Part 14

=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._

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=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.