidity.= Slowness, dulness, obtuseness, insensibility, sluggishness, stupor, apathy.

ANT. _Intelligence, animation, brilliancy, acuteness, sensibility, cleverness, sense, sagacity, quickness, readiness, alertness, keenness._

=Stupor.= Apathy, swoon, torpor, lethargy, coma, fainting, unconsciousness, stupefaction, asphyxia, swooning, insensibility, syncope.

=Sublime.= Exalted, lofty, noble, majestic, grand, stately, magnificent, dignified, elevated, august, pompous, high, eminent, glorious.

ANT. _Low, ignoble, debased, degraded, inglorious, ordinary, mean, undignified, inconspicuous, unimposing, ridiculous._

=Submissive.= Obedient, compliant, yielding, obsequious, subservient, humble, modest, passive, docile, acquiescent.

ANT. _Disobedient, haughty, proud, arrogant, unyielding, conceited,

## active, rebellious, reluctant, defiant, refractory, resistant._

=Subsidy.= Aid, allowance, gift, bounty, reward, tribute, support, subvention, pension, bonus, premium, grant, indemnity.

=Substantial.= Real, solid, true, existing, essential; corporeal, material; strong, stout, resourceful, massive, tangible, bulky; sensuous.

ANT. _Imaginary, unreal, insubstantial, fictitious, supposititious, immaterial, weak, chimerical, visionary, spiritual, disembodied, ghostly._

=Subtle.= Artful, crafty, cunning, shrewd, sly, wily; astute, guileful, discriminating, insinuating, sophistical.

ANT. _Frank, honest, open, sincere, artless, undiscriminating, undiscerning, simple, direct, blunt, unsophisticated._

=Subvert.= Destroy, ruin, supplant, suppress, supersede, extinguish, overthrow, overturn.

ANT. _Conserve, preserve, uphold, sustain, keep, perpetuate._

=Succeed.= Follow, pursue; ensue, result, be subsequent; descend, devolve; gain, acquire, attain, obtain, achieve, accomplish; supervene; flourish, prosper, thrive.

ANT. _Precede, anticipate, antecede; fail, deteriorate, be lacking, lose, miss, disappoint, be deficient in; decline, wane, decay._

=Succession.= Succeeding, series, sequence, order; lineage, descent; following, continuity, consecution, rotation, regularity.

ANT. _Antecedence, precedence, anticipation, forerunning, prevention; disorder, irregularity, non-sequence, intermission, gap, failure, inconsecutiveness._

=Sudden.= Unexpected, unusual, abrupt, unlooked for, hasty, unanticipated, unforeseen, unprovided for; rash, quick, heedless, reckless.

ANT. _Anticipated, foreseen, expected; slow, gradual, transitional, moderate; wary, cautious, careful, provident._

=Suffer.= Support, sustain, tolerate, permit; allow, let, grant, consent to; endure, bear, submit to, undergo, be affected by, experience.

ANT. _Resist, rebel, repel, withstand; forbid, disallow, refuse, reject, expel, repudiate; fight, antagonize, challenge._

=Sufficient.= Competent, satisfactory, full, ample; equal, adequate, enough; qualified, capable, responsible; efficient; adapted, fitted.

ANT. _Inadequate, incompetent, unsatisfactory, lacking, wanting, unequal, unfit, incapable, unqualified, insufficient, unsuited, meager, short, deficient, scanty._

=Suggestion.= Hint, innuendo, intimation, insinuation, implication.

=Suitable.= Proper, competent, correspondent, consonant, compatible, congruous, consistent; fitting, accordant, becoming, adapted; seemly, appropriate, agreeable, convenient; harmonious, uniform; homogeneous.

ANT. _Improper, divergent, incompetent, incompatible, dissonant, incongruous, inconsistent, unfit, discordant, unbecoming; unseemly, inappropriate, inconvenient; unharmonious, different, heterogeneous._

=Sum.= Aggregate, quantity, magnitude, amount; compendium, substance, gist; height, completion; total, whole, computation; example, problem; collection; drift, bearing.

ANT. _Part, portion, half, fraction, item, particular; incompleteness, imperfection, discrepancy; article, detail, fragment, component, constituent, element._

=Superb.= Grand, magnificent, august, stately; rich, elegant; showy, excellent; princely, gorgeous, splendid; proud.

ANT. _Mean, shabby, poor, undignified, dingy; meager; tawdry, impoverished; ordinary, common; humble, plain, unimposing._

=Superior.= Elevated, higher, upper; surpassing, greater; preëminent, excellent, ascendent, predominant, prevalent, advantageous, beneficial.

ANT. _Inferior, lower, worse, deeper, meaner, subordinate, lesser, mediocre, ordinary, average, common, unremarkable, inconspicuous, detrimental, disadvantageous; declining, deteriorating._

=Supernatural.= Miraculous, preternatural, superhuman.

ANT. _Common, natural, ordinary, commonplace, everyday, usual._

=Supple.= Pliant, flexible, bending; fawning, soft; yielding, compliant, submissive; flattering, obsequious, subservient, servile, cringing, adulatory; lithe, limber, elastic.

ANT. _Firm, stiff, unyielding, obstinate, inflexible, hard, dominant, domineering; abusive, scolding, tyrannous; unbending, stubborn, independent, self-assertive, supercilious, arrogant, haughty._

=Support.= Maintain, sustain, uphold, cherish, keep, bear, prop, carry, tolerate, hold up, keep up.

ANT. _Demolish, abandon, betray, destroy, drop, desert, wreck, break down, cast down, overthrow, let go, throw down._

=Suppose.= Deem, guess, imagine, think, conjecture, surmise.

ANT. _Conclude, ascertain, discover, prove, know, be sure._

=Suppress.= Repress, subdue, restrain, overthrow, quell, overwhelm, conceal, stifle, smother, stop; overpower, extinguish, destroy.

ANT. _Excite, fan, increase, augment, strengthen, raise, aggravate; publish, promulgate, advertise, spread, disseminate; intensify._

=Sure.= Unfailing, infallible, permanent, steady, stable, strong, indisputable, confident, positive, firm; certain, safe, secure, assured, believing, trusting, unquestioning; abiding, fast.

ANT. _Insecure, fallible, unsteady, inconstant, wavering, indeterminate, dubitable, uncertain, questionable, impermanent, doubtful, hesitating, distrustful, precarious, disputable, loose._

=Surrender.= Abandon, give over, relinquish, resign, waive, yield, alienate, capitulate, cede, let go, sacrifice, give one’s self up.

ANT. _Resist, withstand, oppose, thwart, baffle; die._

=Suspense.= Uncertainty, expectation, apprehension, anxiety, indetermination, indecision; solicitude, intermission, protraction, abeyance, doubt; pause, stop.

ANT. _Decision, settlement, determination, finality, execution; achievement, termination, accomplishment, end; uninterruption, continuance, continuity, regularity, sequence._

=Sustenance.= Subsistence, food, provision, maintenance, support; supplies, aliment, nutriment, nourishment; livelihood, living, nutrition, sustentation.

ANT. _Starvation, want, indigence, poverty, hunger, lack, thirst, inanition, exhaustion; non-subsistence, non-support._

=Sweet.= Sugary, saccharine, dulcet, luscious; agreeable, pleasing, fragrant, soft, melodious; beautiful, mild, fair; fresh; amiable, winning; wholesome.

ANT. _Sour, bitter, sharp, acid; discordant, inharmonious, dissonant; disagreeable, displeasing; fetid, malodorous; plain, homely; stale, unwholesome, spoiled; offensive, repulsive, unlovely._

=Swift.= Quick, fleet, speedy, expeditious, rapid, prompt; accelerated, nimble, alert, ready, headlong, eager, fast.

ANT. _Slow, tardy, delaying, late, unready, laggard, deliberate, sedate, reluctant, lingering, lazy, loitering, inactive, sluggish, inexpeditious._

=Symmetry.= Proportion, grace, conformity, uniformity, similarity, regularity, shapeliness, harmony, agreement; comeliness.

ANT. _Disproportion, disharmony, incongruity, irregularity, disagreement, disparity, shapelessness; interdisparity._

=Sympathy.= Pity, compassion, commiseration, tenderness, condolence; fellow-feeling; agreement, conformity, reciprocity; congeniality.

ANT. _Antipathy, harshness, antagonism, unkindness, coldness, mercilessness, pitilessness._

=Synonymous.= Similar, correspondent, like, identical, interchangeable, alike, same, corresponding, synonymic, equivalent.

ANT. _Antonymic._

=System.= Order, mode, method, regularity, rule, manner.

ANT. _Confusion, chaos, disorder, derangement, irregularity, disarrangement._

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=Tacit.= Silent, implied, granted, unexpressed, understood, implicit.

ANT. _Mentioned, expressed, explicit, declared._

=Taciturn.= Mute, silent, speechless, reserved, close, dumb, uncommunicative, reticent.

ANT. _Communicative, free, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, unreserved._

=Take.= Lay hold, seize, grasp, obtain; capture, fasten on; attack; gain, captivate, charm; choose, turn to; employ, use, demand, require; copy, delineate; assume, adopt; acquire; engage in, indulge in; carry, convey, conduct; remove, withdraw, deduct; acknowledge, accept; receive, admit; partake of, swallow; undertake, clear; tolerate, endure; consider, interpret, suppose; receive, submit to, bear.

ANT. _Drop, reject, abandon, surrender, miss, lose, repel, refuse, decline, repulse, spurn._

=Talent.= Ability, gift, endowment, genius, faculty; capacity, cleverness, aptitude, forte.

ANT. _Inability, ineptitude, incompetence, imbecility, stupidity._

=Tangible.= Perceptible, tactile, palpable; apprehensible, evident, manifest, clear; material, substantial, sensible, obvious.

ANT. _Impalpable, spiritual, intangible, incorporeal, immaterial, incomprehensible._

=Tart.= Sharp, acid, sour; keen, severe; harsh, caustic, petulant, acrimonious.

ANT. _Gentle, mild, genial, kindly, polite; mellow, sweet._

=Taste=, _n._ Savor, relish, flavor, sensibility, judgment; discernment, nicety, perception, zest, choice, elegancy, refinement.

ANT. _Disrelish, insipidity, ill-savor, coarseness, indelicacy, non-perception, indiscrimination._

=Tasteful.= Delicate, artistic, elegant, dainty, esthetic, exquisite, fastidious, fine, chaste, nice, tasty, delicious, esthetical.

ANT. _Coarse, rough, rude, harsh, hideous, clumsy, disgusting, deformed, displeasing, fulsome, gaudy, grotesque, distasteful, horrid, inartistic, inharmonious, meretricious, offensive, ragged, tawdry._

=Taunt=, _v._ Ridicule, mock, jeer, deride, revile, flout, scoff, scorn, insult; reproach, rebuke, censure.

ANT. _Compliment, flatter, approve of, congratulate._

=Teach.= Discipline, instruct, tutor, school, train, educate, enlighten, drill, inculcate, give lessons, give instructions, indoctrinate, inform, initiate, instill, nurture.

ANT. _Learn, study, practice, investigate, experiment, try, develop, receive, drink in, acquire, attain, imbibe, understand, glean, gather, collect._

=Tedious.= Wearisome, fatiguing, irksome, tiresome; prolix, dull, slow, monotonous, tiring, trying.

