A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms (part 3)

ANT: Incurved, divergent, collateral, lateral, curvilinear, zigzag.

KEY: Linger.

SYN: Tarry, loiter, saunter, lag, hesitate, wait.

ANT: Haste, speed, press, push.

KEY: Link, [See CONNECTION].

KEY: Liquefaction, [See MELT].

KEY: Liquescence, [See MELT].

KEY: Liquid.

SYN: Fluid, liquescent, melting, running, watery, fluent, soft, mellifluous, limpid, flowing, clear, smooth.

ANT: Solid, solidified, concrete, congealed, hard, dry, indissolvable, insoluble, harsh, discordant.

KEY: Liquidate, [See FAT].

KEY: List.

SYN: Catalogue, roll, register, inventory, schedule, [See {[KECOSD]?}].

KEY: Listen.

SYN: Hear, attend, hearken, incline, give ear, heed.

ANT: Disregard, ignore, refuse, repudiate.

KEY: Listless.

SYN: Indifferent, careless, uninterested, vacant, languid, indolent, supine, lackadaisical, torpid, heedless.

ANT: Eager, interested, curious, ardent, attentive, absorbed, active, engaged, earnest.

KEY: Literal.

SYN: Exact, grammatical, verbal, close, real, positive, actual, plain.

ANT: General, substantial, metaphorical, free, spiritual.

KEY: Literary.

SYN: Erudite, scholarly, studious.

ANT: Illiterate, unscholarly, unstudious.

KEY: Literature.

SYN: Lore, erudition, reading, study, learning, attainment, scholarship, literary works.

ANT: Genius, intuition, inspiration.

KEY: Lithe.

SYN: Pliant, flexible, limber, supple, elastic, agile, pliable.

ANT: Tough, inflexible, inelastic, stiff.

KEY: Litigious.

SYN: Quarrelsome, disputatious, contentious.

ANT: Complacent, contented, acquiescent, genial, facile.

KEY: Litter.

SYN: Scatter, mislay, discompose, disorder, derange.

ANT: Clear, clean, order, lay, methodize, arrange.

KEY: Little.

SYN: Small, tiny, pigmy, diminutive, short, brief, scanty, unimportant, insignificant, slight, weak, inconsiderable, trivial, illiberal, mean, petty, paltry, dirty, shabby, dwarf.

ANT: Big, bulky, large, enormous, huge, monstrous, full-sized, long, full, developed, much, important, grave, serious, momentous, liberal, generous, noble, high-minded, handsome.

KEY: Live \v.\

SYN: Vegetate, grow, survive, continue, abide, dwell, last, subsist, behave, act, breathe, exist.

ANT: Die, perish, wither, demise, migrate, vanish, fade, fail, languish, depart, drop, decease.

KEY: Live \a.\

SYN: Animate.

ANT: Inanimate, defunct.

KEY: Livelihood.

SYN: Maintenance, support, living, substance, sustenance.

ANT: Privation, starvation, want, inanition, beggary.

KEY: Lively.

SYN: Brisk, animated, keen, eager, blithe, alert, vivid, vivacious, quick, spirited, vigorous, sprightly, active.

ANT: Lifeless, torpid, dull, inanimate, indifferent, listless, insensate.

KEY: Livery.

SYN: Uniform, garb, badge, dependence, servitude, retainership, retinue, subservience.

ANT: Freedom, immunity, insubservience.

KEY: Living \a.\ [See LIVE, \a.\].

KEY: living, [See LIVELIHOOD].

KEY: Load \n.\

SYN: Weight, lading, cargo, oppression, incubus, drag, burden.

ANT: Refreshment, support, solace, alleviation, emptiness, lightness.

KEY: Load \v.\

SYN: Burden, charge, lade, cargo, cumber, oppress.

ANT: Disburden, unload, disencumber, lighten, alleviate, believe.

KEY: Loan.

SYN: Advance, mortgage, hypothecation.

ANT: Recall, resumption, foreclosure.

KEY: Loathe, [See ABOMINATE].

KEY: Loathsome, [See ABOMINABLE].

KEY: Locality, [See PLACE].

KEY: Locate.

SYN: Place, establish, settle, fix, dispose, lodge.

ANT: Displace, disestablish, dislodge, remove.

KEY: Location, [See LOCALITY].

KEY: Locomotion.

SYN: Movement, migration, travel, passage.

ANT: Stationariness, stoppage, rest, abode, remanence, fixture.

KEY: Locomotive.

SYN: Migratory.

ANT: Stationary.

KEY: Lodge, [See LOCATE].

KEY: Lofty.

SYN: Elevated, towering, high, dignified, eminent, stately, haughty, majestic, airy, tall.

ANT: Depressed, low, stunted, undignified, ordinary, unstately, mean, unimposing, unassuming, affable.

KEY: Logical.

SYN: Close, argumentative, sound.

ANT: Inconclusive, illogical, fallacious.

KEY: Logomachy.

SYN: Wrangle, strife, contention, debate.

ANT: Chat, colloquy, conversation, confabulation.

KEY: Loiter, [See LAD].

KEY: Loll.

SYN: Lounge, recline.

ANT: Rise, stir.

KEY: Lonely, [See LONESOME].

KEY: Lonesome.

SYN: Forlorn, dreary, forsaken, Wild, solitary, desolate, lonely.

ANT: Cheerful, befriended, festive, frequented, populous, gay, animated, bustling.

KEY: Long.

SYN: Protracted, produced, dilatory, lengthy, tedious, prolix, extensive, diffuse, far-reaching.

ANT: Short, curt, curtailed, brief, speedy, quick, concise, condensed.

KEY: Longing.

SYN: Eagerness, desire, aspiration, craving, yearning, wishing.

ANT: Indifference, repugnance, aversion.

KEY: Look \n.\ [See ASPECT].

KEY: Look \v.\

SYN: See, behold, contemplate, observe, seem, appear, face.

ANT: Overlook, miss, misobserve, misbeseem, lurk, smoulder.

KEY: Look at.

SYN: See, view, eye, gaze at, behold, witness, inspect.

ANT: [See LOOK].

KEY: Loom.

SYN: Glimmer, lower, gloam.

ANT: Dwindle, pale, recede, fade, vanish, disappear.

KEY: Loose \v.\

SYN: Untie, unfasten, let.

ANT: Tie, fasten, hold, retain.

KEY: Loose \a.\

SYN: Unbound, detached, flowing, scattered, sparse, incompact, vague, inexact, rambling, dissolute, licentious.

ANT: Bound, tied, fastened, tight, moored, lashed, secured, thick, close, dense, compact, pointed, accurate, exact, consecutive, strict, logical, scientific, conscientious.

KEY: Lop.

SYN: Prune, curtail, shorten, retrench, amputate, truncate.

ANT: Grow, trail, train, elongate, lead.

KEY: Loquacity.

SYN: Talkativeness.

ANT: Taciturnity.

KEY: Lordly.

SYN: Lofty, magnificent, majestic, noble, proud, imperious.

ANT: Mean, beggarly, ignoble, unimposing, humble, servile, lowly.

KEY: Lordship.

SYN: Rule, dominion, jurisdiction.

ANT: Homage, subjection, subservience.

KEY: Lore, [See LEARNING].

KEY: Lose.

SYN: Miss, drop, mislay, forfeit.

ANT: Keep, retain, find, recover, locate, earn, guard, treasure, economize, utilize, preserve, abandon, discard, reject.

KEY: Loss.

SYN: Mislaying, dropping, forfeiture, missing, privation, waste, detriment, damage.

ANT: Preservation, recovery, earning, satisfaction, restoration, economy, augmentation, advantage, gain.

KEY: Lot.

SYN: Chance, fortune, fate, hazard, ballot, doom.

ANT: Law, provision, arrangement, disposal, design, purpose, plan, portion, allotment.

KEY: Loth.

SYN: Reluctant, unwilling.

ANT: Ready, willing, lief.

KEY: Loud.

SYN: Sounding, sonorous, resonant, noisy, audible, vociferous, clamorous, obstreperous.

ANT: Soft, gentle, subdued, whispering, rustling, murmuring, babbling, pattering, tinkling, dulcet, inaudible, quiet.

KEY: Lounge, [See LOLL and LOITER].

KEY: Lout.

SYN: Clown, looby, clodhopper, clod.

ANT: Dandy, fop, cockney, prig.

KEY: Love.

SYN: Affection, attachment, passion, devotion, benevolence, charity, kindness.

ANT: Hatred, dislike, disaffection, alienation, estrangement, bitterness, coldness, Indifference, repugnance, infidelity, desertion, unkindness, malice, uncharitableness.

KEY: Lover.

SYN: Suitor, wooer, sweetheart, swain, beau.

ANT: Husband, wife, mate.

KEY: Lovely.

SYN: Amiable, lovable, enchanting, beautiful, pleasing, delightful, charming.

ANT: Unamiable, unlovable, hateful, hideous, plain, homely, unattractive, unlovely.

KEY: Low.

SYN: Abated, sunk, depressed, stunted, declining, deep, subsided, inaudible, cheap, gentle, dejected, degraded, mean, abject, base, unworthy, lowly, feeble, moderate, frugal, reprieved, subdued, reduced, poor, {[kwnUe]?}.

ANT: Elevated, lofty, tall, amending, rising, high, exorbitant, violent, loud, excited, elated, eminent, considerable, influential, high-minded, honorable, proud, strong, aggravated, intensified, raised, wealthy, rich.

KEY: Lower \v.\

SYN: Depress, decrease, reduce, bate, abate, drop, humiliate, sink, debase, humble, diminish.

ANT: Hoist, raise, heighten, exalt, increase, aggrandize, elevate.

KEY: Lower \a.\

SYN: Inferior.

ANT: Higher, superior.

KEY: Lowering.

SYN: Dark, threatening, gloomy, murky, lurid, overcast.

ANT: [See MUGGY].

KEY: Lowly.

SYN: Mean, low, common, humble, meek.

ANT: Lofty, elevated, eminent, {[li>nlly]?}, proud.

KEY: Lowness, [See LOW].

KEY: Loyal.

SYN: Submissive, obedient, faithful, allegiant, true, constant.

ANT: Insubmissive, insurgent, mal, content, rebellious, disobedient, unfaithful, unallegiant, untrue, inconstant, disaffected.

KEY: Loyalty.

SYN: Fidelity, fealty, allegiance, faithfulness.

ANT: Disloyalty, unfaithfulness, treason.

KEY: Lubricate.

SYN: Oil, ease, grease, levigate, gloze, glaze.

ANT: Rust, clog, indent, roughen, corrugate.

KEY: Lucent, [See LIMPID and LUCID].

KEY: Lucid.

SYN: Shining, bright, resplendent, Incident, luminous, clear, trans parent, crystalline, pellucid, distinct, intelligible, rational, perspicuous, orderly, limpid, lucent, easily under, stood.

ANT: Dark, unlustrous, opaque, turbid, muddy, obscure, unintelligible, confused, unsolved, insane, mystified.

KEY: Luck, [See CHANCE].

KEY: luckiest, [See CHANCE and LUCKY].

KEY: Lucky.

SYN: Fortunate, auspicious, prosperous, successful, favorable.

ANT: Unlucky, unfortunate, inauspicious, unprosperous, adverse, illfated, disastrous, luckless.

KEY: Lucrative, [See PROFITABLE].

KEY: Lucre.

SYN: Gain, profit, greed, mmm, mon, wealth, money.

ANT: Loss, poverty, failure, privation, [See TOM], refuse.

KEY: Lucubration.

SYN: Study, meditation, work, cogitation.

ANT: Idleness, vacuity, incogitancy, torpor.

KEY: Luculent, [See LUCID].

KEY: Ludicrous.

SYN: Ridiculous, farcical, laughable, comic, droll, funny, comical.

ANT: Serious, momentous, grave, {[ead]?}, sorrowful, mournful, tragic, lugubrious, melancholy, sombre, doleful.

KEY: Lugubrious, [See LUDICROUS].

KEY: Lull \v.\

SYN: Calm, quiet, hush, still, tranquilize, [See ASSUAGE].

KEY: Lull \n.\

SYN: Quiet, assuagement, cessation, quiescence, subsidence.

ANT: Tumult, excitement, storm, tempest.

KEY: Lumber \n.\

SYN: Trash, rubbish, refuse.

ANT: Valuables, commodities, stock.

KEY: Lumber \v.\

SYN: Choke, crowd, obstruct, encumber.

ANT: Clear, disencumber, utilize, economize.

KEY: Luminary.

SYN: Sage, savant, celebrity, light, genius.

ANT: Fool, ignoramus, dunce, lout, blockhead.

KEY: Luminous, [See LUCID].

KEY: Lump.

SYN: Mass, hunk, hunch, slice.

KEY: Lumpish.

SYN: Heavy, cloddish, sluggish, clumsy.

ANT: Light, airy, agile, sylph-like, nimble, active.

KEY: Lunacy.

SYN: Madness, Insanity, derangement, craziness, mania, aberration, hallucination.

ANT: Sanity, reason, intellect, intelligence, rationality, lucidity.

KEY: Lunatic.

SYN: Madman, maniac, monomaniac.

ANT: Solon, philosopher, luminary, genius.

KEY: Lure \n.\

SYN: Allurement, [See ATTRACTION].

KEY: Litre \v.\ [See DECOY].

KEY: Lurid.

SYN: Murky, lowering, wan, dismal, gloomy.

ANT: Bright, luminous.

KEY: Lurk.

SYN: Hide, lie, skulk, abscond, lie hid, lie in wait.

ANT: Rise, spring, show, emerge, flash.

KEY: Luscious.

SYN: Sweet, delicious, sugary, honied, delightful, toothsome, delightsome.

ANT: Sour, sharp, tart, bitter.

KEY: Lustration.

SYN: Purification, expurgation, expiation.

ANT: Desecration, defilement, contamination.

KEY: Lustre.

SYN: Brightness, splendor, brilliancy, effulgence, glory, renown, [See EFFULGENCE].

KEY: Lusty.

SYN: Robust, vigorous, strong, stout, able-bodied, burly, brawny, muscular, healthy, corpulent.

ANT: Infirm, weak, disabled, ailing, effete, listless.

KEY: Lutose, [See LIMPID].

KEY: Luxuriant, [See EXUBERANT].

KEY: Luxuriate, [See BASK].

KEY: Luxurious.

SYN: Voluptuous, selfindulgent, pleasurable, sensual, pampered.

ANT: Hard, painful, self-denying, ascetic, hardy.

KEY: Luxury.

SYN: Effeminacy, epicurism, voluptuousness, wantonness, selfindulgence, softness, animalism, delicacy, dainty, profuseness.

ANT: Hardness, asceticism, stoicism, self-denial, hardship.

KEY: Lying.

SYN: Mendacious, false, untrue, untruthful.

ANT: true, veracious.

KEY: Macerate.

SYN: Attenuate, rot, waste, wither, steep, madefy.

ANT: Fatten, replenish, pamper, repair, swell.

KEY: Maceration, [See MACERATE].

KEY: Machination.

SYN: Contrivance, plot, intrigue, conspiracy, stratagem, artful scheme, design.

ANT: Detection, counteraction, overthrow, baffling defeat, exposure, defiance, challenge, conflict, competition.

KEY: Maculated.

SYN: Spotted, speckled, mottled, dotted.

ANT: Unspotted, spotless, speckless, immaculate.

KEY: Mad.

SYN: Insane, demented, furious, lunatic, infuriated, crazy, maniacal, frantic, rabid, wild, distracted.

ANT: Sane, sound, sensible, quiet, composed, unexcited, sober.

KEY: Madden.

SYN: Infuriate, enrage, exasperate, inflame.

ANT: Calm, pacify, assuage, mesmerize, lay.

KEY: madefaction.

SYN: Wetting, maceration, {[moUteniug]?}, moisture, humectation.

ANT: Exsiccation, drying, arefaction.

KEY: Madman, [See LUNATIC].

KEY: madness.

SYN: Insanity, frenzy, rage, fury.

ANT: Sanity, calmness, soberness, [See LUNACY].

KEY: magic.

SYN: Enchantment, sorcery.

KEY: magisterial.

SYN: Dictatorial, consequential, authoritative, imposing.

ANT: Submissive, docile, undignified, unimposing, unassuming, modest, magistrate, [See JUDGE].

KEY: magnanimous.

SYN: Noble, highminded, exalted, high-souled, great-souled, lofty, honorable.

ANT: Mean, little-souled, [See NOBLE].

KEY: Magnanimity.

SYN: High mindedness, generosity, forbearance, softness, clemency.

ANT: Meanness, pettiness, paltriness, spitefulness, spleen.

KEY: magnificent.

SYN: Grand, magnanimous, noble, splendid, superb, august, imposing, gorgeous, stately, majestic, dignified, sublime, pompous.

ANT: Petty, mean, little, paltry, flat, beggarly, small minded, ordinary, tawdry, uninposing, tame.

KEY: magnify.

SYN: Enlarge, amplify, increase, augment, exaggerate, laud, extol.

ANT: Diminish, contract, curtail, palliate, extenuate, decry.

KEY: magniloquent.

SYN: High-flown, altiloquent, bombastic, tumid, turgid, boastful.

ANT: Simple, unaffected, vernacular, plain-spoken, magnitude, [See SIZE].

KEY: maid.

SYN: Maiden, girl, damsel, lass, virgin.

ANT: Matron, married woman.

KEY: maim.

SYN: Disable, cripple, mar, mutilate, mangle, disfigure, lame.

ANT: Restore, reinvigorate, mend, strengthen.

KEY: Main.

SYN: Bulk, majority, body, principal, trunk, chief, leading, most important, first.

ANT: Portion, section, minority, branch, limb, tributary, member, subordinate, inferior.

KEY: mainly.

SYN: Principally, largely, chiefly, primarily.

ANT: Somewhat, partially, slightly, subordinately.

KEY: maintain, [See SUPPORT].

KEY: maintenance.

SYN: Livelihood, defence, subsistence, means of support.

KEY: majestic, [See MAGNIFICENT].

KEY: majesty.

SYN: Dignity, grandeur, augustness, stateliness, [See GRANDEUR].

KEY: majority.

SYN: Superiority, eldership, priority, bulk, preponderance, seniority.

ANT: Inferiority, juniority, minority.

KEY: make.

SYN: Create, produce, fashion, frame, fabricate, construct, effect, do, perform, execute, find, gain, compel, establish, constitute, reach, mould, shape, form, bring about.

ANT: Annihilate, unmake, undo, dismember, disintegrate, destroy, defeat, miss, lose, mar, disestablish.

KEY: maker.

SYN: Creator, manufacturer.

ANT: Destroyer.

KEY: maladministration.

SYN: Misrule, misgovernment, malversation.

ANT: Rule, government, administration.

KEY: malady.

SYN: Disorder, distemper, sickness, ailment, disease, complaint, illness.

ANT: Health, sanity, soundness, heartiness, vigor, bloom.

KEY: malcontent, [See INSURGENT].

KEY: malediction, [See BENEDICTION].

KEY: malefactor, [See CULPRIT].

KEY: Maleficent, [See BENEFICIENT].

KEY: malevolent, [See BENEFICIENT].

KEY: malformation, [See DEFORMITY].

KEY: Malice, [See SPITE].

KEY: malign, [See TRADUCE].

KEY: malignant, [See BENEFICIENT].

KEY: Malignity, [See SPITE].

KEY: Malleable, [See DUCTILE].

KEY: maltreat, [See INJURE].

KEY: malversation.

SYN: Malpractice, corruption.

ANT: Integrity, uncorruptness, upright.

KEY: Manacle.

SYN: Shackle, hand-cuff, fetter, chain.

ANT: Unbind, unfetter, unchain.

KEY: Manage.

SYN: Handle, manipulate, control, conduct, administer, mould, regulate, contrive, train, husband, direct, wield.

ANT: Mismanage, misconduct, upset, derange, misuse.

KEY: manageable.

SYN: Easy, feasible, possible, docile, tractable, practicable.

ANT: Difficult, impracticable, Impossible, unmanageable, intractable, refractory, untameable.

KEY: management.

SYN: Treatment, conduct, administration, government, address, skill, superintendence, skillful treatment.

ANT: Maltreatment, misconduct, maladministration, misgovernment, maladroitness.

KEY: manager.

SYN: Director, superintendent, overseer, supervisor.

ANT: Workman, follower, workingman.

KEY: mandate.

SYN: Command, edict, order, bidding, injunction, behest, rule, precept.

ANT: Suggestion, petition, request, entreaty, manful, [See MANLY].

KEY: Mangle, [See MAIM and LACERATE].

KEY: Manhood.

SYN: Humanity, virility, maturity, manfulness, manliness.

ANT: Divinity, womanhood, childhood, childishness.

KEY: Mania, [See LUNACY].

KEY: Maniac, [See LUNATIC].

KEY: manifest \a.\

SYN: Visible, obvious, distinct, conspicuous, indubitable, clear, evident, plain, patent, apparent, open.

ANT: Invisible, dubious, inconspicuous, indistinct.

KEY: Manifest \v.\ [See EXHIBIT].

KEY: manifold.

SYN: Numerous, multiplied, multigenous, multifarious, varied, various, multitudinous, sundry, divers.

ANT: Few, scant, rare, scarce, uniform, limited.

KEY: Manipulate, [See HANDLE and MANAGE].

KEY: mankind.

SYN: Humanity, society, man, men.

ANT: Divinity, Deity, God, Heaven, nature, earth, world, creation, cattle.

KEY: manlike.

SYN: [See MANLY, a corruption of manlike].

KEY: manly.

SYN: Bold, courageous, generous, open, chivalrous, frank, firm, noble, stately, fine, mature, masculine, brave, fearless, hardy, vigorous, manlike, manful, dignified.

ANT: Womanish, childish, timid, unmanly, dastardly, weak, puny, ungrown, boyish.

KEY: Manner.

SYN: Mode, method, style, form, fashion, carriage, behavior, deportment, habit, sort, kind.

ANT: Work, project, design, performance, life, action, proceeding, appearance, being.

KEY: Mannerism.

SYN: Self-repetition, affectation, euphuism, self-consciousness.

ANT: Naturalness, unaffectedness, character, peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, genuineness, specialty.

KEY: mannerly.

SYN: Polite, well-behaved, well-bred, courteous, civil.

ANT: Unmannerly, rude, coarse, rough.

KEY: manners.

SYN: Deportment, behavior, carriage, courtesy, politeness, intercourse, demeanor.

ANT: Misdemeanor, misbehavior, unmannerliness.

KEY: manoeuvre.

SYN: Operation, tactics, contrivance, movement.

ANT: Counteraction, defeat, bafflement, detection, countermovement, neutralization, check.

KEY: mansuetude.

SYN: Docility, mildness, gentleness, tameness.

ANT: Ferocity, wildness, fierceness, savageness, untamableness.

KEY: manufacture.

SYN: Make, production, fabrication, composition, construction, manipulation, molding.

ANT: Use, employment, consumption, wear, manumit, [See ENSLAVE].

KEY: manumission.

SYN: Liberation, release, emancipation, enfranchisement, discharge, dismissal.

ANT: Restraint, coercion, slavery, cohibition, repression.

KEY: Manure \v.\

SYN: Fertilize, enrich.

KEY: many.

SYN: Numerous, abundant, frequent, manifold, divers, sundry, multifarious.

ANT: Few, scarce, rare, infrequent.

KEY: Mar.

SYN: Spoil, hurt, damage, injure, defeat, impair, maim, deform.

ANT: Make, restore, mend, improve, reinstate, promote, enhance, conserve.

KEY: marauder.

SYN: Plunderer, invader, rover, free-booter, moss-trooper, filibuster, pillager, guerilla, bushwhacker.

ANT: Ranger, guard, sentry, keeper, outpost, marcher.

KEY: Margin.

SYN: Edge, lip, boundary, latitude, room, loophole, brink, extremity.

ANT: Figure, space, centre, limitation, restriction, stringency.

KEY: Marine.

SYN: Oceanic, sea, neptunan, maritime, naval, salt-water, nautical.

ANT: Terrestrial, terrene, laud, fresh-water.

KEY: Marital.

SYN: Matrimonial, conjugal, connubial, nuptial, hymeneal.

ANT: Single, celibate, unwedded, non-connubial.

KEY: Maritime, [See MARINE].

KEY: Mark \n.\

SYN: Trace, token, sign, symptom, impression, vestige, indication, note.

ANT: Erasure, obliteration, effacement, unindicativeness, plainness.

KEY: Mark \v.\

SYN: Stamp, label, sign, indicate, decorate, brand, stigmatize, signalize, note, observe, regard, heed, specify, specialize.

ANT: Ignore, overlook, omit, mislabel, mismark, misindicate, misobserve, misspecify.

KEY: Marked.

SYN: Notable, remarkable, noticeable, conspicuous.

ANT: [See REMARKABLE].

KEY: Marriage.

SYN: Nuptials, matrimony, espousals, wedding, wedlock.

ANT: Celibacy, virginity.

KEY: Marrow.

SYN: Pith, gist, substance, essence, life, cream, kernel.

ANT: Surplusage, redundancy, excrescence, superfluity, clothing, dressing, amplification, volume, mass, body.

KEY: Marsh.

SYN: Swamp, fen, quagmire, bog, slough, morass.

ANT: Solid ground.

KEY: Marshal, [See ORDER and ARRANGE].

KEY: Martial.

SYN: Military, brave, warlike.

ANT: Unmartial, unmilitary, peace, full.

KEY: Martyrdom.

SYN: Confession.

ANT: Renegation, abjuration.

KEY: Marvel.

SYN: Wonder, prodigy, admiration, portent, miracle, astonishment, amazement, phenomenon.

ANT: Incuriosity, unconcern, joke, trifle, farce, bagatelle, moonshine, cipher, drug, imposture, juggle.

KEY: Marvellous, [See SUCCUMB].

KEY: Masculine.

SYN: Male, manly, manful, hardy, courageous, virile.

ANT: Female, feminine, womanish, womanly, effeminate.

KEY: Mash.

SYN: Mix, knead, compound, amalgamate.

ANT: Discompound, sift, winnow, disamalgamate.

KEY: Mask \n.\

SYN: Pretext, screen, pretence, ruse, cover, hypocrisy.

ANT: Truth, nakedness, detection, exposure, unmasking, verity, openness, candor.

KEY: Mask \v.\

SYN: Hide, screen, blink, cloke, disguise.

ANT: Expose, unmask, detect.

KEY: Mass.

SYN: Lump, body, bulk, concretion, magnitude, majority, heap.

ANT: Fragment, bit, portion, morsel, section, minority.

KEY: Massacre, [See CARNAGE].

KEY: Massive.

SYN: Solid, huge, colossal, weighty, mighty, vast.

ANT: Slight, petty, stunted, frail, slender, airy.

KEY: Master \n.\

SYN: Lord, ruler, governor, owner, possessor, proprietor, teacher, professor, adept, chief.

ANT: Servant, slave, subject, property, learner, pupil, tyro.

KEY: Master.

SYN: Conquer, overcome, subdue, overpower.

ANT: Yield, fail, surrender, succumb.

KEY: Masterly.

SYN: Finished, artistic, consummate, skillful, clear, dexterous, expert.

ANT: Clumsy, rude, bungling, unskilled, botchy, maladroit.

KEY: Mastery.

SYN: Authority, leadership, headship, proficiency, success, superiority, victory, advantage.

ANT: Subservience, tutelage, submission, guidance, obedience, inexpertness, ignorance, failure, defeat, surrender.

KEY: Masticate.

SYN: Manducate, chew.

ANT: Bolt, gobble.

KEY: Match \n.\

SYN: Equal, mate, companion, contest, competition, tally, equality, pair.

ANT: Superior, inferior, mismatch, oddity, disparity, inequality.

KEY: Match \v.\ Equal, compare, oppose, pit, adapt, sort, suit, mate.

ANT: Fail, exceed, preponderate, surpass, mismatch, dissociate, separate, {[tuisflt]?}, misadapt, missort.

KEY: Matchless.

SYN: Consummate, incomparable, peerless, surpassing, inimitable.

ANT: Common, ordinary, everyday, commonplace.

KEY: Mate, [See MATCH].

KEY: material \n.\

SYN: Substance, stuff.

ANT: Work, production, design.

KEY: Material \a.\ [See ESSENTIAL].

KEY: Matrimony, [See WEDLOCK].

KEY: matron.

SYN: Mother, woman, dowager, dame.

ANT: Girl, lass, damsel, spinster, miss, virgin, maid, maiden.

KEY: Matter.

SYN: Substance, stuff, subject.

body, importance, the visible, tangible, substantial, corporal, physical, ponderable.

ANT: Immateriality, spirituality, mind, intellect, spirit, the invisible, unseen, spiritual, moral, mental, intellectual.

KEY: Mature, [See RIPE].

KEY: Matutinal.

SYN: Early, morning, waking, dawning.

ANT: Vespertinal, late, slumbering, evening, waning.

KEY: Maudlin.

SYN: Intoxicated, temulent, sentimental, mawkish, mellow.

ANT: Sensible, unromantic, unsentimental, dry, sober.

KEY: Mawkish.

SYN: Sickly, sentimental, maudlin, insipid, loathsome, nauseous, flat.

ANT: Savory, sensible, sound, fine, pungent, palatable.

KEY: Maxim.

SYN: Adage, rule, axiom, apothegm, proverb, precept, saying.

ANT: Absurdity, sophism, quibble, paradox, enigma.

KEY: Maximum.

SYN: Ultimatum, climax, zenith, apex, completion, utmost, consummation, culmination, acme.

ANT: Initiative, commencement, indication, incompletion, abortion, decrease, wane, minimum, morsel, fragment.

KEY: Maybe.

SYN: Perhaps, possibly, mayhap, perchance.

KEY: Maze, [See LABYRINTH].

KEY: Meagre.

SYN: Thin, lean, lank, scanty, barren, dry, tame.

ANT: Stout, fat, brawny, abundant, fertile, copious.

KEY: Mean \a.\

SYN: Common, low, base, spiritless, dishonorable, contemptible, despicable, beggarly, sordid, vulgar, niggardly, vile.

ANT: High, exalted, eminent, spirited, honorable, lordly, princely, munificent, liberal, generous.

KEY: Mean \a.\

SYN: Middle, intermediate, average.

ANT: Extreme, excessive, exorbitant.

KEY: Mean \n.\

SYN: Medium, moderation, balance, average.

ANT: Extreme, excess, preponderance, disproportion, deficiency, shortcoming, inadequacy.

KEY: Mean \v.\

SYN: Intend, purpose, design, signify, denote, indicate, hint, suggest.

ANT: Say, state, enunciate, [See DO], execute, perform.

KEY: Meaning.

SYN: Signification, import, significance, purport, sense, aim, [See IMPORT].

KEY: Meanness.

SYN: Penuriousness, littleness, selfishness, baseness, smallness, illiberality, ungenerousness, sordidness.

ANT: Nobleness, unselfishness, liberality, generousness, large-heartedness.

KEY: Means.

SYN: Resources, instrument, media.

ANT: End, purpose, object.

KEY: Measure \n.\ [See DIMENSION].

KEY: Measure \v.\

SYN: Mete, estimate, gauge, value, appraise.

ANT: Misfit, misconform, mismeasure, misdeal, misapportion.

KEY: Measureless, [See INFINITE].

KEY: Mechanic.

SYN: Artisan, craftsman, workman, artificer.

KEY: Mechanical.

SYN: Habitual, automatic, unreflective, spontaneous, effortless, unimpassioned.

ANT: Labored, self-conscious, feeling, forced, spirited, appreciative, lifelike, lively, animated, impassioned.

KEY: Meddle, [See INTERPOSE].

KEY: Meddlesome.

SYN: Officious, obtrusive, intrusive, interfering.

ANT: Unofficious, unobtrusive, unmeddlesome.

KEY: Mutilate.

SYN: Intercede, interpose, [See INTERPOSE].

KEY: Mediation.

SYN: Interference, interposition, reconciliation, atonement, arbitration, adjustment.

ANT: Neutrality, non-interference, indifference.

KEY: Medicament, [See REMEDY].

KEY: Medicate.

SYN: Treat, compound, amalgamate, adulterate, sophisticate, drug.

ANT: Clarify, analyze, purify, defecate, stupify, disadulterate.

KEY: Medicine.

SYN: Remedy, physic, antidote, therapeutics, salve, cure, corrective.

ANT: Aggravation, poison, virus, bane.

KEY: Mediocrity.

SYN: Mean, commonplace, medium, average, sufficiency.

ANT: Excellence, superiority, rarity, brilliance, distinction.

KEY: Meditate.

SYN: Think, cogitate, purpose, ruminate, contemplate, plan, revolve, consider.

ANT: Execute, enact, complete, consummate.

KEY: Medium, [See MEAN \n.\].

KEY: Medley.

SYN: Jumble, tumult, confusion, mixture, hodge-podge, litter, diversity, miscellany.

ANT: Assortment, arrangement, disposition, classification, interdistinction, grouping, collocation.

KEY: Meed.

SYN: Guerdon, premium, prize, reward.

ANT: Penalty, punishment, brand, stigma, amercement.

KEY: Meek.

SYN: Mild, gentle, submissive, modest, yielding, unassuming.

ANT: Bold, arrogant, self-asserting, irritable, proud, high-spirited.

KEY: Meet.

SYN: Encounter, confront, engage, as, [See {[-v-inhK-]?}], unite, coalesce, converge.

ANT: Miss, pass, escape, elude, decline, avoid, disperse, diverge, separate, vary, disagree.

KEY: Melancholy \a.\

SYN: Gloomy, sad, dejected, disconsolate, dismal, moody, hypochondriacal, cast down.

ANT: Lively, sprightly, gladsome, gleesome, blithesome, happy, cheerful, gamesome, mirthful, merry.

KEY: Melancholy \n.\ [See MELANCHOLY].

KEY: Meliorate, [See AMELIORATE].

KEY: Mellifluous.

SYN: dulcet, euphonious, silvery, flowing, smooth.

ANT: Harsh, hoarse, abrupt, rancorous, rough, discordant, broken.

KEY: Mellow.

SYN: Ripe, rich, full-flavored, jovial, mature, soft.

ANT: Unripe, harsh, sour, acid, acrid, crabbed, sober, dry.

KEY: Melodious, [See MUSICAL].

KEY: Melody.

SYN: Music, song, tune, air, minstrelsy.

ANT: Discord, dissonance.

KEY: Melt.

SYN: Dissolve, liquify, colliquate, run, flow, fuse.

ANT: Consolidate, crystallize, indurate.

KEY: Member.

SYN: Limb, part, portion, constituent, component.

ANT: Body, whole, entirety, constitution, organization, community, association.

KEY: Memoir.

SYN: Biographical sketch, personal narrative, familiar biography, narrative, chronicle, record, register, journal, life.

KEY: Memorable.

SYN: Great, striking, remarkable, conspicuous, prominent, noticeable, illustrious, extraordinary, famous, distinguished.

ANT: Petty, trifling, ordinary, insignificant, unnoticeable, trivial, mediocre, slight.

KEY: Memorial.

SYN: Monument, record, memento, celebration, remembrance, relic, inscription.

ANT: Obliviation, silentiation, obliteration, effacement, erasure.

KEY: Memory.

SYN: Remembrance, reminiscence, perpetuation, recollection, retention, retrospect, fame.

ANT: forgetfulness, oblivion.

KEY: Menace \n.\

SYN: Threat, denunciation, threatening.

ANT: good will, blessing.

KEY: Mend.

SYN: Repair, restore, correct, promote, improve, rectify, reform, amend, ameliorate, better.

ANT: Damage, impair, pervert, retard, deteriorate, falsify, spoil, corrupt.

KEY: Mendacity.

SYN: Falsehood, lying, untruthfulness, deception, prevarication, duplicity.

ANT: Veracity, truthfulness, frankness, candor, Ingenuousness.

KEY: Mendicity.

SYN: Mendicancy, beggary.

ANT: Industry, labor.

KEY: Menial.

SYN: Domestic, attendant, dependent, servile, drudge.

ANT: Paramount, sovereign, supreme, lordly, independent, uncontrolled, autocratic.

KEY: mensuration.

SYN: Geometry, surveying, geodesy, [See MEASURE].

KEY: Mental.

SYN: Intellectual, subjective, metaphysical, psychical, psychological.

ANT: Corporal, objective, physical, bodily.

KEY: Mention \n.\

SYN: Declaration, notice, announcement, observation, remark, hint, communication.

ANT: Silence, suppression, forgetfulness, omission.

KEY: Mephitic.

SYN: Malarious, miasmatic.

ANT: Balmy, genial, salubrious.

KEY: Mercantile.

SYN: Commercial, Interchangeable, wholesale, retail, marketable.

ANT: Stagnant, unmarketable, unmercantile.

KEY: Mercenary.

SYN: Sordid, venal, selfish, avaricious, griping.

ANT: Liberal, generous, disinterested, profuse, prodigal.

KEY: Merchandise.

SYN: Goods, commodities, wares, stock.

KEY: Merchant.

SYN: Trader, dealer, importer, tradesman, trafficker.

ANT: Shopman, salesman, hawker, huckster, pedler, chandler, costermonger.

KEY: Merciful.

SYN: Compassionate, kindhearted, clement, gracious, kind.

ANT: Pitiless, unrelenting, remorseless, inexorable, [See KIND].

KEY: Mercy.

SYN: Compassion, clemency, forgiveness, forbearance, grace, benefit, gift, pity, leniency, tenderness.

ANT: Exaction, harshness, cruelty, vengeance, unpityingness, unforgiveness.

KEY: Mere.

SYN: Pure, unmixed, absolute, uninfluenced, unadulterated, unaffected, simple.

ANT: Mixed, compound, impure, biased.

KEY: Meretricious.

SYN: Tricksy, unchaste, gaudy, impure, tawdry, flashy.

ANT: Solid, good, chaste, simple, pure.

KEY: Merge, [See SINK].

KEY: Meridian.

SYN: Zenith, summit, culmination, height, apex, acme, pinnacle.

ANT: Nadir, depth, depression, profundity, base.

KEY: Merit.

SYN: Goodness, worth, worthiness, desert, excellence.

ANT: Badness, demerit, unworthiness, worthlessness, weakness, imperfection, error, defect, fault, failing.

KEY: Merry, [See MELANCHOLY].

KEY: Mesh.

SYN: Intricacy, entanglement, involution, snare.

ANT: Extrication, escape, deliverance.

KEY: Message.

SYN: Communication, intimation, missive, notice.

ANT: Non-communication, interception.

KEY: Messenger.

SYN: Courier, carrier, emissary, harbinger, herald, forerunner.

KEY: Metaphor.

SYN: Similitude, image.

ANT: Letter, literalness.

KEY: Metaphorical.

SYN: Figurative, symbolical, allegorical, typical.

ANT: Literal.

KEY: Metaphysical.

SYN: Mental, intellectual, abstract, Ideal, conceptional, subjective, relational, notional, abstruse, psychical.

ANT: Physical, physiological, palpable, external, substantial, practical, corporal, material, objective.

KEY: Mete.

SYN: Measure, apportion, distribute.

ANT: Misdeal, misapportion.

KEY: Meteoric.

SYN: Momentary, flashing, displosive, phosphorescent, pyrotechnic, coruscant, volcanic.

ANT: Permanent, beaming, burning, steady, persistent, enduring.

KEY: Method.

SYN: Order, system, rule, way, manner, mode, course, process, regularity, arrangement.

ANT: Disorder, conjecture, quackery, empiricism, experimentation, assumption, guess-work.

KEY: Methodical.

SYN: Methodic, orderly, systematical, systematic, regular.

ANT: Disorderly, unmethodical, {[untematical]?}, irregular, [See METHOD].

KEY: methodize.

SYN: Shape, arrange, order, marshal, enucleate, eliminate, organize.

ANT: Confuse, jumble, disorder, disorganize.

