TheO 2

By James Blanchette

NOW the largest Thesaurus in the world
Over 31,000 reference words
over 5,000 antonyms
over 500,000 words in total

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Spangaloo Publishing
• Release date: Jul 28, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463927885

James Blanchette

He has spent more than 35 years in the computer industry, developing and programming in multiple programming languages. Currently he is working mostly in Website and Application development for Android systems. Website design with full PHP backend for dynamic websites.

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A CAPPELLA | V A v

SYN: abbandono, accrescendo, affettuoso, agilmente, agitato, amabile, amoroso, appassionatamente, appassionato, brillante, capriccioso, con affetto, con agilita, con agitazione, con amore, crescendo, decrescendo, diminuendo, dolce, forte, fortissimo, lamentabile, leggiero, morendo, parlando, pianissimo, piano, pizzicato, scherzando, scherzoso, sordo, sotto voce, spiccato, staccato, stretto, tremolando, tremoloso, trillando

A LA MODE | A

SYN: advanced, avant-garde, chic, contemporary, dashing, exclusive, far out, fashionable, fashionably, forward-looking, in, in the mode, mod, modern, modernistic, modernized, modish, modishly, newfashioned, now, present-day, present-time, progressive, soigne, soignee, streamlined, stylish, stylishly, tony, trendy, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, vogue, voguish, way out

A PRIORI | A

SYN: a fortiori, a posteriori, analytic, back, backward, categorical, conditional, deducible, deductive, derivable, dialectic, discursive, dogmatic, early, enthymematic, epagogic, ex post facto, hypothetical, inductive, inferential, into the past, maieutic, reasoned, retroactive, retrospective, soritical, syllogistic, synthetic

A-BOMB | N

SYN: H-bomb, atomic bomb, atomic warhead, clean bomb, cobalt bomb, dirty bomb, fusion bomb, hell bomb, hydrogen bomb, limited nuclear weapons, nuclear artillery, nuclear explosive, nuclear warhead, plutonium bomb, superbomb, tactical nuclear weapons, thermonuclear bomb, thermonuclear warhead

AB OVO | h

SYN: ab initio, aborigine, afresh, again, anew, as new, at first, at the start, basal, basic, before everything, chiefly, constituent, constitutive, de novo, elemental, elementary, essential, first, first and foremost, first thing, firstly, freshly, from scratch, from the beginning, fundamental, gut, in the beginning, initially, mainly, material, new, newly, of the essence, once more, original, originally, primal, primarily, primary, primitive, primo, principally, radical, substantial, substantive, underlying

ABACK

SYN: Backwards, rearwards, aft, abaft, astern, behind, back

ANT: Onwards, forwards, ahead, before, afront, beyond, afore

ABADDON | N

SYN: Aeshma, Angra Mainyu, Apollyon, Azazel, Beelzebub, Belial, Eblis, Gehenna, Hades, Lilith, Mephisto, Mephistopheles, Naraka, Pandemonium, Putana, Sammael, Shaitan, Sheol, Tophet, avichi, hell, infernal regions, inferno, jahannan, limbo, lower world, nether world, perdition, place of torment, purgatory, shades below, the abyss, the bottomless pit, the grave, the pit, underworld

ABANDON | N t

SYN: abandonment, abjection, abjure, abort, abscond, acknowledge defeat, ardency, ardor, back out, beat a retreat, beg a truce, beg off, belay, boundlessness, bow out, break the habit, brush aside, brush off, cancel, capitulate, careless abandon, carelessness, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, casualness, cease, cede, chuck, come to terms, commitment, committedness, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, craze, cry off, cry pax, cry quits, cursoriness, cut, cut it out, debasement, decadence, decadency, dedication, deep-six, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, delirium, demoralization, depart from, depravation, depravedness, depravity, desert, desist, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, disappear, discard, discontinue, disgorge, dismiss, dispense with, dispose of, disregardfulness, dissoluteness, disuse, ditch, do without, drop, drop it, drop out, drop the subject, dump, earnestness, ease, easiness, ecstasy, egregiousness, eighty-six, eliminate, end, enormousness, evacuate, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extremes, extremism, extremity, exuberance, fabulousness, faith, faithfulness, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fidelity, fire, fire and fury, forget, forget about it, forget it, forgetfulness, forgo, forsake, forswear, freedom, frenzy, fun, furor, furore, fury, games, get along without, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, giantism, gigantism, give away, give over, give up, gluttony, go back on, goldbrick, goof off, halt, hand over, hastiness, have done with, heartiness, heat, heatedness, heedlessness, hold, hyperbole, hypertrophy, hysteria, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, impassionedness, implore mercy, impulsiveness, inconsiderateness, inconsideration, incontinence, indifference, indiscipline, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, insouciance, intemperance, intemperateness, intensity, intentness, intoxication, irrepressibility, jettison, jilt, jump, junk, kick, kiss good-bye, knock it off, lack of foresight, laxity, laxness, lay aside, lay off, laziness, leave, leave behind, leave flat, leave loose ends, leave off, leave undone, let alone, let be, let dangle, let go, let it go, let slip, liberty, license, licentiousness, looseness, loyalty, madness, make a sacrifice, malinger, maroon, miss, monstrousness, moral pollution, moral turpitude, naturalness, nimiety, noncoercion, nonintimidation, oblivion, offhandedness, omit, orgasm, orgy, outrageousness, overdevelopment, overgreatness, overgrowth, overindulgence, overlargeness, overmuch, overmuchness, part with, pass over, pass up, passion, passionateness, perfunctoriness, permissiveness, play, pray for quarter, pretermit, procrastinate, profligacy, pull out, push aside, put aside, quit, quit cold, quitclaim, radicalism, rage, rapture, ravishment, recant, recklessness, refrain, regardlessness, reject, relinquish, remove, render up, renege, renounce, reprobacy, repudiate, resign, resolution, retire, retract, retreat, riotousness, rottenness, run out on, sacrifice, say goodbye to, say uncle, scrap, scrub, seriousness, set aside, shake, shirk, shrug off, sincerity, skip, slack, slough, sneeze at, spare, spirit, spontaneity, sport, sprezzatura, stand down, stay, stop, surrender, swear off, tactlessness, take leave of, take the pledge, tearing passion, terminate, think nothing of, thoughtlessness, throw away, throw off, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, throw up, thrust aside, too much, too-muchness, toss overboard, towering rage, transport, trifle, turn away from, turn up, turpitude, unconscionableness, unconstrained, unconstraint, uncontrol, undueness, unheedfulness, uninhibitedness, unmindfulness, unpreparedness, unreadiness, unreasonableness, unreserve, unrestrainedness, unrestraint, unruliness, unsolicitousness, unsolicitude, unstrictness, unthinkingness, vacate, vanish, vehemence, waive, wantonness, warmth, wildness, withdraw, yield, yield the palm, zeal

ANT: Pursue, prosecute, undertake, seek, court, cherish, favor, protect, claim, maintain, defend, advocate, retain, support, uphold, occupy, haunt, hold, assert, vindicate, keep

ABANDONED | A

SYN: a bit much, abjured, afire, amok, antiquated, antique, archaic, ardent, available, bellowing, berserk, boundless, burning, carried away, cast-off, castaway, ceded, committed, contaminated, corrupt, corrupted, debased, debauched, decadent, dedicated, defenseless, degenerate, degraded, delirious, demoniac, depraved, derelict, deserted, desolate, devoted, devout, discarded, discontinued, disowned, dispensed with, disposed of, disregarded, dissipated, dissolute, distracted, disused, done with, earnest, ecstatic, egregious, enormous, enraptured, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, faithful, fancy, fast, fatherless, feral, ferocious, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, flaming, forgone, forlorn, forsaken, forsworn, frantic, free, frenzied, friendless, fulminating, furious, gallant, gay, gigantic, gluttonous, go-go, godforsaken, haggard, half-done, hearty, heated, helpless, high, hog-wild, homeless, hot, hot-blooded, howling, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, hysterical, ignored, immoderate, impassioned, in a transport, in earnest, in hysterics, incontinent, incorrigible, indulgent, inordinate, intemperate, intense, intent, intent on, intoxicated, irrepressible, jettisoned, kithless, laid aside, lascivious, lax, lecherous, left, left undone, lewd, licentious, loose, lost to shame, loyal, mad, madding, maniac, marooned, missed, monstrous, morally polluted, motherless, neglected, nonrestrictive, not worth saving, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old-fashioned, omitted, on fire, on the shelf, open, orgasmic, orgiastic, out, out of bounds, out of control, out of hand, out of sight, out of use, out-of-date, outcast, outdated, outmoded, outrageous, outside the gates, outside the pale, outworn, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overlooked, overmuch, overweening, passed by, passed over, passed up, passionate, past use, pensioned off, perfervid, permissive, perverted, pigeonholed, polluted, possessed, profligate, put aside, rabid, raging, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, rampant, ramping, ranting, raving, ravished, recanted, red-hot, reinless, rejected, released, relinquished, renounced, reprobate, resigned, resolute, retired, retracted, riotous, roaring, rotten, running mad, sacrificed, serious, shunted, sidelined, sidetracked, sincere, slighted, solitary, spirited, steep, steeped in iniquity, stiff, storming, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, surrendered, tainted, tenantless, too much, transported, unasked, unattended to, unbridled, uncared-for, unchaperoned, unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconscionable, unconsidered, unconstrained, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, uncouth, uncurbed, undone, undue, unfilled, unforced, unfriended, ungoverned, uninhabited, uninhibited, unmanned, unmastered, unmeasured, unmuzzled, unoccupied, unpeopled, unpopulated, unprincipled, unreasonable, unregarded, unreined, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unruly, unsolicited, unstaffed, unsubdued, unsuppressed, untaken, untenanted, untended, unwatched, vacant, vehement, vice-corrupted, violent, vitiated, waived, wanton, warm, warped, white-hot, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, worn-out, yielded, zealous