ANT. _Interesting, exciting, amusing, charming, delightful, stirring, bright, entertaining._

=Tell.= Enumerate, communicate, impart, reveal, disclose, report, acquaint, repeat, rehearse, discover; count, number, reckon, recount; narrate, divulge; inform, teach; order, command, request.

=Temerity.= Audacity, foolhardiness, rashness, presumption, recklessness, hardihood, hastiness, heedlessness, precipitation, overconfidence, precipitancy, venturesomeness.

ANT. _Care, caution, hesitation, cowardice, timidity, wariness, circumspection._

=Temporal.= Transient, fleeting, transitory, temporary; terrestrial, worldly, secular, mundane.

ANT. _Eternal, permanent, everlasting; religious, spiritual._

=Tendency.= Proneness, drift, aim, disposition; direction, course; influence; inclination, leaning, bent, bias; proclivity, aptitude, propensity, liability.

ANT. _Aversion, repulsion, repugnance; opposition, reluctance, divergence, tangency, deviation._

=Tender.= Effeminate, soft, sensitive, compassionate, humane, kind, merciful, pitiful, dear, delicate; gentle, mild, susceptible.

ANT. _Hard, pitiless, callous, careless, heedless, rough, coarse, unkind, inhuman, unmerciful, unfeeling; hardy, strong, sturdy._

=Tension.= Strain, stretch, effort, stretching, tensity, tenseness, rigor, severity, harshness, stiffness, tightness.

ANT. _Relaxation, release, relief, laxity, slackness, looseness._

=Term.= Boundary, limit; expression, phrase, word, name; member, condition, denomination.

=Termination.= Limit, end, conclusion, bound, result; completion, consequence, effect; fulfilment, consummation, accomplishment, achievement, finis, finality, exit, issue.

ANT. _Beginning, initiation, inception, commencement, rise, start, origin, source, cause, process, course._

=Terrible.= Terrific, fearful, horrible, shocking, awful; dreadful, formidable, frightful; tremendous; astounding, startling.

ANT. _Insignificant, amusing, pleasing; unastonishing._

=Terse.= Concise, pithy, succinct, short, brief, laconic, compact, sententious, condensed, compendious, neat.

ANT. _Long, lengthy, tedious, wordy, diffuse, prolix, verbose._

=Testimony.= Affirmation, certification, deposition, proof, evidence, witness, affidavit, attestation, oath.

ANT. _Demonstration._

=Theory.= Hypothesis, speculation; doctrine, conjecture, explanation; assumption, scheme, postulate, plan; science, philosophy; exposition, rationale; supposition.

ANT. _Fact, truth, verity, actuality._

=Therefore.= Consequently, then, hence, thence, whence, wherefore, accordingly.

ANT. _Because, as for, inasmuch as, since._

=Thick.= Dense, close, compact, solid, coarse, gross; muddy, turbid, misty; crowded, abundant; indistinct; dull; numerous; inarticulate.

ANT. _Thin, rare, sparse, infrequent; pure, limpid, crystalline, clear, distinct, incompact, shallow, articulate._

=Think.= Cogitate, contemplate; remember, reflect, muse, meditate, ponder, consider, deliberate, judge, conclude, believe; purpose, intend, design, mean; presume, venture; imagine, apprehend.

ANT. _Guess, hazard; dream, idle, stargaze, wander, rove._

=Thought.= Imagination, fancy, conceit, notion, consideration, supposition, contemplation, deliberation; reflection, cogitation, meditation, conception, solicitude, care, concern; reasoning; idea, opinion, concept, judgment, purpose, intention, provision.

ANT. _Thoughtlessness, giddiness, carelessness, inconsideration, dreaminess, dulness, stupidity, rashness, impulsiveness; vacuity, dream, hallucination, aberration._

=Threat.= Menace, denunciation, threatening, intimidation.

ANT. _Promise, encouragement, allurement, enticement; anticipation._

=Thrifty.= Economical, saving, careful; sparing, frugal, industrious, prosperous, thriving; provident, foresighted.

ANT. _Wasteful, prodigal, uneconomical, lavish, spendthrift, extravagant; slack, lazy; improvident, unprepared._

=Throng.= Concourse, crowd, host, jam, mass, multitude, press.

ANT. _Solitude; wilderness, desert, waste._

=Tidings.= Message, information, intelligence, news, rumor, report, advices, announcement.

ANT. _Suppression, censorship, misinformation, canard._

=Time.= Epoch, era, period, date, age, eon, season, term, while, succession, sequence, duration.

=Timid.= Fearful, timorous, cowardly, afraid, pusillanimous, faint-hearted, shrinking, retiring, shy; diffident, bashful.

ANT. _Bold, confident, venturesome, courageous, adventurous, heedless._

=Tip.= Incline, lean, list, slant, slope, tilt, cant, careen, dip, heel over.

=Tire.= Exhaust, fag, weary, fatigue, jade, harass, wear out.

ANT. _Refresh, recreate, rest, relax, relieve, repose, restore, invigorate._

=Title.= Epithet, name, appellation, designation, cognomen, denomination; address, inscription, heading, style.

ANT. _Nondescript, namelessness._

=Together.= With, in company, associated, conjoined, unitedly, simultaneously, contemporaneously, coincidently.

ANT. _Separately, variously, independently._

=Toil.= Labor, drudgery, work, exertion, employment, occupation, task, travail.

ANT. _Rest, relaxation, recreation, ease; amusement, pleasure, enjoyment, fun._

=Tolerable.= Endurable, bearable, supportable; passable, medium, ordinary, mediocre, indifferent.

ANT. _Intolerable, unendurable, insufferable, unbearable, insupportable._

=Tool.= Appliance, implement, apparatus, mechanism, utensil, machine, weapon.

=Topic.= Head, division, motion, point, proposition, question, issue, subject, theme, matter.

=Torment.= Pain, misery, agony, anguish, torture, distress.

ANT. _Enjoyment, pleasure, comfort, ease, gratification, delight._

=Total=, _a._ Whole, entire, full, absolute, complete, undivided.

ANT. _Partial, imperfect, incomplete, divided, fractional, sectional._

=Trace.= Mark, remains, sign, vestige, track, token, trail, footmark, footprint, footstep, impression, memorial, remnant.

=Trade.= Profession, occupation, office, calling, avocation, employment, commerce, dealing, traffic.

ANT. _Stagnation, inactivity, dulness, embargo; leisure, vacation, idleness, vacancy._

=Tragedy.= Mournful drama; catastrophe, calamity, adversity, disaster, affliction.

ANT. _Comedy, happiness, mirthful drama, prosperity, luck, good fortune._

=Traitor.= Betrayer, turncoat, renegade, rebel, deceiver, apostate; insurgent, deserter, mutineer.

ANT. _Patriot, adherent, defender, supporter._

=Tranquil.= Quiet, calm, undisturbed, peaceful, unagitated; unruffled, composed, poised, collected, cool.

ANT. _Agitated, excited, uneasy, anxious, troubled, restless._

=Transact.= Conduct, carry on, perform, act, accomplish, do, negotiate, treat.

ANT. _Leave alone, rest, stop, refrain, desist, cease._

=Transaction.= Business, action, deed, proceeding, doing, affair, act, negotiation, performance.

ANT. _Inactivity, quiescence, rest, neglect, inaction, passivity._

=Transgression.= Infringement, misdemeanor, misdeed, affront; violation, breach, fault, crime, offense, sin.

ANT. _Innocence, guiltlessness; purity, righteousness; observance, obedience, fulfilment._

=Transient.= Fleeting, temporary, transitory, ephemeral, evanescent, brief, flitting, flying, momentary, passing, fugitive, short.

ANT. _Permanent, perpetual, lasting, enduring, abiding, immortal, everlasting, unfading, undying, persistent, eternal, imperishable._

=Transparent.= Translucent, pellucid, clear, lucid; diaphanous; open, porous; crystalline, limpid, bright; perspicuous.

ANT. _Opaque, thick, turbid; mysterious, questionable, dubious._

=Travel.= Go, pass, journey, migrate, move, traverse, wander, roam.

ANT. _Dwell, reside, stay, remain, settle._

=Treasure.= Wealth, abundance, plenty; money, jewels, cash, valuables, hoard, riches, bullion; reserve.

ANT. _Refuse, trash, offal; dregs, trifles._

=Treaty.= Negotiation, compact, agreement, covenant, alliance, convention, contract.

ANT. _Neutrality, non-interference, non-intervention._

=Tremendous.= Frightful, terrific, horrible, awful; fearful, appalling, alarming, horrifying, dreadful.

ANT. _Unappalling, inconsiderable, unimposing._

=Trial.= Attempt, endeavor, essay; effort, exertion; experience, proof, test; examination, experiment; criterion, ordeal, assay; temptation, trouble, affliction, distress, grief, suffering, tribulation.

ANT. _Non-attempt; ease, facility; acceptance; oversight, disregard; trifle, triviality._

=Trick.= Stratagem, wile, fraud, cheat, juggle, finesse, sleight; deception, imposture, delusion, imposition; artifice, machination, contrivance, legerdemain.

ANT. _Exposure, revelation, examination; blunder, botch, bungling, fumbling, maladroitness, mishap; genuineness, artlessness, openhandedness._

=Triumph.= Success, conquest, victory; ovation, celebration, jubilee, jubilation, exultation; achievement, attainment.

ANT. _Defeat, failure, disappointment, discomfiture, abortion, baffling._

=Trouble.= Affliction, sorrow, disturbance, perplexity, vexation, molestation, annoyance, inconvenience, calamity, misfortune, adversity, misery; tribulation, distress, disaster, torment, difficulty, anxiety.

ANT. _Blessing, peace, composure, alleviation, appeasement, pleasure, fortune, boon, affluence, happiness, joy, success, gladness, ease, facility, amusement, recreation._

=True.= Correct, accurate, precise, exact; unwavering, faithful, loyal; actual, pure, real, genuine; veritable.

ANT. _Untrue, false, fictitious, unreliable, incorrect, inaccurate, inexact; vacillating, disloyal, faithless; counterfeit, impure, unreal, factitious, untrustworthy, adulterated, spurious, fickle, treacherous._

=Trust=, _n._ Confidence, belief, expectation, faith, hope; reliance.

ANT. _Doubt, misgiving, distrust, skepticism, suspense; despair._

=Truth.= Fact, reality, fidelity, conformity, exactness; steadfastness; veracity, verity; accuracy, precision, faithfulness.

ANT. _Falsehood, falsity, lie, untruth, fabrication, fiction; fallacy, mistake, sophism._

=Tumult.= Ferment, disturbance, turbulence, disorder, bluster, hubbub, bustle, brawl, riot; excitement, distraction, confusion, turmoil, noise.

ANT. _Peace, order, orderliness, pacification, quiet, subsidence._

=Turn=, _n._ Revolution; alteration, vicissitude; winding, bending, meandering; stroll; succession, alternation; chance, occasion; convenience, purpose, exigence; form, cast, shape, manner, fashion; rotation, recurrence; opportunity; deed, office, treatment, act; tendency, talent, gift; crisis.

