Part 15

=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._