ANT: Virtuous, conscientious, correct, upright, worthy, righteous, self-controlled, high-principled, steady, good

ABASE | t

SYN: abash, bring down, bring low, bump, bust, cast down, cower, cringe, crush, debase, degrade, demean, demote, deplume, diminish, disgrade, displume, downgrade, dump, dump on, fawn, grovel, humble, humiliate, lower, put down, reduce, set down, sink, strip of rank, take down, toady, trip up, truckle

ANT: Promote, exalt, honor, raise, elevate, dignify, aggrandize

ABASEMENT

SYN: bump, bust, casting down, comedown, debasement, deflation, degradation, degrading, demotion, depluming, descent, disgrace, disgrading, displuming, downgrading, dump, embarrassment, hangdog look, humbled pride, humbling, humiliation, letdown, mortification, put-down, reduction, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-diminishment, setdown, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, stripping of rank

ANT: Promotion, elevation, honor, exaltation, dignity, aggrandizement

ABASH | t

SYN: abase, appall, astound, bewilder, bother, bring down, bring low, cast down, chagrin, confound, confuse, crush, debase, degrade, demean, diminish, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dismay, disturb, dump, dump on, embarrass, faze, flummox, humble, humiliate, lower, moider, mortify, perturb, pother, put down, put out, rattle, reduce, set down, take aback, take down, throw into confusion, trip up, upset

ANT: Countenance, cheer, uphold, encourage, rally, inspirit, animate, incite, embolden, abet, buoy

ABASHED

SYN: abroad, adrift, afflicted, agitated, ashamed, astray, at sea, beset, bewildered, blushing, bothered, cast down, chagrined, chapfallen, clueless, confused, crestfallen, crushed, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, dismayed, disoriented, disquieted, distracted, distraught, distressed, disturbed, embarrassed, guessing, hangdog, humbled, humiliated, hung up, ill at ease, in a fix, in a maze, in a pickle, in a scrape, in a stew, lost, mazed, mortified, off the track, out of countenance, perturbed, put-out, put-upon, red-faced, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, troubled, turned around, uncomfortable, uneasy, upset, without a clue

ABATE | N V t i v I

SYN: ablate, abolish, abrade, abrogate, abstract, adjust to, allay, alleviate, allow, alter, anesthetize, annihilate, annul, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, bank the fire, bate, be eaten away, benumb, blot out, blunt, box in, charge off, chasten, circumscribe, close, condition, constrain, consume, consume away, control, corrode, cramp, cripple, crumble, curtail, cushion, cut, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deaden the pain, debilitate, decline, decrease, deduct, deliquesce, depreciate, derogate, detract, devitalize, die away, die down, dilute, diminish, discount, disparage, dive, downplay, drain, drop, drop off, dull, dwindle, ease, ease matters, ease off, ease up, eat away, ebb, enervate, enfeeble, eradicate, erode, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, extract, fall, fall away, fall off, file away, foment, give relief, gruel, hedge, hedge about, impair, invalidate, keep within bounds, kick back, languish, lay, lay low, leach, leaven, lenify, lessen, let down, let up, lighten, limit, loose, loosen, lull, make allowance, melt away, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, mollify, narrow, negate, nullify, numb, obtund, pad, palliate, play down, plummet, plunge, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, purify, qualify, quash, rattle, rebate, recede, reduce, reduce the temperature, refine, refund, regulate by, relax, relent, relieve, remit, remove, restrain, restrict, retrench, root out, rub away, run its course, run low, sag, salve, sap, season, set conditions, set limits, shake, shake up, shorten, shrink, sink, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, slake, slow down, smother, sober, sober down, soften, soften up, soothe, stifle, stupe, subduct, subdue, subside, subtract, suppress, tail off, take a premium, take away, take from, take off, tame, taper, taper off, temper, thin, thin out, tone down, tune down, unbend, unbrace, undermine, underplay, undo, unman, unnerve, unstrain, unstrengthen, unstring, vitiate, wane, waste, waste away, water down, weaken, wear, wear away, weed, wipe out, withdraw, write off

ANT: Prolong, continue, revive, develop, increase, aggravate, magnify, brew, ferment, rage, extend, enlarge, amplify, raise, enhance

ABATEMENT | N

SYN: abridgment, agio, allayment, alleviation, allowance, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, appeasement, assuagement, attenuation, attrition, bank discount, blunting, breakage, calming, cash discount, chain discount, charge-off, concession, contraction, cut, dampening, damping, deadening, debilitation, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, demulsion, depreciation, depression, devitalization, dilution, diminishment, diminution, discount, drawback, dulcification, dulling, dying, dying off, ease, easement, easing, effemination, enervation, enfeeblement, evisceration, exhaustion, extenuation, fade-out, falling-off, fatigue, hushing, inanition, kickback, languishment, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lowering, lulling, miniaturization, mitigation, modulation, mollification, numbing, pacification, palliation, penalty, penalty clause, percentage, premium, price reduction, price-cut, quietening, quieting, rebate, rebatement, reduction, refund, relaxation, relief, remedy, remission, rollback, sagging, salvage, salving, scaling down, setoff, simplicity, slackening, softening, soothing, subduement, subtraction, tare, tempering, thinning, time discount, trade discount, tranquilization, tret, underselling, weakening, write-off

ABATIS | N

SYN: advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, breastwork, bulwark, casemate, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain, demibastion, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, glacis, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, sally port, scarp, sconce, stockade, tenaille, vallation, vallum, work

ABBE | N

SYN: DD, Doctor of Divinity, Holy Joe, chaplain, churchman, clergyman, cleric, clerical, clerk, curate, cure, divine, ecclesiastic, man of God, military chaplain, minister, padre, parson, pastor, rector, reverend, servant of God, shepherd, sky pilot, supply clergy, supply minister, the Reverend, the very Reverend, tonsured cleric

ABBESS | N

SYN: canoness, chatelaine, clergywoman, conventual, dame, dowager, first lady, goodwife, governess, great lady, homemaker, housewife, lady superior, madam, matriarch, matron, mistress, mother superior, novice, nun, postulant, prioress, religieuse, secular canoness, sister, superioress, the reverend mother

ABBOT | N

SYN: abbacomes, ascetic, beadsman, brother, caloyer, celibate, cenobite, conventual, conventual prior, friar, grand prior, hermit, hieromonach, lay abbot, lay brother, mendicant, monastic, monk, palmer, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, prior, religieux, religious, stylite

ABBREVIATE | t

SYN: abridge, abstract, attenuate, be telegraphic, blot out, blue-pencil, bob, boil down, bowdlerize, cancel, capsulize, censor, circumscribe, clip, coarct, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, consolidate, constrict, constringe, contract, cramp, crop, cross out, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, decrease, delete, dock, draw, draw in, draw together, edit, edit out, elide, epitomize, erase, expunge, expurgate, extenuate, foreshorten, kill, knit, mow, narrow, nip, omit, poll, pollard, prune, pucker, pucker up, purse, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, rescind, retrench, rub out, shave, shear, shorten, slash, snub, solidify, strangle, strangulate, strike, strike off, strike out, stunt, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take in, telescope, trim, truncate, void, waste no words, wrinkle

ANT: Lengthen, prolong, extend, enlarge, produce, elongate, amplify, expand, dilate

ABBREVIATED | t

SYN: Spartan, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, clipped, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated

ABBREVIATION | N

SYN: abbreviature, abrege, abridgment, abstract, apocope, aposiopesis, astriction, astringency, blue-penciling, bottleneck, bowdlerization, brief, cancellation, capsule, censoring, censorship, cervix, circumscription, clipping, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compend, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, condensed version, consolidation, conspectus, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, crasis, curtailment, cutting, decrease, deletion, digest, diminuendo, draft, editing, elision, ellipsis, epitome, erasure, expurgation, foreshortening, head, hourglass, hourglass figure, isthmus, knitting, narrow place, narrowing, neck, omission, outline, overview, pandect, precis, pruning, puckering, pursing, recap, recapitulation, reduction, retrenchment, review, rubric, shortened version, shortening, skeleton, sketch, solidification, stranglement, strangulation, striction, stricture, striking, summary, summation, survey, syllabus, syncope, syneresis, synopsis, systole, telescoping, thumbnail sketch, topical outline, truncation, wasp waist, wrinkling

ANT: Elongation, prolongation, extension, production, amplification, enlargement, expansion, dilation, expatiation, explication, dilution

ABDERITE

SYN: Cynic, sardonic, derisive, sarcastic, jocular, flippant, nonchalant, sportive, sprightful, buoyant

ANT: Lachrymose, plaintive, maundering, querimonious, plaintive, dolesome, lackadaisical, grumbling, croaking, lugubrious

ABDICATE | V v

SYN: abandon, abjure, acknowledge defeat, be pensioned, be superannuated, cashier, cast, cease, cede, cry quits, demit, desist from, drop, forgo, forswear, give over, give up, hand over, have done with, jettison, lay down, leave, leave off, pension off, quit, reject, relinquish, renounce, renounce the throne, resign, retire, retire from office, scrap, shed, slough, stand aside, stand down, step aside, superannuate, surrender, throw away, throw out, throw up, vacate, waive, withdraw from, wrest, yield

