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Dabbler, n. superficialist, sciolist, smatterer, dilettante.
dabblingly, adv. superficially, cursorily.
dabster, n. (Colloq.) expert, adept, master-hand.
dagger, n. stiletto, poniard, bowie knife, dirk; obelisk.
dainty, n. delicacy, tidbit, treat, rarebit, bonne bouche.
dainty, a. fastidious, squeamish, finical; delicate, exquisite.
dale, n. glen, dell, dingle, vale, valley.
dalliance, n. fondling, endearments; delay, procrastination, postponement.
dally, v. dawdle, trifle; fondle, wanton; delay, postpone, procrastinate.
dam, n. barrier, weir, burrock.
damage, v. injure, hurt, harm, despoil, scathe, deface, impair, disfigure, damnify.
damage, n. injury, detriment, impairment, defacement, harm, hurt, mischief.
damages, n. pl. indemnity, satisfaction, reparation.
damn, v. condemn, curse, reprobate, denounce.
damnable, a. accursed, atrocious, execrable, heinous.
damnation, n. condemnation, reprobation, perdition.
damning, a. condemnatory, damnatory.
damp, a. moist, wet, humid, dank.
dampen, v. moisten, damp; check, repress, restrain, discourage, depress.
damper, n. check, setback, wet blanket, discouragement, rebuff.
dampness, n. moisture, humidity.
dance, n. ballet, cotillion, quadrille, waltz, reel, fandango, polka, two-step, polonaise, mazurka, schottische, allemande cancan, minuet, courant, bolero, gavot. Associated words: terpsichorean, Terpsichore, choregraphy, dervish.
dancing-mania, n. epidemic chorea, choromania, cory-bantism dander, n. (Slang) anger, resentment, ire, wrath, dudgeon.
dandified, a. foppish, coxcombical. Antonyms: slovenly, careless, seedy.
dandy, n. fop, exquisite, dude, coxcomb, popinjay, incroyable, jackadandy. Antonym: sloven.
danger, n. jeopardy, hazard, peril, insecurity, risk, exposure, imminence, impediment. Antonyms: safety, immunity, security, shelter, safeguard, protection.
dangerous, a. perilous, hazardous, risky, unsafe, critical, parlous, imminent. Antonyms: See safe.
Danish Parliament. Rigsdag (Landsthing and Folkething).
dapper, a. spruce, trim, natty, spry, nimble.
dappled, a. piebald, spotted, pied, mottled.
dare, v. venture, presume; defy, challenge, stump.
dare, n. defiance, provocation, challenge.
dare-devil, a. reckless, rash, inconsiderate, venturesome.
dark, a. unilluminated, sunless, dusky, rayless, Cimmerian, pitchy, tenebrific, murk, murky, dingy, shadowy, shady, mirky, lowering, overcast, gloomy, sullen, Stygian, sombre; obscure, mysterious, incomprehensible, recondite abstruse, cabalistic, cryptic, enigmatical, occult; brunette, swart, swarthy.
darken, v. shade, obscure, infuscate, shadow, becloud, obfuscate; perplex, confuse; sully, tarnish, discolor.
darkness, n. obscurity, shadow, dimness, gloom, infuscation, murkiness, obfuscation, tenebrosity; unenlightenment. Associated words: Erebus, Ahriman, Cimmerii.
dart, v. hurl, launch, jaculate; spring, dodge, bolt, shoot.
dash, n. collision, allision, crash; abashment, frustration; infusion, smack, tincture, sprinkling; onset, rush, sally; energy, animation, vigor; (Slang) parade, flourish, show, ostentation.
dashboard, n. splashboard, dasher.
dashing, a. spirited, bold, brilliant, ostentatious, gay; roaring, rushing, headlong.
dastard, n. coward, craven, poltroon. See coward.
daub, v. smear, bedaub, besmear, soil, sully.
daughter, n. Associated words: filial, filiation, filicide.
daunt, v. cow, intimidate, frighten, alarm, appall, dishearten, scare.
dauntless, a. intrepid, valorous, daring, fearless.
dawn, n. daybreak, aurora, dayspring, sunrise.
day, n. daytime, nycthemeron; time, age, generation, epoch, era. Associated words: metemptosis, proemptosis, daily, diurnal, quotidian, ephemeral, sine die, ferial, per diem.
day-blindness, n. nyctalopia.
day-dream, n. revery.
day scholar. extern.
day-sight, n. hemeralopia.
dazzle, v. daze, blind; bewilder, astonish, overpower.
dazzling, a. brilliant, intense, glaring.
deacon, n. Associated words: diaconal, diaconate.
dead, a. lifeless, deceased, inanimate, defunct, extinct, departed; inert, obtuse, impassive, callous, torpid, unfeeling, subdued.
dead body. See corpse.
deadborn, a. stillborn.
deaden, v. blunt, benumb, hebetate, moderate; devitalize, subdue.
dead-house, n. morgue; ossuarium, charnel-house, mortuary, tomb.
deadly, a. fatal, mortal, lethal, lethiferous, noxious, internecine; implacable, unrelenting.
deaf-mute, n. Associated word: dactylology.
deal, v. distribute, apportion, dispense, allot; trade, traffic, negotiate.
dealer, n. trader, dispenser, trafficker, retailer, shopkeeper, merchant, monger, vender, tradesman, broker, mercer, commission dealer, jobber.
dealing, n. distribution, apportionment; traffic, intercourse, barter, business, transaction, negotiation, commerce, trade.
dear, a. costly, expensive, high-priced; beloved, darling, precious. Antonyms: cheap, inexpensive.
dearth, n. scarcity, lack, deficiency, paucity, want. Antonyms: See plenty.
death, n. decease, demise, dissolution, dying, mortality, expiration, quietus, mort, obit, extinction; euthanasia (an easy death). Associated-words: eschatology, thanatology, thanatopsis, necrology, thanatophobia, necrophobia, necrolatry, requiem, necromancy, posthumous, post-mortem, ante-mortem, euthanasian, dirge, crossbones, placebo, in extremis, decedent, funeral, obit, obitual, necrologist, fatality, fatal, casualty.
deathless, a. immortal, imperishable, undying.
death notice. obituary, necrology.
debar, v. preclude, exclude.
debase, v. degrade, deteriorate, abase, vitiate, corrupt, alloy, humiliate.
debasement, n. degradation, abasement, deterioration, vitiation, depravation.
debatable, a. contestable, moot, disputable, mooted, controvertible. Antonyms: incontestable, indisputable, incontrovertible.
debate, v. argue, discuss, moot, contend, controvert.
debate, n. discussion, argument, moot, dispute, controversy, disputation, forensic.
debauch, v. vitiate, deprave, corrupt, demoralize; ravish, rape.
debauch, n. debauchery, dissipation, abandon, drunkenness saturnalia, orgies, bacchanals, lechery; rape. Antonyms: temperance, continence, moderation.
debauched, a. dissolute, licentious, dissipated, corrupt.
debauchee, n. libertine, lecher, fornicator, rake, drunkard, satyr.
debauchery, n. lechery, libertinism, sensuality, licentiousness, bestiality.
debonair, a. suave, courteous, urbane, complaisant, gracious.
debt, n. liability, due, obligation, debit. Antonyms: asset, resource. Associated words: garnishee, distrain, distress, debenture.
decadent, a. deteriorating, degenerating.—n. degenerate.
decay, v. decline, retrograde, deteriorate; rot, decompose, putrefy, moulder.
decay, n. deterioration, corruption, decline, decadence, senescence, retrogradation, decomposition, caducity; putrefaction, putrescence, rot; eremacausis.
decayed, a. rotten, corrupt, putrefied, carious, putrescent, decomposed.
decaying, a. rotting, corrupt, mouldering, decadent, putrefying, carious. Antonym: imputrescible.
decease, n. demise, death.
deceased person. decedent.
deceit, n. deception, imposition, trickery, chicanery, artifice, delusion, circumvention, guile, duplicity, imposture finesse, dissimulation, cozenage, trumpery, fallacy.
deceitful, a. deceptive, illusive, insidious, fraudulent, wily, artful, disingenuous.
deceivable, a. deceptible, gullible, credulous. Antonyms: indeceptible, undeceivable.
