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Aristophanes
Translated by William James Hickie

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Contents
PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR .......................................................................................... 1
FOREWORD ..................................................................................................................... 3
THE PERSONS OF THE DRAMA ...................................................................................... 11
LYSISTRATA ................................................................................................................... 13
GLOSSARY ..................................................................................................................... 85
 Aristophanes 1

PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR

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 Aristophanes 3

FOREWORD

Lysistrata %is the greatest work by Aristophanes. This blank and rash
statement is made that it may be rejected. But first let it be understood that I do
not mean it is a better written work than the Birds or the Frogs, or that (to
descend to the scale of values that will be naturally imputed to me) it has any
more appeal to the collectors of "curious literature" than the Ecclesiazusae or the
Thesmophoriazusae. On the mere grounds of taste I can see an at least equally good
case made out for the Birds. That brightly plumaged fantasy has an aerial wit and
colour all its own. But there are certain works in which a man finds himself at an
angle of vision where there is an especially felicitous union of the aesthetic and
emotional elements which constitute the basic qualities of his uniqueness. We
recognize these works as being welded into a strange unity, as having a
homogeneous texture of ecstasy over them that surpasses any aesthetic surface of
harmonic colour, though that harmony also is understood by the deeper welling
of imagery from the core of creative exaltation. And I think that this occurs in
Lysistrata. The intellectual and spiritual tendrils of the poem are more truly
interwoven, the operation of their centres more nearly unified; and so the work
goes deeper into life. It is his greatest play because of this, because it holds an
intimate perfume of femininity and gives the finest sense of the charm of a
cluster of girls, the sweet sense of their chatter, and the contact of their bodies,
that is to be found before Shakespeare, because that mocking gaiety we call
Aristophanies reaches here its most positive acclamation of life, vitalizing sex
with a deep delight, a rare happiness of the spirit.

Thesaurus
acclamation: (n) applause, ovation, belittlement, debasement, jollity. ANTONYMS: (n) seriousness,
plaudit, praise, cheer, eclat, approval, degradation, humiliation, sorrow, misery, sadness.
commendation, vox populi, derogation, disparagement. interwoven: (adj) interlinking,
adulation, hand. ANTONYMS: (n) felicitous: (adj) apt, suitable, interlacing, interlocking, complex,
razzing, jeers, hisses, heckles, catcalls, appropriate, proper, applicable, interwove, twine, contextural,
vituperation, disapproval. fortunate, apposite, clever, cute, entangled, inseparable, knotted,
bodies: (n) people, public. lucky; (adj, n) happy. ANTONYMS: related.
exaltation: (n) elation, ecstasy, (adj) inappropriate, infelicitous, reaches: (n) recess.
apotheosis, worship, praise, rapture, inopportune, unfitting, unhappy. vitalizing: (adj) reviving, exhilarating,
deification, grandeur, adoration; (n, gaiety: (n) fun, cheerfulness, energizing, invigorating, refreshing,
v) sublimation; (v) laud. exhilaration, mirth, glee, merriment, brisk, bracing, revitalizing,
ANTONYMS: (n) abasement, hilarity, happiness, joy, joviality, stimulating, dynamic.
4 Lysistrata

Indeed it is precisely for these reasons that it is not considered Aristophanes'

greatest play.%
To take a case which is sufficiently near to the point in question, to make clear
what I mean: the supremacy of Antony and Cleopatra in the Shakespearean
aesthetic is yet jealously disputed, and it seems silly to the academic to put it up
against a work like Hamlet. But it is the comparatively more obvious achievement
of Hamlet, its surface intellectuality, which made it the favourite of actors and
critics. It is much more difficult to realize the complex and delicately passionate
edge of the former play's rhythm, its tides of hugely wandering emotion, the
restless, proud, gay, and agonized reaction from life, of the blood, of the mind, of
the heart, which is its unity, than to follow the relatively straightforward
definition of Hamlet's nerves. Not that anything derogatory to Hamlet or the
Birds is intended; but the value of such works is not enhanced by forcing them
into contrast with other works which cover deeper and wider nexus of aesthetic
and spiritual material. It is the very subtlety of the vitality of such works as
Antony and Cleopatra and Lysistrata that makes it so easy to undervalue them, to
see only a phallic play and political pamphlet in one, only a chronicle play in a
grandiose method in the other. For we have to be in a highly sensitized
condition before we can get to that subtle point where life and the image mix,
and so really perceive the work at all; whereas we can command the response to
a lesser work which does not call so finely on the full breadth and depth of our
spiritual resources.
I amuse myself at times with the fancy that Homer, Sappho, and
Aristophanes are the inviolable Trinity of poetry, even to the extent of being
reducible to One. For the fiery and lucid directness of Sappho, if her note of
personal lyricism is abstracted, is seen to be an element of Homer, as is the
profoundly balanced humour of Aristophanes, at once tenderly human and
cruelly hard, as of a god to whom all sympathies and tolerances are known, but
who is invulnerable somewhere, who sees from a point in space where the
pressure of earth's fear and pain, and so its pity, is lifted. It is here that the
Shakespearean and Homeric worlds impinge and merge, not to be separated by

Thesaurus
agonized: (adj) distressed, painful, imprescriptible, unimpeachable. phallic: (adj) male.
woeful, tormented, suffering, ANTONYMS: (adj) acceptable, sensitized: (adj) allergic,
miserable, hurt. breakable. hypersensitized, hypersensitive,
intellectuality: (n) intellect, invulnerable: (adj) impregnable, susceptible, supersensitized,
intelligence, mind, faculties, impervious, impenetrable, safe, supersensitive, supersensitised,
judgment, wits, senses, percipience, inviolable, unassailable, secure, hypersensitised.
consciousness, observation, indomitable, untouchable, undervalue: (v) underestimate,
association of ideas. woundless; (adj, v) defensible. underrate, devalue, belittle, lessen,
inviolable: (adj) sacrosanct, ANTONYM: (adj) receptive. disparage, misjudge, decry, despise,
infrangible, hallowed, invulnerable, lyricism: (n) musicalness, musicality, devaluate, diminish. ANTONYMS:
inviolate, inalienable, impenetrable, songfulness, ebullience, enthusiasm, (v) overrate, appreciate, overestimate,
absolute, impregnable; (v) exuberance. overvalue, recognize.
 Aristophanes 5

any academic classifications. They meet in this sensitivity equally involved and
aloof, sympathetic and arrogant, suffering and joyous; and in this relation we see
Aristophanes as the forerunner of Shakespeare, his only one. We see also that the
whole present aesthetic of earth is based in Homer. We live and grow in the
world of consciousness bequeathed to us by him; and if we grow beyond it
through deeper Shakespearean ardours, it is because those beyond are rooted in
the broad basis of the Homeric imagination. To shift that basis is to find the
marshes of primitive night and fear alone beneath the feet: Christianity.%
And here we return to the question of the immorality of Lysistrata. First we
may inquire: is it possible for a man whose work has so tremendous a
significance in the spiritual development of mankind--and I do not think anyone
nowadays doubts that a work of art is the sole stabilizing force that exists for
life--is it possible for a man who stands so grandly at head of an immense stream
of liberating effort to write an immoral work? Surely the only enduring moral
virtue which can be claimed is for that which moves to more power, beauty and
delight in the future? The plea that the question of changing customs arises is not
valid, for customs ratified by Aristophanes, by Rabelais, by Shakespeare, have no
right to change. If they have changed, let us try immediately to return from our
disgraceful refinements to the nobler and more rarefied heights of lyric laughter,
tragic intensity, and wit, for we cannot have the first two without the last. And
anyhow, how can a social custom claim precedence over the undying material of
the senses and the emotions of man, over the very generating forces of life?
How could the humanistic emotions, such as pity, justice, sympathy, exist
save as pacifistic quietings of the desire to slay, to hurt, to torment. Where the
desire to hurt is gone pity ceases to be a significant, a central emotion. It must of
course continue to exist, but it is displaced in the spiritual hierarchy; and all that
moves courageously, desirously, and vitally into the action of life takes on a
deeper and subtler intention. Lust, then, which on the lower plane was
something to be very frightened of, becomes a symbol of the highest spirituality.
It is right for Paul to be terrified of sex and so to hate it, because he has so freshly
escaped a bestial condition of life that it threatens to plunge him back if he

Thesaurus
bestial: (adj) animal, brutish, brute, avidly, hungrily, wistfully, wishfully, massacre, put to death, remove,
atrocious, savage, brutal, inhuman, covetously, longingly, yearningly, finish, butcher.
cruel, grim, depraved; (adj, adv) willingly, cravingly. stabilizing: (n) stabilization,
beastly. ANTONYM: (adj) refined. liberating: (adj) emancipating, chillproofing; (v) stabilize; (adj)
courageously: (adv) intrepidly, emancipative, therapeutic. helpful.
valiantly, boldly, daringly, fearlessly, pacifistic: (adj) peaceful, dovish, undying: (adj) eternal, perpetual,
gallantly, heroically, hardily, neutral. everlasting, deathless, permanent,
dauntlessly, audaciously, rarefied: (adj) thin, exalted, lofty, imperishable, endless, unending,
stoutheartedly. ANTONYMS: (adv) rarified, tenuous, idealistic, noble, lasting, abiding; (adj, v)
timidly, execrably, fearfully, majestic, refined, spiritual, thinner. indestructible. ANTONYMS: (adj)
nervously. slay: (n, v) murder, assassinate; (v) temporary, mortal, impermanent,
desirously: (adv) greedily, keenly, dispatch, execute, slaughter, destroy, ending, inconstant.
6 Lysistrata

listens to one whisper But it is also right for a Shakespeare to suck every drop of
desire from life, for he is building into a higher condition, one se1f-willed, self-
responsible, the discipline of which comes from joy, not fear.%
Sex, therefore, is an animal function, one admits, one insists; it may be only
that. But also in the bewildering and humorous and tragic duality of all life's
energies, it is the bridge to every eternity which is not merely a spectral condition
of earth disembowelled of its lusts. For sex holds the substance of the image. But
we must remember with Heine that Aristophanes is the God of this ironic earth,
and that all argument is apparently vitiated from the start by the simple fact that
Wagner and a rooster are given an analogous method of making love. And
therefore it seems impeccable logic to say that all that is most unlike the rooster is
the most spiritual part of love. All will agree on that, schisms only arise when
one tries to decide what does go farthest from the bird's automatic mechanism.
Certainly not a Dante-Beatrice affair which is only the negation of the rooster in
terms of the swooning bombast of adolescence, the first onslaught of a force
which the sufferer cannot control or inhabit with all the potentialities of his body
and soul. But the rooster is troubled by no dreams of a divine orgy, no carnival-
loves like Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, no heroic and shining lust gathering and
swinging into a merry embrace like the third act of Siegfried. It is desire in this
sense that goes farthest from the animal.
Consciously, no one can achieve the act of love on earth as a completed thing
of grace, with whatever delirium of delight, with whatever ingenious preciosity,
we go through its process. Only as an image of beauty mated in some strange
hermaphroditic ecstasy is that possible. I mean only as a dream projected into a
hypothetical, a real heaven. But on earth we cannot complete the cycle in
consciousness that would give us the freedom of an image in which two
identities mysteriously realize their separate unities by the absorption of a third
thing, the constructive rhythm of a work of art. It is thus that Tristan and Isolde
become wholly distinct individuals, yet wholly submerged in the unity that is
Wagner; and so reconcile life's duality by balancing its opposing laughters in a
definite form--thereby sending out into life a profounder duality than existed

Thesaurus
bombast: (adj, n) rant, fustian, jargon; farthest: (adj) ultimate, extreme, mannerism, artificiality.
(n) grandiloquence, blah, Bombyx; (v) farthermost, utmost, uttermost, last, rooster: (n) chicken, chanticleer, fowl,
rodomontade, fine talking, tall talk, furthermost, endmost, greatest, most hen, cockerel, prick, partlet, Dick,
heroics; (adj) prose run mad. distant; (adj, adv) remotest. poultry, roosters, barn door fowl.
delirium: (n) craze, insanity, mania, ANTONYMS: (adv) closest, nearest. swooning: (adj) light, not burdensome,
disturbance, fever, ecstasy, hermaphroditic: (adj) hermaphrodite, flippant, friable, giddily,
derangement; (adj, n) fury; (adj) furor, androgynous, hermaphroditical, psychologically light, giddy, sandy,
rage, distraction. ANTONYMS: (n) androgynal, monoclinous. nimble, unconscious, lite.
indifference, dejection. mated: (adj) uniform, married, vitiated: (adj, v) tainted; (adj) corrupt,
duality: (n) dualism, duplicity, complementary, alike. ANTONYM: diminished, depraved, perverted,
dichotomy, duad, being twofold, (adj) unmated. corrupted, lessened, profligate,
binary, pair. preciosity: (n) affectedness, adulterate, faded; (v) morbid.
 Aristophanes 7

before. A Platonic equipoise, Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence--the only real

philosophic problem, therefore one of which these two philosophers alone are
aware.%
But though Wagner with Mathilde Wesendonck in his arms was Tristan in
the arms of Isolde, he did not find a melody instead of a kiss on his lips; he did
not find a progression of harmonies melting through the contours of a warm
beauty with a blur of desperate ecstasies, semitones of desire, he found only the
anxious happiness of any other lover. Nevertheless, he was gathering the
substance of the second act of Tristan und Isolde. And it is this that Plato means
when he says that fornication is something immortal in mortality. He does not
mean that the act itself is a godlike thing, a claim which any bedroom mirror
would quickly deride. He means that it is a symbol, an essential condition, and a
part of something that goes deeper into life than any geometry of earth's absurd,
passionate, futile, and very necessary antics would suggest.
It is a universal fallacy that because works like the comedies of Aristophanes
discuss certain social or ethical problems, they are inspired by them.
Aristophanes wrote to express his vision on life, his delight in life itself seen
behind the warping screen of contemporary event; and for his purposes anything
from Euripides to Cleon served as ground work. Not that he would think in
those terms, naturally: but the rationalizing process that goes on in
consciousness during the creation of a work of art, for all its appearance of
directing matters, is the merest weathercock in the wind of the subconscious
intention. As an example of how utterly it is possible to misunderstand the
springs of inspiration in a poem, we may take the following remark of B. B.
Rogers: It is much to be regretted that the phallus element should be so conspicuous in
this play.... (This) coarseness, so repulsive to ourselves, was introduced, it is impossible
to doubt, for the express purpose of counter-balancing the extreme earnestness and
gravity of the play. It seems so logical, so irrefutable; and so completely
misinterprets every creative force of Aristophanes' Psyche that it certainly
deserves a little admiration. It is in the best academic tradition, and everyone
respects a man for writing so mendaciously. The effort of these castrators is
always to show that the parts considered offensive are not the natural expression
Thesaurus
antics: (n) sport, monkey business. godlike: (adj) celestial, heavenly, shaft, Peter, tool, extremity, Dick,
deride: (v) mock, gibe, taunt, banter, seraphic, holy, angelic, godly, divine appendage, genus phallus.
insult, scoff, make fun of, laugh at, worship, deified, elysian, foreboding, rationalizing: (v) rationalize,
disparage, poke fun at; (n, v) scorn. divine songs. rationalise; (n) reasoning, thought.
ANTONYMS: (v) flatter, commend, melody: (n) air, tune, music, measure, warping: (n) warp, distortion,
esteem, compliment, respect, admire, harmony, aria, song, strain, line, deformation, warpage, buckling,
approve. melodic phrase; (n, v) chant. deflection, buckling of the
equipoise: (v) poise, offset; (n, v) mendaciously: (adv) falsely, compression flange, beaming, buckle,
balance, counterweight; (n) fraudulently, lyingly, insincerely, upthrust.
equilibration, counterbalance, faithlessly, deceitfully, weathercock: (n) vane, weather vane,
symmetry, counterpoise, balancing, unveraciously, truthlessly. hand, flagstaff, cairn, pointer, post,
equiponderance, equalizer. phallus: (n) penis, cock, prick, pecker, staff; (adj) chameleon, moon, Proteus.
8 Lysistrata

of the poet, that they are dictated externally. They argue that Shakespeare's
coarseness is the result of the age and not personal predilection, completely
ignoring the work of men like Sir Philip Sidney and Spenser, indeed practically
all the pre-Shakespearean writers, in whom none of this so-called grossness
exists. Shakespeare wrote sculduddery because he liked it, and for no other
reason; his sensuality is the measure of his vitality. These liars pretend similarly
that because Rabelais had a humanistic reason for much of his work--the
destructior Mediaevalism, and the Church, which purpose they construe of
course as an effort to purify, etc.--therefore he only put the lewdery to make the
rest palatable, when it should be obvious even to an academic how he glories in
his wild humour.%
What the academic cannot understand is that in such works, while attacking
certain conditions, the creative power of the vigorous spirits is so great that it
overflows and saturates the intellectual conception with their own passionate
sense of life. It is for this reason that these works have an eternal significance. If
Rabelais were merely a social reformer, then the value of his work would not
have outlived his generation. If Lysistrata were but a wise political tract, it would
have merely an historical interest, and it would have ceased spiritually at 4O4
B.C.
But Panurge is as fantastic and fascinating a character now as he was 3OO
years ago, Lysistrata and her girls as freshly bodied as any girl kissed to-day.
Therefore the serious part of the play is that which deals with them, the frivolous
part that in which Rogers detects gravity and earnestness.
Aristophanes is the lord of all who take life as a gay adventure, who defy all
efforts to turn life into a social, economic, or moral abstraction. Is it therefore just
that the critics who, by some dark instinct, unerringly pick out the exact opposite
of any creator's real virtues as his chief characteristics, should praise him as an
idealistic reformer? An "ideal" state of society was the last thing Aristophanes
desired. He wished, certainly, to eliminate inhumanities and baseness; but only
that there might be free play for laughter, for individual happiness.

Thesaurus
baseness: (n) meanness, despicability, crudeness, crudity, awkwardness. grossness: (n) commonness,
evil, depravity, wickedness, dirtiness, ANTONYMS: (n) delicacy, purity, vulgarism, inelegance, obscenity,
unworthiness, iniquity, infamy, refinement, smoothness, vulgarity, corpulence, indecency,
lowness, villainy. ANTONYM: (n) sophistication, tastefulness, civility, crassitude, crassness, crudity,
goodness. grace, propriety, decency. density.
bodied: (adj) material, corporal, earnestness: (n) seriousness, sincerity, humanistic: (adj) humanist,
corporeal, embodied, corporate, gravity, fervor, devotion, graveness, humanitarian, human, liberal,
incarnate. staidness, honesty; (adj, n) ardor, zeal, classical.
ceased: (adj) finished. intentness. ANTONYMS: (n) unerringly: (adv) surely, accurately,
coarseness: (n) grossness, indelicacy, slackness, lightness, carelessness, faithfully, exactly, certainly,
inelegance, indecency, vulgarism, frivolousness, cheerfulness, infallibly, inerrantly, literally,
commonness, rudeness, inferiority, insincerity, flippancy. perfectly, closely, inerringly.
 Aristophanes 9

Consequently the critics lay the emphasis on the effort to cleanse society, not
the method of laughter. Aristophanes wished to destroy Cleon because that
demagogue failed to realize the poet's conception of dignified government and
tended to upset the stability of Hellas. But it was the stability of life, the
vindication of all individual freedoms, in which he was ultimately interested.%

JACK LINDSAY.

Thesaurus
cleanse: (adj, v) clean; (v) bathe, wash, demagogue: (n) agitator, modest, base.
clarify, wipe, scour, scrub, clear, speechmaker, fugleman, reactionist, laughter: (n) amusement, fun, guffaw,
rinse, disinfect, refine. ANTONYMS: rhetorician, orator, precentor, leader, merriment, chortle, chuckle, mirth,
(v) dirty, soil, stain, spot, pollute, bellwether; (adj) anarchist, brawler. hilarity, giggle, derision, happiness.
mess, defile, cloud. ANTONYM: (n) pacifier. ANTONYMS: (n) sadness, gloom,
conception: (n) concept, idea, view, dignified: (adj) exalted, majestic, despair, boredom, misery,
thought, creation, mind, design, noble, grand, lofty, respectable, despondency.
imagination, impression, solemn, distinguished, lordly, high; vindication: (n) defense, apology,
understanding, fancy. ANTONYMS: (adj, v) great. ANTONYMS: (adj) excuse, defence, plea, alibi, acquittal,
(n) termination, finish, ending, undignified, foolish, dishonorable, assertion, reason, exoneration,
concrete, abortion, ignorance, boisterous, unceremonious, protection. ANTONYM: (n)
destruction. unseemly, vulgar, poor, lowly, accusation.
 Aristophanes 11

THE PERSONS OF THE DRAMA

LYSISTRATA
CALONICE
MYRRHINE
LAMPITO
STRATYLLIS
CHORUS OF WOMEN
MAGISTRATE
CINESIAS SPARTAN
HERALD
ENVOYS
ATHENIANS
PORTER
MARKET IDLERS
CHORUS OF OLD MEN
 Aristophanes 13

LYSISTRATA

[LYSISTRATA stands alone with the Propylaea at her back.]

LYSISTRATA.
If they were trysting for a Bacchanal,
A feast of Pan or Colias or Genetyllis,
The tambourines would block the rowdy streets,
But now there's not a woman to be seen
Except--ah, yes--this neighbour of mine yonder.
[Enter CALONICE.]
Good day Calonice.%
CALONICE.
Good day Lysistrata.
But what has vexed you so? Tell me, child.
What are these black looks for? It doesn't suit you
To knit your eyebrows up glumly like that.
LYSISTRATA.
Calonice, it's more than I can bear,
I am hot all over with blushes for our sex.
Men say we're slippery rogues—

Thesaurus
feast: (n, v) junket, fete; (n) intertwine, bind, join, pucker, fasten, ANTONYMS: (adj) rough, dry,
entertainment, dinner, binge, spread, interlace; (adj) stitch, knitted. reliable, straight, direct.
celebration, jamboree, carousal; (v) rowdy: (adj, n) boisterous; (adj) trysting: (n) appointment.
feed, eat. ANTONYMS: (v) abstain, disorderly, noisy, loud, unruly, vexed: (adj) troubled, irritated, angry,
starve; (n) snack. uproarious, wild, raucous; (n) bully, pestered, peeved, harassed, sore,
glumly: (adv) morosely, sulkily, tough, hooligan. ANTONYMS: (adj) harried, uneasy, cross, offended.
dourly, mournfully, moodily, restrained, peaceful, quiet, tranquil, ANTONYMS: (adj) calm,
somberly, grumpily, grimly, sadly, gentle, placid. uncomplicated.
gloomily, dolefully. ANTONYMS: slippery: (adj, v) precarious; (adj) yonder: (adv) beyond, further, farther,
(adv) enthusiastically, happily, crafty, glib, elusive, oily, glossy, abroad, thither, further away, at that
cheerily. untrustworthy, wily, unreliable, place; (adj) distant, yond, furious,
knit: (adj, v) tie, lace; (v) plait, tricky; (v) questionable. fierce.
14 Lysistrata

CALONICE.
And aren't they right?
LYSISTRATA.
Yet summoned on the most tremendous business
For deliberation, still they snuggle in bed.%
CALONICE.
My dear, they'll come. It's hard for women, you know,
To get away. There's so much to do;
Husbands to be patted and put in good tempers;
Servants to be poked out; children washed;
Or soothed with lullays or fed with mouthfuls of pap.
LYSISTRATA.
But I tell you, here's a far more weighty object.
CALONICE.
What is it all about, dear Lysistrata,
That you've called the women hither in a troop?
What kind of an object is it?
LYSISTRATA.
A tremendous thing!
CALONICE.
And long?
LYSISTRATA.
Indeed, it may be very lengthy.
CALONICE.
Then why aren't they here?
LYSISTRATA.
No man's connected with it;
If that was the case, they'd soon come fluttering along.
No, no. It concerns an object I've felt over
And turned this way and that for sleepless nights.

Thesaurus
deliberation: (n) cogitation, counsel, hitherward, thither. band, brigade, crew, herd, swarm,
debate, caution, thought, advisement, nights: (adj) nightly; (n) night. horde; (n, v) flock.
attention, contemplation, sleepless: (adj) insomniac, lidless, washed: (adj) wash, cleaner, colored,
consultation; (adj, n) calculation, vigilant, wakeful, awake, watchful, refined, wet, watery.
circumspection. ANTONYMS: (n) disturbed, alert, unquiet, uneasy, weighty: (adj) heavy, ponderous,
thoughtlessness, carelessness, restive. grievous, powerful, profound; (adj, v)
impetuosity, distraction, rashness. snuggle: (n, v) cuddle; (v) nuzzle, grave, serious, momentous,
fluttering: (adj) flying, palpitating, huddle, embrace, draw close, snug, significant, solemn, influential.
flittering, flaring, aflare, waving; (n) cling to, approach, come on, draw ANTONYMS: (adj) superficial, light,
flutter, flapping, flicker, flitting; (adv) near; (n) caress. unimportant, trivial, weightless,
flutteringly. soothed: (adj) composed. unsubstantial, thin, solvable, small,
hither: (adv) here, whither, troop: (n) group, corps, gang, crowd, facile, easy.
 Aristophanes 15

CALONICE.
It must be fine to stand such long attention.%
LYSISTRATA.
So fine it comes to this--Greece saved by Woman!
CALONICE.
By Woman? Wretched thing, I'm sorry for it.
LYSISTRATA.
Our country's fate is henceforth in our hands.
To destroy the Peloponnesians root and branch—
CALONICE.
What could be nobler!
LYSISTRATA.
Wipe out the Bœotians—
CALONICE.
Not utterly. Have mercy on the eels!
LYSISTRATA.
But with regard to Athens, note I'm careful
Not to say any of these nasty things;
Still, thought is free.... But if the women join us
From Peloponnesus and Bœotia, then
Hand in hand we'll rescue Greece.
CALONICE.
How could we do
Such a big wise deed? We women who dwell
Quietly adorning ourselves in a back-room
With gowns of lucid gold and gawdy toilets
Of stately silk and dainty little slippers....
LYSISTRATA.
These are the very armaments of the rescue.
These crocus-gowns, this outlay of the best myrrh,

Thesaurus
adorning: (adj) decorative, awkward, accepting, heavy, careless, unintelligible, muddled, unclear,
ornamental, cultural; (n) adornment, thick. irrational, confusing, illogical,
decoration; (v) adorn. dwell: (adj, v) inhabit; (v) reside, bide, ambiguous, confused, vague,
armaments: (n) arms, weaponry, live, stay, lodge, delay, occupy, incoherent.
army, armature, guns, artillery, continue, be, settle. ANTONYM: (v) myrrh: (n) gum myrrh, perfumes of
firepower, ordnance, weapons. wander. Arabia, incense, sweet cicely, gum
dainty: (adj, v) nice; (adj, n, v) delicacy; henceforth: (adv) hence, in future, resin, frankincense, balm.
(adj) fastidious, savory, tasteful, after this; (adj) following. outlay: (n) expenditure, expense,
squeamish, particular, mincing, lucid: (adj) clear, transparent, limpid, disbursement, charge, outgo,
refined; (adj, n) tidbit; (n) luxury. coherent, distinct, evident, explicit, spending, fee, expenses, defrayment,
ANTONYMS: (adj) coarse, vulgar, crystalline, light, diaphanous, bright. payment; (v) expend.
rough, inelegant, harsh, gross, ANTONYMS: (adj) opaque, women: (n) sex, gentle sex.
16 Lysistrata

Slippers, cosmetics dusting beauty, and robes

With rippling creases of light.%
CALONICE.
Yes, but how?
LYSISTRATA.
No man will lift a lance against another—
CALONICE.
I'll run to have my tunic dyed crocus.
LYSISTRATA.
Or take a shield—
CALONICE.
I'll get a stately gown.
LYSISTRATA.
Or unscabbard a sword—
CALONICE.
Let me buy a pair of slipper.
LYSISTRATA.
Now, tell me, are the women right to lag?
CALONICE.
They should have turned birds, they should have grown wings and flown.
LYSISTRATA.
My friend, you'll see that they are true Athenians.
Always too late. Why, there's not a woman
From the shoreward demes arrived, not one from Salamis.
CALONICE.
I know for certain they awoke at dawn,
And got their husbands up if not their boat sails.

Thesaurus
awoke: (adj) awakened. outerwear, uniform, tunic, clothes; (v) carpet slipper, bootee, slider, patten,
cosmetics: (n) makeup, depilatory, clothe. scuffs, slipshoe, vertical
French polish. lance: (n) pike, javelin, shaft, lancet, synchronized slipper.
crocus: (n) saffron; (adj) topaz. assegai, fishgig, fizgig; (v) dart, stately: (adj) solemn, imposing,
dusting: (n) sprinkling, dry spraying, impale, open, gore. elegant; (adj, v) noble, dignified,
film, coating. rippling: (n) ripple, wave, riffle, grand, proud, great; (adj, adv) regal,
dyed: (adj) colored, tinted, coloured, corrugation, moving ridge, wavelet, majestic, royal. ANTONYMS: (adj)
bleached, stained, painted, artificially ripple formation; (adj) flowing, boisterous, humble, modest, lowly.
coloured, biased, artificial, unreal, billowy. tunic: (n) tunicate, tunicle, tabard,
colorful. robes: (n) garb, fine clothes, costume, adventitia, chiton, surcoat, tunica,
gown: (n) robe, clothing, cassock, best clothes. jacket, robe, coat, integument.
vestment, wrapper, overclothes, slipper: (n) mule, sandal, pump, boot, wings: (n) insignia, agency.
 Aristophanes 17

LYSISTRATA.
And I'd have staked my life the Acharnian dames
Would be here first, yet they haven't come either!
CALONICE.
Well anyhow there is Theagenes' wife
We can expect--she consulted Hecate.
But look, here are some at last, and more behind them.
See ... where are they from?
CALONICE.
From Anagyra they come.%
LYSISTRATA.
Yes, they generally manage to come first.
[Enter MYRRHINE.]
MYRRHINE.
Are we late, Lysistrata? ... What is that?
Nothing to say?
LYSISTRATA.
I've not much to say for you,
Myrrhine, dawdling on so vast an affair.
MYRRHINE.
I couldn't find my girdle in the dark.
But if the affair's so wonderfull, tell us, what is it?
LYSISTRATA.
No, let us stay a little longer till
The Peloponnesian girls and the girls of Bocotia
Are here to listen.
MYRRHINE.
That's the best advice.
Ah, there comes Lampito.
[Enter LAMPITO.]

Thesaurus
affair: (n) occurrence, event, business, girdle: (v) encircle, circle, compass, till: (conj, prep) until, unto; (v) plow,
concern, occasion, job, topic, duty, gird, enclose, encompass; (n, v) zone, hoe, farm, dig; (adj) up to; (n) tiller,
subject, amour, thing. ring; (n) cincture, cummerbund, sash. drawer; (adv) so far; (prep) to.
anyhow: (adv) somehow, at any rate, listen: (v) hear, heed, hearken, attend, vast: (adj) large, immense, spacious,
in any case, whatever, in any event, harken, list, listening, eavesdrop, extensive, immeasurable, enormous,
regardless, however, though, besides, mind, concentrate, pay attention. gigantic, wide, boundless, colossal,
nonetheless, one way or another. longer: (adj) longest, better, lengest; great. ANTONYMS: (adj) narrow,
dawdling: (adj) slow, dilatory, tardy, (adv) farther; (n) yearner, thirster. tiny, cramped, small, miniature,
deliberate, measured, laggard; (n) manage: (n, v) direct, govern, guide; affordable, bounded, insignificant,
dalliance, coquetry, trifling, (v) do, administer, cope, accomplish, slight, shallow, restricted.
dithering, wavering. ANTONYMS: deal, work, arrange, lead.
(n) decisiveness; (adj) rushed, fast. ANTONYMS: (v) fail, lose, bungle.
18 Lysistrata

LYSISTRATA.
Welcome Lampito!
Dear Spartan girl with a delightful face,
Washed with the rosy spring, how fresh you look
In the easy stride of your sleek slenderness,
Why you could strangle a bull!
LAMPITO.
I think I could.
It's frae exercise and kicking high behint.%
LYSISTRATA.
What lovely breasts to own!
LAMPITO.
Oo ... your fingers
Assess them, ye tickler, wi' such tender chucks
I feel as if I were an altar-victim.
LYSISTRATA.
Who is this youngster?
LAMPITO.
A Bœotian lady.
LYSISTRATA.
There never was much undergrowth in Bœotia,
Such a smooth place, and this girl takes after it.
CALONICE.
Yes, I never saw a skin so primly kept.
LYSISTRATA.
This girl?
LAMPITO.
A sonsie open-looking jinker!
She's a Corinthian.

Thesaurus
primly: (adv) priggishly, prissily, slippery, silken, satiny, satin, even; curvaceous, buxom, plump,
demurely, stiffly, formally, (adj, v) slick, smooth; (v) polish. epicurean, embonpoint, chubby,
puritanically, neatly, properly, ANTONYMS: (adj) rough, shaggy, busty, curvey, shapely.
precisely, decorously, Victorianly. coarse. strangle: (v) smother, stifle,
ANTONYM: (adv) brashly. slenderness: (n) fineness, thinness, asphyxiate, scrag, tighten, repress,
rosy: (adj) hopeful, blooming, slimness, delicacy, slightness, constrict, pinch, strangulate; (adj, v)
optimistic, auspicious, promising, feebleness, tenuity, smallness, throttle; (n) strangling.
bright, roseate, ruddy, fortunate, weakness, frailty; (adj) exility. stride: (n, v) pace, tread, walk, stalk,
flushed, pink. ANTONYMS: (adj) ANTONYMS: (n) thickness, obesity, rate, toddle, stump; (n) footstep, gait,
gloomy, depressing, hopeless, stoutness, roundness, sturdiness, progress; (v) march.
unpromising. width, coarseness. tickler: (n) file, data file, knife, tickler
sleek: (adj) glossy, silky, shiny, sonsie: (adj) bosomy, curvy, chain, tickler file.
 Aristophanes 19

LYSISTRATA.
Yes, isn't she
Very open, in some ways particularly.%
LAMPITO.
But who's garred this Council o' Women to meet here?
LYSISTRATA.
I have.
LAMPITO.
Propound then what you want o' us.
MYRRHINE.
What is the amazing news you have to tell?
LYSISTRATA.
I'll tell you, but first answer one small question.
MYRRHINE.
As you like.
LYSISTRATA.
Are you not sad your children's fathers
Go endlessly off soldiering afar
In this plodding war? I am willing to wager
There's not one here whose husband is at home.
CALONICE.
Mine's been in Thrace, keeping an eye on Eucrates
For five months past.
MYRRHINE.
And mine left me for Pylos
Seven months ago at least.
LAMPITO.
And as for mine
No sooner has he slipped out frae the line
He straps his shield and he's snickt off again.
Thesaurus
afar: (adv) off, away, far away, lineage, breed, field, ancestry, row; reveal.
distantly, beyond, Afar off, in the (adj, n) file; (n, v) order. soldiering: (n) goldbricking, slacking,
distance, by far, apart; (adj) outlying, plodding: (adj) slow, stodgy, heavy, shirking, soldiership, skill,
far. ANTONYMS: (adv) close, nearby, hardworking, ponderous, steady; (n) accomplishment, escape, evasion,
near; (prep) within. persistence, grind, donkeywork, dodging, attainment, acquisition.
endlessly: (adv) incessantly, drudgery, walking. ANTONYMS: sooner: (adj, adv) rather, earlier, before,
ceaselessly, unendingly, continually, (adj) dilettante, rapid. preferably, instead; (adv) first, before
perpetually, infinitely, constantly, shield: (n, v) shelter, screen, cover, now, faster, previously, beforehand;
everlastingly, boundlessly, guard, safeguard, buffer; (v) (adj) prior.
unceasingly, eternally. ANTONYMS: preserve, secure, defend, hide; (n) wager: (n, v) stake, hazard, risk,
(adv) briefly, intermittently. protection. ANTONYMS: (n) danger, venture, gamble, chance; (v) lay,
line: (n) cord, house, course, family, exposure; (v) endanger, attack, pledge, pawn, play; (n) stakes.
20 Lysistrata

LYSISTRATA.
And not the slightest glitter of a lover!
And since the Milesians betrayed us, I've not seen
The image of a single upright man
To be a marble consolation to us.
Now will you help me, if I find a means
To stamp the war out.
MYRRHINE.
By the two Goddesses, Yes!
I will though I've to pawn this very dress
And drink the barter-money the same day.%
CALONICE.
And I too though I'm split up like a turbot
And half is hackt off as the price of peace.
LAMPITO.
And I too! Why, to get a peep at the shy thing
I'd clamber up to the tip-top o' Taygetus.
LYSISTRATA.
Then I'll expose my mighty mystery.
O women, if we would compel the men
To bow to Peace, we must refrain—
MYRRHINE.
From what?
O tell us!
LYSISTRATA.
Will you truly do it then?
MYRRHINE.
We will, we will, if we must die for it.
LYSISTRATA.
We must refrain from every depth of love....

Thesaurus
clamber: (v) scramble, crawl, scale, ANTONYMS: (n) grief, sorrow, glint, squeal; (n) glimpse, cheep; (v)
ascend, mount, shinny, shin, distress, discouragement, chirp, peer, pry. ANTONYMS: (v)
struggle, surmount, ramp, climber. aggravation. stare, gaze; (n) examination.
compel: (v) force, coerce, pressure, glitter: (n, v) flash, beam, shine, refrain: (v) desist, cease, fast, avoid,
necessitate, enforce, command, glisten, glimmer, glow, sparkle, leave off, withhold, stop, spare; (adj,
oblige, require, make, obligate, press. flicker, shimmer; (v) glance; (n) v) forbear; (n) chorus, hold.
ANTONYMS: (v) impede, deter, radiance. ANTONYM: (n) dullness. ANTONYMS: (v) participate, act,
check, block, request, prevent. pawn: (n) bail, hostage, instrument, consume, persist.
consolation: (n) comfort, relief, balm, mortgage, gage, guarantee, bond, tip-top: (adj) elite, good.
succor, ease, cheer, solacement, collateral, lien, tool; (v) hock. turbot: (n) Psetta maxima, plaice,
encouragement, sympathy, ANTONYM: (v) redeem. Heterosomata, lefteye flounder, order
alleviation, express sympathy. peep: (n, v) glance, peek, look, gaze, Heterosomata, sole, tonguefishes.
 Aristophanes 21

Why do you turn your backs? Where are you going?

Why do you bite your lips and shake your heads?
Why are your faces blanched? Why do you weep?
Will you or won't you, or what do you mean?
MYRRHINE.
No, I won't do it. Let the war proceed.%
CALONICE.
No, I won't do it. Let the war proceed.
LYSISTRATA.
You too, dear turbot, you that said just now
You didn't mind being split right up in the least?
CALONICE.
Anything else? O bid me walk in fire
But do not rob us of that darling joy.
What else is like it, dearest Lysistrata?
LYSISTRATA.
And you?
MYRRHINE.
O please give me the fire instead.
LYSISTRATA.
Lewd to the least drop in the tiniest vein,
Our sex is fitly food for Tragic Poets,
Our whole life's but a pile of kisses and babies.
But, hardy Spartan, if you join with me
All may be righted yet. O help me, help me.
LAMPITO.
It's a sair, sair thing to ask of us, by the Twa,
A lass to sleep her lane and never fill
Love's lack except wi' makeshifts.... But let it be.
Peace maun be thought of first.

Thesaurus
babies: (n) children, babes, babe, fitly: (adv) appropriately, properly, woman.
babying, offspring. fittingly, decorously, aptly, tiniest: (adj) minimum, smallest
bite: (n, v) nip, cut, taste, hurt, pain; (v) befittingly, readily, accommodately, possible, least possible, lowest,
pinch, chew, erode, gnaw, eat; (n) expediently, suitly, justly. lowest possible, smallest.
morsel. ANTONYMS: (n) lot, whole, hardy: (adj, n) hard, fearless, rugged, ANTONYM: (adj) maximum.
mildness. daring; (adj) sturdy, manly, vein: (n) vena, strain, nervure, mine,
blanched: (adj) ashen, colorless, white, audacious, brave, strong, robust, temper, blood vessel, tone; (adj, n)
bleached, bloodless, benevolent, wan, gallant. ANTONYMS: (adj) weak, mood, humor, strip, frame of mind.
pale, lightened, fair, faded. delicate, tender, feeble. weep: (v) wail, bawl, lament, sob,
dearest: (n) dear, darling, love, honey, lass: (n) girl, lassie, damsel, young blubber, moan, howl, drip, greet,
lover, sweetheart, loved one, baby; woman, young girl, fille, miss, Jeune whimper; (n) tear.
(adj) precious, intimate, sweet. fille, bobbysocker, bobbysoxer,
22 Lysistrata

LYSISTRATA.
My friend, my friend!
The only one amid this herd of weaklings.%
CALONICE.
But if--which heaven forbid--we should refrain
As you would have us, how is Peace induced?
LYSISTRATA.
By the two Goddesses, now can't you see
All we have to do is idly sit indoors
With smooth roses powdered on our cheeks,
Our bodies burning naked through the folds
Of shining Amorgos' silk, and meet the men
With our dear Venus-plats plucked trim and neat.
Their stirring love will rise up furiously,
They'll beg our arms to open. That's our time!
We'll disregard their knocking, beat them off—
And they will soon be rabid for a Peace.
I'm sure of it.
LAMPITO.
Just as Menelaus, they say,
Seeing the bosom of his naked Helen
Flang down the sword.
CALONICE.
But we'll be tearful fools
If our husbands take us at our word and leave us.
LYSISTRATA.
There's only left then, in Pherecrates' phrase,
To flay a skinned dog--flay more our flayed desires.
CALONICE.
Bah, proverbs will never warm a celibate.

Thesaurus
bosom: (n) heart, interior, boob, idly: (adj, adv) foolishly; (adv) vainly, rabid: (adj) mad, fanatical, fanatic,
thorax, chest, bust, tit; (n, v) embrace; vaguely, listlessly, forgetfully, enthusiastic, frantic, insane, frenzied,
(v) cherish, hug; (adj) intimate. distractedly; (adj) thoughtlessly. extreme; (v) fierce, fiery; (adj, v) wild.
ANTONYMS: (n) outside, exteriority. ANTONYM: (adv) energetically. ANTONYMS: (adj) happy, moderate.
celibate: (adj) continent, unmarried, plucked: (v) ploughed; (adj) pulled, skinned: (adj) scraped, dartos,
single, chaste, maiden, virgin, unfeathered, featherless, moulting, frustrated, raw, scratched, sensitive,
virtuous, pure; (n) religionist, pilled. sore, tender, painful.
celibacy. ANTONYMS: (adj) powdered: (adj) powdery, fine, tearful: (adj) dolorous, maudlin,
promiscuous, sexual. crushed, milled, ground, broken up, watery, weeping, teary, sad,
flay: (v) excoriate, peel, skin, finer, minced, pulverised; (n) dolourous, wet, whimpering,
decorticate, pare, lash, flog, castigate, punctated, milk. sorrowful; (v) mournful.
scalp, shell, batter. proverbs: (n) proverb. ANTONYMS: (adj) cheerful, tearless.
 Aristophanes 23

But what avail will your scheme be if the men

Drag us for all our kicking on to the couch?
LYSISTRATA.
Cling to the doorposts.%
CALONICE.
But if they should force us?
LYSISTRATA.
Yield then, but with a sluggish, cold indifference.
There is no joy to them in sullen mating.
Besides we have other ways to madden them;
They cannot stand up long, and they've no delight
Unless we fit their aim with merry succour.
CALONICE.
Well if you must have it so, we'll all agree.
LAMPITO.
For us I ha' no doubt. We can persuade
Our men to strike a fair an' decent Peace,
But how will ye pitch out the battle-frenzy
O' the Athenian populace?
LYSISTRATA.
I promise you
We'll wither up that curse.
LAMPITO.
I don't believe it.
Not while they own ane trireme oared an' rigged,
Or a' those stacks an' stacks an' stacks O' siller.
LYSISTRATA.
I've thought the whole thing out till there's no flaw.
We shall surprise the Acropolis today.
That is the duty set the older dames.

Thesaurus
don't: (adv) not; (n) taboo, prohibition. man, country. dark, cross, surly; (adj, v) grim.
madden: (adj, v) exasperate, aggravate, rigged: (adj) prepared, premeditated. ANTONYMS: (adj) bright, cheery; (n)
exacerbate; (v) enrage, incense, stacks: (n) piles, set of bookshelves, cheeriness.
irritate, craze, derange, annoy, anger, rafts, plenty, oodles, mountain, trireme: (n) trionym, trigon,
inflame. ANTONYM: (v) pacify. scores; (adj, n) loads, myriad, lots; triennium, tripod, trident,
mating: (n) union, pairing, (adj) ample. quadrireme, triangle, triseme,
conjugation, crossing, marriage, succour: (n, v) succor; (n) consolation, triskele, triskelion, trisula.
cross, hybridization, service, relief, ministration, mercy, assistance, wither: (v) shrink, wilt, contract,
copulation, sex, crossbreeding. helping, ease, embossment; (v) shrivel, languish, droop, dry, waste,
populace: (n) multitude, masses, relieve, further. wane, atrophy, decay. ANTONYMS:
inhabitants, public, commonalty, sullen: (adj, n) morose, sulky, sour; (v) swell, strengthen, grow, blossom,
mob, crowd, population, nation, (adj) gloomy, gruff, glum, moody, flourish.
24 Lysistrata

While we sit here talking, they are to go

And under pretence of sacrificing, seize it.%
LAMPITO.
Certie, that's fine; all's warking for the best.
LYSISTRATA.
Now quickly, Lampito, let us tie ourselves
To this high purpose as tightly as the hemp of words
Can knot together.
LAMPITO.
Set out the terms in detail
And we'll a' swear to them.
LYSISTRATA.
Of course.... Well then
Where is our Scythianess? Why are you staring?
First lay the shield, boss downward, on the floor
And bring the victim's inwards.
CAILONICE.
But, Lysistrata, What is this oath that we're to swear?
LYSISTRATA.
What oath! In Aeschylus they take a slaughtered sheep
And swear upon a buckler. Why not we?
CALONICE.
O Lysistrata, Peace sworn on a buckler!
LYSISTRATA.
What oath would suit us then?
CALONICE.
Something burden bearing
Would be our best insignia.... A white horse!
Let's swear upon its entrails.

Thesaurus
buckler: (n) escutcheon, scutcheon, hemp: (n) cannabis, dope, ganja, grass, dissimulation, pretense, affectation,
scutum, aegis; (v) armor, fender, flax, halter, rope, abaca, gage; (adj) falsehood, deception, hypocrisy,
carapace, buffer, defend, mask, marijuana, pot. bluff, appearance, pretension.
armored vest. inwards: (adv) in, indoors, inwardly, seize: (v) catch, capture, grab, arrest,
downward: (adv) underneath, under, within, at home, here; (n) gut; (adj) clutch, get, apprehend, receive,
below, downwards, downwardly, inner, interior, domestic, intimate. annex, clasp; (n, v) grapple.
beneath, down below; (adj) downcast, ANTONYMS: (adv) out, outward. ANTONYMS: (v) baulk, relinquish,
sloping, depressed, downright. oath: (n) expletive, malediction, restore, surrender, give, remove.
ANTONYMS: (adv) up; (adj) rising. imprecation, promise, affidavit, cuss, sworn: (adj) extreme, mortal,
entrails: (n) bowels, gut, bowel, swearing, pledge, assurance, implacable, engaged, dedicated,
viscera, innards, internal organs, asseveration; (v) swear. committed, betrothed, bespoken,
insides, intestines, guts, tripe, inside. pretence: (n) deceit, pretext, affianced, inveterate.
 Aristophanes 25

LYSISTRATA.
A horse indeed!
CALONICE.
Then what will symbolise us?
LYSISTRATA.
This, as I tell you—
First set a great dark bowl upon the ground
And disembowel a skin of Thasian wine,
Then swear that we'll not add a drop of water.%
LAMPITO.
Ah, what aith could clink pleasanter than that!
LYSISTRATA.
Bring me a bowl then and a skin of wine.
CALONICE.
My dears, see what a splendid bowl it is;
I'd not say No if asked to sip it off.
LYSISTRATA.
Put down the bowl. Lay hands, all, on the victim.
Skiey Queen who givest the last word in arguments,
And thee, O Bowl, dear comrade, we beseech:
Accept our oblation and be propitious to us.
CALONICE.
What healthy blood, la, how it gushes out!
LAMPITO.
An' what a leesome fragrance through the air.
LYSISTRATA.
Now, dears, if you will let me, I'll speak first.
CALONICE.
Only if you draw the lot, by Aphrodite!

Thesaurus
clink: (n, v) clank, jingle, chink, ring, scent, smell; (n) bouquet, odor, ANTONYMS: (adj) unfortunate,
rattle; (v) tinkle, sound; (n) clang, jail, essence, odour, redolence, sweetness; unlucky, unpropitious, inopportune,
clash, click. (adj) fragrant. ANTONYMS: (n) stink, hopeless.
comrade: (n) colleague, chum, buddy, stench. swear: (v) declare, assure, assert,
fellow, compeer, partner, brother, oblation: (n, v) offering; (n) gift, affirm, curse, pledge; (n, v) promise,
mate, familiar; (adj, n) associate, ally. immolation, offertory; (v) grant, avow, depone, depose, aver.
ANTONYMS: (n) stranger, enemy, benefaction, boon, favor, free gift, ANTONYMS: (v) distrust, refute,
foe, opponent. largess, donative. deny, compliment.
disembowel: (v) embowel, gut, draw, propitious: (adj) fortunate, lucky, symbolise: (v) represent, symbolize,
disbowel, withdraw, take, remove, good, benign, happy, opportune; (adj, exemplify, mean, be, signify,
paunch, describe, depict, delineate. v) auspicious; (adj, n, v) friendly; (adj, personify, epitomize, make up, play,
fragrance: (n, v) aroma, perfume, n) promising, advantageous, kind. stand for.
26 Lysistrata

LYSISTRATA.
SO, grasp the brim, you, Lampito, and all.
You, Calonice, repeat for the rest each word I say.
Then you must all take oath
And pledge your arms to the same stern conditions—
LYSISTRATA.
To husband or lover I'll not open arms
CALONICE.
To husband or lover I'll not open arms
LYSISTRATA.
Though love and denial may enlarge his charms.%
CALONICE.
Though love and denial may enlarge his charms.
O, O, my knees are failing me, Lysistrata!
LYSISTRATA.
But still at home, ignoring him, I'll stay,
CALONICE.
But still at home, ignoring him, I'll stay,
LYSISTRATA.
Beautiful, clad in saffron silks all day.
CALONICE.
Beautiful, clad in saffron silks all day.
LYSISTRATA.
If then he seizes me by dint of force,
CALONICE.
If then he seizes me by dint of force,
LYSISTRATA.
I'll give him reason for a long remorse.

Thesaurus
brim: (n) rim, periphery, verge, edge, delve. bet, contract; (n) assurance; (v)
lip, hem, rand, margin, perimeter, enlarge: (v) expand, aggrandize, covenant. ANTONYM: (v) redeem.
brink, limit. augment, dilate, distend, widen, remorse: (n) penitence, contrition,
charms: (n) trinkets, jewelry, jewels. increase, elaborate, extend, blow up, repentance, regret, guilt, penance,
clad: (adj) dressed, attired, clothed, grow. ANTONYMS: (v) reduce, sorrow, grief, qualm, ruefulness,
coated, garbed; (n) cladding; (prep) shrink, contract, decrease, compress, compassion. ANTONYM: (n)
gowned; (v) costume, shod, dress, condense, diminish, lessen, shamelessness.
attire. ANTONYMS: (adj) undressed, minimize, narrow, abridge. saffron: (n) yellow, crocus sativus,
unclothed. ignoring: (n) silent treatment, orange yellow, yellowness, seasoner,
dint: (v) indent; (n) indentation, blow, omission. seasoning, flavouring, flavourer,
strength, percussion, agency, hollow, pledge: (n, v) bond, gage, wager, saffron crocus, flavorer; (adj) topaz.
depression, might, impression; (adj) engage, promise, plight, guarantee, silks: (n) garment.
 Aristophanes 27

CALONICE.
I'll give him reason for a long remorse.%
LYSISTRATA.
I'll never lie and stare up at the ceiling,
CALONICE.
I'll never lie and stare up at the ceiling,
LYSISTRATA.
Nor like a lion on all fours go kneeling.
CALONICE.
Nor like a lion on all fours go kneeling.
LYSISTRATA.
If I keep faith, then bounteous cups be mine.
CALONICE.
If I keep faith, then bounteous cups be mine.
LYSISTRATA.
If not, to nauseous water change this wine.
CALONICE.
If not, to nauseous water change this wine.
LYSISTRATA.
Do you all swear to this?
MYRRHINE.
We do, we do.
LYSISTRATA.
Then I shall immolate the victim thus. [She drinks.]
CALONICE.
Here now, share fair, haven't we made a pact?
Let's all quaff down that friendship in our turn.
LAMPITO.
Hark, what caterwauling hubbub's that?

Thesaurus
bounteous: (adj) bountiful, liberal, slaughter, attempt, endeavor, atone, loathsome, disgusting, nasty,
ample, copious, plentiful, bighearted, bid. sickening, nauseating, obnoxious,
generous, munificent, handsome, kneeling: (n) homage, kowtow, repugnant, abominable.
benevolent, affluent. ANTONYM: kneelingly, prostration, genuflexion, ANTONYMS: (adj) pleasing,
(adj) scarce. genuflection, curtsy, courtesy, charming, pleasant.
caterwauling: (n) caterwaul, noise, obeisance. pact: (n, v) contract; (n) agreement,
want of harmony, dissonance; (adj) lion: (adj, n) celebrity, hero; (adj) bargain, deal, convention, bond,
harsh. worthy, great card, tiger; (n) Leo, cat, alliance, understanding, compact,
cups: (n) plates, dishes, dishware, king of beasts, curiosity, luminary, covenant, treaty.
tableware. spectacle. quaff: (v) drink, gulp, swig, guzzle,
immolate: (v) sacrifice, offer, nauseous: (adj, v) fulsome; (v) drain, sup, sip, swill, swallow,
assassinate, butcher, kill, murder, abhorrent; (adj) distasteful, carouse; (n) potation.
28 Lysistrata

LYSISTRATA.
As I told you,
The women have appropriated the citadel.
So, Lampito, dash off to your own land
And raise the rebels there. These will serve as hostages,
While we ourselves take our places in the ranks
And drive the bolts right home.%
CALONICE.
But won't the men March straight against us?
LYSISTRATA.
And what if they do?
No threat shall creak our hinges wide, no torch
Shall light a fear in us; we will come out
To Peace alone.
CALONICE.
That's it, by Aphrodite!
As of old let us seem hard and obdurate.
[LAMPITO and some go off; the others go up into the Acropolis. Chorus of
OLD MEN enter to attack the captured Acropolis.]
Make room, Draces, move ahead; why your shoulder's chafed, I see,
With lugging uphill these lopped branches of the olive-tree.
How upside-down and wrong-way-round a long life sees things grow.
Ah, Strymodorus, who'd have thought affairs could tangle so?
The women whom at home we fed,
Like witless fools, with fostering bread,
Have impiously come to this—
They've stolen the Acropolis,
With bolts and bars our orders flout
And shut us out.
Come, Philurgus, bustle thither; lay our faggots on the ground,
In neat stacks beleaguering the insurgents all around;

Thesaurus
appropriated: (adj) taken, destined, confess; (n) creaking; (adv) lopped off, cropped, mutilated.
taken over, confiscate, confiscated, creakingly; (adj) ancient. lugging: (n) food.
condemned, seized, reserved. flout: (n, v) deride, jeer, gibe, taunt, ranks: (n) rank and file.
beleaguering: (n) military blockade, scoff, mock, sneer; (v) defy, scorn, thither: (adv) hither, whither, on that
Syracuse, besieging, Corregidor, jest, scout. ANTONYMS: (v) observe, point, in that respect, at that place, in
Lucknow, Orleans, Atlanta. notice. that location; (adj) further, ulterior,
branches: (n) branch, brushwood. impiously: (adv) ungodly, sinfully, remoter, succeeding, more distant.
chafed: (adj) uncomfortable, sore, disrespectfully, irreligiously, upside-down: (adj) upside down.
painful, galled, angry; (v) fretted, profanely, wickedly, iniquitously, witless: (adj, n) silly, brainless, foolish,
agitated. blasphemously, godlessly, unholy, stupid, unwise, simple; (adj)
creak: (v) pipe, screech, twang, nefariously. mindless, senseless, thoughtless, dull,
skreigh, resound, jangle, gnash, lopped: (adj) docked, truncated, nitwitted.
 Aristophanes 29

And %the vile conspiratresses, plotters of such mischief dire,

Pile and burn them all together in one vast and righteous pyre: Fling with
our own hands Lycon's wife to fry in the thickest fire.
By Demeter, they'll get no brag while I've a vein to beat!
Cleomenes himself was hurtled out in sore defeat.
His stiff-backed Spartan pride was bent.
Out, stripped of all his arms, he went.
A pigmy cloak that would not stretch
To hide his rump (the draggled wretch),
Six sprouting years of beard, the spilth
Of six years' filth.
That was a siege! Our men were ranged in lines of seventeen deep Before the
gates, and never left their posts there, even to sleep. Shall I not smite the rash
presumption then of foes like these, Detested both of all the gods and of
Euripides—
Else, may the Marathon-plain not boast my trophied victories!
Ah, now, there's but a little space
To reach the place!
A deadly climb it is, a tricky road
With all this bumping load.
A pack-ass soon would tire....
How these logs bruise my shoulders! further still
Jog up the hill,
And puff the fire inside,
Or just as we reach the top we'll find it's died.
Ough, phew!
I choke with the smoke.
Lord Heracles, how acrid-hot
Out of the pot
This mad-dog smoke leaps, worrying me
And biting angrily....
'Tis Lemnian fire that smokes,

Thesaurus
brag: (n, v) bluster, vaunt, crow; (v) unblock. moral, virtuous, honest, just, correct,
pride, gasconade, blow, show off, draggled: (adj) unclean, dirty, honorable; (adj, n) pious, godly.
rodomontade; (n) boasting, bragging; dilapidated. ANTONYMS: (adj) immoral, wicked,
(adj) great. gods: (n) gallery. unrighteous, bad, corrupt, unethical,
bruise: (n, v) hurt, wound; (v) crush, pigmy: (adj, n) pygmy; (adj) tiny, unjust, wrong, poor.
pound, mash, contuse, grind, bray; exiguous, petty, minikin, smite: (v) strike, hit, buffet, bang,
(n) contusion, hematoma; (adj, n) pigwidgeon, urchin, elfin; (n) elf, clout, knock, smash, thrash, thump,
buffet. manikin, atom. batter, affect.
choke: (v) asphyxiate, block, stifle, pyre: (n) pile, heap, funeral, funeral sprouting: (n) germination, growth,
back up, clog up, gag, suffocate, foul, pyre, stake, wake, mound, hair, fire, shooting, ontogenesis, maturation;
strangle, smother, obstruct. funeral pile. (adj) growing, evolving, green,
ANTONYMS: (v) free, open, release, righteous: (adj) fair, right, good, embryonic, emergent, nascent.
30 Lysistrata

Or %else it would not sting my eyelids thus....

Haste, all of us;
Athene invokes our aid.
Laches, now or never the assault must be made!
Ough, phew! I choke with the smoke…
Thanked be the gods!
The fire peeps up and crackles as it should.
Now why not first slide off our backs these weary loads of wood
And dip a vine-branch in the brazier till it glows, then straight
Hurl it at the battering-ram against the stubborn gate?
If they refuse to draw the bolts in immediate compliance,
We'll set fire to the wood, and smoke will strangle their defiance.
Phew, what a spluttering drench of smoke!
Come, now from off my back....
Is there no Samos-general
To help me to unpack?
Ah there, that's over!
For the last time now it's galled my shoulder.
Flare up thine embers, brazier, and dutifully smoulder,
To kindle a brand, that I the first may strike the citadel.
Aid me, Lady Victory, that a triumph-trophy may tell
How we did anciently this insane audacity quell!
CHORUS OF WOMEN.
What's that rising yonder?
That ruddy glare, that smoky skurry?
O is it something in a blaze?
Quick, quick, my comrades, hurry!
Nicodice, helter-skelter!
Or poor Calyce's in flames
And Cratylla's stifled in the welter.
O these dreadful old men
And their dark laws of hate!

Thesaurus
anciently: (adv) antiquatedly, painful. carelessness, delinquency, laxity,
formerly, oldly, primevally, hoarily, helter-skelter: (adj, adv) recklessly; informality; (v) oversight.
primordially, obsoletely, bygonely, (adj) chaotic, haphazard, capricious, skurry: (n) hurry.
archaically, antediluvianly, pastly. reckless, upside-down; (adv) anyhow, smoulder: (n, v) smolder; (adj)
brazier: (n) warmer, heater, bucket, irregularly. smoldering; (v) seethe, combust.
barbecue. kindle: (adj, v) inflame; (v) fire, excite, spluttering: (adj) noisy.
drench: (adj, v) soak, douse, steep, arouse, burn, flame, awaken, incite,
immerse, splash, wash; (v) deluge, enkindle, stir; (n, v) light.
swamp, dip, drown, souse. ANTONYMS: (v) enkindle, dampen,
ANTONYM: (v) dehydrate. calm, extinguish, quench, stifle.
galled: (adj) chafed, uncomfortable, laches: (n, v) omission; (n) failure,
chilly, bleak, bare, bald, angry, neglect, evasion, inobservance,
 Aristophanes 31

There, %I'm all of a tremble lest I turn out to be too late.

I could scarcely get near to the spring though I rose before dawn,
What with tattling of tongues and rattling of pitchers in one jostling din
With slaves pushing in!…
Still here at last the water's drawn
And with it eagerly I run
To help those of my friends who stand
In danger of being burned alive.
For I am told a dribbling band
Of greybeards hobble to the field,
Great faggots in each palsied hand,
As if a hot bath to prepare,
And threatening that out they'll drive
These wicked women or soon leave them charring into ashes there.
O Goddess, suffer not, I pray, this harsh deed to be done,
But show us Greece and Athens with their warlike acts repealed!
For this alone, in this thy hold,
Thou Goddess with the helm of gold,
We laid hands on thy sanctuary,
Athene…. Then our ally be
And where they cast their fires of slaughter
Direct our water!
STRATYLLIS.
[caught]
Let me go!
WOMEN.
You villainous old men, what's this you do?
No honest man, no pious man, could do such things as you.
MEN.
Ah ha, here's something most original, I have no doubt.
A swarm of women sentinels to man the walls without.

Thesaurus
charring: (n) carbonization, fire. slaves: (n) helotry, bondsmen. calm.
dribbling: (n) trickle, drip, actuation. swarm: (n) host, horde, multitude, villainous: (adj, v) base, infamous, vile,
hobble: (n, v) limp, hitch, fetter; (v) drove, throng, cloud, assembly; (n, v) black, shameful; (adj) heinous,
hamper, hopple, handcuff, bridle, mob; (v) teem, pour; (adj) shoal. atrocious, depraved, wicked, evil,
manacle, hinder; (adv) toddle; (adj) ANTONYMS: (v) retreat; (n) few. vicious.
scrape. tattling: (n) betrayal, babble, state's warlike: (adj) military, belligerent,
jostling: (v) jarring; (adj) bustling; (n) evidence; (adj) blabbermouthed, not bellicose, pugnacious, combative,
elbowing. close; (v) talkative, futile, loquacious. aggressive, armigerous, hostile,
palsied: (adj) paralyzed, disabled, tremble: (adj, n, v) shiver; (n, v) quiver, unfriendly, unpacific, militant.
motionless, unsteady, weak, shudder, thrill, palpitate; (adj, v) ANTONYMS: (adj) harmonizing,
comatose, unconscious; (v) paralyse, totter, quake; (n) throb; (v) flutter, friendly.
paralyze, withered. quail, falter. ANTONYMS: (v) steady,
32 Lysistrata

WOMEN.
So then we scare you, do we? Do we seem a fearful host?
You only see the smallest fraction mustered at this post.%
MEN.
Ho, Phaedrias, shall we put a stop to all these chattering tricks?
Suppose that now upon their backs we splintered these our sticks?
WOMEN.
Let us lay down the pitchers, so our bodies will be free,
In case these lumping fellows try to cause some injury.
MEN.
O hit them hard and hit again and hit until they run away,
And perhaps they'll learn, like Bupalus, not to have too much to say.
WOMEN.
Come on, then--do it! I won't budge, but like a dog I'll bite
At every little scrap of meat that dangles in my sight.
MEN.
Be quiet, or I'll bash you out of any years to come.
WOMEN.
Now you just touch Stratyllis with the top-joint of your thumb.
MEN.
What vengeance can you take if with my fists your face I beat?
WOMEN.
I'll rip you with my teeth and strew your entrails at your feet.
MEN.
Now I appreciate Euripides' strange subtlety.
Woman is the most shameless beast of all the beasts that be.
WOMEN.
Rhodippe, come, and let's pick up our water-jars once more.

Thesaurus
bash: (n, v) swipe, whack, knock, lumping: (adj) bulky; (n) formation of plastered.
punch, wallop, hit, strike, crack, lumps. strew: (v) scatter, spread, disperse,
smash; (v) beat; (n) blow. shameless: (adj) bold, immodest, disseminate, distribute, diffuse, sow,
beasts: (n) stock. profligate, depraved, audacious, sprinkle, bestrew, circulate,
budge: (adj, v) move, go; (v) stir, blatant, barefaced, unscrupulous, propagate. ANTONYM: (v)
agitate, change, sway, dislodge, impudent, unblushing; (adj, v) concentrate.
bump, rouse, push; (adj) flit. graceless. ANTONYMS: (adj) subtlety: (n) refinement, elegance,
ANTONYMS: (v) remain, stay. restrained, abashed, ashamed, nuance, delicacy, craft, finesse,
chattering: (n) chatter, cackle, yak, discreet, prudish, apologetic. nicety, niceness, penetration, polish,
grabbing, claver; (adj) talkative, splintered: (adj) shattered, broken, cunning. ANTONYMS: (n)
loquacious, noisy, gabby, garrulous; pixilated, split, soaked, blind drunk, tactlessness, coarseness, heaviness,
(v) natter. soused, blotto, sozzled, cracked, vulgarity.
 Aristophanes 33

MEN.
Ah cursed drab, what have you brought this water for?
WOMEN.
What is your fire for then, you smelly corpse? Yourself to burn?
MEN.
To build a pyre and make your comrades ready for the urn.%
WOMEN.
And I've the water to put out your fire immediately.
MEN.
What, you put out my fire?
WOMEN.
Yes, sirrah, as you soon will see.
MEN.
I don't know why I hesitate to roast you with this flame.
WOMEN.
If you have any soap you'll go off cleaner than you came.
MEN.
Cleaner, you dirty slut?
WOMEN.
A nuptial-bath in which to lie!
MEN.
Did you hear that insolence?
WOMEN.
I'm a free woman, I.
MEN.
I'll make you hold your tongue.
WOMEN.
Henceforth you'll serve in no more juries.

Thesaurus
came: (v) arrive, come. cheerful, distinctive, smart, strong. roast: (v) burn, grill, bake, joke, heat,
cursed: (adj) damned, doomed, hesitate: (adj, n, v) pause, delay; (adj, v) quiz, fry, cook, scorch; (n, v) ridicule;
execrable, cussed, wretched, unlucky, linger; (v) fluctuate, halt, waver, (n) joint. ANTONYMS: (v) cool,
accursed, blamed, blasted, vacillate, demur, boggle, praise.
confounded; (v) accurst. procrastinate; (n, v) doubt. slut: (n) hussy, slattern, jade, floozy,
ANTONYMS: (adj) commendable, ANTONYMS: (v) rush, decide. trollop, prostitute, hooker, quean,
honorable, nice, sweet, kine. insolence: (n) impertinence, wench, sloven; (adj) dowdy.
drab: (adj) dreary, gloomy, dingy, arrogance, audacity, impudence, smelly: (adj) putrid, fetid, noisome,
cheerless, somber, boring, dowdy, effrontery, cheek, assumption, gall, malodorous, foul, stinking, foetid,
dark, colorless, dull, depressing. disrespect, haughtiness, crust. funky, rank, rancid, rotten.
ANTONYMS: (adj) colorful, vivid, ANTONYMS: (n) respect, politeness, ANTONYMS: (adj) aromatic,
brilliant, chic, flashy, interesting, meekness, shyness. perfumed, fragrant, fresh.
34 Lysistrata

MEN.
Burn off her hair for her.%
WOMEN.
Now forward, water, quench their furies!
MEN.
O dear, O dear!
WOMEN.
So ... was it hot?
MEN.
Hot! ... Enough, O hold.
WOMEN.
Watered, perhaps you'll bloom again--why not?
MEN.
Brrr, I'm wrinkled up from shivering with cold.
WOMEN.
Next time you've fire you'll warm yourself and leave us to our lot.
[MAGISTRATE enters with attendant SCYTHIANS.]
MAGISTRATE.
Have the luxurious rites of the women glittered
Their libertine show, their drumming tapped out crowds,
The Sabazian Mysteries summoned their mob,
Adonis been wept to death on the terraces,
As I could hear the last day in the Assembly?
For Demostratus--let bad luck befoul him—
Was roaring, "We must sail for Sicily,"
While a woman, throwing herself about in a dance
Lopsided with drink, was shrilling out "Adonis,
Woe for Adonis." Then Demostratus shouted,
"We must levy hoplites at Zacynthus,"
And there the woman, up to the ears in wine,

Thesaurus
befoul: (v) foul, pollute, soil, quench: (adj, v) extinguish, allay, trembling, shaky, quaking,
contaminate, dirty, violate, maculate, slake; (v) appease, quash, put out, tremulous, shuddering, chilled; (n)
tarnish; (adj) besmear, bemire, destroy, assuage, annihilate, calm, chill, cold, shiver. ANTONYM: (adj)
begrime. chill. ANTONYMS: (v) stimulate, composed.
drumming: (n) roll, drums, sound, light. shouted: (adj) screamed, loud.
thump, pulse, barrelling, percussion, rites: (n) money, finances, wake, tapped: (adj) poor, powerless, helpless.
buzzing, stress, tapping, throb. religion. ANTONYM: (adj) untapped.
furies: (n) Eumenides. roaring: (n) bellowing, roar, bellow, wrinkled: (adj, n) rough, rugged; (adj)
libertine: (adj) dissolute, dissipated, thunder; (adj) booming, prosperous, puckered, creased, wrinkly, wizened,
debauched, fast, lewd, lascivious, thriving, flourishing, deafening, crumpled, lined, gnarled, unironed,
loose, licentious; (n, v) debauchee; (n) noisy, boisterous. crinkled. ANTONYMS: (adj)
rake; (adj, n) wanton. shivering: (adj) quivering, shaking, unwrinkled, ironed, straight.
 Aristophanes 35

Was screaming "Weep for Adonis" on the house-top,

The scoundrelly politician, that lunatic ox,
Bellowing bad advice through tipsy shrieks.
Such are the follies wantoning in them.%
MEN.
O if you knew their full effronery!
All of the insults they've done, besides sousing us
With water from their pots to our public disgrace
For we stand here wringing our clothes like grown-up infants.
MAGISTRATE.
By Poseidon, justly done! For in part with us
The blame must lie for dissolute behaviour
And for the pampered appetites they learn.
Thus grows the seedling lust to blossoming.
We go into a shop and say, "Here, goldsmith,
You remember the necklace that you wrought my wife;
Well, the other night in fervour of a dance
Her clasp broke open. Now I'm off for Salamis;
If you've the leisure, would you go tonight
And stick a bolt-pin into her opened clasp."
Another goes to a cobbler; a soldierly fellow,
Always standing up erect, and says to him,
"Cobbler, a sandal-strap of my wife's pinches her,
Hurts her little toe in a place where she's sensitive.
Come at noon and see if you can stretch out wider
This thing that troubles her, loosen its tightness."
And so you view the result. Observe my case—
I, a magistrate, come here to draw
Money to buy oar-blades, and what happens?
The women slam the door full in my face.
But standing still's no use. Bring me a crowbar,

Thesaurus
blossoming: (n) bloom, florescence, upright, chaste, restrained, good, hostile, warriorlike.
flowering, anthesis, blossom, resolute, virtuous, pure, cautious, sousing: (n) souse, drenching, lush,
efflorescence, inflorescence, righteous, innocent. soak, soakage, soaker, alcoholic,
ontogeny, ontogenesis; (adj) budding, scoundrelly: (adj) roguish, rascally, boozer, dipsomaniac.
growing. ANTONYM: (adj) failing. blackguardly, false, dishonorable, tipsy: (adj) tight, intoxicated, soused,
crowbar: (n) jemmy, pry, jimmies, pry dishonest, devilish. blotto, inebriated, fuddled, taut,
bar, ringer, wrecking bar; (v) brag. seedling: (n) sapling, sap, plant, stringent, loaded, besotted, close.
dissolute: (adj, v) dissipated, fast, spermatophyte, germ, set, plantlet, wringing: (adj) saturated, soaked,
wanton; (adj) abandoned, depraved, young plant, embryo, formed tree, soaked to the skin, soaking wet,
licentious, immoral, corrupt, phanerogam. sodden, sopping, sopping wet, wet,
profligate, degenerate; (adj, n) soldierly: (adj) soldierlike, military, wet through, wringing wet, soaking.
libertine. ANTONYMS: (adj) moral, courageous, valiant, warlike, manful, ANTONYM: (adj) dry.
36 Lysistrata

And I'll chastise this their impertinence.

What do you gape at, wretch, with dazzled eyes?
Peering for a tavern, I suppose.
Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart!
I'll prise away myself too....
[LYSISTRATA appears.]
LYSISTRATA.
Stop this banging.
I'm coming of my own accord.... Why bars?
It is not bars we need but common sense.%
MAGISTRATE.
Indeed, you slut! Where is the archer now?
Arrest this woman, tie her hands behind.
LYSISTRATA.
If he brushes me with a finger, by Artemis,
The public menial, he'll be sorry for it.
MAGISTRATE.
Are you afraid? Grab her about the middle.
Two of you then, lay hands on her and end it.
CALONICE.
By Pandrosos I if your hand touches her
I'll spread you out and trample on your guts.
MAGISTRATE.
My guts! Where is the other archer gone?
Bind that minx there who talks so prettily.
MYRRHINE.
By Phosphor, if your hand moves out her way
You'd better have a surgeon somewhere handy.

