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labor, n. toil, work, drudgery, task, industry, travail.
labor, v. toil, work, drudge, slave, moil, travail.
labored, a. studied, elaborate, overwrought, stiff, unnatural.
laborer, n. toiler, workman, stevedore, roustabout, drudge, hack, peon, coolie, navvy.
laborious, a. toilsome, arduous, onerous; diligent, industrious, sedulous.
labyrinth, n. maze, intricacy, complexity.
lace, n. string, cord, thong, aglet.
lacerate, v. tear, rend, mangle, laniate, harrow, wound, harry, distress.
laceration, n. tearing, rending, laniation, harrowing, wound.
lack, v. need, want, be in need of, require, sedulous.
labyrinth, n. maze, intricacy, complexity.
lace, n. string, cord, thong, aglet.
lacerate, v. tear, rend, mangle, laniate, harrow, wound, harry, distress.
laceration, n. tearing, rending, laniation, harrowing, wound.
lack, v. need, want, be in need of, require.
lack, n. want, need, deficiency, dearth, paucity, scarcity, drought, default, deficit, insufficiency, inadequacy, shortness.
lackadaisical, a. pensive, dreamy, languishing, die-away.
lackey, n. flunky.
lacking, a. deficient, insufficient, unsupplied, shy, wanting, devoid.
ladylove, n. See sweetheart.
lag, v. fall behind, loiter, linger, delay, saunter.
laggard, n. loiterer, lagger, lingerer, saunterer, idler.
lake, n. pond; lagoon. Associated Words: lacustrine, lacustral.
lamb, n. eanling, yeanling, lambkin, cosset.
lambaste, v. (Low) pommel, maul, belabor, beat, strike.
lame, v. disable, maim, cripple, hamstring.
lame, a. crippled, hobbling, limping, halt, deformed, game, maimed, disabled; inconclusive, unconvincing, inefficient, feeble, unsatisfactory.
lament, v. bemoan, weep, wail, deplore, grieve, bewail, mourn.
lamentable, a. deplorable, grievous, pitiable, distressing, sorrowful.
lamentation, n. wailing, lament, grief, bewailing, plaint, sorrow.
lamented, a. mourned for, deplored.
lampoon, v. libel, defame, satirize.
lampoon, n. libel, pasqinade, iambic.
lance, n. spear, javelin, harpoon.
land, n. terra firma; country; freehold, ground, soil, earth; realty, real estate; demesne, glebe, close, garth, holm, arado, assart, reliction, dereliction, alluvium, cadastre, appanage, arable, fallow, allodium, innings, abuttal; farm, plantation; continent, island, peninsula, delta, isthmus, headland, cape, plateau, barens. Associated Words: agronomy, agronomist, agronomics, agronomic, agricultre, agricultral, agriculturist, georgics, geoponics, escheat, arable, inarable, agrarian, agrarianism, agrarianize, topography, tilth, terrain, terrene, till, geoscopy, geoponic.
land, v. disembark, debark; capture.
landing, n. disembarkation, debarkation; wharf, dock, quay; capture.
landlord, n. host, hotel-keeper, inn-keeper, Boniface; owner, proprietor.
Land of promise. Canaan.
landscape, n. scene, scenery, view, prospect.
language, n. speech, tongue, vernacular; dialect; idiom, phraseology, diction; argot, flash, slang, lingo, cant, jargon, gibberish; Volapuk, pasilaly, Esperanto. Associated Words: lingual, linguistic, linguist, linguistics, philology, philologist, philological, polyglot, glottology, glossology, paleography, glossologist, monoglot, grammar grammarian, chrestomathy, glossolaly, collingual.
languid, a. unanimated, flagging, lifeless, supine, listless, sluggish, tardy, slow.
languor, n. exhaustion, lassitude, inanition, listlessness.
lanky, a. gangling, overgrown.
lapse, n. slip, misstep, indiscretion; backsliding; devolution.
lard, n. grease; leaflard, flare; axunge.—v. interlard.
larder, n. buttery, pantry, spence.
lardy, a. lardaceous.
large, a. big, extensive, huge, unwieldy, vast, massive, immense, colossal, gigantic, bulky; ample, copious, liberal, unstinted; generous, liberal, munificent, princely; hypertrophied; spacious, commodious, capacious.
lariat, n. lasso, reata.
lark, n. frolic.
larrup, v. (Colloq.) whip, beat, trounce, flog.