KEY: Mettle.

SYN: Ardor, spirit, life, fire, animation.

ANT: Hebetude, insensibility, callousness, placidity, stoicism, cowardice, submissiveness, slavishness.

KEY: mettlesome.

SYN: Spirited, fiery, ardent, lively, gay, brisk, [See ARDENT and GALLANT].

KEY: Mew.

SYN: Imprison, shut up, coop, incase, [See CONFINE].

KEY: Miasmatic.

SYN: Effluvious, malarious, foetid, polluted, noxious, mephitic.

ANT: Balmy, pure, untainted, salubrious.

KEY: Middle, [See MEAN].

KEY: Middling.

SYN: Ordinary, average, pretty well, not bad, well enough, [See TOLERABLE].

KEY: Midst.

SYN: Middle, centre, thick, throng, heart.

ANT: Outskirt, confine, edge, limit, extreme, purlieu, margin.

KEY: Mien.

SYN: Look, aspect, air, manner, appearance, carriage, bearing, deportment.

ANT: Character, disposition, temperament, {[i]?}, constitution, nature, being, personality.

KEY: Might.

SYN: Strength, force, power, ability.

ANT: Weakness, infirmity, feebleness.

KEY: Mighty, [See MIGHT].

KEY: Migratory.

SYN: Nomadic, wandering, roving, vagrant.

ANT: Settled, fixed, permanent.

KEY: Mild.

SYN: Moderate, lenient, calm, gentle, genial, tempered, soft, meek, tender, placid.

ANT: Violent, wild, fierce, savage, strong, severe, merciless, harsh, bitter.

KEY: Military.

SYN: Soldierly, soldierlike, [See MARTIAL].

KEY: Militate \v.\ int, [See MILITARY].

SYN: Contend, conflict, jar, clash, disagree.

ANT: Harmonize, agree, suit, coincide.

KEY: Milky.

SYN: White, {[emulcont]?}, chalky.

ANT: Inky, irritant, luteous.

KEY: Mimic.

SYN: Copy, ape, imitate, ridicule, mock, follow.

ANT: Praise, lead, [See IMITATE].

KEY: Minatory.

SYN: Menacing, threatening.

ANT: Warning.

KEY: Mince.

SYN: Attenuate, comminute, palliate, extenuate.

ANT: Exaggerate, amplify, magnify.

KEY: Mincing.

SYN: Slow, affected, pedantic, syllabical, euphuistic.

ANT: Rapid, voluble, unaffected, natural, bluff.

KEY: Mind.

SYN: Soul, spirit, intellect, understanding, opinion, sentiment, judgment, belief, choice, inclination, desire, will, liking, purpose, spirit, impetus, memory, remembrance, recollection.

ANT: Body, limbs, organization, action, proceeding, conduct, object, indifference, coolness, aversion, forgetfulness, obviousness.

KEY: Mindful.

SYN: Regardful, attentive, thoughtful, careful, recollective.

ANT: Regardless, inattentive, mindless, oblivious.

KEY: Mingle.

SYN: Mix, compound, blend, confound, confuse, intermingle, associate, amalgamate.

ANT: Separate, segregate, sift, sort, analyze, discompound, eliminate, classify, unravel, avoid, Minimum, [See MAXIMUM].

KEY: Million.

SYN: Favorite, darling, pet.

ANT: Antipathy, horror, aversion, bugbear.

KEY: Minister \n.\

SYN: Servant, officer, delegate, official, ambassador, subordinate, ecclesiastic, clergyman, priest, parson, divine, preacher, pastor, shepherd, reverend, curate, vicar.

ANT: Monarch, government, master, superior, principal, head, layman, told, flock, congregation.

KEY: Minister \v.\

SYN: Attend, subserve, wait, supply.

ANT: Lead, rule, command, exact.

KEY: Ministry.

SYN: Cabinet, council, administration, office of a minister or clergyman, ecclesiastical function, [See MINISTER].

KEY: Minor.

SYN: Less, inferior, junior, younger, unimportant.

ANT: Major, greater, superior, elder, senior, main, important.

KEY: Minstrel.

SYN: Singer, musician, bard.

KEY: Minute.

SYN: Diminutive, microscopic, tiny, exact, searching, specific, detailed.

ANT: Monstrous, enormous, huge, inexact, superficial, general, broad, comprehensive.

KEY: Miraculous.

SYN: Supernatural, hyperphysical.

ANT: Ordinary, natural.

KEY: Misacceptation.

SYN: Misunderstanding, misinterpretation, misuse.

ANT: Acceptation, meaning.

KEY: Misadventure.

SYN: Failure, mishap, misfortune.

ANT: Success, achievement.

KEY: Misanthropy.

SYN: Egotism, incivism, man-hating, cynicism, woman-hating.

ANT: Philanthropy, humanity, humanitarianism, universal benevolence.

KEY: Misapply, [See APPLY].

KEY: Misapprehend, [See APPREHEND].

KEY: Misappropriate.

SYN: Misassign, purloin, misdistribute, abuse, misuse.

ANT: Assign, distribute, employ, use.

KEY: Misarrange, [See ABRIDGMENT].

KEY: Misbecome, [See BECOME].

KEY: Misbehaviour, [See BEHAVIOR].

KEY: Misbelief, [See BELIEF].

KEY: Miscalculate, [See CALCULATE].

KEY: Miscall.

SYN: Misname, misindicate.

ANT: Name, call, indicate, denote, specify, denominate.

KEY: Miscellany.

SYN: Mixture, Intermixture, jumble, medley, variety, diversity.

ANT: System, collection, classification, assortment, group, selection.

KEY: Mischance.

SYN: Misfortune, misadventure, mishap, [See CHANCE and MISADVENTURE].

KEY: Mischief.

SYN: Damage, hurt, detriment, disservice, annoyance, injury, ill-turn, damage, barm.

ANT: Compensation, good-turn, benefit, favor, gratification.

KEY: Mischievous.

SYN: Detrimental, injurious, spiteful, wanton.

ANT: Beneficial, advantageous, reparatory, conservative, careful, protective.

KEY: Miscible.

SYN: Compoundable, amalgamate.

ANT: Uncompoundable, immiscible.

KEY: Miscompute, [See COMPUTE].

KEY: Misconceive, [See CONCEIVE].

KEY: Misconduct, [See CONDUCT].

KEY: Misconjecture.

SYN: Miscalculation, missupposition.

ANT: Hit, discovery, ascertain.

KEY: Misconstrue, [See CONSTRUE].

KEY: Miscount, [See COUNT].

KEY: Miscreant.

SYN: [See ROGUE].

KEY: Misdeed, [See DEED and CRIME].

KEY: Misdemeanor.

SYN: Transgression, trespass, fault, misdeed, [See CRIME and FAULT].

KEY: Misdirect, [See STRAIGHT].

KEY: Misdoing, [See MISDEED].

KEY: Misemploy, [See EMPLOY].

KEY: Miser.

SYN: Niggard, churl, skinflint, curmudgeon, screw, scrimp, hunks.

ANT: Prodigal, spendthrift, rake.

KEY: Miserable.

SYN: Abject, forlorn, pitiable, wretched, worthless, despicable, disconsolate.

ANT: Respectable, worthy, happy, contented, comfortable.

KEY: Miserly, [See LIBERAL].

KEY: Misery.

SYN: Wretchedness, heartache, woe, broken heart, bleeding heart, great unhappiness, [See CALAMITY and MISFORTUNE].

KEY: Misestimate, [See ESTIMATE and VALUE].

KEY: Misfortune, [See DISASTER and MISADVENTURE].

KEY: Misgiving, [See DOUBT and DISTRUST].

KEY: Misgovern, [See GOVERN].

KEY: Misguide, [See GUIDE].

KEY: Mishap \n.\ [See HAZARD and MISADVENTURE].

KEY: Misinform, [See INFORM].

KEY: Misinstruct, [See INSTRUCT].

KEY: Misintelligence, [See INTELLIGENCE].

KEY: Misinterpret, [See INTERPRET].

KEY: Misjoin, [See JOIN and MATCH].

KEY: Mislay, [See LAY and LOSE].

KEY: Mislead, [See LEAD].

KEY: Mislike, [See LEARNED].

KEY: Mismanage, [See MANAGE], Mismatch, [See MATCH], Misname, [See NAME], Misnomer, [See NAME].

KEY: Mispersuade, [See PERSUADE].

KEY: Misplace, [See PLACE].

KEY: Mispronounce, [See PRONOUNCE].

KEY: Misproportioned.

SYN: Ungainly, {[minfuriut'tl]?}, ill-shaped.

ANT: Well-proportioned, elegant, harmonious, shapely.

KEY: Misquote, [See QUOTE].

KEY: Misreckon, [See RECKON].

KEY: Misreport, [See REPORT].

KEY: Misrepresent, [See REPRESENT].

KEY: Misrule, [See RULE].

KEY: Miss, [See LOSE and MEET].

KEY: Misshapen, [See FIGURE and MODEL].

KEY: Missile.

SYN: Projectile.

ANT: Artillery, band-arms, sidearm, Mission.

SYN: Commission, trust, office, delegation, ministry, embassy, legation, deputation, errand, message.

ANT: Assumption, usurpation, self-appointment.

KEY: Missive.

SYN: Communication, despatch, message, [See MISSION].

ANT: [See MESSAGE].

KET: Misspend, [See SPEND].

KEY: Misstate, [See STATE].

KEY: Misstatement.

SYN: Misrepresentation, wrong statement, falsification.

ANT: Correct statement, true statement.

KEY: Mist.

SYN: Fog, obscurity, bewilderment, perplexity, haze.

ANT: Brightness, clearness, lucidity.

KEY: Mistake, [See ERROR].

KEY: Misteach, [See TEACH].

KEY: Mistranslate.

SYN: Misconstrue, misrender, [See CONSTRUE].

KEY: Mistrust \v.\ [See ENCIRCLE].

KEY: Misunderstanding, [See UNDERSTANDING].

KEY: Misuse \v.\ [See USE].

KEY: Misuse \n.\

SYN: Abuse, perversion, prostitution, [See ABUSE].

KEY: Mitigate, [See AGGRAVATE].

KEY: Mix, [See MINGLE].

KEY: Moan, [See BEWAIL].

KEY: Mob.

SYN: Disorderly crowd, tumultuous rabble, rude multitude, [See BEVY].

KEY: Mobile.

SYN: Movable, sensitive, fickle, inconstant, variable, ductile.

ANT: Immovable, inexorable, unfeeling, unvarying.

KEY: Mock.

SYN: Jeer, ridicule, flout, mimic, insult, ape, deride, deceive, imitate.

ANT: Salute, welcome, respect, admire, compliment, Mode, [See METHOD].

KEY: Model.

SYN: Standard, pattern, example, type, mould, design, copy.

ANT: Imitation, copy, production, execution, work.

KEY: Moderate.

SYN: Control, soften, allay, regulate, repress, govern, temper.

ANT: Disturb, disorganize, excite, misconduct.

KEY: Moderate \a.\

SYN: Limited, temperate, calm, dispassionate, sober, abstinent, sparing, steady, ordinary.

ANT: Extravagant, intemperate, rigorous, excessive, violent, extraordinary.

KEY: Moderation.

SYN: Temperance, sobriety, frugality, calmness, sedateness, mildness, coolness, deliberateness.

ANT: Immoderation, intemperance, hastiness, rashness, precipitation.

KEY: Moderator.

SYN: chairman, regulator, conductor, manager, president.

ANT: Disturber, agitator.

KEY: Modern.

SYN: Present, existent, new, new-fangled, new-fashioned, recent, late, novel, later.

ANT: Past, bygone, former, olden, ancient, old-fashioned, antiquated, obsolete.

KEY: Modest, [See CHASTE and MEEK].

KEY: Modesty.

SYN: Sobriety, diffidence, bashfulness, humility, pure-mindedness.

ANT: Vanity, conceit, self-sufficiency, self-admiration, foppery, coxcombry, wantonness, shamelessness, effrontery.

KEY: Modification.

SYN: Alteration, revision, variation, qualification, species.

ANT: Retention, stereotype, stabilisation.

KEY: Modish.

SYN: Fashionable, stylish, modern.

ANT: Unfashionable, quaint, unstylish, gawky, dowdy.

KEY: Modulation.

SYN: Harmonization, harmonies.

ANT: Intonation, recital, monotone.

KEY: Moil.

SYN: Daub, stain, dirt, muck, soil.

ANT: Cleanse, clean, absterge, purify.

KEY: Moist.

SYN: Damp, humid, dank, wet.

ANT: Arid, dry.

KEY: moisture.

SYN: Dampness, humidity.

ANT: Drynes.

KEY: molecule.

SYN: Atom, monad.

ANT: Body, bulk, organism, compound, structure.

KEY: Molest.

SYN: Trouble, disturb, tease, annoy, irritate, vex, plague, worry, discommode.

ANT: Soothe, caress, pacify, assuage, pet, mollify.

KEY: Mollify, [See MOLEST].

KEY: Moment.

SYN: Instant, second, importance, twinkling, trice, weight, force, gravity, consequence, avail.

ANT: Age, period, century, generation, triviality, insignificance, worthlessness, unimportance, inefficacy.

KEY: Momentary.

SYN: Instantaneous, fleeting, transitory, [See INSTANT].

KEY: Momentous.

SYN: Significant, important, material, weighty, [See IMPORTANT].

KEY: Monad, [See MOLECULE].

KEY: Monarch.

SYN: King, sovereign, despot, tyrant, czar.

ANT: Peer, subject.

KEY: Monarchical.

SYN: Kingly, royal, despotic.

ANT: Republican, democratic, oligarchical, autocratic.

KEY: Monastic.

SYN: Conventual, cenobitical, regular, monkish.

ANT: Unconventual, social, secular.

KEY: Monition, [See ADMONISH].

KEY: Monitor.

SYN: Adviser, instructor, mentor, warner.

ANT: Misadviser, misinstructor, deceiver, misdirector, back-friend, seducer.

KEY: Monitory.

SYN: Advisory, hortatory.

ANT: Deceptive, seductive.

KEY: Monkish, [See MONASTIC].

KEY: Monopoly.

SYN: Privilege, engrossment, appropriation, exclusiveness, preoccupancy, impropriation.

ANT: Participation, partnership, community, competition, free-trade.

KEY: Monotheism.

SYN: Deism.

ANT: Polytheism.

KEY: Monotonous.

SYN: Uniform, unvaried, dull, humdrum, undiversified, tedious.

ANT: Varying, changing.

KEY: Monotony.

SYN: Sameness, unvaryingness, tedium.

ANT: Variation, relief, diversion.

KEY: Monster.

SYN: Prodigy, portent, marvel, deformity, abnormity, fright, colossus, monstrosity, leviathan, fiend, brute.

ANT: Beauty, Venus, Adonis, Narcissus, gem, pet, jewel, angel, augury, harbinger.

KEY: Monstrous.

SYN: Prodigious, portentous, marvellous, deformed, abnormal, hideous, preposterous, intolerable.

ANT: Ordinary, familiar, unnoticeable, fair, comely, shapely, regular, natural, reasonable, just.

KEY: Monument, [See MEMORIAL].

KEY: Mood.

SYN: State, temper, humor, feeling, vein, disposition.

ANT: Mind, character, disposition, nature.

KEY: Moody.

SYN: Sullen, humorsome, gloomy, morose.

ANT: Blithe, genial, sociable, merry.

KEY: Moot.

SYN: Agitate, discuss, ventilate, argue.

ANT: Suppress, stifle, burke, hush, shelve.

KEY: Moral.

SYN: Mental, ideal, intellectual, spiritual, ethical, probable, inferential, presumptive, analogous, virtuous, well-conducted.

ANT: Physical, material, practical, demonstrative, mathematical, immoral, vicious.

KEY: Morals.

SYN: Manners, conduct, behavior, morality, habits, [See {[MASNEKS]?}].

KEY: Morass, [See MARSH].

KEY: Morbid.

SYN: Diseased, unsound, unhealthy, sickly.

ANT: Wholesome, healthy, sound.

KEY: Mordent.

SYN: Biting, keen, pun, gent.

ANT: Mellow, mild, soothing.

KEY: Moreover.

SYN: Besides, also, likewise, furthermore, [See LIKEWISE].

KEY: Morose.

SYN: Sullen, austere, moody, crabbed, surly, crusty.

ANT: Genial, indulgent, kindly.

KEY: Morsel, [See BIT].

KEY: Mortal.

SYN: Human, ephemeral, sublunary, short-lived, deadly, fatal, perishable, destructive.

ANT: Divine, Immortal, celestial, life-giving, venial, salutiferous, superficial, Mortality, [See DEATH].

KEY: Mortify.

SYN: Deaden, subdue, master, vex, disappoint, annoy, rot, fester, humble, abash, chagrin, displace, putrefy.

ANT: Feed, pamper, indulge, plea?e, gratify, delight, satisfy, heal, recover.

KEY: Mostly.

SYN: Mainly, chiefly, in great measure, for the most part, for the greatest part, [See MAINLY].

KEY: Motherly.

SYN: Maternal, affectionate, tender, kind, [See KIND].

KEY: Motion, [See MOVEMENT].

KEY: Motionless, [See STILL].

KEY: Motive.

SYN: Inducement, purpose, design, prompting, stimulus, reason, impulse, incitement.

ANT: Execution, action, effort, deed, attempt, project, preventive, deterrent, dissuasive.

KEY: Motley.

SYN: Parti-colored, variegated, mixed, medley, heterogeneous, diversified.

ANT: Uniform, homogeneous, alike, monochromatic, mottled, [See MOTLEY and MACULATED].

KEY: Mold.

SYN: Fashion, shape, manipulate, for, {[n]?}, cast, configure.

ANT: Distort, strain, pervert, mis shape.

KEY: Moldy.

SYN: Green, rusty, fusty, musty, over-ripe.

ANT: Fresh, wholesome, pure, sweet, receipt.

KEY: Mount, [See ASCEND].

KEY: Mourn, [See GRIEVE and BEWAIL].

KEY: Mournful.

SYN: Sad, melancholy, tearful, doleful, depressing, wailing, lugubrious.

ANT: Joyous, mirthful, exhilarating.

KEY: Movable, [See STATIONARY].

KEY: Move.

SYN: Change, [See CONTROL and GOVERN], progress, stir, affect, agitate, actuate, impel, propose, advance, propel, instigate, provoke.

ANT: Stand, stop, lie, rest, stay, allay, deter, prevent, arrest, withdraw.

KEY: Movement.

SYN: Motion, move, change of place.

ANT: Stop, rest, pause, stillness, quietness.

KEY: Much.

SYN: Abundant, plenteous, greatly, abundantly, fur, considerable, ample.

ANT: Little, scant, slightly, shortly, short, near.

KEY: Mucilaginous.

SYN: Gelatinous, albuminous, creamy, glairy, viscous, lentous.

ANT: Limpid, crystalline, bubbling, frothing, foaming, effervescent, sparkling, spirituous.

KEY: Muddle.

SYN: Fail, waste, fritter away, confuse, derange, misarrange.

ANT: Clarify, manage, economize, classify, arrange.

KEY: Muddy.

SYN: Luteous, swampy, turbid, clayey.

ANT: Dry, arid, rocky, arenaceous, sandy, limpid, pellucid, crystalline.

KEY: Muffle.

SYN: Shroud, enfold, disguise, conceal, envelop.

ANT: {[Unmuole]?}, unfold, exhibit, reveal.

KEY: Muggy.

SYN: Foggy, misty, dank, damp, murky, dim, vaporous, cloudy.

ANT: Clear, bright, vaporless.

KEY: Mulct \n.\

SYN: Amercement, damages, forfeiture, penalty.

ANT: Guerdon, douceur, bonus, reward, premium.

KEY: Mulish.

SYN: Stubborn, obstinate, headstrong, cross-grained, intractable, [See TRACTABLE].

KEY: Multifarious.

SYN: Various, varied, multigenerous, multitudinous, multifold, manifold, multiform.

ANT: Single, uniform, unvaried, unvarying, few.

KEY: Multifold, [See MULTIFARIOUS].

KEY: Multiform, [See MULTIFARIOUS].

KEY: Multiplication.

SYN: Multiplicity, plurality, multitudinousness, multifariousness, multitude, repetition, reiter ation, reproduction, augmentation, swarming, teeming.

ANT: Singularity, unity, scantiness, rarity, diminution, extinction.

KEY: Multisonous.

SYN: Many-voiced, tuneful.

ANT: Unisonous, droning, monotonous.

KEY: Multitude.

SYN: Crowd, swarm, accumulation, throng, concourse, number, host, mob, rabble.

ANT: Paucity, scantiness, sprinkling.

KEY: Multitudinous, [See MULTIFARIOUS].

KEY: Mummery.

SYN: Antics, masquerade, vagary, buffoonery.

ANT: Pageant, procession, exhibition.

KEY: Mundane.

SYN: Worldly, secular, temporal, earthly.

ANT: Unworldly, spiritual, heavenly, ethereal, supramundane.

KEY: munificent.

SYN: Liberal, princely, bounteous, generous.

ANT: Niggardly, beggarly.

KEY: Murky, [See MUGGY].

KEY: Murmur.

SYN: Undertone, whisper, mutter, grumble, complaint, repining.

ANT: Clamor, vociferation, bawling, outcry, defiance, execration, salutation, acclamation.

KEY: Murmur \v.\ [See GROWL].

KEY: Muscular.

SYN: Powerful, brawny, robust, sinewy, strong, stalwart, athletic, lusty, sturdy.

ANT: Debile, flabby, feeble, lanky.

KEY: Muse.

SYN: Reflect, ponder, cogitate, dream, think, meditate.

ANT: Stir, act, move.

KEY: Musical.

SYN: Melodious, harmonious, dulcet, concordant, rythmical, tuneful, mellifluous.

ANT: Unmelodious, inharmonious, harsh, discordant.

KEY: Muster \v.\

SYN: Marshal, collect, assemble, rally, enroll, gather.

ANT: Dismiss, disperse, relegate, remit, disband.

KEY: Musty.

SYN: Fusty, rank, mouldy, frowzy, stale, sour, fetid, mildewed.

ANT: Fragrant, fresh, balmy, aromatic, odorous.

KEY: Mutable.

SYN: Changeable, changeful, mobile, transient, ephemeral, inconstant, unsteadfast, fickle, fitful, undecided, restless.

ANT: Unchanging, permanent, immutable, persistent, changeless, Mutation, [See VARIATION].

KEY: Mute.

SYN: Silent, speechless, dumb, taciturn, voiceless, still, death-like.

ANT: Chattering, talkative, garrulous, loquacious, vocal, tuneful, loud.

KEY: Mutilate, [See MAIM].

KEY: Mutinous.

SYN: Turbulent, seditious, insurgent, riotous, tumultuous, unruly, refractory, insurrectionary.

ANT: Obedient, loyal, submissive.

KEY: Mutter.

SYN: Murmur, mumble.

ANT: Enunciate, exclaim, pronounce, vociferate.

KEY: Mutual.

SYN: Reciprocal, common, interchangeable, alternate.

ANT: One-sided, unreciprocated, unmutual.

KEY: Muzzle.

SYN: Silence, burke, restrain, gag, stop.

ANT: release, liberate, open, unmuzzle, free.

KEY: Mysterious.

SYN: Dim, obscure, unrevealed, unexplained, unaccountable, reserved, veiled, hidden, secret, incomprehensible, mystic, inexplicable.

ANT: Clear, plain, obvious, explained, understood, easy, explainable, simple, frank, communicative.

KEY: Mystery.

SYN: Enigma, puzzle, obscurity, secrecy, veil, shroud, arcanum.

ANT: Publication, solution, commonplace, truism, matter-of-fact.

KEY: Mystic.

SYN: Mysterious, cabalistic, magical.

ANT: Plain, matter-of-fact, everyday, familiar, commonplace, obvious, household.

KEY: Mystify.

SYN: Confuse, bamboozle, hoodwink, puzzle, confound, mislead, obfuscate.

ANT: Illumine, enlighten, inform, guide.

KEY: Myth.

SYN: Fable, legend, parable, supposition, fiction, allegory, fabulous story, fabrication.

ANT: Fact, history, narrative.

KEY: Mythological.

SYN: Fabulous, mythical, [See H].

KEY: Nab, (\coll.\)

SYN: Catch, clutch, grasp, seize, lay hold on, lay hands on, [See CATCH].

KEY: Nabob.

SYN: Millionaire, Croesus, mau of wealth, man of fortune, very rich man, man of great distinction.

ANT: Man not wealthy, man not distinguished.

KEY: Nacreous, [See IRIDESCENT].

KEY: Naked.

SYN: Nude, bare, unclothed, denuded, undraped, defenceless, destitute, unqualified, uncolored, unvarnished, mere, simple.

ANT: Dressed, robed, draped, muffled, protected, qualified, veiled, shrouded, colored, varnished.

KEY: Name \n.\

SYN: Designation, cognomination, appellation, title, fame, reputation, authority, appointment, stead, representation.

ANT: Namelessness, anonymousness, misnomer, pseudonym, obscurity, ingloriousness, disrepute, individuality, person.

KEY: Name \v.\

SYN: Spectry, designate, call, Indicate.

ANT: Misname, miscall, misdesignate, misindicate, hint, suggest, shadow, adumbrate.

KEY: Narrate.

SYN: recite, tell, report, detail, relate, rehearse, recount.

ANT: Suppress, conceal, blink, misreport, misrepresent, misrelate, misstate.

KEY: Narrow.

SYN: Straight, straightened, slender, thin, spare, contracted, limited, cramped, pinched, scant, close, scrutinizing, near, bigoted, niggardly, tight.

ANT: Wide, broad, ample, thick, expanded, easy, liberal.

KEY: Nascent.

SYN: Youthful, rising, green, incipient, embryo, rudimental, budding.

ANT: Mature, aged, confirmed, developed, grown.

KEY: Nasty.

SYN: Fool, offensive, odious, disagreeable, indelicate, impure, gross, unclean, obscene.

ANT: Nice, pleasant, sweet, savory, agreeable, pure.

KEY: Nation.

SYN: Race, people, realm, community, commonwealth, state, [See COMMUNITY and PEOPLE].

KEY: Native.

SYN: Indigenous, home, exported, artless, natural, proper, suitable, congenital, inbred, vernacular.

ANT: Foreign, Imported, exotic, alien, artificial, acquired, assumed, affected.

KEY: Natural.

SYN: Intrinsic, eventual, regular, normal, cosmical, true, probable, consistent, spontaneous, unless, original.

ANT: {[Acitition]?}, adventitious, abnormal, monstrous, unnatural, fictitious, improbable, unsupposable, forced, artful, affected.

KEY: Nature.

SYN: Essence, creation, constitution, structure, disposition, truth, regularity, kind, sort, character, species, affection, naturalness.

ANT: Thing, object, subject, man, being, creature, monstrosity, unnaturalness, art, fiction, romance, invention.

KEY: Naught.

SYN: Nothing.

ANT: Aught, anything, everything.

KEY: Naughty.

SYN: Worthless, vile, corrupt, bad, froward, refractory, wicked, perverse.

ANT: Worthy, good, precious, pure, docile, tractable, well-behaved.

KEY: Nausea.

SYN: Loathing, disgust, abomination, qualm, sea-sickness.

ANT: Taste, relish, enjoyment.

KEY: Nauseous.

SYN: Loathsome, sickening, disgusting, [See ABOMINABLE].

KEY: Nautical, [See MARINE].

KEY: Near.

SYN: Nigh, close, adjacent, neighboring, (Sometimes used in the sense of parsimonious).

ANT: Far, distant, remote.

KEY: Nearly.

SYN: Almost, closely, approximately.

ANT: Quite, entirely, distantly, remotely.

KEY: Neat, [See TIDY].

KEY: Necessary.

SYN: Certain, inevitable, indispensable, requisite, essential, compulsory, needful, expedient.

ANT: Contingent, casual, optional, discretional, unnecessary, unessential, free.

KEY: Necessitate, [See COMPEL].

KEY: Necessity.

SYN: Indispensableness, inevitableness, need, indigence, requirement, want, fate, destiny.

ANT: dispensableness, uncertainty, superfluity, uselessness, competence, affluence, casualty, contingency, freedom, choice.

KEY: Need, [See NECESSITY].

KEY: Needful, [See AMBIGUOUS].

KEY: Needless.

SYN: Unnecessary, useless, superfluous, gratuitous.

ANT: Needful, useful, helpful, obligatory.

KEY: Nefarious, [See ATROCIOUS].

KEY: Negation, [See ASSERT].

KEY: Negative.

SYN: Denying, privative, disclaiming, indirect.

ANT: Assertive, attributive, positive, direct.

KEY: Neglect \v.\

SYN: Slight, overlook, omit, disregard, disesteem, despite, contemn.

ANT: Consider, respect, notice, observe, regard, esteem, tend, attend, foster, study.

KEY: Neglect \n.\

SYN: Negligence, disregard, omission, failure, default, slight, carelessness, remissness.

ANT: Attention, consideration, respect, notice, regard, esteem.

KEY: Negotiate.

SYN: Transact, effect, pass, perform.

ANT: Mismanage, misconduct, quash, stop.

KEY: Neighborly, [See SOCIABLE].

KEY: Nerve.

SYN: Strength, firmness, resolution.

ANT: Nerveless, forceless, feeble, weak, enfeebled, impotent, palsied, [See COURAGE].

KEY: Nervous, [See VIGOROUS and TIMID].

KEY: Nettle.

SYN: Sting, fret, provoke, [See INCENSE].

KEY: Neutral.

SYN: Uninterfering, impartial, indifferent, negative, unavowed.

ANT: Partial, interested, interfering, active, positive, declared, avowed.

KEY: Neutrality.

SYN: Non-interference, indifference.

ANT: Interference, activity.

KEY: Neutralize.

SYN: Counteract, compensate, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail.

ANT: Aggravate, enhance, Intensify.

KEY: New.

SYN: Novel, recent, fresh, modern.

ANT: Old, ancient, antique, antiquated, obsolete.

KEY: News.

SYN: Intelligence, Information, tidings, [See INTELLIGENCE].

KEY: New-fangled.

SYN: Upstart, newlight, innovating, strange, odd, fantastic, novel.

ANT: Venerable, time-honored, established, ancient, old, old-fashioned.

KEY: Nibble.

SYN: Carp, cavil, peck, object, demur.

ANT: Accept, eulogize, command, endorse, allow.

KEY: Nice.

SYN: Fastidious, scrupulous, accurate, neat, discerning, dainty, pleasant, agreeable, exact, fine, finished, particular.

ANT: Coarse, unscrupulous, inaccurate, rude, rough, undiscriminating, nasty, nauseous, disagreeable.

KEY: Sleety.

SYN: Fastidiousness, scrupulousness, accuracy.

ANT: Coarseness, inaccuracy, rudeness, roughness.

KEY: Niggard, [See MISER].

KEY: Niggardly, [See LIBERAL].

KEY: Nimble.

SYN: Agile, quick, lively, sprightly, [See SLOW].

KEY: Nobility.

SYN: Distinction, dignity, rank, peerage, lordship, loftiness, generosity, rank, aristocracy.

ANT: Obscurity, meanness, commonalty, serfdom, paltriness, contemptibleness, plebeianism.

KEY: Noble.

SYN: Grand, aristocratic, generous, illustrious, exalted, worthy, magnanimous, dignified, excellent, lofty-minded, honorable, fine.

ANT: Mean, plebeian, ignoble, paltry.

KEY: Nobody, [See CIPHER].

KEY: Nocturnal.

SYN: Nightly, dark, gloomy, tenebrose.

ANT: Diurnal, light, brilliant, solar.

KEY: Nodosity.

SYN: Protuberance, protuberousness, knottiness, tuberosity, lumpiness.

ANT: Planeness, evenness, smoothness, polish, levigation.

KEY: Noise.

SYN: Sound, clamor, rattle, din, uproar, tumult.

ANT: Note, voice, music, melody, silence, still n ess, voicelessness, hush.

KEY: Noiseless, [See NOISY].

KEY: Noisome.

SYN: Hurtful, harmful, nocuous, pestilential.

ANT: Wholesome, salutary, salubrious, beneficial.

KEY: Noisy.

SYN: Loud, clamorous, stunning.

ANT: Still, soft, inaudible, whispering, soothing, musical, melodious, harmonious, tuneful, subdued, gentle, noiseless.

KEY: Nomad.

SYN: Pastoral, vagrant, Arab, Scythian, roving, migratory.

ANT: Fixed, unwandering, agricultural, unroving, urban.

KEY: Nominal.

SYN: Trifling, suppositious, ostensible, professed, pretended, formal.

ANT: Real, deep, serious, important, grave, substantial, actual, intrinsic, veritable, essential.

KEY: Nominate.

SYN: Name, specify, appoint, individualize, define, invest, present, entitle.

ANT: Suggest, indicate, conjecture, describe, recal, deprive, cancel, withdraw, divert.

KEY: Nonsense.

SYN: Absurdity, trash, folly, pretense, jest, balderdash.

ANT: Sense, wisdom, truth, fact, gravity, philosophy, science, reason.

KEY: Nonsensical, [See FOOLISH].

KEY: Normal.

SYN: Regular, typical, usual, recognized, natural, ordinary.

ANT: Abnormal, irregular, unnatural, exceptional, monstrous.

KEY: Notable, [See REMARKABLE].

KEY: Note \n.\ [See PARASITE].

KEY: Note \v.\ [See NOTICE].

KEY: Notice \n.\

SYN: Observation, cognizance, heed, advice, news, consideration, visitation, mark, note.

ANT: Oversight, disregard, misinformation, mistidings, neglect, slight, connivance, ignorance, incognizance, heedlessness, amnesty, omission.

KEY: Notice \v.\

SYN: Mark, note, observe, attend to, mention, heed, regard, give heed to, [See REGARD].

KEY: Noticeable, [See REMARKABLE].

KEY: Notification.

SYN: Notice, declaration, publication, [See NOTICE].

KEY: Notify.

SYN: Intimate, declare, announce, give notice to, acquaint, communicate, apprise, inform, warn.

ANT: Suppress, withhold, conceal, misreport.

KEY: Notion.

SYN: Apprehension, idea, conception, judgment, opinion, belief, expectation, sentiment.

ANT: Misapprehension, falsification, misbelief, misjudgment, frustration, misconception.

KEY: Notoriety.

SYN: Publicity, vogue, repute, celebrity, knowledge certainty.

ANT: Privacy, secrecy, concealment, obscurity, mystery, suspicion, rumor, whisper.

KEY: Notorious.

SYN: Known, undisputed, recognized, allowed.

ANT: Suspected, reported, reputed.

KEY: Nourish.

SYN: Nurture, fed, foster, cherish, nurse, tend, support, promote.

ANT: Starve blight, destroy, kill, wither.

KEY: Nourishment, [See ALIENATE].

KEY: Novel, [See NEW-FANGLED].

KEY: Novice, [See TYRO].

KEY: Noxious, [See NOISOME].

KEY: Nucleus.

SYN: Core, central part, center, kernel, [See CORE].

KEY: Nudity.

SYN: Nakedness, bareness, exposure.

ANT: Clothing, drapery, investment, dress.

KEY: Nugatory.

SYN: Trifling, vain, inoperative, ineffectual, null, void.

ANT: Grave, serious, important, potent, efficacious, momentous, successful, satisfactory.

KEY: Nuisance.

SYN: Offence, annoyance, plague, pest, trouble.

ANT: Gratification, blessing, pleasure, delight, benefit.

KEY: Null, [See VOID].

KEY: Nullify.

SYN: Abrogate, neutralize, cancel, abolish, extinguish, annul, quash, repeal.

ANT: Confirm, perpetuate, reenact, stabilitate, establish, cherish.

KEY: Number, [See COUNT].

KEY: Numberless.

SYN: Countless, innumerable, infinite,.

ANT: Few, scarce, rare.

KEY: Numbness.

SYN: Hebetude, callousness, insensibility.

ANT: acuteness, sensibility, liveliness, sensitiveness.

KEY: Numerous, [See MANY].

KEY: Nuptial.

SYN: Connubial, hymeneal, bridal.

KEY: Nuptials.

SYN: Wedding, marriage, espousal, [See MARRIAGE].

KEY: Nurse, [See NOURISH].

KEY: Nursery.

SYN: [See {[{d-plot}?], seminary, plantation, school.

ANT: World, life, education, profession.

KEY: Nurture, [See NOURISH].

KEY: Nutriment.

SYN: Aliment, food, sustenance, nourishment, replenishment, sustentation, {[pibalum]?}.

ANT: Starvation, languishment, decay, inanition, exhaustion, poison, detriment.

KEY: Nutrition.

SYN: Alimentation, sustentation, feeding,.

ANT: Exhaustion, starvation, inanition.

KEY: Oaf, [See BOOBY].

KEY: Obdurate.

SYN: Hardened, obstinate, stubborn, impenitent, reprobate, callous, unfeeling, insensible, unyielding.

ANT: Softened, flexible, tender, teachable, yielding, penitent, docile, amenable.

KEY: Obedience.

SYN: Submission, compliance, subservience.

ANT: Resistance, rebellion, violation, transgression, antagonism, disobedience.

KEY: Obedient, [See SUBMISSIVE].

KEY: Obesity.

SYN: Fatness, fleshiness, corpulence, plumpness, corpulency, embonpoint.

ANT: Leanness, thinness.

KEY: Obey.

SYN: Submit, comply, yield.

ANT: Resist, disobey, refuse, [See OBEDIENCE].

KEY: Object \n.\

SYN: Appearance, sight, design, end, aim, motive, intent, view, goal.

ANT: Idea, notion, conception, fancy, subject, proposal, purpose, effect.

KEY: Object to \v.\

SYN: Oppose, contravene, obstruct, defer to, except to, gainsay, disapprove.

ANT: Approve, approve of.

KEY: Objective.

SYN: Extrinsic, concrete, external.

ANT: Intrinsic, abstract, notional, subjective.

KEY: Objurgate, [See SCOLD].

KEY: Oblation.

SYN: Offering, presentment, gift.

ANT: Spoliation, sacrilege, withholding, resumption, refusal, negation.

KEY: Obligation.

SYN: Duty, necessity, compulsion, contract, bond, covenant, belief.

ANT: Promise, word, choice, freedom, assurance, declaration, intention, exemption.

KEY: Oblige.

SYN: Compel, coerce, necessitate, force, benefit, favor, accommodate, gratify, bind, constrain.

ANT: Release, acquit, induce, persuade, {[annon]?}, disoblige.

KEY: Obliging.

SYN: Kind, considerate, compliant, complaisant, accommodating.

ANT: Discourteous, rude, crossgrained, perverse, unaccomadating, disobliging.

KEY: Oblique.

SYN: Divergent, diagonal, lateral, angular.

ANT: straight, rectilineal, forward.

KEY: Obliterate \v.\ [See EFFACE].

KEY: Oblivion \n.\

SYN: Forgetfulness, disremembrance.

ANT: Remembrance, recollection, memory, reminiscence, commemoration, celebration.

KEY: Obloquy.

SYN: Censure, blame, defamation, contumely, reproach.

ANT: Praise, panegyric, acclamation, encomium.

KEY: Obnoxious.

SYN: Odious, detrimental, pernicious, amenable, liable, blameworthy, offensive, answerable.

ANT: Pleasant, grateful, whole some, salutary, beneficial, unamenable, independent, exempt.

KEY: Obscene.

SYN: Impure, immodest, indecent, lewd, four, indelicate, filthy, disgusting, foul-mouthed.

ANT: Pure, modest, decent.

KEY: Obscure \a.\

SYN: Dark, dim, lowering, indistinct, enigmatical, uncertain, doubtful, unascertained, humble, unintelligible, mean.

ANT: Bright, luminous, distinct, lucid, plain, plain spoken, intelligible, unambiguous, ascertained, eminent, prominent.

