Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/23

dish

• dish, KO, antepast, autoclave, babble, baffle, bail, balk, billy, blast, boil, bowl, brave, broil, bucket, cackle, caddy, cage, can, canister, casserole, cave, cave in, challenge, chat, checkmate, china, chinaware, circumvent, clack, coaster, compote, concave, confound, confront, contravene, cook, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, course, cover, crock, cross, crucible, culinary masterpiece, culinary preparation, cup, dash, decant, defeat, defy, dessert, destroy, dip, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, dish out, dish up, disrupt, dither, do for, do in, elude, entree, entremets, fix, flummox, foil, fork, frustrate, fry, gab, gallipot, garbage can, gas, grill, help, helping, hod, holdall, hollow, hollow out, hopper, incurve, jaw, knock out, knock the chocks, ladle, magazine, main dish, mortar, mortarboard, nonplus, pail, palette, patera, perplex, pitcher, place, plate, platter, portion, pour, powder horn, prattle, retire, retreat, roast, ruin, sabotage, salver, saucer, scoop, scotch, scuttle, second helping, service, serving, settle, shoot down, shovel, side dish, sink, slop pail, spade, spike, spoil, spoon, stonewall, stump, tableware, thwart, tin, torpedo, trash can, tray, trencher, undo, upset, vat, waiter, wastepaper basket, watering can, yak

dishabille

• dishabille, bathrobe, bed jacket, brunch coat, casual clothes, dressing gown, housecoat, kimono, lounging robe, morning dress, neglige, negligee, robe, robe-de-chambre, smoking jacket, something comfortable, sport clothes, undress, wrap, wrapper

disharmonious

• disharmonious, absonant, antagonistic, antipathetic, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, atonal, cacophonic, cacophonous, clashing, colliding, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, cracked, cranky, cross, diaphonic, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, disconsonant, discordant, discrepant, disharmonic, disproportionate, dissentient, dissident, dissonant, divergent, flat, grating, harsh, hostile, immelodious, immiscible, inaccordant, incompatible, inharmonic, inharmonious, jangling, jarring, musicless, negative, nonmelodious, off, off-key, off-tone, out of accord, out of pitch, out of tone, out of tune, out of whack, raucous, repugnant, sharp, shrill, sour, strident, tuneless, uncongenial, unharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical, untunable, untuned, untuneful, variant

disharmony

• disharmony, Discordia, Eris, antagonism, argumentation, atonalism, atonality, cacophony, clash, clashing, clinker, conflict, contention, contradiction, controversy, derangement, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disaffinity, disagreement, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disparity, disproportion, disruption, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissonance, dissonancy, dissonant chord, disturbance, disunion, disunity, divergence, diversity, enmity, entropy, faction, flatness, friction, haphazardness, inaccordance, incoherence, incompatibility, incompatibleness, indiscriminateness, inequality, inharmonious harmony, inharmoniousness, inharmony, irregularity, jangle, jar, jarring, mischief, most admired disorder, negation, noncooperation, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, off note, open conflict, opposition, oppugnancy, perturbation, promiscuity, promiscuousness, randomness, repugnance, rub, sharpness, sour note, sourness, strained relations, stridor, strife, tension, tunelessness, turbulence, unharmoniousness, unmusicality, unpleasantness, unsymmetry, untunefulness, ununiformity, upset, variance, wolf

dishearten

• dishearten, anticipate, avert, awe, bar, beat down, cast down, chill, damp, dampen, dampen the spirits, darken, dash, daunt, debar, deflect, deject, demoralize, depress, deter, disappoint, discontent, discourage, disgruntle, disparage, dispirit, displease, dissatisfy, estop, exclude, faze, fend, fend off, forbid, foreclose, forestall, help, keep from, keep off, knock down, lower, lower the spirits, obviate, oppress, overawe, preclude, press down, prevent, prohibit, put out, repel, rule out, sadden, save, shake, sink, stave off, stop, turn aside, ward off, weigh heavy upon, weigh upon

disheartened

• disheartened, bowed-down, cast down, dashed, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, desponding, discouraged, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, drooping, droopy, feeling low, heartless, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, languishing, low, low-spirited, pessimistic, pining, spiritless, subdued, suicidal, weary of life, woebegone, world-weary

disheartening

• disheartening, alarming, awing, black, bleak, chilling, daunting, depressant, depressing, depressive, despondent, deterrent, deterring, disappointing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismal, dismaying, dispiriting, displeasing, disquieting, dissatisfactory, down, dreary, fear-inspiring, fearful, fearsome, frightening, frightful, funereal, inadequate, incommensurate, insufficient, not good enough, oppressive, overawing, pessimistic, scaring, scary, somber, startling, unfulfilling, ungratifying, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying

dishevel

• dishevel, clutter, confuse, derange, disarrange, disarray, discompose, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, disturb, jumble, knock galley-west, litter, mess, mess up, misarrange, muddle, muss, muss up, perturb, ruffle, rumple, scatter, tousle, unsettle, upset

disheveled

• disheveled, matted, messed up, messy, mussed up, raunchy, ruffled, rumpled, shaggy, slipshod, sloppy, snaggy, snarled, tousled, tously, tumbled, uncombed, unfastidious, unkempt, untidy

dishonest

• dishonest, Machiavellian, ambidextrous, amoral, artful, bent, casuistic, cheating, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, counterfeit, crafty, criminal, cronk, crooked, cunning, dark, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, defrauding, devious, dishonorable, disingenuous, double, double-dealing, double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued, doublehearted, doubtful, dubious, duplicitous, empty, equivocal, evasive, faithless, fake, false, false-principled, falsehearted, felonious, fishy, forsworn, fraudulent, furtive, hollow, hypocritical, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral, indirect, insidious, insincere, jesuitic, knavish, lying, mealymouthed, mendacious, not kosher, oblique, perfidious, perjured, prevaricating, questionable, roguish, rotten, shady, shameless, shifty, sinister, slippery, snide, suspicious, swindling, thieving, thievish, tongue in cheek, treacherous, tricky, truthless, two-faced, uncandid, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unfair, unfrank, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unserious, unstraightforward, untrustworthy, untruthful, unveracious, without remorse, without shame

dishonesty

• dishonesty, Machiavellianism, ambidexterity, artifice, bad faith, ballot-box stuffing, bunco, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, cozenage, credibility gap, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceitfulness, deviousness, diddle, diddling, dishonor, dodge, double-dealing, doubleness, doubleness of heart, duplicity, evasiveness, faithlessness, falseheartedness, falsehood, falseness, feloniousness, fibbery, fibbing, fishy transaction, flam, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gerrymandering, graft, grift, gyp, gyp joint, hanky-panky, illicit business, imposition, imposture, improbity, indirection, low cunning, lying, mendaciousness, mendacity, mythomania, pseudology, racket, scam, shadiness, sharp practice, shiftiness, slipperiness, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, truthlessness, two-facedness, unconscientiousness, underhandedness, unsavoriness, unscrupulousness, unstraightforwardness, untruthfulness, unveraciousness, wile

dishonor

• dishonor, abase, abuse, affront, aspersion, bad character, bad debt, bad name, bad odor, bad report, bad reputation, bad repute, belittlement, black mark, blemish, blot, bring into discredit, bring low, bring shame upon, call names, cast reproach upon, commit sacrilege, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, criminality, crookedness, debase, debauch, defamation, default, defection, defile, deflower, defrock, degrade, delinquence, delinquency, denigration, deplume, depreciation, derogation, desecrate, detraction, deviousness, disallow, disapprobation, discourtesy, discredit, disesteem, disfavor, disgrace, dishonesty, dishonoring, disoblige, disparagement, displume, disrepute, disrespect, disrespectfulness, dump on, evasiveness, evil repute, feloniousness, fleer at, flout, fraudulence, fraudulency, gibe at, give offense to, humble, humiliate, hurl a brickbat, ignominy, ill fame, ill repute, ill-favor, improbity, impudence, impute shame to, indignity, indirection, infamy, injure, insolence, insult, irreverence, jeer at, jibe at, lack of respect, levant, libel, mock, mortify, nondischarge of debts, nonpayment, nonremittal, not pay, obloquy, odium, offend, opprobrium, outrage, pillory, poor reputation, profane, protest, protested bill, public dishonor, put down, put to shame, rape, ravish, reflect discredit upon, refuse to pay, reproach, repudiate, repudiation, ridicule, scoff at, seduce, shadiness, shady reputation, shame, shiftiness, slander, slight, slipperiness, slur, smear, smirch, stop payment, taunt, treat with indignity, trickiness, uncollectible, unconscientiousness, underhandedness, unfrock, unsavoriness, unsavory reputation, unscrupulousness, unstraightforwardness, violate, vitiate, welsh

dishonorable

• dishonorable, amoral, bad, base, conscienceless, contemptible, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, dark, debased, degrading, derogatory, despicable, devious, dirty, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonest, disloyal, disreputable, doubtful, dubious, duplicitous, evasive, evil, faithless, felonious, filthy, fishy, flagrant, foul, fraudulent, heinous, hypocritical, ignoble, ignominious, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral, improper, indirect, infamous, inglorious, insidious, low, mean, not kosher, notorious, objectionable, outrageous, perfidious, questionable, reprehensible, rotten, seamy, shabby, shady, shameful, shameless, shaming, shifty, shoddy, sinister, slippery, sordid, suspicious, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, two-faced, unbecoming, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unfaithful, unpraiseworthy, unprincipled, unrespectable, unsavory, unscrupulous, unseemly, unstraightforward, untrustworthy, unworthy, vile, without remorse, without shame

dishpan

• dishpan, aquamanile, automatic dishwasher, basin, bath, bathtub, bidet, dishwasher, ewer, finger bowl, kitchen sink, lavabo, lavatory, piscina, shower, shower bath, shower curtain, shower head, shower room, shower stall, showers, sink, tub, wash barrel, wash boiler, washbasin, washbowl, washdish, washer, washing machine, washing pot, washpot, washstand, washtub

dishwasher

• dishwasher, aquamanile, automatic dishwasher, basin, bath, bathtub, bidet, dishpan, dishwiper, dry cleaner, ewer, finger bowl, kitchen sink, launderer, laundress, laundryman, laundrywoman, lavabo, lavatory, piscina, pot-walloper, scullery maid, scullion, shower, shower bath, shower curtain, shower head, shower room, shower stall, showers, sink, tub, wash barrel, wash boiler, washbasin, washbowl, washdish, washer, washerman, washerwife, washerwoman, washing machine, washing pot, washpot, washstand, washtub

dishwater

• dishwater, bilge, bilgewater, bones, cambric tea, carrion, chaff, cobweb, culm, deadwood, ditchwater, draff, dregs, dust, filings, garbage, gash, gossamer, gruel, hair, hogwash, house of cards, husks, leavings, lees, matchwood, milk and water, offal, offscourings, orts, parings, potsherds, rags, raspings, reed, refuse, riffraff, rope of sand, sand castle, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, scurf, sewage, sewerage, shards, shavings, slack, slag, slop, slops, slough, stubble, sweepings, swill, tares, thread, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, water, weeds

disillusion

• disillusion, awaken, awakening, baffle, balk, ban, bilk, blackball, blackballing, break the spell, burst the bubble, cast down, complaint, correct, cross, dash, debunk, debunking, defeat, defeat expectation, dim view, disabuse, disagreement, disappoint, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, disenchant, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disgruntlement, disillude, disillusionize, disillusionment, displeasure, disrespect, dissatisfaction, dissatisfy, dissent, distaste, enlighten, enlightenment, exclusion, expose, foil, frustrate, indignation, let down, let down easy, let in on, low estimation, low opinion, objection, opposition, opposure, ostracism, prick the bubble, protest, put straight, rejection, return to reality, rude awakening, set right, set straight, show up, tantalize, tease, tell the truth, thumbs-down, thwart, unblindfold, uncharm, undeceive, undeception, unhappiness, unspell, unspelling, wake up

disillusioned

• disillusioned, against, baffled, balked, betrayed, bilked, blase, blasted, blighted, chapfallen, con, crestfallen, crossed, crushed, dashed, defeated, disabused, disappointed, disapprobatory, disapproving, discontented, disenchanted, disgruntled, dished, displeased, dissatisfied, dissenting, enlightened, foiled, frustrated, ill done-by, ill-served, indignant, knowing, let down, low, mondaine, opposed, opposing, out of countenance, poor, put straight, regretful, robbed of illusion, set right, sophisticate, sophisticated, sorely disappointed, soured, thwarted, turned-off, unappreciative, unapproving, uncharmed, uncomplimentary, undeceived, unfavorable, unhappy, unspelled, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise

disillusionment

• disillusionment, bafflement, balk, ban, betrayed hope, blackball, blackballing, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blow, buffet, comedown, complaint, cruel disappointment, dash, dashed hope, defeat, dim view, disagreement, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, discomfiture, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disgruntlement, disillusion, displeasure, disrespect, dissatisfaction, dissent, distaste, exclusion, failure, fallen countenance, fiasco, fizzle, foiling, forlorn hope, frustration, hope deferred, indignation, letdown, low estimation, low opinion, mirage, objection, opposition, opposure, ostracism, protest, rejection, setback, sore disappointment, tantalization, tease, thumbs-down, unhappiness

disinclination

• disinclination, antipathy, averseness, aversion, backwardness, bad books, cursoriness, disaffection, disaffinity, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, disfavor, dislike, disliking, disobedience, displeasure, disrelish, dissatisfaction, dissent, distaste, foot-dragging, fractiousness, grudging consent, grudgingness, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, intractableness, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, mutinousness, nolition, obstinacy, opposition, perfunctoriness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, refusal, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repugnance, resistance, slowness, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, unenthusiasm, unwillingness

disincline

• disincline, blunt, chill, cool, damp, dampen, deflect, deter, disaffect, discourage, disinterest, distract, divert, indispose, put off, quench, repel, turn aside, turn away, turn from, turn off, wean from

disinclined

• disinclined, afraid, allergic, antipathetic, at odds, averse, backward, balking, boggling, cursory, differing, disaffected, disagreeing, disenchanted, disobedient, displeased, doubtful, dubious, forced, fractious, hesitant, hostile, indisposed, indocile, involuntary, loath, mutinous, not charmed, objecting, opposed, opposing, perfunctory, protesting, put off, recalcitrant, refractory, reluctant, resistant, resisting, shy, sticking, stickling, sulky, sullen, unconsenting, unfriendly, unsympathetic, unwilling

disinfectant

• disinfectant, acaricide, anthelmintic, antibiotic, antiseptic, bactericide, bleaching powder, bug bomb, carbamate insecticide, carbolic acid, chemosterilant, chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide, chlorine, cleaner, cleanser, contact poison, cresol, decontaminator, defoliant, eradicant, formaldehyde, fumigant, fumigator, fungicide, germicidal, germicide, herbicide, hypochlorous acid, insect powder, insecticide, mercuric chloride, microbicide, miticide, organic chlorine, organic phosphate insecticide, pesticide, phenol, poison, purifier, rat poison, roach paste, roach powder, rodenticide, sanitizer, sodium hypochlorite, stomach poison, systemic, systemic insecticide, toxic, toxicant, toxin, venin, venom, vermicide, virus, weed killer

disingenuous

• disingenuous, apparently sound, artful, calculating, casuistic, clever, colorable, contriving, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, designing, devious, dishonest, double-dealing, duplicitous, empty, fallacious, false, falsehearted, feigned, forsworn, foxy, guileful, hollow, hypocritical, illusive, indirect, insidious, insincere, jesuitic, left-handed, mealymouthed, oblique, overrefined, oversubtle, perjured, philosophistic, plausible, plotting, scheming, shifty, slick, sly, smooth, sophistic, sophistical, specious, tongue in cheek, tricky, two-faced, uncandid, underhanded, unfrank, unserious, unsincere, untruthful, wily

disintegrate

• disintegrate, ablate, abrade, atomize, beat, bite the dust, blow to pieces, blow up, brain, bray, break, break down, break open, break to pieces, break up, brecciate, bring down, burn to death, burst, canker, carry away, cave in, cleave, collapse, come apart, come off, come to dust, come undone, come unstuck, comminute, conk out, consume, contriturate, corrode, corrupt, crack, crack up, crumb, crumble, crumble into dust, crumble to dust, crush, cut down, cut to pieces, deactivate, deal a deathblow, debrief, decay, decline, decompose, degenerate, deliquesce, demob, demobilize, demolish, descend, detach, disassemble, disband, discharge, disimprove, disjoin, dismantle, dismiss, disorganize, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, dissolve into chaos, droop, drop, effloresce, erode, fade, fail, faint, fall, fall into decay, fall off, fall to dust, fall to pieces, fell, fester, fission, fissure, fizzle out, flag, flour, fly apart, fracture, frag, fragment, gangrene, get loose, give away, give out, give the quietus, give way, go bad, go downhill, go separate ways, go soft, go to pieces, grain, granulate, granulize, grate, grind, grind to powder, gun down, hit the skids, incinerate, jugulate, languish, lapidate, lay low, let go, levigate, make mincemeat of, mash, mildew, mill, mold, molder, mortify, moulder, muster out, necrose, part, part company, peel off, peg out, pestle, peter out, pick to pieces, pine, pistol, poleax, poop out, pound, powder, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, putrefy, putresce, rankle, reduce to powder, reduce to rubble, release, rend, retrograde, riddle, rot, rupture, scatter, scrunch, separate, shard, shatter, shoot, shoot down, shoot to death, shotgun, shred, silence, sink, slacken, smash, snap, sphacelate, split, split up, spoil, spring a leak, spring apart, squash, stab to death, start, stone, stone to death, strike dead, sunder, suppurate, taint, take apart, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, topple, total, triturate, tumble, turn, unbuild, undo, unmake, unravel, untune, vaporize, waste away, weaken, wear away, wear thin, wilt, worsen, wrack up, wreck, yield

disintegrating

• disintegrating, ablative, biodegradable, coming apart, corrosive, cracking, crumbling, decadent, declining, decomposable, decomposing, decrepit, degenerate, degradable, deteriorating, dilapidated, disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrative, disjunctive, disruptive, draining, drooping, dwindling, ebbing, effete, erosive, fading, failing, falling, flagging, fragmenting, going to pieces, infirm, languishing, marcescent, moldering, pining, poor, poorish, ravaged, regressive, resolvent, retrograde, retrogressive, rotten, rotten at, ruinous, separative, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, solvent, subsiding, tabetic, unfirm, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsturdy, unsubstantial, waning, wasting, wilting, withering, worn, worsening

disintegration

• disintegration, abrasion, amiable weakness, atomization, attrition, beating, biodegradability, biodegradation, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakability, breakup, brecciation, brittleness, carnage, changeableness, collapse, comminution, consumption, corrosion, corruption, crack-up, crumbling, crushing, daintiness, damnation, deactivation, decay, decimation, decomposition, degradability, degradation, delicacy, demobilization, depredation, derangement, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destructibility, destruction, detachment, detrition, devastation, diaspora, diffusion, dilapidation, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, disbandment, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, disharmony, dishevelment, disjunction, dismissal, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, dispersal, dispersion, disproportion, disruption, dissolution, disturbance, effeminacy, entropy, exfoliation, flimsiness, fragility, fragmentation, frailty, frangibility, granulation, granulization, grating, grinding, haphazardness, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, human frailty, incoherence, indecisiveness, indiscriminateness, infirmity of will, inharmonious harmony, inherent vice, irregularity, irresolution, levigation, lightness, mashing, mildew, mold, moral weakness, most admired disorder, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, oxidation, oxidization, parting, perdition, perturbation, pounding, powdering, promiscuity, promiscuousness, randomness, ravage, release, resolution, revolution, ruin, ruination, rust, scaling, scattering, separation, shambles, shattering, shredding, slaughter, sleaziness, slightness, smashing, split-up, spoilage, spoliation, trituration, turbulence, undoing, unsubstantiality, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upset, vandalism, velleity, waste, wispiness, womanishness, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck

disinterest

• disinterest, Olympian detachment, accidia, acedia, aloofness, altruism, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blahs, blunt, boredom, carelessness, casualness, chill, comatoseness, commitment, consecration, cool, damp, dampen, dedication, deflect, detachment, deter, devotion, disaffect, discourage, disincline, disinterestedness, dispassion, dispassionateness, disregard, disregardfulness, distract, divert, dullness, easygoingness, heartlessness, hebetude, heedlessness, hopelessness, humility, impartiality, impassiveness, impassivity, inappetence, inattention, incuriosity, incuriousness, indifference, indifferentism, indifferentness, indiscrimination, indispose, inexcitability, insouciance, intellectual inertia, lack of affect, lack of appetite, lack of interest, lackadaisicalness, languidness, lassitude, lethargicalness, lethargy, listlessness, loftiness, mindlessness, modesty, negligence, neutrality, nonchalance, numbness, passiveness, passivity, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, plucklessness, pococurantism, put off, quench, recklessness, regardlessness, repel, resignation, resignedness, sacrifice, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-devotion, self-effacement, self-forgetfulness, self-immolation, self-neglect, self-neglectfulness, self-renouncement, self-sacrifice, self-subjection, selflessness, sloth, sluggishness, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness, spunklessness, stolidity, stupefaction, stupor, supineness, torpidity, torpidness, torpor, turn aside, turn away, turn from, turn off, unacquisitiveness, unanxiousness, unbias, unbiasedness, unconcern, uninquisitiveness, uninterestedness, unmindfulness, unpossessiveness, unselfishness, unsolicitousness, wean from, withdrawal, withdrawnness

disinterested

• disinterested, Laodicean, Olympian, abstract, aloof, altruistic, apathetic, ataractic, benumbed, blah, blase, bored, candid, careless, casual, colorless, comatose, committed, consecrated, dedicated, desensitized, detached, devil-may-care, devoted, dispassionate, disregardful, distant, dull, easygoing, equitable, evenhanded, fair, heartless, hebetudinous, heedless, hopeless, humble, impartial, impassive, impersonal, in a stupor, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, inexcitable, insouciant, just, lackadaisical, languid, lethargic, listless, lofty, mindless, modest, negative, negligent, neutral, nonchalant, numb, numbed, objective, open-minded, passive, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pluckless, pococurante, poker-faced, reckless, regardless, remote, resigned, sacrificing, self-abasing, self-abnegating, self-abnegatory, self-denying, self-devoted, self-effacing, self-forgetful, self-immolating, self-neglectful, self-neglecting, self-renouncing, self-sacrificing, self-unconscious, selfless, slack, sluggish, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, stoic, stolid, stupefied, supine, torpid, turned-off, unacquisitive, unanxious, unbiased, uncaring, unconcerned, undazzled, undiscriminating, uninfluenced, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unjaundiced, unmindful, unpossessive, unprejudiced, unprepossessed, unpretentious, unselfish, unsolicitous, unsparing of self, unswayed, withdrawn

disinvolve

• disinvolve, break loose, break out, clarify, clear, clear up, cut loose, disburden, disembarrass, disembroil, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, disintricate, 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

disjoin

• disjoin, ablate, abrupt, alienate, analyze, anatomize, atomize, break, break off, break up, cast off, cast out, change, chop logic, come apart, consume, corrode, crack up, crumble, crumble into dust, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, decay, decompose, delete, depart, desynonymize, difference, differentiate, diffuse, disarrange, disarticulate, disconnect, discontinue, discriminate, disengage, disequalize, disintegrate, disjoint, disorganize, disperse, dissever, dissociate, dissolve, distinguish, disunite, diversify, divide, divorce, ease, ease off, eject, erode, estrange, expel, fall to pieces, fission, free, individualize, individuate, interrupt, isolate, leave, let go, let up, loose, loosen, make a distinction, mark, mark off, mark out, modify, molder, part, particularize, personalize, pull away, pull back, pull out, refine a distinction, relax, scatter, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, set off, sever, severalize, shut off, slack, slack off, slacken, specialize, split, split hairs, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, step aside, subtract, sunder, throw off, throw out, uncouple, unglue, unleash, unstick, unyoke, vary, waste away, wear away, withdraw

disjoint

• disjoint, abrupt, alienate, break up, cast off, cast out, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, delete, depart, disarrange, disarray, disarticulate, discompose, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, dislocate, disorganize, displace, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, disturb, disunite, divide, divorce, eject, estrange, expel, isolate, leave, luxate, mess up, muddle, part, pull away, pull back, pull out, rummage, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, split, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, step aside, subtract, sunder, throw off, throw out, uncouple, unhinge, unjoint, unseat, unyoke, upset, withdraw

disjointed

• disjointed, aimless, alienated, confused, detached, directionless, disarranged, disarticulated, disconnected, discontinuous, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjunct, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, dispersed, displaced, disunited, divided, divorced, estranged, fitful, inchoate, incoherent, isolated, jumbled, loose, mixed up, muddled, out, out of gear, out of joint, rambling, removed, scattered, segregated, separated, sequestered, shut off, split up, unconnected, unhinged, unjointed, unorganized

disjunct

• disjunct, aimless, alien, alienated, amorphous, apart, capricious, casual, desultory, detached, disarticulated, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, dislocated, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, disrelated, dissociated, disunited, divided, divorced, erratic, estranged, exotic, extraneous, fitful, foreign, formless, frivolous, gratuitous, haphazard, hit-or-miss, immethodical, inchoate, incoherent, incommensurable, incomparable, independent, indiscriminate, insular, irregular, irrelative, isolated, meaningless, misshapen, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, orderless, other, outlandish, planless, promiscuous, random, removed, scattered, segregate, segregated, senseless, separate, separated, sequestered, shapeless, shut off, spasmodic, sporadic, straggling, straggly, strange, systemless, unaffiliated, unallied, unarranged, unassociated, unclassified, unconnected, undirected, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unrelatable, unrelated, unsorted, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vague, wandering

disjunction

• disjunction, ablation, abstraction, accord, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, alienation, alliance, aloofness, alteration, analysis, anarchy, anatomization, approximation, assemblage, association, atomization, bond, breakup, broken thread, brokenness, change, chaos, clearance, closeness, combination, confusion, connectedness, connection, contiguity, contrariety, corrosion, crumbling, dealings, decay, decomposition, deduction, degradation, demarcation, deportation, derangement, desynonymization, detachment, differencing, differentiation, diffusion, dilapidation, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, disassociation, discard, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, discontinuousness, discreteness, discrimination, disengagement, disequalization, disharmony, dishevelment, disintegration, disjointing, disjuncture, dislocation, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, dispersal, dispersion, disposal, disposition, disproportion, disruption, dissociation, dissolution, distinction, distinguishment, disturbance, disunion, diversification, division, divorce, divorcement, ejection, elimination, entropy, episode, eradication, erosion, exile, expatriation, expulsion, filiation, fitfulness, haphazardness, homology, immateriality, impertinence, inapplicability, inappositeness, incoherence, incompleteness, inconnection, inconsequence, inconsistency, independence, indiscriminateness, individualization, individuation, inharmonious harmony, intercourse, intermittence, intimacy, irregularity, irrelation, irrelevance, isolation, junction, liaison, link, linkage, linking, liquidation, luxation, modification, most admired disorder, mutual attraction, nearness, non sequitur, nonadhesion, noncohesion, noncontinuance, nonlinearity, nonseriality, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, ostracism, outlawing, outlawry, parenthesis, particularization, parting, partition, personalization, perturbation, promiscuity, promiscuousness, propinquity, proximity, purge, randomness, rapport, ravages of time, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, removal, resolution, riddance, scattering, segmentation, segregation, separateness, separation, separatism, severalization, severance, similarity, specialization, subdivision, subtraction, suspension, sympathy, tie, tie-in, turbulence, unadherence, unadhesiveness, unconnectedness, union, unrelatedness, unsymmetry, untenacity, ununiformity, upset, variation, wear, wear and tear, withdrawal, zoning

disjunctive

• disjunctive, ablative, adjectival, adjective, adverb, adverbial, adversative conjunction, alternative, attributive, biodegradable, broken, broken off, chopped-off, choppy, conjunction, conjunctive adverb, coordinating conjunction, copulative, copulative conjunction, correlative conjunction, corrosive, decomposable, decomposing, decousu, degradable, dilapidated, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, discretional, disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive conjunction, disruptive, dividing, elective, episodic, erosive, exclamatory noun, fitful, form class, form word, function class, gerundive, herky-jerky, incoherent, interjection, intermittent, interrupted, irregular, jagged, jerky, moldering, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonuniform, optional, parenthetic, part of speech, participle, particle, parting, past participle, patchy, perfect participle, preposition, present participle, ravaged, resolvent, ruinous, scrappy, separating, separative, snatchy, solvent, spasmodic, spotty, subordinating conjunction, suspended, unconnected, unjoined, unsuccessive, verbal adjective, volitional, voluntary, worn

disk

• disk, O, annular muscle, annulus, areola, aureole, carousel, chaplet, circle, circuit, circumference, circus, closed circle, coat, coating, collop, corona, coronet, covering, crown, cut, cycle, deal, diadem, discus, eternal return, fairy ring, feuille, film, flap, foil, fold, garland, glory, halo, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lasso, leaf, logical circle, loop, looplet, magic circle, membrane, merry-go-round, noose, orbit, pane, panel, patina, peel, pellicle, plait, plank, plate, plating, ply, plywood, radius, rasher, ring, roller, rolling stone, rondelle, rotator, rotor, round, roundabout, roundel, rundle, safety glass, saucer, scum, sheet, skin, slab, slat, slice, sphincter, table, tablet, top, veneer, vicious circle, wafer, wheel, whirlabout, whirler, whirligig, wreath

dislike

• dislike, Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhor, abhorrence, abominate, abomination, angst, anguish, animosity, animus, antagonism, anti-Semitism, antipathy, anxiety, aversion, bad books, be hostile to, bigotry, boredom, cheerlessness, contemn, contempt, deprecation, despise, despitefulness, detest, detestation, disaffection, disapproval, disapprove of, discomfort, discomposure, discontent, disesteem, disfavor, disgust, disinclination, disliking, displeasure, disquiet, disrelish, dissatisfaction, distaste, dread, dullness, emptiness, ennui, execrate, execration, existential woe, flatness, grimness, hate, hatred, hostility, ill will, indisposition, inquietude, joylessness, lack of pleasure, loathe, loathing, malaise, malevolence, malice, malignity, mind, misandry, misanthropy, mislike, misogyny, nausea, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, not care for, odium, painfulness, prejudice, race hatred, racism, repugnance, savorlessness, scanner, scorn, spite, spitefulness, spleen, staleness, tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, turn from, uncomfortableness, unease, uneasiness, unhappiness, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, vexation of spirit, vials of hate, vials of wrath, xenophobia

dislocate

• dislocate, clutter, derange, disarrange, disarray, disarticulate, discompose, dishevel, disjoint, disorder, disorganize, displace, disrupt, disturb, jumble, litter, luxate, mess, mess up, misarrange, mix up, muss, muss up, remove, ruffle, rummage, rumple, scatter, shift, ship, tousle, transfer, unhinge, unjoint, unseat

dislocated

• dislocated, alienated, amiss, askew, awry, cockeyed, convulsed, deranged, detached, disarranged, disarticulated, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, disconnected, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, dispersed, displaced, disturbed, disunited, divided, divorced, estranged, haywire, in disorder, isolated, 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, removed, roily, scattered, segregated, separated, sequestered, shuffled, shut off, turbid, turbulent, unhinged, unjointed, unsettled, upset

dislocation

• dislocation, abstraction, alienation, convulsion, derangement, detachment, disarrangement, disarticulation, disassociation, discomposure, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, disengagement, disjointing, disjunction, disorder, disorganization, disturbance, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, incoherence, insanity, isolation, luxation, misarrangement, parting, partition, perturbation, removal, segmentation, separation, separatism, shuffling, subdivision, subtraction, withdrawal, zoning

dislodge

• dislodge, break loose, break out, buck off, carry away, carry off, cart away, clear, cut loose, delocalize, depose, deracinate, disembarrass, disembroil, disengage, disentangle, disinvolve, dismount, displace, dispossess, evict, extricate, free, get out, lay aside, manhandle, move, oust, put aside, put out, release, relocate, remove, root out, root up, send, set aside, shift, shunt, side, take away, tear loose, throw off, turn out, unhorse, unhouse, unkennel, unknot, unplace, unravel, unsaddle, unseat, unsnarl, untangle, uproot

disloyal

• disloyal, alienated, apostate, collaborative, deceitful, derelict, disaffected, estranged, faithless, false, fickle, heretical, inconstant, not true to, of bad faith, perfidious, recreant, renegade, subversive, tergiversant, tergiversating, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous, trothless, unfaithful, unloyal, unsteadfast, untrue, untrustworthy

disloyalty

• disloyalty, Punic faith, apostasy, backsliding, bad faith, barratry, betrayal, bolt, breach of faith, breach of promise, breach of trust, breakaway, defection, dereliction, desertion, disaffection, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, fickleness, going over, inconstancy, infidelity, mala fides, perfidiousness, perfidy, ratting, recidivation, recidivism, recreancy, secession, treacherousness, treason, trothlessness, turning traitor, unfaith, unfaithfulness, unloyalty, unsteadfastness, untrueness

dismal

• dismal, Cassandra-like, Cassandran, Cassandrian, Quaker-colored, acier, affecting, afflictive, affording no hope, apathetic, arid, ashen, ashy, barren, bitter, black, blah, blank, bleak, bloodless, blue, canescent, characterless, cheerless, cinerary, cinereous, cinerous, cold, colorless, comfortless, cynical, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dead, defeatist, deplorable, depressing, depressive, despairing, desperate, despondent, dingy, dirgelike, discomforting, disconsolate, disheartening, dismaying, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dove-colored, dove-gray, downbeat, draggy, drear, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, epitaphic, etiolated, exequial, fade, feral, flat, forlorn, funebrial, funebrious, funebrous, funeral, funerary, funereal, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, grave, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grievous, grim, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, hopeless, in despair, inane, inexcitable, insipid, iron-gray, jejune, joyless, lamentable, lead-gray, leaden, lifeless, livid, low-spirited, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, morose, mortuary, mournful, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, moving, necrological, negative, negativistic, nihilistic, obituary, obsequial, oppressive, painful, pale, pallid, pathetic, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pedestrian, pessimist, pessimistic, piteous, pitiable, plodding, poignant, pointless, poky, ponderous, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddening, saturnine, sepulchral, sharp, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, slate-colored, slaty, slow, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, solemn, somber, sombrous, sore, sorrowful, spiritless, steel-gray, steely, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stone-colored, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, taupe, tedious, touching, triste, uncheerful, uncomfortable, unhappy, unhopeful, unlively, vapid, weariful, wearisome, weary, without hope, woebegone, woeful, wooden, wretched

dismantle

• dismantle, annihilate, atomize, bankrupt, bare, break to pieces, cleave, decimate, demolish, denudate, denude, deprive, disarray, disassemble, disintegrate, dismember, dismount, disrobe, divest, do a strip-tease, fragment, lift, make mincemeat of, pick to pieces, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, raze, recall, reduce to rubble, rend, repeal, rescind, reverse, ruin, shatter, smash, split, strip, sunder, take apart, take down, tear apart, tear down, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, total, unarray, unbuild, uncase, unclothe, undo, undrape, undress, unmake, wrack, wrack up, wreck

dismay

• dismay, abash, abject fear, affright, agitate, agitation, alarm, anxiety, appall, apprehension, astound, awe, bewilder, blue funk, bother, cold feet, confound, consternation, cow, cowardice, daunt, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, disconcert, discourage, dishearten, disquiet, distress, dread, dumbfound, embarrass, faze, fear, flummox, flurry, fluster, fright, frighten, funk, grieve, horrification, horrify, horror, intimidate, lament, moider, mourn, mystify, nonplus, pain, panic, panic fear, perplex, perturb, petrify, phobia, pother, put off, put out, puzzle, rattle, scare, shake, shock, sorrow, stampede, startle, take aback, terrify, terror, trepidation, unhinge, unholy dread, unnerve, unsettle, upset

dismayed

• dismayed, abashed, abroad, adrift, affrighted, afraid, agape, alarmed, astray, at sea, bewildered, bothered, chicken, chickenhearted, clueless, confounded, confused, consternated, coward, cowardly, cowed, daunted, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, disoriented, disquieted, distracted, distraught, disturbed, dumbfounded, embarrassed, fainthearted, fazed, fearful, frightened, funking, funky, guessing, henhearted, in a fix, in a fright, in a funk, in a maze, in a pickle, in a scrape, in a stew, intimidated, lily-livered, lost, mazed, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy, off the track, overtimid, overtimorous, overwhelmed, panic-prone, panicky, perturbed, pigeonhearted, put-out, rabbity, rattled, shocked, sissified, sissy, soft, startled, thunderstruck, timid, timorous, turned around, unmanly, unmanned, upset, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted, white-livered, without a clue, yellow