larva, n. caterpillar, grub, maggot; pl. larvae. Associated words: silphology, pupa, chrysalis.
lascivious, a. lewd, libidinous, salacious. See lustful.
large, a. big, extensive, huge, unwieldy, vast, massive, immense, colossal, gigantic, bulky; ample, copious, liberal, unstinted; generous, liberal, munificent, princely; hypertrophied; spacious, commodious, capacious.
lariat, n. lasso, reata.
lark, n. frolic.
larrup, v. (Colloq.) whip, beat, trounce, flog.
larva, n. caterpillar, grub, maggot; pl. larvae. Associated words: silphology, pupa, chrysalis.
lascivious, a. lewd, libidinous, salacious. See lustful.
lash, n. scourge, thong, whip.
lash, v. scourge, castigate, flagellate; satirize, scold, rate. See whip.
lashing, n. scourging, castigation, flagellation; satire, scolding, rating.
lassitude, n. languor, weariness, exhaustion, languidness, enervation.
lasso, n. lariat, cabestro, reata.
last, a. final, hindmost, farthest, latest, ultimate.
last, v. continue, endure, remain.
lasting, a. enduring, durable, permanent, imperishable, abiding. Antonyms: ephemeral, transitory, fleeting, transient, fugitive, impermanent.
lastingness, n. durability, permanence, indestructibility, imperishability.
lastly, adv. finally.
late, a. tardy, delayed; recent.
lately, adv. recently.
latent, a. concealed, dormant, undeveloped, hidden.
later, a. subsequent, posterior.
latitude, n. breadth, width; room, range, scope, extent, freedom; laxity.
lattice, n. trellis, lattice-work; cancelli; grille.
lattice-work, n. lattice, trellis, treillage, espailier.
laud, v. extol, praise. See praise.
laundable, a. praisworth, commendable. Antonyms: illaudable, unpraiseworthy, indign.
laudatory, a. panegyrical, eulogistic, encomiastic, adulatory, commendatory.
laugh, v. cachinnate, roar, giggle, snicker, titter, chuckle, grin, twitter, cackle, chortle, hawhaw.
laughable, a. risible, comic, ludicrous, droll, facetious, farcical, amusing. See funny.
laughing, a. merry, gleeful, mirthful, smiling.
laughing gas. protoxide of nitrogen, nitrous oxide, hyponitrous oxide.
lattice-work, n. lattice, trellis, treillage, espalier.
laud, v. extol, praise. See praise.
laudable, a. praiseworthy, commendable. Antonyms: illaudable, unpraiseworthy, indign.
laudatory, a. panegyrical, eulogistic, encomiastic, adulatory, commendatory.
laugh, v. cachinnate, roar, giggle, snicker, titter, chuckle, grin, twitter, cackle, chortle, hawhaw.
laughable, a. risible, comic, ludicrous, droll, facetious, farcical, amusing. See funny.
laughing, a. merry, gleeful, mirthful, smiling.
laughing gas. protoxide of nitrogen, nitrous oxide, hyponitrous oxide.
laughter, n. mirth, laugh, cachinnation, giggle, snicker, roar, cackle, grin, chortle, chuckle, guffaw, titter. Associated Words: risible, risibles, risibility, risorial, abderian, sardonic, geloscopy, gelastic.
laugh to scorn. deride, ridicule.
launch, v. set afloat; set going, start; throw, hurl; expatiate, descant.
lava field. pedregal (Mexico and Western U.S.).
lavish, a. profuse, prodigal, free, unstinted; superabundant, immoderate, excessive, exuberant.
lavish, v. spend lavishly, bestow with profusion.
law, n. statute, ordinance, edict, enactment, decree, canon, usage. Associated Words: jurisprudence, nomology, nomography, nomocracy, antinomy, dysnomy, neonomian, code, codex, codify, codification, digest, forensic, legislate, legislation, legislative, enact, ordain, repeal, veto, jurat, juratory, juridic, juridical, jurist, juris consult, publicist, jurisprudent, juristic, pandect, moratory, judicial, causidical, nomothetic, nomistic.
law-breaker, n. criminal, malefactor, culprit, felon, delinquent, offender, sinner.
law-breaking, n. crime, misdemeanor, transgression, violation.
lawful, a. legal, legitimate, licit, legalized. Antonyms: See unlawful.
lawfulness, n. legality, legitimacy. Antonyms: unlawfulness, illegality.
