Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/22

diatribe

• diatribe, abuse, address, after-dinner speech, allocution, assailing, assault, attack, berating, bitter words, blackening, chalk talk, contumely, debate, declamation, eulogy, execration, exhortation, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, harangue, hard words, hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, invective, jawing, jeremiad, onslaught, oration, pep talk, peroration, philippic, pitch, prepared speech, prepared text, public speech, rating, reading, recital, recitation, revilement, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, set speech, speech, speechification, speeching, talk, talkathon, tirade, tongue-lashing, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, vilification, vituperation

dibble

• dibble, angle, bait the hook, bed, bob, broadcast, clam, dap, dib, disseminate, drill, drive, fish, fly-fish, forest, gig, go fishing, grig, guddle, implant, inseminate, jack, jacklight, jig, net, plant, pot, put in, reforest, reset, retimber, scatter seed, seed, seed down, seine, seminate, set, shrimp, sow, sow broadcast, spin, still-fish, torch, transplant, trawl, troll, whale

dice

• dice, bird cage, bones, cashier, cast, crap game, crap shooting, craps, crooked dice, cube, cubes, die, form fours, ivories, ivory, jettison, loaded dice, make four, poker dice, quadrate, reject, scrap, shed, slough, square, teeth, throw away, throw out

diced

• diced, cube-shaped, cubed, cubic, cubiform, cuboid, foursquare, oblong, orthogonal, quadrangular, quadrate, quadriform, quadrilateral, rectangular, rhombic, rhomboid, square, tetragonal, tetrahedral, trapezohedral, trapezoid

dicey

• dicey, accidental, adventitious, adventurous, agnostic, aleatory, ambiguous, capricious, casual, causeless, chance, chancy, changeable, contingent, dangerous, destinal, difficult, doubtful, doubting, equivocal, erratic, fatal, fatidic, fickle, fluky, fortuitous, full of risk, hairy, hazardous, hesitant, hesitating, iffy, incalculable, incidental, indecisive, indemonstrable, indeterminate, irresolute, polysemous, riskful, risky, skeptical, speculative, ticklish, touch-and-go, tricky, unaccountable, uncaused, uncertain, unconfirmable, unconvinced, undetermined, undivinable, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unsure, unverifiable, variable, venturesome, venturous, wavering, whimsical, wildcat

dichotomy

• dichotomy, Janus, abscission, ambiguity, ambivalence, amputation, bifidity, biformity, bifurcation, bipartition, bisection, branching, butchering, by two, chopping, cleavage, conjugation, cutting, cutting in two, dimidiation, division, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, dualism, duality, duplexity, duplication, duplicity, enucleation, equivocality, excision, fission, forking, halving, in half, irony, laceration, mutilation, pairing, polarity, ramification, rending, resection, ripping, scission, section, severance, slashing, slicing, splitting, subdivision, surgery, tearing, twinning, two-facedness, twoness

dichromatic

• dichromatic, bicolor, bicolored, chromatic, cold, colorful, colorific, coloring, colory, cool, crazy, daedal, divers-colored, glowing, harlequin, harmonious, kaleidoscopic, many-colored, matching, medley, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, parti-color, parti-colored, pigmentary, polychromatic, prismal, prismatic, rainbow, shot, shot through, spectral, thunder and lightning, tinctorial, tingent, toning, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, two-tone, varicolored, variegated, versicolor, versicolored, warm

dick

• dick, Dogberry, John Law, Sherlock, beagle, bluecoat, bobby, bull, cop, copper, eye, flatfoot, flattie, gendarme, gumshoe, gumshoe man, hawkshaw, investigator, peeler, pig, plainclothesman, private eye, shamus, skip tracer, sleuthhound, spotter, tec, the cops, the fuzz, the law

dicker

• dicker, bargain, barter, beat down, bid, bid for, chaffer, cheapen, deal, drive a bargain, haggle, higgle, huckster, jew down, negotiate, negotiation, outbid, palter, trade, underbid

dicotyledon

• dicotyledon, Angiospermae, Cycadales, Ginkgoales, Gnetales, Monocotyledones, Pinales, amphibian, angiosperm, angiosperms, annual, aquatic plant, biennial, conifers, cosmopolite, cutting, cycads, deciduous plant, dicot, dicotyledons, endogens, ephemeral, evergreen, exotic, flowering plant, fungus, gametophyte, ginkgoes, gnetums, gymnosperm, gymnosperms, hydrophyte, monocot, monocotyl, monocotyledons, perennial, plant, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon, seed plant, seedling, spermatophyte, sporophyte, thallophyte, triennial, vascular plant, vegetable, weed

dictate

• dictate, a priori truth, act, adage, ana, analects, aphorism, apothegm, appoint, authorize, axiom, behest, bestride, bid, bidding, bill, brocard, brook no denial, bylaw, byword, call for, call on, call the signals, call upon, canon, catchword, caveat, charge, collected sayings, command, commandment, commission, compel, constrain, control, current saying, declare, decree, demand, dictation, dictum, direct, direct order, direction, distich, dominate, edict, enactment, enjoin, epigram, exact, expression, fiat, form, formality, formula, formulary, give an order, give the word, gnome, golden rule, golden saying, govern, guide, have the ascendancy, hest, imperative, impose, injunction, insist upon, institution, instruct, instruction, issue a command, issue a writ, jus, law, lay down, lead, leave no option, legislation, lex, make obligatory, manage, mandate, master, maxim, measure, moral, mot, motto, necessitate, oblige, oracle, ordain, order, order about, ordinance, ordonnance, phrase, pithy saying, play first fiddle, pleasure, postulate, precept, predominate, preponderate, prescribe, prescript, prescription, prevail, principium, principle, proclaim, promulgate, pronounce, pronouncement, proposition, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, regulation, require, requirement, rubric, rule, rule the roost, ruling, saw, say, say the word, say-so, saying, self-evident truth, sentence, sententious expression, set, settled principle, sloka, special order, standing order, statute, stock saying, sutra, take no denial, take the lead, teaching, tell, text, theorem, truism, truth, twist, ukase, universal truth, utter, verse, wear the pants, will, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, word, word of command, words of wisdom

dictator

• dictator, Simon Legree, absolute monarch, absolute ruler, all-powerful ruler, arrogator, autarch, authoritarian, authoritative, autocrat, caesar, commissar, czar, despot, disciplinarian, doctrinaire, driver, duce, hard master, martinet, oligarch, oppressor, overlord, pharaoh, slave driver, stern, stickler, strong man, tyrant, usurper, warlord

dictatorial

• dictatorial, U, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, all-powerful, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, autonomous, bossy, bureaucratic, civic, civil, constitutional, democratic, despotic, domineering, elitist, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic, feudal, governmental, grinding, gubernatorial, heteronomous, high and mighty, high-handed, hubristic, imperative, imperial, imperious, lordly, magisterial, magistral, masterful, matriarchal, matriarchic, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, official, oligarchal, oligarchic, omnipotent, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, parliamentarian, parliamentary, patriarchal, patriarchic, peremptory, pluralistic, political, repressive, republican, self-governing, severe, strict, suppressive, theocratic, totalitarian, tyrannical, tyrannous, unlimited

dictatorship

• dictatorship, Caesarism, Stalinism, absolute monarchy, absolutism, aedileship, archbishopric, archiepiscopacy, archiepiscopate, aristocracy, autarchy, authoritarianism, autocracy, autonomy, benevolent despotism, bishopric, captainship, chairmanship, chancellery, chancellorate, chancellorship, chiefery, chiefry, chieftaincy, chieftainry, chieftainship, coalition government, colonialism, commonwealth, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy, consulate, consulship, convenership, custody, czarism, deanery, democracy, despotism, dictature, directorate, directorship, dominion rule, duarchy, duumvirate, dyarchy, emirate, episcopacy, federal government, federation, feudal system, foremanship, garrison state, generalship, gerontocracy, governorship, guardianship, headship, hegemony, heteronomy, hierarchy, hierocracy, home rule, intendancy, kaiserism, leadership, limited monarchy, lordship, magistracy, magistrateship, magistrature, managership, martial law, masterdom, mastership, mastery, mayoralty, mayorship, meritocracy, metropolitanate, metropolitanship, militarism, military government, mob rule, mobocracy, monarchy, neocolonialism, nobility, ochlocracy, oligarchy, one-man rule, one-party rule, overseership, pantisocracy, papacy, pashadom, pashalic, paternalism, patriarchate, patriarchy, police state, pontificality, pontificate, popedom, popehood, popeship, prefectship, prefecture, premiership, presidency, presidentship, prime-ministership, prime-ministry, princedom, princeship, principality, proconsulate, proconsulship, proctorship, protectorate, protectorship, provostry, provostship, pure democracy, rectorate, rectorship, regency, regentship, representative democracy, representative government, republic, ruling class, seigniory, self-determination, self-government, seneschalship, seneschalsy, sheikhdom, sheriffalty, sheriffcy, sheriffdom, shrievalty, social democracy, sovereignty, stewardship, stratocracy, superintendence, superintendency, supervisorship, suzerainship, suzerainty, technocracy, thearchy, theocracy, totalitarian government, totalitarian regime, totalitarianism, triarchy, tribunate, triumvirate, tyranny, vizierate, viziership, welfare state

diction

• diction, articulation, delivery, elocution, enunciation, expression, expressiveness, inflection, intonation, language, oratory, parlance, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, presentation, pronunciation, rhetoric, speech, terminology, usage, verbalism, verbiage, vocabulary, wordage, wording

dictionary

• dictionary, biographical dictionary, cant, chemical dictionary, desk dictionary, dialect dictionary, dictionary of quotations, electronics dictionary, etymological dictionary, foreign-language dictionary, gazetteer, general dictionary, geological dictionary, gloss, glossary, gradus, jargon, language, lexicon, nomenclator, onomasticon, palaver, phrase book, polyglot dictionary, promptorium, rhyming dictionary, science dictionary, slang dictionary, specialized dictionary, synonym dictionary, synonymy, terminology, thesaurus, treasury of words, unabridged dictionary, vocabulary, word list, wordbook

dictum

• dictum, Parthian shot, a priori truth, action, adage, address, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, ana, analects, announcement, annunciation, answer, aphorism, apostrophe, apothegm, appointment, assertion, asseveration, averment, avouchment, avowal, award, axiom, brevet, brocard, bull, byword, canon, catchword, code, collected sayings, commandment, comment, conclusion, condemnation, consideration, convention, crack, creed, current saying, decision, declaration, decree, decree-law, decreement, decretal, decretum, deliverance, determination, diagnosis, dictate, diktat, distich, doom, edict, edictum, enunciation, epigram, exclamation, expression, fiat, finding, form, formula, general principle, gnome, golden rule, golden saying, greeting, guideline, guiding principle, imperative, interjection, ipse dixit, law, manifesto, maxim, mention, mitzvah, moral, mot, motto, norm, note, observation, oracle, order, ordinance, ordonnance, phrase, pithy saying, position, position paper, positive declaration, postulate, precedent, precept, predicate, predication, prescript, principium, principle, proclamation, profession, prognosis, pronouncement, pronunciamento, proposition, protest, protestation, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, question, reflection, regulation, remark, rescript, resolution, rubric, rule, ruling, saw, say, say-so, saying, self-evident truth, senatus consult, senatus consultum, sentence, sententious expression, settled principle, sloka, stance, stand, standard, statement, stock saying, subjoinder, sutra, teaching, tenet, text, theorem, thought, truism, truth, ukase, universal truth, utterance, verdict, verse, vouch, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, word, words of wisdom, working principle, working rule

didactic

• didactic, Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, admonitory, advisory, authoritative, autodidactic, bardic, binding, bucolic, canonical, cautionary, coeducational, consultative, consultatory, cultural, dictated, directive, disciplinary, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, edifying, educating, educational, educative, elegiac, enlightening, epic, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory, formulary, hard and fast, heroic, homiletic, hortative, hortatory, idyllic, illuminating, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, mandatory, mock-heroic, monitorial, monitory, moral, moralistic, moralizing, narrative, official, pastoral, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, preaching, preachy, preceptive, prescribed, prescript, prescriptive, propaedeutic, recommendatory, regulation, remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory, rhapsodic, rubric, runic, sapphic, self-teaching, sententious, sermonizing, skaldic, standard, statutory, teaching, teachy, tuitionary, warning

didactics

• didactics, catechization, coaching, direction, edification, education, enlightenment, guidance, illumination, information, instruction, pedagogics, pedagogy, private teaching, programmed instruction, reeducation, schooling, self-instruction, self-teaching, spoon-feeding, teaching, tuition, tutelage, tutorage, tutoring, tutorship

diddle

• diddle, ball, bamboozle, be intimate, beat, beguile, beguile of, beguile the time, betray, bilk, bluff, bunco, burn, burn daylight, cajole, cheat, cheat on, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, circumvent, cog, cog the dice, cohabit, come together, commit adultery, con, conjure, consume time, copulate, couple, cover, cozen, crib, dabble, dally, dawdle, deceive, defraud, delude, dillydally, do, do in, do out of, doodle, double-cross, drone, dupe, euchre, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, footle, forestall, fornicate, fribble, frig, fritter away time, fudge, gammon, get around, gouge, gull, gyp, have, have sex, have sexual relations, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, hornswaggle, humbug, juggle, kill time, lag, lallygag, lay, laze, let down, lie with, linger, loaf, loiter, loll, lollygag, lose time, lounge, make it with, make love, make out, mate, mock, mount, mulct, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, pack the deal, pass the time, piddle, pigeon, play one false, poke, potter, practice fraud upon, put something over, putter, rook, scam, screw, sell gold bricks, serve, service, shave, shortchange, sleep with, snow, stack the cards, stick, sting, string along, swindle, take, take a dive, take in, thimblerig, throw a fight, trick, trifle, two-time, victimize, waste time

dido

• dido, antic, bauble, bibelot, caper, curio, frolic, gewgaw, gimcrack, lark, monkeyshine, shenanigan, shines, tomfoolery, toy, trick, trifle, trinket, whatnot

die away

• die away, abate, ablate, bate, be all over, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be eaten away, be gone, be no more, be wiped out, become extinct, become void, blow over, burn out, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, consume, consume away, corrode, crumble, decline, decrease, deliquesce, dematerialize, depart, die, die out, diminish, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, dive, do a fade-out, drift away, drop, drop off, dwindle, ebb, erode, evanesce, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, fade away, fade out, fall, fall away, fall off, fizzle, fizzle out, flame out, flee, fly, go, go away, go out, have it, have its time, hide, languish, lapse, leave no trace, leave the scene, lessen, let up, melt, melt away, move away, move off, pass, pass away, pass out, perish, peter out, plummet, plunge, pull away, recede, retire, retire from sight, retreat, retrocede, run its course, run low, run out, sag, shrink, sink, sink away, stand off, subside, suffer an eclipse, tail off, vanish, vanish from sight, wane, waste, waste away, wear, wear away, wear off, widen the distance, withdraw

die down

• die down, abate, bate, calm, calm down, cease, disappear, dwindle, ease off, ebb, fall, halt, let up, lull, moderate, molder, pacify, quiesce, quiet, quieten, recede, slacken, soothe, stop, subside, tranquilize, wane

die hard

• die hard, backward, balk, be determined, be in earnest, be resolved, buckle down, buckle to, conservative, cross the Rubicon, die fighting, die game, die in harness, fogyish, go for broke, hold out, mean business, never say die, nonprogressive, not back down, not budge, not give up, not submit, old-fashioned, old-fogyish, old-line, opposed to change, orthodox, persevere, preservative, reactionary, reactionist, remain firm, right, right of center, right-wing, stand fast, stand out, stand pat, standpat, stay it out, stick, stick fast, stick it out, stickle, take no denial, take the plunge, tory, traditionalistic, ultraconservative, unprogressive

die out

• die out, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be gone, be no more, be wiped out, become extinct, burn out, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, dematerialize, depart, die, die away, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, do a fade-out, dwindle, erode, evanesce, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, fade away, fade out, fizzle, fizzle out, flame out, flee, fly, go, go away, go out, hide, leave no trace, leave the scene, melt, melt away, pass, pass away, pass out, perish, peter out, retire from sight, sink, sink away, suffer an eclipse, vanish, vanish from sight, waste, waste away, wear away

die

• die, baluster, balustrade, banister, base, be all over, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be done for, be gone, be lost, be no more, be past, be wiped out, become extinct, become void, bird cage, blow over, bones, burin, burn out, caryatid, cash in, cast, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, cease to live, check out, colonnade, column, come to naught, come to nothing, conk, conk out, cop out, crap game, crap shooting, craps, croak, crooked dice, cubes, dado, decease, decline, dematerialize, demise, depart, depart this life, dice, die away, die out, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, do a fade-out, drop, dwindle, ebb, elapse, end, engraving tool, erode, etching ball, etching ground, etching needle, etching point, evanesce, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, fade away, fade out, fail, fall, fall asleep, fall away, fall off, fizzle, fizzle out, flame out, flee, fly, footstalk, form, go, go away, go dead, go down, go downhill, go off, go out, graver, have it, have its time, have run out, hide, hit a slump, hit rock bottom, hit the skids, intaglio, ivories, jack, kick in, kick off, lapse, last, leave no trace, leave the scene, loaded dice, matrix, melt, melt away, mint, mold, needle, negative, newel-post, part, pass, pass away, pass on, pass out, pass over, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, peg out, perish, peter out, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, pip, plaything, plinth, point, poker dice, pole, pop, post, pretty, punch, put off mortality, queen-post, quit this world, reach the depths, retire from sight, return to dust, rocker, run down, run its course, run out, scorper, seal, shaft, shoe last, sink, sink away, slide, slip, slump, socle, sputter and stop, staff, stalk, stall, stamp, stanchion, stand, standard, stem, stick, stop breathing, style, subbase, subside, succumb, suffer an eclipse, surbase, teeth, template, touch bottom, toy, trunk, up and die, upright, vanish, vanish from sight, wane, waste, waste away, wear away, wear off, yield the ghost

diehard

• diehard, Bircher, Bourbon, Tory, ass, bigot, bitter-ender, brawler, bullethead, conservationist, conservatist, conservative, defendant, disputant, dissentient, dissident, dogmatist, donkey, extreme right-winger, fanatic, fogy, fundamentalist, hard hat, hardnose, imperialist, intransigeant, intransigent, irreconcilable, last-ditcher, laudator temporis acti, litigant, maverick, monarchist, mossback, mule, naysayer, negativist, noncooperator, objector, obstructionist, obstructive, old, old fogy, old school, opposer, oppositionist, perverse fool, pighead, plaintiff, positivist, protester, purist, quarreler, radical right, reactionarist, reactionary, reactionist, resister, right, right wing, right-winger, rightist, royalist, scrapper, social Darwinist, standpat, standpatter, stick-in-the-mud, stickler, ultraconservative, white, wrangler

dielectric

• dielectric, conductance, conduction, conductivity, conductor, electric conduction, gas conduction, insulator, ionic conduction, liquid conduction, metallic conduction, mho, nonconducting, nonconductive, nonconductor, photoconduction, semiconductor, superconductivity, superconductor

diet

• diet, British Cabinet, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, abstain, acid-ash diet, advisory body, aliment, allergy diet, assemblee, assembly, assignation, association, at home, ball, bench, bicameral legislature, bland diet, board, board of aldermen, body of advisers, borough council, brain trust, brawl, break bread, cabinet, calorie chart, calorie counter, camarilla, caucus, chamber, chamber of deputies, city board, city council, colloquium, commission, committee, common council, conclave, concourse, conference, congregation, congress, consultative assembly, conventicle, convention, convocation, council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state, council of war, count calories, county council, court, dance, date, deliberative assembly, diabetic diet, diet book, dietary, dietetics, dieting, directory, divan, eat, eisteddfod, fall to, fare, fast, federal assembly, feed, festivity, fete, food, forgathering, forum, gathering, general assembly, get-together, high-protein diet, high-vitamin diet, house, house of assembly, housewarming, hunger, intake, junta, kitchen cabinet, legislative assembly, legislative body, legislative chamber, legislature, levee, lose flesh, lose weight, low-carbohydrate diet, low-salt diet, lower chamber, lower house, macrobiotic diet, meet, meeting, national assembly, nourishment, nutriment, panel, pap, parish council, parliament, partake, partake of, party, pitch in, plenum, privy council, prom, provincial legislature, provincial parliament, quorum, rally, reception, reduce, reduce weight, regime, regimen, relish, rendezvous, representative town meeting, salt-free diet, savor, seance, session, shindig, sit-in, sitting, slenderize, slim, slim down, soft diet, soiree, soviet, spoon victuals, staff, state assembly, state legislature, subsistence, sustenance, symposium, syndicate, synod, take, take off weight, taste, thin down, town meeting, tribunal, turnout, ulcer diet, unicameral legislature, upper chamber, upper house, vegetarianism, victuals, vitamin-deficiency diet, weight-watch

dietetic

• dietetic, cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, commensal, dietary, dietic, dining, eating, feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, gluttonous, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grass-eating, herbivorous, insect-eating, insectivorous, lactovegetarian, man-eating, meat-eating, mensal, nourishing, nutritious, omnivorous, omophagous, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophagous, plant-eating, postprandial, prandial, predacious, preprandial, vegetable-eating, vegetarian

dietetics

• dietetics, acid-ash diet, allergy diet, bland diet, calorie chart, calorie counter, diabetic diet, diet, diet book, dietary, dieting, dietotherapy, enzymology, high-protein diet, high-vitamin diet, low-carbohydrate diet, low-salt diet, macrobiotic diet, pap, regime, regimen, salt-free diet, soft diet, spoon victuals, ulcer diet, vegetarianism, vitamin-deficiency diet, vitaminology

dieting

• dieting, acid-ash diet, allergy diet, appetite, bland diet, calorie chart, calorie counter, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, chewing, consumption, cropping, deglutition, devouring, devourment, diabetic diet, diet, diet book, dietary, dietetics, dining, eating, epulation, feasting, feeding, gluttony, gobbling, grazing, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, high-protein diet, high-vitamin diet, hunger, ingestion, licking, low-carbohydrate diet, low-salt diet, macrobiotic diet, manducation, mastication, messing, munching, nibbling, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, pantophagy, pap, pasture, pasturing, pecking, regalement, regime, regimen, relishing, rumination, salt-free diet, savoring, soft diet, spoon victuals, tasting, ulcer diet, vegetarianism, vitamin-deficiency diet, wolfing

differ

• differ, agree to differ, agree to disagree, altercate, argue, be at cross-purposes, be at variance, be distinct, be distinguished, be in dissent, bear no resemblance, beg to differ, bicker, brawl, break, break off, break up, broil, clash, clash with, collide, conflict, conflict with, contradict, contrast, contrast with, counter, debate, depart, depart from, deviate, deviate from, differ in opinion, differentiate, disaccord, disaccord with, disagree, disagree with, discord, discord with, dispute, dissent, dissent from, disunify, divaricate, divaricate from, diverge, diverge from, diversify, divide, divide on, drop out, fall out, feud, fight, flite, have words, hold opposite views, jangle, jar, jar with, join issue, jostle, mismatch, mismate, misunderstand one another, negate, not accord with, not agree, not compare with, not get along, not look like, not square with, object, oppose, part company, protest against, pull different ways, quarrel, relieve, secede, set to, spar, spat, squabble, stand apart, stand over against, take exception, take issue, tiff, variate, variegate, vary, withdraw, withhold assent, wrangle

difference

• difference, aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abnormity, about-face, accommodation, account, achievement, adaptation, adjustment, aggregate, agreement to disagree, alerion, alienation, alteration, amelioration, amorphism, amount, animal charge, annulet, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, antagonism, apostasy, argent, argument, argumentation, armorial bearings, armory, arms, asymmetry, azure, bad copy, bad likeness, balance, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, betterment, billet, blazon, blazonry, bordure, box score, break, broad arrow, cadency mark, camouflage, canton, capriciousness, cast, change, change of heart, changeability, changeableness, chaplet, character, characteristic, charge, chevron, chief, choppiness, clash, clashing, coat of arms, cockatrice, conflict, constructive change, contention, continuity, contradiction, contradistinction, contrariety, contrast, controversy, conversion, coronet, count, counter-culture, credit, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, cross-purposes, crown, dappleness, defection, deficit, degeneration, degenerative change, derangement, deterioration, deviation, device, difference of opinion, differencing, differentiate, differentiation, difficulty, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, discern, discontinuity, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, discriminate, disequilibrium, disguise, disharmony, disorder, disparity, disproportion, dispute, dissatisfaction, dissemblance, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, dissimilarity, dissimilation, dissimilitude, dissonance, distinction, distinguish, disunion, disunity, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversification, diversion, diversity, dividedness, division, dropping out, eagle, eccentricity, epact, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, erraticism, escutcheon, extricate, faction, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, fitting, flanch, fleur-de-lis, flip-flop, fret, fur, fusil, garland, gradual change, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, heterogeneity, heteromorphism, honor point, idiosyncrasy, imbalance, impalement, impaling, improvement, inaccordance, inadequacy, incommensurability, incomparability, incongruity, inconsistency, inconstancy, inequality, inequity, inescutcheon, inferiority, injustice, instability, insufficiency, irregularity, jarring, jerkiness, label, leftovers, lion, lozenge, makeup, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, melioration, mercuriality, mere caricature, metal, metamorphosis, minority opinion, misunderstanding, mitigation, modification, modulation, monstrosity, motleyness, motto, mullet, mutability, nature, negation, net, nombril point, nonagreement, nonassent, nonconcurrence, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonconsent, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, number, octofoil, odds, opposition, oppugnancy, or, ordinary, orle, otherness, overbalance, overthrow, pale, paly, pean, peculiarity, pheon, polarization, poor imitation, product, purpure, qualification, quantity, quarrel, quarter, quartering, radical change, raggedness, re-creation, realignment, reckoning, recusance, recusancy, redesign, reform, reformation, rejection, remainder, remaking, renewal, repudiation, repugnance, reshaping, rest, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, rose, sable, saltire, score, scutcheon, secession, separate, sever, severalize, shield, shift, shortcoming, spread eagle, strife, subnormality, subordinary, sudden change, sum, summation, superiority, surplus, switch, tale, tally, tenne, teratism, the bottom line, the story, the whole story, tincture, torse, total, total change, transformation, transition, tressure, turn, turnabout, unbalance, unconformism, unconformity, underground, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unharmoniousness, unicorn, unlikeness, unnaturalism, unnaturalness, unorthodoxy, unresemblance, unsameness, unsimilarity, unsteadiness, upheaval, vair, variability, variance, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, vert, violent change, wavering, whole, withdrawal, worsening, wreath, x number, yale

different

• different, aberrant, abnormal, absolute, abundant, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous, another, assorted, at odds, at variance, bizarre, capricious, certain, changeable, changing, choppy, concrete, conflicting, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, contrastive, counter, crank, crankish, cranky, crotchety, defined, definite, departing, detailed, determinate, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disorderly, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distant, distinct, distinctive, distinguishable, distinguished, divaricate, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, diversiform, dotty, eccentric, erose, erratic, esoteric, especial, exceptional, express, extraordinary, fey, fixed, flaky, formless, freakish, funny, hardly like, heteroclite, heterogeneous, heteromorphic, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, impulsive, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, individual, inharmonious, inner, intimate, irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, kinky, kooky, maggoty, manifold, many, mercurial, minute, motley, multifarious, mutable, new, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, noteworthy, novel, numerous, nutty, odd, oddball, off, offbeat, opposite, original, other, otherwise, out, particular, peculiar, personal, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, precise, private, queer, quirky, ragged, rare, remarkable, respective, rough, scarcely like, screwball, screwy, separate, separated, several, shapeless, single, singular, solipsistic, spasmodic, special, specific, sporadic, strange, stray, straying, subnormal, sundry, twisted, unalike, uncommon, unconformable, unconventional, unequable, unequal, uneven, unfamiliar, unheard-of, unidentical, unique, unlike, unmatched, unnatural, unorthodox, unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, unusual, variable, variant, varied, variegated, variform, various, varying, wacky, wandering, wavering, weird, whimsical, widely apart, worlds apart

differential

• differential, Hydromatic, accurate, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, appreciative, aroma, attribute, automatic transmission, badge, brand, cachet, cardinal, cast, categorical, character, characteristic, characterizing, classificational, classificatory, cogwheel, configuration, contrastive, critical, cut, decimal, defining, delicacy, delicate, delicate distinction, denominative, diacritical, diagnostic, differencing, differentia, differential gear, differentiative, digital, discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, distinction, distinctive, distinctive feature, distinguishing, divisional, divisionary, earmark, even, exact, exponential, fastidious, feature, figural, figurate, figurative, figure, fine, fine point, finite, flavor, fractional, freewheel, gear, gear train, gearbox, gearing, gearshift, gearwheel, gust, hairline, hallmark, high, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, idiosyncratic, imaginary, impair, impossible, impress, impression, index, individualism, individualizing, individuating, infinite, integral, intermediate, irrational, keynote, lineaments, logarithmic, logometric, low, mannerism, margin, mark, marking, mold, narrow margin, nature, negative, neutral, nice, nice distinction, nicety, nuance, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, odd, odor, ordinal, overdrive, pair, particle of difference, particular, particularity, peculiar, peculiarity, personalizing, point of difference, positive, possible, precise, prejudiced, prime, property, quality, quirk, rack, radical, rational, real, reciprocal, refined, refinement, reverse, savor, seal, selective, sensitive, separative, shade of difference, shape, singularity, smack, special, specialty, specific, stamp, standard transmission, stick shift, subdivisional, submultiple, subtle, subtle distinction, subtlety, surd, synchromesh, tactful, taint, tang, taste, taxonomic, token, trait, transcendental, transmission, trick, typal, typical, wide margin

differentiate

• differentiate, adapt, adjust, alter, analyze, anatomize, argue, atomize, be characteristic, be indicative of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, bespeak, betoken, break up, calibrate, calibrated, change, characterize, chop logic, comprehend, connote, contradistinguish, contrast, convert, decrease, define, demarcate, demark, denominate, denote, describe, desynonymize, differ, difference, discern, disclose, discriminate, disequalize, disjoin, display, dissent, distinguish, disunify, divaricate, diverge, diversify, divide, draw the line, earmark, entail, express, extricate, give evidence, give token, gradational, grade, gradual, graduate, graduated, hierarchic, highlight, hint, identify, increase, indicate, individualize, individuate, involve, keynote, make a distinction, manifest, mark, mark off, mark out, mark the interface, mean, modify, note, oppose, particularize, personalize, pick out, progressive, refine a distinction, regular, relieve, reveal, scalar, screen, screen out, segregate, select, separate, set a limit, set apart, set off, set the pace, set the tone, sever, severalize, shade off, show, sieve, sieve out, sift, sift out, signify, sort, sort out, sound the keynote, specialize, split hairs, stand for, subdivide, subtilize, suggest, symptomatize, symptomize, tell apart, testify, transform, transmute, understand, variate, variegate, vary, winnow

differentiation

• differentiation, addition, alteration, analysis, anatomization, approximation, atomization, capriciousness, change, changeability, changeableness, characterization, choppiness, contradistinction, dappleness, definition, demarcation, denomination, denotation, description, designation, desynonymization, deviation, difference, differencing, differentness, disclosure, discrimination, disequalization, disjunction, disorder, distinction, distinctiveness, distinguishment, divarication, divergence, diversification, division, egohood, equation, evolution, expression, extrapolation, fingering, hairsplitting, hint, human factor, identification, identity, inconsistency, inconstancy, indication, indicativeness, individualism, individuality, individualization, individuation, inequality, instability, integration, integrity, interpolation, inversion, involution, irregularity, jerkiness, manifestation, meaning, mercuriality, microscopic distinction, modification, motleyness, multiplication, mutability, naming, nice distinction, nominalism, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, notation, nuance, oneness, particularism, particularity, particularization, personal equation, personal identity, personality, personalization, personship, picking out, pluralism, pointing, pointing out, pointing to, practice, proportion, raggedness, reduction, segregation, selection, self-identity, selfhood, selfness, separation, severalization, severance, shade of difference, show, showing, signification, singularity, soul, specialization, specification, subtle distinction, subtraction, suggestion, symptomaticness, transformation, trichoschistism, unconformism, unconformity, unevenness, uniqueness, unorthodoxy, unsteadiness, variability, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, wavering

differing

• differing, alienated, antagonistic, antiestablishment, antipathetic, assorted, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at odds with, at variance, at variance with, at war, averse, breakaway, clashing, colliding, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, counter-culture, cranky, cross, cursory, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonious, disinclined, disjoined, disobedient, disparate, disproportionate, dissentient, dissenting, dissident, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, forced, fractious, grating, heterogeneous, hostile, immiscible, in disagreement, in opposition, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, indisposed, indocile, inharmonious, involuntary, irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, many, motley, multifarious, mutinous, negative, nonconforming, opposed, opposing, out of accord, out of whack, perfunctory, poles apart, poles asunder, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, repugnant, resistant, sectarian, sectary, separate, separated, several, sulky, sullen, unconformable, uncongenial, unconsenting, underground, unequal, unharmonious, unlike, unwilling, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart

difficult

• difficult, Herculean, abstruse, adverse, antagonistic, arduous, awkward, baffling, beyond one, bloody-minded, brutal, burdensome, cantankerous, complex, complicated, conflicting, contrary, counter, counteractive, crabbed, cramp, critical, cross-grained, dark, delicate, demanding, detrimental, difficile, effortful, enigmatical, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, formidable, froward, fuss-budgety, fussy, garbled, grim, hairy, hard, hard to please, hard to understand, hard-earned, hard-fought, harmful, hostile, ill-behaved, in opposition, inimical, intractable, intricate, irascible, jawbreaking, jumbled, knotted, knotty, labored, laborious, mean, miserable, naughty, nit-picking, no picnic, not easy, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, obstinate, obstructive, onerous, operose, opposed, opposing, opposite, ornery, overtechnical, particular, pawky, pernickety, perplexed, perplexing, persnickety, perverse, problem, problematic, problematical, profound, puzzling, queasy, recalcitrant, recondite, refractory, rigorous, rough, rugged, scabrous, scrambled, sensitive, set with thorns, severe, sinister, spiny, squeamish, steep, strenuous, stressful, stubborn, stuffy, sulky, sullen, thorny, ticklish, toilsome, tough, tricky, troubled, troublesome, troubling, troublous, trying, unaccommodating, uncompromising, unfavorable, unmanageable, untoward, unyielding, uphill, wayward, wicked, wretched, wrongheaded

difficulties

• difficulties, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, annoyance, blight, broken fortune, bummer, care, cross, curse, difficulty, distress, downer, embarrassment, genteel poverty, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hard pinch, hardcase, hardship, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, insolvency, irritation, light purse, narrow means, plight, poorness, poverty, predicament, pressure, rigor, sea of troubles, slender means, straitened circumstances, straits, stress, stress of life, tight squeeze, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, unprosperousness, vale of tears, vicissitude, voluntary poverty, vows of poverty

difficulty

• difficulty, Gordian knot, abstruseness, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, agreement to disagree, altercation, annoyance, arduousness, asperity, bad news, bedevilment, beef, bickering, blight, block, blockade, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, bottleneck, bummer, burden, burthen, care, cargo, catch, challenge, charge, complexity, complication, controversy, cordon, crabbedness, crampedness, crashing bore, cross, cross-purposes, cumbrance, curse, curtain, deadweight, deepness, demurral, demurrer, determent, deterrent, devilment, difference, difference of opinion, difficulties, dilemma, disadvantage, disagreement, disparity, dispute, distress, dividedness, division, dogging, downer, drag, drawback, embarrassment, emergency, encumbrance, esoterica, exasperation, exigency, falling-out, fight, fix, formidableness, freight, hamper, handicap, hang-up, harassment, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardness, hardship, harrying, hassle, hazard, headache, heavy sledding, hindrance, hitch, hot water, hounding, hurdle, impediment, impedimenta, imposition, inconvenience, intricacy, irritation, jam, joker, knottiness, laboriousness, load, lumber, mess, misunderstanding, molestation, nuisance, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, odds, one small difficulty, onus, pack, painfulness, pass, penalty, persecution, pest, pickle, pinch, pitfall, plight, polarization, predicament, pressure, problem, profoundness, profundity, protest, quandary, question, reconditeness, remonstrance, remonstration, rigor, rub, scrape, sea of troubles, snag, squabble, strain, strait, straits, stress, stress of life, stumbling block, stumbling stone, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, vale of tears, variance, vexation, vexatiousness, vicissitude, vigor, weight, white elephant, worriment, worry

diffidence

• diffidence, Pyrrhonism, afraidness, apprehension, bashfulness, boggle, boggling, caution, cautiousness, compunction, demur, demurral, distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, falter, faltering, fearfulness, half-belief, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitating, hesitation, jumpiness, lack of self-confidence, lack of self-reliance, leeriness, misdoubt, misgiving, mistrust, mistrustfulness, modesty, objection, pause, protest, qualm, qualm of conscience, qualmishness, question, recoil, scruple, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, self-depreciation, self-detraction, self-distrust, self-doubt, self-effacement, shadow of doubt, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, shrinking, shrinkingness, shyness, skepticalness, skepticism, skittishness, stage fright, startlishness, stickling, suspicion, suspiciousness, tentativeness, timidity, timorousness, total skepticism, uncertainty, wariness, weak ego

diffident

• diffident, bashful, boggling, cautious, cowardly, coy, demure, demurring, deprecative, deprecatory, faltering, fearful, fearing, fearsome, goosy, hesitant, hesitating, in fear, jibbing, jumpy, modest, mousy, nervous, qualmish, rabbity, reluctant, retiring, scary, scrupling, scrupulous, self-deprecating, self-depreciating, self-depreciative, self-distrustful, self-doubting, self-effacing, shaky, shilly-shallying, shivery, shrinking, shy, skittery, skittish, squeamish, startlish, sticking, stickling, straining, tentative, timid, timorous, trembling, tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy, unassertive, unassured, unselfconfident, unselfreliant

diffraction

• diffraction, amplitude, antinode, attenuation, broadcast, broadcasting, circumfusion, crest, de Broglie wave, deflection, deflexure, diffusion, dilution, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, dissemination, dissipation, distortion, distribution, divergence, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic wave, evaporation, expansion, flection, flexure, fragmentation, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, guided wave, in phase, interference, light, longitudinal wave, mechanical wave, node, out of phase, peppering, period, periodic wave, propagation, publication, radiation, radio wave, ray, refraction, reinforcement, resonance, resonance frequency, scatter, scattering, scatterment, seismic wave, shock wave, shotgun pattern, skewness, sound wave, sowing, spattering, splay, spread, spreading, sprinkling, strewing, surface wave, tidal wave, torsion, transverse wave, trough, volatilization, wave, wave equation, wave motion, wave number, wavelength

diffuse

• diffuse, abounding, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ambagious, ample, aplenty, assign, atomize, bend, bespread, bestrew, bias, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, broad, broadcast, carry over, casual, circuitous, circulate, circumfuse, circumlocutory, communicate, consign, copious, crash, crawl with, creep with, crook, crunch, crush, curve, cut to pieces, deal out, deflect, deflected, deflective, deliver, demolish, deport, desultory, deviate, diffract, diffracted, diffractive, diffuse, diffused, diffusive, digressive, discrete, discursive, disjoin, dispel, dispense, disperse, dispersed, dispread, disrupt, disseminate, disseminated, dissipate, dissipated, distort, distorted, distribute, distributed, diverge, divert, dogleg, ease, ease off, effuse, effusive, emanate, epidemic, exhaustless, expand, expel, export, extend, extend throughout, extended, extensive, extradite, extravagant, exuberant, fan out, far-embracing, far-extending, far-flung, far-flying, far-going, far-ranging, far-reaching, fat, fecund, fertile, fill, fission, flectional, flexed, flush, formless, fragment, free, full, galore, generous, grind, gushing, gushy, hairpin, hand forward, hand on, hand over, honeycomb, imbue, impart, import, in plenty, in quantity, indiscriminate, inexhaustible, inflective, infuse, interlard, intersow, intersperse, intersprinkle, issue, large-scale, lasting, lavish, lax, leave no void, leaven, lengthy, let go, let up, liberal, long, long-drawn-out, long-winded, loose, loosen, loquacious, luxuriant, make mincemeat of, make over, many, maximal, meandering, metastasize, metathesize, mince, much, numerous, occupy, opulent, overflowing, overrun, overscatter, oversow, overspread, overswarm, pass, pass on, pass over, pass the buck, penetrate, perfuse, periphrastic, permeate, pervade, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, prolific, prolix, prolonged, propagate, protracted, publish, pull, pulverize, radiate, rambling, rampant, random, ray, redundant, refract, refracted, refractile, refractive, refrangible, reiterative, relax, relay, repetitive, replete, retail, rich, rife, riotous, roundabout, run through, running over, scatter, scattered, shatter, shiver, skew, skewed, slack, slack off, slacken, smash, smash up, sow, sow broadcast, sparse, splay, splinter, sporadic, spread, spread out, squash, squish, straggling, straggly, strew, strewn, strown, suffuse, superabundant, swarm with, sweeping, switch, tautologous, teem with, teeming, transfer, transfer property, transfuse, translate, translocate, transmit, transplace, transplant, transpose, turn, turn over, twist, unglue, unleash, unstick, utter, verbose, warp, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, wide, wide-extended, wide-extending, wide-ranging, wide-reaching, wide-stretching, widespread, windy, wordy, zigzag

dig in

• dig in, arm, armor, armor-plate, bank, barricade, battle, blockade, bulwark, castellate, crenellate, embattle, entrench, fence, fortify, garrison, hang in, hang in there, hang tough, hold fast, hold out, man, man the garrison, mine, palisade, remain firm, stand fast, stand firm, stand no nonsense, stand the gaff, stick, stick fast, take what comes, wall

dig up

• dig up, accumulate, agglomerate, aggregate, aggroup, amass, assemble, avulse, batch, be curious, bring to light, bring together, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, burn with curiosity, clump, cluster, collect, colligate, collocate, combine, compare, compile, conglomerate, corral, cull, cumulate, cut out, deracinate, dig around for, dig out, disclose, disentangle, disinter, draw, draw out, draw together, dredge, dredge up, drive together, eradicate, evolve, evulse, excavate, excise, exhume, expose, exsect, extract, extricate, ferret out, fish up, gape, gather, gather in, gather together, gawk, get in, get out, get together, glean, gouge out, group, grub, grub up, inquire, interrogate, join, juxtapose, lump together, make up, mass, match, mine, mobilize, muster, nose around for, nose out, pair, partner, peer, pick, pick out, pick up, pluck, pluck out, pluck up, pull, pull out, pull up, put together, quarry, query, question, quiz, raise, rake out, rake up, rally, remove, reveal, rip out, root out, root up, round up, rubber, rubberneck, scare up, scrape together, scrape up, seek, stare, take out, take up, tear out, turn up, uncover, unearth, unravel, uproot, want to know, weed out, whip in, withdraw, worm out, wrest out

dig

• dig, Parthian shot, abide, absorb, abysm, abyss, accept, appreciate, apprehend, assault, assimilate, back answer, backset, bang, bash, bat, be affected, be in tune, be inspired, be involved, be moved, be with one, bear, bear upon, bearing, beat the bushes, beating, belt, bide, biff, blow, bone, bonk, boost, bore, bring in, buck, bull, bulldoze, bump, bump against, bunt, burrow, butt, butt against, care about, catch, catch on, catch the flame, catch the infection, caustic remark, change color, chasm, chop, clip, clout, clump, color with emotion, comeback, comprehend, con, conceive, contemplate, countersink, crack, cram, crop, crop herbs, crowd, cultivate, culture, cut, cutting remark, dash, deepen, delve, depress, dig out, dig up, digest, diggings, dike, dint, dive, dredge, dress, drill, drive, drub, drubbing, drudge, drumming, dump, dwell, echo, elbow, elucubrate, empathize with, enter, examine, excavate, excavation, explore, fag, fallow, fathom, fertilize, fleer, flout, follow, foolery, forage, force, frisk, furrow, fusillade, gather, gather in, get, get hold of, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, gibe, gibing retort, glean, go, go over, go through, goad, gouge, gouge out, grabble, grasp, grind, groove, grub, gulf, hammer, hammer away, hang out, harrow, harvest, have, have it taped, hay, head, hit, hoe, hunt, hurtle, hustle, identify with, jab, jam, jape, jeer, jest, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, ken, knock, know, learn, leg-pull, lick, like, list, live, look around, look round, look through, lower, lucubrate, master, mind, mine, mock, moil, mow, mulch, nose around, nudge, nut, parting shot, peg, peg away, pelt, penetrate, peruse, pick, pierce, pile drive, pit, plod, plow, pluck, plug, plug along, plug away, plunge, plunge into, plunk, poke, poke around, pore over, pound, pound away, practice, press, pressure, probe, prod, prune, pry, punch, push, put-down, put-on, quarry, quip, rake, ram, ram down, rap, rattle, react, read, realize, reap, reap and carry, regard studiously, relate to emotionally, relish, research, respond, restudy, review, root, root out, rude reproach, run, run against, sap, savvy, scoff, scoop, scoop out, scrabble, scrape, scratch, scurrility, search, search through, see, seize, seize the meaning, sense, shaft, shake, share, short answer, shoulder, shove, shovel, sink, slam, slap, slog, slug, smack, smash, smell around, sock, spade, stab, stick, stress, stroke, study, swat, swing, swipe, swot, sympathize with, take, take in, tamp, tattoo, taunt, thin, thin out, thrust, thump, thwack, till, till the soil, toil, travail, trench, trough, tunnel, twit, understand, verbal thrust, vet, wade through, weed, weed out, well, whack, whop, work, work away, workings, yerk

digest

• digest, Code Napoleon, Napoleonic code, abbreviate, abbreviation, abbreviature, abide, ablate, abrege, abridge, abridgement, abridgment, absorb, abstract, accept, adsorb, alphabetize, analyze, appreciate, apprehend, appropriate, arrange, assimilate, assort, be abstracted, be with one, bear, bleed white, blot, blot up, body of law, break down, brief, brood, brood over, brook, burn up, capitulary, capsule, catalog, catch, catch on, categorize, census, chemisorb, chemosorb, chew over, chew the cud, class, classify, code, code of laws, codification, codify, compend, comprehend, compress, con over, conceive, condensation, condense, condensed version, consider, conspectus, consume, contemplate, corpus juris, cut, debate, deliberate, deliberate over, deliberate upon, deplete, dig, digest of law, disregard, divide, down, draft, drain, drain of resources, drink, drink in, drink up, eat, eat up, endure, engross, epitome, epitomize, equity, erode, exhaust, expend, fathom, file, filter in, finish, finish off, follow, get, get hold of, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, go, gobble, gobble up, grade, grasp, group, have, have it taped, head, ignore, imbibe, impoverish, index, infiltrate, ingest, introspect, inventory, ken, know, learn, list, master, meditate, meditate upon, metabolize, mull over, muse, muse on, muse over, nutshell, order, osmose, outline, overview, pandect, penal code, percolate in, perpend, pigeonhole, place, play around with, play with, pocket, pocket the affront, ponder, ponder over, precis, predigest, range, rank, rate, read, realize, reduce, reflect, reflect over, resume, review, revolve, rubric, ruminate, ruminate over, run over, savvy, seep in, seize, seize the meaning, sense, shorten, shortened version, skeleton, sketch, slurp up, soak in, soak up, sorb, sort, speculate, spend, sponge, squander, stand, stomach, study, subdivide, suck dry, sum, sum up, summarize, summary, summate, survey, survive, swallow, swallow an insult, swallow up, swill up, syllabus, synopsis, synopsize, table, table of organization, tabulate, take, take in, take up, think over, thumbnail sketch, tolerate, topical outline, toy with, turn aside provocation, turn over, type, understand, use up, waste away, wear away, weigh

digestion

• digestion, ablation, absorbency, absorbent, absorption, adsorbent, adsorption, assimilation, attrition, bile, blending, blotter, blotting, blotting paper, burning up, chemisorption, chemosorption, consumption, depletion, digestive system, drain, eating up, endosmosis, engrossment, erosion, exhaustion, exosmosis, expending, expenditure, finishing, gastric juice, gastrointestinal tract, imbibing, impoverishment, infiltration, ingestion, intestinal juice, liver, maceration, mastication, osmosis, pancreas, pancreatic digestion, pancreatic juice, percolation, predigestion, pulpefaction, pulpification, pulping, saliva, salivary digestion, salivary glands, secondary digestion, seepage, soaking-up, sorption, spending, sponge, sponging, squandering, taking-in, using up, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting away, wearing away, wearing down

diggings

• diggings, abysm, abyss, accommodations, bank, berth, chasm, coal mine, colliery, dig, digs, excavation, gold mine, gulf, housing, living quarters, lodging, lodgings, lodgment, mine, open cut, opencast, pit, quarry, quarters, rooms, roost, shaft, shelter, sleeping place, well, workings

digit

• digit, annulary, arch, binary digit, bit, character, cipher, clubfoot, dactylion, dog, extremity, fetlock, figure, finger, foot, forefinger, forefoot, forepaw, harefoot, heel, hoof, index, index finger, instep, integer, little finger, medius, middle finger, minimus, notation, number, numeral, numero, pad, pastern, patte, paw, pedal extremity, pedes, pes, pied, pinkie, pollex, pug, ring finger, sign, sole, splayfoot, symbol, thumb, toe, tootsy, trotter, ungula, whole number

digital

• digital, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, cardinal, clawed, decimal, dentate, differential, digitate, digitated, even, exponential, fanged, figural, figurate, figurative, fingered, finite, fractional, imaginary, impair, impossible, infinite, integral, irrational, jawed, logarithmic, logometric, negative, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, odd, ordinal, pair, positive, possible, prehensile, prime, radical, raptorial, rational, real, reciprocal, submultiple, surd, taloned, toothed, transcendental

dignified

• dignified, aristocratic, august, courtly, distingue, distinguished, elegant, elevated, exalted, formal, grand, grave, honorable, imposing, inspiring, kingly, lofty, lordly, magisterial, majestic, moving, noble, princely, queenly, regal, reserved, royal, sedate, serious, sober, solemn, stately, statuesque, sublime, venerable, weighty, worthy

dignify

• dignify, adorn, aggrandize, bestow honor upon, better, celebrate, confer distinction on, conventionalize, distinguish, elevate, enhance, ennoble, erect, exalt, formalize, glorify, grace, honor, improve, lift, magnify, observe, raise, ritualize, signalize, solemnize, stylize, sublime, upgrade, uplift, upraise, uprear

dignitary

• dignitary, Establishment, VIP, baron, big cheese, big gun, big man, big name, big noise, big shot, big wheel, bigwig, brass, brass hat, celebrity, chief, dignity, elder, eminence, fat cat, father, figure, great man, high-muck-a-muck, higher-up, hotshot, important person, interests, lion, lords of creation, luminary, magnate, man of mark, mogul, nabob, name, notability, notable, official, panjandrum, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, power, power elite, ruling circle, sachem, somebody, something, star, superstar, the great, the top, top brass, top people, tycoon, very important person, worthy

dignity

• dignity, Atticism, Establishment, VIP, address, appropriateness, augustness, baron, big gun, big man, big name, bigwig, brass, brass hat, buckram, cachet, celebrity, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, chasteness, chastity, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness, comeliness, consequence, correctness, courtliness, decency, dignifiedness, dignitary, directness, discrimination, distinction, ease, elder, elegance, elegancy, elevation, eminence, esteem, ethicalness, ethics, etiquette, excellence, extrinsicality, face, fame, father, felicitousness, felicity, figure, finish, fittingness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, form, formality, formalization, glory, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, grandeur, grandness, gravity, great man, greatness, hauteur, high place, honor, honorableness, impersonality, importance, important person, interests, kingliness, kudos, level, limpidity, lion, loftiness, lordliness, lords of creation, lucidity, magnate, magnificence, majesty, man of mark, memorability, merit, mogul, morality, nabob, name, naturalness, neatness, nobility, nobleness, notability, notable, noteworthiness, panjandrum, pellucidity, perfection, person of renown, personage, personality, perspicuity, pillar of society, plainness, poise, polish, pomp, pomposity, position, power, power elite, prestige, pride, pride of bearing, pride of place, primness, princeliness, prominence, propriety, proud bearing, purity, rank, refinement, regality, remarkableness, renown, reputation, repute, respectability, restraint, rigidness, ritual, rituality, ruling circle, sachem, salience, sedateness, seemliness, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-importance, self-regard, self-respect, simplicity, smoothness, sobriety, solemnity, somebody, something, standing, starchiness, state, stateliness, station, stature, status, stiffness, stiltedness, straightforwardness, stylization, sublimity, taste, tastefulness, terseness, the great, the top, top brass, top people, tycoon, unaffectedness, venerability, very important person, virtue, weight, worth, worthiness, worthy

digress

• digress, bear off, bend, branch off, bypass, change the bearing, curve, depart, depart from, detour, deviate, divagate, divaricate, diverge, drift, excurse, get sidetracked, go around, go astray, go round about, heel, make a detour, maunder, ramble, roam, sheer, shift, stray, swerve, tack, trend, turn, turn aside, vary, veer, wander

digression

• digression, aberrancy, aberration, ambages, apostrophe, aside, bend, bias, branching off, bypass, bypath, byway, circling, circuit, circuition, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circulation, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulation, circumbendibus, circumflexion, circumlocution, circummigration, circumnavigation, corner, crook, crosswiseness, curve, declination, deflection, deflexure, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviating, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, digressing, discursion, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, episode, errantry, excurse, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, gyre, gyring, hairpin, incident, indirection, indirectness, meandering, nonconformity, obiter dictum, obliqueness, obliquity, orbit, orbiting, parenthesis, pererration, rambling, roundabout, roundabout way, roundaboutness, rounding, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, side path, side road, sidetrack, skew, skewness, slant, spiral, spiraling, squint, straying, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, transverseness, turn, turning, twist, vagary, variation, veer, wandering, warp, wheeling, yaw, zigzag

digressive

• digressive, O-shaped, aberrant, aberrative, aimless, ambagious, backhand, backhanded, by the way, circuitous, circular, deflectional, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, discursive, divagational, divergent, episodic, errant, erratic, excursive, helical, indirect, labyrinthine, left-handed, loose, maundering, mazy, meandering, oblique, orbital, out-of-the-way, planetary, rambling, rotary, round, roundabout, roving, serpentine, shifting, side, sidelong, sinister, sinistral, snaky, spiral, stray, swerving, turning, twisting, undirected, vagrant, veering, wandering, winding, zigzag

dike

• dike, Autobahn, US highway, abatis, abysm, abyss, advanced work, alley, alleyway, aqueduct, arch dam, arroyo, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, artificial lake, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, backstop, balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bayou lake, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, belt highway, blind alley, boom, bore, boulevard, box canyon, breach, break, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, burrow, bypass, byway, camino real, canal, canalization, canalize, canyon, carriageway, carve, casemate, causeway, causey, cavity, chamfer, channel, chap, chasm, chaussee, check, cheval-de-frise, chimney, chink, chisel, chute, circumferential, circumvallation, cistern, cleft, cleuch, close, clough, cofferdam, col, contravallation, corduroy road, corrugate, coulee, couloir, counterscarp, country rock, county road, court, crack, cranny, crescent, crevasse, crevice, crimp, cul-de-sac, curtain, cut, cwm, dado, dam, dead water, dead-end street, defense, defile, dell, delve, demibastion, deposit, dig, dig out, dirt road, ditch, donga, draw, drawbridge, dredge, drill, drive, driveway, earthwork, embankment, enclosure, engrave, entanglement, entrenchment, escarp, escarpment, etang, excavate, excavation, expressway, farm pond, fault, fence, fieldwork, fishpond, fissure, flaw, flume, flute, fortalice, fortification, fosse, fracture, freeway, freshwater lake, furrow, gangue, gap, gape, gash, gate, glacial lake, glacis, goffer, gorge, gouge, gouge out, gravel road, gravity dam, groin, groove, grub, gulch, gulf, gully, gutter, ha-ha, highroad, highway, highways and byways, hole, hydraulic-fill dam, incise, incision, inland sea, interstate highway, iron curtain, jam, jetty, joint, kennel, kloof, lagoon, laguna, lake, lakelet, landlocked water, lane, leak, leaping weir, levee, linn, local road, loch, lode, lodestuff, logjam, loophole, lough, lower, lunette, machicolation, main drag, main road, mantelet, matrix, mere, merlon, mews, milldam, millpond, millpool, mine, mineral deposit, moat, mole, motorway, mound, notch, nullah, nyanza, opening, ore bed, outwork, oxbow lake, palisade, parados, parapet, parkway, pass, passage, pave, paved road, pay dirt, pike, place, plank road, plash, pleat, plow, pond, pondlet, pool, portcullis, postern gate, primary highway, private road, puddle, quarry, rabbet, rampart, ravelin, ravine, redan, redoubt, rent, reservoir, rifle, rift, right-of-way, rime, ring road, road, roadbed, roadblock, roadway, rock-fill dam, route nationale, row, royal road, rupture, rut, salina, sally port, salt pond, sap, scarp, scissure, sconce, scoop, scoop out, score, scrabble, scrape, scratch, seam, seawall, secondary road, shoot, shovel, shutter dam, sink, slit, slot, spade, speedway, split, stagnant water, standing water, state highway, still water, stock, stockade, stone wall, streak, street, striate, sump, sunk fence, superhighway, tank, tarn, tenaille, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, tidal pond, toll road, township road, trench, trough, tunnel, turnpike, vallation, valley, vallum, vein, void, volcanic lake, wadi, wall, water hole, water pocket, weir, well, wicket dam, work, wrinkle, wynd

dilapidated

• dilapidated, ablative, battered, beat-up, beaten up, bedraggled, biodegradable, blowzy, broken-down, careless, chintzy, corrosive, crumbling, damaged, decayed, decaying, decomposable, decomposing, decrepit, degradable, derelict, destroyed, dingy, disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive, disruptive, doddering, down-at-heel, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, dusty, erosive, faded, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fusty, gone to seed, groggy, grubby, impaired, in rags, in ruins, informal, injured, loose, lumpen, marred, messy, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moss-grown, moth-eaten, mussy, musty, negligent, poky, raddled, ragged, raggedy, ramshackle, ravaged, resolvent, ricketish, rickety, rocky, ruined, ruinous, run-down, rusty, scraggly, seedy, separative, shabby, shaky, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, slummy, sluttish, solvent, sordid, spidery, spindly, squalid, stale, tacky, tattered, teetering, teetery, threadbare, time-scarred, timeworn, tottering, tottery, tumbledown, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, unsteady, untidy, wobbly, worn, wrecked

dilapidation

• dilapidation, ablation, atomization, bankruptcy, biodegradability, biodegradation, breakage, breakdown, breakup, collapse, corrosion, corruption, crack-up, crippling, crumbling, damage, decay, decomposition, degradability, degradation, destruction, detriment, disablement, disintegration, disjunction, disorganization, disrepair, dissolution, encroachment, erosion, harm, hobbling, hurt, hurting, impairment, incapacitation, incoherence, infringement, injury, inroad, loss, maiming, mayhem, mildew, mischief, mold, mutilation, oxidation, oxidization, ravages of time, resolution, ruination, ruinousness, rust, sabotage, scathe, sickening, spoilage, spoiling, weakening, wear, wear and tear

dilate

• dilate, add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, bag, balloon, belly, belly out, bilge, billow, bloat, blow up, bouge, broaden, bug, build, build up, bulge, bulk, bulk out, crescendo, descant, describe, detail, develop, discuss, dissert, dissertate, distend, elaborate, enlarge, enlarge upon, evolve, expand, expatiate, explicate, extend, fill out, goggle, greaten, hike, hike up, huff, increase, inflate, lengthen, magnify, narrate, particularize, pooch, pop, pouch, pout, prolong, protract, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, raise, rarefy, recite, recount, rehearse, rehearse in extenso, relate, relate at large, round out, sermonize, snowball, stretch, sufflate, swell, swell out, tumefy, unfold, up, widen, work out

dilation

• dilation, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, boil, bump, bunion, burlesque, carbuncle, caricature, corn, cyst, development, diastole, dilatation, distension, dropsy, edema, elaboration, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, expatiation, explication, extravagance, extreme, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, furuncle, gassiness, grandiloquence, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflation, inordinacy, intumescence, lump, magnification, meteorism, overemphasis, overestimation, overkill, overstatement, pimple, pock, prodigality, profuseness, puff, puffery, puffiness, puffing, puffing up, pustule, rising, sebaceous cyst, sensationalism, stretching, superlative, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tall talk, touting, travesty, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, unfolding, wen, windiness, working-out

dilatory

• dilatory, Micawberish, apathetic, backward, balking, balky, bone-lazy, cadging, dallying, dawdling, delaying, deliberate, dillydallying, do-nothing, doless, dragging, dronish, drony, easy, easygoing, ergophobic, faineant, foot-dragging, good-for-nothing, grudging, indifferent, indolent, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, lax, lazy, leisurely, lingering, loath, loitering, lollygagging, neglectful, negligent, nonaggressive, parasitic, perfunctory, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, reluctant, remiss, renitent, restive, scrounging, shiftless, shilly-shallying, shuffling, slack, slothful, slow, slow to, sluggish, sponging, tarrying, unenterprising, unenthusiastic, unhasty, unhurried, unzealous, work-shy

dilemma

• dilemma, Aristotelian sorites, Goclenian sorites, Gordian knot, Scylla and Charybdis, baffle, bafflement, bewilderment, bind, bother, box, catch-22, categorical syllogism, choice of Hercules, confoundment, confusion, corner, crux, deadlock, difficulty, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, disturbance, embarrassment, enigma, enthymeme, figure, fix, hole, impasse, jam, knot, knotty point, mode, modus tollens, mood, mystery, mystification, no choice, node, nodus, nonplus, only choice, oxymoron, paradox, paralogism, perplexity, perturbation, pickle, plight, pons asinorum, poser, pother, predicament, problem, prosyllogism, pseudosyllogism, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, riddle, rule, rule of deduction, scrape, snooker, sorites, spot, squeeze, stalemate, stew, stymie, syllogism, teaser, trouble, unassuredness, upset, vexed question

dilettante

• dilettante, Sunday painter, abecedarian, admirer, aesthete, aficionado, amateur, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste, authority, bon vivant, booster, buff, cognoscente, collector, connaisseur, connoisseur, coquet, critic, criticaster, dabbler, dabbling, dabster, dallier, devotee, dilettantish, dunce, epicure, epicurean, expert, fan, fancier, flirt, follower, fool, freak, fribble, good judge, gourmand, gourmet, grammaticaster, greenhorn, greeny, groupie, half scholar, idolater, idolizer, ignoramus, illiterate, illiterati, jackleg, judge, know-nothing, lowbrow, maven, middlebrow, no scholar, nonprofessional, nut, philologaster, philosophaster, piddler, potterer, puddinghead, pundit, putterer, refined palate, rooter, savant, scholar, sciolist, smatterer, specialist, technical expert, technician, tenderfoot, trifler, tyro, unaccomplished, unfinished, ungifted, unintelligentsia, unskilled, virtuoso, votary, worshiper

diligence

• diligence, advertence, advertency, alertness, application, ardor, assiduity, assiduousness, attention, attention span, attentiveness, awareness, bookishness, bulldog tenacity, care, concentration, consciousness, consideration, constancy, dogged perseverance, doggedness, ear, earnestness, endurance, energeticalness, energy, engrossment, fervor, fidelity, heed, heedfulness, indefatigability, industriousness, industry, insistence, insistency, intentiveness, intentness, laboriousness, loyalty, mindfulness, note, notice, observance, observation, obstinacy, pains, painstaking, painstakingness, patience, patience of Job, permanence, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plodding, plugging, preoccupation, regard, regardfulness, relentlessness, remark, resolution, respect, scholarliness, scholarship, sedulity, sedulousness, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slogging, stability, stamina, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, stick-to-itiveness, strenuousness, stubbornness, studiousness, tenaciousness, tenacity, thoroughgoingness, thoroughness, thought, tirelessness, unremittingness, unsparingness, unswerving attention, vehemence, zealousness

diligent

• diligent, academic, advertent, agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, ardent, assiduous, attentive, aware, bookish, careful, concentrated, conscientious, conscious, constant, continuing, devoted to studies, dogged, donnish, dryasdust, earnest, elaborate, enduring, energetic, faithful, fervent, finical, finicking, finicky, hard, hard-working, hardworking, heedful, immutable, inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, insistent, intense, intent, intentive, invincible, laborious, lasting, loyal, mandarin, meticulous, mindful, never idle, never-tiring, nice, niggling, observant, observing, obstinate, on the ball, on the job, open-eared, open-eyed, openmouthed, operose, owlish, painstaking, patient, patient as Job, pedantic, permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, professorial, punctilious, rabbinic, rapt, regardful, relentless, resolute, scholarly, scholastic, scrupulous, sedulous, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, stable, steadfast, steady, strenuous, stubborn, studious, tenacious, thorough, thoroughgoing, tireless, unabating, unconquerable, undaunted, undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unsleeping, unsparing, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, vehement, watchful, weariless, zealous

diligently

• diligently, ardently, assiduously, carefully, cautiously, circumspectly, considerately, devotedly, doggedly, energetically, faithfully, fervently, heedfully, indefatigably, industriously, insistently, laboriously, lovingly, loyally, mindfully, painstakingly, patiently, perseveringly, persistently, persistingly, pertinaciously, ploddingly, regardfully, relentlessly, resolutely, sedulously, sloggingly, solicitously, strenuously, tenaciously, tenderly, thoroughgoingly, thoroughly, thoughtfully, tirelessly, unabatingly, unfalteringly, unflaggingly, unflinchingly, unintermittingly, uninterruptedly, unrelentingly, unremittingly, unrestingly, unsleepingly, unsparingly, unswervingly, untiringly, unwaveringly, unwearyingly, vehemently, wearilessly, with care, with great care, zealously

dilly

• dilly, absurd, ace, balmy, beaut, corker, crackerjack, crazy, daisy, dally, dandy, darb, dillydally, dream, harebrained, honey, humdinger, insane, killer-diller, knockout, lag, linger, loiter, lollapaloosa, loony, lulu, nifty, peach, pip, pippin, poke, potty, put off, rouser, silly, sweetheart, tarry, the nuts, wacky, whiz

dillydally

• dillydally, abide, await, bide, bide the issue, dally, dawdle, delay, diddle, dilly, doodle, drag, falter, flag, goof off, halt, hang about, hang around, hold everything, hold on, hold your horses, lag, linger, loiter, lollygag, mark time, piddle, poke, put off, shilly-shally, sit tight, sit up, stay, stay up, stick around, take time, tarry, trail, wait, wait a minute, wait and see, waste time

dilute

• dilute, abate, adulterate, adulterated, alleviate, alter, attenuate, baptize, bastardize, bate, blow off, cast forth, clear away, contaminate, corrupt, cut, debase, decrease, denaturalize, denature, diluted, diminish, dispel, dissipate, dissolve, doctor, doctor up, drive away, ease, emacerate, emaciate, etherealize, evaporate, expand, extenuate, fortify, impaired, impoverished, irrigate, lace, lessen, liquefy, mitigate, moderate, modify, pollute, qualify, rarefy, reduce, reduced, remit, slacken, sophisticated, spike, subtilize, tamper with, temper, thicken, thin, thin away, thin down, thin out, volatilize, washy, water, water down, watered-down, waterish, watery, weak, weaken, weakened