dismaying

• dismaying, affecting, afflictive, alarming, awing, baffling, bewildering, bitter, bleak, bothering, cheerless, chilling, comfortless, confounding, confusing, daunting, deplorable, depressing, depressive, deterrent, deterring, discomforting, discomposing, disconcerting, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, disquieting, distracting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreary, embarrassing, enigmatic, fear-inspiring, fearful, fearsome, frightening, frightful, grievous, intricate, joyless, lamentable, mournful, moving, mysterious, mystifying, overawing, painful, pathetic, perplexing, perturbing, piteous, pitiable, poignant, problematic, puzzling, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddening, scaring, scary, sharp, sore, sorrowful, startling, touching, uncomfortable, upsetting, woebegone, woeful, wretched

dismember

• dismember, cripple, defoliate, denude, disassemble, dismantle, draw and quarter, flay, grill, impale, keelhaul, lacerate, maim, mangle, mayhem, mutilate, part, peel, pick to pieces, picket, pull apart, rack, separate, sever, shred, skin, strip, sunder, take apart, take down, tar and feather, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, torture

dismiss

• dismiss, abandon, abjure, absolve, acquit, amnesty, answer, answer conclusively, argue down, ax, banish, beat back, belittle, boot, boot out, bounce, bow out, break, break up, brush aside, brush off, bump, bundle, bundle off, bust, can, cashier, cast, cast loose, chase, chase away, chase off, chuck, chuck out, clear, confound, confute, contemn, contradict, controvert, crush, cut, cut dead, deactivate, debrief, decline, deconsecrate, decontaminate, defeat, defrock, degrade, demob, demobilize, demolish, demote, deny, deplume, depose, deprive, deride, deselect, despise, destigmatize, detach, dethrone, diminish, disapprove, disband, disbar, discard, discharge, disclaim, discount, discrown, disdain, disemploy, disenthrone, disintegrate, disorganize, disown, dispense from, disperse, displace, displume, dispose of, disregard, dissolve, drive away, drive back, drop, drop the subject, drum out, eject, evict, except, exclude, excommunicate, exculpate, excuse, exempt, exempt from, exonerate, expel, extrude, fend off, finish, fire, floor, flout, forget, forget about it, forget it, forgive, forswear, free, furlough, gibe, gird, give absolution, give the air, give the ax, give the gate, give the go-by, go bail for, go separate ways, grant amnesty to, grant bail to, grant immunity, grant remission, have done with, hold off, hustle out, ignore, jeer, justify, keep off, kick, kick out, kick upstairs, lay aside, lay off, let go, let go free, let it go, let loose, let off, let out, let slip, liquidate, look right through, make little of, make redundant, mock, muster out, neglect, nonplus, nonpros, oust, out, overlook, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, pack off, pardon, parole, parry, part, part company, pass by, pass up, pension, pension off, pooh-pooh, purge, push aside, push back, put aside, put away, put back, put on parole, put to silence, quash the charge, rally, read out of, rebuff, rebut, recant, reduce to silence, refuse, refuse to acknowledge, refuse to consider, refuse to recognize, refute, reject, release, remit, remove, remove from office, renounce, repel, replace, reprobate, repudiate, repulse, retire, ridicule, riff, sack, scatter, scoff, scorn, scout, send away, send off, send packing, separate, separate forcibly, set aside, set free, settle, shed, shove away, show the door, show the gate, shrive, shrug off, shut up, silence, slight, slough, smash all opposition, sneeze at, snub, split up, spurn, squash, squelch, strip, strip of office, strip of rank, subvert, superannuate, surplus, suspend, taunt, terminate, think nothing of, throw away, throw out, thrust aside, thrust back, toss out, turn away, turn away from, turn back, turn down, turn off, turn out, twit, unchurch, undermine, unfrock, unhand, unmarry, unsaddle, unseat, unthrone, upset, vindicate, waive, ward off, whitewash, withdraw the charge, write off

dismissal

• dismissal, abjuration, abjurement, absolution, acquittal, acquittance, adjournment, bounce, breakup, brush-off, cancellation, cashiering, chucking, chucking out, clearance, clearing, cold shoulder, compurgation, conge, contempt, contradiction, cut, deactivation, declination, declining, deconsecration, defrocking, demobilization, denial, deposal, deposition, deprivation, despisal, despising, destigmatization, destigmatizing, detachment, dethronement, diaspora, disapproval, disbandment, disbarment, disbarring, discard, discharge, disclamation, discounting, discrownment, disculpation, disemployment, disenthronement, disintegration, disorganization, disownment, dispersal, dispersion, displacement, displacing, disregard, dissolution, drumming out, end, exception, exclusion, excommunication, exculpation, excuse, exoneration, expulsion, firing, forced resignation, forced separation, forgiveness, furloughing, ignoring, impeachment, kicking upstairs, layoff, liquidation, nonacceptance, nonapproval, nonconsideration, notice, ousting, overthrow, overthrowal, pardon, parole, parting, passing by, pensioning off, pink slip, purgation, purge, purging, putting away, putting out, quietus, quittance, rebuff, recantation, refusal, rejection, release, remission, removal, renouncement, repudiation, repulse, retirement, sack, sacking, scouting, separation, snub, split-up, spurning, superannuation, surplusing, suspension, the ax, the boot, the bounce, the gate, the sack, throwing out, ticket, turning out, unbinding, unbolting, unbridling, unbuckling, uncaging, unchaining, unchurching, unfettering, unfrocking, ungagging, unhanding, unharnessing, unhobbling, unlashing, unlatching, unleashing, unlocking, unloosing, unmanacling, unmuzzling, unpenning, unseating, unshackling, unstrapping, untethering, untrussing, untying, unyoking, verdict of acquittal, vindication, walking papers

dismissed

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

dismount

• dismount, alight, buck off, climb down, demolish, depose, deracinate, detach, disassemble, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, dislodge, dismantle, dismember, disunite, get down, get off, land, light, perch, root out, root up, separate, settle, take apart, take down, tear down, throw off, touch down, unhorse, unplace, unsaddle, unseat, uproot

disobedience

• disobedience, abnegation, antipathy, averseness, aversion, backwardness, contradiction, cursoriness, declension, declination, declinature, declining, denial, deprivation, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, disinclination, disrelish, dissent, distaste, foot-dragging, fractiousness, grudging consent, grudgingness, holding back, indiscipline, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, insubordination, interregnum, intractableness, irresponsibility, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, lawlessness, license, licentiousness, mutinousness, mutiny, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no, nolition, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonobservance, obstinacy, opposition, perfunctoriness, power vacuum, rampant will, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recantation, refractoriness, refusal, rejection, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repudiation, repugnance, resistance, retention, slowness, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, thumbs-down, turndown, unaccountability, uncontrol, unenthusiasm, unrestraint, unwillingness, willfulness, withholding

disobedient

• disobedient, anarchic, at odds, averse, bad, contrary, contumacious, cross-grained, cursory, deaf to, declinatory, defiant, delinquent, derelict, differing, disagreeing, disinclined, disregardful, forced, fractious, froward, headstrong, heady, ill-behaved, incompliant, indisciplined, indisposed, indocile, insubordinate, intractable, involuntary, irresponsible, lawless, licentious, mischievous, mutinous, naughty, negative, nonconforming, nonconsenting, obdurate, obstinate, obstreperous, opposed, perfunctory, perverse, pigheaded, rampant, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, reinless, rejective, remiss, resistant, revolting, self-willed, stubborn, sulky, sullen, transgressive, unaccountable, unbridled, unchecked, uncomplaisant, uncompliant, uncomplying, unconsenting, uncontrolled, uncooperative, uncurbed, undisciplined, unduteous, undutiful, ungovernable, ungoverned, unmanageable, unreined, unrestrained, unruly, unsubmissive, unwilling, violative, wayward, wildcat, willful

disobey

• disobey, break, break the law, care naught for, contravene, defy, disregard, flout, go counter to, ignore, infringe, mutiny, not conform, not heed, not keep, not listen, not mind, not observe, oppose, overstep, rebel, refuse to cooperate, resist, revolt, scoff at, set at defiance, set at naught, set naught by, strike, transgress, violate

disoblige

• disoblige, affront, bother, call names, disaccommodate, disadvantage, discommode, dishonor, dump on, fleer at, flout, gibe at, give offense to, harm, humiliate, hurl a brickbat, impose upon, incommode, inconvenience, insult, jeer at, jibe at, mock, offend, outrage, put about, put down, put out, put to inconvenience, put to trouble, scoff at, taunt, treat with indignity, trouble

disorder

• disorder, abnormality, acute disease, affection, afflict, affliction, affray, agitation, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, aloofness, amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, anomie, antinomianism, ataxia, atrophy, bacterial disease, badness, ball up, battle, battle royal, bedlam, befuddle, befuddlement, bewilderment, birth defect, blight, blobbiness, blur, blurriness, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, botheration, brawl, broadness, brouhaha, bustle, capriciousness, cardiovascular disease, changeability, changeableness, chaos, choppiness, chronic disease, churn, circulatory disease, civil disorder, clamor, cloud, clutter, commotion, complaint, complication, condition, confound, confuse, confusion, congenital defect, conturbation, convulsion, criminal syndicalism, dappleness, daze, debilitate, defect, deficiency disease, deform, deformity, degenerative disease, derange, derangement, deviation, devitalize, difference, differentiation, diffusion, disability, disable, disarrange, disarrangement, disarray, discombobulation, discomfiture, discompose, discomposure, disconcertion, discontinuity, discourtesy, discreteness, disease, dishevel, disjoint, disjunction, dislocate, dislocation, disorderliness, disorderly conduct, disorganization, disorganize, disorientation, dispersal, dispersion, disquiet, disquietude, disrupt, disruption, disruptiveness, dissolution, distemper, distort, disturb, disturbance, divarication, divergence, diversification, ebullition, embarrassment, embroil, embroilment, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, enervate, enfeeble, entropy, epidemic disease, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, fight, flap, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, fog, fog up, fogginess, foment, formlessness, fracas, fray, free-for-all, frenzy, frowned-upon behavior, fuddle, fuddlement, fume, functional disease, fungus disease, fuss, fuzziness, gastrointestinal disease, generality, genetic disease, handicap, hash, haze, haziness, hereditary disease, hooliganism, horseplay, hospitalize, hubbub, huddle, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, iatrogenic disease, ill, ill-definedness, illness, imprecision, impropriety, inaccuracy, incapacitate, inchoateness, incoherence, inconsistency, inconstancy, indecisiveness, indefinableness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, indispose, indisposition, inequality, inexactness, infectious disease, infirmity, inquietude, insanity, instability, invalid, irregularity, jerkiness, jitters, jumble, jumpiness, knock galley-west, laxity, lay up, litter, looseness, lynch law, maelstrom, malady, malaise, maze, melee, mercuriality, mess, mess up, messiness, misarrange, misarrangement, misbehavior, misconduct, misdemeanor, misdoing, mishmash, misrule, mist, mistiness, mix up, mob law, mob rule, mobocracy, moil, morbidity, morbus, motleyness, muddle, muddlement, muscular disease, muss, muss up, mutability, naughtiness, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, neurological disease, nihilism, nonadhesion, noncohesion, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonsanctioned behavior, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, nutritional disease, obfuscate, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, occupational disease, ochlocracy, orderlessness, organic disease, pandemic disease, pandemonium, pathological condition, pathology, perplexity, perturb, perturbation, plant disease, pluralism, pother, primal chaos, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, pucker, raggedness, rebellion, reduce, respiratory disease, restlessness, revolution, riot, rockiness, roil, roughhouse, rout, row, rowdiness, rowdyism, ruffianism, ruffle, rummage, rumple, rumpus, scatter, scattering, scramble, scuffle, secondary disease, seediness, seethe, seething, separateness, shake up, shambles, shapelessness, shuffle, shuffling, sicken, sickishness, sickness, signs, snarl, stew, stir, sweat, sweepingness, swirl, swivet, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndicalism, syndrome, tangle, the pip, tizzy, to-do, tohubohu, topsy-turviness, tousle, trepidation, trepidity, tumble, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, turn, twitter, unadherence, unadhesiveness, unclearness, unconformism, unconformity, unease, unevenness, unform, unhinge, unorthodoxy, unrest, unruliness, unsettle, unsettlement, unshape, unsteadiness, untenacity, untidiness, upheaval, uproar, upset, urogenital disease, vagueness, vandalism, variability, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, venial sin, versatility, vice, violence, virus disease, wasting disease, wavering, weaken, worm disease, wrongdoing

disordered

• disordered, aimless, aleatoric, aleatory, amiss, amorphous, askew, awry, balled-up, batty, bedlamite, blobby, blurred, blurry, bothered, broad, capricious, casual, chance, chancy, chaotic, cockeyed, confused, convulsed, cracked, crazed, crazy, demented, deranged, desultory, disarranged, disarticulated, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, disconnected, discontinuous, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, disorderly, disorganized, dispersed, disproportionate, disturbed, embarrassed, erratic, fitful, flustered, fluttered, foggy, formless, frivolous, fussed, fuzzy, general, gratuitous, haphazard, haywire, hazy, hit-or-miss, hypochondriac, hysteric, ill-defined, immethodical, imprecise, in a jumble, in a pother, in a pucker, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, in disorder, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indiscriminate, indistinct, inexact, irregular, jumbled, lax, loose, lunatic, meaningless, misplaced, misshapen, mixed-up, muddled, neurasthenic, neurotic, nonspecific, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, obscure, on the fritz, orderless, 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, phobic, planless, promiscuous, psychasthenic, psychoneurotic, put-out, random, rattled, roily, ruffled, senseless, shadowed forth, shadowy, shaken, shapeless, shook, shuffled, spasmodic, sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly, sweeping, systemless, turbid, turbulent, unarranged, unclassified, unclear, unconnected, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undirected, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unsettled, unsorted, unspecified, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, upset, vague, veiled, wandering

disorderly conduct

• disorderly conduct, badness, discourtesy, disorder, disorderliness, disruption, disruptiveness, frowned-upon behavior, hooliganism, horseplay, impropriety, misbehavior, misconduct, misdemeanor, misdoing, naughtiness, nonsanctioned behavior, roughhouse, rowdiness, rowdyism, ruffianism, vandalism, venial sin, vice, wrongdoing

disorderly

• disorderly, amiss, amorphic, amorphous, anarchial, anarchic, anarchistic, antinomian, askew, awry, bad, baggy, blobby, blurred, blurry, boisterous, capricious, changeable, changing, chaotic, characterless, choppy, cluttered, cockeyed, confused, convulsed, deranged, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disobedient, disordered, disorganized, disruptive, disturbed, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, erose, erratic, featureless, formless, fuzzy, haphazard, haywire, hazy, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, improper, impulsive, in disarray, in disorder, inchoate, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, inform, intractable, irregular, jagged, jerky, jumbled, kaleidoscopic, lawless, lumpen, mercurial, messy, misbehaving, misplaced, misty, motley, muddled, mutable, mutinous, naughty, nihilistic, noisy, nonconformist, nondescript, nonstandard, nonuniform, not respectable, obscure, obstreperous, off-base, on the fritz, orderless, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, out-of-line, pell-mell, perturbed, pluralistic, ragged, rampant, raucous, rebellious, refractory, revolutionary, riotous, roily, rough, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffianly, rumbustious, scrambled, shapeless, shuffled, spasmodic, sporadic, syndicalistic, termagant, terrorist, topsy-turvy, tumultuous, turbid, turbulent, unbehaving, unbridled, unclear, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, undefined, undisciplined, unequable, unequal, uneven, ungovernable, ungoverned, unmanageable, unordered, unorganized, unorthodox, unrestrained, unruly, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, untidy, ununiform, upset, vague, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, violent, wavering, wild

disorganization

• disorganization, ablation, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, antinomianism, atomization, befuddlement, bewilderment, biodegradability, biodegradation, bloodbath, blue ruin, bother, botheration, breakup, carnage, chaos, cloud, confusion, consumption, convulsion, corrosion, corruption, criminal syndicalism, crumbling, damnation, daze, deactivation, decay, decimation, decomposition, degradability, degradation, demobilization, depredation, derangement, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, detachment, devastation, diaspora, dilapidation, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, disbandment, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disharmony, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction, dislocation, dismissal, disorder, disorderliness, disorientation, dispersal, dispersion, disproportion, disruption, dissolution, disturbance, embarrassment, entropy, erosion, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, frenzy, fuddle, fuddlement, haphazardness, havoc, haze, hecatomb, holocaust, incoherence, indiscriminateness, inharmonious harmony, insanity, irregularity, jumble, lynch law, maze, mess, mildew, misarrangement, misrule, mist, mob law, mob rule, mobocracy, mold, most admired disorder, muddle, muddlement, nihilism, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, ochlocracy, oxidation, oxidization, parting, perdition, perplexity, perturbation, pother, primal chaos, promiscuity, promiscuousness, pucker, randomness, ravage, ravages of time, rebellion, release, resolution, revolution, ruffle, ruin, ruination, rust, separation, shambles, shuffle, shuffling, slaughter, split-up, spoilage, spoliation, stew, sweat, swivet, syndicalism, tizzy, tohubohu, turbulence, turmoil, undoing, unruliness, unsettlement, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upset, vandalism, waste, wear, wear and tear, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck

disorganize

• disorganize, ablate, addle, addle the wits, atomize, ball up, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle, bewilder, bother, break up, bug, cloud, clutter, come apart, confuse, consume, corrode, crack up, crumble, crumble into dust, daze, dazzle, deactivate, debrief, decay, decompose, demob, demobilize, derange, detach, disarrange, disarray, disband, discharge, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, dishevel, disintegrate, disjoin, dislocate, dismiss, disorder, disorient, disperse, dissolve, disturb, embarrass, entangle, erode, fall to pieces, fission, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, fuddle, fuss, go separate ways, jumble, knock galley-west, let go, litter, maze, mess, mess up, misarrange, mist, mix up, moider, molder, muddle, muss, muss up, muster out, part, part company, perplex, perturb, pother, put out, raise hell, rattle, release, ruffle, rumple, scatter, separate, split, split up, throw into confusion, tousle, unsettle, upset, waste away, wear away

disorganized

• disorganized, amiss, anarchial, anarchic, anarchistic, antinomian, askew, awry, balled-up, bothered, chaotic, cockeyed, confused, convulsed, deranged, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disturbed, embarrassed, flustered, fluttered, fussed, haywire, in a jumble, in a pother, in a pucker, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, in disorder, jumbled, misplaced, mixed-up, nihilistic, on the fritz, 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, rattled, roily, ruffled, shaken, shook, shuffled, syndicalistic, turbid, turbulent, unruly, unsettled, upset

disorient

• disorient, addle, addle the wits, ball up, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle, bewilder, bother, bug, cloud, confuse, daze, dazzle, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorganize, disturb, embarrass, entangle, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, fuddle, fuss, maze, mist, mix up, moider, muddle, perplex, perturb, pother, put out, raise hell, rattle, ruffle, throw into confusion, unsettle, upset

disorientation

• disorientation, aberration, abnormality, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, agnosia, alienation, alignment, bearings, befuddlement, bewilderment, block, blocking, bother, botheration, brain damage, brainsickness, chaos, cloud, clouded mind, confusion, craziness, daftness, daze, delirium, delusion, delusion of persecution, dementedness, dementia, derangement, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization, distraction, disturbance, embarrassment, flight of ideas, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, folie, frenzy, fuddle, fuddlement, furor, hallucination, hallucinosis, haze, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, jumble, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, mania, maze, mental block, mental confusion, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mess, mind overthrown, mindsickness, mist, muddle, muddlement, nihilism, nihilistic delusion, oddness, orientation, paralogia, perplexity, perturbation, pixilation, possession, pother, psychological block, pucker, queerness, rabidness, reasonlessness, ruffle, senselessness, shattered mind, shuffle, sick mind, sickness, stew, strangeness, sweat, swivet, tizzy, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unsaneness, unsettlement, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, upset, witlessness

disoriented

• disoriented, abashed, abnormal, abroad, adrift, astray, at sea, bereft of reason, bewildered, bothered, brainsick, clueless, confused, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, discomposed, disconcerted, dismayed, distracted, distraught, disturbed, embarrassed, flighty, guessing, hallucinated, in a fix, in a maze, in a pickle, in a scrape, in a stew, insane, irrational, loco, lost, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, moon-struck, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not right, odd, of unsound mind, off, off the track, perturbed, psycho, put-out, queer, reasonless, senseless, sick, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, tetched, touched, turned around, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, upset, wandering, without a clue, witless

disown

• disown, abjure, assert the contrary, back down, back out, backwater, belie, brush aside, chuck, chuck out, climb down, contemn, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, crawfish out, cross, cut off, decline, deny, despise, disaffirm, disallow, disapprove, disavow, discard, disclaim, discount, disdain, disendow, disherison, disinherit, dismiss, dispossess, disprove, dispute, disregard, disseise, eat crow, eat humble pie, evict, except, exclude, expropriate, foreclose, forswear, gainsay, ignore, impugn, join issue upon, not accept, not admit, nullify, oppose, pass by, pass up, push aside, rebuff, recant, refuse, refuse to admit, refuse to consider, refute, reject, renege, renounce, repel, repudiate, repulse, retract, revoke, scout, shove away, spurn, swallow, take back, take issue with, throw away, throw out, turn away, turn out, unsay, waive, withdraw

disowned

• disowned, abandoned, cast-off, castaway, contemned, declined, declined with thanks, denied, derelict, despised, disapproved, discarded, discounted, disdained, dismissed, excepted, excluded, forsaken, forsworn, ignored, not considered, outcast, outside the gates, outside the pale, rebuffed, refused, rejected, renounced, repudiated, repulsed, scouted, spurned

disownment

• disownment, abjuration, abjurement, abrogation, absolute contradiction, annulment, chucking, chucking out, contempt, contradiction, contrary assertion, contravention, controversion, countering, crossing, declination, declining, denial, despisal, despising, disaffirmation, disallowance, disapproval, disavowal, discard, disclaimer, disclamation, discounting, disendowment, disherison, disinheritance, dismissal, disowning, dispossession, disproof, disregard, disseisin, eviction, exception, exclusion, expatriation, expropriation, foreclosure, forswearing, gainsaying, ignoring, impugnment, nonacceptance, nonapproval, nonconsideration, nullification, palinode, palinody, passing by, putting away, putting out, rebuff, recantation, reclaiming, refusal, refutation, rejection, reneging, renouncement, renunciation, repossessing, repossession, repudiation, repulse, retractation, retraction, revocation, revokement, scouting, spurning, throwing out, turning out, unsaying, withdrawal

disparage

• disparage, abate, abrade, abstract, abuse, attaint, backbite, bad-mouth, bate, be above, be contemptuous of, be disrespectful, be overfamiliar with, belittle, bespatter, blacken, blot, blow upon, brand, bring down, bring into discredit, bring low, care nothing for, censure, cheapen, chill, contemn, criticize, cry down, curtail, debase, decrease, decry, deduct, defame, defile, degrade, deject, demean, demoralize, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, deride, derogate, derogate from, despise, detract, detract from, devaluate, devalue, diminish, disapprove, disapprove of, discommend, discredit, disdain, disesteem, disgrace, dishearten, dishonor, dispirit, dispraise, disprize, disrespect, disvalue, downgrade, drain, dump on, eat away, erode, expose, expose to infamy, extract, feel contempt for, feel superior to, file away, gibbet, hang in effigy, hold beneath one, hold cheap, hold in contempt, impair, insult, knock, leach, lessen, libel, look down upon, make free with, make light of, make little of, make nothing of, malign, minimize, misestimate, misprize, not respect, pillory, purify, put down, rank low, reduce, refine, reflect discredit upon, remove, reprimand, retrench, ridicule, rub away, run down, scorn, sell short, set at naught, set little by, shorten, show disrespect for, shrug off, slander, slight, slur, smear, sneer at, sneeze at, sniff at, snort at, soil, speak ill of, stain, stigmatize, subduct, submit to indignity, subtract, sully, taint, take a liberty, take away, take from, take liberties with, talk down, tarnish, thin, thin out, think little of, think nothing of, traduce, treat with disrespect, trifle with, underestimate, underprize, underrate, underreckon, undervalue, vilify, wear away, weed, withdraw, write off

disparagement

• disparagement, airs, animadversion, arrogance, aspersion, attaint, attrition, backbiting, backstabbing, badge of infamy, bar sinister, baton, belittlement, bend sinister, black eye, black mark, blot, blur, brand, broad arrow, calumny, censure, champain, clannishness, cliquishness, contempt, contemptuousness, contumely, curtailment, cut, cutting, decrease, decrement, defamation, denigration, depletion, deprecation, depreciation, derogation, despisal, despite, detraction, diminution, dip, discommendation, discourtesy, disdain, disdainfulness, disesteem, dishonor, dispraise, disrespect, disrespectfulness, disvaluation, exclusiveness, extraction, hauteur, impairment, impudence, imputation, insolence, insult, irreverence, lack of respect, lessening, mark of Cain, minimization, misestimation, misprision, misprizal, misprizing, onus, pillorying, point champain, reduction, reflection, remission, reprimand, reproach, retraction, retrenchment, ridicule, scandal, scorn, scornfulness, shortening, shrinkage, slander, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, sniffiness, snobbishness, snootiness, snottiness, sovereign contempt, spot, stain, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, stricture, superciliousness, taint, tale, tarnish, toploftiness, truncation, underestimate, underestimation, underrating, underreckoning, undervaluation

disparager

• disparager, Thersites, backbiter, belittler, calumniator, caustic critic, cynic, debunker, decrier, defamer, deflater, depreciator, derogator, detractor, hatchet man, knocker, libeler, muckraker, mudslinger, railer, slanderer, social critic, traducer

disparaging

• disparaging, abusive, aweless, back-biting, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, damnatory, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detracting, detractory, disadvantageous, discourteous, disrespectful, execrating, execrative, execratory, impudent, insolent, invective, inveighing, irreverent, judgmental, libelous, minimizing, objurgatory, pejorative, priggish, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, scandalous, scoffing, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, uncomplimentary, underrating, undervaluing, vilifying, vituperative

disparate

• disparate, assorted, asymmetric, at odds, at variance, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, counter, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disproportionate, dissimilar, dissonant, distant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, hardly like, heterogeneous, ill-matched, ill-sorted, in disagreement, inaccordant, inadequate, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, insufficient, irreconcilable, irregular, many, mismatched, motley, multifarious, nonuniform, odd, off, offbeat, out, out of proportion, poles apart, poles asunder, scarcely like, separate, separated, several, skew, skewed, unalike, unconformable, unequal, uneven, unidentical, unlike, unmatched, unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart

disparity

• disparity, agreement to disagree, alienation, antagonism, apostasy, argumentation, asymmetry, bad copy, bad likeness, camouflage, clashing, conflict, contradiction, contrariety, contrast, controversy, counter-culture, cross-purposes, departure, deviation, difference, difference of opinion, difficulty, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, disconformity, discongruity, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, discreteness, disequilibrium, disguise, disharmony, disproportion, dissatisfaction, dissemblance, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, dissimilarity, dissimilation, dissimilitude, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, disunion, disunity, divergence, divergency, diversity, dividedness, division, dropping out, faction, far cry, gap, heterogeneity, imbalance, imparity, inaccordance, inadequacy, incommensurability, incomparability, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inequity, inharmoniousness, inharmony, injustice, insufficiency, irreconcilability, irregularity, jarring, makeup, mere caricature, minority opinion, misunderstanding, mixture, negation, nonagreement, nonassent, nonconcurrence, nonconformity, nonconsent, nonuniformity, odds, opposition, oppugnancy, otherness, overbalance, polarization, poor imitation, recusance, recusancy, rejection, repudiation, repugnance, secession, separateness, shortcoming, unbalance, unconformity, underground, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unharmoniousness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unresemblance, unsameness, unsimilarity, variance, variation, variegation, variety, withdrawal

dispassion

• dispassion, Olympian detachment, abnegation, abstinence, accidia, acedia, aloofness, anesthesia, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, autism, benumbedness, blah, blahs, bovinity, calm, calmness, carelessness, casualness, catatonia, chill, chilliness, cold blood, cold heart, coldheartedness, coldness, comatoseness, conservatism, constraint, continence, control, cool, coolness, deadpan, detachment, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassionateness, disregard, disregardfulness, dullness, easy temper, easygoingness, emotional deadness, emotionlessness, even temper, evenness, frigidity, frostiness, gentleness, golden mean, good temper, happy medium, heartlessness, hebetude, heedlessness, hopelessness, iciness, immovability, impartiality, impassibility, impassiveness, impassivity, imperturbability, imperturbableness, inappetence, inattention, incuriosity, indifference, indiscrimination, inexcitability, inexcitableness, inirritability, insouciance, judiciousness, juste-milieu, lack of affect, lack of appetite, lack of feeling, lack of touch, lackadaisicalness, languidness, lenity, lethargicalness, lethargy, listlessness, loftiness, meden agan, middle way, mildness, mindlessness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, negligence, neutrality, nonchalance, nonviolence, nothing in excess, numbness, objectivity, obtuseness, pacifism, passionlessness, passiveness, passivity, patience, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, plucklessness, pococurantism, poker face, prudence, recklessness, regardlessness, repose, resignation, resignedness, restraint, self-abnegation, self-absorption, self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, selflessness, serenity, sloth, sluggishness, smooth temper, sobriety, sopor, soporifousness, soullessness, spiritlessness, spunklessness, stability, steadiness, stoicism, stolidity, straight face, stupefaction, stupor, supineness, temperance, temperateness, torpidity, torpidness, torpor, tranquillity, unanxiousness, unbias, unbiasedness, unconcern, unemotionalism, unexcessiveness, unexcitability, unextravagance, unextremeness, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unimpressibility, unimpressionableness, unirritableness, unmindfulness, unnervousness, unpassionateness, unresponsiveness, unselfishness, unsolicitousness, unsusceptibility, unsympatheticness, untouchability, via media, withdrawal, withdrawnness

dispassionate

• dispassionate, Olympian, aboveboard, abstract, affectless, aloof, anesthetized, apathetic, arctic, ataractic, autistic, blase, blunt, bovine, calm, candid, careless, casual, catatonic, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, colorless, composed, cool, detached, devil-may-care, disinterested, disregardful, drugged, dull, easygoing, emotionally dead, emotionless, equable, equal, equitable, even, even-tempered, evenhanded, fair, frank, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, heartless, heedless, icy, immovable, impartial, impassible, impassive, impersonal, imperturbable, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, inexcitable, inirritable, insouciant, insusceptible, just, lackadaisical, level-headed, levelheaded, listless, lofty, mindless, negligent, neutral, nonchalant, nonemotional, objective, obtuse, open, open-minded, out of touch, passionless, patient, peaceful, perfunctory, placid, pococurante, poker-faced, reckless, regardless, reposeful, self-absorbed, self-controlled, self-possessed, selfless, serene, sober, soulless, spiritless, steady, stoic, stolid, straightforward, tranquil, turned-off, unaffectionate, unanxious, unbiased, uncolored, unconcerned, undazzled, undiscriminating, undisturbable, unemotional, unexcitable, unexcited, unfeeling, unflappable, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, uninfluenced, uninterested, unirritable, unjaundiced, unloving, unmindful, unmoved, unnervous, unpassionate, unprejudiced, unprepossessed, unresponding, unresponsive, unruffled, unselfish, unsolicitous, unsusceptible, unswayed, unsympathetic, untouchable

dispassionately

• dispassionately, apathetically, calmly, carelessly, cold-bloodedly, coldheartedly, coldly, composedly, conservatively, coolly, deadpan, deservedly, disinterestedly, duly, equably, equally, equitably, evenly, fair, fairly, heartlessly, heedlessly, impartially, impassively, impersonally, imperturbably, in balance, in cold blood, in moderation, in reason, inexcitably, inirritably, insouciantly, judiciously, justifiably, justifiedly, justly, lackadaisically, levelheadedly, listlessly, meetly, mindlessly, moderately, negligently, nonchalantly, placidly, properly, prudently, quietly, recklessly, regardlessly, restrainedly, rightfully, rightly, serenely, soberly, soothingly, spiritlessly, steadily, stodgily, stoically, stolidly, stuffily, subduedly, temperately, tranquilly, unconcernedly, unemotionally, unfeelingly, uninterestedly, unmindfully, unpassionately, upon even terms, warrantably, warrantedly, with dry eyes, within bounds, within compass, within reason, without distinction

dispatch

• dispatch, accelerate, accomplish, accomplished fact, accomplishment, account, achieve, achievement, acknowledgment, acquaintance, address, administration, advice, agility, air speed, air-express, airfreight, airmail, alacrity, annihilate, announcement, answer, assassinate, assassination, attain, attainment, bane, bereave of life, billet, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, blue book, braining, briefing, briskness, bulletin, bump off, bundle, bury, business letter, bustle, carry away, carry off, carrying out, celerity, chit, chloroform, commission, communication, communique, compass, complete, completion, conclude, conduct, consign, consume, consummate, consummation, convey, cope with, crowd, cut down, cut off, data, datum, deal with, dealing death, decisiveness, deprive of life, destroy, destruction, destruction of life, devour, directory, discharge, disposal, dispose of, do, do away with, do for, do in, do the job, do the trick, do to death, document, down, drive on, drop a letter, eat up, effect, effectuate, effectuation, eliminate, embark, embassy, enact, enactment, end, enlightenment, epistle, erase, euthanasia, evidence, execute, execution, expedite, expedition, expeditiousness, export, express, exterminate, extermination, facts, factual information, fait accompli, familiarization, fastness, favor, fetch, finish, finish off, flight, flit, flow of blood, flurry, forward, freight, fruition, fulfill, fulfillment, gen, general information, get, get away with, get done, get down, get through, goodwill, gore, ground speed, guidebook, gun down, handle, handling, handout, hard information, haste, hasten, hasten on, hie on, hit, hurry, hurry along, hurry on, hurry up, hustle, hustle up, ice, immediacy, immediateness, immolate, immolation, implementation, incidental information, info, information, ingest, instantaneousness, instruction, intelligence, kill, killing, knock off, knots, knowledge, lapidation, launch into eternity, lay, letter, light, lightning speed, line, liquidate, lynch, mail, make, make away with, manage, management, martyr, martyrdom, martyrization, martyrize, mention, mercy killing, message, miles per hour, mission accomplished, missive, murder, news item, nimbleness, note, notice, notification, perform, performance, perpetration, piece, pneumatogram, poison, poisoning, polish off, post, precipitate, precipitation, presentation, press, produce, production, promotional material, promptitude, promptness, proof, publication, publicity, punctuality, punctualness, purge, push, push on, push through, put away, put down, put to death, put to sleep, quicken, quickness, railroad through, rapidity, readiness, realization, realize, release, remit, remove from life, reply, report, rescript, ritual killing, ritual murder, round pace, route, rpm, rub out, rush, rush along, rustle, sacrifice, send, send away, send forth, send off, sharpness, ship, shooting, sidelight, silence, slaughter, slay, slaying, smartness, snappiness, speed, speed along, speed up, speediness, spryness, spur, stampede, starve, statement, stoning, story, succeed, success, summariness, surround, swallow, swift rate, swiftness, take care of, take down, take in, take life, take off, taking of life, telegram, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, transact, transaction, transmission, transmit, tuck in, turn the trick, urge, velocity, waste, whip, whip along, white book, white paper, word, work, work out, zap

dispatcher

• dispatcher, baggage man, bakehead, brakeman, brakie, butcher, conductor, fireman, footplate man, guard, lineman, porter, railroad man, railroader, redcap, smoke agent, stationmaster, stoker, switchman, trainboy, trainman, trainmaster, yardman, yardmaster

dispel

• dispel, attenuate, be consumed, be gone, blow off, break up, cast forth, cast off, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, clear away, crumble, dematerialize, depart, die, die away, die out, dilute, disappear, disband, disintegrate, dismiss, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, diverge, do a fade-out, do away with, drive away, dwindle, eject, eliminate, erode, evanesce, evaporate, exit, expel, exterminate, fade, fade away, fade out, flee, fling off, fly, get rid of, go, go away, go separate ways, hide, leave no trace, leave the scene, liquidate, melt, melt away, oust, part, part company, pass, pass away, pass out, perish, purge, retire from sight, scatter, separate, shake off, shoo, sink, sink away, split up, suffer an eclipse, thin, thin out, throw away, throw off, unimportant, vanish, vanish from sight, volatilize, waste, waste away, wear away

dispensable

• dispensable, admissible, allocated, allowable, apportionable, apportioned, back-burner, condonable, de trop, defensible, dinky, disposable, distributable, divisible, excess, excusable, exemptible, expendable, expiable, expletive, forgivable, gratuitous, immaterial, in excess, inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inessential, inferior, inoffensive, insignificant, irrelevant, justifiable, legitimate, little, minor, minute, needless, negligible, nonessential, not vital, parceled, pardonable, petit, pleonastic, portioned out, prolix, reasonable, redundant, remissible, severable, small, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, tautologic, tautologous, technical, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unimpressive, unnecessary, unneeded, unnoteworthy, unobjectionable, useless, venial, verbose, vindicable, warrantable

dispensary

• dispensary, X ray, blood bank, charity ward, chemist, clinic, consultation room, delivery room, dispensatory, drugstore, emergency, examining room, fever ward, hospital room, intensive care, isolation, labor room, laboratory, maternity ward, nursery, operating room, pharmacy, prison ward, private room, recovery room, semi-private room, surgery, therapy, treatment room, ward