lawing, n. litigation, lawsuit.
lawless, a. anarchical, riotous, mobocratic, licentious.
lawlessness, n. anarchy, unrestraint, abandon, mobocracy, license, riot.
lawmaker, n. legislator, lawgiver, Solon.
lawmaking, n. legislation.
lawsuit, n. litigation, case, suit, action. Associated Words: litigant, litigate, litigious, litigable, barratry.
lawyer, n. attorney, counselor, barrister, counsel, advocate, attorney-at-law, solicitor; pettifogger; (dishonest) shyster. Associated Words: client, clientele.
lax, a. loose, slack, flabby, relaxed; loose, vague, equivocal, doubtful; slack, remiss, negligent; unrestrained, dissolute, licentious.
laxative, a. aperient.
laxative, n. aperient.
laxness, n. laxity, looseness; relaxation, flabbiness; remissness, negligence, slackness.
lay, v. deposit, place; impose, assess; impute, charge, ascribe, attribute; submit, present, offer; superimpose.
lay, n. song, ballad, lyric.
lay, a. laic, laical.
layer, n. stratum, course, tier.
laymen, n. pl. laity.
lay open. uncover, reveal, expose, disclose, exhibit, show.
lay over. overlay, cover, apply; defer, postpone, prorogue.
lay siege to. besiege, beset, bombard, obsess.
lay to heart. take to heart, be grieved at, feel keenly, consider seriously.
lay up. store, treasure, save, hoard, garner; confine, disable.
lay wait for. lie in ambush for.
lay waste. desolate, devastate, pillage, sack, spoliate.
laziness, n. indolence, sloth.
lazy, a. indolent, slothful, sluggard, dronish. Antonyms: diligent, industrious, sedulous, hardworking.
lazy person. sluggard, drone, idler.
lea, n. meadow, lay, mead.
leach, v. lixiviate.
leaching, n. lixiviation.
lead, n. plumbum (Chem.); graphite, plumbago (black lead); plummet; blende (mock lead).
lead, v. guide, conduct, escort, direct; precede; induce, entice, influence, allure, persuade, actuate, impel; conduce, contribute, tend; have precedence; have charge of, command, head.
lead, n. precedence, initiative, command, guidance.
lead astray. mislead, seduce.
leader, n. guide, commander, corypheus, pilot, bellwether, protagonist, chief.
leadership, n. direction, command, guidance; primacy, supremacy, domination, hegemony.
leading, a. chief, principal, premiere, influential, guiding.
leaf, n. blade, spire; folio; lithophyll (fossil leaf). Associated words: foliar, foliferous, foliaceous, foliation, defoliate, defoliation, frond, bract, frondation, frondesce, frondescence, verticil, whorl, acanthus deciduous, indeciduous.
leaf-green, n. chlorophyll.
leaf-stalk, n. petiole.
league, n. alliance, confederation, coalition, confederacy, union, federation, association.
league, v. combine, confederate.
leak, v. percolate, filter, ooze.
leaky, a. defective.
lean, v. incline, slope, recline, tend; rely, depend; careen.
lean, a. thin, lank, spare, meager, poor, skinny, gaunt, emaciated, marcid, angular; slender, scant, bare.
leaning, a. reclining, inclining, supine.
leaning, n. inclination, tendency, propensity, bent, bias, proneness, predisposition, proclivity; reclination.
lean-to, n. penthouse, addition, shed.
leap, v. spring, jump, vault, bound, caper, gambol, prance, cavort, curvet.
leap, n. spring, jump, vault, bound, capriole.
leaping, a. springing, jumping, salient, saltigrade, saltatory.
leaping, n. springing, saltation, salience.
leap year. bissextile.
learn, v. master, acquire knowledge.
learned, a. educated, erudite, lettered, scholarly.
learning, n. education, erudition, lore, scholarship, knowledge. Associated Words: savant, philomath, philomathy, misology, oracle, pedant, pedantry.
lease, v. let, demise, rent.
lease, n. letting, demise; tenure. Associated Words: lessee, lessor.
least, n. minimum. Associated Words: minimize, minimization.
least, a. smallest, minimum.
leather-burning, n. pyrography.
leathery, a. coriaceous, tough, alutaceous.
leave, n. permission; leave-taking, adieu, farewell, conge; withdrawal, retirement, departure, leaving, egress.