ANT: Retain, maintain, claim, occupy, assert, grasp, seize, usurp

ABDICATION | N

SYN: abjuration, abjurement, cession, demission, deposal, dropping out, emeritus status, forced resignation, forswearing, handing over, relinquishment, renouncement, renunciation, resignation, retiral, retirement, superannuation, surrender, voluntary resignation, waiver, withdrawal, withdrawing, yielding

ABDOMEN | N

SYN: abomasum, anus, appendix, bay window, beerbelly, belly, blind gut, bowels, brain, breadbasket, cecum, colon, corporation, craw, crop, diaphragm, duodenum, embonpoint, endocardium, entrails, first stomach, foregut, giblets, gizzard, gullet, gut, guts, heart, hindgut, honeycomb stomach, innards, inner mechanism, insides, internals, intestine, inwards, jejunum, kidney, kishkes, large intestine, liver, liver and lights, lung, manyplies, maw, middle, midgut, midriff, midsection, omasum, paunch, perineum, pod, pot, potbelly, potgut, psalterium, pump, pusgut, pylorus, rectum, rennet bag, reticulum, rumen, second stomach, small intestine, spare tire, spleen, stomach, swagbelly, third stomach, ticker, tripes, tum-tum, tummy, underbelly, venter, ventripotence, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, works

ABDOMINAL | A

SYN: anal, appendical, big-bellied, cardiac, cecal, celiac, colic, colonic, coronary, duodenal, enteric, gastric, ileac, intestinal, jejunal, mesogastric, pyloric, rectal, splanchnic, stomachal, stomachic, ventral, ventricular, visceral

ABDUCTION | N

SYN: apprehension, arrest, arrestation, capture, catch, catching, collaring, coup, crimping, dragnet, forcible seizure, grab, grabbing, hold, impressment, kidnapping, nabbing, picking up, power grab, prehension, running in, seizure, seizure of power, shanghaiing, snatch, snatching, taking in, taking into custody

ANT: Addition, adduction, replacement, restitution, restoration, surrender, reinstatement

ABECEDARIAN | N A

SYN: aboriginal, allographic, alphabetarian, alphabetic, antenatal, apprentice, articled clerk, autochthonous, beginner, beginning, boot, budding, capital, catechumen, certified teacher, creative, dabbler, debutant, dilettante, docent, doctor, dominie, don, educationist, educator, elemental, elementary, embryonic, entrant, fellow, fetal, fledgling, formative, foundational, freshman, fundamental, gestatory, graphemic, greenhorn, guide, guru, ideographic, ignoramus, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, inductee, infant, infantile, initial, initiate, initiative, initiatory, instructor, introductory, inventive, lettered, lexigraphic, literal, logogrammatic, logographic, lower-case, maestro, majuscule, master, melamed, mentor, minuscular, minuscule, mullah, nascent, natal, neophyte, new boy, newcomer, nonprofessional, novice, novitiate, original, pandit, parturient, pedagogist, pedagogue, pictographic, postnatal, postulant, preceptor, pregnant, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, probationer, probationist, procreative, professor, pundit, rabbi, raw recruit, recruit, rookie, rudimental, rudimentary, schoolkeeper, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, smatterer, starets, teacher, tenderfoot, transliterated, tyro, uncial, upper-case, ur

ABECEDARY | N A

SYN: abecedarium, alphabet book, and arithmetic, battledore, casebook, elementary education, elements, exercise book, first steps, gradus, grammar, hornbook, initiation, introduction, manual, manual of instruction, primer, propaedeutic, reader, reading, rudiments, schoolbook, speller, spelling book, t, text, workbook, writing

ABERRANT | A

SYN: aberrative, abnormal, abominable, abroad, adrift, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous, askew, astray, at fault, atrocious, atypical, awry, beside the mark, circuitous, corrupt, criminal, deceptive, defective, delinquent, delusive, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviational, deviative, deviatory, devious, different, digressive, discursive, disgraceful, disparate, distorted, divergent, eccentric, errant, erratic, erring, erroneous, evil, exceptional, excursive, fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, flawed, formless, hardly the thing, heretical, heteroclite, heterodox, heteromorphic, ignominious, illegal, illogical, illusory, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, indirect, infamous, irregular, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, not done, not right, not the thing, not true, odd, off, off the track, off-base, off-color, out, out-of-line, out-of-the-way, peccant, peculiar, perverse, perverted, planetary, preternatural, rambling, roving, sacrilegious, scandalous, self-contradictory, serpentine, shameful, shameless, shapeless, shifting, sinful, snaky, strange, stray, straying, subnormal, swerving, terrible, turning, twisting, undirected, undue, unfactual, unfit, unfitting, unlawful, unnatural, unorthodox, unproved, unrepresentative, unrighteous, unseemly, unsuitable, untrue, untypical, unusual, vagrant, veering, wandering, wicked, wide, winding, wrong, wrongful, zigzag

ANT: Continuous, rectilineal, true, consistent, uniform, consecutive, normal, natural, faithful, regular

ABERRATION | N

SYN: aberrance, aberrancy, abet, abnormality, abnormity, alienation, amorphism, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, bend, bias, brain damage, brainsickness, branching off, centrifugence, circuitousness, clouded mind, conceit, corner, crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, craziness, crook, crosswiseness, crotchet, crotchetiness, curiosity, curve, daftness, decentralization, declination, defectiveness, deflection, deflexure, delusion, dementedness, dementia, departure, deployment, derangement, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, difference, differentness, digression, discursion, disorientation, distortion, distraction, divagation, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversion, division, dogleg, dottiness, double, drift, drifting, eccentricity, errancy, errantry, erraticism, erraticness, erroneousness, error, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, fanning, fanning out, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, folie, foment, freakiness, freakishness, furor, hairpin, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, heteromorphism, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, illusion, indirection, indirectness, inferiority, insaneness, insanity, instigate, irrationality, irregularity, kink, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, maggot, mania, mannerism, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, misapplication, misconstruction, misdoing, misfeasance, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mistake, monstrosity, nonconformity, obliqueness, obliquity, oddity, oddness, peccancy, peculiarity, pererration, perversion, pixilation, possession, prodigy, provoke, psychopathy, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, rabidness, raise, rambling, rarity, reasonlessness, self-contradiction, senselessness, separation, set, set on, shattered mind, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, sick mind, sickness, sin, sinfulness, singularity, skew, skewness, slant, slip, splaying, spread, spreading, spreading out, squint, stir up, strangeness, straying, subnormality, superiority, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, teratism, transverseness, trick, turn, turning, twist, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unconventionality, unnaturalism, unnaturalness, unorthodoxy, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, vagary, variation, veer, wandering, warp, whim, whimsicality, whimsy, witlessness, wrong, wrongness, yaw, zigzag

ANT: Uniformity, consecutiveness, continuity, connectedness, principle, law, order, type, norm, project, line, tenor, progression, rectilinearity, regularity

ABET | V v

SYN: advance, advocate, aid, aid and abet, approve of, ask for, assist, avail, bail out, bear a hand, befriend, benefit, comfort, condone, countenance, do for, do good, doctor, ease, egg, egg on, embolden, encourage, endorse, exhort, favor, feed, foment, foster, further, give a boost, give a hand, give a lift, give encouragement, give help, go for, goad, hearten, help, help out, incite, instigate, invite, keep in countenance, lend a hand, lend one aid, nourish, nurture, prod, proffer aid, promote, protect, provoke, raise, rally, reclaim, redeem, relieve, remedy, render assistance, rescue, restore, resuscitate, revive, sanction, save, second, set, set on, set up, shine upon, smile upon, spur, stead, stir up, subscribe, succor, support, take in tow, uphold, urge, whip up

ANT: Thwart, contradict, obstruct, oppose, baffle, confound, discourage, disapprove, disconcert, counteract, deter, dissuade, frustrate, impede, denounce, expose

ABETTOR | N

SYN: Maecenas, accessory, accomplice, accomplice in crime, actuator, admirer, advocate, aficionado, angel, animator, apologist, backer, buff, cajoler, champion, coax, coaxer, coconspirator, cohort, confederate, conspirator, defender, dependence, encourager, endorser, energizer, exponent, fan, favorer, fellow conspirator, firer, friend at court, gadfly, galvanizer, impeller, inducer, inspirer, lover, mainstay, maintainer, mover, moving spirit, paranymph, partisan, patron, persuader, pleader, prime mover, promoter, prompter, protagonist, reliance, second, seconder, sectary, sider, socius criminis, spark, spark plug, sparker, sponsor, stalwart, standby, stimulator, support, supporter, sustainer, sympathizer, tempter, upholder, votary, well-wisher, wheedler

ANT: Opponent, counteracter, foe, adversary, detector, baffler, antagonist, disconcerter, dissuader, rival

ABEYANCE | N

SYN: abandonment, abjuration, abjurement, apathy, break, caesura, catalepsy, catatonia, cease-fire, cessation, cold storage, day off, deadliness, deathliness, desistance, discontinuance, doldrums, dormancy, drop, entropy, forbearance, hesitation, holiday, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interruption, interval, languor, lapse, latency, layoff, letup, lotus-eating, lull, nonexercise, passiveness, passivity, pause, quiescence, quiescency, recess, relinquishment, remission, renouncement, renunciation, resignation, respite, rest, stagnancy, stagnation, stand-down, stasis, stay, suspense, suspension, torpor, truce, vacation, vegetation, vis inertiae, waiver

ANT: Revival, renewal, operation, resuscitation, action, enjoyment, possession, exercise, force

ABHOR | V v

SYN: abominate, be hostile to, contemn, detest, disapprove of, disdain, disfavor, dislike, disrelish, execrate, hate, hold in abomination, loathe, mislike, not care for, scorn, scout, shudder at, utterly detest