ANT. _Fixity, unchangeableness, immobility, uniformity, stability, continuity; independence; malformation, shapelessness._

=Turn=, _v._ Revolve, reverse, deflect, change; divert, transfer, use, employ, apply, devote; alter, metamorphose, transform, convert; shape, mold, adapt; whirl; hinge, depend; eventuate, issue, terminate.

ANT. _Stick, stop, remain; adhere, hold to; persist, continue; stabilitate, perpetuate, arrest, stereotype._

=Tutor.= Teacher, instructor, professor, preceptor, master, savant, guardian, governor.

ANT. _Pupil, student, novice, disciple, scholar, ward, learner._

=Twist=, _v._ Contort, writhe, convolve; pervert, distort; wind, wreathe; insinuate; encircle.

ANT. _Straighten, untwist, rectify, unwind, disentangle, unravel; verify, substantiate._

=Type.= Mark, stamp, sign, emblem; style, semblance; representation, similitude, figure, symbol, token; character, pattern, archetype, model, norm; cast, mold, fashion.

ANT. _Caricature, monstrosity, abnormity; falsification, deviation; misrepresentation._

U

=Ubiquity.= Omnipresence; universal presence, all-pervasiveness.

ANT. _Localization, limitation._

=Ugly.= Loathsome, unsightly, repulsive; ill-natured, quarrelsome; unpleasant; plain, ordinary, homely, hideous, frightful; cross, vicious.

ANT. _Attractive, handsome, fair, pleasant, agreeable, beautiful, shapely, comely; lovely, kindly, good-natured, gentle._

=Ultimate.= Final, last, conclusive, farthest, extreme, most remote; elemental.

ANT. _Initial, nearest, beginning, primary._

=Un-.= A prefix meaning _not_ or _without_, or simply intensive, which is prefixed to nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and the participles of verbs. Words whose meaning is simply that of the root word with negative or intensive emphasis are omitted here, and their synonyms and antonyms may be formed from those of the root word.

=Unction.= Anointing, ointment; power, fervor, animation, fervency, ardor, enthusiasm, energy, spirit, emotion.

ANT. _Tameness, perfunctoriness, coldness, lifelessness._

=Unctuous.= Fatty, oily, greasy; bland, suave, tender, fervid; obsequious, fawning, servile, sycophantic.

ANT. _Blunt, brush, abrupt; cynical, sarcastic; harsh, unmannerly, uncomplimentary._

=Under-.= A prefix meaning _beneath_ or _below_. Words whose meaning is simply that of the root word with the meaning of the prefix added are omitted in this place, and their synonyms and antonyms may be formed in many cases from those of the root word.

=Under=, _prep._ Below, beneath, underneath.

ANT. _Above, upon, over._

=Understand.= Know, comprehend; learn, be informed, hear; recognize, interpret; imply, assume; apprehend, discern, see, perceive, conceive, penetrate.

ANT. _Misunderstand, miscomprehend, misinterpret; declare, state; express, inform._

=Understanding.= Sense, intelligence, conception, perception, discernment, knowledge, intuition, cognition, reason; interpretation; mind, brains.

ANT. _Insensibility, stupidity, dulness, obtuseness, senselessness, slowness, irrationality, sluggishness, ignorance, unintelligence._

=Undertake.= Engage, enter, set about, attempt; covenant, contract; guarantee, promise, affirm; project, commence; stipulate.

ANT. _Abandon, drop, desist, discontinue, decline; complete, finish, end, terminate._

=Undertaking.= Enterprise, engagement, attempt, adventure, business, effort, endeavor; experiment, venture, interest, affair, matter, concern.

ANT. _Leisure, inactivity; recreation._

=Undulation.= Waving motion; vibration; wavy outline; pulsation; oscillation, swelling; wave, ripple.

ANT. _Equilibrium; arrestation, standing; plain, tableland._

=Uniform.= Unchanging, equable, consistent, homogeneous; consonant; regular, constant, invariable, steady; similar, unvaried, alike.

ANT. _Heterogeneous, variable, varying, diverse; irregular, inconsistent, erratic, eccentric, unsymmetrical._

=Union.= Unity, connection, concord, combination, confederacy, alliance; coalition, conjunction; harmony, concert, agreement; league, confederation, consolidation; oneness, juncture, unification.

ANT. _Disconnection, separation, disjunction, disunion, divorce, severance, analysis, dissociation, contrariety, decomposition, division, schism, partition, discord, disagreement, secession, disruption; multiplication, diversification._

=Unique.= Sole, only, unmatched, unequalled, unparalleled, singular, peculiar, exceptional, rare.

ANT. _Common, universal, everyday, commonplace, ordinary, familiar, vulgar, mean._

=Unison.= Harmony, agreement, concord, union, accordance.

ANT. _Discord, variance, disagreement, divergence._

=Unit.= Oneness, unity; one; integral; item, individual.

ANT. _Sum, mass, total, aggregate, whole, collection._

=Unite.= Add, join, attach, annex; combine, connect; agree, harmonize, associate, coalesce; incorporate, consolidate, amalgamate, blend, embody, merge, concur, coöperate, league, confederate.

ANT. _Disjoin, sever, separate, divide, resolve, disconnect; disintegrate, dissociate, sunder, diverge; multiply, split, disrupt._

=Unity.= Oneness, concord, conjunction, agreement, junction, uniformity, harmony, union; singleness, unanimity.

ANT. _Separation, disunion, disconnection, division, disagreement, divorce._

=Universal.= General, unlimited, all-reaching; total, whole, entire; catholic, common; comprehensive, exhaustive, complete.

ANT. _Specific, special, individual, particular, limited, local,

## partial, exclusive, exceptional._

=Up-.= A prefix giving the idea of elevation or an intensive value. Words whose meaning is derived quite simply from that of the root plus that of the prefix are omitted here. Their synonyms and antonyms may be readily formed from those of the root word.

=Upbraid.= Reproach, censure, blame, condemn; taunt, chide, reprove.

ANT. _Approve, commend, praise, eulogize, compliment, applaud._

=Upon.= On; about, concerning; with, immediately after, forthwith.

ANT. _Under, beneath, below; before, after, without._

=Upper.= Higher, superior, on top.

ANT. _Lower, inferior, below, beneath._

=Upright.= Erect, perpendicular, vertical; honest, just, honorable, conscientious, virtuous, good, faithful, true, trustworthy.

ANT. _Inclined, slanted; inverted; unprincipled, dishonest, unscrupulous, corrupt, unconscientious._

=Uproar.= Tumult, disturbance, confusion, bustle, clamor, commotion, turmoil, racket, noise, din.

ANT. _Peace, calm, quiet, silence, order, tranquillity._

=Urbane.= Courteous, polite, refined, suave, elegant; civil, polished.

ANT. _Discourteous, uncivil, unrefined, impolite, rude, boorish._

=Urge.= Animate, instigate, stimulate, encourage, arouse; impel, press, drive; beseech, entreat, importune; goad, spur, incite; hasten, accelerate, expedite.

ANT. _Hold back, hinder, obstruct, prevent, retard, inhibit, restrain; defy, challenge, dare; oppose, object._

=Urgent.= Urging, pressing, importunate, immediate, important, imperative, grave, momentous, serious, cogent, solicitous, critical, emergency, necessitous.

ANT. _Trivial, insignificant, unimportant, immaterial, inconsiderable._

=Usage.= Custom, wont, habit, use; mode, method, manners, behavior; practice, procedure; fashion.

=Use.= Employment, application, occasion, necessity, usefulness, utility; practice, usage, custom, manner, habit; service, advantage; profit, avail, need; benefit.

ANT. _Uselessness, misapplication, superfluousness, worthlessness, disuse, non-observance, desuetude._

=Useful.= Advantageous, profitable, serviceable, beneficial; fruitful, effectual, suitable, effective, adapted, helpful, good, convenient, valuable, available.

ANT. _Useless, profitless, unprofitable, valueless, unserviceable, fruitless, inconducive, ineffectual, unavailing, retarding, hindering, preventive, obstructive, cumbersome, burdensome, unusable._

=Usual.= Familiar, frequent, ordinary, regular, wonted, prevalent, accustomed, common, customary, everyday, general, normal, habitual, prevailing, public.

ANT. _Exceptional, infrequent, extraordinary, strange, uncommon, unparalleled, unusual, out-of-the-way, singular, rare._

=Usurp.= Arrogate, assume, appropriate, seize.

ANT. _Inherit, accept, receive._

=Utility.= Profit, expediency, use, usefulness, avail, benefit, advantage, service, usableness.

ANT. _Futility, inutility, inadequacy, inexpediency, uselessness, folly, impolicy, disadvantage, worthlessness, unprofitableness._

=Utmost.= Farthest, extreme, remotest, last, most distant; uttermost; greatest.

ANT. _Nearest, next; least._

=Utter=, _v._ Issue, deliver, liberate, discharge; circulate, pass; express, publish, disclose, speak, pronounce; promulgate.

ANT. _Suppress, recall, check, stifle, hush, repress; retract, disavow._

=Utter=, _a._ Complete, perfect, total, entire, absolute; peremptory, unconditional, unqualified; thorough.

ANT. _Imperfect, incomplete; conditioned, qualified; partial._

=Utterly.= Fully, totally, thoroughly.

ANT. _Partially, imperfectly, specifically._

V

=Vacancy.= Emptiness; leisure, intermission, idleness; vacuum; chasm, gap; interval; vacuity, space, void.

ANT. _Fulness, plethora, repletion; business, occupation, employment._

=Vacant.= Blank, empty, void, unoccupied, waste, unemployed, untenanted, vacuous, unfilled, devoid, unencumbered, disengaged, idle, uncrowded; inane, silly; free; thoughtless, unreflective; abandoned; inane; leisure; unmeaning.

ANT. _Full, filled, occupied, replenished, diligent, busy, engaged, employed; reflective, thoughtful, meaningful; brimful, busy, crammed, inhabited, packed, replete, brimmed, overflowing, brimming, jammed, gorged, crowded._

=Vacate.= Empty, make vacant, quit, resign, surrender; annul, abrogate, cancel, invalidate, abscind, abolish, overrule, neutralize.

ANT. _Fill, occupy, employ, hold, retain, substantiate._

=Vacation.= Interval, intermission, holidays, rest, leisure.

ANT. _Worktime, term, business._

=Vacillate.= Fluctuate, waver, be unsteady, stagger, reel, sway, rock, hesitate, be inconstant, dubitate.

ANT. _Adhere, abide, determine, be steadfast, stay._

=Vacillation.= Wavering, fluctuating, swaying, reeling, rocking, fluctuation, hesitation, inconstancy, unsteadiness.

ANT. _Steadiness, firmness, inflexibility, determination._

=Vacuity.= Emptiness, vacancy, void, vacuum; inanity, nihility, inanition, unreality; space.

ANT. _Fulness, bulk, matter, substance; occupation, actuality, reality; contents._

=Vagabond.= Wanderer, vagrant, tramp, rascal; outcast, loafer, nomad, idler, beggar, rogue.

ANT. _Worker, laborer._

=Vagary.= Whim, freak, crotchet, whimsicality, caprice, fancy.

ANT. _Purpose, idea, determination, judgment, seriousness, conviction._

=Vagrant=, _a._ Wandering, erratic, unsettled, strolling, itinerant, roving, sauntering, nomadic.