Thesaurus
chastise: (v) castigate, chasten, correct, impertinency, sauciness, freshness. pleasantly, handsomely, finely,
reprimand, punish, criticize, beat, ANTONYMS: (n) politeness, neatly, gracefully, picturesquely,
scold, chew out, flog; (n, v) scourge. seriousness, reticence. elegantly, delightfully, pleasingly.
ANTONYMS: (v) comfort, bless, menial: (adj, n) inferior; (adj) lowly, ANTONYMS: (adv) unattractively,
commend, promote, reward, abject, ignoble, humble, low, mean; unpleasantly.
encourage. (n) henchman, domestic, lackey, trample: (v) oppress, stamp, squash,
gape: (v) gawk, yawn, open, glare, servant. ANTONYMS: (adj) elevated, crush, tread, flatten, defeat, suppress,
goggle, split, dehisce, ogle, see; (adj, noble. step, frustrate; (n) trampling.
n) stare; (n, v) look. minx: (n) flirt, hussy, vamp, wretch: (n) victim, villain, scoundrel,
impertinence: (n) audacity, gall, jackanapes, malapert, mink, slut, reprobate, reptile, miscreant, martyr,
impudence, insolence, disrespect, jade, quean, woman, bitch. object of compassion, poor devil,
effrontery, brass, boldness, prettily: (adv) beautifully, charmingly, prey, wreak.
 Aristophanes 37

MAGISTRATE.
You too! Where is that archer? Take that woman.
I'll put a stop to these surprise-parties.%
STRATYLLIS.
By the Tauric Artemis, one inch nearer
My fingers, and it's a bald man that'll be yelling.
MAGISTRATE.
Tut tut, what's here? Deserted by my archers....
But surely women never can defeat us;
Close up your ranks, my Scythians. Forward at them.
LYSISTRATA.
By the Goddesses, you'll find that here await you
Four companies of most pugnacious women
Armed cap-a-pie from the topmost louring curl
To the lowest angry dimple.
MAGISTRATE.
On, Scythians, bind them.
LYSISTRATA.
On, gallant allies of our high design,
Vendors of grain-eggs-pulse-and-vegetables,
Ye garlic-tavern-keepers of bakeries,
Strike, batter, knock, hit, slap, and scratch our foes,
Be finely imprudent, say what you think of them....
Enough! retire and do not rob the dead.
MAGISTRATE.
How basely did my archer-force come off.
LYSISTRATA.
Ah, ha, you thought it was a herd of slaves
You had to tackle, and you didn't guess
The thirst for glory ardent in our blood.

Thesaurus
archer: (n) bowman, Sagittarius, spot hole, follicle, lacuna, hole. cautious, wise, deliberate, discreet,
turfman, fan, expert, shot, shooter, ANTONYMS: (n) hump, lump. guarded, judicious, advisable.
toxophilite, tell, bowyer. gallant: (adj) fearless, brave, daring, pugnacious: (adj) belligerent, bellicose,
basely: (adv) vilely, bottomly, courageous, chivalrous, bold, manly, combative, aggressive, quarrelsome,
sordidly, shamefully, foully, heroic, dashing, courteous, fine. warlike, contentious, argumentative,
menially, lowly, depravedly, ANTONYMS: (adj) boorish, rude, hostile, martial, peevish.
villainously, badly, poorly. selfish. ANTONYMS: (adj) peaceable,
batter: (v) hammer, baste, break, club, imprudent: (adj) foolish, foolhardy, friendly.
slam, beat, mangle, buffet, smite, indiscreet, hasty, improvident, topmost: (adj) highest, upmost, upper,
pound; (n) batsman. impolitic, heedless, unadvised, maximum, uppermost, head,
dimple: (n) depression, dint, injudicious, unwary, unwise. supreme, utmost, crowning, apical,
indentation, hollow, cavity, dip, pit, ANTONYMS: (adj) sensible, prudent, uttermost. ANTONYM: (adj) bottom.
38 Lysistrata

MAGISTRATE.
By Apollo, I know well the thirst that heats you—
Especially when a wine-skin's close.%
MEN.
You waste your breath, dear magistrate, I fear, in answering back.
What's the good of argument with such a rampageous pack? Remember how
they washed us down (these very clothes I wore)
With water that looked nasty and that smelt so even more.
WOMEN.
What else to do, since you advanced too dangerously nigh.
If you should do the same again, I'll punch you in the eye.
Though I'm a stay-at-home and most a quiet life enjoy,
Polite to all and every (for I'm naturally coy),
Still if you wake a wasps' nest then of wasps you must beware.
MEN.
How may this ferocity be tamed? It grows too great to bear.
Let us question them and find if they'll perchance declare
The reason why they strangely dare
To seize on Cranaos' citadel,
This eyrie inaccessible,
This shrine above the precipice,
The Acropolis.
Probe them and find what they mean with this idle talk; listen, but watch
they don't try to deceive.
You'd be neglecting your duty most certainly if now this mystery
unplumbed you leave.
MAGISTRATE.
Women there! Tell what I ask you, directly....
Come, without rambling, I wish you to state
What's your rebellious intention in barring up thus on our noses our own
temple-gate.

Thesaurus
citadel: (n) castle, bastion, fortification, chance, peradventure, accidentally, rampageous: (adj) violent, rampant,
bulwark, Acropolis, fort, stronghold, incidentally, mayhap, chance, rampacious, chaotic.
tower, chateau; (n, v) fortress; (v) haphazard, probably, haply. tamed: (adj) tame, broken,
keep. precipice: (n) abyss, chasm, domesticated, under control, tamer,
eyrie: (n) aery, eyry, habitation, cave, escarpment, gulf, steep, crag, verge, meek, gentle, domestic, docile,
cell, den, hiding place, hole, lair, brink, abysm, ravine, drop. controlled, cultivated.
sanctum sanctorum. rambling: (adj) disjointed, incoherent, unplumbed: (adj) profound,
nigh: (adj, adv, prep) near; (adj, adv) desultory, discursive, erratic, unfathomable, unsounded, deep,
close, nearly, almost, nearby, most, excursive, meandering, diffuse, loose, unfathomed, bottomless, silent,
all but, about, adjacent; (prep) by; (adj) errant; (adj, n) wandering. immeasurable, heavy, sound,
approximate. ANTONYMS: (adj) coherent, abrupt, fundamental. ANTONYM: (adj)
perchance: (adv) maybe, possibly, by conclusive, pithy, taciturn, compact. shallow.
 Aristophanes 39

LYSISTRATA.
To take first the treasury out of your management, and so stop the war
through the absence of gold.%
MAGISTRATE.
Is gold then the cause of the war?
LYSISTRATA.
Yes, gold caused it and miseries more, too many to be told.
'Twas for money, and money alone, that Pisander with all of the army of
mob-agitators.
Raised up revolutions. But, as for the future, it won't be worth while to set up
to be traitors.
Not an obol they'll get as their loot, not an obol! while we have the treasure-
chest in our command.
MAGISTRATE.
What then is that you propose?
LYSISTRATA.
Just this--merely to take the exchequer henceforth in hand.
MAGISTRATE.
The exchequer!
LYSISTRATA.
Yes, why not? Of our capabilities you have had various clear evidences.
Firstly remember we have always administered soundly the budget of all
home-expenses.
MAGISTRATE.
But this matter's different.
LYSISTRATA.
How is it different?
MAGISTRATE.
Why, it deals chiefly with war-time supplies.

Thesaurus
capabilities: (n) capability, ability, foremostly, first off, primarily, recorder, archon, doge, chancellor.
competence, possibilities. basically, first of all, at first, propose: (v) bid, nominate, design,
chiefly: (adv) principally, primarily, leadingly, primely. ANTONYMS: plan, proffer, move, intend, mean,
above all, especially, headly, mostly, (adv) lastly, finally. aim, suggest; (n, v) advance.
largely, primely, predominantly; (adj, gold: (n) Au, money, riches, wealth, ANTONYMS: (v) reject, improvise,
adv) mainly, particularly. bullion, treasure, yellow, amber; (adj) oppose.
ANTONYM: (adv) partially. aureate, gilt, golden. soundly: (adv) sound, fully, solidly,
exchequer: (n) bank, purse, fisc, till, loot: (n, v) pillage; (n) prey, booty, thoroughly, deeply, substantially,
bursary, Exchequer of the Jews, prize, kale; (v) despoil, rifle, foray, validly, strongly, stably, fastly, safely.
coffer, hanaper, finance, funds, steal, rob, sack. ANTONYMS: (adv) harmfully,
finances. magistrate: (n) judge, jurist, justiciary, halfheartedly, fitfully,
firstly: (adv) first, originally, initially, adjudicator, beak, official, provost, unconvincingly.
40 Lysistrata

LYSISTRATA.
But we abolish war straight by our policy.%
MAGISTRATE.
What will you do if emergencies arise?
LYSISTRATA.
Face them our own way.
MAGISTRATE.
What you will?
LYSISTRATA.
Yes we will!
MAGISTRATE.
Then there's no help for it; we're all destroyed.
LYSISTRATA.
No, willy-nilly you must be safeguarded.
MAGISTRATE.
What madness is this?
LYSISTRATA.
Why, it seems you're annoyed. It must be done, that's all.
MAGISTRATE.
Such awful oppression never,
O never in the past yet I bore.
LYSISTRATA.
You must be saved, sirrah--that's all there is to it.
MAGISTRATE.
If we don't want to be saved?
LYSISTRATA.
All the more.

Thesaurus
abolish: (adj, v) annul; (v) revoke, do patient, unconcerned, contented. oppression: (n, v) hardship, grievance;
away with, end, rescind, eradicate, bore: (v) dig, tire, pierce, tap, annoy, (n) injustice, despotism, weight,
invalidate, get rid of, cancel, repeal, perforate; (n, v) bother, plague; (n) stress, doldrums; (adj, n) abuse,
extinguish. ANTONYMS: (v) auger, well, gimlet. ANTONYMS: (v) tyranny, dictatorship, autocracy.
establish, enact, promote, uphold, fascinate, excite, hypnotize, engage, ANTONYMS: (n) democracy, ease,
support, create, ratify, introduce, entertain, stimulate; (n) charmer, freedom, liberty.
adopt, authorize, build. exciter, excitement, pleasure. safeguarded: (adj) secured, defended,
annoyed: (adj) irritated, vexed, irate, madness: (n) frenzy, insanity, lunacy, shielded, safe, watched over.
aggravated, angered, cross, idiocy, folly, delirium, insaneness; saved: (adj) protected, economized,
disgruntled, exasperated, infuriated, (adj, n) furor, rage, desperation, rescued, blessed.
displeased, resentful. ANTONYMS: furore. ANTONYMS: (n) sense, willy-nilly: (adv) irregularly,
(adj) pleased, unprovoked, smiling, calmness, order. necessarily; (adj) haphazard.
 Aristophanes 41

MAGISTRATE.
Why do you women come prying and meddling in matters of state touching
war-time and peace?
LYSISTRATA.
That I will tell you.%
MAGISTRATE.
O tell me or quickly I'll--
LYSISTRATA.
Hearken awhile and from threatening cease.
MAGISTRATE.
I cannot, I cannot; it's growing too insolent.
WOMEN.
Come on; you've far more than we have to dread.
MAGISTRATE.
Stop from your croaking, old carrion-crow there....
Continue
LYSISTRATA.
Be calm then and I'll go ahead.
All the long years when the hopeless war dragged along we, unassuming,
forgotten in quiet,
Endured without question, endured in our loneliness all your incessant
child's antics and riot.
Our lips we kept tied, though aching with silence, though well all the while
in our silence we knew
How wretchedly everything still was progressing by listening dumbly the
day long to you.
For always at home you continued discussing the war and its politics loudly,
and we
Sometimes would ask you, our hearts deep with sorrowing though we spoke
lightly, though happy to see,

Thesaurus
aching: (adj) sore, achy, hurt, stupidly, soundlessly, foolishly, apathetic; (n) apathy.
uncomfortable, tender, hurtful, inarticulately, slowly. sorrowing: (adj) sorrowful, grieving,
agonizing; (n) ache, pain, hurting; (v) hearts: (n) Black Maria, spades. mournful, distressed, bereft,
griped. meddling: (adj) busy, inquisitive, bereaved, unhappy, lamenting,
awhile: (adj) in transitu, en passant; curious, meddlesome, intrusive, regretful, sad; (n) cry. ANTONYM:
(adv) briefly. officious, nosy, dabbling, (adj) joyful.
croaking: (adj) hollow, raucous, impertinent, busybodied; (adj, n) wretchedly: (adv) pathetically,
sepulchral, dry, cacophonic, harsh, prying. unhappily, desperately, calamitously,
guttural, gruff, croaky, cacophonous, prying: (adj) inquisitive, meddlesome, sadly, meanly, forlornly, piteously,
husky. nosy, inquiring, nosey, intrusive, disastrously, gloomily; (adj, adv)
dumbly: (adv) densely, thickly, busy, snoopy; (n) nosiness, curiosity; miserably. ANTONYM: (adv)
silently, speechlessly, obtusely, dully, (adj, n) meddling. ANTONYMS: (adj) hopefully.
42 Lysistrata

"What's to be inscribed on the side of the Treaty-stone What, dear, was said
in the Assembly today?"
"Mind your own business," he'd answer me growlingly "hold your tongue,
woman, or else go away."
And so I would hold it.%
WOMEN.
I'd not be silent for any man living on earth, no, not I!
MAGISTRATE.
Not for a staff?
LYSISTRATA.
Well, so I did nothing but sit in the house, feeling dreary, and sigh,
While ever arrived some fresh tale of decisions more foolish by far and
presaging disaster.
Then I would say to him, "O my dear husband, why still do they rush on
destructlon the faster?"
At which he would look at me sideways, exclaiming, "Keep for your web and
your shuttle your care,
Or for some hours hence your cheeks will be sore and hot; leave this alone,
war is Man's sole affair!"
MAGISTRATE.
By Zeus, but a man of fine sense, he.
LYSISTRATA.
How sensible?
You dotard, because he at no time had lent
His intractible ears to absorb from our counsel one temperate word of advice,
kindly meant?
But when at the last in the streets we heard shouted (everywhere ringing the
ominous cry)
"Is there no one to help us, no saviour in Athens?" and, "No, there is no one,"
come back in reply.
At once a convention of all wives through Hellas here for a serious purpose

Thesaurus
cheeks: (n) Gemini, twins, couple, exclaiming: (n) deuce, Dickens, presaging: (adj) ominous,
posterior, pair, deuce, two, duet. ejaculation, exclaim, devil, foreshadowing, portentive, boding,
dotard: (n) driveler, doter, weakling, interjection, ecphonesis. oracular, prophetic, foreshowing,
fuddy-duddy, dote, dotant, dodo; inscribed: (adj) etched, incised, announcing beforehand.
(adj) doddering. graven, written, carved, carven. saviour: (n) deliverer, rescuer, savior,
dreary: (adj) depressing, drab, dull, lent: (n) Quadragesima, Lententide. redeemer, Christ, saver, liberator,
cheerless, drear, miserable, gloomy, ominous: (adj) baleful, inauspicious, recoverer, messianic, Jesus Christ,
dark, dismal, stuffy, disconsolate. ill, menacing, threatening, black, Jesus.
ANTONYMS: (adj) interesting, sinister, minatory, unlucky, shuttle: (n) birdie, rabbit, bird, space
cheerful, sunny, brilliant, lively, light, forbidding, minacious. ANTONYMS: shuttle, badminton equipment,
exciting, clear, cheery, pleasant, (adj) promising, auspicious, razzing, raspberry, public transport;
exotic. reassuring, bright, lucky, wonderful. (v) ferry, commute, exchange.
 Aristophanes 43

was held,
To determine how husbands might yet back to wisdom despite their
reluctance in time be compelled.
Why then delay any longer? It's settled. For the future you'll take up our old
occupation.
Now in turn you're to hold tongue, as we did, and listen while we show the
way to recover the nation.%
MAGISTRATE.
You talk to us! Why, you're mad. I'll not stand it.
LYSISTRATA.
Cease babbling, you fool; till I end, hold your tongue.
MAGISTRATE.
If I should take orders from one who wears veils, may my neck straightaway
be deservedly wrung.
LYSISTRATA.
O if that keeps pestering you,
I've a veil here for your hair,
I'll fit you out in everything
As is only fair.
CALONICE.
Here's a spindle that will do.
MYRRHINE.
I'll add a wool-basket too.
LYSISTRATA.
Girdled now sit humbly at home,
Munching beans, while you card wool and comb.
For war from now on is the Women's affair.
WOMEN.
Come then, down pitchers, all,
And on, courageous of heart,

Thesaurus
babbling: (adj) loquacious, telltale, answerable, unwilling, destined. affluently, brashly, pretentiously.
voluble, blatant, blathering, deservedly: (adv) justly, condignly, pestering: (n) harassment, annoyance;
blithering, gabbling, garrulous, worthily, rightfully, rightly, right, (adj) pesky, carking, vexatious,
jabbering; (n) stultiloquy, justifiably, by merit, correctly, fairly, vexing, cranky, disagreeable; (adj, v)
stultiloquence. becomingly. teasing; (v) worrying, tormenting.
beans: (adj) unimportant; (n) money. humbly: (adv) lowly, meanly, spindle: (n) axle, mandrel, pivot,
comb: (v) brush, ransack, search, modestly, submissively, low, shyly, arbor, shaft, mandril, axis, pin, hinge,
dress, eliminate, groom; (adj) weed; lowlily, naturally, regretfully, bobbin, main spindle.
(n) crest, combing, caruncle, remorsefully, repentantly. straightaway: (adv) right away,
currycomb. ANTONYMS: (adv) conceitedly, directly, now, forthwith, promptly, at
compelled: (adj) forced, obligate, haughtily, pompously, once, instantly, immediately; (adj)
enforced, constrained, responsible, ostentatiously, unrepentantly, prompt, quick, immediate.
44 Lysistrata

In our comradely venture

Each taking her due part.
I could dance, dance, dance, and be fresher after,
I could dance away numberless suns,
To no weariness let my knees bend.
Earth I could brave with laughter,
Having such wonderful girls here to friend.
O the daring, the gracious, the beautiful ones!
Their courage unswerving and witty
Will rescue our city.
O sprung from the seed of most valiant-wombed grand- mothers, scions of
savage and dangerous nettles!
Prepare for the battle, all. Gird up your angers. Our way the wind of sweet
victory settles.%
LYSISTRATA.
O tender Eros and Lady of Cyprus, some flush of beauty I pray you devise
To flash on our bosoms and, O Aphrodite, rosily gleam on our valorous
thighs!
Joy will raise up its head through the legions warring and all of the far-
serried ranks of mad-love
Bristle the earth to the pillared horizon, pointing in vain to the heavens
above.
I think that perhaps then they'll give us our title—
Peace-makers.
MAGISTRATE.
What do you mean? Please explain.
LYSISTRATA.
First, we'll not see you now flourishing arms about into the
Marketing-place clang again.
WOMEN.
No, by the Paphian.

Thesaurus
clang: (n, v) chime, clangor, ring, clash, innumerable, multitudinous, infinite, staunch, unflinching, resolute,
clank, clatter, sound; (adj, n, v) peal; incalculable, endless, uncounted, unshakable; (adj, v) undeviating.
(v) boom, clink; (n) crash. unnumbered, innumerous, legion, ANTONYMS: (adj) undependable,
comradely: (adv) associately, fellowly, untold. ANTONYM: (adj) few. unreliable, irresolute, inconsistent.
mately; (adj) brotherly. pillared: (adj) columned. valorous: (adj) valiant, courageous,
fresher: (n) fresh, lowerclassman, rosily: (adv) redly, ruddily, brightly, brave, fearless, intrepid, gallant, bold,
underclassman, neophyte, fledgeling, roseately, glowingly, hopefully, stout, heroic, undaunted, game.
entrant, fledgling. blushingly, pinkly, cheerfully, ANTONYM: (adj) cowardly.
gird: (adv, v) encircle, environ; (v) shiningly, radiantly. warring: (adj) militant, fighting,
begird, circle, girt, jest; (n) jeer, scoff, scions: (n) issue, brood, posterity. hostile, opposed, inconsistent, war,
deride; (n, v) fortify, brace. unswerving: (adj) unfaltering, firm, brawling, factious, opposing,
numberless: (adj) countless, steady, unwavering, direct, constant, oppugnant, rebellious.
 Aristophanes 45

LYSISTRATA.
Still I can conjure them as past were the herbs stand or crockery's sold
Like Corybants jingling (poor sots) fully armoured, they noisily round on
their promenade strolled.%
MAGISTRATE.
And rightly; that's discipline, they--
LYSISTRATA.
But what's sillier than to go on an errand of buying a fish
Carrying along an immense. Gorgon-buckler instead the usual platter or
dish?
A phylarch I lately saw, mounted on horse-back, dressed for the part with
long ringlets and all,
Stow in his helmet the omelet bought steaming from an old woman who kept
a food-stall.
Nearby a soldier, a Thracian, was shaking wildly his spear like Tereus in the
play,
To frighten a fig-girl while unseen the ruffian filched from her fruit-trays the
ripest away.
MAGISTRATE.
How, may I ask, will your rule re-establish order and justice in lands so
tormented?
LYSISTRATA.
Nothing is easier.
MAGISTRATE.
Out with it speedily--what is this plan that you boast you've invented?
LYSISTRATA.
If, when yarn we are winding, It chances to tangle, then, as perchance you
may know, through the skein
This way and that still the spool we keep passing till it is finally clear all
again.
So to untangle the War and its errors, ambassadors out on all sides we will
Thesaurus
ambassadors: (n) ambassador. platter: (n) disk, record, disc, tray, winder, simultaneous peripheral
conjure: (v) invoke, entreat, arouse, trencher, phonograph record, operations online; (v) wind up.
juggle, bewitch, beseech, bid, conjure phonograph recording, porringer, tormented: (adj) worried, tortured,
up, evoke, implore, bring up. potager; (adj) table, tablet. hagridden, troubled, beleaguered,
errand: (n) chore, mission, job, task, ruffian: (n) rowdy, rascal, hooligan, beset, besieged, cruciate, cruciform,
assignment, embassy, duty, charge, bully, brute, hoodlum, tough, distraught, distressed. ANTONYM:
messenger, communication, work. miscreant, villain, rogue, roughneck. (adj) calm.
jingling: (adj) reverberant, clinking, skein: (n, v) mesh; (n) tangle, flock, untangle: (v) unscramble, unravel,
jingly. maze, covey, snarl, bevy, tuft; (v) net, unwind, undo, unpick, unknot,
lands: (n) park, estate, kingdom. plexus, sleeve. extricate, solve, ravel, straighten out,
omelet: (n) firm omelet, fluffy omelet; spool: (n) reel, roll, tube, quill, resolve. ANTONYMS: (v) fasten,
(v) pudding. cylinder, shovel, filature, roll beam, ravel, twist, entangle.
46 Lysistrata

send
This way and that, here, there and round about--soon you will find that the
War has an end.%
MAGISTRATE.
So with these trivial tricks of the household, domestic analogies of threads,
skeins and spools,
You think that you'll solve such a bitter complexity, unwind such political
problems, you fools!
LYSISTRATA.
Well, first as we wash dirty wool so's to cleanse it, so with a pitiless zeal we
will scrub
Through the whole city for all greasy fellows; burrs too, the parasites, off we
will rub.
That verminous plague of insensate place-seekers soon between thumb and
forefinger we'll crack.
All who inside Athens' walls have their dwelling into one great common
basket we'll pack.
Disenfranchised or citizens, allies or aliens, pell-mell the lot of them in we
will squeeze.
Till they discover humanity's meaning.... As for disjointed and far colonies,
Them you must never from this time imagine as scattered about just like lost
hanks of wool.
Each portion we'll take and wind in to this centre, inward to Athens each
loyalty pull,
Till from the vast heap where all's piled together at last can be woven a
strong Cloak of State.
MAGISTRATE.
How terrible is it to stand here and watch them carding and winding at will
with our fate,
Witless in war as they are.

Thesaurus
disenfranchised: (adj) powerless, exponent, antenna, feeler. remorseless, inexorable, inhuman,
voteless. ANTONYM: (adj) hanks: (n) Tom Hanks. heartless, hard. ANTONYMS: (adj)
enfranchised. insensate: (adj) inhuman, cold, numb, merciful, charitable, soft,
disjointed: (adj) disconnected, foolish, inanimate, insensitive, compassionate, warmhearted,
confused, split, broken, dislocated, fatuous, callous, daft, insensible, sympathetic, flexible, caring, tolerant.
rambling, unconnected, disordered, irrational. ANTONYM: (adj) sentient. unwind: (v) relax, unbend, unroll,
fragmentary, discontinuous, pell-mell: (adv) helter-skelter, blindly; disentangle, unfold, unravel,
muddled. ANTONYMS: (adj) jointed, (adj, adv) posthaste. untangle, uncoil, straighten, loose,
united, affiliated, attached, piled: (adj) heaped, dense, aggregate, rest. ANTONYMS: (v) wind, tangle,
connected, continuous. collective, concentrated, cumulous. tense, ready, prepare, agitate, twist,
forefinger: (n) index finger, index, pitiless: (adj) merciless, brutal, harsh, fluster.
forefingers, paw, thumb, hand, cruel, ruthless, implacable, verminous: (adj) offensive.
 Aristophanes 47

LYSISTRATA.
What of us then, who ever in vain for our children must weep Borne but to
perish afar and in vain?
MAGISTRATE.
Not that, O let that one memory sleep!
LYSISTRATA.
Then while we should be companioned still merrily, happy as brides may,
the livelong night,
Kissing youth by, we are forced to lie single.... But leave for a moment our
pitiful plight,
It hurts even more to behold the poor maidens helpless wrinkling in staler
virginity.%
MAGISTRATE.
Does not a man age?
LYSISTRATA.
Not in the same way. Not as a woman grows withered, grows he. He, when
returned from the war, though grey-headed, yet if he wishes can choose out a
wife.
But she has no solace save peering for omens, wretched and lonely the rest of
her life.
MAGISTRATE.
But the old man will often select--
LYSISTRATA.
O why not finish and die?
A bier is easy to buy,
A honey-cake I'll knead you with joy,
This garland will see you are decked.
CALONICE.
I've a wreath for you too.

Thesaurus
behold: (v) see, view, contemplate, fashion, shape, massage, work, perish: (v) expire, pass away, decease,
regard, perceive, observe, look, mould, set, sculpture; (adj) mash. go, fade, decay, depart, fall, pass,
consider, discern, descry, watch. livelong: (n) Sedum telephium, ruin, annihilate. ANTONYMS: (v)
ANTONYMS: (v) Miss, disregard, sedum, orpin, orpine; (adj) durable, survive, live, appear.
ignore, overlook. lasting. solace: (n) consolation, relief, balm,
bier: (n) catafalque, urn, tomb, merrily: (adv) gaily, cheerfully, solacement; (v) console, allay, relieve,
sepulchre, cinerary urn, rack, stand, blithely, cheerily, gladly, gleefully, recreate; (n, v) ease, cheer, support.
casket, stretcher, hearse, mirthfully, brightly, jovially, joyfully, ANTONYMS: (n) distress, grief.
sarcophagus. gayly. ANTONYMS: (adv) sadly, withered: (adj) wizened, sear,
decked: (adj) bedecked, decked out, anxiously, miserably, unhappily, shriveled, thin, shrunken, dry, dried
ornamented, decorated, festooned. carefully, despondently. up, wilted, faded, wizen; (v) lame.
knead: (v) rub down, rub, form, peering: (adj) nosy, prying, snoopy. ANTONYM: (adj) plump.
48 Lysistrata

MYRRHINE.
I also will fillet you.%
LYSISTRATA.
What more is lacking? Step aboard the boat.
See, Charon shouts ahoy.
You're keeping him, he wants to shove afloat.
MAGISTRATE.
Outrageous insults! Thus my place to flout!
Now to my fellow-magistrates I'll go
And what you've perpetrated on me show.
LYSISTRATA.
Why are you blaming us for laying you out?
Assure yourself we'll not forget to make
The third day offering early for your sake.
[MAGISTRATE retires, LYSISTRATA returns within.]
OLD MEN.
All men who call your loins your own, awake at last, arise
And strip to stand in readiness. For as it seems to me
Some more perilous offensive in their heads they now devise.
I'm sure a Tyranny
Like that of Hippias
In this I detect....
They mean to put us under
Themselves I suspect,
And that Laconians assembling
At Cleisthenes' house have played
A trick-of-war and provoked them
Madly to raid
The Treasury, in which term I include
The Pay for my food.
For is it not preposterous

Thesaurus
afloat: (adj) buoyant, floating, current, stripe, fascia, molding, girdle, sash, ludicrous, nonsensical, foolish,
in circulation, directionless, roller, lemniscus. ridiculous, laughable, derisory,
undirected, rudderless; (adv) adrift, insults: (adj) insulting; (n) abuse, monstrous, inconsistent; (adj, v)
aboard; (v) afoot; (n) on foot. swearing. extravagant. ANTONYMS: (adj)
assembling: (n) assemblage, assembly, loins: (n) waist, body part, haunch, sensible, reasonable, impressive,
collection, collecting, compilation, lends, pubic region, area, pubes. plausible.
meeting, aggregation, congregation, perilous: (adj, v) dangerous, shouts: (n) cries.
montage; (adj) gathering, assembled. hazardous; (adj) insecure, unsafe, shove: (n, v) thrust, jostle, poke, elbow,
devise: (v) contrive, conceive, invent, parlous, precarious, risky, prod, boost, hustle; (v) press, impel,
plan, create, concoct, design, arrange, treacherous, dicey, critical, dodgy. shift, stuff. ANTONYMS: (v) pull,
frame, formulate, excogitate. ANTONYM: (adj) secure. leave.
fillet: (n) band, strip, cincture, list, preposterous: (adj) absurd, irrational, wants: (n) need, necessities.
 Aristophanes 49

They should talk this way to us

On a subject such as battle!
And, women as they are, about bronze bucklers dare prattle—
Make alliance with the Spartans--people I for one
Like very hungry wolves would always most sincere shun....
Some dirty game is up their sleeve,
I believe.
A Tyranny, no doubt... but they won't catch me, that know. Henceforth on
my guard I'll go,
A sword with myrtle-branches wreathed for ever in my hand,
And under arms in the Public Place I'll take my watchful stand, Shoulder to
shoulder with Aristogeiton.
Now my staff I'll draw
And start at once by knocking that shocking Hag upon the jaw.%
WOMEN.
Your own mother will not know you when you get back to the town.
But first, my friends and allies, let us lay these garments down, And all ye
fellow-citizens, hark to me while I tell
What will aid Athens well. Just as is right, for I
Have been a sharer
In all the lavish splendour
Of the proud city.
I bore the holy vessels
At seven, then
I pounded barley
At the age of ten,
And clad in yellow robes,
Soon after this, I was Little Bear to
Brauronian Artemis;
Then neckletted with figs,
Grown tall and pretty,
I was a Basket-bearer,

Thesaurus
barley: (n) barleycorn, bear, bere, oats, unadorned, plain; (v) stint, skimp, grandness, brilliance.
cereal, grain, barley fodder. begrudge, economize. watchful: (adj) alert, observant,
hark: (v) harken, hear, hearken, heed, pounded: (adj) beaten, ground, careful, cautious, wary, attentive,
listen in; (n) look here, look you, look. crushed, pulverized, minced, broken wakeful, mindful, circumspect,
knocking: (n) sound, bang, beating, up, milled. sleepless, awake. ANTONYMS: (adj)
hit, rap, strike, belt, criticism, bash. sharer: (n) participator, participant, inattentive, negligent, oblivious,
lavish: (v) dissipate; (adj) exuberant, partner, associate, copartner, forgetful, careless, asleep, trusting,
generous, copious, prodigal, ample, individual, accomplice, companion, unprepared, reckless.
abundant, bountiful, excessive, comrade, guest, mate. wreathed: (adj) ringed, serpentine,
improvident; (adj, v) profuse. splendour: (n) pomp, magnificence, coiled, circular, circinate, bent,
ANTONYMS: (adj) simple, scant, lustre, splendor, luster, brilliancy, annulate, tortile, torqued,
economical, impoverished, frugal, resplendence, luxury, grandeur, surrounded, curled.
50 Lysistrata

And so it's obvious I should

Give you advice that I think good,

The very best I can. It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man,
If I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too,
and as a toll provide men for the nation
While, miserable greybeards, you,
It is true,
Contribute nothing of any importance whatever to our needs;
But the treasure raised against the Medes
You've squandered, and do nothing in return, save that you make Our lives
and persons hazardous by some imbecile mistakes
What can you answer? Now be careful, don't arouse my spite,
Or with my slipper I'll take you napping, faces slapping
Left and right.%
MEN.
What villainies they contrive!
Come, let vengeance fall,
You that below the waist are still alive,
Off with your tunics at my call—
Naked, all.
For a man must strip to battle like a man.
No quaking, brave steps taking, careless what's ahead, white shoed, in the
nude, onward bold,
All ye who garrisoned Leipsidrion of old....
Let each one wag
As youthfully as he can,
And if he has the cause at heart
Rise at least a span.

We must take a stand and keep to it,

For if we yield the smallest bit

Thesaurus
contrive: (v) plan, invent, design, off his guard, off her guard, careless. booted, roughshod, sandaled.
concoct, devise, cast, concert, ANTONYM: (adj) awake. slapping: (adj) slapper.
excogitate, frame, formulate; (n, v) onward: (adv) ahead, forwards, before, squandered: (adj) wasted, dissipated,
manage. ANTONYMS: (v) demolish, forth, onwards, along, in advance, emaciated, devastated, dissolute,
destroy, ruin, waste, wreck, fail. frontward, forrader; (adv, prep) on; diminished, desolated, desolate,
imbecile: (adj) foolish, idiotic, fatuous, (adj) progressive. ANTONYM: (adv) cadaverous; (v) bewildered,
dumb, imbecilic, simple; (n) idiot, backward. employed ineffectually.
moron, cretin, ass, oaf. ANTONYM: quaking: (adj) shaky, quivering, taxed: (adj) laden.
(adj) genius. trembling, shaking, wobbly, youthfully: (adv) greenly, vigorously,
napping: (adj) asleep, unthinking, unsteady, jarring, vibrant, uncertain, youngly, vernally, immaturely,
unready, snoozing, slumbering, insecure; (n) fright. freshly, adolescently, callowly,
sleeping, off guard, off your guard, shoed: (adj) shod, shodden, calced, newly, sappily, tenderly.
 Aristophanes 51

To their importunity.
Then nowhere from their inroads will be left to us immunity.
But they'll be building ships and soon their navies will attack us,
As Artemisia did, and seek to fight us and to sack us.
And if they mount, the Knights they'll rob
Of a job,
For everyone knows how talented they all are in the saddle, Having long
practised how to straddle;
No matter how they're jogged there up and down, they're never thrown.
Then think of Myron's painting, and each horse-backed Amazon
In combat hand-to-hand with men.... Come, on these women fall, And in
pierced wood-collars let's stick quick
The necks of one and all.%
WOMEN.
Don't cross me or I'll loose
The Beast that's kennelled here....
And soon you will be howling for a truce,
Howling out with fear. But my dear,
Strip also, that women may battle unhindered....
But you, you'll be too sore to eat garlic more, or one black bean,
I really mean, so great's my spleen, to kick you black and blue With these my
dangerous legs.
I'll hatch the lot of you, If my rage you dash on,
The way the relentless Beetle
Hatched the Eagle's eggs.

Scornfully aside I set

Every silly old-man threat
While Lampito's with me.
Or dear Ismenia, the noble Theban girl. Then let decree
Be hotly piled upon decree; in vain will be your labours,
You futile rogue abominated by your suffering neighbour

Thesaurus
futile: (adj) useless, empty, ineffective, howling: (n) howl, cry; (adj) fierce, rogue: (n, v) rascal; (n) knave, imp,
frivolous, idle, abortive, bootless, fantastic, gross, glaring, marvelous, miscreant, crook, cheat, impostor,
hopeless, meaningless, vain, hollow. wonderful, wondrous; (adj, n) swindler, cad, villain, scoundrel.
ANTONYMS: (adj) successful, useful, weeping, sniveling. spleen: (n) spite, anger, resentment,
fruitful, meaningful, worthwhile, importunity: (n, v) entreaty, rage, lien, malice, bitterness, rancour,
promising, productive, effective. supplication; (n) urgency, appeal, huff, grudge, rancor. ANTONYM: (n)
hotly: (adv) heatedly, passionately, earnestness; (v) solicitation, affection.
fervidly, fervently, pepperily, obsecration, interpellation, instance, straddle: (n, v) stride; (v) range,
sultrily, intensely, sharply, torridly; obtestation, invocation. ramble, play fast and loose, coquet,
(adj, adv) violently, vehemently. inroads: (n) wear. shuffle, be on the fence, bestride; (n)
ANTONYMS: (adv) impassively, pierced: (adj) punctured, perforate, stalk, strut, stump.
mildly. penetrated, cut, cleft.
52 Lysistrata

To Hecate's feast I yesterday went-

Off I sent
To our neighbours in Bœotia, asking as a gift to me
For them to pack immediately
That darling dainty thing ... a good fat eel I meant of course;

But they refused because some idiotic old decree's in force.

O this strange passion for decrees nothing on earth can check,
Till someone puts a foot out tripping you, and slipping you
Break your neck.%
[LYSISTRATA enters in dismay.]
WOMEN.
Dear Mistress of our martial enterprise,
Why do you come with sorrow in your eyes?
LYSISTRATA.
O 'tis our naughty femininity,
So weak in one spot, that hath saddened me.
WOMEN.
What's this? Please speak.
LYSISTRATA.
Poor women, O so weak!
WOMEN.
What can it be? Surely your friends may know.
LYSISTRATA.
Yea, I must speak it though it hurt me so.
WOMEN.
Speak; can we help? Don't stand there mute in need.
LYSISTRATA.
I'll blurt it out then--our women's army's mutinied.

Thesaurus
blurt: (v) blunder out, talk, utter, clever. puts: (n) stocks, securities, preferred
speak, mouth, verbalize, babble, blurt martial: (adj) military, warlike, stock, common stock, bonds.
out, exclaim, blunder. soldierly, bellicose, belligerent, saddened: (adj) sorry, sad, depressed,
femininity: (n) muliebrity, woman, combative, brave, soldierlike, dejected, upset, dismayed, unhappy,
womanliness, effeminateness, sex, armigerous, militant, heroic. dissatisfied, troubled, disillusioned,
femaleness, feminity, trait, femineity, ANTONYMS: (adj) civilian, peaceful, in a state. ANTONYM: (adj) satisfied.
female, womanhood. ANTONYMS: unarmed. slipping: (n) skidding, slippage; (adj)
(n) masculinity, maleness. mute: (adj) dumb, silent, inarticulate, slithering, gliding, down, labent.
idiotic: (adj) absurd, foolish, fatuous, dummy, tongueless; (v) muffle, tripping: (adj) easy, flowing,
imbecile, crazy, stupid, ridiculous, dampen, deaden, hush; (adj, v) quiet, lightsome, readable, swinging,
mindless, silly, unwise, daft. dull. ANTONYMS: (adj) talkative, swingy, nimble, lilting, light, fluent;
ANTONYMS: (adj) wise, genius, speaking, spoken; (v) amplify. (v) failing.
 Aristophanes 53

WOMEN.
O Zeus!
LYSISTRATA.
What use is Zeus to our anatomy?
Here is the gaping calamity I meant.
I cannot shut their ravenous appetites
A moment more now. They are all deserting.
The first I caught was sidling through the postern
Close by the Cave of Pan: the next hoisting herself
With rope and pulley down: a third on the point
Of slipping past: while a fourth malcontent, seated
For instant flight to visit Orsilochus
On bird-back, I dragged off by the hair in time....
They are all snatching excuses to sneak home.
Look, there goes one.... Hey, what's the hurry?
1ST WOMAN.
I must get home. I've some Milesian wool
Packed wasting away, and moths are pushing through it.%
LYSISTRATA.
Fine moths indeed, I know. Get back within.
1ST WOMAN.
By the Goddesses, I'll return instantly.
I only want to stretch it on my bed.
LYSISTRATA.
You shall stretch nothing and go nowhere either.
1ST WOMAN.
Must I never use my wool then?
LYSISTRATA.
If needs be.

Thesaurus
calamity: (n) disaster, adversity, malcontent: (adj, v) dissatisfied; (n) ravenous: (adj) hungry, greedy, avid,
affliction, misfortune, plague, dissatisfaction, discontent, rebel, famished, gluttonous, voracious,
catastrophe, tragedy, blow, bale, grumbler, croaker, insurgent, rapacious, insatiable, edacious,
distress; (n, v) trouble. ANTONYMS: somebody; (adj) disaffected, covetous, predatory. ANTONYM:
(n) blessing, boon, luck, joy, disgruntled, rebellious. (adj) moderate.
opportunity. postern: (n) gate, ostiary, portal, seated: (adj) sat, sedentary.
gaping: (adj, n) agape; (adj) vast, porch, wicket, vestibule, trapdoor, snatching: (n) capture.
yawning, cavernous, discontinuous, threshold, back door; (adj, n) rear; sneak: (adj, n, v) slink; (v) lurk, creep,
wide, ajar, drowsy, hollow, wide (adj) side. crawl, fawn; (adj, n) coward; (adj, v)
open; (adj, v) oscitant. ANTONYMS: pulley: (n) sheave, tackle, crane, grovel; (n) informer; (n, v) skulk,
(adj) cramped, narrow. bollock, windlass, winch, wheel, snitch; (adj) dastard.
hoisting: (n) winding. hoist, spool, blockage, auction block.
54 Lysistrata

2ND WOMAN.
How unfortunate I am! O my poor flax!
It's left at home unstript.%
LYSISTRATA.
So here's another
That wishes to go home and strip her flax.
Inside again!
2ND WOMAN.
No, by the Goddess of Light,
I'll be back as soon as I have flayed it properly.
LYSISTRATA.
You'll not flay anything. For if you begin
There'll not be one here but has a patch to be flayed.
3RD WOMAN.
O holy Eilithyia, stay this birth
Till I have left the precincts of the place!
LYSISTRATA.
What nonsense is this?
3RD WOMAN.
I'll drop it any minute.
LYSISTRATA.
Yesterday you weren't with child.
3RD WOMAN.
But I am today. O let me find a midwife, Lysistrata.
O quickly!
LYSISTRATA.
Now what story is this you tell?
What is this hard lump here?
3RD WOMAN.
It's a male child.
Thesaurus
flax: (n) hemp, lint, line, feature, drivel, folderol, baloney, falderal, plunder, divest, denude, ransack,
clothesline, flex, figure, boundary; (v) jargon, claptrap. ANTONYMS: (n) pillage; (n) band, slip. ANTONYMS:
hit, trounce, flog. sense, wisdom, substance, fact. (v) decorate, cover, add.
lump: (n, v) heap, knot, chunk, block; patch: (v) piece; (n) plot, fleck, darn, unfortunate: (adj) inauspicious, sad,
(n) gob, tumor, hunk, bit, bulge; (adj, blot, freckle, bed, maculation, field; hapless, bad, inopportune,
n) clod; (adj, n, v) mass. ANTONYM: (n, v) botch, repair. disastrous, adverse, deplorable,
(v) divide. precincts: (n) entourage, arena, infelicitous, untoward, lamentable.
midwife: (n) accoucheur, oculist, outskirts, neighbourhood, walk, ANTONYMS: (adj) lucky, auspicious,
howdy, obstetrician, aurist; (v) neighborhood, proximity, good, opportune, joyous, timely,
midwive. surroundings, vicinity, limitations, appropriate, successful, easy,
nonsense: (n) bosh, absurdity, suburbs. privileged.
humbug, balderdash, foolishness, strip: (v) deprive, despoil, peel, rifle,
 Aristophanes 55

LYSISTRATA.
By Aphrodite, it isn't. Your belly's hollow,
And it has the feel of metal.... Well, I soon can see.
You hussy, it's Athene's sacred helm,
And you said you were with child.%
3RD WOMAN.
And so I am.
LYSISTRATA.
Then why the helm?
3RD WOMAN.
So if the throes should take me
Still in these grounds I could use it like a dove
As a laying-nest in which to drop the child.
LYSISTRATA.
More pretexts! You can't hide your clear intent,
And anyway why not wait till the tenth day
Meditating a brazen name for your brass brat?
WOMAN.
And I can't sleep a wink. My nerve is gone
Since I saw that snake-sentinel of the shrine.
WOMAN.
And all those dreadful owls with their weird hooting!
Though I'm wearied out, I can't close an eye.
LYSISTRATA.
You wicked women, cease from juggling lies.
You want your men. But what of them as well?
They toss as sleepless in the lonely night, I'm sure of it.
Hold out awhile, hold out,
But persevere a teeny-weeny longer.
An oracle has promised Victory If we don't wrangle.
Would you hear the words?
Thesaurus
brat: (n) imp, bairn, rogue, urchin, fornicatress, adulteress, tramp, quit.
scamp, kid, monkey, female, baggage, Trull, minx, quean, teeny-weeny: (adj) diminutive,
whippersnapper, scalawag, huswife. minute.
pickaninny, jackanapes. juggling: (n) jugglery, performance, throes: (n) hurt, labor, suffering.
brazen: (adj) audacious, impudent, rearrangement, prestidigitation, wearied: (adj) jaded, tired, spent,
brassy, insolent, bold, brash, deception, cheating, legerdemain, fatigued, weary, prostrate, limp,
impertinent, blatant, flagrant, hocus-pocus; (adj) prestigious, haggard, shattered, worn, fatigate.
forward, saucy. ANTONYMS: (adj) prestigiatory. wrangle: (adj, n, v) squabble; (n, v)
shy, abashed, prudish, reserved, persevere: (v) persist, continue, quarrel, dispute, brawl, debate,
quiet, discreet, respectful, ashamed, endure, abide, go on, hang on, hold bicker, contest, row, altercation, fight,
veiled, modest. on, follow, keep, remain, pursue. argue. ANTONYMS: (v) agree; (n)
hussy: (n) strumpet, trollop, ANTONYMS: (v) surrender, stop, peace.
56 Lysistrata

WOMEN.
Yes, yes, what is it?
LYSISTRATA.
Silence then, you chatterboxes.
Here—
Whenas the swallows flocking in one place from the hoopoes
Deny themselves love's gambols any more,
All woes shall then have ending and great
Zeus the Thunderer Shall put above what was below before.%
WOMEN.
Will the men then always be kept under us?
LYSISTRATA.
But if the swallows squabble among themselves and fly away
Out of the temple, refusing to agree,
Then The Most Wanton Birds in all the World
They shall be named for ever. That's his decree.
WOMAN.
It's obvious what it means.
LYSISTRATA.
Now by all the gods
We must let no agony deter from duty,
Back to your quarters.
For we are base indeed,
My friends, if we betray the oracle.
[She goes out.]
OLD MEN.
I'd like to remind you of a fable they used to employ,
When I was a little boy.
How once through fear of the marriage-bed a young man, Melanion by name,
to the wilderness ran,
And there on the hills he dwelt.
Thesaurus
betray: (v) deceive, bewray, sell, grass, fable: (n) legend, fiction, tale, story, oracle: (n) prophet, divination,
dupe, reveal, mislead, disclose, fabrication, fairy tale, lie, myth, vaticinator, diviner, revelation, seer,
accuse, befool, bamboozle. anecdote; (adj, n) apologue, parable. sibyl, Solomon, soothsayer, vision,
ANTONYMS: (v) protect, undeceive, ANTONYMS: (n) fact, history. authority.
hide, defend, withhold. flocking: (n) electrostatic covering squabble: (n, v) quarrel, brawl, row,
deter: (v) dissuade, bar, check, keep, with fibers, flock finishing. bicker, feud, scrap, hassle, fuss, fight;
block, hinder, impede, discourage; (n, gambols: (n) behave, play, frolic, (n) contention, spat. ANTONYM: (n)
v) cow, intimidate, abash. employment, disport, act, action, agreement.
ANTONYMS: (v) persuade, speed, amusement. swallows: (n) sparrows, rooks, robins,
facilitate, promote, support, hoopoes: (n) order Coraciiformes, Passeriformes, Hirundinidae, etc,
stimulate, yield, attract. family Upupidae, Coraciiformes, bee order Passeriformes.
dwelt: (v) dwell, inhabit. eaters.
 Aristophanes 57

For hares he wove a net

Which with his dog he set—
Most likely he's there yet.
For he never came back home, so great was the fear he felt.
I loathe the sex as much as he,
And therefore I no less shall be
As chaste as was Melanion.%
MAN.
Grann'am, do you much mind men?
WOMAN.
Onions you won't need, to cry.
MAN.
From my foot you shan't escape.
WOMAN.
What thick forests I espy.
MEN.
So much Myronides' fierce beard
And thundering black back were feared,
That the foe fled when they were shown—
Brave he as Phormion.
WOMEN.
Well, I'll relate a rival fable just to show to you
A different point of view.
There was a rough-hewn fellow, Timon, with a face
That glowered as through a thorn-bush in a wild, bleak place.
He too decided on flight,
This very Furies' son,
All the world's ways to shun
And hide from everyone,
Spitting out curses on all knavish men to left and right.
But though he reared this hate for men,
Thesaurus
bleak: (adj) austere, bare, barren, cold, curses: (n) abuse. ANTONYMS: (v) like, admire, adore.
dreary, murky, black, desolate, raw, espy: (v) discover, descry, behold, rough-hewn: (adj) rugged, rough,
bald, bitter. ANTONYMS: (adj) mild, detect, spy, spot, see, distinguish, crude, rude.
lush, sunny, hopeful, encouraging, recognize, perceive, notice. shun: (v) evade, escape, elude, dodge,
cheery, bright, sheltered, soulful, forests: (n) country. flee, refuse, shirk, ostracize, banish,
cozy, populated. hares: (n) Lagomorpha. parry; (adj, v) eschew. ANTONYMS:
chaste: (adj) virtuous, moral, virgin, knavish: (adj) tricky, dishonest, crafty, (v) befriend, invite, seek, welcome,
modest, unsullied, austere, vestal, sly, roguish, guileful, foxy, dodgy, woo, court, participate, include.
severe, continent, spotless, decent. cunning, false, corrupt. thundering: (adj) thumping,
ANTONYMS: (adj) corrupt, wanton, loathe: (v) detest, hate, abominate, whopping, lumpish, gaunt, hulky,
lewd, sleazy, promiscuous, immoral, execrate, despise, loathing, dislike, lubberly, spanking, big, loud, striking
dirty, defiled, impure, tainted. disgust, disdain, contempt, nauseate. terror; (n) thunder.
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He loved the women even then,

And never thought them enemies.%
WOMAN.
O your jaw I'd like to break.
MAN.
That I fear do you suppose?
WOMAN.
Learn what kicks my legs can make.
MAN.
Raise them up, and you'll expose--
WOMAN.
Nay, you'll see there, I engage,
All is well kept despite my age,
And tended smooth enough to slip
From any adversary's grip.
[LYSISTRATA appears.]
LYSISTRATA.
Hollo there, hasten hither to me Skip fast along.
WOMAN.
What is this? Why the noise?
LYSISTRATA.
A man, a man! I spy a frenzied man!
He carries Love upon him like a staff.
O Lady of Cyprus, and Cythera, and Paphos,
I beseech you, keep our minds and hands to the oath.
WOMAN.
Where is he, whoever he is?
LYSISTRATA.
By the Temple of Chloe.

Thesaurus
beseech: (v) beg, crave, implore, ask, delirious, hectic, furious, wild, manic, dispatch. ANTONYMS: (v) linger,
request, adjure, pray, sue, appeal, fanatical, raging, rabid; (n) maniac. retard, amble.
solicit, plead. ANTONYMS: (v) give, ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, controlled, kicks: (n) elation, thrill, excitement,
offer, grant, reject. mellow, composed. fulfillment, gratification, pleasure.
engage: (v) contract, book, employ, grip: (n, v) clutch, clasp, hold, gripe; slip: (adj, n, v) lapse, miss; (adj, n) fault,
retain, absorb, charter, draw, rent; (n, (v) catch, cling, apprehend, fascinate, blunder; (n, v) slide, drop, mistake,
v) attract, enlist, betroth. embrace; (n) handle, bag. escape, skid, trip; (n) cutting.
ANTONYMS: (v) disengage, release, ANTONYMS: (n, v) release; (n) ANTONYM: (n) invoice.
evade, bore, can, discharge, separation. whoever: (n) anyone, somebody;
disconnect, dismiss, eject, terminate, hasten: (adj, n, v) speed, quicken; (v) (pron) whosoever, whatsoever
escape. expedite, advance, hurry, hie, dash, person.
frenzied: (adj) frenetic, crazy, rush; (n, v) further, forward,
 Aristophanes 59

WOMAN.
Yes, now I see him. but who can he be?
LYSISTRATA.
Look at him. Does anyone recognise his face?
MYRRHINE.
I do. He is my husband, Cinesias.%
LYSISTRATA.
You know how to work. Play with him, lead him on,
Seduce him to the cozening-point--kiss him, kiss him,
Then slip your mouth aside just as he's sure of it,
Ungirdle every caress his mouth feels at
Save that the oath upon the bowl has locked.
MYRRHINE.
You can rely on me.
LYSISTRATA.
I'll stay here to help
In working up his ardor to its height
Of vain magnificence.... The rest to their quarters.
[Enter CINESIAS.]
Who is this that stands within our lines?
CINESIAS.
I.
LYSISTRATA.
A man?
CINESIAS.
Too much a man!
LYSISTRATA.
Then be off at once.
CINESIAS.
Who are you that thus eject me?
Thesaurus
ardor: (adj, n) eagerness, zeal; (n) ANTONYM: (n) hit. recognize, make out, discern.
fervor, fervency, fire, flame, passion, eject: (v) discharge, evict, emit, expel, rely: (v) depend, count, lean, believe,
enthusiasm, ardency, heat, avidity. displace, dismiss, depose, chuck out, bank, confide, entrust, reckon, trust,
ANTONYMS: (n) apathy, coolness, spew, empty, banish. ANTONYMS: swear; (n, v) rest.
coldness, hatred. (v) accept, admit, house, receive, vain: (adj) proud, arrogant, conceited,
bowl: (n) basin, plate, hollow, welcome, retain, appoint. fruitless, idle, empty, abortive,
stadium, container, arena, locked: (adj) bolted, closed, fast, ineffectual, unproductive,
depression, porringer; (v) hurl, toss, barred, blocked, fixed, guaranteed, narcissistic; (adj, v) useless.
troll. barricaded, safe, protected, fastened. ANTONYMS: (adj) shy, successful,
caress: (v) stroke, fondle, tickle, pat, recognise: (v) identify, know, possible, persuasive, selfless, fruitful,
pet, kiss, nuzzle, cuddle, coddle; (n, acknowledge, approve, accept, humble, useful, responsible,
v) touch; (n) endearment. concede, appreciate, confess, worthwhile, effective.
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LYSISTRATA.
Guard for the day.%
CINESIAS.
By all the gods, then call Myrrhine hither.
LYSISTRATA.
So, call Myrrhine hither!
Who are you?
CINESIAS.
I am her husband Cinesias, son of Anthros.
LYSISTRATA.
Welcome, dear friend!
That glorious name of yours
Is quite familiar in our ranks.
Your wife Continually has it in her mouth.
She cannot touch an apple or an egg
But she must say, "This to Cinesias!"
CINESIAS.
O is that true?
LYSISTRATA.
By Aphrodite, it is.
If the conversation strikes on men, your wife
Cuts in with, "All are boobies by Cinesias."
CINESIAS.
Then call her here.
LYSISTRATA.
And what am I to get?
CINESIAS.
This, if you want it....
See, what I have here. But not to take away.

Thesaurus
apple: (n) Malus pumila, pome, earth, inexpensive, valueless, despised, bright, celebrated, brilliant, eminent,
city, world, orchard apple tree; (v) modest, loathed, hateful, distant; (n) magnificent, super, great, splendid;
apple slump, ball; (adj) green. rival, foe, enemy. (adj, v) illustrious. ANTONYMS: (adj)
conversation: (n) talk, conference, familiar: (adj) conversant, everyday, sorrowful, despicable, horrible,
communication, colloquy, usual, ordinary, commonplace; (adj, shameful, lowly.
confabulation, discussion, language, n) customary, common, intimate, touch: (v) hit, affect, border, adjoin,
discourse, speech, talking, palaver. habitual, accustomed; (n) companion. strike, reach; (n, v) contact, stroke,
dear: (adj, adv) close, near; (adj, n) ANTONYMS: (adj) unfamiliar, tinge, regard, tap. ANTONYMS: (v)
darling; (adj) costly, expensive, strange, foreign, unaccustomed, new, shrink, secrete, separate, diverge,
lovely, precious, affectionate, unknown, ignorant, formal, shy, rare, abstain, leave; (n) lot.
adorable, cherished; (n) love. distant. yours: (adj) own.
ANTONYMS: (adj) worthless, glorious: (adj) distinguished, beautiful,
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LYSISTRATA.
Then I'll call her
CINESIAS.
Be quick, be quick. All grace is wiped from life
Since she went away. O sad, sad am I
When there I enter on that loneliness,
And wine is unvintaged of the sun's flavour.
And food is tasteless. But I've put on weight.%
MYRRHINE.
[above]
I love him O so much! but he won't have it.
Don't call me down to him.
CINESIAS.
Sweet little Myrrhine!
What do you mean? Come here.
MYRRHINE.
O no I won't.
Why are you calling me? You don't want me
CINESIAS.
Not want you! with this week-old strength of love
MYRRHINE.
Farewell.
CINESIAS.
Don't go, please don't go, Myrrhine.
At least you'll hear our child. Call your mother, lad.
CHILD.
Mummy ... mummy ... mummy!
CINESIAS.
There now, don't you feel pity for the child?
He's not been fed or washed now for six days.

Thesaurus
flavour: (n) aroma, savor, smell, isolation, solitariness, lonesomeness, sorry for. ANTONYMS: (n) blame,
palate, essence, sapor, feeling, feel, bleakness, forlornness, desolateness, cruelty, indifference, harshness, joy.
sapidity, relish; (n, v) flavor. temperament, unhappiness; (adj, n) tasteless: (adj) bland, flavorless, flat,
grace: (adj, v) adorn; (v) garnish, deck, solitude. ANTONYMS: (n) inclusion, flashy, flavourless, gaudy, vulgar,
embellish, beautify, decorate, cheerfulness, hopefulness. weak, dull, watery, stale.
embroider; (adj, n, v) favor; (n) mummy: (n) mamma, mama, mom, ANTONYMS: (adj) tasty, strong,
elegance, beauty; (adj, n) clemency. mommy, mum, mammy, ma, mater; delicious, couth, moral, fitting, nice,
ANTONYMS: (n) unseemliness, (v) embalm, mummify, shrivel. flavorful, appetizing, attractive,
awkwardness, disfavor, inelegance, pity: (n, v) compassion, ruth; (n) lively.
heaviness, unkindness; (v) deface, mercy, commiseration, condolence, wine: (n) vino, spirits, beer, saki, sake,
demean. sympathy, clemency, remorse; (v) Macon, maconnais, alcohol, liquor,
loneliness: (n) desolation, aloneness, sympathize, compassionate, feel dessert wine; (adj) mauve.
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MYRRHINE.
I certainly pity him with so heartless a father.%
CINESIAS.
Come down, my sweetest, come for the child's sake.
MYRRHINE.
A trying life it is to be a mother!
I suppose I'd better go.
[She comes down.]
CINESIAS.
How much younger she looks,
How fresher and how prettier! Myrrhine,
Lift up your lovely face, your disdainful face;
And your ankle ... let your scorn step out its worst;
It only rubs me to more ardor here.
MYRRHINE.
[playing with the child]
You're as innocent as he's iniquitous.
Let me kiss you, honey-petling, mother's darling.
CINESIAS.
How wrong to follow other women's counsel
And let loose all these throbbing voids in yourself
As well as in me. Don't you go throb-throb?
MYRRHINE.
Take away your hands.
CINESIAS.
Everything in the house Is being ruined.
MYRRHINE.
I don't care at all.

Thesaurus
ankle: (n) knuckle, kimbo, crane, unfeeling, unkind, stony, insensitive, v) ridicule, neglect, disregard, deride,
fluke, crutch, crotch, zigzag, groin, grim. ANTONYMS: (adj) kind, slight; (n) contempt, derision,
sickle, scythe, malleolus. caring, hearted, warmhearted, mockery. ANTONYMS: (n, v) respect,
disdainful: (adj) supercilious, compassionate, softhearted, merciful, praise; (v) appreciate, revere, value,
haughty, scornful, arrogant, proud, sympathetic, concerned, flattering, approve, admire, accept; (n)
cavalier, derogatory, lordly, generous. admiration, commendation, humility.
condescending, derisive, sneering. iniquitous: (adj) sinful, immoral, evil, throbbing: (adj, n) beating; (n)
ANTONYMS: (adj) respectful, wrong, injurious, heinous, bad, pounding, pulsation, pulse, ache,
admiring, humble, approving, warm, criminal; (adj, adv) impious, palpitation, sting; (adj) painful,
reverential, praising, deferential. infamous, nefarious. ANTONYMS: pulsatile, palpitating, palpitant.
heartless: (adj) hardhearted, ruthless, (adj) right, fair. ANTONYM: (n) pleasure.
cruel, pitiless, obdurate, merciless, scorn: (v) despise, contemn, reject; (n,
 Aristophanes 63

CINESIAS.
The roosters are picking all your web to rags.
Do you mind that?
MYRRHINE.
Not I.%
CINESIAS.
What time we've wasted
We might have drenched with Paphian laughter, flung
On Aphrodite's Mysteries. O come here.
MYRRHINE.
Not till a treaty finishes the war.
CINESIAS.
If you must have it, then we'll get it done.
MYRRHINE.
Do it and I'll come home. Till then I am bound.
CINESIAS.
Well, can't your oath perhaps be got around?
MYRRHINE.
No ... no ... still I'll not say that I don't love you.
CINESIAS.
You love me! Then dear girl, let me also love you.
MYRRHINE.
You must be joking. The boy's looking on.
CINESIAS.
Here, Manes, take the child home!... There, he's gone.
There's nothing in the way now. Come to the point.
MYRRHINE.
Here in the open! In plain sight?

Thesaurus
bound: (n, v) leap, jump, border, kidding, playful, puckish, comical. mottled, ornate, concealed, attractive,
bounce, limit, edge, vault, recoil; (n) ANTONYM: (n) seriousness. confused, fussy, obscure, patterned.
boundary, barrier, compass. picking: (n) option, selection, rags: (adj) refuse, rubble, scourings,
ANTONYMS: (v) allow, amble, alternative, gathering, collection, sweepings, trash, waste; (n) clothing,
crawl, limp, permit; (adj) permitted, choice, harvesting, leavings, tatter, orts, odds and ends, dress.
released, unbound, allowed, unlikely. collecting, indefinite quantity; (v) wasted: (adj, v) squandered, rotten,
drenched: (adj) saturated, soaked, choose. decayed, effete; (adj) thin,
soaking, damp, soppy, wet through, plain: (adj) ordinary, comprehensible, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt,
sodden, sopping, wringing wet, intelligible, apparent, manifest, devastated, pointless, haggard.
soaked to the skin, dripping wet. obvious, clear, simple; (adj, n) flat, ANTONYMS: (adj) bloated,
joking: (n) banter, fooling, fun; (adj) homely, humble. ANTONYMS: (adj) hypertrophied, strong, plump, obese,
jocose, jocular, humorous, funny, elaborate, unclear, multicolored, fruitful, useful.
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CINESIAS.
In Pan's cave. A splendid place.%
MYRRHINE.
Where shall I dress my hair again
Before returning to the citadel?
CINESIAS.
You can easily primp yourself in the Clepsydra.
MYRRHINE.
But how can I break my oath?
CINESIAS.
Leave that to me, I'll take all risk.
MYRRHINE.
Well, I'll make you comfortable.
CINESIAS.
Don't worry. I'd as soon lie on the grass.
MYRRHINE.
No, by Apollo, in spite of all your faults I won't have you lying on the nasty
earth.
[From here MYRRHINE keeps on going off to fetch things.]
CINESIAS.
Ah, how she loves me.
MYRRHINE.
Rest there on the bench,
While I arrange my clothes. O what a nuisance, I must find some cushions
first.
CINESIAS.
Why some cushions? Please don't get them!

Thesaurus
bench: (n) banquette, chair, hassle, inconvenience, mischief, benevolence, goodwill, love,
workbench, court, terrace, bank, bar, irritant, plague, pain in the neck. affection, harmony.
judicatory, Ottoman, board, form. ANTONYMS: (n) pleasure, help, splendid: (adj, n, v) illustrious,
cave: (n) lair, hole, grotto, hollow, delight, blessing, balm, advantage, glorious; (adj) gorgeous, beautiful,
cove, den, cell, grot, nest; (v) satisfaction, ease. royal, gallant, proud; (adj, n)
undermine, calve. ANTONYMS: (n) primp: (v) dress up, attire, groom, magnificent, noble, grand; (adj, v)
hump; (v) withstand. preen, clothe, plume, arrange, prink, brilliant. ANTONYMS: (adj)
fetch: (v) carry, bring, bring in, trim, lop, apparel. unimpressive, modest, humble,
convey, draw, elicit, deliver, catch, spite: (n) malice, grudge, hatred, ordinary, undistinguished, meager,
get, attract; (adj, n) feint. malevolence, rancour, venom, rancor, awful, dire, lowly, inglorious,
nuisance: (adj, n) annoyance; (n) maliciousness, ill will, animosity; (n, shabby.
harassment, irritation, pain, pest, v) pique. ANTONYMS: (v) please; (n)
 Aristophanes 65

MYRRHINE.
What? The plain, hard wood?
Never, by Artemis! That would be too vulgar.%
CINESIAS.
Open your arms!
MYRRHINE.
No. Wait a second.
CINESIAS.
O.... Then hurry back again.
MYRRHINE.
Here the cushions are.
Lie down while I--O dear! But what a shame,
You need more pillows.
CINESIAS.
I don't want them, dear.
MYRRHINE.
But I do.
CINESIAS.
Thwarted affection mine,
They treat you just like Heracles at a feast
With cheats of dainties, O disappointing arms!
MYRRHINE.
Raise up your head.
CINESIAS.
There, that's everything at last.
MYRRHINE.
Yes, all.
CINESIAS.
Then run to my arms, you golden girl.

Thesaurus
affection: (n) charity, attachment, ANTONYMS: (adj) encouraging, chagrin; (n) humiliation, modesty,
fondness, heart, love, disease, nature, satisfying, acceptable, fortunate, scandal, insult; (v) abash.
feeling, affectionateness, tenderness, satisfactory. ANTONYMS: (n) pride, glorification,
kindness. ANTONYMS: (n) disgust, hurry: (n) haste; (n, v) bustle, hasten, making, worthiness; (v)
neglect, malice, loathing, dislike, dispatch, flurry, rush; (v) scurry, acknowledge, glorify, respect,
detachment, coldness, roughness. dash, accelerate, expedite, run. dignify.
dainties: (n) delicacies, food, cates. ANTONYMS: (n) slowness, calmness, treat: (n, v) feast, manage, administer,
disappointing: (adj) unsatisfactory, patience, unimportance; (v) dawdle, regale; (v) process, deal, heal, nurse;
regrettable, insufficient, delay, linger, crawl, amble; (intj) (n) luxury, delicacy, tidbit.
disheartening, disappointment, off, wait. ANTONYMS: (v) harm, hurt, injure,
dashing hopes, deceitful, deplorable, shame: (n, v) disgrace, dishonor, neglect, exacerbate, deprive, deny,
dissatisfactory, distressing. discredit, humiliate, degrade, contaminate, cloud; (n) necessity.
66 Lysistrata

MYRRHINE.
I'm loosening my girdle now. But you've not forgotten?
You're not deceiving me about the Treaty?
CINESIAS.
No, by my life, I'm not.%
MYRRHINE.
Why, you've no blanket.
CINESIAS.
It's not the silly blanket's warmth but yours I want.
MYRRHINE.
Never mind. You'll soon have both. I'll come straight back.
CINESIAS.
The woman will choke me with her coverlets.
MYRRHINE.
Get up a moment.
CINESIAS.
I'm up high enough.
MYRRHINE.
Would you like me to perfume you?
CINESIAS.
By Apollo, no!
MYRRHINE.
By Aphrodite, I'll do it anyway.
CINESIAS.
Lord Zeus, may she soon use up all the myrrh.
MYRRHINE.
Stretch out your hand. Take it and rub it in.

Thesaurus
blanket: (adj) sweeping, overall, ease, undoing, liberalization, mature, wise, rational, clever,
comprehensive, global, wholesale, adjustment, alteration, liberalisation, advisable, profound, reasonable,
generic; (n, v) cloak; (n) sheath, sheet, easiness; (adj) solutive, laxative. responsible, significant.
bedding; (v) clothe. ANTONYMS: perfume: (n, v) scent, essence, odor, warmth: (adj, n) glow, fire; (n)
(adj) uncomprehensive, discerning, smell; (n) aroma, bouquet, cologne, temperature, warmness, passion,
incomplete, partial, specific. incense, odour; (v) embalm, fervor, geniality, affection,
deceiving: (adj) deceptive, deceitful, aromatize. ANTONYMS: (n) stink, tenderness, fondness, sympathy.
cheating, fallacious, dishonest, lying, stench. ANTONYMS: (n) aloofness, chill,
treacherous, imposing, delusive, silly: (adj) ridiculous, absurd, childish, chilliness, coldness, coolness,
sanctimonious, mistaken. fatuous, irrational, frivolous, idiotic, unfriendliness, hostility, sourness,
ANTONYM: (adj) correct. preposterous, unreasonable; (adj, n) abruptness, plainness, frostiness.
loosening: (n) relaxation, unfastening, fool; (n) imbecile. ANTONYMS: (adj)
 Aristophanes 67

CINESIAS.
Hmm, it's not as fragrant as might be; that is, Not before it's smeared. It
doesn't smell of kisses
MYRRHINE.
How silly I am: I've brought you Rhodian scents.%
CINESIAS.
It's good enough, leave it, love.
MYRRHINE.
You must be jesting.
CINESIAS.
Plague rack the man who first compounded scent!
MYRRHINE.
Here, take this flask.
CINESIAS.
I've a far better one.
Don't tease me, come here, and get nothing more.
MYRRHINE.
I'm coming.... I'm just drawing off my shoes....
You're sure you will vote for Peace?
CINESIAS.
I'll think about it.
[She runs off. ]
I'm dead: the woman's worn me all away.
She's gone and left me with an anguished pulse.
MEN.
Baulked in your amorous delight
How melancholy is your plight.
With sympathy your case I view;
For I am sure it's hard on you.
What human being could sustain
Thesaurus
amorous: (adj) amatory, romantic, sweet, odorant, scented, redolent, depression. ANTONYMS: (n)
amative, affectionate, passionate, savory, fragrance, odoriferous, scent. happiness, cheerfulness, hopefulness,
fond, warm, ardent, erotic, tender, ANTONYMS: (adj) smelly, putrid, optimism; (adj) happy, bright, cheery,
impassioned. ANTONYMS: (adj) malodorous, odorless. satisfied.
cold, hateful, repulsed, unfriendly, jesting: (adj) jocular, jocose, facetious, smeared: (adj) smudged, unclean,
cool. humorous, playful; (n) banter, soiled, grubby, smirched, muddy,
anguished: (adj) tormented, suffering, humor, comedy, pleasantry, fun, messy, smudgy, grimy, greasy.
tortured, dolorous, uneasy, joke. ANTONYM: (n) tragedy. tease: (n, v) annoy; (adj, v) molest,
distressing, woeful, pained, upset, melancholy: (adj, v) dreary; (adj, n) harry, worry, bait; (v) taunt, kid,
distressed, worried. ANTONYMS: gloom, melancholic; (adj) depressed, pester, plague, provoke, mock.
(adj) cheerful, content, happy. dejected, dismal, gloomy, doleful; (n, ANTONYM: (v) placate.
fragrant: (adj) spicy, odorous, balmy, v) low spirits; (n) gloominess,
68 Lysistrata

This unforeseen domestic strain,

And not a single trace
Of willing women in the place!
CINESIAS.
Zeus, what throbbing suffering!
MEN.
She did it all, the harlot, she With her atrocious harlotry.%
WOMEN.
Nay, rather call her darling-sweet.
MEN.
What, sweet? She's a rude, wicked thing.
CINESIAS.
A wicked thing, as I repeat.
O Zeus, O Zeus,
Canst Thou not suddenly let loose
Some twirling hurricane to tear
Her flapping up along the air
And drop her, when she's whirled around,
Here to the ground
Neatly impaled upon the stake
That's ready upright for her sake.
[He goes out.]
[Enter SPARTAN HERALD.]
[The MAGISTRATE comes forward.]
HERALD.
What here gabs the Senate an' the Prytanes?
I've fetcht despatches for them.
MAGISTRATE.
Are you a man
Or a monstrosity?

