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Machine, n. automaton (self-moving machine); mechanism; organization, system.
machinist, n. mechanician.
mad, a. crazy, insane, demented, maniacal, raving; indignant, enraged, irate, resentful; rabid; distracted, wild, infatuated. See angry.
madcap, n. hotspur, blood.—a. wild, reckless, rash.
madden, v. incense, anger, enrage, infuriate, provoke, exasperate, vex, inflame.
made up. devised, fabricated, artificial, sham, false, counterfeit.
madhouse, n. bedlam, insane asylum.
madman, n. maniac, lunatic, bedlamite; monomaniac.
madness, n. dementia, insanity, craziness, mania, lunacy; monomania; frenzy, rage, wrath, ire, resentment, fury, indignation, anger.
magazine, n. storehouse, depot, repository; periodical, publication, ephemeris.
magic, n. enchantment, conjuration, wizardry, legerdemain prestidigitation, necromancy, jugglery, sorcery; fascination, witchery, charm.
magic, a. magical, necromantic, talismanic.
magician, n. conjurer, prestidigitator, sorcerer, wizard, necromancer, juggler, thaumaturge.
magnet, n. loadstone.
magnetist, n. magnetician.
magnificence, n. grandeur, sublimity, splendor, majesty
magnificent, a. splendid, superb, sublime, majestic, stately, grand.
magnify, v. augment, amplify, enlarge; overstate, exaggerate.
maid, n. See girl; lady's maid, Abigail; soubrette.
maiden, a. virgin; chaste, undefiled, pure; unused, fresh, new.
maidenhead, n. maidenhood; hymen (virginal membrane).
maidenhood, n. maidhood, girlhood, virginity.
mail, n. armor, hauberk; scale, shell; post.
mail, v. post.
mail-carrier, n. postman, letter-carrier, courier.
main, a. principal, leading, chief, capital, cardinal, paramount; requisite, necessary; sheer, pure.
main, n. ocean, high sea; gross, bulk, majority; strength, power, might, force.
mainland, n. continent.
mainly, adv. principally, chiefly, largely.
maintain, v. support, sustain; affirm, assert, contend, claim; conduct.
maintenance, n. support, sustenance.
majestic, a. august, imperial, regal, splendid, magnificent, imposing.
majesty, n. grandeur, magnificence, augustness, splendor.
major, a. greater, larger. Antonym: minor.
majority, n. seniority, manhood; plurality. Antonyms: minority, youth.
make, v. force, compel, coerce, constrain, require, necessitate, occasion, oblige; create, construct, fabricate manufacture, compose, invent, prepare, concoct, shape, form, forge.
make, n. construction, shape, form, structure, conformation
make account of. esteem, regard.
make away. alienate, transfer, make over.
make believe. feign, pretend, simulate, personate, affect.
make-believe, a. feigned, mock, sham, counterfeit, spurious, supposititious, simulated.
make-believe, n. pretense, simulation, affectation, feint.
make bold. presume, venture, dare; embolden.
make good. fulfill, vindicate, justify, establish; indemnify, reimburse, requite; verify, corroborate, confirm, ratify, substantiate.
make headway. advance, progress, thrive, prosper.
make known. declare, announce, publish, report, proclaim.
make little of. belittle, decry, disparage.
make love to. court, woo, spark.
make out. decipher.
make over, transfer, alienate, convey; remodel, rebuild, reconstruct, revamp.
make peace between, mediate, intercede, reconcile, propitiate, pacify, conciliate.
maker, n. manufacturer, constructor, producer.
makeshift, n. expedient, substitute.
make sport of. deride, ridicule, jeer.
make unfriendly. disaffect, alienate, estrange.
make up. reconcile, adjust, compose, settle; collect, amass, accumulate; supply, complete, provide.
make up for. See make good.
make up to. accost, address, salute, speak to.
make up with. become reconciled.
make up a face. grimace.
make way. advance, proceed, progress.
making, n. construction, fabrication, workmanship, invention.
malady, n. disorder, distemper, ailment, complaint, disease.
malaria, n. miasma, miasm; fever and ague.
malarious, a. malarial, miasmatic.
male, a. masculine; staminate (Bot.).
malice, n. hatred, rancor, malevolence, animosity.
malicious, a. hateful, malevolent, rancorous, malignant.
malpractice, n. evil practice, misdoing, misbehavior.
maltreat, v. See abuse.
maltreatment, n. See abuse.
mammoth, a. colossal, gigantic, monstrous.
man, n. mortal, person, individual, adult, someone; mankind, humanity; valet; Primates, Anthropidae. Associated Words: anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthropolite, anthropoid, anthropometry, anthropometric, anthropocentric, anthropomorphic, android, manikin, ecorche, pithecanthrope, androphobia.
manacle, n. handcuff, fetter, shackle.
manacle, v. handcuff, shackle, restrain, fetter.
manage, v. conduct, administer, supervise, manipulate, superintend, engineer; contrive, husband, economize.
manageable, a. governable, tractable, docile, controllable, sequacious.
management, n. administration, conduct, guidance, regulation, superintendence, direction, procuracy, negotiation, contrivance, intrigue, economy, manipulation.
manager, n. conductor, administrator, superintendent, proctor, comptroller, economist, engineer, director.
managing, a. ruling, directing, managerial.
mandate, n. command, edict, order, injunction, precept.
mandatory, a. directory, commandatory, preceptive.
mandrake, n. mandragora; May apple.
mane, n.Associated Word: roach.
man-eater, n. cannibal, anthropophagite.