ANT: Love, admire, enjoy, approve, affect, covet, relish, crave, desire

ABHORRENT | A

SYN: abominable, antipathetic, averse to, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, contemptible, crude, despicable, detestable, disgusted, disgusting, dislikable, displeasing, distasteful, execrable, fetid, forbidding, foul, fulsome, gross, hateful, hating, heinous, horrid, ignoble, intolerable, invidious, loathing, loathsome, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mislikable, nasty, nauseating, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, rebarbative, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, revulsive, sickening, stinking, uncongenial, uninviting, unlikable, unlovable, unpleasant, unsympathetic, vile

ABIDE | V t i v I

SYN: abide in, abide with, accede, accept, adhere, await, be big, be coextensive with, be comprised in, be constituted by, be contained in, be content with, be easy with, be present in, be still, bear, bear with, berth, bide, bide the issue, blink at, brave, brook, bunk, carry on, carry through, cease not, cleave, cling, coast, cohabit, condone, consent, consist in, continue, continue to be, dally, dawdle, defeat time, defy time, delay, dig, dillydally, disregard, domicile, domiciliate, doss down, drag on, dwell, dwell in, endure, exist, exist in, extend, freeze, go, go along, go on, hang about, hang around, hang in, hang in there, hang out, hang tough, hold, hold everything, hold on, hold out, hold steady, hold your horses, ignore, inhabit, inhere in, jog on, judge not, keep, keep going, keep on, keep quiet, last, last long, last out, lean over backwards, lie in, lie still, linger, listen to reason, live, live on, live through, live with, lodge, loiter, lump, lump it, maintain, mark time, nest, never cease, not breathe, not stir, not write off, occupy, overlook, perch, perdure, perennate, persevere, persist, prevail, put up with, receive, remain, remain motionless, repose, repose in, reside, reside in, rest, rest in, room, roost, run, run on, see both sides, sit tight, sit up, sit up for, slog on, squat, stagger on, stand, stand fast, stand firm, stand for, stand still, stay, stay on, stay put, stay up, stay up for, stick, stick around, stick fast, stomach, subsist, subsist in, suffer, support, survive, suspend judgment, sustain, swallow, sweat, sweat it out, sweat out, take, take time, take up with, tarry, tenant, tide over, tolerate, tread water, view with indulgence, wait, wait a minute, wait and see, wait for, wait on, wait up for, watch, watch and wait, wear, wear well, wink at

ANT: Deport, migrate, move, journey, proceed, resist, mislike, forefend, avoid, shun, reject, abandon, forfeit

ABIDE BY

SYN: accede, accept, acclaim, acquiesce, acquiesce in, act up to, adhere to, agree, agree to, agree with, applaud, assent, attend to, be faithful to, buy, cheer, comply, comply with, conform to, consent, do justice to, fill, follow, fulfill, give the nod, hail, heed, hold by, hold with, in toto, keep, keep faith with, live up to, make good, meet, nod, nod assent, observe, receive, regard, respect, satisfy, subscribe to, take kindly to, vote for, welcome, yes, yield assent

ABIDING | A

SYN: age-long, aged, ancient, antique, changeless, chronic, commorant, constant, continuing, continuous, diuturnal, durable, dwelling, enduring, evergreen, firm, fixed, frozen, hardy, immobile, immutable, in residence, indefatigable, intact, intransient, inveterate, inviolate, lasting, living, living in, lodging, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, macrobiotic, never-failing, of long duration, of long standing, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, quiescent, remaining, resident, residentiary, residing, rigid, sempervirent, solid, stable, static, stationary, staying, steadfast, steady, sticking, sustained, torpid, tough, unaltered, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, undestroyed, undying, unfading, unfailing, unfaltering, unqualified, unquestioning, unremitting, unshifting, unvaried, unvarying, vital, wholehearted

ABILITY | N

SYN: ableness, address, adeptness, adequacy, adroitness, airmanship, aptitude, aptness, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, bravura, brilliance, bump, caliber, capability, capableness, capacity, capital, cleverness, command, competence, competency, condition, control, coordination, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, deftness, devices, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, disposable resources, dower, dowry, efficacy, efficiency, endowment, equipment, expertise, expertism, expertness, facility, faculty, finesse, fitness, fittedness, flair, forte, funds, genius, gift, grace, grip, handiness, horsemanship, ingeniousness, ingenuity, instinct, knack, know-how, long suit, makings, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, maturity, means, method, metier, might, natural endowment, natural gift, parts, potential, power, powers, practical ability, preparedness, proficiency, prowess, qualification, quickness, readiness, recourses, resorts, resource, resourcefulness, resources, ripeness, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, seasoning, skill, skillfulness, speciality, stock, strong flair, strong point, style, sufficiency, suitability, suitableness, suitedness, supply, susceptibility, tact, tactfulness, talent, talents, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, tempering, the goods, the stuff, timing, trim, virtuosity, ways, ways and means, what it takes, wherewith, wherewithal, wit, wizardry, workmanship

ANT: Weakness, incapacity, imbecility, inability, unreadiness, maladroitness

ABJECT | A

SYN: abominable, accepting, acquiescent, agreeable, apologetic, arrant, assenting, atrocious, backscratching, base, beggarly, bootlicking, cheesy, complaisant, compliable, compliant, complying, consenting, contemptible, contrite, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dirty, disgusting, execrable, fawning, flagrant, flattering, footlicking, foul, fulsome, grave, gross, groveling, hangdog, heinous, humble, humble-minded, humble-spirited, humbled, humblehearted, ingratiating, little, low, low-down, lumpen, mangy, mealymouthed, mean, measly, meek, meek-minded, meek-spirited, meekhearted, melted, miserable, monstrous, nefarious, nondissenting, nonresistant, nonresisting, nonresistive, obedient, obeisant, obnoxious, obsequious, odious, on bended knee, paltry, parasitic, passive, penitent, penitential, penitentiary, petty, poky, poor, poor in spirit, prostrate, rank, repentant, reptilian, resigned, scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, sheepish, shoddy, small, sniveling, softened, sponging, squalid, submissive, subservient, supine, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, touched, truckling, unassertive, uncomplaining, underfoot, unmentionable, unresistant, unresisting, vile, wretched

ANT: Honorable, dignified, eminent, exalted, esteemed, worthy, venerable, noble, princely, illustrious, independent, self, -assertive, self-reliant, vain, arrogant, insolent, haughty

ABJECTION | N

SYN: abandon, abandonment, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, debasement, decadence, decadency, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demoralization, depravation, depravedness, depravity, dissoluteness, moral pollution, moral turpitude, profligacy, reprobacy, rottenness, turpitude

ABJURATION | N

SYN: abandonment, abdication, abeyance, abjurement, abrogation, absolute contradiction, annulment, cessation, cession, chucking, chucking out, cold storage, contempt, contradiction, contrary assertion, contravention, controversion, countering, crossing, declination, declining, denial, desistance, despisal, despising, disaffirmation, disallowance, disapproval, disavowal, discard, disclaimer, disclamation, discontinuance, discounting, dismissal, disowning, disownment, dispensation, disposal, disposition, disproof, disregard, dropping out, dumping, exception, exclusion, expatriation, forbearance, forgoing, forswearing, gainsaying, getting rid of, giving up, handing over, ignoring, impugnment, letting go, nonacceptance, nonapproval, nonconsideration, nonexercise, nullification, palinode, palinody, passing by, putting away, putting out, rebuff, recantation, refusal, refutation, rejection, release, relinquishment, reneging, renouncement, renunciation, repudiation, repulse, resignation, retractation, retraction, revocation, revokement, riddance, sacrifice, scouting, spurning, surrender, suspension, swearing off, throwing out, turning out, unsaying, waiver, withdrawal, withdrawing, yielding

ABJURE | t

SYN: abandon, abdicate, acknowledge defeat, assert the contrary, back down, back out, backwater, belie, brush aside, cease, cede, chuck, chuck out, climb down, come off, contemn, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, crawfish out, cross, cry quits, cut out, decline, deny, desert, desist, desist from, despise, disaffirm, disallow, disapprove, disavow, discard, disclaim, discontinue, discount, disdain, disgorge, dismiss, disown, dispense with, dispose of, disprove, dispute, disregard, disuse, do without, drop, dump, eat crow, eat humble pie, except, exclude, forgo, forsake, forswear, gainsay, get along without, get rid of, give away, give over, give up, hand over, have done with, ignore, impugn, join issue upon, kiss good-bye, lay down, leave off, let go, make a sacrifice, nol-pros, not accept, not admit, not pursue with, nullify, oppose, palinode, part with, pass by, pass up, push aside, put behind one, quit, quitclaim, rebuff, recall, recant, refuse, refuse to admit, refuse to consider, refute, reject, relinquish, render up, renege, renounce, repel, repudiate, repulse, resign, retract, revoke, sacrifice, scout, shove away, spare, spurn, stop, surrender, swallow, swear off, take back, take issue with, throw away, throw out, throw up, turn away, turn out, unsay, vacate, waive, withdraw, yield

ANT: Profess, assert, demand, vindicate, claim, cherish, advocate, retain, acknowledge, appropriate, hug

ABLATE | t

SYN: abate, abrade, abrase, absorb, assimilate, atomize, bark, bate, be eaten away, bleed white, break up, burn up, chafe, come apart, consume, consume away, corrode, crack up, crumble, crumble into dust, decay, decline, decompose, decrease, deliquesce, deplete, depreciate, die away, digest, diminish, disintegrate, disjoin, disorganize, dissipate, dissolve, dive, drain, drain of resources, dribble away, drop, drop off, dwindle, eat, eat up, ebb, erase, erode, exhaust, expend, fall, fall away, fall off, fall to pieces, file, finish, finish off, fission, fray, frazzle, fret, gall, gnaw, gnaw away, gobble, gobble up, grate, graze, grind, impoverish, ingest, languish, lessen, let up, melt away, molder, plummet, plunge, rasp, raze, rub away, rub off, rub out, run low, sag, scour, scrape, scrub, scuff, shrink, sink, skin, spend, split, squander, subside, suck dry, swallow, swallow up, tail off, tatter, use up, wane, waste, waste away, wear, wear away, wear down, wear off, wear out, wear ragged, weather