Thesaurus
atrocious: (adj) monstrous, awful, strumpet, tart, whore, drab, moll, crack, run, slit; (v) pull, rend, lacerate;
heinous, abominable, wicked, hooker, streetwalker, wanton, bawd. (adj, v) rush. ANTONYMS: (v) wait,
dreadful, frightful, terrible, bad, hurricane: (n) storm, tempest, cyclone, mend, idle, fix, amble, dawdle.
horrible; (adj, n) outrageous. squall, tornado, whirlwind, twister, unforeseen: (adj, v) unexpected,
ANTONYMS: (adj) humane, tropical storm, gust, spring hawser, unanticipated, unlooked for; (adj)
benevolent, drivable, elegant, monsoon. sudden, accidental, contingent,
virtuous, good, passable, fine, kind, monstrosity: (n) freak, eyesore, casual, surprising, chance, incidental;
admirable, tasteful. leviathan, abortion, ogre, (adj, adv) out of the blue.
flapping: (adj) loose, detached, baggy, anamorphosis, malformation, lusus ANTONYMS: (adj) predicted,
streaming, flying, slack; (n) fluttering, naturae; (adj, n) enormity; (adj) expected, direct.
flutter, flaps, dither, disturbance. bizarrerie, immensity.
harlot: (n) courtesan, fancy woman, tear: (n, v) rip, break, split, rupture,
 Aristophanes 69

HERALD.
My scrimp-brained lad,
I'm a herald, as ye see, who hae come frae Sparta
Anent a Peace.%
MAGISTRATE.
Then why do you hide that lance
That sticks out under your arm
HERALD.
I've brought no lance.
MAGISTRATE.
Then why do you turn aside and hold your cloak
So far out from your body? Is your groin swollen
With stress of travelling?
HERALD.
By Castor, I'll swear The man is wud.
MAGISTRATE.
Indeed, your cloak is wide, My rascal fellow.
HERALD.
But I tell ye No! Enow o' fleering!
MAGISTRATE.
Well, what is it then?
HERALD.
It's my despatch cane.
MAGISTRATE.
Of course--a Spartan cane!
But speak right out. I know all this too well.
Are new privations springing up in Sparta?
HERALD.
Och, hard as could be: in lofty lusty columns
Our allies stand united. We maun get Pellene.
Thesaurus
allies: (n) alignment, alinement, lofty: (adj, v) high, elevated; (adj) rogue, varlet, vagabond, brat.
associates, cohorts, partners. exalted, eminent, arrogant, grand, springing: (v) jumping, climbing,
cane: (n, v) scourge, whip; (v) flog, tall, haughty, great, distinguished, bounding, furious, conspicuous,
beat, birch, thrash, lash; (n) stick, bat, majestic. ANTONYMS: (adj) short, prominent, ascending, projecting
rattan, twig. lowly, base, modest, deferential, outwardly; (n) growth, suspension,
despatch: (n) shipment, expedition, humble. emanation.
communique, mission, consignment, lusty: (adj) energetic, stout, lustful, swollen: (adj, v) inflated, distended;
sending, forwarding; (v) transmit, corpulent, potent, virile, vigorous, (adj) bombastic, puffy, turgid, puffed,
expedite, quicken, send. hearty, sturdy, bouncing, dynamic. high, egotistic, bulging; (v) blown;
groin: (n) groyne, crutch, crotch, ANTONYM: (adj) feeble. (adj, prep) pompous. ANTONYMS:
breakwater, bulwark, ankle, elbow, rascal: (n) villain, rapscallion, monkey, (adj) contracted, shrunken.
zigzag, scythe, region, kimbo. miscreant, knave, scoundrel, scamp,
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MAGISTRATE.
Whence has this evil come? Is it from Pan?
HERALD.
No. Lampito first ran asklent, then the ithers
Sprinted after her example, and blocked, the hizzies,
Their wames unskaithed against our every fleech.%
MAGISTRATE.
What did you do?
HERALD.
We are broken, and bent double,
Limp like men carrying lanthorns in great winds
About the city. They winna let us even
Wi' lightest neif skim their primsie pretties
Till we've concluded Peace-terms wi' a' Hellas.
MAGISTRATE.
So the conspiracy is universal;
This proves it. Then return to Sparta. Bid them
Send envoys with full powers to treat of Peace;
And I will urge the Senate here to choose
Plenipotentiary ambassadors,
As argument adducing this connection.
HERALD.
I'm off. Your wisdom nane could contravert.
[They retire.]
MEN.
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed.
She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
WOMEN.
And yet you are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with me, When for your
faithful ally you might win me easily.

Thesaurus
ally: (adj, n) accomplice, associate; (n) hysterically, nervously, agitatedly, hangdog, guilty, discredited,
friend, companion, colleague, uncontrollably, histrionically, abashed, sheepish, embarrassed,
partner, accessory; (v) affiliate; (adv) restlessly, frantically, irritably, shamefaced, bullied, cowed.
totally, entirely, wholely. emotionally, tensely. skim: (v) slip, browse, skip, sweep,
ANTONYMS: (n) adversary, envoys: (n) embassy. read, race, fly, shave, brush; (n, v)
opponent, foe, enemy, antagonist, neif: (n, v) neaf; (v) fist, hand, finger, cream, slide.
detractor, rival. paw, wrist. untamed: (adj) unbroken, barbarous,
calmly: (adv) stilly, tranquilly, coolly, panthers: (n) order Carnivora, lions, fierce, feral, barbarian, wild,
serenely, placidly, sedately, dogs, Carnivora, bears, jackals. unpolished, uncivilised, uncivilized,
smoothly, peacefully, easily, powers: (n) authority, capacity, uncombed, ferocious. ANTONYMS:
undisturbedly, steadily. strength, administration. (adj) cultivated, tame.
ANTONYMS: (adv) anxiously, shamed: (adj) dishonored, ashamed,
 Aristophanes 71

MEN.
Never could the hate I feel for womankind grow less.%
WOMEN.
Then have your will. But I'll take pity on your nakedness.
For I can see just how ridiculous you look, and so
Will help you with your tunic if close up I now may go.
MEN.
Well, that, by Zeus, is no scoundrel-deed, I frankly will admit.
I only took them off myself in a scoundrel raging-fit.
WOMEN.
Now you look sensible, and that you're men no one could doubt.
If you were but good friends again, I'd take the insect out
That hurts your eye.
MEN.
Is that what's wrong? That nasty bitie thing.
Please squeeze it out, and show me what it is that makes this sting. It's been
paining me a long while now.
WOMEN.
Well I'll agree to that,
Although you're most unmannerly. O what a giant gnat.
Here, look! It comes from marshy Tricorysus, I can tell.
MEN.
O thank you. It was digging out a veritable well.
Now that it's gone, I can't hold back my tears. See how they fall.
WOMEN.
I'll wipe them off, bad as you are, and kiss you after all.
MEN.
I won't be kissed.
WOMEN.
O yes, you will. Your wishes do not matter.

Thesaurus
gnat: (adj) midge, animalcule, emmet, blackguard, cad, villain, ruffian, veritable: (adj, v) real, true, actual,
shrimp, maggot, minnow, worm; (n) miscreant, crook, rapscallion, varlet, very; (adj) genuine, authentic, bona
blackfly, mosquito, sandfly, black fly. scalawag. fide, unquestionable, factual,
marshy: (adj) muddy, marsh, swampy, sting: (n, v) bite, hurt, con, pain; (v) truthful, right. ANTONYMS: (adj)
sloughy, quaggy, miry, fenny, prick, itch, irritate, prickle, goad, false, unreal.
paludal, moist, dirty, damp. provoke, smart. ANTONYMS: (v) wipe: (n, v) rub; (v) mop, clean, towel,
ANTONYM: (adj) dry. calm; (n) honesty. brush, scour, scrub, clear, dry, wash;
nakedness: (n) nudity, altogether, unmannerly: (adj) impolite, (adj) sponge. ANTONYM: (v) dirty.
baldness, nude, nudeness, undress, unmannered, uncivil, impertinent, wishes: (n) desires, requirements,
birthday suit, openness, status, insolent, ill-mannered, discourteous, requests, needs, will.
emptiness, frankness. ungracious, rustic, disrespectful, womankind: (n) womanhood, gentle
scoundrel: (n, v) rascal; (n) knave, churlish. sex, people.
72 Lysistrata

MEN.
O botheration take you all! How you cajole and flatter.
A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell.
How truly was that said. But come, these enmities let's quell.
You stop from giving orders and I'll stop from doing wrong.
So let's join ranks and seal our bargain with a choric song.%
CHORUS.
Athenians, it's not our intention
To sow political dissension
By giving any scandal mention;
But on the contrary to promote good feeling in the state
By word and deed. We've had enough calamities of late.
So let a man or woman but divulge
They need a trifle, say,
Two minas, three or four, I've purses here that bulge.
There's only one condition made (Indulge my whim in this I pray)-- When
Peace is signed once more,
On no account am I to be repaid.

And I'm making preparation

For a gay select collation
With some youths of reputation.
I've managed to produce some soup and they're slaughtering for me
A sucking-pig: its flesh should taste as tender as could be.
I shall expect you at my house today.
To the baths make an early visit,
And bring your children along;
Don't dawdle on the way.
Ask no one; enter as if the place
Was all your own--yours henceforth is it.
If nothing chances wrong,
The door will then be shut bang in your face.

Thesaurus
baths: (n) pool, bath, spring. checking, bite, meal, banquet, ANTONYMS: (n) agreement, accord,
botheration: (n) annoyance, nuisance, verification; (v) refection, junket, harmony, consent, comity.
vexation, plague, aggravation, picnic. divulge: (v) disclose, betray,
annoying, trouble, pest, irritant, pain, dawdle: (v) linger, lag, delay, put off, communicate, declare, impart, reveal,
pain in the ass. amble, procrastinate, saunter, leak, expose, break, tell, confess.
cajole: (v) wheedle, coax, flatter, hesitate, hang about, idler, loiter. ANTONYMS: (v) suppress, hide,
palaver, inveigle, charm, blarney, ANTONYMS: (v) hurry, rush, speed, withhold, deny.
persuade, beguile, compliment, hasten, lead. quell: (adj, v) appease, pacify, calm; (v)
induce. ANTONYMS: (v) insult, dissension: (n) dispute, disagreement, overpower, crush, allay, put down,
belittle, criticize, bully. conflict, contention, dissonance, suppress, conquer, defeat, quash.
choric: (adj) choral, choristic. faction, friction, misunderstanding, ANTONYMS: (v) prompt, submit,
collation: (n) snack, nosh, refreshment, division; (n, v) difference, variance. resist, aggravate, incite.
 Aristophanes 73

[The SPARTAN AMBASSADORS approach.]

CHORUS.
Here come the Spartan envoys with long, worried beards.
Hail, Spartans how do you fare?
Did anything new arise?
SPARTANS.
No need for a clutter o' words. Do ye see our condition?
CHORUS.
The situation swells to greater tension.
Something will explode soon.%
SPARTANS.
It's awfu' truly. But come, let us wi' the best speed we may Scribble a Peace.
CHORUS.
I notice that our men Like wrestlers poised for contest, hold their clothes Out
from their bellies. An athlete's malady! Since exercise alone can bring relief.
ATHENIANS.
Can anyone tell us where Lysistrata is? There is no need to describe our
men's condition, It shows up plainly enough.
CHORUS.
It's the same disease. Do you feel a jerking throbbing in the morning?
ATHENIANS.
By Zeus, yes! In these straits, I'm racked all through. Unless Peace is soon
declared, we shall be driven In the void of women to try Cleisthenes.
CHORUS.
Be wise and cover those things with your tunics. Who knows what kind of
person may perceive you?
ATHENIANS.
By Zeus, you're right.

Thesaurus
bellies: (n) stomach. fizzle, confirm, defuse, collapse. poised: (adj) balanced, calm,
clutter: (n, v) jumble, disorder, litter; hail: (v) address, cry, acclaim, composed, steady, equanimous,
(n) tangle, disarray, confusion, mess, applaud, summon, accost, fall, cheer, assured, urbane, serene, stable,
chaos, disarrangement, uproar, salute; (n, v) call; (n) greeting. massed, gathered. ANTONYMS: (adj)
disorganization. ANTONYMS: (n) ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, criticize. awkward, unprepared, coarse.
neatness, purity, tidiness, emptiness, jerking: (adj) arrhythmic, racked: (adj) assured, confident,
space; (v) tidy, unclutter, arrange, arrhythmical, jerky, unsteady; (n) miserable.
clean, neaten, free. movement, jolt, dork, jar. shall: (n) must, necessity; (v) require,
explode: (v) erupt, detonate, malady: (n, v) illness, ailment, bequeath, leave.
discharge, blow up, crack, fulminate, indisposition, distemper; (adj, n, v) straits: (n) pass, head, distress, sound,
break, burst forth, disprove, blast; (n, disorder; (adj, n) complaint, infirmity; isthmus, dire straits, destitution,
v) burst. ANTONYMS: (v) implode, (n) sickness, condition, trouble, ill. point, crack, chief, caput.
74 Lysistrata

SPARTANS.
By the Twa Goddesses,
Indeed ye are. Let's put our tunics on.%
ATHENIANS.
Hail O my fellow-sufferers, hail Spartans.
SPARTANS.
O hinnie darling, what a waefu' thing!
If they had seen us wi' our lunging waddies!
ATHENIANS.
Tell us then, Spartans, what has brought you here?
SPARTANS.
We come to treat o' Peace.
ATHENIANS.
Well spoken there! And we the same. Let us callout Lysistrata Since she alone
can settle the Peace-terms.
SPARTANS.
Callout Lysistratus too if ye don't mind.
CHORUS.
No indeed. She hears your voices and she comes.
[Enter LYSISTRATA]
Hail, Wonder of all women! Now you must be in turn
Hard, shifting, clear, deceitful, noble, crafty, sweet, and stern.
The foremost men of Hellas, smitten by your fascination,
Have brought their tangled quarrels here for your sole arbitration.
LYSISTRATA.
An easy task if the love's raging home-sickness
Doesn't start trying out how well each other
Will serve instead of us. But I'll know at once
If they do. O where's that girl, Reconciliation?
Bring first before me the Spartan delegates,

Thesaurus
crafty: (adj) cunning, adroit, sly, astute, principled, straight, upright, faithful, v) harsh; (n) back; (adj, n) rear.
artful, wily, clever, tricky, shifty, dependable. ANTONYMS: (adj) friendly,
designing, scheming. ANTONYMS: raging: (adj) hot, angry, fierce, irate, approving, lenient, funny, genial,
(adj) naive, open, honest, guileless, wild, infuriated, enraged, vehement, gentle, kindly, lax, liberal, cheerful,
artless, straightforward, trustworthy, heated; (adj, n) mad, rabid. flexible.
ingenuous, blatant, straight. ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, mild, tangled: (adj) involved, complex,
deceitful: (adj) false, fraudulent, contained. knotted, intricate, complicated,
insincere, crooked, dishonest, untrue, smitten: (adj, v) stricken; (adj) in love, entangled, knotty, convoluted,
sly, artful, untrustworthy, unreliable, crazy, enamored, struck, nuts, dotty, disheveled, tousled, matted.
treacherous. ANTONYMS: (adj) besotted, gaga, taken with, affected. ANTONYMS: (adj) tidy,
straightforward, genuine, stern: (adj) rigid, rigorous, austere, straightforward, untangled, neat,
trustworthy, truthful, loyal, open, hard, strict, grim, solemn, rough; (adj, simple.
 Aristophanes 75

And see you lift no rude or violent hands—

None of the churlish ways our husbands used.
But lead them courteously, as women should.
And if they grudge fingers, guide them by other methods,
And introduce them with ready tact. The Athenians
Draw by whatever offers you a grip.
Now, Spartans, stay here facing me. Here you,
Athenians. Both hearken to my words.
I am a woman, but I'm not a fool.
And what of natural intelligence I own
Has been filled out with the remembered precepts
My father and the city-elders taught me.
First I reproach you both sides equally
That when at Pylae and Olympia,
At Pytho and the many other shrines
That I could name, you sprinkle from one cup
The altars common to all Hellenes, yet
You wrack Hellenic cities, bloody Hellas
With deaths of her own sons, while yonder clangs
The gathering menace of barbarians.%
ATHENIANS.
We cannot hold it in much longer now.
LYSISTRATA.
Now unto you, O Spartans, do I speak.
Do you forget how your own countryman,
Pericleidas, once came hither suppliant
Before our altars, pale in his purple robes,
Praying for an army when in Messenia
Danger growled, and the Sea-god made earth quayer.
Then with four thousand hoplites Cimon marched

Thesaurus
churlish: (adj) rude, rough, impolite, gallantly, obligingly, urbanely, cast, dot, spatter, spray, spill; (adj, v)
loutish, gruff, curt, abrupt, brusque, suavely, thoughtfully, kindly. besprinkle; (n, v) dash, rain.
blunt, brutish, discourteous. ANTONYMS: (adv) coarsely, suppliant: (n) petitioner, applicant,
ANTONYMS: (adj) agreeable, civil, uncooperatively, disrespectfully, besieger, postulant, prayer, lover,
courteous, nice, polite. impolitely. suer; (adj) beseeching, supplicatory,
countryman: (n) peasant, villager, grudge: (v) begrudge, covet; (n, v) imploring, humbly entreating.
rustic, native, churl, compatriot, spite; (n) malice, anger, umbrage, unto: (prep, v) to, till, up to; (prep)
carle, fellow countryman, clown, resentment, rancor, gall, pique, feud. towards, before.
hick, swain. ANTONYMS: (n) hearken: (v) hark, harken, attend, wrack: (n) rack, sea wrack, desolation,
foreigner, outlander. listen, hear, heed, list, listen in, listen destruction, demolition,
courteously: (adv) graciously, civilly, to, regard, look out. bouleversement, undoing; (v) ruin,
considerately, decorously, decently, sprinkle: (v) splash, drizzle, moisten, destroy, bust up, demolish.
76 Lysistrata

And saved all Sparta. Yet base ingrates now,

You are ravaging the soil of your preservers.%
ATHENIANS.
By Zeus, they do great wrong, Lysistrata.
SPARTANS.
Great wrang, indeed. O! What a luscious wench!
LYSISTRATA.
And now I turn to the Athenians.
Have you forgotten too how once the Spartans
In days when you wore slavish tunics, came
And with their spears broke a Thessalian host
And all the partisans of Hippias?
They alone stood by your shoulder on that day.
They freed you, so that for the slave's short skirt
You should wear the trailing cloak of liberty.
SPARTANS.
I've never seen a nobler woman anywhere.
ATHENIANS.
Nor I one with such prettily jointing hips.
LYSISTRATA.
Now, brethren twined with mutual benefactions,
Can you still war, can you suffer such disgrace?
Why not be friends? What is there to prevent you?
SPARTANS.
We're agreed, gin that we get this tempting Mole.
LYSISTRATA.
Which one?
SPARTANS.
That ane we've wanted to get into, O for sae lang....
Pylos, of course.

Thesaurus
brethren: (n) congregation, assembly, luscious: (adj) juicy, appetizing, cringing, abject, obsequious,
brother, people, laity, family, flock, delicious, delectable, scrumptious, subservient, submissive, ignoble,
fold. rich, dulcet, succulent, yummy, contemptible, pliant.
disgrace: (adj, n, v) dishonor; (n, v) mellow, voluptuous. ANTONYMS: trailing: (n) tracking, drift, pursuit,
discredit, shame, stain, blemish, blot, (adj) tasteless, unappetizing. streaminess, hunt, heeling; (adj)
slur, reproach; (v) degrade, debase; ravaging: (n) destruction, pillaging, following, rambling, sprawling,
(n) degradation. ANTONYMS: (n, v) forray, depredation, desolation; (adj) prone, procumbent.
respect, esteem, credit; (v) glorify, predatory, destructive. twined: (adj) bent, coiled, contorted,
dignify, praise; (n) merit, grace, skirt: (n, v) border, edge, fringe, hem, distorted, misrepresented, perverted.
pride, rise, worthiness. flap, verge; (n) brim, kilt, apron; (v) wench: (n) miss, damsel, strumpet,
jointing: (n) joining, sealing, breaking evade, circumvent. trollop, Trull, missy, quean, slut,
of the joint, trimming. slavish: (adj) servile, menial, fawning, nymph, dame; (n, v) drab.
 Aristophanes 77

ATHENIANS.
By Poseidon, Never!
LYSISTRATA.
Give it up.%
ATHENIANS.
Then what will we do? We need that ticklish place united to us-
LYSISTRATA.
Ask for some other lurking-hole in return.
ATHENIANS.
Then, ah, we'll choose this snug thing here, Echinus,
Shall we call the nestling spot? And this backside haven,
These desirable twin promontories, the Maliac,
And then of course these Megarean Legs.
SPARTANS.
Not that, O surely not that, never that.
LYSISTRATA.
Agree! Now what are two legs more or less?
ATHENIANS.
I want to strip at once and plough my land.
SPARTANS.
And mine I want to fertilize at once.
LYSISTRATA.
And so you can, when Peace is once declared.
If you mean it, get your allies' heads together
And come to some decision.
ATHENIANS.
What allies?
There's no distinction in our politics.
We've risen as one man to this conclusion;
Every ally is jumping-mad to drive it home.
Thesaurus
backside: (n) back, bottom, rear, nestling: (n) chick, bairn, toddler, formal, loose.
reverse, bum, behind, ass, arse, baby bird, bambino, changeling, fry, ticklish: (adj) difficult, sensitive,
buttock, buttocks, can. ANTONYMS: kiddy, nesting, pullet, tadpole. tricky, tender, awkward, touchy,
(n) front, forepart. plough: (v) hoe, manure, delve, dibble, unsettled, unstable; (adj, v)
fertilize: (v) fertilise, feed, fecundate, dig, dress the ground, cultivate, turn precarious; (v) slippery, questionable.
fructify, enrich, cultivate, fatten, over, rake, weed, to plough. ANTONYMS: (adj) unproblematic,
inseminate, knock up, stratify; (adj) risen: (v) uprise. easy.
generate. snug: (adj, v) cosy, trim; (adj) cozy, twin: (adj, n, v) duplicate; (n, v) match,
haven: (n) harbor, port, asylum, easy, comfy, tight, close, warm, mate, pair, equal, fellow, parallel; (n)
harbour, refuge, retreat, destination, secure, homely; (v) neat. counterpart; (adj) dual, matching; (v)
anchorage, cover, housing; (n, v) ANTONYMS: (adj) baggy, couple. ANTONYMS: (adj) unlike,
shelter. uncomfortable, unwelcoming, bleak, singular, single, different.
78 Lysistrata

SPARTANS.
And ours the same, for sure.%
ATHENIANS.
The Carystians first! I'll bet on that
LYSISTRATA.
I agree with all of you.
Now off, and cleanse yourselves for the Acropolis,
For we invite you all in to a supper
From our commissariat baskets. There at table
You will pledge good behaviour and uprightness;
Then each man's wife is his to hustle home.
ATHENIANS.
Come, as quickly as possible.
SPARTANS.
As quick as ye like. Lead on.
ATHENIANS.
O Zeus, quick, quick, lead quickly on.
[They hurry off.]
CHORUS.
Broidered stuffs on high I'm heaping,
Fashionable cloaks and sweeping
Trains, not even gold gawds keeping.
Take them all, I pray you, take them all (I do not care)
And deck your children--your daughter, if the Basket she's to bear. Come,
everyone of you, come in and take
Of this rich hoard a share.
Nought's tied so skilfully
But you its seal can break
And plunder all you spy inside.
I've laid out all that I can spare,
And therefore you will see
Thesaurus
commissariat: (n) provisions, nutrient, ANTONYMS: (n) slowness, lethargy; adeptly, expertly, handily, artfully,
victual, food, provender, comestible, (v) dawdle, delay, crawl. goodly, ably.
alimentation, aliment, victuals, plunder: (n, v) pillage, spoil; (v) uprightness: (adj, n) honesty,
larder. despoil, harry, devastate, maraud, rectitude, fairness, honor, right,
hoard: (v) amass, gather, collect, destroy, strip, ransack; (n) booty, fidelity, probity, candor, equity; (n)
garner; (n, v) cache, store, stock, heap, depredation. morality, truth. ANTONYMS: (n)
bank, stash; (n) accumulation. seal: (n, v) stamp; (v) plug, bar, caulk, debauchery, wickedness, decadence,
ANTONYMS: (v) squander, disperse, stop, shut; (n) cachet, hallmark, dishonesty, immorality, indecency.
spend, use. imprint, signet; (adj) conclude. yourselves: (pron) themselves, myself,
hustle: (n, v) bustle, hurry, elbow, ANTONYMS: (n, v) open; (v) unseal. herself.
flurry; (v) hasten, shove; (n) haste, skilfully: (adv) skillfully, adroitly,
ado, con, commotion, cheat. cunningly, proficiently, deftly,
 Aristophanes 79

Nothing unless than I you're sharper-eyed.

If lacking corn a man should be
While his slaves clamour hungrily
And his excessive progeny,
Then I've a handfull of grain at home which is always to be had, And to
which in fact a more-than-life-size loaf I'd gladly add.
Then let the poor bring with them bag or sack
And take this store of food.
Manes, my man, I'll tell
To help them all to pack
Their wallets full. But O take care.
I had forgotten; don't intrude, Or terrified you'll yell.
My dog is hungry too, and bites--beware!
[Some LOUNGERS from the Market with torches approach the Banqueting
hall. The PORTER bars their entrance.%
1ST MARKET-LOUNGER.
Open the door.
PORTER.
Here move along.
1ST MARKET-LOUNGER.
What's this?
You're sitting down. Shall I singe you with my torch?
That's vulgar! O I couldn't do it ... yet
If it would gratify the audience,
I'll mortify myself.
2ND MARKET-LOUNGER.
And I will too.
We'll both be crude and vulgar, yes we will.
PORTER.
Be off at once now or you'll be wailing
Dirges for your hair. Get off at once,
Thesaurus
clamour: (n) clamoring, hue and cry, desirously, esuriently, starvingly. issue, breed, brood, generation.
clamouring, blare, bedlam, uproar, intrude: (v) interfere, trespass, singe: (n, v) scorch; (v) char, sear, bake,
vociferation, tumult, hubbub, encroach, infringe, impose, obtrude, parch, fry, roast, scald, swinge, grill,
exclamation; (v) utter. disturb, interrupt, impinge, barge in, inflame.
gratify: (v) delight, please, appease, butt in. ANTONYM: (v) disregard. wailing: (n, v) lamentation, lament,
accommodate, satisfy, amuse, suit, manes: (n) shade. moaning; (adj) lamenting, weeping,
indulge, cater; (n, v) humor; (adj) mortify: (v) humble, disgrace, abase, crying, wailful, howling, sobbing;
contented. ANTONYMS: (v) crush, embarrass, degrade, shame, (adj, n) bawling; (n) cry.
dissatisfy, displease, disappoint. demean, depress; (n, v) chagrin; (adj, yell: (n, v) cry, roar, scream, howl, call,
hungrily: (adv) ravenously, avidly, v) confuse. bellow, whoop, shriek, outcry; (v)
eagerly, greedily, keenly, progeny: (n) posterity, child, children, bawl, holler.
voraciously, starvedly, famishedly, family, lineage, successor, seed; (n, v)
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And see you don't disturb the Spartan envoys

Just coming out from the splendid feast they've had.
[The banqueters begin to come out.]
1ST ATHENIAN.
I've never known such a pleasant banquet before,
And what delightful fellows the Spartans are.
When we are warm with wine, how wise we grow.%
2ND ATHENIAN.
That's only fair, since sober we're such fools.
This is the advice I'd give the Athenians—
See our ambassadors are always drunk.
For when we visit Sparta sober, then
We're on the alert for trickery all the while
So that we miss half of the things they say,
And misinterpret things that were never said,
And then report the muddle back to Athens.
But now we're charmed with each other. They might cap
With the Telamon-catch instead of the Cleitagora,
And we'd applaud and praise them just the same;
We're not too scrupulous in weighing words.
PORTER.
Why, here the rascals come again to plague me. Won't you move on, you
sorry loafers there!
MARKET-LOUNGER.
Yes, by Zeus, they're already coming out.
SPARTANS.
Now hinnie dearest, please tak' up your pipe
That I may try a spring an' sing my best
In honour o' the Athenians an' oursels.
ATHENIANS.
Aye, take your pipe.
Thesaurus
applaud: (v) praise, eulogize, cheer, distort, misread, pervert, misjudge, exact, conscientious, particular,
extol, hail, admire, clap, commend, miscalculate, take, read. painstaking, accurate, prudent,
approve, compliment, exalt. ANTONYMS: (v) understand, meticulous, rigorous, cautious.
ANTONYMS: (v) criticize, disparage, interpret, appreciate. ANTONYMS: (adj) sloppy,
lament, hiss, censure, commiserate, muddle: (adj, n) mess; (n, v) clutter, unscrupulous, slapdash, relaxed,
condemn. disorder; (adj, v) confuse, fluster, guilty, deceitful.
charmed: (adj) enchanted, delighted, bewilder, perplex; (adj, n, v) blunder; trickery: (n) deceit, deception, guile,
fascinated, spellbound, entranced, (v) addle, botch; (n) disarray. chicanery, artifice, craft, cunning,
captive, beguiled, infatuated, ANTONYMS: (v) enlighten, sharpen, dishonesty, jugglery, fraudulence,
absorbed, enamored, captive hours. soothe, organize, disentangle, tidy, imposture. ANTONYM: (n)
misinterpret: (v) misunderstand, clarify; (n) space, clarity, neatness. truthfulness.
misconstrue, misconceive, mistake, scrupulous: (adj) careful, punctilious,
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By all the gods, there's nothing

Could glad my heart more than to watch you dance.%
SPARTANS.
Mnemosyne,
Let thy fire storm these younkers,
O tongue wi' stormy ecstasy
My Muse that knows
Our deeds and theirs, how when at sea
Their navies swooped upon
The Medes at Artemision—
Gods for their courage, did they strike
Wrenching a triumph frae their foes;
While at Thermopylae
Leonidas' army stood: wild-boars they were like
Wild-boars that wi' fierce threat
Their terrible tusks whet;
The sweat ran streaming down each twisted face,
Faem blossoming i' strange petals o' death
Panted frae mortal breath,
The sweat drenched a' their bodies i' that place,
For the hurly-burly o' Persians glittered more
Than the sands on the shore.
Come, Hunting Girl, an' hear my prayer—
You whose arrows whizz in woodlands, come an' bless
This Peace we swear. Let us be fenced wi' age long amity,
O let this bond stick ever firm through thee
In friendly happiness.
Henceforth no guilefu' perjury be seen!
O hither, hither O
Thou wildwood queen.

Thesaurus
amity: (n) friendship, concord, false witness, lying under oath, false relaxed, loose, lax; (n) cyclosis; (v)
companionship, benevolence, peace, evidence, violation, lie, infringement, disheveled.
harmony, friendliness, brotherhood, infraction, falsehood, offense, offence. whet: (v) quicken, excite, grind, stir,
fellowship, sympathy, camaraderie. sands: (n) littoral, litoral, beach, coast, stimulate, hone; (n) goad, spur, fillip,
ANTONYMS: (n) hostility, discord, quicksands, shore. stimulus; (adj) point. ANTONYMS:
antagonism, war, animosity. stormy: (adj, n) inclement, boisterous, (v) blunt, dishearten, dull, dampen,
fenced: (adj) hedged in, provisional, rough, severe; (adj) fierce, windy, quench.
guarded, bounded. wild, dirty, foul, tempestuous, whizz: (n, v) whiz; (v) whir, zoom,
hurly-burly: (n) hubbub, tumult, blustering. ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, birr, whirr, speed, purr, rain cats and
uproar, to-do, commotion, haste, still, pleasant, fair, mild, relaxed. dogs; (n) magician, ace, puzzle.
bustle, clamor, hassle, storm. streaming: (adj) flowing, flapping, woodlands: (n) country.
perjury: (v) mendacity; (n) bearing detached, incoherent, baggy, slack,
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LYSISTRATA.
Earth is delighted now, peace is the voice of earth.
Spartans, sort out your wives: Athenians, yours.
Let each catch hands with his wife and dance his joy,
Dance out his thanks, be grateful in music,
And promise reformation with his heels.%
ATHENIANS.
O Dancers, forward. Lead out the Graces,
Call Artemis out;
Then her brother, the Dancer of Skies,
That gracious Apollo.
Invoke with a shout
Dionysus out of whose eyes
Breaks fire on the maenads that follow;
And Zeus with his flares of quick lightning, and call,
Happy Hera, Queen of all,
And all the Daimons summon hither to be
Witnesses of our revelry
And of the noble Peace we have made,
Aphrodite our aid.

Io Paieon, Io, cry—

For victory, leap!
Attained by me, leap!
Euoi Euoi Euai Euai.
SPARTANS.
Piper, gie us the music for a new sang.

Leaving again lovely lofty Taygetus

Hither O Spartan Muse, hither to greet us,
And wi' our choric voice to raise

Thesaurus
attained: (adj) attains, attaint, reached, salute, bid, weep, meet, recognize. innovation, repair, renewal,
complete, earned, fulfilled. invoke: (v) entreat, evoke, appeal, reassembly.
gracious: (adj) genial, benign, good, conjure, pray, beseech, appeal to, revelry: (adj, n) revels; (n) debauchery,
courteous, compassionate, kind, summon, cite, arouse, name. festivity, orgy, merriment, revel,
accommodating, civil; (adj, n) ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, waive. carnival, mirth, gaiety, carousal,
benevolent, congenial, gentle. lightning: (n) levin, electricity, jollification.
ANTONYMS: (adj) ungracious, thunderbolt, Leven, ignis fatuus, heat summon: (v) assemble, convene,
boorish, discourteous, reserved, rude, lightning, forked lightning, fetter, demand, ask, invoke, evoke, invite,
abrupt, critical, unkind, hardhearted, dart, chain lightning; (adj) wind. muster, page, rally, convoke.
harsh, poor. reformation: (n) correction, ANTONYM: (v) disband.
greet: (n, v) receive; (v) address, amendment, improvement, redress, wives: (n) woman.
acknowledge, hail, welcome, cry, reclamation, rectification, conversion,
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To %Amyclean Apollo praise,

And Tyndareus' gallant sons whose days
Alang Eurotas' banks merrily pass,
An' Athene o' the House o' Brass.

Now the dance begin;

Dance, making swirl your fringe o' woolly skin,
While we join voices
To hymn dear Sparta that rejoices
I' a beautifu' sang,
An' loves to see
Dancers tangled beautifully;
For the girls i' tumbled ranks
Alang Eurotas' banks
Like wanton fillies thrang,
Frolicking there
An' like Bacchantes shaking the wild air
To comb a giddy laughter through the hair,
Bacchantes that clench thyrsi as they sweep
To the ecstatic leap.

An' Helen, Child o' Leda, come

Thou holy, nimble, gracefu' Queen,
Lead thou the dance, gather thy joyous tresses up i' bands
An' play like a fawn. To madden them, clap thy hands,
And sing praise to the warrior goddess templed i' our lands,
Her o' the House o' Brass.

