Chapter M (5)

sure, a. certain, inevitable; positive, confident, assured, sanguine, convinced; unfailing, infallible, unerring, inerrable, abiding, stable, trustworthy, reliable, dependable, secure, safe. Antonyms: uncertain, doubtful, dubious.

sureness, n. certainty, inevitability, assurance, certitude, safety, positiveness.

surety, n. sureness, certainty; security, pledge, guaranty; bondsman; substitute, hostage; sponsor; ratification, corroboration.

surface, n. exterior, outside, superficies.

surfeit, n. fullness, repletion, satiety; superabundance, plethora.

surgeon's case of instruments. tweese.

surgery, n. aciurgy.

surly, a. morose, sullen, crabbed, unamiable, gruff, inurbane, snarling, crusty.

surmise, v. suppose, conjecture, suspect, guess, opine.

surmise, n. supposition, conjecture, guess, suspicion.

surmount, v. overtop; conquer, overcome, vanquish.

surmountable, a. superable, conquerable. Antonyms: insuperable, unsurmountable.

surname, n. patronymic, cognomen.

surpass, v. excel, exceed, outdo, outstrip, transcend.

surpassing, a. exceeding, superior, preëminent, transcendent, supereminent.

surplus, n. surplusage, excess, overplus, residue, remainder.

surprise, v. amaze, astonish, astound.

surprise, n. amazement, astonishment.

surprising, a. astonishing, amazing, astounding, marvelous.

surrender, v. relinquish, yield, abandon, capitulate, waive, remit.

surrender, n. relinquishment, capitulation, yielding.

surround, v. enclose, encircle, encompass, environ, hem in, corral, invest, intrench.

surrounding, a. circumambient, encompassing, encircling ambient, enveloping.

surroundings, n. pl. environment, entourage.

surveying, n. survey, chorometry; geodesy. Associated Words: theodolite, transit, perambulator.

susceptible, a. sensitive, impressionable, impressible, tender.

suspect, v. mistrust, distrust, doubt; conjecture, surmise.

suspenders, n. pl. gallowses, braces.

suspense, n. uncertainty, wavering, hesitation, irresolution.

suspension, n. pendency; delay, respite, postponement, abeyance.

suspicion, n. mistrust, misgiving, distrust; surmise, conjecture, supposition; (Colloq.) suggestion, hint.

swag, n. (Slang) booty, boodle, loot, plunder, spoil.

swaggering, n. blustering, boasting, roistering.

swallow, v. ingurgitate; gulp, bolt, engorge, englut; ingulf, suck in, absorb, submerge, engulf, overwhelm; accept, believe, credit; appropriate, arrogate, monopolize, engross; bear, brook, tolerate, pocket.

swallowing, n. deglutition, ingurgitation, absorption. Antonym: aglutition.

swamp, n. marsh, morass, slough, quagmire, bog, fen, marish. Associated Words: paludine, paludinous, paludism, paludose, palustrine, draco, muck, effluvium, malaria, miasma.

swamp, v. engulf, overwhelm, submerge.

swampy, a. boggy, fenny, marshy, sloughy, slumpy, queachy.

swan, n. cob (male); cygnet (young).

swap, v. (Colloq.) exchange, trade.

swarm, v. teem.

swarming, a. teeming.

swashing, a. heavy, violent, crushing.

sway, n. dominion, domination, rule.

swear, v. blaspheme, curse, imprecate, use profane language.

swearing, n. profanity, oath, blasphemy, expletive, cursing, imprecation.

sweat, v. perspire; exude.

sweat, n. perspiration; exudation. Associated Words: sudoriferous, sudoral, sudorific, sudatory, diaphoretic, diaphoresis, perspiratory, empasm, bagnio, adiophoretic.

sweating-bath, n. sudatory, sudatorium, vapor-bath.

Swedish Parliament. Riksdag.

sweet, a. saccharine, honeyed, sugary, nectarean, ambrosial, nectareous; dulcet, melodious, harmonious, mellifluous, silvery, symphonious, tuneful; winsome, winning. Antonyms: bitter, acrid, tart, sour.

sweetbread, n. pancreas.

sweeten, v. dulcify, edulcorate; purify, disinfect, fumigate, deodorize.

sweetening, n. dulcification, edulcoration.

sweetheart, n. (male) lover, inamorato, beau, flame, spark, swain, suitor; (female) ladylove, mistress, inamorata, dulcinea, darling, flame, amaryllis.

sweets, n. pl. confectionery, sweetmeats.

sweet-smelling, a. fragrant, redolent, balmy, aromatic, savory, sweet-scented.

swell, v. distend, dilate, expand, bloat, puff up, tumefy, intumesce; increase, augment; heave, surge; protuberate; strut, swagger.

swell, n. swelling; augmentation, increase; protuberance, bulge; elevation, rise.

swell, a. (Slang) fashionable, elegant, distinguished, exquisite.--n. exquisite, fop, dandy.

swelled, a. swollen, tumid, enlarged, bloated, protuberant, turgid.

swelling, n. intumescence, turgescence, prominence, protuberance, bump, node, blain, distention. Antonyms: subsidence, detumescence.

swelling, a. turgent, tumefacient, tumid, turgid; grandiloquent, bombastic, grandiose.

swerve, v. deviate, deflect, diverge, turn aside.

swift, a. fleet, rapid, fast, speedy, quick.

swiftness, n. celerity, velocity, speed, rapidity, fleetness, quickness.

swill, n. hogwash, swillings, draff.

swimming, n. natation; dizziness, vertigo, giddiness; transnatation, supernatation. Associated Words: natatorial, natant, natatorious, natatorium, natatory.

swimming birds. Natatores.

swindle, n. See cheat.

swine, n. pl. hogs. Associated Word: porcine.

swing, v. oscillate, vibrate; sway, brandish, flourish, wave.

swing, n. swinging; free course, liberty, unrestraint, sweep.

swinging, n. oscillation, vibration.

swinging, a. oscillatory, oscillating, vibratory.

swipe, v. strike; (Slang) steal, pluck, snatch, purloin.

Swiss, n. Switzer, Helvetian.--a. Helvetic.

Swiss Federal Council. Bundesrath.

switch, v. whip, flog; shunt, shift.

swollen, a. tumid, tumefied, bloated, purled up.

sword, n. rapier, saber, scimiter, brand, curtana, claymore, smallsword, glaive, broadsword, cutlass, Damascus blade, spadroon, creese. Associated Words: scabbard, sheathe, unsheathe, forte, hilt, sheath, foible, foil, fence, fencer, gladiatorial, gladiatorism, gladiature.

swordfight, n. fencing, swordplay.

sword of mercy. curtana.

sword player, n. fencer; gladiator.

sword-shaped, a. ensiform.

sycophancy, n. obsequiousness, fawning, truckling, servility, sycophantism.

sycophant, n. fawner, toady, flunky, lickspittle.

sycophantic, a. obsequious, fawning, adulatory, servile.

syllabus, n. compendium, abstract, synopsis.

symbolic, a. typical, emblematical.

symbolize, v. typify, emblematize.

symmetry, n. proportion, shapeliness. Antonyms: asymmetry, disproportion.

sympathetic, a. compassionate, commiserating, pitiful, kind, tender.

sympathize, v. have sympathy, commiserate, condole with; agree, be in accord.

sympathy, n. fellow-feeling, tenderness; pity, commiseration, compassion, condolence; accord, agreement, rapport, concord. Antonyms: antipathy, incompassion, inclemency, disagreement, incompatibility.

symptom, n. indication, mark, sign, evidence, diagnostic. Associated words: symptomatic, rymptomatology, semeiology, semeiotic, semeiography, pathognomonic, diagnosticate, diagnosis.

synopsis, n. syllabus, compendium, abstract, summary, epitome, digest.

system, n. method, order. Antonyms: chaos, confusion, disorder.

systematic, a. methodical, orderly. Antonyms: unsystematic, chaotic, immethodical.

systematize, v. methodize, classify.

T

Tab, n. (Colloq.) account, reckoning, check, tally, score.

table, n. tablet; schedule, synopsis, index, list; trivet (three-legged table). Associated word: mensal.

table, v. tabulate, tabularize.

tableland, n. plateau, mesa (Southwestern U.S.).

table linen. napery.

tablet, n. lozenge, troche, trochiscus.

taboo, n. interdiction, prohibition, proscription.

taboo, v. interdict, prohibit, proscribe.

taboo, a. prohibited, forbidden, interdicted, proscribed.

tackle, n. gear, implements, equipment, rigging, apparatus.

tacky, a. sticky, adhesive; (Colloq.) dowdy, shabby, unkempt, seedy.

tadpole, n. polliwog.

taffy, n. toffy, candy; (Slang) flattery, blandishment, blarney.

tail, n. Associated Words: caudal, dock, scut, prehensile, caudate, bicaudal, rump, uropygium.

tailless, a. acaudate, anurous.

tailor, n. Associated Word: sartorial.

tailpiece, n. appendage.

taint, v. imbue, impregnate, corrupt, infect, vitiate, sully, besmirch, discolor, contaminate.

taint, n. infection, contamination, vitiation, defilement, pollution.

tainted, a. infected, contaminated, defiled, imbued, vitiated, polluted.

take, v. seize, grasp, clutch, procure, clasp, catch; confiscate, appropriate, usurp, arrogate; deprehend, apprehend; require, need; select, choose.

take back. recant, retract, recall, revoke, rescind, disavow, resume.

take in. comprise, encompass, comprehend, include, embrace.

take-in, n. (Colloq.) imposition, fraud, deception, swindle, cheat, hoax.

taken, p.p. charmed, captivated, enamored, fascinated.

take off. doff, remove, divest one's self of.

take-off, n. caricature, burlesque, travesty, parody.

take the place of. supplant, supersede, displace, substitute.

take upon one's self. assume, undertake; arrogate, usurp.

taking, a. alluring, fascinating, winning, charming, captivating.

taking, n. seizure, apprehension; reprisal; prehension.

taking back. recantation, retraction, resumption, disavowal, revocation.

tale, n. story, romance, parable, apologue, legend, fable, narrative, myth, jeremiad (tale of sorrow).

tale-bearer, n. scandal-monger, busybody, quidnunc, tattler, telltale, tabby, gossip.

talent, n. endowment, faculty, gift, forte, knack, genius.

talented, a. gifted, endowed, clever.

talk, v. speak, converse, confer, confabulate, consult; babble, prattle, prate, chatter, gabble, gibber, blather; expatiate, descant, comment, harp, rant; palaver.