ABLATION | N

SYN: abrasion, abrasive, absorption, abstraction, assimilation, atomization, attrition, breakup, buffing, burning up, burnishing, chafe, chafing, consumption, corrosion, crumbling, decay, decomposition, decrease, decrement, deduction, degradation, deliquescence, depletion, depreciation, detrition, digestion, dilapidation, disintegration, disjunction, disorganization, dissipation, dissolution, drain, dressing, eating up, erasure, erosion, evaporation, exhaustion, expending, expenditure, filing, finishing, fretting, galling, grazing, grinding, impoverishment, incoherence, ingestion, leakage, limation, loss, polishing, purification, rasping, ravages of time, refinement, removal, resolution, rubbing away, sandblasting, sanding, scouring, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, scrub, scrubbing, scuff, shining, shrinkage, smoothing, spending, squandering, subduction, sublation, subtraction, taking away, use, using, using up, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting away, wear, wear and tear, wearing, wearing away, wearing down, weathering

ABLAZE | V v

SYN: afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, bathed with light, bespangled, blazing, boiling over, breathless, brightened, burning, candent, candescent, candlelit, comburent, conflagrant, cordial, delirious, drunk, enlightened, enthusiastic, excited, exuberant, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, firelit, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flashing, flashy, flickering, flushed, fulgurant, fulgurating, fuming, gaslit, glowing, guttering, hearty, heated, hot, ignescent, ignited, illuminated, impassioned, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, intense, intoxicated, irradiate, irradiated, keen, kindled, lamplit, lanternlit, lighted, lightened, lit, lit up, live, lively, living, luminous, meteoric, moonlit, on fire, passionate, red-hot, reeking, scintillant, scintillating, smoking, smoldering, spangled, sparking, star-spangled, star-studded, starlit, steaming, steamy, studded, sunlit, tinseled, unextinguished, unquenched, unrestrained, vigorous, warm, zealous

ABLE | N A

SYN: adapted, adequate, adjusted, alert, au fait, brainy, brilliant, capable, checked out, clever, competent, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, enigmatic, enterprising, equal to, expert, fit, fitted, fitted for, go-ahead, good, incalculable, incognizable, intelligent, journeyman, keen, mysterious, productive, proficient, proper, puzzling, qualified, sealed, sharp, skilled, skillful, smart, strange, suited, unapparent, unapprehended, unascertained, unbeknown, uncharted, unclassified, undisclosed, undiscoverable, undiscovered, undivulged, unexplained, unexplored, unexposed, unfamiliar, unfathomed, unheard, unheard-of, unidentified, uninvestigated, unknowable, unknown, unperceived, unplumbed, unrevealed, unsuspected, untouched, up to, up to snuff, up-and-coming, virgin, well-fitted, well-qualified, well-suited, wicked, worthy

ANT: Weak, inefficient, unskillful, silly, stupid, incapable, ineffective, unqualified

ABLUTION | N

SYN: cleaning out, douche, douching, elution, elutriation, enema, flush, flushing, flushing out, irrigation, lathering, lavabo, lavage, lavation, laving, mopping, mopping up, rinse, rinsing, scouring, scrub, scrubbing, scrubbing up, shampoo, soaping, sponge, sponging, swabbing, wash, washing, washing up, washout, washup, wiping up

ANT: Pollution, soilure, defilement, dirt, contamination, taint, stain

ABLY | V v

SYN: adeptly, adequately, adroitly, agilely, aptly, artfully, artistically, brilliantly, capably, cleverly, competently, cunningly, deftly, dexterously, dextrously, effectively, effectually, efficiently, excellently, expertly, featly, handily, ingeniously, masterfully, neatly, nimbly, proficiently, resourcefully, skillfully, spryly, superbly, well, with consummate skill, with finesse, with genius, with skill

ABNEGATION | N

SYN: abstinence, calm, calmness, conservatism, constraint, continence, contradiction, control, cool, declension, declination, declinature, declining, denial, deprivation, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, disobedience, dispassion, dissent, evenness, forbearance, frugality, gentleness, golden mean, happy medium, holding back, impartiality, judiciousness, juste-milieu, lenity, meden agan, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, nay, naysaying, negation, negative, negative answer, negative attitude, negativeness, negativism, negativity, neutrality, nix, no, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonobservance, nonviolence, nothing in excess, pacifism, prudence, recantation, refusal, rejection, renouncement, renunciation, repose, repudiation, restraint, retention, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-mastery, self-restraint, serenity, soberness, sobriety, sophrosyne, stability, steadiness, temperance, temperateness, thumbs-down, tranquillity, turndown, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, unwillingness, via media, withholding

ANT: Assertion, vindication, claim, indulgence, concession, license

ABNORMAL | A

SYN: aberrant, abominable, absurd, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous, atrocious, atypical, bereft of reason, brainsick, crackbrained, cracked, crank, crankish, cranky, crazed, crazy, criminal, crotchety, daft, delinquent, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, deviant, deviative, different, disgraceful, disoriented, disproportionate, distraught, divergent, dotty, eccentric, erratic, evil, exceptional, fey, flaky, flighty, formless, freakish, funny, hallucinated, hardly the thing, heteroclite, heteromorphic, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, ignominious, illegal, improper, inappropriate, incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate, incompatible, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsistent, inconsonant, incorrect, indecorous, infamous, insane, irrational, irreconcilable, irregular, kinky, kooky, loco, lunatic, mad, maddened, maggoty, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, moon-struck, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not done, not right, not the thing, nutty, odd, oddball, of unsound mind, off, off-base, off-color, off-key, out of proportion, out-of-line, oxymoronic, paradoxical, peculiar, preternatural, psycho, queer, quirky, reasonless, sacrilegious, scandalous, screwball, screwy, self-contradictory, senseless, shameful, shameless, shapeless, sick, sinful, singular, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, stray, straying, subnormal, terrible, tetched, touched, twisted, unbalanced, unconventional, uncustomary, undue, unfit, unfitting, unhinged, unlawful, unnatural, unregular, unrepresentative, unrighteous, unsane, unseemly, unsettled, unsound, unsuitable, untypical, unusual, unwonted, wacky, wandering, whimsical, wicked, witless, wrong, wrongful

ANT: Typical, normal, regular, ordinary, usual, natural, customary, illustrative

ABNORMALITY | N

SYN: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, alienation, allergic disease, allergy, anomaly, atrophy, bacterial disease, birth defect, blight, brain damage, brainsickness, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, circulatory disease, clouded mind, complaint, complication, conceit, condition, congenital defect, conversation piece, crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, craziness, criminality, crotchet, crotchetiness, curio, curiosity, daftness, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, delinquency, dementedness, dementia, derangement, deviance, deviancy, deviation, differentness, disability, disease, disorder, disorientation, distemper, distortion, distraction, divergence, dottiness, eccentricity, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, epidemic disease, erraticism, erraticness, exception, folie, freakiness, freakishness, functional disease, fungus disease, furor, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, handicap, hereditary disease, iatrogenic disease, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, illegality, illness, improbability, improperness, impropriety, inadmissibility, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, incorrectness, indecorousness, indecorum, indisposition, infectious disease, infelicity, infirmity, infraction, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, irregularity, irrelevance, irrelevancy, kink, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, maggot, maladjustment, malady, malaise, malformation, mania, mannerism, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mesalliance, mind overthrown, mindsickness, misalliance, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, morbidity, morbus, muscular disease, museum piece, neurological disease, nonconformity, nonesuch, nutritional disease, occupational disease, oddity, oddness, organic disease, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, peculiarity, pixilation, plant disease, possession, prodigiosity, prodigy, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, rabidness, rarity, reasonlessness, respiratory disease, rockiness, secondary disease, seediness, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickishness, sickness, signs, sinfulness, singularity, strange thing, strangeness, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, the pip, trick, twist, unbalance, unbalanced mind, uncommonness, unconformity, uncongeniality, unconventionality, unfitness, unfittingness, unlawfulness, unnaturalness, unrighteousness, unsaneness, unseemliness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, unsuitability, unusualness, urogenital disease, violation, virus disease, wasting disease, whim, whimsicality, whimsy, wickedness, witlessness, worm disease, wrong, wrongfulness, wrongness

ABOARD | p V v P

SYN: afloat, all aboard, aloft, among us, athwart the hawse, athwarthawse, aye, before the mast, here, hereabout, hereabouts, hereat, hereinto, hereto, hereunto, hither, hitherward, hitherwards, in sail, in this place, in this vicinity, just here, on board, on board ship, on deck, on shipboard, on the spot, somewhere about, to this place, topside, with us

ANT: Ashore

ABODE | N V v

SYN: abiding, accommodation, area, bearings, bench mark, billet, cohabitation, commorancy, diggings, digs, district, domicile, dwelling, emplacement, habitancy, habitation, hole, home, house, inhabitancy, inhabitation, inhabiting, latitude and longitude, lieu, living, locale, locality, location, locus, lodging, nesting, occupancy, occupation, pinpoint, place, placement, point, position, quarters, region, residence, residency, residing, site, situation, situs, sojourning, spot, squatting, staying, staying over, stead, stopping, tenancy, whereabout, whereabouts