KEY: Obscure \v.\

SYN: Conceal, darken.

ANT: Reveal, make known, discover.

KEY: Obsequious.

SYN: Submissive, servile, deferential, cringing, sycophantic, flattering.

ANT: Insubmissive, independent, arrogant, self assertive, impudent.

KEY: Observance.

SYN: Attention, fulfilment, respect, celebration, performance, ceremony, custom, form, rule, practice.

ANT: Inobservance, inattention, breach, disrespect, disregard, desuetude, disuse, non-performance, informality, ceremoniousness, omission,.

KEY: Observant.

SYN: Regardful, attentive, mindful, obedient, watchful, heedful,.

ANT: Disregardful, neglectful, unmindful, disobedient, heedless.

KEY: Observation.

SYN: Contemplation, study, remark, attention, notice, comment.

ANT: Disregard, oversight, inadvertence, inattention, silence, ignorance.

KEY: Observe.

SYN: Remark, mark, watch, note, behold, perceive keep, heed, respect, [See PERCEIVE].

KEY: Obsolete.

SYN: Antiquated, past, effete, disused, archaic, old-fashioned.

ANT: Fashionable, modern, current, customary, operative, extant.

KEY: Obstacle.

SYN: Impediment, obstruction, hindrance, objection, bar, difficulty, check, obstruction.

ANT: Course, proceeding, career, advancement.

KEY: Obstinate.

SYN: Headstrong, stubborn, refractory, self-willed, pertinacious, obdurate, perverse, intractable.

ANT: Amenable, complaisant, yielding, docile, ductile, characterless, irresolute, wavering.

KEY: Obstinacy, [See OBSTINATE].

KEY: Obstreperous.

SYN: Noisy, uproarious, clamorous, rattling.

ANT: Subdued, quiet, noiseless, inobstreperous.

KEY: Obstruct.

SYN: Bar, block, choke, hinder, impede, interrupt, retard, clog.

ANT: Open, clear, pave, facilitate, expedite, further, advance, promote, accelerate, aid.

KEY: Obstruction.

SYN: Hinderance, obstacle, impediment, [See OBSTACLE].

KEY: Obtain, [See ACQUIRE].

KEY: Obtestation.

SYN: Entreaty, supplication, adjuration.

ANT: Abjuration, deprecation, defiance.

KEY: Obtrude.

SYN: Force, thrust, interfere, intrude.

ANT: Suggest, insinuate, retire, withdraw.

KEY: Obtuse.

SYN: Dull, stupid, unintelligent, stolid, doltish.

ANT: Acute, clever, intelligent, quick, sharp.

KEY: Obumbrate.

SYN: Shade, overshadow, darken.

ANT: Lighten, illumine, elucidate.

KEY: Obverse.

SYN: Opposite, facing.

ANT: Hinder, reverse.

KEY: Obvious.

SYN: Plain, self-evident, manifest, explicit, apparent, open, patent.

ANT: Remote, obscure, farfetched, involved, latent.

KEY: Occasion \n.\

SYN: Conjuncture, opportunity, occurrence, cause, need, event, reason, necessity, opening, ground.

ANT: Untimeliness, unseasonableness, frustration.

KEY: Occasion \v.\

SYN: Cause, make, create, [See PRODUCE and CREATE].

KEY: Occasionally.

SYN: Sometimes, casually, rarely.

ANT: Always, regularly, constantly, frequently.

KEY: Occult.

SYN: Latent, hidden, unrevealed, mysterious, secret, dark, unknown.

ANT: Developed, plain, patent clear, familiar, exposed, open.

KEY: Occupancy.

SYN: Possession, enjoyment, tenure.

ANT: Ejection, eviction, dispossession.

KEY: Occupant.

SYN: Owner, resident, proprietor, tenant, occupier.

ANT: Foreigner, stranger, visitor, intruder, usurper.

KEY: Occupation.

SYN: Employment, avocation, possession, usurpation, encroachment, tenure, calling, pursuit, trade, business, holding.

ANT: Idleness, vacancy, leisure, abandonment, vacation, re signation.

KEY: Occupier, [See OCCUPANT].

KEY: Occupy.

SYN: Hold, possess, employ, fill, busy, [See HOLD].

KEY: Occur.

SYN: Befall, happen, betide, supervene, take place, appear, arise.

ANT: Pass, threaten, impend.

KEY: Occurrence.

SYN: Event, affair, incident, transaction, adventure, [See EVENT].

KEY: Ocular.

SYN: Visible, demonstrable, palpable.

ANT: Inferential, auricular, hearsay, circumstantial, deductive, constructive.

KEY: Odd.

SYN: Alone, sole, unmatched, remaining, over, fragmentary, uneven, singular, peculiar, queer, quaint, fantastical, uncommon, nondescript.

ANT: Aggregate, consociate, matched, balanced, squared, integrant, even, common, usual, regular, normal.

KEY: Odious.

SYN: Hateful, offensive, detestable, abominable.

ANT: Delectable, grateful, acceptable, pleasant.

KEY: Odium.

SYN: Hatred, offensiveness, dislike, invidiousness, jealousy, unpopularity, grudge.

ANT: Love, tastefulness, accept, ableness, popularity, ungrudging, news, welcome.

KEY: Odor.

SYN: Smell, scent, fragrance, perfume, redolence, effluvium, fume, trail, nidor.

ANT: inodorousness, absence of smell, want of smell.

KEY: Odorous, [See FRAGRANT].

KEY: Offal, [See CREAM].

KEY: Offence, Offense.

SYN: Attack, sin, crime, umbrage, transgression, crime, misdeed, injury, wrong, affront, outrage, insult, trespass, indignity, misdemeanor.

ANT: defence, innocence, guiltlessness.

KEY: Offend.

SYN: Displease, affront, outrage, irritate, shock, annoy, pain, wound, nettle, vex, err, fall.

ANT: Conciliate, gratify, please.

KEY: Offender, [See CULPRIT].

KEY: Offensive.

SYN: Aggressive, obnoxious, distasteful, displeasing, foul, fetid, unsavory.

ANT: Defensive, grateful, pleasant, savory.

KEY: Offer.

SYN: Propose, exhibit, proffer, present, tender, extend, adduce, volunteer.

ANT: Withhold, withdraw, retract, retain, alienate, divest.

KEY: Offering, [See OFFER and OBLATION].

KEY: Off-hand.

SYN: Impromptu, unpremeditated, extempore, unstudied,.

ANT: premeditated, studied, thought out, elaborate.

KEY: Office.

SYN: Service, duty, appointment, function, employment, station, business post.

ANT: Leisure, vacancy, resignation, sinecure.

KEY: Officer.

SYN: Official, functionary, conductor, director, administrator, manager, dignitary, official.

ANT: Member, servant, private, sinecurist.

KEY: Official \n.\ [See OFFICER].

KEY: Official \n.\

SYN: Administrative, authoritative, negotiative, functional, professional.

ANT: Private, unofficial, unprofessional.

KEY: Officiate.

SYN: Act, serve, perform.

ANT: Retire, witness.

KEY: Officious.

SYN: Meddling, interfering, pushing, forward, intrusive, intermeddling.

ANT: Backward, negligent, remiss, unofficious, retiring, modest, backward.

KEY: Often.

SYN: Frequently, repeatedly.

ANT: Infrequently, seldom.

KEY: Ogre.

SYN: Spectre, goblin, hobgoblin, , bugbear, [See SPECTRE].

KEY: Oily, [See OLEAGINOUS].

KEY: Old.

SYN: Aged, pristine, long-standing, ancient, preceding, antiquated, obsolete, senile antique.

ANT: Youthful, young, recent, fresh, modern, subsequent, newfashioned, current.

KEY: Oleaginous.

SYN: Oily, unctuous, pulchritudinous.

ANT: Harsh, dry, sour, acid, moistureless.

KEY: Omen.

SYN: Augury, sign, presage, portent, forboding, prognostic, [See PRESAGE].

KEY: Ominous.

SYN: Portentous, suggestive, threatening, foreboding, premonitory, unpropitious.

ANT: Auspicious, propitious, encouraging.

KEY: Omission.

SYN: Oversight, exclusion.

ANT: Attention, insertion, notice.

KEY: Omit.

SYN: Neglect, fail, miss, leave out, pass by, overlook, [See NEGLECT].

KEY: Omnipotent.

SYN: all-powerful, Almighty, irresistible,.

ANT: powers, inefficient.

KEY: Omniscient.

SYN: All-knowing, all-wise, infallible.

ANT: Short sight, ignorant, fallible.

KEY: One.

SYN: Single, undivided, individual.

ANT: Many.

KEY: Oneness, [See UNITY].

KEY: Onerous.

SYN: Burdensome, toilsome, heavy, responsible, oppressive, laborious, oppose, difficult.

ANT: Light, easy, trivial, inoppressive.

KEY: Only \a.\

SYN: Single, sole, alone, solitary.

ANT: Many, together, mixed.

KEY: Only, adv.

SYN: Solely, singly, merely, simply, barely.

ANT: Among, amongst, together, collectively.

KEY: Onset, [See ATTACK].

KEY: Onslaught, [See ATTACK].

KEY: Onward.

SYN: Forward, ahead, in advance.

ANT: Backward, astorm, aback.

KEY: Ooze.

SYN: Distill, drop, drip, percolate, perspire, sweat, drain, leak, transude.

ANT: [See POULTICE], rush, flow, stream, disgorge.

KEY: Opaque, [See TRANSPARENT].

KEY: Open \v.\

SYN: Unclose, lay open, lay Dare expose, explain, disclose, initiate, begin, commence.

ANT: Close, shut up, conceal, inclose, mystify, misinterpret, conclude, cover.

KEY: Open \a.\

SYN: Accessible, free, available, unshut, unfolded, public, free, unrestricted, unreserved, unaffected, genuine, barefaced, undisguised, above-board, liberal, unclosed, candid, frank, ingenuous, unsettled, undetermined.

ANT: Inaccessible, closed, barred, unavailable, shut, close, secretive, reserved, settled, determined.

KEY: Opening.

SYN: Aperture, gap, opportunity, space, commencement, initiation, start, inauguration, hole, fissure, chink, beginning.

ANT: Occlusion, obstruction, stopgap, unreasonableness, contretemps, inopportuneness, enclosure, termination, close, end, conclusion.

KEY: Operate.

SYN: Act, work, produce, effect, produce an effect, have effect.

ANT: Cease, rest, fail, misoperate.

KEY: Operation.

SYN: Agency, action, exercise, production, influence, performance.

ANT: Cessation, inaction, rest, inoperativeness, inefficacy, inefficiency, misoperation.

KEY: Operative.

SYN: Active, efficacious, serviceable, binding.

ANT: Inefficacious, inoperative.

KEY: Operose.

SYN: Onerous, laborious, burdensome, tedious, wearisome, toilsome.

ANT: Light, unburdensome, stimulating, refreshing.

KEY: Opine.

SYN: Think, believe, conjecture, suppose, judge, surmise.

ANT: Know, ascertain, verify.

KEY: Opinion.

SYN: Conviction, view, judgment, notion, idea, impression, estimation, theory.

KEY: Opinionative.

SYN: Dictatorial, dogmatical, self-conceited, oracular.

ANT: Modest, diffident, inquiring, vacillating, cautious, undemonstrative.

KEY: Opponent, [See ADVERSARY].

KEY: Opportune.

SYN: Timely, seasonable, appropriate, felicitous, suitable, fit, meet, auspicious.

ANT: Inopportune, untimely, unseasonable, infelicitous.

KEY: Opportunity.

SYN: Occasion, turn, opening, convenience.

ANT: Inopportuneness, unseasonableness, lapse, omission, contretemps.

KEY: Oppose.

SYN: Withstand, resist, mutch, obstruct, confront, oppugn, bar, hinder, contravene, check, thwart.

ANT: Aid, abet, back, support, advance, expedite.

KEY: Opposition.

SYN: Resistance, hostility, obstacle, obstruction, [See ANIMOSITY].

KEY: Opposite.

SYN: Facing, adverse, repugnant, inconsistent, irreconcilable, contrary, antagonistic, counter, contradictory.

ANT: Agreeing, coincident, consentaneous.

KEY: Oppress.

SYN: Burden, grind, weigh down, persecute, aggrieve, maltreat, abuse, overbear, constrain.

ANT: Encourage, support, patronize, assist, befriend.

KEY: Oppression.

SYN: Cruelty, tyranny, severity, injustice, hardship.

ANT: Kindness, mercy, clemency, leniency, justice, [See TYRANNY].

KEY: Oppressive.

SYN: Heavy, overpowering, unjust, {[gaLLug]?}, extortionate, grinding.

ANT: light, just, compassionate, [See {[CBTJKL]?}].

KEY: Opprobrious.

SYN: Insulting, infamous, [See ABUSIVE].

KEY: Opprobrium.

SYN: Reproach, scandal, disgrace, obloquy, ignominy, odium, [See OBLOQUY and ODIUM].

KEY: Option.

SYN: Discretion, choice, preference, deliberation, wish, election.

ANT: Obligation, necessity, burden, compulsion.

KEY: Opulence.

SYN: Wealth, affluence, riches, fortune.

ANT: Poverty, indigence, impecuniosity.

KEY: Opulent.

SYN: Rich, well to do, moneyed, affluent, [See RICH].

KEY: Oracular, [See OPINIONATIVE].

KEY: Oral.

SYN: Unwritten, traditional, vocal, spoken, verbal.

ANT: Written, documentary.

KEY: Oration, [See COGITATE].

KEY: Oratory.

SYN: Eloquence, rhetoric, elocution, declamation.

ANT: Hesitation, tardiloquence, imperfection of speech.

KEY: Orb.

SYN: Sphere, circle, ball, globe.

KEY: Orbit.

SYN: Revolution, path, circuit, sphere.

ANT: Eccentricity, deviation, perturbation.

KEY: Ordain.

SYN: Set, appoint, decree, institute, prescribe, arrange, direct, regulate, dictate, establish.

ANT: Subvert, revoke, cancel, annul, disestablish, countermand.

KEY: Ordeal.

SYN: Test, trial, probation, experiment.

ANT: Argument, plea, discussion, Investigation, evidence.

KEY: Order \n.\

SYN: Arrangement, condition, sequence, direction, rank, grade, class, decree, succession, series, method, injunction, precept, command.

KEY: Order \v.\

SYN: Arrange, dispose, regulate, adjust, direct, command, classify, ordain, enjoin, prescribe, appoint, manage, [See ABRIDGMENT].

ANT: Disarrangement, confusion, unsettlement, inversion, execution, disorder.

KEY: Orderly.

SYN: Regular, equable, peaceable, methodical, quiet.

ANT: Irregular, disorderly, riotous.

KEY: Ordinance.

SYN: Statute, Institute, decree, law, edict, regulation, rule.

ANT: Custom, usage, prescription.

KEY: Ordinary.

SYN: Settled, wonted, conventional, plain, inferior, commonplace, humdrum, matter of fact.

ANT: Extraordinary, unusual, uncommon, superior, [See FUTILE].

KEY: Organic.

SYN: Fundamental, constitutional, radical.

ANT: Nonessential, circumstantial, contingent, provisional.

KEY: Organization.

SYN: Structure, form, construction.

ANT: Disorganization.

KEY: Organize.

SYN: Shape, adjust, constitute, frame, dispose, arrange, construct.

ANT: Distort, break up, annul, disorganize, dismember, disband.

KEY: Orifice.

SYN: Aperture, perforation, mouth, opening, hole, bung, bunghole.

ANT: Obstruction, stopper, plug, imperforation.

KEY: Origin.

SYN: Source, commencement, spring, cause, derivation, rise, beginning.

ANT: Termination, conclusion, extinction.

KEY: Original.

SYN: Primary, initiatory, primordial, peculiar, pristine, ancient, former, first.

ANT: Subsequent, terminal, modern, later, derivative.

KEY: Originate.

SYN: Commence, spring, rise, start, initiate, invent, create, cause to be made, proceed, emanate.

ANT: Prosecute, conduct, apply.

KEY: Ornament \n.\

SYN: Decoration, embellishment.

ANT: Disgrace, brand, disfigurement.

KEY: Ornament, [See ADORN].

KEY: Ornate.

SYN: Decorated, embellished, rich, high-wrought, ornamented.

ANT: Plain, chaste, nude, naked, bare, bald.

KEY: Orthodox.

SYN: Correct, sound, true.

ANT: Heretical, unorthodox.

KEY: Ostensible.

SYN: Avowed, pretended, declared, professed, manifest, visible, nominal, apparent, outward.

ANT: Real, genuine, concealed, unpretended, actual, veritable.

KEY: Ostentation.

SYN: Show, parade, display, flourish, pomp, vaunting, boasting.

ANT: Reserve, retirement, modesty, concealment, unobtrusiveness, quiet, diffidence.

KEY: Ostentations.

SYN: Showy, vain, boastful, vainglorious.

ANT: Modest, quiet, retired.

KEY: Ostracism.

SYN: Banishment, expulsion, blackball.

ANT: Admittance, enlistment, out voting.

KEY: Oust.

SYN: Eject, dispossess, deprive, evict, eject, dislodge, remove.

ANT: Install, reinstate, readmit, restore.

KEY: Outbreak.

SYN: Outburst, tumult, commotion, insurrection, rebellion, ebullition.

ANT: Subsidence, pacification, quelling, quiet, order, cooling.

KEY: Outcast.

SYN: Castaway, reprobate, vagrant, vagabond, exile, [See VAGABOND].

KEY: Outcry.

SYN: Clamor, tumult, denunciation, hullabaloo, yell, noise, scream.

ANT: Acclamation, plaudit, quiet, silence.

KEY: Outdo.

SYN: Outstrip, transcend, eclipse, [See SURPASS and TRANSCEND].

KEY: Outer.

SYN: Outward, outside, external, exterior.

ANT: Inward, inside, internal, interior, [See OUTWARD].

KEY: Outlandish.

SYN: Strange, queer, grotesque, foreign, rustic, barbarous, rude.

ANT: Fashionable, modish, native.

KEY: Outlaw.

SYN: Brigand, bandit, robber, highwayman, freebooter, [See ROBBER].

KEY: Outlet.

SYN: Egress, exit, vent.

ANT: Ingress, entrance.

KEY: Outline.

SYN: Delineation, sketch, contour, draft, plan.

ANT: Form, substance, figure, object, subject, field, ground, bulk, space.

KEY: Outlive.

SYN: Outlast, survive.

ANT: Die, perish.

KEY: Outlook.

SYN: Prospect, view, eight, [See PROSPECT].

KEY: Outrage.

SYN: Outbreak, offence, wantonness, mischief, abuse, ebullition, violence, indignity, affront, insult.

ANT: Moderation, self-control, selfrestraint, subsidence, coolness, calmness.

KEY: Outrageous.

SYN: Excessive, unwarrantable, unjustifiable, wanton, flagrant, nefarious, atrocious, violent.

ANT: Moderate, justifiable, reasonable.

KEY: Outset.

SYN: Opening, start, commencement, exordium, beginning, inauguration, preface.

ANT: Close, termination, conclusion, peroration.

KEY: Outshine.

SYN: Surpass, eclipse, overshadow.

ANT: Foil, relieve, back.

KEY: Outskirts.

SYN: Border, outpost, purlieu, environs, precincts.

ANT: Interior, centre, bulk, body, mass, heart.

KEY: Outspoken.

SYN: Plain, frank, unreserved, candid.

ANT: Mysterious, enigmatical, reserved, taciturn, secretive, uncommunicative.

KEY: Outspread.

SYN: Expanded, unfolded, wrapped, patent, dispread, open, outstretched.

ANT: Folded, contracted, closed, furled, collapsed.

KEY: Outstanding.

SYN: Unappropriated, uncollected, ungathered.

ANT: Appropriated, collected, gathered.

KEY: Outstep.

SYN: Exceed, transgress, outstrip, outwalk.

ANT: Observe, regard, accompany, attend.

KEY: Outstretched, [See OUTSPREAD].

KEY: Outstrip.

SYN: Surpass, beat, distance, eclipse.

ANT: Follow, succeed.

KEY: Outvie, [See VIE and ECLIPSE].

KEY: Outward.

SYN: External, apparent, visible, sensible, superficial, ostensible, forthcoming, extrinsic, extraneous.

ANT: Internal, intrinsic, withdrawn, inapparent, inward.

KEY: Outweigh.

SYN: Outbalance, overbalance, [See PREPONDERATE].

KEY: Outwit.

SYN: Outgeneral, circumvent, [See CIRCUMVENT].

KEY: Outwork.

SYN: Screen, abattis, propugnation, fortification, escarpment.

ANT: Stand, position, ground, centre.

KEY: Ovation, [See TRIUMPH], Overawe, [See BROWBEAT].

KEY: Overbalance, [See BALANCE].

KEY: Overbearing.

SYN: Bullying, domineering, [See ARROGANCE].

KEY: Overcast.

SYN: Cloudy, nubilous, lowering, murky.

ANT: Cloudless, clear, luminous, azure.

KEY: Overcharge.

SYN: Overload, surfeit, [See CHARGE and EXAGGERATE].

KEY: Overcome.

SYN: Vanquish, get the better of, surmount, [See CONQUER] KEY:, Overestimate, [See DISPARAGE].

KEY: Overflow.

SYN: Redundancy, exuberance, superabundance, deluge, inundation.

ANT: Deficiency, exhaustion, subsidence.

KEY: Overflowing, [See ABUNDANT].

KEY: Overjoyed.

SYN: Transported, delighted, enraptured.

ANT: Saddened, depressed, disgusted.

KEY: Overlook.

SYN: Condone, connive, disregard, oversee, supervise, inspect, survey, review, excuse, pardon, forgive, neglect.

ANT: Visit, scrutinize, investigate, mark.

KEY: Overplus.

SYN: Surplus, surplusage, residue, excess, [See REMAINDER].

KEY: Overpower, [See MASTER].

KEY: Overreach, [See CIRCUMVENT].

KEY: Overruling.

SYN: Governing, controlling, superior, predominant.

ANT: Governed, controlled, inferior, [See SUPERIOR].

KEY: Overrun.

SYN: Lay-waste, devastate, [See RAVAGE].

KEY: Oversee.

SYN: Superintend, supervise, [See OVERLOOK].

KEY: Oversight.

SYN: Error, omission, mistake, neglect, slip, inadvertence, inspection, superintendence.

ANT: Scrutiny, correction, emendation, attention, mark, notice.

KEY: Overt.

SYN: Deliberate, public, open, avowed, manifest.

ANT: Covert, secret, implied, clandestine, furtive.

KEY: Overthrow.

SYN: Destroy, subvert, upset, overturn, ruin, demolish, defeat, rout, overcome, discomfit, invert, overset, reverse.

ANT: Restore, reinstate, construct, regenerate, redintegrate, revive, reedify.

KEY: Overture.

SYN: Prelude, advance, proposal, offer, invitation, lead, initiation.

ANT: Inaction, undemonstrativeness, quiescence.

KEY: Overturn, [See OVERTHROW].

KEY: Overvalue.

SYN: Overestimate, overprize, overrate.

ANT: Underestimate, underprize, underrate.

KEY: Overweening.

SYN: Vain, conceited, haughty, egotistical, [See AFFABLE and VAIN].

KEY: Overwhelm.

SYN: Crush, quell, extinguish, drown, subdue, swamp.

ANT: Raise, reinvigorate, reinstate, re-establish, rescue, extricate.

KEY: Owe.

SYN: Borrow, hypothecate, attribute.

ANT: Requite, repay, liquidate, defray.

KEY: Owing.

SYN: Due, imputable, ascribable, attributable.

ANT: Casually, perchance, by chance, by accident.

KEY: Own.

SYN: Possess, hold, have, acknowledge, avow, admit, confess.

ANT: Alienate, forfeit, lose, disclaim, disavow, disinherit, disown, abjure, abandon.

KEY: Owner.

SYN: Proprietor, possessor.

KEY: Pabular.

SYN: Esculent, nutritious, comestible, alimental.

ANT: Uneatable, innutritions.

KEY: Pace.

SYN: Step, stride, tread, gait.

ANT: Standing still.

KEY: Pacific.

SYN: Conciliatory, mild, appeasing, calm, tranquil, peaceful.

ANT: Unconciliatory, harsh, quarrelsome, exasperating, irritating, turbulent, noisy, tumultuous, warlike.

KEY: Pacification.

SYN: Conciliation, reconciliation, reconcilement, arrangement, compromise, adjustment.

ANT: Warfare, fighting, hostilities, war, arms, the sword.

KEY: Pacify.

SYN: Appease, conciliate, calm, still, soothe, quiet, tranquillize.

ANT: Exasperate, agitate, excite, irritate, rouse, provoke.

KEY: Pack \n.\

SYN: Burden, bundle, package, lot, parcel, load, [See BURDEN].

KEY: Pack \v.\

SYN: Stow, compact, compress, cook.

ANT: Unpack, unsettle, jumble, displace, misarrange, dissipate, neutralize.

KEY: Pact.

SYN: Agreement, bargain, covenant, league, bond, alliance, stipulation.

ANT: Understanding, promise, parole, honour.

KEY: Paean.

SYN: Jubilation, 'Te Deum', alleluia.

ANT: Dirge, miserere, threnody, jeremiade.

KEY: Pagan \n.\

SYN: Heathen, idolater, Gentile.

ANT: Believer, Christian.

KEY: Pagan \a.\

SYN: Heathenish, idolatrous.

ANT: Christian.

KEY: Paganism.

SYN: Heathenism, polytheism, pantheism, ditheism, tritheism, dualism, heathendom.

ANT: Christianity, Christendom.

KEY: Pageant.

SYN: Pomp, procession, exhibition, display, spectacle, show, ceremony.

ANT: Dream, illusion, phantasmagoria, mockery.

KEY: Pageantry.

SYN: Parade, pomp, show, splendor, magnificence, [See POMP].

KEY: Pain \n.\

SYN: Penalty, suffering, distress, uneasiness, grief, (labour, effort, in the, pains) anguish, torture, agony.

ANT: Reward, remuneration, ease, gratification, joy, pleasure, felicity, relief, alleviation, enjoyment, delight.

KEY: Pain \v.\

SYN: Hurt, grieve, afflict, torment, rack, agonize, trouble, torture, aggrieve, annoy, distress.

ANT: Gratify, please, delight, rejoice, charm, relieve, ease, refresh.

KEY: Painful.

SYN: Afflicting, distressful, grieving, grievous, excruciating, [See GRIEVOUS and PLEASANT].

KEY: Painfully, [See PAINFUL].

KEY: Painstaking \a.\

SYN: Careful, attentive, diligent, laborious, [See OBSERVANT and THOUGHTFUL].

KEY: Paint \v.\

SYN: Color, tinge, tint, portray, represent, delineate, depict, sketch, describe.

ANT: Daub, caricature, misportray, misrepresent, misdelineate, misdepict.

KEY: Pair.

SYN: Two, couple, span, brace.

ANT: One, several.

KEY: Palatable.

SYN: Tasteful, savory, appetizing, delicious, toothsome, [See DELICIOUS].

KEY: Pale.

SYN: Pallid, {[wan]?}, faint, dim, undefined, etiolated, sallow, cadaverous.

ANT: Ruddy, high-colored, conspicuous, deep.

KEY: Pall.

SYN: Blunt, dispirit, satiate, cloy.

ANT: Quicken, sharpen, inspirit, whet.

KEY: Palliate.

SYN: Cloak, cover, conceal, extenuate, mitigate, soften, soothe, gloze.

ANT: Expose, denounce, exaggerate, aggravate, magnify.

KEY: Pallid, [See PALE].

KEY: Palm.

SYN: Trophy, prize, crown, laurels, bays.

ANT: Brand, stigma, shame, blot.

KEY: Palmy.

SYN: Prosperous, glorious, distinguished, victorious, flourishing.

ANT: Depressed, inglorious, undistinguished, unflourishing.

KEY: Palpable.

SYN: Material, corporal, tangible, obvious, gross, perceptible, evident, distinct.

ANT: Immaterial, incorporal, invisible, ethereal, impalpable, indistinct, dubious, imperceptible.

KEY: Palpitate.

SYN: Throb, flutter, beat, pulsate, pant.

ANT: Pause, stop, cease.

KEY: Palter.

SYN: Shuffle, prevaricate, trifle, shift, dodge, haggle.

ANT: Act, determine, decide.

KEY: Paltry.

SYN: Mean, shabby, shuffling, trifling, prevaricating, shifty, contemptible, pitiable, vi e, worthless, beggarly, trashy.

ANT: Noble, honorable, candid, conscientious, determined, straightforward, estimable, admirable, worthy, magnificent.

KEY: Pamper.

SYN: Feed, glut, spoil, indulge, cocker.

ANT: Harden, starve, inure, stint, discipline.

KEY: Panegyric.

SYN: Eulogy, encomium, praise, eulogium, laudation.

ANT: Stricture, sa ire, sarcasm, lampoon, invective, philippic, tirade.

KEY: Pang.

SYN: Paroxysm, throe, agony, convulsion, smart, anguish, pain, twinge.

ANT: Pleasure, enjoyment, gratification, delight, delectation, fascination, refreshment.

KEY: Pant.

SYN: Palpitate, throb, gasp, puff, long, yearn, [See PALPITATE and YEARN].

KEY: Parable.

SYN: Apologue, similitude, fable, allegory.

ANT: History, fact, narrative.

KEY: Parade.

SYN: Vaunt, flaunt, display.

ANT: Suppress, veil, conceal.

KEY: Parade \n.\

SYN: Vaunting, flaunting, display, pomp, ostentation, show, pageant, procession, spectacle.

ANT: Suppression, concealment, modesty, humility, simplicity, undemonstrativeness, plainness, retirement, unceremoniousness.

KEY: Paradise.

SYN: Heaven, bliss, ecstasy, Eden, Elysium.

ANT: Purgatory, hell, misery, torture.

KEY: Paradox.

SYN: Contradiction, enigma, mystery, absurdity, ambiguity.

ANT: Precept, proposition, axiom, truism, postulate.

KEY: Paradoxical.

SYN: Contradictory, absurd, enigmatical, mysterious.

ANT: Self-evident, axiomatic, lucid, obvious.

KEY: Parallel.

SYN: Correspondent, congruous, correlative, analogous, concurrent, equidistant.

ANT: Different, opposed, incongruous, irrelative, unanalogous, divergent, contrariant.

KEY: Paralyze.

SYN: Deaden, benumb, prostrate, enervate, debilitate, enfeeble.

ANT: Give life, strengthen, nerve, lift up, restore.

KEY: Paramount.

SYN: Superior, preeminent, chief, principal, supreme.

ANT: Subordinate, minor, inferior, secondary.

KEY: Parasite.

SYN: Sycophant, flatterer, toady, courtier, toad-eater, timeserver.

ANT: Detractor, calumniator, traducer.

KEY: Parcel.

SYN: Package, bundle.

KEY: Pardon.

SYN: Forgive, condone, absolve, acquit, remit, excuse, overlook.

ANT: Condemn, punish, visit.

KEY: Pardonable.

SYN: Venial, excusable.

ANT: Inexcusable, unpardonable.

KEY: Pare.

SYN: Peel, cut off, shave off, skin, clip, diminish, [See DIMINISH].

KEY: Parentage.

SYN: Descent, extraction, lineage, birth, stock, pedigree, [See BIRTH and LINEAGE].

KEY: Parity.

SYN: Analogy, correspondence, equality, resemblance, [See ANALOGY].

KEY: Parody.

SYN: Travesty, burlesque, [See BURLESQUE].

KEY: Parsimonious.

SYN: Sparing, close, penurious, frugal, niggardly, illiberal, stingy.

ANT: Liberal, unsparing, profuse, extravagant, Parson, [See CLERGYMAN].

KEY: Part \n.\

SYN: Portion, piece, fragment, fraction, division, member, constituent, element, ingredient, share, lot, concern, interest, participation, side, party, interest, faction, behalf, duty.

ANT: Whole, completeness, entirety, integrity, totality, mass bulk, body, compound, transaction, affair.

KEY: Part \v.\ [See SEPARATE].

KEY: Partake.

SYN: Share, participate, accept, derive.

ANT: Forfeit, relinquish, forego, cede, yield, afford.

KEY: Partial.

SYN: Restricted, local, peculiar, specific, favoring, inequitable, unfair, biased, particular.

ANT: Unrestricted, total, universal, general, impartial, equitable, just, fair, unbiased.

KEY: Partiality.

SYN: Preponderance, fondness, relish, love.

ANT: Indifference, impartiality, apathy.

KEY: Partially, [See PARTLY].

KEY: Participate.

SYN: Share, join in, have a share, [See PARTAKE].

KEY: Particle.

SYN: Bit, grain, jot, mite, tittle, atom, [See ATOM].

KEY: Particular \a.\

SYN: Local, specific, subordinate, detailed, partial, special, fastidious, minute, scrupulous, careful, accurate, exact, circumstantial, precise, delicate, nice.

ANT: Universal, general, unspecial, comprehensive, unscrupulous, uncareful, inaccurate, inexact, rough, coarse, indiscriminate, undisiluminating.

KEY: Particular \n.\

SYN: Detail, point, feature.

ANT: Whole, subject, case.

KEY: Particularly.

SYN: Specially, chiefly, in particular, especially, distinctly, [See MAINLY].

KEY: Parting.

SYN: Separation, detachment, division, disruption.

ANT: Union, attachment, cleaving together.

KEY: Partisan.

SYN: Adherent, follower, party man, henchman, clansman, supporter, disciple, [See ADHERENT].

KEY: Partition.

SYN: Barrier, division, enclosure, compartment, interspace, separation, distribution, allotment, screen.

ANT: Non-partition, non-distinction, nonseparation, inclusion, comprehension, combination, amalgamation, incorporation, coalition, union, concatenation, generalization, collection.

KEY: Partly.

SYN: In part, somewhat, In some degree, to some extent, in a measure, not wholly, partially.

ANT: Altogether, in whole, entirely, to the full extent, completely.

KEY: Partner.

SYN: Associate, sharer, participator, colleague, coadjutor, confederate, accomplice, partaker, companion, spouse.

ANT: Rival, alien, competitor, opponent, counter-age at.

KEY: Partnership.

SYN: Union, connection, company, firm, joint interest, co-operation, society, house, [See CONNECTION].

KEY: Pacts.

SYN: [See CONTROL and GOVERN], move, proceed, go by, slip away, glide, shapelessness, [See ELAPSE].

KEY: Passable.

SYN: Traversable, navigable, penetrable, admissible, tolerable, ordinary.

ANT: Impassable, impervious, impenetrable, inadmissible, excellent.

KEY: Passage.

SYN: Journey, thoroughfare, road, course, avenue, route, channel, clause, phrase, sentence, paragraph.

ANT: Chapter, book, [See COURSE].

KEY: Passible.

SYN: Susceptible, sensible, sensitive, impressible.

ANT: Insusceptible, insensitive, impassible.

KEY: Passion.

SYN: Emotion, desire, ardor, vehemence, lust, auger, animation, excitement, warmth, feeling.

ANT: Coolness, indifference, apathy, coldness, frigidity, iciness.

KEY: Passionate, [See ANGRY and HASTY].

KEY: Passive.

SYN: Inactive, inert, quiescent, unresisting, unquestioning, negative, enduring, patient.

ANT: Active, alert, resistant, positive, unsubmissive, malcontent, vehement, impatient.

KEY: Pass over.

SYN: Omit, overlook, [See OVERLOOK].

KEY: Past.

SYN: Spent, gone by, elapsed, departed, late.

ANT: Present, unspent.

KEY: Pastime.

SYN: Recreation, entertainment, amusement, diversion, play, sport.

ANT: Business, study, labor, task, occupation, work.

KEY: Patch.

SYN: Botch, bungle, cobble, clout, piece.

ANT: Fine-draw, embroider.

KEY: Patent.

SYN: obvious, evident, indisputable, plain, [See INT], Dubious, ambiguous, questionable.

KEY: Paternal.

SYN: Fatherly, careful, tender, hereditary.

ANT: Unfatherly, careless, rough, harsh, [See HEREDITARY].

KEY: Path.

SYN: Footpath, pathway, road, track, course, route, method.

KEY: Pathetic.

SYN: Affecting, moving, emotional, tender, melting, tender.

ANT: Ludicrous, unimpassioned, farcical, unaffecting.

KEY: Patience.

SYN: Endurance, resignation, submission, perseverance.

ANT: Resistance, unsubmissiveness, repining, rebellion, inconsistency, impatience.

KEY: Pathless.

SYN: Trackless, Untrodden.

ANT: Trodden, frequented.

KEY: Patient.

SYN: Resigned, unrepining, enduring.

ANT: Impatient, [See PASSIVE].

KEY: Patrician.

SYN: Noble, senator, aristocratic.

ANT: Plebeian, churl.

KEY: Patrimony.

SYN: Inheritance, heritage.

KEY: Patronize \v.\

SYN: Countenance, befriend, favor, support, help.

ANT: Oppress, depress, oppose, withstand, disfavor, discountenance.

KEY: Pattern.

SYN: Model, sample, archetype, exemplar, specimen, shape, precedent, mould, design, plan.

ANT: Monstrosity, caricature, perversion, misrepresentation.

KEY: Paucity.

SYN: Rarity, scantity, fewness, deficiency, lack, [See DEFICIENCY].

ANT: Frequency, quantity, number, abundance.

KEY: Pauperism, [See BEGGARY and MENDICITY].

KEY: Pause \n.\

SYN: Stop, cessation, suspension, halt, intermission, rest.

ANT: Continuance, advancement, perseverance.

KEY: Pause \v.\

SYN: Cease, suspend, intermit, forbear, stay, wait, hesitate, demur, stop, desist.

ANT: Continue, proceed, advance, persist, persevere.

KEY: Pave.

SYN: Prepare, facilitate, smooth, expedite, adapt, fit, mature, arrange, dispose, qualify.

ANT: Obstruct, indispose, disqualify.

KEY: Pawn.

SYN: Pledge, impignorate.

ANT: Ransom, redeem.

KEY: Pay \n.\

SYN: Wages, salary, stipend, recompense, payment, [See SPUR and UBOE].

KEY: Pay \v.\

SYN: Compensate, remunerate, satisfy, discharge, expend, disburse, requite, liquidate.

ANT: Deprive, defraud, exact, dissatisfy, hoard, retain, invest, fund.

KEY: Payment, [See PAY, \n.\].

KEY: Peace.

SYN: Quiet, tranquillity, calm, repose, pacification, order, calmness, reconciliation, harmony, concord.

ANT: Noise, disturbance, tumult, agitation, hostility, disorder, embroilment, war, discord, variance, strife.

KEY: Peaceable.

SYN: unwarlike, inoffensive, quiet, peaceful, innocuous, mild, unquarrelsome, serene, placid.

ANT: Pugnacious, warlike, litigious, quarrelsome, savage, fierce, hostile, violent, bellicose, restless.

KEY: Peasant.

SYN: Countryman, hind, clown, laborer, villager, swain, rustic.

ANT: Citizen, cockney, townsman.

KEY: Peccability.

SYN: Frailty, sinfulness.

ANT: Impeccability, perfection.

KEY: Peccable.

SYN: Frail, sinful.

ANT: Impeccable, perfect, incorrupt.

KEY: Peccant.

SYN: Morbid, corrupt, criminal, offensive, objectionable, vicious, erring, guilty, transgressing.

ANT: Pure, incorrupt, wholesome.

KEY: Peculator.

SYN: Defaulter, delinquent, thief, embezzler, [See DEFAULTER and ROBBER].

KEY: Peculiar.

SYN: Private, personal, characteristic, exceptional, exclusive, special, specific, particular, unusual, singular, uncommon, strange.

ANT: Public, common, general, universal, unspecial, ordinary.

KEY: Peculiarity.

SYN: Speciality, individuality, distinctiveness, idiosyncrasy.