talk, n. conversation, converse, colloquy, conference, confabulation, chat, parley, _causerie_, parlance, confab; dialogue, interlocution; soliloquy, monologue; palaver, buncombe, blarney, blandishment, flattery, flummery; chaff, banter, raillery, persiflage, badinage, asteistn; chatter, babble, chit chat, gibberish, jargon, twaddle, fustian, moonshine, hanky-panky, jabbering, rhapsody, rant, grandiloquence; expatiation, descant.

talkative, a. garrulous, loquacious, communicative, voluble, unreserved. Antonyms: reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, silent, still.

talkativeness, n. garrulity, loquacity, communicativeness multiloquence. Antonyms: reserve, reticence, taciturnity.

talker, n. conversationalist; interlocutor; chatterer, babler, magpie, chatterbox.

tall, a. lofty, high, towering.

tally, n. mate, match, counterpart; score, account, record.

tally, v. match, conform, agree, correspond, coincide, square, comport, accord.

tame, v. domesticate, reclaim, break; discipline, subjugate, conquer, repress.

tame, a. docile, domesticated, gentle; prosy, dull, vapid; submissive, subdued.

tamper, v. meddle, tinker.

tangible, a. palpable, tactile, material; substantial, evident, perceptible, obvious.

tangle, v. snarl, entangle, interweave; embroil, insnare, entrap, involve, perplex, enmesh. Antonyms: disentangle, unravel, extricate.

tangle, n. snarl, complication, intricacy; imbroglio, perplexity. Antonyms: disentanglement, extrication.

tangled, a. entangled, complicated, tangly, snarled, intricate, involved.

tank, n. reservoir, vat.

tantalize, v. torment, plague, vex, disappoint.

tap, n. stopper, plug, spigot, spile, faucet.

tap, v. broach.

tape needle. bodkin.

tapering, a. conical, taper, pyramidal, fusiform.

tapeworms, n. pl. tænia. Associated Words: tæniafuge, tæniacide, tænioid, tæniid, proglottis, segment, cysticercus, cestode, measles.

tardy, a. slow, sluggish; dilatory, reluctant, behindhand, late. Antonyms: punctual, prompt.

tarnish, v. dim, sully, besmirch, blacken, deface.

task, n. work, labor, assignment, stint; study, lesson, exercise.

taste, n. tasting gustation, degustation; flavor, savor, tang, race, relish, _goût_, saporosity, sapor, gusto, gust, sapidity; liking, fondness, appetite, appetency; tincture, infusion, dash, _soupçon_; discernment, discrimination; foretaste, prelibation. Antonyms: dowdiness, tawdriness, distaste vulgarity. Associated Words: gustatory, saporific.

tasteful, a. palatable, savory, relishable, toothsome, gustable, delicious.

tasteless, a. insipid, flat, unpalatable, vapid.

tastelessness, n. insipidity, vapidity.

tasty, a. tasteful, neat. Antonyms: dowdy, tawdry, meretricious, inartistic.

tattle, v. tell, divulge, blab, peach.

tattler, n. tale-bearer, gossip, quidnunc, news-monger, busybody.

taunt, v. ridicule, deride, mock, reproach, revile, jeer twit, gibe.

taunt, n. ridicule, derision, jeer, reproach, gibe, quip, quirk.

taunting, a. reviling, derisive, jeering, sarcastic.

tawdry, a. gaudy, meretricious, showy, flashy, inelegant.

tax, n. assessment, toll, excise, levy, tribute, custom, duty, impost; capitation, poll-tax; charge, exaction.

tax, v. assess; exact, demand, task.

taxable, a. assessable.

tea, n. Associated Words: theine, thea, theism, samovar, caddy, theiform, maté, canister, cabaret, tannin.

teach, v. instruct, inform, educate, discipline, train, indoctrinate, school, enlighten, drill, tutor, instill, inculcate, coach.

teachable, a. docile, tractable, apt, bright.

teacher, n. instructor, tutor, master, pedagogue, preceptor, preceptress, governess, coach, usher, mentor; pl. faculty.

teaching, n. instruction, education, breeding, enlightenment, inculcation, tuition, tutoring, indoctrination. Associated Words: pedagogy, pedagogics, didactics, paideutics, propædeutics, didactic, instructive, propædeutic, pædeutic, pedagogic, pedagogism, didacticism.

team, n. span, pair.

tear, n. rent, fissure, rip.

tear, v. rend, rip, lacerate, dilacerate, sunder, dismember; fume, rage, rave, rant, storm.

tearful, a. lachrymose, weeping, maudlin.

tearing, n. rending, laceration, lancination, ripping, dismemberment.

tears, n. pl. Associated Words: lachrymal, lachrymation, lachrymatory, lachrymals, lachrymiform, lachrymary.

tease, v. torment, plague, tantalize, hector, taunt, harass, badger.

teat, n. nipple, pap, dug, mammilla.

tedious, a. tiresome, wearisome, irksome, humdrum, monotonous.

tedium, n. tediousness, humdrum.

teem, v. multiply, be prolific, abound, overflow, swarm.

teeming, a. prolific, abounding, replete, overflowing, rife.

teeter, v. seesaw, titter, titter-totter.

teeth, n. pl. biters, incisors, molars, bicuspids, grinders, tusks, wisdom teeth, eye teeth, canine teeth, fangs. Associated Words: odontology, dentist, dentistry, dental, odontography, dentiloquy, denture, cement, tartar, pyorrhea, gnash, alveoli, corona, dentifrice, dentilave, pulp, dentiform, dentilation, cusp, overshot.

teething, n. dentition, odontiasis.

teetotaler, n. nephalist, total abstainer.

teetotalism, n. nephalism, abstinence (from spirituous liquors), temperance.

tell, v. mention, recount, relate, narrate, enumerate, advise, inform, recite, disclose, bruit, divulge, proclaim, expose, apprise, peach, communicate, acquaint, notify, reveal, discern. Antonyms: suppress, reserve, withhold, forbear.

telling, n. notification, apprising, communication, relation, narration, recital, divulgement.

telling, a. effective, cogent, potent, conclusive.

telltale, n. tattler.

temerity, n. audacity, boldness, presumption, recklessness, foolhardiness, rashness.

temper, v. qualify, modify, moderate, appease; anneal.

temper, n. mood, disposition, humor; passion.

temperament, n. constitution, nature, temper, disposition.

temperance, n. sobriety, nephalism, moderation.

temperate, a. moderate; dispassionate, calm; abstemious, sober, self-denying.

tempest, n. storm, tumult, commotion, disturbance.

tempestuous, a. See stormy.

temple, n. fane, church, sanctuary, tabernacle; teocalli, pagoda, mosque, hieron, marai.

temporal, a. secular, worldly; temporary; political, civil.

temporary, a. transitory, transient, temporal, impermanent, ephemeral, fleeting.

tempt, v. seduce, entice, decoy, allure, induce; provoke, incite, instigate.

temptation, n. seduction, allurement, enticement, attraction; decoy, lure, bait, inducement.

tempter, n. seducer, siren, Circe.

tempting, a. enticing, alluring, seductive.

ten, n. Associated Words: decimal, decimate, decimation, denary, decemvir, decemvirate.

tenacious, a. retentive; cohesive, tough; pertinacious, persistent.

tenacity, n. retentiveness; cohesiveness, toughness; pertinacity, persistency.

tend, v. conduce, contribute; attend, accompany, guard; incline, lean.

tendency, n. drift, inclination, proclivity, proneness, propensity, bent, predisposition.

tender, a. delicate, fragile, sensitive, susceptible; pathetic, touching, plaintive; sympathetic, pitiful, compassionate, kind. Antonyms: tough, strong.

tender, n. attendant; offer, proposal, overture, proposition.

tender, v. offer, present, proffer, propose.

ten dollars. eagle.

tent, n. pavilion, tabernacle, marquee, tilt, wigwam, tepee; pl. tentage.

tenth, n. tithe, tithing; decimal.

ten thousand. myriad. Associated Word: myriarch.

ten years. decade, decennium, decennary. Associated Words: decennial, decennially.

terms, n. pl. stipulations, conditions; terminology, nomenclature.

terrace, n. esplanade, plateau.

terrible, a. dreadful, formidable, shocking, horrible, frightful, dire, grewsome, nefarious; (Colloq.) severe, extreme, excessive, immoderate.

terrify, v. appall, intimidate, daunt, horrify, alarm, shock, frighten.

territory, n. province, region, district.

terror, n. alarm, consternation, dismay, panic, fright, affright.

test, n. trial, ordeal; standard, touchstone, criterion; crucible.

test, v. try, prove, assay.

testicles, n. pl. testes. Associated Words: castrate, castration, testicular, emasculate, alter, geld, spade, eunuch, varicocele, scrotum, orchitis, suspensory, orchotomy, sarcocele, hydrocele, parorchis, orchialgia, orchic, spermatic, semen, monorchism, epididymis, gubernaculum, gonad.

testify, v. depose, attest, asseverate, verify.

testimonial, n. credential, certificate, voucher.

testimony, n. attestation, deposition, corroboration; witness, evidence.

testy, a. irritable, choleric, captious.

tetter, n. ringworm, herpes, fret.

text, n. passage, pericope; subject, topic, theme.

texture, n. fabric, web; grain, structure, contexture.

thankful, a. grateful.

thankfulness, n. gratitude. Antonyms: unthankfulness, ingratitude.

thankless, a. unthankful, ungrateful; unacceptable, unappreciated.

thanks, n. pl. gramercy (many thanks).

theater, n. playhouse; odeon, lyceum; arena, stage, scene, field.

theatrical, a. dramatic, histrionic, scenic; stagy, artificial.

theft, n. See stealing.

theory, n. hypothesis.

thick, a. dense, coagulated, crass, gross, inspissate, inspissated, grumous, incrassated; compact, turbid, roily, feculent, muddy; (Colloq.) intimate, confidential.

thicken, v. coagulate, condense, inspissate, curdle, concrete, incrassate.

thickening, a. inspissant.

thickening, n. inspissation, condensation, coagulation, incrassation.

thicket, n. shrubbery, copse, chaparral, grove, boscage, bosk, spinny, coppice.

thick-headed, a. pachycephalic, pachycephalous; dull, stupid, doltish.

thicklip, n. blobberlip.

thickness, n. denseness, density, compactness; grossness, crassitude, consistence; intimacy. Associated Words: pachometer, pachymeter.