man-eating, a. cannibal, anthropophagous.
man-eating, n. cannibalism, anthropophagy.
manege, n. horsemanship, equestrianism; riding school.
maneuver, n. management, ruse, stratagem, artifice, trick, finesse.
maneuver, v. scheme, finesse, plan.
maneuverer, n. strategist, tactician.
manful, a. manly, resolute, brave.
mangel-wurtzel, n. mangold-wurtzel, scarcity-root.
mangle, v. mutilate, maim, dismember, hack; smooth, calender.
mangling, n. mutilation.
mangy, a. scabby, scurvy.
mangy creature. ronion, ronyon.
man-hater, n. misanthrope.
man-hating, a. misanthropic.
manhood, n. maturity, majority, man's estate; manliness, fortitude, resolution, manfulness; virility; humanity, men.
mania, n. madness, insanity, craziness. See insanity.
maniac, n. madman, bedlamite.
maniacal, a. raving, mad, insane, delirious.
manifest, v. show, exhibit, reveal, disclose.
manifest, a. apparent, obvious, patent.
manifestation, n. show, exhibition, revelation, disclosure.
manifold, a. many, various, sundry, diverse, multifarious, multitudinous, multiplex.
manikin, n. dwarf, pygmy, homunculus.
manipulate, v. handle, operate, manage.
manipulation, n. handling, management.
manly, a. manlike, resolute, brave, strong, dignified.
man-midwife, n. obstetrician, accoucheur.
manner, n. mode, method, style, fashion, way; bearing, demeanor, mien, air, carriage, deportment; mannerism, affectation, peculiarity; sort, kind, style; pl. civility, courtesy, politeness.
manners, n. pl. Associated Word: etiquette.
mannish, a. masculine, vigorous, bold. Antonyms: effeminate, feminine.
man of all work. factotum.
man-of-war, n. warship, battleship, cruiser.
mansion, n. palace; manor-house, hall.
man-stealer, n. kidnapper, abductor.
man-stealing, n. kidnapping, abduction.
mantle, n. cape, cloak; pallium; mantel-piece, mantel-shelf.
mantle, v. sparkle, foam, bubble, effervesce.
manual, n. handbook.
manufactory, n. factory, shop.
manufacture, n. making, fabrication, construction.
manufacture, v. make, fabricate, construct.
manufacturing, a. industrial.
manure, n. fertilizer, dung, compost, guano. Associated Word: fire-fanged.
manure, v. fertilize, enrich.
manuscript, n. copy; paleograph (an ancient manuscript).
man worship. anthropolatry.
many, a. various, numerous, sundry, divers, manifold, multitudinous, myriad, multiple, innumerable.
many-sided, a. versatile; polyhedral, polyhedrical.
many-sidedness, n. versatility.
many-times, adv. frequently, oftentimes, often, repeatedly.
many-ways, adv. variously, multifariously, diversely.
map, n. chart. Associated Words: cartography, cartographer, chorography, chorographer, atlas, hachure, contour line, culture.
map, v. sketch, plan, delineate, picture.
maple, n. Associated Words: aceric, spile.
mar, n. defacement, disfigurement, blemish, injury, defect.
mar, v. deface, damage, injure, impair.
marauder, n. See robber.
marble, n. brocatel (in a literary sense, granite-flint). Associated words: marmoreal, marmorean.
margin, n. confine, border, edge, limit, skirt, brink, rim, brim, verge. Associated Words: emarginate, emargination.
marine, a. maritime, naval, nautical, oceanic.
mariner, n. sailor, seaman.
marionette, n. puppet.
maritime, a. marine, naval, nautical.
mark, v. note, notice, remark, observe, see; indicate, betoken, characterize, stamp, imprint, impress, brand, stigmatize, label.
mark, n. characteristic, impress, impression, stamp, sign, trace, vestige, symptom, token, symbol, indication, brand, stigma; badge, cognizance; trademark, idiograph; target, bull's-eye; preeminence, distinction, prominence, earmark; wheal, weal, whelk.
marked, a. designated, noticeable, conspicuous, notable, salient.
market, n. mart, emporium, exchange, market-place.
marketable, a. salable, vendible. Antonyms: unmarketable, unsalable.
marl, n. greensand.
marriage, n. matrimony, wedlock; wedding, nuptials, espousals, nuptial rites. Antonyms: celibacy, divorce, bachelorhood, maidenhood. Associated Words: misogamy, misogamist, affiance, affianced, affinity, intermarriage, conjugality, misalliance, agamist, benedict, betroth, betrothal, desponsory, ante-nuptial, sponsal, hymeneal, schatchen, connubial, connubiality, fiance, Hymen, fiancee, troth, plight, nuptial, nuptiality, postnuptial, morganatic, banns, neogamist, matrimonial.
marriageability, n. nubility.
marriageable, a. nubile.
marriage song. epithalamium, prothalamion, prothalamium.
marrow, n. medulla, pith.
marrow-bones, n. pl. knees.
marry, v. wed, espouse.