leave, v. depart from, vacate, retire from; abandon, forsake, desert; abstain from, forego, desist from, forbear; permit, allow, let; commit, give over, intrust, consign, deliver; will, bequeath, devise; depart, set out, start, go.
leaves, n. pl. foliage, leafage. See leaf.
leavetaking, n. farewell, valedictory, conge, adieu.
leavings, n. pl. remnants, fragments, offal, refuse, waste, scraps, culls, orts.
lecher, n. rake, libertine, whoremonger.
lechery, n. libertinism, licentiousness.
lecture, n. discourse, address, dissertation, prelection; reproof, scolding.
lecture, v. discourse, address; reprove, censure, rate, upbraid, scold.
ledge, n. shelf; reef, ridge (of rocks); layer, stratum, lode.
left, n. Associated Words: sinister, sinistral, sinistrality, sinistrorse, sinistrorsal, haw, port, larboard.
left-hand, a. sinister, left.
left-handed, a. sinister, ambilevous.
leg, n. limb, shank, shin; (bones of the leg) tibia, fibula, femur, thigh bone, epipodiale. Associated Words: crotch, hock, hough, solen, cradle, puttee, hip, thigh, haunch gyve, scarpines, calf, galligaskins, spatterdashes, leggings.
legacy, n. bequest, devise.
legal, a. lawful, legitimate. Antonym: illegal.
legality, n. lawfulness, legitimacy. Antonym: illegality.
legalize, v. legitimize. Antonyms: illegalize, illegitimize.
legate, n. ambassador, envoy, representative.
legation, n. embassy.
legend, n. fable, myth; posy, inscription, motto.
legendary, a. mythical, traditional.
legerdemain, n. jugglery, sleight of hand.
legible, a. readable, decipherable. Antonym: illegible.
legion, n. host, horde, army.
legions, n. pl. battalions, troops, soldiers.
legitimate, a. lawful. Antonym: illegitimate.
lemon, n. Associated Words: citric, citrine, citrination, citrus.
lend, v. loan.
lending, n. loan.
lengthen, v. extend, elongate, stretch, prolong, protract; expatiate, amplify.
lengthening, n. extension, elongation, protraction, prolongation.
lengthwise, adv. longitudinally.
lengthy, a. long, prolix, protracted, verbose.
lenient, a. compassionate. See merciful.
lenity, n. clemency, mercy, lenience.
Lent, n. Quadragesima.
lessen, v. reduce, diminish, minify, depreciate, minimize, decrease, mitigate, abate.
lessening, n. reduction, diminution, decrease, decrement, depreciation, mitigation, shrinkage, abatement.
Lesser Bear. Cynosure.
lesson, n. task, exercise.
let, v. allow, permit, suffer; lease, rent.
let, n. hindrance.
lethargy, n. drowsiness, stupor, unconsciousness.
letter, n. epistle, favor, missive, note; encyclic, encyclical, decretal (letter of the Pope). Associated Words: correspond, epistolical, epistolary, epistolean, epistolize, epistler, epistolar, epistolography, postscript.
letter, n. initial (first letter).
letter-carrier, n. postman, mail-carrier, courier, mail-man, postboy, post.
letter for letter. literatim.
letters, n. pl. correspondence.
letters; n. pl. learning, literature, erudition, humanities.
let-up, n. (Colloq.) abatement, assuagement, respite, subsidence.
let up. (Colloq.) abate, subside, diminish, intermit.
level, a. even, flat, plain, smooth, flush, plumb; horizontal; steady, impartial, well-balanced. Antonyms: undulating uneven, concave, convex, warped.
level, v. flatten, equalize, even, smooth, reduce; raze, reduce, overthrow, demolish; adapt, adjust.
lever, n. pry. Associated Words: fulcrum, purchase, prize, prizing.
leverage, n. purchase.
levity, n. lightness, buoyancy; gayety, frivolity.
lewd, a. unchaste, lustful, licentious, libidinous, lecherous, incontinent, ribald, lascivious, rakish, ruttish, salacious, concupiscent, wanton, lubricous, prurient, pornographic. Antonyms: chaste, modest, pure.
lewdness, n. unchastity, incontinence, lust, lechery, ribaldry, salacity, concupiscence, profligacy, lasciviousness. Antonyms: chastity, modesty, purity.
liability, n. exposure, accountability, responsibility, amenability Antonyms: immunity, exemption.
liabilities, n. pl. debts, obligations, indebtedness.
liable, a. exposed, subject, accountable, answerable, amenable, bound. Antonyms: exempt, immune.