thick-skinned, a. pachydermatous; obtuse, dull, unimpressible.

thick-tongued, a. pachyglossal, crassilingual.

thief, n. robber, pilferer, filcher, peculator; embezzler, defaulter, peculator; plagiarist; poacher; shoplifter; kleptomaniac.

thievery, n. theft, larceny; embezzlement, peculation; shoplifting.

thievish, a. light-fingered, pilfering, predatory; stealthy, sneaking.

thill, n. shaft (of a vehicle).

thin, a. emaciated, slender, poor, wasted, peaked, gaunt, scrawny, lank, spare, meager, haggard, scraggy; tenuous, delicate, fine; incompact; dilute, rare, rarefied, subtile, attenuated; sheer, flimsy, sleazy, unsubstantial, gossamery, gauzy, diaphanous, transparent; sparse, scanty; inadequate, insufficient, superficial.

thin, v. dilute, reduce, attenuate, rarefy, diminish, subtilize.

thing, n. object, article.

things, n. pl. (Colloq.) clothes, furniture, appurtenances, belongings, goods, luggage, accessories, chattels, effects, traps, impedimenta (Mil.), paraphernalia.

think, v. meditate, cogitate, ponder, contemplate, brood, reflect, muse, consider, speculate, ruminate, opine, deem, apprehend, excogitate, infer, surmise, mull.

thinkable, a. conceivable, cogitable, imaginable, presumable.

thinking, a. rational, pensive, reflective, contemplative, cogitative, introspective.

thinking, n. cogitation, meditation, contemplation, thought.

thinness, n. emaciation, slenderness, gauntness, spareness, meagerness; tenuity, delicacy, fineness; incompactness; rarity, subtilty, subtilization; inadequacy, sparseness, scantiness.

thinning, n. dilution, reduction, attenuation, rarefaction, subtilization. Associated Words: attenuant, diluent.

thin-skinned, a. leptodermic; sensitive, impressible, irritable.

third, a. tertiary.

thirst, n. dryness, aridity, drought. Antonym: adipsy. Associated words: slake, quench, dipsetic, adipsous.

thirty years. Associated Words: tricennial, tricennially.

thorn, n. spine, prickle, brier; torment, plague, infliction.

thornless, a. spineless, inermis.

thorny, a. spiny, briery, prickly; vexatious, troublesome, annoying.

thorough, a. complete, profound. Antonyms: superficial, cursory, partial, sciolistic.

thought, n. reflection, cogitation, revery, musing, meditation, consideration, abstraction, imagination, brown study, contemplation, deliberation, introspection, retrospection, lucubration, rumination, preoccupation, excogitation; idea, concept, surmise, inference.

thoughtful, a. contemplative, meditative, reflective, cogitative, wistful, pensive, preoccupied, abstracted; considerate, heedful, circumspect, wary.

thoughtless, a. inconsiderate, careless, unmindful, remiss, rash, inadvertent, indiscreet, heedless, unreasoning.

thousand, n. Associated Words: millennium, millennial, chiliad, chiliasm, chiliarchy, chiliarch, chiliast, millenary, millesimal.

thrash, v. thresh.

thread, n. filament, fibre, stamen, staple, pile, raveling, lint, warp, woof, thrum.--v. thrid.

threadbare, a. napless, pileworn, seedy, trite, hackneyed.

threat, n. menace, threatening, commination, fulmination, intimidation.

threaten, v. menace; augur, forebode, portend; impend, be imminent.

threatening, a. imminent, ominous, impending, minatory, fulminating.

three, n. trio, trinity, triad, ternary, ternion; triplets. Associated Words: thrice, treble, trialogue, triarchy, triplicate, triplication, triplicity, trinal, triarchy, tripartition, tripod, triptych, trisect, trisection, trireme, triumvirate, trilogy, triform, triformity, trilling, trilemma.

three-colored, a. tricolored.

three-flowered, a. trifloral, triflorous.

threefold, a. triple.

three-forked, a. trisulcate, trifurcated.

three hundred years. tricentenary. Associated Words: tercentenary, tricentenary, tri-centennial.

three languages. Associated Word: trilingual.

three-leaved, a. trifoliate, trifoliated.

three-legged stand. trivet, tripod.

three letters. triphthong, trigraph.

three months. trimester. Associated Words: trimestral, trimestrial, quarterly.

three-parted, a. tripartite.

three-pointed, a. tricuspidate, tricuspid.

three-pointed spear. trident.

three-sided, a. triangular, trilateral.

three-sided figure. triangle.

three-toothed a. trident, tridentate.

three years. triennium. Associated Words: triennial, triennially.

threshold, n. doorsill.

thrift, n. frugality, economy, thriftiness, providence; prosperity.

thriftless, a. wasteful, improvident, extravagant, prodigal.

thrifty, a. sparing, economical, provident, frugal; thriving, prosperous; luxuriant.

thrilling, a. moving, exciting, sensational.

thrive, v. flourish, prosper.

thriving, a. flourishing, thrifty, prosperous.

throat, n. pharynx, fauces; gullet, esophagus. Associated Words: guttural, gutturalize, gargle, faucal, laryngeal, glottis, pharyngeal, pharyngotomy, larynx.

throb, n. beating, pulsation, palpitation.--v. palpitate, pulsate, beat.

throbbing, a. pulsating, palpitant, palpitating.

throne, n. sovereignty. Associated Words: enthrone, dethrone, dorsal, abdicate, abdication, interregnum, accession, accede.

throw, v. pitch, hurl, fling, cast, toss, sling, heave; overturn, prostrate, floor.

throw away. squander; reject, decline, refuse.

throw by. discard.

throw in. inject; contribute.

throwing, n. Associated Words: missile, putting.

throwing out. ejection, expulsion; eviction; ejaculation.

throwing overboard. jettison.

throw off. expel; reject, discard, abandon.

throw out. expel, evict, oust, reject; emit; discharge, excrete, eject, egest, void, ejaculate, eliminate. Antonym: retain.

throw up. resign; vomit, puke, disgorge.

thrush, n. aphtha.

thrust, n. push, shove, allonge, stab, protrusion.

thrust, v. push, force, impel, shove, stab, pierce, protrude.

thug, n. ruffian, rough, assassin.

thunder, n. Associated Words: brontology, Thor, brontorneter, brontograph, fulmineous, fulminatory, isobront, keraunophobia.

thunder, n. fulmination, denunciation.--v. fulminate, denounce.

thunder, v. detonate, roll, boom.

thundering, n. fulmination.--a. fulminatory.

thunderstruck, n. dumfounded, astounded, amazed.

thwart, v. frustrate, baffle, foil, balk, contravene.

tickle, v. titillate; please, delight, gladden.

tickling, n. titillation.--a. titillative.

ticklish, a. difficult, critical, delicate.

tidbit, n. delicacy, dainty, junket.

tide, n. Associated Words: ebb, flood, flow, marigray, marigram.

tidy, a. orderly, neat, trim.

tie, v. secure, fasten, bind, tether, leash. tie, n. knot, fastening; bond, obligation; (R.R.) sleeper, crosstie.

tight, a. taut, tense; snug, close-fitting; (Colloq.) close, penurious, stingy, parsimonious; (Colloq.) stringent; (Slang) tipsy, boozy, fuddled, intoxicated, drunk.

tighten, v. straiten.

tile, n. Associated Words: tegular, mosaic, tessellated, parquetry.

till, v. cultivate.

tillable, a. arable, cultivable.

tilt, v. slant, slope, incline, tip, cant.

time, n. duration; while, spell, season, interval, interim, lapse, interregnum, period; season, opportunity, leisure; tense; (Mus.) measure, tempo; perpetuity; usance; age, date, eon, epoch, era, term. Associated Words: horology, horography, horometry, chronology, chronological, anachronism, anachronistic, synchronology, synchronal, synchronous, synchronism, synchronize, synchroncity, chronometry, gnomonics, contemporaneous, coexistent, coexistence, contemporary, contemporaneity, simultaneous, simultaneousness, concurrence, coincident, coincidence, gnomon, coincide, isochronal, isochronism, isochronon, isochronous, anachronous, prochronism, chronogram, chronic, coeval, coetaneous.

timely, a. seasonable, punctual, opportune. Antonyms: untimely, inopportune.

timepiece, n. time-keeper, chronometer, horologe, clock, watch, hourglass, chronograph, chronoscope, clepsydra, gnomon, repeater, sundial, isochronon.

time-server, n. temporizer, trimmer.

time-serving, a. temporizing, trimming.

timid, a. timorous, shy, diffident, meticulous, faint-hearted, cowardly.

timidity, n. diffidence, shyness, timorousness, cowardice.

tin, n. _stannum_; latten, prillion. Associated Words: stannary, stannic, stanniferous, stannous, shadd.

tin mine. stannary.

tinsel, a. glittering, meretricious, specious, flashy.

tinsel, n. spangle, pinchbeck, glitter, tawdriness.

tinsmith, n. whitesmith, tinner.

tintype, n. ferrotype, stannotype.

tip, v. incline, lean, cant, tilt; careen, capsize, keel, overturn, upset.--n. end, apex, extremity.

tiptop, n. (Colloq.) pinnacle, apex.

tirade, n. diatribe, invective, billingsgate, screed.

tire, v. fatigue, weary, jade, fag, bore, irk, tucker, exhaust.

tiresome, a. irksome, wearisome, fatiguing, tedious; toilsome, arduous.

tissue, n. fabric, stuff, cloth, texture; web, network, fabrication.

toad-eater, n. toady.

toads, n. pl. Associated Words: ranine, ranivorous.

toadstool, n. fungus. See Fungi.

toady, n. sycophant, toad-eater, flatterer, fawner.

tobacco, n. Associated Words: tobacconist, nicotine, nicotinism, canaster, cavendish, plug, cud, quid, fumacious, carotte, capa, perique, mundungus, humidor.

toe, n. digit.

together, adv. unitedly, jointly, concertedly, simultaneously.

toil, n. labor, drudgery; toils, snare, trap.--v. labor, moil, drudge.

token, n. sign, symbol, index, indication.

tolerable, a. sufferable, endurable; passable, mediocre, so-so, ordinary.

tolerance, n. endurance, toleration, sufferance. Antonym: intolerance.

tolerant, a. indulgent, forbearing, charitable. Antonym: intolerant.

tolerate, v. endure, suffer, brook; allow, permit, admit.

toleration, n. tolerance, endurance, sufferance; allowance, permission.