Mars, n. Associated Word: Martian.
marsh, n. swamp, morass, fen, slough, bog, quagmire. See swamp.
marshal, v. arrange, range.
marsh gas. firedamp.
marsh grass. sedge.
marshy, a. boggy, fenny, swampy, sloughy, palustrine, paludine.
mart, n. market, emporium.
martial, a. military.
martinet, n. disciplinarian.
marvel, n. wonder, prodigy; amazement.
marvel, v. wonder.
marvelous, a. wonderful, amazing, stupendous, astonishing.
masculine, a. male; manly, virile, manful. Antonym: feminine.
masculineness, n. masculinity.
mask, n. disguise, pretext, subterfuge, screen, cloak, veil, ruse, feint, blind; domino; maskoid; masquerade; mascaron.
mask, v. disguise, masquerade, veil.
masker, n. masquerader, mummer.
masquerade, n. mask, revel; disguise.
mass, n. aggregate, aggregation, totality, lump, heap, assemblage, collection, accumulation; majority; size, bigness, bulk, dimensions, magnitude; conglomeration, agglomeration.
mass, v. amass, assemble, accumulate, agglomerate, conglomerate.
massacre, n. carnage, butchery (of human beings), slaughter, havoc.
massacre, v. butcher, slaughter.
massage, n. Associated Words: masseuse, masseur, massotherapeutics, massotherapy.
Mass book. missal.
massive, a. ponderous, bulky, immense, huge, cumbersome, massy.
massy, a. massive, compacted.
mast, n. nuts, acorns.
master, n. director, lord, commander, ruler, manager, governor; employer; leader, chief; owner, possessor, proprietor; padrone. Associated Word: dominicide.
master, v. conquer, overpower, subject, subjugate, overcome, subdue, vanquish.
masterful, a. domineering, imperious, arbitrary.
master-hand, n. expert, adept, dabster.
masterly, a. skillful, proficient, adroit, dexterous, finished.
masterpiece, n. masterstroke, chef-d'oeuvre.
mastery, n. dominion, command, supremacy, superiority, rule, sway, mastership, preeminence, leadership, influence; victory, triumph; acquirement, acquisition, attainment, dexterity, skill.
masturbation, n. onanism, self-abuse, self-pollution.
mat, n. rug; matting; petate.
mat, v. felt together, entangle, twist, interweave, snarl.
match, n. tally, mate, equal, peer; contest, competition, tournament, tourney; lucifer match, locofoco.
match, v. rival, equal, cope with; contend, pit, oppose; tally, correspond, be proportionate; adapt, fit, proportion, comport, harmonize; mate, couple, combine, sort, join.
matchable, a. comparable, proportionable, correspondent, similar.
matchless, a. peerless, incomparable, inimitable, unequalled, transcendent, surpassing.
mate, n. companion, associate, friend, chum, crony, compeer, intimate, partner, colleague; match, equal; assistant, subordinate; checkmate.
mate, v. oppose, cope with, vie with, compete with; match, marry.
material, n. substance, matter, fabric, stuff, cloth, staple; plasma.
material, a. corporeal, bodily, physical; important, essential, momentous.
materiality, n. corporeity, material existence; importance.
materially, adv. substantially; essentially, vitally.
materia medica. medicines; acology.
matrimonial, a. connubial, nuptial, hymeneal, conjugal.
matrimony, n. marriage, wedlock.
matron, n. dame.
matronly, a. elderly, dignified, matronal.
matted, a. tangled, snarled, entangled.
matter, n. substance, material, body; essence, pith, embodiment, elements; importance, significance, moment, consequence, weight, materiality; pus, purulence; manuscript, copy. Associated Words: material, immaterial, materiality, immateriality, atom, molecule, chemistry, hylism, hylotheism, hylopathism, hylogenesis, materialism, physics, somatics, somatology.
matter, v. import, signify, be of importance; maturate, suppurate.
matter-of-fact, a. practical, pragmatical, unimaginative, commonplace, prosaic.
maturate, v. suppurate; mature.
maturation, n. suppuration; maturing.
mature, a. full-grown, ripe, developed, perfect; prepared, finished. Antonyms: See immature.
mature, v. ripen, develop, perfect, season.
maturity, n. development, ripeness, perfection, completion. Antonym: immaturity.
maudlin, a. over-emotional, tearful; tipsy, fuddled, intoxicated.
maul, v. pound, pommel, beat, club, cudgel.
maul, n. beetle, mall.
mauling, n. pounding, beating, clubbing, cudgelling.
maw, n. stomach; craw, crop.
mawkish, a. nauseous, sickening, loathful, disgusting; squeamish, fastidious.
maxim, n. axiom, adage, proverb, aphorism, apothegm, saw, precept.
maybe, adv. perhaps, possibly, peradventure, haply.
Mayflower, n. hawthorn, white thorn; trailing arbutus.
maze, n. perplexity, bewilderment; labyrinth, intricacy.
maze, v. perplex, bewilder, confuse, puzzle.
mazy, a. intricate, labyrinthian, confusing.
mead, n. metheglin, hydromel; meadow, lea.
meadow, n. mead, lea.
meadow mice. Arvicola. Associated Words: arvicoline, arvicolous.
meager, a. poor, emaciated, gaunt; barren, sterile, unproductive, arid.
meal, n. repast.
mealy, a. farinaceous.
mean, v. intend, purpose, design, contemplate; signify, purport, denote, betoken, imply, typify, indicate.
mean, a. contemptible, despicable, low-minded, base, abject, groveling, dishonorable, shabby, scurvy, servile, menial, undignified, unbecoming, disingenuous; obscure, ignoble, plebeian, inglorious, undistinguished, vulgar; penurious, illiberal, sordid, miserly, stingy, mercenary parsimonious, ungenerous; midway, average, moderate, middle, medium, mediocre; intermediate, mediate, intervening; insignificant, paltry, inconsequential, piddling, frivolous, inferior, poor.
mean, n. middle, medium.
meander, v. wind, turn.