ANT: Generality, universality, community, uniformity, homology, homogeneity, conaturality.

KEY: Pedantic.

SYN: Pedagogical, priggish.

ANT: Unaffected, slipshod.

KEY: Pedigree.

SYN: Descent, parentage, genealogy, lineage, [See BIRTH and LINEAGE].

KEY: Pedler.

SYN: Huckster, hawker, shopman, trader.

KEY: Peer \n.\

SYN: Mate, equal, compeer.

ANT: One unequal in rank, state, or condition.

KEY: Peer \v.\

SYN: Peep, pry, look narrowly.

KEY: Peerless.

SYN: Matchless, paramount, unique, unequaled.

ANT: Mediocre, commonplace, ordinary.

KEY: Peevish.

SYN: Fretful, querulous, petulant, testy, captious, waspish, splenetic, ill-natured, irascible.

ANT: Genial, complaisant, insensate, inquerulous, easy, good-natured, good-tempered.

KEY: Pelf.

SYN: Lucre, mammon.

ANT: Reward, compensation, wage.

KEY: Pellucid.

SYN: Translucent, limpid, crystalline, vitreous.

ANT: Opaque, semiopaque, luteous, turbid.

KEY: Penal.

SYN: Retributive, coercive, visitatorial, castigatory, inflictive, corrective, punitive.

ANT: Remunerative, reparatory, decorative, honorary.

KEY: Penalty.

SYN: Pain, punishment, forfeiture, price, fare, retribution, amercement.

ANT: Guerdon, wages, reward, premium, prize, douceur, sop, bribe, honorarium, compensation, remuneration.

KEY: Pendent.

SYN: Pendulous, hanging, suspended, drooping, projecting.

ANT: Supporting, sustaining, supported.

KEY: Penetrate.

SYN: Pierce, enter, enter into, reach, permeate, make one's way, disclose, fathom, [See PIERCE].

KEY: Penetrable.

SYN: Pervious, permeable.

ANT: Impervious, impermeable.

KEY: Penetration.

SYN: Discernment, observation, sagacity, acuteness, discrimination, insight, sharpness.

ANT: Indiscernment, dulness, indiscrimination, stolidity, hebetude, shortsightedness, shallowness, obtuseness.

KEY: Penitence.

SYN: Repentance, contrition, sorrow, remorse.

ANT: Congratulation, self-approval, obduracy, hardheartedness.

KEY: Penitent, [See PENITENTIAL].

KEY: Penitential.

SYN: Wailing, mournful, dirgeful, sorrowful, contrite, penitent.

ANT: Impenitent, hard-hearted, obdurate.

KEY: Pensive.

SYN: Meditative, ruminating, thoughtful, musing, reflective, impressed, melancholy, sober, dejected.

ANT: Vacant, joyous, unreflecting, careless, thoughtless, unmeditative, incogitant, unreflective.

KEY: Penurious.

SYN: Niggardly, parsimonious, avaricious, griping, miserly, closefisted, sordid, stingy.

ANT: Liberal, open-handed, bountiful.

KEY: Penury.

SYN: Wart, privation, poverty, indigence, impecuniosity, destitution, beggary.

ANT: Competence, wealth, affluence, pecuniosity.

KEY: People.

SYN: Nation, community, populace, mob, crowd, vulgar, herd, mass, persons, inhabitants, commonalty, fellow-creatures, tribe, race.

ANT: Aristocracy, nobility, government, ruler, oligarchy.

KEY: Perceivable.

SYN: Cognizable, appreciable, perceptible, sensible, distinguishable.

ANT: Incognizable, inappreciable, imperceptible, insensible, indistinguishable.

KEY: Perceive.

SYN: Discern, distinguish, descry, observe, feel, touch, see, recognize, understand, know.

ANT: Miss, misobserve, overlook, misunderstand, misconceive, misperceive.

KEY: Perceptible, [See PERCEIVABLE].

KEY: Perception.

SYN: Cognizance, apprehension, sight, understanding, discernment.

ANT: Incognizance, ignorance, imperception, misapprehension, misunderstanding.

KEY: Perceptive.

SYN: Cognitive, apprehensive, sensitive, percipient.

ANT: Reflective, reminiscent, insensible, impercipient, inobservant, inapprehensive, insensitive.

KEY: Percipient, [See PERCEPTIVE].

KEY: Percolate.

SYN: Strain, niter, exude, ooze.

ANT: Absorb, retain, [See OOZE].

KEY: Percussion.

SYN: Collision, shock, encounter, crash.

ANT: Graze, touch, recoil, rebound, repercussion, reverberation.

KEY: Perdition.

SYN: Destruction, ruin, loss, demolition.

ANT: Restoration, recovery, renovation, rescue, salvation.

KEY: Peregrination.

SYN: Wandering, travel, perambulation, perennation.

ANT: Domiciliation, residence.

KEY: Peremptory.

SYN: Decisive, express, absolute, authoritative, arbitrary, dogmatical, imperious, despotic, positive.

ANT: Suggestive, entreative, mild, postulatory, hortatory.

KEY: Perennial.

SYN: Perpetual, unceasing, unfailing, ceaseless, incessant, constant, permanent, unintermittent, continual, undying.

ANT: Periodical, occasional, intermittent, failing, deficient, uncertain.

KEY: Perfect.

SYN: Consummate, complete, full, indeficient, immaculate, absolute, faultless, impeccable, infallible, unblemished, blameless, unexceptionable, mature, ripe.

ANT: Incomplete, meagre, faulty, scant, short, deficient, defective, imperfect, peccable, fallible, blemished, marred, spoilt.

KEY: Perfection.

SYN: Perfectness, completion, consummation, wholeness, excellency.

ANT: Imperfection, incompletion, imperfectness.

KEY: Perfectly.

SYN: Fully, wholly, entirely, completely, totally, exactly, accurately.

ANT: Imperfectly, incompletely, partially, inaccurately.

KEY: Perfidious.

SYN: false, treacherous, faithless, traitorous, deceptive, disloyal, insidious.

ANT: true, staunch, faithful.

KEY: Perforate.

SYN: Bored, pierced, drilled.

ANT: Unpierced, imperforate.

KEY: Perform.

SYN: Accomplish, [See DO], act, transact, achieve, execute, discharge, fulfil, effect, complete, consummate, enact.

ANT: Miss, mar, misperform, misexecute, botch, misenact, misconduct, spoil.

KEY: Performance.

SYN: Accomplishment, act, execution, deed, exploit, work, achievement, enterprise, operation, [See ACHIEVEMENT and DEED].

KEY: Perfume.

SYN: Odor, scent, fragrance, redolence, aroma, smell, incense.

ANT: Fetor, stench, stink.

KEY: Perfunctory.

SYN: Uninterested, routine, mechanical, careless, slovenly.

ANT: Interested, zealous, spirited, animated, ardent, assiduous, careful.

KEY: Perhaps.

SYN: Possibly, peradventure, perchance, may be.

ANT: Certainly, inevitably.

KEY: Peril.

SYN: Danger, risk, hazard, jeopardy, insecurity, uncertainty, unsafety, venture.

ANT: Security, safety, certainty.

KEY: Perilous.

SYN: Hazardous, dangerous.

ANT: Safe, secure, certain.

KEY: Period.

SYN: Time, date, epoch, era, age, duration, continuance, limit, bound, end, conclusion, determination.

ANT: Eternity, datelessness, immemoriality, infinity, perpetuity, illimitability, endlessness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness.

KEY: Periodical.

SYN: Stated, recurrent, regular, systematic, calculable.

ANT: Indeterminate, eccentric, irregular, incalculable, spasmodic, fitful.

KEY: Perish.

SYN: Decay, waste away, be ruined, be destroyed, die, expire, fade away, [See DECAY].

KEY: Perishable.

SYN: Frail, evanescent, fragile, destructible, fleeting, transient, ephemeral, impermanent.

ANT: Enduring, lasting, indestructible, imperishable, persistent, perpetual, permanent, Permanent, [See PERISHABLE].

KEY: Permeable.

SYN: Penetrable, pervadible, percolable.

ANT: Impenetrable, impermeable.

KEY: Permeate, [See PERMEABLE].

KEY: Permissable.

SYN: Allowable, sufferable, lawful.

ANT: Unallowable, insufferable, unlawful.

KEY: Permission.

SYN: Leave, license, dispensation, allowance, liberty, consent, sufferance, compliance, endurance.

ANT: Prohibition, refusal, denial, prevention, hinderance, resistance.

KEY: Permit, [See ALLOW].

KEY: Permutation.

SYN: Interchange, transference, transposition.

ANT: stabilisation, retention, fixity, sequence, order, series, succession.

KEY: Pernicious.

SYN: Hurtful, harmful, noxious, deleterious, detrimental, destructive, deadly, injurious, baneful.

ANT: Beneficial, wholesome, innocuous, undetrimental, innocent, salutary.

KEY: Perpendicular.

SYN: Vertical, upright, standing upright.

ANT: Horizontal.

KEY: Perpetrate.

SYN: Commit.

ANT: Achieve, perfect.

KEY: Perpetual.

SYN: Constant, unceasing, endless, eternal, everlasting, unfailing, perennial, continual, enduring, incessant, uninterrupted.

ANT: Inconstant, periodic, recurrent, temporary, transient, falling, exhaustible, occasional, momentary, casual.

KEY: Perpetuate, [See PERPETUAL].

SYN: Continue, stabilitate, eternize.

ANT: Discontinue, abolish, eradicate, cancel, disestablish, break.

KEY: Perpetuity.

SYN: Constancy, permanence, perennity, persistence, continuity, fixity.

ANT: Impermanence, transience, evanescence, discontinuance, casualty, momentariness.

KEY: Perplex.

SYN: Embarrass, puzzle, entangle, involve, encumber, complicate, confuse, bewilder, mystify, harass, entangle.

ANT: Clear, enlighten, explicate, disentangle, simplify, elucidate, disencumber.

KEY: Perplexity.

SYN: Embarrassment, difficulty, uncertainty.

ANT: Certainty, certitude, sureness, [See DILEMMA].

KEY: Persecute.

SYN: Harass, molest, annoy, worry, vex.

ANT: Encourage, inspirit, abet, support.

KEY: Perserverance.

SYN: Persistence, steadfastness, constancy, indefatigableness, resolution, tenacity.

ANT: Inconstancy, unsteadfastness, fitfulness, caprice, irresoluteness, vacillation, wavering, indecision, variableness, levity, volatility.

KEY: Persevere.

SYN: Persist, insist, continue, keep on, be steadfast, hold out, [See CONTINUE].

KEY: Persist, [See PERSEVERE].

KEY: Persistence, [See PERSEVERANCE and PERISHABLE].

KEY: Person.

SYN: Individual, special, peculiar, idiosyncratic.

ANT: Generic, common.

KEY: Persons.

SYN: Men folks, people, beings, living souls, individuals.

ANT: Single persons.

KEY: Perspicacity.

SYN: Acuteness, discernment, sagacity, penetration.

ANT: Hebetude, dullness, stolidity, inobservance.

KEY: Perspicuous, [See LUCID and PLAIN].

KEY: Perspicuity.

SYN: Clearness, lucidity, transparency, intelligibility.

ANT: Obscurity, turbidity, unintelligibility, mystification, confusedness.

KEY: Persuade.

SYN: Induce, influence, incline, convince, dispose, urge, allure, incite.

ANT: Deter, disincline, indispose, mispersuade, misinduce, coerce, compel.

KEY: Persuasion.

SYN: Conviction, inducement, creed, belief, opinion, [See CONVICTION].

KEY: Pert \a.\

SYN: Flippant, saucy, impudent, forward.

ANT: Modest, retiring, bashful, demure, staid.

KEY: Pertain to.

SYN: Belong to, relate to, appertain to, regard, concern.

ANT: Be foreign to.

KEY: Pertinacious.

SYN: Obstinate, persistent, wilful, dogged, persevering, determined, unyielding.

ANT: Flexible, inconstant, irresolute, volatile.

KEY: Pertinacity.

SYN: Obstinacy, tenaciousness, adherence, resoluteness.

ANT: Irresoluteness, irresolution, indecision, hesitancy, vacillation, changeableness.

KEY: Pertinent.

SYN: Related, connected, appertaining, appropriate, fit, apposite, just, proper, congruous, applicable.

ANT: Unrelated, unconnected, alien, inappropriate, impertinent, incongruous, discordant, repugnant, Perturb, [See AGITATE].

KEY: Pervade.

SYN: Permeate, fill, saturate, color, tinge, fill, diffuse.

ANT: Touch, affect.

KEY: Perverse.

SYN: Froward, untoward, stubborn, fractious, wayward, unmanageable, intractable, crochety.

ANT: Docile, ductile, amenable, governable, complacent, accommodating, pleasant, obliging.

KEY: Perversion.

SYN: Abuse, misrepresentation, distortion, corruption, misinterpretation, caricature, sophistry.

ANT: Use, conservation, representation, right, truth, portraiture, manifestation, explanation, interpretation, reason, correction, authentication, verification.

KEY: Pervert.

SYN: Twist, distort, corrupt, falsify, misrepresent, [See REPRESENT and TWIST].

KEY: Pervious.

SYN: Penetrable, traversable, explorable.

ANT: Impenetrable, impervious, impregnable, inexplorable.

KEY: Pest.

SYN: Plague, nuisance, curse, annoyance, blight, bone, scourge.

ANT: Benefit, blessing, acquisition.

KEY: Pester.

SYN: Plague, worry, vex, harass, disquiet, annoy, tease, torment, chafe, harry, badger, incommode, gall.

ANT: Treat, regale, amuse, refresh, gratify, soothe.

KEY: Pestiferous.

SYN: Insalubrious, pestilential, deleterious, mephitic, virulent, mortiferous, infectious, contagious, catching, lethal, morbific.

ANT: {[(ifiiiiil]?}, salubrious, balmy, salutiferous, sanitary, innocuous, remedial, wholesome, nutritive, pure, sanative, disinfectant.

KEY: Pestilential.

SYN: Noxious, ruinous, deadly, deleterious, mischievous, [See PESTIFEROUS].

KEY: Pet \n.\

SYN: Darling, fondling, favorite, cosset, jewel, minion, idol.

ANT: Horror, bugbear, aversion, scarecrow.

KEY: Pet \v.\ [See FONDLE].

KEY: Petition.

SYN: Supplication, entreaty, craving, application, appeal, salutation, prayer, request, instance.

ANT: Deprecation, expostulation, protect, command, injunction, claim, demand, requirement, exaction, dictation.

KEY: Petrify.

SYN: Astound, electrify, dismay, horrify, appal, stun, stupefy, dumbfounder.

ANT: Reassure, tranquillize.

KEY: Pettish.

SYN: Petulant, testy, peevish, waspish, querulous.

ANT: Easy, jovial, good-humored, genial.

KEY: Petty.

SYN: Small, mean, paltry, ignoble, trifling, narrow, trivial, contemptible.

ANT: Large, large-hearted, noble, generous, chivalrous, magnificent, liberal, broad.

KEY: Petulant, [See PEEVISH].

KEY: Phantasm.

SYN: Chimera, phantasma, phantom, specter, illusion, delusion, unreality, phantasy, bugbear, vision, dream, hallucination, shadow.

ANT: Reality, truth, fact, substance, verity, Phantom, [See PHANTASM].

KEY: Pharisaical.

SYN: Sanctimonious, formal, ceremonious, precision.

ANT: Sincere, guileless, genuine, godly, unpharasaical.

KEY: Philanthropic.

SYN: Humane, large-hearted, public-spirited, charitable, kind.

ANT: Selfish, cynical, egotistical, morose, misanthropic.

KEY: Philanthropy.

SYN: Humanity, love of mankind, good will to all men, general, benevolence,.

ANT: Misanthropy, hatred of men.

KEY: Philosopher.

SYN: Doctor, savant, teacher, master, schoolman.

ANT: Ignoramus, sciolist, freshman, tyro, greenhorn, fool, booby, dunce.

KEY: Philosophical.

SYN: Wise, sound, conclusive, scientific, accurate, enlightened, rational, calm, unprejudiced.

ANT: Unsound, crude, vague, loose, inaccurate, popular, unscientific, sciolistic, unphilosophical.

KEY: Phlegmatic.

SYN: Sluggish, cold, apathetical, dull, frigid, cold-blooded, unfeeling.

ANT: Quick, lively, warm-blooded, susceptible.

KEY: Phrensy.

SYN: Madness, insanity, delirium, mania, raving, hallucination, afflatus, inspiration.

ANT: Sanity, sobriety, rationality, lucidity.

KEY: Physical.

SYN: Natural, material, visible, tangible, substantial, corporeal.

ANT: Mental, moral, intellectual, spiritual, immaterial, invisible, intangible, unsubstantial, supernatural, hyperphysical.

KEY: Pick.

SYN: Choose, cull, select, gather, pluck, eliminate, enucleate, extract, glean.

ANT: Reject, discard, repudiate, relegate, bunch, grasp, clutch.

KEY: Pictorial.

SYN: Illustrated, picturesque, artistic, imaginative, graphic.

ANT: Plain, unembellished, unadorned.

KEY: Picture \n.\

SYN: Likeness, resemblance, drawing, painting, representation, image, engraving.

ANT: Original.

KEY: Picture \v.\

SYN: Delineate, draw, paint, represent, [See REPRESENT].

KEY: Picturesque.

SYN: Comely, seemly, graceful, scenic, artistic, pictorial, graphic.

ANT: Unseemly, uncouth, rude, unpicturesque, beautiless, flat, tame, monotonous, dead.

KEY: Pierce.

SYN: Perforate, bore, drill, penetrate, excite, affect, rouse, touch, move, enter, stab, transfix.

ANT: Deaden, quiet, blunt, scott, allay, lull, compose.

KEY: Piercing.

SYN: Penetrating, perforating, sharp, keen, acute, thrilling, [See ACUTE].

KEY: Piety.

SYN: Religion, devotion, godliness, holiness, grace, reverence, sanctity.

ANT: Irreligion, impiety, ungodliness, sinfulness, profanity, hypocrisy, formalism, sanctimoniousness, phariseeism.

KEY: Pile.

SYN: Heap, accumulate, gather, store, stuck, amass, collect.

ANT: Demolish, dissipate, squander, scatter, separate, disperse, deal, distribute.

KEY: Pilfer.

SYN: Abstract, peculate, filch, purloin, smuggle, cabbage, steal, thieve.

ANT: Pillage, ransack, plunder, rifle, spoil.

KEY: Pillage, [See PILFER].

KEY: Pillar.

SYN: Column, shaft, post, support.

KEY: Pilot \v.\

SYN: Steer, guide, direct, conduct, lead, convoy, escort, [See CONDUCT].

KEY: Pimple.

SYN: Pustule, blotch, eruption.

KEY: Pinch, [See EMERGENCY].

KEY: Pinch \v.\

SYN: Squeeze, grip, press, compress, nip, distress, [See GRIPE].

KEY: Pine \v.\

SYN: Waste away, droop, fade, wither, decline, decay, sink, [See LANGUISH].

KEY: Pious.

SYN: Devout, saintly, holy, religious, godly, [See DEVOUT].

KEY: Piquant.

SYN: Pungent, sharp, lively, racy, severe, biting, cutting, smart, stimulating, keen, stinging, tart.

ANT: Tame, dull, flat, characterless, insipid.

KEY: Pique.

SYN: Grudge, offence, umbrage, spite, resentment (slight), wounded pride, [See GRUDGE].

KEY: Pirate.

SYN: Corsair, searobber, buccaneer, freebooter, sea rover.

KEY: Pit.

SYN: Hollow, gulf, trench, excavation, [See ABYSS].

KEY: Pitch.

SYN: Throw, fling, cast, hurl, [See FUNG].

KEY: Piteous.

SYN: Sad, miserable, deplorable, lamentable, distressing, doleful, pitiable, mournful, woful, affecting, sorrowful.

ANT: Joyous, enviable, comfortable, pleasant, desirable, delectable.

KEY: Pith.

SYN: Kernel, marrow, gist, substance, essence, cream, root.

ANT: Surplusage, surroundings, dressing, verbiage.

KEY: Pithy.

SYN: Terse, laconic, pregnant, expressive, nervous.

ANT: Weak, characterless, diluted, pointless, flat, vapid.

KEY: Pitiable, [See PITEOUS].

KEY: Pitiful, [See PITILESS].

KEY: Pitiless.

SYN: Merciless, unsparing, inexorable, cruel.

ANT: Pitiful, tender, merciful, compassionate, lenient, indulgent, [See {[^]?}].

KEY: Pittance.

SYN: Dole, driblet, drop, drain, scantling.

ANT: Exuberance, abundance, profusion, lavishment.

KEY: Pity.

SYN: Mercy, compassion, tenderness, commiseration, ruth, sympathy, condolence.

ANT: Cruelty, hardheartedness, relentlessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness.

KEY: Placard.

SYN: Handbill, poster, bin, broadside.

KEY: Place.

SYN: Locate, assign, fix, establish, settle, attribute, situate.

ANT: Disturb, remove, unsettle, disarrange, disestablish, misplace, misattribute, misassign, uproot, transplant, extirpate, eradicate, transport.

KEY: Placid.

SYN: Calm, quiet, serene, composed, gentle, unruffled, still, halcyonic, unexcited, imperturbable, passionless.

ANT: Rough, troubled, unquiet, discomposed, agitated, ruffled, disturbed, irritated, stormy, excited, Impassioned.

KEY: Plain.

SYN: Level, even, flat, smooth, open, clear, unencumbered, unobstructed, uninterrupted, manifest, evident, obvious, unmistakable, simple, easy, natural, unaffected, homely, unsophisticated, open, unvarnished, unembellished, unreserved, artless.

ANT: Uneven, undulating, rugged, rough, abrupt, broken, confused, encumbered, obstructed, interrupted, questionable, uncertain, dubious, ambiguous, enigmatical, hard, abstruse, affected, fair, beautiful, sophisticated, artful, varnished, embellished.

KEY: Plaintive.

SYN: Mournful, sorrowful, sad, doleful, melancholy, wailing, touching, moaning.

ANT: Joyous, exultant, glad, jubilant, cheerful, cheering, gladdening.

KEY: Plan \n.\ Design, drawing, sketch, draft, scheme, groundplot, project, contrivance, stratagem, device, [See DESIGN], Plan \v.\

Contrive, devise, sketch out, design, hatch, [See CONTRIVE].

KEY: Plant.

SYN: Set, insert, settle, establish, introduce, stock, fix, place.

ANT: Remove, extract, eradicate, extirpate, disestablish, transport, denude, transplant, displace.

KEY: Plaster.

SYN: Palliate, patch, ramp, tinker, cobble, bolster.

ANT: Expose, repair, restore, renovate, redintegrate.

KEY: Plastic.

SYN: Ductile, pliant, yielding, malleable, tractile, flexible.

ANT: Stubborn, unyielding, inert, unmalleable, inflexible, intractile.

KEY: Platitude.

SYN: Commonplace, generality, truism, triviality.

ANT: Sophism, laconism, enigma, dictum, oracle.

KEY: Platonic.

SYN: Cold, intellectual, unsensual, mental, philosophical.

ANT: Ardent, animal, sensual, passionate, sexual.

KEY: Plaudit, [See APPLAUSE].

KEY: Plausible.

SYN: Specious, superficial, passable, unctuous, fair-spoken, pretentious, ostensible, right, apparently, colorable, feasible.

ANT: Genuine, sterling, transparent, unmistakable, profound.

KEY: Play \n.\

SYN: Sport, pastime, amusement, diversion, recreation, gambol, frolic, opportunity, scope, room, [See PASTIME and SPORT].

KEY: Playful.

SYN: Lively, sportive, jocund, frolicsome, gay, vivacious, sprightly, [See LIVELY].

KEY: Plea.

SYN: Excuse, vindication, justification, ground, defence, apology, entreaty.

ANT: Charge, accusation, impeachment, action.

KEY: Pleasant.

SYN: Grateful, agreeable, acceptable, pleasurable, desirable, gratifying, cheerful, enlivening, sportive, delicious, delectable, jocular, satisfactory, exquisite, merry.

ANT: Unpleasant, ungrateful, disagreeable, obnoxious, unacceptable, offensive, unlively, lugubrious, dull, ill-humored.

KEY: Please.

SYN: Delight, content, gladden, fascinate, [See GRATIFY].

KEY: Pleasing, [See AGREEABLE].

KEY: Pleasure.

SYN: Enjoyment, gratification, sensuality, self-indulgence, voluptuousness, choice, preference, vill, inclination, purpose, determination, favor, satisfaction, indulgent.

ANT: Pain, suffering, affliction, trouble, asceticism, self-denial, abstinence, disinclination, aversion, indisposition, denial, refusal.

KEY: Plebeian.

SYN: Low, vulgar, lowborn, lowbred, coarse, ignoble.

ANT: Patrician, noble, aristocratic, refined, highborn, high-bred.

KEY: Pledge \n.\

SYN: Security, guarantee, warrant, hostage, surety, pawn, earnest.

ANT: Word, promise, assurance, parole.

KEY: Pledge \v.\

SYN: Pawn, hypothecate.

ANT: Redeem.

KEY: Plenary.

SYN: Full, abundant, complete, entire, unreserved, unstinted, unrestricted.

ANT: Partial, incomplete, restricted, reserved, contingent, temporary.

KEY: Plenitude.

SYN: Fulness, copiousness, repletion, abundance, amplitude, exuberance, largeness, liberality, height, maximum, richness, completeness.

ANT: Scantiness, Insufficiency, restriction, partiality, stint, narrowness, poverty, incompleteness, reserve, minimum.

KEY: Plentiful, [See ABUNDANT].

KEY: Plenty.

SYN: Enough, sufficiency, full supply, profusion, copiousness, [See PLENITUDE].

KEY: Pleonastic.

SYN: Redundant, superfluous, surplus, inconcise.

ANT: Requisite, necessary, essential, terse, concise, succinct.

KEY: Pliable.

SYN: Flexible, supple, limber, like, ductile, yielding, manageable, facile, lithe, pliant.

ANT: Stiff, stubborn, brittle, unbending, unyielding, unmanageable, inexorable.

KEY: Pliant, [See PLIABLE].

KEY: Plight \n.\

SYN: Situation, condition, predicament, difficulty, dilemma, [See DILEMMA].

KEY: Plight \v.\

SYN: Vow, pledge.

KEY: Plodding.

SYN: Painstaking, industrious, persevering, laborious, studious.

ANT: Indiligent, unindustrious, distracted, inattentive, impatient, unpersevering, flighty, fitful.

KEY: Plot \n.\

SYN: Scheme, plan, stratagem, combination, conspiracy, machination, [See SCHEME].

KEY: Plot \v.\

SYN: Devise, concoct, conspire, contrive, frame, batch, [See CONSPIRE and DEVISE].

KEY: Pluck, [See COURAGE].

KEY: Pluck up.

SYN: Eradicate, root out, exterminate, [See ERADICATE].

KEY: Plump.

SYN: Well-conditioned, wellrounded, chubby, strapping, bouncing, fleshy, brawny, full, fat, round, massive, portly.

ANT: Ill-conditioned, lean, emaciated, scraggy, weazen, macilent, lank, rawboned, shrivelled, flaccid, tabid.

KEY: Plunder, [See PILLAGE].

KEY: Plunge.

SYN: Dip, dive, douse, duck, submerge, immerse, precipitate, sink, overwhelm, thrust under, pitch headlong.

ANT: Emerge, issue, soar, raise, extricate, rescue.

KEY: Plurality.

SYN: Multitude, multitudinousness, number, numerousness, profusion, host, legion, collection.

ANT: Unity, singularity, oneness, solitude, individuality, singleness, isolation.

KEY: Ply.

SYN: Work, urge, practice, exercise, apply steadily, [See URGE].

KEY: Poet.

SYN: Bard, singer, rhymer, rhymster, author of poems.

KEY: Poetical.

SYN: Metrical, rythmic, versified, lyric, rhyming, imaginative, creative, romantic, fictitious, dreamy, flighty.

ANT: Unmetrical, unrythmical, prosaic, unpoetical, unversified, unimaginative, commonplace, historical, mathematical, logical, matter-of-fact, veracious, sober.

KEY: Poignant.

SYN: Stinging, sharp, keen, penetrating, severe, biting, intense, piercing, [See KEEN].

KEY: Point \v.\

SYN: Aim, level, direct, show, indicate, [See INDICATE].

KEY: Point \n.\

SYN: Apex, top, summit, sharp end, aim, purpose, subject matter, object, [See ACME].

KEY: Pointed.

SYN: Peaked, keen, sharp, marked, severe, telling, [See KEEN].

KEY: Pointless \a.\

SYN: Vague, vapid, aimless, inexpressive, feeble.

ANT: Close, sharp, telling, pregnant, significant, expressive, forcible, epigrammatic.

KEY: Poise, [See BALANCE].

KEY: Poison.

SYN: Vitiate, taint, infect, envenom, pollute.

ANT: Purify, disinfect, depurate.

KEY: Poisonous.

SYN: Venomous, infect ant, vicious, corruptive, vitiative, noxious, baneful, malignant, morbific, peccant, virulent, pestiferous, mephitic, deleterious.

ANT: Wholesome, genial, beneficial, sanative, invigorative, healthful, innoxious, restorative, remedial, hygeian.

KEY: Policy.

SYN: Plan, device, system, prudence, management, cunning, [See DEVICE].

KEY: Polish.

SYN: Burnish, furbish, levigate, brighten, refine, make glossy.

ANT: Abrade, scratch.

KEY: Polite.

SYN: Elegant, refined, wellbred, courteous, obliging, complaisant, civil, courtly, polished, genteel, accomplished.

ANT: Awkward, rude, uncouth, illbred, discourteous, boorish, clownish, disobliging.

KEY: Politeness.

SYN: Courtesy, refinement, good breeding, courteousness, urbanity, civility, gentility, [See COURTESY].

KEY: Politic.

SYN: Prudent, wise, sagacious, provident, diplomatic, judicious, cunning, wary, well devised, discreet.

ANT: Imprudent, unwise, improvident, undiplomatic, impolitic.

KEY: Pollute.

SYN: Befoul, taint, poison, corrupt, tarnish, stain, contaminate, soil, vitiate, deprave.

ANT: Purify, clarify, disinfect, filter.

KEY: Poltroon.

SYN: Scoundrel, coward, hound, skulk, dastard.

ANT: Hero, philanthropist, gentleman, benefactor, model, example.

KEY: Pommel.

SYN: Beat, thump, baste, thrash, strike, cudgel.

ANT: Smooth, caress, pat, stroke.

KEY: Pomp.

SYN: Ostentation, magnificence, parade, ceremony, show, display, gorgeousness, grandeur, splendor, pageantry, publicity.

ANT: Quiet, retirement, simplicity, unceremoniousness, unadornment, privacy, plainness.

KEY: Pompous.

SYN: Magnificent, gorgeous, splendid, showy, sumptuous, ostentatious, stately, lofty, grand, bombastic, turgid, stiff, Inflated, pretentious, coxcombical, assuming.

ANT: Unpretending, unobtrusive, modest, unassuming, plain-mannered, humble-minded.

KEY: Ponder.

SYN: Think over, meditate on, weigh, consider, cogitate, deliberate, ruminate, reflect, amuse, study, resolve, [See CONSIDER].

KEY: Ponderable.

SYN: Appreciable, determinable, palpable.

ANT: Inappreciable, indeterminable, impalpable, imponderable.

KEY: Ponderous, Weighty, bulky, massive, burdensome, heavy, onerous.

ANT: Light, trifling, airy, volatile, subtle.

KEY: Poor.

SYN: Indigent, moneyless, impecunious, penniless, weak, meagre, insufficient, deficient, faulty, unsatisfactory, inconsiderable, thin, scanty, bald.

ANT: Rich, wealthy, copious, affluent, abundant, liberal, large, ample, moneyed, sufficient, satisfactory, considerable.

KEY: Popular.

SYN: Common, current, vulgar, public, general, received, favorite, beloved, prevailing, approved, widespread, liked.

ANT: Exclusive, restricted, scientific, esoteric, unpopular, odious, detested.

KEY: Populous.

SYN: Crowded, dense, swarming, thronged.

ANT: Deserted, thin, scanty, unfrequented, unoccupied, uninhabited.

KEY: Porch.

SYN: Portico, vestibule, [See ENTRANCE].

KEY: Porous.

SYN: Foraminous, pervious, permeable, percolable.

ANT: Impervious, impermeable, impercolable.

KEY: Port.

SYN: Haven, harbor, mien, bearing, demeanor, carriage, deportment, air, [See DEPORTMENT and MIEN].

KEY: Portable.

SYN: Movable, {[haLdy]?}, manageable, light.

ANT: Ponderous, immovable, awkward, unmanageable, unhandy.

KEY: Portal.

SYN: Gate, entrance, gateway, [See ENTRANCE].

KEY: Portend.

SYN: Indicate, threaten, prognosticate, forbode, augur, presage, herald, foreshow, betoken.

ANT: Contradict, negative, preclude, forefend, nullify, contravene, avert.

KEY: Portentous.

SYN: Indicative, suggestive, threatening, prophetic, predictive, ominous, premonitory.

ANT: Auspicious, hopeful, cheering, assuring, animating, encouraging, joyous.

KEY: Portion, [See PART].

KEY: Portly.

SYN: Dignified, burly, imposing, stately, corpulent, stout, plump.

ANT: Undignified, unimposing, mean.

KEY: Portray.

SYN: Draw, delineate, represent, depict, describe, sketch, paint.

ANT: Misrepresent, caricature, misportray.

KEY: Pose.

SYN: Puzzle, perplex, bewilder, dumbfounder, mystify, embarrass, daze, confound.

ANT: Enlighten, unmystify, indoctrinate, initiate.

KEY: Position, [See SITUATION].

KEY: Positive.

SYN: real, actual, substantial, absolute, independent, unconditional, unequivocal, explicit, fixed, settled, definitive, indisputable, decisive, express, enacted, assured, confident, direct, dogmatic, overbearing, dogmatical.

ANT: Negative, insubstantial, unreal, fictitious, imaginary, relative, contingent, dependent, conditional, implied, dubious, questionable, moral, uncertain, doubtful, indirect, occasional, suspicious.

KEY: Possess.

SYN: Occupy, enjoy, have, hold, entertain, own.

ANT: Abandon, renounce, abjure, surrender, lose, forfeit, resign.

KEY: Possession.

SYN: Holding, ownership, tenure, occupation.

ANT: Abandoning, renouncing, resigning, surrendering.

KEY: Possible.

SYN: Practicable, feasible, likely, potential.

ANT: Impracticable, impossible.

KEY: Possibly.

SYN: Perhaps, perchance, haply, maybe, [See PERHAPS].

KEY: port, [See SITUATION].

KEY: Posterior.

SYN: Later, subsequent.

ANT: Earlier, precedent, antecedent, prior.

KEY: Posterity.

SYN: Futurity.

ANT: Ancestry.

KEY: Postpone.

SYN: Defer, delay, prorogue, procrastinate.

ANT: Expedite, despatch, accelerate.

KEY: Postulate.

SYN: Assume, presuppose.

ANT: Prove, elaborate, exemplify, argue.

KEY: Posture, [See SITUATION].

KEY: Potent.

SYN: Powerful, efficacious, effective, active, strong, energetic.

ANT: Weak, impotent, inefficient, ineffective, inactive, fruitless, inoperative.

KEY: Potential.

SYN: Possible, implicit, undeveloped, germinative, immanent, virtual.

ANT: Actual, explicit, developed, objective, real, express.

KEY: Pound.

SYN: Imprison, cage, coop.

ANT: Discharge, liberate, release.

KEY: Pound.

SYN: Beat, bruise, pulverize, triturate.

ANT: Soothe, stroke, amalgamate, compound.

KEY: Poverty.

SYN: Want, need, indigence, destitution, [See WANT].

KEY: Power.

SYN: Faculty, capacity, capability, potentiality, ability, strength, force, might, energy, susceptibility, influence, dominion, sway, command, government, agency, authority, rule, jurisdiction, effectiveness.

ANT: Incapacity, incapability, impotence, inability, weakness, imbecility, inertness, insusceptibility, subjection, power lessness, obedience, subservience, ineffectiveness.

KEY: Powerful.

SYN: Strong, potent, puissant, masterful, mighty, [See STRONG].

KEY: Practicable.

SYN: Possible, feasible, usable.

ANT: Impossible, impracticable, unusable.

KEY: Practical.

SYN: Useful, serviceable, skilled, trained, [See CUSTOM].

KEY: Practically.

SYN: Really, actually, substantially, in fact, in effect, [See ACTUALLY].

KEY: Practice \n.\

SYN: Usage, habit, exercise, experience, exercitation, action, custom, manner, performance.

ANT: Disuse, dishabituation, Inexperience, theory, speculation, nonperformance.

KEY: Practise \v.\

SYN: Perform, exercise, deal in, carry on, [See PERFORM].

KEY: Practised.

SYN: Trained, experienced, proficient, accomplished, [See PROFICIENT \a.\].

KEY: Pragmatical.

SYN: Over-busy, fussy, consequential, officious, meddlesome.

ANT: Reserved, uninterfering, distant, unconcerned, inobtrusive, unmeddlesome, inofficious.

KEY: Praise \v.\

SYN: Eulogize, laud, commend, honor, glorify, compliment, celebrate, puff, extol, applaud, panegyrize.

ANT: Blame, censure, discommend, reprove.

KEY: Praise, [See APPROBATION].

KEY: Praiseworthy.

SYN: commendable, laudable, meritorious, honorable, worthy.

ANT: Blameable, censureable, reprehensible.

KEY: Prank.

SYN: Caper, antic, capricious, action, frolic, trick, gambol, escapade, freak, [See FROLIC].

KEY: Prate.

SYN: Babble, prattle, chat, chatter, tattle, gossip, [See BABBLE].

KEY: Pray.

SYN: Beg, beseech, entreat, implore, solicit, supplicate, adjure, invoke, crave, [See BESEECH].

KEY: Prayer.

SYN: Petition, supplication, entreaty, orison, benediction, suit, request, [See BENEDICTION].

KEY: Preamble.

SYN: Preface, introduction, exordium, opening, introductory, part.

ANT: Close, termination, peroration, finale, conclusion.

KEY: Precarious.

SYN: Hazardous, peril, ous, uncertain, riskful, unassured, insecure, dubious, doubtful.

ANT: Assured, certain, systematic, safe, immutable.

KEY: Precaution.

SYN: Forethought, provision, premunition, anticipation, prearrangement, care, providence.

ANT: Carelessness, thoughtlessness, improvidence.

KEY: Precede.

SYN: Lead, introduce, herald, go before, usher, head.

ANT: Succeed, follow.

KEY: Precedence.

SYN: Superiority, lead, priority, preference, antecedence, supremacy, pre-eminence.

ANT: Inferiority, sequence, subordination, posteriority.

KEY: Precedent.

SYN: Anterior, prior, earlier.

ANT: Subsequent, posterior, Inter.

KEY: Precedent \n.\

SYN: Instance, example, authority, warrant, antecedent, pattern.

ANT: Prohibition, diswarrant, disallowance.

KEY: Preceding.

SYN: Precedent, former, foregoing, prior, previous, antecedent, anterior, [See ANTERIOR].

KEY: Precept.

SYN: Rule, maxim, injunction, commandment, doctrine, direction, law, mandate, principle, instruction, command, order.

ANT: Suggestion, prompting, instigation, impulse.

KEY: Preceptor.

SYN: Master, teacher, pedagogue, tutor, instructor, schoolmaster.

ANT: Pupil, learner, scholar, student.

KEY: Precinct, Precincts.

SYN: Purlieus, environs, limit, bounds, boundary, confine, district.

ANT: Heart, centre, nucleus.

KEY: Precious.

SYN: Dear, valuable, costly, cherished, treasured, beloved, estimable, of great value.