tomb, n. sepulchre, crypt, vault, ossuary; mausoleum (a magnificent tomb).

tomboy, n. (Colloq.) hoiden, romp.

tombstone, n. monument; cenotaph (honoring one buried elsewhere). Associated Words: sepulchral, epitaph, lapidary.

tomfoolery, n. (Colloq.) folly, trifling, monkey-tricks, mummery.

tone, n. sound, note; cadence, modulation; force, vigor, energy.

tone down. subdue, moderate, soften.

toneless, a. aspirated, surd, atonic, unintonated.

tongue, n. Associated Words: lingual, glossal, sublingual, fur, tchick, barb, papillæ, lick, lap, hyoid, lincture, aglossal, frænum, fourchette, raphe.

tonguy, a. (Colloq.) voluble, fluent, loquacious, garrulous.

tonic, n. invigorant, roborant.

tool, n. implement, utensil, instrument; cat's-paw, puppet, hireling. Associated Words: ratten, cocobola, kit.

tooth, n. (little tooth) denticle, dentile. Associated Words: denticulation, serration, serrature. See teeth.

toothache, n. odontalgia. Associated Word: odontalgic.

toothless, a. agomphious, edentate, edentulous.

toothless animals. Edentata.

toothsome, n. palatable, delicious, savory, gustable.

top, n. summit, crest, apex, vertex, pinnacle, zenith, culmination, capsheaf, meridian.

top, v. surmount, overtop, surpass.

toper, n. drunkard, sot, inebriate, guzzler.

topic, n. subject, theme; division, head, subdivision.

topknot, n. crest.

top-shaped, a. turbinate, turbinated.

torch, n. flambeau (flaming torch), cresset.

torment, n. pain, anguish, distress, torture; bane, infliction, scourge, thorn.

torment, v. persecute, hector, tease, tantalize, harry; torture, grill, rack, distress.

torn, a. rent, lacerated, ripped.

tornado, n. hurricane, cyclone, whirlwind.

torpid, a. numb, benumbed, unfeeling; lethargic, dull, hebetate, sluggish, stupid.

torpidity, n. numbness, lethargy, inactivity, hebetude.

touch, v. meet, impinge; graze.

touch, n. touching, contact, contiguity, juxtaposition, osculation, tangency; taction, tact, palpation; dash, sprinkling, _soupçon_, infusion; animadversion, censure, stricture, reflection, slur. Associated words: tactile, tactility, tactual, palpable, impalpable, palpability, impalpability.

touchiness, n. irascibility, petulance, irritability.

touching, a. pathetic, affecting, moving, tender.

touching, prep. respecting, concerning, regarding.

touchstone, n. criterion, test; basanite, Lydian stone.

touchwood, n. punk, tinder, agaric, spunk.

touchy, a. irascible, irritable, petulant, testy, choleric, snappish.

tough, a. tenacious, unyielding; cohesive, adhesive; obdurate, refractory, stubborn; (Colloq.) difficult, arduous, hard.

tour, n. journey, trip, excursion, expedition.

tousled, a. (Colloq.) disordered, disheveled.

toweling, n. crash.

tower, n. steeple, campanile, minaret, spire, belfry, turret, cupola, dome; tourelle, barbican, pylon, martello tower; castle, citadel, donjon, keep, fortress.

tower, v. overtop, rise above.

toy, n. gimcrack, plaything, trinket, kickshaw, bauble, teetotum, gewgaw.

trace, n. vestige, sign, impression.

track, n. trace, vestige, footprint, footmark, foil; spoor; wake, trail.

tract, n. Associated Words: colporteur, colportage.

trade, n. commerce, barter, traffic, business; handicraft. Associated Words: technical, technology, technicals, technicality, technological, polytechnic, polytechnics, vocational, Mercury.

trade, v. exchange, barter, traffic, swap (Colloq.).

trader, n. trafficker, dealer, merchant, tradesman, monger.

tradesman, n. trader, merchant; artisan, craftsman, mechanic, journeyman, handicraftsman.

trading, a. commercial, mercantile; venal, corrupt, jobbing.

trail, n. train; track, wake, spoor, footmark, foil, trace.

trailing, a. procumbent, prostrate. Antonyms: upright, erect.

train, n. retinue, suite, attendants; series, chain.

train, v. discipline, nurture, drill; accustom, habituate, familiarize.

trained, a. skilled, practiced, disciplined, competent. Antonym: untrained.

training, n. discipline, nurture, drilling, exercise.

traitorous, a. perfidious, treasonable, recreant, faithless.

tramp, v. march, trudge, plod.

tramp, n. vagrant, vagabond, landloper, walleteer, nomad, hobo, derelict.

trample, v. crush; scorn, spurn, disregard.

transaction, n. procedure, affair, deal, business.

transform, v. transfigure, metamorphose; transmute.

transformation, n. transfiguration, metamorphosis; transmutation.

transgress, v. violate, infringe, disregard.

transgression, n. violation, infringement, infraction.

transient, a. fleeting, transitory, temporary, impermanent.

translate, v. construe, render, interpret.

translation, n. rendering, interpretation.

transmogrify, v. (Colloq.) transform, metamorphose.

transparency, n. diaphaneity, translucency. Antonyms: opacity, intransparency.

transparent, a. diaphanous, translucent, pellucid. Antonyms: opaque, intransparent.

trap, n. snare, toil, gin, springe, pitfall; artifice, stratagem.

trap, v. entrap, ensnare, trapan, catch.

trapdoor, n. hatchway.

trappings, n. pl. decorations, paraphernalia, frippery, gear, rigging, ornaments; caparisons, accouterments.

traps, n. pl. See things.

trash, n. rubbish, refuse, trumpery.

trashy, a. trumpery, rubbishy, waste.

travel, v. journey, itinerate, peregrinate.

travel, n. journey, tour, peregrination.

traveler, n. wayfarer, itinerant, voyager, pilgrim, tourist, peregrinator, passenger.

traveler's handbook. itinerary.

traveling, a. wayfaring, itinerant, wandering, peripatetic.

traveling man. drummer, agent, traveling salesman.

traveling preacher. itinerant.

travesty, n. burlesque, parody, caricature, take-off.

tray, n. salver, waiter, plateau, server.

treacherous, a. traitorous, perfidious, faithless.

treachery, n. treason, perfidy, disloyalty, Punic faith.

treasury, n. exchequer; repository. Associated Words: treasurer, fiscal, treasure-trove.

treat, v. regale, feast; negotiate; behave toward, deal with.

treatise, n. disquisition, dissertation, monograph; thesis.

treaty, n. covenant, agreement, compact, concordat, pact, protocol.

tree, n. (young) sapling, seedling; (with top cut off) pollard, bolling; (small) staddle. Associated Words: dendrology, sylviculture, arboriculture, arboriculturist, sylviculturist, dendrologist, arboreal, arbor, arboreous, arborescence, arborescent, arborist, arborization, dendrography, dendrophilous, sylvan, topiary work, thicket, copse, coppice, grove, plashing, sawyer, dendromoeter, rampick, spinny, dendrite, dendriform, dendroid, dendrolite, lichen, motte.

trellis, n. lattice, lattice-work, espalier, _treillage_.

tremble, v. quake, quiver, shudder, dodder, quaver, totter, vibrate, oscillate.

trembling, n. tremor, quivering, quaver, trepidation, rigor, oscillation.

trembling, a. doddering, shaking, infirm, quivering.

trench, n. ditch, gutter, trough, moat, channel.

trend, n. tendency.

trespass, v. encroach upon, infringe, intrude.

trial, n. test, experiment, proof, essay, examination; probation; ordeal, crucible, criterion; effort, exertion, endeavor; adversity, hardship, tribulation, affliction. Associated Words: empiricism, empirical, empiric, probationer, probationary, tentative.

trick, n. ruse, artifice, stratagem, sleight, hoax, maneuver, wile, feint, chicane; antic, prank, caper; trait, peculiarity.

trick, v. deceive, cheat, defraud, cozen, impose upon; dress, decorate, set off, adorn.

trickery, n. deception, chicanery, artifice, duplicity, Machiavelianism, circumvention, indirection.

trickle, v. dribble, drip, percolate, distill.

trickster, n. rogue, cheat, impostor, scoundrel.

tricky, a. trickish, knavish, unprincipled, treacherous.

trifle, n. triviality, bagatelle, doit.

trifle, v. dawdle, dally, pother, fribble, quiddle.

trifler, n. fribbler, dawdler, dallier, piddler, quiddler.

trifling, a. trivial, paltry, piddling, insignificant, piffling, frivolous.

trifling, n. piddling, frivolity, piffle, dalliance, quibbling, piffling.

trim, a. spruce, smart; neat, tidy.

trim, v. adjust, arrange; decorate, adorn, garnish, embellish, bedeck, trick; prune, clip, lop; (Colloq.) rebuke, reprove, reprimand, rate, scold.

trimming, n. embellishment, garnish, decoration; (Colloq.) chastisement, scolding, reproof.

trinket, n. bauble, gimcrack, knickknack, gewgaw, gaud; bijou; pl. trinkets, trinketry; bijoutry.

trip, n. jaunt; lapse, slip, stumble, misstep. Associated Words: itinerary, itinerancy, viatic, viaticum.

triplet, n. trilling.

trite, a. hackneyed, banal, commonplace.

triumph, n. victory, conquest; exultation, ovation.

triumph, v. overcome, prevail, succeed; exult, rejoice.

triumphant, a. exultant, jubilant; victorious.

trivial, a. trifling, frivolous, insignificant, unimportant.

triviality, n. unimportance, paltriness.

troop, n. company, battery, squad, band, throng, crowd.

trouble, v. vex, disturb, distress, inconvenience, incommode, pester, worry.

trouble, n. tribulation, adversity, reverses, affliction, calamity, misfortune; vexation, annoyance, inconvenience, worry, disturbance; torment, plague, thorn, bane.

troublesome, a. vexatious, burdensome, afflictive, harassing, galling, wearisome.

trounce, v. (Colloq.) flog, castigate, whip.

trousers, n. pl. pants, pantaloons, breeches; trews; spatterdashes, garnashes; knickerbockers.

trout, n. Associated Word: truttaceous.

truce, n. armistice.

truckle, v. cringe, knuckle, submit, yield.

true, a. correct, exact, accurate, veritable, authentic, real, genuine, actual; veracious, truthful; loyal, stanch, steadfast, unwavering; incorruptible, trustworthy, faithful, honorable. Antonyms: See untrue.