meandering, a. winding, tortuous, crooked, serpentine, meandrous.
meaning, n. signification, significance, import, acceptation, intent. Associated Words: lexicology, semasiology.
meaningly, adv. significantly.
meanly, adv. dishonorably, basely, ungenerously.
means, n. property, possessions, wealth, resources, riches, estate; instrument, agency, instrumentality, method, way, facility; expedient, resource, contrivance, resort, device, artifice.
meantime, n. interval, interim, meanwhile.
meantime, adv. meanwhile.
meanwhile, adv. meantime, during the interval.
measles, n. rubeola.
measurable, a. mensurable, computable.
measure, n. gauge, rule; dimensions, capacity, size, extent, degree, limit; quantity, amount; proportion, allotment, share; metre; act, step, means.
measure, v. gauge, mete; appraise, estimate, compute, adjust; allot, mete out, apportion, distribute.
measureless, a. immeasurable.
measurement, n. mensuration; dimensions, size, extent, area, capacity, bulk.
meat, n. flesh (of animals). See flesh.
meat pie. mince pie; pasty.
mechanic, n. mechanician, artisan, artificer, handicraftsman, craftsman.
mechanical, a. automatic, involuntary.
mechanician, n. machinist.
medal, n. medallion.
meddle, v. interfere, interpose, intermeddle, obtrude.
meddlesome, a. officious, intrusive, obtrusive, pragmatical, intermeddling.
meddling, n. interference, intrusion, intermeddling.
mediation, n. intercession.
mediator, n. intercessor. See peacemaker.
mediatorial, a. intercessory, mediatory, propitiatory.
medical, a. medicinal, therapeutical, therapeutic, curative.
medicinal, a. medicative, medical, therapeutic.
medicine, n. materia medica, medicament, remedy, restorative, corrective, specific, physic, antidote, tonic, panacea; nostrum.
mediocre, a. middling, ordinary, medium, commonplace.
mediocrity, n. commonplaceness, indifference, middle state.
meditate, v. contemplate, muse, ponder, cogitate, reflect, think.
meditation, n. contemplation, musing, cogitation, reflection, thought.
meditative, a. thoughtful, contemplative, reflective.
Mediterranean Sea. Associated Word: Levant.
medium, a. intermediate, middling, mean, average, mediocre.
medium, n. middle; means, instrumentality, agency; menstruum; psychic.
medley, n. mixture, jumble, hodgepodge, potpourri, olio, melange, farrago.
meed, n. reward, recompense, prize; merit, desert, worth.
meek, a. humble, unassuming, modest, retiring, docile, lowly.
meerschaum, n. magnesite, seafoam, sepiolite.
meet, v. encounter, confront, collide, converge, engage; intercept; assemble, congregate, convene, collect, muster; agree, harmonize, unite; equal, satisfy, fulfill, match. Antonyms: avoid, elude, escape, disperse, scatter.
meet, a. suitable, proper, befitting, seemly, appropriate.
meeting, n. assembly, assemblage, congregation, convention, convocation, conference, synod, mall, concourse, gathering, mustering; juncture, convergence, crossing, junction, confluence; encounter; collision, clash; interception; interview; tryst, rendezvous.
melancholia, n. hypochondria, hypochondriasis.
melancholy, n. despondency, hypochondria, dejection, disconsolation, melancholia.
melancholy, a. despondent, hypochondriac, depressed, disconsolate, dispirited.
melee, n. affray, scuffle, set-to, brawl, fight (hand to hand).
melodious, a. tuneful, harmonious, dulcet, musical, sweet, euphonious, ariose, mellifluous.
melody, n. music; descant, tune, song, air, theme. Antonyms: discord, dissonance.
melt, v. dissolve, liquefy, thaw, fuse, soften, blend, swale, colliquate.
meltable, a. dissolvable, soluble, liquefiable, fusible.
melted, a. molten.
melting, a. dissolving, thawing; affecting, touching.
melting, n. dissolution, liquefaction, fusion, thawing, inteneration, dissipation, colliquation.
melting-pot, n. crucible.
member, n. part, organ, limb; constituent, component, part.
memento, n. souvenir, keepsake, memorial.
memoir, n. biography, autobiography.
memorandum, n. record, minute, note.
memorial, a. commemorative.
memory, n. remembrance, recollection, reminiscence; retrospection. Antonyms: oblivion, forgetfulness, Lethe, amnesia, ecmnesia. Associated words: mnemonics, mnemonic, mnemonician, mnemotechny, phrenotypics, Mnemosyne, immortalize, immemorial, memorable, memorabilia, memorize, remember, amnesic.
menace, n. threat, threatening.
menace, v. threaten.
menacing, a. threatening, minatory.
menage, n. household, family.
mend, v. repair, patch; improve.
mendacious, a. lying, untruthful, false, deceitful.
mendacity, n. untruthfulness, lying, falsehood, lie, untruth.
mendicant, n. beggar.—a. begging.
mending, n. repairing, patching, restoration; improvement.
menial, a. serving; low, servile.
mental, a. intellectual.
mentality, n. intellectuality.
mentor, n. monitor, counselor, guide.
mentorial, a. admonitory, monitory.
mercantile, a. trading, commercial.
mercenary, a. hired, hireling, purchased; greedy, sordid, avaricious, grasping.
mercenary, n. hireling.
merchandise, n. wares, goods, commodities.
merchant, n. trader, dealer, trafficker, shopkeeper, tradesman.
merchantable, a. salable, vendible, marketable.
merciful, a. pitiful, lenient, clement, compassionate, benignant, indulgent, kind, gracious, forgiving.
merciless, a. unmerciful, remorseless, cruel, pitiless, ruthless, inexorable, implacable.