diluted

• diluted, adulterated, airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, cut, dead, delicate, diaphanous, dilute, ethereal, fade, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flat, flavorless, flimsy, frail, gaseous, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile, gruelly, inane, indifferent, insipid, insubstantial, jejune, lacy, light, mild, milk-and-water, misty, papery, pappy, pulpy, rare, rarefied, reduced, sapless, savorless, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, spiceless, stale, subtile, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tasteless, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike, uncompact, uncompressed, unflavored, unsavory, unsubstantial, vague, vapid, vaporous, washy, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, waterish, watery, weak, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wishy-washy, wispy

diluvium

• diluvium, alluvion, alluvium, ash, cinder, clinker, debris, deposit, deposition, deposits, detritus, draff, dregs, drift, dross, ember, feces, froth, grounds, lees, loess, moraine, offscum, precipitate, precipitation, scoria, scree, scum, sediment, settlings, silt, sinter, slag, smut, soot, sublimate

dim sighted

• dim sighted, ableptical, amaurotic, benighted, bereft of light, blear-eyed, bleary-eyed, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, color-blind, dark, dim, dim-eyed, dull-sighted, eyeless, feeble-eyed, filmy-eyed, gravel-blind, half-blind, hemeralopic, imperceptive, impercipient, in darkness, insensible, mind-blind, mole-eyed, myopic, nearsighted, nonunderstanding, nyctalopic, purblind, rayless, sand-blind, shortsighted, sightless, spiritually blind, stark blind, stone-blind, unapprehending, uncomprehending, undiscerning, unenlightened, unobserving, unperceiving, unperceptive, unseeing, visionless, weak-eyed

dim view

• dim view, ban, blackball, blackballing, complaint, disagreement, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disgruntlement, disillusion, disillusionment, displeasure, disrespect, dissatisfaction, dissent, distaste, exclusion, indignation, low estimation, low opinion, objection, opposition, opposure, ostracism, protest, rejection, thumbs-down, unhappiness

dim witted

• dim witted, blunt, blunt-witted, dim, dopey, dull, dull of mind, dull-headed, dull-pated, dull-witted, fat-witted, gross-headed, heavy, hebetudinous, obtuse, slow, slow-witted, sluggish, thick-brained, thick-headed, thick-pated, thick-witted, thickskulled, wooden

dim

• dim, achromatic, achromatize, achromic, amorphous, anemic, ashen, ashy, banausic, bandage, barely audible, becloud, bedarken, bedazzle, bedim, befog, begloom, benight, black, black out, blacken, blah, blanch, bleach, blear, blear-eyed, bleared, bleary, bleary-eyed, bled white, blind, blind the eyes, blindfold, block the light, bloodless, blot out, blunt, blunt-witted, blur, blurred, blurry, brown, cadaverous, caliginous, cast a shadow, chloranemic, clear as mud, cloud, cloud over, cloudy, colorless, confused, dark, dark-colored, darken, darken over, darkish, darkle, darksome, daze, dazzle, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, decolor, decolorize, decrescendo, defocus, deprive of sight, dim out, dim-eyed, dim-sighted, dim-witted, dimmed, dimmish, dimpsy, dingy, discolor, discolored, distant, dopey, drain, drain of color, dreary, dull, dull of mind, dull-headed, dull-pated, dull-sighted, dull-witted, dusk, dusky, eclipse, encloud, encompass with shadow, etiolate, etiolated, excecate, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, fade, faded, faint, faint-voiced, fallow, fat-witted, feeble, feeble-eyed, film, filmy, filmy-eyed, flat, fog, foggy, fume, fuzzy, gentle, ghastly, glare, gloam, gloom, gloomy, gouge, gravel-blind, gray, gross-headed, grow dark, grow dim, haggard, half-blind, half-heard, half-seen, half-visible, haze, hazy, heavy, hebetudinous, hoodwink, hueless, humdrum, hypochromic, ill-defined, inconspicuous, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, lackluster, leaden, livid, lose resolution, low, low-profile, lower, lurid, lusterless, make blind, mat, mealy, merely glimpsed, mist, misty, mole-eyed, monotone, monotonous, muddy, murk, murksome, murky, murmured, muted, nebulous, neutral, obfuscate, obnubilate, obscure, obtuse, obumbrate, occult, occultate, opaque, out of focus, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pedestrian, peroxide, pianissimo, piano, poky, purblind, sallow, sand-blind, scarcely heard, semidark, semivisible, shade, shadow, shadowy, shapeless, sickly, slow, slow-witted, sluggish, snow-blind, soft, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, soften, somber, stodgy, strike blind, subaudible, subdued, subfusc, tallow-faced, tarnish, tenebrous, thick-brained, thick-headed, thick-pated, thick-witted, thickskulled, tone down, toneless, transcendent, uncertain, unclear, uncolored, undefined, undetermined, unilluminated, unplain, unrecognizable, vague, wan, wash out, washed-out, waxen, weak, weak-eyed, weak-voiced, whey-faced, whispered, white, whiten, wooden

dime store

• dime store, boutique, chain store, cheap as dirt, co-op, concession, cooperative, countinghouse, country store, department store, dirt cheap, discount house, discount store, dog-cheap, emporium, establishment, five-and-ten, general store, house, magasin, mail-order house, market, mart, post, retail store, salon, shop, sixpenny, store, supermarket, trading post, two-for-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny, variety shop, variety store, warehouse, wareroom, wholesale house

dime

• dime, C, C-note, G, G-note, buck, cartwheel, cent, century, copper, dollar, dollar bill, fifty cents, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, four bits, frogskin, grand, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand, hundred-dollar bill, iron man, mill, nickel, penny, quarter, red cent, sawbuck, silver dollar, skin, smacker, ten cents, ten-spot, tenner, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot, yard

dimension

• dimension, acreage, ambit, amplitude, area, bigness, body, breadth, bulk, caliber, circle, compass, confines, continuum, coverage, depth, diameter, dimensions, emptiness, empty space, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, field, galactic space, gauge, girth, greatness, height, infinite space, interstellar space, largeness, length, magnitude, mass, measure, measurement, nothingness, outer space, proportion, proportions, radius, range, reach, scale, scope, size, space, spatial extension, sphere, spread, superficial extension, surface, tract, void, volume, width

diminish

• diminish, abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, ablate, abrade, abridge, abstract, abuse, adjust to, allay, alleviate, allow for, alter, anesthetize, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, bank the fire, bate, be eaten away, belittle, benumb, blunt, boil down, box in, bring down, bring low, chasten, cheapen, circumscribe, clip, close, color, compress, condense, condition, confine, constrain, constrict, consume, consume away, contract, control, corrode, crop, crumble, crush, curtail, cushion, cut, cut back, cut down, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deaden the pain, debase, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deliquesce, demean, deprecate, depreciate, depress, derogate, desiccate, detract, detract from, devalue, die away, die out, discredit, dismiss, disparage, dispraise, dive, dock, downgrade, downplay, drain, draw in, drift away, droop, drop, drop off, dry up, dull, dump, dump on, dwindle, ease, ease matters, ease off, eat away, ebb, erode, extenuate, extract, fade, fade away, fall, fall away, fall off, file away, flag, foment, give relief, gloss over, go, go away, go in, hedge, hedge about, humiliate, ignore, impair, keep within bounds, languish, lay, leach, leaven, lenify, lessen, let up, lighten, limit, lop, lower, lull, make allowance for, melt away, mince, minify, minimize, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, mollify, move away, move off, narrow, numb, obtund, pad, palliate, pare, peter out, pine, play down, plummet, plunge, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, prune, pull away, purify, put down, qualify, recede, reduce, reduce the temperature, refine, regulate by, reject, relieve, remove, restrain, restrict, retire, retreat, retrench, retrocede, roll back, rub away, run low, sag, salve, scale down, sear, season, set conditions, set down, set limits, shorten, shrink, shrivel, simplify, sink, slacken, slake, slow down, slur over, smother, snape, sober, sober down, soft-pedal, soften, soothe, stand off, step down, stifle, straiten, stupe, subduct, subdue, subside, subtract, suppress, tail off, take away, take down, take from, tame, taper, taper off, temper, thin, thin out, tone down, trip up, truncate, tune down, underplay, varnish, vitiate, wane, waste, waste away, weaken, wear, wear away, weed, whitewash, widen the distance, wilt, wind down, withdraw, wither, wizen, write off

diminishing

• diminishing, abating, allaying, alleviating, assuaging, blunting, chastening, contractive, cushioning, dampening, damping, deadening, declining, decreasing, decrescendo, decrescent, deliquescent, diminuendo, dulling, dwindling, dying, easing, ebbing, fading, languishing, lessening, mitigating, on the wane, receding, reducing, reductive, relaxing, retiring, retreating, shrinking, sinking, softening, subduing, subsiding, tempering, waning

diminution

• diminution, abatement, abridgment, allayment, alleviation, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, appeasement, assuagement, attenuation, attrition, blunting, calming, concavity, contraction, curtailment, cut, cutting, dampening, damping, de-escalation, deadening, debasement, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, degradation, demotion, demulsion, depletion, depreciation, depression, derogation, descent, detraction, detrusion, diminishment, dip, disparagement, ducking, dulcification, dulling, dying, dying off, ease, easement, easing, extenuation, extraction, fade-out, falling-off, hauling down, hollowness, hushing, impairment, languishment, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lowering, lulling, miniaturization, mitigation, modulation, mollification, numbing, pacification, palliation, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, relief, remedy, remission, retraction, retrenchment, sagging, salving, scaling down, shortening, shrinkage, simplicity, sinking, slackening, softening, soothing, subduement, submergence, subtraction, tempering, thrusting under, tranquilization, truncation, weakening

diminutive

• diminutive, Lilliputian, affectionate name, baby, baby-sized, bantam, banty, button, byname, chit, cognomen, cognominal, compact, duodecimo, elfin, epithetic, featherweight, fingerling, formal, handy, honorific, hypocoristic, in name only, infinitesimal, lightweight, lilliputian, little, micro, microscopic, midget, mini, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minimal, minnow, minny, minuscule, minute, mouse, nickname, nominal, nominative, nubbin, peewee, pet name, petite, pocket, pocket-sized, pony, pygmy, quasi, runt, self-called, self-christened, self-styled, shrimp, slip, small, small fry, small-scale, snip, snippet, so-called, sobriquet, soi-disant, subminiature, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, tit, titular, toy, twelvemo, undersized, vest-pocket, wart, wee, weeny, wisp, would-be

dimness

• dimness, adiaphanousness, anemia, ashiness, asininity, bad light, bleariness, blockishness, bloodlessness, blur, blurriness, boobishness, boorishness, bovinity, cadaverousness, chloranemia, cloddishness, cloudiness, crassness, crudeness, darkishness, darkness, darksomeness, deadness, deathly hue, deathly pallor, decrescendo, defocus, denseness, density, dim, dim light, dim-wittedness, doltishness, drabness, dull-wittedness, dullardism, dullness, dumbness, duncery, dusk, duskiness, duskness, exsanguination, fadedness, faintness, fairness, feebleness, filminess, flatness, fogginess, fuzziness, gentleness, ghastliness, gloaming, grossness, haggardness, half-light, half-visibility, haziness, hebetude, hypochromia, hypochromic anemia, imperviousness to light, indefiniteness, indistinctness, indistinguishability, intransparency, lack of sparkle, lackluster, lethargy, lifelessness, lightness, lividness, loutishness, low profile, lowness, lumpishness, lusterlessness, mat, mat finish, mistiness, muddiness, murk, murkiness, ninnyism, oafdom, oafishness, obscurity, obtuseness, opacity, opaque, opaqueness, paleness, pallidity, pallidness, pallor, partial darkness, pastiness, prison pallor, roil, roiledness, sallowness, semidark, semivisibility, shadowiness, sickliness, sickly hue, simpletonianism, slowness, sluggishness, soft focus, softness, somberness, sottishness, stolidity, stupidity, subaudibility, subduedness, thick-headedness, thick-wittedness, turbidity, turbidness, twilight, uncertainty, unclearness, unplainness, unteachability, vague appearance, vagueness, wanness, weakness, wrongheadedness, yokelism

dimple

• dimple, alveolation, alveolus, cockle, dent, depress, dint, engrave, fret, furrow, gouge, honeycomb, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, notch, pit, pock, pockmark, press in, print, punch, punch in, recess, riffle, set back, set in, stamp, sunken part, tamp

dimwit

• dimwit, Boeotian, block, clod, cluck, dolt, donkey, dope, dullard, dumb, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, gowk, jobbernowl, lackwit, lamebrain, lightweight, looby, loon, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, put, stupid, thickwit, witling

din

• din, Bedlam let loose, awake the dead, babel, beat, bedlam, blast, blast the ear, blatancy, bobbery, boisterousness, boom, brawl, brouhaha, charivari, chirm, clamor, clamorousness, clangor, clap, clash, clatter, commotion, crash, crescendo, deafen, ding, discord, donnybrook, drum, drunken brawl, dustup, fill the air, flap, fracas, free-for-all, hammer, hell broke loose, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, jangle, loud noise, music, noise, noise and shouting, outcry, pandemonium, peal, percussion, pound, racket, rattle, rattle the windows, rend the air, rend the ears, resound, rhubarb, ring, rise, roar, rock the sky, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, shindy, shivaree, sound, split the eardrums, split the ears, startle the echoes, stridency, stun, surge, swell, thunder, thunderclap, tintamarre, tumult, uproar

dine

• dine, banquet, board, bread, break bread, break bread with, breakfast, cook out, dine out, dinner, eat, eat out, feast, feed, fodder, forage, grass, gratify, graze, lunch, meat, mess, mess with, nibble, nosh, pasture, picnic, provision, regale, satisfy, sup, sustain, wine and dine

diner

• diner, Brillat-Savarin, Lucullus, Pullman, Pullman car, TV dinner, alfresco meal, automat, baggage car, barbecue, beanery, bistro, board-and-roomer, boarder, bon vivant, boxcar, breakfast, brunch, buffet, buffet supper, buvette, caboose, cafe, cafeteria, cannibal, canteen, cantina, car, carnivore, carriage, chair car, chophouse, chuck wagon, clambake, coach, coal car, coffee break, coffee shop, coffeehouse, coffeeroom, connoisseur of food, consumer, cookhouse, cookout, cookshack, cookshop, covered waggon, day coach, diner-out, dinghy, dining car, dining hall, dining room, dinner, dog wagon, drawing room, drive-in, drive-in restaurant, eater, eater-out, eatery, eating house, elevenses, epicure, fast-food chain, feeder, fish fry, flat, flatcar, flesh-eater, fruitarian, gastronome, glutton, gondola, gourmand, gourmet, grain-eater, graminivore, granivore, greasy, grill, grillroom, hamburger stand, hash house, hashery, herbivore, high liver, high tea, hot luncheon, hot-dog stand, hungry mouth, kitchen, lactovegetarian, local, luggage van, lunch, lunch counter, lunch wagon, luncheon, luncheonette, luncher, lunchroom, mail car, mail van, man-eater, mash, meat breakfast, meat-eater, mess hall, mouth, omnivore, omophagist, palace car, pantophagist, parlor car, passenger car, petit dejeuner, phytophage, picnic, picnicker, pizzeria, plant-eater, predacean, quick-lunch counter, railway car, reefer, refrigerator car, restaurant, roomette, sleeper, smoker, smoking car, smorgasbord, snack bar, stockcar, supper, tank, tavern, tea, tea break, tearoom, teatime, tender, tiffin, trattoria, trencherman, truck, van, vegetarian, waggon, wiener roast, wienie roast

ding

• ding, bang, bash, beat, belt, best, better, biff, catch, change ringing, chime, chiming, chink, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, clink, clout, crack, din, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, dong, donging, douse, drum, exceed, gong, hammer, hit, jangle, jingle, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, jingling, knell, knelling, nail, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outshine, peal, peal ringing, pealing, pound, ring, ring changes, ringing, slam, slosh, smack, sock, sound, sound a knell, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabulate, toll, tolling, whack, whop

dingdong

• dingdong, alliterating, alliteration, alliterative, asshole, assiduously, assonance, assonant, belabored, boob, booby, change ringing, chanting, chime, chiming, chink, chump, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, cliche-ridden, clink, clockwork regularity, constancy, daily round, ding, ding-a-ling, dingbat, dinging, dingle, dong, donging, drone, earnestly, even pace, even tenor, exhaustively, galoot, gong, goof, harping, humdrum, intensely, invariability, jangle, jerk, jerk-off, jingle, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, jingling, jog-trot, klutz, knell, knelling, labored, monologue, monotone, monotonous, monotonousness, monotony, mutt, near rhyme, orderliness, painstakingly, peal, peal ringing, pealing, pitter-patter, prize sap, regularity, repeated sounds, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, rhyme, rhymed, rhyming, ring, ring changes, ringing, sameliness, sameness, sap, saphead, sawney, schlemiel, singsong, slant rhyme, smoothness, sound, sound a knell, stale repetition, tedious, tedium, thoroughly, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabulate, toll, tolling, treadmill, trot, undeviation, undifferentiation, unnecessary repetition, unremittingly, unvariation

dingy

• dingy, Quaker-colored, achromatic, achromic, acier, anemic, ashen, ashy, besmirched, bled white, bloodless, blotchy, broken-down, cadaverous, canescent, cheerless, chloranemic, cinereous, cinerous, colorless, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, depressing, dilapidated, dim, dimmed, dirty, discolored, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, down-at-heel, drab, dreary, dull, dusky, dusty, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flat, fuliginous, ghastly, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grimy, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, grubby, grungy, haggard, hueless, hypochromic, iron-gray, lackluster, lead-gray, leaden, livid, lurid, lusterless, mat, mealy, messy, miry, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, muddy, murky, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, run-down, sad, sallow, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shadowy, sickly, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, slate-colored, slaty, slovenly, smirched, smirchy, smoke-gray, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, sober, soiled, somber, sooty, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, sullied, tacky, tallow-faced, tarnished, taupe, tenebrous, threadbare, tired, toneless, uncolored, untidy, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white

dining room

• dining room, automat, beanery, bistro, buffet, buvette, cafe, cafeteria, canteen, cantina, chophouse, chuck wagon, coffee shop, coffeehouse, coffeeroom, commons, cookhouse, cookshack, cookshop, diner, dinette, dining car, dining hall, dining saloon, dog wagon, drive-in, drive-in restaurant, eatery, eating house, fast-food chain, grill, grillroom, hamburger stand, hash house, hashery, hot-dog stand, kitchen, lunch counter, lunch wagon, luncheonette, lunchroom, mess, mess hall, messroom, pizzeria, quick-lunch counter, refectory, restaurant, salle a manger, smorgasbord, snack bar, tavern, tearoom, trattoria

dining

• dining, appetite, cannibal, cannibalism, cannibalistic, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorous, carnivorousness, chewing, commensal, consumption, cropping, deglutition, devouring, devourment, dietetic, dieting, eating, epulation, feasting, feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, gluttonous, gluttony, gobbling, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grass-eating, grazing, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorous, herbivorousness, hunger, ingestion, insect-eating, insectivorous, lactovegetarian, licking, man-eating, manducation, mastication, meat-eating, mensal, messing, munching, nibbling, nourishing, nutrition, nutritious, omnivorism, omnivorous, omnivorousness, omophagous, omophagy, pantophagous, pantophagy, pasture, pasturing, pecking, phytivorous, phytophagous, plant-eating, postprandial, prandial, predacious, preprandial, regalement, relishing, rumination, savoring, tasting, vegetable-eating, vegetarian, vegetarianism, wolfing

dinky

• dinky, anal, back-burner, cramped, dispensable, exiguous, half-pint, immaterial, inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inessential, inferior, insignificant, irrelevant, knee-high, lesser, limited, little, minor, minute, neat, negligible, nonessential, not vital, one-horse, petit, petite, piddling, pindling, pint-sized, poky, puny, secondary, shipshape, short, sleek, slick, slight, small, small-fry, small-time, smallish, smart, snug, spruce, technical, tidy, tight, trig, trim, two-by-four, unessential, unimpressive, unnoteworthy, well-cared-for, well-groomed

dinner

• dinner, Kaffeeklatsch, TV dinner, alfresco meal, ball, banquet, barbecue, blowout, breakfast, brunch, buffet supper, clambake, cocktail party, coffee break, coffee klatch, collation, cookout, costume party, diner, dinner party, donation party, elevenses, entertainment, feast, festival, festivity, fete, fish fry, garden party, hen party, high tea, hot luncheon, house party, house-raising, housewarming, junket, lawn party, lunch, luncheon, mash, mask, masque, masquerade, masquerade party, meat breakfast, party, petit dejeuner, picnic, regale, shindig, shindy, shower, smoker, spread, stag, stag party, supper, surprise party, tea, tea break, teatime, tiffin, wiener roast, wienie roast

dinnerware

• dinnerware, appliances, brassware, chinaware, clayware, copperware, durable goods, durables, earthenware, enamelware, fixtures, flatware, glassware, graniteware, hard goods, hardware, hollow ware, housefurnishings, housewares, ironmongery, ironware, kitchenware, metalware, ovenware, silverware, sporting goods, stoneware, tableware, tinware, tools and machinery, white goods, woodenware

dinosaur

• dinosaur, alligator, ammonite, ankylosaur, archaeohippus, archaeotherium, archelon, arthrodiran, aurochs, bothriolepis, brachiosaur, brontops, brontothere, coccostean, coelodont, compsognathus, coryphodon, cotylosaur, creodont, crocodile, crocodilian, crossopterygian, cynodictis, diatryma, dimetrodon, dinichthyid, dinothere, diplodocus, duck-billed dinosaur, edaphosaurid, elasmosaur, elephant, eryopsid, eurypterid, gator, giant sloth, glyptodont, hadrosaur, hippo, hippopotamus, jumbo, leviathan, lizard, mammoth, mastodon, monster, palaeodictyopteron, palaeoniscid, palaeophis, palaeosaur, palaeospondylus, pelycosaur, phytosaur, plesiosaur, protoceratops, protylopus, pteranodon, pteraspid, pterichthys, pterodactyl, pterosaur, reptile, reptilian, saurian, sauropod, scelidosaur, smilodon, terrapin, titanosaur, tortoise, trachodon, triceratops, trilobite, turtle, tyrannosaur, uintathere, urus, whale, woolly mammoth

dint

• dint, alveolation, alveolus, amperage, armipotence, authority, bang, bash, bat, beating, beef, belt, biff, black power, blow, bonk, boss, brute force, bump, charge, charisma, chop, clip, clout, clump, cogence, cogency, colophon, compulsion, concavity, convexity, crack, cut, dactylogram, dactylograph, dash, dent, depress, dig, dimple, drive, drub, drubbing, drumming, duress, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, embossment, energy, engrave, excrescence, fingerprint, flower power, footmark, footprint, footstep, force, force majeure, forcefulness, fossil footprint, full blast, full force, furrow, fusillade, gouge, hit, honeycomb, ichnite, ichnolite, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, influence, jab, knock, lick, lump, main force, main strength, mana, might, might and main, mightiness, moxie, muscle power, notch, pad, paw print, pawmark, pelt, pimple, pit, pizzazz, plunk, pock, pockmark, poke, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, pound, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, press in, print, productiveness, productivity, pug, pugmark, puissance, pull, punch, punch in, push, rap, recess, seal, set back, set in, sigil, signet, sinew, slam, slog, slug, smack, smash, sock, stamp, steam, step, strength, stroke, strong arm, stud, sunken part, superiority, superpower, swat, swing, swipe, tamp, tattoo, thumbmark, thumbprint, thump, thwack, validity, vehemence, vestige, vigor, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, wattage, weight, whack, whop, yerk

diocese

• diocese, Kreis, archbishopric, archdiocese, arrondissement, bailiwick, bishopric, borough, canton, city, commune, conference, congressional district, constablewick, county, departement, district, duchy, electoral district, electorate, government, hamlet, hundred, magistracy, metropolis, metropolitan area, oblast, okrug, parish, precinct, principality, province, region, riding, see, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, soke, stake, state, synod, territory, town, township, village, wapentake, ward

Dionysus

• Dionysus, Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ashtoreth, Astarte, Ate, Athena, Baal, Bacchus, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysos, Dis, Eros, Flora, Frey, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Isis, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Pan, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Pomona, Poseidon, Priapus, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Tellus, Triptolemos, Triptolemus, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, angel, bacchanalianism, backer, bibaciousness, bibacity, bibulosity, bibulousness, corn god, crapulence, crapulousness, fertility god, forest god, intemperance, patron, patroness, serious drinking, sottishness, vegetation spirit

diorama

• diorama, airscape, cityscape, cloudscape, cosmorama, cyclorama, display, exhibit, exhibition, exposition, exterior, farmscape, georama, interior, landscape, light show, myriorama, pageant, pageantry, panorama, parade, pastoral, phantasmagoria, pomp, presentation, psychedelic show, representation, riverscape, scape, scene, seapiece, seascape, shifting scene, show, sight, skyscape, snowscape, spectacle, stage show, tableau, tableau vivant, townscape, view, waterscape

dip into

• dip into, browse, examine cursorily, flip, give the once-over, glance at, glance over, glance through, page through, pass over lightly, run over, run through, scan, skim, skim over, skip over, slip through, slur, slur over, thumb over, thumb through, touch upon, touch upon lightly, zip through

dip

• dip, acid bath, alveolation, alveolus, antrum, apply paint, armpit, ascend, asperge, attrition, bail, bank, baptism, baptize, basin, bath, bayberry candle, beat the drum, bedaub, bedizen, begild, besmear, bougie, bowl, brush on paint, bucket, burial, bury, calcimine, candle, cannon, cant, careen, cavity, christen, climb, coat, color, complexion, concave, concavity, corpse candle, cover, crab, crater, crypt, cup, curtailment, cut, cutpurse, cutting, dab, daub, decant, decline, declivity, decrease, decrement, deep-dye, deluge, depletion, depreciation, depression, derogation, descend, descent, detraction, diminution, dipping, dish, dish out, dish up, disparagement, distemper, diver, double-dye, douse, dousing, downgate, downgrade, downhill, downslide, downswing, downtrend, downturn, draw, drop, drown, duck, ducking, dunk, dunking, dye, emblazon, enamel, engild, engulf, engulfment, exchange colors, extraction, face, fall, fall away, fall off, falling-off, falloff, farthing dip, fast-dye, feather, fingersmith, fishtail, fixing bath, flag, flag down, flash, float, flood, flow on, fold, follicle, fork, fresco, funnel chest, gild, give a signal, give the nod, glance, glaze, gloss, go down, go downhill, go uphill, grade, grain, hail, hail and speak, half-mast, hang, hanging, hock, hoist a banner, hole, hollow, hollow shell, hue, illuminate, imbue, immerge, immergence, immerse, immersion, impairment, impignorate, incline, ingrain, inundate, inundation, japan, keel, kick, lacquer, lacuna, lade, ladle, lay on color, lean, leer, lessening, light-fingered gentry, list, loop, make a sign, mercury bath, merge, mobsman, mortgage, nod, nose-dive, nudge, overwhelm, paint, parget, pickpocket, pigment, pit, pitch, pledge, plow, plunge, plunge in water, pocket, poke, pop, porpoise, pour, pour on, prime, pull out, pull up, punch bowl, push down, rain, raise a cry, rake, reduction, remission, retraction, retreat, retrenchment, rise, roll, rush candle, rushlight, sag, salute, scoop, set, shade, shadow, sheep dip, sheer, shell, shellac, shelve, shortening, shovel, shrinkage, sideslip, sidle, sign, signal, signalize, sink, sinkage, sinkhole, sinking, sinus, skew, skid, slant, slip, slop on paint, slope, slue, sluice, slump, smear, socket, sound an alarm, sound the trumpet, souse, sousing, spade, speak, spin, spiral, spoon, spout, sprinkle, stain, stipple, stoop, stunt, submerge, submergence, submerse, submersion, swag, swamp, sway, swell-mobsman, tallow candle, tallow dip, taper, tilt, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tip, tone, touch, trough, truncation, tumble, undercoat, undulate, unfurl a flag, uprise, varnish, veer, votary candle, vug, wash, wave, wave a flag, wave the hand, wax candle, whelm, whitewash, wink, wire, yaw

diphtheria

• diphtheria, African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever, cerebral rheumatism, chicken pox, cholera, cowpox, dandy fever, deer fly fever, dengue, dengue fever, dumdum fever, dysentery, elephantiasis, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, erysipelas, famine fever, five-day fever, flu, frambesia, glandular fever, grippe, hansenosis, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hookworm, hydrophobia, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, jail fever, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, loa loa, loaiasis, lockjaw, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marsh fever, measles, meningitis, milzbrand, mumps, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, paratyphoid fever, parotitis, parrot fever, pertussis, pneumonia, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, psittacosis, rabbit fever, rabies, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, septic sore throat, shingles, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, splenic fever, spotted fever, strep throat, swamp fever, tetanus, thrush, tinea, trench fever, trench mouth, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, undulant fever, vaccinia, varicella, variola, venereal disease, viral dysentery, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster

diphthong

• diphthong, allophone, alveolar, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, bilabial, cacuminal, cerebral, check, consonant, continuant, dental, dissimilation, epenthetic vowel, explosive, glide, glottal, glottalization, guttural, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lingual, liquid, manner of articulation, modification, monophthong, morphophoneme, mute, nasal, occlusive, palatal, parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, phone, phoneme, plosive, prothetic vowel, retroflex, segmental phoneme, semivowel, sonant, sonority, speech sound, stop, surd, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, transition sound, triphthong, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel

diploma

• diploma, affidavit, attestation, authority, authorization, bill of health, brevet, certificate, certificate of proficiency, certification, charter, concession, credential, deposition, franchise, grant, letters patent, liberty, navicert, notarized statement, note, patent, royal grant, sheepskin, sworn statement, testamur, testimonial, ticket, visa, vise, voucher, warrant, warranty, witness

diplomacy

• diplomacy, Eisenhower Doctrine, Machiavellianism, Machiavellism, Monroe Doctrine, Nixon Doctrine, Truman Doctrine, ability, address, adeptness, adroitness, airmanship, appeasement, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, balance of power, bravura, brilliance, brinkmanship, capability, capacity, cleverness, coexistence, colonialism, command, competence, compromise, containment, control, coordination, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, deftness, detente, deterrence, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomatic, diplomatics, discretion, dollar diplomacy, dollar imperialism, efficiency, expansionism, expertise, facility, finesse, foreign affairs, foreign policy, good-neighbor policy, grace, grip, handiness, horsemanship, imperialism, ingeniousness, ingenuity, internationalism, intrigue, isolationism, jobbery, jobbing, know-how, machination, maneuvering, manifest destiny, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, militarism, nationalism, negotiation, neocolonialism, neutralism, nonresistance, open door, open-door policy, peace offensive, peaceful coexistence, poise, politics, practical ability, preparedness, proficiency, prowess, quickness, readiness, resource, resourcefulness, savoir faire, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, shirt-sleeve diplomacy, shuttle diplomacy, skill, skillfulness, spheres of influence, statecraft, statesmanship, style, tact, tactfulness, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, the big stick, timing, tough policy, virtuosity, wit, wizardry, workmanship, world politics

diplomat

• diplomat, Admirable Crichton, Machiavel, Machiavellian, Machiavellianist, adept, ambassador, ambassadress, apostolic delegate, artisan, artist, attache, authority, career diplomat, chancellor, charge, commercial attache, connaisseur, connoisseur, consul, consul general, consular agent, consultant, cordon bleu, crack shot, craftsman, dead shot, diplomatic, diplomatic agent, diplomatist, elder statesman, emissary, envoy, envoy extraordinary, experienced hand, expert, expert consultant, foreign service officer, graduate, handy man, influence peddler, internuncio, journeyman, legate, marksman, military attache, minister, minister plenipotentiary, minister resident, no slouch, nuncio, plenipotentiary, political realist, politician, power broker, pro, professional, professor, proficient, resident, savant, secretary of legation, shark, sharp, statesman, technical adviser, technician, vice-consul, vice-legate

diplomatic

• diplomatic, Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adept, adroit, ambassadorial, apt, arch, artful, artistic, astute, authoritative, bland, bravura, brilliant, cagey, canny, civic, clean, clever, consular, coordinated, courteous, crack, crackerjack, crafty, cunning, cute, daedal, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, deft, delicate, designing, dexterous, dextrous, discerning, discreet, excellent, expert, fancy, feline, foxy, geopolitical, good, goodish, governmental, graceful, guileful, handy, ingenious, insidious, inventive, knowing, magisterial, masterful, masterly, ministerial, neat, no mean, pawky, perceptive, perspicacious, plenipotentiary, polite, politic, political, politico-commercial, politico-diplomatic, politico-economic, politico-geographical, politico-judicial, politico-military, politico-moral, politico-religious, politico-scientific, politico-social, politico-theological, professional, proficient, prudent, quick, quite some, ready, resourceful, scheming, sensitive, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, skillful, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, some, sophistical, statesmanlike, stealthy, strategic, stylish, subtile, subtle, suffragist, supple, tactful, tactical, the compleat, the complete, thoughtful, trickish, tricksy, tricky, virtuoso, vulpine, wary, well-done, wily, wise, workmanlike

dipping

• dipping, baptism, burial, declined, declining, declivate, declivitous, declivous, descending, dip, dousing, downgrade, downhill, dropping, duck, ducking, dunking, engulfment, falling, immergence, immersion, inundation, sinking, souse, sousing, submergence, submersion