trueblue, a. (Colloq.) incorruptible, loyal, true.

truism, n. axiom.

trump, v. impose, palm off, obtrude, deceive.

trumpery, n. falsehood, deception; rubbish, trash.--a. worthless, deceptive, trashy.

trumpet, n. horn; shophar (Heb.). Associated Words: fanfare, buccinal.

trump up, v. devise, fabricate.

trunk, n. body, bole, stock; proboscis; chest, coffer.

truss, v. pack, compress; skewer.

trust, n. credence, confidence, belief, reliance, affiance, faith; credit, tick; assurance, confidence; duty, commission, charge. Antonyms: distrust, doubt. Associated Words: fiduciary, fiducial.

trust, v. depend upon, rely upon; give credit to, tick; intrust, commit.

trustee, n. fiduciary, regent.

trustful, a. unsuspicious, confiding, credulous, confident.

trusty, a. trustworthy, faithful, reliable.

truth, n. veracity, truthfulness; accuracy, precision, exactness, correctness; verity, fact; truism, axiom; fidelity, constancy, loyalty, fealty, steadfastness; candor, frankness, ingenuousness. Antonyms: See untruth.

truthful, a. veracious, undissembling, ingenuous, veridical.

try, v. test, examine, prove; attempt, essay, endeavor; purify, refine; hear, adjudicate, adjudge; strive, seek, strain.

try, n. attempt, essay, trial, experiment. See trial.

trying, a. severe, distressing, hard, irksome, afflictive, ordeal.

trysting-place, n. rendezvous.

tub, n. firkin, keeler, keelfat, keeve, vat, piggin.

tube, n. pipe; valinch.

tubular, a. tubiform, fistular, cannular.

tuft, n. knot, bunch, clump; tussock, crest.

tug, n. trace; pull, effort.

tumble, v. heave, toss, roll, pitch; topple.

tumble-down, a. (Colloq.) dilapidated, ramshackle.

tumbler, n. acrobat, contortionist.

tumor, n. sarcoma; myoma; carcinoma; lipoma. Associated Words: oncology, oncotomy.

tumult, n. commotion, hurly-burly, turbulence.

tumultuous, a. disorderly, turbulent, noisy, riotous.

tune, n. air, melody; order, harmony, unison, concord, accord.

tune, v. attune, modulate, harmonize.

tuneful, a. melodious, harmonious.

tuneless, a. inharmonious, discordant, dissonant.

tunnel, n. funnel; subway.

turf, n. sward, sod, greensward; peat.

turmoil, n. commotion, uproar, tumult, turbulence, agitation.

turn, v. revolve, spin, gyrate, rotate, wheel, veer, shift, swivel; deflect, inflect; reverse, revert; divert, avert; invert; resort, apply.

turn, n. bend, winding, meander, curve, detour, deflection, crook, sweep; favor, kindness, service, accommodation.

turn aside. divert, avert, deflect, parry.

turned away. averted.

turning, n. rotation, revolution, spinning, gyration; eversion, extroversion; flexure, flexion, incurvation; deviation, deflection; circumrotation.

turning, a. revolving, rotary, rotating, gyratory, winding, circumrotary.

turning aside. averting, deviation, diversion, deflection, parry.

turning back. retroversion, retroflexion.

turning inward. introversion.

turning over or backward. inversion, reversal.

turning point. crisis; pivot. Associated Words: pivotal, critical.

turning upside down. inversion, reversal.

turning wrong side out. extroversion, eversion.

turnip-shaped, a. napiform.

turnkey, n. warder.

turn upside down. invert, reverse.

turtle, n. tortoise; terrapin.

tussle, n. struggle, contest, scuffle, conflict.

twaddle, n. flummery, balderdash, fustian, moonshine.

twelve, n. dozen. Associated Words: dodecagon, dodecahedral, dodecahedron, duodecimal, duodecimfid, duodecimo, duodecuple, duodenary.

twenty, n. score. Associated Words: vicenary, vigesimal, vigesimation, icosahedron.

twenty years. Associated Word: vicennial.

twig, n. spray, branch, sprig, switch.

twilight, n. dusk, evening. Associated Words: crepuscular, crepusculous.

twine, v. entwine, encircle, wreathe.

twinkle, v. blink, wink; flash, sparkle, scintillate.

twinkling, n. sparkling, scintillation, flash, twinkle.

twist, v. contort, writhe, squirm, convolve, pervert, coil, wrench, distort.

twisted, a. contorted, awry, tortuous, coiled, perverted.

twisting, n. contortion, convolution, writhing, torsion, wrench, distortion, perversion.

twit, v. taunt, upbraid, reproach.

twitch, n. jerk; twitching, vellication.--v. jerk, snatch, vellicate.

twitter, n. chirp, chirrup.

two, n. couple, pair, brace, doublet, dyad, team, span, twain; twins. Associated Words: dual, duality, double, dualism, duplex, duplicate, duplication, bifarious, binary, dimidiate, dimidiation, duet, dialogue, duarchy, bisect, bisection, halve.

two bodies. Associated Word: bicorporal.

two colors. Associated Words: dichromatic, dichromatism, dichromic.

two-faced, a. Janus-faced, bifacial.

two fingers. Associated Word: bidigitate.

twofold, a. double, duplicate.

two-footed, a. biped.

two-footed animal. biped.

two-forked, a. bifurcated, bifurcate, dichotomous.

two-handed, a. bimanous; ambidextrous.

two-handed animals. Bimana.

two-headed, a. bicephalous.

two hundred years. Associated Words: bicentenary, bicentennial.

two languages. Associated Words: bilingual, diglot, bilingualism, bilinguist.

two-legged, a. biped.

two letters. Associated Words: biliteral, biliteralism, diphthong, digraph, duoliteral.

two months. Associated Word: bi-monthly.

two parties. Associated Words: bipartisan, bipartisanship.

two parts. Associated Words: bipartible, bipartite, bipartition, bipartient, bisect, bisection.

two poles. Associated Words: bipolar, bipolarity.

two-sided, a. double-faced, bilateral.

two weeks, fortnight. Associated Words: bi-weekly, fortnightly.

two years. Associated Words: biennial, biennially.

type, n. symbol, token, representation; model, exemplar, phototype, archetype. Antonyms: antitype, variant, monstrosity.

typesetter, n. compositor; typograph (machine).

typhoid fever. enteric fever.

typical, a. emblematical, prefigurative, representative, indicative. Antonyms: atypical, abnormal, variant, unique.

typify, v. represent, prefigure.

typographer, n. printer.

typography, n. printing.

tyrannical, a. despotic, arbitrary, autocratic, imperious, absolute, dictatorial, domineering, oppressive, tyrannic.

tyrannize, v. domineer, persecute, oppress.

tyranny, n. despotism, absolutism, oppression, rigor, severity.

tyrant, n. despot, autocrat; oppressor, persecutor, usurper.

tyro, n. novice, neophyte, pupil, beginner.

U

Ubiquitous, a. omnipresent.

ubiquity, n. omnipresence.

udder, n. mamma. Associated Words: escutcheon, garget.

ugly, a. repulsive, unsightly, loathsome, hideous, grewsome, frightful; (Colloq.) crossgrained, ill-natured, unamiable, inaffable, surly, refractory, vicious, indocile, spiteful, sullen, morose; uncomely, hard-visaged, homely, ill-favored, hard-featured.

ulcer, n. fester, gathering, imposthume, pustule, ulceration. Associated Words: sanies, sanious.

ulcerate, v. suppurate, fester, maturate.

ultimate, a. final, farthest, extreme.

ultimately, adv. finally.

ultra, a. extreme.

umbrage, n. resentment.

umpire, n. referee, judge, arbitrator, arbiter.

unabated, a. undiminished, unassuaged.

unable, a. incapable.

unabundant, a. scarce, deficient, rare.

unacceptable, a. objectionable, unwelcome, undesirable.

unaccountable, a. incomprehensible, inexplicable, inscrutable.

unaccustomed, a. unfamiliar, unwonted, unused.

unacquainted, a. unfamiliar, strange.

unadulterated, a. unsophisticated, unalloyed, pure.

unadvised, a. imprudent, unwise, indiscreet, inconsiderate.

unaffected, a. unmoved, untouched, unimpressed; artless, naïve, sincere, natural, unfeigned.

unafraid, a. undaunted, unappalled, unabashed, undismayed.

unalterable, a. immutable, unchangeable.

unambitious, a. unenterprising, indifferent.

unamiable, a. cross, ungracious, surly, unfriendly, irascible.

unanimity, n. unison, accord, agreement.

unanswerable, a. irrefutable, incontrovertible.

unappeasable, a. insatiate, insatiable, unquenchable, implacable.

unappreciable, a. imperceptible.

unapproachable, a. inaccessible, distant.

unarmed, a. defenseless, unguarded, unprotected.

unasked, a. unsolicited, voluntary, free-will.

unassailable, a. impregnable, invincible, secure, invulnerable.

unassorted, a. mixed, promiscuous, indiscriminate.

unatonable, a. inexpiable, irremissible.

unattainable, a. unachievable, impracticable, impossible.

unauthentic, a. spurious, supposititious, uncanonical, apocryphal, fictitious.

unavailing, a. futile, nugatory, ineffectual, abortive, vain, bootless.

unavoidable, a. inevitable, unpreventable, ineludable.

unaware, a. unconscious, unmindful, insensible.

unbearable, a. intolerable, insufferable, unendurable.

unbecoming, a. inappropriate, unseemly, unsuitable, indecorous.

unbegotten, a. self-existent.

unbelief, n. incredulity, skepticism, doubt, infidelity, distrust, suspicion.

unbelievable, a. incredible, implausible, fabulous.

unbeliever, n. doubter, skeptic, infidel, free-thinker, nullifidian.

unbelieving, a. incredulous, doubtful, skeptical, nullifidian.

unbend, v. relax.

unbending, a. inflexible, unyielding, rigid, unpliant, resolute, incompliant.

unbiased, a. unprejudiced, impartial, unjaundiced, neutral, disinterested.

unbidden, a. unasked, uninvited; spontaneous, voluntary, volitional.

unblamable, a. blameless, inculpable, irreprehensible, innocent.

unblushing, a. shameless, unabashed, brazen-faced, indecent, immodest.

unbosom, v. confess, reveal, divulge.

unbounded, a. illimitable, boundless, unlimited, limitless, immeasurable, vast, infinite, immense.

unbreakable, a. infrangible; inviolable (said of a promise or vow).