Mercury, n. Hermes; quicksilver; messenger.
Mercury's staff. caduceus.
mercy, n. clemency, pity, lenity, leniency, lenience, compassion, forgiveness, placability; discretion, disposal; blessing, favor. Antonyms: revenge, implacability, inclemency, incompassion.
mercy seat. propitiatory.
merely, a. purely, absolutely; simply, barely, only.
merge, v. swallow up, absorb, immerse, take in; be swallowed up, be absorbed.
merger, n. absorption.
meridian, n. noon, midday; culmination, zenith, pinnacle, apex. Antonym: nadir.
meridian, a. midday, meridional.
merit, n. desert, worth, meed, worthiness; worth, excellence, goodness; reward; pl. claim, right. Antonym: demerit.
merit, v. deserve, earn.
meritorious, a. worthy, commendable, meedful, deserving.
merriment, n. mirth, gayety, glee, levity, laughter, sportiveness, jocularity.
merry, a. mirthful, gay, jolly, gleeful, jovial, sportive, jocular, bonny.
mesa, n. tableland, plateau.
mesh, n. net, network.
mess, n. rations, food; mixture, medley, farrago, litter, hodgepodge, jumble, melange.
message, n. communication, notice, word; telegram, despatch, cablegram.
messenger, n. courier, herald, forerunner, precursor, harbinger, mercury, emissary.
metaphor, n. simile.
meteor, n. fireball, shooting star; bolis, bolide.
meteoric stone. meteorite, aerolite.
methodical, a. systematic, orderly, methodic. Antonyms: immethodical, unsystematic.
meticulous, a. timid, fearful, diffident.
mettle, n. spirit, disposition; pluck, nerve, hardihood, stamina, spirit.
mettled, a. high-spirited, mettlesome, fiery, ardent.
mettlesome, a. spirited, mettled.
mew, v. moult.
mew, n. cage, coop; sea-mew, gull, cob.
miasma, n. malaria.
miaul, n. mew, caterwaul.
midbrain, n. mesencephalon.
midday, n. noon, meridian, noontide.
middle, a. mean, medial; intermediate, intervening.
middle, n. center, midst.
Middle Ages. Associated Words: medieval, medievalism, medievalist, medievals.
middle class. bourgeoisie.
middleman, n. factor, go-between, agent, broker, commissioner.
middling, a. mediocre, medium, passable, tolerable, average, so-so, ordinary.
midwife, n. accoucheuse, obstetrician (female).
midwifery, n. obstetrics, tocology.
mien, n. aspect, air, manner, demeanor, appearance, bearing, deportment.
miff, n. pique, pet, tiff, displeasure.
miff, v. displease, vex, offend (slightly).
miffed, a. offended, displeased, piqued, provoked.
might, n. strength, power, force, puissance, potency.
mighty, a. strong, powerful, potent, invincible.
mighty, adv. (Colloq.) very.
migratory, a. roving, wandering, nomadic, unsettled.
Mikado, n. Emperor of Japan.
mild, a. gentle, indulgent, tender, merciful, clement, lenient, bland, demulcent, lenitive, emollient, mitigative. Antonyms: severe, drastic, rigorous, violent, harsh.
mildew, n. mould, mustiness, must, blight.
military, a. martial.
military command. strategy, generalship, tactics, logistics.
military dress. regimentals, uniform.
military rule. stratocracy.
militia, n. troops, military; trainband.
milk, n. Associated Words: emulsion, emulsify, lacteal, lactiferous, lactation milch, lactometer lactic, lactivorous, koumiss, whey, curd, serum, lactage, rennet, clabber, lactifuge, casein, curdle, posset.
milkiness, n. lactescence.
milkmaid, n. dairymaid.
milkman, n. dairyman.
milk room. dairy.
milky, a. lacteal, lactean, emulsive.
Milky Way. Galaxy.
milt, n. spleen.
mimic, n. mime, mimicker, imitator, personator.
mimic, v. personate, ape, imitate, mock.
mimicry, n. mocking; imitation, mimesis.
mince, v. hash.
mind, v. obey, regard; consider, heed, mark, note; purpose, intend, design. Antonyms: disobey, disregard, ignore.
mind, n. intellect, faculties; opinion, judgment; temperament, humor, disposition. Associated Words: mental, mentality, mentally, intellectual, intellectuality, intellectually, psychic, psychical, psychiatry, psychography, psychology, psychologist, menticulture, alienist, alienism, telepathy, telepathic, noemics, nomology, nooelogy metaphysics, psychotherapy, psychotherapeutics, psychodynamic, psychopathology, psychopathic, psychological, psychopathy, psychosis, noetic, subliminal, compos mentis, non compos mentis.
mindful, a. heedful, regardful, observant.
mindless, a. irrational; unmindful, heedless, inattentive.
mingle, v. blend, mix, intermix, amalgamate, intermingle, incorporate; consort, associate, fraternize.
mingling, n. blending, mixture, intermixture, amalgamation.
minister, n. ambassador, envoy, plenipotentiary, delegate: ecclesiastic, parson, divine, rector. See clergyman.
minister, v. administer, serve; officiate.
ministerial, a. clerical; ambassadorial.
ministration, n. officiating, ministry.
ministry, n. ministration; cabinet, administration.
minnow, n. minim, minny.