deceive, v. delude, beguile, mislead, gull, impose upon, dupe, circumvent, hoodwink, bamboozle. Antonyms: undeceive, disillusionize, disabuse.
deceiver, n. impostor, charlatan, mountebank, swindler, knave, cogger.
decency, n. propriety, seemliness, decorum, modesty, Antonyms: See indecency.
decent, a. suitable, modest, decorous, seemly, respectable. Antonyms: See indecent.
deception, n. imposition, craft, duplicity, deceit, hoax, fallacy, ruse, imposture, artifice, illusion, prevarication, finesse, dissimulation, cozenage, sophistry, coggery. Antonyms: guilelessness, candor, disillusionment, fair dealing, sincerity.
deceptive, a. delusive, fallacious, deceitful, specious, insidious, sophistical. Antonyms: guileless, candid, ingenuous, sincere, open.
decharm, v. disillusionize, disenchant, disabuse.
decide, v. determine, settle, conclude, resolve.
decided, a. unequivocal, determined, pronounced, unwavering, positive, incontrovertible.
decision, n. determination, settlement, conclusion, verdict, inference, deduction; firmness, resolution, constancy, steadfastness. Antonyms: indecision, irresolution, vacillation.
decisive, a. conclusive, final, peremptory, summary.
deck, v. bedeck, bedizen, array.
declaration, n. assertion, affirmation, avowal, predication, pronunciamento.
declare, v. affirm, assert, aver, state, asseverate, predicate.
decline, v. lean, incline, bend; languish, sink, wane, diminish, decrease, deteriorate, retrograde; deviate, stray; shun, refuse.
decline, n. deterioration, retrogradation, diminution, retrogression, degeneracy, declension, declination, decay; progressive emaciation, marasmus. Antonyms: progress, advancement, improvement.
decolor, v. decolorate, decolorize.
decorate, v. embellish, adorn, beautify, ornament, garnish, enrich, trim, bedizen, bedeck.
decorated, a. embellished, ornate, ornamented, trimmed. Antonyms: See plain.
decoration, n. embellishment, garniture, bedizenment, adorning, ornamentation, decking, insignia, regalia, purfling; paraphernalia.
decorative, a. ornamental, embellishing, adorning.
decoy, v. entice, lure, allure, ensnare, entrap.
decoy, n. lure, enticement, magnet, allurement.
decrease, n. decrement, diminution, reduction, decline, depreciation, abatement, subsidence.
decrease, v. diminish, reduce, dwindle, subside, depreciate, abate, wane.
decreasing, a. decrescent, diminishing, waning.
decrease of motion retardation.
decree, n. edict, fiat, mandate, decretal, rescript.—v. enact, ordain, enjoin.
decrial, n. condemnation, disparagement, dispraise, detraction, derogation, belittling.
decry, v. disparage, belittle.
dedicate, v. consecrate.
dedication, n. consecration. Associated words: dedicate, dedicator, dedicatorial, dedicatory, dedicatee.
deduct, v. subtract, rebate.
deduction, n. subtraction, discount; inference, conclusion, corollary, illation.
deed, n. exploit, act, feat, perpetration, performance, stunt.
deed, n. Associated words: defeasance, feoffment, muniment.
deep, a. profound, intricate, inexplicable, unfathomable, incomprehensible, recondite, abstruse; abysmal; sagacious, cunning, astute, shrewd; dark, intense; grave, grum, full-toned, guttural. Antonyms: superficial, shallow.
deepen, v. intensify.
deer, n. Cervidæ; fallow deer, red deer, mule deer, reindeer; buck (fawn, brocket, pricket, sorel, sore, spitter); (female) doe, roe; (male red deer) stag, hart; hind, roe (female red deer); havier (castrated); halfer; antelope hummel; staggard. Associated words: venison, fumet, umbles, cervine, deerstalking, capreoline.
deerhound, n. staghound.
deface, v. mar, disfigure, mutilate.
defacement, n. disfigurement, mutilation, marring.
defamation, n. calumny, libel, lampoon, traducement, roorback. See slander.
defamatory, a. slanderous, calumnious, libellous, vituperative, contumelious.
defame, v. calumniate, malign, vilify, lampoon, vituperate, slander.
defaulter, n. delinquent, peculator, embezzler, defalcator.
defeat, n. repulse, overthrow, vanquishment, foil, rout, frustration, disappointment.
defeat, v. conquer, vanquish, repulse, discomfit, rout, checkmate, outwit, balk, foil, frustrate.
defect, n. blemish, flaw, imperfection, foible, failing, shortcoming, infirmity.
defend, v. guard, protect, shield, secure, screen, shelter, fortify, garrison, preserve, harbor, countenance; uphold, espouse, vindicate, advocate, plead, justify, maintain.
defender, n. defendant, vindicator, advocate, champion, pleader, asserter, upholder, guardian.
defense, n. protection, defending, maintenance; guard, protection, palisade, rampart, bulwark, fortress, blockhouse, fortification, earthwork, breastwork, shield, armor, stockade, buckler, redoubt, remblai, palladium, garrison, ravelin, reliance, muniment, machicolation; vindication, advocacy, plea, excuse. Antonyms: betrayal, exposure, surrender, abandonment, capitulation.
defiance, n. challenge, provocation; opposition, insubmission, contumacy, contempt, insubordination, insurgency, mutiny, rebellion, recalcitration.
defiant, a. disobedient, insubmissive, contumacious, bellicose, rebellious, contumelious, refractory, cockahoop, mutinous. Antonyms: obedient, tractable, submissive.
deficiency, n. inadequacy, insufficiency, shortage, meagreness.
deficient, a. defective, imperfect, meagre, scanty, inadequate, insufficient.
defile, v. contaminate, pollute, soil, befoul, vitiate, taint, corrupt, infect, sully.
defilement, n. contamination, pollution, vitiation, corruption.
definite, a. positive, specific, express, explicit, specified, exact, precise. Antonyms: See indefinite.
definition, n. explanation, description; lexigraphy.
deformed, a. misshapen, disfigured, crippled.
deformity, n. malformation, disfigurement, unshapeliness distortion. Associated words: orthopedy, orthopraxy, orthopedic, orthopedist.
deft, a. dexterous, adroit, expert, skillful, apt, clever.
defy, v. challenge, dare; spurn, flout, scorn.
degeneracy, n. decline, degeneration, retrogression, deterioration.
degenerate, v. deteriorate, retrograde, decline.
degeneration, n. deterioration, decline, retrogradation, degeneracy, vitiation.
degradation, n. abasement, debasement, disgrace, humiliation.
degrade, v. abase, debase, disgrace, pervert, humiliate, dishonor.
degraded, a. debased, low, shameful.
deiflcation, n. apotheosis.
deign, v. condescend, vouchsafe.
delay, n. deferring, deferment, procrastination, postponement, respite, reprieve; retardation, retention, obstruction; dawdling, lingering, dalliance. Antonyms: dispatch, promptness, expedition, haste.
delay, v. postpone, defer, procrastinate, suspend, reprieve, retard, impede, hinder, obstruct; linger, tarry, dawdle, dally. Antonyms: dispatch, hasten, expedite, facilitate.
delegate, v. depute, commission.
delegate, n. deputy, proxy, vicar, commissioner, legate, envoy, appointee, surrogate.
deleterious, a. hurtful, noxious, pernicious.
deliberate, a. intentional, premeditated, prepense, done on purpose. Antonyms: accidental, unconscious, unpremeditated, unintentional.
deliberation, n. consideration, discussion, consultation.
delicacy, n. daintiness, fineness, frailty, refinement, fastidiousness, discrimination, sensitiveness; dainty, tidbit, junket. Antonyms: indelicacy, coarseness, indiscrimination.
delicate, a. graceful, fine, exquisite, minute, slender; refined, sensitive, fastidious, dainty; critical, ticklish. Antonyms: See indelicate.
delicious, a. luscious, palatable, savory, exquisite, delightful. Antonyms: unpalatable, nauseous, distasteful fulsome.
delighted, a. charmed, overjoyed, enraptured.
delightful, a. charming, enchanting, rapturous, beatific, ravishing, delectable, pleasurable, delicious, congenial, enjoyable.
delirious, a. irrational. Antonyms: rational, lucid, sane.
delirium tremens. mania a potu, œnomania, the horrors (Colloq.).