ANT: Cheap, valueless, worthless, unvalued, disesteemed, unappreciated, vile.

KEY: Precipice.

SYN: Cliff, crag, steep descent, headlong, steep, [See ABYSS].

KEY: Precipitate, [See RASH].

KEY: Precipitous.

SYN: Steep, headlong, abrupt, sheer, perpendicular, beetling, rash, dangerous.

ANT: Shallow, graduated, inclined, undulating.

KEY: Precise.

SYN: Definite, exact, nice, pointed, accurate, correct, particular, formal, explicit, scrupulous, terse, punctilious, ceremonious, formal.

ANT: Indefinite, vague, inexact, rough, inaccurate, loose, circumlocutory, ambagious, tortuous, informal, unceremonious.

KEY: Precision.

SYN: Exactness, nicety, preciseness, accuracy, [See ACCURACY].

KEY: Preclude.

SYN: Prevent, obviate, bar, debar, impede, hinder.

ANT: Admit, promote, further, advance.

KEY: Precocious.

SYN: Premature, predeveloped, overforward.

ANT: Tardy, backward, slow-growing, crude.

KEY: Precognition.

SYN: Foresight, foreknowledge.

ANT: Reflection, recollection.

KEY: Preconception.

SYN: Forethought, anticipation, fore-understanding.

ANT: Copy, portraiture, observation, vision, representation, delineation.

KEY: Preconcerted.

SYN: Prearranged, concocted, prepared, premeditated.

ANT: Extemporized, unprepared, unconcocted, unpremeditated.

KEY: Precursor.

SYN: Forerunner, harbinger, herald, pioneer, advance-guard, cause.

ANT: Follower, consequent, result, effect, event.

KEY: Precursory.

SYN: Prevenient, antecedent, introductory, prefatory, initiatory, prior, premonitory, prognosticative.

ANT: Subsequent, consequent, posterior, entailed, supervenient, eventual.

KEY: Predaceous.

SYN: Ravenous, rapacious, carnivorous.

ANT: Innocuous, herbivorous, graminivorous.

KEY: Predatory.

SYN: Pillaging, plundering, marauding, rapacious, greedy, ravenous.

ANT: Guarding, keeping, watching, protecting, [See RAPACIOUS].

KEY: Predecessor.

SYN: Ancestor, forerunner, elder.

ANT: Posterity, junior, successor.

KEY: Predestination.

SYN: Foreordainment, foredoom, necessity, fate, election, preordination, predetermination.

ANT: Freewill, freedom, volition, choice, spontaneity.

KEY: Predicament.

SYN: Difficulty, try, ing position, state, condition, dilemma, situation, [See DILEMMA].

KEY: Predicate \v.\

SYN: Assert, aver, affirm, declare, [See ASSERT].

KEY: Predict.

SYN: Prophesy, foretell, forecast, prognosticate, forebode, foreshadow, [See FORETELL].

KEY: Prediction.

SYN: Prophecy, prognostication, vaticination, foreannouncement, premonstration, foretelling, forebodement, presage, augury, foreshowing.

ANT: Narration, relation, history, account, report.

KEY: Predilection.

SYN: Prepossession, preference, leaning, liking, fondness, bias, inclination, predisposition, tendency, prejudice, partiality.

ANT: Prejudice, aversion, indisposition, antipathy, disinclination, apathy.

KEY: Predisposition, [See PREDILECTION].

KEY: Predominance.

SYN: Prevalence, superiority, ascendancy, rule.

ANT: Inferiority, subjection, minority, paucity.

KEY: Predominant.

SYN: Prevailing, ascendant, prevalent, superior, overruling, [See SUPERIOR].

KEY: Pre-eminent.

SYN: Paramount, predominant, egregious, consummate, prevailing.

ANT: Subordinate, inferior, minor, secondary.

KEY: Preface.

SYN: Introduction, proem, prelude, prologue, preamble, premiss.

ANT: Peroration, sequel, appendix, epilogue, postscript.

KEY: Prefatory.

SYN: Introductory, preclusive, initiative, preliminary, antecedent, prevenient, proemial.

ANT: Subsequent, concluding, terminal, perorational.

KEY: Prefer.

SYN: Choose, elect, select, fancy, promote, advance, further.

ANT: Reject, postpone, defer, withhold, degrade, depress.

KEY: Preferment.

SYN: Dignity, promotion, benefice, advancement, exaltation.

ANT: Degradation, deprivation, suspension.

KEY: Prefiguration.

SYN: Type, adumbration.

ANT: Antitype, fulfillment.

KEY: Prefix.

SYN: Preface.

ANT: Append, subjoin, suffix, supplement, add.

KEY: Pregnant.

SYN: Procreant, generative, prolific, teeming, significant, fraught, fruitful, replete, with child, enceinte.

ANT: Sterile, unproductive, barren, void, meaningless.

KEY: Pregnable.

SYN: Weak, exposed, expugnable, defenceless.

ANT: Impregnable, inexpugnable.

KEY: Prejudice.

SYN: Prepossession, prejudgment, predisposition, bias, unfairness, injury, harm, impairment, detriment, partiality, disadvantage, damage.

ANT: Judgment, fairness, impartiality, advantage.

KEY: prejudicial.

SYN: Harmful, hurtful, injurious, disadvantageous, [See HARMLESS].

KEY: Preliminary.

SYN: Previous, proemial, precursive, prelusory, antecedent, preparatory.

ANT: Subsequent, consequent, following.

KEY: Prelude.

SYN: Introduction, preparation, preface, proem, {[preli*ion]?}, overture, [See PREFACE].

ANT: Sequel, conclusion.

KEY: Premature.

SYN: Hasty, crude, unauthenticated, untimely, precocious, precipitate, too early, rash, unseasonable.

ANT: Ripe, timely, seasonable, opportune.

KEY: Premeditate.

SYN: Plan, propose, plot, prearrange, prepare, precompose, preconcert.

ANT: Extemporize, hazard.

KEY: Premeditation.

SYN: Forethought, deliberation.

ANT: Without forethought, without deliberation.

KEY: Premise.

SYN: Announce, forestate, preface.

ANT: Add, append, infer, gather, supplement, subjoin.

KEY: Premises.

SYN: Antecedent, ground.

ANT: Consequent, inference, deduction, conclusion.

KEY: Premium.

SYN: Reward, guerdon, encouragement, douceur, enhancement, bribe, recompense, bonus, prize, bounty.

ANT: Penalty, fine, amercement, mulct, forfeit, depreciation.

KEY: Preordain.

SYN: Foreordain, predetermine, foredoom, predestine.

KEY: Preparation.

SYN: Provision, making ready.

ANT: Without preparation, without, provision.

KEY: Preparatory, [See PRELIMINARY].

KEY: Prepare.

SYN: Fit, adapt, qualify, ad, just, provide, arrange, order, lay, plan, equip, furnish, make ready.

ANT: Misfit, misadapt, misprovide, derange, disarrange, demolish, subvert, disconcert.

KEY: Preponderant.

SYN: Outweighing, overcoming, superior, [See SUPERIOR].

KEY: Preponderate.

SYN: Predominate, prevail, overbalance, outweigh, outbalance.

ANT: Fail, sink, succumb.

KEY: Prepossessing.

SYN: attractive, alluring, charming, winning, taking, engaging.

ANT: Repulsive, unattractive, sinister.

KEY: Preposterous.

SYN: Monstrous, exorbitant, unreasonable, absurd, irrational, foolish, ridiculous.

ANT: Just, due, fair, reasonable, moderate, right, judicious, orderly, sound.

KEY: Prerogative.

SYN: Eight, privilege, immunity.

ANT: Disqualification, disfranchisement.

KEY: Presage \n.\

SYN: Omen, indication, prognostic, premonition.

ANT: fulfilment, event, occurrence, realization.

KEY: Presage \v.\

SYN: Predict, foresee, foretell, prognosticate, betoken, portend, threaten, augur, [See PORTEND].

KEY: Prescribe.

SYN: Enjoin, order, impose, recommend, indicate, decree, dictate.

ANT: Inhibition, prohibit, discountenance, discommend.

KEY: Prescription.

SYN: Direction, order, recipe, usage, custom, [See CUSTOM].

KEY: Presence.

SYN: Nearness, influence, intercourse, closeness.

ANT: Remoteness, absence, separation, distance.

KEY: Present \a.\

SYN: At hand, existing, not absent, nigh, instant, immediate, current, [See ABSENT].

KEY: Present \n.\

SYN: Donation, gift, offering, grant, benefaction, [See BENEFACTION].

KEY: Present \v.\

SYN: Give, offer, bestow, introduce, exhibit, confer upon, [See BESTOW].

KEY: Presentation.

SYN: Introduction, exhibition, offer, delivery, gift, donation, bestowal, grant, endowment.

ANT: Withdrawal, removal, concealment, suppression, retention, withholding, refusal, nonpresentation.

KEY: Presentiment.

SYN: Foreboding, foretaste, forethought, prescience, forecast, anticipation.

ANT: Surprise, inexpectancy, miscalculation.

KEY: Presently.

SYN: Shortly, soon, immediately, directly, [See DIRECTLY].

KEY: Preservation.

SYN: Safety, security, conservation, integrity, protection, nurture, guardianship, care.

ANT: Abandonment, exposure, peril, insecurity, [See IMPAIRMENT], infringement, injury, damage.

KEY: Preserve.

SYN: Defend, guard, save, keep safe, uphold, protect, maintain, rescue, spare, [See PROTECT].

KEY: Preside.

SYN: Manage, superintend, direct, control, govern, [See MANAGE].

KEY: President.

SYN: Chairman, moderator, principal, superintendent.

ANT: Member, subordinate, constituent, corporation, society, ward, institution.

KEY: Press \v.\

SYN: Urge, crowd, compel, force, squeeze, crush, compress, express, constrain, hurry, instigate, inculcate, impress, throng, encroach, lean, weigh, harass.

ANT: Relax, inhibit, persuade, entice, allure, solicit, touch, skim, graze, free, liberate, ease, avoid, relieve.

KEY: Pressing.

SYN: Urgent compulsory, importunate.

ANT: Unimportant, slight, trivial, light.

KEY: Pressure \n.\

SYN: Exigency, urgency, constraining, hurry, influence, [See EXISTENCE].

KEY: Presume.

SYN: Suppose, anticipate, apprehend, venture, take for granted, conjecture, believe, deem.

ANT: Infer, deduce, prove, argue, retire, withdraw, hesitate, distrust.

KEY: Presumption.

SYN: Anticipation, supposition, hypothesis, probability, assumption, understanding, condition, concession, forwardness, arrogance, audacity, boldness.

ANT: Proof, deduction, inference, demonstration, verification, fact, certainty, modesty, diffidence, backwardness, bashfulness, hesitation.

KEY: Presumptive.

SYN: Probable, antecedent.

ANT: Demonstrative, established.

KEY: Presumptuous.

SYN: Presuming, bold, overconfident, forward, rashly confident, arrogant, bold, rash, irreverent, wilful, foolhardy, [See RASH].

KEY: Presuppose.

SYN: Presume, assume, postulate, surmise.

ANT: Prove, establish, infer, deduce, argue, demonstrate.

KEY: Pretence.

SYN: Excuse, pretext, fabrication, simulation, cloak, mask, color, show, garb, plea, assumption, make believe, outside show, pretension.

ANT: Verity, reality, truth, simplicity, candor, guilelessness, openness, veritableness, actuality, fact.

KEY: Pretend.

SYN: Feign, similate, offer, allege, exhibit, propound, affect, profess.

ANT: Verify, unmask, detect, test, substantiate, refute.

KEY: Pretention.

SYN: Claim, show, pretence, demand, profession, alleged right, [See PRETENCE and CLAIM].

KEY: Pretext, [See PRETENCE].

KEY: Pretty \a.\

SYN: Handsome, attractive, neat, trim, tasteful, pleasing, beautiful, fine, comely, [See ATTRACTIVE and HANDSOME].

KEY: Pretty, adv.

SYN: Moderately, tolerably.

KEY: Prevail.

SYN: Predominate, overcome, obtain, succeed, be in force, induce, persuade, [See CONQUER].

KEY: Prevailing.

SYN: Controlling, ruling, influential, operative, predominant, prevalent, rife, ascendant, most general, most common.

ANT: Mitigated, diminishing, subordinate, powerless.

KEY: Prevalence.

SYN: Custom, power, influence, operation, extension, predominance, superiority, influence, efficacy, preponderance.

ANT: Disuse, desuetude, obsoleteness, decay, evanescence, disappearance, mitigation, subordination, collapse, abandonment, abolition, diminution, subsidence, subjection.

KEY: Prevaricate.

SYN: Shuffle, quibble, equivocate, palter, sophisticate, evade.

ANT: Affirm, asseverate, maintain, reiterate.

KEY: Prevenient.

SYN: Preliminary, prefatory, antecedent, initiatory, introductory.

ANT: Subsequent, consequent, following, attending.

KEY: Prevent.

SYN: Hinder, obstruct, bar, neutralize, nullify, thwart, intercept, anticipate, forefend, frustrate, obviate, checkmate.

ANT: Promote, aid, facilitate, expedite, encourage, advance, accelerate, induce, cause, produce.

KEY: Prevention.

SYN: Obstruction, stoppage, interruption, hinderance.

ANT: Help, aid, succor, acceleration.

KEY: Previous.

SYN: Antecedent, prior, preceding, anterior, foregoing, former, earlier.

ANT: Subsequent, posterior, succeeding, following, later.

KEY: Prey.

SYN: Spoil, booty, plunder, rapine, pillage, victim, seizure, loot.

ANT: Earnings, hues, rights.

KEY: Price.

SYN: Cost, figure, charge, expense, compensation, value, appraisement, worth.

ANT: Donation, discount, allowance, remittance, abatement.

KEY: Priceless.

SYN: Inestimable, invaluable, precious.

ANT: Cheap, valueless.

KEY: Pride.

SYN: Loftiness, haughtiness, lordliness, self-exaltation, arrogance, conceit, vainglory.

ANT: Lowliness, meekness, modesty, self-distrust.

KEY: Priggish.

SYN: Coxcombical, dandified, foppish, affected, prim, conceited.

ANT: Plain, sensible, unaffected, simple-minded, simple-mannered.

KEY: Prim.

SYN: Formal, precise, demure, starched, stiff, self-conscious, unbending, priggish.

ANT: Unformal, easy, genial, unaffected, natural, free, naive.

KEY: Primary.

SYN: First, original, earliest, elementary, chief, principal, important, leading, primitive, pristine.

ANT: Secondary, subordinate, posterior, unimportant, inferior, subsequent, later, [See PRINCIPAL].

KEY: Prime \n.\

SYN: Zenith, culmination, perfection, dawn, spring, cream, flower.

ANT: Decadence, wane, evening, refuse, winter, decay.

KEY: Prime \a.\

SYN: Excellent, superexcellent, first-rate, perfect, consummate.

ANT: Inferior, impaired, waning, deteriorated, ordinary, second-rate, defective.

KEY: Primeval.

SYN: Archaic, primordial, indigenous, autochthonic, aboriginal, pristine.

ANT: Subsequent, recent, modern, imported, adventitious.

KEY: Primitive.

SYN: Old-fashioned, primeval, quaint, simple, unsophisticated, archaic, pristine.

ANT: Modern, new-fangled, sophisticated, modish.

KEY: Primordial, [See PRIMEVAL].

KEY: Princely.

SYN: Imperial, munificent, magnificent, superb, august, regal, royal, supreme.

ANT: Beggarly, mean, niggardly, poverty-struck.

KEY: Principal.

SYN: Highest, first, main, leading, chief, primary, foremost, pre-eminent, prominent.

ANT: Inferior, subordinate, secondary, supplemental, subject, auxiliary, minor.

KEY: Principle.

SYN: Source, origin, motive, cause, energy, substance, element, power, faculty, truth, tenet, law, doctrine, axiom, maxim, postulate, rule.

ANT: Exhibition, manifestation, application, development, issue, exercise, operation, formation, action.

KEY: Prior.

SYN: Preceding, previous, former, antecedent, precedent, earlier, anterior, foregoing, [See POSTERIOR].

KEY: Prismatic.

SYN: Iridescent, opalescent, polychromatous.

ANT: Achromatic, colorless.

KEY: Pristine, [See PRIMEVAL and PRIMITIVE].

KEY: Privacy.

SYN: Retirement, secrecy, solitude, seclusion, retreat, concealment.

ANT: Publicity, currency, notoriety, exposure.

KEY: Private.

SYN: Special, peculiar, individual, secret, not public, retired, privy.

ANT: General, public, open, unconcealed.

KEY: Privation.

SYN: Deprivation, destitution, absence, negation, loss, bereavement, hardship, want.

ANT: Accession, supply, restoration, benefaction, restitution, presence, compensation, recovery, privilege.

KEY: Privilege.

SYN: Prerogative, im-munity, franchise, right, liberty, advantage, claim, exemption.

ANT: Disfranchisement, disqualification, exclusion, prohibition, inhibition.

KEY: Privy.

SYN: Secret, clandestine, cognizant, acquainted with.

ANT: Open, unsealed, not acquainted with, not cognizant of, [See PRIVATE].

KEY: Prize \n.\

SYN: Booty, spoil, plunder, prey, forage, trophy, laurels, guerdon, premium, honors, ovation, palm.

ANT: Loss, forfeiture, fine, penalty, amercement, sacrifice, disappointment, failure, brand, stigma, infamy, mulct.

KEY: Prize \v.\ [See VALUE].

KEY: Probability.

SYN: Likelihood, presumption, verisimilitude, chance, appearance.

ANT: Unliklihood, improbability, impossibility, inconceivableness.

KEY: Probable.

SYN: Likely, presumable, credible, reasonable.

ANT: Unlikely, unreasonable, incredible.

KEY: Probation.

SYN: Essay, examination, test, trial, experiment, proof, criterion, touchstone, ordeal, verification.

ANT: License, [See DIMINISH and SMALL], nonprobation.

KEY: Probe.

SYN: Prove, test, scrutinize, verify, investigate, examine, search, silt, explore.

ANT: Skim, misinvestigate, blink, misexamine, slur, miss, gloss.

KEY: Probity.

SYN: Soundness, virtue, integrity, honesty, uprightness, rectitude, principle, conscientiousness.

ANT: Dishonesty, disintegrity, unsoundness, vice, unconscientiousness, roguery, rascality.

KEY: Problematical.

SYN: Dubious, questionable, uncertain, doubtful.

ANT: Evident, obvious, self-evident, certain, demonstrable.

KEY: Procedure.

SYN: Proceeding, act, progress, course of conduct, process, [See ACT].

KEY: Proceed.

SYN: Move, pass, advance, progress, continue, issue, emanate, flow, arise.

ANT: Recede, deviate, retreat, stand, stop, stay, desist, discontinue, retire.

KEY: Proceeding.

SYN: Step, measure, transaction, performance, procedure, conduct, behavior, action, process.

ANT: Abandonment, desistence, deviation, discontinuance, inaction.

KEY: Proceeds.

SYN: Receipts, produce, returns, avail, profits, income, [See INCOME].

KEY: Procession.

SYN: Train, march, caravan, file, cortege, cavalcade, retinue.

ANT: Rabble, herd, rush, disorder, mob, confusion, rout.

KEY: Proclaim.

SYN: Announce, publish, promulgate, declare, enunciate, advertise, call out, report, utter.

ANT: Repress, conceal, silentiate, obliviate, secrete.

KEY: Proclamation.

SYN: Announcement, edict, decree, notice, ordinance, [See DECREE].

KEY: Proclivity.

SYN: Tendency, propensity, bias, gravitation, disposition, inclination, proneness.

ANT: Aversion, disinclination, indisposition.

KEY: Procrastinate, [See DEFER].

KEY: Procrastination.

SYN: Dilatoriness, delay.

ANT: Timeliness, punctuality, promptitude, alacrity.

KEY: Procure.

SYN: Acquire, provide, gain, get, contrive, effect, reap, win, earn, bring about.

ANT: Miss, lose, forfeit, misprovide, miscontrive.

KEY: Prodigal.

SYN: Lavish, profuse, extravagant, reckless, wasteful, squandering, improvident.

ANT: Frugal, saving, hoarding, economical, niggardly, miserly, close, closefisted.

KEY: productions.

SYN: Marvellous, portentous, wonderful, astounding, enormous, monstrous, amazing, surprising, remarkable, extraordinary, huge, vast.

ANT: Ordinary, commonplace, everyday, usual, familiar, moderate.

KEY: Prodigy.

SYN: Wonder, marvel, portent, monster, miracle, [See MONSTER].

KEY: Produce.

SYN: Exhibit, bear, furbish, afford, cause, create, originate, yield, extend, prolong, lengthen.

ANT: Withdraw, retain, stifle, withhold, neutralize, destroy, annihilate, curtail, shorten, contract, reduce.

KEY: Produce \n.\

SYN: Product, yield, fruit, profit, effect, consequence, result, amount, [See RESULT].

KEY: Product.

SYN: Fruit, result, issue, consequence, effect, emanation, work.

ANT: Cause, principle, power, motive, energy, operation, action, tendency, law.

KEY: Production.

SYN: Origination, evolution, formation, genesis, product, [See CAUSE].

KEY: Productive.

SYN: Fruitful, prolific, fertile, efficient, causative.

ANT: Unfruitful, barren, sterile, unproductive, inefficient, effete.

KEY: Proemial, [See PREFATORY].

KEY: Profane \a.\

SYN: Unconsecrated, secular, temporal, unsanctified, unholy, irreligious, irreverent, ungodly, wicked, godless, impious, blasphemous.

ANT: Holy, consecrated, sacred, spiritual, sanctified, reverent, religious, godly, pious, devout.

KEY: Profane \v.\

SYN: Defile, pollute, desecrate, abuse, [See CONTAMINATE and POLLUTE].

KEY: Profess.

SYN: Declare, avow, acknowledge, own, confess, pretend, proclaim, lay claim to.

ANT: Conceal, suppress, disown, disavow, repudiate, renounce, abjure.

KEY: Profession.

SYN: Avowal, declaration, business, occupation, trade, calling, vocation, [See DECLARATION].

KEY: Proffer.

SYN: Offer, propose, tender, volunteer.

ANT: Withhold, detain.

KEY: Proficiency.

SYN: Success, advancement, progress, improvement, forwardness, dexterity.

ANT: Failure, backwardness, unsuccess, tardiness, relapse.

KEY: Proficient \n.\

SYN: Adept, master, expert.

ANT: Tyro, novice, ignoramus, dunce.

KEY: Proficient \a.\

SYN: Expert, clever, practised, skilled, trained, versed, advanced, conversant, skilful, competent, well qualified.

ANT: backward, ignorant, unskilled, inconversant, ill-versed, awkward, clumsy.

KEY: Profit.

SYN: Gain, emolument, advantage, avail, acquisition, benefit service, use, improvement.

ANT: Loss, detriment, damage, disadvantage, waste.

KEY: Profitable.

SYN: Gainful, advantageous, desirable, beneficial, useful, productive, remunerative, lucrative.

ANT: Unprofitable, disadvantageous, undesirable, detrimental, unbeneficial, unprofitable, useless, vain, fruitless, unproductive, unremunerative.

KEY: Profitless, [See PROFITABLE].

KEY: Profligacy.

SYN: Shamelessness, dissoluteness, depravity, reprobation.

ANT: Virtue, probity, integrity, principle, conscientiousness.

KEY: Profligate.

SYN: Abandoned, depraved, dissolute, degenerate, corrupt, vicious, shameless, [See ABANDONED].

KEY: Profound.

SYN: Deep, fathomless, abysmal, penetrating, intimate, solemn, abstruse, recondite, philosophical, strong, vivid, intense, deepseated.

ANT: Shallow, superficial, commonplace.

KEY: Profuse.

SYN: Copious, lavish, prodigal, bountiful, exuberant, excessive.

ANT: Scanty, sparing, chary, parsimonious, niggardly, churlish, poor.

KEY: Profusion.

SYN: Copiousness, prodigality, abundance, exuberance, extravagance, multitude, mass, heap, load, flood, wealth.

ANT: Scarcity, economy, poverty, parsimony, drain, dole, driblet, pittance.

KEY: Progeny.

SYN: Offspring, young, issue, scion, offshoot, descendants, posterity, race.

ANT: Stock, parentage, ancestry.

KEY: Prognostic.

SYN: Sign, indication, symptom, premonition, harbinger, token, presage, signal.

ANT: Result, reminder, memorial, record, register, misindication, mistaken.

KEY: Prognosticate.

SYN: Foretell, presage, predict, forebode, foretoken, augur, portend, indicate, betoken.

ANT: Record, register, recal, remember, note, rehearse.

KEY: Programme.

SYN: Advertisement, notice, plan, catalogue.

ANT: Review, rehearsal, repetition, resume, analysis, precis.

KEY: Progress \n.\

SYN: Advancement, advance, movement, proceeding, Way, journey, proficiency, speed, growth.

ANT: Delay, stoppage, retreat, stay, retrogression, failure, relapse.

KEY: Progress \v.\ [See ADVANCE].

KEY: Progression.

SYN: Series, gradation, rate.

ANT: Inversion, diminution.

KEY: Prohibit.

SYN: Forbid, interdict, debar, hinder, check, prevent, disallow, inhibit.

ANT: Permit, grant, allow, sanction.

KEY: Prohibition.

SYN: Interdiction, inhibition, interdict, embargo, disallowance.

ANT: Allowance, permission.

KEY: Project \v.\

SYN: Throw, cast, hurl, propel, shoot, discharge, propound, intend, forecast, jut, extend, reach, bulge, stand out.

ANT: Recal, withdraw, draw, retract, pull, attract, rebound, recoil, adduce, revert, rebate.

KEY: Project \n.\

SYN: Plan, purpose, design, scheme, contrivance, device.

ANT: Hazard, chance, venture.

KEY: Projectile.

SYN: Missile.

ANT: Weapon, sidearms, handarms.

KEY: Projection.

SYN: Protuberance, prominence, convexity, propulsion, emission.

ANT: Recess, cavity, concavity, return, indentation, hollow, attraction, recoil, rebound, ricochet, reaction.

KEY: Prolific, [See PRODUCTION].

KEY: Prolix.

SYN: Diffuse, lengthy, tedious, circumlocutory, prosaic, verbose, minute, toilsome, wordy.

ANT: Condensed, terse, epigrammatic, curt, brief, laconic.

KEY: Prolong.

SYN: Lengthen, extend, protract, continue, delay, retard.

ANT: Curtail, shorten, contract, discontinue.

KEY: Prominent.

SYN: Jutting, protuberant, relieved, embossed, extended, manifest, conspicuous, eminent, distinguished, main, important, leading, characteristic, distinctive.

ANT: Receding, concave, rebated, indented, hollowed, engraved, intailed, withdrawn, inconspicuous, minor, secondary, unimportant, indistinctive, undistinguishable, subordinate.

KEY: Promiscuous.

SYN: Mingled, [See {[cooFRO]?}], undistinguished, unselected, unarranged, undistributed, unassorted, common, unreserved, casual, disorderly, unordered.

ANT: Sorted, select, orderly, arranged, distributed, reserved, as sorted, exclusive, nice.

KEY: Promise \v.\ [(DEF: to engage by word of mouth, as distinguished from a bond)].

SYN: Engage, assure.

ANT: Covenant, pledge, stipulate.

KEY: Promise \n.\

SYN: Engagement, assurance, word, pledge, [See ASSURANCE].

KEY: Promontory.

SYN: Headland, jutland, cape.

ANT: Bay, cove, recess.

KEY: Promote.

SYN: Aid, further, advance, excite, exalt, raise, elevate, prefer.

ANT: Discourage, repress, hinder, check, allay, depress, degrade, dishonor.

KEY: Promotion.

SYN: Furtherance, advancement, encouragement, preferment, elevation.

ANT: Hinderance, obstruction, impediment, retardation.

KEY: Prompt.

SYN: Ready, alert, responsive, active, quick, brisk, apt, unhesitating.

ANT: Unready, sluggish, irresponsive, inactive.

KEY: Promptitude.

SYN: Readiness, promptness, quickness, alertness, alacrity, activity.

ANT: Unreadiness, sluggishness, inaction, inertness, tardiness, hesitation.

KEY: Promulgate.

SYN: Divulge, announce, publish, spread, propound, disseminate, proclaim, advertise.

ANT: Repress, conceal, suppress, stifle, hush, burke, discountenance.

KEY: Prone.

SYN: Disposed, inclined, bent, tending, apt, recumbent, prostrate, flat.

ANT: Indisposed, disinclined, unapt, averse, upright.

KEY: Pronounce.

SYN: Articulate, utter, declare, propound, deliver, assert, affirm, enunciate, express.

ANT: Mispronounce, mispropound, misaffirm, suppress, stifle, silence, choke, swallow, gabble, mumble.

KEY: Proof.

SYN: Test, trial, examination, criterion, essay, establishment, probation, demonstration, evidence, testimony, scrutiny.

ANT: Disproof, failure, invalidity, shortcoming, fallacy, undemonstrativeness, reprobation.

KEY: Prop \n.\

SYN: Support, stay, buttress, shore, strut, pin.

ANT: Superstructure, superincumbency, top-weight, gravitation, extirpation, subverter, destroyer.

KEY: Prop \v.\

SYN: Sustain, support, stay, maintain, [See SUPPORT].

KEY: Propagate.

SYN: Breed, generate, produce, originate, spread, extend, expand, disseminate, diffuse, increase, multiply, promulgate, propound, broach.

ANT: Extinguish, strangle, stifle, neutralize, reduce, contract, suppress, diminish, fail, dwindle, die, contradict.

KEY: Propel.

SYN: Hurl, project, drive, urge.

ANT: Retard, detain, withhold.

KEY: Propensity.

SYN: Bent, predilection, proclivity, [See PROCLIVITY].

KEY: Proper.

SYN: Peculiar, appertinent, personal, own, constitutional, special, befitting, adapted, suited, suitable, appropriate, just, fair, equitable, right, decent, becoming, fit.

ANT: Common, inappertinent, alien, universal, nonspecial, unbefitting, unadapted, unsuited, unsuitable, inappropriate, wrong, indecent, unbecoming, improper.

KEY: Property.

SYN: Quality, attribute, peculiarity, nature, characteristic, possessions, goods, wealth, estate, gear, resources, ownership, [See ATTRIBUTE]. \n.\ [See and ESTATE].

KEY: Prophesy, [See FORETELL].

KEY: Prophetic.

SYN: Predictive, ominous, portentous, premonitory, fatidical, oracular, sibylline.

ANT: Historic, narrative, chronicled, recorded, recitative, commemorative.

KEY: Propinquity.

SYN: Nearness, proximity, contiguity, adjacence.

ANT: Distance, remoteness, longitude, separation.

KEY: Propitiate.

SYN: Conciliate, secure, appease, win, reconcile, pacify.

ANT: Exasperate, alienate, offend, estrange.

KEY: Propitious.

SYN: Timely, favorable, auspicious, beneficial, friendly, welldisposed, gracious, benign, fortunate.

ANT: Untimely, untoward, unseasonable, unfavorable, inauspicious, unfriendly, hostile, antagonistic, adverse, ill-disposed, unpropitious.

KEY: Proportion.

SYN: Adaptation, relation, rate, distribution, adjustment, symmetry, interrelationship, uniformity, correlation.

ANT: Misproportion, misadjustment, incongruity, disparity, disharmony, disorder, irrelation, disproportion.

KEY: Proposal.

SYN: Offer, overture, tender, suggestion, design, proposition, scheme.

ANT: Withholding, withdrawal, retention, reticence, dissuasive, warning, prohibition.

KEY: Propose.

SYN: Offer, tender, proffer, bring forward, purpose, intend, mean, propound, move, design, [See {[OKFKB]?}].

KEY: Proposition.

SYN: Statement, affirmation, declaration, sentence.

ANT: Misstatement, interjection, babel, jargon, sound, riddle, paradox.

KEY: Propound.

SYN: Propose, promulgate, express, declare, maintain, advocate, propagate, broach.

ANT: Repress, suppress, contradict, withdraw, repudiate, renounce, abjure, recal, retract.

KEY: Propriety.

SYN: Fitness, appropriateness, justness, correctness, expediency, decorum, [See EXPEDIENCY and DECORUM].

KEY: Prorogation, [See PROROGUE].

KEY: Prorogue.

SYN: Adjourn, postpone, defer.

ANT: Convene, continue, prolong, expedite, despatch.

KEY: Prosaic.

SYN: Pull, matter-of-fact, tedious, prolix.

ANT: Poetic, animated, interesting, lively, fervid, eloquent, graphic.

KEY: Proscribe.

SYN: Denounce, condemn, reject, interdict, ostracize, disallow, prohibit, forbid.

ANT: Permit, sanction, encourage, enjoin.

KEY: Prosecute.

SYN: Follow, pursue, investigate, conduct, summon, arraign, persevere, carry on, persist, sue.

ANT: Drop, discontinue, abandon, misconduct, misinvestigate, missoperate, exonerate, acquit.

KEY: Proselyte.

SYN: Convert, catechumen, neophyte.

ANT: Misbeliever, infidel, habitue, pillar, prop, buttress.

KEY: Prospect.

SYN: View, vision, field, landscape, hope, anticipation, probability.

ANT: Viewlessness, dimness, obscurity, darkness, cloud, veiling, occultation, hopelessness, improbability.

KEY: Prospectus.

SYN: Programme, plan, catalogue, announcement, bill, scheme, compendium.

ANT: Subject, transaction, proceeding, &c.

KEY: Prosperity.

SYN: Success, weal, welfare, good fortune, well-being, good luck.

ANT: Unsuccess, woe, adversity, failure, reverse.

KEY: Prosperous.

SYN: Successful, fortunate, thriving, well off, well to do, happy, lucky, [See FORTUNATE].

KEY: Prostrate.

SYN: Fallen, flat, procumbent, lifeless, ruined, overpowered, oppressed, prone.

ANT: Risen, vertical, erect, upright, reinvigorated, revived, restored.

KEY: Prostration.

SYN: Overthrown, demolition, destruction, depression, exhaustion, [See DEPRESSION].

KEY: Protect.

SYN: Defend, fortify, guard, shield, preserve, cover, secure, save, vindicate.

ANT: Betray, endanger, imperil, abandon, expose.

KEY: Protection.

SYN: Shelter, defence, security, safety, refuge, guard, [See SECURITY].

KEY: Protest.

SYN: Expostulate, remonstrate, denounce, repudiate, deprecate, affirm, aver, assure.

ANT: Acquiesce, coincide, sanction, subscribe, endorse, agree.

KEY: Protract.

SYN: Prolong, produce, elongate, defer, extend, lengthen, continue, draw out.

ANT: Shorten, abbreviate, curtail, contract, reduce.

KEY: Protrude.

SYN: Extend, project, abut, jut, demonstrate, expose, bulge, thrust forward.

ANT: Recede, retract, adduce, repress, suppress, conceal.

KEY: Protrusion.

SYN: Projection, protuberance, convexity, tongue.

ANT: recess, cavity, hollow, concavity, mouth.

KEY: Protuberance.

SYN: Lump, swelling, excrescence, convexity.

ANT: Cavity, smoothness, planeness, concavity, indentation, hollow.

KEY: Proud.

SYN: Arrogant, haughty, imperious, supercilious, presumptuous, boastful, vain glorious, vain, ostentatious, elated, self-satisfied, lofty, imposing, magnificent, self-conscious.

ANT: Deferential, humble, affable, unpresuming, meek, lowly, ashamed, unimposing, mean.

KEY: Prove.

SYN: {[Trv]?}, assay, test, establish, demonstrate, ascertain, argue, show, confirm, examine, substantiate, make trial of, verify, ascertain.

ANT: Pass, pretermit, misdemonstrate, misindicate, refute, disprove, contradict, disestablish, neutralize.

KEY: Proverb.

SYN: Maxim, apothegm, adage, saw, dictum, by word.

ANT: Essay, dissertation, disquisition, oration, diatribe, yarn.

KEY: Proverbial.

SYN: Notorious, current, acknowledged, unquestioned.

ANT: Dubious, unfounded, suspicious, suspected, questionable.

KEY: Provide.

SYN: Prepare, arrange, procure, afford, supply, contribute, yield, cater, furnish, get, agree, produce, collect, stipulate.

ANT: Misprovide, neglect, overlook, withhold, retain, appropriate, refuse, den, [See {[*1]?}], alienate, divert, misemploy, mismanage.

KEY: Provided.

SYN: Granted, supposing.

ANT: Barring, saving, excluded.

KEY: Providence.

SYN: Forethought, timely care, forecast, divine government, divine superintendence.

ANT: Improvidence, recklessness, carelessness.

KEY: Provident.

SYN: Forecasting, foreseeing, cautious, considerate.

ANT: Improvident, reckless, careless, inconsiderate.

KEY: Province.

SYN: Tract, region, department, section, sphere, domain, territory.

ANT: Metropolis, centre, capital.

KEY: Provincial.

SYN: Appendant, annexed, outlying, rural, countrified, rustic, bucolic.

ANT: Central, metropolitan, modish, fashionable, courtly.

KEY: Provision, Provisions.

SYN: Preparation, arrangement, produce, supply, anticipation, food, supplies, victuals, edibles, eatables.

ANT: Neglect, misprovision, forgetfulness, thoughtlessness, oversight, destitution, want, dearth, starvation, dole, pittance.

KEY: Provisional.

SYN: Conditional, contingent, hypothetical, temporary.

ANT: Unconditional, absolute, permanent, perpetual.

KEY: Provocation.

SYN: Incitement, stimulus, stimulant, provocative, affront, indignity, insult, [See INDIGNITY].

KEY: Provoke.

SYN: Educe, summon, rouse, irritate, excite, challenge, vex, impel, offend, exasperate, anger, tantalize.

ANT: Allay, relegate, pacify, soothe, conciliate.

KEY: Prowess.

SYN: Bravery, valor, gallantry, might, courage, intrepidity, fearlessness, heroism.

ANT: Cowardice, weakness, poltroonery, dastardliness.

KEY: Prowl.

SYN: Rove, roam, wander, prey.

ANT: Fly, swoop, chase, scour.

KEY: Proximity.

SYN: Neighborhood, vicinity, [See PROPINQUITY].

KEY: Proxy.

SYN: Agency, substitution, representation, agent, substitute, representative, deputy, commissioner, lieutenant, delegate.

ANT: Principalship, personality, principal, person, authority, depeter.

KEY: Prudent.

SYN: Wise, wary, cautious, circumspect, discreet, careful, judicious.

ANT: Foolish, unwary, incautious, uncircumspect, indiscreet, rash, imprudent, silly, reckless, audacious.

KEY: Prudish.

SYN: Coy, over modest, affectedly modest, over nice, squeamish, reserved, demure, [See DEMURE].

KEY: Prurient.

SYN: Craving, itching, hankering, longing, lustful.

ANT: Disliking, loathing, pure.

KEY: Prune.

SYN: Trim, lop, drees, amputate.

ANT: Pamper, train.

KEY: Pry.

SYN: Peer, peep, scrutinize, inquire.

ANT: Connive, overlook, disregard, pretermit.

KEY: Prying.

SYN: Peering, inquisitive, scrutinizing, curious.

ANT: Incurious, [See CURIOUS].

KEY: Public.

SYN: Open, notorious, common, social, national, exoteric, general, generally known.

ANT: Close, secret, private, domestic, secluded, solitary, personal, individual.

KEY: Publication.

SYN: Promulgation, notification, proclamation, divulgation.

ANT: Suppression, reservation, concealment.

KEY: Publicity.

SYN: Notoriety, currency, [See NOTORIETY].

KEY: Publish, [See ANNOUNCE].

KEY: Puerile.

SYN: Childish, boyish, infantile, youthful, nonsensical, futile, nugatory, weak, silly, trifling.