unbreakableness, n. infrangibility; inviolability.

unbreathable, a. irrespirable.

unbridled, a. unrestrained, uncurbed, uncontrolled, licentious, immoderate.

unbroken, a. whole, intact; inviolate, inviolated; undisturbed, sound, profound; wild, untamed.

unburnable, a. incombustible, asbestic, incremable.

unbury, v. exhume, disentomb, disinter.

unburying, n. exhumation, disentombment, disinterment.

uncanny, a. weird, eerie.

uncanonical, a. apocryphal, unauthentic.

unceasing, a. incessant, perpetual, perennial, ceaseless.

unceremonious, a. informal, unconstrained; bluff, blunt.

uncertain, a. distrustful, hesitating; dubious, precarious, problematical, insecure; equivocal, ambiguous, indefinite, irresolute, inconstant, fickle, variable, capricious; fallible.

uncertainty, n. distrust, hesitation, doubt, dubiousness, dubiety, incertitude; irresolution, variableness, inconstancy, capriciousness; ambiguity, indefiniteness; contingency, fortuity; fallibility; suspense.

unchangeable, a. immutable, invariable, changeless, stereotyped, unalterable, unmodifiable, permanent, constant.

unchanging, a. unvarying, permanent.

uncharitable, a. illiberal, intolerant, ungenerous, bigoted, censorious.

unchaste, a. incontinent, impure, lewd, wanton, immoral.

unchastity, n. incontinence, wantonness, lechery, licentiousness, lewdness, impurity.

unchecked, a. unbridled, unrestrained, unhampered, untrammeled, uncurbed.

unchurch, v. excommunicate.

uncivil, a. discourteous, rude, churlish, boorish, brusque, impolite.

uncivilized, a. savage, barbarous, unreclaimed, benighted.

unclassifiable, a. nondescript.

uncle, a. Associated Word: avuncular.

unclean, a. soiled, dirty, foul, filthy, nasty, uncleanly; tref (Jewish); polluted, defiled, impure.

uncommon, a. unusual, singular, rare, unique, queer, strange, odd, anomalous, exceptional, abnormal, variant, nondescript, extraordinary, noteworthy, remarkable, aberrant.

uncommunicative, a. reserved, taciturn, reticent, secretive.

uncompelled, a. voluntary, spontaneous, gratuitous, unconstrained, volitional.

uncomplaining, a. resigned, patient, forbearing, long-suffering, meek.

uncomplimentary, a. unflattering, frank, derogatory, blunt.

uncompromising, a. inflexible, irreconcilable, intransigent, firm.

unconcern, n. indifference, nonchalance, apathy, disinterestedness.

unconcerned, a. indifferent, nonchalant, cool, apathetic, disinterested.

unconditional, a. absolute, unqualified, unrestricted, _carte blanche_.

uncongenial, a. disagreeable, unpleasant.

unconnected, a. disconnected, separate, isolated, abrupt, incoherent.

unconquerable, a. invincible, insuperable, impregnable, indomitable, inexpugnable.

unconscionable, a. unreasonable, inordinate, exorbitant, excessive.

unconscious, a. unaware, insensible; comatose; ingenuous, artless, naïve.

unconsciousness, n. insensibility; coma.

unconstrained, a. spontaneous, uncompelled, voluntary, natural.

uncontradictable, a. incontrovertible, indisputable, incontestable.

uncontrollable, a. ungovernable, irrepressible.

unconvincing, a. inconclusive.

uncouple, v. disconnect, detach, disjoin, loose.

uncourtly, a. rude, gawky, ungraceful, awkward, inelegant.

uncouth, a. awkward, clumsy, rude, ungainly, loutish, gawky, ungraceful.

uncover, v. disclose, reveal, expose, show.

unction, n. anointing; unguent, ointment; fervor, emotion, fervency, enthusiasm.

uncultivated, a. untilled, fallow.

uncultured, a. unlettered, ignorant; philistine.

undaughterly, a. unfilial.

undecaying, a. imperishable, amaranthine, perennial, undying, fadeless; imputrescible, incorruptible.

undeceive, v. disabuse, disillusionize, disillusion.

undeceiving, n. disillusion, disillusionment.

undecided, a. unsettled, pending; wavering, irresolute, dubious, controvertible.

undecipherable, a. illegible.

undefinable, a. unexplainable, undeterminable.

undefined, a. vague, indefinite, obscure; boundless, limitless.

undemonstrative, a. staid, quiet, demure, phlegmatic, sedate.

undeniable, a. incontestable, indisputable, unquestionable, indubitable, irrefragable, incontrovertible, unimpeachable.

under, prep. beneath, below, subordinate, inferior, subject to.

under, a. subordinate, subaltern, inferior, subjacent.

underbrush, n. undergrowth, jungle.

underground, a. subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene, subterrestrial.

underhand, a. underhanded, surreptitious, clandestine, covert.

underhand, adv. clandestinely, covertly, secretly, surreptitiously.

underhanded, a. covert, clandestine, surreptitious, underhand.

underline, v. underscore.

underling, n. subordinate, inferior, understrapper.

underlying, a. fundamental, basic.

underrate, v. underestimate, undervalue, underprize.

understand, v. comprehend, apprehend, grasp, discern.

understandable, a. comprehensible, intelligible.

understanding, n. comprehension, discernment, apprehension; accord, _entente_, harmony, agreement. Associated Word: tacit.

under the rose. secretly, privately, confidentially, _sub rosa_.

undervalue, v. depreciate, vilipend, despise; underrate, underestimate.

under water. submarine, subaquatic, subaqueous, submerged.

underwear, n. underclothing; lingerie.

underwrite, v. insure; subscribe.

undeserved, a. unmerited, unjust.

undeserving, a. unworthy, unmeritorious, indign.

undesigned, a. unpremeditated, unintentional, accidental.

undesigning, a. artless, guileless, sincere.

undesirable, a. inexpedient; objectionable, unacceptable, ineligible.

undetermined, a. unsettled, irresolute, wavering, indeterminate, abeyant.

undeveloped, a. in embryo, embryonic, immature, abeyant, embryo, imperfect; atrophied, dwarfed, rudimentary, stunted, abortive, puny.

undevelopment, n. immaturity; atrophy, abortion; embryo.

undignified, a. unseemly, unbecoming, groveling, servile, obsequious.

undiminished, a. unabated, unlessened.

undiscernible, a. imperceptible, indiscernible.

undisputable, a. incontrovertible, incontestable, indisputable, undeniable.

undissolvable, a. insoluble, indissolvable, indissoluble.

undo, v. reverse, annul, nullify, abrogate, neutralize, invalidate; loose, unfasten, disentangle; impoverish, ruin.

undoing, n. reversal, annulment, invalidation, abrogation; impoverishment, ruin.

undoubted, a. indubitable, unquestioned, unchallenged, undisputed.

undoubting, a. sure, confident, sanguine, implicit.

undress, n. dishabille, negligee.

undress, v. disrobe, strip, divest, doff, disarray.

undressing, n. disrobing, stripping.

undue, v. unreasonable, immoderate, exorbitant, excessive, disproportioned.

undutiful, a. disobedient, unfilial.

undying, a. deathless, immortal.

unearth, v. uncover, disclose, ferret out.

unearthly, a. weird, supernatural, preternatural, eerie, apalling, terrific.

uneasiness, n. restlessness, inquietude, perturbation, anxiety, agitation, malaise.

uneasy, a. restless, restive, anxious, perturbed, impatient.

uneatable, a. inedible, incomestible.

uneducated, a. illiterate, benighted. See ignorant.

unemotional, a. phlegmatic.

unendurable, a. intolerable, insufferable.

unequal, a. unmatched, uneven, disparate; ill-balanced, disproportioned, incommensurate, inequitable; inequable, irregular; inadequate, insufficient.

unequaled, a. unmatched, unexampled, incomparable, superior, preëminent, peerless, unsurpassed, unrivaled, exceeding, superlative, _sans pareil_.

unequalness, n. inequality, unevenness, disproportion, inadequacy.

unerasable, a. indelible, inerasable, permanent.

unerring, a. certain, sure, unfailing, infallible, inerrable, impeccable.

unescapable, a. inevitable, unavoidable.

unessential, a. nonessential, immaterial, unnecessary.

uneven, a. jagged, rugged, rough, hummocky, humpy, protuberant, unequal.

unexcelled, a. unequaled, unsurpassed, superior, supreme.

unexcitable, a. imperturbable, phlegmatic.

unexhaustible, a. exhaustless, inexhaustible.

unexpected, a. unforeseen, unanticipated, unlooked for.

unexperienced, a. inexperienced, unpracticed.

unexplainable, a. inexplicable, inscrutable, uninterpretable.

unexpressible, a. inexpressible, unutterable, ineffable.

unextinguishable, a. unquenchable, insuppressible.

unfading, a. perennial, amaranthine, permanent, enduring.

Unfailing, a. sure, certain, constant, inexhaustible, infallible, inevitable.

unfair, a. unjust, partial, unconscionable, inequitable, disingenuous.

unfairness, n. injustice, inequity, partiality.

unfaithful, a. disloyal, faithless, perfidious, undutiful, renegade, apostate, recreant, derelict, false, treacherous, traitorous, treasonable, untrustworthy, pervert, inconstant, unsteadfast, fickle.

unfaithfulness, n. disloyalty, perfidy, apostasy, recreancy, inconstancy, treachery, treason, bad faith, dereliction, fickleness, defection.

unfaltering, a. steadfast, unwavering, unswerving.

unfamiliar, a. unaccustomed, strange, novel; inconversant, unacquainted.

unfathered, a. fatherless; bastard, illegitimate.

unfathomable, a. abyssmal, immeasurable; inscrutable.

unfavorable, a. adverse, inimical, unpropitious, inauspicious, malign, derogatory, hostile.

unfeathered, a. unfledged, callow, squab.

unfeeling, a. insensible, insensate, insentient, numb, apathetic, impassible, impassive; stoic, callous, cruel, stern, incompassionate, unpitying, brutal, inclement.

unfeelingness, n. insensibility, impassibility, impassivity, torpidity, numbness, apathy; unkindness, cruelty, stoicism, incompassion, inclemency.

unfeigned, a. genuine, sincere, unaffected, unassumed.

unfinished, a. incomplete.

unfit, a. unsuitable, ineligible, inappropriate, unqualified, incompetent, inapt, inept.

unfit, v. disqualify, incapacitate, disable.