deliverance, n. rescue, salvation, redemption; extrication, acquittance.
delivery, n. rescue, release, liberation, deliverance, extrication; surrender, conveyance, transfer, transmission.
delusion, n. illusion, deception, phantasm, hallucination, mockery, ruse. Antonyms: disillusionment, disenchantment, reality, actuality, fact.
demand, n. exaction, requisition, requirement, order, request.
demeanor, n. deportment, carriage, behavior, bearing, mien.
demerit, n. fault, wrongdoing, misconduct, delinquency.
demon, n. devil, fiend, Mara. Associated words: demoniac, demonocracy, pandemonium, demonology, sabbat, demonophobia, polydemonism, demonism, exorcise, exorcism, exorcist.
demon worship. demonolatry.
demoralize, v. deprave, debase, corrupt, vitiate.
demure, a. sedate, sober, staid, decorous.
den, n. cavern, cave, lair; retreat, haunt, squalid resort.
denial, n. negation, rejection, disclaimer, disavowal, controverting, abjuration, disacknowledgment, refusal, abnegation, renunciation. Antonyms: affirmation, acceptance, avowal, confession.
denote, v. signify, imply, indicate, betoken.
denouncing, n. denunciation.
dent, n. indentation.—v. indent.
denunciation, n. condemnation, arraignment, accusation, fulmination, malediction, stigmatizing.
denunciatory, a. condemnatory, comminatory, fulminatory deny, v. gainsay, contradict; disavow, disown, abjure, renounce, abnegate.
department, n. division, section, part, category; district, precinct, branch, province; station, sphere, capacity.
departure, n. deviation; retirement, withdrawal.
dependable, a. trustworthy, trusty, reliable. Antonyms: untrustworthy, unreliable.
dependant, n. retainer, vassal, minion, subject, feudatory, adherent, satellite; corollary, consequence, concomitant.
dependence, n. suspension, dependency; reliance, trust; mainstay, support; contingency.
dependent, a. conditioned, contingent. Antonyms: independent, unconditioned.
depict, v. portray, delineate, describe, picture.
depiction, n. portrayal, delineation, description, picture.
deplore, v. lament, deprecate, bewail, regret, rue, bemoan.
deportment, n. behavior, conduct, demeanor.
deposit, n, deposition, sediment, precipitate, alluvium, alluvion, diluvium. Associated words: alluvial, diluvial.
depositary, n. trustee, guardian, fiduciary.
depository, n. storehouse, magazine, depot, warehouse, promptuary.
depot, n. depository, warehouse; station.
depredation, n. pillage, sacking, rapine, spoliation, plunder.
depredator, n. plunderer, pillager, despoiler, robber.
depressed, a. dejected, dispirited.
depression, n. cavity, hollow, indentation, concavity, dent; dejection, discouragement, despondency, vapors, gloom; inactivity, dullness.
deprive, v. dispossess, strip, divest, despoil.
depth, n. profundity; extent, measure, intensity; deep, abyss; astuteness, shrewdness, acumen, discernment. Associated words: bathometer, bathymetry, bathymetric.
derelict, a. abandoned, forsaken; lost, adrift; careless, negligent, remiss, delinquent.
deride, v. scoff, ridicule, mock, taunt, jeer, scout, jibe.
derision, n. ridicule, mockery, jeering.
derogatory, a. disparaging, detracting.
descendants, n. pl. progeny, posterity, offspring.
descent, n. descension; incursion, raid, foray; derivation, lineage, extraction, parentage, birth; declivity, slope, decline; dismounting; bathos; escarpment, scarp.
describe, v. delineate, depict.
description, n. delineation, depiction, portrayal; class, species, sort, character.
desecrate, v. profane, pollute, secularize.
desecration, n. profanation, secularization.
desert, n. wilderness, wild. Associated words: oasis, mirage, caravan, caravansary, eremic.
desert, a. waste, unproductive, barren, desolate, infertile, inarable. Antonyms: fertile, arable.
desert, v. forsake, abandon, leave, run away from.
deserted, a. forsaken, desolate, abandoned, derelict.
deserter, n. renegade, turncoat, delinquent, backslider, apostate, recreant, poltroon, rat, traitor.
desertion, n. abandonment. Antonyms: See faithfulness.
desert wind. simoon.
deserve, v. merit.
deserved, a. merited, condign. Antonyms: undeserved, unmerited.
deserving, a. meritprious, worthy, meedful. Antonyms: undeserving, unworthy.
design, n. sketch, draught, outline, plan; scheme, intention, purpose, project, intent, aim. Associated words: teleology, teleologist, teleological.
designing, n. artful, wily, crafty, subtle, politic, Machiavelian disingenuous. Antonyms: See undesigning.
desire, n. longing, craving, will, aspiration, hankering, appetency, cupidity, impulse; request, petition, quest, entreaty; velleity; pruriency. Antonyms: apathy, antipathy, aversion, inappetency. Associated words: desiderative, desideratum, orectic, optative.
desire, v. want, crave, long for, lust, covet, yearn, aspire, request.
desolate, a. dreary, waste; broken-hearted, inconsolable, solitary; devastated.
desolate, v. devastate, depredate, despoil, sack, lay waste.
despair, n. hopelessness, desperation, inconsolableness.
desperate, a. irretrievable, hopeless, incurable, remediless, outrageous, atrocious, monstrous, heinous.
desperation, n. despair, hopelessness, recklessness.
despicable, a. contemptible, abject.
despise, v. contemn, disdain.
despiteful, a. malicious, spiteful, resentful.
despondency, n. melancholy, depression, dejection.
despondent, a. disheartened, discouraged, dejected, depressed.
despot, n. tyrant, autocrat.
despotic, a. autocratic, tyrannical, absolute, despotical.
despotism, n. absolutism, autocracy, tyranny.
destìne, v. doom, preordain, appoint, foredoom.
destiny, n. fate, doom, lot, fortune.
destitute, a. devoid, deficient, lacking; needy, very poor.
destitution, n. privation, need, want, poverty, deficiency, indigence.
destroy, v. annihilate, undo, demolish, raze, desolate, devour, sack, dismantle, eradicate, exterminate, ruin. Antonyms: conserve, preserve, perpetuate, spare.
destroyer, n. iconoclast, annihilator, vandal, hun, destructionist, Apollyon.
destruction, n. annihilation, demolition, eradication, ruin, perdition, havoc, vandalism, subversion, desolation, devastation, iconoclasm. Antonyms: conservation preservation, perpetuation.
destructive, a. ruinous, iconoclastic, vandal, vandalic, internecine, deleterious, pernicious, annihilative.
desultory, a. fitful, irregular, cursory, unsystematic.
detach, v. disconnect, disjoin, sever, disunite, isolate, segregate.
detachment, n. disconnection, separation, disunion, isolation, segregation.
detail, v. particularize, enumerate.
details, n. pl. minutiæ, particulars.
detention, n. restraint, custody, confinement, arrest.
deter, v. hinder, prevent, dissuade, restrain.
deteriorate, v. decline, degenerate, retrograde; corrupt, vitiate, debase, degrade.
deterioration, n. decline, degeneration, retrogression; vitiation, corruption, debasement.
detest, v. loathe, despise, abominate, abhor, hate, execrate.
detestable, a. abominable, loathsome, execrable, abhorrent.
detestation, n. abomination, execration, loathing, abhorrence, antipathy.
deuced, a. (Low) devilish, excessive, extreme.
devastate, v. desolate, sack, despoil, ravage, plunder.
devastation, n. desolation, sacking, despoliation, ravage, havoc.
develop, v. mature, evolve; unfold, disentangle, unravel. Antonyms: atrophy, blast, blight.
development, n. unfoldment, progression, evolution; hypertrophy (excessive development). Antonyms: atrophy, undevelopment, abortion, embryo.
deviate, v. swerve, deflect, digress, stray, wander, diverge. Antonym: continue.
deviation, n. swerving, deflection, digression, divergence.
device, n. contrivance, invention, expedient, wile, maneuver, artifice, trickery; symbol, motto, legend, cognizance.
devil, n. Satan, Lucifer, Apollyon, Belial, Beelzebub, deuce, dickens, Mephistopheles, Asmodeus, Abaddon; demon, fiend. Associated words: diabolology, Satanic, demoniac, exorcise, exorcism, diabolism, Izedi, Izedism, demonology.