minny, n. minnow.
minor, a. subordinate, secondary, less, smaller.
minority, n. nonage, pupilage.
minstrel, n. gleeman, bard.
mint, v. coin.
minute, a. little, tiny, microscopic, diminutive; critical, precise, particular, circumstantial.
minute, n. moment; memorandum, record, item, note.
minutiae, n. pl. details.
miraculous, a. supernatural, hyperphysical, incredible.
mire, n. slough, ooze, mud, slime.
mirror, n. reflector, looking-glass, speculum; cheval glass.
mirror, v. reflect.
mirth, n. merriment, jollity, glee, gayety, fun.
mirthful, a. merry, jolly, gleeful, gay, sportive.
miry, a. oozy, slimy, muddy.
misapply, v. misemploy, pervert, misuse.
miscarriage, n. frustration, failure; abortion.
miscellaneous, a. mixed, diversified, promiscuous, heterogeneous, diverse, multifarious.
miscellany, n. medley, mixture; symposium, anthology.
misdeed, n. offense, misdemeanor.
misdemeanor, n. offense, transgression.
misdoer, n. malefactor, offender, delinquent.
misdoing, n. See wrong-doing.
misemploy, v. pervert, misuse, misapply, prostitute.
misemployment, n. misapplication, misuse, perversion, prostitution.
miser, n. niggard, muckworm, curmudgeon, skinflint, hunks, lickpenny, pinchfist, screw, scrimp.
miserable, a. wretched, abject; deplorable, grievous, pitiable, calamitous; mean, despicable, contemptible, base, arrant, sordid, groveling.
miserly, a. niggardly, avaricious, sordid, parsimonious, penurious, close-fisted, close, stingy, curmudgeonly, hard-fisted.
misfortune, n. disaster, calamity, frustration, mischance, reverse, affliction, mishap, bad luck.
misgiving, n. doubt, suspicion, evil premonition.
misgovern, v. misrule.
misgovernment, n. maladministration, misrule.
mishap, n. See accident.
mishmash, n. medley, mixture.
misinterpret, v. misconstrue.
misinterpretation, n. misconstruction.
misleading, a. delusive, deceitful, fallacious, illusive.
misnaming, n. misnomer.
misrepresent, v. falsify, distort.
misrepresentation, n. falsification, distortion.
misrule, n. misgovernment, maladministration.
miss, n. failure, miscarriage; omission, oversight, default, mistake, error.
miss, v. fail, miscarry, skip, omit, overlook.
misshapen, a. deformed, unshapely.
missile, n. projectile, dejectile.
missing, a. absent, wanting.
mission, n. commission, delegation; errand, trust.
missionary, n. evangelist, missioner, revivalist, propagandist.
misspelling, n. cacography.
misstate, v. falsify, distort, misrepresent.
misstatement, n. falsification, misrepresentation.
misstep, n. faux pas.
mist, n. mizzle, misle, drizzle; fog, haze, brume.
mist, v. mizzle, drizzle; obscure, dim, befog.
mistake, n. misunderstanding, misapprehension, misconception; error, blunder, oversight, solecism, faux pas. impropriety, bull.
mistranslate, v. misrender, misconstrue, misinterpret.
mistreat, v. misuse, abuse, maltreat.
mistreatment, n. misuse, abuse, maltreatment.
mistress, n. matron, superior; sweetheart, flame, dulcinea, ladylove, amaryllis; paramour, concubine; demirep, lorette, Delilah, Phryne, corotte.
mistrust, v. doubt, question, suspect, distrust, apprehend.
mistrustful, a. distrustful, suspicious, apprehensive.
misty, a. obscure, hazy, foggy, orumous.
misunderstand, v. misconceive, miscomprehend, misapprehend.
misunderstanding, n. misconception, miscomprehension, misapprehension; variance, disagreement, dissension, controversy.
misuse, v. misapply, prostitute, pervert, profane; maltreat, abuse.
misuse, n. misapplication, prostitution, perversion, profanation, maltreatment, abuse.
mite, n. molecule, speck, atom, particle, mote.
mites, n. pl. Acarina.
mitigate, v. meliorate, alleviate, assuage, temper.
mitigation, n. melioration, alleviation, assuagement.
mitigative, a. assuasive, meliorative, mollifying.
mix, v. mingle, blend, combine, concoct, incorporate, amalgamate, commingle, impregnate, commix, compound, intermix, intersperse, interlard; associate, consort, fraternize.
mixable, a. miscible.
mixed, a. mingled, blended, amalgamated, compounded; promiscuous, miscellaneous, composite, conglomerate, indiscriminate, heterogeneous, motley. Antonyms: assorted, selected, unmixed.
mixture, n. blending, mingling, amalgamation, incorporation, conglomeration, infusion, intermixture, commixture, compound, decoction, concoction; medley, miscellany, gallimaufry, maslin, olio, farrago, hodgepodge, salmagundi, jumble, melange, heterogoneity, promiscuity.
moat, n. fosse, graffe.
mob, n. rabble, rabblerout; populace, canaille, riffraff.
mob law. lynch law.
mob rule. mobocracy, ochlocracy.
mock, a. sham, spurious, counterfieit, imitational.
mock, v. mimic, flout, taunt, imitate, gibe, ridicule, jeer, schout; balk, disappoint, delude, tantalize, elude; defy, disregard; ape, mimic, personate.
mocker, n. scorner, scoffer, jeerer; mimic.
mockery, n. mimicry, ridicule, derision, jeering, scouting, counterfeit, sham, travesty, farce; disappointment.