libel, n. defamation, lampoon, roorback.
libel, v. defame (by some publication), lampoon.
libellous, a. defamatory, slanderous, calumnious.
liberal, a. generous, open-handed, bounteous, munificent, unstinted, princely; profuse, lavish, ample, abundant; catholic, magnanimous, tolerant. Antonyms: illiberal, ungenerous, stingy, limited, narrow, bigoced.
liberality, n. generosity. Antonyms: illiberality, stinginess, bigotry.
liberate, v. See free.
liberation, n. See freeing.
libertine, n. lecher, debauchee, rake, roue, profligate.
libertine, a. licentious, lecherous, profligate, rakish.
liberty, n. freedom, independence; privilege, permission. Antonyms: captivity, bondage, servitude, subjection, constraint, serfdom, slavery.
license, n. privilege, right; lawlessness, anarchy.
license, v. legalize, permit.
licentious, a. immoral, dissolute, profligate, lewd, libertine, rakish, lascivious; unrestrained, uncurbed, uncontrolled.
lick, v. lap; (Colloq.) flog, thrash, chastise, castigate, trounce, drub. See whip.
lick, n. slap, stroke, blow.
licking, n. (Colloq.) flogging, chastisement, castigation, punishment, thrashing, whipping.
lid, n. cover.
lie, n. untruth, falsehood, fib; fiction, fabrication; subterfuge, evasion, misrepresentation.
lie, v. recline.
lie close. cuddle, nestle, snuggle.
lief, adv. willingly, gladly, freely, readily.
lien, n. incumbrance.
life, n. existence, being, animation, vitality; vivacity, spiritedness, energy, activity, briskness, sprightliness; biography, memoir. Associated Words: biology, biologist, vital, biometry, biogenesis, macrobiotics, vitalization, vitalize, bioplasm, protoplasm, elixir, biotic.
lifeless, a. dead, inanimate, spiritless, devitalized.
lifelessness, n. inanimation.
lift, v. raise, elevate.
lift, n. lifting, raising, elevation; help, assistance, aid; elevator, dumb waiter.
lifting machine. derrick, crane, tackle.
light, n. illumination; lamp, taper, candle, lantern, head-light, cresset; publicity, public notice; phosphorescence, luminescence; aureole, halo, nimbus, aureola, glory. Associated Words: photology, photologist, photophobia, catoptrics, dioptrics, photics, Ormuzd, luminary.
light, a. buoyant; easy, inoppressive; active, nimble, deft, fleet, swift, spry; spongy, porous, well-leavened; incompact, loose, porous; gossamery, sleazy, flimsy, thin, unsubstantial; volatile, unsteady, mercurial, fickle, frivolous.
light, v. ignite, illumine, illuminate.
light, v. dismount, alight, descend; rest, perch, settle.
lighten, v. light, illuminate, illume; ease, relieve, alleviate.
light-fingered, a. thievish, pilfering.
light-footed, a. nimble, agile.
lighthouse, n. beacon, fanal, pharos. Associated Words: holophote, pharology.
lighting, n. illumination.—a, luminous, luminiferous.
lightness, n. levity, levitation, buoyancy.
lightning-rod, n. paratonnerre.
like, a. similar, alike, cognate, analogous, homogeneous. Antonyms: See unlike.
like, n. counterpart, copy, equal; liking, preference.
like, v. fancy, approve of; prefer, choose, wish.
like blazes. (Low) furiously, rapidly.
likelihood, n. probability, verisimilitude. Antonyms: unlikelihood, improbability.
likely, a. probable, verisimilar; good-looking, comely; appropriate. Antonyms: unlikely, improbable.
liken, v. compare.
likeness, n. similitude, resemblance, similarity, appearance, guise, analogy; portrait, effigy, counterpart, image, copy, facsimile.
liking, n. fondness, partiality, affection, approval, preference, predilection. Antonyms: distaste, aversion, inappetency, hatred, antipathy, disapproval.
limb, n. branch, bough.
limber, a. flexible, pliant, limp, pliable, supple, lithe, lithesome. Antonyms: See stiff.
lime, n. Associated Words: calcareous, calciferous, calcariferous, calcification, calcify, calcified, calcivorous, calcination, calciform, slack, cretification, calcigerous, kalsomine.
limit, n. bound, boundary, confine, extent; restriction, check, restraint, limitation.
limit, v. restrict, circumscribe, define, confine.