devilish, a. demoniac, diabolical, fiendish, infernal; atrocious, reprobate.
devil-may-care, a. reckless, defiant.
deviltry, n. devilry, diablerie, devilment, fiendishness.
devious, a. wandering, circuitous, mazy, winding, tortuous, roundabout; erring, sinful.
devise, v. contrive, invent, scheme, concoct, excogitate; bequeath.
devoted person. devotee, zealot.
devotion, n. consecration, dedication; zeal, allegiance, attachment, love; worship, adoration; religion, holiness, devoutness; fetishism, infatuation.
devotional, a. reverential, devout.
devout, a. pious, reverent, devotional, godly, holy, religious. Antonyms: irreverent, irreligious, impious, unholy.
dexterity, n. expertness, skill, adroitness, aptitude, readiness.
dexterous, a. expert, adroit, skillful.
dialogue, n. colloquy, duologue, interlocutory, interlocution, collocution. Associated words: interlocutor, interlocutory, collocutor.
diarrhea, n. flux; lientery; (of cattle) scour.
diatribe, n. philippic, tirade, invective, screed.
dice, n. die, cube. Associated word: cleromancy.
dicker, v. trade, barter, negotiate, exchange.—n. barter, trade, exchange, chaffering.
dictate, n. command, admonition, prescription, impulse.
dictator, n. despot, autocrat.
dictatorial, a. imperious, dogmatical, overbearing.
diction, n. language, phraseology.
dictionary, n. lexicon, vocabulary, wordbook, glossary; gazetteer, gradus, onomasticon, idioticon, thesaurus. Associated words: lexicography, lexicographer, lexicographic.
dido, n. trick, antic, caper, prank.
die, v. expire, perish, decease; wither, fade, vanish, recede, wane, subside, languish.
differ, v. be unlike; disagree. Antonyms: agree, concur.
difference, n. dissimilarity, unlikeness, distinction, variation, contrast, discrepancy, discrimination, disparity, diversity, dissimilitude, incompatibility, inequality, heterogeneity, variety; dissension, variance. See disagreement. Antonyms: uniformity, similarity, agreement consonance, correspondence, indiscrimination, promiscuity, identity.
different, a. dissimilar, unlike, contrary, opposite, contrasted, variant, diversified, manifold, various, diverse, sundry, incompatible, heterogeneous, nondescript, miscellaneous unclassifiable, unique. Antonyms: similar, like, same.
differentiate, v. discriminate.
differentiation, n. discrimination.
difficult, a. arduous, onerous, complicated, intricate, hard; uncompliant, intractable, perverse, fastidious, exacting. Antonyms: facile, light, easy.
difficulty, n. obstacle, impediment, obstruction; arduousness, hardness; controversy, disagreement, objection, cavil; predicament, quandary, dilemma. Antonyms: ease, facility, extrication, release.
diffidence, n. timidity, bashfulness.
diffident, a. bashful, timid, shy.
diffuse, a. copious, full, verbose, prolix.
dig, v. delve, excavate, scoop; thrust, poke, punch, jab; exhume (dig up).
dig, n. thrust, punch, poke; grind (student).
digest, v. codify, systematize, methodize, classify.
digest, n. pandect, summary, code, system, abridgment.
digestion, n. eupepsia. Antonyms: indigestion, dyspepsia. Associated words: peptics, pepsin, peptic, pepticity, chyme, chyle, digestible, digestibility, indigestible, indigestibility.
digging, n. excavation; exhumation (digging up). Associated words: fossorial, fodient.
diggings, n. pl. (Slang) region, locality.
dignified, a. stately, majestic, august, imposing, decorous. Antonyms: See undignified.
dignify, v. exalt, grace, ennoble, honor, elevate.
dignity, n. exaltation, eminence; stateliness; honor, preferment.
digress, v. deviate, depart, wander, turn aside.
digression, n. deviation, divergence; episode, incident.
dike, n. levee, embankment.
dike warden. dikereeve.
dilapidated, a. ramshackle, dismantled.
dilate, v. expand, distend; expatiate.
dilation, n. expansion, dilatation, distention; expatiation.
dilemma, n. predicament, quandary, difficulty, strait, pickle. Antonyms: extrication, release.
diligence, n. assiduity, sedulousness, sedulity, perseverance, stagecoach (France).
diligent, a. sedulous, industrious, assiduous, persevering. Antonyms: See lazy.
dillydally, v. dawdle, dally, fritter, trifle, loiter.
dillydallying, n. dawdling, loitering, trifling, dalliance.
dilute, v. attenuate, thin, weaken, reduce.
diluter, n. diluent, attenuant.
dilution, n. attenuation, thinning, reduction.
dim, a. obscure, indistinct, faint, sullied, blurred. Antonyms: bright, vivid, intense, clear.
dim, v. bedim, obscure, darken, dull, eclipse, blur, tarnish.
diminish, v. decrease, reduce, abate, lessen, contract, curtail.
diminution, n. reduction, decrease, abatement, decrement.
dim-sighted, a. purblind, moonblind.
din, n. clamor, noise, racket, uproar, hubbub, clangor, hullabaloo.
dinner, n. Associated words: prandial, post-prandial, croupier, ante-prandial, dine, diner.
dinner pail. blickey (Local U.S.).
dint, n. indentation, dent; force, power.
dip, v. plunge, immerse, duck, souse, douse, dive; lade.
direct, a. straight, undeviating; diametrical. Antonyms: indirect, circuitous, roundabout.
direct, v. point, aim; guide, pilot, lead, steer, regulate, govern, control, manage, conduct, superintend, instruct; address, superscribe.
direction, n. guidance, government, administration, management, superintendence, oversight; instruction, order, command; address, superscription.
directly, adv. diametrically; immediately.
dirge, n. requiem, coronach, trental, threnody.
dirt, n. earth, soil; squalor, filth, muck, foulness.
dirt-eater, n. geophagist.
dirt-eating, n. geophagism, chthonophagia, pica.
dirty, a. defiled, unclean, foul, nasty, filthy, soiled, begrimed, grimy, squalid, uncleanly, loathsome, bedraggled, daggletailed, besmeared, sullied; sordid, groveling, despicable, vile, contemptible, abject.
dirty, v. soil, befoul, begrime, besmirch, sully, tarnish, besmear, defile.
disable, v. incapacitate, disqualify, cripple, maim.
disabled, a. disqualified, crippled, maimed, incapacitated, hors de combat.
disadvantage, n. inconvenience, detriment, hindrance, drawback, inexpediency.
disadvantageous, a. inconvenient, detrimental, unfavorable, inexpedient, prejudicial.
disagree, v. be at variance, differ, contend, dissent, contradict, quarrel, altercate, spar.
disagreeable, a. unpleasant, distasteful, offensive, fulsome, uncongenial, contrary, incongruous, inconformable, inconsistent.
disagreement, n. difference; quarrel, bickering, dispute, altercation, sparring, squabble, contention, controversy, dissent, variance.
disappear, v. vanish, evanesce, recede, be lost to view.
disappearance, n. vanishing, evanescence.
disappoint, v. dissatisfy, frustrate, balk, foil, baffle, defeat.
disappointment, n. frustration, dissatisfaction, balking, defeat, nonsuccess.
disapproval, n. disapprobation, dislike, disfavor.
disaster, n. calamity, mishap, catastrophe, casualty.
disastrous, a. calamitous, deplorable, unfortunate, ill-fated disband, v. demobilize, disorganize.
disbandment, n. demobilization, disorganization.
discern, v. perceive, discriminate, distinguish. See see.
discernible, a. perceptible, visible, noticeable, discoverable, apparent, manifest.
discerning, a. acute, sharp-sighted, shrewd.
discernment, n. insight, penetration, judgment, discrimination.
discharge, v. absolve, acquit, exculpate, release, exonerate, free; dismiss, cashier, remove; excrete, exude, void, eject, emit, expel; pay, liquidate; fulfill, perform; fire, shoot, volley; annul, rescind, invalidate, abrogate, cancel. Antonyms: retain, hold.