dispensation

• dispensation, OK, abandonment, abjuration, administration, admission, allowance, attenuation, blank check, broadcast, broadcasting, carte blanche, cession, charter, circumfusion, civil government, command function, consent, copyright, courtesy, creation, decision-making, diffraction, diffusion, dilution, direction, disbursal, disbursement, discipline, dispersal, dispersion, disposal, disposition, dissemination, dissipation, distribution, divergence, dole, doling, doling out, dumping, empery, empire, evaporation, executive function, expansion, favor, forgoing, form of government, forswearing, fragmentation, franchise, freedom, getting rid of, giving out, giving up, governance, government, grant, immunity, indulgence, issuance, kindness, leave, letting go, liberty, license, management, officiation, okay, oversight, passing around, patent, paying out, peppering, permission, permission to enter, political organization, polity, preservation, privilege, propagation, providence, publication, radiation, recantation, regime, regimen, regnancy, regulation, reign, release, relinquishment, renunciation, resignation, retraction, riddance, rule, sacrifice, scattering, scatterment, service, shotgun pattern, sovereignty, sowing, spattering, special favor, special permission, splay, spread, spreading, sprinkling, strewing, supervision, surrender, sway, swearing off, system of government, ticket, ticket of admission, visitations of providence, volatilization, vouchsafement, waiver, warrant, yielding

dispense with

• dispense with, abandon, abjure, absolve, abstain, cede, discharge, disgorge, dispense from, dispose of, do without, drop, dump, except, excuse, exempt, forbear, forgo, forswear, free, get along without, get rid of, give away, give dispensation from, give up, grant immunity, have done with, hold back, hold off, keep back, keep in hand, kiss good-bye, let alone, let go, let off, make a sacrifice, not touch, not use, part with, quitclaim, recant, refrain, release, relinquish, remise, remit, render up, renounce, reserve, resign, retract, sacrifice, save, save the necessity, spare, surrender, swear off, throw up, vacate, waive, yield

dispense

• dispense, OK, abolish, abstain from, accord, administer, admit, afford, allocate, allot, allow, apply, apportion, assign, award, bestow, bestow on, bestrew, broadcast, cancel, carry out, circumfuse, communicate, conduct, confer, consent, deal, deal out, diffract, diffuse, direct, disburse, discharge, dish out, dispense with, disperse, dispose, dispose of, dispread, disseminate, distribute, diverge, divide, divvy, do away with, do without, dole, dole out, donate, eliminate, enforce, eschew, execute, extend, fan out, forgo, fork out, forswear, furnish, get rid of, gift, gift with, give, give away, give freely, give leave, give out, give permission, give the go-ahead, give the word, give up, grant, hand out, hawk, heap, help to, huckster, ignore, impart, implement, issue, lavish, leave, let, let have, make possible, measure, measure out, mete, mete out, offer, okay, operate, overscatter, oversow, overspread, parcel out, pass around, pass out, pay out, peddle, permit, portion out, pour, present, proffer, propagate, provide, publish, radiate, rain, refuse, reject, release, relinquish, remove, render, renounce, retail, say the word, scatter, serve, share out, shell out, shower, slip, snow, sow, sow broadcast, spare, splay, spoon out, spread, spread out, strew, superintend, supervise, supply, tender, utter, vend, vouchsafe, waive, yield

dispersal

• dispersal, aloofness, anarchy, attenuation, breakup, broadcast, broadcasting, chaos, circumfusion, confusion, crack-up, deactivation, demobilization, detachment, diaspora, diffraction, diffusion, dilution, disbandment, discontinuity, discreteness, disintegration, disjunction, dislocation, dismissal, disorder, disorganization, dispensation, dispersion, disruption, dissemination, dissipation, dissolution, distribution, divergence, entropy, evaporation, exfoliation, expansion, fragmentation, incoherence, inconsistency, nonadhesion, noncohesion, parting, peppering, propagation, publication, radiation, release, revolution, scaling, scattering, scatterment, separateness, separation, shattering, shotgun pattern, sowing, spattering, splay, split-up, spread, spreading, sprinkling, strewing, unadherence, unadhesiveness, untenacity, volatilization

disperse

• disperse, administer, atomize, be consumed, be gone, bend, bestrew, bias, branch, branch out, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, broadcast, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, circulate, circumfuse, crash, crook, crunch, crush, curve, cut to pieces, deactivate, deal, deal out, debrief, deflect, dematerialize, demob, demobilize, demolish, depart, deploy, detach, deviate, die, die away, die out, diffract, diffuse, disappear, disband, disburse, discharge, disintegrate, disjoin, dismiss, disorganize, dispel, dispense, dispose, dispread, disrupt, disseminate, dissipate, dissolve, distort, distribute, diverge, divert, divide, divvy, do a fade-out, dogleg, dole, dole out, dwindle, ease, ease off, emanate, erode, evanesce, evaporate, exit, expand, extend, fade, fade away, fade out, fan, fan out, fission, flare, flee, fly, fragment, free, give out, go, go away, go separate ways, grind, hairpin, hide, issue, leave no trace, leave the scene, let go, let up, loose, loosen, make mincemeat of, measure out, melt, melt away, mete, mete out, mince, muster out, open, open up, outspread, outstretch, overgrow, overrun, overscatter, oversow, overspread, parcel out, part, part company, partition, pass, pass around, pass away, pass out, pay out, perish, portion out, propagate, publish, pull, pulverize, radiate, ramify, ray, refract, relax, release, retail, retire from sight, rout, scatter, send away, send off, separate, shatter, shiver, sink, sink away, skew, slack, slack off, slacken, smash, smash up, sow, sow broadcast, splay, splinter, split up, spoon out, spraddle, sprangle, sprawl, spread, spread like wildfire, spread out, squash, squish, strew, suffer an eclipse, turn, twist, unfold, unglue, unleash, unstick, utter, vanish, vanish from sight, warp, waste, waste away, wear away, widen, zigzag

dispersed

• dispersed, aimless, alienated, amorphous, broadcast, capricious, casual, deflected, deflective, desultory, detached, diffracted, diffractive, diffuse, diffused, disarticulated, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, disordered, dispread, disproportionate, disseminated, dissipated, distorted, distributed, disunited, divided, divorced, erratic, estranged, fitful, flectional, flexed, formless, frivolous, gratuitous, haphazard, hit-or-miss, immethodical, inchoate, incoherent, indiscriminate, inflective, irregular, isolated, meaningless, misshapen, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, orderless, planless, promiscuous, random, refracted, refractile, refractive, refrangible, removed, scattered, segregated, senseless, separated, sequestered, shapeless, shut off, skew, skewed, sparse, spasmodic, sporadic, spread, straggling, straggly, strewn, strown, systemless, unarranged, unclassified, undirected, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unsorted, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vague, wandering, widespread

dispersion

• dispersion, addition, adjunct, administration, aggrandizement, aloofness, ampliation, amplification, anarchy, augmentation, blackout, blocking, breakup, broadening, chaos, confusion, crescendo, deactivation, deflection, deflexure, dematerialization, demobilization, departure, deployment, detachment, diaspora, diffraction, diffusion, disappearance, disappearing, disbandment, disbursal, disbursement, discontinuity, discreteness, disintegration, disjunction, dislocation, dismissal, disorder, disorganization, dispensation, dispersal, disposal, disposition, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, distortion, distribution, dole, doling, doling out, eclipse, elimination, emanation, enlargement, entropy, erasure, evanescence, evaporation, expansion, extension, extinction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, fanning out, flare, flection, flexure, giving out, going, hiking, incoherence, inconsistency, increase, issuance, magnification, melting, nonadhesion, noncohesion, occultation, parting, passing, passing around, paying out, radiance, radiation, radius, raising, ray, refraction, release, scatter, scattering, separateness, separation, skewness, splay, split-up, spoke, spread, spreading, torsion, unadherence, unadhesiveness, untenacity, upping, vanishing, vanishing point, widening, wipe

dispirit

• dispirit, beat down, cast down, chill, damp, dampen, dampen the spirits, darken, dash, deject, demoralize, depress, discourage, dishearten, disparage, knock down, lower, lower the spirits, oppress, press down, sadden, sink, weigh heavy upon, weigh upon

dispirited

• dispirited, blase, blue, bowed-down, cast down, dashed, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, desponding, disconsolate, discouraged, disheartened, down, downcast, downhearted, drooping, droopy, fed-up, feeling low, good and tired, heartless, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, irked, jaded, languishing, life-weary, low, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, pessimistic, pining, sad, satiated, sick, sick of, spiritless, splenetic, subdued, suicidal, tired, tired of, tired of living, tired to death, wearied, weariful, weary, weary of life, weary unto death, woebegone, world-weary

displace

• displace, act for, attend, banish, boot, bounce, break, bump, bust, can, carry away, carry off, cart away, cashier, change places with, come after, crowd out, cut out, deconsecrate, defrock, degrade, delocalize, demote, deplume, deport, depose, deprive, dethrone, disarrange, disarticulate, disbar, discharge, discrown, disemploy, disenthrone, disjoint, dislocate, dislodge, dismiss, disorder, displume, disturb, double for, drum out, eject, emanate, ensue, evict, excommunicate, exile, expatriate, expel, fill in for, fire, follow after, follow up, furlough, ghost, ghostwrite, give the ax, give the gate, go after, issue, kick, kick out, kick upstairs, lay aside, lay off, let go, let out, liquidate, luxate, make redundant, manhandle, misplace, move, oust, overtake, overthrow, pension, pension off, pinch-hit, purge, put aside, read out of, release, relegate, relieve, relocate, remove, remove from office, replace, represent, result, retire, sack, send, separate forcibly, set aside, shift, shunt, side, spell, spell off, stand in for, strip, strip of office, strip of rank, subrogate, substitute for, succeed, superannuate, supersede, supervene, supplant, surplus, suspend, swap places with, take away, throw out, track, trail, transfer, transport, turn off, turn out, unchurch, uncrown, understudy for, unfrock, unhinge, unjoint, unmake, unsaddle, unseat, unsettle, unthrone, usurp

displaced person

• displaced person, DP, Ishmael, Uitlander, absconder, alien, barbarian, bolter, castaway, declasse, deported population, deportee, deracine, derelict, eloper, emigrant, emigre, escapee, evacue, evacuee, evictee, exile, expatriate, expellee, fleer, foreign devil, foreigner, fugitive, gringo, immigrant, in-migrant, leper, migrant, migrator, migratory worker, out-migrant, outcast, outcast of society, outcaste, outlander, outlaw, outsider, pariah, persona non grata, refugee, runagate, runaway, skedaddler, social outcast, stateless person, stranger, the Wandering Jew, tramontane, trekker, ultramontane, unacceptable person, undesirable, untouchable, wanderer, wetback

displacement

• displacement, Doppler effect, agency, alienation, amotion, autism, autistic thinking, avatar, avoidance mechanism, banishment, blame-shifting, cashiering, catabolism, catalysis, change, commutation, compensation, consubstantiation, decompensation, deconsecration, defense mechanism, defrocking, delegation, delocalization, deportation, deposal, deposition, deprivation, deputation, deputyship, deracination, dereism, dereistic thinking, dethronement, disarrangement, disarticulation, disbarment, disbarring, discontinuity, discrownment, disenthronement, disjointing, dislocation, dismissal, dissociation, draft, emotional insulation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, exchange, excommunication, expulsion, fantasizing, fantasy, firing, flight, forced resignation, forcible shift, heterotopia, impeachment, incoherence, isolation, kicking upstairs, liquidation, luxation, metabolism, metagenesis, metamorphism, metamorphosis, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, movement, moving, mutant, mutated form, mutation, negativism, ostracism, ousting, overcompensation, overthrow, overthrowal, pensioning off, permutation, power of attorney, projection, psychotaxis, purge, quid pro quo, rationalization, red shift, reincarnation, relegation, relocation, remotion, removal, removement, replacement, representation, resistance, retirement, ripping out, shift, sinkage, sociological adjustive reactions, sport, sublimation, submergence, submersion, subrogation, substitution, superannuation, supersedence, superseding, supersedure, supersession, supplantation, supplanting, supplantment, suspension, switch, tit for tat, transanimation, transfiguration, transfigurement, transformation, transformism, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmogrification, transmutation, transposition, transubstantiation, unchurching, unfrocking, unhinging, unjointing, unseating, uprooting, vicariousness, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal

display

• display, CRT spot, Century, DM display, Doppler signal, Doric, Egyptian, Elzevir, Garamond, Gothic, IF signal, IM display, Ionic, RF echoes, Transitional, Typewriter, advertise, affect, air, airing, anteriority, antique, apparent character, appearances, approve, argue, array, attest, bandying, be indicative of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, beam, beat signal, bespeak, betoken, betray, black letter, blackface, blazon, blazon forth, blips, bold, bold front, boldface, book, bounces, brandish, brave face, brave front, bravura, breathe, brilliancy, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, broach, broadcast, broadcasting, bruiting, bruiting about, ceremony, characterize, circulation, condensed, connote, cosmorama, cursive, cyclorama, dangle, daring, dash, demonstrate, demonstration, denominate, denote, develop, differentiate, diffusion, diorama, disclose, disport, dissemination, divulge, double-dot display, dramatics, dramatize, echo, echo signal, eclat, elan, emblazon, embody, enact, enactment, entail, etalage, evidence, evince, evulgation, exhibit, exhibition, exhibitionism, expanded, expose, expose to view, exposition, exposure, express, extended, exteriors, external appearance, externals, facade, face, facet, facia, false front, fanfare, fanfaronade, figure, flair, flash, flaunt, flaunting, flourish, fore, forefront, foreground, forehand, foreland, forepart, forequarter, foreside, foreword, front, front elevation, front man, front matter, front page, front view, frontage, frontal, frontier, frontispiece, furnish evidence, gaudiness, georama, give evidence, give indication of, give out, give sign, give token, go to show, grandeur, grotesque, head, heading, highlight, hint, histrionics, hold up, identify, illuminate, illustrate, imply, incarnate, indicate, involve, issuance, issue, italic, lap, lay out, light show, lightface, local oscillator signal, magnificence, make clear, make known, make plain, make public, manifest, manifestation, mark, materialize, mean, mere externals, meretriciousness, modern, myriorama, note, obverse, offer, old style, open, open up, opening, ostent, ostentation, ostentatiousness, output signal, outward appearance, outward show, pageant, pageantry, panoply, panorama, parade, perform, performance, periodical, phantasmagoria, picture, pips, point to, pomp, preface, prefix, present, presentation, presentment, pretension, pretentiousness, printing, priority, produce, production, projection, promulgation, propagation, proscenium, psychedelic show, public image, publication, publicize, publishing, put forth, put forward, put out, radar signal, reading, reflection, represent, representation, retrospective, return, return signal, reveal, revelation, roll out, roman, sans serif, script, set forth, setout, sham, shifting scene, shine, show, show forth, show off, show signs of, showiness, showing, showing-off, sight, signal, signal display, signalize, signify, speak for itself, speak volumes, speciousness, spectacle, splash, splendor, splurge, sport, spot, spotlight, spread, spreading, spreading abroad, stage show, staginess, stand for, suggest, superficiality, surface appearance, surface show, symptomatize, symptomize, tableau, tableau vivant, target image, telecasting, tell, tend to show, testify, theatrics, token, trace, transmitter signal, trot out, trumpet, trumpet forth, type styles, unclothe, uncover, unfold, unfolding, unfoldment, unfurl, unveil, unveiling, vain show, varnishing day, vaunt, ventilate, ventilation, vernissage, video signal, wave, window dressing

displease

• displease, anger, annoy, be disagreeable, bug, chafe, disappoint, discontent, disgruntle, dishearten, dissatisfy, exasperate, frustrate, infuriate, irk, irritate, miff, nettle, offend, peeve, pique, provoke, put out, rile, ruffle, trouble, upset, vex, worry

displeased

• displeased, against, allergic, averse, beefing, bellyaching, bitching, complaining, complaintful, con, crabbing, crabby, cranky, croaking, disaffected, disappointed, disapprobatory, disapproving, discontented, disenchanted, disgruntled, disillusioned, disinclined, dissatisfied, dissenting, envious, faultfinding, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumbling, hostile, indignant, low, malcontent, malcontented, murmuring, muttering, not charmed, opposed, opposing, out of humor, peevish, petulant, poor, put off, querulant, querulous, rebellious, resentful, restive, restless, sulky, turned-off, unaccepting, unaccommodating, unappreciative, unapproving, uncomplimentary, uneasy, unfavorable, unfriendly, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unsatisfied, whiny

displeasing

• displeasing, abhorrent, annoying, bitter, bothersome, disagreeable, disappointing, disheartening, dislikable, dissatisfactory, distasteful, foul-tasting, had, ill-flavored, inadequate, incommensurate, insufficient, intolerable, irksome, mislikable, not good enough, odious, rotten, sour, thankless, ugly, unalluring, unappealing, unappetizing, unattractive, uncongenial, undelectable, undelicious, undesirable, unengaging, unenjoyable, unfulfilling, ungratifying, unhappy, uninviting, unlikable, unlovable, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpleasing, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, unsavory, untasteful, untasty, unwelcome, vexing

displeasure

• displeasure, aggravation, anger, angst, anguish, annoyance, anxiety, aversion, bad books, ban, blackball, blackballing, boredom, chagrin, cheerlessness, complaint, dim view, disaffection, disaffinity, disagreeability, disagreeableness, disagreement, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, discomfort, discomposure, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, discountenance, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disgruntlement, disillusion, disillusionment, disinclination, dislike, disliking, displeasingness, disquiet, disrelish, disrespect, dissatisfaction, dissent, distaste, distastefulness, dread, dudgeon, dullness, emptiness, ennui, exasperation, exclusion, existential woe, flatness, grimness, humorlessness, indignation, indisposition, infelicity, infestivity, inquietude, ire, irritation, joylessness, lack of pleasure, low estimation, low opinion, malaise, mirthlessness, misery, nausea, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, objection, opposition, opposure, ostracism, painfulness, protest, rejection, resentfulness, resentment, savorlessness, spleen, staleness, tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, thumbs-down, ugliness, unappealingness, unattractiveness, uncheerfulness, uncomfortableness, undelectability, undesirability, unease, uneasiness, unhappiness, unjoyfulness, unmirthfulness, unpalatability, unpleasantness, unpleasingness, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, unsavoriness, vexation, vexation of spirit, wretchedness

disport

• disport, acquit, act, antic, bear, brandish, caper, caracole, carry, carry on, cavort, comport, conduct, curvet, cut a dido, cut capers, cut up, dance, demean, deport, display, diversion, exhibit, expose, flash, flaunt, flounce, fool around, frisk, frolic, fun, gambol, go on, horse around, jollity, merriment, parade, play, recreate, recreation, rollick, romp, show off, skip, sport, trip, trot out

disposal

• disposal, abalienation, abandonment, abjuration, administration, alienation, allocation, allotment, amortization, amortizement, apportionment, arrangement, array, arraying, assignation, assignment, bargain and sale, barter, bequeathal, castaway, castoff, cession, chucking, clearance, collation, collocation, command function, concord, conferment, conferral, consignation, consignment, constitution, conveyance, conveyancing, decision-making, deeding, deep six, deliverance, delivery, demise, demolishing, demolition, deployment, deportation, destroying, destruction, detachment, disbursal, disbursement, discard, discarding, disjunction, dispensation, dispersion, disposition, distribution, dole, doling, doling out, dumping, ejection, elimination, enfeoffment, eradication, exchange, executive function, exile, expatriation, expulsion, forgoing, form, formation, formulation, forswearing, getting rid of, giving, giving out, giving up, harmony, issuance, jettison, junking, layout, lease and release, letting go, lineup, liquidation, marshaling, officiation, order, ordering, organization, ostracism, outlawing, outlawry, passing around, paying out, peace, placement, proportion, purge, quiet, quietude, recantation, refuse, regimentation, regularity, reject, rejectamenta, rejection, release, relegation, relinquishment, removal, renunciation, resignation, retraction, riddance, routine, sacrifice, sale, scrapping, sequence, settlement, settling, setup, severance, structure, structuring, surrender, suspension, swearing off, symmetry, syntax, system, throwaway, trading, tranquillity, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, uniformity, vesting, withdrawal, yielding

dispose of

• dispose of, KO, abandon, abjure, abstract, accomplish, achieve, annihilate, answer, answer conclusively, argue down, attain, bereave of life, call off, cancel, carry away, carry off, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, cast out, cede, chloroform, chuck, clear, clear away, clear out, clear the decks, compass, complete, conduct, confound, confute, consume, consummate, contradict, controvert, cope with, crush, cut down, cut off, cut out, cut short, deal with, deep-six, defeat, delete, demolish, deny, deport, deprive of life, destroy, devour, discard, discharge, disgorge, dismiss, dispatch, dispense with, dispose of, ditch, do, do away with, do for, do the job, do the trick, do to death, do without, down, drop, drop the curtain, dump, eat up, effect, effectuate, eighty-six, eject, elide, eliminate, enact, end, end off, eradicate, execute, exile, expatriate, expel, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, fetch, finalize, finish, finish off, floor, fold up, forgo, forswear, fulfill, get along without, get away with, get down, get it over, get over with, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, get through with, give away, give the quietus, give up, handle, have done with, immolate, ingest, jettison, jilt, kayo, kibosh, kill, kiss good-bye, knock off, knock out, launch into eternity, liquidate, lynch, make, make a sacrifice, make away with, manage, martyr, martyrize, nip, nonplus, outlaw, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, parry, part with, perfect, perform, pick out, poison, polish off, produce, purge, put away, put down, put paid to, put to death, put to silence, put to sleep, quitclaim, realize, rebut, recant, reduce to silence, refute, reject, relinquish, remove, remove from life, render up, renounce, resign, retract, root out, root up, sacrifice, scrag, settle, shoot down, shut up, silence, slaughter, slay, slough, smash all opposition, spare, squash, squelch, starve, strike off, strike out, subvert, succeed, surrender, surround, swallow, swear off, take care of, take down, take in, take life, take off, throw away, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, throw up, to, toss overboard, transact, tuck in, turn the trick, undermine, upset, vacate, waive, weed out, wipe out, work, work out, yield, zap

dispose

• dispose, adjust, administer, affect, aim, align, allocate, allot, apportion, arrange, array, assign, bear, bend, bend to, bestow, bias, bring, call the shots, carry, collocate, color, compose, conclude, conduce, consume, contribute, control, cool off, deal, deal out, deal with, decide, demolish, deploy, destroy, determine, devour, direct, disburse, discard, dispense, disperse, dispose of, distribute, do away with, dole, dole out, dump, eat, emplace, engage, enlist, finish off, fix, form, get a fix, get rid of, get to do, give away, give out, go, govern, grade, group, guide, harmonize, have a tendency, head, hierarchize, hold a heading, home in on, incline, induce, influence, install, interest in, issue, jettison, junk, knock off, lay out, lead, lean, line, line up, localize, locate, look to, lure, make over, marshal, measure out, mete, mete out, methodize, motivate, move, navigate, normalize, order, organize, pacify, parcel out, part with, pass around, pay out, persuade, pin down, pinpoint, place, point, point to, polish off, portion out, position, predispose, procure, prompt, put, put away, put in place, quiet, rally, range, rank, redound to, regiment, regularize, regulate, routinize, rule, scrap, sell, serve, set, set out, set toward, set up, settle, show a tendency, situate, soften up, space, spoon out, spot, standardize, steer, structure, sway, systematize, tempt, tend, tend to go, throw away, throw out, tinge, tone, tranquilize, transfer, trash, trend, triangulate, turn, urge, verge, warp, wear down, wear the pants, weigh with, work, work toward, zero in on

disposed

• disposed, acquiescent, agreeable, alacritous, aligned, amenable, apt, apt to, ardent, arranged, arrayed, assorted, bent, calculated to, categorized, classified, compliant, composed, consenting, constituted, content, cooperative, disposed to, dispositioned, docile, eager, enthusiastic, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, fixed, forward, game, given, given to, graded, grouped, harmonized, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, inclined to, liable, liable to, likely, likely to, marshaled, methodized, minded, minded to, normalized, ordered, orderly, organized, placed, pliant, predisposed, predisposed to, prompt, prone, prone to, quick, ranged, ranked, ready, ready and willing, ready to, receptive, regularized, regulated, responsive, routinized, sorted, standardized, subject, synchronized, systematized, tractable, well-disposed, well-inclined, willed, willing, willinghearted, zealous

disposition

• disposition, a thing for, abalienation, abandonment, abjuration, administration, affinity, alienation, allocation, allotment, amortization, amortizement, animus, appetence, appetency, appetite, apportionment, approach, aptitude, aptness, arrangement, array, arraying, assignation, assignment, attack, attitude, authority, bargain and sale, barter, battle array, being, bent, bequeathal, bestowal, bias, blueprint, blueprinting, body-build, brand, calculation, cast, cession, character, characteristic, characteristics, charting, choice, civil government, claws, clearance, close formation, clutches, collation, collocation, command, command function, complexion, composition, conation, conatus, conception, concord, conduciveness, conferment, conferral, consignation, consignment, constituents, constitution, contrivance, control, controlling, conveyance, conveyancing, crasis, decision, decision-making, deeding, delight, deliverance, delivery, demise, deployment, deportation, deposit, deposition, design, desire, detachment, determination, device, dharma, diathesis, direction, disbursal, disbursement, discard, discarding, discipline, discretion, disjunction, dispensation, dispersion, disposal, distribution, dole, doling, doling out, dominion, dumping, eagerness, eccentricity, echelon, ejection, elimination, empery, empire, emplacement, enfeoffment, enterprise, envisagement, eradication, ethos, exchange, executive function, exile, expatriation, expulsion, fancy, feeling for, fiber, figuring, foresight, forethought, forgoing, form, form of government, formation, formulation, forswearing, frame, frame of mind, free choice, free will, game, genius, getting rid of, giving, giving out, giving up, governance, government, grain, graphing, grip, ground plan, grouping, guidelines, habit, hand, hands, harmony, hue, humor, humors, idea, identity, idiosyncrasy, ilk, inclination, inclining, individualism, individuality, intention, iron hand, issuance, jettison, junking, jurisdiction, kidney, kind, lading, layout, leaning, lease and release, letting go, liability, liking, lineup, liquidation, loading, localization, locating, location, long-range plan, lust, make, makeup, management, mapping, marshaling, master plan, mental set, method, methodology, mettle, mind, mind-set, mold, mood, nature, objective, officiation, open order, operations research, order, order of battle, ordering, organization, ostracism, outlawing, outlawry, oversight, packing, passing around, passion, paying out, peace, penchant, personality, physique, pinpointing, placement, placing, plan, planning, planning function, pleasure, political organization, polity, positioning, posting, power, prearrangement, predilection, predisposition, prejudice, probability, procedure, proclivity, program, program of action, proneness, propensity, property, proportion, purge, putting, quality, quiet, quietude, raj, rationalization, readiness, recantation, reference, regime, regimen, regimentation, regnancy, regularity, regulation, reign, release, relegation, relinquishment, removal, renunciation, reposition, resignation, resolution, retraction, riddance, routine, rule, sacrifice, sale, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, scrapping, sensitivity to, sequence, set, settlement, settling, setup, severance, sexual desire, situation, slant, soft spot, somatotype, sort, sovereignty, spirit, spotting, stamp, stationing, storage, stowage, strain, strategic plan, strategy, streak, stripe, structure, structuring, suchness, supervision, surrender, susceptibility, suspension, sway, swearing off, symmetry, syntax, system, system of government, systematization, tactical plan, tactics, talons, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, the big picture, the picture, tone, trading, tranquillity, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, tropism, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, uniformity, vein, velleity, vesting, volition, warp, way, weakness, will, will power, willingness, wish, withdrawal, working plan, yielding

dispossess

• dispossess, bereave, boot out, bounce, cut off, disendow, disherison, disinherit, dislodge, disown, disseise, divest, drive out, eject, evict, expel, expropriate, foreclose, kick out, lose, oust, put out, rob, throw out, turn out, unhouse, unkennel

dispossession

• dispossession, bereavement, cost, damage, dead loss, debit, denial, denudation, deprivation, deprivement, despoilment, destruction, detriment, disendowment, disherison, disinheritance, dislodgment, disownment, disseisin, divestment, eviction, expense, expropriation, foreclosure, forfeit, forfeiture, injury, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, ouster, ousting, perdition, privation, reclaiming, repossessing, repossession, robbery, ruin, sacrifice, spoliation, stripping, taking away, total loss

disproof

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

disproportion

• disproportion, ambiguity, ambivalence, anamorphism, anamorphosis, antinomy, asymmetry, buckle, contortion, contrariety, crookedness, derangement, detorsion, deviation, difference, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, disequilibrium, disharmony, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disparity, disproportionateness, disruption, dissimilarity, distortion, disturbance, entropy, equivocality, gnarl, haphazardness, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, imbalance, imparity, inadequacy, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, indiscriminateness, inequality, inequity, inharmonious harmony, injustice, insufficiency, irreconcilability, irregularity, knot, lopsidedness, most admired disorder, nonconformability, nonconformity, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, odds, overbalance, oxymoron, paradox, perturbation, promiscuity, promiscuousness, quirk, randomness, screw, self-contradiction, shortcoming, torsion, tortuosity, turbulence, turn, twist, unbalance, unconformability, unconformity, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unorthodoxy, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upset, warp, wrench, wrest, wring

disproportionate

• disproportionate, abnormal, absurd, aggrandized, aimless, amorphous, amplified, anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic, asymmetric, asymmetrical, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, ballyhooed, capricious, casual, clashing, contradictory, contrary, cranky, cross, desultory, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, disarticulated, discontinuous, discordant, discrepant, disharmonious, disjunct, disordered, disparate, dispersed, dissident, dissimilar, dissonant, divergent, erratic, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fitful, formless, frivolous, grandiloquent, grating, gratuitous, haphazard, high-flown, hit-or-miss, hostile, hyperbolic, ill-matched, ill-sorted, immethodical, immiscible, inaccordant, inadequate, inchoate, incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate, incompatible, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsistent, inconsonant, indiscriminate, inflated, inharmonious, inordinate, insufficient, irreconcilable, irregular, jangling, jarring, lopsided, magnified, meaningless, mismatched, misshapen, negative, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, odd, off-balance, orderless, out of accord, out of proportion, out of whack, overbalanced, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overlarge, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought, oxymoronic, paradoxical, planless, prodigal, profuse, promiscuous, puffed, random, repugnant, self-contradictory, senseless, shapeless, skew, skewed, spasmodic, sporadic, straggling, straggly, stretched, superlative, systemless, touted, unarranged, unbalanced, unclassified, uncongenial, undirected, unequal, uneven, unfair, ungraded, unharmonious, unjoined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unsorted, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vague, variant, wandering

disprove

• disprove, abjure, assert the contrary, belie, blow sky-high, blow up, break, confound, confute, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, cross, deflate, demolish, deny, destroy, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disconfirm, discredit, disown, dispute, evert, explode, expose, forswear, gainsay, impugn, invalidate, join issue upon, negate, negative, not accept, not admit, nullify, oppose, overthrow, overturn, prove the contrary, puncture, rebut, recant, refuse to admit, refute, renounce, repudiate, retract, revoke, shoot, show up, take back, take issue with, traverse, undercut

disproved

• disproved, belied, confounded, confuted, deflated, denied, discarded, discredited, dismissed, disputed, exploded, exposed, impugned, invalidated, negated, negatived, overthrown, overturned, punctured, refuted, rejected, shown up, upset

disputable

• disputable, arguable, at issue, confutable, conjectural, contestable, controversial, controvertible, debatable, deniable, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, iffy, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, mistakable, moot, open to doubt, open to question, problematic, questionable, refutable, speculative, suppositional, suspect, suspicious, uncertain, undecided, unsettled

disputant

• disputant, Philadelphia lawyer, apologist, arguer, argufier, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, bitter-ender, blade, bravo, brawler, bully, bullyboy, casuist, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, controversialist, debater, defendant, diehard, disceptator, dissentient, dissident, duelist, enforcer, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, guardhouse lawyer, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, intransigent, irreconcilable, jouster, knight, last-ditcher, litigant, logomacher, logomachist, militant, mooter, naysayer, negativist, noncooperator, objector, obstructionist, obstructive, opposer, oppositionist, pilpulist, plaintiff, plug-ugly, polemic, polemicist, polemist, protester, quarreler, resister, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, thug, tilter, tough, tussler, wrangler

disputatious

• disputatious, aggressive, argumental, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, bickering, cat-and-dog, cat-and-doggish, combative, complaining, contentious, controversial, dialectic, disputing, dissentient, dissenting, divisive, eristic, factional, factious, fractious, ill-humored, irascible, irritable, litigious, logomachic, noncooperative, objecting, obstructive, on the barricades, partisan, pilpulistic, polarizing, polemic, polemical, pro and con, proof against, protesting, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, reluctant, renitent, repellent, resistant, resisting, resistive, retardant, retardative, scrappy, shrewish, uncooperative, unsubmissive, unyielding, up in arms, withstanding, wrangling

dispute

• dispute, Kilkenny cats, Socratic method, abjure, agitate, altercate, altercation, apologetics, apologia, apology, argue, argufy, argument, argumentation, asking, assert the contrary, awake a doubt, bandy words, be diffident, be doubtful, be dubious, be skeptical, be uncertain, beef, belie, bicker, bicker over, bickering, bitch, blood feud, boggle, boycott, brawl, bringing into question, broil, buck, call in question, canvass, casuistry, cat-and-dog life, catechizing, cavil, challenge, choplogic, combat, combative reaction, complain, complain loudly, complaint, conflict, confront, confute, contend, contend about, contend with, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, contradict, contravene, controversy, controvert, counter, counteraction, cross, cross swords, cry out against, cut and thrust, debate, defense, defiance, demonstrate, demonstrate against, demur, deny, differ, difference of opinion, disaffirm, disagree with, disagreement, disallow, disavow, discept, disclaim, discord, discuss, discussion, disown, disprove, disputation, dissension, dissent, dissent from, dissentience, distrust, disturbance, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, doubt, duel, embroilment, enmity, enter a protest, examination, expostulate, face down, face out, face up to, falling-out, feud, fight, fight against, fight over, fighting, flite, fliting, flyting, forswear, fracas, fractiousness, front, fuss, gainsay, give and take, greet with skepticism, half believe, harbor suspicions, hassle, have it out, have reservations, have words, holler, hostility, howl, hubbub, hurrah, imbroglio, impugn, inquiring, interpellation, interrogation, join issue, join issue upon, kick, kick against, litigation, lock horns, logomachize, logomachy, make a stand, march, meet head-on, miff, misgive, mistrust, moot, negativism, noncooperation, not accept, not admit, nullify, object, object to, objection, obstinacy, offer resistance, open quarrel, oppose, opposition, paper war, passage of arms, passive resistance, pettifog, picket, plead, polemic, polemicize, polemics, polemize, press objections, probing, protest, pumping, quarrel, quarrel over, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, query, querying, question, questioning, quibble, quiz, quizzing, raise a howl, raise a question, rally, reaction, rebuff, rebut, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitrate, recalcitration, recant, refractoriness, refuse to admit, refute, reluct, reluctance, remonstrance, remonstrate, renitence, renitency, renounce, repel, repellence, repellency, repudiate, repulse, repulsion, resistance, retract, revoke, revolt, rhubarb, row, rumpus, scrapping, scruple, seeking, set to, set-to, sharp words, show fight, sit in, slanging match, smell a rat, snarl, spar, spat, squabble, squabble over, squabbling, squawk, stand, stand at bay, stand up against, stand up to, state a grievance, strife, strike, strive against, struggle, suspect, take back, take exception to, take issue with, take sides, teach in, thrash out, throw doubt upon, tiff, traverse, treat with reserve, try conclusions, tussle, uncooperativeness, vendetta, verbal engagement, war, war of words, warfare, withstand, withstanding, words, wrangle, wrangle over, wrangling, yell bloody murder

disputed

• disputed, belied, confounded, confuted, contested, deflated, denied, disbelieved, discarded, discredited, dismissed, disproved, doubted, exploded, exposed, impugned, invalidated, mistrusted, moot, negated, negatived, overthrown, overturned, punctured, questioned, refuted, rejected, shown up, suspect, suspected, under a cloud, under suspicion, upset

disqualification

• disqualification, ad lib, disability, disablement, extemporaneousness, imbecility, improvisation, inability, inadequacy, incapability, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, inefficiency, ineptitude, infancy, inferiority, insufficiency, lack of preparation, legal incapacity, minority, nonpreparation, nonpreparedness, planlessness, unfitness, unfittedness, unpreparedness, unqualification, unqualifiedness, unreadiness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unsuitedness, vulnerability, wardship

disqualified

• disqualified, crippled, disabled, disarmed, hamstrung, hog-tied, ill-equipped, ill-fitted, ill-furnished, ill-provided, incapable, incapacitated, incompetent, ineligible, invalidated, paralyzed, prostrate, unadapted, unarmed, unequipped, unfit, unfitted, unprovided, unqualified, unsuited