ANT. _Domestic, local, established, resident, abiding, dwelling._

=Vague.= Unsettled, undetermined, indefinite, ambiguous, lax, uncertain, dim, doubtful, obscure, indistinct, unfixed, general, intangible, equivocal, pointless; unwarranted, unauthorized.

ANT. _Determined, limited, strict, specific, pointed, definite, distinct, scientific, settled, clear, fixed, manifest, perspicuous._

=Vain.= Futile, trivial, vapid, visionary, worthless, abortive, unsatisfying, fruitless, empty, deceitful, baseless, delusive, bootless, idle, ineffectual, shadowy, trifling, unserviceable, unsubstantial, profitless, inconstant, unprofitable, null, nugatory, unavailing, unimportant, unreal; showy, useless; conceited, arrogant, ostentatious.

ANT. _Adequate, solid, useful, effective, powerful, worthy, important, sufficient, serviceable, potent, competent, advantageous, beneficial, efficient, expedient, profitable, real, sound, substantial, valid, valuable, essential, cogent, availing, satisfactory, modest._

=Valediction.= Farewell, valedictory, leave-taking, adieu.

ANT. _Salutation, welcome, hail, reception, recognition._

=Valiant.= Strong, powerful, intrepid, courageous, brave, valorous, heroic, gallant, chivalrous, daring, dauntless, bold, fearless, redoubtable, undaunted, stout-hearted.

ANT. _Timid, cowardly, fearful, timorous, recreant, craven._

=Valid.= Sound, good, justified, trustworthy, well-grounded, efficacious, weighty, powerful, efficient, conclusive, logical, solid, cogent, important, grave, substantial, sufficient.

ANT. _Weak, invalid, null, void, unsound, baseless, fallacious, unfounded, untrue; unavailable, inoperative, superseded._

=Validity.= Soundness, justness, efficacy, force, weight, cogency, importance.

ANT. _Weakness, impotency, ineffectiveness, lightness, futility._

=Valor.= Bravery, courage, prowess, intrepidity, heroism, boldness, daring.

ANT. _Timidity, fearfulness, cowardice, pusillanimity._

=Valuable.= Worthy, estimable, costly, precious, expensive, useful, dear, serviceable.

ANT. _Worthless, valueless, cheap, inexpensive, silly, useless, trifling, trivial._

=Value=, _n._ Worth, utility, desirability, importance, power; import, signification; esteem, regard, excellence; price, cost, equivalent.

ANT. _Cheapness, reduction, depreciation._

=Value=, _v._ Compute, esteem, respect, regard; be worth, rate, appraise, estimate; appreciate, prize, treasure, account.

ANT. _Cheapen, reduce, contemn, despise, undervalue, underestimate; disregard, disesteem, misprize._

=Vanish.= Disappear, fade, pass away, dissolve, melt away, be annihilated.

ANT. _Appear, approach, be manifest, loom up, arrive._

=Vanity.= Pride, conceit; unreality, worthlessness, emptiness; hollowness, triviality, futility, unsubstantiality, falsity; egoism, self-sufficiency; show, ostentation.

ANT. _Reality, truth, worth; simplicity; modesty, humility, self-distrust; substance, solidity._

=Vanquish.= Conquer, overcome, subdue, defeat, surmount, confute, silence; subjugate, overthrow, master, foil, discomfit, quell; disprove, confound.

ANT. _Succumb, yield, fail._

=Vapid.= Dead, spiritless, flat, insipid, dull, unanimated; tasteless, stale, tame; languid, prosaic, feeble, prosy.

ANT. _Pungent, spirited, animated, pithy, trenchant._

=Vapor=, _n._ Fume, steam, reek, exhalation, smoke, fog, mist; vagary, phantom, whim, dream, vision; flatulence; fantasy.

ANT. _Inhalation, absorption._

=Variable.= Changeable, fickle, inconstant, mutable, shifting, unsteady, vacillating, wavering, fluctuating, versatile, capricious.

ANT. _Unchanging, immutable, constant, firm, unwavering, steady, invariable, unalterable._

=Variance.= Variation, dissension, disagreement, discord, difference, alteration, strife; hostility, antagonism, discrepancy, estrangement.

ANT. _Harmony, agreement, assimilation, reconciliation, accommodation, peace._

=Variation.= Modification, alteration, mutation, change, diversity, vicissitude, variety, deviation; departure, difference, discrepancy.

ANT. _Fixity, harmony, continuance, uniformity, rule, law, agreement._

=Variegated.= Streaked, dappled, particolored, diversified, varied, checkered, figured, mottled.

ANT. _Unspotted, spotless, speckless._

=Variety.= Diversity, difference, assortment, species, class, multifariousness, medley, miscellany, multiplicity, kind.

ANT. _Type, species, specimen, uniformity._

=Various.= Different, diverse, several, manifold, changeable, uncertain, inconstant, variable, variegated, sundry, diversified.

ANT. _Identical, few, same, uniform, similar, single._

=Varnish=, _v._ Gloss, palliate, conceal, cover, embellish, disguise, lacquer, extenuate, excuse, mitigate, glaze over.

ANT. _Simplify, divest; reveal, bare, manifest._

=Vary.= Alter, change, modify, alternate, diversify, variegate, differ, deviate, depart, be diverse, swerve, disagree, transform, metamorphose.

ANT. _Stereotype, perpetuate; conform, assimilate, harmonize._

=Vast.= Spacious, huge, immense, great, mighty, transcendent, measureless, boundless, colossal, enormous, stupendous, prodigious, gigantic, monstrous, remarkable, extraordinary.

ANT. _Moderate, limited, confined, circumscribed, narrow, close, small._

=Vaticination.= Prediction, divination, prophecy, prognostication, augury.

ANT. _Fulfilment, ratification, realization, verification, accomplishment._

=Vault.= Jump, spring, bound, leap; tumble, turn.

ANT. _Crawl, creep, grovel._

=Vaunt.= Boast, brag, display, show off; advertise, flourish, parade.

ANT. _Conceal, disparage, decry, detract, repress, suppress._

=Veer.= Shift, turn, change, trim, vacillate.

ANT. _Stand, stick, adhere, persist, remain._

=Vegetate.= Sprout, grow, germinate; bask, idle, hibernate.

ANT. _Decay, fade, wither, pine; bustle, energize, work, stir._

=Vehemence.= Impetuosity, violence, fury, frenzy, ardor, fervor, fervency, warmth, zeal, enthusiasm, passion, force, intensity.

ANT. _Passivity, inertia, quiescence, coldness, stoicism, indifference, unconcern, apathy, inattention._

=Vehement.= Raging, hot, ardent, fervid, burning, passionate, eager, violent, impetuous, furious, urgent, mighty, forcible, powerful, sanguine, enthusiastic.

ANT. _Cool, impassive, indifferent, feeble, mild, controlled, subdued, cold, stoical, passionless, weak, inanimate._

=Veil=, _v._ Cover, invest, hide, conceal, screen, mask, shroud, envelop.

ANT. _Expose, disclose, strip, denude, unveil, make manifest._

=Velocity.= Celerity, fleetness, rapidity, speed, swiftness; impetus, momentum.

ANT. _Inertia, sluggishness, inertness; resistance; passivity, languor, inactivity._

=Venal.= Mercenary, hireling, sordid, purchasable, salable, prostitute.

ANT. _Honest, honorable, incorruptible, public-spirited, patriotic, unpurchasable, generous, disinterested._

=Vend.= Barter, trade, sell, hawk, retail.

ANT. _Buy, purchase, bribe, subsidize._

=Venerable.= Worthy, honorable, estimable; dread, awful; sage, wise, grave.

ANT. _Despicable, dishonored; informal, free, intimate, easy; foolish, silly._

=Venerate.= Honor, respect, revere, reverence, adore, admire, worship.

ANT. _Dishonor, disregard, scorn, scoff at, slight, spurn, detest, disdain, despise, contemn, abhor, execrate._

=Veneration.= Reverence, adoration, respect, awe, worship, esteem, dread.

ANT. _Irreverence, loathing, disrespect, contempt, disdain, dishonor, scorn._

=Vengeance.= Punishment, retribution, revenge, retaliation.

ANT. _Forgiveness, pardon, reprieve, indulgence, amnesty, remission, absolution._

=Venial.= Excusable, justifiable, pardonable, slight, trivial.

ANT. _Inexcusable, heinous, unpardonable, flagrant, mortal, infamous, unjustifiable, inexpiable._

=Venom.= Virus, bane, poison; spite, malice, malignity, hate, ill will, maliciousness, rancor, grudge, bitterness, acrimony.

ANT. _Medicine, remedy; benevolence, kindness, good will._

=Venomous.= Poisonous, malignant, noxious, mischievous, virulent, spiteful.

ANT. _Wholesome, remedial, salubrious; kindly, compassionate, genial._

=Vent.= Outlet, escape, emission, utterance, discharge, opening, hole, passage; market, sale.

ANT. _Close, stop-gap, end, termination, obstruction, stoppage._

=Venture=, _n._ Chance, risk, hazard, speculation; accident, contingency; stake, adventure, experiment; luck, hap; danger, jeopardy.

ANT. _Certainty, surety, security, inevitableness, assurance; safety, protection; law, method; caution, calculation._

=Venture=, _v._ Dare, hazard, adventure, risk, jeopardize, imperil, chance.

ANT. _Calculate, warrant, secure, guarantee, protect._

=Venturesome.= Bold, daring, adventurous, hardy, courageous, intrepid, enterprising, doughty, fearless.

ANT. _Fearsome, timid, reluctant, averse, loath, unwilling._

=Venturous.= Bold, daring, fearless, venturesome.

ANT. _Timid, fearful, diffident, shy._

=Veracious.= True, truthful, reliable, trustworthy, straightforward, honest, credible.

ANT. _False, deceitful, mendacious, lying, dishonest, perfidious._

=Veracity.= Honesty, truthfulness, reality, candor, truth, ingenuousness, frankness, verity, exactness, correctness, accuracy.

ANT. _Deception, duplicity, falsehood, fiction, guile, mendacity, untruth, lie, delusion, fabrication, deceit, error, falseness, falsity, imposture._

=Verbal.= Spoken, oral, literal, parole, vocal, unwritten, unrecorded.

ANT. _Written, recorded, epistolary, documentary._

=Verbose.= Wordy, prolix, diffuse, prosy, tedious.

ANT. _Laconic, terse, concise, succinct, curt._

=Verdict.= Decision, judgment, opinion, pronouncement, finding, sentence.

ANT. _Indecision, indetermination._

=Verge=, _n._ Border, limit, boundary, edge, margin, brink; circumference, circle, ring; rim, brim, confine, skirt.

ANT. _Center, midst, heart, depth._

=Verge=, _v._ Tend, incline, slope, lean, trend, bear, border, approach, approximate.

ANT. _Deviate, recede, revert, return, depart, retrocede._

=Verify.= Prove, correct, establish, confirm, authenticate, affirm; corroborate, attest, substantiate; fulfil, demonstrate, warrant.

ANT. _Falsify, misrepresent, subvert, misstate, fail, disestablish, mistake._

=Verisimilitude.= Likelihood, probability, consistency.

ANT. _Improbability, inconsistency, unlikelihood._

=Veritable.= Actual, real, genuine, true; positive, absolute; original, authentic.