Thesaurus
bands: (n) cords, stripes. ANTONYMS: (v) insult, despise, swirl: (n, v) whirl, curl, spin, twist; (v)
clap: (n, v) blast, boom, slam, rumble; ignore, domineer. eddy, twirl, rotate, revolve, purl,
(n) applause, clapping, gonorrhoea, giddy: (adj, v) flighty; (adj) dizzy, faint, turn; (n) convolution.
smash; (v) acclaim, applaud, hit. silly, changeable, vertiginous, tresses: (n) locks, mop, head of hair.
ANTONYMS: (v) hiss, jeer. featherbrained, light, fickle, tumbled: (adj) disordered.
clench: (n, v) clasp, grip, hold, clinch, capricious; (adv) careless. wanton: (adj) loose, dissolute, light,
grasp, gripe; (v) embrace, grapple, ANTONYMS: (adj) serious, dull. licentious, unchaste, lewd,
tighten, ratify; (n) clamp. nimble: (adj) lively, adroit, agile, brisk, debauched, unprovoked; (v) dally; (n,
ANTONYMS: (v) release, flex, relax. spry, alert, expeditious, energetic, v) sport; (adj, v) flirt. ANTONYMS:
fawn: (v) crawl, creep, grovel, cringe, clever, lithe; (adj, v) light. (adj) moral, wise, nice, kind, gentle,
cower, crouch, bootlick, kowtow, ANTONYMS: (adj) clumsy, heavy, decent, clean, careful, observant,
blandish, flatter; (n) deer. stiff, slow, awkward, sluggish, unfit. justifiable, involuntary.
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GLOSSARY
aboard: (adv) afloat, afield, at home, abbreviation, preoccupancy, acropolis: (n) bastion, citadel, hill
there, everywhere, here, on base, theorisation, theorization. action: (n, v) achievement, deed; (n)
onboard, where ANTONYMS: (n) attentiveness, battle, play, performance,
abolish: (adj, v) annul; (v) revoke, do inclusion, alertness, concentration, movement, accomplishment,
away with, end, rescind, eradicate, fact agency, activity, fight, effect.
invalidate, get rid of, cancel, repeal, absurd: (adj) ridiculous, foolish, ANTONYMS: (n) inaction,
extinguish. ANTONYMS: (v) unreasonable, irrational, inactivity, inactiveness, ambush,
establish, enact, promote, uphold, meaningless, inept, senseless, stillness
support, create, ratify, introduce, nonsensical, illogical, ludicrous; (adj, acts: (n) Acts of the Apostles,
adopt, authorize, build n) silly. ANTONYMS: (adj) rational, revelations, Epistles, apocalypse,
above: (adv, prep) beyond, aloft, on, reasonable, logical, wise, weighty, act, advanced communications
in excess of; (adv) up, supra, on top; sound, consistent, serious, plausible, technology satellite, evangelists,
(adj) preceding, former; (adj, prep) credible, acceptable gospels
past; (prep) surpassing. academic: (adj) scholarly, studious, admiration: (n) esteem, adoration,
ANTONYMS: (prep) beneath, pedantic, learned, didactic, bookish; appreciation, reverence, estimation,
under, deficient, underneath; (adj) (adj, v) scholastic, speculative, amazement, liking, awe,
inferior, following hypothetical; (adj, n) intellectual; (n) compliment; (adj, n) regard; (v)
absence: (n) absenteeism, deficiency, academician. ANTONYMS: (adj) laud. ANTONYMS: (n) disdain,
lack, default, dearth, want, practical, meaningful, untutored, criticism, disapproval, contempt,
nonattendance, scarcity, paucity, untaught, unschooled, abhorrence, loathing, disgust,
shortage, privation. ANTONYMS: understandable, realistic, ordinary, despising, dishonor, disparagement,
(n) attendance, existence, ignorant, functional, concrete detestation
fulfillment, inclusion, occurrence, acclamation: (n) applause, ovation, admit: (n, v) allow; (adj, v)
abundance, glut, confirmation, plaudit, praise, cheer, eclat, acknowledge; (v) concede, accede,
supply, excess approval, commendation, vox grant, affirm, confess, include,
absorb: (v) drink, consume, imbibe, populi, adulation, hand. permit, take, welcome.
engross, swallow, assimilate, ANTONYMS: (n) razzing, jeers, ANTONYMS: (v) reject, exclude,
engage, take in, occupy, suck, hisses, heckles, catcalls, bar, dispute, gainsay, withhold,
merge. ANTONYMS: (v) emit, repel, vituperation, disapproval refuse, oust, hide, eject, dismiss
exude, confuse, discharge, disperse, account: (n) narrative, score, tale, adolescence: (n) youth, boyhood,
dissipate, distract, divert, spew, reckoning, narration, description, juvenility, puberty, childhood,
sidetrack tally, tab, reason; (n, v) regard, immatureness, majority, minority,
absorption: (n) assimilation, report prime, pubescence, youthfulness.
attention, inhalation, ingestion, achieve: (v) reach, execute, perform, ANTONYM: (n) senescence
preoccupation, imbibition, complete, do, effect, gain, get, fulfill, adonis: (n) daemon, genus Adonis;
engrossment, self-estrangement, obtain, bring about. ANTONYMS: (adj) Antionous, narcissus, Hebe,
amalgamation, interest, abstraction. (v) Miss, fail, quit, choke, neglect Venus, Apollo, peri, Cupid,
ANTONYMS: (n) expulsion, achievement: (n) performance, Hyperion, the Graces
rejection completion, execution, action, act, adorning: (adj) decorative,
abstracted: (adj) absentminded, fulfillment, victory, attainment; (adj, ornamental, cultural; (n) adornment,
separate, absent-minded, abstract, n) exploit; (n, v) deed; (adj) feat. decoration; (v) adorn
distrait, inattentive, pensive, ANTONYMS: (n) loss, washout, advanced: (adj) progressive, senior,
preoccupied, remote, lost, vacant. flop, defeat, debacle, abandonment higher, precocious, modern, new,
ANTONYM: (adj) alert aching: (adj) sore, achy, hurt, late, superior, ripe, cultured,
abstraction: (n) abstract, reverie, uncomfortable, tender, hurtful, developed. ANTONYMS: (adj)
engrossment, extraction, agonizing; (n) ache, pain, hurting; inferior, fundamental, slow,
withdrawal, removal, deduction, (v) griped traditional, simple, obsolete,
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neurotic, behind, after, backwards, courageous, eager, unafraid, valiant, associates, cohorts, partners
incomplete bold, carefree ally: (adj, n) accomplice, associate; (n)
advantageous: (adj) expedient, again: (adv) more, then, repeatedly, friend, companion, colleague,
useful, auspicious, helpful, gainful, anew, encore, furthermore, yet, also, partner, accessory; (v) affiliate; (adv)
serviceable, convenient, lucky, often, once again, once more totally, entirely, wholely.
worthwhile, beneficial; (adj, v) against: (adj, adv) counter; (prep) ANTONYMS: (n) adversary,
profitable. ANTONYMS: (adj) toward, versus, from; (pref) by; (v) opponent, foe, enemy, antagonist,
useless, disadvantageous, oppose; (adv, prep) on; (n) detractor, rival
detrimental, unhelpful, unfortunate, opposition; (adj) unwilling, alone: (adj) forlorn, individual,
inauspicious, worthless, unpleasant repugnant; (adv) athwart. lonely, lonesome; (adj, adv) only,
adventure: (n, v) venture, chance; (n) ANTONYMS: (prep) for; (adj) eager apart; (adv) solely, entirely,
accident, escapade, incident, event, agonized: (adj) distressed, painful, exclusively, separately, individually.
undertaking, consequence, essay; (v) woeful, tormented, suffering, ANTONYMS: (adj) overshadowed,
risk, jeopardize. ANTONYMS: (n) miserable, hurt ordinary, mobbed, equaled,
stillness, passiveness, inactivity, agony: (n) torture, suffering, torment, crowded, accompanied, common,
inaction, avoidance, inertia, bore distress, misery, passion, pain, grief, grouped, surpassed; (adv) jointly;
advice: (n) warning, counsel, caution, pang, sorrow, throe. ANTONYMS: (n) foe
report, exhortation, council, tidings, (n) pleasure, joy, euphoria, bliss, along: (adv) ahead, alongside,
counselling, notice, intelligence, happiness, ecstasy, peace, content forwards, forth, throughout,
instruction. ANTONYMS: (n) agree: (v) admit, acknowledge, lengthwise, onward, before; (prep)
misrepresentation, deceit, deception, acquiesce, adjust, concord, bargain, beside, from; (n) at. ANTONYMS:
lie, falsehood, betrayal, warning suit, accede, harmonize, fit; (n, v) (adv) across, separate, apart, far
aerial: (adj) airy, unreal, ethereal, coincide. ANTONYMS: (v) oppose, aloof: (adj) distant, reserved, cool,
aery, pneumatic, insubstantial, differ, argue, refuse, object, refute, standoffish, unconcerned,
unsubstantial, aeriform, fanciful, conflict, fight, dispute, decline, indifferent, unfriendly, frigid,
overhead, airlike. ANTONYM: (adj) contend arrogant, cold; (adv) afar.
grounded agreed: (adj) unanimous, approved, ANTONYMS: (adj) friendly,
aesthetic: (adj) aesthetical, esthetical, set, united, in agreement, accepted, involved, approachable, sociable,
artistic, perceptive, sentient, agreeable; (adv, int) all right; (int) outgoing, open, enthusiastic,
exquisite, makeup, deep, tasteful, okay; (v) content; (adv) no question. relaxed, communicative, affable,
surface; (n) aesthetics. ANTONYMS: ANTONYMS: (adj) changing, respectful
(adj) displeasing, ugly, unattractive, individual already: (adv) beforehand,
ascetic ahead: (adv) in advance, formerly, previously, before, formerly, even
afar: (adv) off, away, far away, beforehand, previously, along, now, just now, at present, once,
distantly, beyond, Afar off, in the onward, beyond, in the van; (adj) heretofore, yet, in advance
distance, by far, apart; (adj) front; (adj, adv) forward; (v) although: (adv, prep)
outlying, far. ANTONYMS: (adv) precede. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) notwithstanding; (prep) in spite of,
close, nearby, near; (prep) within late; (adv) subsequently, following, even though, however; (adv, conj)
affair: (n) occurrence, event, business, back, before, after, ago, backward, though; (conj) whereas; (adv) even,
concern, occasion, job, topic, duty, losing, later; (adj) behindhand tho, when, anyway, tho'
subject, amour, thing alert: (adj) active, agile, quick, lively, always: (adv) continuously,
affairs: (n) dealings, concern, intelligent, aware, vigilant, clever, whenever, permanently, ever,
circumstances, transaction, animated, ready; (adj, v) awake. usually, eternally, unceasingly; (adj)
occupation, duty, matters, matter, ANTONYMS: (adj) drowsy, perpetual, still, eternal; (adj, adv)
personal business, gear, finances absentminded, dazed, tired, sleepy, without exception. ANTONYMS:
affection: (n) charity, attachment, unconscious, slow, asleep, (adv) erratically, intermittently,
fondness, heart, love, disease, unobservant, forgetful, dim temporarily
nature, feeling, affectionateness, alive: (adj) live, vivacious, living, amazing: (adj) astonishing, terrific,
tenderness, kindness. ANTONYMS: sensible, delicate, snappy, animated, wonderful, incredible, awesome,
(n) disgust, neglect, malice, loathing, lively, spry, responsive; (n) life. astounding, breathtaking,
dislike, detachment, coldness, ANTONYMS: (adj) deceased, extraordinary, fabulous, impressive,
roughness inanimate, unanimated, dispirited, tremendous. ANTONYMS: (adj)
afloat: (adj) buoyant, floating, dull, inactive, lethargic, lifeless, ordinary, boring, predictable,
current, in circulation, directionless, listless, nonfunctioning, sluggish unremarkable, modest, insignificant,
undirected, rudderless; (adv) adrift, alliance: (n) connection, confederacy, comforting, dire, humdrum
aboard; (v) afoot; (n) on foot combination, affinity, association, amazon: (n) Amazon river, man at
afraid: (adj) fearful, timid, shy, union, merger, organization, society, arms, woman, river, fighting man,
apprehensive, anxious, worried, affiliation, coalition. ANTONYMS: adult female, female, warrior,
scared, frightened, nervous, (n) nonalignment, antagonism, shrew; (adj) hector, hero
terrified; (adj, adv) cowardly. divergence, discord, hostility, ambassadors: (n) ambassador
ANTONYMS: (adj) brave, animosity amid: (adv, prep) among, amongst;
venturesome, calm, confident, cool, allies: (n) alignment, alinement, (prep) between, amidst, mid,
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during, in the midst of, with, (adj, adv) fleshly; (adj) bodily, someplace, wherever, everywhere
surrounded by, stuck between; (n) carnal, corporeal, physical. apart: (adj, adv) aloof; (adv) aside,
midst. ANTONYMS: (prep) outside, ANTONYMS: (adj) refined, mineral, asunder, especially; (adj) alone,
separate genteel, mental, rational, distant, detached, isolated, only;
amity: (n) friendship, concord, intellectual, vegetable, delicate, (adj, v) separate; (v) segregate.
companionship, benevolence, peace, factual, spiritual; (n) plant ANTONYMS: (adv) adjoining, near,
harmony, friendliness, brotherhood, ankle: (n) knuckle, kimbo, crane, surrounded; (adj) connected, nearby
fellowship, sympathy, camaraderie. fluke, crutch, crotch, zigzag, groin, aphrodite: (adj) peri, Apollo, Cupid,
ANTONYMS: (n) hostility, discord, sickle, scythe, malleolus Hebe, narcissus, the Graces,
antagonism, war, animosity annoyed: (adj) irritated, vexed, irate, Hyperion, houri, Venus; (n) Adonis,
among: (prep) between, amidst, mid, aggravated, angered, cross, Cytherea
in, amongst, in the middle of, inter, disgruntled, exasperated, infuriated, apollo: (adj) Aphrodite, Hyperion,
in the midst of, with, within, middle. displeased, resentful. ANTONYMS: narcissus, peri, houri; (n) aurora,
ANTONYM: (prep) outside (adj) pleased, unprovoked, smiling, Terpsichore, Euterpe, Phoebus
amorous: (adj) amatory, romantic, patient, unconcerned, contented Apollo, Orpheus, orb of day
amative, affectionate, passionate, another: (adj) second, more, apparently: (adv) manifestly,
fond, warm, ardent, erotic, tender, alternative, additional, new, further, evidently, patently, obviously,
impassioned. ANTONYMS: (adj) fresh, extra; (adj, v) other; (adj, pron) clearly, plainly, supposedly,
cold, hateful, repulsed, unfriendly, some other; (n) the other. conspicuously, overtly, outwardly,
cool ANTONYMS: (n, pron) same allegedly. ANTONYMS: (adv)
amuse: (v) please, beguile, absorb, answer: (n, v) respond, retort; (v) unclearly, actually, doubtfully,
entertain, enjoy, disport, distract, counter, serve, resolve, questionably, uncertainly,
delight, occupy, recreate, rejoice. acknowledge, correspond; (n) underneath, unlikely, truly,
ANTONYMS: (v) bore, dull, tire, solution, defence, return, reaction. equivocally, imperceptibly
annoy, anger, cloy, depress, weary, ANTONYMS: (n, v) question; (v) appeal: (n, v) request, demand; (n)
disappoint ask, differ, fail, ignore; (n) request, plea, address, attraction, prayer,
analogous: (adj) similar, analog, problem, invitation, poison recourse, complaint, application; (v)
analogical, akin, parallel, like, answering: (adj) respondent, sue, interest. ANTONYMS: (v) repel,
equivalent, corresponding, responsive, according, agreeing, disclaim, repulse, deny, refuse,
comparable, cognate, analogue. responsory; (n) respondency disgust, revoke; (n) unpleasantness,
ANTONYMS: (adj) dissimilar, antics: (n) sport, monkey business repulsion, refusal, rejection
different, heterologous, disparate, antony: (n) Mark Antony, Marcus appearance: (n) look, face, shape,
disagreeing, homologous, opposite, Antonius, Anthony, Antonius, mark show, apparition, advent, form,
unalike Anthony image, surface, impression; (adj, n)
anatomy: (n) morphology, anxious: (adj) uneasy, alarmed, semblance. ANTONYMS: (n)
physiology, structure, analysis, thoughtful, fearful, apprehensive, departure, vanishing
body, chassis, dissection, flesh, agitated, keen; (adj, v) nervous, appears: (n) appearing
human body, figure; (adj) skeleton tense, solicitous, jumpy. applaud: (v) praise, eulogize, cheer,
anciently: (adv) antiquatedly, ANTONYMS: (adj) relaxed, carefree, extol, hail, admire, clap, commend,
formerly, oldly, primevally, hoarily, confident, rational, unconcerned, approve, compliment, exalt.
primordially, obsoletely, bygonely, undisturbed, untroubled, assured, ANTONYMS: (v) criticize,
archaically, antediluvianly, pastly comfortable, cool, apathetic disparage, lament, hiss, censure,
anent: (adj) anenst anyhow: (adv) somehow, at any rate, commiserate, condemn
angle: (n, v) hook, incline, tilt; (v) in any case, whatever, in any event, apple: (n) Malus pumila, pome, earth,
lean; (n) view, viewpoint, aspect, regardless, however, though, city, world, orchard apple tree; (v)
position, point of view, pitch, besides, nonetheless, one way or apple slump, ball; (adj) green
perspective another appreciate: (adj, v) understand,
angry: (adj) anger, furious, provoked, anyone: (n) one, someone, realize; (v) esteem, treasure, prize,
incensed, vehement, fierce, irate, everybody, everyone, somebody, fathom, appraise, comprehend,
raging, maddened, shirty, any person, individual, human admire, acknowledge, apprize.
indignation. ANTONYMS: (adj) being; (adv) any, each; (pron) ANTONYMS: (v) scorn, disregard,
pleased, gentle, joyful, content, whoever. ANTONYM: (pron) ignore, neglect, disparage,
euphoric, mild, happy, resigned, nobody underrate, underestimate, dislike,
joyous, gleeful, quiet anything: (adv) any, somewhat; (n) overlook, assume, undervalue
anguished: (adj) tormented, thing, aught, everything, something, approach: (n) access, entry, means,
suffering, tortured, dolorous, any part; (adj) whatsoever; (pron) advent, coming, entrance, arrival; (n,
uneasy, distressing, woeful, pained, suchlike v) advance; (v) accost, address; (adv,
upset, distressed, worried. anyway: (adv) somehow, however, v) near. ANTONYMS: (n) departure,
ANTONYMS: (adj) cheerful, regardless, though, besides, at any withdrawal, leaving, distancing; (v)
content, happy rate, in any case, in any event, all the end, withdraw, finish, distance,
animal: (adj, n) brute; (n) beast, same, although, nonetheless depart, conclude, close
organism, living thing, being, fauna; anywhere: (adv, n) anyplace; (adv) appropriated: (adj) taken, destined,
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taken over, confiscate, confiscated, around: (adv) approximately, almost, convocation, assembling, body.
condemned, seized, reserved roughly, just about, some; (adv, ANTONYMS: (n) scattering,
arbitration: (n) mediation, arbitrage, prep) round, encompassing; (adj) dismantling, disbanding,
umpirage, judgment, decision, near; (n) vicinity; (prep) all round, disassembly, destruction, dispersal
intervention, arbitrement, encircling assess: (v) appraise, appreciate,
compromise, determination, talks, arouse: (v) wake, stir, agitate, excite, value, estimate, rule, tax, measure,
award awaken, stimulate, anger, kindle, review, mark, gauge, ascertain
archer: (n) bowman, Sagittarius, provoke, raise; (n, v) rouse. assure: (n, v) certify, warrant, vouch;
turfman, fan, expert, shot, shooter, ANTONYMS: (v) calm, dampen, (v) secure, persuade, satisfy,
toxophilite, tell, bowyer stifle, sedate, quiet, pacify, bore, reassure, affirm, promise, ascertain;
ardent: (adj, n) enthusiastic, glowing; allay, lull, quench, suppress (adj, v) ensure. ANTONYMS: (v)
(adj, v) burning, fervent, arrange: (v) dress, settle, order, set, alarm, disclaim, deny, disbelieve,
impassioned; (adj) keen, vehement, pack, agree, adapt, do, classify, undermine
eager, warm, acute, fervid. straighten; (n, v) adjust. athene: (n) Pallas Athene, Pallas
ANTONYMS: (adj) apathetic, cool, ANTONYMS: (v) disarrange, cancel, Athena, Pallas, genus Athene
unenthusiastic, traitorous, mild, disorder, disorganize, improvise, athenian: (adj) draconian,
frigid, dispassionate, cold, disloyal, jumble, change, disband, reject, Demosthenic, attic; (n) Demosthenes
impassive, calm bungle athens: (n) capital of Greece
ardor: (adj, n) eagerness, zeal; (n) arrest: (n, v) halt, check, catch, atrocious: (adj) monstrous, awful,
fervor, fervency, fire, flame, passion, capture, hold, collar; (n) heinous, abominable, wicked,
enthusiasm, ardency, heat, avidity. apprehension, custody; (v) dreadful, frightful, terrible, bad,
ANTONYMS: (n) apathy, coolness, apprehend, retard, inhibit. horrible; (adj, n) outrageous.
coldness, hatred ANTONYMS: (n, v) discharge; (v) ANTONYMS: (adj) humane,
argue: (v) contend, quarrel, oppose, liberate, promote, forward, benevolent, drivable, elegant,
altercate, debate, declare, contest, encourage, activate, advance, virtuous, good, passable, fine, kind,
discuss, convince; (n, v) reason, prompt, help; (n) freeing, liberation admirable, tasteful
question. ANTONYMS: (v) deny, arrived: (adv) here, at home; (adj) attack: (n, v) assail, attempt, thrust,
harmonize, assent, concur, abstain, accepted raid, charge; (n) incursion, seizure,
comply, dissuade arrogant: (adj) imperious, proud, aggression, fit; (v) invade, aggress.
argument: (n) proof, debate, matter, haughty, presumptuous, dogmatic, ANTONYMS: (v) defend, protect,
controversy, hassle, independent insolent, conceited, overbearing, flatter, aid, avoid, commend,
variable, contention, difference, hoity-toity, egotistical, domineering. compliment, procrastinate; (n, v)
justification, discussion, fight. ANTONYMS: (adj) modest, retreat, praise; (n) protection
ANTONYMS: (n) harmony, unassuming, insecure, subservient, attacking: (adj) aggressive, assailing,
concord, accord, consensus, meek, considerate, deferential invading, abusive, abhorrent,
accusation, defense artemisia: (n) bush, shrub, tarragon warlike, rebellious, assailant
arise: (v) appear, emerge, result, ashes: (n) dust, cinders, remains, attained: (adj) attains, attaint,
issue, mount, proceed, originate, get cinder, clay, earth, embers, clinker; reached, complete, earned, fulfilled
up, ascend, awake, stand up. (adj) scoriae, mother, precipitate attendant: (n) companion, follower,
ANTONYMS: (v) end, sit, recline, aside: (adv) apart, away, beside, assistant, escort, subordinate,
stop, retire, disappear, descend, alongside, in reserve, off, abreast; employee, guide, varlet; (adj)
cease, fade (adj, adv) by; (n) digression, accompanying, concomitant,
armaments: (n) arms, weaponry, divagation, parenthesis. incidental. ANTONYMS: (n)
army, armature, guns, artillery, ANTONYMS: (adv) erectly, superior, boss; (adj) absent,
firepower, ordnance, weapons uprightly, vertically unrelated, significant
armed: (n) arms, arming; (adj, v) asking: (v) ask; (n) invitation, prayer, attention: (n) mind, heed, notice,
armed to the teeth; (adj) equipped, suit, application, begging, alertness, care, advertency, aid,
military, fitted, aggressive, supplication, entreaty, billing; (adj) consideration, ear, attentiveness,
prepared, violent, forcible, interrogatory, interrogative precision. ANTONYMS: (n) neglect,
weaponed. ANTONYMS: (adj) assault: (n, v) storm, violence, raid, negligence, thoughtlessness,
unarmed, unprotected, armless, charge, onset, rape, thrust; (v) assail; abandonment, abstraction,
unprepared, peaceful (n) aggression, rush, offensive. discourtesy, disregard, oversight,
armoured: (adj) panzer, mailed, scaly, ANTONYMS: (v) defend, protect, indifference, insensibility,
scaled, bulletproof resist; (n) defense carelessness
arms: (n) armament, coat of arms, assembling: (n) assemblage, audacity: (n) nerve, audaciousness,
weaponry, ammunition, shield, assembly, collection, collecting, effrontery, arrogance, temerity,
ordnance, order, munition, compilation, meeting, aggregation, cheek, impertinence, insolence,
hardware, blazon; (adj) armed congregation, montage; (adj) courage; (n, v) impudence; (adj, n)
army: (n) troop, host, armed forces, gathering, assembled presumption. ANTONYMS: (n)
battery, swarm, navy, multitude, assembly: (n) gathering, meeting, cowardice, propriety, decorum,
force, flock; (adj, n) military; (adj) congregation, collection, convention, circumspection, courtesy, fear,
array fabrication, multitude, chamber, respect, spinelessness, reticence
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audience: (n) hearing, attendance, orgy, Saturnalia, bacchant, toper, bars: (n) grinding media, gymnastics,
house, listener, meeting, turnout, devotee, drinker, imbiber; (v) parallel bars
hearer, spectators, gallery, carouser; (adj) bacchic base: (adj) abject, mean,
following; (n, v) auditory backside: (n) back, bottom, rear, dishonorable, low, vile, ignoble,
automatic: (adj, v) involuntary; (adj) reverse, bum, behind, ass, arse, bad, contemptible; (n) foundation;
reflex, automated, mechanical, buttock, buttocks, can. (n, v) ground; (v) found.
spontaneous, unconscious, inherent, ANTONYMS: (n) front, forepart ANTONYMS: (n) top, summit, frill,
mechanized, robotic; (n) robot, balanced: (adj) equal, firm, well- ceiling, apex; (adj) noble, honest,
handgun. ANTONYMS: (adj) balanced, steady, stable, staid, good, principled, grand, pleasant
voluntary, deliberate, uncertain, regular, suitable, harmonious, based: (adj) founded
conscious, unnatural, avoidable, uniform, symmetrical. basely: (adv) vilely, bottomly,
premeditated, stilted, optional, ANTONYMS: (adj) unfair, sordidly, shamefully, foully,
thoughtful, unusual unbalanced, unsettled, menially, lowly, depravedly,
avail: (n, v) advantage, assist, aid, unsymmetrical, uncertified, villainously, badly, poorly
profit, benefit, help; (adj, n) service; asymmetrical, disproportionate, baseness: (n) meanness,
(n) good, assistance, utility; (v) do. imbalanced, unequal, uneven, despicability, evil, depravity,
ANTONYMS: (v) useless, hurt, irrational wickedness, dirtiness, unworthiness,
hinder, harm; (n) inappropriateness balancing: (adj, n) matching; (n) iniquity, infamy, lowness, villainy.
await: (v) anticipate, abide, bide, bringing into state of equilibrium, ANTONYM: (n) goodness
tarry, wait, attend, look, hope, adjustment, equalization, equipoise, bash: (n, v) swipe, whack, knock,
approach, loom, come on. reconciliation, redress, wheel punch, wallop, hit, strike, crack,
ANTONYM: (v) doubt balancing, balancing accountancy, smash; (v) beat; (n) blow
awake: (v) wake, awaken, realize, comparison; (adj) libratory basic: (adj, n) essential, staple; (adj)
waken; (adj) alive, alert, attentive, bald: (adj) hairless, simple, austere, first, primary, initial, cardinal,
conscious, keen, intelligent; (adj, v) meager, raw, barefaced, stark, plain, primordial, standard, vital, plain; (n)
broad awake. ANTONYMS: (adj) nude, naked; (adj, v) threadbare. foundation. ANTONYMS: (adj)
unconscious, sleeping, comatose, ANTONYMS: (adj) ornate, furry, secondary, minor, extra, complex,
sleepy, relaxed; (v) deaden, lull, hirsute, woolly, embellished, peripheral, optional, sophisticated,
sleep adorned, decorated special, advanced, inessential; (adj,
aware: (adj) awake, attentive, band: (n) cluster, set, party, swathe, n) luxury
conscious, realize, vigilant, perceive, lace, knot, collar, circle, strip, zone, basis: (n) base, foundation, gist,
mindful, heedful, alive, sentient, company. ANTONYMS: (v) footing, fundamental, bed,
sensible. ANTONYMS: (adj) disperse, divide, scatter, disband beginning, root, reason, justification,
unconscious, insensitive, ignorant, bands: (n) cords, stripes nucleus. ANTONYMS: (n) summit,
unfamiliar, unwitting, incognizant, bang: (n, v) slam, hit, beat, strike, top, apex, effect
unmindful, unconcerned, knock, smash, boom, thud, bump; basket: (n) cage, hamper, basketful,
unprepared, oblivious, indifferent (adv, n, v) smack, slap. creel, Corf, coop, bucket, spinner
away: (adj, adv) abroad, absent; (adj, ANTONYMS: (n) silence; (v) tiptoe basket, bassinet, containerful, cradle
adv, int) out; (adj) distant; (adv) banging: (n) battering, flap; (adj) bath: (n, v) wash, clean; (v) bathe,
aside, aloof, afar, way, by, forth; humongous, noisy immersion; (n) bathroom, tank, dip,
(adv, int) off. ANTONYMS: (adj) banks: (n) thumb index, sir Joseph tub, bathtub, ablution, bate
adjacent, neighboring, nearby, near, Banks, sidewalls, bank shares, bank baths: (n) pool, bath, spring
close; (adv) intermittently, haltingly, balance batter: (v) hammer, baste, break, club,
discontinuously, in banquet: (v) junket, revel, regale; (n) slam, beat, mangle, buffet, smite,
awful: (adj) fearful, dreadful, terrible, party, celebration, carousal, treat, pound; (n) batsman
abominable, appalling, nasty, entertainment, spread, dinner, battle: (n, v) fight, struggle, combat,
abhorrent, atrocious, bad, horrible, reception. ANTONYM: (n) snack contest, war, conflict, clash, brawl;
lousy. ANTONYMS: (adj) excellent, banqueting: (n) eating, feeding (v) wrestle; (n) fighting, warfare.
wonderful, marvelous, great, lovely, bargain: (adj, n, v) cheap; (n, v) ANTONYMS: (n) peace, agreement,
nice, pleasant, beautiful, pleasing, covenant, deal; (n) agreement, truce, concord, armistice, accord,
good, minor treaty, arrangement, buy, chaffer; (v) surrender
awhile: (adj) in transitu, en passant; exchange, stipulate, agree. beans: (adj) unimportant; (n) money
(adv) briefly ANTONYM: (adj) inflated bear: (v) accept, take, stand, acquit,
awoke: (adj) awakened barley: (n) barleycorn, bear, bere, abide, allow, wear, comport,
babbling: (adj) loquacious, telltale, oats, cereal, grain, barley fodder tolerate, convey, teem.
voluble, blatant, blathering, barring: (prep) besides; (n) except for, ANTONYMS: (v) release, avoid,
blithering, gabbling, garrulous, excepting, except, with the destroy, dodge, take, eradicate,
jabbering; (n) stultiloquy, exception of, without, with a evade, kill, refuse, erase; (n) bull
stultiloquence reservation, ejection, save and beard: (v) defy, dare; (adj, v) brave;
babies: (n) children, babes, babe, except, riddance, expulsion. (adj, n) hair; (n) whiskers,
babying, offspring ANTONYMS: (n) entitlement; (prep) moustache, sloven, facial hair; (n, v)
bacchanal: (n) Bacchanalia, revel, including camouflage, disguise, mask.
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ANTONYM: (n) shaven maculate, tarnish; (adj) besmear, undetermined, undecided,
bearing: (n, v) demeanor; (n) manner, bemire, begrime uncurved, uncaring, rigid, unbent
direction, deportment, conduct, begin: (v) commence, arise, initiate, bequeathed: (adj) hereditary
attitude, aspect, approach, become, enter, rise, originate, beseech: (v) beg, crave, implore, ask,
appearance, respect, air. undertake, create, dawn, set out. request, adjure, pray, sue, appeal,
ANTONYMS: (n) insignificance, ANTONYMS: (v) end, stop, cease, solicit, plead. ANTONYMS: (v) give,
irrelevance; (adj) nonbearing terminate, die, delay, complete, offer, grant, reject
beast: (n) animal, monster, swine, conclude besides: (adv) as well, moreover, too,
fiend, creature, scavenger, savage, behaviour: (n) behavior, action, furthermore, again, as well as,
critter, animate being, barbarian; bearing, activity, act, dealing, deed, anyway, additionally; (prep) apart
(adj) bear. ANTONYM: (n) man character, proceeding, moral from, beside; (adj, adv) more
beasts: (n) stock conduct, conduct best: (adj, n) supreme, most, elite;
beat: (n, v) pulse, throb, tick, flap, behind: (adj, n) back, rear; (adj, adv) (adj) superior, great, leading, choice,
knock; (v) batter, whip, trounce, backward, late; (adv) backwards, superlative; (v) beat, outdo; (adj, n,
pulsate, bat; (n) round. later, aback, beyond; (n) backside, v) top. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) worst;
ANTONYMS: (v) protect, help, can; (prep) abaft. ANTONYMS: (adj, (v) lose, surrender; (adj) minimum,
divide, cede, aid, separate, adv) early; (adv) fore; (adj) prompt lowest, least, inferior, incorrect,
surrender; (adj) invigorated, behold: (v) see, view, contemplate, fewest; (n) loser; (adv) insincerely
energized; (n) caress, pat regard, perceive, observe, look, bestial: (adj) animal, brutish, brute,
beautiful: (adj) attractive, good- consider, discern, descry, watch. atrocious, savage, brutal, inhuman,
looking, bright, neat, beauteous, ANTONYMS: (v) Miss, disregard, cruel, grim, depraved; (adj, adv)
pleasant, picturesque, fine, pretty, ignore, overlook beastly. ANTONYM: (adj) refined
lovely; (n) beauty. ANTONYMS: beleaguering: (n) military blockade, betray: (v) deceive, bewray, sell,
(adj) unattractive, homely, Syracuse, besieging, Corregidor, grass, dupe, reveal, mislead,
grotesque, plain, repulsive, Lucknow, Orleans, Atlanta disclose, accuse, befool, bamboozle.
awkward, ordinary, dull believe: (n) belief, believing; (v) ANTONYMS: (v) protect,
beautifully: (adv) exquisitely, nicely, assume, conceive, consider, reckon, undeceive, hide, defend, withhold
gorgeously, splendidly, guess, accredit, to believe, better: (adj, v) improve, mend; (adj,
handsomely, attractively, superbly, understand; (n, v) trust. adv, v) best; (v) recover, ameliorate,
charmingly, divinely, grandly, ANTONYMS: (v) distrust, doubt, emend, reform, advance, enhance,
elegantly. ANTONYMS: (adv) question, suspect, reject, discredit, surpass; (n) bettor. ANTONYMS:
unappealingly, tastelessly, deny, despair (adj, adv) worse; (adj, n) inferior; (v)
abysmally, harshly, horribly, badly bellies: (n) stomach worsen, deteriorate; (adj) lesser,
beauty: (n) attractiveness, beaut, bellowing: (n) roaring, roar, bellows, lower, tinier, ill, unhealthy, smaller,
charm, pulchritude, loveliness, hollo, holloa, rout, yowl, boation, sicker
exquisiteness, grace, grandeur, mugiency, hollering; (adj) mugient beware: (v) look out, caution, be
looker, good looks; (adj) beautiful. below: (adv, prep) under, careful, guard, pay attention, take
ANTONYMS: (n) hag, plainness, underneath; (adj) low; (adj, adv) care, watch out, mind, keep, care,
shortcoming, flaw, witch, dog, after; (adv) down, infra, downstairs, careful. ANTONYMS: (v) risk,
disadvantage, detraction, at a lower place, downwards, down disregard, invite
repulsiveness, eyesore, below; (prep) less than. bewildering: (adj) astonishing,
awkwardness ANTONYMS: (adv, prep) over; puzzling, perplexing, confusing,
become: (v) grow, suit, be, match, (prep) more; (adv) upstairs marvelous, mystifying, amazing,
come about, arise, get, sit, to bench: (n) banquette, chair, astounding, discomfit, upsetting,
become, fall; (adj) becoming. workbench, court, terrace, bank, bar, staggering. ANTONYMS: (adj)
ANTONYMS: (v) halt, stay, lower, judicatory, Ottoman, board, form enlightening, simple, soothing
stop, reduce, clash bend: (n, v) bow, turn, arch, arc, beyond: (adj, prep) across; (adv,
becomes: (v) become crook, twist, elbow; (adj, n, v) curve; prep) above, without, besides, over;
bedroom: (n) bedchamber, (v) stoop, crouch; (adj, v) flex. (adj, adv) further; (adv) away, by,
dormitory, sleeping room, ANTONYMS: (n, v) square; (v) more, farther, abroad. ANTONYMS:
apartment, assembly, berth, align, unbend, leave (prep) below; (adv) close, inside
boudoir, master bedroom; (adj) sexy beneath: (adv, prep) below, under; bier: (n) catafalque, urn, tomb,
before: (adv) ahead, ago, in front, (adj) low, inferior; (adv) downward, sepulchre, cinerary urn, rack, stand,
previously, already, forth; (adv, infra, at a lower place; (prep) lower casket, stretcher, hearse,
prep) fore, afore; (adj) preceding, than, less than, unworthy of, sarcophagus
prior; (adj, adv) earlier. unbefitting. ANTONYMS: (adv, bind: (adj, v) attach, fix, fasten, affix;
ANTONYMS: (adv, prep) later, prep) over; (adv) higher (n) band; (v) bandage, lace, fetter,
behind, afterward, after; (adv) bent: (adj) curved, arched, deformed, bundle, truss, combine.
subsequently, ahead; (adj) crooked; (n) propensity, inclination, ANTONYMS: (v) untie, unbind,
subsequent fancy, leaning, flair, gift, curvature. free, unfasten, unravel, permit,
befoul: (v) foul, pollute, soil, ANTONYMS: (n) weakness, loosen, loose, let; (n, v) release; (n)
contaminate, dirty, violate, inability, aversion; (adj) pleasure
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birds: (n) aves, class Aves, Craniata, incomplete, partial, specific blurt out, exclaim, blunder
flora and fauna, natural world, blaze: (n, v) flash, glare, flame, mark, boast: (v) bluster, brag, blow, crow,
nature, subphylum Craniata, scintillation; (n) fire, light, burning, gasconade, show off, rodomontade,
Subphylum Vertebrata, Vertebrata, inflammation, sheen; (adj, v) burn exult; (n, v) vaunt, pride; (n)
amphibians bleak: (adj) austere, bare, barren, arrogance. ANTONYMS: (n)
birth: (n) beginning, genesis, cold, dreary, murky, black, desolate, deprecation; (v) downplay, lack
ancestry, descent, extraction, start, raw, bald, bitter. ANTONYMS: (adj) boat: (n) yacht, steamship, ark, scull,
onset, parentage, origin; (v) mild, lush, sunny, hopeful, craft, steamboat, dinghy, pinnace,
delivery; (n, v) parturition. encouraging, cheery, bright, ship, gondola, hoy
ANTONYMS: (n) death, sheltered, soulful, cozy, populated bodied: (adj) material, corporal,
bereavement, ending, finale, finish, bless: (v) consecrate, celebrate, corporeal, embodied, corporate,
passing, end, decease, conclusion, sanctify, anoint, eulogize, sign, incarnate
demise praise, keep, grant, glorify; (n) bodies: (n) people, public
bite: (n, v) nip, cut, taste, hurt, pain; blessing. ANTONYMS: (v) curse, body: (n) cadaver, corpse,
(v) pinch, chew, erode, gnaw, eat; condemn, disapprove, damn, organization, cluster, set, carcass,
(n) morsel. ANTONYMS: (n) lot, disallow, deny figure, consistency, aggregate,
whole, mildness block: (n, v) arrest, barricade, stop, association; (adj, n) mass.
biting: (adj, v) acute, acrid, sarcastic, clog; (n) pad; (v) hinder, plug, ANTONYMS: (n) handful, mind,
sharp, acrimonious, pungent, encumber, lock, obstruct; (adj, n) minority, soul, few
severe, cutting; (adj) acid, bitter, lump. ANTONYMS: (v) free, botian: (adj) Goth
barbed. ANTONYMS: (adj) mild, unblock, open, remember, unclog, bold: (adj) adventurous, audacious,
blunt, kind, bland, nice, soothing, clear, release, promote, help, manly, arrogant, intrepid, fearless,
sweet, hot, complimentary, faint, encourage; (n) opening spirited, heroic, daring, courageous,
sympathetic blocked: (adj) jammed, impeded, stalwart. ANTONYMS: (adj) timid,
bitter: (adj, v) acrimonious, acrid; clogged, locked, stopped, hindered, modest, afraid, meek, shy, light,
(adj) sharp, acid, malicious, caustic, block, obstruct, obstructed, choke, courteous, discreet, faint, fearful,
virulent, sour, resentful, keen, barren. ANTONYMS: (adj) free, abashed
acerbic. ANTONYMS: (adj) mild, fertile, open bombast: (adj, n) rant, fustian, jargon;
charitable, hot, sugary, kind, blood: (n) birth, gore, nature, origin, (n) grandiloquence, blah, Bombyx;
wonderful, warm, pleasant, nice, kindred, lineage, descent, family, (v) rodomontade, fine talking, tall
agreeable, gentle beau, pedigree; (adj) juice talk, heroics; (adj) prose run mad
black: (adj) sable, dark, ebony, bloody: (adj) brutal, bleeding, ruddy, bond: (n) association, alliance, deed,
colored, bleak, dirty, evil, nigger, bloodthirsty, sanguineous, agreement, bail, attachment, joint;
darkie, unclean; (adj, n) blackamoor. sanguine, savage, bloodstained, (v) bind; (n, v) cement, band, link.
ANTONYMS: (v) whiten; (adj) damned, raw; (adv) damn. ANTONYMS: (v) unstick, open,
spotless, snowy, saintly, pale, ANTONYMS: (adj) easy, soft unfasten, loosen, disconnect, clash;
optimistic, merry, light, angelic, bloom: (adj, n, v) flower; (v) prosper, (n) separation, divorce
ivory, bright flourish, thrive, burgeon; (adj, v) bore: (v) dig, tire, pierce, tap, annoy,
blame: (v) arraign, chide; (n, v) blow, fructify; (n) prime, blush, perforate; (n, v) bother, plague; (n)
reprimand, censure, attack, charge, flush, bud. ANTONYMS: (v) shrivel, auger, well, gimlet. ANTONYMS:
reproach, rap, rebuke, fault; (n) struggle, wane, die, deteriorate, (v) fascinate, excite, hypnotize,
onus. ANTONYMS: (n, v) praise; (v) decrease; (n) pallor, withering engage, entertain, stimulate; (n)
absolve, exonerate, commend, clear, blossoming: (n) bloom, florescence, charmer, exciter, excitement,
acquit; (n) vindication, exoneration, flowering, anthesis, blossom, pleasure
honor, absolution, glory efflorescence, inflorescence, born: (adj) native, natural, congenital,
blanched: (adj) ashen, colorless, ontogeny, ontogenesis; (adj) inbred, inborn, innate, inherent,
white, bleached, bloodless, budding, growing. ANTONYM: untutored; (v) be born, to be born,
benevolent, wan, pale, lightened, (adj) failing arise. ANTONYMS: (adj) learned,
fair, faded blue: (adj) depressed, down, gloomy, unborn, acquired, trained
blank: (adj) bare, empty, unfilled, low, spicy, livid, naughty, sapphire, borne: (adj) weak, wanting, spoony,
pure, vacant, clean; (n) space, sad, downhearted, downcast. soft, sappy, shallow, little, limited
blankness, form, vacuity; (v) addle. ANTONYMS: (adj) clean, happy, bosom: (n) heart, interior, boob,
ANTONYMS: (adj) full, expressive, joyous, refined, moral, decent, thorax, chest, bust, tit; (n, v)
used, understanding, thoughtful, upbeat, joyful, gay, cheerful, cheery embrace; (v) cherish, hug; (adj)
incomplete, marked, filled, excited, blur: (n, v) blemish, smudge, slur; (v) intimate. ANTONYMS: (n) outside,
lively, aware taint, smear, cloud, obscure, blear, exteriority
blanket: (adj) sweeping, overall, dim; (adj, v) daub; (adj, n) stain. boss: (v) govern, administer, direct,
comprehensive, global, wholesale, ANTONYMS: (v) sharpen, superintend; (n) head, superior,
generic; (n, v) cloak; (n) sheath, accentuate, uncloud, purify, focus, chief, overseer, ruler, captain,
sheet, bedding; (v) clothe. define, cleanse, clean superintendent. ANTONYMS: (n)
ANTONYMS: (adj) blurt: (v) blunder out, talk, utter, subordinate, inferior, employee; (v)
uncomprehensive, discerning, speak, mouth, verbalize, babble, follow, submit, obey; (adj) lousy,
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poor barbecue broken: (adj) torn, tame, damaged,
botheration: (n) annoyance, nuisance, bread: (n) livelihood, bun, intermittent, uneven, imperfect,
vexation, plague, aggravation, maintenance, cash, currency, loot, rugged, rough, out of order; (adj, v)
annoying, trouble, pest, irritant, dough, pelf, food, sustenance, kale busted, ruined. ANTONYMS: (adj)
pain, pain in the ass breadth: (n) width, spread, unbroken, intact, wild, whole,
bought: (n) crook, hook amplitude, wideness, size, length, working, uplifted, uninterrupted,
bound: (n, v) leap, jump, border, latitude, extent, area, broadness, triumphant, running, indomitable,
bounce, limit, edge, vault, recoil; (n) stretch. ANTONYMS: (n) length, incessant
boundary, barrier, compass. longitude, emptiness, thinness bronze: (adj, n, v) tan; (n) brown,
ANTONYMS: (v) allow, amble, break: (n, v) crack, fracture, breach, brass, sculpture, statuette; (v) terra
crawl, limp, permit; (adj) permitted, burst, rupture, stop, pause; (n) cotta, discolour, discolor, marble,
released, unbound, allowed, interruption, respite, suspension; (v) plate; (adj) bronzed
unlikely infringe. ANTONYMS: (v) obey, brother: (n) fellow, blood brother,
bounteous: (adj) bountiful, liberal, honor, lose, make, observe, resume, associate, counterpart, crony,
ample, copious, plentiful, stay, strengthen; (n, v) mend; (n) comrade, buddy, peer, chum,
bighearted, generous, munificent, continuation, misfortune sidekick, monk. ANTONYMS: (n)
handsome, benevolent, affluent. breaks: (n) lot, destiny, opportunity, enemy, opposer, opponent
ANTONYM: (adj) scarce chance bruise: (n, v) hurt, wound; (v) crush,
bowl: (n) basin, plate, hollow, breasts: (n) chest, booby pound, mash, contuse, grind, bray;
stadium, container, arena, breath: (n) wind, air, inspiration, (n) contusion, hematoma; (adj, n)
depression, porringer; (v) hurl, toss, puff, soul, aspiration, respite, buffet
troll airflow; (v) breathe, respire; (adj, n) buckler: (n) escutcheon, scutcheon,
brag: (n, v) bluster, vaunt, crow; (v) whisper scutum, aegis; (v) armor, fender,
pride, gasconade, blow, show off, brethren: (n) congregation, assembly, carapace, buffer, defend, mask,
rodomontade; (n) boasting, brother, people, laity, family, flock, armored vest
bragging; (adj) great fold budge: (adj, v) move, go; (v) stir,
branch: (n, v) fork; (n) wing, jump, bridge: (n, v) span, stretch; (n) agitate, change, sway, dislodge,
affiliate, ramus, member, stem, limb, pontoon, tie, nosepiece, footbridge, bump, rouse, push; (adj) flit.
agency, stick, subdivision. crossing; (v) bridge over, connect, ANTONYMS: (v) remain, stay
ANTONYMS: (n) composite, trunk; link, traverse. ANTONYMS: (n) budget: (v) calculate, compute,
(v) converge, merge split, separation, chasm, break, estimate, reckon; (n) plan, sack,
branches: (n) branch, brushwood division; (v) unlink, detach, disjoin finance, score, portfolio, quiver,
brand: (n, v) mark, class; (adj, n, v) brightly: (adv) vividly, luminously, reckoning. ANTONYM: (adj) pricey
stigma; (adj, n) blot, stain; (n) type, radiantly, gaily, clearly, shiningly, build: (n, v) make, shape; (v) erect,
blade, brand name, badge, kind, intensely, cheerfully, smartly, establish, raise, rise, found, base,
sort. ANTONYMS: (v) praise; (n) bright, lustrously. ANTONYMS: fabricate, fashion; (n) frame.
honor, glory (adv) gloomily, drearily, bleakly, ANTONYMS: (v) destroy,
brass: (n, v) face; (adj, n) boldness; (n) stupidly, dully, blankly, seriously, dismantle, raze, overturn, obliterate,
nerve, cheek, administration, pessimistically decrease, decelerate, ruin,
audaciousness, insolence, arrogance; brim: (n) rim, periphery, verge, edge, disassemble
(adj) bronze; (v) assurance, lip, hem, rand, margin, perimeter, building: (n) architecture,
impudence brink, limit establishment, construction,
brat: (n) imp, bairn, rogue, urchin, bring: (v) convey, get, take, bear, fabrication, house, fabric, dwelling,
scamp, kid, monkey, carry, put, conduct, return, reduce, assembly, structure, erection; (n, v)
whippersnapper, scalawag, set, bring in. ANTONYMS: (v) drop, pile
pickaninny, jackanapes free, leave, lose, remove, avoid bull: (n) rot, ox, hogwash, absurdity,
brave: (adj, n) bold, hardy; (adj) bristle: (n) fiber, hair, whisker; (v) bear, buck, guff, shit, male; (n, v)
audacious, fearless, courageous, teem, burn, seethe, rage, arise, fume, bullshit; (adj, n) blunder.
virile, intrepid, valiant; (adj, v) blow up; (n, v) brustle. ANTONYM: ANTONYMS: (n) truth, bear
endure; (v) defy, face. ANTONYMS: (v) calm burden: (n, v) bother, weight, pack,
(adj) cowardly, frightened, pathetic, broad: (adj) wide, sweeping, burthen, trouble, clog, strain; (n)
gutless, afraid, cautious, comprehensive, vast, general, anxiety, bale, responsibility; (v)
fainthearted, meek, mousy, nervous; extensive, large, ample, free, big; (n) afflict. ANTONYMS: (v) relieve,
(v) skip female. ANTONYMS: (adj) specific, lighten, free, disburden, alleviate,
brazen: (adj) audacious, impudent, thin, restricted, polite, minor, relax; (n, v) help; (n) tranquility,
brassy, insolent, bold, brash, limited, exclusive, dogmatic, decent, relaxation, peace, pleasure
impertinent, blatant, flagrant, cultured, confined burn: (adj, v) glow; (n, v) bite, fire,
forward, saucy. ANTONYMS: (adj) broke: (adj) bankrupt, poor, sunburn; (v) sting, scorch,
shy, abashed, prudish, reserved, insolvent, impecunious, penniless, incinerate, blaze, flare, ignite,
quiet, discreet, respectful, ashamed, impoverished, skint, bust, destitute, cremate. ANTONYMS: (v) smother,
veiled, modest strapped, ruined. ANTONYMS: give, subdue, help, quench, repay,
brazier: (n) warmer, heater, bucket, (adj) solvent, wealthy, affluent stifle, extinguish, wet
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burned: (adj) baked, scorched, upset castor: (n) caster, roller, castoreum,
tempered, sore, hurt, heated, calmly: (adv) stilly, tranquilly, coolly, castorite, wimple, tile, hat, genus
hardened, destroyed, bleak, serenely, placidly, sedately, castor, billycock, fur, alpha
parched, adust smoothly, peacefully, easily, geminorum
burning: (adj) blazing, ablaze, undisturbedly, steadily. catch: (n, v) capture, hook, haul,
boiling, afire, flaming, hot; (n) ANTONYMS: (adv) anxiously, hitch, trick, grab, snatch; (v) get,
combustion, firing; (adj, n) hysterically, nervously, agitatedly, apprehend, intercept; (n) pawl.
passionate, zealous, glowing. uncontrollably, histrionically, ANTONYMS: (n, v) release; (v)
ANTONYMS: (adj) cold, trivial, restlessly, frantically, irritably, misunderstand, unhitch, mistake,
cool, out, painless, quenched, emotionally, tensely Miss, misinterpret, free, give, lose;
soothing, unimportant, apathetic, came: (v) arrive, come (n) advantage, boon
insignificant, unconcerned cane: (n, v) scourge, whip; (v) flog, caterwauling: (n) caterwaul, noise,
business: (n) subject, matter, event, beat, birch, thrash, lash; (n) stick, want of harmony, dissonance; (adj)
vocation, job, profession, affair, bat, rattan, twig harsh
work, corporation, occupation; (adj, capabilities: (n) capability, ability, caught: (adj) fixed, guilty,
n) trade. ANTONYMS: (adj) competence, possibilities accomplished, wedged, trapped,
charitable, private; (n) pleasure, card: (n) calling card, board, bill of interested, exposed, defenseless,
avocation, fun, entertainment, fare, ticket, label, postal, identity culpable; (v) seize, get. ANTONYM:
hobby card, menu, notice, placard, visiting (adj) loose
bustle: (adj, n, v) hurry; (n, v) flurry, card cause: (n) case, action, account; (n, v)
ado, fuss, hustle; (adj, n) stir, care: (adj, n, v) anxiety; (n, v) occasion, allow; (v) breed, do,
movement; (n) bother, commotion, attention, charge, worry; (n) caution, induce, beget, motivate, provoke.
disorder; (adj, v) hasten. bother, concern, apprehension, aid, ANTONYMS: (n) effect, result,
ANTONYMS: (n) inactivity, custody; (v) attend. ANTONYMS: outcome; (v) foil, deter, forestall,
stillness, idleness; (v) laziness, (n) carelessness, recklessness, prevent, stop, halt, quell, retard
relaxation thoughtlessness, rashness, cave: (n) lair, hole, grotto, hollow,
buying: (n) purchasing, buy, negligence, vagueness, unconcern; cove, den, cell, grot, nest; (v)
purchase, business, shopping, (n, v) disregard, dislike; (v) loathe, undermine, calve. ANTONYMS: (n)
import, export, transaction, abhor hump; (v) withstand
ownership, patronage, sale careful: (adj, v) attentive, anxious; cease: (n, v) end, finish, stop; (v) quit,
cajole: (v) wheedle, coax, flatter, (adj) thrifty, thoughtful, frugal, terminate, break, break off, close,
palaver, inveigle, charm, blarney, mindful, prudent, deliberate, alert, conclude, discontinue, abstain.
persuade, beguile, compliment, economical, guarded. ANTONYMS: ANTONYMS: (v) begin, start,
induce. ANTONYMS: (v) insult, (adj) reckless, slapdash, neglectful, commence, persist, stay
belittle, criticize, bully wasteful, unconcerned, tactless, ceased: (adj) finished
calamity: (n) disaster, adversity, stupid, spendthrift, rash, negligent, ceiling: (n) cap, limit, maximum,
affliction, misfortune, plague, inaccurate overhead, upper limit, top, roof,
catastrophe, tragedy, blow, bale, careless: (adj) forgetful, inattentive, limitation, confine, tile, thatch.
distress; (n, v) trouble. insouciant, haphazard, cursory, ANTONYMS: (n) minimum, floor
ANTONYMS: (n) blessing, boon, reckless, lax, unwary, sloppy; (adj, celibate: (adj) continent, unmarried,
luck, joy, opportunity adv) thoughtless; (adj, v) heedless. single, chaste, maiden, virgin,
call: (n, v) appeal, shout, bellow, ANTONYMS: (adj) cautious, virtuous, pure; (n) religionist,
name, yell, howl, request, appoint; prudent, meticulous, thoughtful, celibacy. ANTONYMS: (adj)
(v) bid, summon; (n) call option. diligent, attentive, thorough, wary, promiscuous, sexual
ANTONYMS: (v) whisper, mutter, guarded, methodical, strict central: (adj) basic, fundamental,
cancel, listen, stop, suppose, caress: (v) stroke, fondle, tickle, pat, cardinal, crucial, chief, primary,
murmur; (n) dismissal, give, grant, pet, kiss, nuzzle, cuddle, coddle; (n, important, pivotal, inner, key, main.
silence v) touch; (n) endearment. ANTONYMS: (adj) minor,
called: (adj) named, titled, chosen, ANTONYM: (n) hit tangential, regional, secondary,
known as; (v) nempt, ycleped carrying: (n) transport, conveyance, exterior, local, unimportant, trivial,
calling: (n) business, occupation, call, carriage, transportation, haulage, outside, outer, incidental
avocation, job, trade, career, hauling, shipping; (adj) bearing, centre: (n) core, middle, navel,
employment, walk, pursuit; (n, v) gerent; (v) convey, bring midpoint, heart, waist, hub,
profession. ANTONYMS: (n) case: (n) example, box, bin, cover, centering; (v) concentrate, focus,
entertainment, hobby jacket, shell, bag, affair, briefcase, centralize
calm: (adj, n, v) assuage, appease, business; (adj, n) eccentric certain: (adj) definite, sure, assured,
lull; (adj, v) cool, pacify, peaceful, cast: (n, v) throw, stamp, form, fling, absolute, reliable, indisputable,
easy, steady; (adj, adv, n, v) still; (n, shape, figure; (v) shed, pitch, chuck; dependable, unquestionable,
v) allay; (v) mollify. ANTONYMS: (n) casting, appearance. undeniable, unavoidable,
(adj) agitated, wild, stormy, ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, receive, unequivocal. ANTONYMS: (adj)
nervous, angry, scared, terrified, subtract, reject, take, gather, catch, unsure, doubtful, questionable,
tense; (v) agitate, provoke; (adj, v) retain, keep hesitant, debatable, erratic, faulty,
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indistinct, vague, doubting, chastise: (v) castigate, chasten, catholicity, Adventism, Christian
undecided correct, reprimand, punish, criticize, church, Christian religion; (v)
certainly: (adv) assuredly, definitely, beat, scold, chew out, flog; (n, v) acquire, bear, assume, arrogate,
positively, clearly, necessarily, scourge. ANTONYMS: (v) comfort, adopt, accept
undoubtedly, actually, securely, bless, commend, promote, reward, chronicle: (n, v) register, list, log,
confidently, absolutely; (adj, adv) encourage report; (n) account, story, annals,
really. ANTONYMS: (adv) chatter: (n, v) babble, gossip, prattle, history, narrative, roll; (v) date
doubtfully, possibly, equivocally, gab, cackle, natter; (adj, n, v) jabber; church: (n) cathedral, abbey, chapel,
perhaps (adj, v) prate, palaver; (v) blabber, meetinghouse, denomination,
chafed: (adj) uncomfortable, sore, patter. ANTONYM: (v) drawl minster, place of worship, kirk,
painful, galled, angry; (v) fretted, chattering: (n) chatter, cackle, yak, Fane, Christian church, Christianity
agitated grabbing, claver; (adj) talkative, churlish: (adj) rude, rough, impolite,
chances: (n) probability, odds, loquacious, noisy, gabby, garrulous; loutish, gruff, curt, abrupt, brusque,
opportunities, possibility, state, (v) natter blunt, brutish, discourteous.
circumstances check: (n, v) control, bridle, arrest, ANTONYMS: (adj) agreeable, civil,
change: (n, v) shift, barter, twist, cash; curb, stop, limit, block, halt, bar; (v) courteous, nice, polite
(v) alter, alternate, adapt, convert; agree, restrain. ANTONYMS: (v) citadel: (n) castle, bastion,
(n) alteration, modification, help, hurry, allow, disagree, fortification, bulwark, Acropolis,
variation. ANTONYMS: (v) leave, disregard, encourage, expedite, fort, stronghold, tower, chateau; (n,
maintain, idle, hold, establish, ignore, overlook; (n) furthering, v) fortress; (v) keep
standardize; (n) stability, bills, spur citizens: (n) people, population,
constancy, preservation, uniformity cheeks: (n) Gemini, twins, couple, inhabitants, populace, public,
changed: (adj) transformed, varied, posterior, pair, deuce, two, duet commonwealth, country, the general
switched, change, transform, chief: (adj, n) principal, head, public, the public, the populace
converted, distorted, affected, cardinal, capital, arch, essential, city: (adj) municipal, urban, civic,
changeling, disguised, inverse. paramount; (n) administrator, boss, public; (n) borough, the City, burgh,
ANTONYM: (adj) unchanged executive, leader. ANTONYMS: village, metropolis, municipality,
changing: (adj) unsettled, shifting, (adj) associate, secondary, junior, state. ANTONYMS: (adj) suburban,
variable, dynamic, moving, choppy, smallest, inessential, unimportant, country, private
uncertain, various, varying, least, trivial; (n) subordinate, clad: (adj) dressed, attired, clothed,
inconstant, fickle. ANTONYMS: underling, inferior coated, garbed; (n) cladding; (prep)
(adj) usual, fixed chiefly: (adv) principally, primarily, gowned; (v) costume, shod, dress,
character: (n) type, part, note, role, above all, especially, headly, mostly, attire. ANTONYMS: (adj)
brand, spirit, disposition; (adj, n) largely, primely, predominantly; undressed, unclothed
nature, kind, eccentric, constitution. (adj, adv) mainly, particularly. claim: (n, v) call, charge, need,
ANTONYMS: (n) deceit, dishonor, ANTONYM: (adv) partially requisition; (n) allegation, privilege;
corruption, body child: (n) baby, babe, bairn, infant, (v) assert, exact, ask, want, arrogate.
characteristics: (n) quality, trait, kid, toddler, tot, girl, brat, juvenile, ANTONYMS: (v) disclaim, forfeit,
personality, characteristic curve, minor. ANTONYMS: (n) ancestor, waive, question, lose, grant, refute,
description, characteristic curves, parent request; (n) denial, disclaimer,
distinctiveness, individuality, kind, children: (n) child, offspring, response
natural features, sort descendant, family, seed, boy, claimed: (adj) personal
charm: (n, v) allure, captivate, appeal, babies, descendants, birth, relatives, clamber: (v) scramble, crawl, scale,
spell, fascinate, bewitch, conjure; people ascend, mount, shinny, shin,
(adj, v) attract; (n) amulet; (v) choke: (v) asphyxiate, block, stifle, struggle, surmount, ramp, climber
enchant, entrance. ANTONYMS: (n) back up, clog up, gag, suffocate, clamour: (n) clamoring, hue and cry,
ugliness, repulsion, repulsiveness, foul, strangle, smother, obstruct. clamouring, blare, bedlam, uproar,
awkwardness, hatefulness, ANTONYMS: (v) free, open, release, vociferation, tumult, hubbub,
unpleasantness; (v) repulse, offend, unblock exclamation; (v) utter
irritate, disgust, bore choose: (v) adopt, elect, select, pick, clang: (n, v) chime, clangor, ring,
charmed: (adj) enchanted, delighted, prefer, take, appoint, assign, decide, clash, clank, clatter, sound; (adj, n,
fascinated, spellbound, entranced, excerpt; (n) picking. ANTONYMS: v) peal; (v) boom, clink; (n) crash
captive, beguiled, infatuated, (v) refuse, waver, decline, forgo, clap: (n, v) blast, boom, slam, rumble;
absorbed, enamored, captive hours spurn, dislike, elect (n) applause, clapping, gonorrhoea,
charms: (n) trinkets, jewelry, jewels choric: (adj) choral, choristic smash; (v) acclaim, applaud, hit.
charring: (n) carbonization, fire chorus: (n, v) choir; (v) chant; (n) ANTONYMS: (v) hiss, jeer
chaste: (adj) virtuous, moral, virgin, ensemble, coir, refrain, chorale, clasp: (n, v) embrace, hug, grip,
modest, unsullied, austere, vestal, acclamation, Greek chorus; (adv) grasp, squeeze, clutch, buckle,
severe, continent, spotless, decent. descant, glee, madrigal. brooch; (adj, n, v) pin; (v) stick,
ANTONYMS: (adj) corrupt, wanton, ANTONYMS: (n) disagreement, cling. ANTONYMS: (v) unbuckle,
lewd, sleazy, promiscuous, immoral, discord loose, unclasp, relax, detach
dirty, defiled, impure, tainted christianity: (n) Catholicism, classifications: (n) sorting,
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categorization, classification clean, neaten, free nutrient, victual, food, provender,
cleaner: (n) cleanser, detergent, coarseness: (n) grossness, indelicacy, comestible, alimentation, aliment,
scourer, char, chimneysweep, inelegance, indecency, vulgarism, victuals, larder
chimneysweeper, cleaners, commonness, rudeness, inferiority, common: (adj) coarse, mutual,
tradesman, lifter, shopkeeper, crudeness, crudity, awkwardness. vulgar, mean, mediocre, ignoble,
storekeeper ANTONYMS: (n) delicacy, purity, plebeian, base; (adj, n) cheap,
cleanse: (adj, v) clean; (v) bathe, refinement, smoothness, habitual; (adj, n, v) usual.
wash, clarify, wipe, scour, scrub, sophistication, tastefulness, civility, ANTONYMS: (adj) uncommon,
clear, rinse, disinfect, refine. grace, propriety, decency rare, unusual, characteristic, specific,
ANTONYMS: (v) dirty, soil, stain, cobbler: (n) bootmaker, shoemaker, unique, extraordinary, exclusive,
spot, pollute, mess, defile, cloud cordwainer, hosier, highball, hatter, aristocratic, infrequent, refined
clear: (adj) clean, certain, distinct; maker, shaper, pie, vamper; (v) comparatively: (adv) rather,
(adj, v) acquit, absolute, free, net, tinker somewhat, reasonably, quite,
absolve, empty; (adj, n) open; (v) cold: (n) chilliness, chill; (adj) chilly, approximately, some, pretty, fairly,
exculpate. ANTONYMS: (adj) frigid, distant, indifferent, aloof, to some extent, to a certain extent,
opaque, cloudy, incomprehensible, callous, icy, apathetic, impassive. moderately. ANTONYM: (adv)
uncertain, dark, hazy, vague, fuzzy, ANTONYMS: (adj) warm, friendly, absolutely
obscure, confused, puzzling hot, prepared, burning, affectionate, compel: (v) force, coerce, pressure,
clench: (n, v) clasp, grip, hold, clinch, loving, soporific, fervid; (n) heat, necessitate, enforce, command,
grasp, gripe; (v) embrace, grapple, warmth oblige, require, make, obligate,
tighten, ratify; (n) clamp. collation: (n) snack, nosh, press. ANTONYMS: (v) impede,
ANTONYMS: (v) release, flex, relax refreshment, checking, bite, meal, deter, check, block, request, prevent
clepsydra: (n) hourglass, clock, water banquet, verification; (v) refection, compelled: (adj) forced, obligate,
glass, sundial, pendulum, horologe, junket, picnic enforced, constrained, responsible,
gnomon, dial colour: (n) coloration, coloring, answerable, unwilling, destined
climb: (v) ascend, arise, scale, colors, semblance, vividness, complete: (adj, v) perfect,
escalate, go up, scramble; (n, v) pretext, pretence, colouring, guise; consummate; (adj, n) absolute, stark;
clamber, mount, increase; (n) ascent, (v) redden, discolor. ANTONYMS: (v) achieve, finish, accomplish,
jump. ANTONYMS: (n, v) drop; (n) (n) colorlessness; (v) discolor execute; (adj, n, v) close; (adj) whole,
descent; (v) wane, dismount, comb: (v) brush, ransack, search, full. ANTONYMS: (adj) unfinished,
plummet dress, eliminate, groom; (adj) weed; partial, abridged, sketchy,
clink: (n, v) clank, jingle, chink, ring, (n) crest, combing, caruncle, shortened, lacking, qualified,
rattle; (v) tinkle, sound; (n) clang, currycomb narrow, missing; (v) neglect, start
jail, clash, click combat: (n, v) fight, clash, encounter, completed: (adj, adv, v) done; (adj)
cloak: (n, v) veil, mask, camouflage, conflict, war; (n) contest, action, accomplished, perfect, ready, whole,
wrap, masquerade, screen, pall; (n) brawl, fighting, fray, hostility. through, terminated, fulfilled; (adj,
cape; (v) conceal, dissemble, hide. ANTONYMS: (n) peace; (v) adv) finished, over, ended
ANTONYMS: (v) reveal, uncloak, cooperate, agree, pacify, surrender, completely: (adv) thoroughly,
unmask; (n, v) uncover compromise, favor perfectly, fully, totally, altogether,
close: (n, v) end, stop, finish; (adj, comfortable: (adj, v) easy, snug; (adj) consummately, roundly, purely,
adv, prep) nearby; (adj, adv) pleased, pleasing, prosperous, absolutely, unreservedly; (adv, pref)
adjacent, tight; (adj, v) compact, agreeable, pleasurable, congenial, all. ANTONYMS: (adv) partly,
approximate; (adj) accurate; (adv, rich, enjoyable, homely. partially, hardly, slightly,
prep) by; (n) conclusion. ANTONYMS: (adj) poor, tense, incompletely, superficially,
ANTONYMS: (adj, v) open; (n, v) formal, unpleasant, unhappy, somewhat, halfheartedly, barely
start; (adj) distant, airy, loose, fresh, unaccustomed, intimidating, complex: (adj) complicate, abstruse,
far, inaccurate, unfamiliar; (v) begin, difficult, anxious, broke, destitute difficult, elaborate, involute,
unlock coming: (n) advent, approach, intricate, knotty, tricky, abstract,
clothes: (n) apparel, clothing, dress, appearance, arrival, return; (adj, n) multifarious; (n) obsession.
garb, wardrobe, vestment, garment, approaching; (adj) forthcoming, ANTONYMS: (adj) basic,
cloth, thing, gown, wear imminent, future, impending; (adj, straightforward, clear, plain, direct,
cluster: (n, v) clump, bundle, huddle, v) instant. ANTONYMS: (n) easy, evident, mainstream, obvious,
group, crowd; (n) batch, departure, exit, leaving, departing; apparent; (n) component
agglomeration, gang, collection, tuft; (adj) distant, retreating, past complexity: (n) complication,
(v) collect. ANTONYMS: (v) command: (n, v) order, charge, call, intricacy, complicacy, involution,
dissemble, scatter; (n) individual control, decree; (n) instruction, elaboration, convolution, complex,
clutter: (n, v) jumble, disorder, litter; bidding, direction, behest; (v) direct, complexness, confusion, muddle;
(n) tangle, disarray, confusion, mess, commission. ANTONYMS: (v) obey, (adj, n) entanglement. ANTONYMS:
chaos, disarrangement, uproar, follow, contradict, countermand, (n) clarity, straightforwardness,
disorganization. ANTONYMS: (n) revoke, recall, oppose; (n) beg, simpleness
neatness, purity, tidiness, emptiness, plead, plea compliance: (n) observance,
space; (v) tidy, unclutter, arrange, commissariat: (n) provisions, approval, consent, acquiescence,
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obedience, complaisance, dissociation, disjunction, worthless, detrimental, useless
accordance, deference, assent, unconnectedness, foe, detachment, construe: (v) read, interpret,
submission, compliancy. rival, interruption, clash, difference expound, clarify, define, illuminate,
ANTONYMS: (n) disobedience, consciously: (adv) deliberately, infer, explain, account for, analyse,
stubbornness, nonconformity, intentionally, purposely, take. ANTONYMS: (v) complicate,
resistance, refusal, dissent, premeditatedly, sentiently, confuse, obscure, speculate
disagreement, noncompliance, wittingly, studiedly, awarely, on contact: (n) connection, collision, link,
defiance, reluctance, rigidity purpose, willfully, purposefully. communication, tangency, impact;
compounded: (adj) combined, ANTONYMS: (adv) accidentally, (v) meet, call, reach, adjoin,
complex, compositive; (v) mingle unconsciously, unintentionally communicate. ANTONYMS: (v)
comrade: (n) colleague, chum, buddy, consciousness: (n) feeling, sense, avoid, evade; (n) distance, stranger
fellow, compeer, partner, brother, conscience, cognizance, mind, contemporary: (adj) synchronous,
mate, familiar; (adj, n) associate, notion, knowledge, sensibility, feel, contemporaneous, modern, new,
ally. ANTONYMS: (n) stranger, Consciousness of kind, self. current, recent, present, up-to-date,
enemy, foe, opponent ANTONYMS: (n) ignorance, topical, simultaneous, up to date.
comradely: (adv) associately, oblivion, certainty, numbness ANTONYMS: (adj) old, foregoing,
fellowly, mately; (adj) brotherly consequently: (adv) therefore, yesterday, succeeding, outdated,
conception: (n) concept, idea, view, subsequently, as a result, then, obsolete, future, archaic, antecedent,
thought, creation, mind, design, sequentially, followingly, so, ancient, historical
imagination, impression, naturally, in consequence, hence; contest: (v) compete, contend; (n)
understanding, fancy. ANTONYMS: (conj) ergo bout, competition, contention; (n, v)
(n) termination, finish, ending, considered: (adj) reasoned, combat, conflict, fight, dispute,
concrete, abortion, ignorance, premeditated, intentional, willful, altercation, struggle. ANTONYMS:
destruction sensible, sound, advised, studied, (n) tranquility, quiet, peace, calm,
concerns: (n) dealings, affairs planned, calculated, regarded. cooperation; (v) surrender, agree,
concluded: (adj, adv) finished, done, ANTONYMS: (adj) sudden, acquiesce, accede, favor, prove
completed, ended; (adj) over, closed, impetuous, ingenuous, thoughtless, continually: (adv) perpetually,
terminated, accomplished, all over, swift, spontaneous, disregarded, ceaselessly, incessantly, endlessly,
consummate, set unconsidered, unplanned, unceasingly, continuously,
conclusion: (n) end, close, result, unstudied, casual persistently, eternally, steadily,
termination, sequel, completion, consolation: (n) comfort, relief, balm, frequently; (adj, adv) always.
cessation, dissolution, finish, finale; succor, ease, cheer, solacement, ANTONYMS: (adv) acutely,
(n, v) closing. ANTONYMS: (n) encouragement, sympathy, infrequently, spasmodically,
beginning, opening, preface, alleviation, express sympathy. sporadically
inauguration, foreword, launch, ANTONYMS: (n) grief, sorrow, continue: (v) remain, keep, sustain,
commencement, head distress, discouragement, carry on, endure, persevere, bide,
condition: (n) position, status, aggravation proceed, maintain; (adj, v) prolong;
provision, standing, clause, conspicuous: (adj) apparent, blatant, (n, v) hold. ANTONYMS: (v) end,
circumstances, term, predicament, visible, manifest, obvious, marked, cease, discontinue, halt, renounce,
rank; (n, v) aspect; (v) provide. glaring, blazing, flagrant, famous; hesitate, complete, fail, desist, finish,
ANTONYMS: (v) disqualify; (n) (adj, v) salient. ANTONYMS: (adj) neglect
option unobtrusive, unremarkable, continued: (adj) extended, continual,
conditions: (n) climate, environment, unnoticeable, concealed, hidden, constant, unremitting, serial,
situation, circumstances, setting, indistinct, invisible, secret, sequential, unbroken, persistent,
surroundings, terms, provisions, unimportant, unseen, doubtful nonstop, lasting, incessant.
ambiance, background, bound conspiracy: (n) cabal, plot, complot, ANTONYM: (adj) discontinued
conjure: (v) invoke, entreat, arouse, combination, collusion, coalition, contrary: (adj, n) contradictory,
juggle, bewitch, beseech, bid, design, scheme, plan; (n, v) intrigue; reverse; (adj) adverse, conflicting,
conjure up, evoke, implore, bring up (v) conspire. ANTONYMS: (n) unfavorable, perverse, cross,
connected: (adj, v) related; (adj) faithfulness, loyalty, openness disobedient, alien, different,
attached, allied, affiliated, coherent, constitute: (v) compose, commission, obstinate. ANTONYMS: (adj)
linked, committed, conjoint, appoint, establish, comprise, build, similar, harmonious, helpful,
combined, relevant, consecutive. name, create, found, institute; (n, v) obliging, compatible, complaisant,
ANTONYMS: (adj) unrelated, make. ANTONYMS: (v) deny, concordant, parallel, agreeable,
separate, unimportant, disjoined, repeal, refuse, disband cooperative, favorable
unaffiliated, disconnected, constructive: (adj) positive, contrast: (n) distinction, comparison,
unattached, irrelevant beneficial, helpful, useful, antithesis, difference, variation,
connection: (n) communication, worthwhile, productive, practical, opposite, collation; (adj, v) differ; (v)
concatenation, attachment, joint, construct, effective, inventive, conflict, oppose, collate.
bearing, affiliation, association, knot, implied. ANTONYMS: (adj) ANTONYMS: (n) sameness,
conjunction, alliance, link. negative, destructive, likeness, alikeness; (v) accord, agree,
ANTONYMS: (n) breach, enemy, unenthusiastic, disruptive, hurtful, compare, distance, conform
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contribute: (v) bring, bestow, advisement, consultation, confess; (n) creaking; (adv)
administer, aid, impart, supply, admonition. ANTONYMS: (v) creakingly; (adj) ancient
provide, afford, endow, lead; (adj, v) betray, trick, deceive, conceal, creation: (n) world, production,
tend. ANTONYMS: (v) hurt, harm, oppose; (n) warning invention, composition, conception,
detract, counteract, minus, neglect, countryman: (n) peasant, villager, fabrication, foundation, formation,
subtract, withhold, refrain, leave, rustic, native, churl, compatriot, founding, piece, creature.
refuse carle, fellow countryman, clown, ANTONYMS: (n) end, annihilation
contrive: (v) plan, invent, design, hick, swain. ANTONYMS: (n) creative: (adj, v) original, inventive,
concoct, devise, cast, concert, foreigner, outlander fertile; (adj) imaginative,
excogitate, frame, formulate; (n, v) courage: (n) audacity, fortitude, resourceful, ingenious, originative,
manage. ANTONYMS: (v) boldness, nerve, spirit, backbone, artistic, constructive, untranslated,
demolish, destroy, ruin, waste, valor, heroism, gallantry, mettle, inspired. ANTONYMS: (adj)
wreck, fail chivalry. ANTONYMS: (n) uncreative, unoriginal, uninspired,
control: (n, v) command, curb, check, cowardice, faintheartedness, untalented, mindless, logical,
bridle, handle, sway, hold, weakness, wimpiness, yellowness destructive, stale, unproductive,
influence, conduct; (adj, n) courageous: (adj, n) bold; (adj) hackneyed
authority; (n) care. ANTONYMS: (n) audacious, fearless, valiant, gallant, croaking: (adj) hollow, raucous,
weakness, unrestraint, expression, intrepid, spirited, heroic, sepulchral, dry, cacophonic, harsh,
excess; (v) share, intensify, rush, undaunted, manly, confident. guttural, gruff, croaky,
risk, resign, relinquish, forsake ANTONYMS: (adj) timid, wimpy, cacophonous, husky
convention: (n) congress, meeting, weak, spineless, pusillanimous, crocus: (n) saffron; (adj) topaz
contract, council, custom, fearful, fainthearted, afraid, cross: (adj) crabby, angry, grumpy,
convocation, assembly, tradition, despicable grouchy, cantankerous; (v) intersect,
practice, habit, assemblage. courageously: (adv) intrepidly, cover, thwart, baffle; (adj, v)
ANTONYMS: (n) informality, valiantly, boldly, daringly, traverse; (n) crisscross.
innovation fearlessly, gallantly, heroically, ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, cheerful,
conversation: (n) talk, conference, hardily, dauntlessly, audaciously, happy; (v) uncross, assist, separate,
communication, colloquy, stoutheartedly. ANTONYMS: (adv) remain, help, stay, unmix, aid
confabulation, discussion, language, timidly, execrably, fearfully, crowbar: (n) jemmy, pry, jimmies,
discourse, speech, talking, palaver nervously pry bar, ringer, wrecking bar; (v)
core: (n) heart, essence, bosom, course: (n, v) stream, flow; (n) brag
center, stone, kernel, mind, base; bearing, route, career, track, path, crude: (adj, v) raw; (adj) clumsy,
(adj, n) gist, marrow, quintessence. road, channel; (adj, n) current; (v) rough, rude, barbarous, uncouth,
ANTONYMS: (n) exterior, outside, chase. ANTONYM: (v) trickle primitive, vulgar, immature,
perimeter, surface, body, periphery, courteously: (adv) graciously, civilly, barbarian, impolite. ANTONYMS:
edge; (adj) secondary considerately, decorously, decently, (adj) sophisticated, tasteful,
corinthian: (n) Aristarchus, gallantly, obligingly, urbanely, cultured, permanent, polished,
euphemist, arbiter elegantiarum, suavely, thoughtfully, kindly. finished, formal, civilized, fine,
Stagirite, hedonist, virtuoso, critic, ANTONYMS: (adv) coarsely, clean, decent
conoscente, dilettante, amateur, uncooperatively, disrespectfully, cruelly: (adv) harshly, ferociously,
judge impolitely fiercely, viciously, inhumanly,
corn: (n) clavus, cereals, Zea Mays, cover: (n, v) coat, top, conceal, screen, mercilessly, pitilessly, heartlessly,
callus, wheat, Indian corn, callosity, cloak, veil, shield, spread; (v) bury; roughly, unkindly; (adj, adv)
grain; (v) feed, keep; (adj, n) (n) blanket, binding. ANTONYMS: bitterly. ANTONYMS: (adv) kindly,
commonplace (v) reveal, expose, uncover, exclude, mercifully, sympathetically, tamely,
corpse: (n) carcass, body, carcase, ignore, abandon, strip, free, forget, peacefully, humanely,
dead person, stiff, dead body, omit; (n) exposure compassionately, sensitively,
remains, corse, clay, dry bones; (adj) crack: (n, v) chink, fracture, split, respectfully, innocently, genially
lich fissure, crevice, burst, snap, breach, cups: (n) plates, dishes, dishware,
cosmetics: (n) makeup, depilatory, clap, check; (n) cleft. ANTONYMS: tableware
French polish (n, v) mend; (v) set, misunderstand, curious: (adj) odd, unusual,