dipsomania

• dipsomania, a habit, abulia, acquired tolerance, acute alcoholism, addictedness, addiction, alcoholic addiction, alcoholic psychosis, alcoholism, amphetamine withdrawal symptoms, arteriosclerotic psychosis, barbiturate addiction, barbiturism, bottle nose, certifiability, chain smoking, chronic alcoholism, cocainism, crash, craving, delirium tremens, dementia paralytica, dependence, drug addiction, drug culture, drug dependence, ebriosity, folie du doute, functional psychosis, general paralysis, general paresis, grog blossom, habitual drunkenness, habituation, heavy drinking, metabolic psychosis, moral insanity, neurosis, nicotine addiction, oenomania, oinomania, organic psychosis, paralytic dementia, pathological drunkenness, physical dependence, presenile dementia, prison psychosis, problem drinking, psychological dependence, psychopathia, psychopathia sexualis, psychopathic condition, psychopathic personality, psychopathy, psychosis, senile dementia, senile psychosis, senility, sexual pathology, situational psychosis, syphilitic paresis, tolerance, toxic psychosis, withdrawal sickness, withdrawal symptoms

dipsomaniac

• dipsomaniac, LSD user, acidhead, addict, alcoholic, alcoholic addict, bacchanal, bacchanalian, bibber, big drunk, boozer, carouser, chain smoker, chronic alcoholic, chronic drunk, cocaine sniffer, cokie, cubehead, devotee of Bacchus, dope fiend, doper, drinker, drug abuser, drug addict, drug user, drunk, drunkard, fiend, freak, glue sniffer, guzzler, habitual, hard drinker, head, heavy drinker, heavy smoker, hophead, hype, imbiber, inebriate, junkie, lovepot, marijuana smoker, methhead, narcotics addict, oenophilist, pathological drinker, pillhead, pot companion, pothead, problem drinker, reveler, serious drinker, shikker, snowbird, soaker, social drinker, sot, speed freak, swigger, swiller, thirsty soul, tippler, toper, tosspot, tripper, user, wassailer, winebibber

diptych

• diptych, Domesday Book, abstract, abstraction, account book, address book, adversaria, album, altarpiece, annual, appointment calendar, appointment schedule, blankbook, block print, blotter, calendar, cashbook, catalog, classified catalog, collage, color print, commonplace book, copy, court calendar, cyclorama, daub, daybook, desk calendar, diary, docket, engagement book, engraving, fresco, icon, illumination, illustration, image, journal, ledger, likeness, log, logbook, loose-leaf notebook, memo book, memorandum book, memory book, miniature, montage, mosaic, mural, notebook, pad, panorama, petty cashbook, photograph, picture, pocket notebook, pocketbook, police blotter, print, representation, reproduction, scrapbook, scratch pad, spiral notebook, stained glass window, stencil, still life, table, tableau, tablet, tapestry, triptych, wall painting, workbook, writing tablet, yearbook

dire

• dire, abominable, apocalyptic, appalling, arrant, astounding, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, bad, badly off, baleful, baneful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, black, blameworthy, bodeful, boding, brutal, burning, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, clamant, clamorous, climacteric, contemptible, critical, crucial, crying, dark, deplorable, depressed, depressing, desperate, despicable, destructive, detestable, direful, disastrous, disgusting, distressing, donsie, doomful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, dreary, egregious, enormous, evil, evil-starred, exigent, fatal, fateful, fell, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foreboding, formidable, fortuneless, foul, frightful, fulsome, funest, ghastly, ghoulish, gloomy, grievous, grim, grisly, gross, gruesome, hapless, hateful, heartbreaking, heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, ill, ill off, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, imperative, importunate, in adverse circumstances, inauspicious, infamous, instant, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, lowering, luckless, macabre, menacing, monstrous, morbid, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, of evil portent, offensive, ominous, out of luck, outrageous, pitiable, pitiful, planet-struck, portending, portentous, rank, redoubtable, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, ruinous, sad, scandalous, schlock, schrecklich, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, short of luck, sinister, somber, sordid, squalid, star-crossed, terrible, terrific, threatening, too bad, tragic, tremendous, unblessed, unclean, underprivileged, unfavorable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, unprosperous, unprovidential, unspeakable, untoward, urgent, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wreckful, wretched

direct current

• direct current, AC, DC, absorption current, active current, alternating current, conduction current, convection current, cycle, delta current, dielectric displacement current, displacement current, eddy current, electric current, electric stream, emission current, exciting current, free alternating current, galvanic current, high-frequency current, idle current, induced current, induction current, ionization current, juice, low-frequency current, magnetizing current, multiphase current, pulsating direct current, reactive current, rotary current, single-phase alternating current, stray current, thermionic current, thermoelectric current, three-phase alternating current, voltaic current, watt current

direct line

• direct line, affiliation, air line, apparentation, axis, beeline, birth, blood, bloodline, branch, breed, chord, common ancestry, consanguinity, derivation, descent, diagonal, diameter, directrix, distaff side, edge, extraction, family, female line, filiation, great-circle course, house, line, line of descent, lineage, male line, normal, perpendicular, phylum, race, radius, radius vector, right line, secant, seed, segment, sept, shortcut, side, spear side, spindle side, stem, stirps, stock, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, strain, streamline, succession, sword side, tangent, transversal, vector

direct

• direct, Attic, Ciceronian, Spartan, address, address to, administer, administrate, advise, advocate, aim, aim at, allude to, apply, appoint, arrowlike, articulated, artless, ascetic, assign, austere, bald, bare, be master, be responsible for, beam, bend, bid, bluff, blunt, born yesterday, brief, bring to attention, bring to notice, broad, broaden the mind, brusque, buckle down, call attention to, call on, call the shots, call the signals, call upon, candid, captain, carry on, carry out, carry through, cast, catechize, categorical, catenated, ceaseless, chair, charge, chart a course, chaste, childlike, cite, civilize, classic, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, close, coach, coherent, command, commission, common, commonplace, concatenated, cond, conduct, conduct to, confer, confiding, conn, connected, consistent, constant, consult with, contiguous, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, control, counsel, coxswain, crisp, crystal-clear, crystalline, cyclical, dead, dead ahead, dead straight, deal with, decide, declare, decree, define, defined, definite, delicate, demonstrate, determine, devote, dictate, diphyletic, direct attention to, direct to, directionize, directly, discipline, dispose, distinct, divert, dominate, downright, drive, dry, due, due north, dull, easy, edify, educate, elegant, endless, engineer, enjoin, enlighten, escort, even, exact, explicit, express, faithful, family, fasten, featureless, fine, finished, firsthand, fix, fix on, flat, focus, focus on, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, gapless, genealogical, genuine, give, give an order, give instruction, give lessons in, give the word, govern, graceful, gracile, ground, guide, guileless, handle, have the conn, head, head up, heart-to-heart, helm, hold on, homely, homespun, honest, horizontal, illumine, immediate, in a beeline, in a line, in line with, inartificial, incessant, incline, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, inform, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, instruct, interminable, irreversible, issue a command, issue a writ, joined, jointless, keep, kibitz, lay, lead, lead on, lead to, lean, level, level at, limpid, lineal, linear, linked, literally, literatim, loud and clear, lucid, luminous, mail, make go, make the rules, manage, mandate, maneuver, manipulate, mastermind, mathematical, matter-of-fact, meddle, mention, microscopic, monotonous, naive, native, natural, navigate, neat, never-ending, next, nice, nonstop, officer, one-way, open, open the eyes, openhearted, operate, ordain, order, order about, outright, outspoken, pellucid, perennial, perform on, periodic, perspicuous, phyletic, phylogenetic, pick out, pilot, pinpoint, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, play, point, point at, point out, point out to, point the way, point to, point-blank, polished, post, practice, precise, prescribe, present, preside over, primary, proclaim, promulgate, pronounce, propose, prosaic, prosing, prosy, proximate, pull the strings, pure, put right, quarterback, recommend, rectilineal, rectilinear, recurrent, reeducate, refer to, refined, regulate, religious, religiously exact, repetitive, require, restrained, right, rigid, rigorous, round, round-the-clock, route, rule, ruler-straight, run, running, rustic, say the word, school, scientific, scientifically exact, seamless, see, see to, send, serried, set, set right, set straight, settle, severe, shape a course, sharpen the wits, shepherd, shortest, show, show how, show the way, sight on, simple, simple-speaking, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, skipper, smooth, sober, spare, specify, square, stable, stand over, stark, steady, steer, straight, straight across, straight ahead, straight-cut, straight-front, straight-out, straight-side, straightaway, straightforward, straightforwards, straightly, straightway, streamlined, strict, submit, subtle, suggest, superintend, superscribe, supervise, tactless, take care of, take command, take the lead, tasteful, teach, teach a lesson, teach the rudiments, tell, terse, through, throw, to the point, touch on, train, train upon, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, trim, true, trustful, trusting, turn, turn upon, twenty-four-hour, unadorned, unaffected, unambiguous, unartificial, unassuming, unbending, unbent, unbowed, unbroken, unceasing, unchecked, unconcealed, unconfused, unconstrained, uncurved, undeflected, undeviating, undeviatingly, undifferentiated, undiplomatic, undisguised, undissembled, undistorted, unending, unequivocal, unerring, unfeigning, unguarded, unidirectional, uniform, unimaginative, uninhibited, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, univocal, unlabored, unmistakable, unmitigated, unobstructed, unpoetical, unpretending, unpretentious, unqualified, unrelieved, unremitting, unreserved, unrestrained, unsophisticated, unstopped, unsuspicious, unswerving, unswervingly, unturned, unvarnished, unveeringly, unwary, upright, usher, vertical, warn, wear the pants, well-defined, wield authority, wield the baton, word for word, work

directing

• directing, administrative, bureaucratic, chief, commanding, controlling, directive, directorial, directory, executive, governing, guiding, head, leading, managerial, managing, ministerial, official, regulating, regulative, regulatory, supervisory

direction finder

• direction finder, Bourdon tube, Gyropilot, Gyrosin compass, HFDF, Mach meter, RDF, absolute altimeter, accelerometer, aerial reconnaissance camera, aerometer, aeroscope, air log, altigraph, altimeter, ammeter, anemograph, anemometer, anemoscope, aneroid, automatic pilot, autosyn, barometer, bombing locator, bombsight, calorimeter, card compass, chronometer, compass, control rod, evaporimeter, flight recorder, galvanometer, gosport, gosport tube, gyrocompass, gyroscopic compass, gyrostatic compass, horn, hub dynamometer, hygrograph, hygrometer, hypsometer, inclinometer, induction compass, inertial navigation system, joy stick, loran, magnetic compass, magnetic needle, meteorograph, micrometer, needle, octant, optical altimeter, ozonometer, photometer, pitot-static tube, pluviometer, potentiometer, pyrometer, quadrant, radar, radio, radio compass, radio direction finder, radiogoniometer, rate-of-climb indicator, recording hygrometer, robot pilot, sextant, shoran, spirit level, static tube, sting, strike radar scanner, sun compass, tachometer, thermograph, thermometer, thermostat, throttle, transit instrument, variometer, venturi tube, viscosimeter, wireless compass, yoke

direction

• direction, Zeitgeist, action, actuation, address, administering, administration, admonition, advice, advising, advocacy, agency, angle, animation, arrow, avenue, bearing, billhead, blaze, briefing, catechization, caution, caveat, charge, civil government, coaching, command, commission, compass needle, conduct, conducting, consultation, control, council, counsel, course, current, destination, dictate, didactics, directing, direction post, directions, directive, directorate, directorship, discipline, dispensation, disposition, dress rehearsal, drift, driving, edification, education, empery, empire, enlightenment, execution, exercise, exhortation, expostulation, final instructions, finger post, fist, form of government, functioning, general orders, glacial movement, governance, governing, government, guidance, guide, guideboard, guidepost, guiding, hand, handling, hortation, hour hand, idea, illumination, index, index finger, influence, information, injunction, inner-direction, instruction, instructions, lead, leadership, letterhead, line, lubber line, main current, mainstream, management, managing, manipulation, milepost, minute hand, mise-en-scene, monition, motion, motivation, mounting, movement, moving, name and address, needle, occupation, operancy, operating, operation, opinion, order, orders, other-direction, outlook, oversight, parley, pedagogics, pedagogy, performance, performing, pointer, pointing, political organization, polity, postal zone, practice, precept, prescript, prescription, private teaching, production, programmed instruction, prompting, proposal, recommendation, reeducation, regime, regimen, regnancy, regulation, rehearsal, reign, remonstrance, responsibility, road, route, rule, run, run-through, running, schooling, self-instruction, self-teaching, set, side, signboard, signpost, slant, sovereignty, spoon-feeding, stage management, staging, standpoint, steering, stimulation, stream, suggestion, superscription, supervising, supervision, sway, swing, system of government, teaching, tenor, the general tendency, the main course, thought, time spirit, tone, trend, tuition, tutelage, tutorage, tutoring, tutorship, walk-through, warning, way, work, working, workings, zip code, zone

directive

• directive, actuating, admonitory, advisory, aimable, aimed, animating, causal, causative, cautionary, chief, commanding, communication, compelling, consultative, consultatory, controlling, decree, decretal, decretive, decretory, dictating, didactic, directed, directing, direction, directional, directorial, directory, dirigible, driving, edict, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory, general orders, governing, guidable, guiding, head, hortative, hortatory, impelling, imperative, impulsive, inducive, instruction, instructive, jussive, leadable, leading, managerial, managing, mandating, memo, monitorial, monitory, moralistic, motivating, motivational, motive, moving, notice, obligating, on the mark, on the nose, peremptory, pointable, preachy, precept, preceptive, prescript, prescription, prescriptive, pressing, recommendatory, regulating, regulation, regulative, regulatory, remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory, rule, ruling, sententious, steerable, trainable, ukase, urgent, warning, well-aimed, well-directed, word

directly

• directly, PDQ, absolutely, after a while, all joking aside, anon, apace, at once, before long, betimes, bluffly, bluntly, broadly, brusquely, by and by, candidly, completely, dead, dead ahead, decisively, definitely, direct, down the alley, due, due north, entirely, ere long, even, exactly, expeditiously, expressly, faithfully, forthright, forthwith, frankly, genuinely, immediately, in a beeline, in a moment, in a while, in all conscience, in all respects, in all seriousness, in due course, in due time, in every respect, in line with, in no time, in plain English, in plain words, instanter, instantly, ipsissimis verbis, just, literally, literatim, momentarily, naturally, on the beam, on the instant, on the spot, on the straight, openheartedly, openly, outspokenly, plain-spokenly, plainly, plumb, point-blank, positively, precisely, presently, pretty damned quick, promptly, pronto, quickly, right, right away, right off, rigidly, rigorously, roundly, shortly, sincerely, smartly, soon, speedily, square, squarely, straight, straight across, straight ahead, straightaway, straightforward, straightforwardly, straightforwards, straightly, straightway, strictly, subito, summarily, swiftly, to the letter, unaffectedly, unassumingly, unconstrainedly, undeviatingly, unerringly, unpretentiously, unreservedly, unrestrainedly, unswervingly, unveeringly, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, when, with all speed, with no nonsense, without delay, without further delay, word by word, word for word

directness

• directness, Atticism, appropriateness, artlessness, austerity, baldness, bareness, bluffness, bluntness, broadness, brusqueness, candidness, candor, chasteness, chastity, childlikeness, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clear-cutness, clearness, coherence, comeliness, common speech, connectedness, consistency, correctness, crystallinity, definition, dignity, discrimination, distinction, distinctness, ease, elegance, elegancy, explicitness, felicitousness, felicity, finish, fittingness, flatness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, forthrightness, frankness, freedom, freeness, genuineness, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, guilelessness, homespun, horizontalness, household words, inartificiality, ingenuousness, innocence, leanness, limpidity, lineality, linearity, lucidity, matter-of-factness, naiveness, naivete, naivety, naturalness, neatness, openheartedness, openness, outspokenness, pellucidity, perspicuity, plain English, plain dealing, plain speaking, plain speech, plain style, plain words, plainness, plainspokenness, polish, propriety, prosaicness, prosiness, purity, rectilinearity, refinement, restrainedness, restraint, roundness, rustic style, seemliness, severity, simpleheartedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, sincerity, single-heartedness, single-mindedness, singleness of heart, smoothness, soberness, spareness, starkness, straightforwardness, straightness, structure, taste, tastefulness, terseness, transparency, transpicuity, trustfulness, unadorned style, unadornedness, unaffectedness, unambiguousness, unassumingness, unconstraint, unequivocalness, unguardedness, unimaginativeness, unmistakableness, unpoeticalness, unpretentiousness, unreserve, unrestraint, unsophisticatedness, unsophistication, unsuspiciousness, unswervingness, unwariness, vernacular, verticalness

director

• director, Kapellmeister, MC, administrator, auteur, ballyhoo man, band leader, band major, bandmaster, banker, barker, baron, big boss, big businessman, big cheese, boss, business leader, businessman, callboy, captain, captain of industry, castellan, chairman, chatelain, chatelaine, chief, cicerone, commandant, commander, conductor, costume designer, costumer, costumier, drum major, emcee, enterpriser, entrepreneur, equestrian director, executive, exhibitor, financier, foreman, gaffer, governor, guide, head, headman, helmsman, impresario, industrialist, intendant, king, kingpin, leader, little businessman, maestro, magnate, makeup man, man of commerce, manager, master, master of ceremonies, number one, official, orchestra leader, overseer, pilot, playreader, president, principal, producer, prompter, ringmaster, ruler, scenewright, set designer, showman, skipper, spieler, stage director, stage manager, steersman, superintendent, supervisor, symphonic conductor, theater man, theatrician, ticket collector, top dog, top executive, tycoon, usher, usherer, usherette, vice-president

directorate

• directorate, board, board of directors, board of regents, board of trustees, bureaucracy, cabinet, cadre, captainship, chairmanship, convenership, council, custody, dictatorship, directorship, directory, executive arm, executive committee, executive hierarchy, foremanship, generalship, governing board, governing body, governorship, guardianship, headship, hierarchy, higher echelons, higher-ups, infrastructure, intendancy, interlocking directorate, leadership, management, managership, mastership, ministry, officialdom, overseership, prelacy, presidency, proctorship, ruling class, ruling classes, sovereignty, steering committee, stewardship, superintendence, superintendency, supervisorship, the Establishment, the administration, the authorities, the brass, the executive, the ingroup, the interests, the people upstairs, the power elite, the power structure, the top, them, they, top brass

directorship

• directorship, acme, aedileship, archbishopric, archiepiscopacy, archiepiscopate, aristocracy, authority, authorization, be-all and end-all, bishopric, blue ribbon, captainship, chairmanship, championship, chancellery, chancellorate, chancellorship, chiefery, chiefry, chieftaincy, chieftainry, chieftainship, command, consulate, consulship, control, convenership, custody, deanery, dictatorship, dictature, directorate, dominion, effectiveness, emirate, episcopacy, first place, first prize, foremanship, generalship, governorship, guardianship, headship, hegemony, height, hierarchy, highest, imperium, influence, intendancy, jurisdiction, kingship, leadership, lordship, magistracy, magistrateship, magistrature, management, managership, masterdom, mastership, mastery, maximum, mayoralty, mayorship, metropolitanate, metropolitanship, most, ne plus ultra, new high, nobility, overseership, palms, papacy, paramountcy, pashadom, pashalic, patriarchate, patriarchy, pontificality, pontificate, popedom, popehood, popeship, power, prefectship, prefecture, premiership, presidency, presidentship, primacy, prime-ministership, prime-ministry, princedom, princeship, principality, proconsulate, proconsulship, proctorship, protectorate, protectorship, provostry, provostship, record, rectorate, rectorship, regency, regentship, rule, ruling class, say, seigniory, seneschalship, seneschalsy, sheikhdom, sheriffalty, sheriffcy, sheriffdom, shrievalty, sovereignty, stewardship, superintendence, superintendency, supervisorship, supremacy, suzerainship, suzerainty, sway, top spot, tribunate, vizierate, viziership, zenith

directory

• directory, Almanach de Gotha, Baedeker, British Cabinet, Red Book, Royal Kalendar, Sanhedrin, Social Register, US Cabinet, Yellow Pages, account, acquaintance, advisory body, announcement, assembly, association, atlas, bench, bibliography, blue book, board, board of directors, board of regents, board of trustees, body of advisers, borough council, brain trust, briefing, bulletin, business directory, cabinet, cadre, calendar, camarilla, casebook, catalog, catalogue raisonne, chamber, checklist, city council, city directory, classified catalog, classified directory, common council, communication, communique, concordance, conference, congress, consultative assembly, council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state, council of war, county council, court, cyclopedia, data, datum, deliberative assembly, diatesseron, dictionary catalog, diet, directorate, dispatch, divan, encyclopedia, enlightenment, evidence, executive arm, executive committee, executive hierarchy, facts, factual information, familiarization, finding list, gazetteer, gen, genealogy, general information, governing board, governing body, guidebook, handbook, handlist, handout, hard information, harmony, incidental information, index, info, information, infrastructure, instruction, intelligence, interlocking directorate, itinerary, junta, kitchen cabinet, knowledge, legislature, light, management, mention, message, notice, notification, parish council, pedigree, phone book, polyglot, presentation, privy council, promotional material, proof, publication, publicity, record book, reference book, release, report, road map, roadbook, sidelight, source book, soviet, staff, statement, steering committee, studbook, syndicate, synod, telephone book, telephone directory, the administration, the brass, the dope, the executive, the goods, the know, the people upstairs, the scoop, top brass, transmission, tribunal, white book, white paper, word, work of reference

dirge

• dirge, Brautlied, Christmas carol, Dry Mass, English sonnet, Eucharistic rites, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Kunstlied, Lady Mass, Liebeslied, Low Mass, Mass, Missa, Missa bassa, Missa cantata, Missa legata, Missa media, Missa praesanctificatorum, Missa privata, Missa publica, Missa sicca, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Requiem Mass, Rosary, Rosary Mass, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, Volkslied, alba, anacreontic, anthem, art song, aubade, balada, ballad, ballade, ballata, barcarole, bemoan, bewail, blues, blues song, boat song, bridal hymn, brindisi, bucolic, burial service, calypso, canso, canticle, canzone, canzonet, canzonetta, carol, cavatina, chanson, chant, chantey, clerihew, coronach, croon, croon song, dead march, death knell, death song, deathwatch, deplore, dithyramb, ditty, drinking song, eclogue, elegize, elegy, epic, epicedium, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, eulogy, exequies, extreme unction, folk song, funeral march, funeral oration, funeral rites, funeral song, georgic, ghazel, give sorrow words, graveside oration, grieve, haiku, hymeneal, idyll, jingle, keen, knell, lament, last duty, last honors, last offices, last rites, lay, lied, lilt, limerick, love song, love-lilt, lyric, madrigal, matin, minstrel song, minstrelsy, moan, monody, mourn, muffled drums, narrative poem, national anthem, nursery rhyme, obsequies, ode, palinode, passing bell, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, repine, requiem, requiem mass, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, serena, serenade, serenata, sestina, sigh, sing the blues, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, sorrow, tanka, tenso, tenzone, the Divine Liturgy, the Liturgy, theme song, threnode, threnody, torch song, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, viaticum, villanelle, virelay, wake, war song, wedding song, weep over

dirt free

• dirt free, bleached, bright, clean, cleanly, dainty, fair, fastidious, fresh, immaculate, kosher, nonpolluted, of cleanly habits, pure, ritually pure, shiny, smut-free, smutless, spotless, stainless, sweet, tahar, tubbed, unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, undefiled, unmuddied, unpolluted, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened

dirt

• dirt, Rabelaisianism, X-rated movie, acres, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, bawdiness, bawdry, blue movie, character assassination, clay, clod, corruption, crust, dirtiness, dirty movie, dope, dross, dry land, dust, earth, erotic art, erotic literature, erotographomania, excrement, fescenninity, filth, filthiness, foulness, freehold, garbage, glebe, gossip, gossip column, grassland, grime, ground, iconolagny, indecency, inside information, juicy morsel, junk, land, landholdings, leavings, lewdness, lithosphere, loam, low-down, malicious gossip, marginal land, marl, mire, mold, muck, mud, nastiness, obscenity, offal, offensiveness, ooze, ordure, orts, pornographic art, pornographic literature, pornographomania, pornography, real estate, real property, refuse, region, regolith, ribaldry, rubbish, rumor, salaciousness, salacity, scandal, scandalmongering, scrap, scurrility, scuttlebutt, sexploitation, sharp practice, skin flick, slander, slime, slop, sludge, smut, smuttiness, sod, soft-core pornography, soil, soot, stag film, subaerial deposit, subsoil, sweepings, talk, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, tidbit, topsoil, trash, vileness, waste, whispering campaign, woodland

dirty language

• dirty language, bad language, billingsgate, blue language, colorful language, cursing, cussing, dirty talk, dysphemism, evil speaking, filth, filthy language, foul language, obscenity, profane swearing, profanity, ribaldry, scatology, strong language, swearing, unparliamentary language, unrepeatable expressions, vile language, vulgar language

dirty trick

• dirty trick, artful dodge, artifice, bag of tricks, blind, bluff, bosey, catch, chicanery, chouse, curve, curve-ball, design, device, dirty deal, dirty pool, dirty work, dodge, double-dealing, duplicity, falseheartedness, fast deal, feint, fetch, ficelle, foul play, gambit, gimmick, googly, hocus-pocus, joker, juggle, pass, perfidiousness, perfidy, ploy, ruse, scheme, scurvy trick, shift, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, stratagem, subterfuge, treacherousness, treachery, trick, wile

dirty work

• dirty work, dirty pool, dirty trick, donkeywork, double-dealing, drudgery, duplicity, employment, fag, falseheartedness, fatigue, foul play, grind, handiwork, handwork, industry, labor, lick, lick of work, manual labor, moil, perfidiousness, perfidy, rat race, scut work, slavery, spadework, stroke, stroke of work, sweat, task, tiresome work, toil, travail, treacherousness, treachery, treadmill, work

dirty

• dirty, Fescennine, Rabelaisian, abject, abominable, abusive, angry, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, arrant, atrocious, attaint, bad, barfy, base, base-minded, bawdy, bedaub, bedraggled, befoul, befouled, beggarly, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmear, besmeared, besmirch, besmirched, besmoke, besoil, bestain, bitter, black, blacken, blasphemous, blotchy, blowing, blowy, blue, blur, blustering, blustery, brand, bum, calumniatory, calumnious, carnal, castellatus, cheesy, cirrose, cirrous, clitoromaniacal, cloud-flecked, clouded, cloudy, coarse, comminatory, concupiscent, contaminated, contemptible, contumelious, corrupt, crappy, creepy, crummy, cumuliform, cumulous, cursing, cyclonic, damnatory, dark, darken, daub, debased, deceitful, defile, defiled, degraded, denunciatory, depraved, despicable, dingy, dirt, dirty up, dirty-minded, discolor, discompose, disgusting, dishonest, dishonorable, disloyal, draggled, draggletailed, dungy, dust, dusty, dysphemistic, epithetic, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, evil-minded, evilhearted, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execrable, execratory, filthy, flagrant, fleshly, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fuliginous, fulminatory, fulsome, furious, gloomy, goatish, godawful, goshawful, grave, grim, grime, grimy, gross, grubby, grungy, gynecomaniacal, hairy, heavy, heinous, horny, hot, hysteromaniacal, icky, ignoble, ignominious, immoral, imprecatory, impure, indecent, infamous, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous, lenticularis, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lickerish, little, low, low-down, low-minded, low-thoughted, lubricious, lumpen, lurid, lustful, maledictory, malevolent, malicious, mammatus, mangy, mark, mean, measly, messy, mire, miry, miserable, monstrous, muck, muck up, mucky, muddy, murky, nasty, nebulous, nefarious, nimbose, nubilous, nymphomaniacal, obnoxious, obscene, odious, off color, offensive, oozy, overcast, overclouded, paltry, perfidious, petty, plashy, poky, pollute, polluted, poor, pornographic, priapic, profane, prurient, punk, putrid, raging, rainy, randy, rank, raunchy, raw, reptilian, resentful, ribald, risque, rotten, rough, rude, salacious, satyric, scabby, scabrous, scatologic, scatological, scorch, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, sear, sensual, sexual, sexy, shabby, shitty, shoddy, singe, slabby, slatternly, slime, slobby, sloppy, sloshy, sloughy, slovenly, slubber, sludgy, slur, slushy, small, smear, smirch, smirched, smirchy, smoke, smoking-room, smoky, smooch, smudge, smudged, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, soft, soil, soiled, soily, soot, sooty, sordid, splashy, sposhy, spotted, squalid, squally, squashy, squelchy, squishy, stain, stained, stigmatize, stinking, stinky, storming, stormy, stratiform, stratous, sullied, sully, sultry, taint, tainted, tar, tarnish, tempestuous, thunderheaded, tornadic, treacherous, turbid, turbulent, typhonic, typhoonish, unchaste, unclean, uncleanly, underhanded, unfair, unmentionable, unprintable, unrepeatable, unscrupulous, unsporting, unsportsmanlike, untidy, unwashed, vile, villainous, vituperative, vomity, vulgar, windy, wrathful, wretched, yecchy