unfitness, n. ineligibility, unsuitableness, incompetency, irrelevance, disqualification.

unflattering, a. uncomplimentary, derogatory, frank.

unfledged, a. callow, unfeathered, squab.

unflinching, a. resolute.

unfold, v. unfurl, expand, evolve, unroll; disentangle, unravel, resolve; divulge, disclose, reveal, elucidate.

unfoldment, n. evolution, evolvment, expansion, unrolling; disentanglement, interpretation, explanation.

unforced, a. spontaneous, voluntary, optional, unconstrained.

unforgivable, a. unpardonable, irremissible, inexpiable.

unforgiving, a. implacable, irremissive, relentless.

unfortunate, a. unlucky, unsuccessful, disastrous, ill-starred, ill-fated.

unfounded, a. baseless, groundless.

unfriendliness, n. enmity, inimicalness, hostility, disfavor, antipathy, disaffection, alienation, estrangement, unfriendship.

unfriendly, a. hostile, ill-disposed, inimical, malign, unamicable, disaffected, alienated, estranged, antagonistic, unfavorable, adverse.

unfruitful, a. unproductive, effete, unprolific, infertile, acarpous.

ungainly, a. awkward, gawky, ungraceful, lumbering, loutish, wooden, uncouth.

ungenerous, a. illiberal, narrow, sordid, uncharitable, stingy.

unglue, v. deglutinate.

ungodly, a. godless, impious, irreverent, profane, unrighteous.

ungovernable, a. unruly, unmanageable, refractory, intractable, mutinous, impotent, irrepressible, rampant, unbridled, impetuous.

ungraceful, a. awkward, uncourtly, clumsy, uncouth, lumbering, ungainly, wooden, gawky.

ungrateful, a. ingrateful, unthankful; disagreeable, offensive.

ungratefulness, n. ingratitude.

ungrateful person. ingrate.

unguarded, a. defenseless, unprotected; incautious, unwary.

unhair, v. depilate.

unhairing, n. depilation. Associated Word: depilatory.

unhallowed, a. unsanctified, profane.

unhandy, a. inconvenient; clumsy, awkward, maladroit.

unhappiness, n. infelicity, misery, distress, sorrow, woe.

unhappy, a. infelicitous, unfortunate; miserable, wretched, sad, sorrowful, disconsolate, woeful, distressed, heart-sick, mournful, lugubrious; deplorable, calamitous, distressing, grievous, inauspicious, unpropitious, malign.

unharmed, a. unscathed, inviolate, uninjured, unhurt, intact, scathless.

unharmonious, a. inharmonious, discordant, dissonant, harsh.

unhealable, a. insanable, incurable.

unhealthful, a. unwholesome, insalubrious, unsanitary, unhealthy, morbific, pestiferous.

unhealthfulness, n. insalubrity, unwholesomeness.

unhealthy, a. unhealthful, unwholesome, insalubrious, noxious, noisome, pestiferous, pernicious, unsanitary, unhygienic, morbid, morbific, pestilent, insalutary; sickly, unsound, diseased, morbid, invalid.

unheard of. unprecedented, exceptional; unknown, obscure.

unheeded, a. disregarded, ignored, unnoticed.

unholy, a. unhallowed, unconsecrated, profane, impious, evil, ungodly.

unhonored, a. inglorious, unsung, unrenowned, obscure.

unhurt, a. See unharmed.

uniform, a. unvarying, invariable, constant, undeviating; consonant, consistent. Antonyms: diverse, difform, anomalous, variant, heterogeneous, variable.

uniform, n. livery, dress, regimentals.

uniformity, n. sameness, even tenor; invariability, regularity, equableness, conformity, consonance, consistency. Antonyms: diversity, variation, anomaly.

unimaginative, a. matter-of-fact, prosaic, literal, practical, unromantic.

unimportance, n. immateriality, insignificance, triviality, paltriness.

unimportant, a. immaterial, insignificant, trivial, paltry.

unimpressible, a. unimpressionable, impassible, stoical, impassive.

unintentional, a. accidental, unpremeditated, fortuitous, undesigned.

union, n. coalition, combination, merger, fusion, unification, incorporation, conjunction, amalgamation, coalescence, junction, league, confederacy, federation, alliance; agreement, concurrence, unison. Antonyms: disunion. See separation.

unique, a. unmatched, unexampled.

unite, v. join, combine, annex, associate, link, couple, yoke, splice; consolidate, merge, amalgamate, fuse, confederate, unify, coalesce, concur, coöperate.

united, a. combined, incorporate, federated, confederate, affiliated, unified, blended, leagued, conjugate, yoked, amalgamated.

unity, n. oneness, singleness; concord, harmony, agreement, uniformity, unison, concert.

universal language. pasilaly; Esperanto.

universal writing. pasigraphy.

unjust, a. unfair, inequitable, iniquitous, unmerited.

unjustifiable, a. indefensible, inexcusable, unwarrantable.

unkind, a. cruel, harsh, austere, rigorous, incompassionate, inclement, brutal.

unkindness, n. cruelty, brutality, severity, incompassion, incivility, disfavor.

unknowable, a. incognizable, incognoscible, unascertainable, unintelligible, incomprehensible.

unknowingly, adv. unwittingly, ignorantly, unconsciously, inadvertently.

unknown, a. obscure, inglorious, unrenowned, nameless, undistinguished; unascertained, unexplored, unapprehended; anonymous.

unknown person. stranger, ignote.

unladylike, a. hoidenish, pert, ill-bred.

unlawful, a. illegal, illicit, contraband, illegitimate, unlicensed.

unleavened, a. azymous.

unleavened bread. azym.

unlike, a. dissimilar, different, diverse, sundry, variant, heterogeneous, unique, nondescript.

unlikelihood, n. improbability, unlikeliness.

unlikely, a. improbable; unpromising.

unlikeness, n. dissimilarity, dissimilitude, difference, contrast.

unlimited, a. limitless, illimitable, infinite, absolute, unbounded.

unload, v. disburden, unlade, relieve.

unlooked-for, a. unexpected, unanticipated, unforeseen, chance.

unlovely, a. uncomely, homely, plain, unattractive, repulsive.

unlucky, a. unfortunate, luckless, ill-starred, unhappy, untoward.

unmaidenly, a. hoidenish, rude, boisterous, pert.

unman, v. emasculate, castrate; dishearten, discourage, unnerve, intimidate; emolliate, effeminate.

unmanageable, a. ungovernable, intractable, refractory, fractious; cumbersome, unwieldy.

unmanly, a. ignoble, cowardly, mean; womanish, effeminate cockney.

unmanned, a. emasculated, effeminate.

unmannerly, a. impolite, discourteous, boorish, uncivil, rude.

unmanning, n. emasculation, castration; debilitation; discouragement.

unmarried, a. single, celibate.

unmarried man. bachelor, celibate, agamist.

unmarried woman. spinster.

unmatchable, a. peerless, matchless, incomparable, inimitable, unique.

unmatched, a. unequaled, matchless, incomparable, nonpareil.

unmeaning, a. meaningless, senseless; insignificant, inexpressive.

unmeant, a. unintentional.

unmelodious, a. discordant, harsh, dissonant, inharmonious, unmusical.

unmeltable, a. infusible.

unmerciful, a. cruel, pitiless, merciless, inclement, unsparing, stern, unrelenting, ruthless, brutal, incompassionate, unkind; (Colloq.) excessive, fabulous, exorbitant, immoderate.

unmindful, a. oblivious, inadvertent, inattentive, heedless.

unmistakable, a. manifest, palpable, obvious, patent, evident, distinct, unambiguous.

unmixable, a. immiscible.

unmixableness, n. immiscibility.

unmovable, a. fixed, stable, immobile.

unmoved, a. calm, dispassionate, indifferent, unstirred, impassive, stoical.

unmusical, a. inharmonious, discordant.

unnatural, a. abnormal, monstrous, anomalous, aberrant, variant, preternatural, exceptional, irregular; artificial, affected, feigned, assumed simulated, constrained.

unnecessary, a. superfluous, useless, needless, uncalled for, expletive, redundant, supernumerary.

unneighborly, a. unsociable, exclusive, distant, unaccommodating.

unnoticed, a. unheeded, unnoted, surreptitious.

unobjectionable, a. unexceptionable.

unobtainable, a. unprocurable, unattainable, inaccessible.

unobtrusive, a. unpretentious, unassuming, modest.

unorthodox, a. heterodox.

unpacifiable, a. implacable, unappeasable, unreconcilable.

unpaid, a. outstanding, payable, due, unliquidated.

unpardonable, a. inexpiable, unatonable, irremissible, unforgivable.

unpassable, a. impassable.

unpenetrable, a. impenetrable, impervious, imperforable.

unpierceable, a. imperforable, impenetrable.

unplanted, a. fallow.

unpleasant, a. disagreeable, uncongenial.

unplowed, a. fallow.

unpopular, a. disliked, obnoxious, odious, offensive.

unpopularity, n. odium, disesteem, obnoxiousness.

unpractical, a. impractical, visionary, Utopian.

unpraiseworthy, a. uncommendable, illaudable, indign.

unprejudiced, a. impartial, unbiased, unjaundiced.

unpremeditated, a. extemporaneous, offhand, impromptu, extempore.

unpretending, a. unobtrusive, modest, unpretentious, unostentatious.

unpretentious, a. unpretending.

unpreventable, a. unavoidable, inevitable.

unprincipled, a. unscrupulous.

unproductive, a. unfruitful, barren.

unprofessional, a. amateur.

unprofitable, a. unremunerative, profitless; futile, fruitless, unavailing.

unpromising, a. unlikely; inauspicious, unpropitious.

unqualified, a. incompetent, ineligible; absolute, unconditional.

unquenchable, a. unslakable, insatiate, insatiable, quenchless.

unquestionable, a. incontrovertible, irrefutable, incontestable, indubitable, obvious, indisputable.

unquestioned, a. undoubted, implicit.

unravel, v. disentangle, extricate, ravel; decipher, unfold.

unreachable, a. inaccessible.

unreadable, a. illegible.

unreal, a. fanciful, imaginary, visionary, unsubstantial, shadowy, chimerical, illusive, phantasmal, phantasmagorial.

unreasonable, a. irrational, absurd, unwise, preposterous, senseless; excessive, exorbitant, unfair, unconscionable, inordinate.

unreclaimable, a. irreclaimable, irretrievable, hopeless, incorrigible.

unrecognized, a. ignored, disregarded, unacknowledged.