limitation, n. limit, restriction, restraint, circumscription, finitude.
limited, a. restricted, confined, conditioned, finite, circumscribed. Antonyms: See unlimited.
limp, a. flaccid, flabby, limber, soft, flexile. Antonyms: See stiff.
limp, n. halt, limping, hobble.
limpid, a. clear, pellucid, lucid. See clear.
line, n. stripe, streak; cord, rope, thread, string, cable; course, route; branch, department; boundary, contour, periphery, circumference, outline; lineament; row, series, rank, file; secant; hachure, hatching. Associated Words: aliner, alignment, allineation, align, linear, lineal, lineation, interline, interlinear, interlining, interlineation.
linen, n. napery; lingerie; damask.
linen and wool. linsey-woolsey.
lines, n. pl. reins.
linger, v. loiter, saunter, tarry, lag.
lingering, a. protracted.
link, v. join, unite, connect, couple, concatenate.
lion, n. Felis Leo; lioness (female); whelp, lionel (young); Leo; griffin.
lionlike, a. leonine.
lip, n. Associated Words: labial, labially, labialize, labialization, labialism, chiloma, labret, philtrum, pout, labiochorea, cheiloplasty, labioplasty, harelip, blobber lip.
liquid, n. fluid.
list, n. catalogue, roster, schedule, register; selvage, selvedge, listing.
listen, v. hearken; eavesdrop; auscultate. Antonyms: disregard, ignore, scorn.
listening, n. hearkening; eavesdropping; auscultation, autophony.
listless, a. inattentive, indifferent, supine, heedless, unconcerned.
litigation, n. lawsuit.
litter, n. stretcher; mulch; disorder, untidiness; farrow.
little, a. small, diminutive, minute, tiny, wee, puny, dwarfish, insignificant, infinitesimal. See small.
little, n. miniature; modicum.
little by little. piecemeal, gradually.
live, v. exist; dwell, reside, abide.
live, a. alive, quick, animate, living.
liveliness, n. animation, vivacity, sprightliness, briskness, activity, lilt.
live longer than. survive, outlive.
lively, a. animated, spirited, vivacious, vigorous, active, brisk, energetic, stirring, sprightly; agile, nimble; hilarious frolicsome, gay, buoyant. Antonyms: slow, sluggish, inactive, quiet.
liver, n. Associated Words: hepatic, hepatology, hepatize, hepatization, cirrhosis, cirrhotic, giblets, bilious, viscera, hepatogenic, bile.
liver, heart, etc., of an animal. inmeats (edible viscera).
livid, a. ecchymosed, bruised, black and blue.
living, a. alive, quick, live; quickening, animating.
living, n. life, existence, being; livelihood, sustenance, subsistence, maintenance; benefice.
living again. redivivus, resurrected, revived, resurgent.
living in seclusion. eremitism, anchoretism, reclusion, seclusion, retirement.—a. hermitical, eremitic, anchoretic, solitary.
living picture. tableau vivant.
living together. cohabitation.
living upon others. parasitic.—n. parasitism.
lizard, n. saurian, reptile; chameleon, gecko, gila monster, iguana, dragon.
load, v. encumber, lade, burden, freight.
load, n. burden, cargo, lading, encumbrance, weight, impediment, incubus.
loaded, p.p. and a. laden, freighted, fraught.
loaf, v. lounge about, loiter.
loathe, v. abhor, hate, detest, abominate, despise, execrate, recoil from.
loathing, n. abhorrence, detestation, abomination, execration, hatred.
location, n. situation, locality, place.
lock, n. ringlet, curl, tress.
lock-jaw, n. tetanus. Associated Words: tetanic, tetanoid.
lofty, a. tall, towering.
log, n. puncheon (split log).
logical, a. consistent, sound. Antonym: illogical.
loins, n. pl. reins.
loiter, v. saunter, linger.
loitering, a. sauntering, dilatory.