Dis

• Dis, Agdistis, Aides, Aidoneus, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Cerberus, Ceres, Charon, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis pater, Erebus, Eros, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Hel, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Loki, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Minos, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Osiris, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhadamanthus, Rhea, Satan, Saturn, Tellus, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus

disability

• disability, abnormality, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, atrophy, bacterial disease, birth defect, blight, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, circulatory disease, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, detriment, disablement, disadvantage, disease, disorder, disqualification, distemper, drawback, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, epidemic disease, functional disease, fungus disease, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, handicap, helplessness, hereditary disease, iatrogenic disease, illness, imbecility, impairment, impotence, inability, inadequacy, incapability, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, indisposition, inefficiency, ineptitude, infancy, infectious disease, inferiority, infirmity, insufficiency, legal incapacity, malady, malaise, minority, morbidity, morbus, muscular disease, neurological disease, nutritional disease, occupational disease, organic disease, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, plant disease, powerlessness, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, respiratory disease, rockiness, secondary disease, seediness, sickishness, sickness, signs, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, the pip, unfitness, urogenital disease, virus disease, wardship, wasting disease, worm disease

disable

• disable, afflict, attenuate, batter, blunt, bugger, castrate, cripple, de-energize, debilitate, derange, devitalize, disarm, disenable, disorder, drain, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, hamstring, harm, hobble, hors de combat, hospitalize, hurt, immobilize, inactivate, incapacitate, indispose, invalid, kibosh, lame, lay up, maim, mangle, mar, mutilate, prostrate, put, queer, queer the works, reduce, ruin, sabotage, sap, sicken, spike, spoil, unbrace, undermine, unfit, unstrengthen, weaken, wing, wreck

disabled

• disabled, ausgespielt, bad, burned-out, castrated, crippled, damaged, devitalized, disarmed, disqualified, drained, effete, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, eviscerated, exhausted, fatigued, game, halt, halting, hamstrung, handicapped, harmed, hobbling, hog-tied, impaired, incapacitated, inoperative, invalidated, lame, limping, maimed, paralyzed, played out, prostrate, ruined, run-down, sapped, spavined, spent, used up, wasted, weakened, worn, worn-out

disabuse

• disabuse, amend, awaken, break the spell, burst the bubble, conflict, contention, correct, debunk, difference, disaccord, disappoint, disenchant, disillude, disillusion, disillusionize, dissension, dissent, dissidence, disunity, emend, enlighten, expose, free, illuminate, let down easy, let in on, liberate, prick the bubble, purge, put straight, rectify, redress, release, set right, set straight, show up, strife, tell the truth, unblindfold, uncharm, undeceive, unspell, wake up

disaccord

• disaccord, agree to disagree, agreement to disagree, alienation, antagonism, antipathy, apostasy, argumentation, bad blood, be at cross-purposes, be at variance, be distinct, be distinguished, break, break off, clash, clash with, clashing, collide, collision, competition, conflict, conflict with, contradict, contradiction, contrariety, contrariness, contrast, contrast with, controversy, counter, counter-culture, cross-purposes, depart from, departure, deviate from, deviation, differ, differ in opinion, difference, disaccord with, disaccordance, disagree, disagree with, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, disconformity, discongruity, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, discreteness, disharmony, disparity, dissatisfaction, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, disunion, disunity, divaricate from, diverge, diverge from, divergence, divergency, diversity, divide, dropping out, enmity, estrangement, faction, far cry, fractiousness, friction, heterogeneity, hold opposite views, hostility, inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inimicalness, irreconcilability, jangle, jar, jar with, jarring, jostle, minority opinion, mismatch, mismate, misunderstand one another, mixture, negate, negation, negativeness, nonagreement, nonassent, noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonconsent, noncooperation, nonobservance, not accord with, not get along, not square with, object, obstinacy, odds, opposition, oppugnancy, originality, otherness, perverseness, protest, pull different ways, recalcitrance, recusance, recusancy, refractoriness, rejection, repudiation, repugnance, rivalry, ruffled feelings, secession, separateness, stand apart, stand over against, strained relations, unconformity, uncooperativeness, underground, unharmoniousness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, variance, variation, variegation, variety, vary, vying, withdrawal

disaccordant

• disaccordant, adversary, adversative, adverse, alien, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, assorted, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, chill, chilly, clashing, cold, colliding, competitive, con, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, cool, counter, cranky, cross, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disagreeable, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonious, disjoined, disparate, disproportionate, dissentient, dissident, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, enemy, fractious, frosty, grating, heterogeneous, hostile, icy, immiscible, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, inhospitable, inimical, irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, many, motley, multifarious, negative, noncooperative, obstinate, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, out of accord, out of whack, overthwart, perverse, poles apart, poles asunder, recalcitrant, refractory, repugnant, rival, separate, separated, several, strained, tense, unamiable, unamicable, unconformable, uncongenial, uncooperative, uncordial, unequal, unfavorable, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unlike, unpropitious, unsociable, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart

disaccustomed

• disaccustomed, a stranger to, ignorant, inexperienced, new to, rusty, unaccustomed, unacquainted with, unconversant with, unfamiliar with, unhabituated, unhardened, uninured, unpracticed, unseasoned, untrained, unused, unused to, unwonted, weaned

disadvantage

• disadvantage, abuse, ado, afflict, aggrieve, annoyance, anxiety, bar, befoul, besetment, bewitch, blight, blocking, bother, burden, burthen, can of worms, cargo, charge, condemn, corrupt, cross, crucify, cumbrance, curse, damage, deadweight, defect, defile, deprave, deprivation, despoil, destroy, detriment, difficulty, disability, disaccommodate, discommode, disoblige, disserve, disservice, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, drawback, embarrassment, encumbrance, envenom, evil, fault, flaw, freight, get into trouble, great ado, hamper, handicap, harass, harm, headache, hex, hindrance, hurt, impair, impairment, impediment, impedimenta, impose upon, imposition, incommode, inconvenience, infect, injure, injury, jinx, liability, load, loss, loss of ground, lumber, maltreat, matter, menace, mischief, mistreat, molest, obstacle, obstruction, onus, outrage, pack, peck of troubles, penalty, persecute, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, prejudice, problem, put out, put to inconvenience, put to trouble, savage, scathe, sea of troubles, shortcoming, step backward, taint, threaten, torment, torture, trouble, violate, weakness, weight, white elephant, worry, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong

disadvantaged

• disadvantaged, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, chronic poor, chronic poverty area, common, demeaning, depressed, depressed class, depressed population, deprived, fleeced, ghetto-dwellers, ghettoized, humble, impoverished, in need, in rags, in the shade, in want, indigent, inferior, infra dig, junior, less, lesser, low, lower, lowly, mendicant, minor, modest, necessitous, needy, on relief, ordinary, out at elbows, outcasts, pauperized, poverty subculture, poverty-stricken, second rank, second string, secondary, servile, slum-dwellers, starveling, stripped, sub, subaltern, subject, subordinate, subservient, the disadvantaged, the dispossessed, the distressed, the down-and-out, the forgotten man, the have-nots, the needy, the other America, the poor, the powerless, the underprivileged, the urban poor, third rank, third string, underdeveloped nation, underprivileged, vulgar, welfare rolls

disadvantageous

• disadvantageous, baleful, baneful, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, deadly, deleterious, depreciative, depreciatory, detracting, detrimental, disparaging, disserviceable, distressing, harmful, hurtful, injurious, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, mischievous, noisome, noxious, ominous, pejorative, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, scatheful, slighting, toxic, unadvantageous, uncomplimentary, unfavorable, unprofitable, unrewarding, useless, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, worthless

disaffected

• disaffected, alienated, allergic, averse, derelict, disenchanted, disinclined, disloyal, displeased, disunited, divided, estranged, faithless, false, fickle, hostile, inconstant, irreconcilable, not charmed, not true to, of bad faith, put off, recreant, separated, torn, trothless, unfaithful, unfriendly, unloyal, unsteadfast, untrue

disaffection

• disaffection, Punic faith, alienation, bad faith, barratry, breach, breach of faith, breach of friendship, breach of promise, breach of trust, break, cleavage, cleft, dereliction, disaffinity, disapprobation, disapproval, disfavor, disinclination, dislike, disloyalty, displeasure, disrelish, disruption, distaste, disunion, disunity, divergence, dividedness, division, estrangement, faithlessness, falling-out, falseness, falsity, fickleness, inconstancy, infidelity, mala fides, open rupture, recall of ambassadors, recreancy, rift, rupture, schism, separation, split, trothlessness, unfaith, unfaithfulness, unloyalty, unsteadfastness, untrueness

disaffinity

• disaffinity, Discordia, Eris, animosity, antigravity, bad feeling, centrifugal force, chill, chilliness, clash, clashing, coldness, conflict, contention, coolness, diamagnetism, disaccord, disaffection, disapprobation, disapproval, discord, discordance, discordancy, disfavor, disharmony, disinclination, dislike, displeasure, disrelish, distaste, enmity, friction, frost, hard feelings, hardheartedness, hostility, iciness, immediate dislike, incompatibility, incompatibleness, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inhospitality, inimicality, jangle, jar, magnetic repulsion, mischief, mutual repulsion, noncooperation, open conflict, personal conflict, personality conflict, polarization, repellence, repellency, repelling, repulsion, rub, strain, strained relations, tension, unamiability, uncordiality, unfriendliness, ungeniality, unharmoniousness, unpleasantness, unsociability

disaffirm

• disaffirm, abjure, assert the contrary, belie, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, cross, deny, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disown, disprove, dispute, forswear, gainsay, impugn, join issue upon, negate, negative, not accept, not admit, nullify, oppose, recant, refuse to admit, refute, renounce, repudiate, retract, revoke, take back, take issue with, traverse

disaffirmation

• disaffirmation, abjuration, abjurement, abrogation, absolute contradiction, annulment, contradiction, contrary assertion, contravention, controversion, countering, crossing, denial, disallowance, disavowal, disclaimer, disclamation, disownment, disproof, forswearing, gainsaying, impugnment, nullification, recantation, refutation, renunciation, repudiation, retractation, retraction, revocation

disagree

• disagree, agree to differ, agree to disagree, argue, be at cross-purposes, be at variance, be distinct, be distinguished, be in dissent, be unmoved, be unwilling, beg off, beg to differ, bicker, break, break off, clash, clash with, collide, conflict, conflict with, contend, contest, contradict, contrast with, counter, debate, decline, decline to accept, depart from, deviate from, differ, differ in opinion, disaccord, disaccord with, disagree with, disallow, disclaim, discord, discord with, dispute, dissent, dissent from, divaricate from, diverge, diverge from, divide, divide on, drop out, fall out, fight, hold opposite views, hold out against, jangle, jar, jar with, jostle, mismatch, mismate, misunderstand one another, negate, negative, not accord with, not agree, not buy, not consent, not get along, not hear of, not square with, not think of, object, oppose, pull different ways, quarrel, refuse, refuse consent, reject, repudiate, resist entreaty, resist persuasion, say nay, say no, secede, squabble, stand aloof, stand apart, stand over against, take exception, take issue, turn down, vary, vote nay, vote negatively, withdraw, withhold assent, wrangle

disagreeable

• disagreeable, abominable, abrupt, annoying, antagonistic, antipathetic, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, bad-tempered, bearish, bitchy, bitter, blunt, brusque, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, clashing, contradictory, contrary, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, curt, cussed, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discourteous, discrepant, disgusting, disharmonious, dislikable, disobliging, displeasing, disproportionate, dissident, dissonant, distasteful, distressing, disturbing, divergent, excitable, feisty, foul-tasting, fractious, fretful, grating, grouchy, had, hostile, huffish, huffy, ill, ill-flavored, ill-humored, ill-mannered, ill-tempered, immiscible, impolite, inaccordant, incompatible, inharmonious, inhospitable, irascible, irritable, jangling, jarring, mean, morose, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, negative, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, ornery, out of accord, out of whack, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, querulous, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, rude, short, sickening, snappish, snappy, sour, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, sulky, sullen, testy, thankless, ugly, unaffectionate, unalluring, unamiable, unappealing, unappetizing, unattractive, unbenign, unbenignant, uncivil, uncompassionate, uncompassioned, uncongenial, uncooperative, uncordial, uncourtly, undelectable, undelicious, undesirable, unengaging, unenjoyable, unfriendly, ungenial, ungracious, unhappy, unharmonious, uninviting, unkind, unkindly, unlikable, unloving, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpleasing, unsavory, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, untasteful, untasty, unwelcome, variant, waspish, whiny, woeful

disagreeableness

• disagreeableness, disagreeability, displeasingness, displeasure, distastefulness, inhospitableness, inhospitality, ugliness, unamiability, unappealingness, unattractiveness, unbenignity, unbenignness, uncompassionateness, uncordiality, undelectability, undesirability, ungeniality, ungraciousness, unkindliness, unkindness, unpalatability, unpleasantness, unpleasingness, unsavoriness, unsympatheticness

disagreeing

• disagreeing, alienated, antagonistic, antiestablishment, antipathetic, assorted, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at odds with, at variance, at variance with, at war, averse, breakaway, clashing, colliding, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, counter-culture, cranky, cross, cursory, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonious, disinclined, disjoined, disobedient, disparate, disproportionate, dissentient, dissenting, dissident, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, forced, fractious, grating, heterogeneous, hostile, immiscible, in disagreement, in opposition, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, indisposed, indocile, inharmonious, involuntary, irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, many, motley, multifarious, mutinous, negative, nonconforming, opposed, opposing, out of accord, out of whack, perfunctory, poles apart, poles asunder, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, repugnant, resistant, sectarian, sectary, separate, separated, several, sulky, sullen, unconformable, uncongenial, unconsenting, underground, unequal, unharmonious, unlike, unwilling, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart

disagreement

• disagreement, abnegation, agreement to disagree, alienation, altercation, antagonism, antipathy, antithesis, apostasy, argument, averseness, aversion, backwardness, ban, blackball, blackballing, clash, clashing, collision, complaint, conflict, confrontation, contention, contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety, contrast, controversy, counter-culture, counterposition, cross-purposes, cursoriness, debate, declension, declination, declinature, declining, denial, departure, deprivation, deviation, difference, difference of opinion, difficulty, dim view, disaccord, disaccordance, disallowance, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, disclaimer, disclamation, disconformity, discongruity, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, discreteness, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disgruntlement, disillusion, disillusionment, disinclination, disobedience, disparity, displeasure, dispute, disrelish, disrespect, dissatisfaction, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, dissimilarity, distaste, distinction, distinctness, divergence, divergency, diversity, dividedness, division, dropping out, exclusion, far cry, foot-dragging, fractiousness, grudging consent, grudgingness, heterogeneity, holding back, hostility, inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, indignation, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inimicalness, intractableness, irreconcilability, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, low estimation, low opinion, minority opinion, misunderstanding, mixture, mutinousness, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no, nolition, nonacceptance, nonagreement, nonassent, noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonconsent, nonobservance, objection, obstinacy, odds, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, originality, ostracism, otherness, perfunctoriness, perversity, polarity, polarization, protest, quarrel, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recantation, recusance, recusancy, refractoriness, refusal, rejection, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repudiation, repugnance, resistance, retention, rhubarb, secession, separateness, showdown, slowness, strife, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, thumbs-down, turndown, unconformity, underground, unenthusiasm, unhappiness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unwillingness, variance, variation, variegation, variety, withdrawal, withholding

disallow

• disallow, abjure, assert the contrary, ban, bar, be unmoved, be unwilling, beg off, belie, blackball, categorically reject, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, cross, debar, decline, decline to accept, default, deny, disaffirm, disagree, disapprove, disapprove of, disavow, disclaim, disfavor, dishonor, disown, disprove, dispute, dissent, dissent from, embargo, enjoin, exclude, exclude from, forbid, forswear, frown at, frown down, frown upon, gainsay, grimace at, hold out against, impugn, inhibit, interdict, join issue upon, keep back, levant, look askance at, look black upon, negate, negative, not accept, not admit, not approve, not buy, not consent, not go for, not hear of, not hold with, not pay, not think of, nullify, object, object to, oppose, ostracize, outlaw, preclude, prevent, prohibit, proscribe, protest, recant, refuse, refuse consent, refuse to admit, refuse to pay, refute, reject, renounce, repress, repudiate, resist entreaty, resist persuasion, retract, revoke, rule out, say nay, say no, say no to, shut out, stand aloof, stop payment, suppress, taboo, take back, take exception to, take issue with, think ill of, think little of, thumb down, turn down, view with disfavor, vote nay, vote negatively, welsh, withhold

disappear

• disappear, abandon, abscond, be all over, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be done for, be gone, be incognito, be no more, be past, be unseen, be wiped out, beat a retreat, become extinct, blush unseen, bow out, burrow, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, clear, come to naught, come to nothing, conk out, dematerialize, depart, die, die away, die out, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, do a fade-out, drop from sight, duck out, dwindle, elapse, end, erode, escape, escape notice, evacuate, evanesce, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, fade away, fade out, flee, fleet, flit, fly, go, go away, go into hiding, go on furlough, go on leave, go to ground, go underground, have run out, hide, hide away, hide out, hole up, lapse, leave, leave no trace, leave the scene, lie, lie close, lie doggo, lie hid, lie low, lie snug, masquerade, melt, melt away, melt like snow, pass, pass away, pass out, peg out, perish, peter out, play peekaboo, quit, remain anonymous, remove, retire, retire from sight, retreat, run out, sink, sink away, sit tight, slip away, slip off, slip out, sneak out, stay in hiding, succumb, suffer an eclipse, take cover, take leave, vacate, vanish, vanish from sight, vaporize, waste, waste away, wear a mask, wear away, withdraw

disappearance

• disappearance, AWOL, French leave, abscondence, absence, absence without leave, absentation, absenteeism, absenting, absquatulation, bolt, concealment, cut, day off, decampment, default, departure, desertion, disappearing act, elopement, escape, excused absence, exit, fleeing, flight, fugitation, furlough, hasty retreat, hegira, holiday, hooky, immateriality, imperceptibility, indiscernibility, invisibility, leave, leave of absence, leaving, nonappearance, nonattendance, quick exit, running away, sabbatical leave, scramming, secrecy, sick leave, skedaddle, skedaddling, the invisible, the unseen, truancy, truantism, unexcused absence, unperceivability, unseeableness, unsubstantiality, vacation, viewlessness

disappoint

• disappoint, awaken, baffle, balk, beat, bilk, break the spell, burst the bubble, cast down, circumvent, correct, cross, dash, debunk, deceive, defeat, defeat expectation, disabuse, discontent, disenchant, disgruntle, dishearten, disillude, disillusion, disillusionize, displease, dissatisfy, drive to despair, enlighten, expose, fail, foil, frustrate, let down, let down easy, let in on, mislead, prick the bubble, put out, put straight, ruin, set right, set straight, show up, stand up, tantalize, tease, tell the truth, thwart, unblindfold, uncharm, undeceive, undo, unspell, wake up

disappointed

• disappointed, against, baffled, balked, beefing, bellyaching, betrayed, bilked, bitching, blase, blasted, blighted, chapfallen, complaining, complaintful, con, crabbing, crabby, cranky, crestfallen, croaking, crossed, crushed, dashed, defeated, dejected, disabused, disapprobatory, disapproving, discontented, discouraged, disenchanted, disgruntled, disheartened, dished, disillusioned, displeased, dissatisfied, dissenting, downcast, downhearted, enlightened, envious, failed, faultfinding, foiled, frustrated, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumbling, ill done-by, ill-served, indignant, let down, low, malcontent, malcontented, murmuring, muttering, opposed, opposing, out of countenance, out of humor, peevish, petulant, poor, put straight, querulant, querulous, rebellious, regretful, resentful, restive, restless, robbed of illusion, saddened, set right, sophisticated, sorely disappointed, soured, sulky, thwarted, turned-off, unaccepting, unaccommodating, unappreciative, unapproving, uncharmed, uncomplimentary, undeceived, undone, uneasy, unfavorable, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unsatisfied, unspelled, whiny

disappointing

• disappointing, disconcerting, discouraging, disheartening, displeasing, dissatisfactory, falling short, inadequate, incommensurate, inferior, insufficient, not good enough, pathetic, poor, sad, second best, second-rate, sorry, tantalizing, teasing, unfulfilling, ungratifying, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying

disappointment

• disappointment, Faustianism, awakening, ban, blackball, blackballing, blighted hope, blow, calamity, chagrin, cold comfort, complaint, dashed hopes, debunking, defeat, dejection, depression, dim view, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, disaster, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, discouragement, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disgruntlement, disillusion, disillusionment, displeasure, disrespect, dissatisfaction, dissatisfiedness, dissent, distaste, distress, divine discontent, enlightenment, envy, exclusion, failure, fiasco, fizzle, frustration, hope deferred, ill humor, indignation, low estimation, low opinion, mortification, objection, opposition, opposure, ostracism, peevishness, petulance, protest, querulousness, rebelliousness, regret, rejection, resentment, restiveness, restlessness, return to reality, rude awakening, sourness, sulkiness, thumbs-down, undeception, uneasiness, unfulfillment, unhappiness, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, unspelling, vexation of spirit

disapproval

• disapproval, abjuration, abjurement, aggravation, agreement to disagree, alienation, annoyance, apostasy, belittling, censure, chucking, chucking out, comedown, condemnation, contempt, contradiction, counter-culture, criticism, declination, declining, decrial, denial, depreciation, derogation, despisal, despising, detraction, difference, disaccord, disaffection, disaffinity, disagreement, disapprobation, discard, disclamation, discontent, discounting, discrediting, disfavor, disgrace, disinclination, dislike, dismissal, disownment, disparagement, disparity, displeasure, disregard, disrelish, dissatisfaction, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, distaste, diversity, dropping out, exasperation, exception, exclusion, faint praise, ignoring, indignity, irritation, knocking, lukewarm support, minimizing, minority opinion, nonacceptance, nonagreement, nonapproval, nonassent, nonconcurrence, nonconformity, nonconsent, nonconsideration, objection, opposition, passing by, putting away, putting down, putting out, rebuff, recantation, recusance, recusancy, refusal, rejection, renouncement, reproach, reproof, repudiation, repulse, resentfulness, resentment, scouting, secession, slighting, sour grapes, spurning, throwing out, turning out, underground, variance, vexation, withdrawal

disapprove of

• disapprove of, abhor, ban, be hostile to, belittle, blackball, bring down, bring into discredit, bring low, categorically reject, cry down, debase, decry, degrade, depreciate, derogate from, detract from, disallow, disapprove, discredit, disfavor, disgrace, dislike, disparage, disrelish, dissent from, exclude, frown at, frown down, frown upon, grimace, grimace at, hate, hold in contempt, knock, loathe, look askance at, look black upon, make little of, minimize, mislike, not approve, not care for, not go for, not hear of, not hold with, object, object to, oppose, ostracize, protest, put down, recoil, reflect discredit upon, reject, revolt at, run down, say no to, show distaste for, shrink from, shudder at, slight, speak ill of, submit to indignity, take exception to, think ill of, think little of, thumb down, view with disfavor

disapprove

• disapprove, abjure, attaint, ban, belittle, bespatter, blackball, blacken, blame, blot, blow upon, brand, brush aside, categorically reject, censure, chuck, chuck out, condemn, contemn, contradict, criticize, decline, decry, defame, defile, denounce, deny, deplore, deprecate, depreciate, despise, detract, disallow, disapprove of, discard, disclaim, discommend, discount, discountenance, disdain, disesteem, disfavor, dismiss, disown, disparage, dispraise, disregard, dissent from, except, exclude, expose, expose to infamy, expostulate, forswear, frown, frown at, frown down, frown upon, gibbet, grimace at, hang in effigy, ignore, knock, look askance at, look black upon, not approve, not go for, not hear of, not hold with, object, object to, oppose, ostracize, pass by, pass up, pillory, protest, push aside, put down, rebuff, recant, refuse, refuse to consider, reject, remonstrate, renounce, repel, reprehend, reprimand, reprobate, repudiate, repulse, run down, say no to, scout, shove away, slur, smear, soil, spurn, stain, stigmatize, sully, taint, take exception to, tarnish, think ill of, think little of, throw away, throw out, thumb down, turn away, turn down, turn out, view with disfavor, vilify, waive

disapproved

• disapproved, contemned, declined, declined with thanks, denied, despised, discarded, discounted, disdained, dismissed, disowned, excepted, excluded, forsworn, ignored, not considered, rebuffed, refused, rejected, renounced, repudiated, repulsed, scouted, spurned

disarm

• disarm, allure, appease, attract, bewitch, captivate, charm, conciliate, cripple, deactivate, decommission, deflate, demilitarize, demobilize, disable, disband, enchain, enchant, fascinate, gag, hamstring, handcuff, hobble, hog-tie, immobilize, incapacitate, knock out, manacle, mollify, muzzle, pacify, paralyze, placate, propitiate, prostrate, put at ease, reconcile, reconvert, set at ease, sheathe the sword, silence, strangle, throttle, truss up, win over

disarming

• disarming, bland, buttery, deferential, fair-spoken, fine-spoken, fulsome, glib, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, ingratiating, insinuating, insinuative, oily, oily-tongued, saccharine, silken, silky, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, smug, soapy, soft-spoken, suave, suave-spoken, unctuous

disarrange

• disarrange, agitate, beat, beat up, break, break off, churn, churn up, clutter, confuse, convulse, derange, disarray, disarticulate, discompose, discontinue, dishevel, disjoin, disjoint, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, displace, disquiet, disturb, excite, ferment, flurry, fret, interrupt, jumble, knock galley-west, litter, luxate, mess, mess up, misarrange, mislay, misplace, muddle, muss, muss up, overturn, paddle, perturb, perturbate, replace, rile, ripple, roil, roughen, ruffle, rummage, rumple, scatter, shake, shake up, stir, stir up, swirl, tousle, trouble, unhinge, unjoint, unsettle, upset, whip, whip up, whisk, work up

disarranged

• disarranged, amiss, askew, awry, cockeyed, confused, convulsed, deranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, disjointed, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, displaced, disturbed, haywire, in disorder, misplaced, on the fritz, out, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, perturbed, roily, shuffled, turbid, turbulent, unhinged, unjointed, unsettled, upset

disarrangement

• disarrangement, Doppler effect, deracination, derangement, disarray, disarticulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, discontinuity, disharmony, dishevelment, disintegration, disjointing, disjunction, dislocation, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, displacement, disproportion, disruption, disturbance, entropy, forcible shift, haphazardness, heterotopia, incoherence, indiscriminateness, inharmonious harmony, irregularity, luxation, most admired disorder, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, perturbation, promiscuity, promiscuousness, randomness, red shift, removal, ripping out, shift, turbulence, unhinging, unjointing, unsymmetry, ununiformity, uprooting, upset

disarray

• disarray, ataxia, chaos, clutter, derange, derangement, disarrange, disarrangement, disarticulation, discomfiture, discompose, discomposure, disconcertedness, disharmony, dishevel, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction, dislocate, dismantle, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disorganize, disproportion, disrobe, disruption, disturb, disturbance, do a strip-tease, entropy, haphazardness, huddle, incoherence, indiscriminateness, inharmonious harmony, irregularity, jumble, litter, mess, mess up, misarrange, most admired disorder, muddle, muss, muss up, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, perturbation, promiscuity, promiscuousness, randomness, ruffle, rummage, rumple, scatter, snarl, strip, topsy-turviness, tousle, turbulence, unarray, uncase, unclothe, undrape, undress, unsettle, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upset

disarticulate

• disarticulate, abrupt, alienate, cast off, cast out, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, delete, depart, disarrange, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, dislocate, displace, dissociate, disunite, divide, divorce, eject, estrange, expel, isolate, leave, luxate, part, pull away, pull back, pull out, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, shut off, split, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, step aside, subtract, throw off, throw out, uncouple, unhinge, unjoint, unseat, unyoke, withdraw

disarticulated

• disarticulated, aimless, alienated, amorphous, capricious, casual, desultory, detached, disconnected, discontinuous, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, disunited, divided, divorced, erratic, estranged, fitful, formless, frivolous, gratuitous, haphazard, hit-or-miss, immethodical, inchoate, incoherent, indiscriminate, irregular, isolated, meaningless, misshapen, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, orderless, planless, promiscuous, random, removed, scattered, segregated, senseless, separated, sequestered, shapeless, shut off, spasmodic, sporadic, straggling, straggly, systemless, unarranged, unclassified, undirected, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unsorted, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vague, wandering

disassemble

• disassemble, atomize, break to pieces, cleave, demolish, disintegrate, dismantle, dismember, dismount, fragment, make mincemeat of, pick to pieces, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, reduce to rubble, rend, shatter, smash, split, sunder, take apart, take down, tear apart, tear down, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, total, unbuild, undo, unmake, wrack up, wreck

disassociation

• disassociation, abstraction, alienation, detachment, disarticulation, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, discreteness, disengagement, disjointing, disjunction, disjuncture, dislocation, dissociation, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, immateriality, impertinence, inapplicability, inappositeness, incoherence, inconnection, inconsequence, independence, irrelation, irrelevance, isolation, luxation, parting, partition, removal, segmentation, separateness, separation, separatism, subdivision, subtraction, unconnectedness, unrelatedness, withdrawal, zoning

disaster

• disaster, accident, act of God, adversity, apoplexy, blow, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cave, cave-in, climax, collapse, collision, contretemps, convulsion, crack-up, crash, debacle, diastrophism, distress, fatal accident, fatality, fit, grief, ill hap, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, nasty blow, overthrow, paroxysm, pileup, quake, reverse, rocks, shipwreck, shock, smash, smashup, spasm, staggering blow, stroke, temblor, tidal wave, total loss, tragedy, trouble, tsunami, upheaval, violent death, washout, wrack, wreck

disastrous

• disastrous, appalling, awful, baneful, black, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, convulsive, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, detrimental, devastating, dire, doomful, dreadful, fatal, fateful, fratricidal, grievous, hapless, harmful, harrowing, herky-jerky, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, internecine, jerky, luckless, nihilist, nihilistic, orgasmic, paroxysmal, ravaging, ruining, ruinous, seismic, self-destructive, spasmodic, spastic, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, terrible, tragic, unfortunate, unlucky, upheaving, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasteful, wasting, withering, wreckful

disavow

• disavow, abjure, assert the contrary, back down, back out, backwater, belie, climb down, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, crawfish out, cross, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disclaim, disown, disprove, dispute, eat crow, eat humble pie, forswear, gainsay, impugn, join issue upon, negate, negative, not accept, not admit, nullify, oppose, recant, refuse to admit, refute, renege, renounce, repudiate, retract, revoke, swallow, take back, take issue with, unsay, withdraw

disavowal

• disavowal, abjuration, abjurement, abrogation, absolute contradiction, annulment, contradiction, contrary assertion, contravention, controversion, countering, crossing, denial, disaffirmation, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, disowning, disownment, disproof, expatriation, forswearing, gainsaying, impugnment, nullification, palinode, palinody, recantation, refutation, reneging, renouncement, renunciation, repudiation, retractation, retraction, revocation, revokement, unsaying, withdrawal

disband

• disband, break up, deactivate, debrief, decommission, demilitarize, demob, demobilize, detach, dichotomize, disarm, discharge, disintegrate, disjoin, disjoint, dismiss, disorganize, dispel, disperse, dissect, dissever, dissipate, dissolve, disunite, diverge, divide, divorce, go separate ways, let go, muster out, part, part company, reconvert, release, retire, scatter, separate, sever, sheathe the sword, split up, sunder

disbandment

• disbandment, breakup, deactivation, demilitarization, demobilization, detachment, diaspora, disarmament, disbanding, disintegration, dismissal, disorganization, dispersal, dispersion, dissolution, mustering out, parting, reconversion, reduction of armaments, release, separation, split-up

disbar

• disbar, boot, bounce, break, bump, bust, can, cashier, deconsecrate, defrock, degrade, demote, deplume, depose, deprive, dethrone, discharge, discrown, disemploy, disenthrone, dismiss, displace, displume, drum out, excommunicate, expel, fire, furlough, give the ax, give the gate, kick, kick upstairs, lay off, let go, let out, liquidate, make redundant, oust, overthrow, pension, pension off, purge, read out of, release, remove, remove from office, replace, retire, sack, separate forcibly, strip, strip of office, strip of rank, superannuate, surplus, suspend, turn off, turn out, unchurch, unfrock, unsaddle, unseat, unthrone

disbarment

• disbarment, banishment, blackballing, cashiering, deconsecration, defrocking, degradation, demotion, depluming, deportation, deposal, deposition, deprivation, dethronement, disbarring, discrownment, disenthronement, disfellowship, dismissal, displacement, displuming, exclusion, excommunication, exile, expatriation, expulsion, extradition, firing, forced resignation, fugitation, impeachment, kicking upstairs, liquidation, ostracism, ostracization, ousting, outlawing, outlawry, overthrow, overthrowal, pensioning off, purge, relegation, removal, retirement, rustication, stripping, superannuation, suspension, transportation, unchurching, unfrocking, unseating

disbelief

• disbelief, agnosticism, atheism, confutability, contestability, controvertibility, deism, deniability, denial, discredit, disputability, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, dubitancy, faithlessness, heresy, inability to believe, incredulity, infidelity, minimifidianism, misbelief, nonbelief, nullifidianism, questionableness, refutability, rejection, repudiation, secularism, spurning, unbelief, unbelievingness

disbelieve

• disbelieve, be skeptical, deny, discredit, distrust, doubt, eschew, gag on, misbelieve, mistrust, negate, not accept, not admit, not believe, not buy, not fall for, not go for, not swallow, question, refuse to admit, refuse to believe, refuse to credit, reject, resist believing, scoff, scorn, scout, suspect, unbelieve

disbelieving

• disbelieving, atheist, atheistic, creedless, faithless, heathen, heretical, incredulous, infidel, infidelic, irreligious, minimifidian, nonbelieving, nullifidian, pagan, questioning, quizzical, repudiative, skeptical, unbelieving, unchristian, unconfident, unconverted, unconvinced, without faith

disburden

• disburden, abridge, alleviate, be light, bereave, bleed, break bulk, clear, curtail, cut off, deprive, deprive of, discharge, disembarrass, disembroil, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, disentitle, disinvolve, divest, drain, dump, ease, ease one of, extricate, free, free up, have little weight, kick the beam, liberate, lighten, lighten one of, make light, make lighter, milk, mine, off-load, reduce weight, relieve, set at ease, take away from, take from, tap, unballast, unburden, unclutter, unfreight, unlade, unload, unpack, unscramble, unship, unsnarl, weigh lightly

disbursal

• disbursal, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, administration, amortization, amortizement, binder, budgeting, cash, cash payment, clearance, costing, costing-out, debit, debiting, debt service, deficit spending, defrayal, defrayment, deposit, disbursement, discharge, dispensation, dispersion, disposal, disposition, distribution, dole, doling, doling out, down payment, earnest, earnest money, expenditure, giving out, hire purchase, hire purchase plan, installment, installment plan, interest payment, issuance, liquidation, monthly payments, never-never, passing around, paying, paying off, paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind, payoff, prepayment, quarterly payments, quittance, regular payments, remittance, retirement, satisfaction, scheduling, settlement, sinking-fund payment, spending, spot cash, weekly payments

disburse

• disburse, administer, budget, cost, cost out, deal, deal out, dispense, disperse, dispose, distribute, dole, dole out, expend, fork out, give, give out, go through, incur costs, invest, issue, lay, lay out, measure out, mete, mete out, open the purse, outlay, parcel out, partition, pass around, pay, pay out, portion out, put out, run through, schedule, shell out, sink money in, spend, splurge, spoon out, squander, throw money around

disc

• disc, bulletin board, card, cartridge, cassette, catalog card, electrical transcription, file, filing card, film, index card, library catalog, magnetic tape, microcard, microdot, microfiche, microfilm, motion-picture film, phonograph record, platter, record, recording, scoreboard, scorecard, scoresheet, slip, tape, tape cartridge, tape cassette, tape recording, ticker tape, transcription, videotape, wax, wire recording

discard

• discard, abandon, abdicate, abjuration, abjure, abjurement, back out, beg off, boot out, bounce, brush aside, cashier, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, cast out, cast-off, castaway, castoff, chuck, chuck out, chucking, chucking out, clearance, contemn, contempt, contradict, contradiction, cry off, declination, decline, declining, deep six, deep-six, defenestrate, denial, deny, depart from, deportation, derelict, despisal, despise, despising, detachment, detrude, dice, disapproval, disapprove, discarding, discharge, disclaim, disclamation, discount, discounting, disdain, disjunction, dismiss, dismissal, disown, disownment, dispense with, disposal, dispose of, disposition, disregard, ditch, dogie, drop out, dump, dumping, eighty-six, eject, ejection, eliminate, elimination, eradication, evacuate, except, exception, exclude, exclusion, exile, expatriation, expel, expulsion, extrude, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, forsake, forswear, foundling, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, give away, give the hook, go back on, heave out, ignore, ignoring, jetsam, jettison, jilt, junk, junking, kick downstairs, kick out, lagan, lay aside, leave, leave behind, leave flat, liquidation, maroon, nonacceptance, nonapproval, nonconsideration, obtrude, orphan, ostracism, oust, outlawing, outlawry, part with, pass by, pass up, passing by, pull out, purge, push aside, put out, putting away, putting out, quit, quit cold, rebuff, recant, recantation, refusal, refuse, refuse to consider, reject, rejectamenta, rejection, removal, remove, renege, renounce, renouncement, repel, repudiate, repudiation, repulse, riddance, rubbish, say goodbye to, scout, scouting, scrap, scrapping, severance, shed, shoot, shove away, slough, spurn, spurning, stand down, suspension, take leave of, throw, throw away, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, throwaway, throwing out, thrust out, toss out, toss overboard, trash, turn away, turn out, turning out, vacate, waif, waifs and strays, waive, wastrel, withdraw, withdrawal

discarded

• discarded, abandoned, belied, cast-off, castaway, confounded, confuted, contemned, declined, declined with thanks, deflated, denied, derelict, deserted, despised, disapproved, discounted, discredited, disdained, dismissed, disowned, disproved, disputed, disused, excepted, excluded, exploded, exposed, forsaken, forsworn, ignored, impugned, invalidated, jettisoned, left, marooned, negated, negatived, not considered, overthrown, overturned, punctured, rebuffed, refused, refuted, rejected, renounced, repudiated, repulsed, scouted, shown up, spurned, upset