ANT. _False, fictitious, sham, spurious, untrue, feigned, supposititious._

=Verity.= Fact, truth, reality, actuality, existence, truthfulness.

ANT. _Falsity, unreality, delusion, fancy, dream, conjecture, hypothesis._

=Vernal.= Spring, balmy, genial, youthful.

ANT. _Wintry, aged, autumnal, decadent, brumal, harsh, cutting._

=Versatile.= Changeable, inconsistent, variable, many-sided, capricious, erratic, fickle, unstable; mobile, plastic, ready.

ANT. _Fixed, uniform, one-sided, immobile, immutable, unvaried._

=Versed.= Experienced, studied, practiced, skilled, acquainted, conversant, proficient, familiar, clever, indoctrinated.

ANT. _Unskilled, ignorant, unpracticed, untaught, uninitiated._

=Version.= Account, description, translation, rendering, interpretation, reading; statement.

ANT. _Text, problem, difficulty; misinterpretation._

=Vertical.= Perpendicular, plumb, upright.

ANT. _Inclined, slanting, sloping._

=Vestige.= Trace, mark, footstep, track, sign, remains, trail, token, remnant, record.

ANT. _Misindication; obliteration, effacement._

=Veteran.= Old soldier; expert, adept, proficient; habitué.

ANT. _Novice, recruit, tyro._

=Veto.= Prohibit, forbid, negative, withhold assent to.

ANT. _Pass, approve, assent to, promulgate, endorse._

=Vex.= Agitate, disquiet, harass, afflict, tease, weary, jade; torment, worry, hector, distress, annoy, trouble, perplex, bother, persecute, fret, irritate, offend, provoke, affront, disturb, tantalize.

ANT. _Please, soothe, quiet, allay, appease._

=Vexation.= Chagrin, agitation, mortification, uneasiness, grief, trouble, sorrow, distress, irritation, displeasure, affliction, plague, torment.

ANT. _Pleasure, enjoyment, gratification, satisfaction._

=Vibrate.= Swing, oscillate, fluctuate, quiver, waver, undulate, quake.

ANT. _Rest, be still._

=Vice.= Crime, sin, fault, iniquity; defect, error, blemish, imperfection, immorality, depravity, wickedness; evil, corruption.

ANT. _Virtue, goodness, perfection, righteousness, nobility, honor._

=Vicinity.= Neighborhood, vicinage, nearness, proximity, propinquity.

ANT. _Distance, remoteness, separation, removal._

=Vicious.= Faulty, wicked, corrupt, depraved; foul, noxious, defective, unruly, refractory, spiteful, malignant, mischievous, immoral.

ANT. _Virtuous, pure, good, upright, noble, moral, perfect._

=Vicissitude.= Change, alternation, mutation, interchange, variation, revolution.

ANT. _Fixity, changelessness, stability, perpetuity, immutability._

=Victorious.= Conquering, triumphant, winning, successful, exultant, elated, boastful, vanquishing, subduing, prevailing, overcoming, mastering, subjugating.

ANT. _Defeated, worsted, humiliated, beaten, baffled, discomfited, conquered, overcome, vanquished, routed, repulsed, foiled, disconcerted._

=Victory.= Success, supremacy, triumph, achievement, advantage, conquest, mastery.

ANT. _Defeat, disaster, destruction, overthrow, miscarriage, retreat, rout, failure, disappointment, frustration._

=Victuals.= Food, provisions, viands, sustenance, meat.

=View=, _n._ Sight, look, survey, inspection; perception, examination; reach, range; scene, prospect; sketch; conception, judgment, opinion; object, aim, purpose, design; vista, perspective; picture, intention, scope, drift; estimate; apprehension.

ANT. _Blindness, darkness, obscuration, mistiness; prejudice, misconception, misrepresentation, deception, error, delusion, aimlessness, non-intention, occultation._

=View=, _v._ See, behold, look at, survey, examine, inspect, explore, consider, contemplate, regard, scan, witness, study, reflect upon, reconnoiter.

ANT. _Overlook, neglect, pass by, miss, slight, ignore; misestimate, misjudge._

=Vigilance.= Sleeplessness, wakefulness, watchfulness, circumspection, attentiveness, wariness, cautiousness, caution, activity, lookout, alertness, observation.

ANT. _Torpor, dulness, inattention, somnolence, carelessness, drowsiness, indifference, apathy._

=Vigilant.= Alert, awake, careful, on the alert, on the lookout, wary, watchful, wakeful, wide-awake, sleepless, cautious, circumspect.

ANT. _Negligent, thoughtless, unwary, oblivious, drowsy, inattentive, careless, dull, heedless, inconsiderate, neglectful, incautious._

=Vigorous.= Full of vigor, strong, lusty, robust; forcible, energetic, powerful, sturdy, hearty, thrifty, flourishing, spirited, lively.

ANT. _Weak, impotent, incapacitated, feeble, inactive, debilitated, powerless, effete, enervated, indolent._

=Vile.= Low, base, worthless, despicable, mean, depraved, impure, sinful, wicked, bad, dishonorable, ignoble, degraded, sordid, infamous, low-minded.

ANT. _Noble, exalted, honorable, upright, estimable, great, worthy, eminent, liberal, free, generous, superior, dignified, sublime, stately._

=Villain.= Scoundrel, knave, rascal, scamp, ruffian, rogue; malefactor.

ANT. _Gentleman, man of refinement, polish, delicacy, and honor._

=Villainous.= Base, vile, mean, depraved; sorry, mischievous, infamous, knavish; heinous, sinful, outrageous, atrocious.

ANT. _Gentlemanly, noble, refined, honorable, worthy, upright._

=Vindicate.= Maintain, defend, justify; assert, protest, pronounce, declare, asseverate; uphold, claim, substantiate, support, advocate.

ANT. _Surrender, yield, give up, resign; abandon, forego, waive; destroy, annul, vitiate; accuse, charge, impute, tax, slur._

=Vindictive.= Revengeful, unforgiving, implacable, spiteful, unrelenting, malicious.

ANT. _Forgiving, generous, merciful, long-suffering, magnanimous._

=Violate.= Injure, disturb, interrupt, transgress, desecrate, debauch, dishonor, outrage, profane, abuse, infringe, ravish.

ANT. _Respect, protect, reverence, honor, value, prize, foster, shelter._

=Violence.= Vehemence, impetuosity, fierceness, force, violation, infraction, infringement, transgression, profanation, assault, outrage.

ANT. _Preservation, defense, protection; mildness, self-control, gentleness, respect, obedience, conservation._

=Violent.= Fierce, vehement, outrageous, boisterous, turbulent, impetuous, passionate, severe, extreme.

ANT. _Sane, sober, calm, collected, unruffled, composed, cool._

=Virgin=, _n._ Maid, maiden, girl, damsel.

ANT. _Wife, mother, married woman; prostitute, whore._

=Virgin=, _a._ Chaste, maidenly, modest; pure, undefiled, fresh, new.

ANT. _Married, matronly, motherly; defiled, polluted._

=Virile.= Mature, masculine; masterful, forceful; robust, vigorous.

ANT. _Feminine; feeble, effeminate, puerile, emasculate._

=Virtual.= Potential, efficacious, energizing, implicit, indirect, practical, essential, equivalent.

ANT. _Stated, direct, definite, expressed, explicit, emphatic, categorical._

=Virtue.= Energy, strength, potency, efficacy; value, merit, excellence; worth, meritoriousness; integrity, purity, virginity, chastity; goodness, morality, uprightness, rectitude, probity, righteousness; force, power, capacity; honor, worthiness, honesty, truth, duty, virtuousness, faithfulness, justice.

ANT. _Inability, weakness, impotency, inefficacy; badness, corruption, impurity, unchastity, depravity, wickedness, laxity, dishonesty._

=Virtuous.= Excellent, upright, righteous, pure, chaste; good, honest, exemplary, blameless, worthy, modest.

ANT. _Wicked, bad, wrong, unrighteous, impure, dishonest, worthless, immodest, blameworthy._

=Virulence.= Malignancy, virus, contagion, poison, venom; bitterness, malevolence, acrimony.

ANT. _Mildness, blandness, salubriousness, abatement, assuagement; potency; benevolence, virtue._

=Visible.= Perceptible, noticeable, apparent, open, conspicuous, obvious, manifest, evident, clear, plain, observable, palpable, discernible.

ANT. _Invisible, unseen, imperceptible, concealed, eclipsed, indistinguishable, impalpable, microscopic, indiscernible._

=Vision.= Sight; apparition, creation, phantom, fancy, specter, appearance, chimera, illusion, phantasm.

ANT. _Material, substance; reality, fact, actuality._

=Visionary.= Fanciful, fantastic, unreal, imaginary, ideal, chimerical, fantastical, wild, whimsical, capricious, illusory, romantic, shadowy, dreamy, unsubstantial, fabulous.

ANT. _Actual, real, true, substantial, genuine, palpable, authentic, veritable._

=Vital.= Living; mortal; important, necessary, essential; animate; indispensable, material, paramount.

ANT. _Mortal, lifeless, inanimate, secondary, separable, unessential, unimportant, immaterial._

=Vitiate.= Impair, contaminate, annul, spoil, void, destroy, injure; cause to deteriorate, taint; invalidate.

ANT. _Adhere to, corroborate, support, confirm, substantiate, justify, sanction, vindicate; refresh, improve, remedy._

=Vivacious.= Animated, sportive, gay, jocund, light-hearted; merry, sprightly; brisk, frolicsome, spirited, cheerful, mirthful.

ANT. _Inanimate, dead, lifeless, spiritless, heavy, somber, melancholy, mournful, sad, inert, dull, stolid._

=Vivid.= Clear, lucid, striking, active, lively, quick; fresh, intense, animated, bright, strong, spirited, sprightly; brilliant, lustrous, radiant, glowing, scintillant, sunny.

ANT. _Dull, opaque, lurid, obscure, rayless, somber, cloudy, dark, colorless, dim, pale, wan, dusky, non-luminous._

=Vocation.= Call, summons, citation; business, profession, employment, calling, occupation, trade; function, mission, office.

ANT. _Leisure, non-employment; avocation, hobby._

=Vogue.= Mode, custom, way, use, fashion, practice, usage.

ANT. _Disfavor, desuetude, disuse, unfashionableness, abolition._

=Voice=, _n._ Sound, utterance, tone; language, words, speech, judgment, expression, vote; command, precept; opinion.

ANT. _Dumbness, silence, inexpression, muteness, inarticulation, obtumescence._

=Void=, _a._ Empty, vacant, devoid, wanting, ineffectual, destitute, lacking; unoccupied, unused, unfilled; null, invalid, nugatory; vain, unreal, imaginary, unsubstantial.

ANT. _Occupied, solid, substantial, possessed, endued; effectual, valid, operative, good, efficacious, furnished._

=Volatile.= Light-hearted, airy; changeable, fickle; lively, evaporating, vaporable, vivacious, buoyant, jocund; inconstant, flighty, whimsical, capricious, unsteady, reckless.

ANT. _Fixed, steady, established, determined, solid, settled; persistent, resolute; involatile; somber, demure._

=Volition.= Will, choice, preference, determination, purpose; discretion, free will, election, deliberation.