Londoner, n. cockney (Contemptuous).
lone, a. alone, lonely, isolated, desolate; unfrequented, solitary, sequestered, secluded, lonesome.
lonely, a. sequestered, solitary, unfrequented; lonesome, desolate, dreary, lorn.
long, a. protracted, prolonged, lengthy, extended; lingering; extensive, inclusive; tedious, prolix, wordy, long-spun diffuse.
long, v. yearn for, hanker after, crave.
longer than broad. oblong.
long-handed, a. longimanous.
long-headed, a. shrewd, sagacious. See shrewd.
longing, n. yearning, craving.
long life. longevity.
longshoreman, n. stevedore.
long-suffering, a. forbearing, uncomplaining, patient.—n. forbearance, patience, longanimity.
look, v. glance, gaze, stare, see, con, gloat, glare, peek, peer, pry, peep, pore, lower, glower, scan, ogle; seem, appear; await, expect, anticipate; examine, investigate, inspect, contemplate, scrutinize.
look, n. glance, glimpse, inspection, scrutiny, gaze; expression, appearance, air, manner, mien, semblance, aspect, presence.
look down upon. See despise.
looking backward. retrospection, retrospect.—a. retrospective.
looking for. anticipation, expectation; search.
looking forward. anticipation, expectation, prospect, foresight.
looking forward. prospective, anticipative.
looking-glass, n. mirror; cheval glass.
looking within. introspection.—a. introspective.
look into. inspect, examine, probe, investigate.
look on. see, witness; regard, consider, deem, view.
lookout, n. observatory; watch-tower, conning tower; responsibility.
look over. examine, scrutinize, reconnoiter.
look upon. regard, esteem, consider.
look up to. honor, respect, defer to, venerate, reverence.
look within. introspect.
loop, n. staple, noose, bight.
loophole, n. excuse, plea, pretext.
loose, a. unbound, disengaged, movable, unfastened, unrestrained, detached; relaxed; incompact, porous.
loose, v. release, disengage, free, disentangle, liberate; absolve, remit; relax, loosen, slacken.
loosen, v. relax.
looseness, n. laxity, slackness, relaxation.
loot, n. spoil, booty, plunder, prize; plundering, pillage.
loot, v. plunder, sack, rifle, pillage.
lop, v. cut off, obtruncate.
lopsided, a. unbalanced, disproportioned.
loquacious, a. garrulous, voluble, talkative.
loquacity, n. garrulity, volubility, talkativeness.
lord, n. nobleman, peer, magnate, grandee; liege, suzerain.
lord, v. domineer.
Lord, have mercy upon us. Kyrie eleison.
lordly, a. overbearing, domineering, despotic, arrogant, imperious, uppish.
lordship, n. seigniory, dominion.
Lord's Prayer. Pater noster.
Lord's Supper. communion, eucharist.
lore, n. learning, knowledge, wisdom, erudition.
lorn, a. forsaken, lonely, solitary.
lose, v. miss, forfeit.
lose ground. retire, recede, retreat, decline.
loss, n. forfeiture. Associated Words: damnific, damnify, damnification.
lost, a. forfeited, missing; derelict, adrift; misspent, misemployed, wasted; irreclaimable, incorrigible, abandoned; preoccupied, abstracted, absent-minded.
lot, n. destiny, doom, fortune, fate; portion, parcel, part, allotment; (Colloq.) much, many.
loth, a. disinclined, unwilling, reluctant, averse, loath, indisposed.
lots, n. pl. Associated Word: sortilege.
loud, a. deafening, stentorian, resonant, clarion; clamorous, vociferous, boisterous; gaudy, flashy, ostentatious, showy; emphatic, urgent, appealing.
lounge, v. recline, loll.
lousiness, n. phthiriasis, pediculosis, pediculation.
lout, n. booby, boor, bumpkin, lubber, gawky.
loutish, a. boorish, lubberly, gawky, ungentlemanly.
lovable, a. amiable, winsome, lovely, winning.
lovableness, n. amability, winsomeness, amiability.
love, n. affection, devotion, infatuation, passion; amorousness, amativeness; Cupid, Eros, Venus, Aphrodite, Amorino; philanthropy; storge.
love affair. liaison (an illicit love affair), amour, intrigue.
love feast (of the primitive Christians), agape.
love-letter, n. billet-doux, billet d'amour.
lovely, a. charming, delightful, delectable, amiable, pleasing.
love potion. philter.
lover, n. amoroso, inamorato, swain, suitor, admirer, philander, gallant, beau, cicisbeo; paramour, leman.
loving, a. affectionate; enamored; amative, amorous, erotic.
loving-kindness, n. tenderness, mercy, compassion.
low, a. depressed; base, mean, vulgar, raffish, ignominious, undignified; moderate, reasonable, cheap; humble, lowly, obscure; feeble, faint, weak; subdued, grave, gentle; ignoble, groveling, abject, degraded, servile, menial, sordid, base.