mocking, a. derisive, jeering; imitating, mimicking.
mode, n. manner, method, fashion, vogue, style.
model, n. pattern, prototype, exemplar, gauge, criterion, standard, paragon, archetype; manikin, manequin.
model, v. fashion, mould, shape.
model, a. exemplary.
moderate, v. temper, appease, diminish, mitigate, reduce.
moderate, a. sparing, temperate, frugal; reasonable, calm, deliberate; temperate, mild, clement, open; mediocre medium. Antonyms: See immoderate.
moderation, n. mitigation, diminution; temperance, restraint; calmness.
modest, a. unassuming, shy, unpretentious, unpretending, unobtrusive, retiring, demure, coy, reserved, unostentatious. Antonyms: See immodest.
modesty, n. unobtrusiveness, humility; delicacy, chastity, purity, decency, pudicity. Antonyms: immodesty, boldness, indelicacy.
modify, v. limit, qualify, adjust.
modulate, v. inflect; harmonize, attune, adjust, adapt.
modulation, n. inflection; adaptation, adjustment.
mogul, n. Mongolian; lord.
Mohammedan, n. Mahometan, Mussulman, Moslem, Saracen.
Mohammedanism, n. Mahometanism, Islam, Islamism, Moslemism.
moist, a. damp, humid, dank.
moisten, v. dampen, damp, wet.
moisture, n. dampness, humidity; humor. Associated Words: hygrostatics, hygrograph, hygrometer, hygroscopic, hygrometric, hygrometry, deliquescent.
molasses, n. treacle.
molecule, n. atom, monad.
molest, v. disturb, trouble, annoy.
molestation, n. disturbance.
mollify, v. appease, pacify, tranquilize.
moment, n. instant, minute, jiffy, trice; force, momentum, impetus; importance, materiality, weight, consequence.
momentary, a. instantaneous, transient.
momentum, n. impetus, force, moment.
monarch, n. sovereign. See ruler.
monarchy, n. sovereignty, kingdom, empire, realm.
monastery, n. abbey, priory, cloister, convent; hospice.
monetary, a. pecuniary.
money, n. currency, coin, capital, funds, finances, change, legal tender, lucre, pelf, specie, sterling, revenue, assets, wherewithal, spondulics (Slang); wampum; boodle; bribe; bonus. Associated Words: bullion, cambist, bank, banker, capitalist, chrysology, till, coffer, economics, coin, coinage, mint, mintage, financial, financier, Mammon, treasury, treasurer, monetary, monetize, monetization, demonetize, demonetization, numismatist, mumismatics, alimony, cameralistics, almoner, alms, numismatology.
mongrel, a. hybrid.
monitor, n. mentor, adviser, counselor.
monk, n. religious, monastic, cenobite, anchoret, friar, abbe, fakir. Associated Words: monkish, monastic, monastery, monasticism, conventual.
monk's-hood, n. wolfsbane, aconite.
monk's hood. cowl.
monkeylike, a. simious.
monogram, n. cipher.
monologist, n. soliloquist.
monologue, n. soliloquy.
monopolize, v. engross, forestall.
monotonous, a. unvaried, uniform, uninteresting, humdrum, tedious.
monotony, n. monotone, tedium.
monster, n. prodigy, enormity, abnormality, monstrosity lusus naturae; fiend, brute, ogre, villain; Cerberus, Chimera, Minotaur, Bucentaur.
monstrosity, n. abnormality, monster, lusus naturae.
monstrous, a. abnormal; enormous, colossal; atrocious.
month, n. Associated Words: ultimo, proximo, instant.
monthly, a. mensal, menstrual.
monument, n. tombstone, memorial; cenotaph; dolmen, cromlech. Associated Words: epitaph, lapidary.
mood, n. humor.
moon, n. satellite; Luna, Cynthia. Associated Words: selenology, selenography, apogee, wax, wane, epigee, selenocentric, selenograph, halo, orb, lunar, lunarian, interlunary, lunation, appulse, crescent, luniform.
moonshine, n. balderdash, flummery, fustian, nonsense.
moot, a. undecided, unsettled, debatable.
mooted, a. moot.
mop, n. malkin, swab; merkin (cannon mop).
mopboard, n. baseboard, surbase.
mopish, a. dejected, glum, dumpish, listless, dull, spiritless.
moral, a. ethical; virtuous, good; accountable, responsible, probable. Antonyms: immoral, licentious.
moral insanity. aesthesiomania.
morality, n. virtue, rectitude, probity, goodness. Antonym: immorality.
moral philosophy. deontology, ethology, ethics.
morass, n. slough, quagmire, bog, marsh, swamp.
Mormon, n. Latter-day Saint.
morning, n. forenoon; dawn, daybreak, aurora, cock-crowing, sunrise.
morning, a. matin, matutinal.
morning concert. (in the open air) aubade.
morning reception. levee.
morning service. matins.
morose, a. churlish, sulky, sullen, moody, splenetic, unamiable.
morsel, n. bite, mouthful; fragment, crumb, scrap.
mortally, adv. fatally.
mortar, n. Associated Word: pestle.
mortification, n. gangrene; chagrin, humiliation, abasement, embarrassment; repression, subjection.
mortify, v. gangrene; chagrin, embarrass, abase; repress, deny, restrain.
mosaic, a. tessellated, inlaid, variegated.
most, n. majority.
mote, n. particle, speck, mite.
moth-eaten, a. moth-fretted.