discarnate

• discarnate, airy, asomatous, astral, bodiless, decarnate, decarnated, disembodied, ethereal, extramundane, ghostly, immaterial, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate, incorporeal, insubstantial, intangible, nonmaterial, nonphysical, occult, otherworldly, phantom, psychic, shadowy, spiritual, supernatural, transmundane, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unphysical, unsubstantial, unworldly

discern

• discern, anticipate, appreciate, apprehend, ascertain, be acquainted with, be apprised of, be aware of, be cognizant of, be conscious of, be conversant with, be informed, behold, catch sight of, clap eyes on, cognize, come alive, comprehend, conceive, conceptualize, descry, detect, difference, differentiate, discover, discriminate, distinguish, divine, espy, extricate, fathom, foresee, glimpse, grasp, have, have in sight, have information about, have knowledge of, identify, ken, know, lay eyes on, look on, look upon, make out, note, notice, observe, penetrate, perceive, pick out, pick up, pierce, plumb, possess, prehend, realize, recognize, remark, savvy, see, see daylight, see into, see the light, see through, seize, sense, separate, sever, sight, spot, spy, take in, twig, understand, view, witness, wot, wot of

discernible

• discernible, apparent, appreciable, apprehensible, ascertainable, beholdable, clear, clear as crystal, cognizable, comprehensible, conceivable, conspicuous, crystal-clear, detectable, determinable, disclosable, disclosed, discoverable, distinct, distinguishable, evident, explicit, exposable, exposed, exposed to view, express, findable, graspable, hanging out, hot, identifiable, in evidence, in full view, in plain sight, in view, indisputable, indubitable, insight, knowable, manifest, naked, noticeable, observable, obvious, open, open to view, open-and-shut, outcropping, palpable, patent, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, plain as day, prehensible, recognizable, revealed, seeable, seizable, self-evident, self-explaining, self-explanatory, sensible, showing, spottable, tangible, to be seen, unclouded, unconcealed, understandable, undisguised, unhidden, unmistakable, viewable, visible, visual, warm, witnessable

discerning

• discerning, acute, apperceptive, appercipient, argute, astute, cogent, farseeing, farsighted, foreseeing, foresighted, forethoughted, forethoughtful, gnostic, incisive, insightful, judicious, knowing, knowledgeable, longheaded, longsighted, penetrating, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, perspicuous, piercing, provident, sagacious, sage, trenchant, understanding

discernment

• discernment, acuity, acumen, acuteness, apperception, astuteness, clear sight, cogency, color vision, cone vision, critical discernment, day vision, daylight vision, discrimination, eye, eye-mindedness, eyesight, farseeingness, farsight, farsightedness, field of view, field of vision, flair, foresight, foresightedness, horizon, incisiveness, insight, intuition, judgment, keen sight, keenness, ken, longheadedness, longsightedness, night vision, penetration, perception, perceptiveness, percipience, peripheral field, peripheral vision, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, perspicuity, perspicuousness, photopia, power of sight, providence, purview, quick sight, range, reason, rod vision, sagaciousness, sagacity, scope, scotopia, seeing, sense of sight, sensibility, shrewdness, sight, sightedness, sweep, trenchancy, twilight vision, unobstructed vision, vision, visual acuity, visual field, visual sense, wit

discharge

• discharge, AC arc, Poulsen arc, abide by, abrogate, absolution, absolve, accomplish, accomplished fact, accomplishment, accordance, achieve, achievement, acknowledgment, acquit, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, adhere to, adherence, administer, administration, amnesty, amortization, amortize, amortizement, aperiodic discharge, arc, arc column, arc discharge, attain, attainment, ax, backfire, bang, bark, belch, binder, blast, bleed, blow open, blow out, blow up, blowout, blowup, boom, boot, boot out, booting out, bounce, bowshot, break, break bulk, break out, break up, brush discharge, bullet, bump, burst, burst forth, burst out, bust, can, canceled check, cannon, care, carry into execution, carry out, carry through, carrying out, cash, cash payment, cashier, cashiering, cast, cast forth, cast loose, cast out, catharsis, charge, charter, chuck out, chyle, cleanse, cleansing, clear, clear off, clearance, clearing, cock, colostrum, commission, compass, complete, completion, compliance, compurgation, conduct, conformance, conformity, conge, consummate, consummation, cope with, crack, deactivate, deal with, debouch, debrief, debt service, decant, decontaminate, defenestrate, defenestration, defluxion, defrayal, defrayment, defrock, degrade, dejecta, dejection, dejecture, deliver, deliverance, demob, demobilization, demobilize, demote, deplume, deposal, depose, deposit, deprive, destigmatization, destigmatize, destigmatizing, detach, detonate, detonation, detrude, detrusion, diplomatic immunity, disband, disbar, disburden, disburdening, disbursal, discard, disculpation, disembogue, disemploy, disemployment, disgorge, disgorgement, disintegrate, dismiss, dismissal, disorganize, dispatch, dispense, dispense from, dispense with, disperse, displace, displacing, displume, dispose of, disruptive discharge, dissolve, do, do the job, do the trick, doling out, down payment, drain, drainage, drop, drum out, drumming out, dump, earnest, earnest money, effect, effectuate, effectuation, effluence, effluent, efflux, effluxion, effuse, effusion, egest, egesta, egestion, ejaculate, ejaculation, eject, ejecta, ejectamenta, ejection, ejectment, electric discharge, electric shock, electric spark, electrodeless discharge, eliminate, elimination, emanation, emancipate, emergence, emersion, emission, emit, emotional release, empty, emptying, enact, enactment, enforce, enforcement, eruct, eructation, erupt, eruption, except, exception, exclude, excrement, excreta, excrete, excretes, excreting, excretion, exculpate, exculpation, excuse, execute, execution, exempt, exempt from, exemption, exfiltrate, exhalation, exhaust, exonerate, exoneration, expel, explode, explosion, expulsion, extravasate, extravasation, extrude, extrusion, exudate, exudation, exude, fait accompli, fell, fetch, fill out, filter, filtrate, fire, fire off, firing, flare, flash, flow, flowoff, flux, forced separation, forgive, forgiveness, franchise, free, free from, freeing, fruition, fulfill, fulfillment, fulguration, fulminate, fulmination, furlough, furloughing, fusillade, galvanic shock, give absolution, give dispensation from, give notice, give off, give release, give respite, give the ax, give the gate, give the hook, gleet, glow discharge, go bail for, go off, go separate ways, grant amnesty to, grant bail to, grant immunity, grant remission, gun, gun for, gunfire, gunshot, gush, handle, handling, heave out, heed, heeding, hire purchase, hire purchase plan, hit, honor, humor, hurl forth, ichor, immunity, implement, implementation, inactivate, installment, installment plan, interest payment, intermission, intermit, issuance, issue, jet, jettison, junk, justify, keeping, kick, kick downstairs, kick out, kick upstairs, kicking downstairs, knock off, lachryma, lactation, lay off, layoff, leach, leak, legislative immunity, let fly, let go, let go free, let loose, let off, let out, leukorrhea, liberate, liberty, license, lift, liquidate, liquidation, lixiviate, load, loose, loosen, lymph, make, make accounts square, make out, make redundant, manage, management, manumit, matter, meet, milk, mission accomplished, monthly payments, mucor, mucus, muster out, never-never, nonpros, notice, observance, observation, observe, obtrude, obtrusion, off-load, offload, offloading, ooze, oozing, oscillatory discharge, oust, ouster, ousting, outburst, outfall, outflow, outflowing, outpour, outpouring, pardon, parole, part, part company, pass, patent, pay, pay in full, pay off, pay the bill, pay the shot, pay up, paying, paying off, paying out, paying up, payment, payment in kind, payoff, peccant humor, pelt, pension off, pepper, percolate, perform, performance, permission, perpetration, phlegm, pick off, pink slip, pistol, plug, polish off, pop, pot, potshoot, potshot, pour, pour forth, pour out, practice, prepayment, prime, privilege, produce, production, promulgate, prosecute, prosecution, purgation, purge, purge away, purging, purulence, pus, put away, put in force, put on parole, put out, put through, quarterly payments, quash, quash the charge, quietus, quit, quittance, read out of, realization, realize, receipt, receipt in full, redeem, reek, regular payments, reject, rejection, release, relieve, remise, remission, remit, remittance, removal, remove, render, replace, report, reprieve, respect, respite, retire, retirement, rheum, riddle, runoff, sack, saliva, salvo, sanies, satisfaction, satisfy, save the necessity, scatter, secrete, secretion, seep, seepage, send away, send forth, send out, separate, separate forcibly, serous fluid, serum, set free, set off, settle, settlement, shock, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, shooting, shot, shrive, silent discharge, sinking-fund payment, snipe, snot, spare, spark, spark gap, spew, split up, spot cash, spout, spray, spurt, square, square accounts, square up, squirt, stoneshot, strain, strike, strike a balance, strip, succeed, success, superannuate, supersede, supplant, suppuration, surcease, surfacing, surplus, surplusing, suspend, suspension, sweat, take a potshot, take care of, take up, tattoo, tear, teardrop, terminate, the ax, the boot, the bounce, the gate, the sack, the whites, throw away, throw out, throw overboard, throwing out, thrust out, ticket, torpedo, toss out, touch off, transact, transaction, transpire, transudate, transudation, transude, turn off, turn out, turn the trick, unbind, unbinding, unbolting, unbridling, unbuckling, unburden, uncaging, unchain, unchaining, unfettering, unfrock, ungagging, unhand, unhanding, unharnessing, unhobbling, unlade, unlashing, unlatching, unleashing, unload, unloading, unlocking, unloosing, unmanacling, unmuzzling, unpack, unpenning, unshackle, unshackling, unship, unstrapping, untethering, untrussing, untying, unyoking, urine, vacate, vent, verdict of acquittal, vindicate, vindication, void, voiding, volley, vomit, voucher, walking papers, waste, waste matter, weekly payments, weep, whitewash, withdraw the charge, work, work out

discharged

• discharged, accomplished, achieved, acquitted, attained, compassed, consummated, dispatched, disposed of, effected, effectuated, executed, expended, fulfilled, hired, implemented, liquidated, paid, paid in full, postpaid, prepaid, realized, receipted, remitted, salaried, set at rest, settled, spent, waged, wrought, wrought out

disciple

• disciple, Ambrose of Milan, Athanasius, Barnabas, Basil, Christian, Clement of Alexandria, Clement of Rome, Cyprian of Carthage, Cyril of Jerusalem, God-fearing man, Gregory of Nyssa, Hermas, Ignatius, Irenaeus, Jerome, John, John Chrysostom, Justin Martyr, Lactantius Firmianus, Luke, Mark, Origen, Papias, Paul, Peter, Polycarp, Tertullian, accepter, adherent, admirer, aficionado, ante-Nicene Fathers, apostle, appendage, apprentice, attendant, believer, buff, catechumen, cavaliere servente, churchgoer, churchite, churchman, cohort, communicant, convert, courtier, creature, daily communicant, dangler, dependent, devotee, devotionalist, dummy, enthusiast, evangelist, fan, fanatic, figurehead, flunky, follower, following, gillie, good Christian, goon, hanger-on, henchman, homme de cour, jackal, lackey, learner, man, minion, myrmidon, neophyte, parasite, partisan, pietist, proselyte, public, pupil, puppet, pursuer, pursuivant, receiver, religionist, saint, satellite, scholar, sectary, shadow, stooge, student, successor, supporter, sycophant, tagtail, tail, theist, thug, trainbearer, truster, votary, ward heeler, zealot

disciplinarian

• disciplinarian, Simon Legree, absolute monarch, absolute ruler, all-powerful ruler, arrogator, autarch, autocrat, caesar, commissar, czar, despot, dictator, driver, duce, hard master, martinet, oligarch, oppressor, pharaoh, slave driver, stickler, taskmaster, tyrant, usurper, warlord

disciplinary

• disciplinary, autodidactic, castigatory, chastening, chastising, coeducational, corrective, cultural, didactic, edifying, educating, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortatory, grueling, homiletic, hortatory, illuminating, inflictive, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, penal, penological, preaching, preceptive, propaedeutic, punishing, punitive, punitory, retributive, scholarly, scientific, self-teaching, teaching, technical, technicological, technological, tuitionary

discipline

• discipline, Spartanism, academic discipline, academic specialty, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, adapt, adapt to, adjust, adjust to, administer, administrate, administration, agree with, anality, aplomb, apple-pie order, applied science, apprentice, apprenticeship, area, arena, art, assimilate to, astringency, austerity, authoritarianism, basic training, be guided by, be master, beat, bend, bound, boundary, bounds, break, break in, breaking, breed, breeding, bridle, bring to account, bring to book, bring up, call to account, captain, castigate, castigation, chair, chasten, chastening, chastise, chastisement, check, chime in with, civil government, classical education, coach, command, comply, comply with, compose, composure, concern, condign punishment, condition, conditioning, conduct, confine, confinement, conform, constraint, contain, continence, control, copyright, core curriculum, correct, correction, correspond, course, course of study, criticize, cultivate, cultivation, curb, curriculum, deal with, decorum, demandingness, demesne, department, department of knowledge, deserts, develop, development, direct, direction, disciplinary measures, dispensation, disposition, domain, draw the line, drill, drilling, edify, educate, elective, empery, empire, enlighten, exactingness, exercise, fall in with, ferule, fetch up, fetching-up, field, field of inquiry, field of study, fine fettle, fit, follow, form, form of government, foster, fostering, gear to, general education, general studies, go by, good condition, good shape, good trim, govern, governance, government, grimness, groom, grooming, guide, harmonize, harshness, head, hedge about, hold in check, housebreak, housebreaking, humanities, improve, improvement, in-service training, inculcate, inculcation, independence, indoctrinate, indoctrination, inflict upon, infliction, inform, inhibit, instruct, instruction, judgment, judicial punishment, keep in check, keep in line, lead, liberal arts, lick into shape, limit, limitation, major, make conform, manage, management, manual training, masthead, meet, method, methodicalness, methodology, meticulousness, military training, minor, moderate, moderation, mold, narrow, natural science, neatness, nemesis, nurse, nurture, nurturing, observe, officer, ology, on-the-job training, orb, orbit, order, orderliness, overcome, oversight, pains, pains and punishments, patent, pay, payment, penal retribution, penalize, penalty, penology, pillory, political organization, polity, possession, practice, preparation, prepare, prescription, preside over, proscription, proseminar, province, punish, punishment, punition, pure science, put in tune, put to school, quadrivium, qualification, qualify, raise, raising, ready, readying, realm, rear, rearing, rebuke, reconcile, rectify, reduce, refresher course, regime, regimen, regiment, regimentation, register, regnancy, regulate, regulation, rehearsal, rehearse, reign, reprimand, reprove, restrain, restraint, restrict, restriction, retribution, retributive justice, ride herd on, rigid discipline, rod, round, routine, rub off corners, ruggedness, rule, run, scant, school, schooling, science, scientific education, scourge, self-command, self-conquest, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-government, self-mastery, self-possession, self-restraint, seminar, send to school, settle, settle with, severity, shape, sloyd, social science, sovereignty, specialize, specialty, sphere, square accounts, stand over, sternness, stint, straighten, straiten, strictness, stringency, study, subdiscipline, subdue, subject, subjection, subjugate, suit, supervise, supervision, sway, system, system of government, systematicness, take in hand, take to task, tally with, teach, technical education, technicology, technics, technology, tidiness, toughness, train, training, trimness, trivium, upbringing, visit upon, vocational education, vocational training, walk, well-deserved punishment, what-for, wield authority, willpower, yield

disciplined

• disciplined, Spartan, accepting, armed with patience, bound, bounded, conditioned, confined, copyrighted, cramped, endurant, enduring, finite, forbearing, indulgent, lenient, limited, long-suffering, longanimous, moderated, narrow, patented, patient, patient as Job, persevering, philosophical, prescribed, proscribed, qualified, restricted, self-controlled, stoic, strait, straitened, tolerant, tolerating, tolerative, understanding

disclaim

• disclaim, abjure, assert the contrary, back down, back out, backwater, be unmoved, be unwilling, beg off, belie, belittle, brush aside, challenge, chuck, chuck out, climb down, contemn, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, crawfish out, criticize, cross, decline, decline to accept, deny, deprecate, despise, disaffirm, disagree, disallow, disapprove, disavow, discard, discount, disdain, dismiss, disown, disparage, disprove, dispute, disregard, dissent, eat crow, eat humble pie, except, exclude, forswear, gainsay, hold out against, ignore, impugn, join issue upon, minimize, negate, negative, not accept, not admit, not buy, not consent, not hear of, not think of, nullify, oppose, pass by, pass up, push aside, rebuff, recant, refuse, refuse consent, refuse to admit, refuse to consider, refute, reject, renege, renounce, repel, repudiate, repulse, resist entreaty, resist persuasion, retract, revoke, say nay, say no, scout, shove away, spurn, stand aloof, swallow, take back, take issue with, throw away, throw out, traverse, turn away, turn down, turn out, unsay, vote nay, vote negatively, waive, withdraw

disclaimer

• disclaimer, abjuration, abjurement, abnegation, abrogation, absolute contradiction, annulment, contradiction, contrary assertion, contravention, controversion, countering, crossing, declension, declination, declinature, declining, denial, deprivation, disaffirmation, disagreement, disallowance, disavowal, disclamation, disobedience, disowning, disownment, disproof, dissent, expatriation, forswearing, gainsaying, holding back, impugnment, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonobservance, nullification, palinode, palinody, recantation, refusal, refutation, rejection, reneging, renouncement, renunciation, repudiation, retention, retractation, retraction, revocation, revokement, thumbs-down, turndown, unsaying, unwillingness, withdrawal, withholding

disclose

• disclose, acknowledge, acquaint, admit, advertise, advertise of, advise, affect, affirm, allege, apprise, argue, articulate, asseverate, attest, aver, avouch, avow, bare, be indicative of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, bear witness, bespeak, betoken, betray, blab, blurt out, brandish, break the seal, breathe, brief, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to light, bring to notice, bring word, certify, characterize, chime, chorus, clear, come out with, communicate, confess, connote, convey, dangle, deliver, demonstrate, denominate, denote, deobstruct, depone, depose, develop, differentiate, dig up, discover, disinter, dismask, display, divulge, dramatize, draw the veil, embody, emit, enact, enlighten, entail, enunciate, evidence, evince, excavate, exhibit, exhume, expose, expose to view, express, familiarize, ferret out, fink, fish up, flaunt, fling off, flourish, formulate, free, give, give away, give evidence, give expression, give notice, give out with, give sign, give the facts, give token, give tongue, give utterance, give voice, give word, highlight, hint, identify, illuminate, impart, incarnate, indicate, inform, instruct, involve, lay bare, lay open, leak, leave word, let daylight in, let know, let out, let slip, lip, make clear, make plain, make public, manifest, mark, materialize, mean, mention to, mouth, note, notify, open, open up, out with, own, parade, patefy, peach, perform, phonate, phrase, pour forth, present, produce, pronounce, put forth, put in words, raise, raise the curtain, rat, release, report, represent, reveal, roll out, root up, say, send word, serve notice, set forth, show, show forth, show up, signify, snitch, sound, speak, spill, spill the beans, spotlight, squeak, squeal, stand for, strip bare, suggest, swear, symptomatize, symptomize, tell, testify, throw off, token, trot out, turn up, unblock, uncase, unclench, uncloak, unclog, unclothe, unclutch, uncork, uncover, uncurtain, undo, undrape, unearth, unfold, unfoul, unfurl, unkennel, unlatch, unlock, unmask, unpack, unplug, unroll, unscreen, unseal, unsheathe, unshroud, unshut, unstop, unveil, unwrap, utter, verbalize, verse, vocalize, voice, vouch, warrant, wave, whisper, witness, word, worm out

disclosed

• disclosed, apparent, bald, bare, beholdable, clear, cleared, detectable, discernible, evident, exposed, exposed to view, free, hanging out, in evidence, in full view, in plain sight, in view, insight, manifest, naked, noticeable, observable, open, open as day, open to all, open to view, outcropping, overt, perceivable, perceptible, recognizable, revealed, seeable, showing, to be seen, unclassified, unclogged, unclosed, unclouded, unconcealed, uncovered, undisguised, unhidden, unobstructed, unrestricted, unstopped, viewable, visible, visual, wide-open, witnessable

disclosive

• disclosive, Christophanic, Satanophanic, angelophanic, apocalyptic, appearing, betraying, demonstrating, demonstrative, disclosing, displaying, epiphanic, evidential, evincive, exhibitive, exposing, expositional, expository, expressive, eye-opening, incarnating, incarnational, indicative, indicatory, manifestative, materializing, pneumatophanic, presentational, promulgatory, revealing, revelational, revelatory, showing, talkative, theophanic

disclosure

• disclosure, Christophany, Satanophany, admission, affidavit, affirmation, allegation, angelophany, announcement, apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, assertion, asseveration, attest, attestation, avatar, averment, avouchment, avowal, bringing to light, casual discovery, catching, chance discovery, characterization, coming, coming into being, coming-forth, compurgation, conveyance, declaration, denomination, denotation, deposition, designation, detection, determination, determining, differentiation, discovery, dissemination, distinguishment, embodiment, emergence, epiphany, espial, evidence, evincement, excavation, exhumation, exposure, expression, find, finding, finding out, fingering, forthcoming, giving, hint, identification, impartation, imparting, impartment, incarnation, indication, indicativeness, instrument in proof, invention, issuance, legal evidence, locating, location, lucky strike, manifestation, materialization, materializing, meaning, naming, notification, occurrence, opening, picking out, pneumatophany, pointing, pointing out, pointing to, presentation, profession, proof, publication, realization, recognition, rediscovery, revelation, rise, rising, selection, serendipity, sharing, show, showing, showing forth, signification, specification, spotting, statement, strike, suggestion, sworn evidence, sworn statement, sworn testimony, symptomaticness, telling, testimonial, testimonium, testimony, theophany, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, treasure trove, trouvaille, trove, uncovering, unearthing, unfolding, unfoldment, witness, word

discolor

• discolor, achromatize, attaint, bedaub, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, bestain, blacken, blanch, blaze, blaze a trail, bleach, blemish, blot, blotch, blur, brand, chalk, chalk up, check, check off, cicatrize, dapple, dappled, darken, dash, daub, decolor, decolorize, defile, define, delimit, demarcate, dim, dirty, dot, drain, drain of color, dull, engrave, etiolate, fade, fleck, freckle, fume, gash, hatch, impress, imprint, line, make a mark, mark, mark off, mark out, motley, mottle, multicolor, multicolored, multihued, nick, notch, pale, parti-colored, pencil, pepper, peroxide, point, prick, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, riddle, scar, scarify, scorch, score, scotch, scratch, seal, seam, sear, singe, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smoke, smut, soil, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, stain, stamp, stigmatize, streak, striate, stripe, sully, taint, tar, tarnish, tattoo, tick, tick off, tone down, trace, underline, underscore, varicolored, versicolor, versicolored, wash out, whiten

discoloration

• discoloration, achromatization, birthmark, blanching, blaze, bleach, bleaching, blemish, blotch, brand, bruise, caste mark, check, checkmark, cicatrix, cut, dapple, decoloration, decolorization, decolorizing, discolor, discolorment, dot, earmark, engraving, etiolation, fading, fleck, flick, freckle, gash, graving, hack, jot, lentigo, lightening, macula, madder bleach, mark, market bleach, marking, mole, mottle, nevus, nick, notch, paling, patch, point, polka dot, prick, puncture, scar, scarification, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, speck, speckle, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, strawberry mark, tattoo, tattoo mark, tick, tittle, watermark, whitening

discolored

• discolored, achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, besmirched, blackened, bled white, bloodless, cadaverous, chloranemic, colorless, darkened, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy, dull, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flat, foxed, foxy, ghastly, gray, haggard, hueless, hypochromic, inky, lackluster, leaden, livid, lurid, lusterless, mat, mealy, muddy, murky, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, sallow, sickly, smirched, smoky, soiled, stained, stigmatic, stigmatiferous, stigmatized, tainted, tallow-faced, tarnished, toneless, uncolored, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white

discombobulate

• discombobulate, addle, addle the wits, agitate, ball up, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle, bewilder, bother, bug, cloud, confuse, daze, dazzle, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorganize, disorient, disquiet, distract, disturb, electrify, embarrass, entangle, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, fuddle, fuss, jar, jolt, maze, mist, mix up, moider, muddle, mull, perplex, perturb, pother, put out, raise hell, rattle, rock, ruffle, shake, shake up, shock, stagger, stir, throw into confusion, throw off, trouble, unhinge, unsettle, upset

discomfit

• discomfit, abash, addle, addle the wits, annoy, appall, astound, baffle, balk, ball up, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle, bewilder, blast, bother, brave, bug, cast down, chagrin, challenge, check, checkmate, circumvent, cloud, confound, confront, confuse, contravene, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, cross, dash, daze, dazzle, defeat, defy, destroy, discombobulate, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dish, dismay, disorganize, disorient, disrupt, disturb, elude, embarrass, entangle, faze, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, foil, frustrate, fuddle, fuss, irk, knock the chocks, maze, mist, mix up, moider, mortify, muddle, nonplus, outdo, outwit, overcome, panic, perplex, perturb, pother, put out, put to flight, put to rout, raise hell, rattle, rout, ruffle, ruin, sabotage, scatter, scotch, spike, spoil, stampede, stonewall, stump, take aback, throw into confusion, thwart, trump, unnerve, unsettle, upset, vex, worry

discomfited

• discomfited, abashed, afflicted, agitated, all up with, amiss, askew, awry, beat, beaten, beset, bested, bothered, cast down, chagrined, chapfallen, cockeyed, confounded, confused, convulsed, defeated, deranged, disarranged, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disquieted, distressed, disturbed, done for, done in, down, embarrassed, fallen, fixed, floored, haywire, hors de combat, hung up, ill at ease, in disorder, lambasted, lathered, licked, misplaced, mortified, on the fritz, on the skids, out of countenance, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, outdone, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, panicked, perturbed, put to rout, put-out, put-upon, roily, routed, ruined, scattered, settled, shuffled, silenced, skinned, skinned alive, stampeded, trimmed, troubled, trounced, turbid, turbulent, uncomfortable, undone, uneasy, unsettled, upset, whelmed, whipped, worsted

discomfiture

• discomfiture, abashment, agitation, bafflement, balk, balking, beating, befuddlement, betrayed hope, bewilderment, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blow, bother, botheration, buffet, chagrin, chaos, check, checkmate, cloud, comedown, commotion, confounding, confusion, cruel disappointment, dash, dashed hope, daze, debacle, defeasance, defeat, derangement, descent, disappointment, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, discombobulation, discomposure, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, discountenance, disharmony, dishevelment, disillusionment, disintegration, disjunction, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disorientation, disproportion, disquiet, disruption, dissatisfaction, distress, disturbance, down, drubbing, embarrassment, entropy, failure, fallen countenance, fiasco, fizzle, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, foil, foiling, forlorn hope, frenzy, frustration, fuddle, fuddlement, haphazardness, haze, hope deferred, incoherence, indiscriminateness, inharmonious harmony, irregularity, jumble, letdown, licking, maze, mess, mirage, mist, mortification, most admired disorder, muddle, muddlement, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, overthrow, perplexity, perturbation, pother, prickles, promiscuity, promiscuousness, pucker, randomness, rebuff, repulse, reversal, reverse, rout, ruffle, setback, shellacking, shuffle, sore disappointment, stew, sweat, swivet, tantalization, tease, thwarting, tizzy, turbulence, unease, uneasiness, unsettlement, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upset, vanquishment

discomfort

• discomfort, Schmerz, ache, aches and pains, afflict, agitate, angst, anguish, anxiety, bitterness, bleakness, boredom, bother, burden, care, cheerlessness, comfortlessness, depression, difficulty, discomposure, discontent, dislike, dismalness, dismay, displeasure, disquiet, dissatisfaction, distress, distressfulness, disturb, dolor, dread, dreariness, dullness, emptiness, ennui, existential woe, flatness, grief, grieve, grievousness, grimness, hardship, hurt, hurting, inconvenience, inquietude, irritation, joylessness, lack of pleasure, lament, lamentability, lamentation, load with care, malaise, misery, mourn, mournfulness, nausea, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, nuisance, pain, painfulness, pathos, perturb, pitiability, pitiableness, pitifulness, poignancy, put to it, regrettableness, sadness, savorlessness, sharpness, soreness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, spleen, staleness, suffering, tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, trouble, twinge, uncomfortableness, unease, uneasiness, unhappiness, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, upset, vexation, vexation of spirit, woebegoneness, woefulness, worry

discommode

• discommode, ail, be the matter, beset, bother, complicate matters, concern, disaccommodate, disadvantage, disoblige, distress, disturb, flurry, fluster, harass, incommode, inconvenience, irk, perplex, perturb, plague, pother, put about, put out, put to inconvenience, put to it, put to trouble, puzzle, torment, trouble, upset, vex, worry

discompose

• discompose, abash, addle, addle the wits, aggravate, agitate, annoy, badger, bait, ball up, be at, be tedious, beat, beat up, becloud, bedazzle, bedevil, befuddle, beset, bewilder, bore, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up, cast down, chagrin, chivy, churn, churn up, cloud, confound, confuse, convulse, daze, dazzle, derange, devil, disagree, disarrange, disarray, discombobulate, discomfit, disconcert, discontent, dishevel, dismay, disorder, disorganize, disorient, disquiet, distemper, distract, disturb, dog, electrify, embarrass, embroil, entangle, exasperate, excite, exercise, fash, ferment, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, fret, fuddle, fuss, get, gripe, harass, harry, heckle, hector, hound, irk, jar, jolt, jumble, knock galley-west, leave unsatisfied, maze, mess up, miff, mist, mix up, moider, molest, mortify, muddle, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, paddle, peeve, perplex, persecute, perturb, perturbate, pester, pick on, pique, plague, pluck the beard, pother, provoke, psych, put out, raise hell, rattle, ride, rile, ripple, rock, roil, roughen, ruffle, rummage, rumple, shake, shake up, shock, spook, stagger, stir, stir up, swirl, tease, throw, throw into confusion, torment, trouble, try the patience, tweak the nose, unhinge, unsettle, untune, upset, vex, whip, whip up, whisk, work up, worry

discomposed

• discomposed, abashed, abroad, adrift, afflicted, agitated, amiss, askew, astray, at sea, awry, balled-up, beset, bewildered, bothered, cast down, chagrined, chaotic, chapfallen, clueless, cockeyed, confused, convulsed, deranged, disarranged, discomfited, discomforted, disconcerted, dislocated, dismayed, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disoriented, disquieted, distracted, distraught, distressed, disturbed, embarrassed, excited, feverish, fidgety, flurried, flustered, fluttered, fussed, guessing, haywire, hung up, ill at ease, in a fix, in a jumble, in a maze, in a pickle, in a pother, in a pucker, in a scrape, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, in disorder, jittery, jumbled, jumpy, lost, mazed, misplaced, mixed-up, mortified, nervous, nervy, off the track, on the fritz, out of countenance, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, perplexed, perturbed, put-out, put-upon, rattled, restless, roily, ruffled, shaken, shaken up, shook, shuffled, stirred up, troubled, troublous, turbid, turbulent, turned around, uncomfortable, uneasy, unpeaceful, unquiet, unsettled, upset, without a clue

discomposure

• discomposure, abashment, agitation, angst, anguish, anxiety, baffle, bafflement, befuddlement, bewilderment, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, boredom, bother, botheration, brouhaha, bustle, chagrin, chaos, cheerlessness, churn, cloud, commotion, confoundment, confusion, conturbation, convulsion, daze, derangement, dilemma, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomfort, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, discontent, discountenance, disharmony, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction, dislike, dislocation, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disorientation, displeasure, disproportion, disquiet, disquietude, disruption, dissatisfaction, distress, disturbance, dread, dullness, ebullition, embarrassment, embroilment, emptiness, enigma, ennui, entropy, excitement, existential woe, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, fix, flap, flatness, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, fog, foment, frenzy, fuddle, fuddlement, fume, fuss, grimness, haphazardness, haze, hubbub, hurly-burly, incoherence, indiscriminateness, inharmonious harmony, inquietude, insanity, irregularity, jam, jitters, joylessness, jumble, jumpiness, lack of pleasure, maelstrom, malaise, maze, mess, misarrangement, mist, moil, mortification, most admired disorder, muddle, muddlement, mystery, nausea, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, nongratification, nonplus, nonsatisfaction, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, painfulness, perplexity, perturbation, pickle, plight, pother, predicament, problem, promiscuity, promiscuousness, pucker, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, randomness, restlessness, riddle, roil, rout, row, ruffle, savorlessness, scrape, seethe, seething, shuffle, shuffling, spleen, staleness, stew, stir, sweat, swirl, swivet, tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, tizzy, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unassuredness, uncomfortableness, unease, uneasiness, unhappiness, unpleasure, unrest, unsatisfaction, unsettlement, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upset, vexation of spirit

disconcert

• disconcert, abash, addle, addle the wits, agitate, appall, astound, baffle, balk, ball up, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle, bewilder, blast, bother, brave, bug, cast down, chagrin, challenge, checkmate, circumvent, cloud, confound, confront, confuse, contravene, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, cross, dash, daze, dazzle, defeat, defy, destroy, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, discountenance, dish, dismay, disorganize, disorient, disquiet, disrupt, disturb, electrify, elude, embarrass, entangle, faze, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, foil, frustrate, fuddle, fuss, humiliate, jar, jolt, knock the chocks, maze, mist, mix up, moider, mortify, muddle, nonplus, perplex, perturb, pother, put out, puzzle, raise hell, rattle, rock, ruffle, ruin, sabotage, scotch, shake, shake up, shock, spike, spoil, stagger, stir, stonewall, stump, take aback, throw into confusion, thwart, trouble, unsettle, upset