ANT. _Necessity, force, predestination, fate, coercion, foreordination._

=Voluble.= Rotating; nimble, glib; active; fluent, loquacious, talkative, rapid, running, coursing.

ANT. _Direct; slow, deliberate, hesitating, stuttering, torpid, stammering, creeping, lazy._

=Volume.= Book, tome; convolution, coil; dimension, mass, capacity, bulk, size.

ANT. _Minuteness, smallness._

=Voluntary.= Spontaneous, willing, uncompelled; free, impulsive; unconstrained, deliberate, intentional, optional, gratuitous, by choice; discretional.

ANT. _Coerced, forced, involuntary, compulsory, necessitated, constrained._

=Volunteer=, _v._ Offer, bestow, or act freely, proffer, tender, present.

ANT. _Levy, draft, requisition, request, demand, suborn, confiscate._

=Voluptuous.= Sensual, sensuous, epicurean, luxurious, pleasurable, licentious, self-indulgent.

ANT. _Self-sacrificing, abstinent, ascetic, self-denying, austere, puritanical, renunciatory._

=Voracious.= Hungry, greedy, rapacious, eager, ravenous, gluttonous, insatiate, omnivorous.

ANT. _Fastidious, dainty, refined, delicate, nice._

=Vouch.= Declare, affirm, attest, support, asseverate, aver, protest, assure, promise, warrant, guarantee.

ANT. _Repudiate, abjure, renounce, protest against, demur, decline, abnegate._

=Vouchsafe.= Grant, concede, bestow; condescend, deign, stoop, descend, yield.

ANT. _Deny, refuse, withhold._

=Vow=, _n._ Promise, pledge; oath, asseveration.

=Vow=, _v._ Devote, promise, consecrate, dedicate; assert, asseverate, swear.

ANT. _Release, absolve, free; pollute, defile, profane._

=Vulgar.= Common, general, ordinary, public; vernacular; plebeian; popular; rustic, boorish, low, coarse, base, underbred.

ANT. _Noble, aristocratic, patrician, high-born, refined, polite, high-bred, stylish, select, choice, cultivated; strict, scientific, philosophical, technical, accurate._

=Vulnerable.= Susceptible, liable, subject, assailable, weak, tender, exposed.

ANT. _Impregnable, unassailable, unexposed, concealed, fortified, defended._

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=Waft.= Bear, convey, transmit, carry, transport, make to float on waves (_of air or water_).

ANT. _Sink, weigh down, depress._

=Wages.= Salary, stipend, allowance, remuneration, fruit, hire, pay, compensation; earnings; reward, emolument.

ANT. _Gratuity, bonus, premium, grace, douceur, gift, boon._

=Wait.= Stay, tarry, delay, stop, abide, remain, linger; rest; expect, watch, await, look for.

ANT. _Hasten, hurry, speed, press on; go, depart._

=Waive.= Relinquish, forbear, refuse, forego; throw away, cast off, reject, desert; abandon, remit, quit claim, cancel, drop, renounce, surrender.

ANT. _Urge, assert, press, enforce, claim, defend, vindicate._

=Wake.= Be awake, watch; excite, arouse, stir; reanimate, revive; call, evoke, summon, provoke.

ANT. _Soothe, hush, tranquilize, quiet; mesmerize; allay, appease, calm._

=Wakeful.= Vigilant, awake, sleepless; watchful, observant, wary.

ANT. _Drowsy, sleepy; heedless, careless, incautious, unwary._

=Walk.= Move on foot, proceed; be stirring, be abroad; behave, pursue, conduct one’s self; perambulate, pass, traverse; step, stride, march, stalk, tramp, plod, trudge, tread.

ANT. _Halt, stop, stand still; ride, drive._

=Wan.= Pale, sickly, languid, pallid; ashen, colorless, haggard, cadaverous; livid, bloodless.

ANT. _Fresh-colored, bright, rosy, lively, sanguine, incarnadine._

=Wander.= Straggle, stroll, range; turn aside; be delirious, rave; be crazed; expatiate; depart, saunter; navigate, travel; deviate, diverge, err, ramble, go astray, rove, stray, veer, roam, swerve, digress.

ANT. _Remain, stay, settle, rest, stop, pause, moor, anchor, perch, bivouac, halt, alight, repose._

=Wane.= Be diminished, decrease; decline, fail, sink; fade, pale; ebb; pine, droop, deteriorate, attenuate, contract, recede.

ANT. _Wax, increase, rally, improve, brighten, expand, develop, advance._

=Want=, _n._ Defect, failure, dearth, indigence, absence, scarcity, deficiency, lack; destitution, poverty, need, shortness, insufficiency, scantiness.

ANT. _Supply, sufficiency, allowance, provision, abundance, production, adequacy, supplement._

=Ward=, _n._ Watch, guardianship, guard; garrison, defender, protector; defense, protection; custody; keeper, guardian, warden; pupil, minor; division; apartment.

=Ward=, _v._ Watch, guard; defend, protect; repel, turn aside; be vigilant; keep guard, avert, repel, parry, fend.

ANT. _Betray, surrender, admit._

=Warfare.= Hostilities, war; contest, struggle; strife, discord; belligerence, antagonism; campaign, battle, skirmish, engagement.

ANT. _Peace, truce, armistice; amity, pacification; neutrality; reconciliation; tranquillity, friendliness, harmony, order, quiet, concord._

=Warlike.= Military, martial, hostile, soldierly, inimical, bellicose, unfriendly, belligerent.

ANT. _Peaceful, civil, unmilitary, friendly, pacific, amicable._

=Warm.= Ardent, zealous, fervent, cordial, hot, glowing; violent, vehement, furious, excited, passionate; warm-blooded, warm-hearted; sunny, mild, genial, pleasant; close, oppressive; fervid, earnest, eager, enthusiastic, hearty; lively, interested; irascible.

ANT. _Cool, cold; dispassionate, collected, composed, calm, unruffled, placid, sedate, quiet, staid; unconcerned, frigid, apathetic, chilling; repellent._

=Warmth.= Fervency, glow, earnestness, cordiality, animation, eagerness, excitement, vehemence; interest, zeal, ardor, enthusiasm, passion, fervor, heat, intensity, spirit; emotion, life.

ANT. _Coolness, calmness, indifference, frigidity, torpidity, apathy, impassiveness; calm, chill, obtuseness, frost, iciness._

=Warn.= Make ware, notify, admonish, caution; advise, mention to, inform, apprise; dissuade, deter, alarm, premonish.

ANT. _Encourage, embolden, inspirit, hearten, induce, instigate, prompt, impel._

=Warrant=, _n._ Guaranty, security, voucher; commission, credentials.

=Warrant=, _v._ Secure, guarantee, support, justify, sanction, assure; empower, engage, undertake, authorize.

ANT. _Invalidate, nullify, repudiate, cancel, make void; endanger, imperil._

=Wary.= Circumspect, watchful, cautious, vigilant, prudent, discreet, heedful, thoughtful, careful, guarded, scrupulous, chary.

ANT. _Unsuspecting, unwary, incautious, negligent, heedless, inattentive, indifferent, remiss._

=Wash=, _v._ Cleanse, wet, scrub, moisten, bathe, lave; overflow, fall on; waste, abrade; stain, tint, color; overlay, cover; cleanse, rinse.

ANT. _Soil, stain, pollute, defile, contaminate, bemire._

=Waste=, _n._ Squandering, devastation, loss, decrease; void, desert, wilderness; refuse; prodigality, diminution, dissipation, destruction, havoc, desolation, ravage; solitude, expanse; consumption, expenditure, extravagance.

ANT. _Restoration, renovation, reimbursement, renewal, recovery, restitution, reparation; accumulation, frugality, economy, thrift, hoard, store, accretion._

=Waste=, _v._ Squander, dissipate, lavish, desolate; ruin, devastate, destroy; wear away, impair, use up, consume, spend; damage, injure.

ANT. _Restore, renovate, repair, renew; develop, multiply, augment; economize, hoard, accumulate, treasure, husband, protect._

=Waste=, _a._ Desolate, devastated, stripped, bare, dreary, dismal, gloomy, cheerless; worthless, valueless, refuse, rejected, unused, superfluous.

ANT. _Populated, occupied, cheerful, lively; valuable, useful, essential, necessary._

=Wasteful.= Destructive, ruinous; lavish, prodigal, profuse, extravagant.

ANT. _Careful, economical, frugal, protective._

=Watch=, _v._ Be awake, keep vigil, be on guard, tend; heed, observe, expect.

ANT. _Sleep, drowse, slumber; be careless, neglect, overlook._

=Watchful.= Circumspect, wakeful, heedful; vigilant, awake, attentive, wary, cautious, observant.

ANT. _Drowsy, slumbrous, inobservant, careless, heedless, inattentive, unwary, incautious, remiss, distracted, inadvertent._

=Waver.= Reel, totter, vacillate, fluctuate, hesitate, dubitate, be undetermined, alternate, be perplexed, scruple.

ANT. _Decide, choose, settle, determine, dispose of, be steadfast._

=Wavering=, _n._ Fluctuation, hesitancy, indecision, vacillation; uncertainty, irresolution.

ANT. _Decision, determination, resolution, promptness._

=Way.= Path, road, route, street, track, alley, avenue, channel, course, highway, pathway, highroad, driveway, lane, pass, passageway, passage, thoroughfare, roadway; distance, interval; motion, progression, journey; means, scheme, device, plan; manner, method, mode, fashion, style; practice, habit, habitude, custom, wont.

ANT. _Deviation, error, discursion; deflection, divergence, rambling, wandering; exception, variation._

=Wayward.= Disobedient, headstrong, froward, perverse, wilful, obstinate, stubborn, unruly, capricious, contrary.

ANT. _Amenable, docile, manageable, compliant, obedient._

=Weak.= Feeble, infirm, sickly, exhausted, unable; deficient; soft, pliant, frail; low, faint; spiritless; foolish, wavering, lacking; debilitated, unsound, invalid, fragile, delicate, tender; exposed, unguarded, defenseless; pliable, irresolute; simple, silly, witless, shallow, imbecile, childish; injudicious, unwise; insipid, tasteless, thin, diluted, watery; imprudent, indiscreet, erring; flimsy, slight, frivolous; unsafe, unsubstantial, untrustworthy; ineffectual.

ANT. _Strong, sturdy, vigorous, hardy, robust, powerful; sound, hale, healthy, stout, able; efficient, capable, potent, mighty; firm, compact, secure, impregnable; forcible, intense, energetic; biting, sharp, racy, pungent; rank; tough, tenacious, cohesive, resisting; strenuous, ardent, eager, zealous, hearty; vivid, brilliant; solid, substantial; valid, confirmed, binding._

=Weaken.= Debilitate, enfeeble, enervate; invalidate; depress, impair, reduce, lower, sap, dilute, attenuate.

ANT. _Strengthen, empower, invigorate; confirm, corroborate, substantiate; augment, increase, mend, improve; enhance._

=Weakness.= Feebleness, debility, languor, imbecility, infirmity, decrepitude, faintness, frailty.

ANT. _Strength, vigor, tone, health, power, efficiency, nerve, spirit._

=Wealth.= Riches, affluence, opulence, abundance, plenty, fortune, competence, estate, treasure, money, funds, cash, property; luxury, satiety.