ANT: Manly, vigorous, effective, powerful, cogent, weighty.

KEY: Puerility.

SYN: Childishness, boyishness, juvenility, youthfulness.

ANT: Maturity, ripeness, manliness.

KEY: Puff.

SYN: Flatter, advertise, hawk, ventilate.

ANT: Squash, disparage, lash, chastise, blast.

KEY: Pugnacious.

SYN: Quarrelsome, bellicose, contentious.

ANT: Peaceable, conciliatory, suavity.

KEY: Pull.

SYN: Draw, drag, adduce, extract, tug, haul, pluck.

ANT: Push, eject, extrude, propel.

KEY: Pummel, [See POMMEL].

KEY: Pump.

SYN: Cross-examine, interrogate, cross-quest iou.

ANT: Prime, indoctrinate, instruct, cram.

KEY: Punch.

SYN: Perforate, poke, pierce, puncture, terebrate, bore.

ANT: Stop, plug, seal, bung.

KEY: Punctilious.

SYN: Ceremonious, nice, scrupulous, exact, particular, excessively nice, over scrupulous, precise.

ANT: Unceremonious, unscrupulous.

KEY: Punctual.

SYN: Exact, prompt, early, timely.

ANT: safe, tardy, behindhand, be, lated, dilatory, unpunctual.

KEY: Puncture \v.\ [See PUNCH].

KEY: Pungent.

SYN: Pricking, piercing, acrid, mordant, biting, stinging, stimulating, keen, trenchant, caustic, piquant, sarcastic.

ANT: Soothing, mellow, luscious, unctuous.

KEY: Punish.

SYN: Chastise, castigate, chasten, correct, whip, scourge.

ANT: Reward, recompense, remunerate, indemnify.

KEY: Puny.

SYN: Petty, undeveloped, undersized, feeble, pigmy, dwarfish, small, inferior, tiny.

ANT: Great, developed, fine, robust, vigorous, oversized, colossal, gigantic.

KEY: Pupil.

SYN: Scholar, learner, student, tyro, novice, ward.

ANT: Teacher, master, proficient, adept, guardian.

KEY: Pupilage.

SYN: Minority, discipleship, wardship, tutelage, dependence, government.

ANT: Majority, mastership, guardianship, discretion, independence.

KEY: Puppet, [Fr. \poupée, a doll\; Lat. \pupa\].

SYN: Doll, image, lay-figure, tool.

ANT: Personality, power.

KEY: Puppy.

SYN: Fop, coxcomb, prig.

ANT: Boor, clown, lout.

KEY: Purblind.

SYN: Blinkard, owleyed, short-sighted.

ANT: Eagle-eyed, hawk-eyed, lynxeyed.

KEY: Argus-eyed, farsighted, Purchase, [See BUY].

KEY: Pure.

SYN: Clear, unmixed, simple, genuine, sheer, mere, absolute, unadulterated, uncorrupted, unsullied, unblemished, chaste, real, clean, spotless, immaculate, undefiled, unspotted, guileless, innocent, guiltless.

ANT: Foul, turbid, impure, adulterated, corrupt, sullied, stained, tarnished, defiled, mixed, guilty.

KEY: Purgation.

SYN: Clearing, cleansing, purification, lustration, clarification, defecation, determine.

ANT: Imputation, contraction, defilement, befoulment.

KEY: Purgative \a.\

SYN: Evacuant, cathartic, abstergent.

ANT: Binding, [See ABSTERSIVE].

KEY: Purge.

SYN: Cleanse, clear, clarify, purify, [See CLEAR].

KEY: Purify, [See PURGE].

KEY: Puritanical.

SYN: Prudish, ascetic, demure.

ANT: Genial, dissolute, voluptuous, rakish.

KEY: Purity.

SYN: Cleanness, clearness, immaculateness, guiltlessness, innocence, [See INNOCENCE].

KEY: Purlieu.

SYN: Environ, precinct, suburb.

ANT: Centre, heart.

KEY: Purloin.

SYN: Steal, filch, thieve, seize, plunder.

ANT: Reinstate, restore, To sin.

KEY: Purport.

SYN: Tendency, meaning, import, bearing, signification, drift, tenor, current, intent, spirit.

ANT: Statement, assertion, declaration, proposition, announcement.

KEY: Purpose \v.\

SYN: Intend, determine, design, resolve, mean, propose.

ANT: Chance, risk, hazard, revoke, Miscalculate, venture, stake.

KEY: Purpose \n.\

SYN: Intention, design, mind, meaning, view, object, aim, end, scope, point, resolve.

ANT: Chance, fortune, fate, accident, hazard, lot, casualty, lottery, hit.

KEY: Pursue.

SYN: Chase, follow, track, hunt, continue, prosecute, [See PROSECUTE].

KEY: Pursy.

SYN: Short-winded, thickwinded, short-breathed.

ANT: Lithe, agile, long-winded.

KEY: Purulent.

SYN: Feculent, festering, corrupt.

ANT: Secretional, healthy.

KEY: Purvey.

SYN: Provide, cater, provide food, [See PROVIDE].

KEY: Push.

SYN: Press, drive, impel, shove, press against, propel, butt, thrust, urge, expedite, accelerate, reduce.

ANT: Pull, draw, drag, adduce.

KEY: Pusillanimity.

SYN: {[DactardlineM]?}, cowardice, meanspiritedness, faintheartedness, timidity, poltroonery.

ANT: Magnanimity, fortitude, courage, bravery, venturesomeness, daring, heroism.

KEY: Pusillanimous.

SYN: Cowardly, timorous, faintheartedness, meanspirited, [See GALLANT].

KEY: Putt.

SYN: Place, lay, set, propose.

ANT: Remove, raise, displace, transfer, withdraw.

KEY: Putative.

SYN: Reckoned, supposed, deemed, reputed, reported.

ANT: Real, authenticated, veritable, established.

KEY: Putrefy.

SYN: Rot, corrupt, decompose, decay.

ANT: Preserve, embalm, freshen, Vitilize, purify, depurate, disinfect.

KEY: Putrid.

SYN: Stinking, corrupt, offensive, decayed, decomposed, rotten, foul, mean, base, worthless.

ANT: Wholesome, sound, inoffensive, pure, redolent, fresh, healthful, sweet, honorable, worthy.

KEY: Puzzle \v.\

SYN: Pose, perplex, embarrass, bewilder, confound, mystify, confuse.

ANT: Enlighten, instruct, illumine.

KEY: Puzzle \n.\

SYN: Embarrassment, be wilderment, enigma, confusion, conundrum, intricacy, labyrinth.

ANT: Disentanglement, solution, explanation, extrication, clue.

KEY: Quack.

SYN: Empiric, mountebank, charlatan, imposter, pretender, humbug.

ANT: Dupe, gull, victim.

KEY: Quaff.

SYN: Drink, swallow, imbibe.

ANT: Disgorge, spew, vomit.

KEY: Quagmire, [See MARSH].

KEY: Quail.

SYN: Sink, shrink, cower, succumb, crouch, flinch, blench, tremble.

ANT: Stand, defy, withstand, face, endure.

KEY: Quaint.

SYN: Curious, recondite, abstruse, elegant, nice, affected, whimsical, odd, antique, archaic, fanciful, singular, old-fashioned.

ANT: Commonplace, ordinary, usual, coarse, common, modern, modish, fashionable, dowdy.

KEY: Quake.

SYN: Tremble, shake, shudder, vibrate, quiver, quaver.

ANT: Stand, rest, root.

KEY: Qualification.

SYN: Capacity, fitness, condition, capability, accomplishment, requirement, limitation, modification.

ANT: Incapacity, unfitness, absoluteness, disqualification, nonqualification, unrestrictedness.

KEY: Qualified.

SYN: Fitted, adapted, competent, suitable, [See SUITABLE].

KEY: Qualify.

SYN: Fit, prepare, adapt, capacitate, limit, restrict, enable, render capable.

ANT: Unfit, misprepare, misqualify, disqualify, incapacitate, free, absolve.

KEY: Quality.

SYN: Condition, character, property, attribute, peculiarity, disposition, temper, sort, kind, description, capacity, power, virtue, nature, tendency.

ANT: Anomalousness, heterogeneousness, nondescript, incapacity, weakness, instistinctiveness, ineffectiveness, disqualification, negation, disability.

KEY: Qualm.

SYN: Misgiving, remorse, scruple, penitence.

ANT: Comfort, ease, self-satisfaction, self-approval.

KEY: Quandary.

SYN: Hobble, difficulty, doubt, puzzle, uncertainty, perplexity, bewilderment, dubitation, baiting, dilemma, embarrassment.

ANT: Clearsightedness, resolution, plainness, clearness, obviousness, facility, disencumbrance, disentanglement, disembarrassment.

KEY: Quantity.

SYN: Measure, amount, bulk, size, sum, portion, aggregate, muchness, part, share, division.

ANT: Margin, deficiency, deduction, want, inadequacy, scantiness, insufficiency, loss, deterioration, diminution, waste, wear, leakage.

KEY: Quarrel \n.\

SYN: Brawl, altercation, affray, squabble, feud, tumult, dispute, wrangle, variance, disagreement, misunderstanding, hostility, quarreling, embroilment, bickering, broil.

ANT: Confabulation, conversation, chat, pleasantry, conciliation, agreement, harmony, understanding, friendliness, peace, amity, good will.

KEY: Quarrel \v.\

SYN: Wrangle, squabble, dispute, spur, jangle, fall out, bicker, brawl, [See BRAWL].

KEY: Quarreling, [See QUARREL].

KEY: Quarrelsome.

SYN: Choleric, irascible, petulant, litigious, pugnacious, brawling, fiery, hot-tempered, contentious, irritable.

ANT: Peaceable, amenable, genial, unquarrelsome, inoffensive, mild, meek, conciliatory, bland, suave.

KEY: Quarter.

SYN: Region, district, locality, territory, mercy, forbearance, pity.

ANT: Extermination, mercilessness, unsparingness, pitilessness, ruthless, ness.

KEY: Quash.

SYN: Crush, extinguish, overthrow, annihilate, annul, nullify, suppress, cancel, vacate.

ANT: Sap, undermine, disorganize, decompose.

KEY: Quaver \v.\ [See PLEASURE].

KEY: Queer.

SYN: Odd, whimsical, quaint, cross, strange, crochety, singular, eccentric.

ANT: Ordinary, common, usual, familiar, customary.

KEY: Quell.

SYN: Extinguish, destroy, crush, reduce, allay, stifle, quiet, pacify, quench, repress, suppress, calm, put out, subdue, quench, overpower.

ANT: Foster, excite, fan, aggravate, stir, irritate, disturb, raise, inflame.

KEY: Quench, [See QUELL].

KEY: Querlmonlous.

SYN: Malcontent, dissatisfied, opposititious, litigious.

ANT: Contented, satisfied, complacent, amenable, conformable.

KEY: Querulous.

SYN: Quarrelsome, complaining, fretful, repining, discontented, dissatisfied, chiding, murmuring, whining, peevish, fastidious, irritable.

ANT: Easy, uncomplaining, satisfied, contented, submissive, genial, complacent, cheerful, good-tempered.

KEY: Query.

SYN: Question, interrogation, inquiry.

ANT: Answer.

KEY: Question \v.\

SYN: Ask, inquire, interrogate, doubt, investigate, dubitate, controvert, dispute.

ANT: Dictate, state, assert, pronounce, enunciate, concede, endorse, affirm, grant, allow.

KEY: Question \n.\

SYN: Inquiry, interrogation, doubt, scrutiny, investigation, topic.

ANT: Reply, response, solution, answer, explanation, admission, concession.

KEY: Questionable.

SYN: Doubtful, dubious, problematical, disputable, debatable, uncertain, suspicious.

ANT: Certain, evident, self-evident, obvious, indisputable.

KEY: Quibble \v.\

SYN: Shuffle, evade, trifle, cavil, equivocate, prevaricate.

ANT: Reason, argue, enunciate, investigate, discuss.

KEY: Quick.

SYN: Fast, rapid, speedy, expeditious, swift, hasty, prompt, ready, clever, sharp, shrewd, adroit, keen, fleet, active, brisk, nimble, lively, agile, alert, sprightly, transient, intelligent, irascible.

ANT: Slow, tardy, sluggish, inert, inactive, dull, insensitive.

KEY: Quicken.

SYN: Accelerate, animate, revive, reinvigorate, resuscitate, vivify, stimulate, hurry, hasten, urge, excite, promote, expedite.

ANT: Retard, delay, encumber, clog, drag, detain, discourage, allay.

KEY: Quickness.

SYN: Liveliness, velocity, speed, swiftness, celerity, fleetness, haste.

ANT: Slowness, tardiness, dilatoriness.

KEY: Quiescence.

SYN: Repose, rest, quiet, quietude, dormancy, tranquillity, silence, stillness, {[AcTrvrrr]?}.

KEY: Quiet \n.\

SYN: Rest, repose, stillness, calm, appeasement, pacification, silence, peace.

ANT: Unrest, motion, noise, agitation, excitement, disturbance, turmoil, tumult.

KEY: Quiet \v.\

SYN: Allay, appease, still, pacify, hush, lull, tranquillize, soothe, calm.

ANT: Rouse, excite, disturb, agitate, stir, urge, goad.

KEY: Quit.

SYN: Leave, resign, abandon, relinquish, discharge, release, surrender, give up, depart from, forsake.

ANT: Seek, occupy, invade, bind, enforce, haunt, enter.

KEY: Quite.

SYN: Perfectly, entirely, completely, wholly, truly, altogether, totally.

ANT: Partially, imperfectly, barely, insufficiently, hardly.

KEY: Quittance.

SYN: Discharge, absolution, remission, release.

ANT: Distraint, exaction, bond, debt, obligation.

KEY: Quiver.

SYN: Shake, shiver, vibrate, tremble, quake, [See PLEASURE].

KEY: Quote.

SYN: Cite, name, adduce, plead, allege, note, repeat.

ANT: Disprove, refute, retort, oppose, contradict, traverse, misquote, misadduce, rebut.

KEY: Rabble.

SYN: Crowd, mob, scum, dregs, riff-raff, vulgar herd, disorderly crowd, canaille.

ANT: Elite, aristocracy, galaxy, upper ten, [See (U.S.)].

KEY: Rabid.

SYN: Furious, raging, mad, infuriated, maniacal, frantic, raving.

ANT: Rational, sane, reasonable, sober.

KEY: Race.

SYN: Course, pursuit, career, family, [See LINEAGE].

KEY: Racy.

SYN: Fine-flavored, fresh, rich, pungent, piquant, spirited, smart, lively, vivacious, spicy.

ANT: Flavorless, dull, stupid.

KEY: Rack, [See TORTURE].

KEY: Radiance.

SYN: Brightness, splendor, lustre, brilliancy, brilliance, effulgence, glare.

ANT: Dullness, opaque.

KEY: Radiant.

SYN: Beaming, lustrous, brilliant, glittering, splendid, shining, sparkling, luminous, glorious, beauteous.

ANT: Dull, lustreless, nonluminous.

KEY: Radiate.

SYN: Shine, sparkle, gleam, emanate, coruscate, shimmer, [See SHINE].

KEY: Radical.

SYN: Original, fundamental, thoroughgoing, unsparing, extreme, entire, innate, natural, essential, immanent, ingrained, underived, deep-seated.

ANT: Derived, ascititious, adventitious, superficial, extraneous, partial, moderate, conservative, acquired.

KEY: Rage \n.\

SYN: Fury, rabidity, choler, indignation, frenzy, auger, ire, dudgeon, mania, passion, madness, ferocity.

ANT: Reason, moderation, gentleness, temperateness, calmness, quiescence, mitigation, assuagement, tranquillity, mildness, softness.

KEY: Rage \v.\

SYN: Rave, storm, fume, be furious, be violent.

ANT: Be calm, be composed, be peaceful.

KEY: Raging.

SYN: Vehement, violent, impetuous, infuriate, furious.

KEY: Rail \v.\

SYN: Censure, scold, bluster, scoff, chide, objurgate, [See CENSURE].

KEY: Raillery, [See BANTER].

KEY: Raiment.

SYN: Clothing, vestments, garb, apparel, dress, attire, vesture, garments.

ANT: Rags, nudity, nakedness.

KEY: Raise.

SYN: Lift, heave, elevate, exalt, advance, promote, heighten, enhance, awaken, rouse, excite, call forth, cultivate, rear, produce, collect, summon, erect, originate, propagate.

ANT: Lay, cast, depress, degrade, retard, dishonor, lower, depreciate, lull, compose, quiet, calm, blight, destroy, disperse, disband, stifle, hush, silence, neutralize, confute.

KEY: Rake.

SYN: Libertine, roue, debauchee, [See {[XXX]?}].

KEY: Rakish.

SYN: Licentious, dissolute, wanton, lewd, loose, [See BOUNDLESS].

KEY: Rally \v.\ \t.\ and \i.\

SYN: Recall, reunite, inspirit, assemble, congregate, animate, recover, reassure.

ANT: Demoralize, disperse, disband.

KEY: Rally \v.\

SYN: Banter, satirize, chaff, taunt, mock, deride, ridicule, joke, twit.

ANT: Compliment, flatter, panegyrize, eulogize.

KEY: Ramble \v.\

SYN: Rove, roam, wander, range, stroll, saunter, stray.

ANT: Course, speed, hasten, drive, run.

KEY: Ramble \n.\

SYN: Jaunt, tour, wandering, strolling, excursion.

KEY: Ramification.

SYN: Branching, branch, offshoot, division, divergence, subdivision.

ANT: Line, trunk, stem, bole, course, thread, sequence, continuity, prosecution, rectilinearity, indivergence, indivision, non-ramification.

KEY: Rampant.

SYN: Unbridled, uncontrolled, wanton, headstrong, luxuriant, furious, rank, violent, licentious, vehement.

ANT: Demure, self-restrained, restrained, self-controlled, disciplined, curbed.

KEY: Rampart.

SYN: Bulwark, fortification, security, wall, defence, embankment, mound, mole, outwork, breastwork.

ANT: Nonfortification, defencelessness, exposure, insecurity, vulnerability.

KEY: Rancid.

SYN: Sour, tainted, rank, olid, reasty, frowzy, fetid, musty.

ANT: Sweet, pure, untainted, fresh, fragrant.

KEY: Rancor.

SYN: Ill-blood, spite, grudge, animosity, hatred, malice, malignity, enmity, antipathy, vindictiveness, malevolence.

ANT: Good-feeling, friendliness, kindliness, forgiveness, geniality, sympathy, congeniality, unvindictiveness.

KEY: Random.

SYN: Haphazard, stray, chance, wild, aimless, purposeless, unpremeditated, casual, vague, accidental.

ANT: Steady, aimed, intended, regular, controlled, purposed, intentional, deliberate, designed, normal, systematic.

KEY: Range \v.\

SYN: Rank, dispose, class, place, order, collocate, file, concatenate, ramble, stroll, rove.

ANT: Disturb, disconnect, disorder, derange, intermit, disconnect, remain, be stationary.

KEY: Range \n.\ [See ORDER and RANK].

KEY: Rank \n.\

SYN: Row, line, tier, order, degree, grade, dignity.

ANT: Disconnection, disorder, incontinuity, solution, intermission, hiatus, plebeianism, meanness, commonalty.

KEY: Rank \a.\

SYN: Luxuriant, exuberant, extreme, excessive, rampant.

KEY: Rankle.

SYN: Fester, smoulder, burn, irritate, gall, disquiet.

ANT: Heal, cool, close, calm, quiet, compose.

KEY: Ransack.

SYN: Rummage, rifle, explore, pillage, ravage, overhaul.

ANT: skim, survey, reconnoitre.

KEY: Ransom.

SYN: Redeem, release, indemnify, emancipate, free, liberate, unfetter, redeem.

ANT: Prosecute, indict, fine, mulct, forfeit, damnify.

KEY: Rant.

SYN: Bombast, rhodomontade, flummery, declamation, raving, boasting.

ANT: Reason, argument, eloquence, logic, rhetoric.

KEY: Rapacious.

SYN: Greedy, ravenous, voracious, predaceous, avaricious, grasping, extortionate.

ANT: Bountiful, liberal, contented, frugal.

KEY: Rapid.

SYN: Quick, swift, speedy, accelerated, flying.

ANT: Slow, tardy, retarded, cumbrous, lazy.

KEY: Rapidity.

SYN: Quickness, swiftness, speed, velocity, celerity, dispatch.

ANT: Slowness, tardiness, cumbrousness, delay.

KEY: Rapture.

SYN: ecstasy, transport, bliss, ravishment, delight.

ANT: Agony, torture, pain, tedium, ennui, irksomeness.

KEY: Hare.

SYN: Scarce, choice, infrequent, excellent, few, exceptional, sparse, unusual, singular, uncommon, incomparable, extraordinary, unique, dispersed, valuable, precious, thin, volatile.

ANT: Common, frequent, abundant, numerous, mean, ordinary, usual, regular, crowded, dense, vulgar, worthless, cheap, valueless.

KEY: Rarefy.

SYN: Expand, lighten, attenuate, sublimate.

ANT: Solidify, condense, thicken.

KEY: Rascal.

SYN: Rogue, scoundrel, vagabond, scamp, villain, knave.

ANT: Gentleman.

KEY: Rash.

SYN: Headstrong, audacious, hasty, precipitate, reckless, foolhardy, careless, adventurous, thoughtless, indiscreet, venturesome, overventuresome, incautious, unwary, heedless.

ANT: Wary, cautious, calculating, discreet, unventuresome, dubitating, hesitating, reluctant, timid.

KEY: Rashness.

SYN: Hastiness, precipitancy, recklessness, venturesomeness, temerity, precipitation, indiscretion.

ANT: Slowness, carefulness, cautiousness, discretion.

KEY: Rate \n.\

SYN: Tax, impost, assessment, duty, standard, allowance, ratio, quota, worth, price, value, [See PRICE].

KEY: Rate \v.\

SYN: Compute, calculate, estimate, value, scold, abuse, appraise, [See APPRAISE], [See COMPUTE and ABUSE].

KEY: Rather than.

SYN: Sooner than, in preference to.

KEY: Ratify.

SYN: Sanction, seal, confirm, endorse, secure, approve, validity, establish, substantiate, settle.

ANT: Negative, reject, repudiate, disaffirm, invalidate, abrogate, annul, nullify,.

KEY: Ratification.

SYN: Confirmation, Substantiation, establishment, corroboration.

ANT: Negation, disaffirmation, abrogation, nullifying.

KEY: Rational.

SYN: Sane, sound, intelligent, reasoning, reasonable, judicious, sober, sensible, probable, equitable, moderate, fair.

ANT: Insane, unsound, weak, silly, unintelligent, absurd, injudicious, fanciful, extravagant, preposterous, unreasoning, unreasonable, irrational, exorbitant.

KEY: Ravage \n.\

SYN: Devastation, desolation, waste, pillage, plunder, sack, ruin, spoil.

ANT: Sparing, conserving, preserving.

KEY: Ravage \v.\

SYN: Spoil, devastate, despoil, destroy, desolate, ransack, waste, ruin, overrun, plunder.

ANT: Spare, conserve, preserve, indemnify.

KEY: Rave.

SYN: Wander, drivel, rant.

ANT: Converse, reason, discourse.

KEY: Ravel.

SYN: Separate, undo, untwist, unwind, disentangle.

ANT: Entangle, complicate, conglomerate, contuse.

KEY: Ravenous.

SYN: Voracious, hungry, gluttonous, rapacious, omnivorous.

ANT: Listless, inappetent, fastidious, dainty, nice.

KEY: Raving.

SYN: Delirious, furious, violent, mad, distracted, frantic.

ANT: Calm, collected, reasonable, sensible.

KEY: Ravish.

SYN: Entrance, transport, enchant, enrapture, charm, violate, outrage, deflour, debauch, [See DEBAUCH].

KEY: Raw.

SYN: Uncooked, unprepared, unfinished, unripe, crude, unseasoned, inexperienced, fresh, green, unpractised, untried, bare, bald, exposed, galled, chill, bleak, piercing.

ANT: Cooked, dressed, prepared, finished, ripe, mature, mellow, seasoned, experienced, expert, adept, habituated, familiar, practised, trained, tried, covered, healed, balmy, genial.

KEY: Raze.

SYN: Demolish, level, prostrate, overthrow, dismantle, subvert, reduce, ruin, destroy, debase.

ANT: Raise, erect, build, rear, repair, restore.

KEY: Reach.

SYN: Extend, thrust, stretch, obtain, arrive at, attain, gain, grasp, penetrate, strain, aim.

ANT: Fail, stop, cease, revert, rebate, miss, drop.

KEY: React.

SYN: Recoil, result, counteract, rebound.

ANT: Act, influence, strike, impress.

KEY: Read.

SYN: Peruse, interpret, decipher, unravel, discover, recognize, learn.

ANT: Misread, misinterpret, overlook, misobserve.

KEY: Readiness.

SYN: Promptness, preparedness, aptness, alacrity, knack, willingness, [See ALACRITY].

KEY: Ready.

SYN: Prompt, alert, expeditions, speedy, unhesitating, dexterous, apt, skilful, handy, expert, facile, easy, opportune, fitted, prepared, disposed, willing, free, cheerful, compliant, responsive, quick.

ANT: Unready, tardy, slow, hesitating, reluctant, dubitating, awkward, unhandy, clumsy, remote, inaccessible, unavailable, inopportune, ununited, unfitted, unprepared, indisposed, unwilling, constrained, grudging, unaccommodating, incompliant, irresponsive.

KEY: Real.

SYN: Actual, veritable, existent, authentic, legitimate, true, genuine, developed.

ANT: Fictitious, imaginary, unreal, nonexistent, untrue, false, artificial, spurious, counterfeit, factitious, adulterated, assumed, pretended, potential, possible.

KEY: Reality.

SYN: Verity, substance, truth, existence, genuineness, substantiality.

ANT: Fiction, falsehood, untruth, hypothesis, supposition, image, fancy, shadow, figment, fabrication, insubstantiality, emptiness, hollowness, chimera, unreality.

KEY: Realize.

SYN: Substantiate, effectuate, accomplish, exhibit, produce, acquire, gain, reap, make, verify, conceive.

ANT: Lose, miss, invalidate, dissipate, misrepresent, falsify, neutralize, misconceive.

KEY: Really.

SYN: Veritably, truly, indeed, unquestionably.

ANT: Questionably, possibly, perhaps, falsely, untruly, fictitiously.

KEY: Realm.

SYN: Kingdom, province, state, empire, dominion, country, [See EMPIRE].

KEY: Reap.

SYN: Gather, obtain, receive, get, acquire, realize, derive, gain.

ANT: Scatter, squander, dissipate, waste, lose.

KEY: Rear \n.\

SYN: Back, end, tail.

ANT: Van, front, face.

KEY: Rear \v.\

SYN: Raise, elevate, breed, discipline, erect, train, educate, instruct, foster, establish, construct, lift.

ANT: Stifle, extinguish, kill, depress, subvert, demolish, destroy.

KEY: Reason \n.\

SYN: Ground, account, cause, explanation, motive, proof, apology, understanding, reasoning, rationality, right, propriety, justice, order, object, sake, purpose.

ANT: Pretext, pretence, misinterpretation, falsification, misconception, disproof, unreasonableness, absurdity, fallacy, irrationality, wrong, unreason, impropriety, unfairness, folly, aimlessness, unaccountableness.

KEY: Reason \v.\

SYN: Debate, discuss, argue, infer, deduce, conclude, [See ARGUE].

KEY: Reasonable, [See RATIONAL].

KEY: Reassure.

SYN: Rally, restore, encourage, inspirit, animate, countenance.

ANT: Discourage, cow, brow-bent, intimidate, discountenance.

KEY: Rebel \n.\

SYN: Revolter, insurgent, traitor.

ANT: Supporter, adherent.

KEY: Rebel \v.\ [See REVOLT].

KEY: Rebound \n.\

SYN: Reaction, ricochet, reverberation, recoil, resilience.

ANT: Impression, impact, collision, percussion.

KEY: Rebound \v.\

SYN: Recoil, spring back, reverberate, [See REVERBERATE].

KEY: Rebuff \v.\

SYN: Rebuke, repel, repulse, check, snub, oppose, [See REPEL].

KEY: Rebuff \n.\

SYN: Rebuke, discouragement, repulsion, check.

ANT: Welcome, acceptance, encouragement.

KEY: Rebuke.

SYN: Reprove, chide, rebuff, reprimand, censure.

ANT: Approve, encourage, eulogize, applaud, incite.

KEY: Rebut.

SYN: Meet, retort, annul, confute.

ANT: Accept, sanction, recognize, confirm.

KEY: Recal.

SYN: Restore, reassemble, revoke, supersede, recollect, callback, remember, cancel.

ANT: Relegate, dismiss, dispense, delegate, appoint, commission, forget.

KEY: Recant.

SYN: Retract, unsay, recal, revoke, abjure, renounce.

ANT: Propound, profess, assert, declare, enunciate, vindicate, maintain, hold, retain.

KEY: Recapitulate.

SYN: Summarize, rehearse, enumerate, recite, repeat.

ANT: State, deliver, propound.

KEY: Recede.

SYN: Retire, withdraw, retreat, retrograde, return, ebb.

ANT: Approach, advance, flow, proceed.

KEY: Receipt \n.\

SYN: Acknowledgment, reception, voucher.

KEY: Receive.

SYN: Take, accept, admit, hold, entertain, assent to.

ANT: Give, impart, afford, reject, discharge, emit.

KEY: Received.

SYN: Accepted, current, ordinary, common.

ANT: Rejected, exceptional, unusual, uncommon.

KEY: Recent.

SYN: Late, new, fresh, novel, modern, new-fangled.

ANT: Ancient, antiquated, primitive, archaic.

KEY: Receptacle.

SYN: Repository, lodgment, recipient, magazine, store, case, berth.

ANT: Carrier, carriage, conveyance, discharger, consigner.

KEY: Reception.

SYN: Admission, admittance, acceptance, acceptation, entertainment.

ANT: Denial, protest, repudiation, rejection, nonacceptance, dismissal, discardment, renunciation, abjuration.

KEY: Recess.

SYN: Cavity, nook, withdrawal, retirement, retreat, seclusion, privacy, vacation, holiday.

ANT: Promontory, protrusion, projection, publicity, worktime.

KEY: Reciprocal.

SYN: Alternate, interchanged, mutual, Interchangeable, reflexive.

ANT: One-sided, unreciprocated, unreturned.

KEY: Reciprocation.

SYN: Interchange, exchange, reciprocity.

ANT: Non-interchange.

KEY: Recital.

SYN: Recitation, repetition, rehearsal, relation, description, account, statement, narrative, [See ACCOUNT].

KEY: Recite.

SYN: Narrate, recapitulate, say by heart, repeat, rehearse, quote, speak, tell, recount, enumerate.

ANT: Misquote, misdeliver, misrecount, misrenumerate, misrepresent.

KEY: Reckless.

SYN: Careless, heedless, incautious, foolhardy, thoughtless, rash, overventuresome, regardless, inconsiderate, improvident.

ANT: careful, heedful, cautious, timid, chary, thoughtful, calculating, provident, considerate, wary, circumspect.

KEY: Reckon.

SYN: Compute, calculate, count, regard, estimate, value, account, consider, argue, infer, judge.

ANT: Miscompute, miscalculate, misestimate, misreckon.

KEY: Reckoning.

SYN: Computation, account, score, bill, charges.

KEY: Reclaim.

SYN: Reform, recal, recover, regain, rescue, restore, amend, convert, better.

ANT: Vitiate, corrupt, sterilize, worsen.

KEY: Reclaimable.

SYN: Recoverable, amendable, corrigible, convertible, improvable, cultivable, redeemable.

ANT: Irrecoverable, incorrigible, unimprovable, reprobate, desperate, hopeless, irredeemable.

KEY: Recline.

SYN: Lean, slope, rest, lie, repose.

ANT: Erect, raise, rise, stand.

KEY: Recluse.

SYN: Shut, sequestered, retired, apart, solitary, conventual, regular, dissocial.

ANT: Public, exposed, frequented, social, secular, unsequestered, convivial, companionable.

KEY: Recognition.

SYN: Recollection, remembrance, memory, confession, avowal, acknowledgment, [See MEMORY].

KEY: Recognize.

SYN: Identify, acknowledge, concede, know again, avow, own, allow.

ANT: Ignore, overlook, misobserve, repudiate, disavow, disown, disallow, Recoil, [See REBOUND].

KEY: Recollect.

SYN: Recover, recal, remember, bethink, bring to mind, call up, think of.

ANT: Forget, lose.

KEY: Recommend.

SYN: Commend, confide, praise, applaud, approve, advise.

ANT: Discommend, disapprove, warn, dissuade.

KEY: Recompense.

SYN: Requite, remunerate, reward, indemnify, satisfy, repay, reimburse, compensate.

ANT: Damnify, injure, misrequite, dissatisfy.

KEY: Recompense \n.\

SYN: Reward, indemnification, satisfaction, remuneration, amends, [See SATISFACTION].

KEY: Reconcilable.

SYN: Congruous, harmonious, compatible, consistent, forgiving.

ANT: Incongruous, antagonistic, inconsistent, incompatible, irreconcilable, inexcusable, unforgiving.

KEY: Reconcile.

SYN: Unite, conciliate, propitiate, pacify, harmonize, adjust, adapt, suit, reunite.

ANT: Separate, sever, dissever, estrange, disharmonize, derange, alienate.

KEY: Recondite.

SYN: Deep, hidden, abstruse, profound, concealed, remote.

ANT: Superficial, obvious, self-evident, patent, familiar, trite.

KEY: Record \v.\

SYN: Register, enter, note, chronicle.

ANT: Obliviate, silentiate, suppress.

KEY: Record \n.\

SYN: Registry, entry, enrolment, list, index, catalogue, register, schedule, roll, scroll, enumeration, inventory, muniment, instrument, archive, memorandum, remembrance.

ANT: Obliteration, oblivion, nonregistration, desuetude, obsolescence, immemoriality, disremembrance.

KEY: Record.

SYN: Archives, annals, chronicles, proceedings, [See ANNALS].

KEY: Recount.

SYN: Rehearse, recite, narrate, detail, enumerate, specify.

ANT: Falsify, misrecite, misnarrate, misenumerate, misrehearse.

KEY: Recourse.

SYN: Reference, aid, application, betaking, refuge.

ANT: Avoidance, independence, omission, abstinence, dispensation, disuse.

KEY: Recover.

SYN: Regain, repossess, resume, retrieve, recruit, heal, cure, revive, restore, reanimate, save.

ANT: Lose, forfeit, miss, sacrifice, deteriorate, impair, decay, decline, relapse.

KEY: Recovery.

SYN: Repossession, regaining, reinstatement, vindication, renovation, restitution, re-establishment, retrieval, rectification, replacement, reanimation, resuscitation, revival, redemption.

ANT: Loss, forfeiture, privation, deprival, sacrifice, abandonment, relapse, retrogression, decay, declension, incurableness, ruin.

KEY: Recreant.

SYN: Apostate, traitorous, dastardly, craven, false, cowardly, unfaithful, renegade, base, recusant.

ANT: Staunch, true, faithful, chivalrous, knightly, gallant, loyal, redoubtable.

KEY: Recreation.

SYN: Refreshment, cheer, reanimation, amusement, diversion, revival, holiday, sport, pastime, relaxation.

ANT: Weariness, toil, lassitude, labor, fatigue, employment, assiduity, work.

KEY: Recriminate.

SYN: Retort, return an accusation, [See RETORT].

KEY: Recrimination.

SYN: Retort, counter-imputation, countercharge, counteraccusation.

ANT: Acquiescence, acceptance, confession, silence, assent, avowal.

KEY: Recruit.

SYN: Repair, refresh, renew, restore, recover, recreate, invigorate, revive, reinforce.

ANT: Waste, lose, impair, relapse, decay, decline, [See RECOVER].

KEY: Rectify.

SYN: Straighten, correct, a need, better, adjust, emend, reform, redress, regulate, rearrange, remodel.

ANT: Pervert, corrupt, derange, disorder, distort.

KEY: Rectilinear.

SYN: Straight, undeviating, right-lined, point-blank.

ANT: Curvilinear, deflexed, winding, tortuous, curved, serpentine.

KEY: Rectitude.

SYN: Straightforwardness, uprightness, conscientiousness, integrity, right, uprightness, incorruptness.

ANT: Obliquity, perverseness, crookedness, tortuousness, wrong, underhandedness, iniquity, immorality, impropriety, depravity, corruption.

KEY: Recumbent.

SYN: Lying, leaning, trailing, reclining, prostrate, reposing, horizontal.

ANT: Vertical, erect, uninclined, standing.

KEY: Recur.

SYN: Return, come back, be repeated, run in the mind, revert, resort, have recourse, [See RETURN].

KEY: Recurrent.

SYN: Returning, periodic, frequent, repeated, reiterated, intermittent.

ANT: Momentary, continuous, unbroken, unintermitted, solitary, transitory, evanescent.

KEY: Recusant, [See RECREANT], which, however, has a more unfavourable, [See SENSE].

KEY: Redeem.

SYN: Repurchase, regain, retrieve, make amends for, recompense, ransom, liberate, rescue, recover, satisfy, fulfil, discharge.

ANT: Pledge, lose, forfeit, abandon, betray, surrender, sacrifice.

KEY: Redeemable.

SYN: Retrievable, recoverable, reservable.

ANT: Irretrievable, irrecoverable, irredeemable.

KEY: Redemption.

SYN: Repurchase, retrieval, ransom, rescue, recovery, satisfaction, fulfilment, discharge, expiation, compensation, atonement, salvation, indemnification.

ANT: Forfeiture, abandonment, loss, deprivation, sacrifice, betrayal, damnification.

KEY: Redolence.

SYN: Perfume, savor, scent, odor.

ANT: Fetor, stink, ill-savor.

KEY: Redolent, [See FRAGRANT].

KEY: Redouble.

SYN: Augment, multiply, intensify, reiterate.

ANT: Diminish, slacken, weaken, reduce, abate.

KEY: Redound (followed by the \prep.\ to.

SYN:, Add, result, issue, tend, accrue, contribute, lead, incline, conduce.

ANT: Fail, miss, swerve, nullify, defeat, disappoint, frustrate, injure.

KEY: Redress.

SYN: Right, order, revise, amend, rectify, remedy, repair.

ANT: Aggravate, impair, wrong, worsen, intensify, establish, confirm, reiterate, sanction, deepen, perpetuate.

KEY: Reduce.

SYN: Lessen, diminish, curtail, attenuate, impoverish, narrow, contract, weaken, impair, subdue, subjugate, bring, refer, subject, classify, convert.

ANT: Enlarge, magnify, increase, augment, produce, extend, amplify, broaden, expand, renovate, invigorate, restore, repair, liberate, free, except, dissociate, transform.

KEY: Reduction.

SYN: Diminution, contraction, decrease, abatement, [See ABRIDGMENT].

KEY: Redundant.

SYN: Superfluous, excessive, unnecessary, overflowing, luxuriant.

ANT: Requisite, defective, necessary.

KEY: Re-echo.

SYN: Resound, reverberate, repeat, [See REVERBERATE].

KEY: Reel.

SYN: Totter, stagger, falter.

ANT: Stand firm, stand steady.

KEY: Re-establish.

SYN: Reinstate, restore, refix, renew, confirm again, [See REINSTATE].

KEY: Refer.

SYN: Attribute, associate, assign, advert, connect, relate, point, belong, allude, apply, appeal.

ANT: Disconnect, dissociate, misapply, misappertain, alienate, misbeseem, disresemble.

KEY: Referable.

SYN: Ascribable, attributable, owing, imputable.

ANT: Not referable, not attributable.

KEY: Referee.

SYN: Umpire, arbitrator.