disconcerted

• disconcerted, abashed, abroad, adrift, afflicted, agitated, all shook up, amiss, askew, astray, at sea, awry, baffled, balled-up, beset, bewildered, bothered, cast down, chagrined, chaotic, chapfallen, clueless, cockeyed, confused, convulsed, deranged, disarranged, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, dislocated, dismayed, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disoriented, disquieted, distracted, distraught, distressed, disturbed, embarrassed, fazed, flustered, fluttered, fussed, guessing, haywire, hung up, ill at ease, in a fix, in a jumble, in a maze, in a pickle, in a pother, in a pucker, in a scrape, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, in disorder, jumbled, lost, mazed, misplaced, mixed-up, mortified, off the track, on the fritz, out of countenance, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, perplexed, perturbed, put off, put out, put-out, put-upon, puzzled, queasy, rattled, roily, ruffled, shaken, shook, shuffled, troubled, turbid, turbulent, turned around, uncomfortable, uneasy, unsettled, upset, without a clue

disconcerting

• disconcerting, alarming, awing, awkward, baffling, bewildering, bothering, chilling, confounding, confusing, crushing, daunting, defeating, deterrent, deterring, discomposing, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, embarrassing, enigmatic, fear-inspiring, fearful, fearsome, frightening, frightful, frustrating, humiliating, intricate, mortifying, mysterious, mystifying, overawing, perplexing, perturbing, problematic, puzzling, scaring, scary, startling, unsettling, upsetting

disconnect

• disconnect, abrupt, abstract, alienate, break off, cast off, cast out, cut adrift, cut apart, cut off, cut out, delete, depart, detach, disarticulate, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divide, divorce, eject, estrange, expel, isolate, leave, part, pull apart, pull away, pull back, pull out, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, split, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, step aside, subtract, throw off, throw out, uncouple, undo, unhook, unyoke, withdraw

disconnected

• disconnected, alien, alienated, aloof, apart, broken, broken off, capricious, careening, catchy, chopped-off, choppy, confused, decousu, desultory, detached, deviative, disarticulated, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, disjunctive, dislocated, disordered, dispersed, disrelated, dissociated, disunited, divided, divorced, eccentric, episodic, erratic, estranged, exotic, flickering, fluctuating, foreign, gapped, garbled, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, illogical, immethodical, inchoate, incoherent, incommensurable, incomparable, inconsistent, inconstant, independent, insular, intermittent, intermitting, interrupted, irrational, irregular, irrelative, isolated, jagged, jerky, lurching, mixed-up, muddled, nonadherent, nonadhesive, noncoherent, noncohesive, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonuniform, open, other, outlandish, parenthetic, patchy, rambling, random, removed, rough, scattered, scrappy, segregate, segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, shut off, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, split, sporadic, spotty, staggering, strange, suspended, tenuous, unadhesive, unaffiliated, unallied, unassociated, unattached, uncertain, uncoherent, uncohesive, unconnected, unequal, uneven, unintelligible, unjoined, unmethodical, unmetrical, unorganized, unregular, unrelatable, unrelated, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady, unsuccessive, unsystematic, untenacious, variable, veering, wandering, wavering, wobbling, wobbly

disconnection

• disconnection, abstraction, alienation, alternating personality, broken thread, brokenness, depersonalization, detachment, disarticulation, disassociation, disconnectedness, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, discontinuousness, discreteness, disengagement, disjointing, disjunction, disjuncture, dislocation, dissociation, dissociation of personality, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, double personality, dual personality, emotional dissociation, episode, fitfulness, immateriality, impertinence, inapplicability, inappositeness, incoherence, incompleteness, inconnection, inconsequence, independence, intermittence, irregularity, irrelation, irrelevance, isolation, luxation, mental dissociation, multiple personality, non sequitur, noncontinuance, nonlinearity, nonseriality, nonuniformity, paranoia, paranoid personality, parenthesis, parting, partition, personality disorganization, removal, schizoid personality, schizoidism, schizophrenia, schizothymia, segmentation, separateness, separation, separatism, split personality, subdivision, subtraction, unconnectedness, unrelatedness, withdrawal, zoning

disconsolate

• disconsolate, affording no hope, apathetic, bad, black, bleak, cheerless, cold, comfortless, crestfallen, crushed, cut up, deep-troubled, dejected, depressed, depressing, desolate, desole, despairing, desperate, despondent, dismal, dispirited, doleful, down, downhearted, drear, forlorn, grim, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartsick, heartsore, hopeless, in despair, inconsolable, joyless, low, melancholy, miserable, sick, sick at heart, somber, sorrowful, soul-sick, stricken, suicidal, unconsolable, unhappy, unhopeful, without hope, woebegone, woeful, wretched

disconsonant

• disconsonant, absonant, atonal, cacophonous, conflicting, cracked, diaphonic, discordant, discrepant, disharmonic, disharmonious, dissonant, flat, grating, harsh, immelodious, incompatible, incongruent, incongruous, inconsistent, inharmonic, inharmonious, musicless, nonmelodious, off, off-key, off-tone, out of pitch, out of tone, out of tune, raucous, sharp, shrill, sour, strident, tuneless, unharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical, untunable, untuned, untuneful

discontent

• discontent, aggravation, anger, angst, anguish, annoyance, anxiety, asperity, bad humor, bad temper, ban, be tedious, bile, biliousness, blackball, blackballing, bore, boredom, causticity, cheerlessness, choler, complaint, corrosiveness, dim view, disagreement, disappoint, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, discomfort, discompose, discomposure, discontentedness, discontentment, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disgruntle, disgruntled, disgruntlement, dishearten, disillusion, disillusionment, dislike, displease, displeasure, disquiet, disrespect, dissatisfaction, dissatisfied, dissatisfy, dissent, distaste, dread, dullness, emptiness, ennui, exasperation, exclusion, existential woe, flatness, gall, grimness, humorlessness, ill humor, ill nature, ill temper, indignation, infelicity, infestivity, inquietude, irritation, joylessness, lack of pleasure, leave unsatisfied, low estimation, low opinion, malaise, malcontent, malcontented, mirthlessness, misery, nausea, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, objection, opposition, opposure, ostracism, painfulness, protest, put out, rejection, resentfulness, resentment, savorlessness, sourness, spleen, staleness, tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, thumbs-down, uncheerfulness, uncomfortableness, unease, uneasiness, ungratified, unhappiness, unhappy, unjoyfulness, unmirthfulness, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, vexation, vexation of spirit, wretchedness

discontented

• discontented, acid, against, angry, annoyed, beefing, bellyaching, bitching, browned off, caustic, cheerless, complaining, complaintful, con, corrosive, crabbing, crabby, cranky, croaking, disappointed, disapprobatory, disapproving, discontent, disenchanted, disgruntled, disillusioned, displeased, dissatisfied, dissenting, envious, exasperated, faultfinding, fed up, feeling evil, fretful, grim, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumbling, humorless, in bad humor, indignant, infestive, irritated, joyless, low, malcontent, malcontented, mirthless, miserable, murmuring, muttering, opposed, opposing, out of humor, out of sorts, out of temper, peevish, petulant, piqued, pissed off, pleasureless, poor, querulant, querulous, rebellious, resentful, restive, restless, sorry, sorryish, sulky, testy, turned-off, unaccepting, unaccommodating, unappreciative, unapproving, uncheerful, uncheery, uncomplimentary, uneasy, unfavorable, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unjoyful, unmirthful, unsatisfied, unsmiling, vexed, whiny, wretched

discontinuance

• discontinuance, abandonment, abeyance, abjuration, abjurement, breakoff, broken thread, brokenness, cease, ceasing, cessation, close, closing, cold storage, desinence, desistance, desuetude, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuation, discontinuity, discontinuousness, discreteness, disjunction, end, ending, episode, fitfulness, forbearance, incoherence, incompleteness, intermittence, irregularity, non sequitur, noncontinuance, nonexercise, nonlinearity, nonseriality, nonuniformity, parenthesis, relinquishment, renouncement, renunciation, resignation, shutdown, stopping, surcease, suspension, termination, waiver

discontinue

• discontinue, abandon, abjure, abort, belay, break, break off, break the habit, cancel, cease, come off, cut it out, cut out, desist, disarrange, disjoin, disuse, drop, drop it, end, forswear, give, give over, give up, halt, have done with, hold, interrupt, kick, knock it off, lay off, leave off, let go, nol-pros, not pursue with, put behind one, quit, refrain, relinquish, renounce, resign, scrub, shake, stay, stop, surcease, suspend, swear off, take the pledge, terminate, throw off, waive

discontinued

• discontinued, abandoned, abjured, antiquated, antique, archaic, broken, broken off, chopped-off, choppy, decousu, deserted, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, disjunctive, disused, done with, episodic, fitful, herky-jerky, incoherent, intermittent, interrupted, irregular, jagged, jerky, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonuniform, not worth saving, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old-fashioned, on the shelf, out, out of use, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, outworn, parenthetic, past use, patchy, pensioned off, relinquished, renounced, resigned, retired, scrappy, snatchy, spasmodic, spotty, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, suspended, unconnected, unjoined, unsuccessive, worn-out

discontinuity

• discontinuity, Doppler effect, about-face, abstraction, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, alienation, alteration, amelioration, apostasy, arrearage, arrhythmia, betterment, breach, break, brokenness, caesura, capriciousness, change, change of heart, changeableness, choppiness, clearance, constructive change, continuity, conversion, defalcation, defect, defection, deficiency, deficit, degeneration, degenerative change, deracination, desultoriness, detachment, deterioration, deviation, difference, disarrangement, disarticulation, disassociation, disconnectedness, disconnection, disengagement, disjointing, disjunction, dislocation, displacement, distance between, disunion, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, division, divorce, divorcement, double space, eccentricity, em space, en space, erraticness, fibrillation, fitfulness, fits and starts, fitting, flip-flop, fluctuation, forcible shift, freeboard, gap, gradual change, hair space, half space, heterotopia, hiatus, hole, improvement, incoherence, inconstancy, interim, intermediate space, intermittence, interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, irregularity, isolation, jerkiness, jump, lack, lacuna, leap, leeway, luxation, margin, melioration, missing link, mitigation, modification, modulation, need, nonuniformity, omission, opening, outage, overthrow, parting, partition, patchiness, qualification, radical change, re-creation, realignment, red shift, redesign, reform, reformation, remaking, removal, renewal, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, ripping out, room, roughness, segmentation, separation, separatism, shift, shortage, single space, space, space between, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, subdivision, subtraction, sudden change, switch, time interval, total change, transition, turn, turnabout, ullage, uncertainty, unevenness, unhinging, unjointing, unmethodicalness, unpredictability, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, upheaval, uprooting, variability, variation, variety, violent change, want, wantage, whimsicality, withdrawal, wobble, worsening, zoning

discontinuous

• discontinuous, aimless, aloof, amorphous, apart, asunder, bipartite, broken, broken off, capricious, careening, casual, catchy, chopped-off, choppy, decousu, desultory, detached, deviative, dichotomous, disarticulated, disconnected, discontinued, discrete, disjointed, disjunct, disjunctive, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, distinct, divergent, eccentric, episodic, erratic, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, formless, frivolous, gapped, gratuitous, guttering, halting, haphazard, herky-jerky, heteroclite, hit-or-miss, immethodical, in two, inchoate, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, indiscriminate, insular, intermittent, intermitting, interrupted, irregular, jagged, jerky, lurching, meaningless, misshapen, muddled, nonadherent, nonadhesive, noncoherent, noncohesive, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, open, orderless, parenthetic, partitioned, patchy, planless, promiscuous, rambling, random, rough, scrappy, senseless, separate, shapeless, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, straggling, straggly, suspended, systemless, tenuous, unadhesive, unarranged, unassociated, unattached, unattended, uncertain, unclassified, uncoherent, uncohesive, unconnected, undirected, unequal, uneven, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unmetrical, unordered, unorganized, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsorted, unsteady, unsuccessive, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, untenacious, ununiform, vague, variable, veering, wandering, wavering, wobbling, wobbly

discord

• discord, Bedlam let loose, Discordia, Eris, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, argumentation, bedlam, blast, bobbery, brawl, brouhaha, cacophony, charivari, chirm, clamor, clangor, clap, clash, clashing, clatter, coarseness, collision, commotion, conflict, contention, contradiction, controversy, cracked voice, difference, din, disaccord, disaccordance, disaffinity, disagree, disagreement, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, disharmony, disparity, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissonance, disunion, disunity, divergence, diversity, divide, division, donnybrook, drunken brawl, dryness, dustup, enmity, faction, flap, fracas, free-for-all, friction, gruffness, gutturalism, gutturality, gutturalness, harshness, hell broke loose, hoarseness, hostility, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, huskiness, inaccordance, incompatibility, incompatibleness, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, jangle, jar, jarring, loud noise, mischief, mismatch, negation, noise, noise and shouting, noncooperation, open conflict, opposition, oppugnancy, outcry, pandemonium, polarization, racket, rancor, raspiness, rattle, raucity, repugnance, rhubarb, roar, roughness, row, rub, ruckus, ruction, rudeness, rumble, rumpus, scrapiness, scratchiness, shindy, shivaree, stertorousness, strained relations, strife, tension, thickness, throatiness, thunder, thunderclap, tintamarre, tumult, ugliness, uncongeniality, unharmoniousness, unpleasantness, uproar, variance, vary

discordant

• discordant, absonant, adversative, adverse, adversive, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, antonymous, assorted, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, atonal, balancing, cacophonic, cacophonous, clashing, colliding, compensating, conflicting, confronting, contradictory, contradistinct, contrapositive, contrarious, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, converse, counter, counterbalancing, counterpoised, countervailing, cracked, cranky, cross, dead against, departing, deviating, deviative, diaphonic, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, disconsonant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonic, disharmonious, disjoined, disparate, disproportionate, dissentient, dissident, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, eyeball to eyeball, flat, grating, harsh, heterogeneous, hostile, immelodious, immiscible, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruent, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonic, inharmonious, inimical, inverse, irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, many, motley, multifarious, musicless, negative, nonmelodious, obverse, off, off-color, off-key, off-tone, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, out of accord, out of pitch, out of tone, out of tune, out of whack, perverse, poles apart, poles asunder, raucous, repugnant, reverse, separate, separated, several, sharp, shrill, sour, squared off, strident, tuneless, unconformable, uncongenial, unequal, unharmonious, unlike, unmelodious, unmusical, untunable, untuned, untuneful, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart

discotheque

• discotheque, amusement park, ballroom, cabaret, cafe, cafe chantant, cafe dansant, casino, dance floor, dance hall, dancing pavilion, entertainment industry, fun-fair, juke joint, night spot, nightclub, nitery, resort, roadhouse, show biz, show business, supper club, tavern, theater, watering place

discount rate

• discount rate, bank rate, compensatory interest, compound interest, exorbitant interest, gross interest, interest, interest rate, lucrative interest, mortgage points, net interest, penal interest, premium, price, price of money, rate, rate of interest, simple interest, usury

discount store

• discount store, boutique, chain store, co-op, concession, cooperative, countinghouse, country store, department store, dime store, discount house, emporium, establishment, five-and-ten, general store, house, magasin, mail-order house, market, mart, post, retail store, salon, shop, store, supermarket, trading post, variety shop, variety store, warehouse, wareroom, wholesale house

discount

• discount, abate, abatement, abjure, abuse, admit, admit exceptions, allow, allow for, allowance, bate, belittle, blink at, borrow, brush aside, brush off, charge off, chuck, chuck out, concede, consider, consider the circumstances, consider the source, contemn, contradict, cut, decline, deduct, deduction, deny, depreciate, derogate, despise, detract from, diminish, disapprove, discard, disclaim, discount notes, disdain, dismiss, disown, disparage, dispraise, disregard, draw back, except, exclude, fail, forget, forswear, gloss over, grant, ignore, kick back, knock off, lend, lessen, lift temporarily, lower, make allowance, make allowance for, mark down, minimize, omit, overlook, overpass, pass by, pass over, pass up, provide for, push aside, rebate, rebuff, recant, reduce, reduction, refund, refuse, refuse to consider, reject, relax, relax the condition, renounce, repel, repudiate, repulse, scout, set aside, shave, shove away, slight, spurn, subtract, subtraction, take, take a premium, take account of, take away, take into account, take into consideration, take off, take out, throw away, throw out, turn away, turn out, waive, write off

discountenance

• discountenance, abash, abashment, baffle, balk, be against, be agin, blast, brave, chagrin, challenge, checkmate, circumvent, confound, confront, confuse, confusion, contravene, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, cross, dash, defeat, defy, deprecate, destroy, discomfit, discomfiture, discommend, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertion, disconcertment, disesteem, disfavor, dish, disrupt, distress, disturbance, elude, embarrassment, faze, flummox, foil, frown, frustrate, knock the chocks, mortification, nonplus, not abide, not bear with, not brook, not condone, not countenance, not endure, not hold with, not stand for, not suffer, not tolerate, object, perplex, rattle, reproach, reprove, ruin, sabotage, scotch, spike, spoil, stonewall, stump, thwart, upset

discourage

• discourage, afflict, anticipate, avert, awe, bar, beat down, blunt, bother, cast down, check, chill, cool, cow, damp, dampen, dampen the spirits, darken, dash, daunt, debar, deflect, deject, demoralize, depress, deter, disaffect, disapprove of, dishearten, disincline, disinterest, dismay, disparage, dispirit, dissuade, distract, distress, divert, droop, estop, exclude, faze, fend, fend off, forbid, foreclose, forestall, frighten, help, hinder, indispose, inhibit, intimidate, irk, keep from, keep off, knock down, lower, lower the spirits, obviate, oppose, oppress, overawe, preclude, press down, prevent, prohibit, put off, quench, repel, restrain, rule out, sadden, save, scare, shake, sink, slow, stave off, stop, suppress, talk out of, trouble, try, turn aside, turn away, turn from, turn off, unman, unnerve, vex, ward off, wean from, weigh, weigh heavy upon, weigh upon

discouraging

• discouraging, admonitory, alarming, awing, black, bleak, cautionary, chilling, daunting, depressant, depressing, depressive, deterrent, deterring, disconcerting, disheartening, disinclining, dismal, dismaying, dispiriting, disquieting, dissuading, dissuasive, down, dreary, expostulatory, fear-inspiring, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, forestalling, frightening, frightful, hindering, intimidating, monitory, oppressive, overawing, preclusive, preventative, preventive, prohibitive, prophylactic, scaring, scary, startling

discourse

• discourse, accents, act, address, air, amplify, analyze, argue, article, assignment, bandy words, canvass, causerie, chalk talk, chatter, chew the fat, chew the rag, chin, colloque, colloquial discourse, colloquize, colloquy, comment, comment upon, commentate, commerce with, commune with, communicate, communicate with, communication, communion, confab, confabulate, consider, controvert, conversation, converse, converse with, conversing, criticize, deal with, debate, deduction, deductive reasoning, deliberate, deliberate upon, deliver an address, demonstration, descant, develop, dilate, discourse about, discourse of reason, discourse with, discursive reason, discuss, discussion, dispute, disquisition, dissert, dissertate, dissertation, do, elaborate, elocution, enact, enlarge, essay, etude, examination, examine, exchange, exchange views, excursus, exercise, expand, expatiate, explain, exposit, exposition, expound, feature, first approach, gab, give a talk, give-and-take, go into, handle, harangue, hold forth, homework, homily, impersonate, induction, inductive reasoning, inquire into, instruction, intercourse, interlocution, introductory study, investigate, knock around, language, lecture, lecture-demonstration, lesson, logical thought, lucubration, memoir, monograph, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, moralize, morceau, note, object lesson, oral communication, orate, outline, palaver, pandect, paper, paragraph, parole, pass under review, perform, perorate, personate, philosophy, piece, platform, play, playact, point a moral, prattle, preach, preachification, preaching, preachment, prelection, preliminary study, prolegomenon, proof, rap, rapping, ratiocination, rationalism, rationality, rationalization, rationalizing, read a lesson, reason, reason about, reason the point, reasonableness, reasoning, recital, recitation, religious discourse, remark, remark upon, research paper, review, rhetoric, screed, sermon, sermonette, sermonize, set task, shoot the breeze, sift, sketch, skull session, soapbox, sophistry, speak, speak with, speaking, special article, specious reasoning, speech, speechify, study, stump, survey, sweet reason, take counsel with, take the floor, take the stump, take up, talk, talk about, talk of, talk over, talk together, talking, task, teaching, term paper, theme, thesis, thresh out, touch upon, tract, tractate, travelogue, treat, treat of, treatise, treatment, utterance, ventilate, verbal intercourse, verbalization, visit with, voice, words, write up, yakkety-yak, yakking

discourser

• discourser, Boanerges, author, chalk talker, collocutor, colloquialist, conversational partner, conversationalist, converser, descanter, dialogist, disquisitor, essayist, expositor, expounder, homilist, interlocutor, interlocutress, interlocutrice, interlocutrix, lecturer, monographer, monographist, palaverer, parleyer, praelector, preacher, pulpitarian, pulpiteer, reader, sermoner, sermonist, sermonizer, talker, tractation, writer

discourteous

• discourteous, abrupt, aweless, boorish, brusque, curt, derisive, disparaging, disrespectful, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite, impudent, inaffable, insolent, irreverent, misbehaved, ridiculing, rude, short, unaccommodating, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncourteous, uncourtly, ungallant, ungentlemanly, ungracious, unladylike, unmannerly, unpolite

discourtesy

• discourtesy, badness, correct deportment, courtesy, disesteem, dishonor, disorder, disorderliness, disorderly conduct, disparagement, disrespect, disrespectfulness, disruption, disruptiveness, etiquette, frowned-upon behavior, good behavior, good citizenship, good manners, hooliganism, horseplay, impropriety, impudence, insolence, irreverence, lack of respect, misbehavior, misconduct, misdemeanor, misdoing, naughtiness, nonsanctioned behavior, poor behavior, ridicule, roughhouse, rowdiness, rowdyism, ruffianism, sanctioned behavior, sociability, vandalism, venial sin, vice, wrongdoing

discover

• discover, advertise, ascertain, bare, be informed, become acquainted with, beget, behold, betray, break the seal, breed, bring forth, bring into being, bring to light, broaden the mind, call into being, catch on, catch sight of, clap eyes on, coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, cram the mind, debunk, descry, design, detect, determine, develop, devise, dig up, discern, disclose, dismask, distinguish, divulge, draw the veil, dream up, encounter, engender, espy, evolve, expose, fabricate, ferret out, find, find out, find out about, frame, gain knowledge, generate, get, get hold of, get wise to, give away, give being to, give rise to, glimpse, hatch, have in sight, hear, hit, hunt down, identify, impart, improvise, innovate, introduce, introduce new blood, invent, ken, lay bare, lay eyes on, lay open, learn, learn about, let daylight in, let out, load the mind, locate, look on, look upon, make do with, make innovations, make out, make up, manifest, mature, meet with, mint, mouth, neologize, note, notice, observe, open, open up, originate, perceive, pick out, pick up information, pioneer, plan, proclaim, procreate, publish, raise the curtain, recognize, rediscover, reveal, revolutionize, root out, run down, run to earth, search out, see, show, show up, sight, smoke out, spawn, spill, spot, spy, strike, strike out, strip bare, take in, tell, think out, think up, trace, trace down, track down, tumble, turn up, twig, uncloak, uncover, undrape, undress, unearth, unfold, unfurl, unkennel, unmask, unpack, unroll, unscreen, unsheathe, unshroud, unveil, unwrap, view, witness

discovery

• discovery, apocalypse, ascertaining, baring, bonus, breakthrough, buried treasure, coinage, conception, detection, determining, development, disclosing, disclosure, discovering, espial, exploration, expose, exposition, exposure, find, finding, foundling, gravy, idea, innovation, introduction, invention, laying bare, leap, manifestation, neologism, new phase, novelty, origination, patefaction, recognition, removing the veil, revealing, revealment, revelation, showing up, showup, strike, stripping, treasure trove, trouvaille, trove, uncloaking, uncovering, unearthing, unfolding, unfoldment, unmasking, unveiling, unwrapping, waifs, waifs and strays, windfall, windfall money, windfall profit

discredit

• discredit, agnosticism, asperse, aspersion, atheism, bad character, bad name, bad odor, bad report, bad reputation, bad repute, belie, belittle, besmirch, blacken, blemish, blot, blow sky-high, blow up, brand, bring down, bring into discredit, bring low, bring shame upon, bring to naught, calumniate, cast reproach upon, cry down, damage, debase, decry, defamation, defame, deflate, defrock, degradation, degrade, demean, denial, deny, deplume, deprecate, depreciate, derogate from, destroy, detract, detract from, devaluate, devalue, diminish, disapprobation, disapprove of, disbelief, disbelieve, disconfirm, disesteem, disfavor, disgrace, dishonor, disparage, displume, disprove, dispute, disrepute, distrust, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, evil repute, explode, expose, gag on, harm, heresy, hold in contempt, humiliate, humiliation, ignominy, ill fame, ill repute, ill-favor, impute shame to, inability to believe, incredulity, infamy, infidelity, invalidate, knock, libel, lower, make little of, malign, minimifidianism, minimize, misbelief, misbelieve, mistrust, mock, negate, negative, nonbelief, not admit, not believe, not buy, not swallow, nullifidianism, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, pillory, poor reputation, prove the contrary, public dishonor, puncture, put down, put to shame, qualm, question, reduce, reflect discredit upon, reflection, refuse to admit, refuse to credit, refute, reject, rejection, reproach, ridicule, ruin, run down, scandal, scepticism, scruple, shady reputation, shame, shoot, show up, slander, slight, slur, smear, smirch, speak ill of, stigma, stigmatize, submit to indignity, sully, suspicion, taint, tarnish, unbelief, unbelieve, unbelievingness, undercut, unfrock, unsavory reputation, vilify

discredited

• discredited, at a discount, belied, confounded, confuted, contested, deflated, denied, disbelieved, discarded, disgraced, dismissed, disproved, disputed, doubted, exploded, exposed, impugned, in Dutch, in bad, in bad odor, in bad repute, in discredit, in disfavor, in disgrace, in disrepute, invalidated, loaded with shame, mistrusted, moot, negated, negatived, out of countenance, out of favor, overthrown, overturned, punctured, questioned, refuted, rejected, shamed, shown up, suspect, suspected, under a cloud, under suspicion, upset

discreet

• discreet, Olympian, aloof, backward, bashful, blank, calculating, canny, careful, cautious, chary, chilled, chilly, circumspect, close, closemouthed, cold, considerate, constrained, controlled, cool, dark, deliberate, detached, diplomatic, discriminating, discriminative, distant, dry, enlightened, evasive, expressionless, forbidding, frigid, frosty, gingerly, guarded, heedful, hesitant, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, introverted, judgmatic, judicial, judicious, leaving out nothing, mindful, moderate, modest, noncommittal, offish, on guard, overlooking no possibility, pawky, politic, provident, prudent, prudential, reasonable, reflecting, reflective, regardful, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, safe, secret, secretive, shifty, shrinking, simple, slow to act, standoff, standoffish, subdued, suppressed, tactful, temperate, tentative, thorough, thoughtful, unadorned, unadventurous, unaffable, unapproachable, uncommunicative, uncongenial, undaring, undemonstrative, unelaborate, unenterprising, unexcessive, unexpansive, unextreme, ungenial, unostentatious, unprecipitate, unpretentious, wary, watchful, well-advised, well-judged, withdrawn

discreetly

• discreetly, artfully, astutely, cannily, carefully, cautiously, circumspectly, cleverly, considerately, cunningly, discerningly, easy, gingerly, guardedly, heedfully, intelligently, judiciously, knowingly, mindfully, pawkily, providently, prudently, rationally, reasonably, regardfully, sagaciously, sensibly, shrewdly, smartly, thoughtfully, understandingly, wisely, with care, with caution

discrepancy

• discrepancy, antagonism, antipathy, antithesis, argumentation, balance, clashing, collision, conflict, confrontation, contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety, contrast, controversy, counterposition, credit, cross-purposes, deficit, departure, deviation, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discord, discordance, discordancy, discreteness, disharmony, disparity, dissemblance, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, disunion, disunity, divergence, divergency, diversity, epact, faction, far cry, gap, heterogeneity, hostility, inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inimicalness, irreconcilability, jarring, lacuna, mixture, negation, net, nonconformity, odds, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, otherness, perversity, polarity, remainder, repugnance, separateness, showdown, surplus, unconformity, unharmoniousness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, variance, variation, variegation, variety

discrepant

• discrepant, adversative, adverse, adversive, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, antonymous, assorted, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, balancing, clashing, compensating, conflicting, confronting, contradictory, contradistinct, contrapositive, contrarious, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, converse, counter, counterbalancing, counterpoised, countervailing, cranky, cross, dead against, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, disconsonant, discordant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonious, disjoined, disparate, disproportionate, dissident, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, eyeball to eyeball, grating, heterogeneous, hostile, immiscible, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruent, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, inimical, inverse, irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, many, motley, multifarious, negative, obverse, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, out of accord, out of whack, perverse, poles apart, poles asunder, repugnant, reverse, separate, separated, several, squared off, unconformable, uncongenial, unequal, unharmonious, unlike, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart

discrete

• discrete, alien, aloof, apart, assorted, asunder, at odds, at variance, bipartite, broadcast, broken, broken off, chopped-off, choppy, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, decousu, departing, detached, deviating, deviative, dichotomous, different, differentiated, differing, diffuse, disaccordant, disagreeing, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discordant, discrepant, discriminated, disjoined, disjunct, disjunctive, disparate, dispersed, dispread, disrelated, disseminated, dissimilar, dissipated, dissociated, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, distributed, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, episodic, exotic, extraneous, fitful, foreign, gapped, herky-jerky, heterogeneous, in disagreement, in two, inaccordant, incoherent, incommensurable, incomparable, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, independent, individual, inharmonious, insular, intermittent, interrupted, irreconcilable, irregular, irrelative, isolated, jagged, jerky, many, motley, multifarious, nonadherent, nonadhesive, noncoherent, noncohesive, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonuniform, open, other, outlandish, parenthetic, partitioned, patchy, poles apart, poles asunder, removed, scattered, scrappy, segregate, separate, separated, several, snatchy, sparse, spasmodic, sporadic, spotty, spread, straggling, straggly, strange, strewn, strown, suspended, tenuous, unadhesive, unaffiliated, unallied, unassociated, unattached, unattended, uncoherent, uncohesive, unconformable, unconnected, unequal, unjoined, unlike, unrelatable, unrelated, unsuccessive, untenacious, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, widespread, worlds apart

discretion

• discretion, airtight secrecy, aloofness, alternate choice, alternative, animus, anticipation, appetence, appetency, appetite, backwardness, bashfulness, blankness, calculation, canniness, care, careful consideration, carefulness, caution, cautiousness, chilliness, choice, circumspection, circumspectness, close secrecy, closeness, coldness, command, common sense, conation, conatus, concealment, consideration, constraint, contemplation, cool judgment, coolness, crypticness, decision, deliberate stages, deliberateness, deliberation, desire, detachment, determination, diplomacy, discernment, discreetness, discrimination, disposition, distance, envisagement, envisionment, evasion, evasiveness, expressionlessness, fancy, farseeingness, farsightedness, forecast, foreglance, foregleam, foreglimpse, forehandedness, foreseeing, foresight, foresightedness, forethought, free choice, free decision, free will, frigidity, frostiness, full consent, gingerliness, good judgment, good sense, guardedness, gumption, hedge, hedging, heed, heedfulness, hesitation, hiddenness, hugger-mugger, hugger-muggery, iciness, impassiveness, impassivity, impersonality, inaccessibility, inclination, intention, introversion, judgement, judgment, judiciousness, liking, longsightedness, looking ahead, lust, mind, mindfulness, moderation, modesty, noncontingent free will, objective, option, optionality, passion, pawkiness, pleasure, policy, polity, possible choice, precaution, prediction, preference, preparation, prepublication, preview, prevision, prior consultation, prospect, prospection, providence, provision, prudence, prudentialism, prudentialness, readiness, reflection, reflectiveness, regardfulness, remoteness, repression, reserve, reservedness, resolution, restraint, reticence, reticency, retirement, safeness, safety first, sagacity, say, say-so, secrecy, secretiveness, secretness, sense, sexual desire, slowness to act, solicitude, sound judgment, soundness of judgment, standoffishness, subduedness, subterfuge, suppression, tact, tentativeness, the dark, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, unaffability, unapproachability, uncommunicativeness, uncongeniality, undemonstrativeness, unexpansiveness, unprecipitateness, velleity, volition, weighing, will, will and pleasure, will power, wisdom, wish, withdrawal, withdrawnness

discretionary

• discretionary, arbitrary, autonomous, discretional, elective, free, free will, gratuitous, independent, nonmandatory, offered, optional, proffered, self-acting, self-active, self-determined, self-determining, spontaneous, unasked, unbesought, unbidden, uncalled-for, uncoerced, uncompelled, unforced, uninfluenced, uninvited, unpressured, unprompted, unrequested, unrequired, unsolicited, unsought, voluntary, volunteer, willful