couch: (n) bed, sofa, settee, divan; misinterpret, fix, compose; (adj) abnormal, strange, peculiar,
(adj, v) lie; (v) express, put, frame, mediocre, lowly, inferior, deficient interested, quizzical, quaint, queer,
lower, repose; (adj) recline crafty: (adj) cunning, adroit, sly, inquiring, inquisitive. ANTONYMS:
council: (n) assembly, congress, astute, artful, wily, clever, tricky, (adj) incurious, ordinary, apathetic,
convocation, convention, shifty, designing, scheming. uninterested, unconcerned, typical,
consultation, synod, meeting, ANTONYMS: (adj) naive, open, indifferent, everyday, disinterested,
legislature, diet, committee, honest, guileless, artless, conventional, common
chamber straightforward, trustworthy, curl: (n, v) crimp, loop, kink, roll,
counsel: (v) advise, consult, ingenuous, blatant, straight wave; (adj, v) bow; (adj, n) lock,
admonish, confer, warn; (n, v) creak: (v) pipe, screech, twang, tress; (v) crinkle, fold; (adj) crisp.
caution, advocate; (n) barrister, skreigh, resound, jangle, gnash, ANTONYMS: (v) align, straighten,
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uncurl, unwind seriously, insecurely, harmfully, dead: (adj) lifeless, defunct, cold,
curse: (n, v) blight, plague; (n) parlously, severely, fatally; (adj, inanimate, idle, gone, fallen, numb,
anathema, blasphemy, malediction, adv) gravely. ANTONYMS: (adv) deceased, vapid; (adv) right.
denunciation; (adj, v) beshrew; (v) safely, securely, carefully, slightly ANTONYMS: (adj, n) living; (adj)
swear, ban, damn, vituperate. dare: (n, v) venture; (v) defy, brave, alive, animate, live, spirited,
ANTONYMS: (n) blessing, hazard, confront, risk, resist, make responsive, working, partial,
benediction, making; (v) bold; (n) adventure, daring, operative; (adv) partly, partially
communicate defiance. ANTONYMS: (v) avoid, deadly: (adj, adv) deathly; (adj)
cursed: (adj) damned, doomed, flee, pass, refrain, retreat, obey baneful, lethal, fatal, destructive,
execrable, cussed, wretched, daring: (adj, n) bold, courageous, mortal, pernicious, virulent, toxic;
unlucky, accursed, blamed, blasted, adventurous; (adj) audacious, (adv) lifelessly, lethally.
confounded; (v) accurst. venturesome, intrepid; (n) bravery, ANTONYMS: (adj) interesting,
ANTONYMS: (adj) commendable, audacity, boldness, courage, uplifting, readable, mild, healthy,
honorable, nice, sweet, kine adventurousness. ANTONYMS: (n) healthful, benign, innocuous,
curses: (n) abuse cowardice, timidity; (adj) timid, exciting
custom: (n) habit, convention, usage, cautious, dull, afraid, chicken, dear: (adj, adv) close, near; (adj, n)
practice, consuetude, fashion, fearful, unadventurous, wimpy darling; (adj) costly, expensive,
method, mores; (n, v) use, accustom; dark: (adj) dismal, black, cheerless, lovely, precious, affectionate,
(adj) bespoke. ANTONYMS: (n) fad, obscure, dim, mysterious, murky, adorable, cherished; (n) love.
innovation, phenomenon, rage, gloomy; (n) evening, night, shadow. ANTONYMS: (adj) worthless,
rarity ANTONYMS: (adj) bright, sunny, inexpensive, valueless, despised,
customs: (n) custom house, impost, fair, sunlit, clear, pallid, pale, modest, loathed, hateful, distant; (n)
customs duty, duty, civilization, cheerful, white, versed; (n) day rival, foe, enemy
mores, duties, manners, morals, toll, darling: (adj, n) beloved, pet, favorite, dearest: (n) dear, darling, love,
tariff sweet; (adj) costly, cute, pretty; (adj, honey, lover, sweetheart, loved one,
cuts: (n) film waste v) precious; (n) love, deary, angel. baby; (adj) precious, intimate, sweet
cycle: (n, v) bike, wheel, motorcycle; ANTONYMS: (n) foe, rival death: (n) expiration, end, close, exit,
(n) circle, round, ring, sequence, dash: (adj, n, v) rush; (n, v) touch, fate, mortality, departure, cessation,
sphere, turn, circuit, period sprint, strike, splash, jog; (v) dart, decease, dissolution; (adj) quietus.
cyprus: (n) Cyprian, cypress, break; (n) tinge, beat; (adj, n) ANTONYMS: (n) existence,
Republic of Cyprus animation. ANTONYMS: (v) delivery, living, nascency, being,
dainties: (n) delicacies, food, cates dawdle, inspirit, languish, saunter, survival, life, beginning
dainty: (adj, v) nice; (adj, n, v) encourage, linger; (n) stagnation, deceitful: (adj) false, fraudulent,
delicacy; (adj) fastidious, savory, languor, listlessness, mass, dullness insincere, crooked, dishonest,
tasteful, squeamish, particular, daughter: (n) child, son, maiden, untrue, sly, artful, untrustworthy,
mincing, refined; (adj, n) tidbit; (n) young woman, daughterly, lass, unreliable, treacherous.
luxury. ANTONYMS: (adj) coarse, unmarried woman, damsel, miss, ANTONYMS: (adj) straightforward,
vulgar, rough, inelegant, harsh, missy, virgin genuine, trustworthy, truthful, loyal,
gross, awkward, accepting, heavy, dawdle: (v) linger, lag, delay, put off, open, principled, straight, upright,
careless, thick amble, procrastinate, saunter, faithful, dependable
dance: (v) caper, bop, to dance, hesitate, hang about, idler, loiter. deceive: (v) cheat, circumvent,
cavort, play, skip, to show courage, ANTONYMS: (v) hurry, rush, bamboozle, pretend, hoax, fool,
step; (n, v) hop, jump, shake speed, hasten, lead cozen, trick, beguile; (n, v) dupe; (n)
dancer: (n) dancerly, ballerina, tap dawdling: (adj) slow, dilatory, tardy, fraud. ANTONYMS: (v) guide,
dancer, taxi dancer, acrobat, actor, deliberate, measured, laggard; (n) inform, undeceive, protect
artist, artiste, ballet dancer, belly dalliance, coquetry, trifling, deceiving: (adj) deceptive, deceitful,
dancer, chorus girl dithering, wavering. ANTONYMS: cheating, fallacious, dishonest, lying,
danger: (n) risk, peril, hazard, chance, (n) decisiveness; (adj) rushed, fast treacherous, imposing, delusive,
jeopardy, threat, trouble, dawn: (adj, n) break of day, sanctimonious, mistaken.
precariousness, slipperiness, daybreak; (n) beginning, ANTONYM: (adj) correct
disaster, insecurity. ANTONYMS: commencement, cockcrow, onset, decent: (adj) adequate, appropriate,
(n) security, ease, privilege morning, prime, aurora; (v) break, becoming, decorous, sufficient,
dangerous: (adj, n) critical; (adj) begin. ANTONYMS: (n) twilight, honest, acceptable, modest, seemly,
severe, serious, grave, adventurous, sunset, nightfall, close, departure, comely; (adj, adv) right.
unhealthy, precarious, hazardous, demise, conclusion, ending; (n, v) ANTONYMS: (adj) immoral,
perilous, threatening, chancy. end, finish; (v) set inappropriate, disreputable,
ANTONYMS: (adj) stable, secure, days: (n) period, life, time, age, indecent, unsuitable, inadequate,
protected, unhazardous, slight, existence, generation, years, being, filthy, undressed, unkind, smutty,
weak, harmless, friendly, favorable, era, living, lifetime selfish
calm, pleasant dazzled: (adj) confused, dazzle, decide: (v) choose, adjudicate,
dangerously: (adv) hazardously, bewildered, blind, blinder, resolve, conclude, settle, try, judge,
precariously, unsafely, riskily, fascinated, unsighted arbitrate, decree, arrange; (adj, v)
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determine. ANTONYMS: (v) waver, definite: (adj) certain, clear, distinct, nice, gorgeous. ANTONYMS: (adj)
postpone, waffle, vacillate, defer, concrete, plain, conclusive, specific, unpleasant, unwelcome, hateful,
fluctuate, balk, ponder, open, precise, categorical, decisive; (adj, v) miserable, unhappy, unappealing,
speculate, change absolute. ANTONYMS: (adj) horrific, horrible, disagreeable,
decided: (adj, v) decisive, absolute, imprecise, unclear, vague, depressing, annoying
unmistakable, distinct, clear, undefined, doubtful, indeterminate, delirium: (n) craze, insanity, mania,
positive, unequivocal, emphatic; qualified, evasive, indefinite, disturbance, fever, ecstasy,
(adj) determined, resolute, indescribable, dubious derangement; (adj, n) fury; (adj)
conclusive. ANTONYMS: (adj) definition: (n) explanation, account, furor, rage, distraction.
uncertain, hesitant, unsure, interpretation, limitation, Abundant ANTONYMS: (n) indifference,
questionable, indefinite, postponing, definition , definiteness, settlement, dejection
doubtful, unresolved, vague, resolution, definement, rendering, demagogue: (n) agitator,
flippant, indecisive translation. ANTONYMS: (n) speechmaker, fugleman, reactionist,
decision: (n) conclusion, blurriness, fuzziness, haziness rhetorician, orator, precentor,
determination, verdict, sentence, defy: (n, v) dare; (v) brave, resist, leader, bellwether; (adj) anarchist,
arbitration, ruling, choice, will, ignore, confront, revolt, oppose, brawler. ANTONYM: (n) pacifier
constancy; (n, v) judgment, award. withstand, disobey, contradict; (n) denial: (adv, n) negation; (n)
ANTONYMS: (n) indecision, defiance. ANTONYMS: (v) obey, abnegation, repulse, renunciation,
indecisiveness, tie, changeableness, acquiesce, surrender, yield, comply, no, contradiction, abjuration,
indetermination, stalemate, standoff, accept rejection, negative, refusal; (v) deny.
deadlock, draw, coercion delay: (adj, v) defer, linger; (n, v) ANTONYMS: (n) acceptance,
deck: (v) clothe, embellish, beautify, arrest, wait, check, stay; (n) declaration, affirmation, confession,
bedeck, ornament, array, attire, deferment, interruption; (v) admission, agreement, provision,
dress, decorate, grace; (n, v) floor. postpone, reserve, adjourn. prosecution, approval, permission,
ANTONYMS: (v) strip, unclothe ANTONYMS: (n, v) rush; (n) affirmative
decked: (adj) bedecked, decked out, decisiveness, promptness; (v) deny: (v) controvert, rebuff,
ornamented, decorated, festooned advance, hurry, begin, hasten, go, contradict, disavow, gainsay, reject,
declare: (v) advertise, assert, allege, expedite, speed, prompt oppose, refuse, disown, abnegate,
attest, aver, admit, acknowledge, delegates: (n) congress renounce. ANTONYMS: (v) affirm,
proclaim, avow; (n, v) affirm, say. deliberation: (n) cogitation, counsel, claim, acknowledge, declare,
ANTONYMS: (v) conceal, revoke, debate, caution, thought, maintain, agree, spoil, accept,
suppress, retract, repress, disclaim, advisement, attention, accede, allow, argue
withhold, request, refute, block contemplation, consultation; (adj, n) depth: (n) abyss, profoundness,
declared: (adj) stated, apparent, state, calculation, circumspection. profundity, chasm, intensity,
public, professed, proclaimed, ANTONYMS: (n) thoughtlessness, abstruseness, wisdom, extent,
explicit, ostensible, expressed, carelessness, impetuosity, strength, width; (adj) profound.
confirmed, alleged distraction, rashness ANTONYMS: (n) height,
decree: (n, v) command, award, rule, delicately: (adv) exquisitely, softly, superficiality, weakness, tallness,
act, will, dictate; (v) decide, enact, tenderly, gracefully, subtlely, shallowness, narrowness, thinness,
ordain; (n) edict, decision sensitively, daintily, precisely, flippancy
deed: (n) accomplishment, act, feat, elegantly, ticklishly, weakly. deride: (v) mock, gibe, taunt, banter,
behavior, action, exploit, covenant, ANTONYMS: (adv) inelegantly, insult, scoff, make fun of, laugh at,
doing, document, title, fact. tactlessly, thickly, imprecisely, disparage, poke fun at; (n, v) scorn.
ANTONYM: (n) failure clumsily, ungracefully, unsubtly, ANTONYMS: (v) flatter, commend,
deeds: (n) works, activity, actions, heavily, carelessly, roughly, severely esteem, compliment, respect,
conduct, background, events, delight: (n) joy, pleasure, amusement, admire, approve
happenings, performance, activities rejoicing, gladness; (v) ravish, derogatory: (adj) derogative,
deep: (adj) thick, profound, strong, amuse, please, captivate, transport, disparaging, abusive, insulting,
rich, broad, sound, absorbed, wide, enrapture. ANTONYMS: (n) misery, slanderous, pejorative, degrading,
abstruse, dark; (adj, v) intense. dismay, dissatisfaction, sadness, critical, contemptuous, detracting;
ANTONYMS: (adj) superficial, high, nuisance, discontent; (v) depress, (adj, v) detractory. ANTONYMS:
weak, soft, light, open, frivolous, displease, sadden, irk; (n, v) bore (adj) flattering, positive,
lightweight, narrow, delighted: (adj) glad, cheerful, complimentary, fulsome, praising,
straightforward, simple blissful, jubilant, happy, overjoyed, appreciative, approving, favorable
defeat: (v) overcome, conquer, beat, joyful, captivated, pleasant; (adj, v) descend: (v) settle, condescend,
rout, abolish; (n, v) ruin, foil; (n) pleased, elated. ANTONYMS: (adj) down, drop, deign, subside, go
frustration, beating; (adj, n, v) shocked, unhappy, sorrowful, down, dismount, derive, get off,
repulse; (adj, n) rebuff. depressed, melancholy, miserable, come down. ANTONYMS: (v)
ANTONYMS: (v) lose, surrender, desolate, sorry, sad, down ascend, climb, float, scale, increase,
help, succumb, inspirit, encourage, delightful: (adj) delicious, delectable, level, mount
concede; (n) success, win, triumph, charming, pleasing, grateful, describe: (v) represent, report,
conquest blissful, amiable, adorable, lovely, delineate, state, depict, outline,
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relate, draw, qualify, designate, subvert, dismantle, devour, wreck, simple, straightforward, rewarding,
name devastate; (adj, v) desolate, abolish; clear, accommodating, amenable,
deserted: (adj) desert, solitary, empty, (n, v) murder. ANTONYMS: (v) easygoing, manageable,
lonely, isolated, forsaken, lonesome, preserve, create, make, construct, uncomplicated, satisfying,
desolate, bleak, vacant; (adj, v) protect, repair, restore, uphold, undemanding
forlorn. ANTONYMS: (adj) sustain, submit, revive digging: (n) excavation, excavating,
occupied, packed, crowded, destroyed: (adj) ruined, lost, desolate, digs, dug, excavate, take, locality,
mobbed, populated, populous, shattered, desolated, broken, mining, barb, creating by removal,
overcrowded depressed, dead, damaged, undone, attack reception
deservedly: (adv) justly, condignly, fallen. ANTONYMS: (adj) dignified: (adj) exalted, majestic,
worthily, rightfully, rightly, right, preserved, living noble, grand, lofty, respectable,
justifiably, by merit, correctly, fairly, detail: (v) describe, enumerate, relate, solemn, distinguished, lordly, high;
becomingly appoint, itemize, recite, cast, assign; (adj, v) great. ANTONYMS: (adj)
design: (n, v) purpose, aim, scheme, (n) point, feature, item. undignified, foolish, dishonorable,
sketch, conceive; (n) conception, ANTONYMS: (v) keep, withhold, boisterous, unceremonious,
drawing, device, idea, arrangement; generalize, guess, approximate; (n) unseemly, vulgar, poor, lowly,
(v) contrive. ANTONYMS: (n) total, sum, emptiness, aggregate modest, base
chance, fortuity, accident, deter: (v) dissuade, bar, check, keep, dimple: (n) depression, dint,
destruction; (v) improvise block, hinder, impede, discourage; indentation, hollow, cavity, dip, pit,
desirable: (adj) eligible, suitable, (n, v) cow, intimidate, abash. spot hole, follicle, lacuna, hole.
fitting, worthy, expedient, ANTONYMS: (v) persuade, speed, ANTONYMS: (n) hump, lump
appropriate, alluring, charming, facilitate, promote, support, dint: (v) indent; (n) indentation,
covetable, good, fascinating. stimulate, yield, attract blow, strength, percussion, agency,
ANTONYMS: (adj) repulsive, bad, determine: (v) ascertain, define, hollow, depression, might,
detrimental, disadvantageous, appoint, adjudicate, set, specify, impression; (adj) delve
disgusting, repugnant, repellant, conclude, measure, designate, dire: (adj) awful, desperate, direful,
unattractive, unenviable, unwanted, assign; (adj, v) resolve. dreadful, appalling, forbidding,
useless ANTONYMS: (v) yield, question, terrible, formidable, awesome,
desire: (n) ambition, aspiration, comply, procrastinate, postpone, shocking, calamitous. ANTONYMS:
craving, dream; (adv, n, v) will; (n, overlook, Miss, ignore, hesitate, (adj) wonderful, fortuitous,
v) fancy, wish, aim; (v) want, aspire, disregard, balk unimportant, trivial, propitious,
seek. ANTONYMS: (n, v) dislike, detested: (adj) despised, unpopular, insignificant, fortunate, harmless,
hate; (n) aversion, reality, revulsion, disliked, loathed, not accepted, favorable, modest, praiseworthy
apathy; (v) spurn, abhor, answer, unloved, scorned, reviled, out of direct: (v) aim, address, charge,
command, insist favor, not liked dictate, head; (n, v) channel,
desired: (adj) coveted, desirable, development: (n) course, growth, command, control; (adj, adv)
favorite, wanted, welcome, needed, progress, spread, increase, straight; (adj, v) level; (adj)
beloved, required, most wanted; improvement, expansion, immediate. ANTONYMS: (adj)
(adj, v) chosen; (v) consenting developing, result, effect; (v) roundabout, circuitous, oblique,
desires: (n) requirements, needs develop. ANTONYMS: (n) sideways, unplanned, devious,
desirously: (adv) greedily, keenly, deterioration, neglect, decline, dishonest; (v) request, follow, divert,
avidly, hungrily, wistfully, decrease, decay, death, get
wishfully, covetously, longingly, nondevelopment, fall, retreat, directing: (adj) guiding, directive,
yearningly, willingly, cravingly suppression, withering administrative, determinative,
despatch: (n) shipment, expedition, devise: (v) contrive, conceive, invent, directional, sovereign, commanding,
communique, mission, consignment, plan, create, concoct, design, controlling; (n) administration,
sending, forwarding; (v) transmit, arrange, frame, formulate, conducting, conservation
expedite, quicken, send excogitate directness: (n) candor, frankness,
desperate: (adj) despairing, dire, dictated: (adj) set, hard-and-fast, plainness, honesty, immediacy,
critical, abject, dangerous, in compulsive; (n) contumely, straightforwardness, forthrightness,
despair, grave, awful, despondent, blameworthy, abuse openness, freedom, ingenuousness,
drastic; (adj, v) forlorn. different: (adj) dissimilar, various, outspokenness. ANTONYMS: (n)
ANTONYMS: (adj) hopeful, assorted, unusual, alien, vagueness, obliqueness,
optimistic, rational, promising, miscellaneous, new, fresh, discrete, circuitousness, reticence, delicacy,
minor, cautious, casual, careful, diverse; (v) differ. ANTONYMS: caution, dishonesty
trivial, secure, satisfied (adj) identical, corresponding, equal, dirty: (adj, v) muddy, dirt; (v)
despite: (conj) although, albeit; (n) like, typical, same, conventional, corrupt, contaminate; (n, v) soil,
contempt, scorn, ill will, malice, familiar, unified, uniform, Standard defile; (adj) contemptible, bawdy,
disdain; (adv) though; (prep) in difficult: (adj) awkward, demanding, contaminated, dingy, impure.
spite of, notwithstanding, regardless burdensome, complicated, uphill, ANTONYMS: (adj) spotless,
of knotty, fastidious, hard, delicate, hygienic, pure, immaculate,
destroy: (v) demolish, blight, despoil, finicky, intricate. ANTONYMS: (adj) sanitary, pleasant, sparkling, fair,
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wholesome, washed; (v) purify disreputable, infamous, base, general, resembling, associated,
disappointing: (adj) unsatisfactory, ignominious, outrageous, black, amorphous
regrettable, insufficient, ignoble. ANTONYMS: (adj) distinction: (n) discrimination,
disheartening, disappointment, off, admirable, honorable, reputable, contrast, difference, rank,
dashing hopes, deceitful, deplorable, exalted, commendable, respectable, dissimilarity, demarcation, prestige,
dissatisfactory, distressing. noble, glorious celebrity, reputation, consequence,
ANTONYMS: (adj) encouraging, dish: (n) basin, disk, plate, meal, variation. ANTONYMS: (n)
satisfying, acceptable, fortunate, platter, food, saucer, beauty, meat, mediocrity, resemblance, likeness,
satisfactory repast; (n, v) hollow indistinction, insult, disgrace,
disaster: (n) calamity, blow, accident, disjointed: (adj) disconnected, commonness, obscurity
adversity, casualty, cataclysm, confused, split, broken, dislocated, disturb: (v) trouble, disorder,
debacle, destruction, misfortune, rambling, unconnected, disordered, disconcert, distress, perturb,
misadventure, fiasco. ANTONYMS: fragmentary, discontinuous, disquiet, distract, discompose,
(n) success, blessing, joy, miracle, muddled. ANTONYMS: (adj) disrupt, upset, concern.
opportunity, wonder, order jointed, united, affiliated, attached, ANTONYMS: (v) calm, please,
discipline: (v) castigate, train, connected, continuous soothe, smooth, order, reassure, sort,
chastise, chasten, educate, correct; dismay: (adj, n, v) appall; (v) depress, settle, respect, quiet, organize
(n, v) exercise, practice, drill; (n) dishearten, discourage, horrify; (n) divine: (adj) sacred, wonderful,
chastisement, correction. consternation, discouragement; (n, blessed, holy, exquisite; (n)
ANTONYMS: (n) indiscipline, v) daunt, affright; (adj, n) terror, clergyman; (v) guess, conjecture,
permissiveness, laziness, dread. ANTONYMS: (n, v) delight; augur, anticipate; (adj, n) almighty.
disorganization, confusion, reward, (v) stimulate, assure, ensure, ANTONYMS: (adj) imperfect,
abandon, negligence, persuasion; (v) encourage, elate; (n) spirit, profane, earthly, dreadful, physical,
commend, praise satisfaction, mettle, resolution, ugly, secular
discover: (v) discern, disclose, assurance divulge: (v) disclose, betray,
ascertain, find, perceive, catch, displaced: (adj) disjointed, homeless, communicate, declare, impart,
expose, hear, determine, sense, gone, extendant, disordered, reveal, leak, expose, break, tell,
detect. ANTONYMS: (v) overlook, deranged confess. ANTONYMS: (v) suppress,
ignore, disregard, confuse, conceal, disputed: (adj) moot, disputable, hide, withhold, deny
lose opposed, open to discussion, doing: (n) act, do, deed, making,
discuss: (v) argue, agitate, deliberate, uncertain, dubious, doubtful, performance, execution,
consult, reason, mention, moot, debatable perpetration, acting; (v) to make, to
dispute, discourse, negotiate, disregard: (n, v) disdain, slight, do; (adj) current. ANTONYM: (n)
consider scorn; (n) carelessness, contempt; (v) failure
disdainful: (adj) supercilious, discount, defy, despise, cut, flout; domestic: (adj, v) home; (adj) civil,
haughty, scornful, arrogant, proud, (adj, v) overlook. ANTONYMS: (v) native, internal, household, familiar,
cavalier, derogatory, lordly, notice, heed, value, obey, accept, inland, national; (n) maid, servant;
condescending, derisive, sneering. consider; (n) respect, (adj, n) homely. ANTONYMS: (adj)
ANTONYMS: (adj) respectful, thoughtfulness, consideration, foreign, wild, external, public, office,
admiring, humble, approving, attention; (n, v) regard professional, imported, global, alien,
warm, reverential, praising, dissension: (n) dispute, undomestic
deferential disagreement, conflict, contention, done: (adj, adv) finished, ended; (adj)
disease: (n, v) ailment; (n) illness, dissonance, faction, friction, complete, completed, over, made,
sickness, condition, complaint, misunderstanding, division; (n, v) gone, accomplished, concluded,
affection, ill, disorder, affliction, difference, variance. ANTONYMS: through, cooked. ANTONYMS: (adj)
bug; (adj, n) infirmity. ANTONYM: (n) agreement, accord, harmony, unsettled, disapproved, incomplete,
(n) health consent, comity rare, raw, rejected, uncooked,
disembowel: (v) embowel, gut, draw, dissolute: (adj, v) dissipated, fast, undone, unfulfilled, unsanctioned
disbowel, withdraw, take, remove, wanton; (adj) abandoned, depraved, don't: (adv) not; (n) taboo,
paunch, describe, depict, delineate licentious, immoral, corrupt, prohibition
disenfranchised: (adj) powerless, profligate, degenerate; (adj, n) door: (n) threshold, mouth, entrance,
voteless. ANTONYM: (adj) libertine. ANTONYMS: (adj) moral, doorway, entry, opening, access,
enfranchised upright, chaste, restrained, good, entryway, way out, portal, hatch.
disgrace: (adj, n, v) dishonor; (n, v) resolute, virtuous, pure, cautious, ANTONYM: (n) entrance
discredit, shame, stain, blemish, righteous, innocent dotard: (n) driveler, doter, weakling,
blot, slur, reproach; (v) degrade, distinct: (adj) different, discrete, fuddy-duddy, dote, dotant, dodo;
debase; (n) degradation. articulate, distinctive, palpable, (adj) doddering
ANTONYMS: (n, v) respect, esteem, definite, apparent, dissimilar, double: (adj, n) twin; (adj) dual,
credit; (v) glorify, dignify, praise; (n) tangible; (adj, prep) separate; (adj, v) duple, twofold; (v) fold, bend,
merit, grace, pride, rise, worthiness marked. ANTONYMS: (adj) geminate; (adj, v) reduplicate; (n)
disgraceful: (adj) dishonorable, indistinct, similar, unclear, vague, substitute, mate, image.
scandalous, shocking, degrading, shapeless, inaudible, connected, ANTONYMS: (adj, n) single; (v)
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decrease, divide, halve; (adj) confidence, security, ease, calm pour, sharpen, raise, recuperate; (n)
multivalent, univalent, lone dreadful: (adj) bad, awful, alarming, growth, mass, lot, upswing,
doubt: (n, v) suspicion, question, atrocious, fearful, terrible, elevation
query, dispute; (n) disbelief, abominable, appalling, direful, drumming: (n) roll, drums, sound,
misgiving, incertitude, grisly; (adj, v) dread. ANTONYMS: thump, pulse, barrelling, percussion,
apprehension, uncertainty; (adj, n) (adj) wonderful, great, lovely, buzzing, stress, tapping, throb
skepticism; (v) suspect. fantastic, marvelous, admirable, drunk: (adj) tipsy, wet, tight, blotto,
ANTONYMS: (n) certainty, successful, nice, joyous, honorable, drunken, inebriated; (adj, n)
confidence, conclusiveness, belief, fair inebriate; (n) boozer, dipsomaniac,
certitude, faith, approval; (v) accept, dream: (n) aspiration, ambition, drunkard, drinker. ANTONYMS:
believe, consider, swallow reverie, desire, fantasy, figment, (adj) straight, clearheaded; (n)
doubts: (adj) doubting nightmare; (n, v) vision, sleep; (v) teetotaler
dove: (n) turtledove, squab, emblem, muse, imagine. ANTONYMS: (n) duality: (n) dualism, duplicity,
pacificist, pacifist, poultry, dover, alertness, nightmare dichotomy, duad, being twofold,
pigeon, Holy Spirit, culver, peacenik dreary: (adj) depressing, drab, dull, binary, pair
downward: (adv) underneath, under, cheerless, drear, miserable, gloomy, dumbly: (adv) densely, thickly,
below, downwards, downwardly, dark, dismal, stuffy, disconsolate. silently, speechlessly, obtusely,
beneath, down below; (adj) ANTONYMS: (adj) interesting, dully, stupidly, soundlessly,
downcast, sloping, depressed, cheerful, sunny, brilliant, lively, foolishly, inarticulately, slowly
downright. ANTONYMS: (adv) up; light, exciting, clear, cheery, during: (prep) within, on, by, of, for,
(adj) rising pleasant, exotic pending, inside; (adv) whilst, while;
drab: (adj) dreary, gloomy, dingy, drench: (adj, v) soak, douse, steep, (adj) throughout; (n) at.
cheerless, somber, boring, dowdy, immerse, splash, wash; (v) deluge, ANTONYM: (prep) out
dark, colorless, dull, depressing. swamp, dip, drown, souse. dusting: (n) sprinkling, dry spraying,
ANTONYMS: (adj) colorful, vivid, ANTONYM: (v) dehydrate film, coating
brilliant, chic, flashy, interesting, drenched: (adj) saturated, soaked, dutifully: (adv) submissively,
cheerful, distinctive, smart, strong soaking, damp, soppy, wet through, obediently, deferentially,
drag: (v) attract, draw, lug, cart, sodden, sopping, wringing wet, compliantly, conscientiously,
heave, tow; (n, v) pull, puff; (adv, v) soaked to the skin, dripping wet devotedly, duteously, docilely,
trail; (n) bother; (adj) dragging. dress: (n, v) attire, costume, clothe, loyally, respectfully, meekly.
ANTONYMS: (n) pleasure; (v) apparel, clothing, array, trim, garb, ANTONYMS: (adv) carelessly,
hasten, hurry, shove, speed, rush, rig, cover; (n) dressing. irresponsibly, unfaithfully,
propel, fly ANTONYMS: (n, v) undress; (v) assertively
dragged: (adj) depressed, dejected, uncover, disrobe, rumple, strip, duty: (n) function, commitment,
upset, unhappy, spent, dispirited, wrinkle obligation, chore, assignment, office,
somber, melancholy, gloomy, dressed: (adj) attired, clad, garbed, dues, job, responsibility, must; (n, v)
joyless, low appareled, spruced up, spiffed up, charge. ANTONYMS: (n)
draggled: (adj) unclean, dirty, covered, polished, garmented; (v) disobedience, option
dilapidated clothed, habited dwell: (adj, v) inhabit; (v) reside,
draw: (n, v) drag, pull, delineate, tie, dribbling: (n) trickle, drip, actuation bide, live, stay, lodge, delay, occupy,
design, puff; (v) depict, describe, drink: (n, v) beverage, draught, continue, be, settle. ANTONYM: (v)
derive, bring; (n) attraction. swallow; (n) alcohol, brew, potion, wander
ANTONYMS: (v) repel, deposit, intoxicant; (v) booze, carouse, bib, dwelling: (n) domicile, home,
shove, shorten, thrust, cut, curtail, swig. ANTONYMS: (v) regurgitate, residence, house, place,
contract, alienate; (n) repulsion, win sip, abstain accommodation, address, building,
drawing: (n) draft, delineation, drinks: (n) refreshments, food and lodge, habitation; (adj, n) dwell
picture, plan, cartoon, depiction, drink dwelt: (v) dwell, inhabit
draught, draw, draftsmanship, drive: (n, v) ride, push, force, dyed: (adj) colored, tinted, coloured,
painting, image crusade, urge, thrust, campaign, bleached, stained, painted,
drawn: (adj) careworn, worn, drew, cause; (v) compel, chase, actuate. artificially coloured, biased,
pinched, gaunt, taut, tired, ANTONYMS: (n) apathy, inertia, artificial, unreal, colorful
cadaverous, thin, tense, withdraw. lethargy, walk, indifference; (v) each: (adv) apiece, either,
ANTONYMS: (adj) rested, robust, discourage, repress, stop, prevent, individually; (adj) every, various,
refreshed, hale, fresh, vigorous, inhibit, dissuade singular; (adj, det) any; (n) anyone,
carefree driven: (v) drive, impel, operate, an, anybody, everyone
dread: (n, v) apprehension, fear, propel; (adj) impelled, compulsive, eagerly: (adv) zealously, readily,
panic; (n) anxiety, awe, motivated, involuntary, dynamic, keenly, fervently, avidly, greedily,
consternation, alarm, trepidation, successful; (n) drove enthusiastically, intently, earnestly,
dismay, foreboding, terror. drop: (n, v) decline, dribble, deposit, impatiently, actively. ANTONYMS:
ANTONYMS: (adj) pleasing, decrease, jump, ebb; (adj, n, v) (adv) apathetically, nonchalantly,
welcomed, pleasant; (v) welcome, collapse; (v) droop, sink, cast, drip. grudgingly, patiently, halfheartedly,
want; (n) reassurance, fearlessness, ANTONYMS: (n, v) increase; (v) lift, reluctantly, unenthusiastically
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early: (adv) betimes, soon; (adj) effort: (n) exertion, trouble, employ: (v) use, apply, exploit,
initial, primitive, young, prompt, application, trial, try, endeavor, consume, wield, hire, engage,
first, quick; (n) beginning, morning, struggle, drive, diligence, bid, great exercise, work, busy, utilize.
prior. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) late, effort. ANTONYMS: (n) inaction, ANTONYMS: (v) fire, dismiss, can,
later; (adj) delayed, slow, tardy, lackadaisicalness, laziness, ignore, misuse, sack, underuse; (n)
conclusive, latter, middle; (adv) negligence, lethargy unemployment
belatedly, tardily, expectedly efforts: (n) pains ending: (n) conclusion, end, closure,
earnestness: (n) seriousness, either: (adj) whatever; (adv) too, also, close, completion, finish,
sincerity, gravity, fervor, devotion, neither, besides, likewise; (n) or; termination, dissolution, death; (adj,
graveness, staidness, honesty; (adj, (det) any; (conj) other n) closing, last. ANTONYMS: (n)
n) ardor, zeal, intentness. eject: (v) discharge, evict, emit, expel, beginning, middle, commencement,
ANTONYMS: (n) slackness, displace, dismiss, depose, chuck out, inauguration, kickoff, prelude,
lightness, carelessness, spew, empty, banish. ANTONYMS: establishment; (adj) first
frivolousness, cheerfulness, (v) accept, admit, house, receive, endlessly: (adv) incessantly,
insincerity, flippancy welcome, retain, appoint ceaselessly, unendingly, continually,
ears: (n) antenna element: (n) ingredient, constituent, perpetually, infinitely, constantly,
earth: (n) world, dust, ground, land, substance, factor, basis, everlastingly, boundlessly,
lair, dry land, terra firma, clay, fundamental, matter, feature, unceasingly, eternally.
creation, ball, country foundation, chemical element, origin ANTONYMS: (adv) briefly,
easily: (adv) lightly, smoothly, elements: (n) rudiments, grammar, intermittently
facilely, fluently, readily, plainly, outlines, fundamentals, basics, enduring: (adj) durable, abiding,
comfortably, uncomplicatedly, weather, ABC, atmospheric lasting, permanent, continuing,
calmly, slowly, conveniently. condition, contents, principia constant, hardy, immortal, eternal,
ANTONYMS: (adv) hardly, eliminate: (v) do away with, delete, stable; (adv) enduringly.
unquestionably, laboriously, rid, dispel, wipe out, obliterate, ANTONYMS: (adj) impatient,
difficultly, barely, arduously, annihilate, cancel, eradicate, transient, fleeting, mortal, modern,
affectedly, inconveniently, seriously, extinguish, get rid of. ANTONYMS: insubstantial, inconstant, fickle,
formally (v) include, welcome, necessitate, erratic, unstable
easy: (adj) convenient, gentle, choose, add, establish, insert engage: (v) contract, book, employ,
familiar, graceful, at ease, light, else: (adv) besides, yet, to boot, in retain, absorb, charter, draw, rent;
lenient, clear, contented, cozy; (adj, addition, moreover; (pron) another; (n, v) attract, enlist, betroth.
adv) soft. ANTONYMS: (adj) (n) or; (adj) different, other, further, ANTONYMS: (v) disengage, release,
arduous, laborious, demanding, additional evade, bore, can, discharge,
hard, strenuous, particular, embers: (v) cinder, ash, scoriae; (n) disconnect, dismiss, eject, terminate,
burdensome, tough, uneasy, fire, ashes escape
awkward, testing embrace: (v) comprise, adopt, enhanced: (adj) more, advanced,
economic: (adj) commercial, comprehend, contain, admit, increased, superior, resonant, finer,
profitable, economy, financial, espouse, include; (n, v) clasp, hug, bigger, better, greater, higher.
efficient, economical, fiscal, trade, grip, bosom. ANTONYMS: (v) ANTONYM: (adj) worse
industrial, mercantile, pecuniary reject, exclude, spurn, shun, enjoy: (v) hold, have, relish, bask,
ecstasy: (n) delight, rapture, joy, bliss, renounce, release, loose, disbelieve appreciate, own, rejoice, revel, love,
delirium, happiness, trance, emotion: (n) love, feeling, passion, experience; (adj, v) like.
enthusiasm, exaltation, elation; (n, v) heart, commotion, mood, pathos, ANTONYMS: (v) need, suffer,
transport. ANTONYMS: (n) excitement, sensibility; (n, v) loathe, lack, hate, detest, despise,
desolation, gloom, sensation; (v) impression. want
downheartedness, melancholy, ANTONYMS: (n) detachment, enlarge: (v) expand, aggrandize,
depression, dejection, anguish, coldness, unfeelingness, calmness augment, dilate, distend, widen,
sadness, despair, agony, bore emotional: (adj) dramatic, passionate, increase, elaborate, extend, blow up,
ecstatic: (adj) delighted, excited, poignant, sensitive, sensational, grow. ANTONYMS: (v) reduce,
rhapsodic, rapt, exultant, blissful, affecting, affective, moving, effusive, shrink, contract, decrease, compress,
joyful, elated, happy, transported; warm, affectional. ANTONYMS: condense, diminish, lessen,
(n, v) thrilling. ANTONYMS: (adj) (adj) unemotional, unflappable, minimize, narrow, abridge
depressed, down, unhappy, cold, emotionless, cerebral, enough: (adj) ample, adequate,
dejected, desolate, despairing, dispassionate, insensitive, relaxed, competent, decent; (n) adequacy,
miserable, troubled, sad, calm unfeeling, secretive, reserved sufficiency, fill; (adv) rather, amply,
edge: (n, v) bound, verge, hem, skirt, emotions: (n) reputation, emotion, adequately; (adv, n) plenty.
line; (n) boundary, margin, brink, feeling, temperament, personality, ANTONYMS: (adj) insufficient,
blade, extremity, limit. character, disposition, breast, bosom deficient, wanting, scant; (adv)
ANTONYMS: (n) center, emphasis: (n) stress, accentuation, insufficiently, inadequately; (n)
disadvantage, obstacle, handicap, importance, prominence, import, insufficiency, deficiency,
mainstream, end; (v) interior, dull, vehemence, weight, intensity, inadequacy, shortage
blunt, speed significance, force, power enter: (v) enroll, embark, chronicle,
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book, record, input, arrive, come, espy: (v) discover, descry, behold, ANTONYM: (adv) nowhere
pierce, register, penetrate. detect, spy, spot, see, distinguish, evil: (adj) bad, criminal, corrupt,
ANTONYMS: (v) depart, exit, recognize, perceive, notice wicked, destructive, depraved; (adj,
delete, stop, refrain, erase, egress, essential: (adj) inherent, crucial, n) ill, detriment; (n) adversity,
abstain, cancel, exclude, disembark natural, basic, elementary; (adj, v) disaster, depravity. ANTONYMS:
enterprise: (n) business, company, important, imperative; (adj, n, v) (n) goodness, righteousness,
concern, endeavor, activity, requisite; (adj, n) constituent, morality; (adj) kindhearted,
adventure, energy, effort, courage, fundamental; (n) necessity. righteous, benign, moral, pure,
venture, endeavour. ANTONYMS: ANTONYMS: (adj, n) optional, upright, virtuous, sinless
(n) lethargy, apathy, laziness, unimportant, peripheral, luxury; exact: (adj, n) correct; (v) demand,
passiveness, sloth, idleness (adj) secondary, minor, marginal, claim, command, ask; (n, v) require;
entrails: (n) bowels, gut, bowel, unessential, trivial, subordinate; (n) (adj, v) close, direct; (adj) precise,
viscera, innards, internal organs, option detailed, faithful. ANTONYMS:
insides, intestines, guts, tripe, inside eternal: (adj) constant, perpetual, (adj) wrong, vague, imprecise,
entrance: (v) enchant, charm, ceaseless, everlasting, lasting, approximate, inexact, rough,
captivate, bewitch, enrapture; (n) continual, aeonian, immortal, careless, thoughtless, indeterminate;
access, entry, admittance, threshold, boundless, deathless, enduring. (v) tender, give
arrival, door. ANTONYMS: (n) ANTONYMS: (adj) mortal, finite, exaltation: (n) elation, ecstasy,
departure, exit, egress, egression, brief, ephemeral, fleeting, apotheosis, worship, praise, rapture,
exiting, exclusion, retirement; (v) terminable, ending, fragile, deification, grandeur, adoration; (n,
bore, repel, repulse inconstant v) sublimation; (v) laud.
envoys: (n) embassy eternity: (n) aeon, afterlife, forever, ANTONYMS: (n) abasement,
equally: (adv) evenly, equivalently, perpetuity, timelessness, belittlement, debasement,
levelly, alike, justly, as, parallelly, endlessness, everlasting, endless degradation, humiliation, sorrow,
uniformly, similarly; (adj, adv, conj) time, everlastingness, everness, derogation, disparagement
as well; (adj) even. ANTONYMS: existence. ANTONYMS: (n) example: (n) exemplar, illustration,
(adv) unevenly, individually, finiteness, impermanence instance, sample, lead, paradigm,
differently, unfairly ethical: (adj) right, decent, just, prototype, pattern, design, guide,
equipoise: (v) poise, offset; (n, v) upright, conscientious, virtuous, precedent
balance, counterweight; (n) good, honest, righteous; (adj, v) except: (adj, conj, prep) save; (v)
equilibration, counterbalance, moral; (n) ethics. ANTONYMS: (adj) exclude, demur, omit, elide; (adv,
symmetry, counterpoise, balancing, immoral, dishonest, dishonorable, conj, prep) but; (adv, prep) besides;
equiponderance, equalizer corrupt, unrighteous, unprincipled (prep) excepting, excluding, aside
erect: (adj) upright, vertical, event: (n) effect, case, consequence, from; (conj, n) without.
straightforward; (v) build, raise, occurrence, incident, result, ANTONYMS: (prep) including; (v)
rear, construct, assemble, lift, put contingency, product, fact, receive, admit
up, put together. ANTONYMS: (v) happening, circumstance. excessive: (adj) exaggerated, intense,
dismantle, wreck, topple, level, ANTONYM: (n) insignificancy superfluous, undue, exorbitant,
demolish, destroy; (adj) prostrate, ever: (adj, adv) always, continually; unreasonable, immoderate,
drooping, prone, flaccid, flat (adj) constantly, still, forever; (adv) enormous, profuse, extravagant,
eros: (adj) yearning never, e'er, before, once, perpetually; extreme. ANTONYMS: (adj)
errand: (n) chore, mission, job, task, (n) Evers. ANTONYM: (adv) moderate, affordable, deficient,
assignment, embassy, duty, charge, erratically underdone, insignificant,
messenger, communication, work every: (adj) each, total, whole, any, insufficient, thrifty, skimpy, meager,
escape: (v) elude, avoid, evade, thorough; (n) everybody, everyone, basic, small
circumvent, bolt; (n, v) break, everything; (adv) apiece, either; exchequer: (n) bank, purse, fisc, till,
dodge, leak, run; (n) avoidance, (pron) every one bursary, Exchequer of the Jews,
evasion. ANTONYMS: (n, v) return; everyone: (n) all, everything, world, coffer, hanaper, finance, funds,
(v) remain, catch, stay, face, block, public; (n, pron) anyone, anybody; finances
attend; (n) incarceration, (pron) everybody, someone, a exclaiming: (n) deuce, Dickens,
imprisonment, endurance, abidance person, any person; (adv) any. ejaculation, exclaim, devil,
escaped: (adj) at large, at liberty, ANTONYM: (pron) nobody interjection, ecphonesis
loose, on the loose, runaway, easy, everything: (pron) anything, exercise: (n, v) employ, practice, use,
wild; (n) freer; (v) escaping something, whatever thing, no discipline; (v) apply, train, exert; (n)
especially: (adv) particularly, chiefly, matter which; (n) whole, everyone, employment, application, play,
expressly, peculiarly, specifically, all things, everybody, entirety, movement. ANTONYMS: (n) avoid,
above all, exceedingly, principally, universe, thing idleness, inactiveness, inactivity,
exceptionally, extraordinarily, everywhere: (adv) everyplace, all work; (v) ignore, neglect, overlook,
unusually. ANTONYMS: (adv) over, far and wide, overall, perform, conserve
unexceptionally, customarily, somewhere, far and near, about, exist: (v) lie, be, endure, abide,
usually, commonly, frequently, where; (adv, pron) anywhere; (adv, consist, belong, continue, occur,
generally n) anyplace; (adj) throughout. come, breathe, live. ANTONYMS:
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(v) expire, fail, perish sanctum sanctorum climb, triumph; (n) ascent,
expect: (v) assume, anticipate, fable: (n) legend, fiction, tale, story, improvement, rising; (v) ascend,
demand, understand, hope, think, fabrication, fairy tale, lie, myth, advance, conquer, elevate
suppose, calculate, await, abide, anecdote; (adj, n) apologue, parable. fallacy: (n) delusion, deception,
conceive. ANTONYMS: (v) fear, ANTONYMS: (n) fact, history paralogism, illusion, misconception,
despair face: (adj, n, v) front; (v) confront, falsehood, inaccuracy, idol, falsity,
explain: (v) comment, interpret, audacity; (n, v) look, aspect, top; (n) sophistry; (adj, n) subterfuge.
account, define, decipher, clarify, side, expression, countenance, ANTONYMS: (n) fact, truth,
solve, gloss, excuse, expound, exterior, facade. ANTONYMS: (n, v) validity, verity, understanding,
explicate. ANTONYMS: (v) back; (n) timidity, nobody, correctness
complicate, perplex, obfuscate, underside, shyness, rear; (v) evade, familiar: (adj) conversant, everyday,
puzzle, outline elude, hide, withdraw, submit usual, ordinary, commonplace; (adj,
explode: (v) erupt, detonate, facing: (n) revetment, face, coating, n) customary, common, intimate,
discharge, blow up, crack, lining, veneer, cladding, front, habitual, accustomed; (n)
fulminate, break, burst forth, covering; (prep) against, before; companion. ANTONYMS: (adj)
disprove, blast; (n, v) burst. (adj) fronting unfamiliar, strange, foreign,
ANTONYMS: (v) implode, fizzle, fact: (n) event, detail, truth, unaccustomed, new, unknown,
confirm, defuse, collapse particular, reality, point, thing, ignorant, formal, shy, rare, distant
expose: (v) endanger, exhibit, betray, occurrence, experience, actuality; (n, fancy: (n, v) desire, fantasy, caprice,
detect, display, air, uncover, v) deed. ANTONYMS: (n) dream, wish, daydream; (v)
debunk, denude, unfold, divulge. guesswork, fallacy, conjecture, imagine, consider; (adj, v) conceive;
ANTONYMS: (v) conceal, cover, report, falsehood, fiction, concept, (n) conception, conceit.
enclose, suppress, shield, shelter, fabrication, fantasy, illusion, lie ANTONYMS: (n) reality, certainty,
insulate, hide, guard, drape failed: (adj) unsuccessful, failing, actuality, conviction; (adj)
express: (adj) explicit, direct, definite, abortive, bankrupt, fruitless, futile, unadorned, common; (v) hate,
distinct, especial; (n, v) declare; (v) declining, deteriorating, ineffective, demonstrate, detest, disapprove, test
demonstrate, convey, articulate, insolvent fantastic: (adj) bizarre, extraordinary,
display, mean. ANTONYMS: (v) failing: (adj, n) deficiency, blemish, antic, marvelous, fantastical,
suppress, hide, retain; (adj) vague, imperfection; (n) fault, shortcoming, grotesque, wonderful, extravagant,
slow, unexpressed, roundabout, failure, weakness, flaw, inadequacy, terrific, strange, illusory.
unsaid, uncertain, indirect; (n) local foible; (adj) declining. ANTONYMS: ANTONYMS: (adj) awful, ordinary,
expression: (n) phrase, voice, aspect, (adj) thriving, flourishing, well, real, unpleasant, tiny, plausible,
appearance, demonstration, strong, growing, healthy; (n) normal, lousy, little, Lilliputian,
declaration, manifestation, strength, virtue, specialty, poor
articulation, express, face, style. capability, passing fantasy: (n) dream, illusion, delusion,
ANTONYMS: (n) hint, suggestion, fair: (adj) clear, beautiful, sweet, mirage, desire, invention, vision,
smile, insinuation, concealment, reasonable, dispassionate, average, maggot, fad, hallucination, fiction.
misconstruction fine, impartial; (adj, v) bright; (adj, ANTONYMS: (adj) real; (n)
extent: (n) extension, amplitude, adv) clean; (n) blonde. actuality, fact, existence
bulk, amount, ambit, compass, ANTONYMS: (adj) biased, unjust, fare: (n, v) do; (n) food, aliment,
boundary, scope; (n, v) area, exceptional, dark, partial, board, table, charge, chow, menu,
expanse; (adj, n) distance. mismatched, unwarranted, foul, traveller; (v) come, eat. ANTONYM:
ANTONYMS: (n) weakness, imbalanced, prejudiced, poor (v) stop
mildness, scarcity faith: (n) confidence, belief, farthest: (adj) ultimate, extreme,
externally: (adv) superficially, conviction, trust, credence, credit, farthermost, utmost, uttermost, last,
exteriorly, outsidely, outerly, creed, assurance, cult, expectation, furthermost, endmost, greatest,
without, foreignly, extrinsically, dependence. ANTONYMS: (n) most distant; (adj, adv) remotest.
surfacely, extraneously, disbelief, distrust, dubiosity, ANTONYMS: (adv) closest, nearest
peripherally, outlyingly. skepticism, despair, uncertainty, fascinating: (adj, v) captivating,
ANTONYM: (adv) internally doubt, independence charming, engaging, interesting;
extreme: (adj) deep, excessive, faithful: (adj, n) accurate, correct, (adj) engrossing, absorbing,
enormous, supreme, terrible, exact, true; (adj) close, unfailing, attractive, delightful, alluring,
uttermost, ultimate, utmost, intense, dependable, devoted, sound, bewitching, seductive.
immoderate; (n) edge. ANTONYMS: devout; (adj, v) constant. ANTONYMS: (adj) boring, dull,
(adj, n) mild, slight; (adj) middle, ANTONYMS: (adj) unreliable, false, repellent, unappealing, repulsive
reasonable, near, limited, close, inaccurate, unfaithful, unrealistic, fascination: (n) charm, glamor,
conventional, ordinary, normal, faithless, perfidious, backstabbing, bewitchment, glamour,
insignificant cheating, inexact, loose enchantment, enthrallment,
eyes: (n) sight, eye, vision, view, baby fall: (n, v) decline, dip, rain, decrease, charisma, magnetism, allure, magic,
blues, guard, propensity, eyen plunge, dive; (n) downfall, descent, captivation. ANTONYMS: (n)
eyrie: (n) aery, eyry, habitation, cave, autumn; (v) descend, sink. disinterest, boredom,
cell, den, hiding place, hole, lair, ANTONYMS: (n, v) increase, win, disenchantment, disenthrallment,
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repulsion sensitivity, mood, hunch, opinion, calm, passionless, dispassionate,
fashionable: (adj) popular, current, belief, impression, atmosphere; (adj, indifferent, placid, gentle, cool;
classy, trendy, chic, up to date, n) sentiment. ANTONYMS: (n) (adv) easygoing
stylish, dressy, modern, swanky, indifference, overtone, insensibility, fight: (n, v) battle, dispute, contest,
swell. ANTONYMS: (adj) certainty, insensitivity, hatred, trust; quarrel, engagement, feud,
unpopular, styleless, dated, out, (adj) unfeeling squabble, argue, struggle, clash;
outmoded, tacky, inclusive, old, feet: (v) legs, pegs, pins, trotters; (n) (adj, n, v) brawl. ANTONYMS: (n, v)
plain foots, ft, fete, meter, rescue withdrawal, retreat; (n) fear,
fast: (adj, v) firm; (adj) dissolute, felicitous: (adj) apt, suitable, surrender, agreement; (v)
instant, agile, staunch, quick, appropriate, proper, applicable, compromise, favor, submit
hurried, fixed, rapid; (adv) soon, fortunate, apposite, clever, cute, fill: (v) block, clog, stuff, line, charge,
hard. ANTONYMS: (adv) slowly, lucky; (adj, n) happy. ANTONYMS: execute, accomplish, complete, brim,
loosely, sluggishly; (n) binge; (adj) (adj) inappropriate, infelicitous, fulfill; (n) crowd. ANTONYMS: (v)
sluggish, loose, unattached, inopportune, unfitting, unhappy empty, free, deplete, unpack,
plodding; (adj, adv) leisurely; (v) fellow: (adj, n) comrade, associate; unload, notch, deflate, desert
gorge, eat (n) boy, equal, brother, peer, chap, filled: (adj) replete, packed, fraught,
fate: (n, v) doom; (n) chance, luck, colleague, compeer, buddy; (adj, n, teeming, laden, abundant,
fatality, fortune, kismet, allotment, v) concomitant. ANTONYMS: (n) congested, charged, stuffed; (adj,
portion, lot; (v) destine, designate. female, woman, girl, foe, enemy, adv) crowded; (n) fuller.
ANTONYMS: (n) will, design, antagonist, competitor ANTONYMS: (adj) lacking, clear
choice, accident, chance fellows: (n) fellow, membership, fillet: (n) band, strip, cincture, list,
father: (n) dad, begetter, creator, faculty stripe, fascia, molding, girdle, sash,
abba, patriarch, beginner, founder, felt: (v) mat, tangle, snarl, braid, roller, lemniscus
padre; (n, v) sire; (v) engender, entangle, lace, perceive; (adj) sensed, finally: (adv) lastly, ultimately, at
generate. ANTONYMS: (n) disciple, perceived, conscious, sensible last, at long last, definitely,
follower femininity: (n) muliebrity, woman, terminally, decisively, latestly, at
favourite: (n) ducky, darling, pet, womanliness, effeminateness, sex, length; (adv, v) definitively; (adj)
deary, dearie, lover, minion, Engle; femaleness, feminity, trait, final. ANTONYMS: (adv) initially,
(adj) popular, favored, preferred femineity, female, womanhood. partially, soon, unconvincingly
fawn: (v) crawl, creep, grovel, cringe, ANTONYMS: (n) masculinity, find: (v) catch, detect, encounter,
cower, crouch, bootlick, kowtow, maleness come across, feel, attain, ascertain;
blandish, flatter; (n) deer. fenced: (adj) hedged in, provisional, (n) detection, disclosure, search,
ANTONYMS: (v) insult, despise, guarded, bounded discovery. ANTONYMS: (v)
ignore, domineer ferocity: (n) violence, cruelty, misplace, search, fail; (n) loss
fear: (n) awe, dismay, alarm, fright, ferociousness, fury, rage, truculence, fine: (adj) delicate, dainty, agreeable,
consternation, care, anguish; (n, v) atrocity, fierceness, wildness, nice, thin, elegant, capital, excellent,
apprehension, doubt, concern, vehemence, anger. ANTONYMS: (n) brave; (n) penalty; (v) punish.
reverence. ANTONYMS: (n) meekness, friendliness, serenity ANTONYMS: (adj) poor, thick,
fearlessness, reassurance, fertilize: (v) fertilise, feed, fecundate, wide, coarse, unsatisfactory,
confidence, courage, valor, calm, fructify, enrich, cultivate, fatten, substantial, wretched, unpleasant,
boldness, security, equanimity, inseminate, knock up, stratify; (adj) unimpressive, dark, cloudy
peace; (v) brave generate finely: (adv) delicately, beautifully,
fearful: (adj, n) afraid; (adj, v) fervour: (n) ardour, fervidness, magnificently, splendidly,
dreadful, cowardly; (adj) terrible, fervency, fervor, ardor, enthusiasm, exquisitely, rarely, excellently,
apprehensive, awful, timid, anxious, eagerness, zest, elan, ardency, fire lovely, slightly, nicely, bravely.
craven, frightful, eerie. fetch: (v) carry, bring, bring in, ANTONYMS: (adv) roughly,
ANTONYMS: (adj) rational, calm, convey, draw, elicit, deliver, catch, coarsely, intensely, poorly
confident, bold, unimpressed, get, attract; (adj, n) feint finest: (adj, n) elite; (adj) top, select,
charming, fearless, courageous, field: (n) area, battlefield, ground, excellent, most favorable, most
reassuring, unafraid, wonderful place, domain, discipline, range, excellent, most advantageous,
feast: (n, v) junket, fete; (n) realm, battleground, section, exclusive, classic, best possible; (n)
entertainment, dinner, binge, compass cream
spread, celebration, jamboree, fierce: (adj) bitter, acute, cruel, finger: (v) feel, handle, touch, thumb,
carousal; (v) feed, eat. ANTONYMS: ferocious, brutal, grim, nasty, indicate, point; (n) digit, dactyl,
(v) abstain, starve; (n) snack intense, ardent; (adj, v) savage, forefinger, pointer; (n, v) hand.
feel: (v) experience, finger, handle, furious. ANTONYMS: (adj) gentle, ANTONYM: (v) clear
consider, find; (n, v) sense, sound; mild, calm, quiet, tame, docile, finish: (n, v) close, complete,
(n) feeling, texture, atmosphere, air. weak, peaceful, pleasant consummate; (v) achieve, execute,
ANTONYMS: (v) observe, doubt, fiery: (adj, n) burning, passionate, discontinue, cease, accomplish,
question, mistrust, ignore, glowing; (adj) fervent, ablaze, hot, determine; (n) conclusion, death.
disregard, disbelieve, challenge fervid, impassioned, peppery; (adj, ANTONYMS: (n) beginning,
feeling: (n) affection, feel, emotion, v) fierce, violent. ANTONYMS: (adj) opening, inception, middle, creation;
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(v) begin, continue, sustain, save, ANTONYMS: (n) strength, nourishment, diet, sustenance,
renew, conserve perfection aliment, dish, foodstuff, meat,
fire: (v) eject, dismiss, kindle, ignite; flax: (n) hemp, lint, line, feature, nurture
(n, v) discharge, blaze, flame, clothesline, flex, figure, boundary; fool: (n) blockhead, dunce, clown,
explode; (n) ardor, conflagration, (v) hit, trounce, flog idiot, ass, booby, buffoon; (v)
fervor. ANTONYMS: (v) hire, flay: (v) excoriate, peel, skin, deceive, bamboozle; (n, v) joke, gull.
defuse, deflate, employ, dampen, decorticate, pare, lash, flog, ANTONYM: (n) savant
detain; (n) laziness castigate, scalp, shell, batter foolish: (adj) childish, fool, crazy,
firm: (adj, adv) hard; (adj, v) stable, flesh: (adj) carnality, concupiscence; dumb, daft, fatuous, stupid, unwise,
compact, determined, close, (n) mortality, beef, form, figure, preposterous, dopey; (adj, n) silly.
resolute; (adj) fixed, steadfast, solid, frame, person, mankind, humanity, ANTONYMS: (adj) wise, sensible,
strong; (adj, n) steady. meat shrewd, prudent, visionary,
ANTONYMS: (adj) irresolute, weak, flight: (adj, n) herd, flying, bevy, diplomatic, levelheaded, sane,
soft, hesitant, limp, liquid, soggy, drove; (n) escape, run, exodus, rational, mature, judicious
lenient, indefinite, loose, inconstant evasion, elopement, departure; (n, v) foot: (n) base, feet, foundation,
firstly: (adv) first, originally, initially, avolation footing, pes, paw, basis, leg,
foremostly, first off, primarily, fling: (n, v) toss, throw, pitch, slam, measure; (v) hoof, pay.
basically, first of all, at first, hurl; (v) chuck, shoot, dash, rush, ANTONYMS: (v) owe; (n) head
leadingly, primely. ANTONYMS: discard; (n) crack. ANTONYM: (v) force: (n, v) drive, squeeze, pressure,
(adv) lastly, finally collect thrust; (n) energy, strength, agency;
fish: (n) bird, eel, fishing, Pisces, flocking: (n) electrostatic covering (v) coerce, push, press, compel.
anchovy, chondrichthian, alewife, with fibers, flock finishing ANTONYMS: (n) persuasion,
shellfish; (v) seek, hunt, pursue floor: (n, v) level; (n) layer, earth, ineffectiveness, inertia, apathy,
fitly: (adv) appropriately, properly, base, bottom, soil, platform; (v) stun, moderation; (v) request, wheedle,
fittingly, decorously, aptly, dump, deck; (adj, v) prostrate. pull, push, restrain, prevent
befittingly, readily, accommodately, ANTONYMS: (v) clarify; (n) ceiling forced: (adj) compelled, bound,
expediently, suitly, justly flourishing: (adj) thriving, palmy, constrained, artificial, involuntary,
five: (n) fives, quintuplet, quint, healthy, successful, luxuriant, unnatural, forcible, farfetched,
Phoebe, basketball team, fin, squad, booming, verdant, lush, auspicious, strained, obligatory, labored.
ace, digit; (adj, n) v; (adj) quinary favorable, rich. ANTONYMS: (adj) ANTONYMS: (adj) unprovoked,
flame: (adj, n) fire, sweetheart; (adj, arid, declining, fading, poor, spontaneous, voluntary, natural,
v) burn, glow; (n, v) flash; (n) unhealthy genuine, willing, optional
ardour, burning, fervor, enthusiasm, flout: (n, v) deride, jeer, gibe, taunt, forces: (n) troop, army, troops, rank
combustion, sheen scoff, mock, sneer; (v) defy, scorn, and file, services, war, Armed
flames: (n) fire, blaze, firestorm, jest, scout. ANTONYMS: (v) Services, enmity
hellhole observe, notice forcing: (adj) pressing, constraining,
flapping: (adj) loose, detached, flush: (adj, n, v) blush, glow; (adj) penetrating, compulsatory; (n) push
baggy, streaming, flying, slack; (n) flat, affluent, rich; (adj, v) even, forefinger: (n) index finger, index,
fluttering, flutter, flaps, dither, smooth, level; (n) bloom; (n, v) color; forefingers, paw, thumb, hand,
disturbance (v) redden. ANTONYMS: (n) pallor; exponent, antenna, feeler
flare: (n, v) blaze, flame, burst, glare; (v) blanch, blench; (adj) empty, low, foremost: (adj, adv, v) first; (adj, n)
(v) burn, glint, blaze up, burn up; (n) poor chief, capital, leading, cardinal,
fire; (adj) detonate, explode fluttering: (adj) flying, palpitating, principal, main; (adj) best, front,
flash: (n, v) flicker, blaze, shimmer, flittering, flaring, aflare, waving; (n) central, top. ANTONYMS: (adj) last,
glitter, gleam, glimmer, blink, flame; flutter, flapping, flicker, flitting; insignificant, inferior, worst,
(adj, n, v) twinkle; (n) instant; (v) (adv) flutteringly secondary
coruscate. ANTONYMS: (adj) folds: (n) laps forerunner: (n) ancestor, herald,
tasteful; (n) age; (v) dawdle follow: (v) chase, adopt, adhere, harbinger, messenger, predecessor,
flask: (n) bottle, flasket, container, succeed, accompany, abide by, antecedent, augury, progenitor,
cask, ampulla, carafe, decanter, jar, comprehend, ensue, track; (adj, v) prodrome, parent, leader.
flagon, vacuum flask, vial catch, grasp. ANTONYMS: (v) ANTONYMS: (n) successor,
flatter: (v) fawn, adulate, wheedle, guide, lead, head, disobey, deny, descendant
cajole, soap, kowtow, blandish, ignore, misunderstand, predate, forests: (n) country
grovel, butter up; (n, v) court; (n) exceed, defy, break foreword: (n) prelude, introduction,
caress. ANTONYMS: (v) insult, following: (adj) consequent, ensuing, preamble, prologue, prefix,
disparage, criticize, discourage subsequent, consecutive, proemium, protasis, prolepsis,
flavour: (n) aroma, savor, smell, succeeding; (adj, v) consequential; proem, opening, prolegomena.
palate, essence, sapor, feeling, feel, (n) entourage, pursuit, followers; ANTONYMS: (n) conclusion,
sapidity, relish; (n, v) flavor (adv) under, after. ANTONYMS: afterword, finale
flaw: (n, v) crevice, blemish, crack; (adj) leading, previous, alternate, forget: (v) leave, miss, blank out,
(adj, n) fault, blot, blunder; (n) earlier; (n) nonbelievers bury, to forget, overlook, neglect,
chink, demerit, cranny, break, chap. food: (n, v) fare; (n) edible, board, ignore, fail, unlearn, abandon.
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ANTONYMS: (v) mind, attend straightforwardly, ingenuously, friendship: (n) association,
forgotten: (adj) lost, disregarded, plainly; (adj, adv) freely. familiarity, affection,
elapsed, past, abandoned, gone, ANTONYMS: (adv) hesitantly, companionship, friendliness,
Gone With the Wind, irrecoverable, indirectly, guardedly, untruthfully, intimacy, company, attachment,
lapsed, disoriented, no more. deceitfully, ambiguously, politely relationship; (n, v) amity, concord.
ANTONYM: (adj) remembered free: (adj, v) exempt, liberate, ANTONYMS: (n) hostility,
former: (adj) previous, antecedent, discharge; (adj, adv, v) loose; (v) animosity, antagonism, conflict,
anterior, bygone, earlier, prior, excuse, extricate, relieve, formality, rivalry, hatred,
foregoing, original, deceased, past; disentangle, ease; (adj, n) frank; (adj) detachment, distance, isolation
(adv) formerly. ANTONYMS: (adj) liberal. ANTONYMS: (adj) frighten: (v) cow, alarm, daunt,
future, last, next, current, following, restricted, imprisoned, repressive, terrify, appall, scare, affright,
present, subsequent, later; (n) latter secure, strict, stuck, confined, intimidate, terrorize, appal; (n, v)
fornication: (n) adultery, criminal tangled, compelled, dependent; (v) fright. ANTONYMS: (v) comfort,
conversation, intercourse, confine reassure, soothe, calm
whoredom, bawdry, incest, carnal freed: (adj) disentangled, frightened: (adj) fearful, timid,
knowledge, extramarital sex, emancipated, disengaged, liberated, startled, terrified, scared, alarmed,
infidelity, intimacy; (adj, n) extricated, freer, unchained, untied, anxious, apprehensive, horrified,
debauchery loosened, disillusioned, not tied up intimidated, restless. ANTONYMS:
forward: (adj, prep) bold; (adj, adv) freedom: (adj, n) franchise, (adj) unimpressed, confident, brave,
onward; (adj) audacious; (adj, n, v) immunity; (n) deliverance, fearless, reassured
promote; (v) expedite, dispatch; autonomy, release, discharge, fringe: (n) brim, brink, boundary,
(adv) fore, along, ahead; (adv, n, v) emancipation, escape, liberty, right; periphery, rim, lip, bound; (n, v)
further; (adj, adv, n) early. (adj) frankness. ANTONYMS: (n) edge, hem, skirt; (adj, n, v) feather.
ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) backward; imprisonment, restriction, captivity, ANTONYMS: (adj, n) mainstream;
(adj) posterior, timid, reverse, suppression, dependence, restraint, (n) center
abashed, late, formal; (adv) behind, capture, chance, conformity, frivolous: (adj) empty, foolish, dizzy,
rearward, back, aft inclusion petty, idle, light, flighty,
fostering: (n) breeding, rearing, frenzied: (adj) frenetic, crazy, unimportant, flippant, trivial,
nurturing, nurture, fosterage, delirious, hectic, furious, wild, superficial. ANTONYMS: (adj)
encouragement, bringing up, manic, fanatical, raging, rabid; (n) important, solemn, worthwhile,
promotion, development, elevation, maniac. ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, vital, weighty, staid, significant,
education controlled, mellow, composed sensible, responsible, crucial, heavy
found: (v) erect, build, base, form, fresh: (adj) clean, bracing, novel, frogs: (n) adornment, point frogs,
construct, constitute, appoint, bright, recent, original, airy, bold, class Amphibia, caecilians,
institute, set up, create, ground. pure, green; (adj, v) brisk. batrachian, amphibia, anuran
ANTONYMS: (v) abolish, disband; ANTONYMS: (adj) stale, decayed, frolicking: (n) skylarking, dalliance,
(adj) lost hot, tired, worn, rotten, off, musty, fooling
four: (n) quaternary, foursome, muggy, humid, exhausted full: (adj, n) complete, absolute,
tetrad, quaternion, quadruplet, fresher: (n) fresh, lowerclassman, entire; (adj) abundant, flush, broad,
square, quarter, quad, air, age of underclassman, neophyte, extensive, ample, total, enough; (adj,
man; (adj, n) IV fledgeling, entrant, fledgling adv, n) crowded. ANTONYMS: (adj)
fourth: (adv) fourthly; (n) interval, freshly: (adv) recently, lately, saucily, lacking, starving, hungry, sketchy,
third, after part, common fraction, impertinently, lively, modernly, incomplete, thin, deserted, partial,
fourth part, quartern, second; (adj) fresh, new, sweetly, greenly, rawly restricted, weak; (v) wane
quaternary friend: (adj, n) associate, comrade, fully: (adv) thoroughly, entirely,
fraction: (n, v) divide; (n) part, bit, companion, fellow, ally; (n) perfectly, totally, absolutely, all,
share, section, division, proportion, acquaintance, colleague, boyfriend, downright, enough, richly; (adv, v)
piece, faction, ratio; (adj, n) crony, brother, mate. ANTONYMS: abundantly, adequately.
constituent. ANTONYM: (n) whole (n) foe, stranger, rival, nemesis, ANTONYMS: (adv) superficially,
fragrance: (n, v) aroma, perfume, adversary, antagonist incompletely, meagerly, partly,
scent, smell; (n) bouquet, odor, friendly: (adj, n) favorable; (adj) poorly, nearly, slightly,
essence, odour, redolence, amiable, affectionate, decent, good- insufficiently, hardly; (adj) half,
sweetness; (adj) fragrant. natured, kind, convivial, semi
ANTONYMS: (n) stink, stench companionable, benevolent, function: (n) position, office, service,
fragrant: (adj) spicy, odorous, balmy, amicable; (adj, adv) comradely. role, place, agency, application; (n,
sweet, odorant, scented, redolent, ANTONYMS: (adj) unfriendly, v) work, exercise; (v) run, serve.
savory, fragrance, odoriferous, distant, disagreeable, aggressive, ANTONYMS: (v) stop; (n)
scent. ANTONYMS: (adj) smelly, aloof, formal, frosty, belligerent, uselessness
putrid, malodorous, odorless curt, reserved, impersonal furies: (n) Eumenides
frankly: (adv) openly, sincerely, friends: (n) circle, associates, furiously: (adv) irately, angrily,
bluntly, honestly, truthfully, connections, links, support group, fiercely, wildly, violently, ragingly,
directly, unreservedly, acquaintances wrathfully, infuriatedly, rabidly,
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impetuously, frantically. garb, array, gear, anything cummerbund, sash
ANTONYM: (adv) sluggishly worthless girl: (n) damsel, gal, lady, young
further: (adj, adv) farther, more; (v) gate: (n) door, mouth, entry, woman, maid, lass, fille, wench,
advance, encourage, foster, forward; doorway, port, exit, goal, barrier, daughter, bride, virgin.
(adj) extra, additional; (n, v) approach, inlet, threshold ANTONYMS: (n) son, boy
promote; (adv) again, also. gates: (n) bill Gates give: (v) extend, commit, donate,
ANTONYMS: (v) impede, thwart, gather: (n, v) fold, tuck; (v) convene, endow, contribute, dispense,
discourage, damage, regress, garner, congregate, compile, deliver, convey, grant; (adj, v)
deteriorate, prevent, hinder; (adj) assemble, accumulate, collect, meet, bestow, accord. ANTONYMS: (v)
near flock. ANTONYMS: (v) disperse, withdraw, take, withhold, retain,
futile: (adj) useless, empty, scatter, spread, distribute, disband, receive, keep, get, hide, conceal,
ineffective, frivolous, idle, abortive, decrease, part, smooth starve, withstand
bootless, hopeless, meaningless, gathering: (n) collection, given: (adj) apt, disposed, prone,
vain, hollow. ANTONYMS: (adj) accumulation, concourse, specified, liable, inclined, granted,
successful, useful, fruitful, congregation, assemblage, crowd, fixed, conditional; (n) assumption,
meaningful, worthwhile, promising, compilation, meeting, crew, gather, particular. ANTONYMS: (adj) taken,
productive, effective throng. ANTONYMS: (n) unwilling
future: (adj) unborn, prospective, dismantling, scattering gives: (n) give, offer, provide, grant,
coming, intended, to come, generally: (adj, adv) usually; (adv) accord
potential, impending, approaching; commonly, broadly, regularly, giving: (n) endowment, donation,
(n) hereafter, fate, time to come. ordinarily, altogether, presentation, bestowal, disposal;
ANTONYMS: (adj) distant, earlier, approximately, generically, (adj) liberal, generous, charitable,
near, nearby normally, comprehensively, bighearted, big, humanitarian.
gaiety: (n) fun, cheerfulness, popularly. ANTONYMS: (adv) ANTONYMS: (adj) nasty,
exhilaration, mirth, glee, merriment, rarely, specifically, locally, tightfisted, malevolent, mean, stiff,
hilarity, happiness, joy, joviality, occasionally, particularly, unusually stingy
jollity. ANTONYMS: (n) generating: (n) generation, generator; glad: (adj) jubilant, cheerful, gay,
seriousness, misery, sadness (v) generate; (adj) fecund, prolific, blithe, delighted, festive, content,
gallant: (adj) fearless, brave, daring, fruitful, procreant delightful, genial, bright, willing.
courageous, chivalrous, bold, generation: (n) creation, epoch, era, ANTONYMS: (adj) unhappy,
manly, heroic, dashing, courteous, tribe, offspring, formation, apologetic, dismayed, unwilling,
fine. ANTONYMS: (adj) boorish, contemporaries, time, period, day; disappointed, sorry
rude, selfish (n, v) genesis gladly: (adv, v) happily; (adv)
galled: (adj) chafed, uncomfortable, geometry: (v) arithmetic, analysis, gleefully, contentedly, cheerfully,
chilly, bleak, bare, bald, angry, algebra, stereometry, hypsometry, fain, joyfully, jovially, cheerily,
painful configuration, analytic geometry, delightedly, gladsomely, readily.
gambols: (n) behave, play, frolic, analytical geometry, coordinate ANTONYMS: (adv) reluctantly,
employment, disport, act, action, geometry, descriptive geometry, unwillingly, sadly, resentfully,
amusement elementary geometry miserably
game: (n) fun, amusement, giant: (adj) gigantic, colossal, jumbo, glare: (n) glance, brilliance, radiance,
entertainment, play, diversion, prey, gargantuan, elephantine, huge, brightness; (n, v) glower, flash,
quarry; (v) bet, wager, gamble; (adj) immense, large; (n) behemoth, shine, scowl, beam, frown; (v) flame.
fearless. ANTONYMS: (adj) reticent, Goliath, colossus. ANTONYMS: ANTONYMS: (n) dullness, dimness
unwilling; (n) hunter (adj) tiny, miniature, insignificant, gleam: (n, v) glance, beam, blaze,
gape: (v) gawk, yawn, open, glare, short; (n) dwarf shine, glimmer, glow, flash, flicker,
goggle, split, dehisce, ogle, see; (adj, giddy: (adj, v) flighty; (adj) dizzy, sparkle, glitter; (v) twinkle
n) stare; (n, v) look faint, silly, changeable, vertiginous, glitter: (n, v) flash, beam, shine,
gaping: (adj, n) agape; (adj) vast, featherbrained, light, fickle, glisten, glimmer, glow, sparkle,
yawning, cavernous, discontinuous, capricious; (adv) careless. flicker, shimmer; (v) glance; (n)
wide, ajar, drowsy, hollow, wide ANTONYMS: (adj) serious, dull radiance. ANTONYM: (n) dullness
open; (adj, v) oscitant. ANTONYMS: gift: (adj, n, v) endowment, faculty, glorious: (adj) distinguished,
(adj) cramped, narrow ability, talent; (n) donation, flair, beautiful, bright, celebrated,
garland: (n) anthology, coronal, bestowal; (n, v) award, present, brilliant, eminent, magnificent,
wreath, festoon, chaplet, bouquet, boon; (adj, n) capacity. super, great, splendid; (adj, v)
decoration, ornament, laurels, prize, ANTONYMS: (n) penalty, forfeiture, illustrious. ANTONYMS: (adj)
lei failing sorrowful, despicable, horrible,
garlic: (n) caviare, clove, ail, gird: (adv, v) encircle, environ; (v) shameful, lowly
seasoning, pickle, seasoner, begird, circle, girt, jest; (n) jeer, scoff, glory: (n) celebrity, brightness, honor,
alliaceous plant, flavoring, deride; (n, v) fortify, brace distinction, glorification, eclat,
flavourer, flavouring; (adj) fungus girdle: (v) encircle, circle, compass, dignity; (n, v) halo, pride; (v) exult,
garments: (n) attire, clothing, dress, gird, enclose, encompass; (n, v) boast. ANTONYMS: (v) blasphemy,
apparel, raiment, outfit, costume, zone, ring; (n) cincture, lament, profanity; (n) dishonor,
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disrepute, ugliness, blame, criticism demean greasy: (adj) fatty, dirty, oily, tallowy,
glumly: (adv) morosely, sulkily, gracious: (adj) genial, benign, good, slick, sebaceous, unclean, unctuous,
dourly, mournfully, moodily, courteous, compassionate, kind, slippery, adipose, oleaginous.
somberly, grumpily, grimly, sadly, accommodating, civil; (adj, n) ANTONYM: (adj) lean
gloomily, dolefully. ANTONYMS: benevolent, congenial, gentle. great: (adj) eminent, gigantic, big,
(adv) enthusiastically, happily, ANTONYMS: (adj) ungracious, distinguished, large, extensive,
cheerily boorish, discourteous, reserved, extreme, grand, chief, ample,
gnat: (adj) midge, animalcule, emmet, rude, abrupt, critical, unkind, massive. ANTONYMS: (adj) awful,
shrimp, maggot, minnow, worm; (n) hardhearted, harsh, poor insignificant, tiny, mild, poor,
blackfly, mosquito, sandfly, black fly grain: (adj, n) crumb; (n) bit, berry, minor, useless, ordinary, slight,
goddess: (n) divinity, God, beauty, fragment, cereal, scrap, kernel, weak, unknown
nymph; (adj, n) idol; (adj) duck, speck, atom, grist, character. greater: (adj) larger, more, major,
darling, angel, Dulcinea, ladylove, ANTONYM: (n) lot higher, superior, most, great, bigger,
inamorata grand: (adj, n) glorious, excellent; increased, considerable, not
godlike: (adj) celestial, heavenly, (adj, n, v) noble; (adj) gorgeous, inconsiderable. ANTONYMS: (adj)
seraphic, holy, angelic, godly, divine August, superb, important, majestic, inferior, smaller, small, lower
worship, deified, elysian, exalted; (adj, v) great, dignified. greatest: (adj) top, superlative,
foreboding, divine songs ANTONYMS: (adj) unimpressive, biggest, utmost, largest, extreme,
gods: (n) gallery humble, modest, unimportant, poor, first; (adj, n) maximum, most; (adj,
going: (n) exit, leaving, parting, base, inferior, limited, incomplete, v) paramount, supreme.
expiration, disappearance, action; restricted, small ANTONYMS: (adj) inferior,
(v) go, course, to go; (adj) working, grandiose: (adj) majestic, pretentious, secondary
running. ANTONYMS: (n) arrival, bombastic, imposing, ostentatious, greece: (n) Hellenic Republic, Ellas
Reunion pompous, stately, royal, ambitious, greet: (n, v) receive; (v) address,
gold: (n) Au, money, riches, wealth, flamboyant, highfalutin. acknowledge, hail, welcome, cry,
bullion, treasure, yellow, amber; ANTONYMS: (adj) unimpressive, salute, bid, weep, meet, recognize
(adj) aureate, gilt, golden modest grip: (n, v) clutch, clasp, hold, gripe;
golden: (adj) aureate, fortunate, grandly: (adv) splendidly, (v) catch, cling, apprehend,
gilded, auspicious, gold, gilt, lucky, gorgeously, magnificently, regally, fascinate, embrace; (n) handle, bag.
advantageous, fair, favorable, majestically, beautifully, stately, ANTONYMS: (n, v) release; (n)
favored. ANTONYM: (adj) grandiosely, illustriously, superbly, separation
inauspicious greatly. ANTONYMS: (adv) simply, groin: (n) groyne, crutch, crotch,
goldsmith: (n) silversmith, jeweller, humbly breakwater, bulwark, ankle, elbow,
artisan, craftsman, artificer, Oliver grasp: (adj, n, v) catch; (n, v) clutch, zigzag, scythe, region, kimbo
goldsmith, goldworker clasp, hold, clinch; (v) comprehend, grossness: (n) commonness,
gone: (adj, prep) past; (adj) deceased, embrace, grapple, apprehend, vulgarism, inelegance, obscenity,
bygone, departed, desperate, lost, conceive, cling. ANTONYMS: (n, v) vulgarity, corpulence, indecency,
late; (adj, v) exhausted, extinct; (adj, Miss; (v) overlook, lose, give; (n) crassitude, crassness, crudity,