disqualify

• disqualify, bar, bate, close out, debar, disable, disenable, eliminate, except, exclude, incapacitate, invalidate, make impossible, prohibit, reject, rule out, suspend, turn away, turn down, unfit

disquiet

• disquiet, afflict, affright, agitate, agitation, ailment, alarm, all-overs, angst, anguish, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, be tedious, beat, beat up, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, bore, boredom, bother, brouhaha, burden, bustle, cankerworm of care, care, cheerlessness, chills of fear, churn, churn up, cold creeps, cold shivers, cold sweat, commotion, concern, concernment, conturbation, convulse, creeps, curdle the blood, didder, disarrange, discombobulate, discomfort, discompose, discomposure, disconcert, discontent, dislike, disorder, displeasure, disquietude, dissatisfaction, distress, disturb, disturbance, dithers, dread, dullness, ebullition, electrify, embroilment, emptiness, ennui, excite, excitement, existential woe, fear, fear and trembling, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, flap, flatness, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, foment, foreboding, forebodingness, frazzle, fret, fright, frighten, fume, funk, fuss, give concern, goose bumps, gooseflesh, grimness, heartquake, heaving, horripilate, horripilation, hubbub, hurly-burly, inquietude, jar, jimjams, jitters, jolt, joylessness, jumpiness, lack of pleasure, leave unsatisfied, load with care, maelstrom, make one tremble, malaise, misgiving, moil, nausea, nerviness, nervosity, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, overanxiety, paddle, painfulness, palpitation, panting, perturb, perturbate, perturbation, pins and needles, pitapat, pitter-patter, pucker, put to it, quaking, quaver, quavering, quiver, quiver of terror, quivering, raise apprehensions, rattle, restiveness, restlessness, rile, ripple, rock, roil, roughen, rout, row, ruffle, rumple, savorlessness, scare, seethe, seething, shake, shake up, shakes, shaking, shiver, shivers, shock, shudder, solicitude, spleen, spook, stagger, staleness, startle, stew, stir, stir up, strain, suspense, sweat, swirl, tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, tension, thrill of fear, throb, throbbing, to-do, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, uncomfortableness, unease, uneasiness, unhappiness, unhinge, unman, unnerve, unpleasure, unquietness, unrest, unsatisfaction, unsettle, unstring, untune, upset, vexation, vexation of spirit, whip, whip up, whisk, work up, worry, zeal

disquieted

• disquieted, abashed, afflicted, affrighted, agitated, alarmed, all-overish, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, beset, bothered, cast down, chagrined, chapfallen, concerned, confused, consternated, daunted, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, dismayed, distressed, disturbed, embarrassed, excited, fearful, feverish, fidgety, flurried, flustered, foreboding, frightened, hung up, ill at ease, in a fright, in a funk, in a pucker, in a stew, jittery, jumpy, misgiving, mortified, nervous, nervy, on tenterhooks, out of countenance, overanxious, overapprehensive, perturbed, put-out, put-upon, restless, ruffled, shaken, shaken up, solicitous, startled, stirred up, strained, suspenseful, tense, troubled, troublous, turbulent, uncomfortable, uneasy, unpeaceful, unquiet, unsettled, upset, zealous

disquieting

• disquieting, agitating, alarming, annoying, awing, bothersome, breathtaking, chafing, charged, chilling, cliff-hanging, daunting, deterrent, deterring, disconcerting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, distracting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, electric, exciting, exhilarating, fear-inspiring, fearful, fearsome, fretting, frightening, frightful, galvanic, harassing, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, impressive, inflammatory, intoxicating, jarring, jolting, maddening, mind-blowing, moving, overawing, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, perturbing, piquant, plaguing, provocative, provoking, ravishing, scaring, scary, soul-stirring, spirit-stirring, startling, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, striking, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, unsettling, upsetting, worrisome, worrying

disregard

• disregard, abide with, abjuration, abjure, abjurement, absentmindedness, accept, accidia, acedia, admit, admit exceptions, allow, allow for, apathy, arrogance, ataraxia, ataraxy, audacity, be big, be blind to, be caught napping, be caught out, be content with, be easy with, be inattentive, be neglectful, be negligent, be unwary, bear with, benevolence, blink at, bold front, boldness, brash bearing, brashness, brassiness, bravado, brazenness, break the law, brook, brush aside, brush off, bumptiousness, care naught for, carelessness, casualness, cheekiness, chuck, chuck out, chucking, chucking out, cockiness, concede, condonation, condone, connive at, consider, consider the circumstances, consider the source, contemn, contempt, contemptuousness, contradict, contradiction, culpa, culpable negligence, cut, cut dead, cut direct, daring, daringness, declination, decline, declining, default, defial, defiance, defy, defying, delinquency, denial, deny, dereliction, deride, derision, despisal, despise, despising, despite, detachment, digest, disapproval, disapprove, discard, disclaim, disclamation, disconformity, discount, discounting, disdain, disesteem, disinterest, dismiss, dismissal, disobey, disown, disownment, disparage, dispassion, disregardfulness, disrespect, distraction, down, easygoingness, eat, endure, except, exception, exclude, exclusion, fail, failure, flightiness, flippancy, flout, forbearance, forget, forgetting, forgiveness, forgivingness, forswear, frivolousness, giddiness, give no heed, give the go-by, gloss over, go counter to, grant, hear nothing, heedlessness, hold in derision, humiliation, ignore, ignoring, impertinence, impudence, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, inconsideration, incuriosity, indifference, indiscrimination, indulgence, inexcitability, inobservance, insolence, insouciance, judge not, kindness, laches, lack of affect, lackadaisicalness, laissez-faire, lapse, lassitude, laugh at, laugh to scorn, laxity, laxness, lean over backwards, leave unavenged, let go, let go by, let it go, let pass, let ride, let slide, let slip, lethargy, levity, lift temporarily, lightmindedness, listen to reason, listlessness, live with, long-suffering, longanimity, look right through, looseness, lose sight of, lose track of, magnanimity, make allowance for, make allowances for, make light of, make little of, mindlessness, minimize, miss, neglect, neglectfulness, neglecting, negligence, nod, nonacceptance, nonadherence, nonapproval, nonchalance, noncompliance, nonconformance, nonconformity, nonconsideration, nonfeasance, nonfulfillment, noninterference, nonobservance, nonperformance, nonrestriction, not attend, not care for, not conform, not get involved, not heed, not keep, not listen, not mind, not notice, not observe, not think, not write off, obliviousness, omission, omit, omitting, overlook, overlooking, overpass, oversight, pass by, pass over, pass up, passing by, patience, pay no attention, pay no mind, permissiveness, pertness, pocket, pocket the affront, pococurantism, pooh-pooh, poor stewardship, pretermit, procrastination, provide for, push aside, putting away, putting out, rebuff, recant, recantation, recklessness, refusal, refuse, refuse to acknowledge, refuse to consider, refuse to cooperate, refuse to recognize, regard with indulgence, regardlessness, reject, rejection, relax, relax the condition, remissness, renounce, renouncement, repel, repudiate, repudiation, repulse, sauciness, scoff at, scorn, scout, scouting, see both sides, see nothing, set aside, set at defiance, set at naught, set naught by, shallowness, shove away, slackness, sleep, slight, slight over, slighting, sloth, sneer, sneeze at, sniff, snort, snub, spurn, spurning, stomach, superficiality, suspend judgment, swallow, swallow an insult, take, take account of, take for granted, take into account, take into consideration, the cold shoulder, the go-by, think little of, thoughtlessness, throw away, throw out, throwing out, tolerance, tolerate, transgress, turn aside provocation, turn away, turn out, turning out, unalertness, unanxiousness, unawareness, unconcern, unconsciousness, underestimate, underrate, undervalue, unheedfulness, unintentiveness, unmindfulness, unobservance, unrevengefulness, unrigorousness, unsolicitousness, unwariness, unwatchfulness, view with indulgence, violate, waive, wink at

disregarded

• disregarded, abandoned, absolved, acquitted, blotted, canceled, condoned, deserted, exculpated, excused, exonerated, forgiven, forgotten, half-done, ignored, indulged, laid aside, left undone, missed, neglected, omitted, overlooked, pardoned, passed by, passed over, passed up, pigeonholed, put aside, redeemed, remitted, reprieved, shriven, shunted, sidelined, sidetracked, slighted, spared, unasked, unattended to, unavenged, uncared-for, unchaperoned, uncondemned, unconsidered, undone, unregarded, unresented, unrevenged, unsolicited, untended, unwatched, wiped away

disregardful

• disregardful, airy, apathetic, arrogant, ataractic, audacious, behindhand, blase, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, bumptious, careless, casual, challenging, cheeky, cocky, contemptuous, cursory, daring, defiant, defying, degage, derisive, devil-may-care, disdainful, disinterested, dispassionate, disregardant, distracted, distrait, easygoing, flippant, forgetful, free and easy, greatly daring, heedless, impertinent, impudent, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, inconstant, incurious, indifferent, inexcitable, inobservant, insolent, insouciant, lackadaisical, lazy, listless, mindless, negligent, nonadherent, nonchalant, noncompliant, nonconforming, nonobservant, oblivious, offhand, perfunctory, pert, pococurante, reckless, regardless, regardless of consequences, remiss, respectless, saucy, slack, tactless, thoughtless, turned-off, unaccommodating, unanxious, uncomplaisant, uncompliant, unconcerned, unconforming, uncooperative, undiplomatic, undiscriminating, unfaithful, unheedful, unheeding, unhelpful, uninterested, unloyal, unmarking, unmindful, unnoticing, unnoting, unobliging, unobservant, unobserving, unprepared, unready, unremarking, unsolicitous, untactful, unthinking, unthoughtful, untrue

disrepair

• disrepair, bankruptcy, breakage, breakdown, collapse, crack-up, crippling, damage, decay, destruction, deterioration, detriment, dilapidation, disablement, encroachment, functionlessness, harm, hobbling, hurt, hurting, impairment, inapplicability, incapacitation, infringement, injury, inoperability, inoperativeness, inroad, inutility, loss, maiming, mayhem, mischief, mutilation, needlessness, otiosity, ruin, ruination, ruinousness, sabotage, scathe, sickening, spoiling, superfluousness, unemployability, unfitness, unhelpfulness, unnecessity, unserviceability, unsuitability, unusability, uselessness, weakening

disreputable

• disreputable, abject, bad, base, bedraggled, beggarly, cheap, contemptible, contemptuous, decrepit, derogatory, despicable, dilapidated, dingy, dirty, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disordered, down-at-heel, dubious, faded, heinous, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, inglorious, iniquitous, low, mean, messy, notorious, opprobrious, pitiable, questionable, raddled, reprehensible, run-down, scandalous, scruffy, scurvy, seamy, seedy, shabby, shady, shameful, shoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sordid, sorry, tattered, threadbare, unkempt, unpraiseworthy, unrespectable, unsavory, untidy, untrustworthy, vicious, vile, wicked

disrespect

• disrespect, ban, be disrespectful, be overfamiliar with, blackball, blackballing, boldness, cheek, complaint, dim view, disagreement, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, discourtesy, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disgruntlement, disillusion, disillusionment, disparage, displeasure, dissatisfaction, dissent, distaste, exclusion, hardihood, impertinence, impoliteness, impudence, incivility, indecorum, indignation, insolence, irreverence, low estimation, low opinion, make free with, not respect, objection, opposition, opposure, ostracism, protest, rank low, rejection, ridicule, rudeness, show disrespect for, take a liberty, take liberties with, thumbs-down, treat with disrespect, trifle with, unhappiness, unmannerliness

disrespectful

• disrespectful, aweless, biggety, bluff, brash, cheeky, chutzpadik, cocky, contemptuous, crusty, derisive, discourteous, disparaging, facy, flip, flippant, forward, fresh, gally, gratuitous, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite, impudent, inaffable, indecorous, insolent, irreverent, malapert, nervy, pert, ridiculing, rude, sassy, saucy, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, unaccommodating, uncalled-for, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncourteous, uncourtly, ungallant, ungracious, unmannerly, unpolite, wise-ass

disrobed

• disrobed, clothesless, decollete, en deshabille, garbless, garmentless, half-clothed, in dishabille, low-cut, nudish, raimentless, strapless, topless, unattired, uncased, unclad, unclothed, undraped, undressed, ungarbed, ungarmented, unrobed

disrupt

• disrupt, agitate, atomize, baffle, balk, blast, brave, breach, break in, break into, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, challenge, checkmate, circumvent, confound, confront, contravene, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, crash, cross, crunch, crush, cut to pieces, dash, defeat, defy, demolish, destroy, diffuse, disarray, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dish, disorder, disorganize, disperse, disturb, elude, fission, flummox, foil, fragment, frustrate, grind, hole, interfere with, interrupt, knock the chocks, make mincemeat of, mess up, mince, muddle, nonplus, open, perplex, pulverize, ruin, rummage, rupture, sabotage, scatter, scotch, shake up, shatter, shiver, smash, smash up, spike, splinter, spoil, squash, squish, stonewall, stump, thwart, unsettle, upset

disruption

• disruption, alienation, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, antinomianism, badness, bloodbath, blue ruin, breach, breach of friendship, break, breakup, carnage, chaos, cleavage, cleft, confusion, consumption, crack-up, criminal syndicalism, damnation, decimation, depredation, derangement, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, devastation, diffusion, disaffection, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, discourtesy, disfavor, disharmony, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction, disorder, disorderliness, disorderly conduct, disorganization, dispersal, disproportion, disruptiveness, dissolution, disturbance, disunion, disunity, divergence, dividedness, division, entropy, estrangement, exfoliation, falling-out, fragmentation, frowned-upon behavior, haphazardness, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, hooliganism, horseplay, impropriety, incoherence, indiscriminateness, inharmonious harmony, irregularity, lynch law, misbehavior, misconduct, misdemeanor, misdoing, misrule, mob law, mob rule, mobocracy, most admired disorder, naughtiness, nihilism, nonsanctioned behavior, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, ochlocracy, open rupture, perdition, perturbation, primal chaos, promiscuity, promiscuousness, randomness, ravage, rebellion, recall of ambassadors, revolution, rift, roughhouse, rowdiness, rowdyism, ruffianism, ruin, ruination, rupture, scaling, scattering, schism, separation, shambles, shattering, slaughter, split, spoliation, syndicalism, tohubohu, turbulence, turmoil, undoing, unruliness, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upset, vandalism, venial sin, vice, waste, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck, wrongdoing

disruptive

• disruptive, ablative, bad, biodegradable, corrosive, decomposable, decomposing, degradable, dilapidated, disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive, disorderly, erosive, improper, misbehaving, moldering, naughty, not respectable, off-base, out-of-line, ravaged, resolvent, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffianly, ruinous, separative, solvent, unbehaving, worn

dissatisfaction

• dissatisfaction, Faustianism, aggravation, agreement to disagree, alienation, angst, anguish, annoyance, anxiety, apostasy, aversion, bad books, bafflement, balk, ban, betrayed hope, blackball, blackballing, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blow, boredom, buffet, cheerlessness, cold comfort, comedown, complaint, counter-culture, cruel disappointment, dash, dashed hope, defeat, difference, dim view, disaccord, disagreement, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, discomfiture, discomfort, discomposure, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disgruntlement, disillusion, disillusionment, disinclination, dislike, disliking, dismay, disparity, displeasure, disquiet, disrelish, disrespect, dissatisfiedness, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, distaste, diversity, divine discontent, dread, dropping out, dullness, emptiness, ennui, envy, exasperation, exclusion, existential woe, failure, fallen countenance, fiasco, fizzle, flatness, foiling, forlorn hope, frustration, grimness, hope deferred, ill humor, indignation, indisposition, inquietude, irritation, joylessness, lack of pleasure, letdown, low estimation, low opinion, malaise, minority opinion, mirage, nausea, nonagreement, nonassent, nonconcurrence, nonconformity, nonconsent, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, objection, opposition, opposure, ostracism, painfulness, peevishness, petulance, protest, querulousness, rebelliousness, recusance, recusancy, rejection, repudiation, resentfulness, resentment, restiveness, restlessness, savorlessness, secession, setback, sore disappointment, sourness, spleen, staleness, sulkiness, tantalization, tastelessness, tease, tediousness, tedium, thumbs-down, uncomfortableness, underground, unease, uneasiness, unfulfillment, unhappiness, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, variance, vexation, vexation of spirit, withdrawal

dissatisfied

• dissatisfied, against, annoyed, baffled, balked, beefing, bellyaching, betrayed, bilked, bitching, blasted, blighted, bothered, chapfallen, complaining, complaintful, con, crabbing, crabby, cranky, crestfallen, croaking, crossed, crushed, dashed, defeated, disappointed, disapprobatory, disapproving, discontent, discontented, disenchanted, disgruntled, dished, disillusioned, displeased, dissenting, envious, faultfinding, foiled, frustrated, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumbling, ill done-by, ill-served, indignant, irked, let down, low, malcontent, malcontented, murmuring, muttering, opposed, opposing, out of countenance, out of humor, peevish, petulant, poor, querulant, querulous, rebellious, regretful, resentful, restive, restless, sorely disappointed, soured, sulky, thwarted, turned-off, unaccepting, unaccommodating, unappreciative, unapproving, uncomplimentary, uneasy, unfavorable, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unsatisfied, vexed, whiny

dissatisfy

• dissatisfy, baffle, balk, bilk, cast down, cross, dash, defeat, defeat expectation, disappoint, discontent, disgruntle, dishearten, disillusion, displease, foil, frustrate, let down, put out, tantalize, tease, thwart

dissect

• dissect, analyze, anatomize, assay, break down, break up, carve, cleave, cut, decompose, dichotomize, disjoin, disjoint, dissever, divide, part, penetrate, pierce, probe, reduce, reduce to elements, resolve, segment, separate, sever, slice, split, subdivide, sunder

dissection

• dissection, analysis, analyzation, anatomizing, anatomy, assay, assaying, breakdown, breaking down, breaking up, breakup, criticism, critique, diaeresis, division, docimasy, examination, gravimetric analysis, inspection, proximate analysis, quantitative analysis, reduction to elements, resolution, review, scrutiny, segmentation, semimicroanalysis, separation, subdivision

dissemblance

• dissemblance, acting, affectation, appearance, attitudinizing, bad copy, bad likeness, bluff, bluffing, camouflage, cheating, color, coloring, contrast, cunning, deception, delusion, difference, discrepancy, disguise, disparity, dissembling, dissimilarity, dissimilation, dissimilitude, dissimulation, distinction, divergence, divergency, diversity, duplicity, facade, face, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, feigning, feint, four-flushing, fraud, front, gilt, gloss, guile, humbug, humbuggery, imposture, incommensurability, incomparability, makeup, masquerade, mere caricature, meretriciousness, nonuniformity, ostentation, otherness, outward show, playacting, poor imitation, pose, posing, posture, pretense, pretension, pretext, representation, seeming, semblance, sham, show, simulacrum, simulation, speciousness, unlikeness, unresemblance, unsameness, unsimilarity, varnish, window dressing

disseminate

• disseminate, advertise, announce, annunciate, assign, bed, bestrew, blazon, broadcast, carry over, circulate, circumfuse, communicate, consign, convey, deal out, deliver, deport, dibble, diffract, diffuse, dispense, disperse, dispread, distribute, diverge, drill, expel, export, extradite, fan out, forest, get across, get over, give, give word, hand forward, hand on, hand over, impart, implant, import, inseminate, issue, leave word, make known, make over, metastasize, metathesize, overscatter, oversow, overspread, pass, pass along, pass on, pass over, pass the buck, perfuse, plant, pot, proclaim, promulgate, propagate, publish, put in, radiate, reforest, relay, render, report, reset, retail, retimber, scatter, scatter seed, seed, seed down, seminate, send, send word, set, share, share with, signal, sow, sow broadcast, splay, spread, spread out, straw, strew, switch, tell, transfer, transfer property, transfuse, translate, translocate, transmit, transplace, transplant, transpose, turn over, utter

disseminated

• disseminated, accessible, affirmed, announced, broadcast, brought to notice, circulated, common knowledge, common property, current, declared, diffuse, diffused, discrete, dispersed, dispread, dissipated, distributed, in circulation, in print, made public, open, proclaimed, propagated, public, published, reported, scattered, sparse, sporadic, spread, stated, straggling, straggly, strewn, strown, telecast, televised, widespread

dissemination

• dissemination, airing, attenuation, bandying, book, broadcast, broadcasting, bruiting, bruiting about, circulation, circumfusion, communication, conduction, contagion, convection, delivery, deportation, diapedesis, diffraction, diffusion, dilution, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, display, dissipation, distribution, divergence, evaporation, evulgation, expansion, export, exportation, expulsion, extradition, fragmentation, import, importation, insemination, interchange, issuance, issue, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, migration, mutual transfer, osmosis, passage, passing over, peppering, perfusion, periodical, planting, printing, promulgation, propagation, publication, publishing, radiation, reforestation, resetting, retimbering, scattering, scatterment, seeding, semination, setting, shotgun pattern, sowing, spattering, splay, spread, spreading, spreading abroad, sprinkling, strewing, telecasting, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference, transfusion, transit, transition, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal, transmittance, transplacement, transplantation, transposal, transposition, travel, ventilation, volatilization

dissension

• dissension, aggressiveness, agreement to disagree, alienation, altercation, antagonism, antipathy, apostasy, argument, argumentation, bad blood, bellicosity, belligerence, bickering, clashing, collision, combativeness, competition, conflict, contention, contentiousness, contradiction, contrariety, contrariness, controversy, counter-culture, cross-purposes, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, disharmony, disparity, dispute, dissatisfaction, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, dissonance, disunion, disunity, divergence, diversity, dropping out, enmity, faction, factiousness, flak, fractiousness, friction, hostility, inaccordance, inequality, infighting, inimicalness, irascibility, irritability, jarring, litigiousness, minority opinion, negation, negativeness, nonagreement, nonassent, nonconcurrence, nonconformity, nonconsent, noncooperation, obstinacy, opposition, oppugnancy, partisan spirit, partisanship, perverseness, pugnacity, quarrel, quarrelsomeness, recalcitrance, recusance, recusancy, refractoriness, rejection, repudiation, repugnance, rivalry, secession, shrewishness, strife, uncooperativeness, underground, unharmoniousness, variance, vying, withdrawal, wrangle

dissent

• dissent, Evangelicalism, Protestantism, Reform, Zwinglianism, abnegation, aggressiveness, agree to differ, agree to disagree, antagonism, antipathy, apostasy, argumentation, averseness, aversion, backlash, backwardness, balk, ban, be at cross-purposes, be at variance, be in dissent, be unmoved, be unwilling, beef, beefing, beg off, beg to differ, bellicosity, belligerence, bellyache, bellyaching, bickering, bitch, bitching, blackball, blackballing, boggle, break, break bounds, break off, break step, break up, categorically reject, challenge, clash, clashing, collide, collision, combative reaction, combativeness, complain, complain loudly, complaining, complaint, conflict, confront, confutation, contend with, contention, contentiousness, contradict, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, contrast, controversy, counter, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, crankiness, crotchetiness, cursoriness, declension, declination, declinature, decline, decline to accept, declining, defiance, demur, denial, departure, deprivation, destructive criticism, deviation, differ, difference, differentiate, dim view, disaccord, disaccordance, disagree, disagree with, disagreement, disallow, disallowance, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, disapprove, disapprove of, disclaim, disclaimer, disclamation, disconformity, discongruity, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, discord, discord with, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, discreteness, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disgruntlement, disharmony, disillusion, disillusionment, disinclination, disobedience, disparity, displeasure, dispute, disrelish, disrespect, dissatisfaction, dissension, dissent from, dissentience, dissidence, dissimilarity, dissonance, distaste, distinction, distinctness, disunify, disunion, disunity, divaricate, diverge, divergence, divergency, diversify, diversity, divide, divide on, drop out, exclude, exclusion, face down, face out, face up to, faction, factiousness, far cry, faultfinding, flak, foot-dragging, fractiousness, friction, front, frown at, frown down, frown upon, grievance, grimace at, gripe, griping, groan, groaning, grouse, grousing, grudging consent, grudgingness, grumbling, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, hold out against, holding back, holler, howl, inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, indignation, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, inequality, infighting, inharmoniousness, inharmony, interference, intractableness, irascibility, irreconcilability, irritability, jangle, jar, jarring, jostle, kick, kick against, kicking, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, litigiousness, look askance at, look black upon, low estimation, low opinion, make a stand, make waves, meet head-on, misbelief, mismatch, mismate, mixture, murmuring, mutinousness, nay, negate, negation, negative, negative answer, negativism, new theology, nix, no, nolition, nonacceptance, nonagreement, noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconform, nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonconsent, noncooperation, nonobservance, not agree, not approve, not buy, not comply, not conform, not consent, not go for, not hear of, not hold with, not think of, object, object to, objection, obstinacy, odds, offer resistance, oppose, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, opt out, originality, ostracism, ostracize, otherness, partisan spirit, partisanship, passive resistance, peeve, peevishness, perfunctoriness, perverseness, pet peeve, petulance, protest, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, querulousness, reaction, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitrate, recalcitration, recantation, recoil, recusance, recusancy, refractoriness, refusal, refuse, refuse consent, reject, rejection, relieve, reluct, reluctance, remonstrance, remonstrate, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repercussion, repudiate, repudiation, repugnance, repulse, repulsion, resist entreaty, resist persuasion, resistance, retention, revolt, rock the boat, say nay, say no, say no to, schism, scolding, secede, separateness, show fight, shrewishness, shy, slowness, sniping, squawk, squawking, stand, stand aloof, stand at bay, stand up against, stand up to, stickle, strife, strive against, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, swimming upstream, take exception, take exception to, take issue, think ill of, think little of, thumb down, thumbs-down, turn down, turndown, unconformity, uncooperativeness, unenthusiasm, unhappiness, unharmoniousness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unwillingness, variance, variate, variation, variegate, variegation, variety, vary, view with disfavor, vote nay, vote negatively, whining, withdraw, withhold assent, withholding, withstand, withstanding, yapping

dissenter

• dissenter, Bohemian, Evangelical, Protestant, Reformationist, Reformed believer, Zwinglian, apostate, beatnik, demurrer, deviant, dissentient, dissident, dropout, flower child, freak, heretic, hippie, maverick, misbeliever, misfit, non-Catholic, nonconformist, nonjuror, objector, opinionist, opposition voice, original, protestant, protester, recusant, schismatic, sectarian, sectary, separatist, swinger, ugly duckling, unconformist, yippie

dissenting

• dissenting, against, alienated, antiestablishment, at odds with, at variance with, breakaway, complaining, con, contrary, counter-culture, deviant, differing, disagreeing, disappointed, disapprobatory, disapproving, discontented, disenchanted, disgruntled, disillusioned, displeased, disputatious, disputing, dissatisfied, dissentient, dissident, fractious, in opposition, indignant, low, nonconformable, nonconforming, noncooperative, nonobservant, objecting, obstructive, on the barricades, opposed, opposing, poor, proof against, protesting, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, reluctant, renitent, repellent, resistant, resisting, resistive, retardant, retardative, sectarian, sectary, turned-off, unadaptable, unadjustable, unappreciative, unapproving, uncompliant, uncomplimentary, unconforming, uncooperative, underground, unfavorable, unhappy, unsubmissive, unyielding, up in arms, withstanding

dissertation

• dissertation, argumentation, article, causerie, descant, discourse, discussion, disputation, disquisition, essay, etude, examination, excursus, exposition, feature, first approach, homily, introductory study, lucubration, memoir, monograph, morceau, note, outline, pandect, paper, paragraph, piece, preliminary study, prolegomenon, research paper, screed, sketch, special article, study, survey, term paper, theme, thesis, tract, tractate, treatise, treatment

disservice

• disservice, atrocity, bad deed, bad turn, damage, disfavor, great wrong, grievance, gross injustice, harm, ill service, ill turn, imposition, injury, injustice, miscarriage of justice, outrage, raw deal, unkindness, wrong

dissidence

• dissidence, aggressiveness, agreement to disagree, alienation, antagonism, apostasy, argumentation, bellicosity, belligerence, bickering, clashing, combativeness, conflict, contention, contentiousness, contradiction, controversy, counter-culture, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, disharmony, disparity, dissatisfaction, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissonance, disunion, disunity, divergence, diversity, dropping out, faction, factiousness, flak, heterodoxy, inaccordance, inequality, infighting, irascibility, irritability, jarring, litigiousness, minority opinion, misbelief, negation, nonagreement, nonassent, nonconcurrence, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonconsent, opposition, oppugnancy, partisan spirit, partisanship, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, recusance, recusancy, rejection, repudiation, repugnance, schism, secession, shrewishness, strife, underground, unharmoniousness, unorthodoxy, variance, withdrawal

dissident

• dissident, alienated, antagonistic, antiestablishment, antipathetic, apostate, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at odds with, at variance, at variance with, at war, bitter-ender, brawler, breakaway, clashing, colliding, conflicting, contentious, contradicting, contradictory, contrary, counter-culture, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, cranky, cross, crotchety, defendant, demurrer, deviant, diehard, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, disharmonious, disproportionate, disputant, dissenter, dissentient, dissenting, dissonant, divergent, grating, heretic, heterodox, hostile, immiscible, in opposition, inaccordant, incompatible, inharmonious, inimical, intransigent, irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, last-ditcher, litigant, misbeliever, naysayer, negative, negativist, nonconformable, nonconforming, nonconformist, noncooperator, nonobservant, objector, obstructionist, obstructive, opinionist, opposer, opposing, opposition voice, oppositional, oppositionist, oppugnant, out of accord, out of whack, perverse, plaintiff, protestant, protester, protestor, quarreler, reactionary, rebel, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, renitent, repugnant, resistant, resister, revolutionary, schismatic, scrapper, sectarian, sectary, separatist, unadaptable, unadjustable, uncompliant, unconforming, uncongenial, underground, unharmonious, unorthodox, unsubmissive, variant, wrangler

dissimilar

• dissimilar, antithetical, antonymous, assorted, at odds, at variance, contradictory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, counter, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissonant, distant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, hardly like, heterogeneous, in disagreement, inaccordant, incommensurable, incomparable, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, irreconcilable, many, motley, multifarious, nonuniform, odd, of different orders, off, offbeat, opposite, out, poles apart, poles asunder, scarcely like, separate, separated, several, unalike, unconformable, unequal, unidentical, unlike, unmatched, unrelated, unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart

dissimilarity

• dissimilarity, contrariety, contrast, departure, deviation, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discord, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, disparity, dissemblance, dissent, dissimilitude, dissonance, distance, distinction, distinctness, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversity, far cry, heterogeneity, inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, irreconcilability, margin, mixture, nonconformity, odds, offset, opposition, otherness, separateness, severance, unconformity, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, variance, variation, variegation, variety

dissimulation

• dissimulation, Tartuffe, cloaking, concealing, cunning, deceit, deception, dissemblance, dissembler, dissembling, dissimulator, double-dealing, duplicity, feigning, guile, hiding, hypocrisy, lip server, masking, misrepresentation, pharisaism, pharisee, pretense, sanctimony, secreting, sham, whited sepulcher

dissipate

• dissipate, ablate, attenuate, be consumed, be gone, be promiscuous, blow, blow off, blunder away, break up, burn up, carouse, cast forth, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, chase women, clear away, come to naught, come to nothing, commit adultery, consume, crumble, debauch, decrease, dematerialize, depart, deplete, depreciate, die, die away, die out, diffuse, dilute, diminish, disappear, disintegrate, dispel, disperse, disseminate, dissolve, distribute, do a fade-out, drain, dribble away, drive away, dwindle, erode, evanesce, evaporate, exhaust, exit, fade, fade away, fade out, flee, fly, fool, fornicate, fritter away, gamble away, go, go away, go through, go to pot, go to seed, go to waste, grovel, hang the expense, hide, lavish, leak, leak away, leave no trace, leave the scene, live hard, make merry, melt, melt away, party, pass, pass away, pass out, perish, peter out, philander, plunge into dissipation, rake, retire from sight, revel, roister, run riot, run through, run to seed, run to waste, scatter, seize the day, shrink, sink, sink away, slather, sleep around, sow, sow broadcast, spread out, squander, suffer an eclipse, swing, thin, thin out, throw away, throw money around, use up, vanish, vanish from sight, vaporize, volatilize, wallow, wanton, waste, waste away, wear, wear away, whore, womanize

dissipated

• dissipated, abandoned, abated, ablated, attenuated, bated, belittled, broadcast, burnt up, by the board, consumed, contracted, curtailed, debauched, decreased, deflated, depleted, diffuse, diminished, discrete, dispersed, dispread, disseminated, dissolute, distributed, down the drain, drained, dropped, eaten up, effete, eroded, exhausted, expended, fallen, fast, finished, forfeit, forfeited, free, free-living, gallant, gay, gone, gone to waste, high-living, impoverished, irretrievable, less, lesser, licentious, long-lost, lost, lost to, lower, lowered, miniaturized, misspent, out the window, profligate, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, reduced, retrenched, riotous, run to seed, scaled-down, scattered, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, smaller, sparse, spent, sporadic, spread, squandered, straggling, straggly, strewn, strown, unbridled, used, used up, wasted, watered-down, weakened, widespread, wild, worn, worn away, worn-out

dissipation

• dissipation, abandon, abandonment, ablation, amusement, attenuation, attrition, blackout, blocking, broadcast, broadcasting, carousal, carouse, carpe diem, circumfusion, conspicuous consumption, consumption, corrosion, debauch, debauchery, debauchment, decrease, decrement, deliquescence, dematerialization, departure, depletion, depreciation, diffraction, diffusion, dilution, disappearance, disappearing, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, dissemination, dissoluteness, dissolution, dissolving, distraction, distribution, divergence, diversion, divertissement, drain, eclipse, elimination, entertainment, erasure, erosion, evanescence, evaporation, exhaustion, expansion, expenditure, extinction, extravagance, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, fastness, fragmentation, free living, gallantry, going, hedonism, high living, impoverishment, incontinence, intemperance, killing pace, lavishness, leakage, leaking purse, libertinage, libertinism, license, licentiousness, loose purse strings, loss, melting, occultation, orgy, overgenerosity, overgenerousness, overindulgence, overliberality, passing, peppering, pound-foolishness, prodigality, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, propagation, publication, radiation, rakishness, reckless expenditure, reckless spending, recklessness, recreation, riotous living, saturnalia, scattering, scatterment, self-gratification, self-indulgence, sensualism, shotgun pattern, shrinkage, sowing, spattering, splay, spread, spreading, sprinkling, squandering, squandermania, strewing, sybaritism, unbridledness, using, using up, vanishing, vanishing point, venery, volatilization, voluptuousness, wantonness, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wear and tear, wearing, wearing away, wenching, whoring, wildness, wipe

dissociate

• dissociate, abrupt, abstract, alienate, cast off, cast out, catalyze, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, delete, depart, detach, dialyze, disarticulate, disassociate, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, distance, disunite, divide, divorce, eject, electrolyze, estrange, expel, hydrolyze, isolate, leave, part, photolyze, 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, unyoke, withdraw

dissociation

• dissociation, alienation, alpha decay, alternating personality, atom-chipping, atom-smashing, atomic disintegration, atomic reaction, atomization, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, beta decay, blame-shifting, bombardment, breeding, bullet, catalysis, catalyst, chain reaction, cleavage, compensation, decay, decompensation, defense mechanism, depersonalization, dereism, dereistic thinking, dialysis, disassociation, disconnection, discreteness, disintegration series, disjunction, disjuncture, displacement, dissociation of personality, double personality, dual personality, emotional dissociation, emotional insulation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, exchange reaction, fantasizing, fantasy, fission, fission reaction, flight, gamma decay, hydrolysis, hydrolyst, immateriality, impertinence, inapplicability, inappositeness, inconnection, inconsequence, independence, ionization, irrelation, irrelevance, isolation, mental dissociation, multiple personality, negativism, neutron reaction, nonreversible reaction, nuclear fission, nucleization, overcompensation, paranoia, paranoid personality, personality disorganization, photodisintegration, photolysis, projection, proton gun, proton reaction, psychotaxis, rationalization, resistance, reversible reaction, schizoid personality, schizoidism, schizophrenia, schizothymia, separateness, sociological adjustive reactions, split personality, splitting, splitting the atom, stimulation, sublimation, substitution, target, thermolysis, thermonuclear reaction, unconnectedness, unrelatedness, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal

dissolute

• dissolute, abandoned, amoral, contaminated, corrupt, corrupted, debased, debauched, decadent, degenerate, degraded, depraved, dissipated, fast, free, free-living, gallant, gay, hedonistic, high-living, immoral, incontinent, intemperate, lax, libidinous, licentious, light, loose, morally polluted, overindulgent, perverted, polluted, profligate, raffish, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, reprobate, riotous, rotten, self-indulgent, slack, steeped in iniquity, tainted, unbridled, unprincipled, unrestrained, vice-corrupted, vitiated, wanton, warped, wayward, wild