low, adv. softly, sotto voce.
low, v. moo.
lowborn, a. baseborn, plebeian.
lowbred, a. unrefined, illbred, vulgar, rude.
lower, v. drop; depress, reduce; decrease, diminish, fall, humble, humiliate, degrade, abash, detrude, dishonor; frown, scowl, glower, look sullen.
lower, a. nether, under.
lower classes. proletariat, proletariate, proletarians.
lowering, a. threatening, dark, sullen.
lowest, a. nethermost.
lowest point. nadir.
low life. obscurity.
lowliness, n. humility, meekness, self-abasement.
low-lived, a. mean, dishonorable, ignominious, base.
lowly, a. humble, meek, unassuming.
low-minded, a. groveling, abject, sordid, base-minded.
loyal, a. true, constant, faithful, devoted, stanch, unwavering.
loyalty, n. fidelity, constancy, faithfulness, devotion, fealty, allegiance.
lozenge, n. tablet, troche, pastille.
lubber, n. boor, lout, bumpkin, looby, gawk, churl, lummox.
lubberly, a. boorish, loutish, gawky, clumsy, ungainly.
lucid, a. See clear.
lucidity, n. See clearness.
luck, n. fortune, chance, fortuity, haphazard, chance, hap-hazard. Associated Words: mascot, hoodoo.
luckless, a. See unlucky.
lucky, a. fortunate; favorable, auspicious, propitious.
lucrative, a. See profitable.
ludicrous, a. comical, ridiculous. See funny.
lug, v. drag, pull, tug, haul.
luggage, n. baggage, traps.
lugubrious, a. mournful, doleful, sorrowful, woful.
lukewarm, a. tepid; indifferent, cool, unconcerned.
lukewarmness, n. tepidity; indifference, unconcern, coolness.
lull, v. hush, still, quiet, tranquillize; subside, abate.
lull, n. calm, calmness, subsidence.
lumbering, a. unwieldy, ponderous, cumbersome, ungraceful.
luminous, a. See bright.
lummox, n. (Low) booby, gawk, lout, lubber, yahoo, bumpkin, boor.
lump, n. mass, aggregation, aggregate.—v. mass, amass.
lumpish, a. inert, heavy; stupid, dull, stolid.
lumpy jaw. actinomycosis.
lunatic, n. madman, maniac, bedlamite.
lunch, n. luncheon, refection.
luncheon, n. collation, refreshment, nuncheon, tiffin.
lunge, v. allonge, longe, thrust.
lungs, n. pl. lights (lungs of an animal or bird). Associated words: pulmonary, pulmonic, pneumonic, pleura, pleural lobe, spirometer, pneumology.
lurch, v. sway, stagger, roll; dodge, shift, evade, bilk.
lure, n. decoy, enticement, bait.
lure, v. entice, tempt, seduce, allure, decoy.
lurking-place, n. ambush, retreat, cover.
luscious, a. delicious, delectable; cloying, fulsome, unctuous.
lush, a. juicy, succulent.
lust, n. venereal appetite, concupiscence, salacity, sexual desire; longing, cupidity, desire, hankering. Antonym: anaphrodisia. See sexual desire.
luster, n. brightness, gloss, glitter, sheen, brilliancy.
lusterless, a. dull, lackluster.
lustful, a. lascivious, concupiscent, lecherous, licentiou-libidinous, salacious, carnal, lickerish, ruttish, prurient aphrodisiac, aphrodisiacal, lecherous.
lustre, n. brilliancy, glitter, radiance, resplendence.
lustrous, a. See bright.
lusty, a. robust, sturdy, stalwart, strapping, muscular.
luxuriance, n. exuberance, rampancy, richness.
luxuriant, a. exuberant, rampant, superabundant, excessive.
luxuriate, v. revel, wanton.
luxurious, a. voluptuous, epicurean, sybaritic.
luxury, n. voluptuousness, epicurism, sybaritism, luxuriousness.
lying, a. untruthful, false, mendacious, deceitful.
lying, n. falsehood, lie, untruth, mendacity, fabrication, fiction.
lying down. reclining, recumbent, accumbent; (face down) prone, prostrate; (face upward) supine.
lying down. reclining, reclination, accubation, recumbence; (face down) prostration, pronation; (face upward) supination, supineness.
lying in wait. ambush, ambuscade.
lying round. circumjacent.—n. circumjacence.
lyre, n. See harp.
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