adv) absent, away. ANTONYMS: ignorance density
(adj) present, remaining, found, grass: (v) denounce, betray; (n) ground: (n, v) base, land, floor; (v)
alive forage, cannabis, hay, pasture, fink, found, establish; (adj, n, v) bottom;
government: (n, v) administration, sward, pasturage; (adj, n) green, (n) earth, reason, field, soil, dirt.
management, conduct; (adj, n) marijuana. ANTONYM: (n) patriot ANTONYMS: (n) sea, figure; (v)
authority, control, empire, rule; (n) grateful: (adj, n) welcome; (adj) launch, top
command, dominion, governance, agreeable, appreciative, beholden, grounds: (n) cause, reason, account,
cabinet pleasing, pleasant, acceptable, basis, motive, justification,
gown: (n) robe, clothing, cassock, indebted, obliged, pleasurable; (v) foundation, evidence, field,
vestment, wrapper, overclothes, appreciate. ANTONYMS: (adj) rationale; (adj, n) dregs.
outerwear, uniform, tunic, clothes; ungrateful, unwelcome, ANTONYM: (n) effect
(v) clothe unappreciative grow: (v) expand, advance, augment,
grab: (n, v) catch, arrest, snatch, gratify: (v) delight, please, appease, enlarge, come, emerge, spring,
capture; (v) get, grapple, clutch, accommodate, satisfy, amuse, suit, become, farm, turn, get.
clasp, seize, fascinate, appropriate. indulge, cater; (n, v) humor; (adj) ANTONYMS: (v) decrease, weaken,
ANTONYMS: (v) surrender, baulk, contented. ANTONYMS: (v) shrink, decline, drop, collapse,
repel dissatisfy, displease, disappoint struggle, wane, plummet, dwindle,
grace: (adj, v) adorn; (v) garnish, gravity: (n) solemnity, earnestness, deteriorate
deck, embellish, beautify, decorate, gravitation, graveness, gravitational growing: (n) development, growth;
embroider; (adj, n, v) favor; (n) attraction, weight, seriousness, (adj, adv) increasing; (adj)
elegance, beauty; (adj, n) clemency. significance, severity, sedateness; (n, flourishing, thriving, blossoming,
ANTONYMS: (n) unseemliness, v) poise. ANTONYMS: (n) expanding, swelling, progressive;
awkwardness, disfavor, inelegance, insignificance, lightheartedness, (adj, n) developing; (v) grow.
heaviness, unkindness; (v) deface, triviality, cheerfulness, levity ANTONYMS: (adj) dwindling,
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decreasing, downward; (n) v) ready. ANTONYMS: (adj) stern. ANTONYMS: (adj) gentle,
nondevelopment clumsy, fixed, inept, unwieldy, soft, harmonious, pleasant, lenient,
grown: (adj) mature, big, growed, inconvenient, faraway, far, difficult, kind, melodious, sweet, mild, lush,
grown-up, developed, ripe, distant, cumbersome, worthless friendly
grownup, fully grown, full-grown, hanks: (n) Tom Hanks haste: (n, v) hurry, dash, dispatch,
growth, become. ANTONYM: (adj) happiness: (n) delight, merriment, rush; (n) celerity, expedition,
unripe ecstasy, welfare, gladness, luck, rapidity, speed, bustle, hastiness,
grown-up: (adj) mature, big, full- cheerfulness, blessedness, bliss, quickness. ANTONYMS: (n) delay,
grown, ripe, grown, full-fledged felicity, contentment. ANTONYMS: patience, forethought, caution
grudge: (v) begrudge, covet; (n, v) (n) sadness, despair, grief, misery, hasten: (adj, n, v) speed, quicken; (v)
spite; (n) malice, anger, umbrage, dissatisfaction, seriousness, expedite, advance, hurry, hie, dash,
resentment, rancor, gall, pique, feud dullness, discontent, dejection, rush; (n, v) further, forward,
guard: (n) defense, protection, escort, gloominess, displeasure dispatch. ANTONYMS: (v) linger,
bulwark, watchman, custody, happy: (adj) felicitous, contented, retard, amble
fender; (n, v) care, shield, cover; gay, buoyant, content, gleeful, hatch: (v) breed, concoct, brew,
(adj, n, v) ward. ANTONYMS: (v) gratified, pleasant, glad, carefree; design, invent, devise, cover, cook,
endanger, expose, neglect, reveal; (adj, n) auspicious. ANTONYMS: cook up; (n, v) brood; (n) door
(n) attacker (adj) sad, depressed, dejected, hate: (v) abhor, detest, loathe,
guess: (n, v) surmise, estimate, sorrowful, miserable, unlucky, abominate; (n) enmity, abhorrence,
forecast; (v) suppose, deem, reckon, sorry, reluctant, irritable, detestation, hatred, animosity,
divine, believe, foretell; (n) unfortunately, gloomy antipathy, aversion. ANTONYMS:
assumption, supposition hard: (adj, n) austere, rough; (adj, v) (n, v) like; (v) adore, cherish,
guide: (n, v) escort, conduct, govern, grave, severe, acute; (adj) bad, admire; (n) attraction, liking,
channel, control, usher, cicerone; (n) difficult, strong, callous, cruel, delight, adoration
directory, attendant; (v) drive, bring. tough. ANTONYMS: (adj) easy, haven: (n) harbor, port, asylum,
ANTONYM: (v) follow kind, soggy, tender, merciful, harbour, refuge, retreat, destination,
guts: (n) bravery, grit, entrails, yielding, simple; (adv) lightly, anchorage, cover, housing; (n, v)
courage, gall, boldness, backbone, gently, lackadaisically; (adj, adv) shelter
fortitude, nerve, intestines, flexible having: (n) estate, possession,
gumption. ANTONYM: (n) hardy: (adj, n) hard, fearless, rugged, acceptance, enjoyment
cowardice daring; (adj) sturdy, manly, hazardous: (adj) risky, unsafe,
hail: (v) address, cry, acclaim, audacious, brave, strong, robust, perilous, critical, insecure,
applaud, summon, accost, fall, gallant. ANTONYMS: (adj) weak, precarious, dicey, chancy, uncertain;
cheer, salute; (n, v) call; (n) greeting. delicate, tender, feeble (adj, n) daring, adventurous.
ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, criticize hares: (n) Lagomorpha ANTONYMS: (adj) secure, stable
hair: (n) coat, coma, haircloth, pile, hark: (v) harken, hear, hearken, heed, head: (n) captain, boss, froth, foam,
locks, filament, fleece, fur, listen in; (n) look here, look you, crown, chieftain; (n, v) point, lead;
hairbreadth, down, forelock look (adj, n, v) front; (v) capital, direct.
half: (adj) moiety, part, short, harlot: (n) courtesan, fancy woman, ANTONYMS: (adj, n) subordinate;
defective; (n) semi, mediety, halve, strumpet, tart, whore, drab, moll, (n) end, beginning, foot, mouth,
division, piece, first half; (adv) hooker, streetwalker, wanton, bawd rear, tail, body, underling, base;
partly. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) all; harlotry: (n) whoredom, harlot, (adj) minor
(adj) fully, complete strumpet, ribaldry, advoutry, heads: (n) conspectus, contents,
hall: (n) mansion, vestibule, lobby, courtesanship, adultery, cuckoldom, prospectus, syllabus, synopsis,
foyer, auditorium, court, entrance concubinage, putanism; (adj) public, textbook, people, outlines,
hall, anteroom, concourse; (n, v) stupration head stick
corridor, passage harmonic: (adj) consonant, healthy: (adj) healthful, wholesome,
hamlet: (n) dorp, community, kraal, sympathetic, harmonical, salubrious, hale, good, fit, beneficial,
settlement, campong, crossroads, concordant, compatible, accordant, whole, well, sound, hearty.
city, place, colony, neighborhood; melodious, agreeable, harmonised; ANTONYMS: (adj) unwell, harmful,
(adv, n) town (n) harmonics, overtone unfit, soporific, dependent,
hand: (v) give, pass, commit, bestow, harmony: (n) accord, consonance, fattening, infected, unwholesome,
afford, communicate, consign; (n) agreement, correspondence, weak, ill, underfed
deal, worker, aid, applause. accordance, congruity, consistency, heap: (n, v) pile, aggregate, amass; (n)
ANTONYMS: (n) boss, foot; (v) take amity; (n, v) concord, peace; (v) collection, accumulation, mound,
hands: (n) custody, keeping, concert. ANTONYMS: (n) discord, mass, group, lot; (v) bank, collect.
personnel, safekeeping, hold, shift, disagreement, argument, conflict, ANTONYM: (v) tidy
workforce, men, manpower, bitterness, harshness, incongruity, hear: (int, v) attend; (v) find out,
guardianship, full complement uproar, hostility, misery, upheaval discover, understand, apprehend,
handy: (adj) convenient, adroit, apt, harsh: (adj, v) sharp, bitter; (adj, n) hark, learn, try, examine, listen; (adj)
expert, clever, deft, dexterous, good, grating, coarse, austere, discordant; heard
accessible; (adj, n) available; (adj, n, (adj) grim, cruel, crude, unkind, heard: (n) hearing
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hearken: (v) hark, harken, attend, feeble, hopeless, unable. higher: (adj) greater, upper, major,
listen, hear, heed, list, listen in, listen ANTONYMS: (adj) strong, senior, over, more, better, advanced,
to, regard, look out independent, capable, invulnerable, bigger; (prep) above, upon.
hears: (v) hear armed, powerful, impervious ANTONYMS: (adj) basic, junior,
heart: (adj, n) core, gist, marrow; (n) helter-skelter: (adj, adv) recklessly; lower
spirit, center, essence, basis, kernel, (adj) chaotic, haphazard, capricious, highest: (adj, n) most; (adj) best,
crux, breast, hub. ANTONYMS: (n) reckless, upside-down; (adv) chief, foremost, first, supreme,
body, surface anyhow, irregularly topmost, extreme, utmost, top,
heartless: (adj) hardhearted, ruthless, hemp: (n) cannabis, dope, ganja, uppermost. ANTONYMS: (adj)
cruel, pitiless, obdurate, merciless, grass, flax, halter, rope, abaca, gage; bottom, minor
unfeeling, unkind, stony, (adj) marijuana, pot highly: (adv) greatly, extremely,
insensitive, grim. ANTONYMS: hence: (adv) consequently, for that much, loftily, exceedingly, mightily,
(adj) kind, caring, hearted, reason, therefore, thereby, away, eminently, toweringly, too, largely;
warmhearted, compassionate, thus, for, then, because, henceforth, (adj, adv) very. ANTONYMS: (adv)
softhearted, merciful, sympathetic, as a result insignificantly, poorly, simply,
concerned, flattering, generous henceforth: (adv) hence, in future, slightly, ill
hearts: (n) Black Maria, spades after this; (adj) following hill: (n, v) gradient, bank, ascent,
heaven: (n) Eden, firmament, bliss, heracles: (n) Alcides, Herakles acclivity, rise; (n) mound, elevation,
Elysium, sky, nirvana, glory, Elysian herald: (n) forerunner, courier, embankment, hillock, knoll,
Fields, Garden of Eden, utopia; (adj) messenger; (v) declare, foretell, mountain. ANTONYMS: (n) valley,
celestial. ANTONYM: (n) misery announce, bode, proclaim, hollow
heavens: (n) firmament, heaven, sky, introduce, foreshadow; (n, v) augur. hills: (n) home, dry land, foothills,
welkin, sphere, atmosphere, celestial ANTONYMS: (v) follow; (n) earth, ground
sphere, space, skies, area, vault of successor himself: (pron) herself, themselves,
heaven herd: (n, v) crowd; (adj) bevy, many; yourself, itself; (adj) myself; (n)
height: (n) apex, crest, altitude, (adj, n, v) swarm; (n) drove, gang, yourselves
pinnacle, peak, top, culmination, crew, collection, covey, multitude, historical: (adj) diachronic,
level, zenith, summit, climax. mob chronological, ancient, history,
ANTONYMS: (n) shortness, nadir, hermaphroditic: (adj) hermaphrodite, narrative, existent, historial, local,
depth, trough, deepness, base, dip androgynous, hermaphroditical, past, storial, real. ANTONYMS: (adj)
heights: (n) place, elevation, high androgynal, monoclinous present, synchronic, contemporary
places, high, heaven heroic: (adj) courageous, brave, hither: (adv) here, whither,
held: (adj) absorbed, confined, kept, fearless, chivalrous, dauntless, hitherward, thither
apprehended, seized, supposed, valiant, grand, intrepid, gallant, hoard: (v) amass, gather, collect,
reputed, tenable, thought, trapped; impressive, heroical. ANTONYMS: garner; (n, v) cache, store, stock,
(v) detain (adj) fearful, normal, despicable, heap, bank, stash; (n) accumulation.
helen: (n) Helen of Troy lowly ANTONYMS: (v) squander,
hell: (n) blaze, Hades, underworld, herself: (adj) oneself, self, himself, disperse, spend, use
perdition, inferno, pandemonium, myself, yourself, yourselves, hobble: (n, v) limp, hitch, fetter; (v)
netherworld, Abaddon, Gehenna, themselves, ourselves, itself hamper, hopple, handcuff, bridle,
purgatory, trial. ANTONYM: (n) hesitate: (adj, n, v) pause, delay; (adj, manacle, hinder; (adv) toddle; (adj)
paradise v) linger; (v) fluctuate, halt, waver, scrape
hellenic: (adj) Grecian, classical, vacillate, demur, boggle, hoisting: (n) winding
Hellenistic, Hellenistical; (n) procrastinate; (n, v) doubt. hold: (n, v) keep, grip, grasp,
Hellenic language, Hellene ANTONYMS: (v) rush, decide entertain; (v) endure, detain, adhere,
helm: (n) wheel, haft, handle, tiller, hide: (n, v) cover, disguise, shelter, bear, have, contain, comprise.
shank, rudder, steering wheel, shaft, veil; (adj, v) obscure; (n) fur, fell, ANTONYMS: (v) fail, disagree, lose,
hilt, halm; (v) helmet coat; (v) bury, mask; (adj, n, v) free, deny, remove, lack; (n)
helmet: (n, v) headpiece; (n) casque, darken. ANTONYMS: (v) show, separation, repulsion
helm, hood, armet, basinet, heaume, expose, express, divulge, unearth, hollow: (adj, n) blank; (n) cavity,
hard hat, Galea, cowl; (v) amplify, advertise, clarify depression, cave, dell; (adj) empty,
pickelhaube hierarchy: (n) power structure, rank, false; (adj, n, v) concave; (n, v)
help: (n, v) assist, assistance, support, class, organisation, organization, excavate, dent, scoop. ANTONYMS:
benefit, favor, avail, cure, assistant; series, level, graded organization, (adj) convex, sincere, true, full,
(v) facilitate, ease, alleviate. taxonomy, apparatus, executive meaningful, cramped, valid; (n)
ANTONYMS: (n) hindrance, high: (adj, v) elevated; (adj) great, hump, bump, hill, lump
detriment, interference, damage, expensive, distinguished, lofty, tall, holy: (adj) devout, divine, heavenly,
disadvantage, disservice, manager; exalted, heavy, dear; (n) chief; (v) religious, blessed, hallowed,
(v) worsen, aggravate, halt, hurt bad. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) low; (adj) spiritual, devotional, pure; (adj, adv)
helpless: (adj, v) forlorn, destitute, deep, short, sober, reasonable, sad, saintly; (adv) sacredly.
abandoned; (adj) powerless, weak, resonant, lowly, husky, ANTONYMS: (adj) irreligious,
defenseless, disabled, impotent, unimportant; (n) depression unholy
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home: (n) domicile, abode, house, edifice, habitation, housing; (n, v) hurly-burly: (n) hubbub, tumult,
residence, base, place, dwelling, lodge. ANTONYM: (adj) public uproar, to-do, commotion, haste,
family, habitation; (adj) domestic; household: (adj, n) house, home; bustle, clamor, hassle, storm
(adj, n) household. ANTONYMS: (adj) domestic; (adj, v) ordinary, hurricane: (n) storm, tempest,
(adj) external, national, public, common; (n) folk, stock, clan, cyclone, squall, tornado, whirlwind,
away, foreign; (adv) out menage; (v) everyday, usual. twister, tropical storm, gust, spring
homer: (n) homing pigeon, poet, ANTONYMS: (adj) unfamiliar, hawser, monsoon
Winslow homer, bingle, referee, cor, public hurry: (n) haste; (n, v) bustle, hasten,
kor, basking shark, base hit, triumph howling: (n) howl, cry; (adj) fierce, dispatch, flurry, rush; (v) scurry,
homogeneous: (adj) consistent, fantastic, gross, glaring, marvelous, dash, accelerate, expedite, run.
kindred, homogenous, similar, wonderful, wondrous; (adj, n) ANTONYMS: (n) slowness,
unvarying, neat, pure, sheer, single, weeping, sniveling calmness, patience, unimportance;
akin, alike. ANTONYMS: (adj) hugely: (adv) extremely, immensely, (v) dawdle, delay, linger, crawl,
diverse, varied, inconsistent, tremendously, vastly, greatly, amble; (intj) wait
heterogeneous, various massively, mightily, awfully, hurt: (adj, n, v) damage, detriment;
honest: (adj) fair, genuine, sincere, stupendously, colossally, (adj, n) evil; (n, v) wound, pain,
good, equitable, artless, heartfelt, exceedingly. ANTONYM: (adv) ache, distress; (n) disadvantage,
guileless, frank, forthright, faithful. mildly lesion; (v) afflict; (adj, v) injure.
ANTONYMS: (adj) lying, human: (n) person, man, human ANTONYMS: (adj) unhurt,
misleading, guarded, corrupt, being, homo, gay, party; (adj, adv) unaffected, healed; (v) encourage,
disloyal, unwholesome, fleshly; (adj) humane, earthly, please, protect, repair, defend; (n, v)
discourteous, disreputable, fictional, corporeal, worldly. ANTONYMS: help; (n) reparation, pleasure
crafty, crooked (adj) nonhuman, otherworldly, husband: (v) conserve, economize,
honour: (n) fame, award, dignity, heavenly, immortal preserve, save; (n) consort, hubby,
homage, celebrity, accolade, humanistic: (adj) humanist, man, fellow, lover, master, mate.
reputation; (n, v) honor; (v) respect, humanitarian, human, liberal, ANTONYMS: (n) wife, bachelor
celebrate, dignify. ANTONYMS: (n, classical hussy: (n) strumpet, trollop,
v) dishonor; (v) disrespect humbly: (adv) lowly, meanly, fornicatress, adulteress, tramp,
hoopoes: (n) order Coraciiformes, modestly, submissively, low, shyly, female, baggage, Trull, minx, quean,
family Upupidae, Coraciiformes, lowlily, naturally, regretfully, huswife
bee eaters remorsefully, repentantly. hustle: (n, v) bustle, hurry, elbow,
hopeless: (adj) incurable, ANTONYMS: (adv) conceitedly, flurry; (v) hasten, shove; (n) haste,
despondent, forlorn, disconsolate, haughtily, pompously, ado, con, commotion, cheat.
desperate, impossible, useless, ostentatiously, unrepentantly, ANTONYMS: (n) slowness,
abject, despair, dismal, irreparable. affluently, brashly, pretentiously lethargy; (v) dawdle, delay, crawl
ANTONYMS: (adj) cheerful, humorous: (adj) comical, funny, hymn: (n) song, canticle, chant,
competent, promising, optimistic, comic, droll, playful, hilarious, anthem, carol, chorale, doxology; (v)
encouraging, helpful, useful, jocose, farcical, jocular; (adj, n) glorify, laud, sing, extol
successful, practical, laudable, facetious, witty. ANTONYMS: (adj) hypothetical: (adj, v) conjectural,
effective serious, tragic, humorless, dull speculative; (adj) theoretical,
horizon: (n) ambit, reach, purview, humour: (n) fun, wit, witticism, body academic, assumed, suppositional,
vista, view, perspective, prospect, fluid, temper, mood, amiability, putative, imaginary, abstract; (v)
skyline, arena, celestial horizon, drollery, disposition; (adj) apocryphal, enigmatic.
amphitheater humorous; (v) gratify ANTONYMS: (adj) actual, real,
horse: (n, v) mount; (n) buck, heroin, hungrily: (adv) ravenously, avidly, practical
junk, charger, knight, pony, rider, eagerly, greedily, keenly, ideal: (adj) perfect, fanciful,
trestle, eohippus, dog voraciously, starvedly, famishedly, consummate, abstract, classic,
host: (n) horde, flock, army, mob, desirously, esuriently, starvingly unreal; (n) standard, paragon,
troop, multitude, throng, emcee, hungry: (adj) eager, avid, famished, example, archetype, perfection.
mass, swarm; (adj, n) legion. starving, esurient, greedy, ravenous, ANTONYMS: (adj) wrong, real,
ANTONYMS: (n) guest, few desirous, meager, starveling; (v) imperfect; (n) nightmare
hotly: (adv) heatedly, passionately, starve. ANTONYMS: (adj) full, idealistic: (adj) romantic, optimistic,
fervidly, fervently, pepperily, satiated, sated, thirsty, unconcerned, impractical, ideal, exalted, utopian,
sultrily, intensely, sharply, torridly; moderate, healthy, disinterested gallant, visionary, unworldly,
(adj, adv) violently, vehemently. hunting: (n, v) chase; (v) battue; (n) unrealistic, thoughtful.
ANTONYMS: (adv) impassively, exploration, pursuit, search, ANTONYMS: (adj) worldly,
mildly ducking, beagling, coursing, realistic, disillusioned, prosaic,
hours: (n) period, duty period; (adv) frisking, venery, shooting cynical
o'clock hurl: (v) chuck, dash, pitch, throw, idiotic: (adj) absurd, foolish, fatuous,
house: (adj, n, v) family; (adj, n) dart, pelt, toss, heave, send; (n, v) imbecile, crazy, stupid, ridiculous,
home; (v) accommodate; (n) fling; (n) casting. ANTONYM: (v) mindless, silly, unwise, daft.
dwelling, firm, abode, domicile, hold ANTONYMS: (adj) wise, genius,
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clever indecent, dissolute, corrupt, achievable, manageable, bearable,
idle: (adj) lazy, indolent, inactive, criminal, unprincipled, dirty, unfair, attainable, on, tolerable, probable,
free, unfounded, fruitless, baseless, lewd. ANTONYMS: (adj) moral, hopeful, easy, consistent
groundless, frivolous, empty, decent, honest, ethical, principled, imprudent: (adj) foolish, foolhardy,
disengaged. ANTONYMS: (adj) good, restrained, amoral, right, indiscreet, hasty, improvident,
active, employed, industrious, righteous, pure impolitic, heedless, unadvised,
energetic, meaningful, productive, immorality: (n) iniquity, degeneracy, injudicious, unwary, unwise.
worthwhile, diligent; (v) change, corruption, evil, vice, sin, evilness, ANTONYMS: (adj) sensible,
run, work wickedness, debauchery, devilry, prudent, cautious, wise, deliberate,
idly: (adj, adv) foolishly; (adv) vainly, wrong. ANTONYMS: (n) discreet, guarded, judicious,
vaguely, listlessly, forgetfully, righteousness, decency, piety, advisable
distractedly; (adj) thoughtlessly. morality, restraint, honesty, good inaccessible: (adj) impervious,
ANTONYM: (adv) energetically immortal: (adj) eternal, enduring, remote, impenetrable, distant,
ignoring: (n) silent treatment, undying, endless, monumental; (adj, unapproachable, unattainable,
omission v) deathless, imperishable, untouchable, unobtainable,
image: (n, v) picture, fancy, design; celebrated; (n) deity, God, divinity. unaccessible, impossible, aloof.
(n) impression, conception, effigy, ANTONYMS: (adj) obscure, earthly, ANTONYMS: (adj) available,
idea, form, resemblance, epitome; forgettable, perishable, temporary nearby, attainable, approachable,
(v) depict. ANTONYM: (n) reality immunity: (n) freedom, franchise, achievable
imagery: (n) imagination, imaging, dispensation, privilege, exception, incessant: (adj) endless, continual,
statue, vision, evocation, relief, invulnerability, exoneration, everlasting, eternal, constant,
resemblance, portraiture, images, excuse, safety, liberty. ANTONYMS: continuous, perpetual, unremitting,
simile, figure of speech; (adj) image (n) susceptibility, liability, inclusion interminable, persistent; (adj, v)
imagination: (n) vision, fancy, image, impeccable: (adj) faultless, flawless, frequent. ANTONYMS: (adj)
dream, conceit, imagery, originality, perfect, spotless, correct, blameless, intermittent, occasional, sporadic,
invention, resource, reflection, infallible, exquisite, complete, broken, finite
phantasy irreproachable, unimpeachable. inch: (n) in, bit, column inch, morsel;
imagine: (v) believe, conjecture, ANTONYMS: (adj) blameworthy, (v) crawl, creep, ease; (adj) tatter,
fancy, conceive, daydream, assume, corrupt, imperfect, shameful, mite, seed, shive
guess, consider, fantasize; (conj, v) amateur include: (v) contain, comprise,
suppose; (n, v) dream impertinence: (n) audacity, gall, embody, insert, encompass,
imbecile: (adj) foolish, idiotic, impudence, insolence, disrespect, implicate, involve, embrace,
fatuous, dumb, imbecilic, simple; (n) effrontery, brass, boldness, comprehend, number, cover.
idiot, moron, cretin, ass, oaf. impertinency, sauciness, freshness. ANTONYMS: (v) omit, excuse, lack,
ANTONYM: (adj) genius ANTONYMS: (n) politeness, delete
immediate: (adj) close, sudden, seriousness, reticence indeed: (adv) certainly, exactly, in
direct, near, quick, present, fast, impinge: (v) entrench, bump, clash, reality, surely, of course, assuredly,
proximate, forthwith, instant, collide, impact, to strike, trench, as a matter of fact, admittedly; (adj,
immediately. ANTONYMS: (adj) intrude, infringe, hit, contravene adv) really, much; (n) yes.
slow, gradual, deliberate, impiously: (adv) ungodly, sinfully, ANTONYMS: (adv) possibly,
consecutive, mediate, delayed, disrespectfully, irreligiously, doubtfully
remote, far, distant, vague, profanely, wickedly, iniquitously, indifference: (adj, n) coldness,
considered blasphemously, godlessly, unholy, phlegm; (n) detachment,
immediately: (adv) instantly, nefariously impassiveness, disregard, aloofness,
presently, readily, rapidly, quickly, importance: (n) account, gravity, nonchalance, neglect, unconcern,
promptly, instantaneously, speedily, import, dignity, prominence, stress, impassivity, disinterest.
right; (adj, adv) at once, forthwith. emphasis, value, concern, ANTONYMS: (n) fervor, interest,
ANTONYMS: (adv) slowly, magnitude; (n, v) consequence. eagerness, dedication, sympathy,
whenever, gradually, now, ANTONYMS: (n) unimportance, favorite, compassion, anxiety,
eventually insignificance, triviality, responsiveness, forcefulness, care
immense: (adj) vast, enormous, great, meaninglessness individual: (adj) single, distinct,
gigantic, immeasurable, colossal, importunity: (n, v) entreaty, particular, different, especial, alone,
boundless, big, large, giant, infinite. supplication; (n) urgency, appeal, characteristic, distinctive; (n)
ANTONYMS: (adj) tiny, small, earnestness; (v) solicitation, creature, fellow, person.
insignificant, miniature, slight, obsecration, interpellation, instance, ANTONYMS: (adj) joint, common,
negligible, compact, narrow, short, obtestation, invocation combined, vague, general,
minor impossible: (adj) unimaginable, communal, ordinary, public, group;
immolate: (v) sacrifice, offer, insufferable, unbelievable, hopeless, (adj, n) collective; (n) collection
assassinate, butcher, kill, murder, impracticable, impractical, individuals: (n) people, persons
slaughter, attempt, endeavor, atone, inconceivable, unlikely, indoors: (adv) at home, inwards,
bid unthinkable, unable, ridiculous. within, inwardly, internally, deep
immoral: (adj) evil, bad, depraved, ANTONYMS: (adj) feasible, down, at heart, at bottom, in reality,
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arrived, here. ANTONYMS: (adv) edge news, tidings, understanding,
out, outdoors insolence: (n) impertinence, acumen, mentality, knowledge,
indulge: (n, v) gratify, humor; (v) arrogance, audacity, impudence, brains, comprehension, brainpower.
coddle, cosset, baby, pamper, spoil, effrontery, cheek, assumption, gall, ANTONYMS: (n) stupidity,
satisfy, please, mollycoddle, cocker. disrespect, haughtiness, crust. emotion, slowness, foolishness,
ANTONYMS: (v) frustrate, deprive, ANTONYMS: (n) respect, ineptness
stifle, neglect, deny, displease, fast politeness, meekness, shyness intended: (adj) deliberate, calculated,
infants: (n) brood insolent: (adj) impertinent, abusive, destined, knowing, meant, planned,
ingenious: (adj) adroit, artful, clever, disrespectful, impudent, fresh, premeditated, prospective, willful,
cunning, deft, expert, creative, arrogant, brazen, defiant, offensive, designed; (adj, v) voluntary.
imaginative, cute, acute, able. brassy, bold. ANTONYMS: (adj) ANTONYMS: (adj) accidental,
ANTONYMS: (adj) impulsive, respectful, modest, gracious, meek, involuntary, unintended,
naive, unoriginal, inept submissive spontaneous, unconscious
inhabit: (v) reside, abide, occupy, inspiration: (n) afflatus, intensity: (adj, n) strength; (n) force,
lodge, settle, people, live, indwell, encouragement, idea, incentive, forcefulness, volume, depth,
be, exist; (n) habit. ANTONYMS: (v) revelation, breath, inhalation, fierceness, emphasis, energy, forte,
desert, vacate notion; (n, v) illumination, infusion; fury, ferocity. ANTONYMS: (n)
iniquitous: (adj) sinful, immoral, evil, (adj, n) genius weakness, dullness, indifference,
wrong, injurious, heinous, bad, inspired: (adj) ingenious, adopted, mildness, softness, scarcity,
criminal; (adj, adv) impious, elysian, creative, imaginative, quietness, calmness, apathy,
infamous, nefarious. ANTONYMS: elected, inventive, unearthly, gentleness, faintness
(adj) right, fair brilliant, stimulated, enthusiastic. intent: (n) idea, intention, design,
injury: (n, v) harm, grievance, ANTONYMS: (adj) bland, spirit, meaning, import, goal,
detriment, damage, hurt; (n) unimaginative, abysmal, mediocre purpose; (adj, n) attentive; (adj)
disservice, wound, impairment, ill, instant: (adj, n) present; (adj) absorbed, engrossed
bruise, affront. ANTONYMS: (n) immediate, prompt; (n) flash, intention: (n) idea, intent, goal,
reparation, justice, help, defense, minute, jiffy, point, second; (adj, v) purpose, cause, motive, mind; (n, v)
benefit exigent; (adj, n, v) pressing, urgent. aim, end, design, drift
innocent: (adj) chaste, artless, clear, ANTONYMS: (n) age, eternity; (adj) interest: (n, v) advantage, care,
ingenuous, innocuous, guileless, considered, delayed, slow benefit; (adj, v) engage; (n) affair,
guiltless, ignorant, unsophisticated, instantly: (adv, n) directly; (adj, adv) account, gain, hobby, eagerness,
spotless, naive. ANTONYMS: (adj) immediately, at once; (adv) enthusiasm, sake. ANTONYMS: (n)
culpable, responsible, wicked, wary, instantaneously, promptly, indifference, apathy, boredom,
experienced, corrupt, worldly, forthwith, now, readily, quickly, distraction, hostility, detachment,
unfair, meaningful, offensive, jaded momently, momentarily. inattention, repulsion; (v) repel,
inquire: (v) demand, ask, explore, ANTONYMS: (adv) later, slowly, appall
enquire, inspect, research, consult, gradually interested: (adj) concerned, involved,
pry, request, wonder; (n, v) instead: (adv) instead of, inquiring, inquisitive, keen,
question. ANTONYM: (v) answer alternatively, as an alternative, in interesting, attentive, fascinated,
inroads: (n) wear place of, more willingly, to responsive, partial, eager.
insane: (adj) foolish, daft, demented, compensate for, sooner, preferably, ANTONYMS: (adj) uninterested,
mad, delirious, lunatic, fool, otherwise, on the other hand; (n) bored, indifferent, unconcerned,
moonstruck, frantic, idiotic, nutty. lieu hostile
ANTONYM: (adj) sensible instinct: (n) impulse, urge, aptitude, interwoven: (adj) interlinking,
inscribed: (adj) etched, incised, gift, feeling, sixth sense, inherent interlacing, interlocking, complex,
graven, written, carved, carven aptitude, knack, inspiration, talent, interwove, twine, contextural,
insect: (n) worm, flea, hymenopteran, genius entangled, inseparable, knotted,
hymenopteron, earwig, dirt ball, insults: (adj) insulting; (n) abuse, related
homopteran, hemipteran, gallfly, swearing intimate: (adj, adv, v) close; (n, v)
fish, biting louse intellectual: (n) intellect, brain, express, imply; (v) hint, indicate,
insensate: (adj) inhuman, cold, thinker, scholar; (adj) rational, allude, suggest; (adj) informal,
numb, foolish, inanimate, mental, cerebral, learned, spiritual; inner, internal; (adj, v) confidential.
insensitive, fatuous, callous, daft, (adj, n) mind, academic. ANTONYMS: (adj) formal, cold,
insensible, irrational. ANTONYM: ANTONYMS: (adj) nonintellectual, unfriendly, external, outermost,
(adj) sentient intuitive, emotional, dim, ignorant, public, superficial
inside: (adj, n) interior, middle, physical, thick, lowbrow; (n) dunce introduce: (v) interject, inject,
center; (adj) internal, indoor; (prep) intellectuality: (n) intellect, advance, infuse, initiate, acquaint,
per; (adv) inwardly, indoors, within, intelligence, mind, faculties, implant, inaugurate, bring in,
at heart, inwards. ANTONYMS: judgment, wits, senses, percipience, present, enter. ANTONYMS: (v)
(adj, n) exterior; (adj) free, external, consciousness, observation, end, terminate, remove, export
outdoor, public; (adj, adv) outer; association of ideas introduced: (adj) exotic, familiar,
(prep) out; (adv) outwardly; (n) intelligence: (n) cleverness, intellect, foisted in, imported
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intrude: (v) interfere, trespass, unconvincing, tenuous ANTONYMS: (v) lose, neglect,
encroach, infringe, impose, obtrude, itself: (adj) herself, self, oneself, entrust, return, let, discontinue,
disturb, interrupt, impinge, barge in, personally, myself, themselves, reimburse, allow, stop, destroy,
butt in. ANTONYM: (v) disregard yourself break
invented: (adj) fictional, fabricated, jack: (n) flag, jackass, mariner, fellow, keeping: (n) care, conservation,
imaginary, unreal, fake, mythical, jackfruit, sailor, jackscrew, socket, charge, guardianship, maintenance,
legendary, fictive, fancied, fabulous, blue Peter, amberfish, crevalle jack holding, observance, storage,
ben trovato. ANTONYMS: (adj) jealously: (adv) covetously, conformation, consistency,
genuine, factual, true, actual resentfully, greenly, suspiciously, conformity
inviolable: (adj) sacrosanct, solicitously, vigilantly, greedily, kept: (adj) reserved, preserve,
infrangible, hallowed, invulnerable, grudgingly, spitefully, avariciously, retained, remain, store, reserve,
inviolate, inalienable, impenetrable, zealously hold, lodge, keep, retain, detained.
absolute, impregnable; (v) jerking: (adj) arrhythmic, ANTONYM: (adj) broken
imprescriptible, unimpeachable. arrhythmical, jerky, unsteady; (n) kick: (v) grumble, complain; (n)
ANTONYMS: (adj) acceptable, movement, jolt, dork, jar bitch, beef, thrill, gripe, charge,
breakable jesting: (adj) jocular, jocose, facetious, excitement; (n, v) recoil, spurn,
invite: (v) tempt, allure, bid, call, humorous, playful; (n) banter, protest. ANTONYMS: (v) start; (n)
entice, ask, summon, attract, receive, humor, comedy, pleasantry, fun, bore
solicit; (n) invitation. ANTONYMS: joke. ANTONYM: (n) tragedy kicking: (n) boot, recoil, movement,
(v) elect, repel jingling: (adj) reverberant, clinking, bang, automobile trunk, beef,
invoke: (v) entreat, evoke, appeal, jingly charge, flush, gripe; (adj) peevish,
conjure, pray, beseech, appeal to, join: (v) unite, connect, associate, disgruntled
summon, cite, arouse, name. combine, graft, assemble, attach, kicks: (n) elation, thrill, excitement,
ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, waive affiliate, meet, get together; (n, v) fulfillment, gratification, pleasure
involved: (adj) intricate, complicated, link. ANTONYMS: (v) separate, kind: (n) sort, form, class, variety,
tortuous, convoluted, confused, secede, detach, undo, disjoin, breed; (adj, n) helpful, good,
entangled, knotty, interested, exclude, leave, disconnect, diverge, humane, friendly, gentle; (adj)
difficult, obscure, elaborate. refrain, untie generous. ANTONYMS: (adj)
ANTONYMS: (adj) aloof, detached, jointing: (n) joining, sealing, breaking unkind, cruel, hardhearted, mean,
straightforward, clear, indifferent, of the joint, trimming merciless, nasty, spiteful, uncaring,
passive, single, unconnected, joking: (n) banter, fooling, fun; (adj) upsetting, callous, disagreeable
uninvolved, direct jocose, jocular, humorous, funny, kindle: (adj, v) inflame; (v) fire,
invulnerable: (adj) impregnable, kidding, playful, puckish, comical. excite, arouse, burn, flame, awaken,
impervious, impenetrable, safe, ANTONYM: (n) seriousness incite, enkindle, stir; (n, v) light.
inviolable, unassailable, secure, jostling: (v) jarring; (adj) bustling; (n) ANTONYMS: (v) enkindle, dampen,
indomitable, untouchable, elbowing calm, extinguish, quench, stifle
woundless; (adj, v) defensible. joyous: (adj) happy, gleeful, elated, kindly: (adj) kind, amiable, genial,
ANTONYM: (adj) receptive jolly, glad, gay, jovial, merry, festive, charitable; (adv) sympathetically,
inward: (adj) inner, intrinsic, internal, cheerful, jocund. ANTONYMS: (adj) benevolently, tenderly; (adj, n)
interior, intestine, inherent, despairing, joyless, miserable benign, gentle, sympathetic,
domestic; (adv) inwardly, inwards, juggling: (n) jugglery, performance, benevolent. ANTONYMS: (adv)
in; (n) innards. ANTONYMS: (adj, rearrangement, prestidigitation, harshly, nastily, callously, cruelly,
adv) outward; (adj) outgoing, deception, cheating, legerdemain, sharply, disagreeably, grumpily,
external hocus-pocus; (adj) prestigious, malevolently; (adj) upsetting,
inwards: (adv) in, indoors, inwardly, prestigiatory unfeeling, sour
within, at home, here; (n) gut; (adj) justice: (adj, n) equity, right, kiss: (n, v) caress, brush, embrace,
inner, interior, domestic, intimate. integrity, honesty; (n) judge, touch; (n) osculation, salute, lip, Kiss
ANTONYMS: (adv) out, outward impartiality, judicature, jurist, of peace, kiss hands; (v) osculate,
ironic: (adj) wry, sarcastic, satirical, morality, justness; (adj) just. love
sardonic, mocking, ironical, derisive, ANTONYMS: (n) unfairness, kissing: (n) hugging, cuddling,
cynical, dry, cutting, scathing. wickedness fondling, arousal, foreplay, necking;
ANTONYMS: (adj) consistent, justly: (adv) accurately, fairly, (adj) embracing, adhering closely,
serious correctly, honestly, lawfully, billing, clinging, interosculant
irrefutable: (adj) incontrovertible, properly, exactly, uprightly, knavish: (adj) tricky, dishonest,
indisputable, undeniable, legitimately, impartially, purely. crafty, sly, roguish, guileful, foxy,
conclusive, incontestable, ANTONYMS: (adv) wrongly, dodgy, cunning, false, corrupt
irrefragable, unquestionable, unfairly, unjustifiably, unjustly, knead: (v) rub down, rub, form,
indubitable, unassailable, unlawfully, sinfully, falsely, fashion, shape, massage, work,
unanswerable; (v) irresistible. immorally mould, set, sculpture; (adj) mash
ANTONYMS: (adj) unreliable, keep: (n, v) hold; (v) preserve, retain, kneeling: (n) homage, kowtow,
theoretical, questionable, disputable, defend, guard, maintain, continue, kneelingly, prostration, genuflexion,
debatable, dubious, weak, have, save, confine, observe. genuflection, curtsy, courtesy,
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obeisance avenue, way, track, aisle, side street, arrive, stay, remain, come,
knees: (n) knee line, artery approach, change, reposition,
knew: (adj) known; (v) recognize, lass: (n) girl, lassie, damsel, young disinherit, occupy, participate
wist woman, young girl, fille, miss, Jeune left: (adj) gone, absent, port, odd,
knit: (adj, v) tie, lace; (v) plait, fille, bobbysocker, bobbysoxer, remaining, larboard, gauche,
intertwine, bind, join, pucker, fasten, woman sinister; (n) left hand, left wing, mitt.
interlace; (adj) stitch, knitted late: (adj, adv) dilatory, fresh, ANTONYMS: (adj, adv, n) right;
knock: (n, v) hit, blow, bang, bump, behindhand, backward; (adj) (adj) remaining, center, starboard,
tap, strike, whack, bash, punch, cuff; former, deceased, dead, slow, present
(n) crash. ANTONYMS: (n) delayed, modern; (adv) belatedly. legs: (v) pegs, trotters, pins; (n)
improvement, boost; (v) encourage, ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) early, patience, pedestal, stamina
bolster, approve punctual; (adv) punctually, leisure: (n) idleness, convenience,
knocking: (n) sound, bang, beating, promptly; (adj) ahead, existing, vacation, inactivity, rest, repose,
hit, rap, strike, belt, criticism, bash alive, initial, middle, old, premature relaxation, recreation, pastime,
knot: (n) bow, cluster, lump, gang, lately: (adv) tardily, newly, freshly, opportunity; (adj) idle. ANTONYM:
joint; (v) entangle, knit, bind; (n, v) belatedly, slowly, latterly, deadly; (n) work
tie, loop, tangle. ANTONYMS: (v) (adj, adv) anew, late, afresh; (adj) lengthy: (adj) extended, long, wordy,
unravel, undo, unknot, disentangle recent protracted, copious, exuberant,
known: (adj) familiar, knew, laughter: (n) amusement, fun, elongated, prolonged, verbose,
conscious, certain, famous, know, guffaw, merriment, chortle, chuckle, largiloquent, wiredrawn.
eminent, plain, accepted, published, mirth, hilarity, giggle, derision, ANTONYMS: (adj) brief, easy,
acknowledged. ANTONYMS: (adj) happiness. ANTONYMS: (n) quick, concise
unknown, secret, unidentified, sadness, gloom, despair, boredom, lent: (n) Quadragesima, Lententide
unfamiliar misery, despondency less: (adj) inferior, wanting, minor,
laches: (n, v) omission; (n) failure, lavish: (v) dissipate; (adj) exuberant, secondary, subordinate, deficient,
neglect, evasion, inobservance, generous, copious, prodigal, ample, minus, few; (adj, adv) lesser, lower;
carelessness, delinquency, laxity, abundant, bountiful, excessive, (adv) below. ANTONYMS: (adj)
informality; (v) oversight improvident; (adj, v) profuse. additional; (prep) plus
lack: (n, v) deficiency, need, ANTONYMS: (adj) simple, scant, lesser: (adj) less, inferior, junior,
destitution; (n) default, defect, economical, impoverished, frugal, insignificant, petty, subordinate,
dearth, absence, insufficiency, unadorned, plain; (v) stint, skimp, smaller, secondary, lower, slighter,
deficit, poverty; (v) fail. begrudge, economize small. ANTONYMS: (adj) major,
ANTONYMS: (n) abundance, laws: (n) Pentateuch, Torah primary, senior, superior, higher,
excess, provision, adequacy, laying: (n) egg laying, placing, main
affluence, sufficiency, plethora, parturition, place, repose, setting, levy: (v) impose, raise, inflict, recruit;
supply; (v) have, own, possess put, position, lay, oyster park, (n) duty, assessment, impost,
lacking: (adj) incomplete, inadequate, oviposition tribute, toll, gathering; (n, v) charge
defective, absent, short, wanting, lead: (n, v) guide; (v) conduct, direct, liberating: (adj) emancipating,
destitute, empty, devoid, contribute, go, control, conduce, emancipative, therapeutic
insufficient; (adj, prep) without. govern, chair, bring; (n) clue. libertine: (adj) dissolute, dissipated,
ANTONYMS: (adj) full, plentiful, ANTONYMS: (v) follow, trail, debauched, fast, lewd, lascivious,
burdened, capable, adequate, descend; (n) disadvantage, loose, licentious; (n, v) debauchee;
perfect, present, complete, inferiority (n) rake; (adj, n) wanton
privileged; (prep) with, including leap: (n, v) bound, spring, bounce, liberty: (adj, n) freedom, franchise;
lady: (n) gentlewoman, Mrs, duchess, caper, dive, vault, lunge; (v) dance, (n) license, leave, independence,
countess, spouse, madam, ma'am, hop, start; (n) curvet. ANTONYMS: autonomy, emancipation, latitude,
milady, matron, woman; (v) squaw. (n, v) plummet; (v) surface, drop, permission, scope, release.
ANTONYM: (n) Lord hesitate; (n) slump ANTONYMS: (n) slavery,
laid: (adj) layed, lay, place, placed, learn: (v) get, find, ascertain, hear, domination, constraint, suppression,
put, situated, arranged, determined, find out, have, determine, con, dependence
dictated, hardened, ordered acquire, tell; (n, v) know. lies: (n) fabrication, falsehood, lie,
lance: (n) pike, javelin, shaft, lancet, ANTONYM: (v) reject lying, deceit, defamation,
assegai, fishgig, fizgig; (v) dart, least: (n) minimum; (adj) smallest, denigration, dishonesty, slander,
impale, open, gore minimal, littlest, lowest, libel, treachery. ANTONYM: (n)
land: (n) country, earth, soil, insignificant, minutest, negligible; truth
kingdom, field, nation, estate, (adj, n) smallest amount; (adv) at life: (adj, n) animation; (n) energy,
domain; (v) disembark, debark, get. least, fully. ANTONYMS: (adj) spirit, activity, dash, enthusiasm,
ANTONYMS: (adj) aquatic, maximum, greatest; (adj, adv) most being, biography, existence,
amphibious; (n) sea; (v) lose, depart, leave: (v) depart, go, abandon, desert, exuberance, live. ANTONYMS: (n)
embark lead; (adj, v) forsake, quit; (n) death, apathy, extinction,
lands: (n) park, estate, kingdom furlough, permission, holiday; (n, v) nonexistence, lifelessness
lane: (n) alley, road, path, passage, escape. ANTONYMS: (v) enter, lift: (n, v) raise, rise, elevator, boost,
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heave, hike, airlift, advance; (v) listening: (v) listen, hear, obey; (n) reasoning, order, logics, principle,
elevate, erect, filch. ANTONYMS: auscultation, perception, sensing, coherence. ANTONYMS: (n)
(v) lower, descend, drop, hinder, audition, audience, earshot, inconsistency, disorder
put, return, impose; (n, v) knock auditory modality; (adj) attentive logical: (adj) coherent, sensible,
lifted: (adj) raised, elevated, lift, lofty, literature: (n) letters, science, writing, rational, legitimate, reasonable,
upraised, steep belles lettres, letter, printed matter, justifiable, valid, judicious, lucid,
light: (adj) fair, facile, faint; (adj, v) muses, novel, polite literature, orderly; (n) logic. ANTONYMS:
clear; (n, v) fire, glow, flame; (v) republic of letters, profession (adj) unintelligible, imaginative,
kindle, inflame, ignite; (n) little: (adj, adv) small; (adj) confused, irrational, unreasonable,
illumination. ANTONYMS: (adj) diminutive, insignificant, short, tiny, random, disorganized, intuitive,
heavy, fattening, nauseating, testing, some, brief, petty, minute, exiguous; incomprehensible, haphazard,
stale; (n) darkness, shade, gloom, (adv) rather. ANTONYMS: (adj) disorderly
night; (v) extinguish, darken enormous, large, important, huge, loins: (n) waist, body part, haunch,
lightly: (adv) slightly, airily, thinly, high, giant, older, old, tall; (adv) lends, pubic region, area, pubes
easily, gently, light, fairly, weakly, frequently, well loneliness: (n) desolation, aloneness,
flimsily, delicately, wantonly. live: (adj) alive, living; (adj, v) reside, isolation, solitariness, lonesomeness,
ANTONYMS: (adv) seriously, active, dwell, stay; (n, v) subsist; (v) bleakness, forlornness, desolateness,
heavily, thickly, sturdily, angrily, exist, be, abide, endure. temperament, unhappiness; (adj, n)
hard, harshly, densely, brightly, ANTONYMS: (adj) inanimate, solitude. ANTONYMS: (n)
awkwardly inactive, silent, dummy, blank, inclusion, cheerfulness, hopefulness
lightning: (n) levin, electricity, recorded; (v) die, perish, expire lonely: (adj) deserted, lone, dreary,
thunderbolt, Leven, ignis fatuus, livelong: (n) Sedum telephium, solitary, forsaken, desert; (adj, n)
heat lightning, forked lightning, sedum, orpin, orpine; (adj) durable, isolated, alone; (adv) lonesomely,
fetter, dart, chain lightning; (adj) lasting solely, solitarily. ANTONYMS: (adj)
wind lives: (n) life, living, estate, existence, sheltered, populous, cheerful,
liked: (adj) popular, loved, favorite, earnest living nearby; (n) foe
preferred. ANTONYM: (adj) living: (adj) alive, live, extant, long: (v) yearn, desire, hanker,
disliked animated, active, fresh, animate, languish, ache, wish; (adj, n)
likely: (adj) believable, probable, quick; (n) livelihood, life, being. extensive; (n, v) hunger; (adj)
plausible, expected, potential, ANTONYMS: (adj) inanimate; (n) extended, lengthy; (n) length.
conceivable, apt, prospective, death, leisure ANTONYMS: (adj) short, brief,
verisimilar; (adv) possibly, maybe. load: (adj, n, v) charge, fill; (n) cargo, concise
ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) unlikely; freight, weight, consignment; (n, v) longer: (adj) longest, better, lengest;
(adj) improbable, implausible, slight, stack, heap, pack, pile; (v) (adv) farther; (n) yearner, thirster
unwilling, unusual, unbelievable encumber. ANTONYMS: (v) look: (n, v) gaze, aspect, figure; (adj,
limp: (adv, n, v) hobble; (adj, v) unpack, remove, eject, relieve, v) seem; (v) appear, expect; (n)
flabby; (n, v) hitch; (adj) flaccid, empty, alleviate; (n) lightness appearance, expression, view,
slack, flexible, drooping, flimsy, loads: (adj, n) lots, a lot, myriad, glance, guise. ANTONYMS: (v)
weak, loose; (v) hop. ANTONYMS: much; (n) plenty, heaps, oodles, back, study; (n) perusal
(adj) taut, firm, hard, rigid, upright, masses, lashings, tons, lot. looking: (n) face, sensing, aspect,
alive, strong, stiff, tight ANTONYMS: (n) few, scarcity; (adj) approximation, appearance,
lindsay: (n) Howard Lindsay, inadequate watching, outlook; (v) look at,
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Vachel loaf: (adj, v) lounge; (v) hang around, examine; (adv) about; (adj)
Lindsay loiter, loll, linger, laze, mess about, superficial
line: (n) cord, house, course, family, be idle; (adj, n) block; (adj) lump, looks: (n) aspect, countenance,
lineage, breed, field, ancestry, row; poke. ANTONYM: (v) work expression, manner, complexion,
(adj, n) file; (n, v) order loathe: (v) detest, hate, abominate, fashion, costume, garb
lines: (n) cavesson, jaquima, execrate, despise, loathing, dislike, loose: (adj, v) lax, dissolute; (adj, n)
hackamore, headstall, ribbons, disgust, disdain, contempt, limp, liberal, licentious; (adj) light,
words, contour, shape, position, nauseate. ANTONYMS: (v) like, vague; (v) disengage, relax, release,
piece, part admire, adore liberate. ANTONYMS: (adj) dense,
lion: (adj, n) celebrity, hero; (adj) locked: (adj) bolted, closed, fast, close, taut, compressed, strict,
worthy, great card, tiger; (n) Leo, barred, blocked, fixed, guaranteed, compact, wedged, secure, strong,
cat, king of beasts, curiosity, barricaded, safe, protected, fastened similar; (v) confine
luminary, spectacle lofty: (adj, v) high, elevated; (adj) loosen: (n, v) relax, release, ease; (adj,
lips: (n) lip, inlet, logical inference exalted, eminent, arrogant, grand, v) loose, disengage; (v) detach,
per second, chops, porch, portal, tall, haughty, great, distinguished, undo, ravel, discharge, fluff, untie.
portico, propylon, snout, door, majestic. ANTONYMS: (adj) short, ANTONYMS: (v) fasten, compress,
orifice lowly, base, modest, deferential, fix, tense, stiffen, bend
listen: (v) hear, heed, hearken, attend, humble loosening: (n) relaxation,
harken, list, listening, eavesdrop, logic: (n) argument, logical, sense, unfastening, ease, undoing,
mind, concentrate, pay attention reasoning, reason, good sense, art of liberalization, adjustment,
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alteration, liberalisation, easiness; lowest: (adj) least, bottom, smallest, lyric: (n) tuneful, poem, song,
(adj) solutive, laxative last, minimal, nethermost, under, language, verse; (adj) lyrical, choral,
loot: (n, v) pillage; (n) prey, booty, lowermost, undermost, poorest; vocal, instrumental, operatic; (v)
prize, kale; (v) despoil, rifle, foray, (adj, n) minimum write
steal, rob, sack loyalty: (n) allegiance, faith, honesty, lyricism: (n) musicalness, musicality,
lopped: (adj) docked, truncated, devotion, fealty, faithfulness, songfulness, ebullience, enthusiasm,
lopped off, cropped, mutilated dedication, integrity, commitment, exuberance
lopsided: (adj) crooked, cockeyed, attachment; (adj, n) fidelity. madden: (adj, v) exasperate,
awry, unbalanced, unequal, ANTONYMS: (n) unfaithfulness, aggravate, exacerbate; (v) enrage,
asymmetric, slanted, biased, disobedience, infidelity, treachery, incense, irritate, craze, derange,
asymmetrical, uneven, wonky. impoliteness, deceit, indifference, annoy, anger, inflame. ANTONYM:
ANTONYMS: (adj) equal, even, doubt, dishonesty, unreliability (v) pacify
straight, level, symmetrical, lucid: (adj) clear, transparent, limpid, madly: (adv) insanely, furiously,
balanced, corresponding coherent, distinct, evident, explicit, sorely, frantically, wildly, devilishly,
lord: (n) chief, king, noble, sir, duke, crystalline, light, diaphanous, deadly, dementedly, foolishly,
master, God, seignior, nobility, bright. ANTONYMS: (adj) opaque, distractedly; (adj, adv) rabidly.
Mister, potentate. ANTONYM: (n) unintelligible, muddled, unclear, ANTONYMS: (adv) sensibly,
lady irrational, confusing, illogical, calmly, sanely, carefully; (adj)
lost: (adj, v) forlorn, extinct, gone, ambiguous, confused, vague, slightly
missing, helpless; (adj) hopeless, incoherent madness: (n) frenzy, insanity, lunacy,
bewildered, forgotten, disoriented, luck: (n) fortune, fate, accident, idiocy, folly, delirium, insaneness;
broken; (n) loss. ANTONYMS: (adj) destiny, hazard, lot, advantage, (adj, n) furor, rage, desperation,
present, found, existing, won, saved, providence, portion, happiness; (n, furore. ANTONYMS: (n) sense,
aware v) chance. ANTONYM: (n) design calmness, order
loudly: (adv) vociferously, noisily, lugging: (n) food magistrate: (n) judge, jurist,
loud, clamorously, showily, lump: (n, v) heap, knot, chunk, block; justiciary, adjudicator, beak, official,
strongly, flamboyantly, (n) gob, tumor, hunk, bit, bulge; provost, recorder, archon, doge,
obstreperously, luridly, (adj, n) clod; (adj, n, v) mass. chancellor
boisterously; (adj, adv) forte. ANTONYM: (v) divide making: (n) creation, construction,
ANTONYMS: (adv) softly, thinly, lumping: (adj) bulky; (n) formation of production, fabrication,
silently, piano, pleasantly lumps manufacture, cartography, devising,
love: (n) desire, fondness, affection, lunatic: (n) madman, maniac, fashioning, manufacturing,
dear, liking, benevolence, charity, bedlamite; (adj) insane, foolish, formation; (v) to make.
honey, devotion; (v) enjoy; (n, v) moonstruck, mad, mental, ANTONYMS: (n) undoing,
worship. ANTONYMS: (n, v) deranged, idiotic; (adj, n) madcap. destruction
dislike; (n) abhorrence, hatred, ANTONYM: (adj) sensible malady: (n, v) illness, ailment,
aversion, detestation, detachment, luscious: (adj) juicy, appetizing, indisposition, distemper; (adj, n, v)
indifference; (v) abhor; (adv) delicious, delectable, scrumptious, disorder; (adj, n) complaint,
roughly rich, dulcet, succulent, yummy, infirmity; (n) sickness, condition,
loved: (adj) beloved, pet, cherished, mellow, voluptuous. ANTONYMS: trouble, ill
precious, liked, adored, respected, (adj) tasteless, unappetizing malcontent: (adj, v) dissatisfied; (n)
treasured, esteemed, valued; (n) lust: (n, v) desire, hunger, itch; (n) dissatisfaction, discontent, rebel,
darling. ANTONYM: (adj) hated craving, greed, libido, grumbler, croaker, insurgent,
lovely: (adj) beautiful, charming, lecherousness, cupidity, lewdness; somebody; (adj) disaffected,
lovable, enchanting, delightful, (v) covet, crave disgruntled, rebellious
handsome, alluring, elegant, lusty: (adj) energetic, stout, lustful, male: (n) fellow, boy, chap, guy, man,
endearing, gorgeous; (adv) comely. corpulent, potent, virile, vigorous, lad, gent; (adj) masculine, manly,
ANTONYMS: (adj) unpleasant, hearty, sturdy, bouncing, dynamic. virile, manlike. ANTONYMS: (adj,
hideous, ugly, unattractive, ANTONYM: (adj) feeble n) female; (n) woman; (adj)
horrifying, horrid, unappealing, luxurious: (adj) voluptuous, costly, feminine, androgynous
repellent, detestable, dreadful, deluxe, lavish, sumptuous, manage: (n, v) direct, govern, guide;
awkward epicurean, grand, luscious, opulent, (v) do, administer, cope, accomplish,
lover: (n) dear, darling, fan, devotee, magnificent; (adj, n) lush. deal, work, arrange, lead.
beau, buff, love, admirer, beloved, ANTONYMS: (adj) meager, frugal, ANTONYMS: (v) fail, lose, bungle
amorist, man poor, Spartan, austere, humble, management: (n) guidance,
lower: (adj, v) debase, frown, abase, unpleasant, ascetic, impoverished administration, leadership,
scowl; (adj, n, v) degrade, diminish, lying: (adj) false, deceptive, handling, control, command,
humble; (v) dip, drop, cut; (adj, n) mendacious, untrue, misleading, direction, government, treatment;
inferior. ANTONYMS: (v) raise, fraudulent; (n) lie, falsehood, (n, v) manage; (adj, n) executive.
improve, glorify, augment, fabrication, deceit, dishonesty. ANTONYMS: (n) workers,
straighten, upgrade, uplift; (adj) ANTONYMS: (n) honesty, destruction
higher, senior, over, superior truthfulness; (adj) truthful manes: (n) shade
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marble: (n) taw, marver, leopard, guess, estimate forgiveness, grace, charity,
heart of stone, granite, cheetah, meat: (n) food, gist, essence, core, humanity; (n, v) quarter.
marbling; (adj, n) stone; (v) foolscap; kernel, heart, substance, marrow, ANTONYMS: (n) cruelty, harshness,
(adj) flint, quartz crux, matter, beef unkindness, severity, mercilessness,
march: (n, v) hike, parade, trek, mechanism: (n) apparatus, ruthlessness, impatience,
ramble, journey, tramp, course; (n) contrivance, device, machine, inhumanity
demonstration; (v) process, pace, appliance, action, instrument, mere: (adj, n) entire; (adj) bare,
stride mechanics, agency, work, gear simple, pure; (n) loch, tarn,
market: (n) fair, emporium, meddling: (adj) busy, inquisitive, boundary, absolute; (n, v)
marketplace, bazaar, grocery store; curious, meddlesome, intrusive, downright; (adv) merely; (adj, v)
(n, v) shop, trade; (v) demand, sell, officious, nosy, dabbling, clear
commercialize, exchange impertinent, busybodied; (adj, n) merely: (adj, adv) only, barely,
marshy: (adj) muddy, marsh, prying purely, simply, exclusively; (adv)
swampy, sloughy, quaggy, miry, meditating: (n) conception but, absolutely, entirely, simplely,
fenny, paludal, moist, dirty, damp. meet: (v) find, converge, assemble, completely, unmixedly.
ANTONYM: (adj) dry gather, fulfill, congregate, answer, ANTONYM: (adv) intensely
martial: (adj) military, warlike, cross, confront, intersect; (adv, v) merge: (v) combine, amalgamate,
soldierly, bellicose, belligerent, encounter. ANTONYMS: (v) melt, fuse, integrate, meld,
combative, brave, soldierlike, diverge, disperse, separate, part, commingle, unite, mix, consolidate;
armigerous, militant, heroic. leave, differ, disband (adj, v) coalesce. ANTONYMS: (v)
ANTONYMS: (adj) civilian, melancholy: (adj, v) dreary; (adj, n) split, diverge, decentralize, unpick,
peaceful, unarmed gloom, melancholic; (adj) depressed, segregate
mated: (adj) uniform, married, dejected, dismal, gloomy, doleful; merrily: (adv) gaily, cheerfully,
complementary, alike. ANTONYM: (n, v) low spirits; (n) gloominess, blithely, cheerily, gladly, gleefully,
(adj) unmated depression. ANTONYMS: (n) mirthfully, brightly, jovially,
material: (n) matter, body, cloth; (adj) happiness, cheerfulness, joyfully, gayly. ANTONYMS: (adv)
corporal, substantial, bodily, hopefulness, optimism; (adj) happy, sadly, anxiously, miserably,
corporeal, concrete, physical, bright, cheery, satisfied unhappily, carefully, despondently
important, real. ANTONYMS: (adj) melody: (n) air, tune, music, measure, merry: (adj) joyful, lively, cheerful,
insubstantial, immaterial, harmony, aria, song, strain, line, glad, jolly, facetious, frolicsome,
incorporeal, insignificant, melodic phrase; (n, v) chant lighthearted, festive; (adj, n)
unimportant, abstract, heavenly, melting: (n) thawing, fusion, melt, convivial, jovial. ANTONYMS: (adj)
intangible, ethereal dissolution, warming, thaw, gloomy, miserable, serious, uptight
mating: (n) union, pairing, liquefaction, fusion range; (adj) method: (n) course, fashion, form,
conjugation, crossing, marriage, liquescent, pathetic; (adj, n) system, order, approach,
cross, hybridization, service, dissolving arrangement, way, manner,
copulation, sex, crossbreeding memory: (n) memento, reminiscence, formula; (adj, n) plan. ANTONYMS:
matter: (n) business, substance, issue, remembrance, recollection, recall, (n) chaos, disorderliness
material, affair, concern, incident, commemoration, anamnesis, middle: (n) heart, hub, core, center;
article, subject; (n, v) case; (adj, n) storage, retrospect; (adj, n) (adj, n) mean, median, mid; (adj)
import posthumous fame; (v) mind intermediate, halfway, mediate,
matters: (n) affairs, materials, menace: (n) threat, danger; (n, v) central. ANTONYMS: (adj) extreme,
dealings, proceedings hazard, risk, peril; (v) endanger, outer, late, early; (adj, n) outside; (n)
mean: (adj, n) middle, low, imperil, intimidate, jeopardize, extremity, perimeter, beginning,
contemptible, average, medium, threaten, bully. ANTONYMS: (v) end, circumference, surface
common; (v) design; (n, v) imply, help, protect, guard; (n) pleasure midwife: (n) accoucheur, oculist,
denote; (adj) ignoble, hateful. mendaciously: (adv) falsely, howdy, obstetrician, aurist; (v)
ANTONYMS: (adj) generous, kind, fraudulently, lyingly, insincerely, midwive
extravagant, charitable, luxurious, faithlessly, deceitfully, might: (n) power, energy, ability,
rich, expansive, extreme, great; (n) unveraciously, truthlessly influence, strength, puissance,
maximum, minimum menelaus: (n) Trojan War vehemence, intensity; (v) may, can,
means: (n) instrument, agency, menial: (adj, n) inferior; (adj) lowly, could. ANTONYMS: (n) weakness,
income, assets, manner, funds, abject, ignoble, humble, low, mean; feebleness, meekness
capital, channel, property, resource, (n) henchman, domestic, lackey, mighty: (adj) immense, huge, grand,
resources. ANTONYM: (n) poverty servant. ANTONYMS: (adj) intense, high, big, forcible, strong,
meant: (adj) destined, implied, elevated, noble large, great; (adj, adv) powerful.
sincere, preordained, intentional, mention: (n, v) comment, name, ANTONYMS: (adj) puny, tiny,
predestined; (v) intend, designate remark, call, hint; (v) cite, observe, weak, insignificant
measure: (n) amount, criterion, commend; (n) allusion, citation, mind: (n, v) intellect, notice, regard;
extent, measurement, estimate, reference. ANTONYM: (v) conceal (v) care, look, attend, beware, keep,
degree, beat, benchmark, quantity, mercy: (n) kindness, compassion, listen, look after; (n) disposition.
meter; (n, v) act. ANTONYMS: (v) pity, favor, leniency, pardon, ANTONYMS: (v) forget, neglect,
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disregard, disobey, Miss, ignore; (n) complimentary, sympathetic; (n) touch, instigate, travel; (n, v) act,
emotion, inattention; (adj) physical praise drive, transfer, maneuver.
mine: (adj, v) excavate, sap; (n) mole: (n) jetty, freckle, spy, bulwark, ANTONYMS: (v) stay, restore,
excavation, pit, fund, land mine, nevus, mol, groyne, blemish, refrain, remain, rest, withdraw, stop,
vein; (v) exploit, burrow; (adj) my, birthmark; (adj, v) mound; (v) repel, come, leave
delve embankment muddle: (adj, n) mess; (n, v) clutter,
minute: (n, v) note; (adj) little, moment: (n, v) consequence, weight; disorder; (adj, v) confuse, fluster,
delicate, microscopic, small, atomic; (adj, n) instant; (n) flash, jiffy, bewilder, perplex; (adj, n, v)
(n) jiffy, flash, moment, second, minute, import, second, time, bit, blunder; (v) addle, botch; (n)
memorandum. ANTONYMS: (adj) hour. ANTONYMS: (n) disarray. ANTONYMS: (v)
huge, big, gigantic, significant, inconsequence, age, triviality enlighten, sharpen, soothe, organize,
cursory, immeasurable, tremendous, money: (n) currency, capital, kale, disentangle, tidy, clarify; (n) space,
important, colossal, giant, large funds, means, lucre, assets, legal clarity, neatness
minx: (n) flirt, hussy, vamp, tender, pelf, cash, dough mummy: (n) mamma, mama, mom,
jackanapes, malapert, mink, slut, monstrosity: (n) freak, eyesore, mommy, mum, mammy, ma, mater;
jade, quean, woman, bitch leviathan, abortion, ogre, (v) embalm, mummify, shrivel
mirror: (v) imitate, reflect, reproduce, anamorphosis, malformation, lusus munching: (n) feeding
represent; (n, v) copy, echo; (n) naturae; (adj, n) enormity; (adj) muse: (v) meditate, ponder,
looking glass, looking-glass; (adj, n) bizarrerie, immensity deliberate, consider, cogitate, reflect,
standard, pattern, model moral: (n) lesson, meaning; (adj) brood, ruminate, speculate, think,
mischief: (adj, n) evil, hurt, harm; (n) good, decent, right, honest, virtuous, mull. ANTONYM: (v) wander
damage, ill, detriment, proper, chaste, upright, righteous. music: (n) melody, chorus, musical,
disadvantage, devilry, caper, ANTONYMS: (adj) bad, sound, composition, monody, folk
devilment, maleficence. unwholesome, unethical, amoral, music, medicine, euphony,
ANTONYMS: (n) obedience, decadent, wrong, unjust, sinful, drumming, ballet
beneficence, help irreverent, dishonorable, degenerate mute: (adj) dumb, silent, inarticulate,
miserable: (adj, v) forlorn, wretched, morning: (n) dawn, sunrise, morn, dummy, tongueless; (v) muffle,
unhappy; (adj) mean, low, abject, forenoon, daylight, first light, am, dampen, deaden, hush; (adj, v)
deplorable, downcast, bad, desolate; dayspring, aurora, cockcrow, quiet, dull. ANTONYMS: (adj)
(adj, adv) meager. ANTONYMS: dawning. ANTONYMS: (n) sunset, talkative, speaking, spoken; (v)
(adj) happy, generous, cheerful, nighttime, nightfall amplify
cheery, bright, fortunate, hopeful, mortal: (adj) deadly, fatal, lethal, mutual: (adj) common, communal,
jubilant, luxurious, overjoyed, deathly, earthly; (n) man, joint, bilateral, collective, public,
heavenly individual, creature, person, human united, concerted, shared, alternate;
misinterpret: (v) misunderstand, being, body. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) (adv) mutually. ANTONYMS: (adj)
misconstrue, misconceive, mistake, immortal; (adj) eternal, heavenly, individual, unilateral, private,
distort, misread, pervert, misjudge, mild, perfect, spiritual solitary
miscalculate, take, read. mortality: (n) fatality, flesh, death myrrh: (n) gum myrrh, perfumes of
ANTONYMS: (v) understand, rate, death, humanity, mankind, Arabia, incense, sweet cicely, gum
interpret, appreciate demise, mortality rate, morbidity; resin, frankincense, balm
miss: (v) lose, fail, jump, omit, (adj) caducity, fugacity myself: (pron) me, itself, herself,
overlook, long, forget; (n) maid, girl; mortify: (v) humble, disgrace, abase, oneself, themselves, yourself; (n) I,
(adj, v) fault; (n, v) want. crush, embarrass, degrade, shame, yourselves; (adv) in person, for
ANTONYMS: (v) perceive, attend, demean, depress; (n, v) chagrin; myself, in my opinion.
achieve, have, succeed, hit, make, (adj, v) confuse ANTONYMS: (adv) universally,
see, find, take; (n) success mother: (n) mamma, mommy, origin, generally
mistress: (n) dame, concubine, mama, ma, mammy, mummy; (n, v) mysteriously: (adv) enigmatically,
madame, inamorata, lady, lover, father; (v) engender, generate, beget strangely, obscurely, secretly,
fancy woman, doxy, girl, kept mount: (n, v) rise, climb, frame; (v) uncannily, mystically, darkly,
woman, missis board, arise, advance, jump, puzzlingly, weirdly, abstrusely,
misunderstand: (v) misinterpret, increase; (n) hill, mountain; (adj, v) occultly. ANTONYM: (adv)
misconstrue, mistake, misread, ride. ANTONYMS: (v) drop, normally
misjudge, miscomprehend, decrease, wane, dismount; (n) mystery: (n) arcanum, enigma,
miscalculate, confuse, misapply; (n, valley, hollow mysteriousness, secrecy, puzzle,
v) misconceive; (n) mounted: (adj) equestrian, mounting, craft, perplexity, poser,
misunderstanding. ANTONYMS: mounts, set, firm, affixed, decorated. inscrutability, whodunit; (adj, n)
(v) grasp, appreciate, interpret ANTONYM: (adj) unmounted secret. ANTONYMS: (n)
mocking: (adj) derisive, ironic, mouth: (n) lip, lips, aperture, edge, explanation, openness
jeering, mock, quizzical, sarcastic, entrance, snout, entry; (n, v) naked: (adj, v) bare; (adj) nude,
taunting, derisory, teasing, sardonic, grimace; (v) articulate, pronounce, exposed, open, barren, raw, bleak,
sneering. ANTONYMS: (adj) speak unclothed, defenseless, au naturel,
respectful, approving, move: (v) excite, go, affect, carry, defenceless. ANTONYMS: (adj)
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covered, concealed, hidden, dressed familiar, adjoining, approximate; opposition, disavowal, deny,
nakedness: (n) nudity, altogether, (adj, adv, prep) about; (adj, adv) cancellation, rebuttal, refusal,
baldness, nude, nudeness, undress, almost; (adj) imminent. refutation, rejection, abnegation.
birthday suit, openness, status, ANTONYMS: (adj) distant, far, ANTONYMS: (n) acceptance,
emptiness, frankness further, actual, exact; (v) leave confirmation, affirmation,
name: (v) appoint, describe, baptize, nearby: (adj) close, contiguous, substantiation, reinforcement,
list, enumerate, identify, cite, adjoining, at hand, adjacent, nearest; agreement
mention; (n, v) title, entitle; (n) (prep) about, by; (adv) beside, neglecting: (n) neglect, disregard
epithet. ANTONYMS: (n) nobody, around; (adv, prep) next to. neif: (n, v) neaf; (v) fist, hand, finger,
indecency ANTONYMS: (adj) remote, paw, wrist
named: (adj, v) called; (adj) inaccessible; (adj, adv) faraway, far neighbour: (adj) neighboring,
nominative, nominal, chosen, nearer: (adj) adjacent, narre, hither; neighbouring, neighborly, adjacent,
appointed, nominated, designated, (adv) more rapidly, sooner, quicker, contiguous; (v) abut, populate,
titled, specified; (v) benempt, nigher, NER, faster, earlier, Neer adjoin, butt on, butt against; (n)
ycleped nearly: (adv) closely, intimately, neighbourhood
napping: (adj) asleep, unthinking, nighly, virtually; (adj, adv, prep) neighbours: (n) neighborhood
unready, snoozing, slumbering, about, just about; (adj, adv) near, all nerve: (n) cheek, audacity, boldness,
sleeping, off guard, off your guard, but, close, most; (adv, prep) brass, impudence, heart, mettle,
off his guard, off her guard, careless. approximately daring, courage, face, fortitude.
ANTONYM: (adj) awake neat: (adj) elegant, tidy, clear, natty, ANTONYMS: (n) cowardice,
nasty: (adj) dirty, foul, filthy, graceful, dainty, pretty, clever, pure, timidity, reticence, respect
disgusting, awful, mean, repulsive, straight, nifty. ANTONYMS: (adj) nerves: (n) nervousness, jitters,
raw, hurtful, coarse; (adj, n) messy, scruffy, unkempt, clumsy, jumpiness, jitteriness, restlessness,
obnoxious. ANTONYMS: (adj) disordered, disorderly, diluted, tension, strain, screaming meemies,
agreeable, pleasant, nice, charitable, large, lax, impulsive, loose apprehension, edginess, extreme
lovely, delightful, friendly, tasty, neatly: (adv) sprucely, tidily, cleanly, nervousness. ANTONYM: (n) calm
charming, safe, respectful adroitly, precisely, smartly, nest: (n) den, lair, hole, burrow,
nation: (n) state, country, kingdom, tastefully, gracefully, properly, home, beehive; (adj) brood, hive,
people, community, commonwealth, nattily; (adj, adv) dexterously. litter; (adj, n) herd; (v) embed
land, a people, body politic, ANTONYMS: (adv) messily, nestling: (n) chick, bairn, toddler,
nationality, tribe shabbily, untidily, clumsily, loosely, baby bird, bambino, changeling, fry,
natural: (adj) inherent, innate, inelegantly, awkwardly kiddy, nesting, pullet, tadpole
unaffected, instinctive, artless, necessary: (adj, n, v) requisite; (adj, v) never: (adv) ne'er, Nevers, always,
congenital, inborn, normal, intrinsic, important; (adj) inevitable, not ever, by no means, at all times,
essential, native. ANTONYMS: (adj) compulsory, mandatory, not at all, not, NE. ANTONYMS:
affected, refined, false, cultivated, fundamental, main, indispensable; (adv) always, forever
unnatural, paranormal, (n) necessity, demand; (adj, n) basic. nevertheless: (adv, conj, prep)
supernatural, abnormal, forced, ANTONYMS: (adj) optional, however, although; (adv, conj) but,
exceptional, strained surplus, needless, unjustified, yet, even; (adv) all the same, even
naturally: (adv, int) of course; (adv) dispensable, possible, unimportant, so, though, anyway, anyhow; (adj,
spontaneously, unaffectedly, voluntary, nonessential, adv) still
natively, openly, essentially, course, inappropriate; (n) inessential news: (n) advice, message,
by nature, understandably, neck: (n) cervix, nape, neckband, information, intelligence, tidings,
normally; (adj, adv) innately. neckline, isthmus; (v) make out, pet, story, report, notice,
ANTONYMS: (adv) artificially, love, cut; (adj) stricture, middle communication, gossip; (adj) new
surprisingly, uncharacteristically, constriction next: (adj) nearest, adjacent,
pretentiously, unusually, necklace: (n) collar, chain, chaplet, contiguous, following, future,
abnormally, affectedly, shyly bracelet, necklet, string, corona, coming, ensuing, after; (adv, conj)
naughty: (adj) mischievous, impish, neckband, jewelry, coronet, crown then, afterward; (adj, v) subsequent.
blue, improper, disobedient, need: (adj, n, v) lack, want; (n, v) ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) previous,
insubordinate, wicked, evil, lewd, demand, desire, deficiency, must, previously, preceding; (adj)
dark, unruly. ANTONYMS: (adj) destitution; (n) necessity, outgoing, distant; (adv) before
decent, behaved, obedient, clean requirement; (v) require, claim. nexus: (n) bond, connection,
nauseous: (adj, v) fulsome; (v) ANTONYMS: (v) obviate, dislike, concatenation, liaison, connexion,
abhorrent; (adj) distasteful, have; (n) option, luxury, glut, relation, tie, knot, relationship,
loathsome, disgusting, nasty, unimportance, affluence, prosperity linkage, conjunction
sickening, nauseating, obnoxious, needs: (adv) inevitably, needfully, nigh: (adj, adv, prep) near; (adj, adv)
repugnant, abominable. indispensably, by necessity, close, nearly, almost, nearby, most,
ANTONYMS: (adj) pleasing, inescapably, of necessity, all but, about, adjacent; (prep) by;
charming, pleasant ineluctably; (n) must, requirement, (adj) approximate
near: (adj, adv, v) close, at hand; (adv, necessity; (adj) needed night: (n) dark, dusk, darkness,
prep) by, around, towards; (adj, v) negation: (n) contradiction, negate, gloaming, twilight, nighttime, Nox,
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eventide, period; (adj) nocturnal, present; (n) moment, modern times, polite, defensive, tasteful, peaceful,
gloomy. ANTONYMS: (n) day, these days, nonce. ANTONYMS: pleasing, savory, euphemistic,
light, sunrise (adv) formerly, then decent; (n) defense
nights: (adj) nightly; (n) night nowhere: (n) obscurity, limbo; (adv) offering: (n, v) gift, grant; (n)
nimble: (adj) lively, adroit, agile, not anywhere, nowhither, without, oblation, contribution, donation,
brisk, spry, alert, expeditious, not anywhither; (adj) tiresome, presentation, offer, present,
energetic, clever, lithe; (adj, v) light. vapid, uninteresting, tasteless, endowment, gratuity, bestowal
ANTONYMS: (adj) clumsy, heavy, prosaic often: (adj, adv) oft; (adv) much,
stiff, slow, awkward, sluggish, unfit nude: (adj, v) naked, bare; (adj) bald, again and again, repeatedly,
noble: (adj, n) grand, glorious, au naturel, exposed, unclothed, ofttimes, oftentimes, many times,
patrician; (adj) imposing, stark, undressed, raw, uncovered; always, commonly, again; (adj)
impressive, elevated, majestic, (n) nakedness. ANTONYMS: (adj) frequent. ANTONYMS: (adv)
generous, high; (adj, v) dignified, clothed, dressed seldom, infrequently, never
great. ANTONYMS: (adj) shameful, nuisance: (adj, n) annoyance; (n) older: (adj) old, aged, elderly, ancient,
humble, dishonorable, lowly, harassment, irritation, pain, pest, adult, earlier, big, preceding, former,
lowborn, disgraceful, unimpressive, hassle, inconvenience, mischief, oldest; (adj, n) senior. ANTONYMS:
ignoble, modest, petty; (n) lady irritant, plague, pain in the neck. (adj) younger, immature, youthful,
noise: (n, v) clatter, echo; (n) clamor, ANTONYMS: (n) pleasure, help, present, young
hubbub, racket, sound, disturbance, delight, blessing, balm, advantage, olympia: (n) Olympiad, capital of
uproar, din, buzz, clang. satisfaction, ease Washington
ANTONYMS: (n) silence, quiet, numberless: (adj) countless, omelet: (n) firm omelet, fluffy omelet;
quietness, sense innumerable, multitudinous, (v) pudding
noisily: (adv) clamorously, infinite, incalculable, endless, ominous: (adj) baleful, inauspicious,
boisterously, vociferously, riotously, uncounted, unnumbered, ill, menacing, threatening, black,
raucously, uproariously, loudly, innumerous, legion, untold. sinister, minatory, unlucky,
blatantly, rowdily, stridently, ANTONYM: (adj) few forbidding, minacious.
vocally. ANTONYMS: (adv) oath: (n) expletive, malediction, ANTONYMS: (adj) promising,
noiselessly, silently, calmly, imprecation, promise, affidavit, auspicious, reassuring, bright, lucky,
peacefully, softly cuss, swearing, pledge, assurance, wonderful
none: (n) nought, naught, nobody, asseveration; (v) swear once: (adv, n) formerly; (adv) before,
zilch, anything; (adv) not, neither, object: (n) cause, intent, meaning, ever, previously, one time, at one
any; (adj) whatsoever, no, whatever mark, subject, objective, substance; time, already, erst; (adj, adv)
nonsense: (n) bosh, absurdity, (n, v) aim, end, intention; (v) except. erstwhile; (adj) former; (n) whilom.