dissolution

• dissolution, ablation, adjournment, aloofness, anarchy, annihilation, atomization, attrition, bane, biodegradability, biodegradation, biological death, blackout, blocking, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakdown, breaking down, breaking up, breakup, carnage, cessation of life, chaos, clinical death, collapse, colliquation, conclusion, confusion, consumption, corrosion, corruption, crack-up, crossing the bar, crumbling, curtains, damnation, deactivation, death, death knell, debt of nature, decay, decease, decimation, decoagulation, decomposition, decrement, degradability, degradation, deliquescence, deliquium, dematerialization, demise, demobilization, departure, depletion, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, detachment, devastation, diaspora, diffusion, dilapidation, disappearance, disappearing, disbandment, discontinuation, discontinuity, discreteness, disintegration, disjunction, dislocation, dismissal, disorder, disorganization, dispersal, dispersion, disruption, dissipation, dissolving, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, doom, dying, ebb of life, eclipse, elimination, end, end of life, ending, entropy, erasure, erosion, eternal rest, evanescence, evaporation, exfoliation, exhaustion, exit, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, final summons, finger of death, finish, fluidification, fluidization, fragmentation, fusing, fusion, going, going off, grave, hand of death, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, incoherence, inconsistency, jaws of death, knell, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leaching, leaving life, liquefaction, liquescence, liquescency, lixiviation, loss, loss of life, making an end, melting, mildew, mold, nonadhesion, noncohesion, occultation, overthrow, oxidation, oxidization, parting, partition, passing, passing away, passing over, percolation, perdition, perishing, quietus, ravage, ravages of time, release, resolution, rest, revolution, reward, ruin, ruination, running, rupture, rust, scaling, scattering, sentence of death, separateness, separation, shades of death, shadow of death, shambles, shattering, shrinkage, silence, slaughter, sleep, solubilization, solution, somatic death, split-up, spoilage, spoliation, summons of death, termination, thawing, unadherence, unadhesiveness, unclotting, undoing, untenacity, vandalism, vanishing, vanishing point, waste, wear, wear and tear, wipe, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck

dissolve

• dissolve, ablate, abrogate, adjourn, annihilate, atomize, attenuate, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be gone, be no more, be wiped out, blow off, break into, break up, bring to ruin, cast forth, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, cipher, clear away, clear up, collapse, colliquate, come apart, conclude, condemn, confound, consume, corrode, crack up, crumble, crumble into dust, cut, damn, deactivate, deal destruction, debrief, decay, decimate, decipher, decline, decoagulate, decoct, decompose, deliquesce, dematerialize, demob, demobilize, demolish, depart, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, detach, devastate, devour, die, die away, die out, diffuse, dilute, diminish, disappear, disband, discharge, disintegrate, disjoin, dismiss, disorganize, dispel, disperse, dissipate, do a fade-out, dope out, drive away, dwindle, engorge, erode, evanesce, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, fade away, fade out, fall to pieces, figure out, finish, fission, flee, fluidify, fluidize, flux, fly, fuse, go, go away, go separate ways, gobble, gobble up, gut, gut with fire, havoc, hide, hold in solution, incinerate, infuse, lay in ruins, lay waste, leach, leave no trace, leave the scene, let go, liquefy, liquesce, liquidate, liquidize, lixiviate, melt, melt away, melt down, melt into, molder, muster out, part, part company, pass, pass away, pass out, percolate, perish, peter out, prorogate, prorogue, puzzle out, quash, ravage, recess, release, resolve, retire from sight, ruin, ruinate, run, scatter, separate, shatter, shipwreck, shoot, sink, sink away, solubilize, solve, split, split up, sublime, suffer an eclipse, swallow up, terminate, thaw, thin, thin out, throw into disorder, unclot, unfold, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, unravel, upheave, vacate, vandalize, vanish, vanish from sight, vaporize, vise, void, volatilize, waste, waste away, wear away, wind up, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck

dissolving

• dissolving, colliquative, disappearing, dissolutional, dissolutive, evanescent, evaporating, fading, fleeting, flying, fugitive, fusing, liquefactive, liquefying, melting, passing, thawing, transient, vanishing

dissonance

• dissonance, antagonism, argumentation, atonalism, atonality, cacophony, clashing, clinker, conflict, contention, contradiction, contrariety, contrast, controversy, departure, deviation, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, discreteness, disharmony, disparity, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissimilarity, dissonancy, dissonant chord, distinction, distinctness, disunion, disunity, divergence, divergency, diversity, faction, far cry, flatness, heterogeneity, inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, irreconcilability, jarring, mixture, negation, nonconformity, odds, off note, opposition, oppugnancy, otherness, repugnance, separateness, sharpness, sour note, sourness, stridor, strife, tunelessness, unconformity, unharmoniousness, unlikeness, unmusicality, unorthodoxy, untunefulness, variance, variation, variegation, variety, wolf

dissonant

• dissonant, absonant, antagonistic, antipathetic, assorted, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, atonal, cacophonic, cacophonous, clashing, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, cracked, cranky, cross, departing, deviating, deviative, diaphonic, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, disconsonant, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonic, disharmonious, disjoined, disparate, disproportionate, dissident, dissimilar, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, flat, grating, harsh, heterogeneous, hoarse, hostile, immelodious, immiscible, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruent, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonic, inharmonious, irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, many, motley, multifarious, musicless, negative, nonmelodious, off, off-key, off-tone, out of accord, out of pitch, out of tone, out of tune, out of whack, poles apart, poles asunder, raucous, repugnant, rude, rugged, separate, separated, several, sharp, shrill, sour, strident, tuneless, unconformable, uncongenial, unequal, unharmonious, unlike, unmelodious, unmusical, untunable, untuned, untuneful, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart

dissuade

• dissuade, admonish, advise, caution, counsel, cry out against, daunt, derail, deter, discourage, divert, exhort, expostulate, frighten off, intimidate, kid out of, prick, remonstrate, talk out of, throw off, unpersuade, urge, warn

distaff side

• distaff side, affiliation, agnate, ancestry, apparentation, birth, blood, blood relation, blood relative, bloodline, branch, breed, clansman, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, common ancestry, connections, consanguinean, consanguinity, derivation, descent, direct line, distant relation, enate, extraction, fair sex, family, female line, female sex, femininity, filiation, flesh, flesh and blood, folks, german, house, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, line, line of descent, lineage, male line, near relation, next of kin, people, phylum, posterity, race, relations, relatives, second sex, seed, sept, sib, sibling, side, softer sex, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin, spindle side, stem, stirps, stock, strain, succession, sword side, tribesman, uterine kin, weaker sex, weaker vessel, woman, womanhood, womankind, women, womenfolk, womenfolks

distance

• distance, aloofness, ambit, amplitude, angle, area, arena, back, backdrop, background, backwardness, base, bashfulness, blankness, breadth, chill, chilliness, coldness, compass, constraint, coolness, detach, detachment, difference, disassociate, discreetness, discretion, dissemblance, dissimilitude, dissociate, distinction, divergence, divergency, expansion, expressionlessness, extension, extent, field, footage, footing, frigidity, frostiness, gap, get ahead of, ground, guardedness, haughtiness, hauteur, hinterland, hold the field, iciness, impassiveness, impassivity, impersonality, inaccessibility, infinity, interval, introversion, leave behind, length, lengthiness, linear measures, locale, long time, longitude, longness, measure, mileage, mise-en-scene, modesty, offishness, orbit, otherness, outdistance, outpace, outrun, overall length, overpass, pass, perpetuity, perspective, piece, post, purview, radius, range, reach, rear, remoteness, repression, reserve, reservedness, restraint, reticence, reticency, retirement, rigidity, scene, scope, seat, separate, setting, shoot ahead of, size, space, span, spell, spread, stage, stage set, stage setting, stand, standing, standoffishness, station, status, steal a march, stiffness, stretch, subduedness, suppression, surpass, sweep, theater, unaffability, unapproachability, uncongeniality, undemonstrativeness, unexpansiveness, unlikeness, venue, viewpoint, way, ways, withdrawal, withdrawnness, yardage

distant

• distant, Olympian, above all that, aloof, apart, apathetic, arrogant, asunder, at a distance, away, backward, barely audible, bashful, blank, bored, careless, ceremonious, chilled, chilly, cold, constrained, cool, decrescendo, detached, dim, discreet, disinterested, disparate, dissimilar, distal, divergent, diverse, exclusive, exotic, expressionless, faint, faint-voiced, far, far off, far-flung, far-off, faraway, farfetched, feeble, forbidding, forced, formal, frigid, frosty, gentle, guarded, half-heard, haughty, heedless, icy, impassive, impersonal, improbable, inaccessible, incurious, indifferent, indistinct, insociable, insouciant, introverted, isolated, listless, long-distance, long-range, low, mindless, modest, murmured, obscure, off, offish, out-of-the-way, outlying, phlegmatic, pianissimo, piano, proud, quite another thing, regardless, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retired, retiring, rigid, scarcely heard, secluded, seclusive, secret, separated, sequestered, shrinking, shy, soft, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, solitary, something else again, standoff, standoffish, stiff, stolid, strained, subaudible, subdued, suppressed, unaffable, unalike, unapproachable, unclear, uncompanionable, unconcerned, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unequal, unexpansive, unfriendly, ungenial, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unlike, unmindful, unsimilar, various, weak, weak-voiced, whispered, withdrawn

distaste

• distaste, abhorrence, antipathy, averseness, aversion, backwardness, bad books, ban, blackball, blackballing, complaint, cursoriness, dim view, disaffection, disaffinity, disagreement, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disgruntlement, disgust, disillusion, disillusionment, disinclination, dislike, disliking, disobedience, displeasure, disrelish, disrespect, dissatisfaction, dissent, exclusion, foot-dragging, fractiousness, grudging consent, grudgingness, horror, hostility, indignation, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, intractableness, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, loathing, low estimation, low opinion, mutinousness, nausea, nolition, objection, obstinacy, opposition, opposure, ostracism, perfunctoriness, protest, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, refusal, rejection, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repugnance, repulsion, resistance, revulsion, slowness, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, thumbs-down, unenthusiasm, unhappiness, unwillingness

distasteful

• distasteful, abhorrent, abominable, bitter, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dislikable, displeasing, flat, flavorless, foul, foul-tasting, fulsome, galling, grievous, hateful, ill-flavored, insipid, intolerable, loathsome, mislikable, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, painful, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, savorless, sour, tasteless, thankless, ugly, unalluring, unappealing, unappetizing, unattractive, uncongenial, undelectable, undelicious, undesirable, unengaging, unenjoyable, uninviting, unlikable, unlovable, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpleasing, unsavory, untasteful, untasty, unwelcome

distemper

• distemper, Texas fever, abnormality, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, anarchism, anarchy, anthrax, aphthous fever, atrophy, bacterial disease, bighead, birth defect, black quarter, blackleg, blackwater, blight, blind staggers, bloody flux, broken wind, cardiovascular disease, cattle plague, charbon, chromogen, chronic disease, circulatory disease, coat, coat of paint, coating, color, color filter, color gelatin, colorant, coloring, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect, dead-color, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, derange, disability, disarrange, disarray, discompose, disease, disjoint, disorder, disturb, drier, dye, dyestuff, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, epidemic disease, exterior paint, flat coat, flat wash, floor enamel, foot-and-mouth disease, functional disease, fungus disease, gapes, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, glanders, ground, handicap, heaves, hereditary disease, hog cholera, hoof-and-mouth disease, hydrophobia, iatrogenic disease, illness, indisposition, infectious disease, infirmity, interior paint, liver rot, loco, loco disease, locoism, mad staggers, malady, malaise, malignant catarrh, malignant catarrhal fever, malignant pustule, mange, medium, megrims, milzbrand, misrule, mix up, morbidity, morbus, muddle, muscular disease, neurological disease, nutritional disease, occupational disease, opaque color, organic disease, paint, pandemic disease, paratuberculosis, pathological condition, pathology, pigment, pip, plant disease, prime coat, primer, priming, protozoan disease, pseudotuberculosis, psychosomatic disease, quarter evil, rabies, respiratory disease, rinderpest, riot, rockiness, rot, rummage, scabies, secondary disease, seediness, sheep rot, sickishness, sickness, signs, splenic fever, staggers, stain, stringhalt, swine dysentery, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, tempera, the pip, thinner, tinction, tincture, transparent color, turpentine, turps, undercoat, undercoating, urogenital disease, vehicle, virus disease, wash, wash coat, wasting disease, worm disease

distend

• distend, 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, develop, dilate, enlarge, expand, extend, fill out, goggle, greaten, hike, hike up, huff, increase, inflate, lengthen, magnify, pooch, pop, pouch, pout, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, raise, rarefy, round out, snowball, stretch, sufflate, swell, swell out, tumefy, up, widen

distended

• distended, adipose, bagging, baggy, ballooning, beefy, bellying, big-bellied, billowing, billowy, bloated, blown up, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, burly, bursting, buxom, choked, chubby, chunky, congested, corpulent, crammed, crowded, dilated, drenched, dropsical, dumpy, edematous, enchymatous, fat, fattish, filled to overflowing, flatulent, fleshy, full, gassy, glutted, gorged, gross, heavyset, hefty, hillocky, hippy, hummocky, hyperemic, imposing, in spate, incrassate, inflated, jam-packed, jammed, lusty, meaty, moutonnee, obese, overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweight, overweighted, packed, paunchy, plethoric, plump, pneumatic, podgy, portly, potbellied, pouching, pudgy, puffed up, puffy, pursy, ready to burst, roly-poly, rotund, rounded, running over, satiated, saturated, soaked, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stuffed, stuffed up, supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swelled, swelling, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, tumid, turgid, ventose, verrucated, verrucose, warty, well-fed, windy

distension

• distension, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, boil, breaking point, bump, bunion, carbuncle, corn, cyst, diastole, dilatation, dilation, dropsy, edema, extension, extreme tension, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, furuncle, gassiness, inflation, intumescence, lump, meteorism, overdistension, overdrawing, overexpansion, overextension, overstrain, overstraining, overstretching, pimple, pock, puff, puffiness, puffing, pustule, rising, sebaceous cyst, snapping point, strain, straining, stretch, stretching, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tension, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, wen, windiness

distill

• distill, aerate, aerify, atomize, boil, bolt, bootleg, brew, carbonate, chlorinate, clarify, clear, concentrate, condense, decoct, decrassify, depurate, dribble, drip, dripple, drop, edulcorate, elute, emit, essentialize, etherify, etherize, evaporate, exhale, express, extract, filter, filtrate, fluidize, fractionate, fume, fumigate, gasify, give off, gurgle, hydrogenate, infuse, leach, leak, leak out, lixiviate, melt down, moonlight, moonshine, narrow, oversimplify, oxygenate, percolate, perfume, press out, purify, rectify, reduce, reduce to elements, reek, refine, render, screen, seep, seethe, send out, separate, sieve, sift, simmer, simplify, smoke, soak, spiritualize, spray, spurtle, steam, steep, stew, strain, streamline, strip down, sublimate, sublime, sweat, trickle, trill, try, vaporize, volatilize, weep, winnow, wring, wring out

distillate

• distillate, by-product, concentrate, concentration, consequence, consequent, core, corollary, decoction, derivation, derivative, development, distillation, effect, elixir, essence, event, eventuality, eventuation, extract, extraction, fabric, fruit, gist, harvest, heart, infusion, issue, kernel, legacy, logical outcome, marrow, material, matter, meat, medium, nub, offshoot, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, pith, precipitate, product, purification, quintessence, refinement, result, resultant, sap, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, soul, spirit, stuff, substance, sum and substance, upshot

distillation

• distillation, aeration, aerification, artifact, atomization, blazing, blistering, bolting, brainchild, branding, burning, calcination, carbonization, cauterization, cautery, child, cineration, clarification, coinage, colature, combustion, composition, concentrate, concentration, concoction, concremation, condensation, core, cracking, creation, creature, cremation, crowning achievement, cupellation, decoction, deflagration, destructive distillation, disentanglement, disinvolvement, distillate, distilling, dribble, drip, dripping, drippings, drop, edulcoration, effect, elixir, elution, elutriation, end product, essence, essentialization, etherealization, etherification, evaporation, exhalation, expression, extract, extraction, fabric, filtering, filtration, flaming, fluidization, fractionation, fruit, fumigation, gasification, gist, handiwork, heart, incineration, infusion, invention, issue, kernel, leaching, leak, leakage, leaking, lixiviation, manufacture, marrow, masterpiece, masterwork, material, matter, meat, medium, mintage, narrowing, new mintage, nub, offspring, opera, opus, opuscule, origination, outcome, outgrowth, oxidation, oxidization, parching, percolation, pith, pressing, product, production, purification, pyrolysis, quintessence, refinement, refining, rendering, rendition, result, riddling, sap, scorching, scorification, screening, searing, seepage, seeping, self-immolation, separation, sieving, sifting, simplification, singeing, smelting, smoking, soaking, soul, spirit, spiritualization, spurtle, squeezing, steaming, steeping, straining, streamlining, stripping, stripping down, stuff, sublimation, substance, sum and substance, suttee, sweating, the stake, thermogenesis, trickle, tricklet, uncluttering, unscrambling, unsnarling, vaporization, vesication, volatilization, winnowing, work

distilled

• distilled, absolute, bare, clarified, clear, naked, neat, purified, rectified, sheer, straight, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblended, uncombined, uncompounded, uncorrupted, undiluted, unfortified, unleavened, unmingled, unmixed, unsophisticated, untinged

distillery

• distillery, armory, arsenal, assembly line, assembly plant, atomic energy plant, bindery, boatyard, boilery, bookbindery, bottling works, brewery, brickyard, cannery, creamery, dairy, defense plant, distiller, dockyard, factory, factory belt, factory district, feeder plant, flour mill, industrial park, industrial zone, main plant, manufactory, manufacturing plant, manufacturing quarter, mill, mint, munitions plant, oil refinery, packing house, plant, pottery, power plant, production line, push-button plant, refinery, sawmill, shipyard, still, subassembly plant, sugar refinery, tannery, wine press, winery, yard, yards

distinct

• distinct, absolute, apart, apparent, articulate, assorted, asunder, at odds, at variance, audible, bipartite, categorical, certain, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, coherent, concrete, connected, consistent, conspicuous, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, contrastive, crisp, crystal-clear, crystalline, defined, definite, departing, detached, detailed, determinate, deviating, deviative, dichotomous, different, differentiated, differing, direct, disaccordant, disagreeing, discernible, discontinuous, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinctive, distinguishable, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, esoteric, especial, evident, exact, exceptional, explicit, express, extraordinary, fixed, glaring, hearable, heterogeneous, hi-fi, high-fidelity, in disagreement, in focus, in two, inaccordant, incisive, incoherent, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, indisputable, individual, indubitable, inharmonious, inner, insular, intimate, irreconcilable, limpid, loud and clear, lucid, luminous, manifest, many, marked, minute, motley, multifarious, noncohesive, noteworthy, noticeable, observable, obvious, open-and-shut, palpable, particular, partitioned, patent, peculiar, pellucid, perceivable, perceptible, personal, perspicuous, plain, plain as day, poles apart, poles asunder, precise, prescribed, private, prominent, pronounced, recognizable, respective, seeable, self-evident, self-explaining, self-explanatory, separate, separated, several, sharp, simple, single, singular, sole, solipsistic, special, specific, staring, straightforward, sui generis, tangible, to be seen, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, trenchant, unambiguous, unassociated, unattached, unattended, uncommon, unconformable, unconfused, unconnected, understandable, unequal, unequivocal, unique, univocal, unjoined, unlike, unmistakable, unusual, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, visible, vivid, well-defined, well-marked, well-pronounced, well-resolved, widely apart, worlds apart

distinction

• distinction, Atticism, accolade, account, alteration, analysis, anatomization, ancestry, appropriateness, aristocracy, aristocraticalness, atomization, award, badge, bays, birth, blood, blue blood, celebrity, change, characterization, chasteness, chastity, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness, comeliness, consequence, conspicuousness, contradistinction, contrariety, contrast, correctness, credit, decoration, definition, delicacy, delicate distinction, demarcation, departure, description, desynonymization, deviation, difference, differencing, differentia, differential, differentiation, dignity, directness, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, discrimination, disequalization, disjunction, disparity, dissemblance, dissent, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, dissonance, distinctiveness, distinctness, distinguishment, divergence, divergency, diversification, diversity, dividing line, division, ease, elegance, elegancy, elevation, eminence, esteem, exaltation, excellence, fame, far cry, felicitousness, felicity, fine point, finish, fittingness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, genteelness, gentility, glory, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, grandeur, great honor, greatness, hairline, hairsplitting, heroism, heterogeneity, high mightiness, honor, honorable descent, illustriousness, importance, inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, individualization, individuation, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, irreconcilability, kudos, laurels, limpidity, loftiness, lucidity, magnanimity, majesty, margin, mark, memorability, merit, microscopic distinction, mixture, modification, narrow margin, naturalness, neatness, nice distinction, nicety, nobility, noble birth, nobleness, nonconformity, notability, note, noteworthiness, nuance, odds, opposition, ornament, otherness, outstandingness, particle of difference, particularization, pellucidity, personalization, perspicuity, plainness, point of difference, polish, preeminence, prestige, prominence, propriety, purity, quality, rank, refinement, remarkableness, renown, reputation, repute, restraint, royalty, salience, seemliness, segregation, separateness, separation, severalization, severance, shade of difference, significance, simplicity, smoothness, specialization, straightforwardness, sublimity, subtle distinction, subtlety, supereminence, superiority, taste, tastefulness, terseness, trichoschistism, unaffectedness, unconformity, uniqueness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, value, variance, variation, variegation, variety, wide margin, worth

distinctive

• distinctive, accurate, appreciative, appropriate, articulate, audible, categorical, characteristic, characterizing, classificational, classificatory, clear, contrastive, critical, defining, definite, delicate, denominative, diacritical, diagnostic, differencing, differential, differentiative, discrete, discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, distinct, distinguished, distinguishing, divisional, divisionary, exact, exemplary, fastidious, fine, hearable, hi-fi, high-fidelity, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, in character, individual, individualizing, individuating, intrinsic, marked, natural, naturalistic, nice, normal, ordinal, particular, peculiar, personalizing, plain, precise, proper, quintessential, realistic, refined, regular, sample, selective, sensitive, separate, separative, several, single, singular, special, specific, subdivisional, subtle, tactful, taxonomic, true to form, true to type, typal, typic, typical, unique, usual

distinctly

• distinctly, absolutely, aloud, and no mistake, apparently, apprehensibly, articulately, assuredly, at all events, at any rate, audibly, by all means, certainly, clearly, coherently, comprehensibly, concretely, conspicuously, decidedly, decisively, definitely, discernibly, especially, evidently, exactly, explicitly, expressly, for a certainty, for a fact, for certain, for sure, forsooth, glaringly, in detail, in particular, in plain English, in plain terms, in plain words, in truth, indeed, indeedy, intelligibly, item by item, limpidly, lucidly, manifestly, markedly, minutely, most assuredly, most certainly, nothing else but, noticeably, observably, obviously, of course, out, out loud, palpably, particularly, patently, pellucidly, perceivably, perceptibly, perspicuously, plainly, positively, precisely, prominently, pronouncedly, recognizably, seeably, separately, simply, singly, specially, specifically, staringly, starkly, surely, to a certainty, to be specific, truly, unambiguously, unconcealedly, understandably, undisguisedly, unequivocally, unmistakably, visibly, with clarity

distinguish

• distinguish, adorn, aggrandize, analyze, anatomize, atomize, be characteristic, behold, bestow honor upon, call attention to, catch sight of, categorize, change, characterize, chop logic, clap eyes on, classify, confer distinction on, contradistinguish, decide, define, demarcate, demark, denote, describe, descry, designate, desynonymize, detach, detect, determinate, determine, diagnose, difference, differentiate, dignify, discern, discover, discriminate, disengage, disequalize, disjoin, diversify, divide, draw the line, earmark, ennoble, erect, espy, extricate, feel, finger, glimpse, glorify, grace, grade, group, have, have in sight, hear, honor, identify, indicate, individualize, individuate, judge, ken, keynote, know, know again, lay eyes on, look on, look upon, magnify, make a distinction, make out, mark, mark off, mark out, mark the interface, modify, nail, note, notice, observe, part, particularize, peg, perceive, personalize, pick out, pick up, pinpoint, place, qualify, realize, recall knowledge of, recognize, refine a distinction, reidentify, remark, screen, screen out, see, segregate, select, sense, separate, set a limit, set apart, set off, set the pace, set the tone, sever, severalize, sieve, sieve out, sift, sift out, sight, signalize, single out, smell, sort, sort out, sound the keynote, specialize, split hairs, spot, spy, subdivide, sublime, subtilize, take in, taste, tell, tell apart, twig, uprear, vary, view, winnow, witness

distinguished

• distinguished, a cut above, above, absolute, acclaimed, ahead, appropriate, aristocratic, ascendant, assorted, at odds, at variance, august, better, capping, celebrated, certain, characteristic, chosen, concrete, conspicuous, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, courtly, crowned with laurel, defined, definite, departing, detailed, determinate, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, dignified, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinctive, distingue, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, eclipsing, elevated, eminent, esoteric, especial, esteemed, estimable, exalted, exceeding, excellent, excelling, exceptional, express, extraordinary, fabled, famed, famous, far-famed, far-heard, finer, fixed, glorious, godlike, grand, great, greater, heroic, heterogeneous, high, higher, honorable, honored, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, illustrious, imposing, in ascendancy, in character, in disagreement, in the ascendant, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, individual, inharmonious, inner, intimate, intrinsic, irreconcilable, lauded, laureate, legendary, lofty, magnanimous, magnificent, majestic, major, many, marked, memorable, minute, motley, much acclaimed, multifarious, mythical, noble, notable, noted, noteworthy, notorious, of choice, of mark, of note, one up on, outstanding, over, particular, peculiar, personal, poles apart, poles asunder, popular, precise, prestigious, private, prominent, proper, quintessential, rare, regal, remarkable, rememberable, renowned, reputable, respected, respective, rivaling, royal, salient, separate, separated, several, signal, single, singular, soaring, solipsistic, special, specific, stately, striking, sublime, super, superb, superior, surpassing, talked-about, talked-of, telling, topping, towering, transcendent, transcendental, transcending, true to form, unconformable, unequal, unforgettable, unique, unlike, upper, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, well-known, widely apart, worlds apart

distinguishing

• distinguishing, accurate, appreciative, characteristic, characterizing, contrastive, critical, delicate, diacritical, diagnostic, differencing, differential, differentiative, discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, distinctive, exact, exemplary, fastidious, fine, idiosyncratic, individualizing, individuating, natural, naturalistic, nice, normal, peculiar, personalizing, precise, quintessential, realistic, refined, regular, sample, selective, sensitive, separative, subtle, tactful, true to form, true to type, typal, typic, typical, usual

distort

• distort, adulterate, alloy, alter, argue insincerely, belie, bend, bias, blemish, blur, buckle, burlesque, camouflage, canker, caricature, change, cheapen, check, cicatrize, coarsen, color, confound, confuse, contaminate, contort, corrupt, crack, craze, crook, crumple, curve, debase, debauch, deface, defile, deflect, deflower, deform, degenerate, degrade, denature, deprave, desecrate, despoil, devalue, deviate, diffract, diffuse, disfigure, disguise, disorder, disperse, diverge, divert, dogleg, dress up, embellish, embroider, exaggerate, fabricate, falsify, flaw, fog up, fudge, garble, get one wrong, get wrong, gild, gloss, gloss over, gnarl, hairpin, infect, influence, jaundice, jumble, kink, knot, mar, mask, mess up, misapply, misapprehend, miscite, miscolor, misconceive, misconstrue, misdeem, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound, misinterpret, misjudge, misquote, misread, misrender, misreport, misrepresent, misshape, misstate, mistake, misteach, mistranslate, misunderstand, misuse, muddle, obfuscate, obscure, overdraw, overstate, paralogize, parody, pervert, poison, pollute, prejudice, prejudice against, prejudice the issue, prepossess, prostitute, pull, rationalize, ravage, ravish, reason ill, refract, scab, scar, scarify, scatter, screw, skew, slant, split, spring, squeeze, strain, strain the sense, sway, taint, tamper with, titivate, torture, travesty, trick out, turn, turn awry, twist, twist the words, ulcerate, understate, unform, unshape, varnish, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, whitewash, wind, wrench, wrest, wring, writhe, zigzag

distorted

• distorted, aberrant, abroad, adrift, affected, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, anamorphous, apocryphal, artificial, askew, assumed, astray, asymmetric, at fault, awry, bastard, bent, beside the mark, blemished, bogus, bowed, brummagem, catachrestic, checked, cicatrized, cockeyed, colorable, colored, contorted, corrupt, counterfeit, counterfeited, cracked, crazed, crazy, crooked, crumpled, crunched, deceptive, defaced, defective, deflected, deflective, deformed, delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative, diffracted, diffractive, diffuse, diffused, disfigured, dispersed, dressed up, dummy, eisegetical, embellished, embroidered, errant, erring, erroneous, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, fallacious, false, falsified, faultful, faulty, feigned, fictitious, fictive, flawed, flectional, flexed, garbled, heretical, heterodox, illegitimate, illogical, illusory, imitation, inflective, irregular, junky, keloidal, kinked, labyrinthine, lopsided, make-believe, man-made, marred, misapprehended, misconceived, misconstrued, misinterpreted, misread, mistaken, misunderstood, mock, nonsymmetric, not right, not true, off, off the track, one-sided, out, peccant, perverse, perverted, phony, pimpled, pimply, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, refracted, refractile, refractive, refrangible, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, scattered, self-contradictory, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, skew, skewed, so-called, soi-disant, split, sprung, spurious, straying, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, tortuous, twisted, unauthentic, unfactual, ungenuine, unnatural, unorthodox, unproved, unreal, unsymmetric, untrue, warped, wide, wrong

distortion

• distortion, aberrancy, aberration, abstractionism, abuse of terms, anamorphosis, apparent soundness, bad likeness, birdies, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, blooping, blurping, botch, bulla, burlesque, caricature, casuistry, catachresis, check, cicatrix, circularity, coloring, comedo, confabulation, contorting, crack, crater, craze, daub, defacement, defect, defectiveness, deflection, deflexure, deformation, deformity, delusion, deviancy, diffraction, diffusion, disfiguration, disfigurement, disingenuousness, dispersion, eisegesis, equivocalness, equivocation, errancy, erroneousness, error, evasive reasoning, exaggeration, expressionism, fallaciousness, fallacy, false coloring, false swearing, falseness, falsification, falsifying, falsity, fault, faultiness, feedback, flaw, flawedness, flection, flexure, flutter, fluttering, freckle, garbling, gloss, hamartia, hemangioma, heresy, heterodoxy, hickey, hissing, howling, hum, hyperbole, illusion, inaccuracy, injustice, insincerity, jesuitism, jesuitry, keloid, kink, lentigo, litotes, malconformation, malentendu, malformation, malobservation, milium, misapplication, misapprehension, miscitation, miscoloring, misconception, misconstruction, misdoing, misdrawing, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misfeasance, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mispainting, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misreport, misrepresentation, misshape, misstatement, misteaching, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misuse of words, mole, motorboating, mystification, needle scar, nevus, nonrealism, obfuscation, obscurantism, overdrawing, overstatement, oversubtlety, parody, peccancy, perjury, perversion, philosophism, pimple, pit, plausibility, plausibleness, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, prevarication, pustule, rationalization, refraction, rift, rumble, scab, scar, scatter, scratch, scratching, scribble, sebaceous cyst, self-contradiction, shredding, sin, sinfulness, skewness, slanting, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, split, squeals, squeezing, static, straining, strawberry mark, sty, subtlety, torsion, torturing, track, travesty, twist, twisting, understatement, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, verruca, vesicle, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, whistles, whitehead, woomping, wow, wowwows, wrenching, wrong, wrongness

distract

• distract, absorb, addle, agitate, amuse, ball up, befuddle, beguile, bemuse, bewilder, blunt, bother, bug, call away, chill, confound, confuse, convulse, cool, craze, damp, dampen, daze, deflect, delight, dement, derange, deter, detract, detract attention, disaffect, discompose, disconcert, discourage, disincline, disinterest, disturb, divert, divert the mind, drive insane, drive mad, embroil, engross, entertain, fluster, frenzy, fuddle, gratify, indispose, interest, mad, madden, make mad, mix up, mystify, occupy, perplex, perturb, psych, put off, puzzle, quench, rattle, repel, send mad, shatter, sidetrack, spook, throw, throw into confusion, throw off, trouble, turn aside, turn away, turn from, turn off, unbalance, unhinge, unsettle, upset, wean from

distracted

• distracted, abandoned, abashed, abroad, adrift, amok, astray, at sea, bellowing, berserk, bewildered, bothered, careless, carried away, clueless, confused, delirious, demoniac, discomposed, disconcerted, dismayed, disoriented, disregardant, disregardful, distrait, distraught, distressed, disturbed, ecstatic, embarrassed, enraptured, feral, ferocious, fierce, frantic, frenzied, fulminating, furious, guessing, haggard, harassed, heedless, hog-wild, howling, hysterical, in a fix, in a maze, in a pickle, in a scrape, in a stew, in a transport, in hysterics, inadvertent, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, inobservant, intoxicated, lost, mad, madding, maniac, mazed, negligent, off the track, orgasmic, orgiastic, perturbed, possessed, put-out, rabid, raging, rambling, ramping, ranting, raving, ravished, regardless, roaring, running mad, storming, thoughtless, tormented, transported, troubled, turned around, uncontrollable, unheedful, unheeding, unmarking, unmindful, unnoticing, unnoting, unobservant, unobserving, unremarking, upset, violent, wandering, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, without a clue, worried

distraction

• distraction, aberration, abnormality, absentmindedness, agitation, alienation, amusement, befuddlement, bewilderment, brain damage, brainsickness, carelessness, clouded mind, confusion, craziness, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement, disorder, disorientation, disregard, disregardfulness, dissipation, disturbance, diversion, divertissement, entertainment, flightiness, flippancy, folie, frivolousness, furor, giddiness, heedlessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, inconsideration, incuriosity, indifference, inobservance, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, levity, lightmindedness, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, mania, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, negligence, nonobservance, obliviousness, oddness, pixilation, possession, psychopathy, queerness, rabidness, reasonlessness, recreation, regardlessness, senselessness, shallowness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness, strangeness, superficiality, thoughtlessness, unalertness, unawareness, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unconsciousness, unheedfulness, unintentiveness, unmindfulness, unobservance, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, unwariness, unwatchfulness, upset, witlessness

distraught

• distraught, abashed, abnormal, abroad, addled, adrift, agitated, astray, at sea, batty, bereft of reason, berserk, bewildered, bothered, brainsick, clueless, concerned, confused, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daft, delirious, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, discomposed, disconcerted, dismayed, disoriented, distracted, distrait, distressed, disturbed, embarrassed, excited, feverish, flighty, flustered, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, guessing, hallucinated, harassed, hysterical, in a fix, in a maze, in a pickle, in a scrape, in a stew, insane, irrational, loco, lost, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, moon-struck, muddled, nervous, non compos, non compos mentis, nonplussed, not all there, not right, nuts, odd, of unsound mind, off, off the track, overwrought, perturbed, psycho, put-out, queer, rambling, reasonless, senseless, sick, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, tetched, tormented, touched, troubled, turned around, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, upset, wandering, wild, without a clue, witless, worked up, wrought up

distress

• distress, Schmerz, abashment, abuse, ache, aches and pains, aching, adversity, afflict, affliction, aggrieve, agitate, agitation, agonize, agony, ail, all-overs, amercement, angary, angst, anguish, annexation, annexure, annoy, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, attachment, be the matter, befoul, beset, bewitch, bite, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, bitterness, bleakness, blight, blow, bother, broken fortune, burden, burden of care, burn, calamity, cankerworm of care, care, catastrophe, chafe, chagrin, cheerlessness, collectivization, comfortlessness, commandeering, communalization, communization, complicate matters, concern, concernment, condemn, confiscation, confusion, constrain, convulse, corrupt, cramp, cross, crown of thorns, crucify, curse, cut, damage, damages, defile, deprave, depress, depression, desolation, despoil, destroy, difficulties, difficulty, disadvantage, disaster, discomfiture, discomfort, discommode, discomposure, disconcertion, disconcertment, discountenance, dismalness, dismay, disquiet, disquietude, disserve, distraint, distressfulness, disturb, disturbance, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, dolor, doom, dread, dreariness, embarrassment, eminent domain, encumbrance, envenom, escheat, escheatment, excruciate, execution, exigency, expropriation, fear, fester, fine, foreboding, forebodingness, forfeit, forfeiture, frazzle, fret, gall, gall and wormwood, garnishment, genteel poverty, get into trouble, give concern, give pain, gnaw, grate, grief, grievance, grieve, grievousness, grind, gripe, harass, hard pinch, hardship, harm, harrow, harry, heartache, heartbreak, hex, hurt, hurting, impair, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoundment, impressment, inconvenience, infect, inflame, inflict pain, infliction, injure, injury, inquietude, insolvency, irk, irritate, jinx, joylessness, kill by inches, lacerate, lament, lamentability, lamentation, lesion, levy, light purse, load, load with care, malaise, maltreat, martyr, martyrize, menace, misery, misfortune, misgiving, mistreat, molest, mortification, mourn, mournfulness, mulct, narrow means, nasty blow, nationalization, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, nip, oppress, oppression, outrage, overanxiety, pack of troubles, pain, painfulness, pang, pass, passion, pathos, peck of troubles, perplex, persecute, perturb, perturbation, pester, pierce, pinch, pins and needles, pitiability, pitiableness, pitifulness, plague, play havoc with, play hob with, poignancy, poison, pollute, poorness, pother, poverty, prejudice, prick, prolong the agony, pucker, put out, put to it, put to torture, puzzle, rack, rankle, rasp, regrettableness, right of angary, rigor, rub, sadness, savage, scathe, sconce, sea of troubles, sequestration, sharpness, shock, slender means, socialization, solicitude, sore, sore spot, sorrow, sorrowfulness, spasm, stab, stew, sting, strain, strait, straitened circumstances, straits, stress, stress of life, stroke, suffering, suspense, taint, tender spot, tension, thorn, threaten, throes, tight squeeze, torment, torture, tragedy, trial, tribulation, trouble, try, tweak, twinge, twist, uneasiness, unhappiness, unprosperousness, unquietness, upset, vex, vexation, vicissitude, violate, visitation, voluntary poverty, vows of poverty, waters of bitterness, weigh, weight, woe, woebegoneness, woefulness, worry, wound, wreak havoc on, wrench, wretchedness, wring, wrong, zeal