ANT: Litigant, opponent, adversary.

KEY: Reference.

SYN: Relation, regard, intimation, allusion, [See RELATION].

KEY: Refined.

SYN: Courtly, polished, accomplished, genteel, [See POLITE].

KEY: Refinement.

SYN: Clarification, purification, filtration, sublimation, polish, elegance, cultivation, civilization, subtilty, finesse, sophistry.

ANT: Turbidity, grossness, foulness, coarseness, impurity, unrefinement, rudeness, inelegance, boorishness, broadness, bluntness, unsophisticatedness.

KEY: Refit.

SYN: Repair, rearrange, readjust, reprovide, reinstate, reorganize.

ANT: Relegate, disuse, discard, disorganize, dismantle.

KEY: Reflect.

SYN: Return, image, mirror, exhibit, consider, think, cogitate, meditate, contemplate, ponder, muse, ruminate, heed, advert, animadvert.

ANT: Divert, dissipate, idle, dream, wander, rove, stargaze, woolgather, connive, disregard, overlook.

KEY: Reflection.

SYN: Reflecting, meditation, thought, cogitation, [See THOUGHT].

KEY: Refix.

SYN: Return, ebb, redound.

ANT: Flow, flux, stream.

KEY: Reform.

SYN: Amend, ameliorate, correct, rectify, better, reclaim, regenerate, remodel, reconstitute, reorganize, improve.

ANT: Corrupt, vitiate, worsen, deteriorate, perpetuate, stabilitate, confirm, impair, deform, stereotype.

KEY: Reformation.

SYN: Amendment, reform, improvement, correction, [See CORRECTION].

KEY: Refraction.

SYN: Disradiation, obliquity.

ANT: Incidence, rectilinearity, nonrefraction.

KEY: Refractory.

SYN: Perverse, contumacious, stubborn, unruly, obstinate, unmanageable, mutinous, rebellious, recalcitrant.

ANT: Obedient, docile, amenable, manageable.

KEY: Refragable.

SYN: Refutable, weak, questionable, deniable, fallacious.

ANT: Irrefragable, sound, indisputable, unquestionable, undeniable.

KEY: Refrain.

SYN: Forbear, hold, abstain, keep, restrain, withhold, desist from.

ANT: Indulge, venture, continue, persist.

KEY: Refresh.

SYN: Cool, refrigerate, in, vigorate, revive, reanimate, renovate, recreate, renew, restore, cheer, freshen, brace.

ANT: Heat, oppress, weary, burden, afflict, annoy, tire, fatigue, exhaust, debilitate, enervate, relax.

KEY: Refreshment.

SYN: Relief, invigoration, regalement, entertainment, food, nourishment, [See RELIEF].

KEY: Refuge.

SYN: Protection, shelter, harbor, asylum, retreat, covert, hospitality, sanctuary, hiding-place.

ANT: exposure, inhospitableness, peril, pitfall, snare, Scylla, Charybdis.

KEY: Refund.

SYN: Repay, return, restore, pay back, reimburse.

ANT: Appropriate, withhold, divert, misapply, embezzle, alienate, misappropriate, expend, misspend.

KEY: Refuse \v.\

SYN: Deny, withhold, reject, decline, repudiate.

ANT: Grant, afford, yield, concede, acquiesce.

KEY: Refuse \n.\

SYN: Offal, scum, dregs, sediment, recrement, sweepings, trash, offscourings, debris, remains, dross.

ANT: Cream, pickings, firstfruits, flower, prime.

KEY: Refute.

SYN: Negative, disprove, neutralize, controvert, repel, confute.

ANT: Prove, confirm, establish.

KEY: Refutable, [See REFRAGABLE].

KEY: Regain.

SYN: Recover, react, reprocure, reobtain, retrieve, repossess.

ANT: Miss, lose, forfeit.

KEY: Regal \a.\

SYN: Kingly, royal, splendid, imperial, magnificent, princely.

ANT: Beggarly, miserly, mean, shabby.

KEY: Regale.

SYN: Feast, entertain, gratify, delight, refresh.

ANT: Starve, stint, tantalize.

KEY: Regard \v.\

SYN: Behold, view, contemplate, esteem, consider, deem, affect, respect, reverence, revere, value, conceive, heed, notice, mind.

ANT: Miss, overlook, disregard, despise, dislike, contemn, hate, loathe, misconsider, misconceive, misestimate, misjudge.

KEY: Regarding.

SYN: Touching, concerning, respecting, with respect to, about, in relation to, in reference to.

ANT: Barring, disregarding, omitting.

KEY: Regardless \a.\

SYN: Heedless, inconsiderate, careless, unmindful, inattentive, unobservant, disregarding, indifferent, despising.

ANT: Careful, considerate, regardful, attentive, prudent, cautious, circumspect, scrupulous, mindful.

KEY: Regards.

SYN: Compliments, respects, commendations.

KEY: Regenerate.

SYN: Reproduce, renovate, resuscitate, revive, revivify, restore, reintegrate.

ANT: Waste, corrupt, vitiate, deteriorate, degenerate.

KEY: Region.

SYN: Country, clime, territory, district, tract of land, portion, part.

KEY: Register, [See BAWL].

KEY: Regression.

SYN: Retreat, return, retrogradation, retrogression, retirement.

ANT: Advancement, progression, aggression, procession.

KEY: Regret \v.\

SYN: Grieve, lament, repent, miss, desiderate, deplore.

ANT: Welcome, hail, approve, abandon, abjure, forget, disregard.

KEY: Regret \n.\

SYN: Sorrow, grief, concern, remorse, lamentation, repentance, [See GRIEF].

KEY: Regular.

SYN: Customary, normal, ordinary, orderly, stated, recurrent, periodical, systematic, methodic, established, recognized, formal, symmetrical, certain.

ANT: Unusual, exceptional, abnormal, capricious, rare, irregular, disordered, fitful, unsymmetrical, variable, eccentric, erratic, uncertain.

KEY: Regulate.

SYN: Methodize, organize, rale, govern, [See ARRANGE and ORGANIZE].

KEY: Regulation.

SYN: Rule, law, adjustment, disposal, method, government, order, control, arrangement.

ANT: Misrule, disorder, anarchy, misgovernment, maladministration, disarrangement, nonregulation, caprice, license, insubjection, uncontrol.

KEY: Rehabilitate.

SYN: Reinstate, reempower, recapacitate, requalify.

ANT: Denude, divest, disempower, Incapacitate, disqualify, strip, deprive.

KEY: Rehearsal \n.\

SYN: Repetition, recital, narrative, [See ACCOUNT, \n.\].

KEY: Rehearse.

SYN: Repeat, recite, narrate, recount, relate, tell, recapitulate, recount, detail.

ANT: Misrepent, misrecite, misrecount, misrelate, misrepresent, misdetail.

KEY: Reign.

SYN: Rule, govern, prevail, command.

ANT: Obey, submit.

KEY: Reimburse.

SYN: Refund, repay, indemnify, satisfy.

ANT: Embezzle, appropriate, misapply, alienate, damnify, defraud.

KEY: Rein.

SYN: Curb, bridle, restrain, moderate, control, govern, check, hold.

ANT: Indulge, loose, vent, discharge, humor.

KEY: Reinforce, [See RECRUIT].

KEY: Reinstate.

SYN: Rehabilitate, restore, reinstil, replace, reinvest.

ANT: Degrade, remove, relegate, dethrone, banish, deprive, divest.

KEY: Reinvest, [See REINSTATE].

KEY: Reiterate.

SYN: Repeat, re-express, re-enunciate, renew, reproduce.

ANT: Cancel, withdraw, reverse, retract.

KEY: Reject.

SYN: Repel, renounce, throw by, castaway, repudiate, decline, discard, refuse, exclude.

ANT: Hail, welcome, accept, appropriate, choose, select, admit.

KEY: Rejoice.

SYN: Delight, glory, exult, joy, triumph, gladden, delight, revel, be glad, cheer, please, enliven, gratify.

ANT: Mourn, grieve, lament, weep, sorrow, repent, trouble, afflict, oppress, weary, depress, disappoint, burden, darken, distress, pain, sadden, vex, annoy.

KEY: Rejoinder.

SYN: Retort, replication, reply, answer, rebutter, parry.

ANT: Sally, banter, rallying, sarcasm, attack, hit.

KEY: Rekindle.

SYN: Reignite, resuscitate, reinspire, fan, refocillate, reinforce.

ANT: Stifle, extinguish, smother, suppress, damp, quench.

KEY: Relapse \v.\

SYN: Retrogress, recede, deteriorate.

ANT: Recover, amend, progress, advance, improve.

KEY: Relapse \n.\

SYN: Falling back, retrogression, returning to a former state (especially a bad state).

ANT: Recovery, return, improvement.

KEY: Relate.

SYN: Tell, recite, narrate, recount, rehearse, report, detail, describe.

ANT: Misrecite, misrecount, misrepresent, misreport, falsify, pervert, distort, misrelate.

KEY: Related.

SYN: Kindred, cognate, akin, allied, connected.

ANT: Unrelated, unconnected, not allied.

KEY: Relation.

SYN: reference, aspect, connection, narration, proportion, bearing, affinity, homogeneity, association, relevancy, pertinency, fitness, harmony, ratio, relative, agreement, kinsman, kindred, appurtenancy.

ANT: Irrelation, disconnection, dissociation, irrelevancy, impertinency, disproportion, Disproportion, unfitness, unsuitableness, heterogeneity, disharmony, disagreement, alien.

KEY: Relative.

SYN: Referring to, not absolute.

ANT: Absolute.

KEY: Relatives.

SYN: Relations, kinsfolk, kindred, kinsmen, [See KIN].

KEY: Relax.

SYN: Slacken, loosen, remit, abate, mitigate, release, unbend, relent, divert, recreate, rest, enervate, Unstring.

ANT: Tighten, increase, intensify, stretch, bend, brace, invigorate, redouble, grow, heighten, strengthen.

KEY: Relaxation, [See RELAX].

KEY: Relay.

SYN: Reinforcement, recruitment, refreshment, supply, relief.

ANT: Exhaustion, consumption.

KEY: Release \v.\

SYN: Free, loose, liberate, discharge, quit, acquit, exempt, extricate, disengage, indemnify.

ANT: Bind, constrain, confine, shackle, fetter, yoke.

KEY: Release \n.\

SYN: Liberation, discharge, freedom, [See BONDAGE].

KEY: Relegate.

SYN: Remove, transfer, banish, transport, exile, deport, despatch.

ANT: Recal, locate, reinstate.

KEY: Relent.

SYN: Yield, relax, soften.

ANT: Persist, harden.

KEY: Relentless.

SYN: Cruel, inexorable, unyielding, remorseless, unmerciful, truculent.

ANT: Yielding, humane, feeling, clement, merciful, compassionate.

KEY: Relevancy, [See RELEVANT].

KEY: Relevant.

SYN: Appropriate, pertinent, apt, applicable, bearing.

ANT: Inappropriate, impertinent, irrelevant.

KEY: Reliance.

SYN: Confidence, trust, dependence, assurance.

ANT: Distrust, misgiving, suspicion, diffidence.

KEY: Relief.

SYN: Succor, support, release, extrication, alleviation, mitigation, aid, holp, assistance, remedy, redress, exemption, deliverance, refreshment, comfort.

ANT: Oppression, aggravation, intensification, burdensomeness, trouble, exhaustion, weariness, discomfort.

KEY: Relieve.

SYN: Help, succor, [See ALLEVIATE].

KEY: Religion.

SYN: Faith, creed, theology, belief, profession, piety, sanctity, godliness, holiness.

ANT: Unbelief, irreligion, godlessness, atheism, impiety, sacrilege, scoffing, blasphemy, scepticism, profanity, hypocrisy, sanctimoniousness, Pharisaism, formalism, reprobation.

KEY: Religious.

SYN: Pious, godly, devout, devotional, divine, holy, sacred.

ANT: Impious, ungodly, undevout, sacrilegious, blasphemous, sceptical, profane.

KEY: Relinquish.

SYN: Resign, leave, quit, forsake, abandon, desert, renounce, give up, lay aside, cede, forego, repudiate, surrender, discontinue.

ANT: frieze, retain, assume, enforce, vindicate, assert, maintain, prosecute, defend, continue.

KEY: Relish \v.\

SYN: Like, approve, enjoy, appreciate.

ANT: Repudiate, nauseate, reject, abominate, loathe.

KEY: Relish \n.\

SYN: Zest, recommendation, enhancement, flavor, savor, gusto, taste, appetite, piquancy, sapidity.

ANT: Drawback, disfavor, disrecommendation, nauseousness, disrelish, insipidity, unsavoriness.

KEY: Relucent \a.\

SYN: Bright, shining, gleaming, glittering, flashing, lum nous, radiant, crystalline, pellucid, effulgent.

ANT: Dull, opaque, rayless, leaden, dark.

KEY: Reluctance.

SYN: Aversion, repugnance, unwillingness, dislike, regret, misgiving.

ANT: Desire, readiness, willingness, promptitude, alacrity, welcome, forwardness, eagerness.

KEY: Reluctant.

SYN: Averse, unwilling, disinclined, loth, backward.

ANT: Willing, inclined, eager, forward.

KEY: Rely, [See ENCIRCLE].

KEY: Remain.

SYN: Stay, continue, wait, stop, tarry, halt, sojourn, rest, dwell, abide, last, endure, accrue, survive.

ANT: Fly, vanish, remove, depart, speed, hasten, press, flit, disappear, pass.

KEY: Remainder.

SYN: Rest, residue, remnant, balance, surplus, leavings, relics, difference.

ANT: Expenditure, loss, outgoings, issue, waste.

KEY: Remark.

SYN: Observe, note, heed, comment, assert, say, notice.

ANT: Misobserve, disregard, overlook, miss.

KEY: Remarkable.

SYN: Observable, noticeable, extraordinary, unusual, rare, striking, noteworthy, notable, distinguished, famous, peculiar, prominent, singular.

ANT: Unremarkable, unnoticeable, ordinary, mean, commonplace, everyday, undistinguished.

KEY: Remediable.

SYN: Curable, rectifiable, removable.

ANT: Incurable, irremediable, remediless, desperate, hopeless, unalterable.

KEY: Remedial.

SYN: Sanatory, sanative, alterative, ameliorative, mitigating, corrective, curative, healing, restorative, salubrious.

ANT: Noxious, hurtful, exaggerative, confirmative, morbific, deleterious, inducive, provocative.

KEY: Remedy.

SYN: Cure, restorative, counteraction, reparation, redress, relief, help, specific.

ANT: Evil, disease, hurt, infection, plague, ill, impairment, deterioration, aggravation, provocation.

KEY: Remember.

SYN: Recollect, recall, retain, bear in mind, mind.

ANT: Forget, obliviate, disregard, overlook.

KEY: Remembrance.

SYN: Recollection, memory, memorial, token, souvenir, memento, reminiscence.

ANT: Forgetfulness, oblivion.

KEY: Reminiscence.

SYN: Remnant, relic, trace, savor, leavings.

ANT: Prognostic, indication, suggestion, warning, announcement, reministration.

KEY: Remiss.

SYN: Slack, careless, negligent, i attentive, wanting, flow, slothful, idle, lax, dilatory, tardy, remissful.

ANT: Energetic, careful, attentive, active, assiduous, alert, painstaking, diligent, strict.

KEY: Remissful, [See REMISS].

KEY: Remit.

SYN: Relax, pardon, absolve, forego, discontinue, surrender, forgive, resign.

ANT: Increase, intensity, enforce, exact.

KEY: Remittent.

SYN: Periodic, recurrent.

ANT: Chronic, continuous, constant.

KEY: Remnant, [See REMAINDER].

KEY: Remonstrate.

SYN: Expostulate, rebel, protest, recalcitrate, object, admonish.

ANT: Acquiesce, submit, coincide,.

KEY: Remorse.

SYN: Compunction, anguish, self-condemnation, penitence, sting of conscience.

ANT: Complacency, self-approval, self-congratulation.

KEY: Remorseless.

SYN: Cruel, truculent, inexorable, ruthless, pitiless, unrelenting, merciless, implacable.

ANT: Mild, humane, gentle, feeling, compunctious, lenient, remorseful, self-condemning, regretful, compassionate.

KEY: Remote.

SYN: Distant, indirect, unconnected, unrelated, foreign, alien, heterogeneous, separate, contingent.

ANT: Near, close, direct, connected, related, homogeneous, immediate, proximate, essential, present, pressing, urgent, actual.

KEY: Remove.

SYN: Displace, separate, abstract, transport, carry, transfer, eject, oust, dislodge, suppress, migrate, depart.

ANT: Restore, conserve, stabilitate, perpetuate, establish, reinstate, reinstall, instal, fix, fasten, stay, remain, dwell, abide, stand.

KEY: Remunerate.

SYN: Reward, recompense, satisfy, compensate, repay, requite, reimburse.

ANT: Defraud, misrequite, misrepay, dissatisfy, damnify.

KEY: Remuneration.

SYN: Payment, compensation, recompense, reward, [See SATISFACTION].

KEY: Rend.

SYN: Tear, lacerate, divide, separate, split, disintegrate, disunite, rive, tear asunder.

ANT: Repair, place, patch, conserve, unite, perpetuate, continuate.

KEY: Render.

SYN: Give, present, return, restore, give up apportion, assign, surrender, pay, requite, deliver.

ANT: Keep, retain, withhold, appropriate, alienate, misapportion, misappropriate, misrequite.

KEY: Renegade.

SYN: Apostate, traitor, deserter, heretic, betrayer, backslider, vagabond, turncoat, recreant.

ANT: Supporter, adherent, defender, bigot, zealot, dogmatist, fanatic.

KEY: Renew.

SYN: Recreate, restore, refresh, renovate, rejuvenate, furbish, recommence, repeat, reiterate, reissue, regenerate, reform, transform.

ANT: Impair, wear, deteriorate, vitiate, exhaust, discontinue, corrupt, weaken, defile, deprave.

KEY: Renitent.

SYN: Resistent, elastic, resilient, reluctant, stubborn, tough, counteractive.

ANT: Yielding, lentous, flexible, docile, pliant.

KEY: Renounce.

SYN: Reject, abjure, disclaim, disown, forego, disavow, deny, quit, resign, abandon, recant, relinquish, repudiate.

ANT: Acknowledge, recognize, claim, maintain, assert, propound, own, vindicate, avow, profess, hold, retain, defend.

KEY: Renovate, [See RENEW].

KEY: Renown.

SYN: Fame, distinction, note, notability, eminence, celebrity, glory, reputation, lustre, honor.

ANT: Disgrace, meanness, ignobleness, degradation, taint, stain, brand, discredit, dishonor, disrepute.

KEY: Renowned.

SYN: Famous, celebrated, wonderful, illustrious, [See FAMOUS].

KEY: Rent.

SYN: Laceration, rupture, fissure, divulsion, schism, solution.

ANT: Suture, junction, union, continuity, integrity, reparation, redintegration, reunion, consolidation.

KEY: Renunciation.

SYN: Rejection, repudiation, abjuration, abnegation, abandonment, cession, surrender, [See CESSION].

KEY: Reorganize.

SYN: Rearrange, reconstitute, reassemble.

ANT: Dissolve, disband, dissipate, disperse, derange, dismember, disintegrate.

KEY: Repair.

SYN: Restore, recover, mend, retrieve, relit.

ANT: Impair, waste, wear, deteriorate, injure.

KEY: Reparable.

SYN: Recoverable, curable, retrievable.

ANT: Irreparable, incurable, irretrievable.

KEY: Reparation.

SYN: Restoration, repair, restitution, compensation, satisfaction, amends, indemnification, atonement.

ANT: Injury, Impairment, deterioration, waste, wear, defective, damnification.

KEY: Repay.

SYN: Remunerate, reimburse, recompense, reward, retaliate, requite, {[r]?}, fund.

ANT: Defraud, misappropriate, embezzle, waste, alienate, extort, confiscate, exact.

KEY: Repeal, \v.\ (From Lat. \reappellare\, to call back.)

SYN: Abolish, revoke, rescind, cancel, annul, recal, abrogate, reverse, discontinue, rescind, make void.

ANT: Continue, establish, pass, institute, sanction, enact, perpetuate, confirm.

KEY: Repeal \n.\

SYN: Abrogation, rescission, revocation, annulment.

ANT: Continuance, establishment, perpetuation.

KEY: Repeat.

SYN: Reiterate, iterate, renew, cite, quote, relate, rehearse, recapitulate, reproduce.

ANT: Discontinues, drop, discard, abandon, ignore, suppress, misrepeat, misquote, misrecite, misrepresent, misinterpret, misconvey.

KEY: Repeatedly.

SYN: Frequently again and again, often.

ANT: Seldom, rarely.

KEY: Repel.

SYN: Repulse, reject, refuse, deter, resist, check.

ANT: Promote, propel, welcome, advance, accept, encourage, further.

KEY: Repent.

SYN: Grieve, regret, sorrow, rue, repine, deplore, lament.

ANT: Rejoice, persist.

KEY: Repentance.

SYN: Penitence, contrition, compunction, regret, remorse, borrow, self-reproach, selfcondemnation.

ANT: Impenitence, obduracy, recusancy, hardness, reparation, selfapproval.

KEY: Repercussion.

SYN: Recoil, reverberation, ricochet, rebound.

ANT: Impact, stroke, shock, collision, contact.

KEY: Repetition.

SYN: Iteration, reiteration, dwelling upon, diffuseness, verbosity, relation, [See RELATION].

KEY: Repine.

SYN: Murmur, grumble, complain.

ANT: Acquiesce, submit, smile, rejoice.

KEY: Replace.

SYN: Restore, supply, substitute, reinstate, rearrange, re-establish.

ANT: Move, abstract, withdraw, remove, damage, deprive.

KEY: Replenish.

SYN: Fill, refill, resupply, stock, satisfy, furnish, enrich.

ANT: Waste, empty, exhaust, reduce, drain, impoverish.

KEY: Replete, [See EMPTY].

KEY: Repletion.

SYN: Fulness, abundance, amplitude, superabundance, overfulness.

ANT: Exhaustion, emptiness, want, inanition.

KEY: Reply \v.\

SYN: Replicate, answer, respond, rejoin.

ANT: Ignore, drop, pretermit, pass, disregard.

KEY: Reply \n.\

SYN: Answer, rejoinder, response, replication.

ANT: Pass by, ignoring.

KEY: Report \v.\

SYN: Announce, relate, tell, circulate, notify, narrate, recite, describe, detail, communicate, declare.

ANT: Silence, hush, suppress, misreport, misrepresent, miarelate, falsify.

KEY: Report \n.\

SYN: tidings, announce, ment, relation, narration, recital, description, communication, declaration, news, rumor, fame, repute, noise, reverberation.

ANT: Silence, suppression, misannouncement, fabrication, noiselessness.

KEY: Repose \v.\

SYN: Lie, recline, couch rest, settle, abide, stay, acquiesce, lodge, lace, deposit.

ANT: Rise, stand, {[vo]?}, wander, flit, flutter, remove, transfer.

KEY: Repose \n.\

SYN: lest, quiet, stillness, reclination, tranquillity, calmness, peaceful, {[ess]?}, {[ea ]?}, [See {?}], {[eace]?}, quiescence.

ANT: Movement, disquiet, unrest, agitation, restlessness, disturbance, commotion, tumult, distraction, uneasiness.

KEY: Reprehend.

SYN: Blame chide, reprove, censure, reprimand.

ANT: praise, laud, eulogize, sanction, approve.

KEY: Reprehensible.

SYN: Blamable, blame, culpable, censurable, reproachable, reprovable, objectionable.

ANT: Laudable, praiseworthy, irreproachach, it, irreprovable, unexceptionable, innocent, unobjectionable.

KEY: Represent.

SYN: Portray, delineate, reproduce exhibit, personate, state, indicate, embody, enact, illustrate, denote, play, dramatize, resemble.

ANT: Misportray, misdelineate, distort, falsify, caricature, misrepresent.

KEY: Representative.

SYN: Likeness, personation, semblance, exhibition, [See LIKENESS].

KEY: Representative \n.\

SYN: Agent, commissioner, proxy, deputy, substitute, embodiment, personation, delegate, vicar, vicegerent, principal, sovereign, Constituency.

ANT: Autocrat, dictator.

KEY: Representative \a.\

SYN: Figurative, symbolical, delegated to others, [See FIGURATIVE and REPRESENT].

KEY: Repress.

SYN: Crush, quell, subdue, check, restrain, curb, overpower, mitigate, damp, calm, control.

ANT: Raise, rouse, excite, agitate, aggravate, foment, intensify, foster, encourage, stimulate, incite, fan.

KEY: Reprieve \n.\

SYN: Respite, acquittal, suspension, delay, interval, pardon, amnesty, intermission.

ANT: Condemnation, conviction, reprisal, retribution.

KEY: Reprimand, [See REPREHEND].

KEY: Reprisal.

SYN: Retaliation, retribution, self-compensation, self-indemnification.

ANT: Condonation, grace, remission, reprieve.

KEY: Reproach \v.\

SYN: Blame, censure, taunt, rebuke, upbraid, reprobate, reprove.

ANT: Laud, praise, approve, commend.

KEY: Reproach \n.\ [See APPROBATION].

KEY: Reprobate \v.\

SYN: Condemn, denounce.

ANT: Sanction, commend, approve.

KEY: Reprobate \a.\

SYN: Abandoned, castaway, irredeemable, lost.

ANT: Hopeful, redeemable, salvable, recoverable.

KEY: Reprobate \n.\

SYN: Castaway, villain, ruffian, miscreant, scapegrace, scalawag.

ANT: Example, pattern, mirror, model, paragon.

KEY: Reproduce.

SYN: Generate, propagate, imitate, exhibit, represent, copy.

ANT: Stifle, extinguish, exterminate, misrepresent, misportray.

KEY: Reproduction \n.\ [See REPRODUCE].

KEY: Reprovable.

SYN: Censurable, reprehensible, [See CULPABLE].

KEY: Reprove, [See RAPID].

KEY: Repudiate.

SYN: Disavow, disown, discard, castoff, abjure, renounce, disclaim, divorce.

ANT: Avow, own, vindicate, assert, retain, vaunt, claim, profess, recognize, acknowledge, accept.

KEY: Repugnant.

SYN: Hostile, antagonistic, averse, reluctant, unwilling, irreconcilable, incompatible, inimical, adverse, contradictory, loath, heterogeneous.

ANT: Friendly, coincident, harmonious, compatible, willing, consistent, homogeneous, congruous.

KEY: Repulsive.

SYN: Forbidding, deterrent, ungenial, odious, ugly, unattractive, disagreeable, revolting.

ANT: Charming, agreeable, attract, ive, winning, captivating, fascinating, alluring, seductive, pleasant.

KEY: Reputable.

SYN: Respectable, creditable, honorable, estimable.

ANT: Unrespectable, discreditable, dishonorable, disgraceful, disreputable.

KEY: Request \v.\

SYN: Ask, desire, beg, entreat, beseech, petition, supplicate, solicit, demand.

ANT: Command, order, insist, direct, dictate, enjoin, require, demand, exact.

KEY: Request \n.\ [See PETITION].

KEY: Require.

SYN: Demand, claim, exact, insist upon, [See REQUEST], [See ANT.].

KEY: Requital, [See SATISFACTION].

KEY: Requite.

SYN: Repay, reward, compensate, recompense, remunerate, satisfy, retaliate, punish, avenge, revenge.

ANT: Misrequite, defraud, condone, absolve, pardon.

KEY: Rescind.

SYN: Revoke, repeal, annul, cancel, recal, reverse, abrogate.

ANT: Perpetuate, enforce, maintain, re-enact.

KEY: Rescue \v.\

SYN: Retake, recover, recapture, liberate, extricate, save, deliver, preserve.

ANT: endanger, imperil, betray, surrender, abandon, expose.

KEY: Rescue \n.\ [See SALVATION].

KEY: Research.

SYN: Investigation, inquiry, scrutiny, examination, exploration, learning, lore, discovery, elaboration, elimination.

ANT: Ignorance, superficiality, sciolism, misinvestigation, shallowness, oversight, inobservance.

KEY: Resemblance.

SYN: Likeness, similarity, similitude, semblance, representation, portrait, reflection, image.

ANT: Unlikeness, dissimilarity, disresemblance, difference, contrariety.

KEY: Resent.

SYN: Repel, resist, rebel, recalcitrate, take ill.

ANT: Acquiesce, submit, condone, pardon, overlook.

KEY: Resentful.

SYN: Choleric, malicious, vindictive, intolerant, insubmissive.

ANT: Meek, mild, placable, tolerant, forgiving, submissive.

KEY: Resentment.

SYN: Anger, ire, indignation, animosity.

ANT: Calmness, acquiescence, toleration, mildness, endurance, forgiveness.

KEY: Reserve.

SYN: Reservation, retention, limitation, withholding, appropriation, coyness, shyness, backwardness, secretiveness, taciturnity, modesty, restraint, constraint.

ANT: Abandonment, nonreservation, surrender, absoluteness, openness, frankness, forwardness, pertness, unrestraint, undisguise, transparency, shamelessness indiscretion.

KEY: Reserved.

SYN: Backwardness, cold, silent, cautious, unsociable, sly, bashful, [See FRIGID and SLY].

KEY: Reside, [See ABIDE].

KEY: Residence.

SYN: stay, sojourn, occupation, abode, pernoctation, dwelling, location.

ANT: Migration, travel, locomotion, absenteeism, nonresidence, alibi.

KEY: Resident \a.\

SYN: Abiding, dwelling, residing, inhabiting.

ANT: Migrating, moving.

KEY: Resident \n.\

SYN: Occupant, dweller, tenant, sojourner, inhabitant.

ANT: Stranger, foreigner, visitor.

KEY: Residue, [See REMAINDER].

KEY: Resign.

SYN: Surrender, abandon, return, withdraw, abdicate, submit, leave, relinquish, forego, renounce.

ANT: Retain, claim, appropriate, vindicate, grasp.

KEY: Resignation.

SYN: Surrender, relinquishment, forsaking, abandonment, abdication, renunciation, submission, acquiescence, patience, endurance.

ANT: Retention, claim, appropriation, vindication, grasp, resistance, rebellion, murmur, dissatisfaction, discontent, contumacy, contention, protestation, remonstrance.

KEY: Resist.

SYN: Withstand, oppose, hinder, check, thwart, rebuff, stem, combat.

ANT: Encourage, promote, aid, advance, help, succor, acquiesce, submit, suffer, allow, tolerate, permit.

KEY: Resistance.

SYN: Opposition, hindrance, [See CHECK].

KEY: Resistible.

SYN: Weak, refutable, nugatory, trifling, childish, worthless.

ANT: Overpowering, irresistible, irrefragable, resistless, overwhelming, conclusive.

KEY: Resolute.

SYN: Determined, decided, steadfast, fixed, steady, constant, persevering, stout, pertinacious, energetic, dogged, stout-hearted, inflexible, undaunted, undeviating, unflinching.

ANT: unenergetic, fitful, vacillating, irresolute, dubious, shillyshally, capricious, variable, ductile, undetermined, undecided, weak.

KEY: Resolution.

SYN: Separation, decomposition, analysis, unravelling, disentanglement, disintegration, conversion, firmness, &c, [See [As under RESOLUTE].

ANT: Aggregation, composition, union, amalgamation, integrity, totality, incorporation, synthesis, collocation, conservation, entanglement, confusion, conglomeration.

KEY: Resolve, [See DECIDE].

KEY: Resonant.

SYN: Resounding, sonorous, musical, metallic, vibratory, acoustic, shrill, loud, sharp, vocal, ringing.

ANT: Mute, silent, dead, dumb, muffled, wooden, voiceless, stifled, nonresonant.

KEY: Resort \v.\

SYN: Repair, fly, retire, retreat.

ANT: Shun, ignore, avoid, discard.

KEY: Resort \n.\

SYN: Assembly, betaking, repairing, haunt, frequentation, employment, recourse.

ANT: Shunning, avoidance, forsaking, abandonment, desertion.

KEY: Resound.

SYN: Ring, reverberate, echo, re-echo, respond.

ANT: Whisper, murmur, breathe, mutter, {[hum]?}.

KEY: Resource, Resources.

SYN: Material, means, productions, supplies, expedients, contrivance, wealth, riches, device.

ANT: Destitution, barrenness, inanition, exhaustion, lack, drain, nonplus, poverty, sterility.

KEY: Respect \v.\

SYN: Notice, regard, honor, prefer, venerate, esteem.

ANT: Overlook, disregard, dishonor, despise, contemn.

KEY: Respect \n.\

SYN: Reference, i elation, regard, honor, deference.

ANT: Irrelativeness, disregard, contempt, dishonor, insult, contumely, disrespect.

KEY: Respectable \a.\

SYN: Worthy, good, considerable, laudable.

ANT: Unworthy, bad, unrespectable, mean, inconsiderable.

KEY: Respective.

SYN: relative, appertaining.

ANT: Absolute, irrespective.

KEY: Respite, [See REPRIEVE].

KEY: Resplendent.

SYN: Brilliant, gorgeous, luminous, glittering, flashing, burnished.

ANT: Dead, dull, lustreless, sombre.

KEY: Respond.

SYN: Answer, reply, rejoin, correspond, tally, accord, meet, suit.

ANT: Propound, disagree, disaccord, jar, differ.

KEY: Response, [See ANSWER].

KEY: Responsible, [See ACCOUNTABLE].

KEY: Responsive.

SYN: Answering, correspondent, echoing, sympathetic, obedient.

ANT: Alien, unsympathetic, strange, irresponsive.

KEY: Rest \n.\

SYN: Quiet, repose, cessation, tranquillity, peace, security, pause, interval, intermission.

ANT: Tumult, commotion, agitation, disquiet, unrest, insecurity, continuity, uninterruptedness, progression, restlessness.

KEY: Restitution.

SYN: Restoration, return, indemnification, reparation, compensation, amends.

ANT: Fraud, deprivation, wrong, robbery, abstraction, injury.

KEY: Restive.

SYN: Stubborn, obstinate, uneasy, balky, recalcitrant.

ANT: Docile, manageable, tractable.

KEY: Restless.

SYN: Unquiet, uneasy, disturbed, sleepless, agitated, roving, incessant, tossing.

ANT: Calm, quiet, reposing, still, motionless.

KEY: Restoration.

SYN: Recovery, replacement, renewal, renovation, redintegration, re-establishment, return, revival, restitution, reparation, compensation, amends.

ANT: Loss, lapse, forfeiture, displacement, deterioration, impairment, deprivation, abandonment, departure, injury, waste, abstraction, seizure, wrong.

KEY: Restorative.

SYN: Compensatory, remedial, reparatory, invigorating.

ANT: Exhaustive, debilitating, wasting, consumptive.

KEY: Restore.

SYN: Return, replace, refund, repay, reinstate, re-establish, renew, repair, recover, heal, cure, refresh.

ANT: Abstract, remove, displace, appropriate, alienate, deprive, impair, wound, injure, dilapidate, shatter.

KEY: Restrain.

SYN: Check, repress, hinder, limit, confine, restrict, withhold, curb, coerce, prohibit, narrow, circumscribe, reduce.

ANT: Promote, advance, urge, incite, aid, liberate, indulge, loose, vent, amplify, enlarge, expand, extend.

KEY: Restraint, [See CHECK \n.\].

KEY: Restrict, [See RESTRAIN].

KEY: Result \v.\

SYN: Terminate, end, ensue, eventuate.

ANT: Originate, arise, precede, spring, commence, start, begin.

KEY: Result \n.\

SYN: Termination, end, issue, effect, consequence, product, fruit, outcome, upshot, development, conclusion, remainder.

ANT: Beginning, commencement, initiative, cause, rise, spring, origin, operation, causation, tendency, production, antecedent, premonition, prognostic, indication.

KEY: Resume.

SYN: Recommence, renew, return, begin again.

ANT: Drop, discontinue, intermit, interrupt.

KEY: Resumption, [See RESUME].

KEY: Resurrection.

SYN: Rising, renovation, resuscitation, regeneration.

ANT: Death, burial, interment, {[ex]?}, tinction.

KEY: Resuscitate.

SYN: Revive, re-excite, reanimate, reinvigorate, revivify.

ANT: Extinguish, lay, prostrate, quench.

KEY: Retain.

SYN: Keep, hold, restrain.

ANT: Abandon, forfeit, surrender.

KEY: Retaliate.

SYN: Avenge, retort, repay, requite.

ANT: Pardon, condone, forgive.

KEY: Retaliation.

SYN: Revenge, repayment, retribution, requital, reprisals, reciprocation.

ANT: Pardon, condonation, forgiveness, r mission.

KEY: Retard.

SYN: Clog, hinder, obstruct, impede, defer.

ANT: Accelerate, expedite, promote.

KEY: Retentive.

SYN: Preservative, close, tenacious, mindful.

ANT: Loose, leaky, oblivious.

KEY: Reticence.

SYN: Reserve, silentness, refrain, repressiveness.

ANT: Unreserve, abandon, garrulity, freedom.

KEY: Reticent.

SYN: Silent, taciturn, voiceless, still, re-.

KEY: Retinue.

SYN: Retainers, attendant, suite, pomp, followers, tail, satellites, escort, cortege.

ANT: Nonattendance, unstateliness, solitariness.

KEY: Retire.

SYN: Withdraw, retreat, depart, secede, shrink, repair.

ANT: Approach, advance.

KEY: Retirement.

SYN: Solitude, privacy, departure, seclusion, recess, concavity, retreat.

ANT: Publicity, approach, advance, prominence, protrusion, convexity.

KEY: Retort \n.\

SYN: Rejoinder, replicable, repartee, reciprocation, retaliation, reply, answer.

ANT: Concession, confession, acquiescence, acceptance.

KEY: Retort \v.\ [See REPLY and RETALIATE].

KEY: Retract.

SYN: Withdraw, recal, revoke, unsay, disavow, recant, abjure, renounce.

ANT: Reiterate, repeat.

KEY: Retreat \v.\ [See RETIRE].

KEY: Retreat \n.\

SYN: Retirement, departure, withdrawal, seclusion, solitude, privacy, asylum, shelter, refuge, recess, [See RETIRE].

KEY: Retrench.

SYN: Reduce, abbreviate, diminish, limit, contract, curtail, lessen, economize.

ANT: Enlarge, increase, extend, expand, multiply, amplify, augment.

KEY: Retrenchment \n.\

SYN: curtailment, diminution, reduction.

ANT: Enlargement, expansion, extension.

KEY: Retribution.

SYN: Penalty, repayment, reward, compensation, punishment, visitation.

ANT: Condonation, remission, pardon, reprieve, non-retribution, sparing.

KEY: Retrievable.

SYN: Recoverable, redeemable, hopeful, salvable, reformable, amendable.

ANT: Hopeless, desperate, irredeemable, irrecoverable, reprobate, lost, irreformable, unamendable.

KEY: Retrieve.

SYN: Recover, regain, rescue, repair, restore.

ANT: Lose, forfeit, abandon, betray, surrender, impair, deteriorate.

KEY: Retrogression.

SYN: Retreat, retirement, decline, relapse.

ANT: Advance, progress, improvement, amelioration.

KEY: Retrospect.

SYN: Review, survey, recollection, reminiscence, reconsideration.

ANT: Prognostication, anticipation, speculation, forecasting, prophecy, prospect.

KEY: Return.

SYN: Recur, revert, reappear, come back, repay, requite, recompense, retaliate, render, restore, yield, produce, give back, repay.

ANT: Depart, remove, vanish, disappear, retain, appropriate, misappropriate, alienate, withhold.

KEY: Reveal.

SYN: Unveil, disclose, show, communicate, divulge, discover, expose, unearth, make known.

ANT: Hide, obscure, conceal, suppress, cover, cloak.

KEY: Revel.

SYN: Carouse, feast, banquet, luxuriate, wallow.