discharge, n. firing, burst, blast, volley, fusillade, salvo; acquittance, exoneration, quittance, release; fulfillment, observance, performance; dismissal; liquidation, payment evacuation, emission, ejection, exudation, excretion voiding; quietus.
discharged, a. dismissed, acquitted; emeritus.
disciple, n. adherent, follower.
disciplinarian, n. martinet (strict disciplinarian).
discipline, n. correction, chastisement, punishment; submission regulation; martinetism. Antonyms: laxity, unrestraint, indulgence.
disclaim, v. disown, deny, disavow, renounce, repudiate.
discomfiture, n. disconcertion, abashment, confusion, frustration, defeat.
discommode, v. inconvenience, incommode, trouble.
discomposure, n. agitation, perturbation, confusion.
disconnect, v. detach, dissever, disjoin, separate.
disconnected, a. detached, separate, isolated, incoherent.
disconnection, n. detachment, disunion, separation, incoherence.
disconsolate, a. inconsolable, broken-hearted.
discontent, n. dissatisfaction, discontentment. Antonyms: contentment, satisfaction.
discontented, a. dissatisfied, restless, malcontent, disgruntled discord, n. dissonance, discordance, inharmony, variance, dissension. Antonyms: harmony, agreement, consonance discordant, a. inharmonious, dissonant, jarring, unmelodious strident; at variance, contradictory, repugnant absonant.
discount, n. deduction, allowance, rebate.
discourage, v. dishearten, dispirit, depress, deter, dampen, unnerve, oppose, dissuade.
discouragement, n. depression, dejection; opposition, dissuasion, intimidation, determent, damper, obstacle, difficulty, barrier.
discouraging, a. depressing, disheartening, dissuasive.
discourse, n. dissertation, address, disquisition, oration, harangue, speech.
discourteous, a. uncivil, rude, disrespectful, abrupt, unmannerly, boorish, inurbane.
discourtesy, n. rudeness, incivility, inurbanity, impoliteness.
discover, v. ascertain, detect, unearth, descry, discern, disclose, ferret out.
discovery, n. ascertainment, detection, unearthing, disclosure.
discredit, n. disesteem, disrepute, unpopularity.
discreet, a. prudent, circumspect, wary, judicious.
discretion, n. prudence, circumspection, wariness; choice, liberty, will. Antonyms: indiscretion, imprudence, compulsion, constraint, coercion.
discretional, a. optional, discretionary, elective. Antonyms: compulsory, obligatory.
discriminating, a. distinguishing, differential, discriminative.
discrimination, n. difference, distinction, discernment, judgment. Antonyms: indiscrimination, promiscuity, undiscernment.
discuss, v. debate, argue, canvass, agitate, moot, deliberate.
discussion, n. debate, argument, canvass, agitation, consideration, symposium, forensic.
disdain, n. scorn, contumely, superciliousness, contempt.
disdainful, a. contemptuous, scornful, contumelious, supercilious.
disease, n. ailment, disorder, malady, complaint, affection, distemper; plague, pestilence, pest; epidemic, endemic. Antonyms: health, vigor. Associated words: nosology, nosography, etiology, nosogeny, pathology, pathologist, pathological, pathogeny, therapeutics, symptomatology, diagnosis, pathognomonic, diagnostics, semeiology, semeiography, clinic, polyclinic, prognosis, contagion, infection, contagious, infectious, zoonosology, enantiopathy, loimography, loimology, quarantine, pathogene, germ, microbe, bacteria, bacillus, incubation.
diseased, a. morbid, unhealthful.
disembowel, v. eviscerate, gut.
disembowelment, n. evisceration.
disengage, v. extricate, disembarrass, disentangle, detach, dissociate.
disfavor, n. disapproval.
disfigure, v. deface, mar, blemish.
disfigurement, n. disfiguration, defacement; blemish, deformity.
disgrace, n. reproach, discredit, dishonor, shame, infamy, degradation, disrepute, ignominy, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, scandal, debasement, abasement.
disgrace, v. dishonor, humiliate, shame, degrade, debase, abase, discredit, tarnish, sully.
disgraceful, a. ignominious, shameful, dishonorable, discreditable, opprobrious, scandalous, disreputable, infamous.
disgruntled, a. (Colloq.) dissatisfied, displeased.
disguise, v. mask, dissemble, dissimulate, cloak, shroud, masquerade.
disguise, n. mask, blind, cloak, masquerade.
disguised, a. veiled, masked, incognito.
disgust, n. aversion, abhorrence, repulsion, repugnance.
disgust, v. revolt, offend, nauseate.
disgusting, a. fulsome, revolting, loathsome, repulsive, noisome, mawkish, nauseating, sickening, abhorrent, repugnant.
dish, n. vessel, utensil, receptacle.
dished, a. ruined, spoiled, undone; baffled, upset, disappointed disheveled, a. disarranged, disorderly, uncombed, frowzy.
dishonest, a. unscrupulous, corruptible, deceitful, fraudulent.
dishonesty, n. improbity, unscrupulousness, fraudulence, cheating, indirection.
dishonor, n. disrepute, discredit, disgrace.
dishonorable, a. discreditable, disgraceful; unscrupulous, unprincipled.
disillusionize, v. disenchant, decharm, disabuse.
disinterested, a. impartial, unbiased, indifferent, neutral, magnanimous, unselfish.
disjoint, v. dislocate, luxate, disarticulate.
disjointed, a. incoherent, rambling, desultory, loose, disconnected.
dislike, v. disapprove, disrelish, hate.
dislike, n. aversion, antipathy, disrelish, disapproval, hatred, disaffection.
dislocate, v. disjoint, luxate.
dislocation, n. luxation, disjointing.
disloyal, a. perfidious, unfaithful, false, treacherous, treasonable, traitorous, apostate.
disloyalty, n. perfidy, unfaithfulness, treachery, treason, apostasy, faithlessness, inconstancy.
dismal, a. dreary, gloomy, cheerless, joyless, sombre.
dismay, n. consternation.
dismember, v. mutilate, dislimb.
dismemberment, n. mutilation.
dismiss, v. discharge, cashier; banish.
dismissal, n. discharge, dismission, removal.
disobedience, n. contumacy, dereliction, undutifulness, defiance, insubmission, noncompliance, indocility, insubordination.
disobedient, a. contumacious, insubmissive, undutiful, defiant, remiss, derelict, indocile, insubordinate, refractory.
disobey, v. transgress, violate, disregard, defy, infringe.
disorder, n. confusion, disarray, disarrangement, disorganization, jumble, chaos, litter, irregularity, disturbance, tumult, riot, turmoil, Bedlam, fracas, pandemonium.
disorder, v. disarrange, confuse, jumble, disorganize, tousle, derange, discompose.
disordered, a. deranged, confused, jumbled, littered, disarranged.
disorderly, a. immethodical, unsystematic, confused; riotous, chaotic, lawless, tumultuous.
disorganization, n. disorder, derangement, demobilization dissolution.
disorganize, v. dissolve, disband, disorder, demobilize, disarrange.
disown, v. repudiate, deny, disclaim, disavow, renounce, reject.
disowning, n. denial, disclaimer, disavowal, repudiation, renunciation, rejection.
disparage, v. belittle, decry, depreciate. Antonyms: laud, extol, commend, praise.
disparagement, n. detraction, derogation, decrial, defamation, dispraise, vilification.
disparaging, a. derogatory, unfavorable, detractory, defamatory.
dispatch, n. haste, speed, celerity, expedition; message, telegram.
dispense, v. deal out, apportion, distribute; administer, execute.
disperse, v. dissipate, dispel, scatter.
displace, v. remove, disarrange; supplant, supersede.
display, n. exhibition, parade, ostentation, show.
display, v. exhibit, evince, expose, parade, flourish.
displeasure, n. disapprobation, dudgeon, dislike, disapproval, resentment, vexation, umbrage, dissatisfaction.
disposed, a. inclined, minded, willing. Antonyms: See indisposed.
disposition, n. temperament, mood, nature; willingness, readiness, inclination; arrangement, disposal; propensity, inclination, proneness, proclivity, bias, bent. Antonyms: indisposition, unwillingness, disinclination.
dispossess, v. dislodge, oust, eject, evict, dispropriate, disseize, remove, depose.
dispossession, n. dislodgment, ejection, eviction, ousting, divestiture, disseizin, ouster.