distressed

• distressed, abashed, afflicted, agitated, agonized, annoyed, anxious, badly off, beset, bothered, cast down, chagrined, chapfallen, confused, convulsed, crucified, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, disquieted, distracted, distrait, disturbed, down to bedrock, embarrassed, feeling the pinch, harassed, hard up, harrowed, hung up, hurt, hurting, ill at ease, ill off, impecunious, in Queer Street, in distress, in narrow circumstances, in pain, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, inconvenienced, irked, lacerated, land-poor, martyred, martyrized, mortified, narrow, on the edge, on the rack, out of countenance, out of pocket, pained, perturbed, pinched, plagued, poor, poorly off, put to it, put-out, put-upon, puzzled, racked, reduced, short, short of cash, short of funds, short of money, sore beset, squeezed, straitened, strapped, suffering, tormented, tortured, troubled, twisted, uncomfortable, under the harrow, uneasy, unmoneyed, unprosperous, upset, vexed, worried, wounded, wrung

distressing

• distressing, acute, affecting, afflictive, agonizing, annoying, atrocious, baleful, baneful, biting, bitter, bleak, bothersome, calamitous, chafing, cheerless, comfortless, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, cramping, cruel, damaging, deadly, deleterious, deplorable, depressing, depressive, detrimental, dire, disadvantageous, discomforting, dismal, dismaying, disquieting, disserviceable, distressful, disturbing, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreary, excruciating, fretting, gnawing, grave, grievous, griping, harassing, hard, harmful, harrowing, harsh, heartbreaking, hurtful, hurting, injurious, joyless, lamentable, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, mischievous, mournful, moving, noisome, noxious, ominous, painful, paroxysmal, pathetic, pernicious, piercing, piteous, pitiable, plaguing, poignant, poisonous, prejudicial, pungent, racking, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddening, scatheful, severe, sharp, shooting, sore, sorrowful, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, stabbing, stinging, tormenting, torturous, touching, toxic, troublesome, uncomfortable, unfortunate, upsetting, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, woebegone, woeful, worrisome, worrying, wretched

distressingly

• distressingly, abominably, agonizingly, awfully, baldly, balefully, bitterly, blatantly, brashly, confoundedly, cruelly, damnably, deadly, deathly, deplorably, deucedly, distressfully, dolorously, dreadfully, egregiously, excessively, excruciatingly, exorbitantly, extravagantly, flagrantly, frightfully, grievously, harrowingly, heartbreakingly, hellishly, horribly, improperly, inexcusably, infernally, inordinately, intolerably, lamentably, miserably, nakedly, openly, painfully, pathetically, piteously, pitiably, ruefully, sadly, shatteringly, shockingly, something awful, something fierce, sorely, staggeringly, terribly, torturously, unashamedly, unbearably, unconscionably, unduly, unpardonably, woefully

distribute

• distribute, administer, align, allocate, allot, apportion, arrange, array, assign, assort, bestow, bestrew, broadcast, categorize, circulate, circumfuse, class, classify, collocate, come across with, compose, convey, deal, deal out, deliver, deliver over, diffract, diffuse, disburse, dish out, dispense, disperse, dispose, dispread, disseminate, diverge, divide, divide up, dole, dole out, donate, dribble, fan out, file, fix, fork over, forward, give, give in, give out, give over, group, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, issue, line, line up, marshal, measure out, mete, mete out, order, overscatter, oversow, overspread, parcel, parcel out, partition, pass, pass around, pass out, pass over, pay out, place, portion, portion out, present, propagate, prorate, publish, radiate, rally, range, ration, reach, regiment, render, resign, retail, scatter, set out, share out, sort, sow, sow broadcast, space, splay, spoon out, spread, spread out, strew, surrender, transfer, turn over, utter

distributed

• distributed, accessible, affirmed, announced, broadcast, brought to notice, circulated, common knowledge, common property, current, declared, diffuse, diffused, discrete, dispersed, dispread, disseminated, dissipated, in circulation, in print, made public, open, proclaimed, propagated, public, published, reported, scattered, sparse, sporadic, spread, stated, straggling, straggly, strewn, strown, telecast, televised, widespread

distribution

• distribution, administration, allocation, allotment, apportionment, arrangement, array, arraying, assignment, attenuation, broadcast, broadcasting, cataloguing, circulation, circumfusion, classification, codification, collation, collocation, constitution, deployment, diffraction, diffusion, dilution, disbursal, disbursement, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, disposal, disposition, dissemination, dissipation, divergence, division, dole, doling, doling out, evaporation, expansion, form, formation, formulation, fragmentation, giving out, grouping, issuance, marshaling, order, ordering, passing around, paying out, peppering, placement, propagation, publication, radiation, regimentation, scattering, scatterment, sequence, sharing, shotgun pattern, sowing, spattering, splay, spread, spreading, sprinkling, strewing, structuring, syntax, volatilization

distributive

• distributive, attenuative, diffractional, diffractive, diffusive, dispersive, disseminative, dissipative, distributional, equal, even stephen, fifty-fifty, half, half-and-half, halvers, particular, per capita, per head, pro rata, proportional, proportionate, prorated, respective, scattering, several, spreading

distributor

• distributor, agent, broker, chandler, connection, dealer, go-between, importer, intermediary, intermedium, jobber, liaison, link, marketer, mediary, mediator, medium, merchandiser, merchant, middleman, monger, regrater, retail dealer, retail merchant, retailer, shopkeeper, storekeeper, tie, trader, tradesman, tradeswoman, trafficker, wholesaler

district attorney

• district attorney, AG, DA, KC, QC, SSC, US attorney, attorney general, civilian, corporation lawyer, court-appointed lawyer, criminal lawyer, defense counsel, junior counsel, law agent, leader, mouthpiece, private attorney, prosecuting attorney, prosecutor, public prosecutor, publicist, silk, silk gown, solicitor general, special pleader, stuff gown, stuff-gownsman

district

• district, Kreis, abode, airspace, apportion, archbishopric, archdiocese, area, arrondissement, bailiwick, bearings, belt, bench mark, bishopric, borough, canton, city, commune, community, confines, congressional district, constablewick, continental shelf, corridor, country, county, cut up, departement, department, diocese, divide, divide up, division, divvy, divvy up, duchy, electoral district, electorate, emplacement, environs, government, ground, hamlet, heartland, hinterland, hole, hundred, land, latitude and longitude, lieu, locale, locality, location, locus, magistracy, metropolis, metropolitan area, milieu, neighborhood, oblast, offshore rights, okrug, parcel, parcel out, parish, part, partition, parts, pinpoint, place, placement, point, portion, position, precinct, precincts, premises, principality, province, purlieus, quarter, region, riding, salient, section, sector, segment, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, site, situation, situs, soil, soke, space, split, split up, spot, stake, state, stead, subdivide, terrain, territory, three-mile limit, town, township, twelve-mile limit, vicinage, vicinity, village, wapentake, ward, whereabout, whereabouts, zone

distrust

• distrust, Pyrrhonism, apprehension, awake a doubt, be diffident, be doubtful, be dubious, be possessive, be skeptical, be uncertain, cageyness, call in question, caution, challenge, chariness, contest, diffidence, disbelief, disbelieve, discredit, dispute, distrustfulness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, greet with skepticism, half believe, half-belief, harbor suspicions, have reservations, hesitancy, hesitation, incredulity, leeriness, misdoubt, misgive, misgiving, mistrust, mistrustfulness, qualm, query, question, raise a question, scepticism, scruple, scrupulousness, self-doubt, shadow of doubt, skepticalness, skepticism, smell a rat, suspect, suspicion, suspiciousness, throw doubt upon, total skepticism, treat with reserve, unbelieve, uncertainty, wariness

distrustful

• distrustful, Pyrrhonic, agnostic, cagey, cautious, chary, cynical, disbelieving, doubtful, doubting, dubious, envious, from Missouri, green, green with jealousy, green-eyed, hesitant, hesitating, horn-mad, in doubt, invidious, jaundice-eyed, jaundiced, jealous, leery, mistrustful, mistrusting, nervous, questioning, sceptical, scrupulous, shy, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, unbelieving, uncertain, uneasy, unsure, untrusting, wary, yellow, yellow-eyed

disturb

• disturb, abash, addle, addle the wits, affect, afflict, aggravate, agitate, ail, alarm, annoy, badger, bait, ball up, be at, be the matter, beat, beat up, becloud, bedazzle, bedevil, befuddle, beset, bewilder, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burden, burn up, cancel, change, chivy, churn, churn up, cloud, complicate matters, concern, confound, confuse, convulse, damage, daze, dazzle, derange, destroy, devil, disarrange, disarray, discombobulate, discomfit, discomfort, discommode, discompose, disconcert, dishevel, dislocate, dismay, disorder, disorganize, disorient, displace, disquiet, disrupt, distemper, distract, distress, dog, electrify, embarrass, embroil, entangle, exasperate, excite, exercise, fash, ferment, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, frazzle, fret, frighten, fuddle, fuss, get, give concern, gripe, harass, harm, harry, hassle, heckle, hector, hound, humiliate, incommode, inconvenience, interfere, interfere with, intermeddle, interrupt, irk, irritate, jar, jolt, jumble, knock galley-west, load with care, maze, meddle, mess up, miff, mist, mix up, moider, molest, mortify, move, muddle, nag, needle, negate, nettle, nudzh, paddle, peeve, perplex, persecute, perturb, perturbate, pester, pick on, pique, plague, pluck the beard, pother, provoke, psych, put off, put out, put to it, puzzle, raise hell, rattle, remove, replace, ride, rile, ripple, rock, roil, roughen, ruffle, ruin, rumple, scare, shake, shake up, shift, ship, shock, spook, stagger, stir, stir up, swirl, tamper, tease, terrify, throw, throw into confusion, torment, transfer, trouble, try the patience, tweak the nose, unhinge, unsettle, upset, vex, whip, whip up, whisk, work up, worry

disturbance

• disturbance, abashment, ado, affray, agitation, all-overs, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, baffle, bafflement, befuddlement, bewilderment, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, botheration, brawl, broil, brouhaha, bustle, cacophony, cankerworm of care, care, chagrin, chaos, churn, cloud, commotion, concern, concernment, confoundment, confusion, conturbation, convulsion, daze, derangement, dilemma, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, discountenance, disharmony, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction, dislocation, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disorientation, disproportion, disquiet, disquietude, disruption, distress, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, dread, dustup, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, embarrassment, embroilment, enigma, entropy, excitement, fanaticism, fear, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, fix, flap, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, fog, foment, fomentation, foofaraw, foreboding, forebodingness, fracas, fray, free-for-all, frenzy, fuddle, fuddlement, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, haphazardness, hassle, haze, helter-skelter, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry-scurry, incoherence, indiscriminateness, inharmonious harmony, inquietude, insanity, interference, interruption, intrusion, irregularity, jam, jitters, jumble, jumpiness, maelstrom, malaise, maze, melee, mess, misarrangement, misgiving, mist, moil, mortification, most admired disorder, muddle, muddlement, mystery, nerviness, nervosity, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, nonplus, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, outburst, overanxiety, pandemonium, passion, pell-mell, perplexity, perturbation, pickle, pins and needles, plight, pother, predicament, problem, promiscuity, promiscuousness, pucker, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, racket, rage, rampage, randomness, restlessness, riddle, riot, roil, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, rout, row, ruckus, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scramble, scrape, seethe, seething, shindy, shuffle, shuffling, solicitude, stew, stir, storminess, strain, suspense, sweat, swirl, swirling, swivet, tempestuousness, tension, tizzy, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumult, tumultuation, tumultuousness, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unassuredness, unease, uneasiness, unquietness, unrest, unsettlement, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upheaval, uproar, upset, vexation, violence, vortex, whirl, wildness, yeastiness, zeal, zealousness

disturbed

• disturbed, abashed, abroad, adrift, afflicted, aggravated, agitated, all-overish, amiss, angry, annoyed, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, askew, astray, at sea, awry, balled-up, batty, beset, bewildered, bonkers, bothered, brain-damaged, brain-injured, browned-off, bugged, burnt-up, cast down, catatonic, certifiable, chafed, chagrined, chaotic, chapfallen, clueless, cockeyed, concerned, confused, convulsed, crazy, depressed, deranged, disarranged, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, dismayed, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disoriented, disquieted, distracted, distraught, distressed, embarrassed, exasperated, excited, fearful, feverish, fidgety, flurried, flustered, fluttered, foreboding, fussed, galled, griped, guessing, haywire, hung up, hypochondriac, hysteric, 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, insane, irked, irritated, jittery, jumbled, jumpy, lost, mad, maladjusted, manic-depressive, mazed, mentally ill, mentally sick, miffed, misgiving, misplaced, mixed-up, mortified, nervous, nervy, nettled, neurasthenic, neurotic, nuts, off the track, on tenterhooks, 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, overanxious, overapprehensive, paranoiac, paranoid, peeved, perplexed, perturbed, phobic, piqued, provoked, psychasthenic, psychoneurotic, psychopathic, psychotic, put-out, put-upon, rattled, resentful, restless, riled, roiled, roily, ruffled, schiz, schizoid, schizophrenic, schizy, screwy, shaken, shaken up, shook, shuffled, solicitous, stirred up, strained, suspenseful, tense, troubled, troublous, turbid, turbulent, turned around, unbalanced, uncomfortable, uneasy, unpeaceful, unquiet, unsettled, upset, vexed, without a clue, worried, zealous

disturbing

• disturbing, aggravating, agitating, alarming, annoying, awkward, baffling, bewildering, bothering, bothersome, breathtaking, chafing, charged, cliff-hanging, confounding, confusing, crushing, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, disquieting, distracting, distressful, distressing, electric, embarrassing, enigmatic, exasperating, exciting, exhilarating, fretting, galling, galvanic, harassing, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, humiliating, importunate, importune, impressive, inflammatory, intoxicating, intricate, irking, irksome, irritating, jarring, jolting, maddening, mind-blowing, mortifying, moving, mysterious, mystifying, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, perplexing, perturbing, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, piquant, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, problematic, provocative, provoking, puzzling, ravishing, soul-stirring, spirit-stirring, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, striking, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, teasing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, tiresome, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, unsettling, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, worrisome, worrying

disunion

• disunion, abstraction, alienation, antagonism, argumentation, breach, breach of friendship, break, clashing, cleavage, cleft, conflict, contention, contradiction, controversy, detachment, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disaffection, disagreement, disarticulation, disassociation, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, disengagement, disfavor, disharmony, disjointing, disjunction, dislocation, disparity, disruption, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissolution, dissonance, disunity, divergence, diversity, dividedness, division, divorce, divorcement, estrangement, faction, falling-out, inaccordance, incoherence, inequality, isolation, jarring, luxation, negation, open rupture, opposition, oppugnancy, parting, partition, recall of ambassadors, removal, repugnance, rift, rupture, schism, segmentation, separation, separatism, split, split-up, strife, subdivision, subtraction, unharmoniousness, variance, withdrawal, zoning

disunite

• disunite, abrupt, aggravate, alien, alienate, cast off, cast out, come between, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, delete, depart, dichotomize, disaffect, disarticulate, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, dissever, dissociate, disunify, divide, divorce, eject, estrange, expel, fan the flame, irritate, isolate, leave, light the fuse, make trouble, part, pit against, provoke, pull away, pull back, pull out, segregate, separate, sequester, set against, set apart, set aside, set at odds, set at variance, set on, shut off, sic on, sow dissension, split, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, step aside, stir up trouble, subtract, sunder, throw off, throw out, uncouple, unyoke, wean, withdraw

disunited

• disunited, alienated, detached, disaffected, disarticulated, disconnected, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, dispersed, divided, divorced, estranged, irreconcilable, isolated, removed, scattered, segregated, separated, sequestered, shut off, torn

disuse

• disuse, abandonment, abjure, absentation, antiquation, casting away, cessation, come off, cut out, desist, desuetude, discontinue, drop, evacuation, fogyishness, forsaking, give over, give up, have done with, jettison, jettisoning, leave off, leaving, let go, nol-pros, not pursue with, old-fashionedness, old-fogyishness, out-of-dateness, pulling out, put behind one, quit, relinquish, renounce, resign, staleness, stodginess, stop, stuffiness, superannuation, throwing overboard, unfashionableness, waive, withdrawal

disused

• disused, abandoned, abjured, antiquated, antique, archaic, castaway, dated, dead, derelict, deserted, discarded, discontinued, done with, extinct, forsaken, gone out, gone-by, jettisoned, left, marooned, neglected, not worth saving, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old-fashioned, on the shelf, out, out of style, out of use, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, outworn, passe, past, past use, pensioned off, relinquished, renounced, resigned, retired, run out, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, unused, worn-out

ditch

• ditch, abandon, abri, abysm, abyss, adit, alight, approach trench, aqueduct, arch dam, arroyo, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, beg, boom, box canyon, breach, break, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, bunker, bury, cache, canal, canalization, canalize, canyon, carve, cashier, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, cavity, chamfer, channel, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chisel, chuck, circumvent, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, cofferdam, col, come down, come in, communication trench, conceal, conduit, corrugate, coulee, couloir, countermine, coupure, course, cover, crack, cranny, crash-land, crevasse, crevice, crimp, cut, cut apart, cwm, dado, dam, deep-six, defense, defile, dell, descend, dike, discard, dispose of, ditch, donga, double, double sap, downwind, draw, duct, dugout, dump, earthwork, egress, eighty-six, eliminate, elude, embankment, engrave, ensconce, entrance, entrenchment, escape, evade, excavation, exit, fault, fence, fire trench, fissure, flaw, flume, flute, flying sap, fortified tunnel, fosse, foxhole, fracture, furrow, gallery, gap, gape, gash, gate, get around, get away from, get out of, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, give away, goffer, gorge, gouge, gravity dam, groin, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, gutter, ha-ha, hide, hole, hydraulic-fill dam, incise, incision, ingress, iron curtain, jam, jettison, jetty, jilt, joint, junk, kennel, kloof, land, leak, leaping weir, levee, level off, light, logjam, milldam, mine, moat, mole, mound, notch, nullah, occult, open, opening, overshoot, pancake, parallel, parapet, part with, pass, passage, passageway, pleat, plow, portcullis, rabbet, rampart, ravine, reject, remove, rent, rifle, rift, rime, rive, roadblock, rock-fill dam, rupture, rut, sap, scissure, score, scrap, scratch, screen, seam, seawall, secrete, settle down, shake, shake off, shuffle out of, shutter dam, skirt, slit, slit trench, slot, slough, split, stone wall, streak, striate, sunk fence, talk down, throw away, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, toss overboard, touch down, trench, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel, upwind, valley, void, wadi, wall, way, weir, wicket dam, work, wrinkle

ditheism

• ditheism, acosmism, allotheism, anthropolatry, anthropomorphism, anthropotheism, autotheism, cosmotheism, deism, dualism, dyotheism, henotheism, hylotheism, monolatry, monotheism, multitheism, myriotheism, pantheism, physicomorphism, physitheism, polytheism, psychotheism, tetratheism, theism, theopantism, theriotheism, tritheism, zootheism

dither

• dither, ache, aching, agitation, all-overs, alternate, babble, back and fill, be cold, be stupid, blab, blabber, blather, blether, blither, bob, bobble, bother, bounce, bump, burble, cackle, change, chat, chatter, chilblains, chill, chilliness, chilling, clack, clatter, cold creeps, cold shivers, cold sweat, confusion, creeps, cryopathy, didder, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, dote, drivel, drool, duck bumps, equivocate, falter, fidgetiness, fidgets, flap, fluctuate, fluster, flusteration, flustration, flutter, foofaraw, freeze, freeze to death, fret, frostbite, fuss, gab, gabble, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, go on, goose bumps, goose pimples, gooseflesh, gossip, grimace, grow cold, gush, halt, hang in doubt, have a chill, have goose pimples, haver, heaving, heebie-jeebies, hesitate, horripilate, horripilation, inquietude, jabber, jar, jaw, jerk, jig, jigget, jitters, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jumps, kibe, lather, lose heat, maunder, natter, oscillate, palaver, palpitation, panting, patter, pendulate, perish with cold, pitapat, pitter-patter, pother, pour forth, prate, prattle, pucker, quake, quaking, quaver, quavering, quiver, quivering, quivers, ramble on, rattle, rattle on, reel off, restlessness, rictus, run on, shake, shakes, shaking, shift, shilly-shally, shiver, shivering, shivers, shock, shudder, slobber, spout, spout off, stagger, stew, stop to consider, sweat, swivet, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, teeter, tergiversate, think twice, throb, throbbing, tic, tittle-tattle, tizzy, totter, tremble, trembles, trembling, tremor, trepidation, trepidity, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, twaddle, twattle, twitch, twitter, twitteration, unrest, vacillate, vary, waffle, waver, whiffle, willies, wobble, yak, yakkety-yak

ditto

• ditto, Doppelganger, Photostat, Xerox, accord, act like, actual thing, affect, afresh, again, agree, agree in opinion, agree with, alike, amount to, anew, as is, assume, balance, bis, bob, borrow, break even, burden, carbon, carbon copy, chant, chime in with, chorus, clone, close with, coequal, coequally, coextensively, coincide, coincidentally, come again, come to, come up to, compeer, concur, conform to, congruently, copy, correspond, correspondently, correspondingly, coterminously, counterfeit, counterpart, crib, da capo, de novo, dead ringer, do, do a repeat, do again, do like, do over, double, draw, dupe, duplicate, duplication, echo, encore, equal, equally, equipollent, equivalent, even, even off, exact counterpart, facsimile, fake, fall in with, fellow, forge, from the beginning, geminate, go along with, go like, go with, hectograph, hoke, hoke up, homograph, homonym, homophone, ibid, ibidem, idem, identical same, identically, imitate, ingeminate, just the same, keep pace with, knot, like, likewise, make like, manifold, match, match up with, mate, measure up to, meet, microcopy, microfilm, mimeo, mimeograph, mirror, model, multigraph, multiply by two, no other, none other, once more, opposite number, over, over again, parallel, parrot, peer, plagiarize, quadruplicate, quote, reach, redo, redouble, reduplicate, reduplication, reecho, reflect, refrain, regurgitate, reincarnate, renew, repeat, repetend, repetition, replica, replicate, replication, representation, reproduce, reproduction, revive, ritornello, rival, run abreast, run to, same here, say again, selfsame, side with, simulate, spit and image, spitting image, stack up with, stat, strike in with, synonym, synonymously, the same, the same difference, the same way, tie, touch, trace, transcribe, triplicate, twice over, twin, two times, undersong, very image, very same

ditty

• ditty, Brautlied, Christmas carol, Kunstlied, Liebeslied, Volkslied, alba, ana, anthem, art song, aubade, ballad, ballade, ballata, barcarole, blues, blues song, boat song, bridal hymn, brindisi, calypso, canso, canticle, canzone, canzonet, canzonetta, carol, cavatina, chanson, chant, chantey, croon, croon song, descant, dirge, drinking song, epithalamium, folk song, hymeneal, hymn, lay, lied, lilt, love song, love-lilt, matin, minstrel song, minstrelsy, national anthem, prothalamium, serena, serenade, serenata, song, theme song, torch song, war song, wedding song

diuretic

• diuretic, abstergent, aperient, carminative, cathartic, cleaner, cleaning, cleaning agent, cleaning solvent, cleanser, cleansing, cleansing cream, cold cream, cream, dentifrice, depurant, depurative, detergent, emetic, enema, expurgatory, holystone, laxative, lotion, lustral, mouthwash, nauseant, physic, pumice stone, purgative, purge, purging, purificatory, purifier, purifying, rinse, shampoo, soap, solvent, synthetic detergent, tooth powder, toothpaste, wash

diurnal

• diurnal, annual, biannual, biennial, bimonthly, biweekly, catamenial, centenary, centennial, circadian, daily, daytime, decennial, everyday, fortnightly, hebdomadal, hourly, menstrual, momentary, momently, monthly, quarterly, quotidian, regular, secular, semestral, semiannual, semimonthly, semiweekly, semiyearly, tertian, triennial, weekly, yearly

diva

• diva, Heldentenor, Meistersinger, alto, aria singer, baritenor, baritone, bass, basso, basso buffo, basso cantante, basso profundo, blues singer, canary, cantatrice, cantor, caroler, chanter, chantress, coloratura soprano, comic bass, contralto, countertenor, crooner, danseur noble, deep bass, dramatic soprano, feature attraction, first tragedian, headliner, heavy lead, hero, heroic tenor, heroine, hymner, improvisator, jeune premier, lead, lead singer, leading lady, leading man, lieder singer, melodist, mezzo-soprano, opera singer, prima ballerina, prima donna, principal, protagonist, psalm singer, rock-and-roll singer, singer, singstress, songbird, songster, songstress, soprano, star, superstar, tenor, torch singer, vocalist, vocalizer, voice, warbler, yodeler

divagate

• divagate, angle, angle off, bat around, be absent, bear off, bend, bias, branch off, bum, change the bearing, count ties, crook, curve, daydream, deflect, depart, depart from, detour, deviate, digress, divaricate, diverge, dream, drift, err, excurse, fantasy, flit, gad, gad about, gallivant, go about, go adrift, go astray, go the rounds, go woolgathering, heel, hit the road, hit the trail, hobo, jaunt, knock about, knock around, meander, mooch, moon, muse, nomadize, oblique, peregrinate, pererrate, pipe-dream, prowl, ramble, range, roam, rove, run about, saunter, sheer, shift, skew, slue, snake, stargaze, straggle, stray, stroll, sway, swerve, tack, traipse, tramp, trend, turn, turn aside, twist, twist and turn, vagabond, vagabondize, vary, veer, walk the tracks, wander, wayfare, wind

divan

• divan, British Cabinet, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, advisory body, advisory council, assembly, association, bench, board, body of advisers, borough council, brain trust, cabinet, camarilla, chamber, city council, common council, conference, congress, consultative assembly, council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state, council of war, county council, court, deliberative assembly, diet, directory, junta, kitchen cabinet, legislature, ministry, parish council, privy council, shadow cabinet, soviet, staff, syndicate, synod, tribunal

divaricate

• divaricate, aberrate, be distinct, be distinguished, bear off, bend, bifurcate, branch, branch off, branch out, break up, broach, capricious, centrifugal, change the bearing, changeable, changing, chink, choppy, clash with, cleave, conflict with, contrast with, crack, crevasse, curve, cut, cut open, delta-shaped, deltalike, deltoid, depart from, deploy, detour, deviate, deviate from, deviating, deviative, deviatory, differ, different, differentiate, digress, disaccord with, disagree with, disorderly, dispart, dissent, disunify, divagate, divaricate from, divaricating, diverge, diverge from, divergent, diverging, diversified, diversiform, diversify, divide, erose, erratic, fan out, fan-shaped, fanlike, fissure, fly open, fork, furcate, go away, go off, heel, impulsive, incise, inconsistent, inconstant, irregular, jagged, jar with, jerky, lay open, mercurial, motley, mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, not accord with, not square with, ope, open, open up, outspread, palmate, palmated, part, pluralistic, ragged, ramify, relieve, rent, rift, rip, rive, rough, separate, sheer, shift, slit, spasmodic, splay, splayed, split, sporadic, spread, spread out, spring open, stand apart, stand over against, stem, swerve, swing open, tack, tap, tear, tear open, throw open, trend, trifurcate, turn, turn aside, unequable, unequal, uneven, unorthodox, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variate, variegate, variegated, variform, various, vary, varying, veer, wavering

dive into

• dive into, attack, begin, blast away, blast off, commence, dive in, enter on, enter upon, fall to, get busy, get cracking, get going, get to, get with it, go ahead, go off half-cocked, go to it, head into, hop to it, jump off, jump to it, kick off, launch into, light into, pitch in, pitch into, plunge, plunge headlong, plunge into, rush into, sail into, send off, set about, set at, set in, set out, set sail, set to, set to work, start, start in, start off, start out, tackle, take off, take on, turn to, undertake, wade into

dive

• dive, abate, ablate, acrobatics, aerobatics, alehouse, bagnio, banking, bar, barrel house, barroom, bate, bathe, bawdyhouse, be eaten away, beat down, beer garden, beer parlor, belly buster, belly flop, belly whopper, bistro, blind tiger, bordello, bound, break, break water, breaking water, brothel, burst, cabaret, cafe, cannonball, catabasis, cathouse, chandelle, cheapen, cheapening, clip joint, club, cocktail lounge, collapse, consume, consume away, corrode, countersink, crabbing, crash, crash dive, crib, cropper, crumble, culbute, cut, cut prices, deceleration, declension, decline, decline and fall, decrease, decrescendo, deepen, deflate, deflation, deliquesce, den, den of thieves, den of vice, depreciate, depreciation, depress, descend, devaluate, devaluation, die away, dig, diminish, diminuendo, dip, disorderly house, diving, downtrend, downturn, dramshop, drill, drinking saloon, drive, drop, drop off, duck, dump, dwindle, dwindling, ebb, erode, excavate, fall, fall away, fall in price, fall off, fishtailing, fleshpots, float, flood negative, flood the tanks, flop, forced landing, gainer, gin mill, give way, glide, go below, go in swimming, go in wading, go under, groggery, grogshop, gyp joint, hangout, header, hole, honky-tonk, house of assignation, house of joy, house of prostitution, impel, jackknife, jew down, joint, jump, lair, languish, lapse, leap, lessen, let up, local, lose altitude, lounge, lower, lowering, lunge, mark down, markdown, melt away, mine, move, nightclub, nose dive, nose-dive, nosedive, panel den, panel house, parachute, parachute jump, pare, pitch, plop, plummet, plummeting, plump, plunge, plunk, pothouse, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, power dive, pratfall, price cut, price fall, price reduction, pub, public, public house, pull-up, pullout, pushdown, rathskeller, red-light district, reduce, reduction, remission, retreat, rig for diving, rolling, rumshop, run low, running dive, sag, saloon, saloon bar, settle, shave, shrink, sideslip, sink, sink of iniquity, skin-dive, skinny-dip, sky dive, sky-dive, slash, slowdown, slump, sound, speakeasy, spill, spiral, sporting house, sprawl, spring, stall, stationary dive, stew, stews, stoop, stumble, stunting, submerge, submergence, subside, subsidence, surface, surfacing, swan dive, swim, swoop, swoop down, tactical maneuvers, tail off, take a header, taproom, tavern, tenderloin, tread water, trim, trip, tumble, tunnel, volplane, wade, wane, waste, waste away, wear, wear away, whorehouse, wine shop, zoom

diver

• diver, bather, bathing beauty, bathing girl, cannon, cutpurse, deep-sea diver, dip, free diver, frogman, jumper, mermaid, merman, natator, parachute jumper, pearl diver, plunger, scuba diver, skin diver, sky diver, snorkel diver, swimmer, wire

diverge

• diverge, aberrate, agree to disagree, alter, ameliorate, angle, angle off, be changed, be converted into, be distinct, be distinguished, be renewed, bear off, bend, bestrew, bias, bottom out, branch off, branch out, break, break up, break with, broadcast, change, change the bearing, checker, chop, chop and change, circumfuse, clash with, come about, come around, come round, conflict with, contrast with, crook, curve, deal out, deflect, degenerate, depart, depart from, deploy, deteriorate, detour, deviate, deviate from, differ, differentiate, diffract, diffuse, digress, disaccord with, disagree, disagree with, disband, dispel, dispense, disperse, dispread, disseminate, dissent, distort, distribute, disunify, divagate, divaricate, divaricate from, diverge from, diversify, divert, divide, dogleg, drift, excurse, fall out, fan out, flop, fork, go away, go off, go separate ways, hairpin, haul around, have a falling-out, heel, improve, issue, jar with, jibe, meliorate, mitigate, modulate, mutate, not accord with, not square with, oblique, outspread, overscatter, oversow, overspread, part, part company, propagate, publish, pull, radiate, ramble, ramify, refract, relieve, retail, revive, scatter, separate, sheer, shift, skew, slue, sow, sow broadcast, splay, split, split up, spread, spread out, stand apart, stand over against, stray, strew, subdivide, sway, swerve, tack, take a turn, trend, turn, turn aside, turn away, turn into, turn the corner, twist, undergo a change, utter, variate, variegate, vary, veer, wander, warp, worsen, zigzag

divergence

• divergence, aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abnormity, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, aesthetic distance, alienation, alteration, amelioration, amorphism, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, antagonism, apostasy, argumentation, attenuation, bad copy, bad likeness, bend, betterment, bias, branching off, breach, breach of friendship, break, broadcast, broadcasting, camouflage, capriciousness, change, change of heart, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, circuitousness, circumfusion, clashing, clearance, cleavage, cleft, compass, conceit, conflict, constructive change, continuity, contradiction, contrariety, contrast, controversy, conversion, corner, crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, crook, crosswiseness, crotchet, crotchetiness, curve, dappleness, declination, deep space, defection, deflection, deflexure, degeneration, degenerative change, departure, depths of space, derangement, deterioration, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, difference, differentiation, differentness, differing, diffraction, diffusion, digression, dilution, disaccord, disaccordance, disaffection, disagreeing, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discontinuity, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, discreteness, discursion, disfavor, disguise, disharmony, disorder, disparity, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, disruption, dissemblance, dissemination, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissimilarity, dissimilation, dissimilitude, dissipation, dissonance, distance, distinction, distinctness, distribution, disunion, disunity, divagation, divarication, divergency, diversification, diversion, diversity, dividedness, division, dogleg, dottiness, double, drift, drifting, eccentricity, errantry, erraticism, erraticness, estrangement, evaporation, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, expansion, extent, faction, falling-out, far cry, farness, fitting, flip-flop, fragmentation, freakiness, freakishness, gradual change, hairpin, heterogeneity, heteromorphism, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, improvement, inaccordance, incommensurability, incomparability, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inconstancy, indirection, indirectness, inequality, inferiority, infinity, inharmoniousness, inharmony, instability, irreconcilability, irregularity, jarring, jerkiness, kink, leeway, length, light-years, makeup, mannerism, margin, melioration, mercuriality, mere caricature, mileage, mitigation, mixture, modification, modulation, monstrosity, motleyness, mutability, negation, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, obliqueness, obliquity, oddity, odds, open rupture, opposition, oppugnancy, otherness, overthrow, parsecs, parting, peculiarity, peppering, pererration, perspective, piece, pluralism, poor imitation, propagation, publication, qualification, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, radiation, radical change, raggedness, rambling, range, re-creation, reach, realignment, recall of ambassadors, redesign, reform, reformation, remaking, remoteness, renewal, repugnance, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, rift, rupture, scattering, scatterment, schism, separateness, separation, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shotgun pattern, singularity, skew, skewness, slant, sowing, space, span, spattering, splay, split, spread, spreading, sprinkling, squint, strangeness, straying, stretch, strewing, stride, subnormality, sudden change, superiority, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, switch, tack, teratism, total change, transition, transverseness, trick, turn, turnabout, turning, twist, unconformism, unconformity, unconventionality, unevenness, unharmoniousness, unlikeness, unnaturalism, unnaturalness, unorthodoxy, unresemblance, unsameness, unsimilarity, unsteadiness, upheaval, vagary, variability, variance, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, varying, veer, versatility, violent change, volatilization, wandering, warp, wavering, way, ways, whim, whimsicality, whimsy, worsening, yaw, zigzag