ANT: Fast, abstain, nauseate.

KEY: Revelation.

SYN: Discovery, disclosure, divine communication, apocalypse.

ANT: Concealing, veiling, shrouding, keeping back.

KEY: Revelry.

SYN: Carousal, noisy, festivity, feast, orgies, wassail.

ANT: Fast, abstinence.

KEY: Revenge \n.\

SYN: Retaliation, vengeance, retribution, requital.

ANT: Condonation, pardon, compassion, remission.

KEY: Revenge \v.\ [See RETIREMENT].

KEY: Revengeful.

SYN: Vindictive, unforgiving, uncompassionate, spiteful, resentful.

ANT: Unvindictive, forgiving, compassionate, unresentful, generous, chivalrous.

KEY: Revenue.

SYN: Income, produce, return, proceeds, fruits, wealth, enrichment.

ANT: Outgoings, expenditure, waste, deductions, exhaustion, expense, impoverishment.

KEY: Reverberate.

SYN: Echo, recoil, reflect, revert, resound.

ANT: Strike, impinge, beat.

KEY: Reverberation, [See ECHO].

KEY: Reverence.

SYN: Honor, awe, veneration, adoration, deference, devotion, respect, worship, homage.

ANT: Dishonor, contempt, slight, irreverent, contumely, contumacy.

KEY: Reverie.

SYN: Dream, daydream, trance, vision, phantasy, ideality, woolgathering, wandering, musing.

ANT: Study, attention, diligence, application.

KEY: Reverse \v.\

SYN: Invert, derange, upset, overturn, subvert, annul, counterchange.

ANT: Order, arrange, place, collocate, range.

KEY: Reverse \n.\

SYN: Inversion, derangement, counterchange, counterposition, opposition, contrariety, contradiction, alteration, change, mutation, rear, back, evolution, counterexhibition.

ANT: Version, arrangement, sequence, order, collocation, position, perpetuation, continuance, stability, identity, uniformity, regularity, obverse, front.

KEY: Reversible.

SYN: Changeable, exchangeable, counterchangeable, alterable, mutable, revocable, discretional.

ANT: Perpetual, unalterable, unchangeable, irreversible, absolute, undiscretional.

KEY: Revert.

SYN: Return, refer, accrue, reaccrue, recur.

ANT: Depart, escheat, ignore, drop, dismiss, discard.

KEY: Review \v.\

SYN: Reconsider, revise, examine, survey, inspect.

ANT: Discard, dismiss, overlook, skim, disregard, misexamine.

KEY: Review \n.\

SYN: Resurvey, retrospect, reconsideration, revisal, re-examination, critique, criticism.

KEY: Revile.

SYN: Reproach, asperse, upbraid, malign, slander, calumniate, vilify, abuse, blaspheme.

ANT: Flatter, compliment, eulogize, panegyrize, laud, extol.

KEY: Revise.

SYN: Alter, amend, re-examine, [See ECHO].

KEY: Revive.

SYN: Reanimate, revivify, resucitate, refresh, reassure, recover, awake, live.

ANT: Extinguish, kill, depress, exhaust, discourage, droop, fade, wither, decline, die.

KEY: Revivify, [See REVIEW].

KEY: Revocable, [See REVIVE].

KEY: Revoke.

SYN: Recal, withdraw, cancel, annul, rescind, repeal, declare void.

ANT: Sanction, enact, perpetuate, enforce, reiterate, renew.

KEY: Revolt \v.\ int.

SYN: Rebel, struggle, kick, resist, rise, recalcitrate.

ANT: Acquiesce, obey, submit.

KEY: Revolt \n.\

SYN: Insurrection, sedition, rebellion, mutiny.

ANT: Submission, acquiescence, loyalty.

KEY: Revolting.

SYN: Shocking, repulsive, disgusting, offensive, horrible, hideous, abhorrent.

ANT: Attractive, genial, pleasing, charming, captivating.

KEY: Revolution.

SYN: Rotation, periodicity, return, change, alteration, revulsion, revolt, reconstitution, emeute.

ANT: Fixity, permanence, stability, conservation, allegiance, stabilisation, perpetuation, suppression.

KEY: Revolve.

SYN: Contemplate, turn, consider, weigh, ponder, examine, wheel, rotate, circulate.

ANT: Discard, disregard, dismiss, misconsider.

KEY: Revulsion \n.\

SYN: Revolution, abhorrence, estrangement, antagonism.

ANT: Coincidence, harmony, acquiescence, sympathy, reconcilement, familiarity, reciprocity.

KEY: Reward \v.\

SYN: Compensate, honor, decorate, remunerate, pay, recompense.

ANT: Punish, misrequite.

KEY: Rhetorical.

SYN: Declamatory, persuasive, oratorical, lively, animated, spirited.

ANT: logical, calm, cool, deliberate.

KEY: Rich.

SYN: Wealthy, opulent, affluent, abundant, generous, productive, copious, fertile, fruitful, valuable, costly, high-flavored, luscious, oleaginous, vivid, deep, bright, superb, gorgeous.

ANT: Poor, impoverished, impecunious, needy, indigent, reduced, exhausted, unproductive, scanty, niggardly, barren, sterile, unfruitful, valueless, tasteless, watery, pale, beggarly, nude, bald, cold.

KEY: Riches.

SYN: Wealth, opulence, affluence, wealthiness, richness, plenty, abundance, treasure, possessions.

ANT: Poverty, pauperism, impecuniosity, neediness, indigence, destitution, necessity, lack, privation, beggary, insolvency.

KEY: Riddance.

SYN: Quittance, dispensation, liberation, escape.

ANT: Entanglement, burden, nuisance, annoyance.

KEY: Riddle.

SYN: Puzzle, enigma, ambiguity, problem, paradox.

ANT: Solution, explanation, statement, proposition, axiom.

KEY: Ridicule \n.\

SYN: Derision, banter, raillery, burlesque, caricature, mockery, irony, satire, sarcasm, jeer, sneer, cachinnation, disrespect.

ANT: Veneration, respect, deference, salutation, honor, homage.

KEY: Ridicule \v.\

SYN: Lampoon, deride, mock at, laugh at, jeer, [See REVOKE and REVERSIBLE].

KEY: Ridiculous.

SYN: Laughable, ludicrous, droll, contemptible, preposterous, absurd, grotesque, trifling, trivial.

ANT: Serious, grave, important, weighty, considerable, venerable, imposing, majestic.

KEY: Rifle \v.\ [See RANSACK].

KEY: Right \n.\

SYN: Rectitude, correctness, straightness, integrity, justice, truth, propriety, fitness, suitableness, claim, power, privilege.

ANT: Wrong, incorrectness, perverseness, crookedness, disintegrity, injustice, falsehood, impropriety, unfitness, usurpation, encroachment, force, violence.

KEY: Right \a.\

SYN: Straight, upright, direct, lawful, correct, exact, just, fair, fit, proper, suitable, equitable.

ANT: Crooked, indirect, wrong, unlawful, inexact, unjust, unfair, unfit, improper, unsuitable.

KEY: Righteous.

SYN: Upright, just, godly, virtuous, uncorrupt, rightful, equitable, truthful, conscientious.

ANT: Unrighteous, perverse, evil, unjust, ungodly, vicious, corrupt, wrongful, false, unconscientious, unprincipled, unjustifiable, abandoned, profligate, dishonorable, unfair.

KEY: Righteousness \n.\ [See PIETY and HONESTY].

KEY: Rigid.

SYN: Stiff, unpliant, unflexible, stubborn, tough, stark, staunch, unswerving, exact, unbending, undeviating, austere.

ANT: Pliant, docile, flexible, variable, mild, lenient, inexact, yielding, inconstant, inconsistent.

KEY: Rigor \n.\ [See RIGID and ASPERITY].

KEY: Rill.

SYN: Streamlet, brook, brooklet, creek, rivulet.

ANT: River, large stream.

KEY: Kind.

SYN: Skin, peel, bark, husk.

ANT: Kernel, meat, wood, pulp, fruit.

KEY: Riot.

SYN: Noise, uproar, tumult, fray, outbreak, mutiny, row, revel, disturbance, turbulence.

ANT: Peace, pacification, sobriety, quiescence, orderliness.

KEY: Ripe.

SYN: Perfect, developed, full, matured, seasoned, ready, prepared, mellow, mature, advanced, consummate.

ANT: Raw, crude, Immature, imperfect, undeveloped, blighted, unseasoned, sour, unready, unfit, unprepared, unmellowed, green, withered.

KEY: Rise \v.\

SYN: Ascend, mount, float, soar, grow, arise, tower, slope, appear, emerge, spring, originate, extend, expand, swell, increase, excel, prosper, climb.

ANT: Descend, decline, sink, drop, diminish, fall, subside, crouch, nestle, dip, set, wane, vanish, disappear, terminate, end, debouch, contract, decrease, fail.

KEY: Rise \n.\

SYN: Spring, fountain head, source, [See RIGID and ASPERITY].

KEY: Risible.

SYN: Laughable, ludicrous, [See RIDICULOUS].

KEY: Risk \n.\

SYN: Hazard, danger, peril, exposure, jeopardy.

ANT: Safety, security, insurance, protection, prophylactic.

KEY: Risk \v.\

SYN: Hazard, peril, jeopard, venture, stake, [See HAZARD].

KEY: Rite.

SYN: Form, custom, ceremony, observance, usage, celebration.

ANT: Inobservance, disuse, obsoleteness, nonobservance, noncelebration, desuetude.

KEY: Rival \n.\

SYN: Antagonist, competitor, cosuitor.

ANT: Adherent, supporter, comrade, coadjutor, neutral.

KEY: Rival \v.\

SYN: Emulate, challenge, equal, contend, strive, compete.

ANT: Succumb, surrender, yield, promote, reverence, retire, defer.

KEY: Road.

SYN: Public way, highway, route, thoroughfare, course, pathway, path.

KEY: Roam.

SYN: Wander, rove, range, stroll, ramble, stray, saunter.

ANT: Hurry, speed, fly, hasten, press.

KEY: Roar.

SYN: Howl, vociferate, peal, yell, boom, resound, [See BAWL].

KEY: Rob.

SYN: Plunder, deprive, denude, strip, pillage, defraud, cheat, impoverish.

ANT: Compensate, endow, enrich, invest, indemnify.

KEY: Robber.

SYN: Thief, depredator, plunderer, freebooter, brigand, pirate, highwayman, footpad.

ANT: Guard, escort, protector.

KEY: Robbery.

SYN: Theft, larceny, pillage, plundering, depredation, spoliation.

ANT: Guarding, protecting, indemnifying, compensating, enriching.

KEY: Robe.

SYN: Invest, clothe, deck, drape, array.

ANT: Divest, disrobe, unclothe, denude, strip.

KEY: Robust.

SYN: Strong, lusty, brawny, able-bodied, sturdy, sinewy, muscular, hale, hearty, vigorous, sound, iron.

ANT: Weak, frail, puny, fragile, weakly, delicate, sickly.

KEY: Rogue.

SYN: Vagabond, scamp, rascal, villain, cheat, swindler, sharper.

ANT: True-penny, gentleman.

KEY: Roguery.

SYN: Trickery, cheating, chicanery, swindling, vagabondism, mischief, fraud, knavery.

ANT: Honesty, integrity, honor, uprightness, conscientiousness.

KEY: Roll \v.\

SYN: Revolve, wheel, rotate, turn over and over, rock, trundle wallow.

KEY: Roll \n.\ [See RECORD].

KEY: Rollicking.

SYN: Roystering, frolicsome, hoydenish, blustering.

ANT: Staid, sedate, demure.

KEY: Romance.

SYN: Fable, fiction, novel, marvel, rhapsody, rodomontade, gasconade, balderdash.

ANT: History, narrative, truth, fact.

KEY: Romantic.

SYN: Fabulous, rhapsodical, wild, extravagant, fanciful, fictitious, sentimental.

ANT: Historical, literal, truthful, unromantic, unvarnished, unadorned.

KEY: Room.

SYN: Space, ground, compass, extent, locality, opportunity, capability, occasion, margin, capacity, admission.

ANT: Restriction, limitation, confinement, incapability, exclusion, neutralization.

KEY: Roomy, [See SPACIOUS].

KEY: Root.

SYN: Radix, radicle, stem, origin, source, spring, rise, commencement, parent.

ANT: Branch, ramification, outcome, product, issue, progeny.

KEY: Rooted.

SYN: Fixed, established, grounded, based, inveterate, domiciled, naturalized, installed.

ANT: Unestablished, insecure, uncertain, wavering, unsettled, oscillating, dubious, precarious, superficial, specious, propped, bolstered, shored.

KEY: Rot.

SYN: Putrefaction, corruption, putrescence, mouldiness, mildew, decay.

ANT: Integrity, wholesomeness, soundness, vigor, preservation, purity, healthiness, sweetness.

KEY: Rotation.

SYN: Turn, series, order, succession, revolution, course, reversion, recurrence.

ANT: Simultaneity, perpetuity, constancy, non-intermittence, contemporaneousness.

KEY: Rotten, [See PUTRID].

KEY: Rotundity.

SYN: Roundness, convexity, circularity, sphericity, globosity, prominence, protuberance, intumescence.

ANT: Concavity, flatness, angularity.

KEY: Rough.

SYN: Uneven, harsh, bristly, scabrous, rugged, knotty, unpolished, boisterous, tempestuous, stormy, coarse, craggy, gruff, crude, severe, shaggy, disordered, unrefined, uncourteous, rude, unshaped, churlish, blunt.

ANT: Even, smooth, level, polished, glabrous, glossy, glassy, silky, sleek, velvety, calm, tranquil, refined, courteous, courtly, shapely, shaped, finished, oily, specious.

KEY: Round.

SYN: Circular, globular, spherical, entire, complete, rotund, smooth, plump.

ANT: Flat, angular, concave.

KEY: Roundabout, [See CIRCUITOUS].

KEY: Rouse.

SYN: Wake, excite, agitate, startle, surprise.

ANT: Compose, allay, calm, soothe, quiet, repress, Rout, [See CIRCUITOUS].

KEY: Route.

SYN: Way, course, passage, march, path, track, direction.

KEY: Routine.

SYN: Round, course, succession, order, rule, custom, system, sequence, gradation, rotation, stereotype, prescription, tenor, uniformity, method, settlement, regulation.

ANT: Casualty, chance, lottery, fortune, impulse, interest, individuality, merit, spontaneity, alterableness, margin, deviation, modification.

KEY: Rove, [See ROAM].

KEY: Row \n.\

SYN: Series, order, rank, sequence, continuation, continuity, file, string, concatenation, thread.

ANT: Dissociation, disconnection, rupture, intermission, hiatus, solution, failure, gap, discontinuance, dissolution, inconsequence, derangement, deviation, flexion, deflexion, irregularity, sinuosity, flexuosity.

KEY: Row \n.\ [See RIOT].

KEY: Royal, [See REGAL].

KEY: Rubbish.

SYN: debris, waste matter, fragments, litter, dross, refuse, lion sense, trash.

ANT: [met.] see Cream and Nonsense.

KEY: Rubicund.

SYN: Ruddy, flushed, red, sanguine, blushing.

ANT: Pale, wan, pallid, exsanguineous.

KEY: Ruddy, [See RUBICUND].

KEY: Rude.

SYN: Impertinent, rough, uneven, shapeless, unfashioned, artless, unpolished, uncouth, inelegant, rustic, coarse, vulgar, clownish, raw, unskilful, untaught, illiterate, ignorant, uncivil, saucy, impolite, impudent, insolent, surly, {[currifb]?}, churlish, brutal, uncivilized, barbarous, savage, violent, tumultuous, turbulent, Impetuous, boisterous, harsh, inclement, severe, Insulting, grotesque, barbaric, archaic.

ANT: Modest, bashful, civil, courteous, ceremonious, deferential, smooth, even, artistic, polished, fashioned, courtly, elegant, high-wrought, polite, accommodating, considerate, refined, gentle, peaceful, culm, genial, balmy, halcyonic, serene, placid, modern, modish, fashionable.

KEY: Rudiment.

SYN: Principle, begin, ning, germ, seed, embryo, element, nucleus, initiation, commencement.

ANT: Perfection, completion, development, expansion, organization, fruit, maturity, consummation, product, issue.

KEY: Rudimental, [See ELEMENTARY].

KEY: Rue, [See REPENT].

KEY: Ruffle.

SYN: Wrinkle, roughen, dis, compose, disturb, agitate, disorder, derange, disarrange, confute, excite.

ANT: Smooth, allay, equalize, compose, quiet, arrange, conciliate.

KEY: Ruffian.

SYN: Villain, cutthroat, brutal fellow, bully.

KEY: Rugged.

SYN: Uneven, bristly, shaggy, rough, wrinkled, rude, harsh, hard, crabbed, severe, austere, surly, turbulent, inclement, bluff, blunt, untutored, churlish, unpolished, difficult.

ANT: Even, smooth, polished, glabrous, silky, glassy, refined, fine, finished, soft, mild, courtly, courteous, [See {[caitubtroka %]?}].

KEY: Ruin.

SYN: Fall, destruction, defeat, overthrow, lapse, collapse, desolation, downfall, perdition, subversion, decay, decadence, prostration, dilapidation, disorganization.

ANT: Rise, success, prosperity, salvation, rescue, recovery, stabilisation, conservation, regeneration, revivification, reparation, renascence, organization, construction.

KEY: Ruinous, [See PERNICIOUS].

KEY: Rule \n.\

SYN: Regulation, law, precept, principle, maxim, practice, guide, canon, order, method, direction, authority, control, mastery, government, decision, determination, habit.

ANT: Irregularity, nonconformity, exception, deviation, eccentricity.

KEY: Rule \v.\

SYN: Govern, manage, control, direct, command, dominate, [See CONTROL and GOVERN].

KEY: Ruling.

SYN: Governing, reigning, controlling, masterful, predominant, regulating, prevalent.

ANT: Obeying, yielding, subservient.

KEY: Ruminate.

SYN: Muse, meditate, ponder, think, reflect, cogitate, brood.

ANT: Unbend, relax, idle, gape, woolgather.

KEY: Rumor.

SYN: Report, repute, hearsay, publication, bruit.

ANT: Authentication, verification, proof, evidence, notoriety.

KEY: Rumple.

SYN: Ruffle, wrinkle, crease, crumple, pucker, corrugate, derange, roughen.

ANT: Smooth, flatten, arrange.

KEY: Run.

SYN: Course, go, speed, hasten, hurry, fly, rush, escape, retreat, pass, proceed, flow, ooze, leak, melt, fuse, confuse, blend, extend, reach, work, operate, traverse, tend, incline.

ANT: Walk, saunter, lounge, drag, stay, stop, halt, hobble, resist, hold, stanch, stand, fail, drop, expire, disincline, hesitate.

KEY: Rupture.

SYN: Breaking, bursting, tearing, laceration, partition, disruption, breach, dissolution, fracture, break, severance, disseverance, discerption, disorganization, separation, dilaceration, dismemberment.

ANT: Union, uniting, healing, fusion, amalgamation, coalition, suture, junction, reunion.

KEY: Rural.

SYN: Countrified, rustic, agricultural, bucolic, verdant, sylvan, grassy, arcadian, pastoral.

ANT: Urban, oppidan, civic.

KEY: Rush.

SYN: Speed, course, dash, sweep, hurry, stream, roll, charge, drive, fly, burst.

ANT: March, saunter, lag, retreat, bait, hesitate.

KEY: Rust \n.\

SYN: Corrosion, crust, dross, indolence, inactivity, decay, canker, inaction.

ANT: Polish, attrition, use, action, operation, activity, exercise, industry.

KEY: Rustic \n.\

SYN: Clown, boor, clod, go, leuc, booby.

ANT: Beau, savant, dandy, man of, the wond.

KEY: Rustic \a.\

SYN: Rural, agricultural, bucolic, nomadic, sylvan, verdant, pastoral, rude, awkward, unpolished, clownish, clumsy, rough, coarse, plain, unsophisticated, simple, artless, primitive.

ANT: Urban, oppidan, civic, fashionable, modish, elegant, sophisticated, refined, courtly, polished.

KEY: Rusticity.

SYN: Rudeness, clownishness, boorishness, coarseness, simplicity, artlessness.

ANT: Courtliness, refinement, polish, gentility, urbanity.

KEY: Rustle.

SYN: Quiver, whisper, susurration, murmur, sighing.

ANT: Hubbub, blast, din, racket, crashing.

KEY: Ruthless.

SYN: Unpitying, unrelenting, truculent, unsparing.

ANT: Tender, regretful, lenient, compassionate, forbearing, long-suffering.

KEY: Rutilant.

SYN: Igneous, flammiferous, flaming, blazing, coruscant, meteoric, flashing, scintillant.

ANT: Glowing, incandescent, gleaming.

KEY: Sable.

SYN: Dark, black, sombre, ebon.

ANT: Bright, light, white, ivory.

KEY: Sacerdotal.

SYN: Priestly, hierarchical, clerical.

ANT: Laic, congregational.

KEY: Sack.

SYN: Plunder, pillage, ravage, waste, spoil.

ANT: Spare, indemnify, protect, preserve.

KEY: Sacred.

SYN: Holy, divine, hallowed, consecrated, religious, inviolable.

ANT: Unholy, common, profane, unconsecrated.

KEY: Sacrifice \v.\

SYN: Offer, immolate, destroy, surrender, forego.

ANT: Reserve, retain, appropriate, withhold.

KEY: Sacrifice \n.\

SYN: Offering, oblation, immolation, surrender, destruction, atonement, propitiation, appeasement, expiation.

ANT: Reservation, appropriation, retention, salvation, rescue, offence, transgression.

KEY: Sad.

SYN: Heavy, grave, dull, sorrowful, woe-begone, calamitous, dismal, doleful, mournful, gloomy, dejected, depressed, cheerless, serious, downcast, grievous, melancholy, saturnine.

ANT: Light, light-hearted, cheerful, joyful, joyous, gay, glad, exhilarating, exhilarated, happy, blithe.

KEY: Saddle.

SYN: Impose, burden, load, shackle, clog, charge, encumber.

ANT: Rid, relieve, exonerate, disburden, liberate, disencumber.

KEY: Safe.

SYN: Secure, unendangered, secured, sure, protected, impregnable, trustworthy, certain.

ANT: Insecure, imperilled, dangerous, Hazardous, exposed.

KEY: Safeguard.

SYN: Security, protection, [See SABLE].

KEY: Sagacious.

SYN: Intelligent, discriminating, acute, wise, prudent, foreseeing, shrewd, penetrating, sapient.

ANT: Dull, obtuse, unintelligent, stolid, undiscerning.

KEY: Sage.

SYN: Philosopher, savant, literate.

ANT: Fool, Imbecile, Colt, blockhead.

KEY: Sailor.

SYN: Seaman, mariner, navigator, seafarer, tar.

ANT: Landsman.

KEY: Saintly.

SYN: Pure, holy, spiritual, heavenly-minded, pious, godly.

ANT: Impious impure, unholy, unspiritual, ungodly, carnal, foul, worldly, earthly-minded, sinful.

KEY: Sake.

SYN: Account, behalf, purpose, end, regard, reason, cause, [See DEFENSE].

KEY: Salient.

SYN: Projecting, springing, jutting, abutting, prominent, conspicuous, important, noteworthy.

ANT: Retreating, retiring, returning, rebated, unimportant, minor, inconsiderable, subordinate.

KEY: Sally.

SYN: Burst, start, issue.

ANT: Retire, retreat, withdraw.

KEY: Salubrious, [See BEHALF].

KEY: Salubrity.

SYN: Healthiness, healthfulness, wholesomeness, salutarines.

ANT: Unwholesomeness, unhealthily, insalubrity.

KEY: Salutary, [See HEALTHY].

KEY: Salutation, [See WHOLESOME].

KEY: Salute.

SYN: Hall, compliment, accost, welcome, greet.

ANT: Ignore, insult, pass, disregard, dishonor, scorn, affront.

KEY: Salvation.

SYN: Preservation, saving, redemption, rescue, deliverance.

ANT: Destruction, perdition, damnation.

KEY: Salve.

SYN: Heal, cure, mollify, redress, remedy, mend, relieve.

ANT: Wound, hurt, irritate, injure, aggravate, scarify.

KEY: Same.

SYN: Identical, selfsame, similar, corresponding.

ANT: Other, different.

KEY: Sameness, [See WELCOME].

KEY: Sample.

SYN: Specimen, pattern, illustration, case, exemplification, scantling.

ANT: Exception, deviation, abnormity, monstrosity, variety, nondescript, hybrid, nonsuch.

KEY: Sanative, [See IDENTITY].

KEY: Sanatory.

SYN: Curative, sanative, remedial, therapeutic, hygienic, sanitary.

ANT: Morbific, pestilential, noxious, unwholesome, pernicious.

KEY: Sanctification.

SYN: Justification, absolution, consecration, holiness.

KEY: Sanctify.

SYN: Consecrate, hallow, celebrate, purify, justify, sanction, ratify.

ANT: Desecrate, profane, misobserve, pollute, disannul.

KEY: Sanction \n.\

SYN: Rectification, authorization, authority, countenance, support, seal, allowance.

ANT: Nullification, disallowance, discountenance, prohibition.

KEY: Sanction \v.\

SYN: Authorize, countenance, confirm, ratify, [See SANATORY and HEALTHFUL].

KEY: Sanctity.

SYN: Holiness, sacredness, godliness, piety, solemnity.

ANT: Unholiness, profaneness, ungodliness, impiety, secularly.

KEY: Sanctuary.

SYN: Shrine, {[adytumasy % asyurn]?}, asyurn, refuge, security, protection, inviolability.

ANT: Pitfall, trap, snare, betrayal, violation, extradition.

KEY: Sanguinary.

SYN: Bloody, truculent, bloodthirsty, murderous.

ANT: Lenient, moderate, chivalrous, generous, sparing, forbearing.

KEY: Sanguine.

SYN: Warm, ardent, lively, animated, hopeful, confident, trustful.

ANT: Cold, frigid, desponding, distrustful, croaking, misgiving, suspicious, cautious, unventuresome, timid, anxious, diffident, solicitous.

KEY: Sanitary, [See APPROVE].

KEY: Sanity.

SYN: Rationality, soundness, reasonableness, lucidity, wisdom.

ANT: Insanity, madness, lunacy, derangement, alienation, dementation, hallucination, folly.

KEY: Sapid.

SYN: Tasty, relishing, savory, piquant, palatable, toothsome, delicious.

ANT: Dry, flavorless, distasteful, nauseous.

KEY: Sapidity.

SYN: Sapidness, savoriness, taste, {[eavor]?}.

ANT: Savorless, tasteless, insipid, vapid.

KEY: Sapient.

SYN: Sage, sagacious, knowing, wise, discerning.

ANT: foolish, undiscerning, blind, stolid.

KEY: Sarcasm.

SYN: Gibe, chaff, irony, jeer, satire, ridicule, taunt, sardonicism.

ANT: Eulogy, compliment, panegyric, eulogium.

KEY: Sarcastic.

SYN: Satirical, ironical, taunting, severe, [See SANATORY].

KEY: Satanic.

SYN: Fiendish, devilish, infernal.

ANT: Angelic, seraphic, heavenly.

KEY: Sate.

SYN: Satiate, glut, surfeit.

ANT: Stint, starve.

KEY: Satellite.

SYN: Attendant, follower, subordinate, shadow, associate, hanger-on, second.

ANT: Leader, principal.

KEY: Satiate.

SYN: Gorge, cloy, satisfy fully, [See SATIRICAL].

KEY: Satire.

SYN: Invective, sarcasm, burlesque, lampoon, pasquinade, irony, ridicule.

ANT: Eulogy, panegyric, laudation.

KEY: Satirical.

SYN: Cutting, poignant sarcastic, bitter, ironical, invective.

ANT: Complimentary, flattering, laudatory, panegyric, eulogistic.

KEY: Satisfaction.

SYN: Contentment, content, complacency, pleasure, recompense, compensation, amends, remuneration, indemnification, atonement.

ANT: Discontent, grievance, dissatisfaction, pain, vexation, annoyance, injury, wrong, fraud, robbery, obligation, demand, claim, damnification, transgression, offence.

KEY: Satisfy.

SYN: Satiate, content, sate, please, fill, gratify, suffice, recompense, compensate, remunerate, indemnify, assure, convince, meet, fulfil.

ANT: Stint, starve, deprive, dissatisfy, tantalize, half-satisfy, annoy, displease, defraud, deprive, injure, cheat, shake, disown, repudiate, stagger, pore, embarrass, puzzle.

KEY: Saturate.

SYN: Soak, impregnate, infuse, steep, sate.

ANT: Wring, drain, exsiccate, dry, divert, empty, deprive, disimpregnate.

KEY: Saturnine.

SYN: Dull, heavy, grave, phlegmatic, gloomy, leaden, sombre.

ANT: Jovial, gay, light-hearted, joyous, bright, merry.

KEY: Saucy.

SYN: Pert, forward, flippant, impudent, insolent, disrespectful.

ANT: Deferential, civil, respectful, fair-spoken, glozing, mealy-mouthed, obsequious, servile, snivelling, slavish.

KEY: Saunter.

SYN: Roam, loiter, linger, stroll, wander, lag, dawdle, lounge, linger.

ANT: Speed, course, press, hasten, drive, push, scramble.

KEY: Savage.

SYN: Ferocious, ferine, wild, uncultivated, untamed, untaught, uncivilized, unpolished, rude, brutish, brutal, heathenish, barbarous, cruel, fierce, inhuman, truculent, pitiless, merciless, murderous, violent, malevolent.

ANT: Mild, docile, domesticated, tame, tractable, meek, timid, shrinking, cultivated, tamed, taught, civilized, educated, refined, Christianized, polished, humane, generous, chivalrous, merciful, clement, forbearing, courtly, subdued, self-controlled.

KEY: Save.

SYN: Preserve, rescue, secure, reserve, spare, hinder, obviate, prevent, snatch, catch, economize, husband.

ANT: Lose, betray, abandon, destroy, surrender, impose, facilitate, promote, induce, occasion, cause, miss, expose, imperil, endanger, risk, waste, lavish.

KEY: Saving, [see FRUGAL].

KEY: Savior.

SYN: Redeemer, JESUS CHRIST, Mediator, Messiah, The Anointed, The Word.

KEY: Savory, [See SAPID].

KEY: Say.

SYN: Utter, tell, speak, pronounce, declare, assert, allege, affirm, repeat, rehearse, recite, judge.

ANT: Suppress, secrete, silentiate, repress, misdeclare, misrecite, misdeliver, missay, misjudge, mispronounce.

KEY: Saying.

SYN: Assertion, maxim, saw, dictum, declaration, speech, byword, proverb, aphorism, apothegm.

ANT: Dissertation, disquisition, essay, ratiocination, rigmarole, yarn, circumlocution.

KEY: Scale.

SYN: Layer, lamina, flake.

KEY: Scandal.

SYN: Offence, reproach, disgrace, defamation, libel, shame, infamy, detraction, slander, calumny, opprobrium.

ANT: Eulogy, fame, honor, respect, credit.

KEY: Scandalize.

SYN: Disgrace, disgust, shock, offend, defame, reproach.

ANT: Honor, [See REPROACH].

KEY: Scant.

SYN: Short, insufficient, mean, niggardly, stingy, narrow, limited, chary, sparing.

ANT: Full, ample, liberal, generous, bountiful, unmeasured.

KEY: Scanty, [See REPROACH].

KEY: Scantling, [See SCANT].

KEY: Scar \n.\

SYN: Cicatrix, blemish, disfigurement, mark, seam, spot, reproach.

ANT: Obliteration, effacement.

KEY: Scarce.

SYN: Rare, infrequent, unabundant, unique, uncommon, unusual, singular, precious, choice, few, wanting, sparse.

ANT: Common, frequent, abundant, valueless, thick, plentiful.

KEY: Scarcity.

SYN: Deficiency, lack, infrequency, want, dearth, rarity.

ANT: Plenty, abundance, frequency.

KEY: Scare.

SYN: Terrify, affright, intimidate, frighten, deter, dismay, daunt.

ANT: Reassure, encourage, entice, allure.

KEY: Scarify.

SYN: Cut, scratch, incise, Irritate, torment.

ANT: Heal, salve, soothe, mollify, assuage.

KEY: Scatheless.

SYN: Unhurt, unscathed, uninjured, undamaged, whole, sound.

ANT: Wounded, injured, damaged.

KEY: Scatter.

SYN: Strew, sprinkle, disperse, spread, broadcast, dissipate, disseminate, propagate, squander.

ANT: Collect, accumulate, heap, gather, save, husband.

KEY: Scene.

SYN: Spectacle, show, exhibition, [See SAMPLE].

KEY: Scent.

SYN: Odor, perfume, {[tmeU]?}, [See {[PAOEAKT]?}].

KEY: Sceptic.

SYN: Doubter, infidel, un believer, deist.

ANT: Believer.

KEY: Scepticism.

SYN: Doubt, unbelief, infidelity, incredulity.

ANT: Faith, belief, credulity.

KEY: Scheme.

SYN: Plan, project, design, contrivance, purpose, draft, proposal, device, plot, theory, intrigue, machination.

ANT: Miscontrivance, bungle, misarrangement, blunder.

KEY: Schism.

SYN: Division, separation, disruption, secession, diversity, sectarianism, breach, dissent, discord.

ANT: Unity, integrity, catholicity, communion.

KEY: Scholar.

SYN: Pupil, learner, disciple, student, schoolman, scientist, savant, gownsman, linguist.

ANT: Master, teacher, preceptor, professor, ignoramus, dunce.

KEY: Scholarship.

SYN: Lore, learning, erudition, attainments, culture, [See LEARNING].

KEY: Science.

SYN: Knowledge, Information, skill, experience, expertness, comprehension, understanding, investigation, truth.

ANT: Ignorance, inexperience, Unfamiliarity, incomprehension, error, fallacy, empiricism, smattering, sciolism.

KEY: Scientific.

SYN: Philosophical, according to general principles, or laws.

ANT: Unscientific.

KEY: Sciolism.

SYN: Shallowness, superficialness, smattering, imperfect knowledge.

ANT: Depth, profundity, profoundness.

KEY: Scion.

SYN: Slip, offshoot, cadet, branch, child.

ANT: Stem, stock, parent, root.

KEY: Scoff.

SYN: Sneer, mock, jibe, jeer, contemn, scout, deride, ridicule.

ANT: Compliment, salute, respect, honor.

KEY: Scold.

SYN: Chide, rail, reprimand, reprove, brawl, rebuke, abuse.

ANT: Praise, encourage, compliment, laud, flatter.

KEY: Scope.

SYN: Aim, object, mark, end, design, purpose, intention, drift, room, occasion, opportunity, liberty.

ANT: Avoidance, nonintention, pretermission, inadvertence, accident, aimlessness, deviation.

KEY: Scorn \v.\

SYN: Contemn, despise, slight, disdain, disregard, sibilate, vilipend, spurn, scout.

ANT: Honor, regard, esteem, venerate, respect, applaud, salute.

KEY: Scorn \n.\

SYN: Mockery, disdain, contempt, sneer, slight, opprobrium, [See LEARNING].

KEY: Scoundrel.

SYN: Villain, vagabond, knave, swindler, miscreant, reprobate.

ANT: Man of honor, gentleman.

KEY: Scour.

SYN: Purge, cleanse, rinse, scrub.

ANT: Soil, begrime, besmear, foul, pollute, {[aefile]?}, dirt.

KEY: Scourge.

SYN: Punishment, bane, curse, undoing, visitation.

ANT: Blessing, redemption, saving, reward, benefaction.

KEY: Scourings.

SYN: Offal, dregs, lees, offscourings, refuse, dross, scum.

ANT: Cream, elite, pickings, bloom, flower.

KEY: Scout \v.\ [See SCORN].

KEY: Scowl.

SYN: Frown, discountenance, browbeat, lower, glower.

ANT: Smile, encourage, countenance.

KEY: Scraggy.

SYN: Jagged, lean, bony, uneven, gaunt, skinny, raw, angular.

ANT: Plump, fat, round, rounded.

KEY: Scramble \v.\

SYN: Struggle, hurry, bustle.

ANT: Lag, dawdle, loiter, saunter.

KEY: Scramble \n.\

SYN: Hurry, bustle, struggle, confusion, turmoil, ferment, commotion, bear-garden, babel, vortex.

ANT: Order, orderliness, arrangement, leisureliness, method, uniformity.

KEY: Scrap.

SYN: Scantling, piece, morsel, fragment, atom, bit, portion.

ANT: Whole, integrity, mass, lump.

KEY: Scrape \v.\

SYN: Grate, abrade, confricate, rasp, scratch, mark, groove.

ANT: Lubricate, polish, levigate, dig, indent, wound.

KEY: Scratch \v.\ [See SCORN].

KEY: Scream.

SYN: Screech, shriek, yell.

KEY: Screen \v.\

SYN: Shelter, protect, defend, hide, palliate, mitigate, curtain, cloak, defend, harbor, fence, ward, shade.

ANT: Open, expose, surrender, betray, aggravate, exaggerate, prosecute.

KEY: Scriptural.

SYN: Biblical, orthodox, revealed, inspired.

ANT: Profane, unrevealed, unorthodox, unbiblical, unscriptural.

KEY: Scruple \n.\

SYN: Misgiving, doubt, hesitation, qualm, reluctance, question.

ANT: recklessness, unscrupulousness, confidence, assurance, self-satisfaction, self-approval, self-complacency.

KEY: Scruple \v.\ [See SCRAPE].

KEY: Scrupulous.

SYN: Conscientious, dubious, diffident, punctilious, exact, cautious, nice, precise, reluctant.

ANT: reckless, unscrupulous, unhesitating, confident, self-satisfied, self-complacent, eager.

KEY: Scrutinize.

SYN: Examine, probe, search into, sift, [See EXAMINE].

KEY: Scrutiny.

SYN: Search, investigation, sifting, inspection.

ANT: Oversight, misobservation, disregard, connivance.

KEY: Sculpture.

SYN: Statuary, carving, plastic work, carved art.

KEY: Scurrilous.

SYN: Opprobrious, foul-mouthed, obscene, offensive, reproachful, [See ABUSIVE].

KEY: Scurrility.

SYN: Buffoonery, derision, {[ecomng]?}, mockery, jeering, abuse.

ANT: Deference, eulogium, flattery, compliment.

KEY: Sea.

SYN: Ocean, deep, main.

ANT: Shore, land.

KEY: Seal.

SYN: Close, fasten, confirm, sanction, ratify.

ANT: Unseal, unclose, open, annul, cancel, abrogate, disratify, disaffirm, contravene.

KEY: Search \v.\

SYN: Inspect, explore, scrutinize, seek, investigate, inquire.

ANT: Pretermit, disregard, abandon, misinvestigate.

KEY: Search \n.\

SYN: Exploration, pursuit, quest, inquiry, [See ABUSIVE].

KEY: Season.

SYN: Period, time, conjuncture, while, occasion, opportunity, suitableness, timeliness.

ANT: Untimeliness, unsuitableness, contretemps, unseasonableness.

KEY: Seasonable.

SYN: Convenient, fit, grateful, welcome, timely, suitable, periodical, normal, opportune.

ANT: Ungrateful, unwelcome, untimely, unsuitable, unexpected, abnormal, inopportune, unseasonable.

KEY: Secede.

SYN: Withdraw, retire, recede, separate, dissent, segregate.

ANT: Adhere, accord, concur, conform, unite, amalgamate.

KEY: Secession.

SYN: Separation, withdrawal.

ANT: Union, adherence.

KEY: Secluded.

SYN: Retired, retreating, hidden, withdrawn, secret, private, sequestered, shaded.

ANT: Public, exposed, frequented, open.

KEY: Seclusion.

SYN: Retirement, privacy, retreat, solitude, secrecy, [See SCRUTINY].