ANT: Halt, perch, tent, bivouac, caravansary, withtheideaoftransience

ABOLISH | t

SYN: abate, abrogate, annihilate, annul, blot out, bring to naught, cancel, countermand, counterorder, delete, demolish, deracinate, destroy, disallow, disannul, do away with, eliminate, end, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, invalidate, liquidate, make void, negate, negative, nullify, obliterate, override, overrule, quash, recall, recant, renege, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, root out, set aside, stamp out, suspend, terminate, undo, uproot, vacate, vitiate, void, waive, wipe out, withdraw, write off

ANT: Support, sustain, cherish, promote, continue, confirm, restore, repair, revive, reinstate, enact, institute, re-enact

ABOLITION | N A

SYN: abolishment, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, cancel, canceling, cancellation, cassation, choking, choking off, countermand, counterorder, defeasance, deracination, destruction, elimination, end, eradication, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, invalidation, liquidation, negation, nullification, purge, recall, recantation, renege, repeal, repudiation, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, retraction, reversal, revocation, revoke, revokement, rooting out, setting aside, silencing, snuffing out, stifling, strangulation, suffocation, suppression, suspension, termination, uprooting, vacation, vacatur, voidance, voiding, waiver, waiving, withdrawal, write-off

ABOMINABLE | A

SYN: aberrant, abhorrent, abject, abnormal, accursed, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, black, blamable, blameworthy, brutal, cheesy, contemptible, criminal, crude, crummy, cursed, damnable, dark, debased, degraded, delinquent, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, deviant, dire, dirty, disagreeable, disgraceful, disgusting, distasteful, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, forbidding, foul, frightful, fulsome, grave, grievous, gross, hardly the thing, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, ignominious, illegal, improper, in bad taste, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, infamous, iniquitous, knavish, lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, malodorous, mangy, mean, measly, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous, nasty, naughty, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, noisome, not done, not the thing, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, off-base, off-color, offensive, out-of-line, outrageous, paltry, peccant, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sacrilegious, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shameless, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sinful, small, sordid, squalid, stinking, terrible, too bad, unclean, undue, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, unlawful, unmentionable, unpardonable, unpleasant, unrighteous, unseemly, unspeakable, unsuitable, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong, wrongful

ANT: Delectable, desirable, admirable, enjoyable, lovable, charming, delightful, grateful, pure

ABOMINATE

SYN: Abhor, loathe, detest, execrate, hate

ANT: Desire, like, long for, love

ABOMINATION | N

SYN: Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhorrence, allergy, anathema, annoyance, antagonism, anti-Semitism, antipathy, atrocity, aversion, bad, bane, befoulment, besmirchment, bete noire, bigotry, blight, bogey, bugaboo, bugbear, cold sweat, contamination, contempt, corruption, creeping flesh, crying evil, damage, defilement, desecration, despite, despitefulness, despoliation, destruction, detestation, detriment, dirtying, disdain, disfavor, disgrace, disgust, dislike, disrelish, distaste, enmity, error, evil, execration, grievance, harm, hate, hatred, havoc, horror, hostility, hurt, ignominy, ill, incubus, infamy, infection, iniquity, injury, knavery, loathing, malevolence, malice, malignity, misandry, misanthropy, mischief, misogyny, mortal horror, nausea, obliquity, odium, outrage, peccancy, peeve, pest, pet peeve, phobia, pity, plague, poison, pollution, profanation, race hatred, racism, reprobacy, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, ritual uncleanness, sacrilege, scandal, scorn, shame, shuddering, sin, soiling, spite, spitefulness, terrible thing, the worst, toxin, trial, venom, vexation, vials of hate, vials of wrath, villainy, violation, woe, wrong, xenophobia

ANT: Love, affection, desire, enjoyment, longing, acquisition, gratification, blessing, treat, delight, benefit

ABORIGINAL | N A

SYN: abecedarian, aborigine, ancestral, antenatal, antepatriarchal, atavistic, autochthon, autochthonous, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, basal, basic, beginning, budding, central, creative, crucial, elemental, elementary, embryonic, endemic, fetal, formative, foundational, fundamental, generative, genetic, germinal, gestatory, homebred, homegrown, humanoid, in embryo, in its infancy, in ovo, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, indigene, indigenous, infant, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, inventive, nascent, natal, native, native-born, original, parturient, patriarchal, postnatal, preadamite, preglacial, pregnant, prehistoric, prehuman, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, primoprimitive, primordial, pristine, procreative, protogenic, protohistoric, protohuman, radical, rudimental, rudimentary, savage, seminal, ur, vernacular

ANT: Subsequent, adventitious, imported, exotic, immigrant, recent, upstart, modern, late, novel, fresh

ABORIGINE | N

SYN: Bronze Age man, Hominidae, Iron Age man, Stone Age man, aboriginal, ancient, antediluvian, anthropoid, ape-man, autochthon, bushman, cave dweller, caveman, earliest inhabitant, first comer, fossil man, hominid, humanoid, indigene, local, local yokel, man of old, missing link, native, preadamite, prehistoric man, prehuman, primate, primitive, primitive settler, protohuman, troglodyte

ABORT | V t i v I

SYN: abandon, belay, cancel, cease, close, conclude, cut it out, desist, determine, discontinue, drop it, end, finish, finish up, give over, go amiss, go astray, go wrong, halt, have done with, hold, knock it off, lay off, leave off, miscarry, perorate, quit, refrain, relinquish, renounce, resolve, scrap, scratch, scrub, stay, stop, terminate, wind up

ABORTION

SYN: Failure, miscarriage, misadventure, downfall, mishap, misproduction, defect, frustration, blunder, mess

ANT: Success, consummation, completion, achievement, realization, perfection, exploit, feat, development

ABORTIVE | A

SYN: barren, bootless, failed, failing, fruitless, futile, gainless, immature, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, lame, manque, miscarried, miscarrying, nonremunerative, of no effect, otiose, profitless, rewardless, sterile, stickit, stillborn, successless, unavailable, unavailing, unformed, unfortunate, unmatured, unproductive, unprofitable, unremunerative, unrewarding, unripe, unsuccessful, useless, vain

ABOUND | i I

SYN: abound with, be alive with, bristle with, burst with, clutter, crawl, crawl with, creep with, crowd, crowded, exuberate, filled, flourish, flow, gush, jam, multiply, overflow, overflow with, pack, packed, pour, prevail, proliferate, pullulate, pullulate with, rain, run over, shower, stream, swarm, swarm with, teem, teem with, thrive, throng, throng with

ANT: Fall, waste, dry, lack, wane, evaporate, drain, die, decay, vanish, lessen, decrease

ABOUT | p V A v P

SYN: again, aimlessly, all but, all over, all round, almost, along toward, alongside, anent, any which way, anyhow, anywise, approximately, apropos, apropos of, around, as for, as regards, as respects, as to, at close quarters, at hand, at random, back, back and forth, backward, beside, carelessly, casually, circa, circuitously, close, close about, close at hand, close by, close to, close upon, concerning, encircling, everywhere, far and wide, fast by, haphazard, haphazardly, hard, hard by, helter-skelter, here and there, hereabout, hereabouts, in all directions, in connection with, in point of, in re, in reference to, in regard to, in relation to, in relation with, in respect to, in reverse, in spitting distance, in the air, in the neighborhood, in the vicinity, involving, just about, more or less, most, much, near, near at hand, near enough to, near upon, nearabout, nearabouts, nearby, nearly, nigh, nigh about, not far, not far from, of, on, on every side, only a step, pertaining to, pertinent to, plus ou moins, practically, prevalent, random, randomly, re, referring to, regarding, relating to, relative to, respecting, roughly, round, round about, some, somewhere about, speaking of, surrounding, thereabout, thereabouts, through, throughout, to and fro, touching, up and down, upon, upwards of, well-nigh, with, with regard to, with respect to, within call, within earshot, within hearing, within reach

ANT: Afar, awayorafarfrom, precisely, exactly

ABOUT FACE | h

SYN: about-turn, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, afterthoughts, alchemy, alteration, amelioration, apostasy, assimilation, assumption, back track, back trail, backing, backing off, backing out, backing up, backsliding, backup, becoming, better thoughts, betterment, break, change, change of heart, change of mind, change-over, changeableness, constructive change, continuity, conversion, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, deterioration, deviation, difference, discontinuity, disenchantment, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, do an about-face, face about, fitting, flip, flip-flop, gradual change, growth, improvement, lapse, mature judgment, melioration, mitigation, modification, modulation, naturalization, overthrow, passage, progress, qualification, radical change, re-creation, re-formation, realignment, recidivation, recidivism, reclamation, reconversion, redesign, reduction, reform, reformation, regress, regression, rehabilitation, reinstatement, relapse, remaking, renewal, reshaping, resolution, restitution, restoration, restructuring, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, retroversion, return, returning, reversal, reverse, reversing, reversion, reverting, revival, revivification, revolution, revulsion, right-about, right-about-face, second thoughts, shift, slipping back, sudden change, swingaround, switch, switch-over, tergiversating, tergiversation, total change, transformation, transit, transition, turn, turnabout, turnaround, turning into, upheaval, variation, variety, violent change, volte-face, worsening

ABOUT SHIP | h

SYN: back and fill, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, box off, break, bring about, bring round, cant, cant round, cast, cast about, change course, change the heading, come about, double a point, fetch about, go about, gybe, heave round, jibe, jibe all standing, miss stays, ply, put about, put back, round a point, sheer, shift, slew, swerve, swing round, swing the stern, tack, throw about, turn, turn back, veer, wear, wear ship, wind, yaw