divergent

• divergent, aberrant, abnormal, altered, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic, antithetical, apart, assorted, asunder, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, atypical, backhand, backhanded, better, bipartite, capricious, centrifugal, changeable, changed, changing, choppy, circuitous, clashing, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, converted, counter, crank, crankish, cranky, cross, crotchety, deflectional, degenerate, delta-shaped, deltalike, deltoid, departing, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, dichotomous, different, differentiated, differing, digressive, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, discontinuous, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonious, disjoined, disorderly, disparate, disproportionate, dissident, dissimilar, dissonant, distant, distinct, distinguished, divagational, divaricate, divaricating, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, diversiform, dotty, eccentric, erose, erratic, exceptional, excursive, fan-shaped, fanlike, fey, flaky, formless, freakish, funny, grating, hardly like, heteroclite, heterogeneous, heteromorphic, hostile, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, immiscible, improved, impulsive, in disagreement, in two, inaccordant, incoherent, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, indirect, inharmonious, insular, irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jangling, jarring, jerky, kinky, kooky, left-handed, maggoty, many, mercurial, metamorphosed, metastasized, modified, motley, multifarious, mutable, mutant, negative, noncohesive, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, nutty, oblique, odd, oddball, off, off-key, offbeat, opposite, out, out of accord, out of whack, palmate, palmated, partitioned, peculiar, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, qualified, queer, quirky, ragged, rebuilt, reformed, renewed, repugnant, revived, revolutionary, rough, scarcely like, screwball, screwy, separate, separated, several, shapeless, side, sidelong, singular, sinister, sinistral, spasmodic, splayed, sporadic, strange, stray, straying, subnormal, subversive, transformed, translated, transmuted, twisted, unalike, unassociated, unattached, unattended, unconformable, uncongenial, unconnected, unconventional, unequable, unequal, uneven, unharmonious, unidentical, unjoined, unlike, unmatched, unmitigated, unnatural, unorthodox, unregular, unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variant, varied, variegated, variform, various, varying, wacky, wandering, wavering, whimsical, widely apart, worlds apart, worse

divers

• divers, assorted, at odds, at variance, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, diverse, diversified, heterogeneous, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, irreconcilable, manifold, many, many and various, miscellaneous, motley, multifarious, numerous, of all sorts, poles apart, poles asunder, separate, separated, several, some, sundry, unconformable, unequal, unlike, upwards of, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart

diverse

• diverse, assorted, at odds, at variance, contradictory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, contrastive, counter, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distant, distinct, distinctive, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diversified, diversiform, hardly like, heterogeneous, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, irreconcilable, many, many and various, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, multifarious, multifold, multiform, multiplex, nonuniform, odd, of all sorts, off, offbeat, opposite, out, poles apart, poles asunder, scarcely like, separate, separated, several, sundry, unalike, unconformable, unequal, unidentical, unlike, unmatched, unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart

diversification

• diversification, Proteus, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, allotropism, allotropy, alteration, amelioration, analysis, anatomization, apostasy, atomization, betterment, break, capriciousness, change, change of heart, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, constructive change, continuity, conversion, dappleness, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, demarcation, desynonymization, deterioration, deviation, difference, differencing, differentiation, discontinuity, discrimination, disequalization, disjunction, disorder, distinction, distinguishment, divarication, divergence, diversion, diversity, division, fitting, flip-flop, gradual change, her infinite variety, heterogeneity, heteromorphism, improvement, inconsistency, inconstancy, individualization, individuation, inequality, instability, irregularity, jerkiness, manifoldness, melioration, mercuriality, mitigation, modification, modulation, motleyness, multifariousness, multiplicity, mutability, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, omnifariousness, omniformity, overthrow, particularization, personalization, pluralism, polymorphism, qualification, radical change, raggedness, re-creation, realignment, redesign, reform, reformation, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, segregation, separation, severalization, severance, shapeshifter, shift, specialization, sudden change, switch, total change, transition, turn, turnabout, unconformism, unconformity, unevenness, unorthodoxy, unsteadiness, upheaval, variability, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, violent change, wavering, worsening

diversified

• diversified, assorted, at odds, at variance, capricious, changeable, changing, choppy, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, departing, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disorderly, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divaricate, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversiform, erose, erratic, heterogeneous, impulsive, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, inharmonious, irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, many, many and various, mercurial, motley, multifarious, mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, of all sorts, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, ragged, rough, separate, separated, several, spasmodic, sporadic, sundry, unconformable, unequable, unequal, uneven, unlike, unorthodox, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variant, varied, variegated, variform, various, varying, wavering, widely apart, worlds apart

diversify

• diversify, accommodate, adapt, adjust, alter, ameliorate, analyze, anatomize, atomize, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, better, bottom out, branch out, break, break up, change, checker, chop, chop and change, chop logic, come about, come around, come round, convert, deform, degenerate, denature, desynonymize, deteriorate, deviate, differ, difference, differentiate, discriminate, disequalize, disjoin, dissent, distinguish, distribute, disunify, divaricate, diverge, divide, fit, flop, haul around, improve, individualize, individuate, jibe, make a distinction, mark, mark off, mark out, meliorate, mitigate, mix, modify, modulate, mutate, overthrow, particularize, personalize, qualify, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconstruct, redesign, refine a distinction, refit, reform, relieve, remake, renew, reshape, restructure, revamp, revive, ring changes, ring the changes, segregate, separate, set apart, set off, sever, severalize, shift, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, specialize, split hairs, spread, subvert, swerve, tack, take a turn, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, undergo a change, variate, variegate, vary, veer, warp, work a change, worsen

diversion

• diversion, aberrancy, aberration, about-face, abuse, abuse of office, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, aerial tactics, aggravated assault, aggression, airborne tactics, alteration, amelioration, amphibious attack, amusement, apostasy, applied tactics, armed assault, armored tactics, assailing, assailment, assault, attack, banzai attack, barrier tactics, befoulment, bend, betterment, bias, blitz, blitzkrieg, branching off, break, breakthrough, bypass, cavalry tactics, change, change of heart, changeableness, charge, circuitousness, constructive change, continuity, conversion, corner, corrupt administration, counterattack, counteroffensive, coup de main, crippling attack, crook, curve, dead set at, debasement, declination, defalcation, defection, defensive strategy, defilement, deflection, degeneration, degenerative change, delectation, departure, descent on, desecration, deterioration, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, difference, digression, discontinuity, discursion, disport, dissipation, distractedness, distraction, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversification, diversionary attack, diversity, divertisement, divertissement, divided attention, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, drive, embezzlement, encirclement, enjoyment, entertainment, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, feint, fire tactics, fitting, flank attack, flip-flop, fouling, frivolity, frontal attack, fun, game, gas attack, gradual change, hairpin, head-on attack, improvement, inattention, indirection, infantry tactics, infiltration, investment, levity, lightning attack, lightning war, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, mass attack, megadeath, melioration, mirth, misapplication, misappropriation, misconduct, misemployment, misfeasance, mishandling, mismanagement, misusage, misuse, mitigation, mob tactics, mobile tactics, modification, modulation, mugging, obliquity, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, overkill, overthrow, panzer warfare, passe-temps, pastime, peculation, pererration, perversion, pilfering, pincers movement, play, pleasure, pollution, poor stewardship, profanation, prostitution, push, qualification, radical change, rambling, re-creation, realignment, recreation, redesign, reform, reformation, regalement, relaxation, relish, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, run against, run at, rush, sally, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shock tactics, sidetrack, skew, slant, solace, sortie, sport, strategy, straying, strike, sudden change, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, switch, tack, tactics, total change, transition, turn, turnabout, turning, twist, unprovoked assault, upheaval, variation, variety, veer, violation, violent change, wandering, warp, withdrawal of attention, worsening, yaw, zigzag

diversity

• diversity, Proteus, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, agreement to disagree, alienation, allotropism, allotropy, alteration, amelioration, antagonism, apostasy, argumentation, bad copy, bad likeness, betterment, break, camouflage, change, change of heart, changeableness, clashing, conflict, constructive change, continuity, contradiction, contrariety, contrast, controversy, conversion, counter-culture, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, departure, deterioration, deviation, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, disconformity, discongruity, discontinuity, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, discreteness, disguise, disharmony, disparity, dissatisfaction, dissemblance, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, dissimilarity, dissimilation, dissimilitude, dissonance, distinction, distinctiveness, distinctness, disunion, disunity, divergence, divergency, diversification, diversion, dropping out, extent, faction, far cry, fitting, flip-flop, gradual change, her infinite variety, heterogeneity, heteromorphism, improvement, inaccordance, incommensurability, incomparability, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, individuality, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, irreconcilability, jarring, makeup, manifoldness, melioration, mere caricature, minority opinion, mitigation, mixture, modification, modulation, multifariousness, multiformity, multiplicity, negation, nonagreement, nonassent, nonconcurrence, nonconformity, nonconsent, nonuniformity, odds, omnifariousness, omniformity, opposition, oppugnancy, otherness, overthrow, polymorphism, poor imitation, qualification, radical change, range, re-creation, realignment, recusance, recusancy, redesign, reform, reformation, rejection, remaking, renewal, repudiation, repugnance, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, secession, separateness, shapeshifter, shift, sudden change, switch, total change, transition, turn, turnabout, unconformity, underground, unharmoniousness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unresemblance, unsameness, unsimilarity, upheaval, variance, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, violent change, withdrawal, worsening

divert

• divert, absorb, abstract, abuse, alter, amuse, avert, befoul, beguile, bend, bias, blunt, call away, change, change course, chill, convert, convulse, cool, crook, curve, damp, dampen, debase, defalcate, defile, deflect, delight, depart, desecrate, detach, deter, detract, detract attention, deviate, diffract, diffuse, disaffect, discourage, disengage, disincline, disinterest, disperse, distort, distract, diverge, divert the mind, dogleg, embezzle, engage, enliven, entertain, exhilarate, foul, fracture one, gladden, hairpin, indispose, interest, kill, knock dead, loosen up, maladminister, misapply, misappropriate, misemploy, mishandle, mismanage, misuse, modify, occupy, peculate, pervert, pilfer, pivot, please, pollute, profane, prostitute, pull, put off, quench, raise a laugh, raise a smile, recreate, redirect, refract, refresh, regale, relax, repel, scatter, sheer, shift, sidetrack, skew, slay, solace, swerve, switch, tickle, titillate, turn, turn aside, turn away, turn from, turn off, twist, veer, violate, volte-face, warp, wean from, wheel, whip, whirl, wow, zigzag

divertissement

• divertissement, act, afterpiece, amusement, bit, capriccio, caprice, chaser, curtain, curtain call, curtain raiser, dissipation, distraction, diversion, divertimento, divertisement, enjoyment, entertainment, epilogue, exode, exodus, expository scene, fantasia, finale, hoke act, humoresque, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, introduction, medley, mirth, number, passe-temps, pastime, pleasure, potpourri, prologue, recreation, regalement, relaxation, romance, romanza, routine, scene, shtick, sketch, skit, solace, song and dance, stand-up comedy act, striptease, turn

divest

• divest, abridge, bankrupt, bare, bereave, bleed, bleed white, curtail, cut off, denudate, denude, deplume, deprive, deprive of, despoil, disencumber, disentitle, disinherit, dismantle, displume, dispossess, disrobe, doff, drain, dry, ease one of, exhaust, expose, flay, fleece, impoverish, lay bare, lay open, lighten one of, lose, milk, mine, mulct, oust, pick clean, pluck, plunder, put off, relieve, remove, rid, rob, shear, skin, spoil, strip, strip bare, suck dry, take away from, take from, take off, tap, uncloak, unclothe, uncover, undress, unsheathe, unveil

divested

• divested, bared, bereaved, bereaved of, bereft, cut off, denudated, denuded, deprived of, exposed, lacking, laid bare, minus, out of, parted from, robbed of, shorn of, showing, stripped, stripped of, uncovered, unveiled, wanting

divestment

• divestment, abridgment, bereavement, cost, curtailment, damage, dead loss, debit, denial, denudation, deprivation, deprivement, despoilment, destruction, detriment, disburdening, disburdenment, disentitlement, dispossession, expense, forfeit, forfeiture, injury, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, perdition, privation, relieving, robbery, ruin, sacrifice, spoliation, stripping, taking away, total loss

divide

• divide, Continental Divide, Great Divide, aberrate, abrupt, add, aggravate, agree to differ, agree to disagree, algebraize, alienate, allocate, allot, alphabetize, analyze, anatomize, apportion, appraise, appreciate, arrange, assay, assess, assign, assort, atomize, ballot, be at variance, be in dissent, be partners in, beg to differ, bifurcate, bisect, bolt, bound, branch, branch out, break down, break up, break with, broach, by two, calculate, calibrate, caliper, canvass, carve, carve up, cast, cast a ballot, cast off, cast out, catalog, categorize, change, check a parameter, chink, chop, chop logic, cipher, circumscribe, class, classify, cleave, codify, collate, come between, compute, contradistinguish, cooperate, cordon, cordon off, count, crack, crevasse, cull out, cut, cut adrift, cut in two, cut off, cut open, cut out, cut up, deal, deal out, decrease, delete, demarcate, demark, depart, deploy, desynonymize, detach, dial, dichotomize, differ, difference, differentiate, digest, dimidiate, disaccord, disaffect, disagree, disagree with, disarticulate, disburse, disconnect, discord, discord with, discriminate, disengage, disequalize, disjoin, disjoint, dispart, dispense, disperse, dissect, dissent, dissent from, dissociate, distinguish, distribute, district, disunite, divaricate, diverge, diversify, divide into shares, divide on, divide up, divide with, divorce, divvy, divvy up, divvy up with, dole out, dope out, draw the line, drop out, eject, enclose, estimate, estrange, evaluate, expel, extract roots, fall out, fan out, fan the flame, fathom, fence off, figure, figure in, figure out, file, fission, fissure, fix, fly open, fork, gauge, ghettoize, gin, give out, go away, go even stephen, go fifty-fifty, go halvers, go halves, go off, go shares, gradate, grade, graduate, group, halve, have a falling-out, in half, incise, increase, index, individualize, individuate, insulate, irritate, isolate, keep apart, keep aside, lay aside, lay open, leave, light the fuse, limit, list, make a distinction, make trouble, mark, mark off, mark out, mark the interface, measure, measure out, mensurate, mete, mete out, meter, modify, multiply, not agree, number, ope, open, open up, oppose, order, organize, outspread, pace, panel, parcel, parcel out, part, part company, particularize, partition, personalize, pick out, pigeonhole, pit against, place, plumb, plump, poll, portion, prize, probe, prorate, provoke, pull away, pull back, pull out, put aside, put in order, quantify, quantize, quarantine, quota, ramify, range, rank, rate, ration, reckon, reduce, reduce to elements, refine a distinction, rent, resolve, riddle, rift, rip, rive, score, screen, screen out, secede, seclude, section, segment, segregate, select, separate, sequester, set a limit, set against, set apart, set aside, set at odds, set at variance, set off, set on, sever, severalize, share, share in, share out, share with, shift, shut off, sic on, sieve, sieve out, sift, sift out, size, size up, slice, slice the pie, slice up, slit, sort, sort out, sound, sow dissension, span, specialize, splay, split, split hairs, split in two, split the difference, split up, spread, spread out, spring open, stand apart, stand aside, step, step aside, stir up trouble, subdivide, subordinate, subtilize, subtract, sunder, surround, survey, swing open, tabulate, take a reading, take account of, take exception, take issue, tally, tap, tear, tear open, thrash, thresh, throw off, throw open, throw out, transect, triangulate, type, uncouple, unyoke, valuate, value, vary, vote, wall off, water parting, watershed, weigh, winnow, withdraw, withhold assent, work out, zone

divided

• divided, alienated, bifurcated, bisected, branched, branching, cleft, cloven, detached, dichotomous, dimidiate, disaffected, disarticulated, disconnected, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, dispersed, disunited, divorced, estranged, forked, forking, halved, irreconcilable, isolated, ramified, removed, riven, scattered, segregated, separated, sequestered, shut off, split, torn

dividend

• dividend, accrued dividends, accumulated dividends, allotment, allowance, avails, balance, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, bonus, box office, budget, capital gains, carrot, cash dividend, chunk, cleanup, clear profit, commission, commissions, contingent, credit, credits, cumulative dividend, cut, deal, destiny, disposable income, dividends, dole, earned income, earnings, end, equal share, extra, extra dividend, fate, filthy lucre, gain, gains, gate, gate receipts, get, gettings, gleanings, gratuity, gross, gross income, gross profit, gross receipts, guerdon, half, halver, helping, hoard, income, intake, interest, interim dividend, killing, lagniappe, leftover, lot, lucre, make, makings, margin, measure, meed, melon, mess, modicum, moiety, neat profit, net, net income, net profit, net receipts, optional dividend, output, overage, overmeasure, overplus, overrun, overset, overstock, oversupply, paper profits, part, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, phony dividend, pickings, piece, plum, plus, portion, pourboire, premium, prize, proceeds, produce, profit, profits, proportion, quantum, quota, rake-off, ration, receipt, receipts, receivables, regular dividend, remainder, return, returns, revenue, royalties, royalty, segment, share, slice, small share, something extra, spare, special dividend, stake, stock, stock dividend, store, surplus, surplusage, take, take-in, takings, tip, unearned income, wealth, winnings, yield

divination

• divination, alchemy, astrodiagnosis, astrology, astromancy, augury, bewitchery, charm, clairvoyance, crystal ball, crystal gazing, divining, enchantment, fetishism, fortunetelling, genethliacs, genethlialogy, glamour, gramarye, halomancy, haruspication, haruspicy, hoodoo, horoscopy, idolomancy, juju, jujuism, magic, mantic, mantology, natural magic, necromancy, obeah, onomancy, palm-reading, palmistry, pythonism, rune, shamanism, sorcery, sortes Biblicae, sortes Homericae, sortes Praenestinae, sortes Vergilianae, sortilege, spatulamancy, spell, spellbinding, spellcasting, spodomancy, stichomancy, sycomancy, sympathetic magic, thaumaturgia, thaumaturgics, thaumaturgism, thaumaturgy, theomancy, theurgy, vampirism, voodoo, voodooism, wanga, white magic, witchcraft, witchery, witchwork, wizardry, xylomancy, zoomancy

divinatory

• divinatory, anticipant, anticipatory, apocalyptic, augural, auguring, clairvoyant, farseeing, farsighted, fatidic, forecasting, forehanded, foreknowing, foreseeing, foresighted, foretelling, forethoughted, forethoughtful, forewarning, fortunetelling, haruspical, intuitive, longsighted, mantic, oracular, precognitive, precognizant, predictional, predictive, predictory, prefigurative, prefiguring, prepared, presageful, presaging, prescient, presignificative, presignifying, prognostic, prognosticative, prophetic, provident, providential, prudent, ready, sagacious, sibyllic, sibylline, vaticinal, vaticinatory, weather-wise

divine right

• divine right, absolute power, absolutism, appurtenance, authority, birthright, claim, competence, competency, conjugal right, constituted authority, delegated authority, demand, droit, due, faculty, inalienable right, indirect authority, inherent authority, interest, jus divinum, lawful authority, legal authority, legitimacy, natural right, power, prerogative, prescription, presumptive right, pretense, pretension, proper claim, property right, regality, right, rightful authority, royal prerogative, the say, the say-so, title, vested authority, vested interest, vested right, vicarious authority

divine

• divine, Christlike, Christly, DD, Doctor of Divinity, Elysian, Holy Joe, Mariological, abbe, ace, admirable, angelic, answer, anticipate, apprehend, assume, augur, awesome, awful, be afraid, beaming, beatific, beautiful, believe, betoken, blissful, blooming, bottom, bright, brilliant, canonic, canonist, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, celestial, chaplain, chthonian, churchman, clear up, clergyman, cleric, clerical, clerk, conceive, conclude, conjecture, consecrated, consider, cool, crack, curate, cure, dandy, daresay, dazzling, debug, decipher, decode, deduce, deem, deific, determine, devastating, discover, disentangle, divinity student, do, doctrinal, doctrinary, dope, dope out, dowse for water, dream, dreamy, ecclesiastic, empyreal, empyrean, exalted, excellent, expect, explain, exquisite, extramundane, extraordinary, fancy, fantastic, fathom, feel, figure out, find out, find the answer, find the solution, forebode, forecast, foreknow, foresee, foretell, foretoken, fortune-tell, gather, get, get right, gifted, gilt-edged, glamorous, glorious, glowing, godlike, godly, golden, gorgeous, grant, great, groovy, guess, guess right, hallowed, hariolate, have it, heavenly, hint, hit it, holy, holy man, hypothesize, imagine, immense, incarnate, incarnated, indicate, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, infer, intercessional, intercessive, interpret, intuit, inviolable, inviolate, keen, killing, let, let be, made flesh, magic, magnificent, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, make out, man of God, marvelous, mean, mediative, mediatory, military chaplain, minister, neat, nifty, numinous, open the lock, opine, padre, paradisiac, paradisial, paradisian, paradisic, parson, pastor, perceive, perfect, physicotheological, plumb, point to, preacher, predict, prefigure, preindicate, prelate, presage, presign, presignal, presignify, presume, presuppose, presurmise, pretypify, prevision, priest, prognosticate, prophesy, propitiative, propitiatory, provisionally accept, psych, psych out, puzzle out, radiant, ravel, ravel out, raving, ravishing, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, reckon, rector, redemptive, religious, repute, resolve, resplendent, reverend, riddle, sacred, sacrosanct, saintly, salvational, sanctified, say, scholastic, schoolman, sensational, seraphic, servant of God, shepherd, shining, signify, sky pilot, smashing, solve, soothsay, sort out, sparkling, speculate, spell, spiritual, splendid, splendiferous, splendorous, splendrous, sterling, stunning, sublime, super, superb, supereminent, superexcellent, superfine, superhuman, superior, superlative, supernatural, superphysical, supply clergy, supply minister, suppose, supreme, surmise, suspect, swell, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, tell fortunes, tell the future, terrific, the Reverend, the very Reverend, theologian, theological, theologician, theologist, theologizer, theologue, theorize, think, token, tonsured cleric, transcendent, transmundane, tremendous, typify, understand, undo, unlock, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, unspeakable, untangle, untouchable, untwist, unutterable, unweave, vaticinate, venerable, visualize, wonderful, work, work out

diviner

• diviner, Cassandra, Comus, Druid, Faust, astrologer, augur, calamity howler, conjurer, crystal gazer, diabolist, divinator, divineress, dowser, forecaster, foreknower, foreseer, foreshower, foreteller, fortuneteller, geomancer, haruspex, miracle-worker, necromancer, palmist, predictor, prefigurer, presager, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet, prophet of doom, prophetess, psychic, pythoness, religious prophets, seer, seeress, soothsayer, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, theurgist, vates, warlock, water witch, weather prophet, wizard

diving

• diving, Australian crawl, acrobatics, aerobatics, aquaplaning, aquatics, backstroke, balneation, banking, bathe, bathing, breaststroke, butterfly, chandelle, crabbing, crawl, deep-sea diving, dive, dog paddle, fancy diving, fin, fishtail, fishtailing, flapper, flipper, floating, glide, high diving, natation, nose dive, pearl diving, plunging, power dive, pull-up, pullout, pushdown, rolling, sideslip, sidestroke, skin diving, sky diving, spiral, stall, stunting, surfboarding, surfing, swim, swimming, tactical maneuvers, treading water, volplane, wading, waterskiing, zoom

divinity

• divinity, Buddhology, Fatherhood, Mariolatry, Mariology, Mercersburg theology, apologetics, canonics, crisis theology, dea, deity, deus, deva, devi, devil-god, dialogical theology, divineness, doctrinalism, doctrinism, dogmatics, eschatology, existential theology, false god, god, goddess, godhead, godhood, godlikeness, godliness, godship, hagiography, hagiology, heathen god, hierology, idol, immortal, logos Christology, logos theology, natural theology, neoorthodox theology, neoorthodoxy, pagan deity, patristic theology, phenomenological theology, physicotheology, rationalism, religion, scholastic theology, secularism, soteriology, systematics, the shining ones, theology

division

• division, Australian ballot, Hare system, Jim Crow, KP, Naval Construction Battalion, RN, Royal Navy, Seabees, USN, United States Navy, aberration, abstraction, addition, adjunct, affiliate, affiliation, age group, agreement to disagree, airspace, alien, alienation, allotment, alteration, anacrusis, analysis, analyzation, anatomization, anatomizing, anatomy, apartheid, apportioning, apportionment, approximation, area, argosy, arm, armada, army, army group, arrangement, assay, assaying, atomization, aye, ballot, band, barrier, bass passage, battalion, battery, battle group, belt, bevy, bifidity, bifurcation, bipartition, bisection, blood, body, border, borderline, boundary line, bourdon, bracket, branch, branch office, branching, brattice, breach, breach of friendship, break, breakaway group, breakdown, breaking down, breaking up, breakup, bridge, brigade, budgeting, buffer, buffer state, bulkhead, bumper, bunch, burden, by two, cabal, cadence, cadre, camp, canvass, canvassing, cast, caste, casting vote, cataloging, categorization, category, caucus, census, centrifugence, change, chapter, chorus, church, clan, class, classification, cleavage, cleft, clique, cloison, cloture, coast guard, coda, codification, cohort, collision mat, color bar, column, combat command, combat team, committee consideration, communion, community, company, compartment, complement, component, composition, confines, conflict, constituents, content, contents, continental shelf, contingent, contradistinction, corps, corridor, coterie, counting heads, country, covey, crew, cross section, cross-purposes, crowd, cumulative voting, cushion, cut, cutting, cutting in two, cutting the pie, debate, decentralization, deciding vote, deliberation, demarcation, denomination, department, deployment, desynonymization, detachment, detail, development, deviation, diaphragm, dichotomy, difference, difference of opinion, differencing, differentiation, difficulty, dimidiation, disaccord, disaffection, disagreement, disarticulation, disassociation, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, discord, discrimination, disengagement, disequalization, disfavor, disharmony, disjointing, disjunction, dislocation, disparity, disruption, dissection, dissension, dissent, dissepiment, dissidence, dissolution, dissonance, distinction, distinctiveness, distinguishment, district, disunion, disunity, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversification, dividedness, dividing, dividing line, dividing wall, divisions, divorce, divorcement, divvy, docimasy, dole, elements, enfranchisement, environs, equation, escadrille, estate, estrangement, ethnic group, ethnocentrism, evolution, exclusiveness, exposition, extrapolation, faction, fagot vote, falling-out, fanning, fanning out, fellowship, fender, field army, field train, figure, file, filibuster, filibustering, filing, first reading, fleet, flotilla, flying column, folderol, foreigner, forking, fraction, franchise, frontier, gang, garrison, grade, grading, graveyard vote, gravimetric analysis, ground, group, grouping, groupment, guts, hairsplitting, halving, hand vote, harmonic close, head, heading, heartland, hinterland, in half, in-group, incoherence, index, indexing, individualization, individuation, ingredients, innards, insides, installment, insularity, insulation, integration, interest, interest group, interlude, intermezzo, interpolation, interseptum, introduction, introductory phrase, inventory, inversion, involution, isolation, item, items, junta, kin, kitchen police, know-nothingism, label, land, legion, level, line, list, list system, local, lodge, logrolling, luxation, maniple, margin, marine, mat, measure, member, merchant fleet, merchant marine, merchant navy, microscopic distinction, midriff, midsection, milieu, minority group, misunderstanding, mob, modification, moiety, mosquito fleet, movement, multiplication, musical phrase, musical sentence, narrowness, naval forces, naval militia, naval reserve, navy, nay, neighborhood, nice distinction, no, nontransferable vote, notation, nuance, odds, offshoot, offshore rights, open rupture, order, organ, organization, ornament, out-group, outcast, outfit, outsider, pack, pad, panel, parcel, parceling, paries, parochialism, part, particular, particularization, parting, partition, partitioning, parts, party, party wall, passage, peer group, percentage, period, persona non grata, personalization, persuasion, phalanx, phrase, piece, pigeonhole, pigeonholing, place, placement, platoon, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plumper, plural vote, polarization, political party, poll, polling, portion, portioning, position, posse, post, practice, precincts, predicament, preferential voting, premises, pressure group, property line, proportion, proportional representation, proximate analysis, proxy, purlieus, quadrant, quantitative analysis, quarantine, quarter, quota, race, race hatred, racial segregation, ramification, random sample, ranging, rank, ranking, rating, rationing, recall of ambassadors, record vote, reduction, reduction to elements, referendum, refrain, regiment, region, religious order, remainder, removal, repartition, representation, resolution, response, rift, right to vote, rising vote, ritornello, roll call, rubric, rupture, salient, salon, sample, sampling, say, schism, school, seclusion, second reading, secret ballot, sect, sectarism, section, sectioning, sector, segment, segmentation, segmenting, segregation, semimicroanalysis, separating, separation, separatism, sept, septulum, septum, set, severalization, severance, shade of difference, share, sharing, sharing out, shock pad, show of hands, side, silent majority, single vote, slicing, snap vote, snobbishness, society, soil, sorting, space, specialization, splaying, splinter, splinter group, split, split-up, splitting, spread, spreading, spreading out, squad, squadron, stable, stanza, statement, station, status, steamroller methods, strain, stranger, stratification, stratum, straw vote, strife, string, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, subspecies, subtle distinction, subtraction, suffrage, tabling, tabulation, tactical unit, tailpiece, talkathon, task force, task group, taxonomy, team, terrain, territory, third reading, three-mile limit, tightness, title, train, transferable vote, transformation, tribe, trichoschistism, troop, troupe, tutti, tutti passage, twelve-mile limit, typology, unit, upset, variance, variation, variety, verse, version, vicinage, vicinity, viva voce, vocal minority, voice, voice vote, vote, voting, voting right, wall, whole, wing, withdrawal, write-in, write-in vote, xenophobia, yea, yeas and nays, yes, zone, zoning

divisional

• divisional, categorical, characteristic, classificational, classificatory, defining, denominative, differential, distinctive, divisionary, ordinal, particular, peculiar, special, specific, subdivisional, taxonomic, typal, typical

divisive

• divisive, aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, bickering, combative, disputatious, eristic, factional, factious, irascible, irritable, litigious, partisan, polarizing, polemic, pugnacious, quarrelsome, shrewish, wrangling

divorce

• divorce, abrupt, abstraction, alienate, alienation, annul, break up, cancel, cast off, cast out, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, delete, depart, detach, detachment, disaffect, disarticulate, disarticulation, disassociate, disassociation, disconnect, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, disengage, disengagement, disjoin, disjoint, disjointing, disjunction, dislocation, dismiss, dissever, dissociate, dissolution, dissolve, disunion, disunite, divide, division, divorcement, eject, estrange, expel, grant a divorce, grant an annulment, incoherence, isolate, isolation, leave, luxation, obtain a divorce, part, parting, partition, pull away, pull back, pull out, put asunder, put away, removal, rupture, segmentation, segregate, separate, separation, separatism, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, severance, shut off, split, split up, split-up, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, step aside, subdivision, subtract, subtraction, sue for divorce, sunder, throw off, throw out, uncouple, unmarry, untie the knot, unyoke, wean, withdraw, withdrawal, zoning

divorced

• divorced, alienated, detached, disarticulated, disconnected, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, dispersed, disunited, divided, estranged, isolated, legally separated, removed, scattered, segregated, separated, sequestered, shut off, widowed, widowered, widowish, widowlike, widowly

divulge

• divulge, affect, air, betoken, betray, brandish, break it to, break the news, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, broach, come out with, confide, confide to, dangle, demonstrate, develop, disclose, discover, display, divulgate, dramatize, embody, enact, evidence, evince, evulgate, exhibit, expose to view, express, flaunt, flourish, give away, give out, give sign, give token, give vent to, gossip, highlight, illuminate, incarnate, indicate, let get around, let in on, let out, make clear, make known, make plain, make public, manifest, materialize, mean, mouth, open up, out with, parade, perform, present, proclaim, produce, publish, put out, represent, reveal, roll out, set forth, show, show forth, spill, spotlight, tattle, tell, token, trot out, unfold, utter, vent, ventilate, wave

divulgence

• divulgence, babbling, betrayal, blabbering, blabbing, communication leak, dead giveaway, divulgation, divulgement, divulging, evulgation, giveaway, indiscretion, leak, letting out, obvious clue, telltale, telltale sign, unwitting disclosure

divvy up

• divvy up, apportion, be partners in, carve, carve up, cooperate, cut, cut up, district, divide, divide into shares, divide up, divide with, divvy, divvy up with, go even stephen, go fifty-fifty, go halvers, go halves, go shares, halve, parcel, parcel out, part, partition, portion, section, segment, share, share in, share out, share with, slice, slice the pie, slice up, split, split the difference, split up, subdivide, zone

Dixie

• Dixie, Dixieland, Down East, East, East Coast, Middle Atlantic, Middle West, New England, North, North Central region, Northeast, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, South, Southeast, Southwest, Sunbelt, West, West Coast, Yankeeland, eastland, northland, the Coast, westland, wild West

dizen

• dizen, adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, blazon, color, dandify, deck, deck out, decorate, doll up, dress, dress up, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enrich, fancy up, fig out, fix up, furbish, garnish, get up, grace, gussy up, ornament, overdress, paint, prank, prank up, preen, prettify, pretty up, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, rag out, redecorate, redo, refurbish, set off, set out, slick up, smarten, smarten up, spruce up, titivate, trick out, trick up, trim

dizziness

• dizziness, abscess, addleheadedness, addlepatedness, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, bleeding, blennorhea, cachexia, cachexy, chill, chills, colic, constipation, convulsion, coughing, cyanosis, diarrhea, dropsy, drunkenness, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, flux, giddiness, growth, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, indigestion, inflammation, insomnia, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, lightheadedness, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, muddleheadedness, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, pain, paralysis, pruritus, puzzleheadedness, rash, rheum, sclerosis, seizure, shock, skin eruption, sneezing, sore, spasm, spinning head, swimming, tabes, tachycardia, tumor, upset stomach, vertiginousness, vertigo, vomiting, wasting, wooziness

dizzy

• dizzy, addle, addlebrained, addled, addleheaded, addlepated, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, apish, asinine, babbling, ball up, batty, beery, befooled, befuddle, befuddled, beguiled, bemused, besotted, bewilder, bewildered, blear-witted, blind drunk, brainless, buffoonish, capricious, cause vertigo, changeable, changeful, cockeyed, confounded, confused, crapulent, crapulous, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, dazzled, delirious, desultory, deviable, distracted, doting, drenched, drunk, drunken, dumb, eccentric, empty-headed, erratic, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, faint, far-gone, fast and loose, fatuitous, fatuous, featherbrained, featherheaded, fickle, fitful, flaky, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, fluster, flustered, fluttery, foggy, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fou, freakish, frivolous, fuddle, fuddlebrained, fuddled, full, futile, gaga, gay, giddy, giddy-brained, giddy-headed, giddy-pated, giddy-witted, glorious, goofy, gulled, happy, harebrain, harebrained, idiotic, imbecile, immoderate, impetuous, impulsive, in liquor, inane, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, inept, infatuated, infirm, inordinate, insane, intoxicate, intoxicated, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jolly, kooky, light, light-headed, lightheaded, loony, mad, maudlin, mazy, mellow, mercurial, merry, mix up, moody, moronic, muddle, muddled, muddleheaded, muddybrained, muzzy, nappy, nutty, off, puzzled, puzzleheaded, rambling, ranting, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, rattlepated, raving, reeling, restless, roving, sappy, scatterbrained, scramblebrained, screwy, senseless, sentimental, shapeless, shatterbrained, shifting, shifty, shikker, shuffling, silly, skittish, sodden, sotted, spasmodic, spineless, stupid, swimming, swirl the senses, thoughtless, throw off, tiddly, tipsy, tottering, towering, turned around, unaccountable, uncertain, unconscionable, uncontrolled, undependable, under the influence, undisciplined, undue, unfixed, unmeasurable, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagrant, variable, vertiginous, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wacky, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, wet, whimsical, whirl the mind, whirling, wishy-washy, witless, woozy