disproof, n. confutation, refutation.
disprove, v. confute, refute.
disputable, a. controvertible. Antonyms: indisputable, incontrovertible.
disputant, n. controversialist, controvertist, dissenter, disputer, arguer.
disputatious, a. contentious, polemical, argumentative, quarrelsome.
dispute, v. contend, argue, gainsay, controvert, altercate, wrangle, impugn, bicker, squabble, spar.
dispute, n. disputation, controversy, argument, debate, logomachy, squabble, contention, polemic.
disregard, n. indifference, ignoration, slight, neglect, disesteem, inattention, oversight.
disregard, v. ignore, slight, contemn, overlook, disobey.
disrepute, n. disesteem, unpopularity, disgrace, odium.
disrespect, n. discourtesy, incivility, disesteem, rudeness, irreverence, insolence.
disrespectful, a. discourteous, uncivil, rude, irreverent, impious, insolent, saucy.
dissatisfaction, n. discontent, discontentment, disapproval, displeasure.
dissatisfied, a. discontented, displeased, restless, malcontent, impatient, disgruntled.
dissection, n. anatomy; analysis, examination; vivisection, callisection, sentisection.
dissector, n. anatomist, prosector.
dissent, n. dissension, disagreement, variance; nonconformity, dissidence.
dissenter, n. nonconformist, sectary, dissident, separatist, schismatic, recusant.
dissertation, n. discourse, disquisition.
dissipated, a. profligate, dissolute, licentious, fast.
dissipation, n. dispersion, scattering; profligacy, dissoluteness.
dissolute, a. debauched, dissipated, licentious, abandoned.
dissolution, n. dissolving, analysis; solution, liquefaction; decomposition, resolution.
dissolvable, a. dissoluble, soluble, fusible. Antonyms: indissoluble, indissolvable.
dissolve, v. melt, liquefy, macerate, fuse, deliquesce; disorganize, disband, disperse; sunder, disunite.
dissolvent, n. menstruum, solvent.
dissuade, v. deter, divert.
distance, n. interval, intervening space; remoteness; reserve, aloofness, ceremoniousness, unfriendliness, alienation. Associated words: longimetry, longitude, latitude, odometer, odograph, perambulator.
distance, v. outstrip, outdo, surpass.
distant, a. remote, far-off; uncordial, reserved, cold. Antonyms: See near.
distaste, n. aversion, dislike, disrelish. Antonyms: taste, liking, relish.
distasteful, a. unpleasant offensive, repugnant, unpalatable, unsavory, disagreeable.
distill, v. trickle, drop, drip; rectify.
distillation, n. trickling; rectification, vaporization.
distinction, n. discrimination; eminence, celebrity, renown, fame, repute, prominence. Antonyms: indistinction, indiscrimination promiscuity, obscurity.
distinctive, a. discriminative, distinguishing, characteristic.
distinguish, v. characterize; discriminate, differentiate, discern, recognize.
distinguished, a. marked, special; eminent, illustrious, famous, celebrated, renowned, noted; transcendent, extraordinary, supreme, consummate, conspicuous. Antonyms: undistinguished, obscure, commonplace, inconspicuous, humble.
distinguishing, a. distinctive, peculiar, discriminative, characteristic.
distort, v. deform, twist; pervert, misinterpret, falsify, misrepresent.
distortion, n. deformity; perversion, crookedness; falsification.
distracted, a. frantic, frenzied, raving, crazy. Antonyms: See calm.
distraction, n. diversion, amusement; confusion, mystification, bewilderment; tumult, commotion, hurly-burly; despair, frenzy.
distress, n. anguish, agony, torture, sorrow, grief; misery, affliction, adversity, disaster, calamity, misfortune; straits, poverty, destitution, indigence.
distress, v. pain, grieve, afflict, wound; distrain.
distressing, a. grievous, distressful, painful, afflictive.
distribute, v. apportion, allot, deal out, dispense; classify, assort, group.
distribution, n. apportionment, allotment, dispensing, partition, division, dole; disposition, classification, grouping, arrangement.
district, n. region, precinct, province, circuit, quarter, locality, ward.
distrust, n. doubt, suspicion, mistrust.
disturb, v. molest, perturb, annoy, disquiet, agitate, incommode, ruffle, disarrange, derange, unsettle, roust, excite.
disturbance, n. molestation, derangement, disquiet, disorder, perturbation, inquietude, agitation, uneasiness; commotion, turmoil, tumult, uproar, riot, clamor. Associated words: perturbable, imperturbable, perturbability, imperturbability, imperturbation.
disuse, n. desuetude, insuetude, inusitation, discontinuance, obsoleteness.
disused, a. obsolete.
ditch, n. trench, moat, fosse, channel. Associated words: scarp, escarp, parapet, graffage, counterscarp.
dive, v. plunge.—n. plunger, header; (Slang) resort.
divergence, n. radiation; disagreement, variance; divarication, forking.
divergent, a. diverging, radiating; variant, different.
divers, a. several, sundry, various, many, numerous.
diverse, a. different, dissimilar, heterogeneous, diversified, variant.
diversified, a. various, variegated, multiform.
diversion, n. turning aside; amusement, sport, recreation, relaxation.
diversity, n. difference, dissimilarity; variety, multiformity.
diver’s apparel. scaphander.
diver’s disease. caisson disease.
divide, v. sunder, split, cleave, disunite, part, separate, sever, dissociate, disconnect, detach, disintegrate, demarcate, dimidiate, partition; apportion, distribute, allot, assign, parcel out; disaffect, alienate, estrange, part; share, partake, participate.
divine, a. Godlike; religious, holy; heavenly, angelic, seraphic, transcendent.
divine, v. foresee, foreknow, surmise, forebode, conjecture, foretell.
diving bell. nautilus.
divisible, a. separable, dividable, partible.
division, n. separation, partition, demarcation, dimidiation; section, segment, part, compartment, portion, canton, category, group; disunion, alienation, schism, variance, dissension; apportionment, allotment, distribution dizziness, n. vertigo.
dizzy, a. vertiginous, giddy.
do, v. effect, accomplish, produce, achieve, consummate, execute, perform; transact; perpetrate, commit; translate, render; suffice, answer; fare, prosper; vouchsafe, grant; (Colloq.) cheat, overreach, swindle, defraud. Antonyms: shirk, evade.
do-all, n. factotum.
do away with. abolish.
docile, a. tractable, teachable, gentle, yielding, obedient, submissive. Antonyms: See indocile.
docility, n. tractableness, submissiveness. Antonym: indocility.
dock, v. curtail; deduct from, lessen.
dock hand. stevedore.
doctor, n. physician, medical practitioner, leech; homeopath; allopath; interne; externe; savant; (ignorant) quack, empiric.
doctor, v. repair, treat; (Slang) tamper with, falsify, adulterate.
doctrine, n. tenet, dogma, belief, principle, teaching.
doddering, a. shaking, trembling, infirm.
dodge, v. duck, evade, parry; prevaricate, equivocate, shift, evade, quibble, parry.
dodge, n. (Colloq.) prevarication, trick, artifice, subterfuge, stratagem, evasion, parry, device.
dodger, n. prevaricator; handbill, circular.
dog, n. canine; (young) pup, puppy, whelp; (female) bitch, slut; cur, whippet, tike, fice, mongrel. Associated words: canine, Canis, cyniatrics, rabies, hydrophobia, cynanthropy, cynegetics, cynic, cynophobia, cynoid, cynopodous, cynocephalous, cynocephalus, cynocephalic, learn, leash, dog-fancier.
dog days. canicular days.
dogged, a. stubborn, obstinate, mulish, headstrong, persistent.
doggish, a. surly, sullen, churlish, cynical, morose.
dog house. kennel.
dogma, n. doctrine, tenet.
dogmatic, a. positive, magisterial, dictatorial, imperious, domineering, overbearing; authoritative, categorical.
dog-star, n. Sinus, Canicula, Cards Majoris.
doings, n. pl. actions, proceedings, deeds, acts, performances, transactions.
dole, n. pittance, alms; distribution, apportionment, share, portion; grief, sorrow.
doleful, a. sorrowful, dolorous, plaintive, piteous, lugubrious, woe-begone.
domain, n. dominion, sovereignty; realm, territory; province, department.