discriminate

• discriminate, analyze, anatomize, atomize, change, chop logic, collate, compare, contradistinguish, contrast, demarcate, demark, desynonymize, difference, differentiate, discern, discriminate against, disequalize, disfavor, disjoin, distinguish, diversify, divide, draw the line, extricate, favor, individualize, individuate, make a distinction, mark, mark off, mark out, mark the interface, modify, note, particularize, perceive, personalize, pick out, play favorites, prefer, red-bait, refine a distinction, remark, screen, screen out, segregate, select, separate, set a limit, set apart, set off, sever, severalize, show preference, sieve, sieve out, sift, sift out, sort, sort out, specialize, split hairs, subdivide, subtilize, treat unequally, vary, winnow

discriminating

• discriminating, accurate, adoptive, appointive, appreciative, careful, censorious, characteristic, characterizing, choicy, choosing, choosy, circumspect, civilized, conscientious, considerate, constituent, contrastive, critical, cultivated, cultured, dainty, delicate, diacritical, diagnostic, differencing, differential, differentiative, discerning, discreet, discriminate, discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing, eclectic, elective, electoral, elegant, enlightened, exact, exacting, fastidious, fine, fussy, graceful, gracile, gracious, idiosyncratic, individualizing, individuating, judgmatic, judicial, judicious, keen, meticulous, nice, particular, peculiar, perceptive, perfectionistic, personalizing, picky, polished, politic, precise, precisianistic, priggish, provident, prudent, prudential, prudish, punctilious, puristic, puritanic, refined, reflecting, reflective, scrupulous, select, selecting, selective, sensitive, separative, sophisticated, strict, subtle, tactful, thoughtful, well-advised, well-judged, wise

discrimination

• discrimination, Atticism, Jim Crow, Jim Crow law, acquired taste, acumen, adjudgment, adjudication, aestheticism, alteration, analysis, anatomization, anti-Semitism, apartheid, appreciation of excellence, appropriateness, arbitrament, arbitration, astuteness, atomization, bias, bigotry, black power, black supremacy, censoriousness, change, chasteness, chastity, chauvinism, choice, choiceness, choosiness, circumspection, circumspectness, civilized taste, civilizedness, clarity, class consciousness, class distinction, class hatred, class prejudice, class war, classicalism, classicism, clearness, color bar, color line, comeliness, connoisseurship, conscientiousness, consideration, cool judgment, correctness, criticalness, cultivated taste, cultivation, culture, daintiness, deeming, delicacy, demarcation, desynonymization, differencing, differentiation, dignity, directness, discernment, discreetness, discretion, discriminatingness, discriminativeness, disequalization, disjunction, distinction, distinguishment, diversification, division, ease, eclecticism, elegance, elegancy, excellence, fascism, fastidiousness, favoritism, felicitousness, felicity, finesse, finish, fittingness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, good judgment, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, inclination, individualization, individuation, inequality, inequity, insight, interest, intolerance, involvement, judgement, judging, judgment, judicature, judiciousness, keenness, know-nothingism, leaning, limpidity, lucidity, male chauvinist, meticulousness, minority prejudice, modification, naturalness, neatness, nepotism, niceness, nicety, one-sidedness, parti pris, partiality, particularity, particularization, particularness, partisanism, partisanship, pellucidity, penetration, perception, perceptiveness, percipience, perfectionism, personalization, perspicacity, perspicuity, picking and choosing, plainness, policy, polish, polity, preciseness, precisianism, precision, preference, preferential treatment, prejudice, priggishness, propriety, providence, prudence, prudentialism, prudishness, punctilio, punctiliousness, purism, puritanism, purity, quality, race hatred, race prejudice, race snobbery, racial discrimination, racialism, racism, red-baiting, refinement, reflection, reflectiveness, restraint, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, seemliness, segregation, selectiveness, selectivity, sense, sensitivity, separation, severalization, severance, sex discrimination, sexism, shrewdness, simplicity, smoothness, social barrier, social discrimination, sophistication, sound judgment, soundness of judgment, specialization, straightforwardness, strictness, subtlety, superpatriotism, taste, tastefulness, terseness, thoughtfulness, ultranationalism, unaffectedness, undetachment, undispassionateness, unfairness, unneutrality, variation, weighing, white power, white supremacy, wit, xenophobia

discursion

• discursion, Wanderjahr, aberrancy, aberration, afoot and lighthearted, aside, bend, bias, branching off, bumming, bypath, byway, circuitousness, corner, crook, curve, declination, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, digression, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, episode, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, flitting, gadding, hairpin, hoboism, indirection, itineracy, itinerancy, nomadism, obliquity, parenthesis, peregrination, pererration, ramble, rambling, roam, roaming, rove, roving, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, side path, side road, sidetrack, skew, slant, straying, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, traipsing, turn, turning, twist, vagabondage, vagabondia, vagabondism, vagrancy, variation, veer, wandering, wayfaring, yaw, zigzag

discursive

• discursive, O-shaped, a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, aberrant, aberrative, aimless, ambagious, analytic, backhanded, bright, by the way, categorical, circuitous, circular, circumforaneous, conceptive, conceptual, conditional, deductive, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, dialectic, diffuse, digressing, digressive, divagatory, drifting, enthymematic, epagogic, episodic, errant, erratic, excursive, flitting, floating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fugitive, gadding, gypsy-like, gypsyish, helical, hypothetical, ideational, indirect, inductive, inferential, intellectual, intelligent, knowing, labyrinthine, landloping, long-winded, loose, maieutic, maundering, mazy, meandering, migrational, migratory, noetic, nomad, nomadic, not so dumb, oblique, orbital, out-of-the-way, planetary, prolix, rambling, ranging, rational, reasonable, roaming, rotary, round, roundabout, roving, sane, sensible, serpentine, shifting, snaky, sophic, soritical, spiral, straggling, stray, straying, strolling, strong-minded, swerving, syllogistic, synthetic, traipsing, transient, transitory, transmigratory, turning, twisting, understanding, undirected, vagabond, vagrant, veering, verbose, wandering, winding, windy, wordy, zigzag

discus

• discus, O, annular muscle, annulus, areola, aureole, ball, chaplet, circle, circuit, circumference, circus, closed circle, corona, coronet, crown, cycle, diadem, disk, ejecta, ejectamenta, eternal return, fairy ring, garland, glory, halo, lasso, logical circle, loop, looplet, magic circle, missile, noose, orbit, projectile, quoit, radius, ring, rondelle, round, roundel, saucer, sphincter, trajectile, vicious circle, wheel, wreath

discuss

• discuss, advise with, agitate, air, analyze, argue, bargain, call in, canvass, collogue, comment upon, compare notes, confer, confer with, consider, consult, consult with, controvert, counsel, criticize, deal with, debate, deliberate, deliberate over, deliberate upon, descant, discept, discourse, discourse about, discuss with, dispute, dissert, dissertate, examine, exchange observations, exchange views, go into, handle, have conversations, hold conference, inquire into, interpret, investigate, knock around, moot, negotiate, palaver, parley, pass under review, powwow, pro and con, put heads together, rap, reason, reason about, reason the point, reason with, refer to, remark upon, review, sift, sit down together, sit down with, study, survey, take counsel, take up, take up with, talk, talk about, talk of, talk over, thrash out, thresh out, toss, touch upon, treat, treat of, ventilate, write up

discussion

• discussion, airing, analysis, argument, article, audience, bargaining, bargaining session, bull session, buzz session, canvassing, causerie, chat, colloquium, colloquy, conclave, confab, confabulation, conference, confrontation, congress, consideration, consultation, convention, conversation, council, council fire, council of war, debate, debating, deliberation, descant, dialectic, dialogue, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, essay, etude, examination, exchange, exchange of views, excursus, exposition, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, feature, first approach, forum, high-level talk, homily, huddle, interchange of views, interview, introductory study, investigation, joint discussion, logical analysis, logical discussion, lucubration, meeting, memoir, monograph, morceau, negotiations, news conference, note, open discussion, open forum, outline, palaver, pandect, panel discussion, paper, paragraph, parley, piece, pourparler, powwow, preliminary study, press conference, prolegomenon, rap, rap session, research paper, review, screed, scrutiny, seance, seminar, session, sitting, sketch, special article, study, summit, summit conference, summitry, survey, symposium, talk, term paper, theme, thesis, town meeting, tract, tractate, treatise, treatment, ventilation

disdain

• disdain, abhor, abjure, airs, antipathetic, antipathy, aristocratic disdain, arrogance, arrogant, audacity, averse, aversion, be above, be contemptuous of, bold front, boldness, brash bearing, brashness, brassiness, bravado, brazenness, brush aside, bumptiousness, care nothing for, cavalier, cavalierness, cheekiness, chuck, chuck out, clannishness, cliquishness, cockiness, contemn, contempt, contemptuousness, contradict, contumeliousness, contumely, daring, daringness, decline, defial, defiance, defying, denigrate, deny, deprecate, depreciate, deride, derision, despisal, despise, despising, despite, disapprove, discard, disclaim, discommend, discount, disdainful, disdainfulness, dismiss, disown, disparage, disparagement, dispraise, disprize, disregard, disvalue, dump on, except, exclude, exclusiveness, feel contempt for, feel superior to, flout, forswear, fuss, haughtiness, haughty, hauteur, high-and-mighty, hold beneath one, hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in derision, ignore, impertinence, impudence, insolence, insolent, insult, laugh at, laugh to scorn, loftiness, look down upon, lordly, misprize, morgue, overbearing, pass by, pass up, pertness, pick and choose, push aside, put down, rank low, rebuff, recant, refuse, refuse to consider, reject, rejecting, renounce, repel, repudiate, repulse, ridicule, sauciness, scoff at, scorn, scornfulness, scorning, scout, scouting, set at defiance, set at naught, shove away, slight, slight over, sneer at, sneeze at, sniff at, sniffiness, snobbishness, snootiness, snort at, snottiness, sovereign contempt, spurn, spurning, supercilious, superciliousness, superior, think nothing of, throw away, throw out, toploftiness, treat with contempt, turn away, turn out, unsympathetic, waive

disdainful

• disdainful, abjuratory, arrogant, audacious, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, bumptious, cavalier, challenging, cheeky, clannish, cliquish, cocky, cold, contemptuous, contumelious, cool, daring, declinatory, defiant, defying, derisive, despising, dismissive, disregardful, exclusive, familiar, forward, greatly daring, haughty, high and mighty, highfalutin, hoity-toity, hubristic, impertinent, impudent, insolent, insulting, jeering, lordly, mocking, obtrusive, overpresumptuous, overweening, pert, pompous, presuming, presumptuous, prideful, procacious, proud, pushy, regal, regardless of consequences, rejective, renunciative, saucy, scornful, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, stuck-up, supercilious, superior, toploftical, toplofty, uppish, uppity, withering

disease

• disease, affection, affliction, ailment, bane, blight, bug, bugbear, burden, calamity, cancer, complaint, condition, contagion, contaminate, crushing burden, curse, death, debility, decrepitude, destruction, disability, disorder, epizootic, evil, feebleness, grievance, harm, ill, illness, infect, infection, infirmity, infliction, malady, malaise, misery, murrain, nemesis, open wound, pest, pestilence, plague, running sore, scourge, sickliness, sickness, syndrome, taint, thorn, torment, unhealthiness, vexation, virus, visitation, woe

diseased

• diseased, abed, abnormal, afflicted, ailing, bad, cankered, contaminated, gangrened, gangrenous, ill, infected, infirm, morbid, mortified, out of sorts, pathological, peccant, poisoned, septic, sick, sphacelated, tainted, ulcerated, ulcerous, unhealthy, unsound, unwell, unwholesome

disembark

• disembark, alight, anchor, cast anchor, come to anchor, come to land, debark, debus, deplane, detrain, disemplane, dock, drop anchor, drop the hook, go ashore, kedge, kedge off, land, lash, lash and tie, lay anchor, leave, make a landfall, make land, make port, moor, put in, put into port, reach land, tie up, unboat

disembarrass

• disembarrass, break loose, break out, clear, cut loose, disburden, disembroil, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, disinvolve, dislodge, extricate, free, free up, get out, liberate, lighten, release, rid, set at ease, tear loose, unburden, unclutter, unfreight, unknot, unload, unravel, unscramble, unsnarl, untangle, untie, untwine

disembodied

• disembodied, airy, asomatous, astral, bodiless, decarnate, decarnated, discarnate, ethereal, extramundane, ghostly, immaterial, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate, incorporeal, insubstantial, intangible, nonmaterial, nonphysical, occult, otherworldly, phantom, psychic, shadowy, spectral, spiritual, supernatural, transmundane, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unphysical, unreal, unsubstantial, unworldly, wraithlike

disembroil

• disembroil, break loose, break out, clarify, clear, clear up, cut loose, disburden, disembarrass, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, disintricate, disinvolve, dislodge, extricate, free, free up, get out, liberate, ravel, release, sort out, tear loose, unbraid, unclutter, uncoil, unknot, unmix, unravel, unscramble, unsnarl, untangle, unthread, untwine, untwist, unweave, unwind

disenchant

• disenchant, awaken, break the spell, burst the bubble, correct, debunk, disabuse, disappoint, disillude, disillusion, disillusionize, enlighten, expose, let down easy, let in on, prick the bubble, put straight, set right, set straight, show up, tell the truth, unblindfold, uncharm, undeceive, unspell, wake up

disenchanted

• disenchanted, against, allergic, averse, blase, con, cynical, disabused, disaffected, disappointed, disapprobatory, disapproving, discontented, disgruntled, disillusioned, disinclined, displeased, dissatisfied, dissenting, enlightened, hostile, indifferent, indignant, jaundiced, knowing, low, mondaine, not charmed, opposed, opposing, poor, put off, put straight, robbed of illusion, set right, sophisticate, sophisticated, soured, turned-off, unappreciative, unapproving, uncharmed, uncomplimentary, undeceived, unfavorable, unfriendly, unhappy, unspelled, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise

disenchantment

• disenchantment, about-face, awakening, backing, backsliding, ban, blackball, blackballing, complaint, debunking, dim view, disagreement, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, disesteem, disfavor, disgruntlement, disillusion, disillusionment, displeasure, disrespect, dissatisfaction, dissent, distaste, enlightenment, exclusion, flip-flop, indignation, lapse, low estimation, low opinion, objection, opposition, opposure, ostracism, protest, recidivation, recidivism, reclamation, reconversion, regress, regression, rehabilitation, reinstatement, rejection, relapse, restitution, restoration, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, retroversion, return, return to reality, returning, reversal, reverse, reversion, reverting, revulsion, rude awakening, slipping back, thumbs-down, turn, turnabout, undeception, unhappiness, unspelling

disencumber

• disencumber, alleviate, be light, clear, disburden, disembarrass, disembroil, disengage, disentangle, disinvolve, ease, extricate, free, free up, have little weight, kick the beam, liberate, lighten, make light, make lighter, off-load, reduce weight, relieve, set at ease, unballast, unburden, unclutter, unfreight, unlade, unload, unscramble, unsnarl, untangle, untie, untwine, weigh lightly

disenfranchise

• disenfranchise, deprive of freedom, disfranchise, dominate, enslave, enthrall, hold captive, hold down, hold in bondage, hold in captivity, hold in leash, hold in subjection, keep down, keep under, lead captive, make dependent, peonize, subject, subjugate, subordinate, take captive, vassalize

disengage

• disengage, abrupt, abstract, alienate, back down, back out, beat a retreat, break loose, break out, break with, cast off, cast out, clear, cut adrift, cut loose, cut off, cut out, delete, depart, detach, disarticulate, disburden, disconnect, disembarrass, disembroil, disencumber, disentangle, disinvolve, disjoin, disjoint, dislodge, dissociate, disunite, divide, divorce, doff, draw back, draw off, eject, estrange, expel, extricate, fall back, free, free up, get away from, get out, get out of, get rid of, give ground, give place, go back, isolate, leave, liberate, loose, loosen, move back, part, pull away, pull back, pull out, release, remove, retire, retreat, run back, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, set free, shake off, shut off, split, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, stand back, step aside, subtract, take off, tear loose, throw off, throw out, unbar, unbind, unbolt, unbuckle, unbutton, unchain, unclasp, unclutter, uncouple, undo, unfasten, unfetter, unglue, unhook, unknot, unlace, unlatch, unleash, unlock, unloose, unloosen, unravel, unscramble, unsnarl, unstick, unstrap, untangle, untie, unyoke, weigh anchor, withdraw

disengaged

• disengaged, afoot and lighthearted, alienated, at large, at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, available, clear, detached, disarticulated, disconnected, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, dispersed, disunited, divided, divorced, easygoing, emancipated, escaped, estranged, fallow, fled, flown, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, free, free and easy, free as air, freeborn, freed, fugitive, go-as-you-please, idle, in the clear, isolated, jobless, leisure, leisured, liberated, loose, lumpen, off, off duty, off work, on the loose, otiose, out of, out of employ, out of harness, out of work, released, removed, runaway, scattered, scot-free, segregated, separated, sequestered, shut off, unattached, uncommitted, unemployable, unemployed, unengaged, uninvolved, unoccupied, well out of

disengagement

• disengagement, abstraction, alienation, breaking out, clearing, detachment, disarticulation, disassociation, disburdening, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, disembarrassment, disembroilment, disencumbrance, disentanglement, disinvolvement, disjointing, disjunction, dislocation, dislodgment, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, extrication, fallback, freeing, incoherence, isolation, luxation, parting, partition, pullback, pullout, reculade, releasing, removal, retirement, retreat, segmentation, separation, separatism, subdivision, subtraction, uncluttering, unhampering, unknotting, unraveling, unscrambling, unsnarling, untangling, withdrawal, withdrawment, zoning

disentangle

• disentangle, answer, avulse, bottom, break loose, break out, clarify, clear, clear up, crack, cut loose, cut out, debug, decipher, decode, deracinate, detach, dig out, dig up, disburden, disembarrass, disembroil, disencumber, disengage, disintricate, disinvolve, dislodge, divine, do, dope, dope out, draw, draw out, dredge, dredge up, eradicate, evolve, evulse, excavate, excise, explain, exsect, extend, extract, extricate, fathom, figure out, find out, find the answer, find the solution, flatten, free, free up, get, get out, get right, gouge out, grub up, guess, guess right, have it, hit it, interpret, liberate, make out, mine, open the lock, part, pick out, pluck out, pluck up, plumb, psych, psych out, pull, pull out, pull up, put straight, puzzle out, quarry, rake out, ravel, ravel out, rectify, release, remove, resolve, riddle, rip out, root out, root up, separate, set straight, sever, sit up, smooth, solve, sort out, stand up, straighten, straighten out, straighten up, sunder, take out, tear loose, tear out, unbend, unbraid, unclutter, uncoil, uncurl, undo, unearth, unkink, unknot, unlock, unmix, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, unsnarl, untangle, unthread, untie, untwine, untwist, unweave, unwind, uproot, weed out, withdraw, work, work out, wrest out

disentanglement

• disentanglement, accomplishment, answer, ascertainment, avulsion, breaking out, clearing, clearing up, cracking, cutting out, decipherment, decoding, determination, disburdening, disembarrassment, disembroilment, disencumbrance, disengagement, disinvolvement, dislodgment, distillation, drawing, drawing out, dredging, drilling, end, end result, enucleation, eradication, evolvement, evulsion, excavation, excision, explanation, expression, exsection, extirpation, extraction, extrication, finding, finding-out, freeing, interpretation, issue, mining, narrowing, outcome, pressing out, pulling, purification, quarrying, reason, refinement, releasing, removal, resolution, resolving, result, riddling, ripping out, simplification, solution, solving, sorting out, squeezing out, streamlining, stripping, stripping down, uncluttering, unhampering, unknotting, unraveling, unriddling, unrooting, unscrambling, unsnarling, unspinning, untangling, untwisting, unweaving, uprooting, upshot, withdrawal, working, working-out, wresting out

disenthrone

• disenthrone, break, bust, cashier, deconsecrate, defrock, depose, dethrone, disbar, discrown, dismiss, displace, drum out, excommunicate, expel, give the gate, kick upstairs, liquidate, oust, overthrow, pension, pension off, purge, read out of, remove, remove from office, retire, strip of office, strip of rank, superannuate, suspend, unchurch, uncrown, unfrock, unmake, unsaddle, unseat, unthrone

disesteem

• disesteem, bad character, bad name, bad odor, bad report, bad reputation, bad repute, ban, be disrespectful, be overfamiliar with, blackball, blackballing, complaint, deprecate, dim view, disagreement, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, discommend, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, discountenance, discourtesy, discredit, disenchantment, disfavor, disgruntlement, dishonor, disillusion, disillusionment, disparage, disparagement, displeasure, disrespect, disrespectfulness, dissatisfaction, dissent, distaste, evil repute, exclusion, frown, ill fame, ill repute, ill-favor, impudence, indignation, insolence, irreverence, lack of respect, low estimation, low opinion, make free with, not respect, object, objection, opposition, opposure, ostracism, poor reputation, protest, public dishonor, rank low, rejection, ridicule, shady reputation, shame, show disrespect for, take a liberty, take liberties with, thumbs-down, treat with disrespect, trifle with, unhappiness, unsavory reputation

disfavor

• disfavor, abhor, alienation, aversion, bad books, bad character, bad name, bad odor, bad report, bad reputation, bad repute, ban, be hostile to, blackball, blackballing, breach, breach of friendship, break, categorically reject, cleavage, cleft, complaint, deprecate, dim view, disaffection, disaffinity, disagreement, disallow, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, disapprove, disapprove of, discommend, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, discountenance, discredit, disenchantment, disesteem, disgrace, disgruntlement, dishonor, disillusion, disillusionment, disinclination, dislike, disliking, displeasure, disrelish, disrepute, disrespect, disruption, dissatisfaction, dissent, dissent from, distaste, distrust, disunion, disunity, divergence, dividedness, division, estrangement, evil repute, exclude, exclusion, falling-out, frown, frown at, frown down, frown upon, grimace at, hate, ignominy, ill fame, ill repute, ill-favor, indignation, indisposition, infamy, loathe, look askance at, look black upon, low estimation, low opinion, mislike, mistrust, not approve, not care for, not go for, not hear of, not hold with, object, object to, objection, obloquy, odium, open rupture, oppose, opposition, opposure, opprobrium, ostracism, ostracize, poor reputation, protest, public dishonor, recall of ambassadors, reject, rejection, rift, rupture, say no to, schism, separation, shady reputation, split, take exception to, think ill of, think little of, thumb down, thumbs-down, unhappiness, unsavory reputation, view with disfavor

disfigure

• disfigure, blemish, blot, check, cicatrize, crack, craze, deface, deform, disproportion, distort, dysphemize, flaw, kink, look a fright, look a mess, look bad, look like hell, look something terrible, mar, misshape, mutilate, offend, offend the eye, scab, scar, scarify, split, spoil, truncate, twist, uglify, warp

disfigured

• disfigured, bandy, bandy-legged, beautiless, blemished, bloated, blotted, bowlegged, cacophonic, cacophonous, checked, cicatrized, club-footed, cracked, crazed, damaged, defaced, defective, deformed, distorted, dwarfed, dysphemistic, dysphemized, faulty, flatfooted, flawed, grotesque, homely, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, impaired, inelegant, injured, keloidal, kinked, knock-kneed, malformed, marred, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mutilated, out of shape, pigeon-toed, pimpled, pimply, plain, pug-nosed, rachitic, rickety, ruined, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, short on looks, simous, snub-nosed, split, spoiled, spoilt, stumpy, swaybacked, talipedic, truncated, twisted, uglified, ugly, ugly as hell, ugly as sin, unaesthetic, unattractive, unbeautiful, uncomely, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasing, unpretty, unsightly, warped

disfigurement

• disfigurement, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, bowlegs, bulla, cacophony, camelback, check, cicatrix, cleft palate, clubfoot, clumsiness, comedo, crack, crater, craze, crookback, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, distortion, dysphemism, fault, flatfoot, flaw, freakishness, freckle, gracelessness, harelip, hemangioma, hickey, homeliness, humpback, hunchback, ill-favoredness, inelegance, keloid, kink, knock-knee, kyphosis, lentigo, lordosis, malconformation, malformation, milium, misproportion, misshape, mole, monstrosity, mutilation, needle scar, nevus, pimple, pit, plainness, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, rift, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, shapelessness, splayfoot, split, strawberry mark, sty, swayback, talipes, teratology, torticollis, track, truncation, twist, uglification, uglifying, ugliness, unaestheticness, unattractiveness, unbeautifulness, uncomeliness, ungainliness, ungracefulness, unhandsomeness, unloveliness, unpleasingness, unprettiness, unshapeliness, unsightliness, valgus, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, whitehead, wryneck

disgorge

• disgorge, abandon, abjure, barf, be seasick, be sick, belch, blow open, blow out, break out, bring up, burst forth, burst out, cast, cast forth, cede, chuck up, debouch, decant, discharge, disembogue, dispense with, dispose of, do without, drop, dump, egest, ejaculate, eject, eruct, erupt, exhaust, expel, extravasate, feed the fish, forgo, forswear, gag, get along without, get rid of, give away, give up, have done with, heave, heave the gorge, hurl forth, irrupt, jet, keck, kiss good-bye, make a sacrifice, outpour, part with, pour, pour forth, pour out, puke, quitclaim, recant, regurgitate, reject, relinquish, render up, renounce, resign, retch, retract, sacrifice, send forth, send out, sick up, spare, spew, spout, spurt, squirt, surrender, swear off, throw out, throw up, upchuck, vacate, vomit, waive, yield

disgorgement

• disgorgement, barf, blowout, discharge, egesta, egestion, ejaculation, emission, eructation, eruption, expulsion, extravasation, gagging, heaves, heaving, jet, nausea, outburst, outpour, puke, regurgitation, spew, spout, spurt, squirt, vomit, vomiting, vomition

disgrace

• disgrace, abasement, abomination, asperse, aspersion, atrocity, bad, belittle, belittling, besmirch, black eye, black mark, blacken, blemish, blot, brand, bring down, bring into discredit, bring low, bring shame upon, burning shame, byword, byword of reproach, cast reproach upon, comedown, contempt, cry down, debase, debasement, debasing, decrial, decry, defame, deflate, deflation, defrock, degradation, degrade, deplume, depreciate, depreciation, derogate from, derogation, descent, desecration, detract from, detraction, dirty shame, disapproval, disapprove of, discredit, discrediting, disesteem, disfavor, dishonor, disparage, disparagement, displume, disrepute, dump, embarrass, embarrassment, error, evil, faint praise, hangdog look, harm, hold in contempt, humble, humbled pride, humbling, humiliate, humiliation, ignominy, impute shame to, indignity, infamy, iniquity, knavery, knock, knocking, let down, letdown, low-down dirty shame, lukewarm support, make little of, minimize, minimizing, mortification, mortify, obliquity, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, pity, profanation, put down, put out, put to shame, put-down, putting down, reflect discredit upon, reproach, reprobacy, run down, sacrilege, scandal, scandalize, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-diminishment, setdown, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, sin, slight, slighting, slur, smear, smirch, sour grapes, speak ill of, spot, stain, stigma, stigmatize, submit to indignity, sully, taint, tarnish, terrible thing, unfrock, vilification, vilify, villainy, violation, vitiate, vitiation, wrong

disgraceful

• disgraceful, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, arrant, atrocious, bad, base, beneath one, black, blamable, blameworthy, cheap, contemptible, corrupt, criminal, damnable, dark, debased, debasing, degraded, degrading, delinquent, demeaning, deplorable, despicable, deviant, discreditable, dishonorable, disreputable, embarrassing, evil, execrable, flagitious, flagrant, foul, gutter, hardly the thing, heinous, humiliating, humiliative, ignominious, illegal, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, infamous, infra dig, infra indignitatem, inglorious, iniquitous, knavish, lascivious, lewd, low, mean, monstrous, naughty, nefarious, not done, not the thing, notorious, objectionable, off-base, off-color, opprobrious, out-of-line, outrageous, peccant, pitiful, rank, reprehensible, reprobate, rude, sacrilegious, sad, scandalous, shabby, shady, shameful, shameless, shocking, shoddy, sinful, sorry, terrible, too bad, unbecoming, undue, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, unlawful, unpardonable, unrespectable, unrighteous, unseemly, unspeakable, unsuitable, unworthy, unworthy of one, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong, wrongful

disgruntled

• disgruntled, against, annoyed, bad-tempered, beefing, bellyaching, bitching, browned off, complaining, complaintful, con, crabbing, crabby, cranky, croaking, cross, disappointed, disapprobatory, disapproving, discontent, discontented, disenchanted, disillusioned, displeased, dissatisfied, dissenting, envious, exasperated, faultfinding, fed up, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumbling, grumpy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, indignant, irritated, low, malcontent, malcontented, moody, murmuring, muttering, opposed, opposing, out of humor, peeved, peevish, petulant, poor, put out, querulant, querulous, rebellious, resentful, restive, restless, sulky, sullen, testy, turned-off, unaccepting, unaccommodating, unappreciative, unapproving, uncomplimentary, uneasy, unfavorable, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unsatisfied, vexed, whiny

disguise

• disguise, accouter, acting, affect, affectation, appearance, assume, attitudinizing, bad copy, bad likeness, ballet skirt, becloud, befog, belie, blanket, blind, bluff, bluffing, burlesque, buskin, camouflage, cap and bells, caparison, caricature, charade, cheating, cloak, cloud, color, coloring, conceal, contrast, costume, counterfeit, cover, cover up, cover-up, curtain, deceive, deception, delusion, difference, disparity, dissemblance, dissemble, dissembling, dissimilarity, dissimilate, dissimilation, dissimilitude, dissimulate, dissimulation, distort, distract attention from, divergence, diversity, domino, dress up, eclipse, embellish, embroider, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, equip, exaggerate, facade, face, fake, fakery, faking, false air, false colors, false face, false front, false show, falsify, falsity, feign, feigning, feint, fit, fit out, form, four-flushing, fraud, front, fudge, garble, getup, gild, gilt, gloss, gloss over, guise, habit, hide, humbug, humbuggery, identity, imposture, incognito, incommensurability, incomparability, keep under cover, make-believe, makeup, mask, masque, masquerade, mere caricature, meretriciousness, miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, misteach, motley, mummery, nonuniformity, obfuscate, obscure, occult, ostentation, outfit, outward show, overdraw, overstate, pageant, parody, pervert, playacting, poor imitation, pose, posing, posture, pretend, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, pretext, protective coloration, put-on, representation, rig, rig out, rig up, screen, seeming, semblance, shade, sham, show, shroud, simulacrum, simulate, simulation, slant, slur over, smoke screen, sock, speciousness, strain, suit, tights, titivate, travesty, trick out, turn out, tutu, twist, understate, uniform, unlikeness, unresemblance, unsameness, unsimilarity, varnish, vary, veil, veneer, visor, vizard, vizard mask, warp, whitewash, window dressing, wraps, wrench

disguised

• disguised, appareled, arrayed, attired, bedecked, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, boozy, breeched, camouflaged, canned, capped, chausse, clad, cloaked, clothed, coifed, concealed, costumed, decked, dight, dressed, drunk, endued, garbed, garmented, gowned, habilimented, habited, hidden, hooded, imperceptible, in disguise, incog, incognito, indiscernible, inebriated, insensible, invested, invisible, latent, liveried, mantled, masked, masquerading, muddled, out of sight, pantalooned, pixilated, plastered, raimented, rigged out, robed, secret, shod, shoed, sightless, submerged, tired, togged, tricked out, trousered, unapparent, unbeheld, unbeholdable, undiscernible, unnoticed, unobserved, unperceivable, unperceived, unrealized, unseeable, unseen, unviewed, unwitnessed, vested, vestmented, viewless

disgust

• disgust, abhorrence, abomination, allergy, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, appall, aversion, cold sweat, contempt, creeping flesh, dislike, distaste, enmity, fulsomeness, give offense, gross out, hate, hatred, horrify, horror, hostility, loathing, mortal horror, nausea, nauseate, odium, offend, outrage, put off, reluct, repel, repugnance, repulse, repulsion, revolt, revulsion, shock, shuddering, sicken, sickness, turn the stomach

disgusted

• disgusted, abhorrent, allayed, anguished, anxious, averse to, bored, cheerless, cloyed, crammed, depressed, engorged, fed-up, full, full of, glutted, gorged, grim, hating, jaded, joyless, loathing, nauseated, nauseous, offended, outraged, overfed, overfull, overgorged, oversaturated, overstuffed, pleasureless, prey to malaise, queasy, repelled, replete, revolted, sad, sated, satiated, satisfied, saturated, sick, sick of, sickened, slaked, stuffed, suffering angst, supersaturated, surfeited, tired, tired of, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unquiet, unsatisfied, weary, with a bellyful, with a snootful, with enough of

disgusting

• disgusting, abhorrent, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, barfy, base, beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brutal, cheesy, contemptible, crappy, crude, crummy, debased, degraded, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, distasteful, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flagrant, flyblown, forbidding, foul, fulsome, gloppy, grave, grievous, gross, gunky, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, icky, ignoble, infamous, lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, maggoty, malodorous, mangy, mean, measly, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, ordurous, outrageous, paltry, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, puky, putrid, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurfy, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shitty, shocking, shoddy, sickening, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, small, sordid, sposhy, squalid, stinking, terrible, too bad, unappetizing, unclean, unmentionable, unsavory, vile, villainous, vomity, woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched, yecchy

dish out

• dish out, accord, administer, afford, allot, allow, award, bail, bestow, bestow on, bucket, communicate, confer, cup, deal, deal out, decant, deliver, dip, dish, dish up, dispense, dole, dole out, donate, extend, fork, fork out, furnish, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give out, grant, hand, hand out, hand over, heap, help to, impart, issue, ladle, lavish, let have, mete, mete out, offer, pour, present, proffer, provide, rain, render, scoop, serve, shell out, shovel, shower, slip, snow, spade, spoon, supply, tender, transfer, turn over, vouchsafe, yield