DNA

• DNA, Altmann theory, DNA double helix, De Vries theory, Galtonian theory, Mendelianism, Mendelism, RNA, Verworn theory, Weismann theory, Weismannism, Wiesner theory, allele, allelomorph, anticodon, biotype, birth, character, chromatid, chromatin, chromosome, codon, deoxyribonucleic acid, determinant, determiner, diathesis, endowment, eugenics, factor, gene, gene complex, gene flow, gene pool, genesiology, genetic code, genetic drift, genetics, genotype, hereditability, hereditary character, heredity, heritability, heritage, inborn capacity, inheritability, inheritance, mRNA, matrocliny, messenger RNA, nucleotide, operator gene, operon, patrocliny, pharmacogenetics, recessive character, regulator gene, replication, ribosomal RNA, structural gene, tRNA, transfer RNA

do away with

• do away with, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, bereave of life, cancel, carry away, carry off, cast off, chloroform, countermand, counterorder, cut down, cut off, cut short, deprive of life, destroy, disannul, dispatch, dispel, dispose of, do for, do to death, eliminate, end, execute, exterminate, finish, finish off, fling off, get rid of, immolate, invalidate, kill, launch into eternity, liquidate, lynch, make away with, make void, martyr, martyrize, nip, nullify, override, overrule, poison, purge, put away, put down, put paid to, put to death, put to sleep, recall, recant, remove from life, renege, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, sacrifice, set aside, shake off, shoo, slaughter, slay, starve, suspend, take life, take off, throw away, throw off, to, vacate, void, waive, withdraw, write off

do business

• do business, barter, be employed, buy and sell, carry on business, change, deal, exchange, follow a trade, give in exchange, have a job, horse-trade, interchange, keep up, labor, moonlight, practice a profession, set up shop, stay employed, swap, swap horses, switch, take in exchange, toil, trade, trade in, trade off, trade sight unseen, traffic, transact business, truck, work, work at, work for

do in

• do in, KO, assassinate, bankrupt, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, beguile of, best, bilk, blast, blot out, bump off, bunco, burn, burn out, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, cook, cool, cozen, crib, croak, debilitate, defeat, defraud, destroy, diddle, dilapidate, dish, do for, do out of, do up, drub, dust, enervate, erase, euchre, exhaust, fag, fag out, fatigue, finagle, fix, flag, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, frazzle, fudge, get, give the business, gouge, gull, gun down, gyp, harass, have, hide, hit, hocus, hocus-pocus, hors de combat, ice, jade, knock out, knock up, lambaste, lather, lay out, lick, mulct, off, outclass, outdo, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrun, outsail, outshine, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, pack the deal, pigeon, polish off, poop, poop out, practice fraud upon, prostrate, put, rook, rub out, ruin, scam, screw, scuttle, sell gold bricks, settle, shave, shipwreck, shoot down, shortchange, sink, skin, skin alive, stack the cards, stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, take care of, thimblerig, thrash, throw a fight, tire, tire out, tire to death, torpedo, trim, triumph over, trounce, tucker, undo, use up, victimize, waste, weaken, wear, wear down, wear on, wear out, weary, whip, wilt, wind, wipe out, worst, wreck, zap

do justice to

• do justice to, abide by, account for, act up to, adhere to, attend to, banquet, be fair, be faithful to, be just, bend over backwards, clear, comply with, conform to, cry sour grapes, destigmatize, do the needful, eat heartily, eat up, exculpate, explain, feast, fill, follow, fulfill, give and take, heed, hold by, justify, keep, keep faith with, lean over backwards, live up to, make good, meet, observe, polish the platter, purge, put it away, rationalize, redress a wrong, regale, regard, rehabilitate, reinstate, remedy an injustice, respect, restore, satisfy, see justice done, shoot straight with, vindicate, warrant

do nothing

• do nothing, be a sideliner, be conservative, be still, bone-lazy, bum, bum around, cadging, clock watcher, coast, contemplative, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, delay, diddler, dilatory, dillydallier, doless, dolittle, doodler, dormant, drift, dronish, drony, easy, ergophobic, faineant, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, good-for-nothing, goof off, goof-off, hang around, hang fire, hibernate, idle, idler, immobile, inactive, indolent, inert, laggard, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, lax, laze, lazy, lazybones, leave alone, let alone, let be, lie around, lie dormant, lingerer, loaf, loafer, loiter about, loiterer, loll around, loller, lollop around, lotus-eater, lounge, lounge around, lounger, lubber, meditative, mooch around, moon, moon around, mope, moper, motionless, neuter, neutral, nonaggressive, not budge, not stir, oppose change, paralytic, paralyzed, parasitic, passive, potterer, procrastinating, procrastinative, putterer, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, remiss, rest, scrounging, shiftless, sit around, sit back, sit it out, slack, slothful, slouch, slouch around, sloucher, slow, slug, slugabed, sluggard, sponging, stagnant, stagnate, stagnating, stand around, stand pat, stand still, standpat, static, stationary, stick-in-the-mud, time killer, time waster, trifler, unenterprising, vegetable, vegetate, vegetative, wait and see, waiter on Providence, watch and wait, work-shy

do over

• do over, assimilate to, become, bring to, change, change into, change over, come again, convert, copy, ditto, do a repeat, do again, double, duplicate, echo, imitate, make, make over, naturalize, parrot, plagiarize, quote, re-create, re-form, rebuild, reconstitute, reconstruct, reconvert, redesign, redo, redouble, reduce to, reduplicate, reecho, reestablish, refashion, refound, regenerate, regurgitate, reincarnate, reinstitute, reissue, remake, render, renew, renovate, reorganize, repeat, reprint, reproduce, reshape, resolve into, restore, restructure, resurrect, reverse, revise, revive, say again, shift, switch, switch over, transform, turn back, turn into

do the trick

• do the trick, accomplish, achieve, advance, advantage, answer, attain, avail, be handy, be of use, be right, befit, befitting, benefit, bestead, bring off, bring through, carry off, compass, consummate, crown with success, deal with, discharge, dispatch, dispose of, do, do the job, effect, effectuate, enact, execute, fetch, fill the bill, fit, forward, fulfill, get by, give good returns, knock off, make, manage, not come amiss, pay, pay off, perform, polish off, produce, profit, promote, pull off, put across, put away, put over, put through, realize, serve, serve the purpose, succeed, suffice, suit the occasion, take care of, turn the trick, work, work out, yield a profit

do time

• do time, alternate, be imprisoned, cover, do a hitch, do a stint, do a tour, enlist, fill in for, have a go, have tenure, hold office, keep a watch, re-up, reenlist, relieve, serve time, sign up, spell, spell off, take turns, time off

do without

• do without, abandon, abjure, abstain, abstain from, avoid, cede, disgorge, dispense with, dispose of, drop, dump, eschew, forbear, forgo, forswear, get along without, get rid of, give away, give up, have done with, hold aloof from, hold back, hold off, keep back, keep from, keep in hand, kiss good-bye, let alone, let go by, make a sacrifice, never touch, not touch, not use, part with, pass up, quitclaim, recant, refrain, refrain from, relinquish, render up, renounce, reserve, resign, retract, sacrifice, save, shun, spare, stand aloof from, surrender, swear off, throw up, vacate, waive, withhold, yield

do

• do, I beg you, Mardi Gras, Saturnalia, accompany, accomplish, achieve, acquit, act, act a part, act as, act like, act out, advantage, affect, answer, ape, appear, arrival, assister, assume, attain, attend, author, avail, bake, banquet, barbecue, baste, be OK, be about, be at, be doing, be engaged in, be equal to, be good enough, be handy, be occupied with, be of use, be present at, be productive, bear, beat, beget, behave, benefit, bestead, betide, bilk, blanch, blowout, boil, borrow, bottom, braise, break, breed, brew, bring about, bring forth, bring into being, bring off, bring to effect, bring to fruition, bring to pass, broil, brown, carnival, carry into execution, carry on, carry out, carry through, catch, cause, chance, cheat, chord, chorus, chouse, clear up, clip off, coddle, come off, come to, commit, compass, complete, comport, conceive, concertize, conclude, conduct, consummate, cook, copy, counterfeit, course, cover, cozen, crack, create, crib, curry, deal with, debug, decipher, decode, defraud, demean, deport, determine, develop, devil, diddle, discharge, discourse, disentangle, dispatch, dispose of, ditto, divine, do it, do like, do out of, do the job, do the trick, do to, do to perfection, dope, dope out, echo, effect, effectuate, employ, enact, end, engage in, engender, engineer, establish, execute, exercise, explain, fair, fake, fall out, fare, father, fathom, feast, festival, festive occasion, festivity, fetch, fete, field day, fiesta, figure out, fill the bill, find out, find the answer, find the solution, finish, fire, fit, flimflam, follow, forge, found, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, fulfill, gala, gala affair, gala day, generate, gestate, get, get along, get by, get on, get right, give birth to, give good returns, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, go, go and do, go around, go at, go in for, go like, go on, go over, go to, great doings, griddle, grill, guess, guess right, gyp, hack it, halt, have it, have the goodness, heat, high jinks, hit, hit it, hoke, hoke up, hold, if you please, imitate, impersonate, inaugurate, industrialize, inflict, institute, interpret, jamboree, just do, kermis, knock off, look on, make, make like, make music, make out, make the grade, manage, masquerade as, mass-produce, measure, meet, meet requirements, mime, mimic, mirror, misbehave, move, muddle through, occasion, occur, open the lock, originate, oven-bake, overpass, overproduce, overreach, pan, pan-broil, pantomime, parboil, party, pass, pass for, pass muster, pass over, pass through, patrol, pay, pay off, perambulate, peregrinate, pererrate, perform, perpetrate, personate, picnic, plagiarize, play, play a part, play by ear, playact, please, plumb, ply, poach, polish off, pose as, practice, pray, pray do, prepare, prepare food, pretend to be, prithee, proceed, produce, profit, prosecute, psych, psych out, pull off, pursue, put away, puzzle out, qualify, quit, range, range over, ravel, ravel out, reach, realize, reconnoiter, reecho, reflect, relate, render, repeat, resolve, riddle, roast, satisfy, saute, scallop, scour, scour the country, scout, sear, see, serve, serve the purpose, set afloat, set on foot, set up, shirr, show up, simmer, simulate, sire, sit in, solve, sort out, specialize in, stagger, stand, stand up, steam, stew, stir-fry, stretch, succeed, suffice, suit, sweep, symphonize, tackle, take and do, take care of, take in, take it, take off, take on, take to, take up, terminate, toast, track, transit, transpire, travel over, travel through, traverse, turn the trick, turn up, undertake, undo, unlock, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, untangle, untwist, unweave, up and do, use, visit, volume-produce, voyage, wage, watch, waygoose, wayzgoose, will you, wind up, witness, work, work at, work out, wrap up, wreak, yield a profit

dobbin

• dobbin, Houyhnhnm, brood mare, charger, colt, courser, critter, entire, entire horse, equine, filly, foal, gelding, horse, mare, mount, nag, prancer, stallion, steed, stud, studhorse, tarpan, top horse, war-horse, wild horse

docile

• docile, acquiescent, adaptable, agreeable, alacritous, amenable, apt, ardent, biddable, bright, clever, compliant, consenting, content, cooperative, disposed, ductile, eager, educable, enthusiastic, facile, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, flexible, formable, forward, game, impressionable, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, instructable, intelligent, malleable, minded, moldable, motivated, plastic, pliable, pliant, predisposed, prompt, prone, quick, ready, ready and willing, receptive, responsive, ripe for instruction, schoolable, susceptible, teachable, thirsty for knowledge, tractable, trainable, well-disposed, well-inclined, willed, willing, willinghearted, yielding, zealous

dock

• dock, L, R, abbreviate, abridge, abscind, abstract, acting area, alight, amputate, anchor, anchorage, anchorage ground, annihilate, apron, apron stage, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, backstage, ban, band shell, bandstand, bank, bar, basement, basin, bay, berth, bin, board, bob, boil down, bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, breakwater, bridge, brush, bulkhead, bunker, buttery, capsulize, cargo dock, cast anchor, cauda, caudal appendage, caudation, cellar, chest, clip, closet, come to anchor, come to land, compress, condense, conservatory, contract, coulisse, court, courthouse, courtroom, crate, crib, crop, cue, cull, cupboard, curtail, cut, cut away, cut back, cut down, cut off, cut off short, cut out, cut short, debark, debus, deplane, depository, depot, detrain, disembark, disemplane, dockage, dockyard, drawer, dressing room, drop anchor, drop the hook, dry dock, dump, elide, eliminate, embankment, enucleate, epitomize, eradicate, except, exchequer, excise, exclude, extinguish, extirpate, fantail, flies, fly floor, fly gallery, foreshorten, forestage, glory hole, go ashore, godown, greenroom, grid, gridiron, groin, hangar, harbor, harborage, haven, hold, housing, hutch, isolate, jetty, jury box, jutty, kedge, kedge off, knock off, land, landing, landing place, landing stage, lash, lash and tie, lay anchor, levee, library, lightboard, locker, lop, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, make a landfall, make land, make port, marina, mole, moor, moorings, mow, mutilate, nip, orchestra, orchestra pit, pare, peel, performing area, pick out, pier, pigtail, pit, poll, pollard, port, proscenium, proscenium stage, protected anchorage, prune, put in, put into port, quay, queue, rack, rattail, reach land, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, repertory, repository, reservoir, retrench, rick, road, roads, roadstead, root out, rule out, seaport, seawall, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, shed, shelf, shell, shipyard, shorten, slip, snub, stack, stack room, stage, stage left, stage right, stamp out, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, strike off, strip, strip off, stub, stunt, sum up, summarize, supply base, supply depot, switchboard, synopsize, tail, tailpiece, take in, take off, take out, tank, telescope, the boards, tie up, town hall, town house, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, trim, truncate, unboat, vat, vault, warehouse, wharf, wine cellar, wings, wipe out, witness box, witness stand

dockage

• dockage, admission, admission fee, anchorage, anchorage ground, basin, berth, breakwater, brokerage, bulkhead, carfare, cellarage, charge, charges, cover charge, demand, dock, dockyard, dry dock, dues, embankment, entrance fee, exaction, exactment, fare, fee, groin, harbor, harborage, haven, hire, jetty, jutty, landing, landing place, landing stage, license fee, marina, mole, moorings, pier, pilotage, port, portage, protected anchorage, quay, road, roads, roadstead, salvage, scot, scot and lot, seaport, seawall, shipyard, shot, slip, storage, toll, towage, wharf, wharfage

docked

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

docket

• docket, Domesday Book, account book, address book, adversaria, agenda, aide-memoire, album, annotation, annual, appointment calendar, appointment schedule, balance, balance the books, batting order, beadroll, bill, bill of fare, billhead, blank, blankbook, blotter, blueprint, book, book stamp, bookplate, brand, broad arrow, budget, cachet, cadastre, calendar, capitalize, card, carry, carry over, carte du jour, carve, cashbook, cast up accounts, catalog, census, census report, chalk, chalk up, charge off, check, check in, checklist, checkroll, chirograph, chronicle, classified catalog, close out, close the books, colophon, commonplace book, counterfoil, countermark, court calendar, credit, cut, daybook, debit, desk calendar, diary, diptych, document, dossier, dramatis personae, engagement book, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, entry, file, fill out, footnote, form, government mark, government stamp, grave, hallmark, head count, holograph, honor roll, impanel, imprint, incise, index, inscribe, insert, instrument, item, jot down, jotting, journal, journalize, jury list, jury panel, keep books, label, ledger, legal document, legal instrument, legal paper, letterhead, line up, lineup, list, list of agenda, log, logbook, logo, logotype, loose-leaf notebook, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, marginal note, marginalia, mark down, masthead, matriculate, memo, memo book, memoir, memorandum, memorandum book, memorial, memory book, menu, minute, minutes, muster, muster roll, nose count, notation, note, note down, notebook, official document, order of business, pad, paper, papers, parchment, personal file, petty cashbook, place upon record, plate, playbill, pocket notebook, pocketbook, police blotter, poll, post, post up, price tag, program, program of operation, programma, property roll, prospectus, protocol, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, questionnaire, record, reduce to writing, register, registered trademark, registry, reminder, returns, roll, roll call, roster, rota, running head, running title, schedule, scholia, scholium, scrapbook, scratch pad, scrip, script, scroll, seal, set down, sigil, signet, slate, spiral notebook, stamp, sticker, strike a balance, stub, table, tablet, tabulate, tag, take down, tally, tape, tape-record, tax roll, ticket, timetable, title page, token, trade name, trademark, trademark name, triptych, videotape, workbook, writ, write, write down, write in, write out, write up, writing, writing tablet, yearbook

docking

• docking, Earth insertion, LEM, LM, apogee, attitude-control rocket, ballistic capsule, burn, capsule, debarkation, deep-space ship, disembarkation, disembarkment, docking maneuver, dropping anchor, ferry rocket, fuel ship, going ashore, injection, insertion, landfall, landing, lunar excursion module, lunar module, manned rocket, module, moon ship, mooring, multistage rocket, orbit, parking orbit, perigee, reentry, rocket, shuttle rocket, soft landing, space capsule, space docking, space rocket, spacecraft, spaceship, tying up

dockyard

• dockyard, anchorage, anchorage ground, armory, arsenal, assembly line, assembly plant, atomic energy plant, basin, berth, bindery, boatyard, boilery, bookbindery, breakwater, brewery, brickyard, bulkhead, cannery, creamery, dairy, defense plant, distillery, dock, dockage, dry dock, embankment, factory, factory belt, factory district, feeder plant, flour mill, groin, harbor, harborage, haven, industrial park, industrial zone, jetty, jutty, landing, landing place, landing stage, main plant, manufactory, manufacturing plant, manufacturing quarter, marina, mill, mint, mole, moorings, munitions plant, oil refinery, packing house, pier, plant, port, pottery, power plant, production line, protected anchorage, push-button plant, quay, refinery, road, roads, roadstead, sawmill, seaport, seawall, shipyard, slip, subassembly plant, sugar refinery, tannery, wharf, winery, yard, yards

doctor

• doctor, Doctor of Medicine, GP, MD, Md, abecedarian, abet, adulterate, aid, allopath, allopathist, alter, assist, attend, attending physician, authority, avail, baccalaureate, baccalaureus, bachelor, bail out, bandage, bastardize, bathe, bear a hand, befriend, benefit, bones, care for, certified teacher, change, cobble, cobbler, comfort, commission, condition, contaminate, cook, coroner, corrupt, country doctor, croaker, cure, cut, darn, debase, degree, denaturalize, denature, diagnose, dilute, disguise, do good, do up, doc, docent, doctor up, doctorate, dominie, don, drug, ease, educationist, educator, elder, elder statesman, fake, falsify, family doctor, favor, fellow, fix, fix up, fixer, flux, fortify, general practitioner, give a boost, give a hand, give a lift, give care to, give help, great soul, guide, guru, heal, help, house physician, illuminate, instructor, intellect, intellectual, intern, juggle, lace, leech, lend a hand, lend one aid, little Miss Fixit, load, lover of wisdom, maestro, mahatma, maintenance man, man of intellect, man of wisdom, mandarin, manipulate, massage, master, mastermind, mechanic, mechanician, medic, medical, medical attendant, medical examiner, medical man, medical practitioner, medicate, medico, melamed, mend, mender, mentor, minister to, modify, mullah, nurse, operate on, oracle, overhaul, pack, pandit, patch, patch up, pedagogist, pedagogue, philosopher, physic, physician, physician in ordinary, plant, plaster, poison, pollute, poultice, preceptor, professor, proffer aid, protect, pundit, purge, put in commission, put in order, put in repair, put in shape, rabbi, rally, ready, rebuild, recap, reclaim, recondition, reconstruct, redeem, relieve, remedy, render assistance, renovator, repair, repairer, repairman, rescue, resident, resident physician, restore, restorer, resuscitate, retouch, retread, revamp, revive, rig, rishi, rub, sage, salt, sapient, savant, save, sawbones, scholar, schoolkeeper, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, seer, service, serviceman, set to rights, set up, sew up, sophisticate, spike, splint, stack, starets, strap, succor, take in tow, take medicine, take the cure, tamper with, teacher, thinker, tinker, tinker up, treat, trouble man, troubleshooter, undergo treatment, water, water down, weight, wise man, wise old man

doctrinaire

• doctrinaire, antiblack, armchair authority, authoritarian, authoritative, biased, bigot, bigoted, bullheaded, chauvinist, chauvinistic, colored, conceited, doctrinarian, dogged, dogmatic, dogmatist, dogmatizer, dogmatizing, fanatic, hypothesist, hypothesizer, illiberal, infallibilist, influenced, interested, intolerant, jaundiced, jingo, know-nothing, magisterial, male chauvinist, mulish, nonobjective, obstinate, one-sided, opinionated, opinionative, opinioned, opinionist, oracular, partial, partisan, peremptory, pertinacious, pig, pigheaded, pontifical, positive, positivist, positivistic, prejudiced, prepossessed, pronunciative, racist, self-opinionated, self-opinioned, sexist, speculator, stiff-necked, stubborn, superpatriot, superpatriotic, swayed, theoretic, theoretician, theorist, theorizer, twisted, ultranationalist, undetached, undispassionate, warped, xenophobic

doctrine

• doctrine, Athanasian Creed, Catechism, Nicene Creed, a belief, article of faith, articles of faith, articles of religion, axiom, basic, belief, canon, concept, conviction, credenda, credo, creed, dogma, faith, fundamental, idea, instruction, maxim, opinion, orthodoxy, postulate, precept, principle, proposition, religion, religious belief, religious faith, system of beliefs, teaching, tenet, theology, theory, thesis, tradition

document

• document, adduce, affirm, anatomize, archives, article, atomize, attest, authenticate, autograph, back, back up, bear out, blank, bolster, brainchild, buttress, call to mind, certificate, certify, chirograph, chronicle, circumstantiate, cite, cite a particular, composition, computer printout, confirm, copy, corroborate, demonstrate, descend to particulars, describe, detail, docket, dossier, draft, edited version, engrossment, enter into detail, essay, evidence, example, exemplify, fair copy, fiction, file, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, form, fortify, give a for-instance, give full particulars, holograph, illustrate, instance, instrument, itemize, legal document, legal instrument, legal paper, letter, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration, manuscript, matter, monument, name, nonfiction, official document, opus, original, paper, papers, parchment, particularize, penscript, personal file, piece, piece of writing, play, poem, printed matter, printout, probate, production, prove, quote, ratify, reading matter, recension, record, reinforce, report, roll, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, specify, spell out, strengthen, substantiate, support, sustain, testimony, the written word, transcript, transcription, typescript, undergird, uphold, validate, verify, version, warrant, work, writ, writing

documentary

• documentary, 3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, absolute, actual, adducible, admissible, animated cartoon, archival, ascertained, attestative, attested, attestive, authentic, authenticated, based on, black-and-white film, cartoon, categorically true, certain, certified, chiller, cinema, circumstantial, color film, conclusive, confirmed, convincing, corroborated, creepie, cumulative, damning, decisive, demonstrated, determinative, determined, documental, documentary film, documentational, documented, educational film, effectual, epigraphic, established, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, eye-witness, factual, feature, film, final, firsthand, flick, flicker, founded on, grounded on, hearsay, historical, horror picture, horse opera, implicit, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, irrefutable, irresistible, material, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, necrological, newsreel, not in error, nudie, nuncupative, obituary, objectively true, overwhelming, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film, presumptive, preview, probative, proved, real, reliable, short, significant, silent, silent film, skin flick, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, substantiated, suggestive, sure, sure-enough, symptomatic, talkie, talking picture, telling, testimonial, thriller, trailer, true, true as gospel, truthful, unconfuted, undenied, underground film, undoubted, unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, unmistaken, unquestionable, unrefuted, valid, validated, veracious, verified, veritable, weighty

documentation

• documentation, account, affirmation, annals, attestation, authentication, backing, backing up, basis for belief, bearing out, body of evidence, bolstering, buttressing, catalog, certification, chain of evidence, chronicle, circumstantiation, clue, confirmation, correspondence, corroboration, corroboratory evidence, data, datum, evidence, exhibit, fact, facts, fortification, grounds, grounds for belief, history, indication, inventory, item of evidence, letters, list, manifestation, mark, material grounds, memorial, muniments, mute witness, piece of evidence, pipe roll, premises, proof, proving, proving out, ratification, reason to believe, record, recording, register, registry, reinforcement, relevant fact, relic, remains, roll, rolls, roster, rota, scroll, sign, strengthening, substantiation, support, supporting evidence, symptom, table, token, trace, undergirding, validation, verification, vestige

documented

• documented, absolute, adducible, admissible, attestative, attestive, authentic, based on, booked, certain, circumstantial, conclusive, convincing, cumulative, damning, decisive, determinative, documentary, down, enrolled, entered, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, eye-witness, factual, filed, final, firsthand, founded on, grounded on, hearsay, implicit, incontrovertible, indexed, indicative, indisputable, inscribed, irrefutable, irresistible, legal, logged, material, minuted, nuncupative, of record, official, on file, on record, on the books, overwhelming, posted, presumptive, probative, recorded, registered, reliable, significant, suggestive, sure, symptomatic, telling, valid, weighty, written down

dodder

• dodder, age, cheat the undertaker, cower, decline, fade, fail, get along, get on, grow old, halt, limp, quiver, shake, shrivel, sink, teeter, totter, tremble, turn gray, turn white, wane, waste away, wither, wizen, wrinkle

doddering

• doddering, aged, anile, childish, childlike, crabbed, debilitated, decrepit, dilapidated, doddered, doddery, doited, doting, faltering, feeble, fossilized, frail, gerontal, gerontic, groggy, infirm, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummylike, old, palsied, papery-skinned, quaking, quavering, quivering, ramshackle, ravaged with age, reeling, ricketish, rickety, rocky, run to seed, rusty, senile, shaking, shaky, shriveled, spidery, spindly, staggering, stricken in years, superannuated, teetering, teetery, timeworn, tottering, tottery, trembling, trembly, tumbledown, unsteady, weak, withered, wizened, wobbly

dodge

• dodge, about the bush, action, ad hoc measure, answer, around the bush, art, artful dodge, artifice, avoid, avoidance, avoiding reaction, back and fill, bag of tricks, ballot-box stuffing, be stuck-up, beat about, beat around, beg the question, bicker, blench, blind, blink, bluff, bob, boggle, bosey, bunco, cardsharping, carefully ignore, catch, cavil, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, chouse, circumvention, cold-shoulder, conspiracy, contrivance, countermove, coup, course of action, cozenage, craft, cringe, curve, curve-ball, cut a corner, cut corners, cute trick, dart, deceit, deceive, deception, defense mechanism, demarche, design, device, diddle, diddling, dirty deal, dirty trick, dishonesty, dog it, double-talk, draw back, duck, duck duty, effort, elude, elusion, elusiveness, equivocate, equivocation, escape, evade, evade the issue, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, expedient, fade, fakement, fall back, fallback, fast deal, feint, fence, fetch, ficelle, fight shy of, finesse, fishy transaction, flam, flimflam, flinch, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudge, gambit, game, gerrymandering, get out of, getting around, gimmick, goldbrick, goof off, googly, graft, grift, gyp, gyp joint, hang back, hedge, hem and haw, hocus-pocus, hold aloof, hum and haw, illicit business, imposition, imposture, improvisation, intrigue, jesuitism, jib, jink, joker, juggle, jugglery, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, keep aloof, knavery, last expedient, last resort, last shift, little game, machination, makeshift, malinger, maneuver, means, measure, mince the truth, mince words, move, move aside, mystify, neutrality, nitpick, nonintervention, noninvolvement, not pull fair, obscure, palter, parry, pass, pass over, pass over lightly, pick nits, pis aller, plan, plot, ploy, prevaricate, prevarication, prevention, pull away, pull back, pullback, pullout, pussyfoot, put off, quail, quibble, quiddity, quillet, quip, quirk, quodlibet, racket, recoil, red herring, reel back, refraining, resort, resource, retreat, ruse, scam, scamp, scheme, scurvy trick, shake-up, sheer off, shift, shift off, shirk, short-circuit, shrink, shrink back, shuffle, shun, shunning, shunting off, shy, shy away, shy off, sidestep, sidestepping, sidetracking, skim, skim over, skim the surface, skimp, skip over, skirt, skulk, slack, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, slide, slide out of, slight, slip, slip out of, slubber over, slur, slur over, sneak out of, soldier, solution, split hairs, stand aloof, start aside, start back, steer clear of, step, step aside, stopgap, stratagem, strategy, stroke, stroke of policy, subterfuge, swerve, swindle, tactic, temporary expedient, tergiversate, the runaround, touch upon, touch upon lightly, trick, trickery, trump, turn aside, twist and turn, veer, waffle, ward off, weasel, weasel out, weave, welsh, wheeze, wile, wily device, wince, working hypothesis, working proposition, zigzag

dodger

• dodger, Artful Dodger, Casanova, Don Juan, Machiavel, Machiavelli, Machiavellian, Philadelphia lawyer, Yankee horse trader, actor, aegis, arm guard, ash cake, ash pone, backstop, bamboozler, befuddler, beguiler, buffer, bulwark, bumper, bungler, charmer, contraceptive, copyright, corn dab, corn dodger, corn pone, counterfeiter, crafty rascal, crash helmet, cushion, dashboard, deceiver, deluder, disregarder, dissembler, dissimulator, double-dealer, duper, enchanter, entrancer, face mask, faker, fender, finger guard, fooler, foot guard, forger, fox, fuse, gay deceiver, glib tongue, goggles, goldbrick, goof-off, governor, guard, guardrail, hand guard, handrail, hard hat, helmet, hoaxer, hoecake, horse trader, hush puppy, hypnotizer, idler, ignorer, insulation, interlock, jilt, jilter, johnnycake, joker, jokester, kidder, knee guard, knuckle guard, laminated glass, leg-puller, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, malingerer, mask, mesmerizer, misleader, mudguard, neglecter, negligent, nose guard, pad, padding, palladium, patent, pilot, plagiarist, plagiarizer, playactor, pone, practical joker, preventive, procrastinator, prophylactic, protective clothing, protective umbrella, ragger, reynard, role-player, safeguard, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, screen, seat belt, seducer, shield, shin guard, shirker, shyster, slacker, slick citizen, sloven, slut, sly dog, slyboots, spoofer, sun helmet, sweet talker, swindler, tease, teaser, tortilla, trickster, trifler, umbrella, waiter on Providence, windscreen, windshield

dodging

• dodging, bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, clock-watching, ducking, equivocation, evasion, fencing, goofing off, hairsplitting, hedging, logic-chopping, malingering, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pettifoggery, prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, shifting, shirking, shuffle, shuffling, sidestepping, skulking, slacking, soldiering, subterfuge, suppressio veri, tax dodging, tax evasion, tergiversation, trichoschistism, truancy, weasel words, welshing

dodo

• dodo, Methuselah, antediluvian, antique, back number, boob, conservative, dad, dimwit, dolt, dummy, elder, fogy, fossil, fud, fuddy-duddy, granny, has-been, idiot, longhair, matriarch, mid-Victorian, moron, mossback, nitwit, numskull, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old woman, old-timer, patriarch, pop, pops, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, simpleton, square, starets, traditionalist

doe

• doe, Belgian hare, Cape elk, Partlet, Virginia deer, antelope, biddy, billy, billy goat, bitch, bossy, brood mare, buck, bunny, camel, camelopard, caribou, cottontail, cow, deer, deerlet, doeling, dromedary, eland, elk, ewe, ewe lamb, fallow deer, fawn, filly, gazelle, giraffe, gnu, goat, guinea hen, gyp, hare, hart, hartebeest, he-goat, heifer, hen, hind, jackrabbit, jenny, kaama, kid, lapin, leporide, leveret, lioness, mare, moose, mountain goat, mule deer, musk deer, nanny, nanny goat, okapi, peahen, rabbit, red deer, reindeer, roe, roe deer, roebuck, she-bear, she-goat, she-lion, slut, sow, springbok, stag, tigress, vixen, wildebeest

doer

• doer, activist, ball of fire, beaver, big-time operator, bustler, busy bee, eager beaver, enthusiast, go-getter, human dynamo, hustler, live wire, man of action, man of deeds, militant, new broom, operator, political activist, powerhouse, take-charge guy, wheeler-dealer, winner

doff

• doff, cast off, detach, disengage, douse, drop, free, liberate, loose, loosen, put off, release, remove, slip out of, step out of, take off, throw off, unbar, unbind, unbolt, unbuckle, unbutton, unchain, unclasp, undo, unfasten, unfetter, unglue, unlace, unlatch, unleash, unlock, unloose, unloosen, unstick, unstrap, untie, unwrap, weigh anchor

dog days

• dog days, broiling sun, canicular days, fair weather, good old summertime, growing season, heat wave, high summer, hot wave, hot weather, humid weather, midday sun, midsummer, muggy weather, stuffy weather, sultry weather, summer, summertide, summertime, sunshiny weather, vertical rays, warm weather

dog eared

• dog eared, auriculate, bare, big-eared, creased, crimped, crop-eared, deep-worn, doubled, ear-minded, eared, flexible, flop-eared, flounced, fluted, foldable, folded, folding, gathered, long-eared, lop-eared, mouse-eared, plaited, pleated, pliable, plicate, plicated, plicatile, prick-eared, quilled, ruffled, sere, sharp-eared, shelfworn, shopworn, threadbare, timeworn, tin-eared, tucked, twilled, well-worn, worn, worn ragged, worn to rags, worn to threads, worn-down

dog in the manger

• dog in the manger, careerist, egotist, fortune hunter, grouch, hog, individualist, killjoy, lone wolf, loner, malcontent, monopolist, narcissist, road hog, self-advancer, self-pleaser, self-seeker, self-server, sourpuss, spoilsport, temporizer, timepleaser, timeserver, tufthunter, wet blanket

dog tag

• dog tag, ID card, badge, calligram, calling card, card, countermark, countersign, credentials, identification, identification badge, identification tag, initials, letter of introduction, monogram, press card, serial number, signature, tessera, visiting card

dog tired

• dog tired, all in, beat, beat up, beaten, bone-weary, bushed, dead, dead-and-alive, dead-tired, deadbeat, dog-weary, done, done in, done up, drained, exhausted, fagged out, gone, knocked out, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, ready to drop, spent, tired out, tired to death, tuckered out, used up, washed-up, weary unto death, whacked, wiped out, worn-out

dog

• dog, Afghan hound, Alaskan malamute, Bedlington terrier, Border terrier, Boston bull, Cairn terrier, Chihuahua, Dalmatian, Doberman pinscher, English toy spaniel, Eskimo dog, Gordon setter, Great Dane, Great Pyrenees, Kerry blue terrier, Labrador retriever, Maltese, Newfoundland, Norwegian elkhound, Norwich terrier, Pekingese, Rhodesian ridgeback, Rottweiler, Saluki, Samoyed, Scottish deerhound, Seeing Eye dog, Siberian husky, Welsh corgi, Welsh terrier, Yorkshire terrier, affenpinscher, aggravate, animal, annoy, arch, baboon, badger, badger dog, bag, bait, balker, balky horse, bandog, bar, barbet, barricade, basset, basset hound, be at, beagle, beast, beat, bedevil, bedog, beset, billy, billy goat, bitch, blemish, block, block up, blockade, bloodhound, blot, boar, boarhound, bolt, borzoi, bother, bowwow, boxer, bristle, brown off, bubbly-jock, buck, bug, bull, bull terrier, bulldog, bullock, bullyrag, burn up, canine, chanticleer, chase, chivy, chock, choke, choke off, chow, close, close off, close tight, close up, clubfoot, coach dog, cock, cockerel, collie, come after, come behind, constrict, coonhound, course, crate, crock, crowbait, crowd, cur, dachshund, debar, deerhound, devil, digit, discompose, distemper, disturb, drake, drive, entire, entire horse, exasperate, exercise, extremity, eyesore, falcon, fancy dog, fash, feist, fetlock, flat-coated retriever, flush, follow, follow the hounds, follow up, foot, forefoot, forepaw, fowl, fox terrier, foxhound, frank, fret, fright, gander, gargoyle, garron, get, giant schnauzer, give chase, go after, go behind, go hunting, goat, gobbler, golden retriever, greyhound, griffon, gripe, guide dog, gun, gyp, hack, hag, harass, harefoot, harridan, harrier, harry, hart, haunt, hawk, he-goat, heap, heckle, hector, heel, hollo after, hoof, hot dog, hound, hunt, hunt down, husky, hyena, insect, instep, irk, jack, jacklight, jade, jam, jughead, kennel, lakeland terrier, lap dog, lock, make after, malamute, mastiff, mess, miff, molest, mongrel, monster, monstrosity, move behind, mutt, nag, needle, nettle, no beauty, nudzh, obstruct, occlude, otterhound, pack, pack of dogs, pad, papillon, pastern, patte, paw, peacock, pedal extremity, pedes, peeve, persecute, pes, pester, pick on, pied, pig, pique, plague, pluck the beard, plug, pointer, polecat, pooch, poodle, pother, prick, prosecute, provoke, prowl after, pug, puli, pup, puppy, pursue, quest, quest after, raise the hunt, ram, rat terrier, reptile, retriever, ride, ride to hounds, rile, roarer, rogue, roil, rooster, rosinante, ruffle, run, run after, scalawag, scarecrow, scum, search, seek, seek out, serpent, setter, shadow, sheep dog, shikar, shithead, shoot, show dog, shut off, shut out, shut tight, sight, skunk, sled dog, sleuth, sleuthhound, slut, snake, sole, spaniel, splayfoot, sport, squeeze, squeeze shut, stag, staghound, stalk, stallion, start, steer, stiff, stifle, still-hunt, stinkard, stop up, stot, strangle, strangulate, string along, stud, studhorse, suffocate, swine, tag, tag after, tag along, tail, tailgate, take out after, tease, teratism, terrier, toad, toe, tom, tom turkey, tomcat, tootsy, top cow, top horse, torment, toy dog, track, trail, trail after, tread close upon, trotter, try the patience, tup, turd, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, turnspit, tweak the nose, tyke, ugly duckling, ungula, varmint, vermin, vex, viper, watchdog, wether, whelp, whippet, whistler, wiener, wienerwurst, wienie, wire-haired terrier, witch, wolfhound, working dog, worm, worry, wreck