dome, n. cupola.
domestic, a. home, household, family; intestine; domesticated, tame; fond of home.
dominant, a. predominant, prevailing, predominating, paramount.
dominate, v. predominate, sway, rule, govern, control, surmount, overtop.
domination, n. government, dominion, supremacy, rule, authority, ascendancy.
domineer, v. tyrannize, lord it; swagger, vapor, bluster.
domineering, a. tyrannical, dictatorial, overbearing, lordly, imperious. Antonyms: meek, apologetic, retiring.
dominion, n. sovereignty, sway, supremacy; realm, empire, kingdom, domain.
do more than duty requires. supererogate.
donation, n. gift, present, benefaction.
done for. (Colloq.) tired out, used up, spent, collapsed, exhausted.
done up. (Colloq.) wrapped up; worn out, exhausted.
donkey, n. ass, burro, Neddy. Associated words: bray, asinine, asininity.
do-nothing, a. inactive, idle, lazy, fabian, slothful.
doodlesack, n. bagpipe.
doom, n. judicial sentence, judgment; destiny, death.
door, n. entrance, portal, gate; postern; porch, portico. Associated words: lintel, jamb, sill, threshold, stile, panel, rail, mullion, porte-cochère, reveal, rabbet, casing.
doorkeeper, n. porter, concierge, ostiary; tyler.
doorsill, n. threshold.
dormancy, n. abeyance, quiescence, inactivity, torpor, lethargy, inertness.
dormant, a. quiescent, latent, inert, inactive, abeyant, torpid.
dose, n. draught, dram, potion. Associated word: posology.
dot, n. period, point; dowry; speck.
dotage, n. senility, anility, decrepitude; fondness, affection (excessive or weak).
double, a. twofold, duplex, bifold, binate; equivocal, Janus-faced, deceitful, insincere, perfidious.
double, v. duplicate; fold, plait, pleat.
double, n. duplicate, counterpart; duplication, plait, doubling; circuit, maneuver, shift, artifice, stratagem, ruse.
double-dealing, n. duplicity, dissimulation, trickery, Machiavelism.
double-faced, a. Janus-faced, deceitful, perfidious.
double-headed, a. bicipital, bicipitous.
double-hearted, a. perfidious, deceitful, treacherous, insincere.
double-minded, a. irresolute, vacillating, unsettled, undetermined.
doubling, n. duplication, reduplication; fold, plait, plication, double.
doubt, v. waver, hesitate, question, be undecided, query; distrust, suspect. Antonyms: believe, trust, rely upon.
doubt, n. indecision, uncertainty, vacillation, irresolution, misgiving, query, suspense, hesitancy, distrust, suspicion, quandary, perplexity; skepticism, incredulity, pyrrhonism; ambiguity, difficulty. Antonyms: conviction, credulity, confidence, decision, assurance, belief, certainty.
doubtful, a. unsettled, undetermined, dubious, wavering, precarious, undecided, irresolute; questionable, involved; ambiguous, enigmatical, problematical, equivocal, vague, indefinite. Antonyms: certain, implicit, sure, unquestionable, unwavering.
doubting, a. incredulous, suspicious, skeptical.
doughfaced, a. pliable, weak, irresolute.
doughty, a. redoubtable, valiant, bold, fearless.
dour, a. hard, obstinate, sour.
douse, v. duck, immerse, dip, plunge, souse, submerge.
dove, n. pigeon. Associated word: coo.
dovecote, n. columbary, pigeonry, pigeon house.
dovelike, a. columbine.
dowdy, a. vulgar-looking, slovenly, untidy, slatternly, frowzy. Antonyms: See neat.
down, adv. downward, below.
down, v. overthrow, subdue, floor, prostrate.
down, a. descending, sloping, downward.
down, n. pubescence; pl. (Colloq.) depression, abasement.
downcast, a. despondent, dejected, discouraged, gloomy, dispirited.
downcome, n. downfall.
downfall, n. downcome, descent, reverse, abasement, humiliation.
down grade. descent, declivity.
downhearted, a. dejected, despondent, discouraged.
downhill, n. descent, declivity, slope.—a. declivous, descending, sloping.
downright, a. blunt, direct, unceremonious, positive, undisguised, absolute, unmixed, straightforward.
downy, a. pubescent, flocculent.
draft, n. drawing, draught; bill of exchange; delineation, sketch, current of air; conscript, conscription. Associated word: conscript (one drafted).
drag, v. haul, trail, tug, pull; break, harrow.
drag, n. dragging; dragnet; harrow; skid; clog, impediment, obstacle.
drain, n. channel, gutter, trench, ditch, sewer.
drain, v. empty, exhaust, deplete; filter.
draw, v. haul, drag, tug, tow; attract; entice, allure, lure, induce, tempt; extract, educe; unsheathe; deduce, infer, conclude, derive; disembowel, eviscerate; delineate, draught, sketch, depict, trace, limn; influence, win, induce; contract, shrink. Antonyms: repel, repulse, rebuff, reject, alienate.
drawback, n. disadvantage, hindrance, defect, imperfection; rebate, deduction, discount.
draw back. retract; shrink, flinch, recoil, withdraw, wince.
drawer, n. till (money drawer), tiller.
drawing, n. traction, hauling, pulling; graphics, diagraphics, delineation; sketch, draught, diagram, picture, limning, representation.
drawing back. retraction; shrinking, flinching, recoiling, withdrawal, wincing.
drawing off. withdrawal, abstraction.
drawing out. extension, protraction, stretching; eduction, extraction.
draw out. stretch, extend, protract; elicit, educe, extract.
draw up. compose, draught, write; array, arrange.
dread, n. apprehension, fear, awe (reverential fear).
dreadful, a. fearful, terrible, formidable, awful, dread, dire, direful, frightful.
dream, n. vision; illusion, vagary, wild conceit, revery, fancy, fantasy. Antonyms: fact, actuality, reality, substance, realization. Associated words: Morpheus, Morphean, oneiroscopy, oneiroscopist, oneirocritic, oneiromancy, oneirology, oneirocriticism, nightmare.
dreamer, n. visionary, enthusiast, castle-builder, John-a-dreams.
dreamy, a. visionary, unreal, illusory. Antonyms: practical, real.
dreary, a. dismal, drear, cheerless, lonesome, wearisome, dull.
dregs, n. pl. refuse, sediment, lees, draff; riffraff.
dress, n. gown, toilette, robe; raiment, clothes, clothing, garments, habiliments, attire, garb, apparel, habit, array, costume, togs, toggery. Antonyms: See undress.
dress, v. clothe, deck, drape, apparel, robe, array, attire; adjust, align; curry, smooth, plane, finish; (Colloq.) castigate, chastise, whip. Antonyms: undress, disrobe, divest, strip, expose.
dress gaudily. bedizen, prank.
dressing, n. forcemeat, stuffing, condiment; (Colloq.) castigation, scolding, whipping, flogging, chastisement.
dressmaker, n. modiste, mantuamaker.
dribble, n. (Colloq.) trickling.
drier, n. desiccator, desiccant, desiccative, exsiccant, exsiccator.
drift, n. course, direction, bearing, tendency, aim, intention intent, design, import, meaning; accumulation, heap, bank, pile, diluvium.
drill, v. perforate, pierce, bore; train, discipline, exercise.
drink, v. quaff, sip, sup, imbibe, slake one’s thirst; tipple, tope, guzzle, booze, house, be intemperate; absorb.
drink, n. beverage, potation, potable; draught, dram, potation, drench.
drinkable, a. potable, potulent. Antonym: undrinkable drinking, n. potation; tippling, bibacity, drunkenness, carousal, guzzling, intemperance. Antonyms: temperance nephalism, abstinence, teetotalism. Associated words: bibacious, bibulous, bibitory, dipsomania, alcoholism thirst, nectar, hobnob, bacchanalian, inebriant, potatory, œnomania, symposium, crapulence, supernaculum convivial, conviviality, tankard, beaker, cup, stein, canteen.
drinking-bout, n. orgies, compotation, bacchanals, carousal revel, revelry, wassail, saturnalia, debauch, spree, excess, carouse, jollification.
drip, v. drop, trickle, dribble.
dripping, n. trickling, dribbling.
dripping from the eaves. stillicide.