ANT. _Poverty, scarcity, indigence, lack, want, need, impecuniosity._

=Wear.= Carry, bear, have on; use up; impair, waste, diminish, consume; last; don, exhibit, sport.

ANT. _Doff, abandon; renew, renovate, repair; increase, augment, swell._

=Weariness.= Fatigue, languor, exhaustion, lassitude, prostration, depression.

ANT. _Strength, vigor, force, energy, restedness._

=Wearisome.= Tiresome, tedious, irksome, vexatious, fatiguing; trying, wearing; prosy, monotonous, annoying, uninteresting; toilsome, laborious.

ANT. _Easy, pleasing, comfortable; invigorating; facile; interesting, exciting, fascinating, delightful, amusing, stirring._

=Weary=, _a._ Fatigued, tiresome, irksome, wearisome; tired, sick, exhausted.

ANT. _Energetic, strong, refreshed, invigorated; pleased, interested._

=Weave.= Interlace, unite; compose, fabricate; intwine, plait, braid, plat.

ANT. _Disentangle, unravel, untwist, disunite, untwine; extricate, simplify._

=Wed.= Marry, espouse; unite, attach.

ANT. _Separate, divorce._

=Wedding.= Marriage, bridal, espousals, nuptials, nuptial ceremony.

ANT. _Celibacy, bachelorhood, virginity._

=Wedlock.= Marriage, matrimony, nuptial state.

ANT. _Celibacy, bachelorhood, virginity._

=Weep.= Cry, shed tears, lament, complain; drip, be soaked; sob, bewail, bemoan; droop.

ANT. _Laugh, smile; rejoice, be cheerful, enjoy._

=Weight.= Heaviness; pressure, burden; importance, influence, consequence, moment; ponderousness, gravity, load, power; efficacy, impressiveness.

ANT. _Lightness, levity, volatility; insignificance, triviality, weakness, inefficacy, worthlessness; portableness, ease, facility._

=Weighty.= Heavy, ponderous, burdensome, onerous; forcible, momentous; efficacious, impressive, cogent.

ANT. _Easy, light, unencumbered; active, swift; slight, unimportant; frivolous, volatile, unsettled, giddy._

=Welcome=, _n._ Greeting, salutation, reception.

ANT. _Farewell, adieu, parting, good-by, leave-taking; repulse, repudiation._

=Welcome=, _a._ Grateful, pleasing, gladly entertained, acceptable, agreeable, gratifying; gratuitous, free.

ANT. _Unwelcome, unpleasant, disagreeable, unacceptable._

=Welfare.= Prosperity, happiness, well-being, enjoyment, success, weal, advantage, benefit, profit, luck, thrift.

ANT. _Adversity, misfortune, reverses, failure, ill luck, unhappiness._

=Well=, _a._ Good, desirable, fortunate, advantageous; healthy; favored, lucky; hale, sound.

ANT. _Ill, sickly, diseased, unwell, poorly; unlucky, unfortunate._

=Well=, _adv._ Justly, rightly, abundantly, fully, adequately, thoroughly, satisfactorily, advantageously, conveniently, properly.

ANT. _Ill, wrongly, poorly, imperfectly, improperly, badly._

=Wet.= Damp, moist, rainy, humid; nasty; dank; showery; lively, interesting.

ANT. _Dry, parched, thirsty, arid; plain, unvarnished; shrewd, sharp, quaint._

=Wheedle.= Cajole, flatter, entice, coax, inveigle, fawn upon.

ANT. _Deter, undeceive, detract, decry; chide, scold, rebuke, blame._

=Whereas.= Since, considering; when in fact, while, although; seeing that; inasmuch as.

=Whimsical.= Capricious, fanciful, queer, strange, freakish, quaint, fantastic.

ANT. _Staid, serious, sober, matter-of-fact, steady, sedate._

=White.= Snowy, pale, pallid; unblemished, innocent, pure; gray, hoary; fortunate, happy, favorable.

ANT. _Black, dark, colorless, negro, sooty, coallike; dismal, gloomy, forbidding, threatening, sullen, foreboding; impure, sullied._

=Whole.= All, total, complete, entire, undivided, uninjured, unbroken; unimpaired, integral; sound, perfect, faultless, strong, well, healthy.

ANT. _Partial, imperfect, unsound, ill, sick; divided, fractional._

=Wholesome.= Salubrious, salutary, healthy, healthful, nourishing, nutritious, strengthening, invigorating; beneficial, good; fresh, sound, uncorrupt.

ANT. _Detrimental, deleterious, prejudicial, hurtful, pernicious, noxious._

=Wholly.= Entirely, completely, perfectly, totally, fully, altogether, utterly.

ANT. _Partially, imperfectly, incompletely, separately, in part._

=Wicked.= Sinful, criminal, guilty, immoral, ungodly, profane, unrighteous, atrocious, unholy, vicious, nefarious, heinous, abandoned, iniquitous, depraved, unprincipled, irreverent, vile, abandoned, bad, evil, unjust, ill, outrageous, monstrous, villainous.

ANT. _Good, righteous, just, godly, virtuous, fair, honorable, unsullied, pious, benevolent, upright, reputable, true, excellent._

=Wickedness.= Crime, sin, vice, iniquity, evil, depravity, immorality, enormity; badness, vileness, corruption.

ANT. _Goodness, piety, godliness, righteousness, honor, virtue, benevolence._

=Wide.= Broad, spacious, vast, extensive, comprehensive, liberal; remote, distant, far; ample, expanded.

ANT. _Narrow, contracted, confined, cramped, constricted, limited; bigoted, parsimonious; close, near._

=Wife.= Married woman, consort, spouse, helpmate.

ANT. _Sweetheart, maiden; widow._

=Wild=, _a._ Untamed, uncultivated, undomesticated; savage, uncivilized, rude, ferocious; violent, turbulent; disorderly, crazy, ungoverned; visionary; unsheltered, exposed.

ANT. _Tame, domesticated, cultivated, civilized; populated, frequented; polite, gentle, refined; rational, orderly, sane, controlled, sober, collected._

=Wile.= Trick, snare, artifice, beguilement, allurement, stratagem, cheat, fraud, imposture, deceit, deception, contrivance, device.

ANT. _Artlessness, openness, candor, straightforwardness._

=Wilful.= Self-determined, voluntary; obstinate, perverse, stubborn, refractory; self-willed, headstrong; wayward; intentional, prepense, preconceived, premeditated, designed, deliberate, purposed.

ANT. _Concessive, compliant, amenable, obedient, docile, manageable; adventitious, accidental._

=Will=, _n._ Choice, determination, preference, volition; decree, desire, command, purpose; control, disposal; testament; resolution, decision, self-reliance, force; inclination, pleasure, disposition; behest, order, direction.

ANT. _Indecision, vacillation, indeterminateness, indifference; sensibility, perception._

=Will=, _v._ Bequeath, devise, direct; choose, decide, determine, decree; wish, desire, incline to have; be willing.

ANT. _Die intestate; be indifferent._

=Willing.= Inclined, consenting, ready, complying; chosen, desired; disposed, minded, desirous; voluntary.

ANT. _Loath, disinclined, reluctant, averse, backward._

=Win.= Gain, get, procure, earn; be victorious, prevail; obtain; acquire, achieve; conquer; succeed, accomplish.

ANT. _Lose, fail of, miss, forfeit, be deprived or bereaved of._

=Wind=, _v._ Coil, twine, wreathe, twist, turn; enfold, encircle; direct; insinuate.

ANT. _Straighten, unravel, untwist._

=Winding.= Twisting, circuitous, bending, curving, meandering, flexuous, serpentine, sinuous.

ANT. _Straight, rectilinear, direct, undeviating, unswerving._

=Winning.= Charming, attractive, alluring, pleasing, bewitching, winsome, fascinating, delightful, lovely, captivating, prepossessing, enchanting.

ANT. _Repulsive, unpleasing, repellent, disagreeable, offensive, repugnant, revolting, disgusting, odious._

=Wisdom.= Judgment, prudence, reason, understanding, sense, skill, sagacity, attainment, discernment, depth, discretion, information, foresight, learning, profundity, reasonableness, prescience, knowledge, insight, judiciousness, erudition, enlightenment.

ANT. _Folly, imbecility, stupidity, error, foolishness, fatuity, idiocy, absurdity, imprudence, indiscretion, miscalculation, nonsense, misjudgment, silliness, senselessness._

=Wise.= Knowing, erudite, wary, learned, sagacious; crafty; judicious, discreet; skilled, intelligent, rational; sage, sensible; logical; deep, discerning, profound, philosophical.

ANT. _Senseless, idiotic, irrational; nonsensical, imprudent, irrational, indiscreet, ridiculous, preposterous, insensate._

=Wish=, _v._ Long for, hanker after, desire; invoke, imprecate.

ANT. _Despise, dislike; disrelish, be averse to, displease._

=Wit.= Ingenuity, humor, satire, sarcasm, irony, burlesque; intellect, mind, understanding, sense; man of genius or humor; penetration, discernment, insight, acumen; facetiousness, drollery, waggery, jocularity, sparkle, repartee, joke, playfulness, fun, witticism, pleasantry, banter, jest, raillery.

ANT. _Stupidity, inanity, obtuseness, vapidity, dulness, commonplace, matter-of-fact; irrationality, platitude; dolt, dullard; sobriety, solemnity, seriousness, gravity, stolidity._

=Witchcraft.= Sorcery, enchantment, magic, necromancy, conjuration, incantation, charm, spell, thaumaturgy.

=Witchery.= Sorcery, witchcraft; fascination, enchantment, spell, entrancement, ravishment.

ANT. _Reality, actuality, disillusionment, bald facts._

=With.= By, on the side of, by the help of; attending, accompanying, close; against; according to; in contrast with; upon, immediately after.

=Withdraw.= Take back, recall, retire; draw back, remove; recede, depart.

ANT. _Offer, afford; produce; repeat, reiterate, confirm; renew; furnish, propose, give._

=Withhold.= Hold back, restrain, impede, hamper; retain, refuse; suppress, check, rein in, inhibit, stint, forbear; detain.

ANT. _Let go, give, bestow, confer; admit, yield; furnish, allow, provide, permit; encourage, embolden, cheer, hearten, animate._

=Within=, _a._ Inside, inwardly, internally, indoors, in the limits of.

ANT. _Without, outside, outwardly, externally, outdoors._

=Without=, _prep._ Out of, beyond, out of the limits of, in the absence of, in separation from; independently of; exclusive of, omitting.

ANT. _Within, inside of, in the limits of, including, embracing._

=Without=, _conj._ Unless, except.

=Withstand.= Oppose, resist, confront, thwart, combat, prevent, contradict.

ANT. _Concede, grant, assist, submit, acquiesce, abet, countenance, encourage, support._

=Witness=, _n._ Attestation, testimony, evidence, proof; one who attests or is directly cognizant of; eye-witness; deponent, corroborator; spectator, auditor, voucher.

ANT. _Belief, hearsay, rumor, report; invalidation, refutation._

=Witty.= Acute, sharp, smart, facetious, arch, keen, amusing, humorous, satirical, taunting, ironical.

ANT. _Dull, stupid, obtuse, dry, prosaic, prosy, tiresome, tedious, serious._

=Woe.= Grief, sorrow, misery, calamity; curse, malediction; disconsolateness, tribulation, melancholy, agony, depression, unhappiness.