unreconcilable, a. antagonistic, incompatible, irreconcilable, implacable, unpacifiable.

unrecoverable, a. irrecoverable, irreparable, irretrievable, irrecuperable.

unredeemed, a. forfeited, unransomed, unfulfilled.

unrefonnable, a. irreformable, incorrigible.

unrelenting, a. relentless, implacable, inexorable, remorseless, pitiless, unmerciful.

unreliable, a. untrustworthy, undependable, uncertain.

unremediable, a. irremediable.

unremitting, a. indefatigable, persevering, unceasing, constant.

unrepairable, a. irreparable.

unrepentant, a. impenitent, incontrite.

unreserve, n. frankness, candor, ingenuousness.

unreserved, a. frank, undissembling, candid, ingenuous; unconditioned, unlimited.

unresistible, a. irresistible.

unresisting, a. passive, submissive, long-suffering.

unrest, n. unquietness, restlessness, uneasiness, disquietude, inquietude.

unrestrained, a. unbridled, ungoverned, uncurbed, riotous, impotent, saturnalian, rampant; licentious, dissolute, profligate.

unrestraint, n. freedom, liberty, license, abandon.

unrestricted, a. unlimited, unfettered, uncircumscribed.

unrevivable, a. irrevivable, irresuscitable.

unrighteous, a. unholy, evil, iniquitous, wicked, vicious.

unrivaled, a. peerless, matchless, inimitable, incomparable, supreme.

unroll, v. unfold, unfurl, evolve.

unrolling, n. unfolding, unfurling, evolvement, evolution.

unromantic, a. prosaic, pragmatical, matter-of-fact, practical, literal.

unruly, a. turbulent, ungovernable, refractory, insubordinate, fractious, insurgent, indocile, disobedient, froward, vicious, intractable, rebellious.

unsafe, a. insecure, risky, perilous, dangerous, hazardous, imperiled, precarious.

unsafety, n. insecurity, danger, risk, peril, hazard, jeopardy.

unsalable, a. invendible, unmarketable.

unsatisfactory, a. disappointing, insufficient.

unsatisfiable, a. insatiable, insatiate.

unsavory, a. offensive, rank, unpleasant; insipid, savorless, mawkish, unpalatable, vapid.

unsay, v. recall, retract, recant.

unsaying, n. recantation, retraction.

unscrupulous, a. unprincipled, unconscientious, dishonest, dishonorable, knavish.

unsearchable, a. inscrutable.

unseasonable, a. inopportune, ill-timed, untimely, premature.

unseasonably, adv. malapropos, untimely.

unseemly, a. unbecoming, improper, indecorous.

unseen, a. invisible, unperceived, secret, unnoticed, unobserved, clandestine, surreptitious, furtive, concealed, underhand.

unselfish, a. magnanimous, disinterested, altruistic, charitable.

unselfishness, n. magnanimity, altruism, beneficence, liberality.

unsentimental, a. matter-of-fact, prosaic, pragmatical, practical.

unserviceableness, n. inutility.

unsettle, v. disorder, derange, upset, unhinge, disconcert.

unsettled, a. undetermined, dubious, unadjusted, controvertible, disputable; irresolute, fickle, changeable; roily, feculent, turbid.

unshapely, a. misshapen, deformed.

unsheltered, a. exposed, unprotected.

unshod, a. discalced, barefooted, discalceated.

unshrinking, a. unflinching, determined, resolute.

unsightly, a. offensive, repulsive.

unskilled, a. unpracticed, unskillful, empirical.

unskillful, a. maladroit, inexpert, unskilled, clumsy.

unsociable, a.morose, uncompanionable, inaffable, ungenial, taciturn.

unsolvable, a. insoluble, inexplicable.

unsophisticated, a. unadulterated; innocent, guileless, gullible, ingenuous.

unsound, a. defective, impaired; sophistical, fallacious, illogical, untenable.

unsparing, a. liberal, ungrudging, profuse; severe, unmerciful.

unspeakable, a. ineffable, unutterable, inexpressible.

unspotted, a. spotless, pure.

unstable, a. insecure, unsteady, irresolute, inconstant, erratic.

unsteadfast, a. unstable, inconstant, wavering, irresolute.

unsteady, a. inconstant, precarious, wavering, variable, vacillating, wabbly.

unstinted, a. plentiful.

unstudied, a. extemporaneous, extempore, impromptu, offhand.

unsubmissive, a. insubordinate, refractory.

unsuccessful, a. unfortunate, unlucky, unprosperous; abortive, fruitless, unavailing, bootless, ineffectual, futile.

unsuitable, a. inappropriate, incongruous, incompatible.

unsupplied, a. destitute.

unsurmountable, a. insuperable.

unsurpassed, a. peerless, transcendent, superior, unrivaled, matchless.

unsusceptible, a. unimpressionable, unfeeling.

unsuspecting, a. unsuspicious, gullible, credulous, indubious, unsophisticated.

unsustainable, a. untenable, controvertible.

untangle, v. unravel, disentangle.

untaxed, a. scot-free, exempt.

unteachable, a. indocile, intractable.

unthankful, a. ungrateful.

unthankfulness, n. ingratitude.

untidy, a. disorderly, slatternly, littered.

untillable, a. inarable.

unfilled, a. fallow.

untimely, a. premature, unseasonable, inopportune, ill-timed, malapropos.

untiring, a. indefatigable, unceasing, tireless, unremitting, unwearied.

untrodden, a. trackless, pathless.

untrue, a. inveracious, mendacious, false, untruthful, unfaithful.

untruth, n. falsehood, fiction, fabrication, lie.

untruthful, a. inveracious, mendacious, lying.

untruthfulness, n. mendacity, inveracity, falsehood.

untwist, v. unravel, disentangle, feaze.

unused, a. unaccustomed, unfamiliar.

unusual, a. uncommon, curious, rare, odd, unique, extraordinary, anomalous, irregular.

unutterable, a. unspeakable, ineffable.

unvarying, a. invariable, monotonous, uniform.

unveil, v. expose, uncover, reveal, disclose.

unviolated, a. inviolate, inviolated, inviolable.

unwarrantable, a. unjustifiable, indefensible.

unwavering, a. steadfast, resolute.

unwearied, a. indefatigable.

unweighable, a. imponderable.

unwholesome, a. baneful, insalubrious. See unhealthy.

unwieldy, a. ponderous, cumbersome, clumsy.

unwilling, a. reluctant, indisposed, loath, disinclined, averse.

unwind v. disentangle, unravel.

unwise, a. imprudent, injudicious, inexpedient, indiscreet.

unwittingly, adv. unknowingly, undesignedly, inadvertently.

unworthy, a. unmeritorious, undeserving, despicable, contemptible.

unwritten, a. traditional.

unyielding, a. inflexible, stiff, unbending, incompliant, indomitable, insubmissive, tenacious, unimpressible, impliable, obdurate, intractable, game, resolute.

upbraid, v. reproach, scold, chide, rate, reprove, reprimand, twit.

upbraiding, n. scolding, reproach, reprimand, censure, reprehension.

up grade. ascent, acclivity.

uphill, a. ascending, acclivous, rising.

uphold, v. support, sustain, vindicate, defend.

upkeep, n. maintenance.

upper, n. vamp (of a shoe).

upper-hand, n. advantage, mastery, dominion, control.

upper ten. (Colloq.) aristocracy, élite, _bon ton_.

uppish, a. (Colloq.) proud, arrogant, assuming.

upright, a. erect, perpendicular, vertical; honorable, honest.

uprightness, n. perpendicularity, verticality, erectness; honesty, integrity.

uproar, n. turmoil, _fracas_, clamor, tumult, commotion, din, hubbub.

uproarious, a. (Colloq.) clamorous, obstreperous, boisterous, noisy, turbulent.

uproot, v. eradicate, extirpate.

uprooting, n. eradication, extirpation.

upset, v. overturn, overset, capsize, invert, overthrow; disconcert, discompose, perturb, agitate, unnerve, excite.

upshot, n. event, result, issue, outcome, consequence.

upside down. inverted; disordered, topsy-turvy.

upstart, n. parvenu, snob, mushroom.

up to snuff. (Slang) knowing, acute, sharp.

upward, a. ascending, acclivous (sloping upward).

urge, v. egg, importune, exhort; impel, force; incite, instigate, goad.

urgency, n. insistence, pressure; importunity; exigency, stress, necessity; incitement.

urgent, a. pressing, imperative, insistent, exigent, importunate, pertinacious, imperious.

urine, n. piss, emiction; stale (urine of horses and cattle). Associated words: uronology, urinal, urinate, urination, micturition, urethra, uric, uretic, uriniferous, enuresis, anuresis, diabetis, strangury, urolith, lateritious sediment, uroscopy, urinary, urea, diuretic.

usage, n. treatment; custom, practice, use.

use, n. employment, application, service, utilization, exploitation; necessity, need; utility, avail, advantage, usefulness, service; custom, usage, practice. Antonyms: disuse, obsolescence, desuetude, inutility. Associated Words: obsolescent, obsolete, obsoletism, utilitarian, utilitarianism, utilizable, chrestomathic.

use, v. employ, apply, utilize, exploit; treat, behave toward; practice, exercise; consume, exhaust; accustom, habituate, familiarize, inure.

useful, a. serviceable, advantageous, available.

usefulness, n. utility, advantage.

useless, a. unserviceable, futile, worthless, unavailing, bootless, ineffectual, null, nugatory, abortive.

uselessness, n. inutility, futility, unserviceableness.

usher, v. show to a seat; introduce, forerun, precede, herald, escort.

usual, a. ordinary, general, accustomed, conventional, prevailing, everyday. Antonyms: See unusual.

usually, adv. ordinarily, generally, customarily, commonly.

usurp, v. arrogate, seize, appropriate, accroach.

usurpation, n. arrogation, seizure, appropriation.

utility, n. usefulness. Antonym: inutility. Associated Words: utilitarian, utilitarianism, utilizable.

utilize, v. use, employ, exploit.

utmost, a. farthest out, extreme, last; greatest, maximum, uttermost.

Utopian, a. chimerical, visionary, fanciful, air-built.

utter, v. speak, pronounce, express.

utter, a. complete, absolute, perfect; unconditional, unqualified, peremptory.

utterable, a. pronounceable, expressible.

utterance, n. speech, articulation.

utterly, adv. entirely, completely, wholly, unconditionally, altogether.

uttermost, a. extreme, utmost, farthest.