drive, v. impel, force, compel, press; propel, send; rush, press; conduct, carry on.
drive at. aim, intend, purpose.
drive away. dispel, disperse, scatter, dissipate.
drive back. repulse, repel, rebuff.
drivel, n. driveling; nonsense, twaddle.
drivel, v. drool.
driveler, n. drooler; imbecile, fool, idiot.
driver, n. coachman, jehu, charioteer, whip.
driving, a. violent, forcible; impelling, impellent, propulsive, impulsive.
driving, n. guiding by reins; impulsion, propulsion, compulsion, forcing.
driving back. repulse, rebuff, repulsion, repercussion, repellence, recussion.
driving out. expulsion.—a. expulsive.
drizzle, n. mizzle, misle, mist.—v. mizzle, misle.
droll, n. jester, buffoon, merry-andrew, zany, harlequin; comedy, farce, burlesque.
droll, a. ludicrous, laughable, comical, facetious, funny.
drollery, n. waggery, buffoonery, pleasantry, facetiousness.
drone, n. sluggard, idler, lounger.
drool, v. drivel, slaver, slabber.
drooler, n. driveler, slaverer, slabberer.
droop, v. languish, faint, grow faint, sink; bend, drop, hang; slouch; fade, wilt, wither.
drop, n. globule, minim, blob; pendant; descent, fall.
drop, v. distill, dribble, trickle, drip; fall; let fall, release, banish, dismiss, discontinue, discard, intermit, remit, relinquish; lower, sink, depress; variegate, bedrop, speckle, fleck.
drop by drop. guttatim, guttat, stillatitious.
droplight, n. pendant.
dropping, n. distillation, trickling, dribbling, falling; stillicide.
droppings, n. pl. excrement, dung.
drop serene. amaurosis, gutta serena.
drop-shaped, a. globular, guttiform, stilliform.
dross, n. refuse, scum, recrement, draff, dregs, scobs, waste, sinter.
drought, n. aridity, dryness; scarcity, dearth.
drought plant. xerophyte. Associated words: xerophilous, xerophytic.
drove, n. herd, flock; crowd, company.
drown, v. overwhelm, submerge, flood, inundate, deluge.
drowning, n. demersion, submersion, inundation; noyade.
drowsiness, n. sleepiness, oscitancy.
drowsy, a. sleepy, dozy, oscitant.
drudge, n. menial, hack, slave, scullion, fag.
drug, v. deaden, dull, stupefy; surfeit; hocus.
drug, n. Associated words: pharmacology, pharmacologist, pharmacy, pharmacognosis, pharmaceutics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacopœoea, pharmacography, spatula, mortar, pestle, cribration, pharmacopolist, pharmaceutical.
druggist, n. pharmacist, apothecary, pharmaceutist.
drum, n. snare-drum; base-drum; kettle-drum; tabor, taborine. Associated words: reveille, rappel, chamade, ruff, tattoo, ruffle, roll, rataplan, drummer, drumhead, drumstick.
drum, v. thrum, strum.
drunk, a. intoxicated, drunken, inebriated, tipsy, boozy, besotted. Antonyms: sober, unintoxicated.
drunk, n. (Slang) spree, drunkenness.
drunkard, n. inebriate, toper, sot, tippler, carouser, dipsomaniac, wine-bibber, bacchanal, bacchanalian, debauchee. Antonyms: abstainer, ascetic, nephalist, teetotaler.
drunken, a. intoxicated, drunk; sottish, maudlin, fuddled, mellow, groggy, disguised.
drunkenness, n. intoxication, inebriety, inebriation, ebriety, ebriosity, debauch; excitement, frenzy, inflammation. Antonyms: sobriety, temperance, abstinence.
dry, a. desiccated, exsiccated, dried, evaporated; arid, parched; anhydrous; droughty; barren, uninteresting, jejune, vapid, tedious, prosaic, tame; sharp, keen, quaint, shrewd, droll.
dry, v. evaporate, desiccate, exsiccate, arefy, insolate (dry in the sun), torrefy; infumate (dry in smoke).
dry goods. textile fabrics. Associated word: mercer.
drying, n. desiccation, exsiccation, evaporation, torrefaction, arefaction. Associated words: desiccator, exsiccator, desiccative, evaporator, kiln.
drying, a. desiccative, exsiccative, desiccatory, desiccant, exsiccant, evaporative.
dryness, n. aridity, drought, desiccation, exsiccation.
dubious, a. undetermined, undecided, doubtful; equivocal, questionable, vague.
duck, v. souse, dip, plunge, immerse; dive; dodge, cringe.
duck, n. drake (male); teal; pl. Anatidæ, Anseres. Associated words: anatine, anserine, anatiferous, quack.
ducking-stool, n. castigatory, trebucket, cucking-stool, tumbrel.
duct, n. tube, canal, pipe, channel, conduit.
dude, n. dandy, fop, coxcomb, swell, popinjay, exquisite. Antonyms: sloven, guy.
dudgeon, n. resentment, anger, displeasure.
dudish, a. foppish, dandified, coxcombical. Antonyms: slovenly, seedy, unkempt.
duds, n. pl. (Colloq.) frippery (old clothes); clothes, effects, things.
due, a. payable, unpaid; appropriate, becoming, proper; regular, appointed; owing, ascribable.
duel, n. monomachia, monomachy.
duelist, n. monomachist.
dull, a. unintelligent, obtuse, stolid, loggerheaded, inapt, doltish, beetle-headed, blockish, sluggish; apathetic, unfeeling, insensate, callous; blunt, obtuse, dulled, pointless; dim, faint; tedious, uninteresting, prosaic, stupid, wearisome, jejune, depressing; lifeless, torpid, slow, inactive; matte, lusterless, lackluster.
dull, v. blunt, rebate, benumb, obtund, stupefy, deaden, hebetate; sully, tarnish, obscure, dim, bedim; depress, sadden, dishearten; assuage, alleviate, moderate, allay.
dumb, a. mute, speechless; pantomimic.
dumbness, n. muteness, obmutescence, speechlessness.
dumb show. pantomime.
dumfound, v. astound, amaze, astonish, confound.
dumpish, a. dull, moody, moping, dejected, gloomy, despondent.
dumps, n. pl. melancholy, depression, despondency.
dunce, n. dullard, dolt, numskull, witling, blockhead, coot, lackbrain, ninny, oaf, nincompoop, mooncalf, ignoramus, booby, simpleton.
duncical, a. doltish, witless.
dung, n. ordure, excrement, fæces, dejections, lesses, muck; puer, fumet, fiants, treddle, spraints, coprolite (petrified), mute, guano, ornithocopros. Associated words: coprophagy, coprophagous, Augean, dungmeer, excrementitious, sterconst, sterconcolous, stercoraceous, bubulin.
dupe, n. gull, cully, gudgeon, dotterel, victim.
duplicate, a. double, twofold, duplex.—n. facsimile, counterpart. See copy. Antonyms: original, archetype prototype, model, pattern.
dusk, n. twilight, evening, nightfall.
dust, n. powder; detritus; stive (in flour mills). Associated words: pulverizable, pulverable, pulverulence, pulverize, pulverization.
dust storm. simoon; (in India) shaitan, devil, peesash; dust whirl.
dusty, a. powdery, pulverulent, pulverous, pulverized.
dutiful, a. obedient, duteous, submissive, deferential, docile.
duty, n. responsibility, incumbency, accountability; service, business, work, function, office; tax, impost, toll, excise, custom. Associated words: ethics, deontology, casuistry, ethology, morals, ethicist, ethically, supererogate, supererogation.
dwarf, n. pygmy, gnome, manikin, dandiprat, Lilliputian, elf, midget, runt, Tom Thumb, pigwidgeon, homunculus, hop-o-my-thumb.
dwarf, v. stunt, atrophy.
dwarfish, a. diminutive, undersized, Lilliputian, pygmy, pygmean, runty, stunted, undeveloped, tiny, atrophied.
dweller, n. denizen, resident, sojourner, inhabitant, habitant.
dwelling, n. residence, domicile, house, abode.
dwindle, v. decrease, diminish, shrink.
dwindling, n. decrease, diminution, shrinkage.
dye, v. color, stain, tinge, imbue.
dying, a. moribund; expiring, last; mortal, perishable.