humbug, balderdash, foolishness, ANTONYMS: (v) agree, approve, ANTONYM: (adv) future
drivel, folderol, baloney, falderal, praise; (n) notion onslaught: (n) attack, onset, charge,
jargon, claptrap. ANTONYMS: (n) oblation: (n, v) offering; (n) gift, invasion, offensive, barrage,
sense, wisdom, substance, fact immolation, offertory; (v) grant, bombardment, incursion, onrush,
noon: (n) high noon, noonday, benefaction, boon, favor, free gift, blitz, attempt. ANTONYMS: (n)
noontide, afternoon, hour, largess, donative defense, retreat
dinnertime, crest, twelve noon; (adj) observe: (n, v) comment, notice, note; onward: (adv) ahead, forwards,
meridian, meridional; (adj, n) (v) commemorate, mind, guard, before, forth, onwards, along, in
culmination mention, mark, see, discover; (int, v) advance, frontward, forrader; (adv,
note: (n, v) comment, mind, remark, look. ANTONYMS: (v) feel, prep) on; (adj) progressive.
mention, heed, mark, look, report; disregard, break, overlook, disobey, ANTONYM: (adv) backward
(n) indication, annotation; (v) detect. disrespect, Miss, violate open: (adj, n) frank, candid; (adj, n, v)
ANTONYMS: (v) disregard; (n) obvious: (adj, v) clear; (adj) distinct, clear; (adj) obvious, exposed, artless,
disgrace, invoice conspicuous, open, evident, flagrant, free, honest, guileless, forthright,
nothing: (adv, n) naught; (adj, n) nil, glaring, blatant, discernible; (adj, naked. ANTONYMS: (adj, v) shut;
null; (n) nobody, cipher, nihil, adv) apparent, manifest. (v) close, end; (adj) devious,
nonentity, trifle, nix, aught, cypher. ANTONYMS: (adj) inconspicuous, secretive, concealed, furtive,
ANTONYMS: (pron) anything, obscure, unclear, undetectable, restricted, limited, reserved, secret
everything, some; (n) all hidden, imperceptible, slight, subtle, opened: (adj) candid, exposed, overt,
notice: (n, v) note, mind, regard; (n) concealed, unobvious, furtive agaze, blatant, blazing, clear,
advertisement, information, occupation: (n) occupancy, business, through, conspicuous; (v) distended,
declaration, attention; (adj, v) look, craft, calling, job, place, vocation, blown
attend; (v) find, detect. career, function, line; (n, v) affair. operation: (n, v) movement; (n)
ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, overlook, ANTONYM: (n) surrender agency, effect, act, management,
Miss; (n) ignorance, inattention, offensive: (adj, v) foul, odious, nasty, business, functioning, performance,
appointment, unconsciousness aggressive, coarse, hateful; (adj) running, action, function
nowadays: (adv) currently, presently, distasteful, disgusting, loathsome, opposing: (adj) conflicting,
at present, at the moment, abusive, nauseous. ANTONYMS: antagonistic, opponent, contrary,
immediately; (adv, n) today; (adj, n) (adj) complimentary, pleasant, adverse, hostile, antithetical, anti,
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contradictory, rival; (prep) against. jammed, overcrowded, crammed, deliver, lead, happen, overtake,
ANTONYMS: (adj) compatible, dense, thick, congested, teeming, proceed; (adj, v) move; (n, v) offer,
consistent, allied, accepting cramped. ANTONYMS: (adj) live. ANTONYMS: (v) reject, make,
opposite: (adj, n) contrary, deserted, loose, open take, veto; (n) failing, rejection,
contradictory, opponent; (adj) pact: (n, v) contract; (n) agreement, exclusion
adverse, different, opposing, hostile, bargain, deal, convention, bond, passing: (adj) transient, ephemeral,
diametric, opposed; (adj, pron) alliance, understanding, compact, momentary, cursory, brief; (n)
other; (adj, adv) counter. covenant, treaty overtaking, departure, expiration,
ANTONYMS: (adj) allied, alternate, pain: (n, v) hurt, afflict, ache, bother, decease, passage, death.
identical, like, same, parallel; (n) torment, trouble, grieve, anguish; (n) ANTONYMS: (adj) lasting,
sameness, alikeness, confirmation ill, agony, nuisance. ANTONYMS: thorough, intended, lengthy, long;
oppression: (n, v) hardship, (v) encourage, cheer; (n) joy, peace, (n) birth, failing
grievance; (n) injustice, despotism, content, balm, ecstasy passion: (n) affection, fire, fervor,
weight, stress, doldrums; (adj, n) painting: (n) portrait, likeness, love, feeling, anger, enthusiasm,
abuse, tyranny, dictatorship, colouring, depiction, icon, heat, craving, desire; (n, v) ardor.
autocracy. ANTONYMS: (n) illumination, image, design, coat, ANTONYMS: (n) apathy, hate,
democracy, ease, freedom, liberty drawing, house painting serenity, meekness, hatred, doubt,
oracle: (n) prophet, divination, pair: (n, v) match; (adj, n) brace; (n) dislike, calmness, moderation
vaticinator, diviner, revelation, seer, duet, duo, dyad; (v) join, mate, link, passionate: (adj, v) ardent,
sibyl, Solomon, soothsayer, vision, copulate, equate, marry impetuous; (adj) hot, excited,
authority palatable: (adj) luscious, tasty, burning, angry, fervent, fierce,
order: (n, v) command, direct, decree, agreeable, toothsome, appetizing, animated, earnest; (adj, adv) fiery.
dictate, sort, rank, array, eatable, delectable, delicate, tasteful, ANTONYMS: (adj) indifferent, mild,
commission, charge; (n) instruction, sweet, savory. ANTONYMS: (adj) passionless, unenthusiastic, cold,
edict. ANTONYMS: (n, v) request; disagreeable, indigestible, inedible, calm, halfhearted, cool, lukewarm,
(n) mayhem, confusion, chaos, mess, tasteless weak, uninterested
anarchy, disorderliness, disarray; (v) pale: (adj) faint, wan, dull, weak, past: (n) history, yesterday; (adj, adv,
disturb, deregulate, supply light, bloodless, pallid; (adj, v) dim; prep) beyond; (adj) former, bygone,
orders: (n) holy orders, information, (n) boundary, confine; (v) blanch. old, prior, over, gone by; (adv)
preparation, remit, briefing, ANTONYMS: (adj) strong, rosy, before; (adv, pref) along.
guidelines brown, well, glowing, vivid, ANTONYMS: (adj, n) future,
orgy: (n) debauchery, binge, debauch, healthy, clear, colorful; (v) redden, present; (prep) within; (adj) current,
Saturnalia, bacchanal, drunken darken contemporary, modern, upcoming,
revelry, riot, Bacchanalia, palsied: (adj) paralyzed, disabled, following, subsequent, later; (n)
pampering, rite, splurge motionless, unsteady, weak, prospect
original: (adj) primitive, native, comatose, unconscious; (v) paralyse, patch: (v) piece; (n) plot, fleck, darn,
authentic, primary, new, paralyze, withered blot, freckle, bed, maculation, field;
indigenous, aboriginal, primeval, pampered: (adj) indulged, spoiled, (n, v) botch, repair
primordial, early; (n) archetype. soft, bad, fed luxuriously, luxurious paul: (n) Alice Paul, apostle of the
ANTONYMS: (adj) hackneyed, pamphlet: (n) book, leaflet, booklet, gentiles, apostle Paul, capital of
derivative, copied, banal, corny, flyer, magazine, treatise, tract, Minnesota, Paul the Apostle, Saint
resulting; (n) counterfeit, imitation, writing, literature, folder, lampoon Paul, Saul
replica, fake, copy panthers: (n) order Carnivora, lions, pawn: (n) bail, hostage, instrument,
others: (n) rest, cessation, lie, lave, dogs, Carnivora, bears, jackals mortgage, gage, guarantee, bond,
LAN, ease, acquiesce, intermission part: (adj, n) constituent; (n) piece, collateral, lien, tool; (v) hock.
ourselves: (pron) myself, herself, article, section; (v) break, disjoin, ANTONYM: (v) redeem
itself, oneself, themselves, yourself; divide, divorce; (n, v) branch, peace: (adj, n) calm, quiet; (n)
(n) me, yourselves, usself division, character. ANTONYMS: harmony, hush, repose, ease, amity,
outlay: (n) expenditure, expense, (n) whole, entirety; (v) join, unite, agreement, rest, pacification, order.
disbursement, charge, outgo, meet, arrive, connect; (adv) wholly ANTONYMS: (n) noise, chaos,
spending, fee, expenses, particularly: (adj, adv) specially, conflict, uproar, commotion,
defrayment, payment; (v) expend only; (adv) peculiarly, specifically, agitation, war, distress, suffering,
owls: (n) order Strigiformes, individually, expressly, separately, disruption, turbulence
Strigiformes curiously, markedly, unusually, peep: (n, v) glance, peek, look, gaze,
pacifistic: (adj) peaceful, dovish, definitely. ANTONYMS: (adv) glint, squeal; (n) glimpse, cheep; (v)
neutral slightly, generally, vaguely, chirp, peer, pry. ANTONYMS: (v)
pack: (n, v) crowd, bundle, bunch, somewhat, unexceptionally stare, gaze; (n) examination
load; (n) herd, company, bevy, parts: (n) faculty, nous, quick parts, peering: (adj) nosy, prying, snoopy
batch; (v) heap, compress, jam. sagacity, wit, surroundings; (adj) pell-mell: (adv) helter-skelter,
ANTONYMS: (v) unpack, unload, ingenuity, cleverness, capacity, turn, blindly; (adj, adv) posthaste
disperse, empty, loosen talents peloponnesus: (n) Peloponnese
packed: (adj) full, compact, filled, pass: (adj, n, v) run; (v) flow, give, perceive: (v) comprehend,
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apprehend, discover, see, grasp, phallic: (adj) male cruel, ruthless, implacable,
find, know, observe, sense, phallus: (n) penis, cock, prick, pecker, remorseless, inexorable, inhuman,
appreciate; (adj, v) discern. shaft, Peter, tool, extremity, Dick, heartless, hard. ANTONYMS: (adj)
ANTONYMS: (v) Miss, observe, appendage, genus phallus merciful, charitable, soft,
ignore philip: (n) prince Philip compassionate, warmhearted,
perchance: (adv) maybe, possibly, by philosophic: (v) platonic, staid, sympathetic, flexible, caring,
chance, peradventure, accidentally, stayed, stoical; (adj) thoughtful, tolerant
incidentally, mayhap, chance, rational, patient, learned, ideologic, pity: (n, v) compassion, ruth; (n)
haphazard, probably, haply ideological. ANTONYM: (adj) mercy, commiseration, condolence,
perfume: (n, v) scent, essence, odor, nonphilosophical sympathy, clemency, remorse; (v)
smell; (n) aroma, bouquet, cologne, phosphor: (n) phosphorus, sympathize, compassionate, feel
incense, odour; (v) embalm, fluorescent material, Lucifer, sorry for. ANTONYMS: (n) blame,
aromatize. ANTONYMS: (n) stink, phosphide, scintillator cruelty, indifference, harshness, joy
stench phrase: (v) formulate, couch, put, place: (n, v) post, order; (v) fix, lay,
perhaps: (adv) mayhap, perchance, articulate; (n) expression, idiom, arrange, locate, install; (adj, n, v)
peradventure, possibly, probably, diction, speech, passage, locution; rank, station; (n) domicile, office.
conceivably, by chance, haply, if, (n, v) word ANTONYMS: (v) remove, divest,
presumably; (n) might. ANTONYM: pick: (n) alternative, best, option, lift, dismantle
(adv) certainly selection, choice; (adj, n) cream, places: (n) chairs, seating, spaces
perilous: (adj, v) dangerous, elite; (adj, v) select; (v) opt, harvest, plague: (v) molest, harass, afflict,
hazardous; (adj) insecure, unsafe, gather. ANTONYMS: (v) reject, hassle, annoy, badger, pester,
parlous, precarious, risky, refuse disturb, beleaguer; (n, v) worry; (adj,
treacherous, dicey, critical, dodgy. picking: (n) option, selection, n, v) bother. ANTONYM: (v)
ANTONYM: (adj) secure alternative, gathering, collection, comfort
perish: (v) expire, pass away, choice, harvesting, leavings, plain: (adj) ordinary,
decease, go, fade, decay, depart, fall, collecting, indefinite quantity; (v) comprehensible, intelligible,
pass, ruin, annihilate. ANTONYMS: choose apparent, manifest, obvious, clear,
(v) survive, live, appear pierced: (adj) punctured, perforate, simple; (adj, n) flat, homely, humble.
perjury: (v) mendacity; (n) bearing penetrated, cut, cleft ANTONYMS: (adj) elaborate,
false witness, lying under oath, false pigmy: (adj, n) pygmy; (adj) tiny, unclear, multicolored, mottled,
evidence, violation, lie, exiguous, petty, minikin, ornate, concealed, attractive,
infringement, infraction, falsehood, pigwidgeon, urchin, elfin; (n) elf, confused, fussy, obscure, patterned
offense, offence manikin, atom plainly: (adv) evidently, manifestly,
persevere: (v) persist, continue, pile: (n, v) heap, stack, mass, pack, clearly, distinctly, openly, obviously,
endure, abide, go on, hang on, hold jam; (n) congeries, mound, bunch, patently, overtly, definitely; (adj,
on, follow, keep, remain, pursue. accumulation; (v) amass; (adj, n) adv) frankly, honestly.
ANTONYMS: (v) surrender, stop, nap. ANTONYM: (v) unload ANTONYMS: (adv) imperceptibly,
quit piled: (adj) heaped, dense, aggregate, vaguely, obscurely, figuratively,
person: (n) individual, human, man, collective, concentrated, cumulous unclearly, politely, incoherently,
mortal, character, soul, human pillared: (adj) columned implicitly, finely, ambiguously,
being, being, creature, body; (n, v) pious: (adj, n, v) devout; (adj, n) covertly
party godly; (adj) religious, holy, saintly, plan: (n, v) aim, map, figure, scheme,
personal: (adj) own, particular, devotional, pure, hypocritical, outline, plot; (n) intent, pattern,
human, intimate, peculiar, private, devoted, sanctimonious; (adj, v) chart; (v) intend, devise.
direct, proper, subjective, physical; earnest. ANTONYMS: (adj) ANTONYM: (v) improvise
(n) person. ANTONYMS: (adj) impious, sinful, profane, plane: (adj, v) even, smooth; (n, v)
public, general, detached, collective, blasphemous, irreligious, airplane; (adj) flat, horizontal, flush;
common, orthodox, formal, uncommitted, secular, irreverent (n) face, surface, aircraft, degree; (v)
impersonal, outermost, external, pipe: (n) conduit, duct, flue, passage, flatten
typical pipage; (n, v) channel, cry; (v) platonic: (adj) chaste, spiritual,
persons: (n) folk, public, society, squeak, sing, peep, screech ghostly; (v) staid, philosophical,
world pitch: (n, v) fling, cast, degree, dip, philosophic, stayed, reflective,
persuade: (v) convince, coax, assure, tilt, lurch, toss, throw, slant; (v) thoughtful, studious, stoical.
allure, entice, influence, induce, chuck, hurl ANTONYM: (adj) physical
cajole, argue, exhort, lure. pitiful: (adj, n) abject; (adj) pathetic, platter: (n) disk, record, disc, tray,
ANTONYMS: (v) discourage, lamentable, piteous, contemptible, trencher, phonograph record,
dissuade, deter, restrain, force miserable, distressing, mean, phonograph recording, porringer,
pestering: (n) harassment, wretched, poor, sad. ANTONYMS: potager; (adj) table, tablet
annoyance; (adj) pesky, carking, (adj) generous, heartwarming, play: (n, v) act, frolic, pastime, game,
vexatious, vexing, cranky, admirable, cheerful, fine, happy, sport, exercise, joke, bet, wager; (v)
disagreeable; (adj, v) teasing; (v) impressive enact; (adj, v) perform.
worrying, tormenting pitiless: (adj) merciless, brutal, harsh, ANTONYMS: (n) tightness; (v)
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avoid, leave, real style, poetics, epos, poems, stanza, confident, direct, incontrovertible,
plea: (n) defense, answer, apology, doggerel, tuneful Nine peremptory, plus, explicit, definite.
pretext, appeal, defence, petition, point: (n, v) grade, head, nib, level, ANTONYMS: (adj) uncertain,
claim, allegation, adjuration, call. aim, degree; (n) peak, article, dot; derogatory, unsure, pessimistic, sad,
ANTONYMS: (n) instruction, (adj, n) edge; (v) direct. ANTONYM: downbeat, destructive, neutral,
accusation, response (n) middle disheartened, uncomplimentary,
pleasant: (adj) jolly, amiable, pointing: (n) punctuation, indication, useless
agreeable, acceptable, nice, scoring possible: (adj) imaginable, likely,
charming, kindly, facetious, joyful, poised: (adj) balanced, calm, feasible, practicable, earthly, maybe,
pretty; (adj, v) pleasing. composed, steady, equanimous, probable, practical, potential,
ANTONYMS: (adj) disgusting, assured, urbane, serene, stable, tolerable, thinkable. ANTONYMS:
horrible, repugnant, nasty, massed, gathered. ANTONYMS: (adj) unlikely, compulsory, actual,
gruesome, unwelcome, harsh, (adj) awkward, unprepared, coarse implausible, unrealistic,
shocking, disagreeable, foul, terrible policy: (n) course, plan, insurance, unattainable
please: (v) delight, charm, amuse, approach, tactics, game, system, post: (n, v) place, position, stake,
entertain, oblige, enchant, enrapture; principle, line, politics, polity station; (n) office, function, pillar,
(adj, v) gratify, enjoy, like; (adj) glad. polite: (adj) cultured, gentle, courtly, attitude; (v) locate, enter, lay
ANTONYMS: (v) displease, annoy, civil, refined, proper, genteel, kind, postern: (n) gate, ostiary, portal,
irritate, anger, distress, sicken, attentive, friendly, complaisant. porch, wicket, vestibule, trapdoor,
disappoint, dissatisfy, sadden, repel, ANTONYMS: (adj) rude, threshold, back door; (adj, n) rear;
appall discourteous, boorish, improper, (adj) side
pledge: (n, v) bond, gage, wager, abusive, common, authoritative, pounded: (adj) beaten, ground,
engage, promise, plight, guarantee, disobedient, uncivilized, uncivil, crushed, pulverized, minced, broken
bet, contract; (n) assurance; (v) curt up, milled
covenant. ANTONYM: (v) redeem political: (adj) national, civil, state, powdered: (adj) powdery, fine,
plenipotentiary: (n) diplomat, government, diplomatic, crushed, milled, ground, broken up,
ambassador, attorney, envoy, proxy, governmental, supporting, finer, minced, pulverised; (n)
diplomatist, minister, alter ego; (adj) following, cunning punctated, milk
plenary politician: (n) legislator, politico, power: (n, v) might, ability, influence,
plight: (n) condition, predicament, lawgiver, political leader, mayor, dominion, faculty; (n) potency,
fix, fettle, quandary, dilemma, case, pol, nominee, campaigner, energy, control, authority,
guarantee; (n, v) engage, promise; governor, statemonger, tactician domination, strength. ANTONYMS:
(v) covenant politics: (n) government, policy, (n) powerlessness, helplessness,
plodding: (adj) slow, stodgy, heavy, geopolitics, political sympathies, weakness, inability, subjugation,
hardworking, ponderous, steady; (n) political relation, thought, moderation, calmness, meekness,
persistence, grind, donkeywork, profession, sentiment, governance, inferiority, feebleness, ease
drudgery, walking. ANTONYMS: governing; (n, v) diplomacy powers: (n) authority, capacity,
(adj) dilettante, rapid poor: (adj) bad, miserable, piteous, strength, administration
plough: (v) hoe, manure, delve, destitute, pitiful, insufficient, practically: (adv) usefully, nearly,
dibble, dig, dress the ground, penniless, pathetic; (adj, v) meager; pragmatically, almost, effectively,
cultivate, turn over, rake, weed, to (adj, n) paltry, mean. ANTONYMS: functionally, conveniently, about,
plough (adj) wealthy, excellent, privileged, much, in reality, as a matter of fact.
plucked: (v) ploughed; (adj) pulled, admirable, good, adequate, ANTONYMS: (adv) theoretically,
unfeathered, featherless, moulting, satisfactory, outstanding, favorable, unrealistically, foolishly,
pilled dignified, comfortable romantically, irrationally, barely,
plunder: (n, v) pillage, spoil; (v) populace: (n) multitude, masses, awkwardly, unreasonably,
despoil, harry, devastate, maraud, inhabitants, public, commonalty, recklessly
destroy, strip, ransack; (n) booty, mob, crowd, population, nation, practised: (adj) practiced, expert,
depredation man, country adept, good, trained, proficient,
plunge: (n, v) drop, dive, fall, jump; porter: (n) doorkeeper, carrier, seasoned, skilful, skilled, skillful,
(v) douse, duck, submerge, crash, gatekeeper, doorman, caretaker, versed
dunk, plummet; (adj, v) immerse. ostiary, commissionaire, redcap, praise: (v) approve, extol, flatter,
ANTONYMS: (n, v) rise; (v) hesitate; labourer, conveyer, concierge celebrate, glorify; (n, v) commend,
(n) improvement portion: (n, v) division, lot, allot, compliment, honor, glory, acclaim;
poem: (n) lay, lyric, verse, rhyme, dividend, divide; (n) piece, parcel, (n) applause. ANTONYMS: (n)
ballad, chant, epic, ode, ballade, fragment, component, section; (adj, criticism, disparagement; (v)
elegy, epos n) constituent. ANTONYM: (n) reprimand, disparage, reproach,
poet: (n) singer, songster, elegist, whole scold, belittle, rebuke, chastise,
author, Gilbert, maker, lyricist, poseidon: (n) Neptune, triton, Thetis, denigrate, sully
muse, versifier; (adj) poet laureate, naiad, Nereid pray: (v) beg, implore, entreat, crave,
Shakespearean positive: (adj, v) absolute, sure; (adj, invite, plead, beseech, appeal,
poetry: (n) verse, poesy, song, rhyme, n) actual; (adj) affirmative, importune, adjure, invoke.
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ANTONYM: (v) reject offer, perform. ANTONYMS: (v) puritanically, neatly, properly,
praying: (n) prayer withdraw, withhold, consume, take; precisely, decorously, Victorianly.
precedence: (n) lead, advantage, (adj) missing, lost, dated, historical; ANTONYM: (adv) brashly
anteriority, pas, antecedency, (adj, n) past, future; (n) history primp: (v) dress up, attire, groom,
preference, precession, superiority, pressure: (n, v) force, drive, press, preen, clothe, plume, arrange, prink,
supremacy; (adj, n) priority; (adj) urge, weight; (n) load, insistence, trim, lop, apparel
rank duress, exigency, constraint, prise: (v) esteem, pry, prize, jimmy,
precincts: (n) entourage, arena, compulsion. ANTONYMS: (v) admire, reckon, break down,
outskirts, neighbourhood, walk, protect; (n) relief, unimportance evaluate, venerate, value, respect.
neighborhood, proximity, presumption: (n) effrontery, ANTONYM: (v) disrespect
surroundings, vicinity, limitations, confidence, assurance, premise, probe: (v) explore, inspect, fathom,
suburbs arrogance, guess, conjecture, investigate, search, look into, check;
preciosity: (n) affectedness, surmise, insolence, impertinence, (n) investigation; (n, v) examination,
mannerism, artificiality belief. ANTONYM: (n) respect research, inquiry
precipice: (n) abyss, chasm, pretence: (n) deceit, pretext, problem: (n) difficulty, bother,
escarpment, gulf, steep, crag, verge, dissimulation, pretense, affectation, trouble, knot, enigma, matter,
brink, abysm, ravine, drop falsehood, deception, hypocrisy, riddle, job, case, poser; (n, v)
precisely: (adv) accurately, correctly, bluff, appearance, pretension question. ANTONYMS: (n)
strictly, truly, specifically, pretend: (adv, v) assume; (adj, v) explanation, answer, capability,
meticulously, minutely, literally, sham, counterfeit, fake, play; (v) ease, help, resolution, pleasure
scrupulously, rigorously; (adj, adv) dissimulate, dissemble, make problems: (n) trouble, difficulties,
just. ANTONYMS: (adv) clumsily, believe, imagine, affect, act. difficulty, troubles, effort, struggle,
indistinctly, approximately, ANTONYMS: (adj, v) real; (adj) sweat, nuisance, ills, harms, exertion
inaccurately, imprecisely, wrongly, genuine, natural, sincere proceed: (v) move, advance,
randomly, carelessly, poorly, wrong, prettily: (adv) beautifully, originate, ensue, flow, issue, arise,
haphazardly charmingly, pleasantly, emanate; (adj, v) pass, run, extend.
predilection: (n) penchant, handsomely, finely, neatly, ANTONYMS: (v) discontinue,
preference, partiality, inclination, gracefully, picturesquely, elegantly, recede, regress, return, retreat
bent, weakness, predisposition, delightfully, pleasingly. process: (n, v) action, course,
liking, fondness, bias, taste. ANTONYMS: (adv) unattractively, function, act; (n) proceeding,
ANTONYMS: (n) indifference, unpleasantly operation, method, procedure,
horror pretty: (adj) fair, graceful, lovely, formula, outgrowth; (v) refine.
prejudice: (n, v) harm, hurt, damage; handsome, attractive, charming, ANTONYM: (v) contaminate
(v) influence, predispose, injure; (n) good-looking, picturesque, dainty; produce: (n, v) effect, gain, make,
disadvantage, partiality, (n) nice; (adv) very. ANTONYMS: cause; (v) bring, present, procreate,
preconceived notion, discrimination, (adj) plain, unattractive, modern, bring about, generate, breed,
preconception. ANTONYMS: (n) inelegant; (adv) extremely construct. ANTONYMS: (v)
tolerance, fairness, impartiality, prevent: (n, v) hinder, bar; (v) dampen, consume, halt
justice, broadmindedness; (v) anticipate, block, forbid, avert, profoundly: (adv) thoroughly,
enhance avoid, preclude, arrest, hamper, extremely, intensely, exhaustively,
preparation: (n) concoction, obviate. ANTONYMS: (v) allow, greatly, sincerely, gravely, deep,
provision, training, readiness, permit, promote, advance, attract, heavily, weightily, very.
practice, homework, formulation, cause, let, drive, help, support, ANTONYMS: (adv) lightly, mildly
planning, prep, instruction, drill include progeny: (n) posterity, child,
prepare: (n, v) arrange, form, plan, price: (v) appraise, assess; (adj, n) children, family, lineage, successor,
make; (v) dress, set, lay, devise, worth, merit; (n) cost, charge, seed; (n, v) issue, breed, brood,
groom, equip; (adj, v) coach. expense, figure, fee; (n, v) estimate, generation
ANTONYM: (v) perform amount progressing: (n) expediting; (adj)
preposterous: (adj) absurd, irrational, pride: (n) arrogance, conceit, egotism, thriving, ongoing, moving, coming,
ludicrous, nonsensical, foolish, vanity, lordliness, assumption, forward, better; (adv) succeeding,
ridiculous, laughable, derisory, insolence, disdain, hauteur; (n, v) making headway, ahead, moving
monstrous, inconsistent; (adj, v) boast; (v) plume. ANTONYMS: (n) ahead
extravagant. ANTONYMS: (adj) modesty, sorrow, dregs, disgrace, progression: (n) advance, headway,
sensible, reasonable, impressive, shame, baseness chain, course, train, development,
plausible primitive: (adj, v) primeval, primary; series, sequence; (n, v)
presaging: (adj) ominous, (adj) original, archaic, crude, first, improvement, advancement,
foreshadowing, portentive, boding, early, antediluvian, aboriginal, furtherance. ANTONYM: (n) decay
oracular, prophetic, foreshowing, primordial, primal. ANTONYMS: projected: (adj) proposed, jutting,
announcing beforehand (adj) civilized, recent, complicated, planned, deliberate, protruding,
present: (adj, n, v) gift, grant; (n, v) factual, advanced protrusive, sticking, sticking out,
donation, display; (adj, v) confer, primly: (adv) priggishly, prissily, likely, anticipated, expected
bestow; (v) introduce, give, prefer, demurely, stiffly, formally, promenade: (n, v) stroll, walk, amble,
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ramble; (v) march, parade; (n) meddling. ANTONYMS: (adj) quaff: (v) drink, gulp, swig, guzzle,
esplanade, perambulation, prom, apathetic; (n) apathy drain, sup, sip, swill, swallow,
ball, mall psyche: (n) mind, brain, ego, spirit, carouse; (n) potation
promise: (n, v) covenant, guarantee, intellect, ghost, heart, mentality, quaking: (adj) shaky, quivering,
contract, vow, bargain; (v) augur, soul, Hydropsyche, head. trembling, shaking, wobbly,
assure; (n) engagement, assurance, ANTONYM: (n) body unsteady, jarring, vibrant, uncertain,
plight, word public: (n) folk, people, populace; insecure; (n) fright
promised: (adj) pledged, affianced, (adj) national, overt, civic, qualities: (n) character, disposition,
betrothed, busy, devoted, employed, communal, popular; (adj, v) general, nature, spirit, tone, quality, role, self,
greatly interested, intended, open; (adj, n) community. part, traits, individuality
involved; (v) benempt, named ANTONYMS: (adj) private, quarters: (n) abode, domicile,
promote: (adv, v) further, forward; confidential, personal, individual, lodging, residence, quarter,
(v) help, encourage, aid, push, privileged, restricted, unknown, diggings, pad, digs, lodgings,
prefer, develop, foster, advertise, home, secret accommodation, barracks
assist. ANTONYMS: (v) demote, puff: (adj, n, v) gasp; (n, v) blow, queen: (n) king, lady, sovereign,
prevent, downgrade, impede, whiff, gust, drag; (v) boast, inflate, monarch, dame, pansy, queer,
obstruct, oppose, restrain, thwart, huff, heave, brag, distend faggot, princess, fairy, czarina
buy, hinder, neglect pugnacious: (adj) belligerent, quell: (adj, v) appease, pacify, calm;
properly: (adv) duly, decently, bellicose, combative, aggressive, (v) overpower, crush, allay, put
appropriately, neatly, exactly, quarrelsome, warlike, contentious, down, suppress, conquer, defeat,
rightly, becomingly, fittingly, fitly, argumentative, hostile, martial, quash. ANTONYMS: (v) prompt,
seemly, aptly. ANTONYMS: (adv) peevish. ANTONYMS: (adj) submit, resist, aggravate, incite
improperly, incorrectly, peaceable, friendly quench: (adj, v) extinguish, allay,
inappropriately, unlawfully, pull: (n, v) draw, drag, pluck, tug, slake; (v) appease, quash, put out,
unsuitably, unduly, informally, wrench, jerk; (v) draught, haul, destroy, assuage, annihilate, calm,
indecently, dishonorably, badly, attract, pick; (n) attraction. chill. ANTONYMS: (v) stimulate,
jokingly ANTONYMS: (v) repel, shove, light
propitious: (adj) fortunate, lucky, leave; (n) repulsion, repulsiveness question: (n, v) query, distrust,
good, benign, happy, opportune; pulley: (n) sheave, tackle, crane, interrogate, matter, challenge,
(adj, v) auspicious; (adj, n, v) bollock, windlass, winch, wheel, demand; (n) inquiry; (v) investigate,
friendly; (adj, n) promising, hoist, spool, blockage, auction block inquire, contest, examine.
advantageous, kind. ANTONYMS: pulse: (n, v) throb; (n) pulsation, ANTONYMS: (n) certainty,
(adj) unfortunate, unlucky, impulse, heartbeat, legume, rhythm, resolution; (n, v) trust; (v) praise,
unpropitious, inopportune, hopeless pounding, cadence; (v) pulsate, reply, believe, accept
propose: (v) bid, nominate, design, palpitate, pound quick: (adj) bright, hasty, agile,
plan, proffer, move, intend, mean, punch: (n, v) jab, hit, drill, stab, nimble, intelligent, clever, speedy,
aim, suggest; (n, v) advance. thrust, cuff, wallop, beat; (v) prick, active, immediate, instant; (adj, v)
ANTONYMS: (v) reject, improvise, perforate; (n) die. ANTONYMS: (n) prompt. ANTONYMS: (adj)
oppose apathy, lethargy, sluggishness leisurely, dull, dim, thick,
proud: (adj) lofty, disdainful, purify: (adj, v) clear, cleanse; (v) unintelligent, thorough, inept,
haughty, exalted, egotistical, gallant, purge, disinfect, refine, distill, unobservant, lengthy, long,
pompous, lordly, majestic, sanctify, clarify, depurate, lustrate, permanent
overbearing; (adj, v) dignified. chasten. ANTONYMS: (v) pollute, quickly: (adv) promptly, rapidly,
ANTONYMS: (adj) humble, modest, dilute, soil, cloud, desecrate expeditiously, readily, speedily,
ashamed, embarrassed, sorrowful, purple: (adj) violet, lilac, imperial, swiftly, suddenly, hastily; (adj, adv)
disappointed, miserable regal, royal; (adj, n) empurpled; (v) immediately, shortly; (adv, n)
proverbs: (n) proverb empurple; (n) magenta, purpleness, instantly. ANTONYMS: (adv)
provide: (v) contribute, furnish, offer, ermine, pall slowly, gradually, permanently,
cater, supply, afford, equip, purpose: (n, v) plan, intention, later, eventually, thoroughly
administer, accommodate, allow, fit. design, project, resolve, purport, quiet: (adj, adv, v) still; (adj, n, v) lull,
ANTONYMS: (v) refuse, withhold, end, object; (n) mind, effect, motive. hush, pacify, compose, appease,
divest, neglect, take, buy ANTONYM: (n) weakness assuage; (adj, v) moderate, cool; (adj,
provoked: (adj, prep) exasperated, pushing: (adj) enterprising, pushy, adv) gentle, motionless.
inflamed; (adj) irritated, aggravated, pushful, ambitious, officious, ANTONYMS: (adj) noisy, talkative,
infuriated, indignant, irate, huffy, adventurous; (n) push, propulsion, vociferous, active, oratorical, fierce,
hot, excited; (adv) up in arms. thrusting, actuation; (v) vocal, unquiet, busy, disordered; (n)
ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, gratuitous, meddlesome noise
pleased puts: (n) stocks, securities, preferred quietly: (adv) stilly, calmly,
prying: (adj) inquisitive, stock, common stock, bonds peacefully, silently, softly, smoothly,
meddlesome, nosy, inquiring, nosey, pyre: (n) pile, heap, funeral, funeral tranquilly, serenely, restfully, lully,
intrusive, busy, snoopy; (n) pyre, stake, wake, mound, hair, fire, moderately. ANTONYMS: (adv)
nosiness, curiosity; (adj, n) funeral pile loudly, harshly, raucously,
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vociferously, anxiously, fine. ANTONYMS: (adj) common, real: (adj, n, v) actual; (adj, n) true,
energetically, manically, unquietly, frequent, usual, plentiful, pure, authentic; (adj) physical,
clearly, heavily, brashly commonplace, recurrent material, natural, concrete, positive,
quite: (adj, adv) altogether, fully, rarefied: (adj) thin, exalted, lofty, literal, native. ANTONYMS: (adj, v)
sheer, just; (adv) all, absolutely, rarified, tenuous, idealistic, noble, pretend; (adj) imaginary, artificial,
completely, entirely, exactly, majestic, refined, spiritual, thinner fake, apparent, mock, insubstantial,
enough, well. ANTONYMS: (adv) rascal: (n) villain, rapscallion, imitation, fantasy, false, bogus
hardly, slightly, insufficiently, monkey, miscreant, knave, realize: (v) achieve, perform,
partially scoundrel, scamp, rogue, varlet, discover, attain, appreciate, make,
rabid: (adj) mad, fanatical, fanatic, vagabond, brat execute, complete, accomplish,
enthusiastic, frantic, insane, rash: (adj, n) foolhardy, hasty, know, sense. ANTONYMS: (v) fail,
frenzied, extreme; (v) fierce, fiery; precipitate, eruption; (adj) neglect
(adj, v) wild. ANTONYMS: (adj) imprudent, reckless, impetuous, really: (adj, adv) honestly, genuinely,
happy, moderate heedless, audacious, sudden; (adj, sincerely; (adv) absolutely,
rack: (n, v) torment, wrack, Scud; (n) adv) thoughtless. ANTONYMS: authentically, certainly,
manger, grid, cage, bracket, stand; (adj) cautious, careful, sensible, substantially, in reality, positively,
(v) excruciate, afflict, agonize wise, considered, deliberate, truely, essentially. ANTONYMS:
racked: (adj) assured, confident, prudent, modest, slow, responsible, (adv) hardly, falsely, doubtfully,
miserable patient somewhat, unremarkably,
rage: (adj, n, v) fume, bluster; (adj, n) rather: (adv) a little, enough, fairly, nominally
wrath, indignation, frenzy, mania; pretty, moderately, considerably, reason: (n) account, intellect,
(n) passion, anger, craze, very, relatively, kind of, instead, occasion, object, understanding,
exasperation; (n, v) storm. kinda. ANTONYMS: (adv) argument, purpose; (n, v) cause; (v)
ANTONYMS: (n) gentleness, extremely, absolutely; (adj) complete argue, debate; (adj, n) rationality.
composure, calm, equanimity, ratified: (adj) sanctioned, legal, ANTONYMS: (n) inconsistency,
pleasure, serenity canonical, canonic disincentive
raging: (adj) hot, angry, fierce, irate, rationalizing: (v) rationalize, reasons: (n) proof
wild, infuriated, enraged, vehement, rationalise; (n) reasoning, thought rebellious: (adj) insubordinate,
heated; (adj, n) mad, rabid. rattling: (adj) lively, brisk, racy, mutinous, disaffected, defiant,
ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, mild, marvelous, fantastic, zippy, snappy, disobedient, contrary,
contained spanking, merry; (adv) very, real contumacious, insurgent, stubborn,
rags: (adj) refuse, rubble, scourings, ravaging: (n) destruction, pillaging, unruly, malcontent. ANTONYMS:
sweepings, trash, waste; (n) forray, depredation, desolation; (adj) (adj) docile, conventional, obedient,
clothing, tatter, orts, odds and ends, predatory, destructive conformist, content, conforming,
dress ravenous: (adj) hungry, greedy, avid, cooperative, loyal, meek,
raid: (n, v) foray, maraud, bust, famished, gluttonous, voracious, submissive, obliging
assault, sortie; (n) inroad, incursion, rapacious, insatiable, edacious, recognise: (v) identify, know,
onset, invasion, descent; (v) pillage. covetous, predatory. ANTONYM: acknowledge, approve, accept,
ANTONYM: (n) defense (adj) moderate concede, appreciate, confess,
raise: (n, v) lift, boost, increase; (v) reach: (n, v) fetch, stretch; (adj, v) recognize, make out, discern
erect, hoist, grow, enhance, build, overtake, pass, extend; (v) obtain, recognize: (n, v) know, discern; (v)
elevate, promote, foster. achieve, make, attain, get; (n) acknowledge, identify, distinguish,
ANTONYMS: (n, v) downgrade; (v) compass. ANTONYMS: (v) admit, discover, confess, realize,
lessen, demote, decrease, level, withdraw, differ, fail allow, appreciate. ANTONYMS: (v)
reduce, dismantle, knock; (n) reaches: (n) recess deny, diminish, forget, ignore,
lowering, reduction, descent reaction: (n) answer, response, disregard
raised: (adj) embossed, erect, convex, backlash, reply, effect, rebound, reconcile: (adj, v) conciliate, accord,
inflated, brocaded, high, uplifted, echo, retort, repercussion, rejoinder, harmonize; (v) accommodate,
lifted, exultant; (v) in relief, repousse reception pacify, placate, mediate, adjust,
rambling: (adj) disjointed, readiness: (n) facility, ease, harmonise, make up, propitiate.
incoherent, desultory, discursive, expedition, preparation, ANTONYMS: (v) alienate, estrange,
erratic, excursive, meandering, promptness, knack, dexterity, provoke, quarrel, segregate, worsen
diffuse, loose, errant; (adj, n) eagerness, quickness, fitness; (adj, n) reconciliation: (n, v) concord, peace,
wandering. ANTONYMS: (adj) alacrity. ANTONYMS: (n) harmony; (n) adjustment,
coherent, abrupt, conclusive, pithy, reluctance, delay agreement, rapprochement,
taciturn, compact ready: (v) prepare, fix; (adj, v) fit, pacification, reconcilement,
rampageous: (adj) violent, rampant, disposed, willing; (adj) quick, conciliation, appeasement,
rampacious, chaotic prompt, nimble, apt; (adj, n) mediation. ANTONYMS: (n)
ranks: (n) rank and file available, dexterous. ANTONYMS: incitement, war
rare: (adj) uncommon, thin, unusual, (adj) unwilling, reluctant, recover: (v) reclaim, get back,
seldom, scarce, precious, unavailable, unready, unripe, recuperate, retrieve, regain, pick up,
exceptional, infrequent, few, choice, difficult, unenthusiastic, young get well, restore, heal, convalesce,
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mend. ANTONYMS: (v) lose, die, merciless, grim, obdurate, ANTONYMS: (adj) pleasant,
decline, aggravate, abandon, persistent, unrelenting. delightful, desirable, reputable,
worsen, scatter ANTONYMS: (adj) gentle, lenient, lovely, lovable, humane, appealing,
re-establish: (v) restore, reconstruct, merciful, finite, soft, sporadic, feeble laudable
renew, regenerate, reestablish, relief: (n, v) help, ease, aid, reputation: (n) name, prestige,
return relaxation, assistance, solace; (n) distinction, face, celebrity, credit,
reformation: (n) correction, consolation, release, respite, character; (n, v) honor, esteem,
amendment, improvement, redress, abatement, rest. ANTONYMS: (n) report; (adj, n) renown.
reclamation, rectification, capture, discomfort, worry, ANTONYMS: (n) infamy, dishonor,
conversion, innovation, repair, aggravation, grief, hindrance, obscurity
renewal, reassembly intensification, distress rescue: (n, v) release, ransom,
reformer: (n) emancipationist, reluctance: (n) aversion, hesitation, salvage; (n) deliverance, delivery,
abolitionist, activist, hippie, indisposition, distaste, disgust, relieve; (v) extricate, recover, free,
demonstrator, crusader, insurgent, dislike, opposition, unwillingness, save, redeem. ANTONYMS: (n)
prohibitionist, meliorist, rebel, repugnance, diffidence, scruple. involvement, loss, abandonment,
radical ANTONYMS: (n) readiness, downfall; (n, v) capture; (v)
refrain: (v) desist, cease, fast, avoid, disposition, keenness, willingness, endanger, lose, aggravate
leave off, withhold, stop, spare; (adj, enthusiasm resources: (n) means, property,
v) forbear; (n) chorus, hold. rely: (v) depend, count, lean, believe, capital, finances, money, assets,
ANTONYMS: (v) participate, act, bank, confide, entrust, reckon, trust, substance, resource, wherewithal,
consume, persist swear; (n, v) rest funds, revenue. ANTONYM: (n)
refuse: (v) deny, reject, decline, remark: (n, v) comment, notice, note, inability
disallow, rebuff, turn down; (adj, n) mention, regard, mind; (adj, n, v) respects: (adj) abord, welcome; (n)
waste, trash; (n) offal, litter; (n, v) observe; (v) perceive, mark, discern; compliments, greeting, compliment,
dross. ANTONYMS: (v) allow, (n) observation baisemains, devoir, duty
receive, permit, offer, dedicate, remember: (v) commemorate, response: (n, v) answer, reply,
approve, agree, admit, choose, pass, recognize, recollect, recall, consider, rejoinder, respond; (n) reaction,
affirm memorize, think, mind, call to mind, reception, echo, retort, feedback,
refused: (adj) forbidden, refuse, retain, bear in mind. ANTONYMS: return, replication. ANTONYMS: (n)
prohibited, hence (v) ignore, neglect, overlook ignorance, request
refusing: (adj) negative, dismissive, remind: (v) recollect, prompt, recall, responsible: (adj, v) liable,
denying, recusative, noncompliant commemorate, call up, memorialize, answerable, amenable; (adj) reliable,
regard: (n, v) respect, esteem, hint, jog, inform, think; (n, v) mind dependable, trustworthy, culpable,
attention, heed, concern, note; (adj, remorse: (n) penitence, contrition, trusty, faithful, responsive; (v)
n, v) notice; (v) estimate, believe; repentance, regret, guilt, penance, bound. ANTONYMS: (adj) innocent,
(adj, v) attend; (n) deference. sorrow, grief, qualm, ruefulness, untrustworthy, reckless, guiltless,
ANTONYMS: (n) neglect, disesteem, compassion. ANTONYM: (n) thoughtless, unreliable, corrupt
inattentiveness, disdain, shamelessness rest: (adj, n) remnant, remainder,
detachment, infamy; (v) ignore, repeat: (v) copy, recapitulate, residue; (n, v) pause, balance, nap,
scorn, disregard reduplicate, reiterate, rehearse, relaxation, sleep; (n) recess, leisure;
rejected: (n) rejection; (v) crossed in return, say, double, renew, iterate, (v) remain. ANTONYMS: (n)
love, forsaken; (adj) jilted, reprobate, duplicate activity, agitation, intensification; (v)
refused, refuse, disallowed, reply: (n) echo, response, reaction, change, stand, deteriorate
abandoned, devastated, devastate repay; (n, v) return, rejoinder; (v) restless: (adj) fidgety, uneasy,
relate: (v) recount, narrate, link, respond, react, rejoin, retort, impatient, restive, agitated, fretful,
associate, tell, appertain, apply, counter. ANTONYMS: (n, v) turbulent, feverish; (adj, n) nervous,
detail, describe, recite, refer. question; (v) interrogate, ignore apprehensive; (adj, v) unquiet.
ANTONYMS: (v) dissociate, report: (n, v) account, gossip, name, ANTONYMS: (adj) relaxed,
conceal, conflict, contrast, record; (n) description, notice, peaceful, lethargic, unbroken, still,
disconnect, separate recital, story, notification; (v) contented
relation: (n) narration, recital, describe, recount result: (n) fruit, outcome, issue,
association, affinity, description, reproach: (n, v) blame, rebuke, answer, effect, conclusion,
rehearsal, kin, relative; (n, v) charge, abuse, disgrace, reprimand, aftermath, produce; (v) ensue,
account, report, regard invective; (v) accuse, chide, follow; (n, v) end. ANTONYMS: (n)
relatively: (adv) quite, rather, condemn; (n) condemnation. problem; (v) precede
respectively, reasonably, fairly, ANTONYMS: (n, v) praise; (v) retire: (v) resign, retreat, withdraw,
somewhat, partly, partially, commend, approve; (n) compliment, leave, abdicate, ebb, depart, turn in,
proportionally, proportionately, commendation, approval fall back, hit the hay, go to bed.
approximately. ANTONYMS: (adv) repulsive: (adj) offensive, detestable, ANTONYMS: (v) remain, enter
absolutely, wholly ugly, disagreeable, nauseous, return: (v) recur, reimburse, restore;
relentless: (adj) implacable, cruel, hideous, loathsome, abhorrent; (adj, (n, v) pay, restitution, recompense,
inflexible, stern, pitiless, harsh, v) abominable, hateful, obnoxious. refund, restoration, render, retort;
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(n) proceeds. ANTONYMS: (n) corrugation, moving ridge, wavelet, radical; (v) establish. ANTONYMS:
departure, confiscation, abolition, ripple formation; (adj) flowing, (n) descendant, effect
recovery, loss, disappearance, billowy rooted: (adj, v) fixed; (adj) ingrained,
penalty; (v) keep, depart, take, rise: (n, v) mount, lift, increase, immovable, inveterate, firm, set,
remove heave, swell, jump; (v) ascend, arise; frozen, riveted, irremovable; (v)
returning: (adj) regressive, return, (n) elevation, ascent, progress. imbedded, posited
reversive, recurrent, coming back, ANTONYMS: (n, v) decrease, drop; rope: (n, v) lasso, leash, tie, tape; (n)
ebbing, flowing back, new, newly (v) sink, descend, plummet, retire, lariat, noose, hawser, line, string,
appointed, newly elected, next. set; (n) reduction, descent, cord, thread
ANTONYMS: (adj) outgoing, depreciation, ruin rose: (adj) pink, rosaceous, risen,
unique, occasional risen: (v) uprise roseate; (n) pink wine, blush wine,
returns: (n, v) proceeds, income, rising: (n) revolt, rebellion, mutiny, rose wine, rosette, brier; (v) flush,
profits; (n) earnings, return, census, ascent, ascension, climb, rise, redden
take, revenue, wage, takings, result outbreak, insurrection; (adj) rosily: (adv) redly, ruddily, brightly,
revelry: (adj, n) revels; (n) climbing, uphill. ANTONYMS: (adj) roseately, glowingly, hopefully,
debauchery, festivity, orgy, plummeting, plunging, decreasing, blushingly, pinkly, cheerfully,
merriment, revel, carnival, mirth, falling, setting, downward, content; shiningly, radiantly
gaiety, carousal, jollification (n) fall rosy: (adj) hopeful, blooming,
rhythm: (n) cadence, pulse, beat, risk: (n, v) peril, chance, gamble, bet, optimistic, auspicious, promising,
cycle, tempo, rhyme, musical venture, adventure, wager, dare; (n) bright, roseate, ruddy, fortunate,
rhythm, calendar method, calendar danger, jeopardy; (v) endanger. flushed, pink. ANTONYMS: (adj)
method of birth control, metre; (adj, ANTONYMS: (v) protect, shun; (n) gloomy, depressing, hopeless,
n) meter security unpromising
rich: (adj, n) copious, luxurious; (adj) rites: (n) money, finances, wake, rough-hewn: (adj) rugged, rough,
productive, fruitful, full, deep, religion crude, rude
prolific, opulent, fat, affluent; (adj, rival: (n) competitor, enemy, foe, round: (n) bout, circuit, beat; (n, v)
v) fertile. ANTONYMS: (adj) poor, contestant; (adj, n, v) emulate; (n, v) ring, compass; (adv, prep) about;
impoverished, destitute, broke, match, contest, corrival; (adj, v) (adj) circular, entire; (adj, v) plump;
light, plain, lean, delicate, infertile, competitive; (v) compete, contend. (adj, n, v) turn; (v) gird.
weak, barren ANTONYMS: (adj) allied; (n) ANTONYMS: (adj) sharp, slender,
ridiculous: (adj) foolish, partner, friend, supporter thin, square, harsh, reedy, evasive;
preposterous, funny, laughable, road: (n) way, track, course, route, (prep) exactly
ludicrous, inane, nonsensical, avenue, highway, approach, rowdy: (adj, n) boisterous; (adj)
comical, farcical, amusing, comic. thoroughfare, direction; (n, v) disorderly, noisy, loud, unruly,
ANTONYMS: (adj) reasonable, passage, line uproarious, wild, raucous; (n) bully,
inspiring, ordinary, sensitive, roaring: (n) bellowing, roar, bellow, tough, hooligan. ANTONYMS: (adj)
acceptable, generous, normal, thunder; (adj) booming, prosperous, restrained, peaceful, quiet, tranquil,
possible, impressive, sane, thriving, flourishing, deafening, gentle, placid
worthwhile noisy, boisterous ruddy: (adj) cherry, rubicund, rosy,
rigged: (adj) prepared, premeditated roast: (v) burn, grill, bake, joke, heat, flushed, florid, sanguine, reddish,
righteous: (adj) fair, right, good, quiz, fry, cook, scorch; (n, v) glowing, blooming, crimson; (adj,
moral, virtuous, honest, just, correct, ridicule; (n) joint. ANTONYMS: (v) adv) blushing
honorable; (adj, n) pious, godly. cool, praise rude: (adj, n) rough, impudent,
ANTONYMS: (adj) immoral, robes: (n) garb, fine clothes, costume, coarse, abrupt, bold; (adj) blunt,
wicked, unrighteous, bad, corrupt, best clothes discourteous, impolite, brutal,
unethical, unjust, wrong, poor rogers: (n) Carl Rogers, ginger crude, mean. ANTONYMS: (adj)
rightly: (adv) correctly, rightfully, Rogers, Virginia Mcmath, will polite, refined, courteous,
properly, accurately, appropriately, Rogers, William Penn Adair Rogers chivalrous, civil, proper, decent,
exactly, fitly, straightly, fairly, really; rogue: (n, v) rascal; (n) knave, imp, exact, clean, gentle, inoffensive
(adv, v) adequately. ANTONYMS: miscreant, crook, cheat, impostor, ruffian: (n) rowdy, rascal, hooligan,
(adv) wrongly, inappropriately, swindler, cad, villain, scoundrel bully, brute, hoodlum, tough,
incorrectly, immorally, unjustly, room: (n) chamber, occasion, house, miscreant, villain, rogue, roughneck
partially, sinfully, unfairly, falsely apartment, opportunity, hall, ruined: (adj, v) lost; (adj) dilapidated,
ringing: (n) buzz, peal, resonance, opening, compartment, expanse, desolate, broke, broken, bankrupt,
ring, sound; (adj) reverberant, extent; (v) board. ANTONYM: (n) finished, devastated, desolated,
jingling, loud, resounding, tinkling, walkway insolvent, spoiled. ANTONYMS:
hollow rooster: (n) chicken, chanticleer, fowl, (adj) solvent, pure, rich, whole
riot: (n, v) revolt, mutiny; (adj, n) hen, cockerel, prick, partlet, Dick, rule: (n, v) control, order, govern,
disturbance, tumult, hubbub; (n) poultry, roosters, barn door fowl decree, influence, line, dominion,
insurrection, sedition, commotion, root: (n) foundation, base, origin, regulate, reign; (n) law, ordinance.
disorder, rebellion; (v) rebel basis, radix, cause, derivation, ANTONYMS: (v) request; (n) option
rippling: (n) ripple, wave, riffle, reason, fountainhead; (adj, n) rump: (n) rear, buttocks, bottom, tail,
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posterior, backside, haunch, (adj) civilized, gentle, nice scrap: (n, v) fight, brawl, clash,
hindquarters, croup, can, arse save: (v) rescue, hoard, conserve, quarrel, junk; (adj, n) remnant,
runs: (n) Aztec two-step, sickness, keep, maintain, preserve, free, fragment; (n) end, remainder, bit,
Montezuma's revenge protect, liberate; (adv, conj, n, prep) piece. ANTONYMS: (v) keep,
rush: (n, v) charge, flood, dash, flow, except; (adj, v) economize. restore, preserve, adopt, insert; (n)
gush, race, run, speed, attack; (adj, ANTONYMS: (v) waste, squander, chunk, lot
n, v) burst; (n) onrush. use, abandon, endanger, capture, scratch: (n, v) mark, graze, notch,
ANTONYMS: (v) delay, dawdle, asphyxiate, aggravate, destroy scrape, nick, scrabble, dent, scar; (v)
linger, wander, amble, hesitate, saved: (adj) protected, economized, rub, chafe, rake. ANTONYM: (v)
crawl, trickle; (n) shortage, rescued, blessed soothe
slowness, unimportance saviour: (n) deliverer, rescuer, savior, screaming: (adv) screamingly; (n)
sack: (v) plunder, dismiss, ransack, redeemer, Christ, saver, liberator, shrieking, shriek, screeching,
despoil, rob; (n, v) bag, discharge, recoverer, messianic, Jesus Christ, screech, vociferation; (adj) garish,
fire; (n) pocket, sac, pouch. Jesus loud, uproarious, showy, noisy
ANTONYMS: (v) hire, detain scale: (adj) balance; (v) mount, climb, screen: (adj, n, v) cover; (n, v) shade,
sacred: (adj) holy, hallowed, ascend; (n) gamut, yardstick, shield, hide, protect, conceal, riddle,
dedicated, consecrated, divine, graduation, degree; (n, v) flake, shelter, mask, disguise; (n) blind.
religious, pious, spiritual, inviolable, gauge, measure ANTONYMS: (v) expose, reveal,
blessed; (adj, v) solemn. scandal: (n) disgrace, dishonor, withhold
ANTONYMS: (adj) profane, gossip, outrage, discredit, rumor, scribble: (n, v) scrawl, scratch, sketch;
unconsecrated, cursed, breakable infamy, disrepute, ignominy, (v) scrabble, doodle, write, compose;
saddened: (adj) sorry, sad, depressed, detraction, shame (n) squiggle, cacography,
dejected, upset, dismayed, unhappy, scarcely: (adv) narrowly, rarely, scribblement, scrape
dissatisfied, troubled, disillusioned, hardly, just, scarce, uncommonly, scrub: (adj, v) scour, mop; (v) scrape,
in a state. ANTONYM: (adj) insufficiently, scantily, scantly, only clean, rub, polish, cleanse; (n) brush,
satisfied just, seldom. ANTONYMS: (adv) bush, scouring; (n, v) wash.
saddle: (v) charge, load, burden, easily, liberally ANTONYMS: (v) restore, dirty,
encumber, adjure, bear down, scare: (adj, n, v) panic; (adj, n) dread; insert
blame; (n) pillion, seat, saddleback, (v) intimidate, daunt, frighten, scrupulous: (adj) careful, punctilious,
bicycle seat. ANTONYM: (v) relieve appall, horrify; (adj, v) dismay, awe; exact, conscientious, particular,
safeguarded: (adj) secured, defended, (n, v) fright; (adj) consternation. painstaking, accurate, prudent,
shielded, safe, watched over ANTONYMS: (v) comfort, soothe, meticulous, rigorous, cautious.
saffron: (n) yellow, crocus sativus, encourage; (n) reassurance, bravery ANTONYMS: (adj) sloppy,
orange yellow, yellowness, scattered: (adj) dissipated, thin, unscrupulous, slapdash, relaxed,
seasoner, seasoning, flavouring, disordered, disconnected, confused, guilty, deceitful
flavourer, saffron crocus, flavorer; sparse, sporadic, distributed, rare, seal: (n, v) stamp; (v) plug, bar, caulk,
(adj) topaz diffuse; (v) disperse stop, shut; (n) cachet, hallmark,
sail: (n, v) cruise, float, voyage, sheet; scent: (n, v) fragrance, smell, odor, imprint, signet; (adj) conclude.
(v) navigate, run, glide, drift, cross, essence, nose; (n) aroma, bouquet, ANTONYMS: (n, v) open; (v) unseal
sweep, travel. ANTONYM: (v) redolence, odour; (adj, n) savor, seated: (adj) sat, sedentary
struggle flavor. ANTONYMS: (n) stench, second: (n) instant, jiffy, flash,
sake: (n, v) interest, reason, motive, stink minute, sec; (v) back, endorse, help;
ground; (v) advantage, cause; (n) scheme: (n, v) plot, design, intrigue, (n, v) support; (adj) latter, further.
object, account, design, purpose, project; (n) contrivance, dodge, ANTONYMS: (adj) top, former; (n)
saki device, diagram, method; (v) devise, age
same: (adj) identical, equal, like, conspire seduce: (v) lure, decoy, entice, allure,
corresponding, equivalent, similar, scions: (n) issue, brood, posterity inveigle, persuade; (adj, n, v)
uniform, even, consistent, matching; scorn: (v) despise, contemn, reject; (n, debauch; (adj, v) fascinate, captivate;
(adv) equally. ANTONYMS: (adj) v) ridicule, neglect, disregard, (n, v) tempt; (adj) bewitch
different, varying, another, unlike, deride, slight; (n) contempt, seed: (n) issue, posterity, root,
other, varied derision, mockery. ANTONYMS: (n, progeny, offspring, origin, nucleus,
sanctuary: (n) refuge, asylum, retreat, v) respect, praise; (v) appreciate, brood, embryo; (v) inseminate, plant
shrine, haven, safety, reservation, revere, value, approve, admire, seedling: (n) sapling, sap, plant,
shelter, chancel, protection, church accept; (n) admiration, spermatophyte, germ, set, plantlet,
sands: (n) littoral, litoral, beach, coast, commendation, humility young plant, embryo, formed tree,
quicksands, shore scoundrel: (n, v) rascal; (n) knave, phanerogam
sang: (n) panax quinquefolius, sing, blackguard, cad, villain, ruffian, seeing: (prep) because; (adj) Seely,
herb, herbaceous plant miscreant, crook, rapscallion, varlet, considering; (n) sight, vision,
savage: (adj, v) fierce, wild, furious; scalawag beholding, fusion, visual sense; (v)
(adj) ferocious, brutal, cruel, scoundrelly: (adj) roguish, rascally, conceive, comprehend, perceive
bloodthirsty, rough, pitiless; (adj, n) blackguardly, false, dishonorable, seek: (n, v) ask, inquire; (v) hunt,
brute; (n) vandal. ANTONYMS: dishonest, devilish endeavor, attempt, look, aspire,
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pursue, beg, quest, explore. impervious, dense, improper, established, decided, formed,
ANTONYMS: (v) answer, grant insensible, prosaic, straightforward, defined, finished. ANTONYMS:
seem: (v) appear, feel, seeming, loom, unconcerned, indiscriminate (adj) unsettled, exciting, temporary
expect, show, beseem, sound, glitter, sensitivity: (n) sensibility, feeling, seven: (adj, n) VII; (n) September,
glisten, gleam sensitiveness, sensation, sense, septet, week, nine, knave, king, jack,
seen: (adj) visible, clad, beseen, speed, delicacy, predisposition, queen, digit, Sevener
accomplished, discovered, appreciation, kindness, feeler. seventeen: (n) large integer
appearing; (v) observe, perceive, ANTONYMS: (n) insensitivity, shake: (n, v) jolt, beat, jar, quiver,
conceive, comprehend, understand heartlessness, imperviousness, wave; (v) agitate, excite, disturb;
seize: (v) catch, capture, grab, arrest, selfishness, cruelty, faintness, (adv, v) brandish; (adj, v) quake,
clutch, get, apprehend, receive, carelessness, indifference, totter. ANTONYMS: (v) soothe,
annex, clasp; (n, v) grapple. inaccuracy, numbness steady
ANTONYMS: (v) baulk, relinquish, sensitized: (adj) allergic, shakespeare: (n) the bard, William
restore, surrender, give, remove hypersensitized, hypersensitive, Shakspere, William Shakespeare
select: (adj, v) choice, excellent; (v) susceptible, supersensitized, shaking: (adj, n) quivering, tremor,
extract, adopt, choose, elect, prefer, supersensitive, supersensitised, jarring; (n) quiver, palpitation,
excerpt; (adj) exclusive, chosen; (adj, hypersensitised quake; (adj) quaking, shaky, flutter,
n) best. ANTONYMS: (adj) inferior, sensuality: (n) sensualism, unsteady, shivering
poor, mediocre, inclusive, cheap; (v) animalism, sensualness, lust, shall: (n) must, necessity; (v) require,
refuse carnality, concupiscence, animal bequeath, leave
self: (n) ego, person, me, individual, gratification, bodily enjoyment, shame: (n, v) disgrace, dishonor,
being; (pron) myself, herself, itself; hedonism, sensationalism, discredit, humiliate, degrade,
(adj) same; (v) own; (adv) personally debauchery chagrin; (n) humiliation, modesty,
senate: (n) council, legislature, sent: (adj) dispatched, imported, scandal, insult; (v) abash.
parliament, congress, Cortes, upper ecstatic, blissful, fascinated, ANTONYMS: (n) pride,
house, junta, assembly, House of intoxicated; (v) transmit. glorification, making, worthiness;
Representatives, storthing, ANTONYM: (adj) unsent (v) acknowledge, glorify, respect,
witenagemote separate: (v) part, detach, insulate, dignify
send: (v) pass, deliver, forward, scatter, dissociate, cut, disperse, shamed: (adj) dishonored, ashamed,
convey, dispatch, mail, post, give, disconnect; (adj) individual, hangdog, guilty, discredited,
carry, divert, project. ANTONYM: detached; (adj, v) discrete. abashed, sheepish, embarrassed,
(v) keep ANTONYMS: (v) unite, merge, mix, shamefaced, bullied, cowed
sending: (n) forwarding, dispatch, link, combine, fuse, join, associate; shameless: (adj) bold, immodest,
transmission, transmittal, send, (adj) connected, joined, profligate, depraved, audacious,
despatch, mailing, transport, simultaneous blatant, barefaced, unscrupulous,
dispatching, dispatchment, separated: (adj, prep) separate, impudent, unblushing; (adj, v)
conveyance isolated, disjoined, distinct; (adj, graceless. ANTONYMS: (adj)
sense: (n) perception, meaning, adv) apart; (adj) detached, divided, restrained, abashed, ashamed,
common sense, sensation, logic, disjointed, free, disjunct, discrete. discreet, prudish, apologetic
understanding, impression, feeling; ANTONYMS: (adj) attached, share: (n, v) portion, allot, part,
(n, v) feel, intellect, mind. connected distribute, apportion, deal, divide;
ANTONYMS: (n) stupidity, serious: (adj, n, v) grave; (adj) heavy, (v) participate, partake, dispense; (n)
garbage, ludicrousness, nonsense, austere, great, hard, dangerous, dole. ANTONYM: (v) refrain
foolishness, gibberish, illogicality, critical; (adj, v) sedate, important, sharer: (n) participator, participant,
irrationality, numbness, certainty; momentous, considerable. partner, associate, copartner,
(v) observe ANTONYMS: (adj) lighthearted, individual, accomplice, companion,
senses: (adj) sober senses, sound mild, flippant, cheerful, humorous, comrade, guest, mate
mind; (n) reason, mind, conception, minor, slight, playful, trivial, sheep: (n) goat, ram, tup, ewe, cattle,
consciousness, judgment, faculties, unimportant, brisk follower, Bovidae, stock, simple,
mother wit, right mind, sanity servants: (n) staff, suite simpleton, family Bovidae
sensible: (adj) aware, sagacious, serve: (adj, n, v) avail; (v) assist, aid, shield: (n, v) shelter, screen, cover,
prudent, rational, judicious, act, benefit, tend, attend, operate, guard, safeguard, buffer; (v)
perceptible, sane, wise, intelligent, function, do; (n, v) officiate preserve, secure, defend, hide; (n)
appreciable, sage. ANTONYMS: settle: (adj, n, v) fix, establish, protection. ANTONYMS: (n)
(adj) ludicrous, crazy, unreasonable, confirm; (n, v) place, set; (v) resolve, danger, exposure; (v) endanger,
stupid, silly, ridiculous, reckless, clarify, pay, regulate, adjudicate, attack, reveal
idiotic, outrageous, imprudent, mad agree. ANTONYMS: (v) float, shift: (n, v) change, exchange, turn,
sensitive: (adj) excitable, sore, tender, wander, prolong, owe, bungle, interchange, quibble, switch, move;
sensible, painful, impressionable, open, provoke, rise, weaken, (v) remove, budge, convert, alter.
emotional, irritable, receptive, worsen, complicate ANTONYMS: (v) restore, leave,
gentle, susceptible. ANTONYMS: settled: (adj) definite, set, firm, straighten; (n) preservation, stillness
(adj) numb, hardhearted, tactless, permanent, certain, calm, shifting: (adj) moving, variable,
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changeable, fickle, changing, tabernacle, church, grave uproar, movement; (v) amplify,
varying, unsettled, movable, fitful; shun: (v) evade, escape, elude, Louden, encourage, rouse
(n) change, movement. dodge, flee, refuse, shirk, ostracize, silent: (adj, adv) motionless; (adj)
ANTONYMS: (adj) smooth, banish, parry; (adj, v) eschew. dumb, tacit, mute, noiseless,
consistent ANTONYMS: (v) befriend, invite, reserved, placid, reticent, mum,
shining: (adj, v) brilliant; (adj) seek, welcome, woo, court, taciturn, hush. ANTONYMS: (adj)
lustrous, radiant, glossy, luminous, participate, include spoken, talkative, loud, explicit,
glorious, glowing; (adj, n) lucid, shut: (v) seal, bar, fasten, obstruct, open, live, forthcoming, verbal,
resplendent, clear; (v) shine. lock, exclude; (adj) closed, cut; (n) audible, talking, moving
ANTONYMS: (adj) dull, pale, shutting, end, finish. ANTONYMS: silk: (adj) silky, down, silken, velure,
blemished (v) admit, undo velvet; (n) silks, satin, cloth, animal
shivering: (adj) quivering, shaking, shuttle: (n) birdie, rabbit, bird, space fiber, fabric, dental floss
trembling, shaky, quaking, shuttle, badminton equipment, silks: (n) garment
tremulous, shuddering, chilled; (n) razzing, raspberry, public transport; silly: (adj) ridiculous, absurd,
chill, cold, shiver. ANTONYM: (adj) (v) ferry, commute, exchange childish, fatuous, irrational,
composed side: (n) rim, faction, brink, direction, frivolous, idiotic, preposterous,
shocking: (adj) frightful, shameful, hand, aspect, margin; (adj, n) part; unreasonable; (adj, n) fool; (n)
formidable, ghastly, horrible, (n, v) party, border, face. imbecile. ANTONYMS: (adj)
hideous, disgraceful, disgusting, ANTONYMS: (adj) distant, central, mature, wise, rational, clever,
scandalous; (adj, v) offensive, major, primary; (n) back, front, advisable, profound, reasonable,
abominable. ANTONYMS: (adj) center, middle; (v) straddle responsible, significant
admirable, delightful, pleasing, sideways: (adj) side, crabwise, similarly: (adv) correspondingly,
lovely, comforting, honorable, crosswise, indirect; (adv) obliquely, analogously, equally, likewise,
wonderful, bland, inoffensive, laterally, sidelong, sideway, kindredly, also, relatedly, likely,
decent, excellent sidewise, sidewards; (adj, adv) samely; (adj) same, similar
shoed: (adj) shod, shodden, calced, aslant. ANTONYMS: (adj) level, simple: (adj, n) plain, humble,
booted, roughshod, sandaled direct; (adv) across innocent, rustic; (adj) homely,
shop: (n) business, booth, boutique, sidney: (n) sir Philip Sidney elementary, natural; (adj, v) pure,
factory, plant, emporium, siege: (n) blockade, envelopment, clear, mere, downright.
workshop, market; (v) betray, encirclement, investment, besieging; ANTONYMS: (adj) complex,
purchase, grass. ANTONYM: (v) (v) beleaguer, encompass, environ, complicated, compound, elaborate,
boycott envelop, encircle, beset difficult, multiple, obscure, ornate,
short: (adj, v) concise, close; (adj) sigh: (n, v) groan, suspire, murmur; problematical, sophisticated,
scarce, curt, brusque, sharp, (v) breathe, languish, pine; (n) confusing
compendious, laconic, deficient, breath, wail, whimper, whine, since: (adv, conj, prep) because,
scanty, diminutive. ANTONYMS: suspiration seeing that; (adv, prep) afterwards,
(adj) long, high, lengthy, sight: (n, v) vision, glimpse, show, before; (adv, conj) for, as; (adj, adv)
unabridged, sufficient, slender, aspect, appearance; (v) aim, spot, ago; (conj) whereas; (prep) from, of;
rangy, rambling, overlong, see; (n) view, prospect, scene (adv) after
extended, plentiful signed: (adj) gestural, engaged, sincere: (adj, v) earnest, devout; (adj)
shoulder: (v) carry, push, hold, jostle, employed, communicatory, genuine, faithful, heartfelt, honest,
sustain, support, assume, accept; (n, communicative, nonverbal serious, open, artless, candid; (adj,
v) elbow; (n) back, flange significance: (n) sense, moment, n) cordial. ANTONYMS: (adj)
shout: (n, v) cry, clamor, scream, yell, purport, connotation, meaning, insincere, dishonest, guarded,
roar, call, bellow, screech; (v) bawl, consequence, effect, intent, concern, flippant, affected, disingenuous,
hollo; (n) cheer importance, point. ANTONYMS: (n) hypocritical, cunning, unfaithful,
shouted: (adj) screamed, loud insignificance, triviality, unenthusiastic, unbelievable
shouts: (n) cries unimportance, meaninglessness sing: (v) hymn, hum, chirp, drone,
shove: (n, v) thrust, jostle, poke, significant: (adj) material, grave, intone, vocalize, pipe, carol, snitch;
elbow, prod, boost, hustle; (v) press, meaningful, pregnant, relevant, (n, v) twitter, squeak
impel, shift, stuff. ANTONYMS: (v) emphatic, indicative; (adj, v) singe: (n, v) scorch; (v) char, sear,
pull, leave considerable, momentous, bake, parch, fry, roast, scald, swinge,
show: (adj, n, v) present, appearance; influential, serious. ANTONYMS: grill, inflame
(n, v) exhibit, produce, broadcast, (adj) minor, unimportant, small, single: (adj) celibate, odd, particular,
indicate, parade; (v) point out; (n) trivial, dubious, hidden, immaterial, separate, solitary, isolated, sole,
presentation, ostentation; (adj, v) irrelevant, meaningless, secretive, lone, lonely, simple; (adj, n) one.
guide. ANTONYMS: (v) disprove, nonsignificant ANTONYMS: (adj) double,
hide, withhold, suppress, disappear, silence: (adj, n, v) calm, still; (int, n, multiple, divorced, attached, dual,
cover, absorb; (n) concealment v) hush; (n, v) lull; (n) mum; (adj, v) involved, widowed, general,
shrine: (n) monument, place of appease; (v) mute, allay, pacify, common; (n) record
worship, altar, sanctuary, temple, muzzle; (int, v) shut up. sitting: (n) session, seat, seance,
house of worship, cenotaph, oracle, ANTONYMS: (n) sound, openness, meeting, seating, conference, posing;
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(adj) seated, inactive; (v) incubation, coarse smeared: (adj) smudged, unclean,
batching. ANTONYMS: (adj) sleep: (n, v) nap, repose, doze, kip, soiled, grubby, smirched, muddy,
standing, active slumber, catnap; (adj, n, v) lie; (v) messy, smudgy, grimy, greasy
situation: (n) employment, position, hibernate, nod; (n) dream; (adj, v) smell: (n, v) odor, scent, savor,
post, job, matter, location, lodge. ANTONYMS: (v) awaken; (n) perfume, stink, stench; (v) nose; (n)
circumstance, circumstances, alertness, agitation fragrance, bouquet, savour, odour
condition, site, office sleepless: (adj) insomniac, lidless, smelly: (adj) putrid, fetid, noisome,
skein: (n, v) mesh; (n) tangle, flock, vigilant, wakeful, awake, watchful, malodorous, foul, stinking, foetid,
maze, covey, snarl, bevy, tuft; (v) disturbed, alert, unquiet, uneasy, funky, rank, rancid, rotten.
net, plexus, sleeve restive ANTONYMS: (adj) aromatic,
skies: (n) heavens, firmament, sleeve: (n) arm, liner, cover, cuff, perfumed, fragrant, fresh
expanse wristband, collar, socket, skin, smelt: (v) fuse, temper, anneal, to
skilfully: (adv) skillfully, adroitly, sheath; (v) plexus, skein smelt, distill, refine, heat; (n)
cunningly, proficiently, deftly, slenderness: (n) fineness, thinness, sparling, capelan, caplin, capelin
adeptly, expertly, handily, artfully, slimness, delicacy, slightness, smite: (v) strike, hit, buffet, bang,
goodly, ably feebleness, tenuity, smallness, clout, knock, smash, thrash, thump,
skim: (v) slip, browse, skip, sweep, weakness, frailty; (adj) exility. batter, affect
read, race, fly, shave, brush; (n, v) ANTONYMS: (n) thickness, obesity, smitten: (adj, v) stricken; (adj) in love,
cream, slide stoutness, roundness, sturdiness, crazy, enamored, struck, nuts, dotty,
skin: (n) hide, fur, rind, coating, shell, width, coarseness besotted, gaga, taken with, affected
hull; (v) pare, scrape, excoriate, flay; slide: (n, v) slip, glide, fall, decline, smoke: (n) fumes, cigarette, cigar,
(n, v) bark slump; (n) chute, landslide, smog, fog; (n, v) reek, fumigate,
skinned: (adj) scraped, dartos, transparency; (v) slither, run, skid. puff; (v) exhale, cure; (adj) tobacco
frustrated, raw, scratched, sensitive, ANTONYMS: (n) recovery; (v) rise smoky: (adj) murky, hazy, fumid,
sore, tender, painful slightest: (adj) minimal, first, smallest vaporous, opaque, muddy, famish,
skip: (n, v) bound, leap, hop, caper, amount burnt; (v) sooty, smutty, dusty.
trip; (v) dance, bounce, prance, slip: (adj, n, v) lapse, miss; (adj, n) ANTONYMS: (adj) clean, fresh,
skim; (adj, v) miss; (n) omission. fault, blunder; (n, v) slide, drop, clear
ANTONYMS: (v) attend, trudge, mistake, escape, skid, trip; (n) smooth: (adj, v) quiet, level, facilitate;
include cutting. ANTONYM: (n) invoice (adj) calm, oily, facile, fluent,
skirt: (n, v) border, edge, fringe, hem, slipper: (n) mule, sandal, pump, boot, flowing, flat, fluid, graceful.
flap, verge; (n) brim, kilt, apron; (v) carpet slipper, bootee, slider, patten, ANTONYMS: (adj) rough, uneven,
evade, circumvent scuffs, slipshoe, vertical wrinkled, peeling, jerky, ridged,
skurry: (n) hurry synchronized slipper flaking, abrasive, coarse, prickly; (v)
slam: (n, v) knock, slap, smash, hit, slippery: (adj, v) precarious; (adj) wrinkle
bat; (n) sweep, crash, clap, shot, crafty, glib, elusive, oily, glossy, smoulder: (n, v) smolder; (adj)
gibe; (v) shut. ANTONYMS: (v) untrustworthy, wily, unreliable, smoldering; (v) seethe, combust
open, commend tricky; (v) questionable. snatching: (n) capture
slap: (n, v) clap, cuff, knock, hit, ANTONYMS: (adj) rough, dry, sneak: (adj, n, v) slink; (v) lurk, creep,
whack, beat, strike, spank; (n) blow; reliable, straight, direct crawl, fawn; (adj, n) coward; (adj, v)
(v) buffet; (adv) bang slipping: (n) skidding, slippage; (adj) grovel; (n) informer; (n, v) skulk,
slapping: (adj) slapper slithering, gliding, down, labent snitch; (adj) dastard
slaughter: (n, v) murder, butcher, sluggish: (adj) inert, indolent, snug: (adj, v) cosy, trim; (adj) cozy,
defeat; (n) carnage, butchery, inactive, idle, slow, torpid, slack, easy, comfy, tight, close, warm,
bloodshed, drubbing, homicide; (v) languid; (adj, n) lazy, drowsy, secure, homely; (v) neat.
kill, assassinate, slay. ANTONYMS: heavy. ANTONYMS: (adj) energetic, ANTONYMS: (adj) baggy,
(n) preservation, victory; (v) lose, fast, brisk, lively, alert, speedy, uncomfortable, unwelcoming, bleak,
revive industrious formal, loose
slaves: (n) helotry, bondsmen slut: (n) hussy, slattern, jade, floozy, snuggle: (n, v) cuddle; (v) nuzzle,
slavish: (adj) servile, menial, trollop, prostitute, hooker, quean, huddle, embrace, draw close, snug,
fawning, cringing, abject, wench, sloven; (adj) dowdy cling to, approach, come on, draw
obsequious, subservient, small: (adj) little, narrow, slight, near; (n) caress
submissive, ignoble, contemptible, minor, inadequate, petty, fine, soap: (v) bribe, grease, oil, wheedle,
pliant insignificant, light, remote; (adj, v) cajole, flatter; (n) cleanser, soap
slay: (n, v) murder, assassinate; (v) low. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) big; opera, sope, soap fire brick, stipend
dispatch, execute, slaughter, (adj) sizeable, colossal, considerable, sober: (adj, v) grave, sedate; (adj)
destroy, massacre, put to death, enormous, great, huge, bulky, sane, earnest, quiet, solemn,
remove, finish, butcher major, giant, important moderate, modest, serene, dull,
sleek: (adj) glossy, silky, shiny, smallest: (adj) least, minimal, littlest, somber. ANTONYMS: (adj)
slippery, silken, satiny, satin, even; lowest, last, first, negligible, smallest intoxicated, unrestrained, drunk,
(adj, v) slick, smooth; (v) polish. number of, bottom, littler. playful, sensational, emotional,
ANTONYMS: (adj) rough, shaggy, ANTONYM: (adj) maximum cheerful, frivolous, funny, muddled,
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delirious everywhere, around, passim, sousing: (n) souse, drenching, lush,
so-called: (adj) nominal, ostensible, ultimately soak, soakage, soaker, alcoholic,
pretended, false, quasi, sham, mock song: (adj, v) lay; (n, v) ditty, chant; boozer, dipsomaniac
social: (adj, n) sociable; (adj) national, (n) air, strain, cry, warble, canto, space: (n) gap, scope, opening,
public, friendly, companionable, poem; (v) sing; (adj) ballad period, place, void, margin, latitude,
common, neighborly, convivial; (n) sonsie: (adj) bosomy, curvy, extent, emptiness, distance.
mixer, party, society. ANTONYMS: curvaceous, buxom, plump, ANTONYM: (n) mess
(adj) unsociable, unfriendly, shy epicurean, embonpoint, chubby, spare: (adj, v) free, reserve, save, thin;
society: (n) club, public, community, busty, curvey, shapely (adj) slender, slight, additional, lean;
companionship, company, soon: (adv) shortly, presently, anon, (adj, n) extra, excess; (v) exempt.
fraternity, association, corporation, immediately, directly, at once, ANTONYMS: (n) shortfall, original;
fellowship, circle, people before long, betimes, quickly, (adj) principal, fat, basic, abundant,
soil: (adj, n) dirt; (adj, v) smudge; (v) promptly; (adj, adv) early. stout; (v) need, include
pollute, dirty, contaminate, mire; (n, ANTONYMS: (adv) now, spartan: (adj) severe, frugal, plain,
v) grime; (n) land, dust, earth; (adj, eventually, later, slowly strict, ascetic, rigorous, rigid,
n, v) blot. ANTONYMS: (v) wash, sooner: (adj, adv) rather, earlier, ascetical, nonindulgent, abstemious,
cleanse, purify; (n) sea before, preferably, instead; (adv) harsh. ANTONYMS: (adj) luxurious,
solace: (n) consolation, relief, balm, first, before now, faster, previously, abundant, hedonistic, lavish, fussy
solacement; (v) console, allay, beforehand; (adj) prior speak: (adj, v) pronounce, utter; (v)
relieve, recreate; (n, v) ease, cheer, soothed: (adj) composed converse, say, deliver, articulate,
support. ANTONYMS: (n) distress, sore: (adj, n, v) hurt; (adj) sensitive, recite, talk, discourse, lecture; (n)
grief angry, grievous, raw; (n) injury, language
sold: (adj) depleted, interested; (v) to lesion, cut, boil; (v) acute; (adj, v) spear: (n) harpoon, lance, pike, fizgig,