ABOVE | N p V A v P

SYN: a cut above, above all, above and beyond, abovestairs, additionally, again, ahead, airward, all included, aloft, aloof, also, altogether, among other things, and all, and also, and so, ante, as well, ascendant, at bottom, atop, au reste, before, before everything, beside, besides, better, beyond, capping, chiefly, chosen, distinguished, eclipsing, else, eminent, en plus, essentially, exceeding, excellent, excelling, extra, farther, finer, first of all, for lagniappe, further, furthermore, greater, hereinabove, hereinbefore, high, high up, higher, highest, in addition, in ascendancy, in excess of, in the air, in the ascendant, in the clouds, inter alia, into the bargain, item, likewise, mainly, major, marked, more, moreover, of choice, on, on high, on stilts, on the peak, on the side, on tiptoe, on top of, one up on, outstanding, over, over and above, overhead, past, plus, primarily, rare, rivaling, similarly, skyward, straight up, super, superior, supra, surpassing, then, therewith, tiptoe, to boot, to the zenith, too, too deep for, topping, transcendent, transcendental, transcending, up, upmost, upon, upper, uppermost, upstairs, upward, upwards, yet

ANT: Below, within, beneath

ABOVE ALL

SYN: a fortiori, all the more, chiefly, dominantly, especially, even, ever so, first of all, in chief, in the main, indeed, mainly, more than ever, mostly, never so, no end, particularly, peculiarly, predominantly, primarily, principally, still more, yea

ABOVE WATER

SYN: all clear, all straight, at anchor, clear, free and clear, high and dry, in harbor, in safety, in the clear, on, out of danger, out of debt, past danger, solvent, terra firma, under cover, unindebted, unowing

ABOVE-BOARD

SYN: artless, candid, candidly, direct, forthright, frank, frankly, freely, genuine, guileless, honest, honorable, in the open, ingenuous, open, openly, plainly, publicly, straight, straightforward, straightforwardly, undeceitful, undeceiving, undeceptive

ABOVE-NAMED

SYN: Above-mentioned, above-described, above-cited, named above, aforesaid, mentioned above

ANT: Named below, described below

ABOVEBOARD | V A v

SYN: artless, authentic, before one, bona fide, face to face, fair and square, forthright, foursquare, genuine, good-faith, in broad daylight, in open court, in plain sight, in plain view, in public, in public view, in the marketplace, in the open, ingenuous, on the level, on the square, on the table, on the up-and-up, open, open and aboveboard, openly, overtly, plain dealing, publicly, scrupulous, single-hearted, square, square-dealing, square-shooting, straight, straight-shooting, unsophisticated, up-and-up, veritable

ABRADE | t

SYN: abate, ablate, abrase, abstract, atomize, bark, bate, beat, blemish, bloody, bother, bray, break, brecciate, bug, burn, chafe, check, chip, claw, comminute, confuse, contriturate, corrode, crack, craze, crumb, crumble, crush, curtail, cut, decrease, deduct, depreciate, derogate, detract, diminish, disintegrate, disorganize, disparage, distract, disturb, drain, eat away, erase, erode, excoriate, exercise, extract, file, file away, flour, fracture, fragment, fray, frazzle, fret, gall, gash, gnaw, gnaw away, grain, granulate, granulize, grate, graze, grind, grind to powder, hurt, impair, incise, injure, irk, lacerate, leach, lessen, levigate, maim, make mincemeat of, mash, maul, mill, mutilate, perturb, pestle, pierce, pound, powder, provoke, pulverize, puncture, purify, rasp, raze, reduce, reduce to powder, refine, remove, rend, retrench, rip, rub, rub away, rub off, rub out, ruffle, run, rupture, savage, scald, scorch, scotch, scour, scrape, scratch, scrub, scrunch, scuff, shard, shorten, shred, skin, slash, slit, smash, sprain, squash, stab, stick, strain, subduct, subtract, take away, take from, tatter, tear, thin, thin out, traumatize, triturate, wear, wear away, wear down, wear off, wear out, wear ragged, weather, weed, withdraw, wound, wrench

ABRASION | N

SYN: ablation, abrasive, abstraction, atomization, attrition, beating, blemish, break, brecciation, buffing, burn, burnishing, chafe, chafing, check, chip, comminution, concussion, crack, crackle, craze, crumbling, crushing, cut, deduction, detrition, disintegration, dressing, erasure, erosion, filing, flash burn, fracture, fragmentation, fray, frazzle, fretting, gall, galling, gash, granulation, granulization, grating, grazing, grinding, hurt, incision, injury, laceration, lesion, levigation, limation, mashing, mortal wound, mutilation, polishing, pounding, powdering, puncture, purification, rasping, refinement, removal, rent, rip, rubbing away, run, rupture, sandblasting, sanding, scald, scorch, scouring, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, scrub, scrubbing, scuff, second-degree burn, shining, shredding, slash, smashing, smoothing, sore, stab, stab wound, subduction, sublation, subtraction, taking away, tear, third-degree burn, trauma, trituration, wear, wearing away, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench

ABRASIVE | N A

SYN: ablation, ablative, abradant, abrasion, aluminum oxide, attrition, attritive, auto polish, buffing, burnish, burnishing, chafe, chafing, colcothar, corundum, crocus, detrition, dressing, emery, emery board, emery paper, erasure, erosion, erosive, file, filing, fretting, galling, garnet, gnawing, grazing, grinding, lawn-roller, limation, nail file, polish, polishes, polishing, pumice, pumice stone, rasp, rasping, roller, rottenstone, rouge, rubbing away, sandblasting, sanding, sandpaper, scouring, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, scrub, scrubbing, scuff, shining, shoe polish, silicon carbide, silver polish, sleeker, slicker, smooth, smoother, smoothing, wax, wear, wearing away

ABREAST | V A v

SYN: abeam, acquainted, along by, alongside, au courant, au fait, beside, by, coextensively, collaterally, contemporary, conversant, equidistantly, in parallel, informed, nondivergently, parallelly, parallelwise, red-hot, side-by-side, up, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute, versed

ANT: Ahead, astern

ABRIDGE | t

SYN: abbreviate, abstract, bereave, bleed, blot out, blue-pencil, bob, boil down, bowdlerize, brief, cancel, capsule, capsulize, censor, clip, compress, condense, contract, crop, cross out, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off, cut off short, cut short, damp, dampen, decrease, deduct, deflate, delete, depreciate, depress, deprive, deprive of, digest, diminish, disentitle, divest, dock, downgrade, drain, ease one of, edit, edit out, elide, epitomize, erase, expunge, expurgate, foreshorten, kill, lessen, lighten one of, limit, lower, milk, mine, minify, minimize, mow, narrow, nip, nutshell, omit, outline, pare, poll, pollard, prune, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, rescind, restrict, retrench, roll back, rub out, scale down, shave, shear, shorten, simplify, sketch, sketch out, slash, snub, step down, strike, strike off, strike out, stunt, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take away from, take from, take in, tap, telescope, trim, truncate, tune down, void

ANT: Amplify, expand, spreadout

ABRIDGED | t A

SYN: Spartan, abbreviated, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, clipped, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated

ABRIDGMENT | N

SYN: abatement, abbreviation, abstract, alleviation, aphorism, apocope, attenuation, bereavement, blue-penciling, bowdlerization, breviary, brief, cancellation, capsule, censoring, censorship, compendium, compression, condensation, conspectus, contraction, curtailment, dampening, damping, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, deletion, depreciation, depression, deprivation, deprivement, digest, diminishment, diminution, disburdening, disburdenment, disentitlement, divestment, dying, dying off, editing, elision, ellipsis, epigram, epitome, erasure, expurgation, extenuation, fade-out, foreshortening, languishment, lessening, letup, lowering, miniaturization, mitigation, omission, outline, precis, privation, recap, recapitulation, reduction, relaxation, relieving, retrenchment, sagging, scaling down, shortening, simplicity, sketch, striking, subtraction, sum, summary, summation, summing-up, syllabus, syncope, synopsis, telescoping, truncation, weakening

ANT: Amplification, expatiation, expansion, disquisition, dilution, comment, annotation, exposition, paraphrase

ABROACH

SYN: Aflow, afloat, abroad, revealed

ANT: Close, fast, tight, secret, reserved

ABROAD | V v

SYN: abashed, aberrant, adrift, afield, alfresco, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, askew, astray, at fault, at large, at sea, away, away from home, awry, beside the mark, bewildered, beyond seas, bothered, broadly, clear, clueless, confused, corrupt, deceptive, defective, delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative, discomposed, disconcerted, dismayed, disoriented, distantly and broadly, distorted, distracted, distraught, disturbed, embarrassed, en plein air, errant, erring, erroneous, everywhere, extensively, fallacious, false, far afield, far and near, far and wide, faultful, faulty, flawed, guessing, heretical, heterodox, illogical, illusory, in a fix, in a maze, in a pickle, in a scrape, in a stew, in foreign parts, in the open, infinitely, lost, mazed, nonresident, not in residence, not right, not true, off, off the track, on all sides, on every side, on leave, on sabbatical leave, on the road, on tour, out, out of doors, outdoors, outside, oversea, overseas, peccant, perturbed, perverse, perverted, publicly, put-out, right and left, self-contradictory, straying, turned around, unfactual, unorthodox, unproved, untrue, upset, vastly, wide, widely, without a clue, wrong

ANT: Near, close, housed, collected, fast

ABROGATE | t

SYN: abate, abolish, annihilate, annul, blot out, bring to naught, cancel, countermand, counterorder, disannul, discharge, dissolve, do away with, extinguish, invalidate, make void, negate, negative, nullify, obliterate, override, overrule, quash, recall, recant, renege, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, ruin, set aside, suspend, undo, vacate, vitiate, void, waive, withdraw, wreck, write off