ANT. _Joy, delight, pleasure, prosperity, enjoyment, bliss, felicity, welfare, cheerfulness, merriment._

=Woful.= Sorrowful, distressed, wretched, afflicted, unhappy, sad; paltry, poor, piteous, disconsolate, miserable, burdened, troubled.

ANT. _Joyous, light-hearted, cheerful, merry, rejoiced, glad, delighted, gay, blessed._

=Womanhood.= Muliebrity, maturity in woman, feminality; womanliness; woman, womankind.

ANT. _Manhood, manliness, masculinity; man, mankind._

=Womanish.= Effeminate, weak, foolishly feminine.

ANT. _Mannish, aping a man, foolishly masculine._

=Womanly.= Becoming a woman, feminine, delicate, refined.

ANT. _Manly, strong, virile, becoming a man._

=Wonder=, _n._ Astonishment, admiration, amazement, surprise, awe, bewilderment, curiosity; portent, miracle, prodigy, marvel; phenomenon, sight, rarity, spectacle.

ANT. _Expectation, anticipation; familiarity, apathy, indifference; foreknowledge, prescience; ennui; satiety; platitude, truism, commonplace._

=Wonderful.= Amazing, astonishing, marvelous, surprising, improbable, strange, incredulous; startling, awesome, portentous, extraordinary, prodigious, wondrous.

ANT. _Commonplace, familiar, expected, ordinary, wonted, hackneyed, customary, habitual._

=Wonted.= Accustomed, usual, habitual, customary, habituated, used, conventional, regular, frequent, common.

ANT. _Exceptional, unusual, unused, unconventional, infrequent, irregular._

=Wood.= Forest, grove, thicket; timber, trees; copse, woodland, forestland.

ANT. _Open, prairie, clearing._

=Word.= Term, expression, accents, tongue, vocable; account, tidings, message; statement, declaration, affirmation, promise; (_pl._) contention, dispute, wrangling, altercation; speech, talk, discourse, language.

ANT. _Idea, conception, suggestion; sentence, unit of composition, paragraph._

=Work=, _n._ Exertion, activity, effort, toil, employment, labor; business, duty; product, fabric, production, performance, manufacture; act, deed, service, result, effect, achievement, feat; composition, structure; management, treatment, operation, issue, fruit; occupation;

## action, drudgery.

ANT. _Frustration, abortion, hodge-podge; failure, deficiency, defect, fault; miscarriage; rest, inertia, fruitlessness, inoperativeness; inefficiency, futility; repose, relaxation, ease, vacation, idleness, leisure, recreation._

=Work=, _v._ Exert one’s self, labor, be engaged, toil; operate, act, perform; effect, affect, conduce, influence; strain; use, utilize; produce, accomplish; prevail upon, manage, lead; ferment.

ANT. _Rest, recreate, stop, repose, halt, relax, be at ease, lie, recline, sleep, slumber; fail, miscarry, be wanting, lapse._

=Workman.= Worker, artificer, laborer, artisan, mechanic, operative, craftsman; toiler, hand; master.

ANT. _Employer, superintendent, inspector, supervisor, director, overseer._

=Workmanship.= Handicraft, execution, skill, art, manipulation, handiwork.

ANT. _Bungling, botching._

=World.= Earth, universe, creation; affairs, interests, life, action, occupation; inhabitants, people, mankind; globe, cosmos, planet, nature; public, society, human race.

ANT. _Heaven; atom, individual._

=Worldly.= Human, common; secular, temporal; mundane, terrestrial, earthly; fleshly, carnal; universal; sublunary; sordid, selfish, ambitious, earthborn, groveling.

ANT. _Spiritual, ethereal, celestial, heavenly, lunar, solar; incorporeal, ghostly; ideal, abstract, mental, intellectual; sacred, holy, pure._

=Worry=, _n._ Care, anxiety, fret, solicitude, torment, vexation, trouble, annoyance, plague, disquiet; perplexity, concern, fear, apprehension, uneasiness, misgiving.

ANT. _Trust, calm, courage, serenity, tranquillity, placidity, quiet, ease of mind, resolution, dauntlessness._

=Worship=, _n._ Reverence, homage, adoration, submission, obsequiousness, honor, abjectness.

ANT. _Detestation, hatred, abhorrence, loathing, disgust, antipathy, assertion, defiance, challenge._

=Worship=, _v._ Adore, reverence, revere, idolize, respect, defer, venerate, deify, honor, exalt.

ANT. _Defy, dare; abhor, detest, hate, disdain, abominate, contemn, loathe._

=Worth.= Desert, merit, excellence; price, rate; value, quality, equivalence; virtue, character, worthiness, integrity; credit, cost, estimate.

ANT. _Demerit, worthlessness, cheapness, uselessness, futility, poverty._

=Worthless.= Undeserving, useless, valueless, vile, mean, miserable, poor, wretched, abject, unworthy, ignoble, abandoned, depraved; refuse, waste.

ANT. _Costly, valuable, dear, high-priced, expensive; sumptuous, splendid, rich, precious; useful, excellent, estimable, virtuous, worthy._

=Worthy.= Valuable, deserving, estimable, virtuous; suitable, adapted, meritorious, exemplary, upright, righteous, honest, honorable.

ANT. _Worthless, valueless, ignoble, defective, unsuitable._

=Wound=, _v._ Hurt, injure, damage, harm, cut, stab, rend, lacerate, pain; annoy, mortify, offend.

ANT. _Heal, allay, cure, remedy, soothe, repair; appease, assuage, comfort, harmonize._

=Wrap=, _v._ Wind, fold, cover, envelop, enfold, involve, conceal, hide, muffle.

ANT. _Unwind, unfold, lay bare, reveal, develop, expose._

=Wrath.= Fury, ire, resentment, passion, anger, rage, exasperation, indignation, choler, irritation.

ANT. _Calmness, control, restraint, composure, placidity, serenity._

=Wrathful.= Furious, raging, indignant, passionate, choleric, ireful, angry, exasperated, incensed, irate, wroth, mad, provoked, resentful.

ANT. _Calm, collected, controlled, repressed, masterly, restrained, good-tempered._

=Wreath.= Garland, chaplet, festoon, crown, bays, diadem.

=Wreck=, _n._ Ruins, remains, rubbish, wreckage, débris; havoc, destruction, shipwreck, ruin, desolation, perdition, demolition.

ANT. _Preservation, conservation, saving, protection, security._

=Wrench=, _v._ Pull, twist, wrest, force, strain, sprain; pervert, distort, wring.

ANT. _Straighten, untwist; rectify._

=Wretched.= Miserable, calamitous, afflicted, unhappy, degraded, woful; worthless, paltry; forlorn, wobegone, comfortless, distressed; shocking, deplorable, depressing, sad; contemptible, mean, pitiful, debased, humiliated.

ANT. _Prosperous, flourishing, fortunate, happy, enviable, felicitous, successful, thriving; valuable; honored, noble, exalted._

=Wrong=, _a._ Injurious, unjust, faulty, detrimental, unfit; improper, incorrect; mistaken, erroneous; illegal, immoral.

ANT. _Right, upright, lawful, equitable, fair, just, becoming, proper, suitable, appropriate, fit; correct, true, actual, real._

=Wrought.= Worked, elaborated; performed, done, effected, executed, produced, manufactured.

ANT. _Rough, crude, coarse, raw, unpolished._

=Wry.= Twisted, distorted; misdirected, perverted, wrested; askew, contorted, deformed, deranged; crooked, awry.

ANT. _Straight, rectilinear, direct, upright, erect; perpendicular, shapely, comely, symmetrical, proper, well-formed._

Y

=Yawn.= Open wide, gape; desire, be eager.

ANT. _Close, shut, engulf._

=Yearly.= Annual, happening each year, per annum, every year, year by year.

ANT. _Perennial, everlasting, evergreen._

=Yearn.= Long, desire, be eager, covet, crave, hanker.

ANT. _Loathe, revolt, recoil, shudder at, despise._

=Yell=, _v._ Cry out, shriek, scream, holler.

ANT. _Keep silence, subdue, silence._

=Yet.= Besides, nevertheless, notwithstanding, however, still, eventually, ultimately, at last, so far, thus far, hitherto, at present; over and above; further; now.

=Yield.= Furnish, produce, afford, bear, render; relinquish, give in, let go, forego; accede, acquiesce; resign, surrender, concede, allow, grant, submit, succumb; comply, consent, agree.

ANT. _Withdraw, withhold, retain, deny, refuse, vindicate, assert, claim, disallow, appropriate, resist, dissent, protest, struggle, strive._

=Yielding.= Conceding, producing, surrendering, supple, pliant, submissive, unresisting, obsequious, attentive, flexible, compliant, accommodating.

ANT. _Defiant, resisting, obstinate, firm, stiff, hard, perverse._

=Yoke=, _n._ Bond, chain, link, tie; servitude, bondage, vassalage, service, thraldom, subjection, subservience.

ANT. _Freedom, liberty; authority, command._

=Yoke=, _v._ Couple, conjoin, connect, link; enslave, subjugate.

ANT. _Dissever, divorce, disconnect, liberate, release, manumit, enfranchise._

=Young.= Juvenile, immature; inexperienced, innocent, ignorant; youthful, boyish, girlish, childlike.

ANT. _Old, mature, adult; experienced, knowing; senile, aged, decrepit, venerable; antique, antiquated, obsolete; superannuated._

=Youth.= Adolescence, childhood, infancy; youthfulness, juvenility; minority; lad, boy, girl, youngster.

ANT. _Age, senility, maturity._

=Youthful.= Puerile, juvenile, immature, young, fresh, vigorous, unripe, callow, childish, boyish, childlike, girlish, adolescent.

ANT. _Mature, adult, full-grown, ripe, ripened._

Z

=Zeal.= Ardor, eagerness, earnestness, fervor, enthusiasm, energy, feeling, devotion, intensity, passion, spirit.

ANT. _Apathy, indifference, coldness, carelessness, sluggishness, torpor._

=Zealot.= Partisan, bigot, enthusiast, fanatic, devotee, visionary, dreamer.

ANT. _Renegade, traitor, deserter; lukewarm person._

=Zealous.= Ardent, anxious, earnest, enthusiastic, fervid, eager, steadfast, keen, fervent, devoted, prompt, ready, fiery, passionate.

ANT. _Lukewarm, indifferent, cold, apathetic, passionless, phlegmatic._

=Zenith.= Height, pinnacle, acme, summit, culmination, maximum, apex, top.

ANT. _Nadir, lowest point, depth, minimum._

=Zephyr.= West wind, breeze, gentle wind.

ANT. _Gale, furious wind._

=Zero.= Naught, cipher, nothing.

ANT. _Something, existence, creation; infinity._

=Zest.= Flavor, appetizer, pleasure, gusto, gust, enjoyment, relish, sharpener, enhancement, savor, taste, smack, sauce, appetite.

ANT. _Distaste, disrelish, detriment._

=Zone.= Girdle, belt, girth, cincture, band, baldric; region, climate, clime; circuit, circumference; zodiac; orbit.

ANT. _Sphere, universe._

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1. Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained. 2. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 3. Enclosed bold font in =equals=.