market sharp. ANTONYMS: (adj) happy, prick, gig, javelin, shaft, halberd; (v)
soldier: (n) warrior, fighter, healthy, pleased, comfortable stab, spike
serviceman, champion, ranker, sorrow: (n, v) regret, lament, grieve; spectral: (adj) ghostly, phantasmal,
military personnel, swordsman, (v) mourn; (n) mourning, heartache, apparitional, unearthly, ghostlike,
trooper, cavalryman, guardsman, repentance, remorse; (adj, n) supernatural, ghastly, shadowy,
janissary sadness, misery; (adj, n, v) distress. insubstantial, eerie, cadaverous
soldiering: (n) goldbricking, slacking, ANTONYMS: (n) joy, delight, speed: (n, v) hurry, hasten, rush, race,
shirking, soldiership, skill, happiness, peace, hopefulness, dispatch; (v) quicken, run, dash,
accomplishment, escape, evasion, cheerfulness, shamelessness, calm, expedite; (n) velocity, rapidity.
dodging, attainment, acquisition content; (v) rejoice ANTONYMS: (n) amble, tardiness;
soldierly: (adj) soldierlike, military, sorrowing: (adj) sorrowful, grieving, (v) decelerate, hinder, linger, delay,
courageous, valiant, warlike, mournful, distressed, bereft, crawl
manful, hostile, warriorlike bereaved, unhappy, lamenting, spenser: (n) Edmund Spenser
sole: (n) bottom, flounder, base; (adj) regretful, sad; (n) cry. ANTONYM: spindle: (n) axle, mandrel, pivot,
single, singular, one, exclusive, (adj) joyful arbor, shaft, mandril, axis, pin,
individual, only, alone, solitary. sorry: (adj) pathetic, sorrowful, hinge, bobbin, main spindle
ANTONYM: (adj) common remorseful, contrite, pitiful, pitiable, spirit: (n, v) courage, mind; (n) mood,
solve: (adj, v) interpret, loosen; (v) piteous, penitent, paltry, base, sad. ghost, apparition, disposition,
decipher, dissolve, answer, crack, ANTONYMS: (adj) glad, happy, energy, essence, soul, phantom; (adj,
clear up, riddle, explain, elucidate, admirable, unremorseful, fine n) animation. ANTONYMS: (n)
decide. ANTONYMS: (v) encode, sort: (adj, n, v) class; (n, v) type, lethargy, body, cowardice, surface,
exacerbate group, rank; (n) variety, breed, sluggishness, lifelessness, defeatism
someone: (n) individual, person, assortment, form, pattern; (adj, n) spirits: (n) alcohol, booze, humor,
human, self, party, man, one, soul, manner, description frame of mind, liqueur, strong
buster; (pron) anybody, anyone soul: (n) creature, human, person, drink, hard drink; (adj) cheer,
something: (n) what, object, thing, personification, ghost, individual, geniality, good humor; (v) wine
article, entity, substance, somebody; mind, essence, life, self; (adj, n) spiritual: (adj) religious, holy,
(adv, n) somewhat; (adv) rather, a heart. ANTONYMS: (n) surface, immaterial, incorporeal, pious,
little, kinda. ANTONYM: (pron) body ethereal, mental, psychic, divine,
nothing soundly: (adv) sound, fully, solidly, metaphysical, unworldly.
sometimes: (adv) from time to time, thoroughly, deeply, substantially, ANTONYMS: (adj) physical,
occasionally, every now and then, validly, strongly, stably, fastly, worldly, secular, earthly, tangible,
now and again, every so often, once, safely. ANTONYMS: (adv) uncommitted
sometime, once in a while, formerly; harmfully, halfheartedly, fitfully, spirituality: (n) inwardness,
(n) at times; (adj, adv) on and off. unconvincingly incorporeity, church property,
ANTONYM: (adv) regularly soup: (v) pottage, potage, drink, otherworldliness, benefice, religion,
somewhere: (adv) someplace, liquor; (n) juice, gumbo, spiritualty, beneficiary, devoutness,
approximately, anyplace, about, mulligatawny, borscht, bortsch, belongings, religious studies
wherever, where, roughly, borsht; (adj) emulsion spiritually: (adv) piously, religiously,
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intellectually, ghostly, inwardly, disperse, expand, propagate, ANTONYMS: (v) sit, lie, yield,
psychically, holy, internally, disseminate, diffuse, circulate; (adj, forbid; (n) top
sacredly, incorporeally, v) extend. ANTONYMS: (v) standing: (n) fame, position,
immaterially. ANTONYM: (adv) suppress, gather, collect, fold, importance, prestige, place,
physically prevent, regress, shrink, specialize, reputation, footing; (adj) erect,
spite: (n) malice, grudge, hatred, concentrate; (n) decline; (n, v) motionless, continuance; (n, v)
malevolence, rancour, venom, decrease stand. ANTONYMS: (adj) seated,
rancor, maliciousness, ill will, spring: (n, v) leap, bound, hop, moving, horizontal, falling,
animosity; (n, v) pique. fountain, skip, caper, bounce, dive, temporary
ANTONYMS: (v) please; (n) dance; (n) source; (v) originate stands: (n) bleachers, stood,
benevolence, goodwill, love, springing: (v) jumping, climbing, grandstand, standing, stop, covered
affection, harmony bounding, furious, conspicuous, stand, standpoint, stall, sales booth,
spitting: (n) spiting, expectoration, prominent, ascending, projecting reviewing stand, rack
ejection, sizzle, projection, forcing outwardly; (n) growth, suspension, stare: (n, v) gaze, look; (v) gape, glare,
out, expulsion, saliva emanation peer, squint, goggle, see, outface; (n)
spleen: (n) spite, anger, resentment, sprinkle: (v) splash, drizzle, moisten, regard, contemplation. ANTONYM:
rage, lien, malice, bitterness, cast, dot, spatter, spray, spill; (adj, v) (v) glance
rancour, huff, grudge, rancor. besprinkle; (n, v) dash, rain staring: (adj) conspicuous, garish,
ANTONYM: (n) affection sprouting: (n) germination, growth, agaze, vivid, noisy, showy, fixed,
splendid: (adj, n, v) illustrious, shooting, ontogenesis, maturation; opened, glassy; (adv) staringly
glorious; (adj) gorgeous, beautiful, (adj) growing, evolving, green, start: (n) onset, origin; (v) begin,
royal, gallant, proud; (adj, n) embryonic, emergent, nascent originate, drive, commence, embark,
magnificent, noble, grand; (adj, v) squabble: (n, v) quarrel, brawl, row, spring, enter; (n, v) launch, shock.
brilliant. ANTONYMS: (adj) bicker, feud, scrap, hassle, fuss, ANTONYMS: (n, v) finish, stop; (v)
unimpressive, modest, humble, fight; (n) contention, spat. conclude, halt, terminate, arrive; (n)
ordinary, undistinguished, meager, ANTONYM: (n) agreement conclusion, demise, departure,
awful, dire, lowly, inglorious, squandered: (adj) wasted, dissipated, middle, culmination
shabby emaciated, devastated, dissolute, state: (n) nation, position, kingdom,
splendour: (n) pomp, magnificence, diminished, desolated, desolate, status, country; (n, v) say, show,
lustre, splendor, luster, brilliancy, cadaverous; (v) bewildered, place; (adj) national; (v) express,
resplendence, luxury, grandeur, employed ineffectually expound. ANTONYMS: (adj)
grandness, brilliance squeeze: (n, v) hug, pinch, embrace, private; (n) monarchy; (v) conceal,
splintered: (adj) shattered, broken, nip; (adj, v) compress, force; (adj, n, refute
pixilated, split, soaked, blind drunk, v) press; (v) extort, cram, crush, jam. stately: (adj) solemn, imposing,
soused, blotto, sozzled, cracked, ANTONYMS: (v) expand, extend elegant; (adj, v) noble, dignified,
plastered stability: (n) durability, firmness, grand, proud, great; (adj, adv) regal,
split: (adj, n, v) break, cut; (n, v) rip, poise, permanence, equilibrium, majestic, royal. ANTONYMS: (adj)
rupture, fracture, slit, tear, burst, solidity, security, balance, boisterous, humble, modest, lowly
divorce; (v) divide, separate. stableness, strength, endurance. statement: (n) account, affirmation,
ANTONYMS: (v) join, unite, merge, ANTONYMS: (n) unsteadiness, instruction, announcement,
converge, combine; (n) union, unity, inconstancy, fluctuation, upheaval, communication, proposition,
marriage, convergence, closure; (n, softness, interruption, flimsiness, description, assertion, command,
v) mend inconsistency, imbalance enunciation, profession
spluttering: (adj) noisy stabilizing: (n) stabilization, stay: (adj, n, v) remain; (n, v) rest,
spoke: (n) bar, rung, radius, rule, chillproofing; (v) stabilize; (adj) prop, stop, delay, abide, continue,
shoe, skid, rundle, line, clog, round; helpful pause, endure, halt, support.
(v) said stacks: (n) piles, set of bookshelves, ANTONYMS: (v) change, abscond,
spoken: (adj) verbal, expressed, rafts, plenty, oodles, mountain, depart, move, disappear, become, go
speaking, speak, unwritten, vocal, scores; (adj, n) loads, myriad, lots; steaming: (adj) hot, sweltering,
voiced, talk, said, informal, (adj) ample roasting, baking, hot under the
conversational. ANTONYMS: (adj) staff: (n) club, pole, post, employees, collar, hazy, scorching; (adv) piping;
written, unspoken, tacit, formal, personnel, faculty, mace; (v) crutch, (n) fumigation
silent prop; (n, v) rod, stick step: (n) stage, degree, rank, level,
spool: (n) reel, roll, tube, quill, stake: (n, v) risk, chance, venture, bet, gait, gradation, footprint; (n, v)
cylinder, shovel, filature, roll beam, wager, post, pole, gamble, support; walk, measure, stride; (v) tread
winder, simultaneous peripheral (n) interest, shaft steps: (n) step, stairs, staircase,
operations online; (v) wind up stamp: (n, v) print, imprint, mark, stairway, flight, stepladder, scale,
spot: (n, v) place, speck, blemish, seal, brand, impress, cast, punch, backstairs, companionway,
speckle, fleck, dirty, dapple; (adj, n, shape; (v) trample; (n) impression escalator, stair
v) stain, soil; (n) dot, space stand: (v) endure, undergo; (n) rack, stern: (adj) rigid, rigorous, austere,
spread: (n, v) scatter, stretch, booth, attitude, base, pedestal; (n, v) hard, strict, grim, solemn, rough;
increase; (adj, n, v) reach; (v) live, position; (adj, v) suffer, tolerate. (adj, v) harsh; (n) back; (adj, n) rear.
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ANTONYMS: (adj) friendly, straight: (adj) erect, honest, upright, shortcoming, flaw, faintness,
approving, lenient, funny, genial, even, fair, perpendicular, correct; powerlessness, moderation,
gentle, kindly, lax, liberal, cheerful, (adj, adv, v) direct; (adj, adv, n) limitation, instability, impotence,
flexible right; (adj, adv) level, flat. feebleness, disadvantage
stick: (adj, v) adhere, cohere; (n, v) ANTONYMS: (adj) diluted, zigzag, stress: (n, v) strain, accent; (n)
stab, paste, staff; (v) cling, attach, fix, winding, curly, curved, curvy, emphasis, tension, pressure,
bind, affix; (n) bar. ANTONYMS: (v) twisted, wavy, knotted, askew; importance, force; (v) emphasize,
detach, open, undo (adv) indirectly punctuate, underline; (adj, n) pinch.
sticks: (n) backwoods, firewood, straightaway: (adv) right away, ANTONYMS: (n) relaxation,
frontier, outskirts, suburb, town, directly, now, forthwith, promptly, unimportance, relief, ease; (v) relax,
wilderness, brushwood, high sticks; at once, instantly, immediately; (adj) understate, deny, soothe
(adj) distant prompt, quick, immediate stretch: (adj, n, v) strain; (adj, v)
stifled: (adj) strangled, suppressed, straightforward: (adj) direct, open, extend, elongate, lengthen; (n)
muffled, deafened, completely square, simple, candid, plain, extent, expanse; (v) prolong, draw;
covered, dead, deadened, weak, honest, sincere, forthright, (n, v) run, spread, range.
deaf corn, regardless, decayed immediate, frank. ANTONYMS: ANTONYMS: (v) shorten, shrink,
sting: (n, v) bite, hurt, con, pain; (v) (adj) difficult, tricky, deceitful, withdraw, narrow, relax; (adj)
prick, itch, irritate, prickle, goad, complex, mysterious, pompous, inflexible
provoke, smart. ANTONYMS: (v) devious, ambiguous, dishonest, strew: (v) scatter, spread, disperse,
calm; (n) honesty disingenuous, evasive disseminate, distribute, diffuse, sow,
stirring: (adj) lively, exciting, alive, strain: (n, v) stretch, sift; (adj, n, v) sprinkle, bestrew, circulate,
rousing, spirited, touching, thrilling, tax; (v) screen, filter, try, exert; (n) propagate. ANTONYM: (v)
active; (n) agitation; (v) eventful, effort, breed, exertion, song. concentrate
brisk. ANTONYMS: (adj) ANTONYMS: (v) laze; (n) ease, stride: (n, v) pace, tread, walk, stalk,
depressing, boring, inactive, dull, relief rate, toddle, stump; (n) footstep,
conciliatory, asleep, uninspiring, straits: (n) pass, head, distress, sound, gait, progress; (v) march
unimpressive; (n) suppression isthmus, dire straits, destitution, strike: (n, v) hit, beat, bang, knock,
stolen: (adj) stealed, stole, stealing, point, crack, chief, caput assault, slap, clap, rap, smash; (v)
steal, steals, furtive, stealthy, secret, strange: (adj) foreign, peculiar, impress, move. ANTONYMS: (n)
taken, misbegotten, sly unusual, abnormal, outlandish, defense; (v) extinguish, defend
stop: (int, n, v) hold, stand; (adj, n, v) irregular, odd, new, mysterious, strip: (v) deprive, despoil, peel, rifle,
stay, cease; (n, v) check, end, close, extraordinary, curious. plunder, divest, denude, ransack,
block, bar, arrest; (v) obstruct. ANTONYMS: (adj) ordinary, pillage; (n) band, slip. ANTONYMS:
ANTONYMS: (n, v) continue; (v) normal, familiar, typical, usual, (v) decorate, cover, add
begin, encourage, permit, prolong, conventional, explicable, sensible, stripped: (adj) naked, nude, exposed,
persevere, expedite, accelerate; (n) mainstream, known, human fleeced, undressed, unclothed, stark,
continuation, proceed, go strangely: (adv) curiously, queerly, desolate, denuded, bald, stript
store: (n, v) stock, hoard, bank, cache, unusually, funnily, peculiarly, strong: (adj) intense, able, firm,
supply; (n) shop, market, business; weirdly, marvelously, uncommonly, stable, steady, solid, hard, lusty;
(v) accumulate, garner, keep. extraordinarily, singularly, (adj, v) deep, sound; (adj, n, v)
ANTONYMS: (v) spend, delete; (n) bizarrely. ANTONYMS: (adv) steadfast. ANTONYMS: (adj) weak,
dearth typically, ordinarily, harmoniously pale, unconvincing, slight, feeble,
storm: (n, v) rush, tempest, hail, strangle: (v) smother, stifle, frail, bland, faint, delicate, mild,
attack, assault, charge; (v) fume; (n) asphyxiate, scrag, tighten, repress, lightweight
shower, blizzard, hurricane, gust. constrict, pinch, strangulate; (adj, v) stubborn: (adj) contrary, hard,
ANTONYM: (n) trickle throttle; (n) strangling intractable, perverse, rigid,
stormy: (adj, n) inclement, boisterous, stream: (adj, n, prep, v) current, determined, persistent, refractory,
rough, severe; (adj) fierce, windy, course; (n, prep, v) flood; (n, v) tenacious, obdurate, inveterate.
wild, dirty, foul, tempestuous, brook, run, crowd, jet, gush; (n) ANTONYMS: (adj) compliant,
blustering. ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, river; (v) pour, swarm. irresolute, flexible, amenable, docile,
still, pleasant, fair, mild, relaxed ANTONYMS: (n) shortage; (v) easygoing, malleable, agreeable,
story: (n, v) history, tale, narrative; drizzle accommodating, cooperative, feeble
(n) recital, narration, report, account, streaming: (adj) flowing, flapping, subconscious: (n) mind, psyche,
level, legend, novel, stage. detached, incoherent, baggy, slack, inner man; (adj) psychological,
ANTONYM: (n) fact relaxed, loose, lax; (n) cyclosis; (v) hidden, subliminal, entrenched,
stow: (v) cram, house, load, charge, disheveled inherent, bodily, inner, instinctive.
store, place, squeeze, deposit, set, streets: (n) street ANTONYMS: (adj) superficial,
crush, put strength: (n, v) power; (n) energy, conscious, expressed, deliberate,
straddle: (n, v) stride; (v) range, firmness, endurance, stability, spiritual
ramble, play fast and loose, coquet, potency, health, soundness; (adj, n, subject: (n) matter, citizen, motif,
shuffle, be on the fence, bestride; (n) v) might; (adj, n) vigor, intensity. question, issue, affair, point,
stalk, strut, stump ANTONYMS: (n) frailty, national; (adj, v) exposed; (adj, n)
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dependent, inferior. ANTONYMS: hint, counsel, proffer, point. surgeon: (n) doctor, sawbones, doc,
(n) foreigner, resolution; (adj) ANTONYMS: (v) contraindicate, reed, operating surgeon, medicine,
impervious oppose, reject neurosurgeon, plastic surgeon,
submerged: (adj) sunken, immersed, suit: (adj, v) fit, please; (adj, n, v) medico, lister, general practitioner
submersed, underwater, subaquatic, correspond; (n) lawsuit, plea, action, surprise: (n) fright, amazement,
submarine, covered, inundated, case; (v) adapt, accommodate, wonder, astonishment; (n, v) alarm,
flooded, semiaquatic; (pron) become; (n, v) answer. ANTONYM: shock, jolt; (v) amaze, startle,
drowned (v) clash astonish, stun. ANTONYMS: (n)
substance: (adj, n) subject; (n) body, sullen: (adj, n) morose, sulky, sour; expectation; (v) encourage, comfort
significance, import, material, (adj) gloomy, gruff, glum, moody, suspect: (v) mistrust, suppose,
matter, meaning, amount, means, dark, cross, surly; (adj, v) grim. distrust, conjecture, guess, surmise,
gist, core. ANTONYMS: (n) ANTONYMS: (adj) bright, cheery; divine, disbelieve; (adj) fishy,
meaninglessness, lightness, surface (n) cheeriness questionable, shady. ANTONYMS:
subtle: (adj) delicate, sharp, nice, summon: (v) assemble, convene, (adj) trustworthy, trusted, innocent,
acute, astute, insidious, exquisite, demand, ask, invoke, evoke, invite, reliable, credible, aboveboard; (n)
elusive; (adj, v) shrewd, sly, crafty. muster, page, rally, convoke. plaintiff; (v) know, believe
ANTONYMS: (adj) loud, bright, ANTONYM: (v) disband sustain: (adj, n, v) support; (v) keep,
considerable, tactless, supper: (n) meal, tea, lunch, repast, carry, maintain, preserve, hold,
overpowering, harsh, concrete, dark reception, mealtime, siesta, social continue, endure, have; (n, v) bear,
subtlety: (n) refinement, elegance, affair; (v) dejeuner, bever, whet suffer. ANTONYMS: (v) stop,
nuance, delicacy, craft, finesse, suppliant: (n) petitioner, applicant, abstain, discontinue, halt, negate,
nicety, niceness, penetration, polish, besieger, postulant, prayer, lover, undermine, quit, end, destroy,
cunning. ANTONYMS: (n) suer; (adj) beseeching, supplicatory, neglect, sap
tactlessness, coarseness, heaviness, imploring, humbly entreating swallows: (n) sparrows, rooks,
vulgarity supplies: (n) food, stores, resources, robins, Passeriformes, Hirundinidae,
succour: (n, v) succor; (n) consolation, provender, cache, ways and means, etc, order Passeriformes
relief, ministration, mercy, wherewithal, stocks; (n, v) swarm: (n) host, horde, multitude,
assistance, helping, ease, equipment, outfit; (v) furniture drove, throng, cloud, assembly; (n,
embossment; (v) relieve, further suppose: (v) infer, guess, speculate, v) mob; (v) teem, pour; (adj) shoal.
suck: (v) nurse, drink, imbibe, suckle, divine, presume, conjecture, reckon, ANTONYMS: (v) retreat; (n) few
absorb, lactate, puff, drain, pull, imagine, estimate, consider, assume. swear: (v) declare, assure, assert,
suck up; (n) sucking. ANTONYM: ANTONYMS: (v) disbelieve, know, affirm, curse, pledge; (n, v) promise,
(v) rock measure, despair, doubt, speculate avow, depone, depose, aver.
suddenly: (adj, adv) quickly, rapidly, supremacy: (n) superiority, ANTONYMS: (v) distrust, refute,
immediately, presto; (adv) hastily, domination, sovereignty, authority, deny, compliment
short, all at once, sudden, sharply, command, mastery, predominance, sweat: (n, v) work, toil, struggle; (v)
unexpectedly, instantly. dominion, excellence, influence, perspire, drudge, exude; (n)
ANTONYMS: (adv) increasingly, leadership. ANTONYMS: (n) perspiration, lather, sudor, effort;
predictably, slowly, gently, inferiority, weakness, subservience, (adj) perspiring. ANTONYMS: (v)
progressively, sensibly, eventually powerlessness, subjugation ignore; (n) entertainment, ease,
suffer: (v) encounter, stand, accept, sure: (adj) secure, reliable, safe, relaxation
undergo, brook, experience, have, indisputable, dependable, assured, sweep: (adj, v) brush, rake; (n, v)
endure, abide, sustain; (adj, v) allow. positive; (adj, v) steady, firm; (adv) range, reach, sway; (n) compass,
ANTONYMS: (v) enjoy, rejoice, certainly; (adj, adv) for certain. expanse, scope, field; (v) sail; (adj, n)
flourish ANTONYMS: (adj) doubtful, curve
sufferer: (n) victim, martyr, prey, uncertain, unsure, hesitant, sweeping: (adj) broad, extensive,
casualty, invalid, depressive, humbled, dubious, indefinite, radical, wholesale, indiscriminate,
diseased person, sick person, wavering, wobbly, unconvinced; exhaustive, blanket, thorough,
rheumatic, diabetic, neurotic (adv) doubtfully general, wide; (adv) sweepingly.
suffering: (n) distress, agony, surely: (adv) positively, definitely, ANTONYMS: (adj) narrow,
affliction, anguish, torture, grief, confidently, securely, undoubtedly, restricted, exclusive, specific,
torment, misery, hardship; (adj, n) clearly, firmly, assuredly, modest, isolated
hurt; (adj) miserable. ANTONYMS: absolutely; (adj, adv) really; (adv, sweet: (adj) fresh, mellow, lovable,
(adj, n) content; (n) peace, ecstasy, int) of course. ANTONYMS: (adv) dear, pleasant, musical, melodious,
joy, pleasure questionably, uncertain, weakly pleasing, sugary; (adj, v) lovely; (adj,
sufficiently: (adv) fully, surface: (n) superficies, grain; (v) n) beloved. ANTONYMS: (adj)
satisfactorily, enough, amply, quite, emerge, appear, coat, come out; (adj, discordant, bitter, acid, sharp, acidic,
properly, competently, decently, n) exterior, outside; (n, v) face; (adj) pungent, salty, harsh, detestable,
abundantly, goodly, completely. external, superficial. ANTONYMS: cacophonous, dry
ANTONYM: (adv) inadequately (adj, n) interior, middle, inside; (n) swinging: (adj) swaying, excessive,
suggest: (v) offer, imply, indicate, core; (v) sink, submerge, fall; (adj) lilting, inordinate, hanging,
propose, submit, advise, intimate, deep, subsurface, overhead, inner exorbitant, pendulous, outrageous,
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preposterous, extravagant; (n) (v) forget, ignore, dodge, neglect untapped
slewing tact: (n) diplomacy, delicacy, finesse, task: (n) job, assignment, duty, labor,
swirl: (n, v) whirl, curl, spin, twist; address, discretion, skill, commission, charge, enterprise,
(v) eddy, twirl, rotate, revolve, purl, consideration, refinement, grace, project, stint, occupation; (n, v)
turn; (n) convolution thoughtfulness, tactfulness. exercise
swollen: (adj, v) inflated, distended; ANTONYMS: (n) frankness, taste: (n, v) relish, sample, smack,
(adj) bombastic, puffy, turgid, carelessness, thoughtlessness, touch; (n) flavor, liking, penchant,
puffed, high, egotistic, bulging; (v) insensitivity, clumsiness morsel, bit, drop, fondness.
blown; (adj, prep) pompous. taking: (adj) fetching, attractive, ANTONYMS: (n) dislike,
ANTONYMS: (adj) contracted, contagious, winning, catching, tastelessness, disinclination, hate,
shrunken fascinating, captivating; (n) capture, lot, coarseness, uncouthness; (v)
swooning: (adj) light, not receipt, angry mood, acharnement. abstain, refrain
burdensome, flippant, friable, ANTONYM: (n) rejection tasteless: (adj) bland, flavorless, flat,
giddily, psychologically light, tale: (n) account, narrative, narration, flashy, flavourless, gaudy, vulgar,
giddy, sandy, nimble, unconscious, recital, fib, fable, report, fiction, lie, weak, dull, watery, stale.
lite relation, yarn. ANTONYM: (n) fact ANTONYMS: (adj) tasty, strong,
sword: (n) blade, sabre, brand, talented: (adj) clever, gifted, capable, delicious, couth, moral, fitting, nice,
broadsword, falchion, cutlass, saber, accomplished, proficient, apt, flavorful, appetizing, attractive,
steel, glaive, backsword, cutlas versatile, promising, ingenious, lively
sworn: (adj) extreme, mortal, expert, competent. ANTONYMS: tattling: (n) betrayal, babble, state's
implacable, engaged, dedicated, (adj) mediocre, slow, ordinary, evidence; (adj) blabbermouthed, not
committed, betrothed, bespoken, incompetent, bad, clumsy close; (v) talkative, futile, loquacious
affianced, inveterate talk: (n, v) discourse, gossip, taught: (adj) instructed, educated,
symbol: (n) emblem, number, badge, converse, lecture, chatter, chat, schooled, instruct, well-bred,
mark, stamp, numeral, type, address; (v) articulate, speak, scholarly, provided; (v) firm, fast,
insignia, token, image, indication prattle; (n) language. ANTONYMS: close, taut
symbolise: (v) represent, symbolize, (v) refuse; (n) silence tavern: (n) hotel, saloon, bar, inn,
exemplify, mean, be, signify, talking: (n) talk, conversation, pub, public house, pothouse,
personify, epitomize, make up, play, nothingness, speech, speaking, taphouse, cabaret, khan, hostelry
stand for verbal communication, words, yak, taxed: (adj) laden
sympathetic: (adj, v) compassionate, language; (adj) sound, levelheaded. tear: (n, v) rip, break, split, rupture,
tender, affectionate; (adj, n) kindly, ANTONYM: (adj) silent crack, run, slit; (v) pull, rend,
congenial, humane, gentle, talks: (n) parley, discussion, lacerate; (adj, v) rush. ANTONYMS:
favorable; (adj) merciful, agreeable, dialogue, diplomacy, arbitration, (v) wait, mend, idle, fix, amble,
friendly. ANTONYMS: (adj) mediation, conversation, dawdle
hardhearted, unfeeling, callous, discussions, conference, meeting, tearful: (adj) dolorous, maudlin,
uncaring, unsociable, unforgiving, dialog watery, weeping, teary, sad,
unfriendly, negative, sarcastic, tall: (adj) elevated, high, exalted, big, dolourous, wet, whimpering,
opposed, unhelpful lanky, towering, eminent, sorrowful; (v) mournful.
sympathy: (n) compassion, kindness, unbelievable, strapping, long, ANTONYMS: (adj) cheerful, tearless
commiseration, mercy, feeling, gangling. ANTONYMS: (adj) low, tears: (n) cry, crying, snivel, brine,
understanding, rapport, small, sensible, reasonable, little, weeping, activity, bawling, bodily
benevolence, agreement; (adj, n) believable, easy, stocky function, bodily process, body
humanity, charity. ANTONYMS: (n) tamed: (adj) tame, broken, process, lacerations
indifference, cruelty, coldness, domesticated, under control, tamer, tease: (n, v) annoy; (adj, v) molest,
disdain, incompatibility, meek, gentle, domestic, docile, harry, worry, bait; (v) taunt, kid,
thoughtlessness, mercilessness, controlled, cultivated pester, plague, provoke, mock.
callousness, incomprehension, tangle: (v) entangle, embroil, enmesh, ANTONYM: (v) placate
inhumanity, insensitivity embrangle, ruffle, mat; (n) maze, teeny-weeny: (adj) diminutive,
symphony: (n) concord, accord, confusion; (n, v) jumble, muddle, minute
sinfonie, cavatina, fantasia, overture, knot. ANTONYMS: (n) order, line, teeth: (v) mortar and pestle, gristmill,
exordium, pastorale, concerto, peace; (v) unravel, undo, untangle, nutmeg grater, grater, file, arrastra,
roulade, symphonic music straighten rasp, mill, unguis, tentacle; (n) gear
table: (n) board, schedule, chart, tangled: (adj) involved, complex, teeth
stand, list, desk, plateau, platen; (v) knotted, intricate, complicated, tell: (n, v) disclose, impart, count; (v)
defer, shelve, postpone. entangled, knotty, convoluted, relate, reveal, recount, divulge,
ANTONYMS: (v) decide, vote, disheveled, tousled, matted. explain, communicate; (adj, v)
withdraw ANTONYMS: (adj) tidy, declare, express. ANTONYMS: (v)
tackle: (n) equipment, rigging, kit, straightforward, untangled, neat, request, misunderstand, estimate,
paraphernalia, rig, fishing tackle; (v) simple listen, figure, guess, withhold,
harness, deal with, handle, tapped: (adj) poor, powerless, conceal, suppress, confuse
undertake, set about. ANTONYMS: helpless. ANTONYM: (adj) temperate: (adj) sober, moderate,
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restrained, calm, reasonable, woof, roughness, marbleizing; (n, v) impulsiveness, certainty, neglect,
abstemious, gentle, balmy, finish, make trust
abstinent, frugal, equable. thank: (v) give thanks, recognize, thousand: (adj, n) one thousand, k,
ANTONYMS: (adj) violent, bless, thanks, give thanks to, m; (n) grand, g, thou, cat Valium,
unrestrained, stormy, cool, extreme, convey, acknowledged, remercy, constant of gravitation, grounds,
hot, immoderate, wintry, rough impart curtilage; (adj) a thousand
temple: (n) church, place of worship, thanks: (n) acknowledgment, threads: (n) duds, clothing, apparel,
shrine, Fane, house of worship, gratitude, blessing, grace, praise, clothes, wear, vesture, coat, cords,
pantheon, pagoda, synagogue, gratefulness, recognition, credit, dress, garb, garment
brow, sanctuary, mosque benediction, thankfulness; (int) threat: (n) hazard, danger, risk, peril,
tempting: (adj) seductive, alluring, thank you. ANTONYMS: (n) commination, intimidation,
attractive, enticing, tantalizing, criticism, blame jeopardy, coercion, warning, omen,
charming, appealing, captivating, themselves: (pron) myself, itself, terror. ANTONYMS: (n) safety,
beguiling, delicious, irresistible. yourself; (n) yourselves persuasion
ANTONYMS: (adj) repulsive, therefore: (adv) thence, so, hence, threatening: (adj) ominous,
revolting, unattractive, repellent accordingly, as a result, thus, for forbidding, sinister, minatory, black,
tender: (n, v) offer, proffer, bid; (adj, that reason; (conj) since, because, imminent, perilous, impending,
v) affectionate; (adj) painful, then, ergo dangerous, grave, sullen.
sensitive, soft, loving, sore; (v) thermopylae: (n) battle of ANTONYMS: (adj) reassuring, nice,
propose, present. ANTONYMS: Thermopylae approachable, pleasant, promising,
(adj) hardhearted, rubbery, hard, thick: (adj) compact, stupid, favorable, friendly, harmless,
rough, uncaring, healthy, mature, crowded, slow, opaque, dull, heavy, hospitable, soothing
unfeeling, cold, experienced; (v) stocky, deep, close, familiar. throbbing: (adj, n) beating; (n)
withdraw ANTONYMS: (adj) thin, intelligent, pounding, pulsation, pulse, ache,
tenderly: (adv) softly, kindly, sparse, bright, slight, clever, palpitation, sting; (adj) painful,
delicately, affectionately, fondly, transparent, diluted, fine, clear, pulsatile, palpitating, palpitant.
warmly, painfully, sensitively, runny ANTONYM: (n) pleasure
caringly, sympathetically, gently. thing: (n) affair, occurrence, object, throes: (n) hurt, labor, suffering
ANTONYMS: (adv) roughly, event, concern, something, article, thrown: (adj) puzzled, confused,
severely, disapprovingly, harshly happening, substance, occasion, thrown and twisted, upset,
tension: (n) pressure, strain, stress, being disconcerted, unnerved, terrified,
nervousness, tensity, tautness, tone, things: (n) gear, belongings, scared out of your wits, mystified,
nerves, suspense, effort, mental equipment, garb, garment, clothes, frightened; (n) reminder.
strain. ANTONYMS: (n) calmness, paraphernalia, goods, life, property, ANTONYM: (adj) calm
relaxation, slack, peace, limpness, palliament thumb: (v) feel, flip, handle, leaf,
concord, calm, pleasure, accord, third: (n) second, tierce, three, third touch, flick, hitch, riff; (n) pollex,
relief, ease part, terzetto, hot corner, third base; bull nose, forefinger
tenth: (adj, n) tithe; (adj) denary, (adv) thirdly; (adj) triple, thrid, thunderer: (n) Jupiter Tonans
decimal, decuple, tenfold; (n) ten tertial thundering: (adj) thumping,
percent, tenth part, simple fraction, thirst: (n, v) hunger, lust, wish; (n) whopping, lumpish, gaunt, hulky,
common fraction, disme longing, yen, craving, hankering, lubberly, spanking, big, loud,
term: (n, v) name, call, title, style, dryness, appetite; (v) starve, crave. striking terror; (n) thunder
designate; (n) period, expression, ANTONYM: (n) dislike thus: (adv) then, so, consequently,
boundary, spell, time, limit thither: (adv) hither, whither, on that hence, thence, accordingly, as a
terms: (n) conditions, provision, point, in that respect, at that place, result, ergo, thusly, for that reason,
stipulation, terminology, price, in that location; (adj) further, as
proposition, lemma, cost, footing, ulterior, remoter, succeeding, more tickler: (n) file, data file, knife, tickler
damage, specifications distant chain, tickler file
terrible: (adj) horrible, dreadful, thou: (n) chiliad, grand, m, g, one ticklish: (adj) difficult, sensitive,
horrid, monstrous, abominable, thousand, gramme, gram, gm, tricky, tender, awkward, touchy,
ghastly, dire, appalling, fearful, gigabyte, Gb, curtilage unsettled, unstable; (adj, v)
awful, hideous. ANTONYMS: (adj) though: (adj, conj) however; (conj) precarious; (v) slippery,
lovely, pleasant, great, laudable, still, notwithstanding, nevertheless, questionable. ANTONYMS: (adj)
excellent, superb, mild, slight, albeit, whereas, while; (adv) even, unproblematic, easy
minor, brilliant, insignificant after all, tho'; (adv, conj) tho tied: (adj) bound, connected, laced,
terrified: (adj) afraid, frightened, thought: (n) idea, impression, united, fixed, even, liable, tight,
fearful, panicky, panicked, aghast, conception, belief, concept; (adj, n) spiked, responsible, attached.
timid, timorous, apprehensive, opinion, feeling, sentiment; (n, v) ANTONYMS: (adj) untied, unlaced
startled, alarmed. ANTONYMS: consideration, reflection, tightly: (adv) closely, steadily, tautly,
(adj) fearless, brave observation. ANTONYMS: (n) thing, strictly, securely, densely, stiffly,
texture: (adj, n) grain; (n) fabric, vacuity, vacancy, concrete, solidly, tipsily, stably,
constitution, weave, tissue, web, thoughtlessness, inattention, parsimoniously. ANTONYMS: (adv)
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loosely, insecurely, sparsely afflict, pain, annoy; (n) agony, travelling: (n) travel, peregrination,
tightness: (n) tautness, stringency, anguish, suffering; (v) persecute, riding, commuting, aviation,
constriction, tension, firmness, oppress. ANTONYMS: (v) please, driving, commutation, seafaring,
deficiency, strictness, stinginess, delight, placate, comfort, soothe; (n) junketing, circumnavigation,
pettiness, parsimony, contentment, happiness, pleasure, journey
tightfistedness. ANTONYMS: (n) calm, content treasure: (n) gem, fortune, riches,
bagginess, relaxation, width tormented: (adj) worried, tortured, funds; (n, v) hoard, prize, store; (v)
till: (conj, prep) until, unto; (v) plow, hagridden, troubled, beleaguered, cherish, appreciate; (adj, n) jewel,
hoe, farm, dig; (adj) up to; (n) tiller, beset, besieged, cruciate, cruciform, precious stone. ANTONYMS: (v)
drawer; (adv) so far; (prep) to distraught, distressed. ANTONYM: dislike, disparage, scorn, neglect; (n)
times: (n) present time, modern (adj) calm dud, poverty
times, contemporary world, toss: (n, v) throw, fling, pitch, chuck, treasury: (n) storehouse, exchequer,
multiplication, time, period, era, cast, flip; (v) agitate, hurl, shake, bursary, repository, finances,
many years duration, epoch, convulse, discard. ANTONYM: (v) treasure, thesaurus, depository,
present, arithmetic operation catch Treasury warrant, subtreasury,
timon: (n) Diogenes, egotist, man touch: (v) hit, affect, border, adjoin, treasury department
hater, misanthrope, misanthropist strike, reach; (n, v) contact, stroke, treat: (n, v) feast, manage, administer,
tiniest: (adj) minimum, smallest tinge, regard, tap. ANTONYMS: (v) regale; (v) process, deal, heal, nurse;
possible, least possible, lowest, shrink, secrete, separate, diverge, (n) luxury, delicacy, tidbit.
lowest possible, smallest. abstain, leave; (n) lot ANTONYMS: (v) harm, hurt, injure,
ANTONYM: (adj) maximum touching: (adj, v) affecting; (adj) neglect, exacerbate, deprive, deny,
tipsy: (adj) tight, intoxicated, soused, poignant, pitiful, pathetic, adjacent, contaminate, cloud; (n) necessity
blotto, inebriated, fuddled, taut, adjoining, emotional; (n) touch, treaty: (n) convention, protocol,
stringent, loaded, besotted, close contact; (prep) concerning, about. concord, pact, contract, accord,
tip-top: (adj) elite, good ANTONYMS: (adj) unaffecting, covenant, alliance, compact, peace,
today: (adj, n) present; (adv) these everyday, heartwarming, bargain
days, currently, nowadays, unmoving, heartbreaking, tremble: (adj, n, v) shiver; (n, v)
presently, at present, right away, emotionless, unemotional, quiver, shudder, thrill, palpitate;
immediately; (n) modern times; (adj) impassive (adj, v) totter, quake; (n) throb; (v)
modern, recent. ANTONYM: (adv) town: (adj) municipal, urban; (n) flutter, quail, falter. ANTONYMS:
yesterday borough, township, village, burgh, (v) steady, calm
together: (adv) in concert, conjointly, burg, municipality, townspeople, tremendous: (adj) terrific, fantastic,
at the same time, at once, metropolis; (adj, n) community. enormous, immense, wonderful,
simultaneously, mutually, in unison, ANTONYMS: (adj) country, private dreadful, huge, marvelous, gigantic,
all together, at the same moment; trace: (n, v) line, shadow, spot, hunt, formidable, mighty. ANTONYMS:
(adj) united, stable. ANTONYMS: trail; (n) dash, clue, indication, (adj) awful, unimportant, tiny,
(adv) separately, individually, suggestion, sign; (v) pursue. small, unremarkable, poor, dreadful,
independently, apart, alone; (adj) ANTONYMS: (v) ignore; (n) lot, abysmal
separate, upset, unstable, separated, overtone tresses: (n) locks, mop, head of hair
imbalanced, scatterbrained tract: (n) region, area, expanse, essay, trickery: (n) deceit, deception, guile,
told: (v) related, narrated; (adj) pamphlet, section, extent, district, chicanery, artifice, craft, cunning,
numbered, oral, spoken, legendary, dissertation, plot, lot dishonesty, jugglery, fraudulence,
verbal, manifest tradition: (n) convention, habit, imposture. ANTONYM: (n)
toll: (n, v) ring, chime; (n) price, fee, practice, legend, institution, lore, truthfulness
tax, cost, charge, impost, due, tariff; heritage, folklore, wont, routine, tricks: (n) actions, behavior, thing,
(v) peal story. ANTONYM: (n) innovation clowning around, fooling, magic,
tongue: (n) lingua, speech, idiom, tragic: (adj) calamitous, disastrous, plunder, possession, activities
dialect, clapper, glossa, natural dreadful, grievous, catastrophic, tricky: (adj) crafty, cunning, artful,
language, striker, talk; (v) lick; (adj) unlucky, unfortunate, woeful, sly, deceitful, slippery, delicate,
flowing tragical, comic, heartbreaking. foxy, difficult, shifty, wily.
tonight: (adv) this night ANTONYMS: (adj) humorous, ANTONYMS: (adj) straightforward,
took: (adj) taken; (v) receive heartwarming, blessed, honest, simple, uncomplicated,
topmost: (adj) highest, upmost, advantageous, lucky, fortunate, aboveboard, frank, safe, open, naive,
upper, maximum, uppermost, head, joyous amicable, straight
supreme, utmost, crowning, apical, trailing: (n) tracking, drift, pursuit, trifle: (n, v) play; (adj, n, v) trinket;
uttermost. ANTONYM: (adj) bottom streaminess, hunt, heeling; (adj) (v) dally, fiddle, flirt, fool, frivol; (n)
torch: (n) brand, light, flambeau, following, rambling, sprawling, nothing, triviality, detail; (adj, n)
burner, great mullein, blowlamp, prone, procumbent bagatelle
Verbascum Thapsus, flannel trample: (v) oppress, stamp, squash, trim: (adj, v) tidy, spruce; (adj, n, v)
mullein, common mullein, crush, tread, flatten, defeat, dress; (n, v) cut, clip, garnish, lop;
blowtorch; (v) burn suppress, step, frustrate; (n) (adj) neat, orderly; (v) shave,
torment: (n, v) tease, distress, harass, trampling embellish. ANTONYMS: (adj)
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scruffy, unkempt, sloppy, large, trying: (adj) hard, taxing, arduous, downstairs, infra. ANTONYMS:
chubby, disorderly, overweight; (v) thorny, severe, bothersome, tough, (adv, prep) over, above; (adv)
lengthen, develop, expand, lose demanding, annoying, tiresome, primary, higher, major
trinity: (n) triplet, threesome, trio, rugged. ANTONYMS: (adj) undergrowth: (n) brush, brushwood,
ternary, trine, three, tripersonality, rewarding, facile, relaxing, underwood, groundcover, thicket,
triumvirate, triality, triunity, trey satisfying, simple, pleasant, scrub, copse, ground cover, coppice,
tripping: (adj) easy, flowing, pleasing, refreshing, soothing wood, grove
lightsome, readable, swinging, trysting: (n) appointment understand: (v) interpret, hear, see,
swingy, nimble, lilting, light, fluent; tumbled: (adj) disordered catch, learn, translate, grasp,
(v) failing tunic: (n) tunicate, tunicle, tabard, construe, gather; (adj, v) realize,
trireme: (n) trionym, trigon, adventitia, chiton, surcoat, tunica, take. ANTONYMS: (v) misinterpret,
triennium, tripod, trident, jacket, robe, coat, integument misconstrue, misunderstand,
quadrireme, triangle, triseme, turbot: (n) Psetta maxima, plaice, disbelieve, mistake, reject, deny,
triskele, triskelion, trisula Heterosomata, lefteye flounder, Miss
triumph: (v) exult, prevail, crow, order Heterosomata, sole, understood: (adj) tacit, implicit,
rejoice, succeed; (n, v) glory, win, tonguefishes implied, silent, assumed, accepted,
joy; (n) victory, conquest, exultation. turn: (n, v) curve, roll, twist, go, coil, appreciated, unstated, undeclared;
ANTONYMS: (n) failure, defeat, round, change, bent, spin; (n) bout; (v) of course, admitted.
sorrow, unhappiness, dud, sadness, (v) revolve. ANTONYMS: (n) ANTONYMS: (adj) explicit, spoken,
loss, flop; (v) fail, lose, forfeit failure, Miss, stagnation; (v) unbend written, explained
trivial: (adj) trifling, frivolous, little, turned: (adj) off, curved, rancid, undervalue: (v) underestimate,
small, commonplace, superficial, twisted, false, bent, altered, sullen, underrate, devalue, belittle, lessen,
petty, paltry, inconsiderable, having inflections, versed, disparage, misjudge, decry, despise,
piddling, slight. ANTONYMS: (adj) glowering. ANTONYM: (adj) devaluate, diminish. ANTONYMS:
important, vital, major, urgent, unturned (v) overrate, appreciate,
profound, crucial, consequential, twin: (adj, n, v) duplicate; (n, v) overestimate, overvalue, recognize
considerable, enormous, mature, match, mate, pair, equal, fellow, undying: (adj) eternal, perpetual,
serious parallel; (n) counterpart; (adj) dual, everlasting, deathless, permanent,
troop: (n) group, corps, gang, crowd, matching; (v) couple. ANTONYMS: imperishable, endless, unending,
band, brigade, crew, herd, swarm, (adj) unlike, singular, single, lasting, abiding; (adj, v)
horde; (n, v) flock different indestructible. ANTONYMS: (adj)
troubled: (adj, v) concerned, twined: (adj) bent, coiled, contorted, temporary, mortal, impermanent,
solicitous; (adj) distressed, anxious, distorted, misrepresented, perverted ending, inconstant
worried, uneasy, uncomfortable, twisted: (adj) perverted, deformed, unerringly: (adv) surely, accurately,
disconcerted, upset, apprehensive, bent, distorted, misshapen, coiled, faithfully, exactly, certainly,
restless. ANTONYMS: (adj) twined, curved, wry, contorted; (adj, infallibly, inerrantly, literally,
unconcerned, composed, calm, easy, v) winding. ANTONYMS: (adj) tidy, perfectly, closely, inerringly
relaxed, tranquil, assured, carefree, normal, perfect, wholesome unforeseen: (adj, v) unexpected,
brave, stable, unaffected tyranny: (adj, n) dictatorship, unanticipated, unlooked for; (adj)
troubles: (n) dilemma, evils, harms, autocracy; (n) absolutism, sudden, accidental, contingent,
ills despotism, oppression, cruelty, casual, surprising, chance,
truce: (n, v) respite; (n) peace, monocracy, totalitarianism, incidental; (adj, adv) out of the blue.
breather, reprieve, ceasefire authoritarianism, autarchy, ANTONYMS: (adj) predicted,
agreement, agreement, pact, accord; Caesarism. ANTONYMS: (n) expected, direct
(v) rest, pause, lull. ANTONYMS: democracy, liberty unfortunate: (adj) inauspicious, sad,
(n) disagreement, fight, war ultimately: (adv) finally, lastly, in the hapless, bad, inopportune,
true: (adj, n) genuine, authentic; (adj) end, at long last, at last, in the long disastrous, adverse, deplorable,
right, faithful, even, correct, run, conclusively, latterly, infelicitous, untoward, lamentable.
accurate, honest, straight, truthful; elementally, extremely, in the last ANTONYMS: (adj) lucky,
(adj, v) actual. ANTONYMS: (adj) analysis. ANTONYMS: (adv) never, auspicious, good, opportune,
inaccurate, untrue, bogus, directly joyous, timely, appropriate,
untrustworthy, unrealistic, mythical, unassuming: (adj) humble, retiring, successful, easy, privileged
fraudulent, faithless, disloyal; (adv) unobtrusive, lowly, quiet, diffident, unified: (adj) integrated, united,
wrongly, dishonestly unpretentious, meek, simple, incorporate, coordinated, merged,
truly: (adj, adv) really; (adv) inconspicuous, unaffected. amalgamated, interconnected,
sincerely, in truth, exactly, in fact, ANTONYMS: (adj) conspicuous, concurrent, conformable, combined,
indeed, in reality, genuinely, right, elaborate, bold, confident, unanimous
certainly, honestly. ANTONYMS: presumptuous, pretentious, brash, union: (n, prep) connection; (n)
(adv) insincerely, dubiously, wild junction, league, merger,
doubtfully, apparently, inaccurately, under: (adj) lower, down, nether, combination, association,
indefinite, dishonestly, mildly, bottom, inferior, low, subject; (adv, confederacy, marriage, fusion,
wrongly prep) beneath, underneath; (adv) matrimony, coupling. ANTONYMS:
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(n) divergence, divorce, discord, constant, staunch, unflinching, hate, aversion, disinclination; (v)
division, disarray, disagreement; resolute, unshakable; (adj, v) dissuade, oppose, demand, prevent,
(adj) nonunion undeviating. ANTONYMS: (adj) restrain
uniqueness: (n) individuality, undependable, unreliable, used: (adj) exploited, old,
newness, individualism, novelty, irresolute, inconsistent accustomed, worn, spent,
originality, inimitability, untamed: (adj) unbroken, barbarous, victimized, wont, tried, decrepit,
strangeness, unique thing, uniquity, fierce, feral, barbarian, wild, second hand, exhausted.
unique event, difference. unpolished, uncivilised, uncivilized, ANTONYMS: (adj) new, unused,
ANTONYMS: (n) ordinariness, uncombed, ferocious. ANTONYMS: spanking, misused
conformity, sameness, normality (adj) cultivated, tame usual: (adj, n, v) ordinary, common,
united: (adj, v) joint; (adj) combined, untangle: (v) unscramble, unravel, customary; (adj, n) habitual,
cooperative, connected, allied, unwind, undo, unpick, unknot, accustomed, familiar, average,
mutual, concerted, mixed, extricate, solve, ravel, straighten out, regular; (adj) everyday; (adj, v)
conjunctive, undivided, common. resolve. ANTONYMS: (v) fasten, frequent, general. ANTONYMS:
ANTONYMS: (adj) separate, ravel, twist, entangle (adj) unconventional, extraordinary,
divided, disjointed, separated, rival until: (prep, v) to; (conj, prep) unto; abnormal, irregular, atypical,
unity: (n) union, harmony, oneness, (adj) up to; (adv) so far, yet, before, exceptional, unprecedented,
unison, concord, agreement, meanwhile; (prep) pending, while, uncommon, rare, changing,
completeness, integrity, consistency, during, awaiting unacceptable
single, one. ANTONYMS: (n) unto: (prep, v) to, till, up to; (prep) utterly: (adv) completely, absolutely,
separation, conflict, partiality, split, towards, before totally, entirely, extremely,
disarray, inconsistency, isolation unwind: (v) relax, unbend, unroll, altogether, expressly, purely, dead,
universal: (adj) general, global, disentangle, unfold, unravel, fully, wholly. ANTONYMS: (adv)
ecumenical, international, common, untangle, uncoil, straighten, loose, partly, uncertain, slightly,
worldwide, public, ubiquitous, rest. ANTONYMS: (v) wind, tangle, incompletely, hardly, somewhat
comprehensive, widespread, tense, ready, prepare, agitate, twist, vain: (adj) proud, arrogant, conceited,
oecumenical. ANTONYMS: (adj) fluster fruitless, idle, empty, abortive,
local, specific, idiosyncratic, uphill: (adj) rising, hard, difficult, ineffectual, unproductive,
confined, isolated, narrow, rare climbing, acclivitous, tough, narcissistic; (adj, v) useless.
unless: (adv) but, if, yet, besides, arduous; (n) ascending, ascent, ANTONYMS: (adj) shy, successful,
except with, further; (adv, conj) acclivity; (adv) up. ANTONYMS: possible, persuasive, selfless,
save; (conj) without, if not; (n) (adj) downhill, facile fruitful, humble, useful, responsible,
provisionally; (adj) not necessary upon: (adv, prep) above; (prep) up, worthwhile, effective
unlike: (adj) dissimilar, different, onto, against, towards; (adv) on, on valid: (adj) legal, right, solid,
diverse, unequal, disparate, distinct, that occasion, then, before, by; (n) at genuine, forcible, substantial, good,
separate, unalike, opposite, upright: (adj) perpendicular, erect, powerful, legitimate, strong,
heterogeneous, not similar. fair, good, righteous, just, virtuous, authentic. ANTONYMS: (adj)
ANTONYMS: (adj) like, alike, same true, honorable, plumb; (adj, n) invalid, annulled, illogical, bogus,
unmannerly: (adj) impolite, vertical. ANTONYMS: (adj) prone, false, wrong, void, untenable,
unmannered, uncivil, impertinent, disreputable, degenerate, hanging, unreasonable, fake, indefensible
insolent, ill-mannered, discourteous, unwholesome, dishonest, valorous: (adj) valiant, courageous,
ungracious, rustic, disrespectful, dishonorable, lying, horizontal, brave, fearless, intrepid, gallant,
churlish falling; (adv) horizontally bold, stout, heroic, undaunted,
unpack: (v) undo, unbind, discharge, uprightness: (adj, n) honesty, game. ANTONYM: (adj) cowardly
get out, take out, remove, unbox, rectitude, fairness, honor, right, value: (adj, n, v) price; (n) cost,
unchain, unload, unloose, take fidelity, probity, candor, equity; (n) importance, consequence; (n, v) rate,
away. ANTONYMS: (v) fill, load, morality, truth. ANTONYMS: (n) appraise, measure; (v) appreciate,
pack, wrap debauchery, wickedness, decadence, evaluate, esteem, assess.
unplumbed: (adj) profound, dishonesty, immorality, indecency ANTONYMS: (n) disadvantage,
unfathomable, unsounded, deep, upset: (n, v) overturn, trouble, futility, uselessness, insignificance,
unfathomed, bottomless, silent, disquiet, overthrow; (v) agitate, detriment, inefficiency, inferiority;
immeasurable, heavy, sound, subvert, perturb, confuse, reverse; (v) scorn, disregard, disrespect, hate
fundamental. ANTONYM: (adj) (adj) unsettled; (n) disturbance. values: (n) way of life, viewpoint,
shallow ANTONYMS: (v) please, soothe, principles, attitude, moral code,
unseen: (adj, v) unknown; (adj) encourage, delight, fail; (adj) main beliefs, idea, thinking, belief
invisible, concealed, hidden, pleased, confident, happy, content; various: (adj, v) several, sundry,
unobserved, secret, veiled, latent; (v) (n) peace, happiness divers, diversified, separate; (adj)
unheeded, unperceived; (n) spiritual upside-down: (adj) upside down varied, many, different, manifold,
world. ANTONYMS: (adj) seen, urge: (v) push, press, advocate, miscellaneous, numerous.
visible, open, famous, noticeable persuade, impel, induce; (n, v) spur, ANTONYMS: (adj) homogeneous,
unswerving: (adj) unfaltering, firm, drive, force; (n) impulse; (adj, v) same, individual, uniform, limited,
steady, unwavering, direct, incite. ANTONYMS: (n) dislike, none
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vast: (adj) large, immense, spacious, attractive, kind, nice, lovely, lovable, diminished, depraved, perverted,
extensive, immeasurable, enormous, gentle, honorable, good, delightful, corrupted, lessened, profligate,
gigantic, wide, boundless, colossal, admirable, noble adulterate, faded; (v) morbid
great. ANTONYMS: (adj) narrow, villainous: (adj, v) base, infamous, voice: (n) speech, vox; (v) enunciate,
tiny, cramped, small, miniature, vile, black, shameful; (adj) heinous, pronounce, speak, say, vocalize,
affordable, bounded, insignificant, atrocious, depraved, wicked, evil, express, utter, articulate; (n, v)
slight, shallow, restricted vicious sound. ANTONYMS: (v) devoice,
veil: (n, v) cover, hide, disguise, vindication: (n) defense, apology, block
mask, cloud, shroud, camouflage; excuse, defence, plea, alibi, acquittal, voices: (n) chorus
(v) cloak, conceal; (n) curtain, blind. assertion, reason, exoneration, void: (adj, n) hollow, null, blank; (n)
ANTONYMS: (v) disclose, unveil, protection. ANTONYM: (n) emptiness, vacancy; (adj, v) vacant;
expose accusation (v) nullify, quash, rescind; (adj)
vein: (n) vena, strain, nervure, mine, violent: (adj, n) rough, furious, invalid, vacuous. ANTONYMS: (v)
temper, blood vessel, tone; (adj, n) tempestuous, severe, turbulent, validate, sanction, permit, keep,
mood, humor, strip, frame of mind boisterous, powerful; (adj, v) allow; (adj) full, occupied, filled,
vengeance: (n) retribution, reprisal, vehement; (adj) raging, intense, meaningful, solid; (n) fullness
retaliation, requital, avengement, sharp. ANTONYMS: (adj) gentle, vote: (n, v) voice; (n) suffrage, poll,
wrath, vendetta, spite, revengeance; calm, nonviolent, mild, passive, ballot, franchise, voting, right to
(n, v) avenge, resentment. moderate, pleasant, slight, refined, vote, choice, balloting; (v) elect,
ANTONYMS: (n) forgiveness, relaxed, friendly choose
acceptance virginity: (n) maidenhood, pucelage, vulgar: (adj) rude, coarse, plebeian,
venture: (n, v) hazard, chance, stake, chastity, purity, maidenhead, nasty, common, foul, indecent,
peril, attempt, gamble, adventure; pudicity, virtue, freshness, gross, unrefined; (adj, n) low, vile.
(adj, n, v) dare; (n) speculation, virginhood, innocence, spirit ANTONYMS: (adj) refined,
danger; (v) endanger virtue: (adj, n) merit, excellence, sophisticated, tasteful, polite,
veritable: (adj, v) real, true, actual, quality, attribute; (n) honor, aesthetic, muted, fashionable,
very; (adj) genuine, authentic, bona goodness, honesty, morality, decent, artistic, pleasant, clean
fide, unquestionable, factual, decency, probity, efficacy. wager: (n, v) stake, hazard, risk,
truthful, right. ANTONYMS: (adj) ANTONYMS: (n) wickedness, guilt, venture, gamble, chance; (v) lay,
false, unreal vice, peccadillo, sin, dishonor, pledge, pawn, play; (n) stakes
verminous: (adj) offensive immorality, evil, demerit, wagner: (n) Richard Wagner
vexed: (adj) troubled, irritated, angry, inadequacy, disadvantage wailing: (n, v) lamentation, lament,
pestered, peeved, harassed, sore, virtues: (n) brawn, sinew, qualities, moaning; (adj) lamenting, weeping,
harried, uneasy, cross, offended. nerve, manner, habit, disposition, crying, wailful, howling, sobbing;
ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, custom (adj, n) bawling; (n) cry
uncomplicated vision: (n) view, dream, imagination, waist: (n) waistline, shank, middle,
victim: (n) prey, quarry, object, daydream, outlook, specter, ghost, belly, isthmus, hourglass,
sufferer, dupe, martyr, gull, target, spirit, image, apparition; (n, v) undersurface; (adj) stricture, middle
mug, butt, sucker. ANTONYMS: (n) fancy. ANTONYMS: (n) constriction, neck, wasp
culprit, hunter sightlessness, fact, actuality, wait: (n, v) pause, hold, stop; (v)
victory: (n) conquest, success, blindness expect, anticipate, stay, await, lurk,
mastery, superiority, subjugation, visit: (v) frequent, attend, call, view, ambush, remain; (adj, v) tarry.
win, laugher, achievement, gossip, jaw, inspect, haunt; (n, v) ANTONYMS: (n) act, continuation,
checkmate, expugnation, fall. tour, chat; (n) sojourn doing; (v) interrupt, leave, begin,
ANTONYMS: (n) defeat, loss, vitality: (n) energy, life, animation, depart, continue; (intj) hurry
beating, failure, overthrow, forfeit life force, vigor, liveliness, verve, wake: (v) awaken, awake, rouse, stir,
view: (n, v) sight, scene, regard, sparkle, spirit, vigour, vim. vigil, provoke, arouse, waken,
opinion, judgment, prospect, ANTONYMS: (n) lethargy, apathy, excite; (n) train, trail. ANTONYMS:
outlook, thought; (adj, v) observe, sluggishness (v) nap, dissuade, discourage,
see; (n) idea. ANTONYMS: (v) vitalizing: (adj) reviving, snooze, stifle
disbelieve, mistrust exhilarating, energizing, walk: (adj, n, v) step; (n, v) gait,
vigorous: (adj, n) robust, hardy, invigorating, refreshing, brisk, ramble, march, pace, hike, course,
powerful, brave; (adj) energetic, bracing, revitalizing, stimulating, saunter, stroll, roam; (n) path.
strenuous, mighty, hearty, athletic; dynamic ANTONYMS: (v) run, ride, stride
(adj, v) lively, brisk. ANTONYMS: vitally: (adv) necessarily, walls: (n) brickwork, buttresses,
(adj) feeble, weak, dull, inactive, significantly, basically, crucially, defenses, masonry, ramparts,
impotent, enervated, unwell, fundamentally, principally, fortifications
uncommitted, unfit, weary, slow decisively, materially, importantly, wandering: (adj) itinerant, nomadic,
vile: (adj, n) contemptible, dirty, low; vivaciously, primarily. erratic, rambling, errant, migratory;
(adj, v) base; (adj) despicable, ANTONYMS: (adv) insignificantly, (adj, v) stray, vagrant, vagabond,
ignoble, evil, sorry, revolting, superficially unsettled; (n) peregrination.
offensive, nasty. ANTONYMS: (adj) vitiated: (adj, v) tainted; (adj) corrupt, ANTONYM: (adj) resident
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want: (n, v) lack, desire, miss, wish; wasps: (n) hymenoptera, gall wasps, weary: (adj, n, v) fatigue; (v) exhaust,
(n) poverty, deficiency, deprivation, sawflies, order hymenoptera, etc, tire out; (adj) tired, exhausted,
famine, necessity, destitution, ants, ichneumons fatigued, aweary, beat, languid; (n,
shortage. ANTONYMS: (n, v) hate; waste: (adj, n, v) spoil, damage; (adj, v) jade, bore. ANTONYMS: (adj)
(n) glut, despise, luxury, option, v) desolate; (n, v) squander, ruin, energetic, fresh, lively, untiring,
prosperity, supply; (v) disinterest, consume, ravage; (adj, n) refuse, hopeful, refreshed; (v) refresh,
answer trash; (v) exhaust, spend. enliven, energize, activate, rally
wanted: (adj) welcome, cherished, ANTONYMS: (v) conserve, save, weathercock: (n) vane, weather vane,
precious, treasured, marketable, use, preserve, create, build; (n) hand, flagstaff, cairn, pointer, post,
invited, necessary, needed, saving, possessions, hoarding, staff; (adj) chameleon, moon,
desirable, desired, loved. development; (adj) cultivated Proteus
ANTONYMS: (adj) unwanted, wasted: (adj, v) squandered, rotten, weep: (v) wail, bawl, lament, sob,
unwelcome decayed, effete; (adj) thin, blubber, moan, howl, drip, greet,
wanton: (adj) loose, dissolute, light, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, whimper; (n) tear
licentious, unchaste, lewd, devastated, pointless, haggard. weighing: (n) deliberation,
debauched, unprovoked; (v) dally; ANTONYMS: (adj) bloated, consideration, think, advisement,
(n, v) sport; (adj, v) flirt. hypertrophied, strong, plump, speculation, quantify, weigh,
ANTONYMS: (adj) moral, wise, obese, fruitful, useful unhurriedness, study, slowness,
nice, kind, gentle, decent, clean, wasting: (n) homicide, atrophy, ponderation
careful, observant, justifiable, slaughter, slaying, cachexia, weight: (n, v) load, burden, charge,
involuntary assassination, cachexy, amyotrophy, heaviness, bias; (n) significance,
wants: (n) need, necessities carnage; (adj) consuming, consequence, importance, pressure,
warlike: (adj) military, belligerent, consumptive stress, influence. ANTONYMS: (n)
bellicose, pugnacious, combative, watch: (n, v) view, sentinel, clock, lightness, benefit, advantage,
aggressive, armigerous, hostile, wake, regard, care; (v) observe, look, unimportance, meaninglessness,
unfriendly, unpacific, militant. see; (n) sentry; (adj, n) surveillance. powerlessness, weakness,
ANTONYMS: (adj) harmonizing, ANTONYMS: (v) neglect, overlook, feebleness; (v) unburden
friendly harm, hurt, glance weighty: (adj) heavy, ponderous,
warm: (adj) hot, affectionate, tender, watchful: (adj) alert, observant, grievous, powerful, profound; (adj,
ardent, cordial, fervent, lively, fond, careful, cautious, wary, attentive, v) grave, serious, momentous,
loving, earnest, tepid. ANTONYMS: wakeful, mindful, circumspect, significant, solemn, influential.
(adj) cold, unfriendly, aloof, sleepless, awake. ANTONYMS: (adj) ANTONYMS: (adj) superficial, light,
reserved, hostile, uncaring, inattentive, negligent, oblivious, unimportant, trivial, weightless,
unenthusiastic, unwelcoming, stale, forgetful, careless, asleep, trusting, unsubstantial, thin, solvable, small,
offhand; (v) chill unprepared, reckless facile, easy
warmth: (adj, n) glow, fire; (n) water: (n) urine, sea, lake, ocean, weird: (adj) strange, uncanny,
temperature, warmness, passion, moisture, juice, river; (n, v) wet; (v) supernatural, unearthly, mysterious,
fervor, geniality, affection, moisten, soak, dampen. odd, bizarre, unusual, curious,
tenderness, fondness, sympathy. ANTONYMS: (v) dehydrate, dry peculiar, eerie. ANTONYMS: (adj)
ANTONYMS: (n) aloofness, chill, ways: (n) behavior, process, shipway, ordinary, typical, real, usual,
chilliness, coldness, coolness, slipway, means, childbearing, regular, natural, commonplace,
unfriendliness, hostility, sourness, conduct, construction, demeanor, sensible, conventional, human
abruptness, plainness, frostiness direction, traveling welter: (n) muddle, clutter, jumble,
warping: (n) warp, distortion, weak: (adj, n) frail; (adj) flat, watery, smother, mess, commotion, pickle;
deformation, warpage, buckling, fragile, flimsy, faint, thin, light, (v) roll, flounder, billow, pitch
deflection, buckling of the sickly, soft, nerveless. ANTONYMS: wench: (n) miss, damsel, strumpet,
compression flange, beaming, (adj) concentrated, firm, brave, safe, trollop, Trull, missy, quean, slut,
buckle, upthrust forceful, effective, healthy, intense, nymph, dame; (n, v) drab
warring: (adj) militant, fighting, determined, powerful, robust went: (v) walked, proceeded
hostile, opposed, inconsistent, war, wear: (n) clothing, clothes, apparel, whatever: (adj, pron) whatsoever;
brawling, factious, opposing, attire, garb; (v) endure, fatigue, (pron) what, partly, whatso; (adv)
oppugnant, rebellious waste, bear, tire, fray. ANTONYMS: no matter what, anyway, anyhow,
warrior: (n) fighter, combatant, (v) refresh, reject, rebuild, please, regardless, in any case; (n) aught,
champion, brave, gerrard, guerilla, freshen, disrobe, delight, cheer, anything
centurion, irregular, insurgent, refuse; (n) improvement when: (adv, conj) once, as soon as;
guerrilla, militant wearied: (adj) jaded, tired, spent, (adv) then, because, than, since,
wash: (adj, n, v) soak; (n, v) paint; (v) fatigued, weary, prostrate, limp, after; (conj) although, while, if;
clean, scrub, mop, moisten, lave, haggard, shattered, worn, fatigate (prep) during
scour, bathe; (n) washing, ablution. weariness: (n) exhaustion, tiredness, where: (adv) there, here, wherever,
ANTONYM: (v) soil lassitude, languor, asthenopia, whither, in which, wherein, in what;
washed: (adj) wash, cleaner, colored, defatigation, grogginess, listlessness, (adv, pron) anywhere; (pron)
refined, wet, watery boredom, ennui, prostration everywhere; (n) point, spot
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whereas: (conj) while, though, wife: (n) matron, missis, partner, wise: (adj) reasonable, sensible,
whenas, where, albeit; (adv) when, married woman, spouse, consort, sound, rational, sagacious,
whilst, then; (prep) because; (n) helpmate, housewife, lady, woman, intelligent, prudent, shrewd,
grounds for a decisions viscountess discreet; (adj, n) knowing; (n)
whet: (v) quicken, excite, grind, stir, wild: (adj, n, v) waste, desert; (adj, v) method. ANTONYMS: (adj) unwise,
stimulate, hone; (n) goad, spur, fierce, violent, reckless, raging; (adj) stupid, ignorant, mistaken, illogical,
fillip, stimulus; (adj) point. boisterous, untamed, stormy, rude, reckless, naive, irrational, dense
ANTONYMS: (v) blunt, dishearten, desolate. ANTONYMS: (adj) calm, wish: (adv, n, v) will; (n, v) want,
dull, dampen, quench orderly, manageable, sane, hope, need, inclination, longing,
while: (adv, conj) whereas, as, domestic, cultivated, tame, aspiration, aim; (v) like, choose; (n)
although; (n) time, spell, period, restrained, mild, sensible, passive pleasure. ANTONYMS: (n, v)
moment, interval; (adv) when; (conj) wilderness: (adj, n, v) desert; (adj, n) dislike, hate; (n) hatred, coercion,
though; (prep) during wild; (n) wasteland, solitude, disinclination, aversion
whim: (n, v) fancy, vagary, humor, badlands, wildness, frontier, wishes: (n) desires, requirements,
freak; (n) notion, impulse, fad, boondocks, backwoods; (adj) requests, needs, will
mood, whimsy, thought, idea. Sahara; (v) squandering. wither: (v) shrink, wilt, contract,
ANTONYMS: (n) plan, reality, ANTONYM: (n) metropolis shrivel, languish, droop, dry, waste,
aversion wildly: (adj, adv) madly, wane, atrophy, decay. ANTONYMS:
whisper: (n, v) murmur, hum, extravagantly; (adv) savagely, (v) swell, strengthen, grow, blossom,
mumble, suggestion, hint, inkling; fiercely, violently, frantically, flourish
(v) breathe, hiss; (n) rustle, trace, brutally, furiously, tempestuously, withered: (adj) wizened, sear,
breath. ANTONYM: (n) information viciously, crazily. ANTONYMS: shriveled, thin, shrunken, dry, dried
white: (adj, n) pale; (adj) clean, blank, (adv) quietly, peacefully, meekly, up, wilted, faded, wizen; (v) lame.
snowy, ashen, wan, achromatic, cautiously, gently ANTONYM: (adj) plump
pure, pallid; (v) whiten; (n) willing: (adj, adv) disposed; (adj) within: (adv, n, prep) inside; (adv,
Caucasian. ANTONYMS: (adj, n) spontaneous, voluntary, ready, prep) in; (adv) indoors, internally,
black; (adj) dark, rosy, red, dirty; (v) amenable, inclined, prepared, inwardly, inly; (adj, n) interior;
blacken enthusiastic, unforced, obliging; (prep) into, on, between; (adj)
whizz: (n, v) whiz; (v) whir, zoom, (adj, v) consenting. ANTONYMS: inwards. ANTONYMS: (prep)
birr, whirr, speed, purr, rain cats (adj) unwilling, reluctant, beyond, out
and dogs; (n) magician, ace, puzzle compulsory, disagreeable, without: (adv, n, prep) outside; (adj,
whoever: (n) anyone, somebody; unprepared, forced, unenthusiastic, adv) except; (adj) lacking, save
(pron) whosoever, whatsoever unhelpful barring; (prep) out of, sans; (n)
person willy-nilly: (adv) irregularly, minus, provisionally; (adv) save,
whole: (adj, v) entire; (adj, n) total, necessarily; (adj) haphazard beyond; (adv, prep) besides.
integral, sum, aggregate, well; (adj, wind: (n, v) twist, turn; (v) meander, ANTONYMS: (prep) with, having;
adv, n) all; (adj) complete, healthy, curl, bend, twine, curve, weave, (adv) inside
intact, full. ANTONYMS: (adj) crook; (n) air, gust. ANTONYMS: witless: (adj, n) silly, brainless,
incomplete, broken, partial, (v) unwind; (n) breeze foolish, stupid, unwise, simple; (adj)
imperfect, unhealthy, deficient, winding: (n) twist, wind, turn; (adj) mindless, senseless, thoughtless,
destroyed, fractional, impaired, half, indirect, crooked, circuitous, dull, nitwitted
sick meandering, twisty, wandering; witnesses: (n) audience
wholly: (adj, adv) totally, entirely, (adj, n) twisting, twisted. witty: (adj, v) smart, clever, sharp,
altogether, quite, exclusively, ANTONYMS: (adj) direct, unbent brilliant; (adj) amusing, funny,
perfectly, solely; (adv, pref) all; wine: (n) vino, spirits, beer, saki, facetious, jocular, intelligent, quick,
(adv) fully, utterly, absolutely. sake, Macon, maconnais, alcohol, comic. ANTONYMS: (adj) dull,
ANTONYMS: (adv) partially, liquor, dessert wine; (adj) mauve unamusing, unfunny, thick
inclusively, hardly, incompletely, wings: (n) insignia, agency wives: (n) woman
slightly wink: (n, v) twinkle, blink, flash; (n) wolves: (n) jackals, skunks, raccoons,
wicked: (adj) bad, sinful, atrocious, instant, twinkling, trice; (v) sparkle, panthers, order Carnivora, lions,
evil, vile, depraved, mischievous, nictitate, flicker, nictate, leer tigers, foxes, cats, Carnivora, Canis
immoral, unholy, nasty, naughty. wipe: (n, v) rub; (v) mop, clean, woman: (n) girl, female, lady, dame,
ANTONYMS: (adj) innocent, pure, towel, brush, scour, scrub, clear, dry, madam, mistress, matron, maid,
pious, moral, kind, admirable, wash; (adj) sponge. ANTONYM: (v) gentlewoman, Donna, petticoat.
kindhearted, helpful, decent, dirty ANTONYMS: (n) man, gentleman
assisting, aiding wisdom: (n) judiciousness, womankind: (n) womanhood, gentle
wide: (adj) broad, spacious, roomy, knowledge, sapience, sagacity, sex, people
extensive, comprehensive, large, sense, prudence, discernment, women: (n) sex, gentle sex
vast, ample, capacious, open, insight, learning, depth, wonder: (adj, n) prodigy; (n)
sweeping. ANTONYMS: (adj) thin, reasonableness. ANTONYMS: (n) astonishment, admiration,
restricted, skinny, straight, cramped, stupidity, folly, inexperience, amazement, surprise, miracle,
minute ignorance, flippancy, banality phenomenon, muse; (v) admire,
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reflect, question. ANTONYMS: (n) reassurance, pleasure, relief, ANTONYM: (adj) dry
expectation, belief, disapproval; (v) unconcern, calm, confidence, wrinkled: (adj, n) rough, rugged;
know, believe, anticipate, decide hopefulness, peace; (v) reassure, (adj) puckered, creased, wrinkly,
wonderful: (adj, n) marvelous, delight wizened, crumpled, lined, gnarled,
astonishing, incredible; (adj) worrying: (adj) disturbing, unironed, crinkled. ANTONYMS:
excellent, remarkable, phenomenal, disquieting, worrisome, troubling, (adj) unwrinkled, ironed, straight
amazing, fantastic, great, grand, troublesome, anxious, distressful, write: (v) pen, indite, draw up,
super. ANTONYMS: (adj) terrible, perturbing; (v) bothering, harassing; correspond, spell, record, publish,
unpleasant, dreadful, poor, rotten, (n) harassment. ANTONYMS: (adj) compile, draw, outline, type
abysmal, mundane, devastating, soothing, relaxing, promising, slight writing: (n) script, print, composition,
lousy, dire, ordinary worst: (v) whip, trounce, defeat, lettering, document, autograph,
wood: (n) timber, tree, grove, lumber, overcome, vanquish, pip, rack up; paper, record, inscription,
jungle, coppice, walnut, linden, (adj, v) best, rout; (adj) floor, lick. authorship, handwriting
larch, guaiac; (adj, n) woods ANTONYMS: (adj, n) best; (adj) written: (adj) registered, clerical,
woodlands: (n) country highest, first, secondary conscript, enrolled, literal, hard-and-
wool: (n) fur, coat, pile, down, worth: (adj, n) value, dignity; (n) cost, fast, on paper; (n) examination.
woolen, woollen, yarn, hair, virtue, price, importance, excellence, ANTONYMS: (adj) verbal,
cashmere, alpaca, shoddy quality, import, goodness, benefit. unscripted, unwritten
woolly: (adj) flocculent, fuzzy, hairy, ANTONYMS: (n) insignificance, wrong: (adj, n) evil, ill, injury,
downy, confused, wooly, hirsute, disadvantage, hopelessness, injustice; (adj, n, v) damage, injure;
addled, befuddled, velvety; (n) detriment, disgrace, inferiority, (adj) improper, false, incorrect, bad,
Woolly bear. ANTONYM: (adj) clear triviality, uselessness, inefficiency inappropriate. ANTONYMS: (adj)
word: (n) news, tidings, password, woven: (adj) plaited correct, good, proper, honest,
expression, report, vocable, wrack: (n) rack, sea wrack, appropriate, just, true; (adv)
statement, term; (v) formulate, desolation, destruction, demolition, correctly; (n) justice, virtue; (v)
phrase; (n, v) advice bouleversement, undoing; (v) ruin, sympathize
words: (n) speech, expression, row, destroy, bust up, demolish wrought: (adj) shaped, done, worked,
text, fracas, argument; (n, v) wrangle: (adj, n, v) squabble; (n, v) worked up, formed
altercation, squabble, tiff, dispute, quarrel, dispute, brawl, debate, yarn: (n) story, thread, tale, narration,
quarrel bicker, contest, row, altercation, twine, anecdote, string, fable,
working: (adj) practical, active, busy, fight, argue. ANTONYMS: (v) agree; relation, worsted, fiction
in action, in force; (n) operation, (n) peace yell: (n, v) cry, roar, scream, howl,
play, agency, movement; (adj, n) wreath: (n) crown, coronal, garland, call, bellow, whoop, shriek, outcry;
running, functioning. ANTONYMS: chaplet, lei, circle, posy, fascia, (v) bawl, holler
(adj) passive, unemployed, cincture, girdle, laurels yelling: (adj) crying, howling,
inoperative, inactive, idle, wreathed: (adj) ringed, serpentine, fantastic, noisy, marvelous,
ineffective coiled, circular, circinate, bent, marvellous, instant, insistent, rank;
works: (n) plant, workings, mill, annulate, tortile, torqued, (n) screaming, noise
manufactory, deeds, whole surrounded, curled yellow: (adv) cowardly; (adj) amber,
caboodle, kit and caboodle, kit and wrenching: (n) extraction; (adj) xanthous, chickenhearted, fearful,
boodle, industrial plant, full painful chicken, craven, spineless; (n)
treatment, distillery wretch: (n) victim, villain, scoundrel, coward, saffron, maize.
world: (n) cosmos, nature, creation, reprobate, reptile, miscreant, martyr, ANTONYMS: (adj) bold, brave,
earth, public, sphere, society, realm, object of compassion, poor devil, confident
globe, macrocosm; (adj) global prey, wreak yesterday: (n) past, yesteryear, yore,
worn: (adj) haggard, tired, tattered, wretched: (adj) unfortunate, pitiful, mean solar day, past times, solar
threadbare, ragged, drawn, jaded, sad, pitiable, woeful, pathetic, day, day, history, water under the
fatigued, exhausted, faded, wasted. piteous, lamentable; (adj, v) poor, bridge; (adj) pass, stale.
ANTONYMS: (adj) new, smart, unhappy, forlorn. ANTONYMS: ANTONYMS: (adv) nowadays; (n)
unused, unworn, pristine, original (adj) fine, strong, fortunate, today
worried: (adj) uneasy, distressed, overjoyed, nice, admirable, good, yield: (n, v) produce, return, allow,
nervous, apprehensive, upset, cheery, joyous, lucky, comfortable give; (v) surrender, concede, submit,
anxious, disturbed, concerned, wretchedly: (adv) pathetically, give up, grant, cede; (n) output.
afraid, troubled, bothered. unhappily, desperately, ANTONYMS: (v) persevere,
ANTONYMS: (adj) carefree, calamitously, sadly, meanly, survive, stand, withstand, repel,
reassured, relaxed, untroubled, forlornly, piteously, disastrously, reject, prevent, withhold, acquire,
fearless, unworried, unconcerned, gloomily; (adj, adv) miserably. oppose, veto
content, confident, serene ANTONYM: (adv) hopefully yonder: (adv) beyond, further,
worry: (n, v) concern, torment, wringing: (adj) saturated, soaked, farther, abroad, thither, further
trouble, distress, tease, bother, soaked to the skin, soaking wet, away, at that place; (adj) distant,
burden, care, harass, fear; (v) sodden, sopping, sopping wet, wet, yond, furious, fierce
disturb. ANTONYMS: (n) calmness, wet through, wringing wet, soaking. young: (n, v) offspring; (adj, n)
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juvenile; (adj) immature, fresh,
adolescent, new, raw, baby, childish,
early; (n) progeny. ANTONYMS:
(adj) old, mature, adult, ripe, older,
late; (adj, n) aged
younger: (adj) Jr, little, petty, young,
juvenile, Mickey Mouse, minor,
minuscule, niggling, picayune,
unskilled
youngster: (n) lad, juvenile, kid,
child, urchin, toddler, youth,
adolescent, bairn, baby, tot.
ANTONYMS: (n) adult, elder
yours: (adj) own
yourself: (adv) herself, themselves,
itself, myself, ourselves, yourselves,
physically
yourselves: (pron) themselves,
myself, herself
youth: (n) youngster, young person,
lad, juvenile, boy, adolescence, kid,
younker, stripling, juvenility; (adj, n)
young. ANTONYMS: (n) adulthood,
adult, ripeness, maturity, aged
youthfully: (adv) greenly,
vigorously, youngly, vernally,
immaturely, freshly, adolescently,
callowly, newly, sappily, tenderly
zeal: (adj, n) eagerness; (n) fervor,
enthusiasm, devotion, passion,
vehemence, fire, fervency, heat,
fervour, ardour. ANTONYMS: (n)
apathy, lethargy, patience
zeus: (n) Yama, Zenion, Jupiter,
genus Zeus
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