ANT: Enact, re-enact, confirm, enforce, continue, revive

ABROGATION | N

SYN: abjuration, abjurement, abolishment, abolition, absolute contradiction, annulment, cancel, canceling, cancellation, cassation, contradiction, contrary assertion, contravention, controversion, countering, countermand, counterorder, crossing, defeasance, denial, disaffirmation, disallowance, disavowal, disclaimer, disclamation, disownment, disproof, forswearing, gainsaying, impugnment, invalidation, nullification, recall, recantation, refutation, renege, renunciation, repeal, repudiation, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, retractation, retraction, reversal, revocation, revoke, revokement, setting aside, suspension, vacation, vacatur, voidance, voiding, waiver, waiving, withdrawal, write-off

ANT: Institution, establishment, enactment, confirmation, continuance, sanction

ABRUPT | A

SYN: aggressive, arduous, bearish, beastly, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed, blunted, bluntish, bold, brash, breakneck, breathless, brief, brisk, brusque, casual, cavalier, churlish, crisp, crusty, curt, discourteous, dull, dull-edged, dull-pointed, dulled, dullish, edgeless, electrifying, faired, gruff, harsh, hasty, headlong, hurried, impetuous, impolite, impulsive, informal, nerve-shattering, obtuse, panting, perpendicular, plumb, plunging, pointless, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, quick, rapid, rash, ready, rough, rounded, rude, rushing, severe, sharp, sheer, shocking, short, sideling, smoothed, snappish, snappy, snippety, snippy, speedy, startling, steep, stickle, sudden, surly, surprising, swift, truculent, unannounced, unanticipated, unceremonious, uncivil, unedged, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unplanned, unpointed, unpredicted, unsharp, unsharpened, vertical

ANT: Undulating, easy, gliding, polished, smooth, blending, courteous

ABRUPTLY | V v

SYN: a corps perdu, bang, bearishly, bluffly, bluntly, boorishly, brashly, brusquely, cavalierly, churlishly, crustily, curtly, dash, forthwith, gruffly, harshly, hastily, head over heels, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heels over head, impetuously, impulsively, like a flash, like a thunderbolt, nastily, of a sudden, on short notice, plop, plump, plunk, pop, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, rashly, sharp, sharply, short, shortly, slap, slap-bang, smack, snippily, startlingly, sudden, suddenly, surprisingly, unawares, unexpectedly, without notice, without warning

ABSCESS | N i I

SYN: ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, aposteme, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, bed sore, blain, bleb, bleeding, blennorhea, blister, blotch, boil, bubo, bulla, bunion, cachexia, cachexy, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, chilblain, chill, chills, cold sore, colic, constipation, convulsion, coughing, cyanosis, diarrhea, dizziness, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, eschar, fainting, fatigue, felon, fester, festering, fever, fever blister, fibrillation, fistula, flux, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, growth, gumboil, hemorrhage, hemorrhoids, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, indigestion, inflammation, insomnia, itching, jaundice, kibe, labored breathing, lesion, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, pain, papula, papule, paralysis, paronychia, parulis, petechia, piles, pimple, pock, polyp, pruritus, pustule, rash, rheum, rising, scab, sclerosis, seizure, shock, skin eruption, sneezing, soft chancre, sore, spasm, stigma, sty, suppuration, swelling, tabes, tachycardia, trauma, tubercle, tumor, ulcer, ulceration, upset stomach, vertigo, vomiting, wale, wasting, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, wound

ABSCOND | i I

SYN: abandon, absquatulate, beat a retreat, bolt, bow out, break, bunk, clear out, cut and run, decamp, depart, desert, disappear, elope, evacuate, flee, fly, fugitate, go, go AWOL, jump, jump bail, leave, levant, make off, quit, remove, retire, retreat, run, run away, run away from, run away with, run for it, run off, scape, show the heels, skedaddle, skip, skip out, slip the cable, take French leave, take flight, take to flight, take wing, turn tail, vacate, vanish, withdraw

ANT: Show, emerge, appear

ABSCONDED

SYN: absent, away, deleted, departed, disappeared, gone, lacking, missing, no longer present, nonattendant, nonexistent, not found, not present, omitted, out of sight, subtracted, taken away, vanished, wanting

ABSENCE | N

SYN: AWOL, French leave, abscondence, absence without leave, absentation, absenteeism, absenting, beggary, cut, day off, dearth, default, defect, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, departure, deprivation, destitution, disappearance, drought, emptiness, escape, excused absence, exigency, famine, fleeing, furlough, holiday, hooky, imperfection, impoverishment, inadequacy, incompleteness, insufficiency, lack, leave, leave of absence, leaving, miss, necessity, need, negation, negativeness, negativity, nihility, nonappearance, nonattendance, nonbeing, nonentity, nonexistence, nonoccurrence, nonreality, nonsubsistence, not-being, nothingness, nullity, omission, paucity, privation, running away, sabbatical leave, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, sick leave, starvation, truancy, truantism, unactuality, unexcused absence, unreality, vacancy, vacation, vacuity, vacuum, void, want, wantage

ANT: Presence, supply, appearance, existence, manifestation, evidence, attention, immanence, inherency, consideration

ABSENT | V t A v

SYN: absconded, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, away, bemused, castle-building, daydreaming, daydreamy, deficient, deleted, departed, disappeared, distrait, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed, faraway, forgetful, gone, half-awake, heedless, in a reverie, in the clouds, keep away from, lacking, lost, lost in thought, meditative, missing, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, no longer present, nodding, nonattendant, nonexistent, not found, not present, oblivious, off, omitted, out, out of sight, pensive, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, rapt, somewhere else, stargazing, subtracted, taken away, taken up, transported, unconscious, vanished, wanting, withdraw from, woolgathering, wrapped in thought

ANT: Present, inthisplace, here, attentive

ABSENT-MINDED | A

SYN: Lethean, absent, absorbed, abstracted, amnestic, bemused, blocked, castle-building, converted, daydreaming, daydreamy, distracted, distrait, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed, faraway, forgetful, forgetting, half-awake, heedless, in a reverie, in a trance, in the clouds, inadvertent, inattentive, inclined to forget, lost, lost in thought, meditative, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, nodding, oblivious, off, pensive, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, rapt, repressed, somewhere else, stargazing, suppressed, taken up, transported, unaware, unconscious, unheedful, unheeding, unmindful, unnoticing, unobserving, unperceiving, unseeing, withdrawn, woolgathering, wrapped in thought

ABSENTMINDEDNESS

SYN: Lethe, Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, bemusement, brown study, carelessness, castle-building, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, decay of memory, depth of thought, disregard, disregardfulness, distraction, dream, dreaming, engrossment, fantasy, fantasying, fit of abstraction, flightiness, flippancy, forgetfulness, forgetting, forgiveness, frivolousness, giddiness, hazy recollection, heedlessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, inconsideration, incuriosity, indifference, inobservance, levity, lightmindedness, mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, negligence, nepenthe, nirvana, nonobservance, obliteration, oblivion, obliviousness, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, regardlessness, reverie, shallowness, short memory, stargazing, study, superficiality, thoughtlessness, trance, unalertness, unawareness, unconsciousness, unheedfulness, unintentiveness, unmindfulness, unobservance, unwariness, unwatchfulness, waters of oblivion, woolgathering

ABSOLUTE | N A

SYN: OK, absolutist, absolutistic, abstract, accurate, actual, adducible, admissible, admitting no exception, admitting no question, affirmative, affirmatory, all right, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, all-powerful, almighty, alone, apodictic, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, assertative, assertional, assertive, assuring, attestative, attestive, autarchic, authentic, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, autonomous, azygous, bare, based on, beyond all praise, binding, born, bossy, bound, boundless, broad-based, bureaucratic, categorical, celibate, certain, circumstantial, civic, civil, clarified, classical, clean, clear, clear and distinct, clear as day, clothed with authority, commanding, competent, complete, comprehensive, compulsory, conclusive, concrete, confirmable, congenital, consequential, considerable, constitutional, consummate, controlling, convictional, convincing, correct, crass, cumulative, damning, de facto, dead right, decided, decisive, declarative, declaratory, decretory, deep-dyed, defectless, defined, definite, definitive, democratic, demonstrable, demonstratable, despotic, detailed, determinate, determinative, dictated, dictatorial, different, distilled, distinct, distinguished, documentary, documented, dominant, domineering, downright, duly constituted, dyed-in-the-wool, egregious, eminent, emphatic, empowered, entailed, entire, esoteric, especial, eternal, evidential, evidentiary, ex officio, ex parte, exceptional, exhaustive, explicit, express, extraordinary, eye-witness, factual, fascist, faultless, federal, federalist, federalistic, feudal, final, finished, first and last, firsthand, fixed, flagrant, flat, flat-out, flawless, for real, founded on, free, full, genuine, glaring, global, governing, governmental, great, grinding, gross, grounded on, gubernatorial, hard, hard-and-fast, haste, hearsay, hegemonic, hegemonistic, heteronomous, high-handed, historical, honest-to-God, ideal, illimitable, immaculate, impair, impeccable, imperative, imperial, imperious, implicit, important, imposed, impressive, inappealable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indefectible, indefective, independent, indicative, indisputable, individual, indubitable, ineluctable, inevitable, infallible, infinite, influential, inner, intensive, intimate, intolerable, irrefragable, irrefutable, irreproachable, irresistible, irrevocable, just, just right, leading, letter-perfect, limitless, lone, lordly, magisterial, magistral,