mother, n. materfamilias, matron, matriarch; generatrix; dam. Associated Words: cognate, cognation, matricide, maternalism, uterine, matriarchy, matriarchal.
motherhood, n. maternity.
motherly, a. maternal.
mother-of-pearl, n. nacre.
motion, n. movement, activity; gesture, signal, gesticulation; port, gait; impulse. Antonyms: inertia, rest, stagnation, immobility, quiescence, repose.
motionless, a. stationary, inert, stagnant, quiescent.
motive, n. incentive, inducement, incitement.
mottled, a. piebald, party-colored, spotted.
mould, n. matrix, matrice; pattern, model; mouldiness, mildew, blight, smut, fungus.
mould, v. form, shape, model, cast; knead.
mouldy, a. musty, mildewed, fusty, decaying.
moult, v. mew, exuviate.
moulting, n. exuviation.
mount, v. ascend; bestride.
mountain, n. mount. Associated Words: orology, orography, orogeny, montiform, butte, arete, spur, montanic, intermontane, oread, mountainous, ultramontane, bergstock, subalpine, alpenstock, range, ridge, submontane, alpestrine.
mountebank, n. quack; charlatan, impostor, empiric.
mourn, v. deplore, lament, regret, grieve, repine, sorrow, bemoan, bewail.
mournful, a. sorrowful, lugubrious, doleful, woful.
mourning, n. sorrow, grief, bereavement; weeds.
mouse, n. murine, rodent; pl. mice, vermin.
mousing, a. meddlesome, prying, intrusive.
mouthpiece, n. embouchure; spokesman.
movable, a. portable, mobile. Antonyms: immovable, fast, immobile.
move, v. transfer; migrate, immigrate, emigrate, remove; impel, propel, actuate, influence; budge, stir.
movement, n. motion, locomotion, transference, removal.
movement cure. kinesiatrics, kinesitherapy, lingism.
moving, a. motive.
mow, v. reap.
mowing, n. reaping.
mucus, n. phlegm.
mud, n. mire, ooze, muck; silt.
mud bath. illutation.
muddiness, n. turbidness, feculence, obscurity, miriness.
muddle, v. confuse, fuddle, bewilder.
muddle, n. confusion.
muddled, a. confused, addled.
muddy, a. feculent, turbid, roily; opaque, intransparent, confused, involved, incoherent.
mud-eating, a. limivorous.
muffle, v. wrap, envelop; deaden, subdue.
muffler, n. scarf, tippet.
mulct, n. fine, amercement.
mule, n. hybrid, hinny.
mule-driver, n. muleteer.
mulish, a. See stubborn.
mull, v. ruminate, ponder, cogitate.
mulligrubs, n. (Slang) colic.
multitude, n. crowd, throng, host.
mum, a. silent, speechless, dumb, mute.
mumble, v. mutter, maunder, mump.
mumbling, a. muttering, inarticulate, indistinct, incoherent.
mummery, n. masquerade, mimicry.
mumpish, a. moody, sullen, morose, sulky, unamiable.
mumps, n. parotitis; sullenness, the sulks.
munch, v. craunch.
murder, n. homicide.
murderer, n. homicide.
murderous, a. sanguinary, homicidal, fell.
muriatic acid. hydrochloric acid.
murky, a. lowering, dark.
murmur, v. grumble, complain, repine.
murmur, n. plaint, complaint; purl, babble; undertone.
murmuring, a. complaining, querulous, repining.
muscle, n. brawn, thew; sinew, tendon.
muscular, a. brawny, thewy, sinewy, stalwart.
muse, v. contemplate, ruminate, brood, ponder, mull, reflect.
muse, n. contemplation, meditation, revery.
Muses, n. pl. Pierides, tuneful nine (Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania). Associated Word: Pierian.
mushroom, a. ephemeral, transitory.
mushrooms, n. pl. Fungi, agaric, Agaricaceae. Associated Words: mycology, agaricin, pileus, gills, spore. See Fungi.
music, n. melody, symphony, harmony; melodies, harmonics.
musical, a. melodious, harmonious, tuneful, symphonious.
musical entertainment. musicale, concert.
muskmelon, n. cantaloupe.
muss, n. confusion, litter, jumble, disorder.—v. disarrange, rumple, dishevel.
mustard plaster. sinapism.
muster, v. assemble, marshal.
musty, a. mildewed, fusty, mouldy, frowzy, rank, stale.
mute, a. dumb, obmutescent; silent, speechless.
mutilate, v. maim, dismember, mangle.
mutilation, n. maim, dismemberment, mangling.
mutinous, a. rebellious, insubordinate, seditious, insurgent, insurrectionary.
mutiny, n. insurrection, rebellion, insubordination, revolt.
mutter, v. maunder.
muttering, a. inarticulate, indistinct, maundering.
mutual, a. reciprocal.
mutuality, n. correlation, reciprocation, interchange.
muzzle, v. restrain, repress.
mysterious, a. inscrutable, cryptic, obscure, unexplainable, enigmatical, unfathomed, unfathomable, abstruse, mystic, inexplicable, recondite, cabalistic, occult, unexplained.
mystery, n. secret, enigma, riddle, intricacy, arcanum.
mystic, a. occult, esoteric, cabalistic, mystical.
mystification, n. bewilderment, perplexity, obfuscation.
mystify, v. bewilder, perplex, obfuscate, befog, nonplus.
mystifying, a. perplexing, confusing, bewildering, mysterious.
myth, n. legend, tradition, fable.
mythical, a. fabulous, legendary, traditional.
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